I love working with people, using Emotional Freedom Techniques. Each practitioner has a different method–a unique way they offer their skills. I use metaphysics in combination with EFT.
Many times, clients have asked me how I get to core issues so easily. I thought, today, I would explain exactly how this is done. You, too, of course, can do this for yourself.
As soon as the client sets up an appointment, I start to work. I get out all the notes I’ve kept from former sessions, and I read through what they told me. I notice comments that tend to repeat, as these issues are generally the ones most powerfully operating in their lives. I review all the different emotions, in particular, and note the source of each one. What experiences in early childhood matched the feelings they have today?
This next part is something I do as my own personal choice, as I find it to be the fastest way to find what underlying programs are causing problems. I become my client…and, most often, I become who they “were” as a child. Why? Because 9 times out of 10, it is the child who is causing the problems. In other words, who they were is 95% of who they are today. There is a part of the self that never grows up…we call it the subconscious mind. With emotions, it is the child who is in control.
As I get a clear feeling about this person/child, I tap on myself to see what things are coming up. Very often, at that time, I get better understanding of a deeper issue. It is sometimes something they didn’t tell me, but rather than discount it, I make note of it. I can later verify if it is true for them…more often, they verify it even before I mention it.
I need to step back and let you know this. I am an empath. This can be a blessing and a curse. If you choose to do as I do–to become the other person–this also opens you up to feel what they are feeling! As I allow myself to become entangled with them, that also means as they feel pain, so do I. While some practitioners might prefer to avoid that, I find it is very useful, because I can tell when something has shifted. Also, I almost always know where they are hurting, before they arrive, because I can sense it in my own body. To test this, I started writing it down. To date, this has proven to be 100% accurate. On the other hand, there are days when I feel pain in my left side or my right foot that seems to have no traceable cause…until I remember a client who came to me with that problem. I then understand it is not my pain, but theirs. Generally, the next time we meet, they explain that on Tuesday they were in a lot of pain. I know!!! I felt it, also. The cool part is…although I never say anything to them…when it came up in me, I tapped on it. They might think the pain subsided due to some other reason, but I know it was, in large part, due to surrogate tapping.
Just before the client arrives, I get very still and open to allow the vehicle of Jodi to be the conduit for Consciousness. I ask my “self” to step aside for a while, so that Consciousness can reveal to the client whatever it is they need to know. I create an open space so the client is connecting with the Source of All That Is. As each person is willing to allow and accept, they receive. “Not my will, but yours be done.”
I gently test the waters, seeing where the client has set up boundaries, and I honor those. I never go to places where they do not feel comfortable going. If I notice the client changes my wording, I go with what they say rather than impose my will on them. For example, I’ve noticed while I use the word Consciousness to describe Source, many people change it to either God or He. I respect that. The only beliefs I’m there to help them change are the ones they want changed.
After a lengthy conversation, me listening as the child they were, I find myself moving into areas where many people don’t know to look. It isn’t uncommon for the core issue to be far removed from what the client originally believed it to be. That is why it never cleared. Once the old beliefs are gone, there is now space for new, better-serving ideas. The perfection of Consciousness shines through as the client is back in the flow of good.
The most common remark I hear from my clients is, “Things just don’t affect me like they used to.” That isn’t surprising to me. Once we start to clear out years of baggage, the charge on those issues is lessened. Suddenly, people and circumstances don’t cause such strong negative reactions, because years and years of “stuff” is simply gone! Without really knowing why, they find themselves calmly observing rather than participating in events that once upset them.
There are times when EFT works quickly. There are other times it requires a great deal of tapping. I notice how the client is responding, when it takes longer than they had hoped, and I allow them to make decisions as to what happens next. We often work on beliefs they hold about it not working, as that belief will prevent us from locating what needs to be addressed. There are times when I realize the beliefs they hold about who is in charge of this life experience are exactly what is preventing them from healing. They choose to be victims of an unfriendly universe or God. Sometimes they identify so closely with the story of who they are, they don’t know how to let it go. Or they don’t want to let it go. Being a victim isn’t all bad…it garners attention they never got any other way. But maybe they aren’t ready to change that belief. I have to accept that. I know there are many reasons people hold on to problems, and I carefully bring up different ideas on why this might be the case for them. I generally hear them say, “I am hoping this works.” Yes, but…maybe not. When we “hope” for something, that implies we don’t anticipate it will happen. We want some magical force to grant the wish…something or someone outside ourselves. We don’t like taking responsibility for our choices. What if we choose the wrong thing? Sometimes, I believe, people simply don’t want to move forward. Almost always, it is due to their perceptions about the world “out there” being unfriendly. If they stay stuck, they can avoid making a decision that might have a result “like last time.” Once again, they feel they will be forced to exist in a world that is unkind and hurtful. Rather than take that chance, they choose to hold onto the original story.
If a client is open and receptive, I always offer them the opportunity to choose again. I put the power back in their hands…literally. I suggest that God is the one and only Source for everything. Not people. Not situations. Not a medical diagnosis. Not circumstances. It’s just between you and God. Every moment, you tell God what you want, with your beliefs. Adding strong emotions, you energize and magnetize them. You create your tomorrows with the beliefs you hold today. You sometimes shape tomorrow into a wondrous opportunity, and you sometimes hand it over to others, so they design it for you. Whose life are you living? Whose beliefs are writing your script? Make sure they are yours, alone, and make sure they are representative and worthy of God. Every moment, Consciousness lives through you, as you. What will you offer as the experience of being human? Your life experience is nothing more than all you have thought. When you take your power back and understand you have the opportunity to make good choices, you begin anew. In this moment…this now…you are shaping your tomorrow. It can be whatever you want it to be. What do you want it to look like? What beliefs are you using to design tomorrow? “It is done unto you as you believe.”
Whatever method you use to clear out non-serving programs, keep in mind that it is the added tapping that is causing this to finally work for you. You might have talked about it for decades, but it didn’t go away. Every time you brought up painful memories, those feelings resurfaced. The tapes played over and over. They won’t go away until you erase them and begin to record new ones.
There is nothing I do that you can’t…and vice versa. We are all the same One, Being. Nothing is outside the self, so use EFT knowing you have the ability to manifest a grand life of health, wealth, love and abundance. “Physician, heal thyself.” You have the power to do so.
If you are ready to start moving in a new direction, Emotional Freedom Techniques will go before you to clear the way. Consciousness is asking, with unbridled anticipation, ”Where to next?”
I AM…Jodi
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