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From being “scared to death of math” to an A in Algebra
Author: admin
I am a 36 year old mother of two who has decided to go back to school. One of the first classes I signed up to take was college algebra. I was terrified!! I hadn’t done math in almost 20 years and even back then, math was my worst subject. I really thought I just couldn’t do it … that my brain just didn’t work that way. Every day that I had to go to class, my heart would pound, my hands would shake … I was literally scared to death, even though I knew it was silly – that it was only a math class. I knew that I was going to fail horribly and embarrass myself in front of a room full of 18 year olds!
Then it occurred to me to try tapping! Tapping had worked on so many other things for me, both big and small, so I thought why not? It can’t hurt! I sat in the parking lot before class and I would tap:
Even though I feel stupid and can’t do math…
Even though my brain totally shuts down the minute I see the numbers on the page, I choose to know I have everything I need to succeed.
Even though I have never been able to do math and never will…
Even though I’m a girl and everyone knows girls can’t do math, I choose to know that I am fully capable.
It was really eye-opening! As always with tapping, I realized that my blocks had very little to do with math and almost everything to do with my own limiting beliefs.
GC COMMENT: For an even deeper resolution, I would suggest going back to specific events during her earlier school years where she had feelings of failure, humiliation, etc. Doing so, may collapse more limiting beliefs and other issues besides the math response.
Needless to say, I got a 90% on the final – only two people in the whole class got an A on the final and I was one of them! I ended up with an overall A in ALGEBRA and now I’ve moved on to Statistics and am doing great!! It is truly a miracle … what did I ever do before tapping??
Thanks again,
Jennifer Todd
Taken from www.emofree.com
Enhancing Sports Performance: Basketball Team and A High School Gymnast
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By Brent Thomson, PhD
I recently worked with the entire Red Wing High School Girls Basketball team (in Minnesota), using EFT to improve team performance. I met with the team for a two-hour session. At that time their record was 5 games below the 500 mark.
Historically, the girls team has struggled, usually winning anywhere from 3 to 5 games in a year. We talked about the major problems with the team members and the coaching staff, and came up with the following hit list that needed to be chopped down:
Poor free throw shooting;
poor jump shooting;
poor use of the clock;
losing focus and concentration;
poor passing;
fear of making mistakes;
consistently playing below ability level;
easily intimidated by the other team; and
easily affected by crowd noise.
We put each of these in the familiar Even though format and proceeded to tap on each one. We did three or four rounds on each issue and then talked about other issues that surfaced. What I found by doing this is that individual issues started to surface for each of the players and we were then able to isolate those and tap them down on an individual basis.
GC COMMENT: Getting to individual issues like this often spells the difference between good results and spectacular results. All athletes have their individualized beliefs, idiosyncracies and other barriers to achieving their full potential.
BRENT CONTINUES: I also found that the team really enjoyed doing the tapping as a team. A number of the players and the coaches noted a general sense of purpose, and a positive sense of team unity was a side effect of the group tapping.
Again, we kept track of the statistics as a team in terms of free throw percentage as a team before tapping, and again after tapping. Also, we kept records in terms of shooting percentages, both before tapping and after tapping.
Overall, the team has improved 87% in free throw shooting percentage since tapping. Before tapping, they were making a dismal 40 out of 100 as a team. Since applying EFT the team has played 8 games and in that 8 games they skyrocketed to a team average of 75 out of 100.
Overall shooting averages for the 8 games previous to tapping was 37 out of 100. Shooting percentage in the last 8 games since the EFT session is now 54 out of 100. Thats a 46% improvement.
Most telling, their record in the last 8 games is 6 wins with only 2 losses. One of the losses was by 3 points to a team ranked in the top five in the State of Minnesota. Earlier in the year, they were blown out by over 30 points.
Both the coaching staff and the players attribute the improvement in their performance to the addition of EFT into their training procedures. I am convinced that EFT has a significant place in training individual athletes and teams so that they can maximize their physical abilities and play with greater stamina, speed, strength, and co-ordination.
