If you don’t search the right way, you might not find it. Do this. On your iPhone, touch the App Store icon. Then select “Search” from the menu on the bottom. Search for the word, photon. Touch on the word photon at the top of the screen. You’ll then see a list of application icons. Scroll down to TAP by MTTProNetwork.

TAP My Photon Buddy, is still a work in progress. After the application loads, you’ll touch, Ready to Tap. You’ll have the choice to Tap or Play. The Play button is a coming attraction. So touch Tap. Choose one of four photon buddies. There are two males and two females. The buddy you select will match up with a male or female voice teacher.

You’ll have three choices of things to tap on:  1) I’m Upset  2) Stress 3) Anger. The only one that’s currently available is number one, I’m Upset. No problem, because once you learn how to do tapping, you can use the same method to relieve stress, anger and anything emotional or physical that bothers you. Tap on I’m Upset. You’ll start getting instructions. The application teaches you tapping by walking you through step-by-step. You have the choice of learning using text, voice or both.

You start by thinking of a specific issue to tap on and then use the Moodbar to measure the intensity. At any time you can zoom to see the tapping points by touching Meridian at the bottom of the screen. Also, you can go at your own pace by touching the Pause button. When a rhythmic thumping sound comes on, you’ll probably want to turn it off by touching Music. 

TAP My Photon Buddy isn’t perfect yet. Although it has a few quirks, it’s still a handy application to carry around with you. It’s certainly a conversation starter. People associate apps on the iPhone as being cool. Kids of all ages will enjoy this app. If you’ve got an iPhone, get it. Apple has sold millions and millions of iPhones.I appreciate Joe’s vision, initiative, innovation, and investment to bring this app to the iPhone platform to help get tapping out to the general public.

You’ll download the tracks. The first track has instructions on how to do the process. It’s important that you listen to this track to get familiar with the process before you use it. The second track is the primary PSTEC audio file. There are other optional tracks that you may rarely need to use.

As you listen to the track and hear different cues, you’ll tap with the right hand, left hand or both hands. Unlike EFT, you’ll tap with your fingers on whatever surface they’re resting. Here are some ways you can use it.

PSTEC was developed by Tim Phizackerley. Tim has a Diploma with Distinction in Clinical Hypnotherapy and a Bachelor of Education Honours Degree. Before becoming a hypnotherapist, Tim was a professional programmer and computer analyst. You can find out more about Tim Phizackerley and PSTEC at www.pstec.org.

The EFT World Summit 2009 features some of the top minds and practitioners in the world of Emotional Freedom Techniques. The instructors include Carol Look, Brad Yates, Dr. Patricia Carrington, Dr. Alexander R. Lees, Carol Tuttle, Gwenn Bonnell, Lindsay Kenny, Rick Wilkes, Bob Doyle, Margaret Lynch, Nicolas Ortner, Steve Wells, Rue Hass, Jessica Ortner, Loretta Sparks, and Dr. Sandra Radomski Kost, and me.

I’ll be talking about Enjoying a Higher Quality of Life by Managing Your Workplace Stress. Here’s what I’ll cover:

• What causes stress? What’s the difference between “good” stress — eustress — and distress?
• Why your health and quality of life depend on how well you manage your stress.
• Examples of how stress overload damages your body over time.
• The four essentials to managing your stress.
• The simple 3Rs of stress.
• Tips on how to use EFT when you’re in stressful situations at work.
• Examples of EFT stress relief daily routines to start and end your day.

Every day, you’ll have the opportunity to hear two quality presentations. Just take a look at what you’ll receive at no charge to you:

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The EFT World Summit 2009 begins on Monday, April 20 and continues over nine days. All of these world-class EFT experts will gather together their combined knowledge to immerse you in the world of EFT. Never before has a panel like this been assembled … and it may never happen again, so I’d like to encourage you to register right away for the EFT World Summit 2009. We’re telling everyone we know and you can feel free to pass this information along to anyone you feel would benefit!

If you think your teenager’s brain is an adult brain, it isn’t. The frontal cortex is developing. Without the neural structure in place, adolescents can’t think things through like adults. Reasoning and judgment are still developing well into the early to mid 20s. Teens may be physically mature, but not emotionally. Alan Delamater, a professor of pediatrics and psychology at the University of Miami’s Center for Child Development says, “They may have an adult-like body, but inside these teenagers are kids.”

