There are many good ways to learn EFT. My favorite way is watching Gary Craig’s videos. They offer in-depth learning. They’re convenient. You can study at your own pace. There are also classes, seminars and products offered by EFT Masters and others. These are great ways to dive into EFT if you want to be a practitioner. But what if you know nothing about EFT? What if you’re just someone who wants to grasp what EFT can do and how to do it? What’s an easy way to learn EFT?

For this, I don’t think you can beat the book, Freedom at Your Fingertips. Yes, I’m biased because I’m one of the co-authors. And, let me tell you why I believe it’s a fine way to learn EFT. First, the book is co-written by 20 World-Class EFT experts, including EFT Master Practitioners. Secondly, the book is in a question and answer format. It’s not for sequential reading. It’s a reference book. Just pick any of the 19 topics and go right to that chapter you need. Lastly, the book has real-life case stories and examples of over 300 EFT setup statements.

Now, we’re getting ready to announce another product to introduce people to EFT, and it’s something radically different. It’s Radiant Woman. Let me tell you about her.

We did research and found that a lot of people don’t read books anymore — not just young people but adults too. Reading competes with other forms of learning and entertainment like television and video games. A big preference is learning visually.

To reach a large populace that can benefit from learning EFT, we recognized we needed to offer learning in a format that clicked. “Edutainment” has to be visual, quick and fun to read. That’s why next month we’ll be publishing a full color “comic book” — Radiant Woman.

Vivian Vim is a renowned scientist, socialite and very wealthy woman. She’s also a superhero. Her secret identity is “Radiant Woman.” She’s out to teach the world her “magical energy” powers which are a new healing method that anyone can learn. In this full color comic book you’ll learn a super way to get powerful results for your health and well-being. Super results and you don’t need to be a superhero do to it.

Radiant Woman will be published and available next month. We’ll keep you posted!

Want some bliss? Something wonderful is about to happen and I wanted to make sure you got in on it as soon as possible. My good friend Maryam Webster, featured in our Spotlight, and a co-author of Freedom at Your Fingertips has a new book: Everyday Bliss For Busy Women which is due to be released from New Harbinger Publishers next week — Thursday, May 1st. Although you can already get it at Amazon, please don’t (not yet). Here’s why.

If you buy the book on May 1st, you’ll get a ton of bonuses, plus a $50 off coupon to the wildly successful “12 Keys To Bliss” program (based on the Everyday Bliss Process in the book), plus you’ll get a virtual seat at a major new worldwide Webcast event! This is a telesummit of stellar personal transformation artists and technique creators, world class energy therapists, health and wellness and life coaching experts. And it’s available ONLY if you buy the book at Amazon.com on Thursday, May 1st. Here’s a direct link to go to on May 1st:

http://snipurl.com/blissbook

After you buy the book, come back to http://everydaybliss.org with your receipt, and follow the directions on the homepage to get your FREE ticket to:

The Energy Of Bliss Telesummit
May 5 - 7 from 12:00pm - 3pm PST daily

(Can’t attend then? No worries. You’ll get free replays!)

This mastermind gathering of world class energy therapists, health and wellness, and life coaching experts will be simulcast on the web so you can choose to dial in or listen all week to the webcast. Check out the dazzling array and bonuses you’ll get here:

http://everydaybliss.org

Put this on your calendar to do on May 1st now.

I look forward to getting Maryam’s book — Everyday Bliss for Busy Women — on May 1st. I’ll be getting multiple copies. Maryam is a gem and this book will make a welcome gift to those in your life who want to learn ways to feel everyday bliss.

At least once a week, I receive an e-mail from an EFT practitioner who has put up a new Website or blog and wants to add an EFTzone link to their site. I tell them to contact me six months from now. Ninety percent of the time, their Website is gone. Or their blog has three or four posts. Or the last post was back in 2006. The sites and blogs fizzle and go kaput. A real exception is Rod Sherwin in Melbourne, Australia. Rod has a Website, Tap4Health. Here you’ll find his EFT Tapping Points Guide plus other EFT Resources. Also, check out his Tap4Health on Gia blog.

I particularly like reading his blog because he has original content, plus he’s candid. For example, read his post — How would you know things were getting better? He talks about asking your brain the right questions. Rod has been writing about EFT for nearly two years now so you’ll find gems of information in his Tap4Health Newsletter Archive. He clearly has passion and commitment for helping the world know more about EFT and the wondrous results it can produce. Here’s to you, Rod Sherwin!

