Clutter

We all have it. Whether it’s a drawer, a room, a garage or an attic, we all have varying amounts of stuff we don’t need, don’t use or don’t want stored in our homes somewhere. Every year there seems to be more of it, as if it is breeding in dark places and planning to take over the world. And of course, the more there is of it, the more daunting it is to do something about.

As a child growing up in my parents’ house, I can remember my mother demanding “take your clutter away!” on more than one occasion. I didn’t understand why she called it clutter – it was, at various times, my precious toys, magazines, makeup, school books, letters or other things that were of value to me, placed on the sideboard or in the sitting room “just for now” until I took it up to my room or dealt with it or – gasp! – threw it away (of which more later).

It was, of course, a matter of perception. From my point of view, these things were useful or transient. From my mother’s point of view, it was just stuff gathering dust and making the place look untidy.

• Even though my mother sees things differently to me, I deeply and completely love and accept myself
• Even though my mother treats my things – and by extension, me - with contempt, I deeply and completely love and accept myself
• Even though my stuff is precious to me and she doesn’t understand, I deeply and completely love and accept myself
  

Do you note that part of the setup statement: “my stuff is precious to me”? We tend to use the same word – “stuff” – to mean both our possessions and our history. This is no accident – as we move through life we collect stuff. Stuff that reminds us of our history. Sometimes it’s a present from someone we care about, or something fashionable in the 70s but now … not so much, or a replacement for something that still works, but is no longer really necessary – anyone who has owned a computer for more than 10 years has old monitors stored somewhere, for example, replaced by a flat screen that takes up far less room. Those old monitors may, after all, come in useful some day. Or a jumper “borrowed” from an old boyfriend and never returned, or a hideous gift from an aged relative we don’t want to offend.

Clutter is the physical manifestation of our history. Our history is precious to us and without it we wouldn’t be who we are. No wonder the number 1 obstacle to growing and getting past our issues is that we won’t know who we are if we change.

• Even though I won’t know who I am if I change, I deeply and completely love and accept myself
• Even though it’s scary to let go of [this issue], I deeply and completely love and accept myself and who I am
• Even though it’s true that I might be different if I change, it’s also true that I might be happier and I’m willing to be open to feeling happier and free

A Clutter Visualisation

Close your eyes. Imagine yourself surrounded by all your possessions, attached to each one of them by a piece of rope. Some of it is in suitcases, some of it is in huge trunks and bags and some of it is just little bits out by themselves. Really feel all that stuff tied to you. How do you feel? Now, try to move forward. Is it easy? Or is it really hard? Do you have to turn, gather the ropes in your hands and have to haul all that stuff with you?

This is where you are now, with your back to the future, your face to all that stuff, unable to move forward because of all the stuff holding you back and taking all your attention.

Now, imagine you find in your hands a large pair of sharp scissors or a sword if you like. Cut all those ties to the past, the scissors or sword easily slicing through the ropes attaching you to your past.

Now turn and move forward. Feel how much easier that is, the lightness, freedom and peace you can feel while taking your steps into your own future with nothing holding you back.

You are still you. The difference is that you are free of dragging all that stuff with you.

Take a breath, open your eyes and try to bring that feeling with you into the rest of your day.

Endnote

This is how EFT works – it facilitates the release of attachments to the past and frees you to be more yourself and less your stuff.

Today, 21^st February 2010 is the first day of the World Tapping Summit – 10 days of EFT online presentations by various EFT personalities from different countries. I urge you to sign up for this free event.

And if you need some expert EFT help, you can contact me here for an appointment in person, by phone or by skype internet video call.

Why Do We Eat? Part II

Last time we looked at social eating and the ways in which our childhood feelings around food can affect our relationship with it today. This time, let’s take that a bit further.

Eating for Enjoyment

When we approach food, we do so with anticipation. Very few of us see food simply as fuel, consuming only fluid with the required calorific and nutritional content – like the tasteless liquid in The Matrix! We expect enjoyment from it. Whether in the form of a rare steak or a vegan grain and vegetable casserole, we go to a great deal of trouble to find and prepare food – or buy it! – that tastes good as well as satisfying our hunger.

The sensual nature of food touches something very primitive in our psychological makeup and this is well known by marketers. Think about it: the Cadbury’s Flake adverts are pure sex; McDonalds adverts speak to the nurturer in us with their focus on nature and purity; those chocolate Easter bunny ads with their emphasis on the liquid nature of pure chocolate already have us salivating by the time we actually see the bell being hung around the bunny’s neck … we expect to enjoy the taste and texture of our food.