According to a study reported by Dr. Sarah-Jayne Blakemore at the University College London, the adolescent brain undergoes massive changes and does not reach maturity until the later years. Refer to the BBC News article, Seeing the Teenager in the Brain. In Teens’ Brains Key to Their Impulsiveness, Dr. Laurence Steinberg says, the teenage brain is like a car with a good accelerator but a weak brake.

The good news is that teenage brains are pliable. Brain research points out that it’s important to lay the right neural pathways during the teen years in “exercising” teenage brains by developing good habits such as studying and exploring, art, music, and sports -– being active instead of passive.

So where does EFT come into play for you? Well, it would be great if your teen embraced EFT and used it for relieving issues at home and school. More than likely though, your teenager will rebel against the suggestion. So the best use of EFT is for yourself. Tap away. Mix a good dose of EFT and patience in dealing with frustrations from your teenager at home. After all, whether they’re three years old or thirteen, blame it on their developing brains.

Hold on, help is on the way. EFT is my favorite way of tapping away physical and emotional issues. Another method I like is heart-focused breathing taught by HeartMath. Doc Childre, founder of the Institute of HeartMath, has written the De-Stress Kit for the Changing Times, a free e-booklet that provides a few simple practices to help you intercept and manage stress during this period of challenge and uncertainty. You can download the free e-booklet right now by clicking on the graphic below.

This 24 page e-booklet is full of wisdom in dealing with the change and uncertainly we’re all experiencing today. On page 15, he suggests an exercise to tell yourself some phrases. I recommend doing EFT tapping while saying the following:

I understand why I’m living in fear and anxiety, but it’s draining my energy, putting my health at risk and interfering with clear decision-making.

I’m tired of being overshadowed by fear and I’m ready to shift to an attitude that’s easier on my nervous system, my health, and those around me.

I’m aware that fear has repressed my spirit and it hasn’t made anything change for the better.

I don’t expect to eliminate all my fears and projections, but I intend now to at least practice reducing my fear to a more balanced attitude of practical caution and discernment.

I realize that any progress in reducing fear will make me feel better and free up more of my spirit to move on.

HeartMath is demonstrating leadership, compassion, and doing a real service by offering the De-Stress Kit for the Changing Times. Feel free to share with your family, friends and others that may find it of value.

In March of 2008, Gary Craig and other EFT experts spent five days helping PTSD ridden military veterans in San Francisco to introduce them to EFT. Gary just released a 20 minute segment. Please watch it. Note that in capturing the candor of these veterans, there are a couple of profanities mentioned. A psychologist and psychiatrist also participated and make comments about the efficacy of EFT. This is an impressive video to watch because EFT offers great hope in helping to heal the trauma of our military veterans and their families. Please share this video with people you know who might benefit from seeing it.

EFT is keeping many practitioners busy. Almost two-thirds of the EFT practitioners surveyed do it full time. Around a third are part time. Some practitioners are in the process of building their practices. Most offer EFT and other methods of energy psychology and healing.

The predominant occupation for EFT practitioners is coaching, whether it’s working with individuals for personal coaching or in business. The other major areas are mental health professionals such as psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists, plus hypnotherapists.

Almost three-quarters of EFT practitioners are general practitioners. They work with their clients to resolve a range of issues. With those who specialize, the top areas of specialty are:

• Stress and anxiety
• Fears and phobias
• Trauma from accidents
• Addictions, weight issues and phobias
• Pain management

Other specialties highlighted include spiritual matters, self-esteem issues, sexual abuse, PTSD, grief, and women’s issues.

You’ll be pleased to know that if you’re looking for an EFT practitioner, those who are practicing have significant experience. Although EFT is fairly new to the general public, EFT practitioners have been doing EFT with their clients for quite some time. Eighty percent of those surveyed have been offering EFT for at least three years. Only a few practitioners have been doing EFT for less than a year.

What was surprising is even though most EFT practitioners can offer clients EFT via the telephone, that’s not how most EFT practitioners do their work. It’s mostly in person. Almost 70 percent of those surveyed do less than 25 percent of EFT services by phone. Several people mentioned that they would like to increase their telephone clientele.

We asked EFT practitioners the single most important way they learned EFT. The majority mentioned it was by viewing Gary Craig’s video libraries. We can attribute some of this to the fact that until the last few years, other than the EFT manual, that was the only comprehensive learning tool available. Today, the videos continue to be the most in-depth, cost effective way for lay people and practitioners to learn EFT.

