Career and Midlife Changes

Shift Happens: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

This program introduces participants to Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), a unique form of acupuncture without the needles. It uses the ancient Chinese meridian system to relieve psychological stress and physiological pain. EFT balances the energy system with a tapping procedure that stimulates designated meridian endpoints on the face and body. This common sense approach draws its power from (1) time-honored Eastern discoveries that have been around for over 5,000 years and (2) Albert Einstein, who told us back in the 1920's that everything (including our bodies) is composed of energy.

Objectives:

Participants will learn and be able to use EFT to gain rapid freedom from the effects of trauma, anger, fears, phobias, anxiety, stress, learning blocks, other emotional issues and poor performance or specific problems in areas such as golf, sports, music and public speaking.
Participants can use EFT to:

• Become more motivated to achieve goals
• Create a more positive attitude
• Gain more self-confidence
• Increase self-worth
• Open up to creativity
• Develop alternative strategies for coping
• Improve personal performance

Programs using EFT include:

Divorce Your Fears, Habits and Cravings

EFT can successfully alleviate panic attacks, generalized anxiety, fears (public speaking, snakes, spiders, flying, needles, elevators), addictive cravings (chocolate, cigarettes), habits (nail biting, hair pulling) and many more. A few rounds of EFT not only rapidly dissipate a current attack but, in addition, noticeably reduce ... or eliminate ... future occurrences.

Take Out Your Emotional Trash: Transform Guilt, Shame and Low Self-Esteem

EFT relieves anger, guilt and shame by targeting specific events and underlying beliefs. Participants are empowered towards emotional growth by releasing negative and limiting belief patterns such as “I don’t deserve success,” “I’m a nothing,” “I’m not lovable.”

Improve Personal/Business/Sports Performance

Using EFT athletes can successfully take control of their mental focus, self-talk and internal imagery to reduce muscle tension, conquer performance anxiety, and neutralize other psychological blocks hindering peak performance. With this mind/body approach, the muscles that always cause the golf ball to go into the water or the backhand to go into the net, can relax and begin to move in a different way.
Desperately Seeking Balance
Balance is never a static state. You don’t get your life into balance and stay there. Balance is “an inside job” – thoughts and beliefs determine whether or not you feel in control of your life. Moving toward a more balanced life involve the three steps of awareness, education and growth. Rather than continuing to live on “automatic pilot”, this program allows participants to take an inventory of their satisfaction with their lives in the areas of career, finances, health, spiritual life, relationships, community, personal growth, fun and environment and eliminate inappropriate and unhelpful behaviors.

(Format: one, two or three-hour programs)