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EFT for Motor Skills

By Dr. Patricia Carrington

 Gary Craig's Introduction:

This article by Dr. Patricia Carrington has wide reaching implications.

Its focus is on a seemingly narrow application--learning to drive.  However, the same approach that is used for driving skills can also be used for sports, music and other performance improvements.  The uses are endless and the beauty of it is that you can use EFT to enhance a given skill and GET INSTANT FEEDBACK on your progress.

This is obvious for everything from a singer reaching a higher note to a tennis player improving his or her backhand.  It can be used by coaches all the way from Little League to The Super Bowl.

Pat uses these techniques elegantly, a fact which will be evident as she unfolds for you not only the use of EFT for improving motor skills but also some of the challenges that can occur when applying EFT to a relative..

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I have often wondered just how EFT might best be employed in the educational process.  Aside from its obvious use to reduce anxiety in students and thereby improve performance, it always seemed to me that there may be a more direct application of EFT to the learning process, which has not yet been explored.

Recently, I hadn't an interesting opportunity to test this concept out with my niece, Daisy Carrington, who has just graduated from college and who received as a graduation gift a compact used car with a stick shift.  She had taken several drivers’ ed courses in school as well as private lessons at a driving school where she learned to drive with an automatic shift and managed to pass her driver’s test and obtain her license.  But she was scarcely a confident driver when she began to handle the new car in real-life situations

Since she is planning to live and work in an area where she will be required to drive extensively. All of her family members have been trying to help her gain confidence when driving the little car, so that she will acquire proper skill and command of the road.

However, when riding with her I soon discovered that she was still anxious when driving and this made it extremely difficult for her to acquire the ease necessary to truly drive safely.  It was at this point that I suggested that she and I use EFT to help out with this problem.

My experience doing so illustrates several things:

 ▪ It is clearly possible to use EFT on the spot to facilitate the learning of a motor skill such as driving. 

 ▪ It may be necessary to handle difficulties encountered with properly assessing the role that EFT plays in the results obtained, when the Apex effect (the tendency to discount the impact of EFT on outcome) is present in the person doing the tapping for such a skill.

 ▪ There is a special challenge involved in applying EFT to a relative, particularly if, she does not recognize many of the problems that are evident to others in the application of her skills, as in this case.

I would like to comment first on the challenge facing those doing EFT with relatives, because of many of you have used EFT, or will use in the future, with family members or close friends.

There is a great difference between having a client seek your professional help, and you suggest they use EFT for their problems, and having to “sell” a relative or friend on its use, especially when your help may not have been solicited.

In a professional situation, you and your client enter into an agreement with one another. That person wants to become less anxious or be rid of some other troubling symptom, or to improve their performance, or increase their confidence, or whatever.  Because of this, the individual agrees to cooperate with you and do whatever is necessary (including EFT) to obtain the results they want. 

However, this is not exactly the case with a relative or friend or anyone else close to us with whom we plan to use EFT.  Here we may have to suggest the procedure out of the blue, so to speak, and may even have to convince the other party that it is necessary to use any procedure whatsoever for a particular problem which they themselves barely perceive. 

In my case, having driven with Daisy at the wheel during the initial stages of her experience on the road, I became concerned for her safety and therefore bypassed my usual reticence at suggesting EFT when a person has not indicated any need for it.  It was evident to me that she was experiencing a good deal of “nervousness” as she drove the car and that her handling of it was very uneven.  I felt it necessary in order to avert possible danger to her in the future, that she become more at ease and masterful in her driving.

Therefore, I suggested to her that she try EFT to improve her driving.  Daisy is very familiar with EFT.  In fact, she modeled the various acupoints very nicely for my new EFT Beginner’s videotape.  But I could sense reluctance in her to use it for her driving because she did not perceive any real difficulty with her driving – only the rest of us in the car did.  This was an awkward situation.

However, since Daisy knew she would soon have to drive her car alone, with no-one else with her (something she had not yet done) she was aware of her anxiety about this and so agreed to apply EFT to her fear of causing an accident, as she had seen graphically illustrated in the videotapes shown in her Driver’s Education class, which had left an indelible impression upon her.

The set up phrase that we formulated to handle this was:

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