Most EFT practitioners focus on offering their services and do not offer their own products. Many practitioners provide handouts or free information on their Websites. Of those who do offer products, it’s usually products developed by other EFT practitioners sold through affiliate programs. Some practitioners would like to develop products. Others don’t feel they have the time nor inclination to deal with business issues such as stocking and ordering. Some practitioners said that their profession prohibited them from offering products.

Recently, Gary Craig, the founder of EFT, started a certification program to emphasize EFT video instruction as the standard, and to bring more consistency back to the instruction and practice of EFT. Another purpose was to help prospective clients find a qualified practitioner that focused on EFT. We were surprised to find that only about one-third of EFT practitioners plan to be certified under the new program. The majority of practitioners aren’t sure or were not aware of the program.

Several practitioners mentioned that they didn’t only specialize in EFT. They offered other energy healing modalities. A number of practitioners said that they had developed a healthy client base and didn’t feel the need to be “re-certified.”

]]> http://www.eftzone.com/2008/09/12/eft-practitioner-survey/feed/ 4 http://www.eftzone.com/2008/06/28/adding-nlp-to-your-eft/ http://www.eftzone.com/2008/06/28/adding-nlp-to-your-eft/#comments Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:44:55 +0000 Ron Ball http://www.eftzone.com/?p=242 Let’s say that you’re doing a round of EFT for an issue that bothers you. How are you experiencing this issue? What’s behind the emotion? Quite often, it may be a visual component — a mental picture. Or, it could be a smell or a sound. For example, you might internally “hear” someone yelling at you. Last week I did EFT with a client who had a high degree of anxiety over earthquakes and aftershocks that were occurring daily. He had a full color close-up image of an earthquake event. Within a few minutes of doing a few rounds of EFT, the client’s “earthquake picture” became blurry and in black and white. He went from a SUDS level of 10 to a one. It no longer bothered him, nor could he get it back to a disturbing intensity. It’s good to learn something about NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) when doing EFT. Dr. Alexander R. Lees offers some good information on NLP here.

If you’d like to see an explanation of NLP, check out John Seymour’s, What is NLP?

The video below shows eye patterns. When asked specific questions, the person responds with eye cues. Up and to the left is retrieving from visual memory (Visual Remember). Up and to the right is creating a picture (Visual Construct). Horizontally to the left is retrieving an auditory recording (Auditory Remember). Horizontally to the right is creating an auditory (Auditory Construct) “thought.” Looking down to the right is accessing kinesthetically (K). Eyes looking down left are accessing an auditory internal dialogue (AD).

What’s the value of this in doing EFT? NLP offers you a way of knowing how a person is internally processing their thoughts and feelings. You can learn more about NLP here.

If you want to learn a great deal about your eyes, be sure to get Gary Craig’s EFT Specialty Series 2. In it, Dr. Larry Jebrock provides over two hours of captivating information, including using EFT for vision issues. A behavioral optometrist, he talks about ways emotions can affect our vision and how we can improve our vision by using EFT. He says there’s a lot of unconsciousness when it comes to people’s eyes. Dr. Jebrock uses EFT every day himself and with his patients. Besides talking about common vision problems, a few of the interesting things he discusses are pinhole glasses, microstimulation glasses, and image-streaming. In a friendly, engaging style, he also teaches the audience several vision exercises. You can do them along with the video.

Switching gears, not long ago, EFT Master Practitioner Carol Look did an interesting eight-week study in 2006 with 100 people providing written instructions for using EFT on a variety of emotional and vision issues. The results were that nearly 75 percent of the participants indicated an improvement in their vision. Click here to read a 16 page report of the study (PDF) or view the press release. For more in-depth information, get Carol’s book Improve Your Eyesight With EFT.

Here are some other EFT articles you may want to read:

EFT Articles

• Using EFT for Visions Issues
• An Optometrist Points to Emotional Impacts on Vision
• EFTNewcomer Assists With Her Dog’s Eye Problem
• Using EFT for DryEyes

In addition to EFT, if you’d like to do some eye exercises to improve your vision, you can get some free materials similar to those that were part of a kit that sold last year for about $350. In 1999, the American Vision Institute created a product called the See Clearly Method, which a company known as Vision Improvement Technologies marketed from 1999 to 2006. As mentioned, the SCM kits sold for several hundred dollars.

