Afterwards, one of the things my surgeon told me is that I would most likely have what’s called, First Bite Syndrome. This is a complication that often occurs after patients undergo parapharyngeal space surgery. In technical terms, inadvertent ablation of the Parotid gland’s sympathetic innervation results in the development of severe parotid gland–area pain at the first bites of food.

Basically, when a person eats, there’s excruciating pain for the first few bites, then the pain subsides. What makes matters worse is the anticipation that the pain is forthcoming.

As someone who has been doing EFT for years, I was curious if EFT might help relieve the pain. There’s an old EFT saying, “Try it on Everything,” so I thought I’d play around with tapping for FBS. I didn’t want to write about this until I had used EFT 20-30 times for pain relief.

Whenever I was going to eat, I started continuously and vigorously tapping on the Karate Chop point. That’s all. By continuously tapping on this point, I discovered that pain was minimal and tolerable, no more than a SUDS of one. This compares to First Bite Syndrome where it was initially a SUDS of a piercing ten. Also, tapping on the Collarbone point worked just as very well.

I’m going to experiment with other points and perhaps saying some EFT setup phrases. It’s nice to have a tool like EFT for pain relief.

Best of all, you can attend the complete event from the comfort of your home or wherever you choose to be. This is an online event, there are no airline tickets or hotels to book. You may surprised to know that the main event is 100% free. You get to listen to two presentations each day for 10 days, and you have a 24 hour period to listen online so you don’t even have to be there at an exact time. Everything is streamed through the web so you don’t tie up your phone or have an phone bills to pay.

The only way Nick Ortner and his team are able to offer the Tapping World Summit for free is that they offer an upgrade option for those that want to own the audio to the presentations, the transcripts and the workbook for the Summit at a very reasonable price. That’s completely optional. I don’t know of any event or product where you can sample it all for free before deciding if you want to own it.

If you want to sign up for this year’s Summit event click on the link below. There’s also a really cool video on this page so make sure to check it out:

As someone who presented at the first Tapping World Summit, I highly recommend that you register today. It’s a wonderful way to stay on the cutting-edge of healing modalities like EFT and tapping.

GO TO OFFICIAL EFT TUTORIAL

I first discovered EFT and started doing it over 10 years ago. Back then, the primary way to learn EFT was to get Gary’s set of video and audio cassette tapes. Later, he started doing a few live seminars that were open to the public. Since then, many other people have embraced EFT and modified it. There are other videos, books, blogs, websites, seminars and workshops. Technology has also changed dramatically so videos are now available online.

Most of Gary Craig’s original EFT case stories and other written material is at EFT Universe. At the new site, GaryThink, you’ll find the tutorials and information you need to learn EFT. In particular, Gary and Tina have chunked it down nicely into a series of short videos.

If you want to learn EFT, GaryThink is an excellent place to do it. If you want to delve into EFT deeper, GaryThink also offers a package of online videos that teach you the “Art of Delivery.” The video library is $150 and you’re permitted to even share your login info with one or more friends. In all, there are 35 hours of videos, and you are allowed 120 hours of viewing time.

He also has an honor system. If you can afford to pay $150 or even more you can. If you’re financially strapped, you can pay less. To me, Gary Craig has always been very generous in sharing EFT with humanity for healing. With this new website, he offers anyone who visits free tools for learning EFT. Gary also shares his spiritual experiences and thinking “out of the box.” Oh, and when you visit GaryThink, be sure to sign up for Gary’s newsletter.

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A ways back, I had the opportunity to teach EFT for a prisoner Anger Management class. People had to apply for the program because it was so successful in producing results. There was a waiting list to take the class.

My experience was extraordinary and certainly one of the most rewarding times I’ve ever had in my life. With EFT the changes were powerful and dramatic. Some days it was magical in the positive energy created. I saw people learn skills in communication and using EFT to dissipate their anger. After the class was completed, I had great respect for everyone who participated.

Another person who has done wonderful volunteer work teaching Anger Management classes to prisoners is Gene Monterastelli. Gene has started a project to create a toolset by publishing a book for inmates. He needs our help. You may want to participate. Gene is very talented, has great integrity and is positively impacting the lives of prisoners and their families. Please click on the gray and blue “Imprisoned by Anger” link below to watch a short video of Gene Monterastelli providing an overview and showing you how you can assist in helping manifest this very worthwhile project.