Think, too, of the nature of a “special date”. With Valentine’s Day fast approaching, it is no accident that most restaurants will be fully booked by 12^th February. Food = love and therefore many of us use it as a substitute when we feel unloved: our consumption of ice cream and chocolate rise in direct inverse proportion to the success of our love life!

By contrast, the movie “Supersize Me” not only showed us what was in the fast food we eat, but also the effect of eating it: liver disease, reduced immune function, weight loss and, surprisingly, addiction.

Addiction to food is a growing problem. Those who do not suffer from food addictions and its accompanying cravings fail to understand how compelling they can be. Many of us require something sweet after our main meal and assume that desire for it is simply a habit – one that can be satisfied with a piece of fruit. Unfortunately, many of us are unable to stop thinking about the “something sweet after dinner”, not least because of advertising through the media constantly reminding us of it.

Substances that produce cravings are not just, as we might expect, alcohol, drugs and nicotine, but also include refined sugar, bread, cheese, trans- and hydrogenated fats – many of which can be found in prepared meals and fast foods.

How an EFT Practitioner can help

Cravings are often seen as one of the easiest ways of showing what EFT can do – many practitioners (myself included) will arrive at a demonstration with a box of chocolate, give them out to those present and then proceed to direct a tapping session on removing the desire to eat them! Although you might think there would be a lot of disappointment that the audience don’t get to eat the chocolate, there is generally a great deal of laughter and appreciation for the fact that EFT is so efficient at removing such a seemingly impossible desire.

EFT practitioners are trained to help find the original emotional disruptions that result in an association of food with love and help facilitate a healthier relationship with food – look for AAMET qualified (like me) or Gary Craig Certified practitioners and ask to speak to one or two current or past clients to get a feel for how effective your prospective practitioner is. You can also invite a practitioner to demonstrate with you and a few friends in the terms outlined above. Many practitioners offer a free 15 minute phone or in person initial consultation. Others, like myself, offer to return the fee if they are unable to help.

I am available for personal and phone sessions, so wherever you are in the world my expertise is available to you.

You may also find this link useful: Xanthe Clay demonstrates recipes in ten minutes from carrier bag to table

Useful Setup Phrases for Food Cravings

You can find the “How to Tap” video here on this blog

Even though I really want to eat this [insert whatever it is here], I deeply and completely love and accept myself and how I feel

Even though I must have something sweet after dinner, I deeply and completely love and accept myself … or at least I want to …

Even though it’s not safe for me to lose weight, I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Why do we eat?

It seems such a simple question, doesn’t it? We eat to live and if we didn’t eat we would die. A simple answer to a simple question.

And yet, with the “epidemic” of obesity all over the Western world, simple answers don’t seem to apply any more, so let’s take a brief look at some of the reasons people eat.

Part I - Social Eating

From the first “let’s meet up for coffee” to the romantic dinner for two, relationships are built on social eating. The eating itself is compliment to the physical pleasure of being in a new or established relationship and associated in the mind with enjoyment and sensual stimulation. Small wonder that when things go wrong, we strive to reconnect with the sensations we remember from when things were going well.

Business, too, often takes place in an environment where food is available – the working breakfast, lunch, dinner; client entertaining and dinner with the boss either at home or in a restaurant. This situation is more stress than pleasure, with food as a counterpoint to the pressure of closing the deal.

Too many business meals and the weight piles on – have you noticed how much weight many successful politicians carry around with them? And how quickly that happens? Too much of a good thing tends to show up around the waist in very short order.

Family mealtimes are often the only time that the whole family is together – often less than once a week. That gathering of the family brings back memories of childhood when the parent was always available and mealtimes were, safe, loving, filled with laughter and togetherness. A special pleasure.

Alternatively, family mealtimes may have been a traumatic time – being forced to eat or times when a child could not help but be noticed by an abusive parent, for example – all associated subconsciously with food. Later on food becomes the only part of the abusive relationship that is under individual control … or the part that is hopelessly out of control.

More prosaically, food preparation is something that we have all, to an extent, become separated from. With most homes needing two incomes to maintain, there is very little time for cooking – what might once have been started at midday in order to present in the evening now has only 15-20 minutes associated with preparation and cooking time.

We turn to supermarket prepared and processed food to help assuage what can often be guilt about evening meals that at least look as if they might actually be food – food that someone at least has put some effort into. Unfortunately, most processed food has trans and hydrogenated fats as significant parts of the ingredients and far more salt and sugar than you would imagine simply by tasting it. Added to which, the body never really feels satisfied by that, so then it’s time to fill up with sweets and biscuits, both of which are also full of fat, salt and sugar.

