I use EFT to assist people to achieve peak performance in any field. EFT is an excellent tool
for removing blocks and barriers to performance, in particular dealing with doubts and fears, including fear of failure and fear of success. It can also be used to develop greater clarity of focus and commitment towards your goals, iron out values conflicts, overcome be-lief challenges, release the negative effects of past failures, reconnect with success, and al-low your peak performance states to emerge.
Typically, I aim to identify a specific area of performance that can be addressed imme-diately, and apply EFT to this. For a golfer this might be chipping onto the green, for a businessperson it might be team meetings or presentations, for a singer it might be the moment they walk up to the microphone in front of a large audience.
We identify the negative emotional associations and start applying EFT to these. This process typically brings success in a very short period of time, which can be built on in sub-sequent sessions. From this beginning I will then start to explore the person’s ultimate goals, underlying belief challenges, potential goal-value conflicts, identity issues, and other larger issues.
In the first session, I will teach them EFT so that they can use it in the “challenging”
situation, however I believe EFT can offer much more than simply assisting us to improve our handling of one or two performance situations. I am more interested in using it to achieve larger life and performance goals.
At some point, I will ask my clients: “Where do you want to go ultimately with this?”
and “What prevents you from being there now?” Then we start work on applying EFT to:
1. The belief challenges that are preventing them from being able to comfortably see themselves achieving that now (e.g., “I am not good enough.”)
2. Any conflicts in values that are causing their energy to be divided (eg. “I want to achieve great things but if I do it will take me away from my family.”)
3. Any other negative associations they have to either being successful or the process they believe would be required in order to achieve success
I also work on beliefs and am particularly interested in their self-image or identify be-liefs, since this defines their level of achievement. We work on how they see themselves and how they would like to see themselves, using EFT. We use EFT to clear out negative self-perceptions as well as for building and reinforcing positive self-belief. For example, tap-ping whilst holding the image of yourself “as” the person you would like to be and become can be very productive.
I find EFT works very well with visualization and affirmation strategies, and use a tech-nique I call Connecting With Success, which is essentially holding the success image in mind and tapping on the EFT points whilst holding the intention to associate into the image and connect with the feeling of success. This approach has been very productive for my cli-ents.
Some tips on using EFT for Peak Performance:
1. Identify a specific area of your performance that causes you problems. Visualize the challenging situation and apply EFT to any anxiety or negative emotion that arises.
Persist with EFT through all the aspects. A typical issue for many people is anger at themselves for having the problem, particularly if there have been past failure ex-periences. It is important to work through these past failures and clear their effects so that you can be free to move forward to success. Do this using the “Tell the Story” technique or “Run the Movie” Technique identified by Gary Craig – The de-tails are available on his website at www.emofree.com/tutorial/tutorltwelve.htm.
2. Identify your ultimate goals. Then identify the objections that come up in your mind when you think about achieving them. Apply EFT to these objections by putting the objection into the set-up and focusing on it as you tap on each of the points. For example, if the thought arises that you won’t be disciplined enough to follow through on your goal, insert this thought into the set-up and repeat it through each of the tapping points. As you tap, be open to any other thoughts, feelings and asso-ciations that arise, and continue tapping through all of these aspects until the origi-nal thought is replaced by more positive thoughts and feelings.
3. Identify any negative beliefs about yourself that are preventing you from having the success you desire and identify what you would like to believe about yourself. Con-duct rounds of EFT where you simply insert these negative belief statements into the set-up and repeat the belief statements (and related ideas) at each tapping point. For example, if you believe you aren’t intelligent enough to succeed, you would conduct rounds of EFT on this belief “Even though I am not smart enough to do this I fully and completely accept myself.”
4. Go further in your work on beliefs by identifying where you learned those beliefs in the past, and treat those past experiences using the Tell the Story Technique dis-cussed above. This in-depth treatment of past specific events can be very produc-tive.
5. Identify how you would like to see yourself – the ultimate, successful you – and conduct some tapping on the idea of “being” that person now. Step into the future picture of success, where you are being that person, successfully performing and achieving (or having achieved) your goal, and tap continually while you seek to ac-cess the feeling of sucac-cess. As you do so, the barriers will start to come down and you will start to feel more and more comfortable with this identity. Any objections that arise can be treated as described above, however ensure that you spend some time focusing on success whilst holding the intention to access the success feelings and tapping continually on the EFT points at the same time.
Initially, even a small glimpse of success, or a sliver of the success feeling can have an incredible outcome on your system. In the moment that you connect with success, in that moment you are successful.
To your success, Steve Wells
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