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POWERTIPS
Dawson Church FOR USING EFT
“EFT offers great healing benefits.”
—Deepak Chopra, MD
Seven Power Tips
for Using EFT

by
Dawson Church, PhD
Best-selling author of The Genie in Your Genes

EFT Universe
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©2010 Dawson Church

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Contents

Power Tip 1. EFT for Releasing the Unknown

Problems that Stand Between You
and Your Goals ................................................... 7
Power Tip 2. Smoothing Transitions With EFT.................. 11
Power Tip 3. The Personal Peace Procedure,
Journaling, and Stuck Memories..................... 15
Power Tip 4. Use EFT to Turbocharge
Your Intentions ................................................. 19
Power Tip 5. Resolve Your Tail-Enders
to Unify Your Energy....................................... 21
Power Tip 6. Waiting for Change ........................................... 25
Power Tip 7. Use EFT With a Tapping Partner .................. 29
 1
EFT for Releasing the Unknown
Problems that Stand Between
You and Your Goals

Sometimes we can’t achieve our goals, and we can’t figure

out why. We all have parts of life we master easily, and others
that are a real struggle. When I was in high school, I had a
friend called Lynette who could complete any math problem
instantly. She grasped new concepts in math readily, and had
moved on to calculus by the end of the school term. I was
at the opposite end of the spectrum. Our class was divided
into three groups: Good, fair, and poor math students. I was
so bad that the teacher had to create a fourth category just
for me: Hopeless.
Yet Lynette could not write well. I wrote poetry effort-
lessly, and collaborated on a school play. I found Shakespeare
a joy to read. She struggled with the basics of composition.
She found English as difficult as I found math. Why did I
find math difficult? Why did she find English such a chal-
lenge? We don’t know the full answer and never will.
So there are things we do well, things we can easily learn
to do well, and things we cannot seem to master no matter
how hard we try.
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Use EFT for the third category. You might not under-
stand what the blocks are that stand between you and your
goals, but you can still use the EFT setup statement that ends
with “I deeply and completely accept myself.”
So I might say, “Even though I’m terrible at math, and
I don’t know why, I deeply and completely accept myself. I
release everything that stands between me and math mastery,
even though I don’t know what it is. And if I never get any
better at math than I am today, I still deeply and completely
accept myself.”
Pick a list of the goals you have that you have been
unable to master. Practice using EFT to let go of any
unknown problem that stands between you and mastery. And
use the self-acceptance statement to affirm that you love and
accept yourself, whether or not you ever achieve that goal.
The chances are that you’ll find the goal much easier after
EFT!
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Smooth Transitions With EFT

Every day of our lives, we’re faced with transitions. We

transition from home to work, or perhaps to school. We go
from being with people who love us, to being with strangers.
We transition from work back to home. We go from the work
week, to a weekend of leisure. We transition from being with
family, children, or parents, to being with people who aren’t
family.
Transitions are a psychological problem for many people.
When you were a child, your parents might have hauled you
from one place to the next without preparing you. They
might have suddenly disappeared for an evening, leaving a
baby sitter in their place. They might have taken you for the
first day at a strange new school, then vanished. When you
moved house, new people appeared, and old ones, to whom
you might have been very attached, unexpectedly transitioned
out of your life.
As adults, we might still have more trouble with transi-
tions than we realize. Some of the low-level anxiety we feel
during transitions might be due to unresolved childhood
experiences, and can be treated with EFT.
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When I was starting my career in book publishing, I
would often go straight from work to a social event with
friends. As I would reflect back on the evening later on, I
would analyze what I’d said, and what was good and bad
about my responses.
I realized that I was carrying work with me into my social
time. I might spend the first two hours with my friends talk-
ing about my work, completely absorbed in the day’s previous
activities. My body had left work, but my head had not. It
would take me those two hours to let go of the stresses of
my work day, and I often felt as though I’d missed two great
hours of heart connection with my friends.
Nowadays, I remember to use EFT during those transi-
tions. I tap to release all the preoccupations of the previous
day. I tap to feel fully open and present. I tap to feel a heart
connection with the people I’m about to meet. In this way, I
release the emotional signature of the place I’m leaving, and
embrace the emotional signature of the place I’m entering.
I might say something like, “Even though I had a stress-
ful work day, I deeply and completely accept myself. Even
though I felt bad during the meeting when Mary criticized
Sam, I deeply and completely accept myself. I let go of the
energy of work. I embrace the energy of being with friends
and family. I deeply love and accept who I am both at work
and at play.”
This kind of exercise, using EFT to release the events of
the previous segment of the day, release anxiety about transi-
tions, and clear your attention for the coming segment, can
turn transitions from a wrenching change into an emotionally
effortless shift.
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The Personal Peace Procedure,
Journaling, and Stuck Memories

