A short reply makes your stomach drop. You say yes when you want to say no. Understanding the pattern matters—but what helps you feel freer to choose your response?
Yes Kay! “ When you want more than another explanation” that’s the beauty of an EFT session with a skilled practitioner. We are bombarded with “explanations” that come both from within ourselves and all of our work and from outside of us and all around us these days! An EFT session is a place to rest from that and move into the body where real change happens. 💚💚💚
Yes — exactly. 💚 There’s such a difference between understanding a pattern and having a space where you can actually work with what is happening underneath it. I love the way you put this.
That’s a really good question, Chris. You don’t necessarily have to choose between the original experience and a recent trigger. In Clinical EFT, I’ll often begin with one specific recent moment that still has some emotional charge and work with what is showing up there. Sometimes an earlier experience — such as the one you mentioned with the soap — becomes relevant as we go, and sometimes it doesn’t. I wouldn’t assume in advance that we have to find or work with one “root cause.” 🌿
I often think if I went back to the soap moment, which set in motion my self-fulfilling prophecy (in my opinion), of not being good enough to say or do the right things, then I could start attracting different moments. I'll give it a go regardless and see what lands. Thanks for your feedback.
I can understand why that particular memory feels important to you, Chris — especially if the meaning you took from it was something like “I can’t trust myself to say or do the right thing.” I’d stay curious about it rather than putting pressure on it to be the root cause. Sometimes an earlier experience does turn out to be very relevant, and sometimes the pattern has several threads. If you do explore it with tapping, I’d go gently and notice what actually comes up rather than trying to make it mean anything in advance. 🌿
Yes Kay! “ When you want more than another explanation” that’s the beauty of an EFT session with a skilled practitioner. We are bombarded with “explanations” that come both from within ourselves and all of our work and from outside of us and all around us these days! An EFT session is a place to rest from that and move into the body where real change happens. 💚💚💚
Yes — exactly. 💚 There’s such a difference between understanding a pattern and having a space where you can actually work with what is happening underneath it. I love the way you put this.
Is it best to work with the original root cause, in my case having a bar of soap put in my mouth for swearing or any recent event that triggers me?
That’s a really good question, Chris. You don’t necessarily have to choose between the original experience and a recent trigger. In Clinical EFT, I’ll often begin with one specific recent moment that still has some emotional charge and work with what is showing up there. Sometimes an earlier experience — such as the one you mentioned with the soap — becomes relevant as we go, and sometimes it doesn’t. I wouldn’t assume in advance that we have to find or work with one “root cause.” 🌿
I often think if I went back to the soap moment, which set in motion my self-fulfilling prophecy (in my opinion), of not being good enough to say or do the right things, then I could start attracting different moments. I'll give it a go regardless and see what lands. Thanks for your feedback.
I can understand why that particular memory feels important to you, Chris — especially if the meaning you took from it was something like “I can’t trust myself to say or do the right thing.” I’d stay curious about it rather than putting pressure on it to be the root cause. Sometimes an earlier experience does turn out to be very relevant, and sometimes the pattern has several threads. If you do explore it with tapping, I’d go gently and notice what actually comes up rather than trying to make it mean anything in advance. 🌿