That’s the premise of a new book out by Grant Connolly. The title of the book is Allowing Happiness on Cue: A Simple, Powerful Way to Gently Let Go of Feelings and Limiting Beliefs that Block True Peace of Mind and Happiness. It’s available from Amazon in the USA, Canada, the UK, France and Germany in the English language edition, plus there are Kindle and Nook editions if you have an electronic reader.

The book introduces you to the ZPoint Process, a healing technique that you can learn in minutes to feel increasingly peaceful, relaxed and emotionally balanced. The ZPoint Process uses a cue word to employ the power of our subconscious mind to change the things that contribute to any feelings of unhappiness.

What if you could feel happier and transform your life by clearing away the things that make you feel unhappy, allowing your happiness to shine through? What if there was a process for this that you could learn quickly and easily? What if you didn’t have to do much because it worked automatically, ingeniously whenever you gave it a cue? That’s what you’ll learn in Grant’s book. And it’s more than a book. It’s a book with recordings because you also get access to free download recordings to guide you through the process step-by-step.

Grant Connolly wasn’t always so happy. He had a very unhappy childhood, got bullied, dropped out of high school, and felt like  a failure for many years. No more. Today, his life is rich, full and deeply satisfying. In short, he’s having the best time of his life. After going back to school in his early thirties to study technology—computers and communications—he followed his passion and worked with computers for a number of years. Fascinated with how the subconscious mind works, Grant became a certified hypnotist.

Using his greatest abilities—following his intuition and synthesizing everything he’s learned—he developed the ZPoint Process to transform his life by clearing away all the things that made him feel unhappy. He says that when we clear all of the things that we are not, underneath we’ll find the person we’ve always wanted to be.

Allowing Happiness on Cue is a gem of a little book. It’ll help you learn a process that can help you uncover the happiness that’s already there!

In the American culture we seem to revere stress and being busy. Many of us certainly don’t understand how stress seriously impacts our health. Stress overload does mental and physical damage. Some of the most common health problems, caused or worsened by stress are:

•     Cardiovascular disease and Hypertension
•     Depression and anxiety
•     Sexual dysfunction
•     Fertility in women, irregular cycles
•     Erectile dysfunction in men
•     Frequent colds
•     Sleeplessness and fatigue
•     Trouble concentrating
•     Memory loss
•     Changes in appetite

Robert Sapolsky has studied Baboons for over 30 years because he says that they are a good model for our Western culture. Like human beings, Baboons live in a hierarchical society. They have troops varying from between five to 250 animals. His research over the years has indicated that by conducting blood tests, the baboons at the top of the rung has less stress that those below. The dominant, aggressive male baboons have less stress chemicals in their bodies. He found that the most stress occurred in the Baboons at the lower end of the hierarchy.

What’s even more fascinating in the documentary is that they also did research on measuring stress with people in the British Civil Service and the same thing held true. There was less stress higher up and more at the bottom. I highly recommend the Documentary. You can see a short clip of it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPS7GnromGo

Robert Sapolsky certainly has a sense of humor because he  says that he’s a type A personality and is stressed out from working 80 hours a week. And, he says that we need to find ways to release stress overload on a daily basis. Whether it’s meditating, exercising, or doing EFT, we need to have an ongoing positive habit for reducing stress. It’s essential for our health and well-being.

The book is the ultimate question and answer guidebook for using EFT to feel more energized and alive. Rated five stars on Amazon, what has made the book so popular is the scope of information on EFT and because the book was co-authored by 20 World-Class EFT practitioners, including several EFT Founding Masters.

The book offers 19 topics areas, over 300 examples of specific EFT setup phrases and 50 real life cases stories of proven results for ways to use EFT to overcome some of the most common emotional and physical issues.

