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Kylie learned to tap at school over two years ago and has been tapping her worries away ever since, so I invited her to write about how EFT has helped her in her life.

The Key to Unlocking My Inner Peace

by Kylie, age 11

Grade Three was the most marvelous year that I’ve had in elementary school.  My teacher taught our class with enthusiasm and fun.  Out of the many things she shared with us, tapping had to be the one that worked the most magic.

I remember the very first time that I tried tapping outside my classroom. It was during a violin concert. I was feeling anxious and worried because the judges at the festival were harshly critiquing every child’s performance.  My hands were clammy and beginning to freeze up, so I began to tap.  While I tapped I reminded myself that whatever the judges thought, all I could do was to play to the best of my ability…and whatever happened during my performance, I was still an awesome kid!  After tapping, I walked up to the stage and with total calmness I let my music take me away. The judges must have been impressed because later that night I received a call informing me that I had made it into the Highlights Concert.  Without tapping, I don’t believe that I ever would have made it.

I continue to use tapping to help me in many stressful situations.  Music to me is like the icing to chocolate cake.  Even though I love to perform I get nervous at times. My hands freeze up and I’m not able to play the melody that comes from my heart.   Though I sometimes feel frozen with worry, this sensation soon washes away whenever I tap.  By tapping on pressure points all my worry, envy and sorrow is washed away and my heart is filled to the brim with confidence and joy.  Tapping gives me the strength to follow my dreams and become a better person.  Tapping is the way I get through the bumps and snares life brings.  No one is perfect, and no one will ever not have a time when they come upon sorrow or fear in life, but I know that with tapping there is always a solution to help me move on and lift me through the rough patches.

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

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