Tapping Q & A - Getting the most out of tapping and EFT Gene Monterastelli

For the 2024 Spring Energy Event I was asked to give a reflection on what I have learned in my personal and professional transformational journey.
For me, the measure of the value of transformation is seen in how our life is different. What do we believe that is different? How do we feel that is different? In what ways are we asking in new ways?
Because this has been my focus, I am supremely interested in the resistance to change. Even when we know the type of change we would like to make in our lives and how valuable that change is, we still don't change.
This led me to create a presentation where I shared the four basic root causes of our resistance to change as well as how to identify the story that is holding you back.
This week in the podcast I share the full presentation so you can learn along with everyone who attends live.
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One of my favorite ways to learn is by listening to the questions others ask.
When I am asking questions I am bringing my experience and preconceived notions to the questions. This is a useful way to learn, but sometimes I am too close to my own experience to ask the most useful question.
When someone else is asking a question they are often asking a question I never would have thought of. This gives me a chance to ponder the questions from a distance which allows me to hear the answer in a new way.
One of my favorite parts of the Authentic Action Academy is the Office Hour sessions. This is when my students have the chance to .ask me anything
They ask questions about what has been taught in class, how to get more out of their own tapping practice, and they even bring tapping requests.
My favorite part of these sessions is seeing all the comments in the chat box from what everyone else is learning through the process.
In March I hosted an Ask Me Anything session, where anyone who showed up could do exactly that...ask me anything about tapping.
The session was recorded and I pulled 4 questions which I thought you would also enjoy learning from and tapping along to.
The four topics I have pulled for you are:
Clearing limiting beliefs around our ability to be successful Finding and clearing the root cause of emotional eating How to deal with the grief around the death of someone who hurt us How do I know if I should be tapping on the negative or positive when trying to clear and issue I know you will learn a lot from this conversation.
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Goals are a powerful tool in helping us to move forward. They give us clear direction, they help to create clarity for our best next steps, and they serve as a measuring stick for us to evaluate the action we take.
Goals are great!
Except when they aren't.
Sometimes goals can feel like a constraint, homework, or something we "have to do". When this happens, they become more of a hindrance than a help.
This week in the podcast we explore how to create a goal, as well as a healthy relationship to that goal, based on what we are trying to achieve and our personal context.
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One of the phrases I spend a lot of time tapping on with my clients is the idea that "time is a zero sum game". What I mean by this phrase is that if you are doing one thing you can't be doing anything else.
This means everytime we choose to do something, we are choosing not to do anything else.
Because this is the case it is very easy to judge ourselves as we look at our past choices. When we look to our past, not only are we able to see how we are investing our time, but we also see all the actions we could have taken and we didn't.
I know I can certainly be very hard on myself and my past choices when it feels like I have squandered time and opportunities.
This past week I found myself very disappointed with my past choices. Normally this leads to frustration for not taking the best action and sadness over the squandered opportunities.
For the first time in a long time I wasn't just frustrated or saddened. I was mad. And not just mad...I was raging.
The more I thought about my mistakes the madder I became. This week in the podcast I share with you what happened and how I responded.
Not only do I explain my approach, I also do a fair bit of tapping. I hope you find this approach useful.
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When most of us learned the basics of tapping, one of the first bits of advice we received was to "be as specific as possible when you are tapping."
Sometimes this is straightforward; the issue is singular and clear, so we know exactly where to start.
At other times, our issue involves multiple emotions, and it is hard for us to tell where one emotion ends and the next begins.
When this happens, the advice to "be as specific as possible when you are tapping" is difficult to apply, if not impossible.
In this week's podcast I share my favorite approach to use when there is no clear starting point for an issue. This handy tool will allow you to tap on multiple issues at once.
The approach can be used at the beginning or the end of a tapping session, and can also be applied to a session as a whole.
Listen as I lead you through the entire process after I provide the instruction. This is an essential tool for your tapping toolbox!
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Tapping is one of those tools that is simple to understand and explain, but that doesn't mean it is easy to do.
The biggest hurdle most new tappers (and even experienced tappers) experience is not knowing what to say when tapping.
When we first learn tapping we are guided by a skilled practitioner or teacher who seems to come up with perfect tapping phrases without effort. We can't wait to add tapping to our daily practice.
Then we then find ourselves tapping on our own and our mind goes blank. As easy as it was for the person who taught us tapping to come up with phrases it is hard for us.
Our mind is blank.
We are frustrated and disappointed that it "just doesn't work for us" and we give up.
This week in the podcast I share with you my favorite way to write a tapping script that is perfect for you.
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