It’s only money, honey. Money is a feeling. As a follow-up to Financial Storm, because there’s so much focus on the economy being tight, people are getting uptight. Several people have asked me how to use EFT for money issues. Of course, one of the best places to go is Carol Look’s Attracting Abundance Website. About 12 years ago, before I knew anything about EFT, I was a partner in a business experiencing a recession in Southern California. One of the most helpful things for me was buying a little box of cards, Creating Money: Affirmations for Abundance by Orin and DaBen. I don’t even think the box of cards are available anymore, but the companion book, Creating Money, just came out in a new edition. I recommend it.

You can read an excerpt from the book here. Perhaps you’ll also want to read the article, Change Beliefs of Scarcity into Abundance. Also, here’s their page for Creating Money and Abundance.

Another book I found to be of value was Stuart Wilde’s, The Trick to Money is Having Some. One of his gems was, “Abundance will never be a factor of how much money one has. Rather it is always a factor of how on feels about what money one does have.”

How do you feel about the money that you do have? When you think of money and economic uncertainty, how do you feel? Are we feeling a reflection of the economy or is the economy the sum of our individual feelings about money right now? While most economic conditions are out of our control, we can do something about how we feel about money. When you get uncomfortable feelings or thoughts about money, stay with it and use EFT. Do an EFT setup statement based on your specific feelings.

You also might play with these statements. Just do a round of tapping while saying each one aloud.

Even though I’m afraid I won’t have enough, I am enough.

I let go of my fear of the future, of uncertainty and doubt. I choose to release fearful feelings.

I trust by staying in the moment, I’ll know what to do and which steps to take.

Lastly, here are three of the Creating Money cards you can tap. Do a round of tapping on the EFT points with each one:

All my money is energy awaiting my command to create good in my life.

I create money and abundance through joy, aliveness and self-love.

My energy is open and flowing in every area of my life.

I also suggest using another method similar to BSFF (Be Set Free Fast) and ZPoint Process — the Power Word Technique — from Joan Sotkin. The free excerpt of the Power Word Technique is from Joan’s book, Build Your Money Muscles.

The most important thing whether you’re using EFT of other methods is to keep your energy and feelings about money open and flowing instead of contracted and tight.

Seven years ago when I first learned EFT, the best way was to get Gary Craig’s videos. I bought all of the video sets and watched hours and hours of his seminars. At the time, there were few books about EFT and really no videos I thought would be good to introduce EFT to the lay public. That changed last summer when Gary produced a well-received, seven minute EFT introductory video. If his video was an appetizer, then the new film, Try It On Everything, is the entrée and main course to introducing people to EFT.

I’ve followed the progress on this project since it was announced last year. It premiered this month, and I received my copy of Try It On Everything yesterday. I watched it twice — once by myself in the afternoon and another time with my wife in the evening. (I’ll tell you what she said about the movie at the end of this post.)

I wasn’t sure what to expect. Perhaps you saw the trailer for it. Based on seeing Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, and Joe Vitale in the trailer, I wondered if it would be an attempt at a sequel to The Secret. Thankfully, I discovered that it wasn’t. I really liked The Secret and preferred not to see a copycat version. Try It On Everything stands on its own. It combines vignettes from luminaries in the health care and life coaching arenas with “real world” people who want to change their lives using EFT.

This is the kind of film I might see on HBO Documentary Films or a special feature documentary from Spiritual Cinema Circle. In fact, these would be fine alternate channels of distribution for the movie. The film’s strength is that it has a real, down-to-earth, non-Hollywood quality to it. It’s not overproduced. It has a gentle feel to it. Even the musical score in the film purely complements what’s going on visually.

In short, the movie documents ten people with health and other life issues that come together in a retreat for four days. They learn how to do EFT for their problems. I enjoyed watching Rick Wilkes skillfully, passionately and often with a sense of humor, guide people through EFT and their processes. As always, Carol Look is so intuitive and articulate in explaining and doing EFT. And Dr. Patricia Carrington is one of those people that when she talks, you listen. She has a peaceful presence about her. Of course, these are just three fine examples. You’ll see many other wonderful EFT practitioners and experts in the film. I’ll save those surprises for you.

Try It On Everything shows what a team of people with passion, commitment and talent can do. Nicolas Ortner is the founder of Try It Productions and the producer of the film. It’s one thing to have a grand vision to do a project like this. It’s another thing to have the courage and tenacity to manifest it. I have great respect for what Try It Productions has done. Nick’s sister, Jessica Ortner, is the assistant producer, project manager and interviewer. She’s the “behind the scenes” person. The experts in this film are well-known and interviewed quite often. It’s a real challenge to ask the right questions and build rapport to get the gems of comments these experts have provided. Nicely done, Jessica.