Because of legal issues, VIT has since gone out of business. However, the American Vision Institute now offers a free therapeutic eye exercise program, Power Vision. It’s a downloadable 50 page booklet that’s well worth exploring. On page 38, it even talks about massaging acupressure points. The e-booklet also includes links to some Power Exercise, Booster Exercise and the Deep Relaxation MP3 audio files.

There is plenty of information available on improving vision and eyesight. Here is just a smattering of resources.

Other Articles

• The Bates Method — An Alternative to Glasses
• Little Known Secrets on How to Improve Vision With Herbs, Vitamins, and Supplements
• “Palming”– Deeply Relax and Sharpen Your Vision With This Simple Technique

Video Clips

• How to Relax Your Eyes
• Natural Eyesight Improvement with the Bates Method

Websites

• Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
• Cambridge Institute for Better Vision
• Healing the Eye
• Imagination Blindness
• MicroAcupuncture
• National Eye Institute
• Vision Educators
• Vision Improvement Center
• Wills Eye Institute
• Wilmer Eye Institute at Johns Hopkins

Books

• Healing the Eye the Natural Way: Alternate Medicine and Macular Degeneration by Dr. Edward C.Kondrot
• Improve Your Vision Without Glasses or Contact Lenses by Steven M. Beresford
• Magic Eye Beyond 3D: Improve Your Vision by Marc Grossman
• Microcurrent Stimulation: Miracle Eye Cure? by Dr. Edward C. Kondrot
• Relearning to See: Improve Your Eyesight Naturally by Thomas R. Quackenbush
• Restoring Your Eyesight: A Taoist Approach by Doug Marsh
• Seeing Without Glasses: A Step-By-Step Approach To Improving Eyesight Naturally by Roberto Kaplan
• Take Off Your Glasses and See: A Mind/Body Approach to Expanding Your Eyesight and Insight by Jacob Liberman

Caring for your eyes is an important ongoing process. In the EFT video, Dr. Jebrok says, “The muscles of your eyes are contracting and relaxing in response to your thoughts and images even when your eyes are closed.” Before you go to bed at night may be an excellent time to do EFT and some eye relaxation exercises as you drift into slumber.

Let’s start with Su Jok. It’s was developed by South Korean professor, Park Jae Woo. The word “SU” in Korean means “the hand” and “JOK” means “the feet.” Supposedly, you can learn the basics of Su Jok in a matter of minutes. With some similarities to reflexology (zone therapy), often a health problem can be alleviated by applying pressure to corresponding points on either the hands or feet.

Su Jok is especially popular in Russia, the Ukraine and India. In fact, the Su Jok Academy is located in Moscow. For information on Su Jok, read Su Jok for Instant Pain Relief, How Does Su Jok Work, How Does Su Jok Heal, and Su Jok, the Handy Cure for All Ailments.

By the way, it’s challenging finding books on Su Jok in English. Check out Amazon or Barnes and Noble and you’ll see what I mean. If you’d like to view available book titles in English, you can see them at the Indian bookstore, AggarwalOverseas. Check out a Bulgarian company called The Medicks, Ltd. They offer a downloadable e-book. For other Websites, visit sujokonline.com, sujokclub.com and The Lions Club of Su Jok, Mumbai.

Click here for several video clips on Su Jok on Yahoo Video. Here are clips from YouTube. Please note that many of the videos are not in English and the recording quality is mediocre.

On one hand, I’ve given you a bit of information on Su Jok. On the other hand, I’ll mention Mudras which are different hand positions used in Yoga practices to help cure dis-eases by affecting your energies. If you’d like to learn about Mudras, read this information from Health & Yoga. Also check out Basic information on Mudras and Mudras for Healing.

Daniel Millstein wrote a book called, The One Minute Miracle, offering “The Mudra of Light.” Click here for a video showing you how to do it. Here’s an illustration that provides the details. For a couple of books on mudras, there’s Mudras: Yoga in Your Hands by Gertrude Hirschi and Healing Mudras: Yoga for Your Hands by Sabrina Mesko.

The point I want to make is that in addition to EFT there are various healing alternatives beyond the thinking, beliefs and current acceptance in America. The ones mentioned above are just two examples. How likely is it that you’ll learn about Su Jok or mudras on the nightly news or any of the traditional news media? Most of us who found EFT early on stumbled upon it via the Internet. Tap the keys on your keyboard to discover all that’s out there.