The short answer is all you need. The beauty of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques or Tapping is:
- Always works.
- You can never touch too much.
- Once you have cleared up all of your negatives, you can tap on your positive feelings and what you are grateful for. You don’t have to wait for this to happen, but most of us do.
You should use EFT continually, as as you change, so do your environment, your results, and therefore your emotional responses to events and people.
When tapping and EFT, you initially take your emotional intensity score on a 1 to 10 basis.
10 – You carry your negative emotions with you. It is as if you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.
1 – As long as your negative emotion does not affect you at all.
With Emotional Freedom Techniques, you always want to lower your emotional intensity level to 2 and 1. Ideally, you want to hit the zeros.
This question often comes up because you will be tapping and nothing seems to be changing and you are not getting close to 2 and 1.
Yes, you can keep tapping on the same emotion and it will eventually drop to 2 and 1. Why? You are tapping for different triggers in your environment when you are constantly tapping. Your day, time, space would be different. At the exact point where you are tapping, you are really in tune with what you are feeling and as if by magic it clears up as you want.
If things don’t clear up, take a closer look at how and what you are tapping on.
Are you doing full and full rounds of tapping?
Are you starting with the setup phrase and tapping on the karate point?
Are you in tune with your problem and your emotions?
If you are tapping in subsequent rounds, are you changing your setup phrase to:
Even if I keep this …
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Even though I still have this …
Are you really describing what you are feeling? How many more ways could you describe it? Look at what you feel in a dictionary or thesaurus.
Change your surroundings when tapping for this particular problem, maybe there is something in your surroundings that is preventing you from clearing that final piece.
When in doubt, take a break. Do something else. Something that you really like to do. Something that really distracts you. Before you know it, you’ll be inspired to tap on another word, phrase, or take some other action all together.