Does anyone else here combine EFT with coaching?
AlthoughEFT is perhaps more often thought of as a therapy, I feel it is also a close cousin of NLP and works beautifully in helping people remove thebarriers that are holding them back (be they emotional blocks or limiting beliefs) so that they can move forward and reach their goals.
I now describe myself as 'Emotional Freedom Coach', which seems less clunky than 'EFT Practioner and Life Coach'.
I'd love to hear your views
Best wishes
Karen
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Hello Karen
Thanks for raising this interesting question. Emotional Freedom Coach sounds to melike a great title, as you say less 'clunky'! I personally don't use EFT, but broadly speaking – and briefly, because I have to go out shortly – I believe in using any combination of healing/therapy/personal development modalities that works. Also the fact that so many people do now take this broader view would seem to confirm the value. Another coach recently asked me for attunement to a higher degree of Reiki, in order to offer more to her clients – she also does EFT and TLT!
In the meantime, you might be interested to read an earlier thread … a lively debate on this very topic:
[link= http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=83854&mpage=1&key=coaching%2Ceft𔞎 ]http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=83854&mpage=1&key=coaching%2Ceft𔞎[/link]
Sorry if the yellow bits are distracting … it's an "old" thread, so I had to use Search to access it, but I'm sure the views expressed are no less valid today.
There's also an earlier thread on Coaching and Drumming, as usedfor both individuals and in the corporate world. I don't want to go off topic here, but again, great for bringing out what people didn't know they had inside them or could achieve. 🙂
I look forward to returning to this thread later.
Best wishes,
Laura.
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I'd use it. I have recently used EFT on a client for motivation. Very, very powerful and simple. It's almost cheating.
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Dear Laura
Thanks to the link to the earlier debate- very interesting and, goodness me, what inflexible viewpoints some people seem to have!
I have the EFT Coach book by Mary Jones and find it a very useful resource- albeit the print is a bit small (must try Carol Look's EFT on eyesight soon!).
Darren,
Very, very powerful and simple. It's almost cheating
Good point- and I think this underlies the sceptisim of some people. We are conditioned to believe in struggle and effort and how difficult it is to change.
How can anything so quick and simple work?? Because it does. The proof is in the pudding. The evidence is in the clinical results and not in the explanation or theory.
I agree with some of the contributors to the ealrier debate that there many people do have limiting beliefs and blocks and barriers to achieveing their goals. Excellent coaching is not the only way to tackle these, and anything which enhances one's ability to tackle limiting thoughts and beliefsis surely a good thing.
I see strong parallels between EFT and NLP, notwithstanding the theory about the energy system. We are giving the conscious mind something todistract it(tap) while the subconscious is being given powerful affirmative messages.
Pat Carrington's 'Choices' method is the one I mostly use, and we are literally anchoring a postive state or affirmation in place of the limiting one.
Powerful and effective 🙂
Karen
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I guess people think it's too good to be true so they are sceptical. Their loss!
ORIGINAL: Cara
We are giving the conscious mind something todistract it(tap)
I thought the opposite was true, and besides, tapping isn't a distraction - it's about meridians.
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Hello Darren
I thought the opposite was true, and besides, tapping isn't a distraction - it's about meridians.
Yes that is the theory- and it's one possible explanation. I'm not saying I don't agree with it, I am suggesting that there are other plausible explanations that may be more palatable to those who are archly sceptical of anything that doesn't fit with their (20th century) scientific world view.
Perhaps 'distract it' isn't so much what I meant as 'occupy it'
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On "distraction" or "meridians" - here'sa link to the Waite paper [link= http://www.srmhp.org/0201/emotional-freedom-technique.html ]http://www.srmhp.org/0201/emotional-freedom-technique.html[/link]
EFT worked as well when tapping non-meridian points, and tapping them on a doll.
It did work though.
Sharon.
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Dear Sharon
Thanks for the article. As ever,I am impressed with your skill in finding relevant articles and pieces of research;)
EFT worked as well when tapping non-meridian points, and tapping them on a doll.
It did work though.
Exactly- it does work! It's just that the jury is still out on why or how it works.
I have been working through Gary Craig's 'Ultimate Therapist' DVDs and he shows so many variations and permutations on where to tap, and even has great success in one session where he forgot to have the group tap at all- they just did the set up.
So, whileI personally like the meridian explanation, it seems this is neither necessary nor sufficient to explain how EFT works- which gives us more flexibility with clients in terms of getting 'buy in ' from them- or as Gary calls it 'bridge building'
Best wishes
Karen
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Cara, we went into this a bit on a thread Laura started on the Reiki forum - the thread is called Integrated Energy Therapy. (Irritating - but I can't post a linkfor some reason today.).
Sharon
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Thanks Sharon- I'll take a look
K x
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interesting. sharon, have you changed your eft treatments then?
edit: haha just found that Integrated Energy Therapy thread. I put "interesting" on that too. At least I'm consistent.:D
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Hi Darren, I do still use the tapping method a bit - just to give myself a bit of variety from the Emotrance mantra!
And also, when I'm tapping someone I can often feel an energy of some sort at certain points in my finger tips - I think the physical connection is helpful. It helps to make EFT a physical therapy as well as a talk-therapy, and I believe that makes it more potent.
Sharon.
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ah, right. i did wonder. i started thinking what else i could do if I didn't tap - I suppose I could ask a client to tap a freshly baked cake... if it worked my services would sell like... ok ok i am getting my coat!
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ORIGINAL: DarrenFollowsThePath
interesting. sharon, have you changed your eft treatments then?
edit: haha just found that Integrated Energy Therapy thread. I put "interesting" on that too. At least I'm consistent.:D
I'd forgotten that the thread on Integrated Energy Therapy also discussed EFT ... and then continued in the Science Forum. 😉
The IET thread is here (for others who may be following this thread):
[link= http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=292215 ]http://www.healthypages.net/forum/tm.asp?m=292215[/link]
Laura.
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ORIGINAL: spinal music
On "distraction" or "meridians" - here'sa link to the Waite paper [link= http://www.srmhp.org/0201/emotional-freedom-technique.html ]http://www.srmhp.org/0201/emotional-freedom-technique.html[/link]
EFT worked as well when tapping non-meridian points, and tapping them on a doll.
It did work though.
Sharon.
LOLOL!!!!!!
"As a further control for possible unforeseen benefits of tapping regardless of the location, a third group (Group M) modeled the EFT treatment by tapping a doll instead of themselves."
They tapped on two of the known meridians all the time, even when they tapped on the dolls! The finger points! :D:D:D
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Good point. Also, when tapping on "non-meridian" points, are they definitely sure they didn't strike acupunture points? They may have been less effective but still have achieved the results even if they took longer, and as we know, with EFT, you can't guarantee the time it takes to overcome an issue anyway.