Help from an EFT Practitioner

From the above, it becomes obvious that not everyone eats for the same reason or has the same associations with food. Which is why some diets work for some people and some don’t work for anyone!

When we use EFT for weight loss, what we are zeroing in on is our own individual events leading to our current relationships with food. Often, when we are using EFT by ourselves, we are unable to see our own woods because we get bogged down in our obscuring global trees.

EFT practitioners are trained to help – look for AAMET Qualified or Gary Craig Certified practitioners and ask to speak to one or two current or past clients to get a feel for how effective your prospective practitioner is. Many practitioners offer a free 15 minute phone or in person initial consultation. Others, like myself, offer to return the fee if they are unable to help.

Global Setup Phrases to Try


Even though mealtimes are always a battle, I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though food is my only way of soothing my sadness, I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though I have to eat to be sociable – I can’t say no, I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though I have this hunger and I don’t know where it came from, I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Parts II, III, IV and V of this series will be published in following weeks.

Surrogate Tapping

What is it?

Surrogate EFT is tapping on yourself as if you were another person, animal or thing. For example, my cat, Giles, fell over something and hurt his wrist (equivalent!). Having delivered him to the vet for x-rays, I did some tapping for him at home, with interesting results. The vet could not tell from the x-ray whether or not he had broken a bone – it looked like both!

During the tapping session, I could feel his front leg superimposed on my own and knew the session was done when the energy was flowing properly to his/my paw.

You may wonder if perhaps this all seems a bit unlikely, but the vet was flummoxed by how quickly the swelling went down and how quickly Giles recovered.

If it works for a cat, in another location, then it will pretty much work on anything. In fact, the Emofree website is full of stories of people surrogate tapping their cars, computers and various other things with surprisingly effective results!

Why Tap Surrogately?

As mentioned above, surrogate tapping is appropriate for animals and things – outcomes can be delightfully surprising!

Surrogate tapping can also be effective for people. On one occasion, I facilitated a session for a boy with autism by helping his mother surrogate tap on herself. The boy, who had been moving constantly, lay down behind her while this was going on and was clearly engaged in the process.

On an everyday level, there are occasions when surrogate tapping might be appropriate – Gary Craig gives examples of tapping surrogately on planes for crying babies and people who are clearly afraid of flying. This type of thing is a gift given in a detached sort of way without judgement.

But what about if you’re having a disagreement with one of your friends – or a family member? Is it appropriate to surrogate tap for them?

That depends. There are times when my teenage children are very challenging. I have often thought about surrogate tapping on them but have taught myself to tap on myself first. When I feel the need to tap on someone else I generally tap on myself for why it is I feel the need to change them. Quite often it is because I have a little control issue going on there!

A useful tool is from NLP – the three person strategy, where one taps on oneself for the issue, then one takes a look at the situation from the other person’s point of view - which is not tapping surrogately, but taking a look at oneself from outside. I might, for example, think about how I felt as a teenager when my own parents were being “challenging”! [grin]

Even though my mother just doesn’t understand how important this party is …

Even though my mother’s fashion sense is 90 years out of date …

Even though it’s really embarrassing to have to leave early to be home by midnight … everyone else gets to stay out late …

Even though they treat me like a baby – it’s so humiliating …

Looking at it from the other person’s point of view often brings up things from our own childhood/work/friendships that we haven’t dealt with. On the principle that what pushes our buttons is generally what we dislike about ourselves, it can be really useful to take a look at ourselves from someone else’s point of view, particularly when we disagree with them.

The third person in the three person strategy is the point of view of an outside observer. What impression would someone unconnected with the situation have?

Even though that woman is painting herself into a corner ….

Even though that child just wants to be an adult … it’s a shame she’s not able to understand her mother’s concerns …

Even though neither of them are listening - they both want to be heard …

When we take this three person approach, very often the energy of the situation changes and everyone can move forward.

Enjoy your week!

New Year Resolutions Tap a Long

Hello again

This week is all about New Year Resolutions - enjoy:

Looking for the Authentic Self with EFT

How do we find our authentic self under the layers of social roles, expectations and busy-ness we experience every day?

According to the philosopher Nicholas Rose, far from springing from an eternal, inner spirit or soul, the self is simply an unfoldment in the face of authority and the exercise of power – humans, according to Rose, are defined externally by their parents, society as a whole, education, peers etc and by political and economic factors.

