Former UHS teacher works to empower individuals

When I came home from a week visiting my daughter, Christina, and friends
in Santa Cruz, and also visiting Santa Maria and putting on a mini-EFT class there was a message from a reporter saying that he had seen an ad that I had put in an advertiser (about getting rid of phobias with EFT) that was intriging to him and he would like to interview me. He came up the next day with a photographer to interview me. I suggested that I actually do an EFT session with him.

We had a great time getting rid of his phobia of bees (there were bees and other insects flying around us outside and he was quite anxious). Here is a link to the article that Zack Sampsel wrote. It made the front page of the Ukiah Daily Journal today. I ran into three people at the market and the post office who told me they had seen the article.

Dealing with Stress

Stress is common in our lives today. Sometimes we get so busy with our lives, we lose touch with just how stressed we are. Loretta Sparks in her article Stress and Me and EFT, shares the Stress Level Rating Scale. The scale can be useful to identify and to be able to rate yourself before you get totally stressed out. By becoming aware that you are actually stressed, then you can used EFT to reduce your stress level. I am including the SLRS to show you how stress may be a part of your life and you may not know it.

In the second part of her article, she shows how you can use EFT when you become aware that you are stressed. So, one key is awareness, and another key is to use EFT to tap away away the stress.

STRESS LEVEL RATING SCALE

10 OUT OF CONTROL
Engaging in excessive or addictive behaviors such as alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, sex, spending, obsessive relationship or work; violence (verbal or physical).

9 OVER REACTIVE
Jumping to conclusion, not willing to listen, frequently disagreeing, threatening, sarcastic, glaring; feeling overwhelming loneliness, frustration, rage, resentment, and self-pity; saying always and never when hurt or angry.

8 DEFENSIVE
Notice others not “taking care of business.” Heavy use of denial, anger, bargaining, silence, withdrawal, blame, criticism, excuses, intellectualizing, rationalizing, evading, minimizing, moralizing, pleading or apologizing.

7 SPACED OUT
Not being present to situation at hand; can’t hear what is being said to you because of your own “self-talk”’ zoning out, getting lost in daydreams, etc.; do not notice stress is building in you.

6 BARELY MANAGING OKAY
Barely getting everything done, need help, but don't ask for it, tell yourself to “try harder, plan your time better”; start to let go of self-care activities; having a hard time saying “no”; do not notice stress building.

5 MANAGING OKAY
Life’s demands and your energy (physically, mentally and spiritually) are mostly in sync.

4 MANAGING OKAY PLUS
Your physical, mental, and spiritual energy nicely in sync with life's demands.


3 MANAGING EASILY
Your physical, mental and spiritual energy exceeds life's demands.


2 MANAGING EASILY PLUS
Abundant physical, mental, and spiritual energy.


1 VACATIONING
Total and complete sense of relaxation.

The Cutting Edge of Emotional Healing

What would you think if I told you that there is a powerful way to alleviate even end, suffering? That there was an easily learnable way for people to lessen long-term chronic pain, even if it's been hanging around for decades? Does it sound too good to be true? Would you believe me if I told you that you can even learn how to do it for free? Well, it's true. I invite you to check it out for yourself. There really is a host of excellent material that can be downloaded for free, as well as an extensive series of articles that tell people in great detail how to use this process. These articles are also available for no charge except the time to read and apply them.

What I am speaking of is Emotional Freedom Techniques, known as EFT. Gary Craig is the person who has made EFT popular. He was trained as an engineer at Stanford, and is also a minister. He has been interested in alternative healing methods for most of his life. Gary discovered these techniques and has made it his life's work, after retiring, to let the whole world know about EFT. He has done an excellent job of getting the word out. His international newsletter, EFT Insights Newsletter, is published twice a week and is sent to 300,000 subscribers all over the world.

So, what is EFT? Well, it is much harder for me to describe than it is for me to show you. Perhaps that's because I am a kinesthetic kind of person. Are you familiar with acupuncture - the ancient Chinese medical practice of gently inserting fine needles into the energy meridians of the body? The needles are used to break up energy blockages, which are thought to cause physical as well as emotional dis-ease. EFT is a form of acupressure, and also uses touch on the meridians. In the case of EFT you tap with your fingertips on the meridians. So, in some ways, it really isn't so new. Acupuncture has been practiced in China for thousands of years. However, EFT is different than acupressure in that emotions are part of the equation. While a person taps on specific points, which are easy to learn, they say words that are accepting of the emotions that they, on some level, may have been avoiding. They work on moving the energy that has been stuck in their body's energy system.

Gary Craig suggests trying EFT on everything. So, thousands of people all over the world are doing just that--trying it on everything. I have experienced amazing success using EFT with migraine headaches, prostate pain, chronic pain, stress, poison oak, and the pain from a hornet sting, to name just a few. EFT is especially good with post traumatic syndrome. There are health care workers who travel to places that have been devastated by tsunamis, hurricanes, and war, and who have used EFT to help countless people.