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I also had the opportunity to work with, Katie Auge, the captain of her High School Gymnastic’s team in Red Wing, Minnesota (where I live). She has been struggling this year with a nagging ankle injury and has been receiving physical therapy on an ongoing basis. This has significantly affected her scoring all year as well as her overall confidence throughout the year.
Katie is a senior and her wish is to make the state gymnastics meet in the All Around Competition. Her dad called me to ask if I would work with her. I had previously worked with her last year (Junior year) on three occasions, and she really enjoyed EFT. She had never made the state tournament previously.
I met her for one session the day of the regional meet that was to decide whether or not she would go on to the State Competition. We tapped on the following:
Even though Im afraid of falling and hurting myself on the vault;
Even though Im worried about my ankle holding up in the competition today;
Even though I have all this anxiety about performing well in front of friends and family (the meet was held at her High School in Red Wing);
Even though I have this fear of failure; and
Even though I have fears about sticking the landing on the vault.
The session was 90 minutes long. We were able to get all the aforementioned targets down to 0 (on a 0-10 intensity scale). In addition, we worked on planting an effective choice statement that would empower Katie to do her best. We decided on the following:
I choose to see myself performing in a graceful, relaxed, confident, and powerful manner in all my events today.
Katie was able to visualize this belief at a 9 level after tapping on this over a period of four rounds.
Well, Gary is always looking for statistics to indicate proof that EFT works, and I have some. I received a call on Saturday morning from a very excited Katie and her father saying she nailed the vault, and qualified for her first state competition in the All Around Competition category.
Katie says that there is no doubt that the EFT was the strategy that put her over the top. In addition, she said that her ankle did not bother her at all during the meet, and that her confidence was consistently high. She attributes this to the EFT work we did on the day of the regional meet. Think what we could have accomplished if we could have had a little more training time?
Sincerely,
Brent Thomson, Ph.D., L.P. drrelaxation@hotmail.com
Clinic Director Lifestyle Health Services
Bloomington, MN
from www.emofree.com
EFT assists high school track athlete to win 3 gold medals
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EFT assists high school track athlete to win 3 gold medals.
By Peter Guare
I’m a Personal Performance Coach making the transition from a Head Track Coach. Although I no longer get paid, I still help out with the program. Mike Tamul is a wonderful young man and one of the nicest I’ve ever worked with. I was working with him and some other hurdlers and showed them how to improve their flexibility (a must for hurdlers).
We used the “Even though I have this tension in my back and legs” setup phrase and then tapped on “tension in the muscles” “tension in the joints” “tension in the fascia” “tension in the ligaments” etc. When everyone improved markedly, they became converts. But Mike really heeded my advice to use it for everything, from making his trail leg faster in the hurdles to reducing pain and fatigue in the 1500 meters, an event in the pentathlon. I’ll let him tell the rest of the story.
“My senior year is where I really began to excel. Mr. Guare went out of his way to help me, and that he sure did accomplish. He taught me his tapping technique that could be used anywhere at anytime, and could really help you not only in Track, but in many areas of life.
This technique brought a new level of focus to me and increased my flexibility quickly. After only a week or two of using this technique, I found myself at an Invitational sporting ugly weather. Before all of my races, I used the tapping technique, and I focused on winning. That meet I accomplished something I had never done before, I won three gold medals. All the while Mr. Guare also helped me tremendously with my hurdle form.
I became a Sectional Champion in the 110 Meter High Hurdles with the help of Mr. Guare. The whole season we had actually been training Hurdles for the Pentathlon that I would hope to compete in at the NYS Championship meet. Mr. Guare helped me so much with hurdles that it improved my time enough to add enough points to my Pentathlon score to break the School record for the pentathlon.
My score allowed me to compete at the state meet, and I placed 5th at States in the Pentathlon and couldn’t have done it without Mr. Guare. The thing is, all the while I was using the tapping and steadily improving. Mr. Guare’s techniques helped me gain a winning mentality. I was eventually able to use the tapping technique mentally during my 1500 race in the pentathlon and I was more relaxed and focused than ever, beating my PR from the previous year by 17 seconds.
Thank you so much Mr. Guare for turning a good High School experience into the most treasured time in my entire life.”