In other words, there is no “self”.

The word “psychology” is from the Greek, meaning the study of the soul or mind. Since the mind is difficult to study directly, psychology attempts to build theoretical models which it then empirically tests by research in order to gain greater understanding of behaviour, the processes behind it and, if appropriate, to develop methods of encouraging and supporting change towards socially acceptable behaviour and attitudes.

Like so many things, the mind is only observable in its effects, measurable by behaviour and therefore some schools of psychology, in an attempt to gain acceptance as a science, suggest that the mind – or self – does not exist, but is simply a complex set of attitudes and behaviours developed as a reaction to external stimuli.

And yet, studies of children switched at birth or adopted indicate there is more to the development of the human than reaction to external stimuli – it would not matter who brought them up if the self did not exist. They would simply absorb whatever was around them. There would be no niggling feeling of “not belonging” or “not quite right” if Rose’s theory was the whole story in the development of the personality.

There is no doubt that we are affected by our early training – the “writing on our walls”, if you like. However, there is more to each one of us than external stimuli, although some of us tend to forget that, particularly at this time of year, with the Christmas focus on consumption, perfection, illusion and jollity.

The entire Western world focused on one feast on one day of the year with one outcome in mind. At this time of year we all believe there is only one perfect outcome – please leave a comment indicating what that is for you. You might be surprised at the many different ideas expressed – and find quite a few things to tap on as a result!

Our different beliefs about this one time of year demonstrate that we are all different – on the inside. Christmas is a time we all have in common and yet we all have different beliefs around it – and not just our parents’ beliefs, or even society’s beliefs, but each one of us has our own interpretation of what Christmas should look like and what it means. So, if we observe the effects in behaviour in ourselves and others, in our feelings, and in our inner conflicts about this time, we can begin to touch the edges of our individual authentic self. It is in the tension created by inner conflict that our authentic self is struggling to emerge.

Karate chop point

Even though what I expect of myself and what I am actually able to do are two different things, I deeply and completely accept myself.

Even though [insert people or situation] did Christmas wrong this year – that’s not how it’s supposed to be! – I deeply and completely accept myself

Even though the truth is I have some inner conflict around all of this, I’m just going to honour that conflict and how I feel about it

Eyebrow: I just couldn’t get it right

Side of the eye: It’s not the way I remember it

Under the eye: those people were doing it wrong!

Under the nose: if only I could recreate those Christmases I remember

Chin: those fun ones when I was a kid

Collarbone: that whole atmosphere of joy

Under the arm: maybe it wasn’t that much fun for my parents then …

Top of the head: or maybe it was – maybe they just did it better

Eyebrow: or maybe I expect too much of myself …

Side of the eye: or maybe I expect too much of other people

Under the eye: or maybe I’m doing my best

Under the nose: maybe one day these will be the nostalgic Christmases that people are trying to live up to

Chin: wouldn’t that be funny

Collarbone: maybe I’ll just honour that

Under the arm: maybe I’ll just accept that in the future we’ll look back on this time as an ideal

Top of the head: maybe I’ll just accept that this will be an ideal for someone and honour the humour in that

Have a great New Year!

Everyone Benefits

Our perceptions define us and define our lives. Think about it: when you get up in the morning, are you full of beans, awake, aware and ready to face the day? Or do you force your eyes open, groan, hit the snooze button and pull the duvet over your head, instead.

The difference between waking one way or waking the other is simply perception. Some people spring out of bed in the morning, sing, greet the family with a cheery “good morning” and bounce off to work … while others, drag themselves out of bed, grunt at everyone until they have their first cup of coffee and then face the day with grim determination, reminding themselves that the weekend is just around the corner.

It’s interesting , isn’t it, that the first scenario and the second can even take place in the same household … and the second is even more groany about the first when wished a cheery “good morning”!

Singing, yet! Gads!

When we drag ourselves off to work, rushed because we hit the snooze button not just once, but twice, or even more times, we are bringing our reluctance with us wherever we go. So, on the walk to the bus stop or station, what do we notice? During the wait for whatever form of transport we take, what are we thinking about? When we arrive at work, what’s our first thought? And doesn’t that set the tone for the rest of the day?