Besides working on pain and other issues that no longer serve us, EFT can also help us get what we do want. I used to write a newspaper column about using affirmations called Minders. I wish that I had known about EFT back in those days. I would have used it for those times when affirmations weren't enough, when the stories and conditioning that we have been lost in get in the way of creating what we want. That's right, you can tap away those old, limiting beliefs that keep you from creating what you want in life, whether it's to perform better get a better job or create the relationship of your dreams.

EFT can be used with the Law of Attaction to focus on what you want instead of what you don't want. When negative beliefs or feelings get in the way of you achieving what you want, you can tap them away with EFT.

So, if EFT is so great why isn't it more well known? That is a reason that I am writing this article--to help make it better known. It is easy to learn. It is portable. You can learn how to do it now.

Temporary change in my email address

We are going through big changes here at our house. We are in the process of moving our websites to a different server. My old email address, joann@wayhealthy.us is out of order. So, if you want to email me, you can reach me at joann.skywatcher@gmail.com.
joann@wayhealthy.us is working!!!

This a picture of me working with a client.

 

We can see each other--cool!

I am really excited to share that I am using Skype Video for my EFT sessions. This will enable us to see each other while we are tapping. Since we live off the grid (we generate our electricity from solar), and our telephone lines are too slow to use for the Internet, we have satellite. The video is a little delayed, but it is still cool because we don't have to use our hands to hold the phone;-). You can download Skype if you don't have it. Also, if you want to talk with me about EFT for FREE for 15 minutes. If you don't have Skype, we can still have a FREE chat about your situation and how EFT can help you. We don't have the computer on all of the time (because we are off the grid), so if you want to try Skype with me, it would be best to email me first (joann@wayhealthy.us). Also, if you don't have Skype, we can talk via phone 707-462-2501.

Advantages of using Skype with EFT:

• free
• can use both hands
• we can see each other's faces
  

I am also including links to the articles that I have written and that are published on Gary Craig's international EFT website:

• Migraine vanishes in 10 minutes

• EFT quickly eliminates any trace of a painful hornet sting

• EFT helps with prostate pain and urinary problems

• Years of shoulder pain disappears in one session

• Using EFT to motivate exercise

• Teacher helps students with non-academic issues--batting average and abscessed tooth

• Emphatic language on a core issue paves the way for a natural birth

• EFT succeeds with hand washing compulsion in minutes
  

The Taming of the Tongue

I love teaching EFT classes, and I especially love using the Borrowing Benefits tool. Recently, in one of classes that I taught through the City of Ukiah, I asked one of the participants what she would like to work on. "Carol" didn't think that she had anything to focus on. After a closer examination, she admitted that there was a behavior that was absolutely driving her crazy. About six months ago, she had had some dental work, and ever since her tongue discovered the changes in her mouth, her tongue couldn't let it be. As our conversation continued, she admitted that her tongue was constantly probing the "new" area in her mouth. As a masseuse, Carol spends her work days silently massaging people's bodies. However, her tongue wasn't letting her truly be still. It just kept on moving as though it was in over-drive.

Her SUDS level was an "8". Some of the Set-up phrases that we started out with included, "Even though:

• my tongue is driving me crazy, I deeply and completely love and accept myself."
• my tongue just wants to keep exploring the same old place over and over and over again..."
• my tongue almost rubs itself raw."
• my tongue doesn't ever let me relax..."
  

This dropped her SUDS level down a couple of notches. We continued on with: "Even though:

• my tongue is doing the best it can do, and I deeply and completely love and accept my tongue for trying to help me out, and I forgive myself for getting upset with my tongue. I know that you have been doing the best you know how."
• I know that you have been trying to help me out by exploring that place in my mouth that got worked on, it isn't actually working for me for you to keep exploring that spot anymore. I know that you must have felt like you still needed to explore that spot, but it is no longer necessary, and I want to thank you for exploring my mouth so well."

Her SUDS level dropped to a '"3". Then we started reprogramming how we wanted her tongue to behave. While tapping, we alternated thanking her tongue with making clear what her tongue's new job would now be. She said things like:

• "you thought you were just doing your job exploring my dental work
  
• now you don't have to do that any more
• you can relax, and just let my dental work alone--we know what it's like there--really well!!! (laughing)
  
• thank you for helping me out, I really appreciate all that you have done for me
• now you can just relax
• and do things like, tasting,
• talking,
• and kissing (laughing)"

I asked how her tongue was doing. Her tongue was finally relaxed for the first time in six months. I believe it felt appreciated, and realized that it could relax and do more interesting tasks than exploring her dental work. Now, Carol is able to do her work in a relaxed manner, all the way down to her tongue.