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Last week I had a bit of a head cold. On Wednesday morning was woken at 4.20am by toothache of the face. If you’ve ever had sinusitis you know what I mean, a dull ache behind the cheek bones.
After trying to get back to sleep for a while, I realised that it was going to be a bit of a struggle. I decided that I didn’t have much to lose so I started using EFT on the symptoms.
Even though I’ve got toothache of the face …..
No change.
Random thoughts about how this wasn’t going to work wandered through my mind so I tried …
Even though I don’t think this is going to work …
A young boy traveled across Japan to the school of a famous martial artist. When he arrived at the dojo he was given an audience by the Sensei
“What do you wish from me?” the master asked.
“I wish to be your student and become the finest kareteka in the land,” the boy replied.
“How long must I study?”
“Ten years at least,” the master answered.
“Ten years is a long time,” said the boy. “What if I studied twice as hard as all your other students?”
“Twenty years,” replied the master.
“Twenty years! What if I practice day and night with all my effort?”
“Thirty years,” was the master’s reply.
“How is it that each time I say I will work harder, you tell me that it will take longer?” the boy asked.
“The answer is clear. When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.”
Author unknown (at least to me)
In a study of 401 cancer specialists in the UK, 102 exhibited possible psychiatric morbidity and more than one in ten showed clinically important levels of depression. The study was published by Professor Chris Todd and his team at the University’s School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work and Christie Hospital, Manchester in Clinical Medicine in June.
Dealing with serious illness can be hard work and very stressful for all concerned. In the survey mentioned the respondents noted that talking with distressed relatives was one of the stress factors.
Of the respondents they found 102 with levels of psychological distress, 44 had scores indicating depression and 15 expressed suicidal ideas.
Coincidentally IntegrityNLPs first introductory workshop Applying NLP: An Introduction is based around this very issue. How can you be with people in an effective way without being overwhelmed by their suffering?
The day long workshop is at St Oswald’s Hospice in Newcastle on July 18th and it’s free of charge to anyone working in a hospice in the Tyne and Wear area. Let me know if you are interested
My good friend Nigel Hetherington is running a two day introduction to New Code NLP on December 2nd & 3rd.
New code NLP is a radical simplification of classic code NLP. This course is designed for you both as an introduction and as a strong base for self application and change through experiential learning, practice, discovery and application.
The course is taking place at the Tomlinson Teaching Centre, Newcastle General Hospital. It costs £100 for both days. If you already have a NLP Practitioner Certificate, or would just like to have an inexpensive entry into NLP, this will be a very worthwhile course. You can find out more about it at www.communicatingexcellence..com
If you are interested in EFT and have used it for yourself or clients, you may be interested in a free report about Simple Energy Techniques (SET) that have been developed by Steve Wells and Dr David Lake, two Australian EFTers at www.eftdownunder.com. In an effort to further simplify something that is already pretty simple they’ve developed a variety of approaches that make it even easier. I’m looking forward to trying out some of their ideas for myself and my clients.
I often given tapping homework to clients: “tap on these issues a few times a day until we next meet”. Sometimes I’ve written the instructions out for them. Next time we meet, they’ll say things like “I forgot what you said”, “I lost the little bit of paper”.
I came up with the ‘Tapping Cards” idea as a way of giving clients, and myself, a way of selecting issues to work on and being able to track progress as things change. They’re designed to help you identify and work with background emotional states. These are our habitual feeling states that are at work on a day to day basis, they may be so familiar to us that they go unrecognised. The tapping cards allow us to identify a variety of negative emotions that may be at work in us and give us a way of working with them.
You need to have little experience of EFT for two reasons:
- The instructions will make more sense.
- You may find that this process triggers stuff in you and you need to be able to use EFT to reduce any intensity in your reactions.
Each card consists of a ‘feeling statement’, setup and reminder phrase, and a second setup and reminder phrase.
By using the card as a prompt you can judge which emotional states are operating and devise a consistent way of working with those feelings.
Here is one way of using them:
- Once a week take a few minutes to work through all the cards one at a time to create a collection of tapping cards that apply to you.
- For each card read aloud the ‘feeling statement’ at the top of the card and estimate it’s intensity.
- If the statement has some intensity place the card on a ‘tapping pile’, otherwise put that card aside.
- When you’ve gone through the all the cards you should have a small collection of tap-able cards and another pile of cards that do not apply to you.
- Every day, give each card in the ‘tapping pile’ a few rounds of EFT using the setup and reminder statements provided (or substitute your own versions). Do this more than once a day if you can.
- If the card ‘loses it’s intensity’ after a few days put it back into the non-tapping pile.
- At the end of the week, review all of the cards and create a new tapping pile for the next week.
If you are interested in trying them out, you can download them in several page formats free of charge. To download cards in Acrobat PDF format place mouse pointer over appropriate format and select “Save Link As”.
Tapping Cards (pdf) : 5×3 Index Card - A4 - Letter
To make the cards you can either print out the index card version on any printer that can handle 3×5 index cards. If your printer can’t cope with that, print the sheets of A4 or Letter size and cut them out for yourself.
I hope you find these useful. If you have any questions or comments please let me know.
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