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Assessing Your Chosen EFT Practitioner
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
Gary Craig's Introduction:
EFT Practitioners vary widely in their skills and training. Thus
it is important to assess the depth of these skills so that you are getting
the most out of your EFT sessions. For this purpose, EFT Master Patricia
Carrington, PhD gives you very useful guidelines.
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Previously,
I discussed the process of finding an EFT practitioner who has sufficient
skills to help you with your issue. Now let's look at whether the EFT
practitioner whom you have finally located is actually the right one for
you. Are they really going to help you where you need help most?
Here are
some suggested questions you can ask yourself about any practitioner with
whom you are working. You will not want to continue to schedule
sessions with an EFT practitioner whom you are uncertain of just because you
selected them initially –– your first session or two with the
practitioner of your choice should therefore be an evaluative one on both
sides. You will be deciding whether this person is the right
practitioner for you and they will be deciding if they can be of help to you
or whether referral to another practitioner might be more useful.
Here are
some of the attributes you should look for in an EFT practitioner:
The
practitioner listens carefully
You should
feel that the practitioner is carefully attentive to what you say and picking
up on it to ask further questions, that they are not merely repeating rote
questions.
A competent
EFT practitioner will sometimes ask you questions that surprise you because
they aren't the ones you might have asked yourself. Asking astute
questions leads to EFT statements that can effectively target your
issues. Aside from finding out about your problem in general, a good
EFT practitioner will want to know how long you have had this difficulty,
when it first appeared in your life and what were the circumstances in your
life at the time it first emerged as a problem. There is a great difference
in the way EFT should be used to address problems that have emerged only very
recently and those with a long-standing history. The latter usually
take considerably more time to handle with EFT and you should allow for this
in the plan.
The
practitioner sheds new light on how to approach your problem with EFT
The right
practitioner should add considerably to your own ability to target your
issues with EFT. One of the main reasons you have consulted a
practitioner rather than continuing to work with EFT alone is to gather
another perspective on how to how deal with your problem. You want to
know the practitioner is helping you uncover many aspects of this problem
that you might have missed working by yourself. These may be feelings
about a situation which you could not recognize in yourself and which now
needs to be tapped on, or memories of other situations in your life which may
have laid the groundwork for your present problem, or other details of your
issue not readily apparent to you. All of these should be tapped on and
neutralized before you can fully resolve an issue. You want your EFT
practitioner to help you explore the origins of your problem as well as the
immediate manifestations of it.
The
practitioner helps you formulate powerful targeted EFT statements
The
wording of the statements in your set-up phrase and reminder phrases is
helpful in the success of EFT. You want to have your EFT Practitioner
skillfully help you formulate the statements you will use with your
issues. If you watch Gary Craig's tapes (whether his beginner’s
tapes or the most advanced and recent of his tapes) you will notice the
expertise with which he handles the actual wording of the EFT phrases and how
this affects the impact of EFT. Much of the Art Of Delivery, as Gary refers to the high level EFT skills, comes from the creative use of wording.
Also, if
the practitioner uses my EFT Choices Method as one of the approaches that he
or she offers (most practitioners will do so because of its usefulness in
installing positive goals) the exact formulation of your intended outcome
–– where you would like to be with this issue –– is
extremely important. You should notice whether the EFT practitioner is
useful to you in their suggestions for the wording of the EFT statements, whether
they are sufficiently flexible in allowing you to keep modifying the wording
as you continue through a particular problem. Developing and modifying
EFT phrases is one of the essential ingredients of EFT. Your EFT
practitioner is there to help you with this. So, if they are simply allowing
you to use too general phrases they are not giving you full service.
The
practitioner helps you test to see whether you have fully cleared your issue
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