Try this before you go to sleep:

Even though today has been [insert your description here], I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though I’m really exhausted by it all, I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though the truth is that my life is constantly stressful, I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Eyebrow: today has been [insert your description]
Side of the eye: I’m exhausted by it all
Under the eye: I’m so stressed
Under the nose: it’s all too much
Chin: why do I have to do this every day?
Collarbone: I really hate this
Under the arm: this stress
Top of the head: so stressful
Eyebrow: I am so stressed
Side of the eye: There’s no time for me
Under the eye: no one appreciates me
Under the nose: I feel so tired
Chin: I’m so tired and overwhelmed by it all
Collarbone: it never lets up!
Under the arm: this overwhelm
Top of the head: this overwhelm

After a round or two of that, when you begin to relax, you can add a round or two of this just on the tapping points:

Eyebrow: I choose to relax
Side of the eye: I choose to leave the stresses of today with today
Under the eye: I choose to relax completely
Under the nose: I choose to relax and sleep deeply and peacefully
Chin: I choose to fall asleep easily and quickly
Collarbone: I choose to sleep deeply and peacefully
Under the arm: I choose relaxing, rejuvenating, re-energising sleep
Top of the head: I choose to awaken just before my alarm sounds, relaxed, awake, aware and ready to face the day

It may take a couple of days, but after a while you might begin to feel a little more cheerful in the mornings. You may even smile back at the one who wishes you a cheery “good morning” – you might even find the singing endearing! You might be on time for work, having appreciated the lovely gardens on the way down the street to your bus stop or station, filled with good memories or looking forward to seeing the folks at work and having a little time for hearing about what they got up to last night. And you may even have a good day and be more productive. Who knows?

The wonderful thing about EFT is that we can all change our perceptions. Even if nothing on the outside changes, on the inside, we experience our daily lives differently. When we change our perceptions, the others around us are treated to a new person with a new, more positive outlook … and that brings a little more light into their lives, which they take with them into their day.

When we work on brightening ourselves and our own perceptions, we’re giving a gift to everyone we come into contact with, who are then taking that and brightening the lives of everyone they coming into contact with. Everyone benefits.

It’s beautiful.

Fear Erased Without Drugs

I was so excited to read this article this week in Nature magazine: Fear Memories Erased Without Drugs - reported widely in mainstream media including here, here and here - for several reasons:

Energy Flow

Researchers at New York University measured the fear response through taking readings of “skin conductance” before and after volunteers were exposed to a blue square while being given an electric shock on the wrist. (There is a part of me that is appalled that real people were given enough of an electric shock to produce a scientifically measurable physical fear response when exposed to a blue square and I really do honour those people for their sacrifice in the interests of science.)

“Conductance”, according to Collins English Dictionary, means this: “the ability of a system to conduct electricity, measured by the ratio of the current flowing through the system to the potential difference across it”. This means that the electrical – or energy – flow across the skin both exists and can be measured. Energy flow reduction – or disruption – also exists and is measurable.

The discovery statement in EFT is “All negative emotion is caused by a disruption in the energy system” (my italics).

Often, when we talk about energy flow in the body, people’s eyes glaze over and they dismiss what we are saying as all a bit weird and unscientific. Yet here, researchers at New York University are not just taking this energy flow in the body for granted, but also the fact that emotion reduces or disrupts it and proving that disruption by measuring the effects of it with scientific equipment.

This is huge for EFT practitioners.

Emotional Trauma

Having caused the emotional trauma by electrocuting volunteers, the researchers then set about treating the conditioned fear response to the blue square produced in the volunteers by showing it to them – in essence, the researchers had conditioned a phobia response to the blue square by electrocuting the volunteers every time they saw it.
The researchers treated the phobia by desensitisation – showing the volunteers the blue square and not electrocuting them over and over again, so that their perception of the blue square as dangerous underwent a cognitive shift. The article doesn’t say how many times the blue square had to be shown to the volunteers before the cognitive shift occurred.

However, the outcome indicates that the disruption to the energy flow caused by the emotional trauma can be made to go away and that this effect can be measured. Of course, we EFT practitioners know this – we see it every day with our clients: a few rounds of tapping and the phobia is gone completely. But we would go further, addressing the other aspects to the phobia – the room in which the electrocutions took place, for example, and the researcher’s face as they pressed the button to cause pain in the volunteer and so on, so that it is not just the phobia response to the blue square that’s gone, but also the emotional response to the whole situation surrounding the core experience.

However, the point here for us EFT-ers is that this experiment is scientific proof that what we do is possible and measurable.