Sincerely,
Mike Tamul
Taken from www.emofree.com
School Counselor on anger and tension
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School Counselor on anger and tension
Two weeks ago, I attended my first ever conference on energy therapies. It included EFT and seemed to me to be the easiest one to use for anyone, including children.
I work in a school setting and have had the opportunity to use EFT with four students.
Student #1 was a second grader who was experiencing nightmares and intrusive images about an incident involving a knife. He ranked his anger as a 10 on the SUDS scale and it remained unchanged after the first round of tapping.
After the second round, it decreased to a five. It was down to a one after the third round and to a zero after the fourth. I followed up with him yesterday and his anger continues to remain at a zero. He did mention that he has had a couple of dreams where he is being chased (the earlier difficulties involved his brother). I asked if he would like to work on those, but he declined.
Student #2 is an eighth grader who has been dealing with a variety of grief issues and is acting out in class, along with having academic problems. He identified tension as his main difficulty and we were able to reduce it from an 8 to a zero after three rounds of tapping. I spoke with him yesterday and he reported that his tension remains at a zero. He reports feeling better, doing better with his behavior and having his grades improve. He shared with me that during one class, he was feeling especially frustrated and decided to tap. He tapped on his chest and his hands; he noticed a decrease in his frustration and an increase in his energy level.
Student #3, a third grader, has been struggling with his parents’ divorce. As a result of his anger, he had been taking out his aggression on his younger brother. When I met with him, his anger level was at a five. We reduced it to a zero with one round of tapping. I called his mom to explain what I had done and she asked if I could put this tapping sequence on paper, so she could help him with it at home. I met with him yesterday and the anger remains at a zero.
Student #4, an eighth grader, has dealt with a myriad of issues at home and has the propensity to rage when he gets in touch with his anger. He rated his anger yesterday at an 8. After the first round of tapping, it was decreased to a 4. After the second round, when asked to rank his anger, his only response was “I don’t know.” My sense and the sense of the other teacher in the room was that it had most likely decreased to a one or a zero and the student was unable to get in touch with that feeling. During the second round of tapping, his voice volume decreased and his whole body appeared more relaxed.
In the interest of confidentiality, I would ask that you only refer to me as a school counselor, not using my name or initials.
School Counselor
taken from www.emofree.com
EFT for Trauma in Elementary School
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By Monica Broadfoot Johnson, M.Ed
Dear Gary,
I would like to share a success that I had regarding an elementary school boy. I work in an elementary school as a counselor and have been using EFT for 2 years now. I also know that many people believe that school counselors usually do ‘bandaid’ work, and that the real work goes to real therapists. I work at a school in a poverty area, and the parents do not take their kids to therapy. So here is my story. Jake (not his real name) had a father who committed suicide the summer before I started seeing him in a grief group and he was doing pretty well. However, one day there was a knock on my door and Jake and his friend were standing there. Jake’s friend had brought him to me because there had been an accident on the basketball court. Another boy had been hit with something and was knocked out. The boy had a bad cut on his head and while lying on the court, blood was pooling around his head. So Jake was brought to me and looked as if he were ready to pass out. He began telling me what had happened on the court and how it reminded him of his dad lying on the street with the blood pooling around his head. I tapped on him while he was telling me this because he appeared to be in shock. Not only was the picture of his dad putting him into a re-grieving state, but another aspect arose. During his dad’s death, the police officer had picked up Jake, put his head into the officer’s neck, told him not to look, and walked with him away from the situation. And, of course, being a little boy, he looked. So here is the aspect of not doing what he was told to do, and then seeing the horror. I tapped on him for about 10 minutes. I just let him keep talking while I used the basic recipe. I also added and had him repeat this psychological reversal statement with forgiveness added. Even though I didn’t listen to the police officer, I’m still a survivor; I’m just a kid and I am a survivor … I forgive myself for just being a kid and looking when he told me not to. Even though an adult probably couldn’t handle it, I’m just a kid and I forgive me … I am a survivor. Then he went back to class and made it through the day. I don’t know how we would have gotten through this without EFT. Pre-EFT, any trauma lasted so much longer. Thank you Gary for developing this wonderful technique.
Monica B. Johnson, M.Ed.
taken from www.emofree.com
