“I was captured by her phrase, ‘a resident sadness in my heart.’ I like to listen carefully to peoples’ language, and when they use a metaphor, I always assume that some part of the person is speaking literally. So this phrase meant to me that there was a presence in her heart that was somehow ‘not her’ – heavier, more painful, and only living there temporarily, not at home there in her heart…”

“Mary was happy to tell me that she had gone from a 7 to a 3 in poor balance, short strides, and lack of confidence in her walk. We tapped a few more rounds and she was at 0 on those issues. She felt perfectly comfortable as she walked across the kitchen…”

“And then things started to fall into place. I realized that I believed that no matter how smart I was, how clever, how respectful, someone else always had the power to tell me what I could and could not do. I connected how the eating disorder and my general feelings of powerlessness were related…”

“He said that doubt would creep into his thoughts, and the word failure would pop up. When asked when failure was an issue, he said that while trying out for a university football team, another player said that he was too small and would never make it…”

“I have been using EFT for five years and with great results and am always on the lookout for unusual ways of using it. I would therefore like to share an unusual way to eliminate a fear of heights and anything associated with it by watching a youtube movie and performing EFT as well.”

“I have had great success using EFT for first aid situations. The latest was with my 98+ year old mother… she suddenly began to have a seizure…. at the first tap, the shaking began to ease…”

“One of her main problems has been Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. Especially ’smelly’ people – people using ordinary soap, shower gel, deodorant, shampoo, or perfume plunged her into severe physical discomfort and instant panic attacks. When I started working with her, she was practically housebound and feeling hopeless.”

“As Sue’s emotions shifted from anger to hurt to nervousness to guilt and finally to warmth so did the way she talked about her sister. The words she used changed; the things she noticed and remembered came with more detail, her whole perception of this woman she had known all her life was no longer narrowly focused.”

“Fear is a major reason for keeping us stuck. Most of the time though, the fear is worse than actually doing it! EFT can really help us eliminate our fears.”

“By watching him becoming a more gentle, peaceful person, becoming more confident with his body and his outlook on life, I can still remember feeling that things changed into unknown territory during those last few days we spent together. He couldn’t wait to get back home, he obviously had found what he’d been looking for.”