Nicholas Polizzi is the director and editor of Try It On Everything. What was very impressive to me about the film was the editing. It was skillfully and beautifully woven together. In his editing, he intertwined comments with experts and participants in a smooth and natural way. It flowed together so well that the hour and 20 minutes was gone before I realized it. I imagine one of the toughest challenges to making the film was cutting it. There had to be a lot of great footage left behind. Lastly, thanks to the participants for being so open and generous in sharing their issues and allowing themselves to be filmed. Their humanity comes across. I felt very connected to them.

As I mentioned, after watching the film by myself, I saw it with my wife, Linda. I didn’t say anything to her while we were watching it. I wanted to get her spontaneous reaction. The first thing she said was that she noticed many of the retreat participants’ faces had changed by the end of the film. They looked softer, more vibrant and alive.

As the credits for the film were rolling, she commented, “Wow. Great. Excellent. Very, very well done. So believable. I wouldn’t change a thing.”

I love Dr. Carrington’s comment near the end of the film, “EFT is, I consider to be the people’s method. It’s there for all of us and literally at our fingertips.” Try It On Everything is a great way to introduce the EFT method to people. Order a copy. Invite some people over to see it or pass the DVD around to your friends and family. Do it because Try It On Everything is a show it to everyone movie. It explains why I was excited to learn EFT seven years ago and why I continue to appreciate the wondrous results it can produce. EFT is a gift and so is this film.

There continues to be mounting economic uncertainty. We’re experiencing the sub prime mortgage crisis and the housing market downturn. There’s been talk about whether we’re in a recession or not. The U.S. stock market is volatile swinging up and down almost daily. The Federal Reserve is working to keep things in check. Things are happening that we’ve never experienced. If you believe in the Law of Attraction, the more we focus on fears of a recession and financial storm, the more we’ll attract it. We’ll magnetize a fear and lack vibration. What can you do? Here are some things that may help.

Although, you can’t control outside conditions, you can control how you respond to and feel about them. Instead of reacting with fear, trepidation or panic, choose to keep a pulse on things, take wise actions and avoid emotional distress. Be conscious of your inside conditions and use tools like EFT to release any negative emotions.

I recommend starting with EFT Talk with Carol Look and Rick Wilkes on How Do I Stop Worrying? Also, listen to Jessica Ortner on EFT Revealed interviewing Carol Look about Using EFT to Attract Abundance. Click on the folder “Abundance” to find the interview (January 15th.)

And, use EFT to address whatever you’re feeling. Create your own setup phrases based on specifically what you’re feeling. For example:

Even though I’m worried about financial events, I choose to remain calm in my actions.

Even though I’m afraid of what might happen, I choose to feel comfortable in trusting myself to know what to do.

Even though I’m afraid of what might happen to my finances, I choose to feel and know I’ll be all right.

Even though I’m afraid of what might happen to my money, I choose to focus on all of the other areas of abundance in my life.

Everything is interconnected and woven together. Any change in the financial markets in America ripples into international markets. A downturn in the housing industry not only affects builders, roofers, electricians and plumbers, but car dealers, retailers and restaurants. One of the things about financial turmoil is that it makes us conscious of how interdependent we are worldwide.

The more calm and centered you stay, the more you help everyone else. And you have EFT to assist you in doing so.

Almost three years ago on March 12-14, 2005, I attended Gary Craig’s “Mastering EFT” 3-day workshop in Southern California. The workshop dealt with using EFT with people with serious issues or illnesses. This included Multiple System Atrophy, Neuropathy, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Muscular Dystrophy, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, spinal problems and other illnesses. The purpose was to aim EFT at the emotional causes of serious diseases. At the workshop, Lars Mygind, from Denmark mentioned Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer and his research on emotions and cancer. The story of Dr. Hamer and German New Medicine is quite fascinating because it correlates to EFT and how unresolved emotional issues contribute to physical and health problems.

From research on 40,000 cases, Dr. Hamer concluded that cancer is caused by an unexpected emotional conflict or shock that catches us completely off guard. Examples include betrayal, separation, divorce, abandonment or loss. Healing can only occur after the conflict is resolved. Dr. Hamer’s “German New Medicine” focuses on identifying and resolving the original shock.

Here are some resources for finding out about Dr. Hamer, German New Medicine, and how the psyche affects the body. The radio interview and videos are well worth listening to and viewing.

• Conscious Living Radio’s interview with Caroline Markolin, Ph.D, German New Medicine about Emotions and Cancer
• Her Website about German New Medicine
• Dr. David Holt talks about German New Medicine in these videos from Dr. Joseph Mercola — German New Medicine- How You Control Your Own Healing and German New Medicine Explains Heart Attacks
• Dr. Holt’s Website Reno Integrative Medicine Center
• The German New Medicine site which claims to be the only official English written source of German New Medicine® on the Internet
• 5 Part Series: The New Medicine of Dr. Hamer by Karen Robinson
• An article written by Cal Garrison, Dr. Ryke Geerd Hamer and the German New Medicine

Whether or not you believe Dr. Hamer’s information on German New Medicine, the more knowledge you have on traditional and alternative treatments, the more choices you have for staying in good health. Our health is in our hands. It’s the personal responsibility of each of us to be as informed and open to all wellness possibilities as we choose.

