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How to Test Your EFT Progress
By
Dr. Patricia Carrington
Gary Craig's Introduction:
EFT Master Pat Carrington, PhD details a common sense way to
employ a tape recorder to refine your EFT benefits. Although she uses a job
circumstance as an example, the process can be used in many other scenarios.
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From time
to time, Gary Craig and contributors to his newsletter have written about the
value of having a practitioner test the results of EFT to make certain that a
client is fully benefiting from the process. It is important to know
that one has fully cleared away all (or as many as possible) of the blocks
involved in a particular issue. This makes genuine change possible.
Today
I’m going to suggest a way that you can test your OWN progress when
doing EFT by yourself. It won’t involve anyone else; you can do
it alone.
To test
your own progress you will need a tape recorder. If you don’t
have one it can be bought very inexpensively and can be well worth the
investment.
You will
start by creating a vivid scene in your mind that typifies a current problem
of yours. Let’s say you are having difficulty asking for a raise
at work, or for a change in working conditions. The first thing to do
in such a case is to create in your mind an imaginary scene in which you
speak to your boss (supervisor etc.) about this and make a request for
change.
As you
THINK about this meeting, give yourself an initial Intensity Rating on a ten
point scale (with 10 being as anxious as you can imagine being about the
coming meeting and 0 being completely at ease with the thought of it).
Now you
are ready to begin. Here are the steps:
1.
Using
the tape recorder to record your words, pretend that you are speaking to your
superior at work, and act as if the meeting were taking place RIGHT NOW.
2.
When
you have said all you want to say on your own behalf, rewind the tape and
listen to your presentation. As you do so, pretend that YOU ARE your
boss (supervisor etc.). Acting as this other person, notice how
“you” react to what the real you says, to the tone of your voice
etc. Jot down notes on your reactions that go something like:
“(Your Name) seems uncertain to me, I don’t have to grant this
request.”, or “(Your name) sounds guilty”, or “(Your
name) seems too confrontational, their tone annoys me.” Or whatever your
reaction is when you PRETEND TO BE THE BOSS.
3.
Create
an EFT statement to deal with your anxieties about the meeting, such as,
“Even though I’m anxious about asking (person’s name)
for this, I choose to be calm and confident,” or another statement
of your own choosing.
4.
Do
as many rounds of EFT as are necessary to bring your Intensity Rating way
down.
5.
Using
your tape recorder again, starting at the point where you left off recording
(Do not erase your original recording, just add to it) now reenact the
meeting scene, making your request to this person afresh.
6.
Rewind
the tape recorder and listen to this second portion of the recording –
the new portion –– noting any changes in the way you present your
case from the way you did originally. Changes will be very apparent if
your Intensity Rating was tapped down sufficiently!
7.
Pretend
that you ARE the boss (supervisor etc.), and notice how he/she feels NOW as
they listen to your presentation. You should observe a distinct change
in that person’s reaction to you if your own Intensity Rating had come
down sufficiently before you started talking.
8.
Ask
yourself if there is still some doubt in “your” mind (as you
pretend to be the other person in your imagination)? Notice how valid
the listener now feels the request is. Do you come across to the
listener as sincere, authoritative and reasonable? You must be
extremely convincing in your presentation. If you are not, do another series
of rounds of EFT.
9.
Create
a new EFT statement such as “Even though I’m still a bit
uncomfortable talking to (person) about this, I choose to be calm, confident,
and effective” (or whatever positive phrase suits you). Then
do EFT again.
10.
Continue
tapping, retesting using this recording method, and then tapping again, until
the listener’s imagined reaction is one of great respect. The
“listener” may not grant the request of course for practical
reasons, but he/she must come to RESPECT the person who is asking and your
reasons for the request. In the long run this will substantially change
the relationship between the two of you.
This is
the entire process. It is can be an eye-opener! Time and again
people have been amazed at the transformation in themselves, which is so
clearly documented for them on the tape recording. It can be a
revelation that can influence your entire life. Try it!
EFT Master, Dr. Patricia
Carrington
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