Time Constraints and the Setup Statement

The researchers found that the treatment would only work within a specific (and measurable!) window of time after the original trauma.
You will note that throughout the experiment, the volunteers were passive – they were having stuff done to them, rather than interacting and being part of the process. As we practice EFT, we use the setup statement partly to help the client tune into the memory/core issue, which, I suggest, is why EFT has no real time constraints – the core event could have happened yesterday or 50 years ago. When the client is tuned into the specific event, the memory is brought into the present time and we are able to tap on it as if it were within the window of time the researchers describe. Professor Anke Ehlers, an expert in post traumatic stress disorder at London's Institute of Psychiatry, was interviewed by the BBC about the research is quoted as saying: "People need to realise it is the memory that is fearful and not the current reality." With EFT we recognise that it is the memory that is fearful … but the effects are felt in current reality.

With EFT, we help the client to tune into the energy disruption, release it through tapping and become free to move forward in their lives.

Drugless

The research is hailed as the beginning of a new, drugless approach to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). We have already been practicing this drugless approach since the 90s.

Bridging the Gap

This research and other research projects like it is so important because it helps us as EFT practitioners to bridge the gap between our experience of EFT and the belief systems of other people. We can use this type of research to show that what we do is not “weird and unscientific” but is actually cutting edge – EFT has been highly effective in helping people with PTSD since Gary Craig first developed it … and now the academic world is just beginning to do the research that demonstrates it.

EFT: The Apex Problem

Definition

EFT works so quickly and easily that clients don’t believe it was the EFT that helped them, so they tend to find other reasons for their improvement.

A client who has had a debilitating phobia or physical issue that has lasted for years, when they have tried everything including mainstream medical treatment and any and all alternative and complimentary treatments, when they end up at my door for EFT, they are already convinced that nothing will work or can work. When it does – sometimes within a few minutes - there is a large part of them that refuses to believe it – because it’s too fast!

This is an interesting result. On the one hand, by facilitating such a great improvement we are demonstrating that EFT is something you don’t have to believe in for it to work. We are demonstrating that you don’t even have to believe it when it clearly has worked for it to continue to work. Which is great!

On the other hand, this does mean that those who might be expected to be excited evangelist for an EFT practitioner – me, preferably! – are, when asked by their friends what happened, where did this improvement come from will respond with something along the lines of: “oh, you know, I’ve been seeing the doctor. It took a long time, but, yeah, finally I feel like my old self again.” They don’t even mention EFT or their practitioner! Which is not so great.

As a community, EFT practitioners have never overtly questioned this situation – mainly because we, too, observed that EFT could be lightening fast. We couldn’t help but sympathise with this attitude from our clients. The Apex Problem is so central to our EFT practice that it is taught as part of accredited training. It is written in stone, eternal, unchangeable and we just have to work with it.

Or do we?

Writing on Walls

The explanation given for The Apex Problem is based on the work of Leon Festinger – a psychologist who produced the theory of Cognitive Dissonance. In mainstream psychology cognitive dissonance is produced when a belief is challenged, which produces feelings of anger, resentment and/or denial. As a result, depending on the strength of the belief in question, we either change our minds or dismiss the challenge. If you are interested in reading more about Cognitive Dissonance you can find an article about it here.

I love Cognitive Dissonance – almost every essay I wrote at University referenced it as proof of something I was arguing. It is a very useful – and demonstrable! – theory.

Based on long term formal scientific research, quoted by Roger Callaghan and adopted by Gary Craig as the explanation underlying The Apex Problem, Cognitive Dissonance is a very reasonable explanation. And it’s scientific, therefore it must be true.

However, at one point there was a body of scientific evidence “proving” that bumble bees can’t fly. Demonstrably they do fly, whatever the scientists said. It was the scientists who had to change their minds, not the bumble bees.

Further, for centuries, Newtonian Physics formalised the indisputable laws of how the material universe works … until Plank, Einstein, Heisenberg et al discovered that was not quite the case. In Quantum Physics – the physics underlying the Newtonian Universe – all matter is energy, except when human intervention changes the behaviour and manifestation of it.

As EFT practitioners, we see the evidence of this every day. A few rounds of EFT and long term chronic issues such as back pain, migraines, vision problems, PTSD etc can all be gone as if they were never there in the first place. Which is often impossible according to established medical and scientific belief systems … except when it isn’t.

And now the Tapping

All of this brought me to the conclusion that The Apex Problem is a limiting belief – and it’s tappable.

London calling, London calling ...

Hi folks

Today is a momentous day - for me, anyway! I have actually committed to blogging once a week to the end of time ... oh, all right, my time here on earth, anyway.

This first blog entry is easy - here's a "how to" video:



See you next week :)