Although intuitively people know that stress can affect their health and well-being, a new study in Great Britain shows that chronic stress has a direct biological impact on our bodies. The study, published in the European Heart Journal, was with 10,000 British civil servants over a 12-year period. One of its findings was that chronically stressed workers — people determined to be under severe pressure — had a 68 percent higher risk of developing heart disease. That’s shocking. What’s particularly concerning it that the risks were particularly strong among younger people — those under 50.

In a different study, the 2007/2008 Staying at Work report, consulting firm Watson Wyatt said that almost half of U.S. employers (48 percent) recognize that stress is impacting their business. However, only five percent of these companies are taking action to address their concerns. Stress directly affects employee retention because stress overload is cited by employees as the top reason they’d leave a company. Employers on the other hand are clueless. They don’t even have stress on their radar as one of the top five reasons employees bail.

Company executives are good at weighing hard costs. They’re not so good at evaluating how soft costs affect the bottom line, which is the main reason the stress issue hasn’t come to the forefront. Based on research studies and information from the book, Stress Costs, Stress Cures by author Ravi Tangri, there is now a formula for measuring the hard costs of stress.

• 19 percent of absenteeism
• 40 percent of turnover
• 55 percent of employee assistance programs
• 30 percent of short- and long-term disability
• 10 percent of drug plan costs
• 60 percent of total workplace accidents
• Total costs of workers comp and lawsuits are because of stress

Stress is a major issue. Yet it’s amazing that so many Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officers focused on increasing profitability and having committed employees either sidestep the whole issue of workplace stress or they have no idea what it’s costing their companies. Again, stress isn’t an intangible cost — it’s measurable in hard dollars.

If you’re stressed at work, it’s up to you to do something about it because most likely you’re employer won’t. By exercising, following a healthy lifestyle, and doing EFT, you can reduce the negative impact of stress. EFT is a superb tool for releasing stress. You’ll get effective results by spending five minutes every morning and evening doing a few rounds of EFT to release your stress.

Nick Ortner, Jessica Maya Ortner and the team behind the upcoming move, Try It on Everything, have a special Valentine’s Day treat for you today on their blog site EFT-Revealed. It’s an interview recording titled, Loving Me, Loving You, with Jessica and EFT expert Brad Yates. Take the time today to listen to it. You can tap along and release any blocks or limitations that prevent you from fully loving you. Pass it along.

Back in December, I went to a charity auction and won a four-hour Feng Shui consultation by Taylor Vance of Feng Shui Studio. Although I’d heard of Feng Shui, I really didn’t know anything about it. Feng Shui offers ways to be in harmony with your environment. It made sense to me that if EFT is about clearing blocks of energy internally, Feng Shui is like EFT for your house. I thought, “I wonder how EFT might be combined with Feng Shui?”

A few weeks before our appointment, we filled out a questionnaire, provided drawings of our house location survey plat and blueprints of each floor. Taylor came to our home, walked the property with us and then we went through the house room by room. Along the way she gave us tips and ideas. (I took a lot of notes.) I thought what she offered was very interesting and educational. The beauty of Feng Shui is it’s like EFT. Do it and see what results you get. Why not?

Afterwards, as I was sitting at the table with Taylor and my wife, I had an idea zip across my brainwaves about EFT and Feng Shui. Before I tell you my idea, I need to preface it by mentioning a key tool Feng Shui practitioners use — an ancient model called a bagua. Here are a couple of diagrams of a bagua. For simplicity, we’ll use the bagua below on the right.

The Feng Shui practitioner overlays the bagua over the floorplan of your home. The front door is at one of the three areas where it says Entrance Quadrant. Each of the eight outer areas, called a gua, is relative to an area of our lives. The center, called the t’ai chi, correlates generally with our health and well-being. Stay with me. I’m about to bring in the EFT.

What if you did EFT on an issue in the corresponding location (gua) of your home? For example, with a relationship problem, what if you physically went to the back right section of your home to do EFT on this specific issue? If that’s where the relationship energy is, might it amp up the results in doing EFT? Or if you had money stresses, go to the rear left (wealth, prosperity, abundance) section of your home and do EFT. Health problems? Go to that gua. And, if you wanted to feel more centered, would it be more effective if you went to the middle area of your home and did some EFT?

Although I’m just giving you a cursory look at Feng Shui, this is an idea you may want to test and notice what happens. Let me know what you discover.