*** Book Chapters ***

• THE BASICS OF EFT: A breakthrough system for rapid physical and emotional relief * By Ron Ball
• ABUNDANCE & PROSPERITY: Changing beliefs and feelings to attract what you want in life * By Carol Look
• ADDICTIONS: Integrating EFT into treatments for substance or behavior dependency * By Loretta Sparks
• ALLEVIATING ANXIETY: Erasing uneasy, apprehensive feelings * By Lindsay Kenny
• BLOCKAGES & OBSTACLES: Breaking through to peak performance * By Maryam Webster
• CHILDREN & TEENS: Using magic fingers to energize youngsters * By Jan Yordy
• FEARS & PHOBIAS: Taming our overpowering fears * By Mary Stafford
• HAPPINESS: The ultimate success * By Brad Yates
• HEALTH: Exploring the mind/body connection * Dr. Alexander R. Lees
• PAIN MANAGEMENT: Relieving physical and emotional pain * By Gwenn Bonnell
• PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT: Developing a more positive relationship with your Self * By Carol Tuttle
• PROCRASTINATION: Moving beyond excuses and smoke screens * By Gloria Arenson
• RELATIONSHIPS: Crossing the feelings barrier to successful personal and business relationships * By Paul & Layne Cutright
• SEXUALITY: Healing past issues, creating greater communication and intimacy * By Rebecca Marina
• SPEAKING & STAGE FRIGHT: Releasing the performance jitters and butterflies * By Angela Treat Lyon
• SPIRITUAL GROWTH: The inner path to emotional freedom and a thriving life * By Rick Wilkes
• SPORTS PERFORMANCE: From healing injuries to improving your game * By Stacey Vornbrock
• STRESS: Preventing damage from overload and burnout * By Ron Ball
• TRAVEL: What to do when… leavin’ on a jet plane * By Betty Moore-Hafter
• WEIGHT LOSS: Removing self-sabotage from the weight loss equation * By Carol Solomon

As mentioned, in addition to the English language paperback edition, the book is also available in DRM-free electronic editions for the Kindle and Nook reading devices. That means our ebooks are lendable, and they’re not locked to any one device. That’s important to know when buying ebooks.

Click on a country flag below to order or visit the book’s Website at fayf.com.

Perhaps we can learn a lot from the works of Émile Coué, a French psychologist and pharmacist who developed “optimistic autosuggestion.” Basically he said that the greater effort you make to resolve an issue, the more it returns. The more you exert your willpower and try, the more your imagination replies that you can’t.

He says that contrary to what we might believe, when the Imagination and the Will are in conflict, the Imagination invariably wins.

He said to create a positive change in our mental or physical being, we must consciously suggest to our unconscious mind. He used repetitions of verbal messages as a means of changing behavior and called them “Autosuggestions.” Perhaps his most famous autosuggestion is:

“Every day, in every respect, I am getting better and better.” Coué emphasized saying the words, “in every respect” because it played to every need whether mental or physical. [Note: It's often translated as, "Every day in every way, I'm getting better and better."]

Émile Coué said that in order to understand properly the part played by suggestion, or rather by autosuggestion, we need to know that that the unconscious self is the grand director of all our functions. The unconscious is that powerhouse that provides energy for conscious thought and action and for the performance of the vital processes of the body. The unconscious is the supervisor over our physical processes. Digestion, assimilation, the circulation of the blood, the action of the loans, the kidneys and all the vital organs are controlled by it, not the conscious mind.

What’s important in autosuggestion is — no idea presented to the mind can realize itself unless the mind accepts it. The basic law of autosuggestion is:

Every idea from the conscious mind, if it is accepted by the unconscious, is transformed by it into a reality.

When we gently and in a relaxed manner, instead of forcefully, fill our conscious minds with ideas of health, joy, goodness, efficiency, and can ensure their acceptance by the unconscious, these ideas become new realities. That’s why it’s important not to exert effort when making an autosuggestion because it takes us out of a relaxed state and suppresses the tide of the unconscious. Also it creates a conflict. Autosuggestion succeeds by avoiding conflict.

Coué  said that we possess within us a force of an incalculable power when directed in a conscious and wise manner gives us a mastery of ourselves, releasing physical and mental ills so we can live in relative happiness.

Émile Coué recommended formulating autosuggestions that included these three elements: (1) Immediate relief. (2) Rapid progress. (3) Complete and permanent cure.

As an experiment, let’s take the autosuggestion teachings of Émile Coué and combine them with EFT and tapping. Do this. Take some time to be by yourself.

1. Close your eyes. Be calm and relaxed. Get in a drowsy state.
2. In a monotonous tone of voice, tap on the various EFT points while saying any of the autosuggestions that follow. Feel free to modify theme to suit your needs:

General

From today onward, I shall become more and more conscious of all that is happy, positive and cheerful.
All the troubles which used to perplex me will have vanished and never return.
The thoughts that enter my mind are strong and healthful ones.
My life is growing smoother, easier, and brighter.

Trouble Sleeping

Every night I will fall asleep when I want and continue to sleep until the time I choose to wake up on the morning. My sleep shall be calm, deep and peaceful. On waking I’ll feel well, right, alert, eager for the day’s tasks.