One of the most wonderful gifts to the world is Gary

Craig’s Personal Peace Procedure. You’ll find a tutorial on how
to do this at http://eftuniverse.com/tutorial/tutormthirteen.
htm. The Personal Peace Procedure is so important that I
make it compulsory homework for every EFT class I teach.
What Gary advocates is making a list of every specific
event that has ever bothered you, and writing it down. You can
use a special journal for this purpose. Gary says that most of
us will have dozens of these, and if we’re honest, our list might
run to hundreds of childhood traumas and adult disappoint-
ments. Your list might seem like a huge and daunting challenge,
but don’t despair, because with EFT, you may find yourself
feeling better about each one more quickly than you dare hope.
It’s important to pick specific events, not generalities.
When someone tells me “I tried EFT and it didn’t work,” the
first problem I look for is whether or not they were tapping
on specific events. An event has a start, middle, and end, like
the scene from a movie. For instance, you don’t perform EFT
on “Even though my father beat me when I was a child…”
or “Even though I’m depressed and lonely…” because these
are not specific events.
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A specific event is, “Even though my father beat me
on my sixth birthday party because my rowdy friend spilled
punch on his Grateful Dead t-shirt….” Those are the sort of
movie scenes you write down in your list.
Then, each day, you pick a few events. Assess the emo-
tional intensity you have on each one from 0 through 10, and
tap until the intensity is at or near 0. Some days, you might get
through 15 events. Other days, just one event may take awhile.
You might also find that, as you work your way through your
list, some events that had a big emotional charge for you
when you first wrote them down are now 0, even without tap-
ping. This is because of what Gary calls the “Generalization
Effect.” As you tap on a memory, you might find that other,
similar issues spontaneously reduce in intensity.
You’ll find that, while the emotional intensity of most
memories collapses quickly, some events are very difficult
to shift. These “stuck events” are the ones that can take the
most attention to resolve. The best way to approach these
is to work on each aspect of the problem. Aspects are the
individual parts of the memory. For instance, I worked with
a woman at one of my seminars who was in her 50s. She had
been involved in a car crash when she was 7, and it was the
most traumatic memory of her life, even though nobody was
hurt. Her older sister had been driving on a lonely road, taken
a curve too fast, and totaled the car. We did EFT on many
aspects of the car crash, including her sister, the sound of the
crash, the crash site, and so on. Her intensity remained high.
I asked her what happened after the crash. She said that her
sister led her by the hand to the closest house, and phoned her
parents, who came to pick her up. She was bleeding profusely
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from a gash in her head, and the neighbor in whose house she
waited bandaged her up. We tapped on the blood, the bandage,
the neighbor, and still the intensity remained at a 10.
Then I asked her how she felt about her parents com-
ing to the house. She began to cry, and said that she had felt
horrible at the time, and that she was sure her parents were
going to blame her for the crash. Her sister was below the
legal driving age, and she’d dared her sister to drive. So her
guilt about her contribution to the crash was the real issue,
not the physical damage she or the car had sustained. Her
guilt was the aspect that needed EFT, and when she tapped
on it, her emotional intensity dropped to zero. So if you have
a “stuck event” that isn’t going down in intensity as you work
your way through the traumatic memories on your Personal
Peace Procedure list, look for aspects you might have missed.
The Personal Peace Procedure is the way you clean up
your past, so that it no longer haunts your present. Get a
journal, make your list, and start tapping. You will find great
emotional freedom waiting for you when you liberate yourself
from the shackles of your old wounds using EFT, and emerge
into the sunlight of your full potential.
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Use EFT to Turbocharge
Your Intentions

Once you’ve done the Personal Peace Procedure described

above, it’s time to start using EFT to reinforce your positive
intentions. Pick just a few intentions, and write them down.
Make sure they’re clear, present-tense, and consistent with the
highest good for all beings.
Then, tap on the EFT points while stating your inten-
tions.
I do this almost every morning, and I start the day feel-
ing so full of energy that I could burst! My intentions aren’t
just spindly sprouts, but mighty trees full of the sap of life.
Tapping releases any subconscious blocks you might have
to achieving your intentions, and also lines up the energy of
your mind behind them. So turbocharge your intentions by
using EFT while stating them each morning. You’ll find they
become stronger, clearer, and more focused.
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Resolve Your Tail-Enders
to Unify Your Energy