Depression, Feeling Down

Instead of being moody, anxious and depressed, I choose to feel cheerful and happy. I prefer to be happy even if I have no particular reason for being so, just as in the past I was feeling unhappy for whatever reasons. From today onward, I shall become more and more conscious of all that is happy, positive and cheerful.

Physical Pain

[Note: Touch that part of your body in pain with one hand. Tap on the EFT points with the other and say -- ] I know my pain is going away. It’s going, going, going, gone. [Note: Repeat the words "going, going, going" as fast as you can, producing a continuous stream of sound. Keep it up for about a minute, pausing only to take a deep breath when necessary. Say the word, "Gone," at the conclusion.]

Feeling Impatient or Angry

I no longer feel anything of the kind. On the contrary, I feel more patient and in control. The things that used to irritate me leave me entirely.

Fears or Phobias

Any fears or anxieties I had cease to occupy my mind. They melt away like a cloud. As a dream vanishes when we awake, so do any fears or anxieties I had.

Lacking Confidence

Any lack of confidence or self distrust I had is gradually disappearing. I have confidence in myself. I enjoy feeling confident. I have immense power within me. The thoughts which enter my mind are strong and positive ones. My confidence manifests in greater strength each and every day.

Getting Things Done

I erase such words as “difficult,” ” impossible,”  or “I cannot” from my vocabulary. I replace them with this phrase: “It’s easy and I can.” Even though it may  be difficult for others, it comes easy to me. I do things easily, without effort and without fatigue.

If you’d like to learn more about “autosuggestion,” you can download an ebook for Kindle, Nook or iBook editions for free. Go to Project Gutenberg and search in authors for Émile Coué, or the title Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion. Also, check out the C. Harry Brooks book, Practice of Autosuggestion.

If you ask most smokers, they’ll tell you that they’d like to quit. Many have even tried. In fact, according to the US Food and Drug Administration, 70% of smokers want to quit, and more than 84% of them are unsuccessful in their attempts. So what’s the issue? It’s simply that smoking does something positive for them and helps make them feel good. Instead of suppressing the real reasons behind why people smoke, let’s bring them to the forefront. Use EFT to release feelings at the core of why smokers smoke.

By the way, keep in mind that cigarette smoking may be frowned upon today, yet not long ago smoking was culturally in vogue. In fact, look at most of the old black and white movies and most of the actors and actresses smoked.  So did doctors. Check out this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI

If you smoke and really want to stop, EFT can help. EFT practitioner, Aileen Nobles, has an excellent video that really gets at core issues of why someone smokes. Notice how she alternates between tapping on opposites (love smoking and want to quit). She integrates opposites and provides new choices.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEFR73uL0eI

Another video you may want to watch is from Magnus. He teaches you the classic EFT method.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVyEr1W_XPs

The main reason that EFT can be so effective in helping smokers who really want to quit smoking is that EFT doesn’t deny the reasons smokers smoke and the “benefits” they get from doing it. EFT releases any negative or unwanted feelings connected to smoking.



Whether it be Japan, or the earthquake in New Zealand, or the ongoing challenges in Haiti, focusing on the negative isn’t going to help anyone. There’s only so much of watching the network news before it becomes counterproductive. I agree with Nick that unless we process and release our fears, our concerns, our stress, we can’t really be of much help and move forward in a positive direction to make a difference.

Nick is offering you two things for you to make that happen. The first is a very special audio from Jessica Ortner which is a short tap-along meditation (like her surrogate tapping one that everyone loves!) to help tap through some of what’s going on. The second offering is something more on the practical side. From the next few days, until Friday, March 18th, the Ortners are going to offer their excellent documentary film, The Tapping Solution film, for 50% off.

They were planning on doing this anyway as a post-summit celebration, because many people asked how they could get a copy of the film. This offer makes it a super price for you because the film only costs $15 (at half price). The cool part is that they’re going to donate 100% of gross sales until they hit their goal of $10,000 to support the relief efforts in Japan. If the response is good, they’ll look to raise more money! The funds will go to the Red Cross, unless they can find an organization that is doing specific trauma relief work, ideally with Tapping.

You can listen to Jessica’s audio here:

And you can see the trailer for The Tapping Solution film and pick up a copy at 50% off the regular price to support Japan by clicking here:

If you were looking to donate funds to the efforts in Japan, now’s the time!