Before you can decorate your house with beautiful new

furniture and wall coverings, you have to throw out the old
clutter. You can’t install the new over the old, because your
space is filled up with your existing junk.
Personal growth is like that too. During my EFT work-
shops participants often ask, “Why do you focus on the
negatives?” The answer is that we have to take out the old
emotional baggage before attempting to redecorate. We need
to create space in our awareness for the new transformations
we want to see in our lives.
See what comes up in your body and mind when you look
at your goals, affirmations, and best intentions. You might
have what Gary Craig calls “tail-enders,” self-sabotaging state-
ments that attach themselves to the end of a positive affirma-
tion. When you say, “I effortlessly meet and maintain my ideal
weight,” a little voice in your head might add sarcastically, “….
yeah, right, fatso.”
That’s a tail-ender, and the moment we declare a goal,
the parts of our psyche that do not believe it rise up and
make themselves known. They are ready to tell us we cannot
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achieve it, along with a chorus of nay-saying friends or col-
leagues. And with a conflicted mind, with one part disagree-
ing with another part, it’s difficult to make progress. Our
energy is divided. If a team of 12 horses is pulling a cart,
and even one horse pulls in a different direction, the other
11 have to work much harder to stay on course. A house of
consciousness divided against itself cannot stand.
Our tail enders are perfect targets for EFT. Rather than
being afraid of those parts of our psyche, we can identify
them, welcome them, embrace their energy, and clear them.
EFT gives us a tool to release these pockets of stuck matter
in our minds, and open up to our full potential.
Tap on your tail-enders. Give the intensity of the emotion
a score on the 0 - 10 scale. Then tap while saying, for instance,
“Even though I’ll never be thin, even though I’ll never be
rich, even though rich people are greedy and thin people are
deprived…. etc.” Keep tapping till the intensity level of your
tail-ender is a zero. Then look for the next one! Keep tapping
until all the horses in your mind are pulling straight and true
toward your intentions, goals, and affirmations.
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Waiting for Change

We all have to wait. We wait for elevators, we wait for

traffic, we wait on hold for technical support, we wait in line
at government departments, we wait for interviews, we wait
for friends, we wait for restaurant service. Waiting inher-
ently brings up frustrations, because we aren’t getting what
we want. We want the result we came for, we want it now, and
waiting stands between us and what we desire.
That feeling of frustration is a perfect target for EFT.
That frustration is probably not about the elevator or the
customer support phone call at all. It probably has its roots
in childhood experiences, like the frustration you felt lying
in your crib, hungry, and no-one brought you milk. It might
reflect the impatience that you as a four-year-old felt looking
at the presents under the Christmas Tree for days on end,
unable to open them. While the current wait might seem to
be what’s causing you frustration, the chances are very good
that it’s simply unearthed an old childhood wound. That’s
time for EFT!
When you’re forced to wait, tap on phrases like, “Even
though I hate waiting… Even though I never get what I
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want… Even though everything happens so slowly… and
so on.” Always end with “I deeply and completely accept
myself.”
Use your frustration to remember specific childhood
experiences in which you didn’t get what you wanted. When
was the first time you felt that frustrated feeling in your body?
What was happening then? Tap on those specific events, till
your frustration level goes down to a zero.
EFT turns times of waiting to times of personal growth,
and even into times of peace. You might even start to enjoy
waiting! I guarantee life will provide you with many more
opportunities to wait; you might as well start using them to
heal the blocks that stand between you and inner peace.
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Use EFT With a
Tapping Partner

A tapping partner is someone with whom you share your

EFT experiences. You can get together in person with a tap-
ping partner. You can also talk on the phone, via email, or
view each other using Skype. You can form a tapping partner-
ship on a social networking site like Facebook or Linkedin.
The idea is to support each other’s personal transforma-
tion by encouraging each other, by sharing insights, and by
getting each other back on track when one person feels dis-
couraged. One of the most surprising findings among even
the experts is that we often simply forget to tap! A tapping
partner reminds you.
If you’ve been using EFT for a long time, you can men-
tor a new user as a tapping partner. If you’re a new user, you
can get support from someone else who knows the ropes. If
you’re doing an EFT workshop (www.EFTUniverse.com/
workshops.htm), you can attend with a tapping partner, to
reinforce your experience. If you’re getting certified, you and
your tapping partner can study together, “tapping in” the
answers as you prepare for the quizzes (www.EFTUniverse.
com/certification.htm).
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You can also form a Tapping Circle. This is a group of
people that gets together regularly to do EFT. If you listen
to someone else’s problem who’s tapping, and tap along
with them, you’ll often feel better yourself. The world has
Twelve Step groups, Mastermind groups, Toastmasters, and
thousands of other support groups. I hope to see tens of
thousands of Tapping Circles spring up in the coming years.
On the “Giving Back” page of the www.EFTUniverse.
com site, you’ll find a section for tapping partners and
Tapping Circles (www.EFTUniverse.com/volunteer.htm).
There, you can find a new tapping partner, join a tapping
circle, or start one of your own. Why wait for tomorrow? Get
your personal transformation program in gear today with a
tapping partner to keep you on track!