Before I get into today excellent guest post on a subject that has fascinated me for some while, I just wanted to share a thought or two with you.
I had a couple of people contact me this week asking me to retweet their tweets on the situation in Haiti. They had written articles about how to help and were keen to get as much traffic to them as possible.
I did as asked for those people and a few others I saw on Twitter with similar ideas. I also grabbed the 12kfor12k ribbon to add to my avatar to demonstrate my support and then sat back and congratulated myself on how much good in the world I’d done and what a wonderful almost angelic being I was.
Yesterday afternoon I was in Starbucks and they were collecting for the emergency Haiti fund. All of a sudden it dawned on me as I read the notice. I’d given absolutely NOTHING other than a few moments of my time. Holy shit, that wasn’t very good, was it?
I don’t rate guilt as an emotion, it has few if any redeeming features. That didn’t seem to stop me from feeling overwhelmed with guilt for a few moments though as I stood in line pondering my inaction and determined to rectify it.
I then started to wonder, are people signing petitions on Facebook, retweeting posts on Twitter and posting on their own blog as a way contributing without actually contributing?
I have no idea what the answer to that is, but I do think with social media, people all of a sudden have an excellent way out of giving the one thing that is always needed in such situations – money. Maybe the new saying for this decade will shift from “I gave at the office to “I’ve already tweeted it” I’d love to hear your take.
What is Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)
Have you ever been stuck in traffic and looked over at the car beside you only to see the driver madly tapping around their eyes, nose and mouth? If so, then you’ve seen EFT in action. EFT or Emotional Freedom Techniques (yes there’s an ‘s’) is also known as Tapping, or Meridian Tapping (or that weird tapping thing) and is a simple, portable self help tool based on the principles of acupuncture.
Imagine a single self-applied technique that can be used to reduce road rage, eliminate the fear of public speaking, or lessen the pain associated with fibromyalgia and headaches. It sounds outlandish but EFT addresses all of these issues at their energetic roots.
EFT taps into the energy meridians along which Qi or energy flows. For centuries practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine have used needles to engage the energy meridians in order to dissolve blocked energy and provide physical relief from illness and disease. While 5000 years of TCM can’t be wrong, EFT has launched from there.
With EFT you use your fingertips instead of needles, and tap on a series of specific acupuncture points that gives you access to the energy of the meridians in your body.
The theory behind EFT is that if there is something that is feeling disruptive in your life, (pain, anger, phobias, anxiety, etc.) there is a corresponding disruption somewhere in your energy system.
As you tap on these acupuncture points you are systematically balancing the disruption in all of your meridians.
The beauty of EFT is that it enables you to make a distinct mind body connection. A vital component of EFT is that you focus your thoughts on the issue that is bothering you while you tap on the acupuncture points. A means for focusing your thoughts is built in to the EFT procedure.
While tapping on specific acupuncture points on your body, you focus your mind by repeating an affirmation that acknowledges the problem, pain, or issue. Here are some examples:
Even though I have (this problem), I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I feel this pain in my left knee, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I am so angry at my neighbor right now, I deeply and completely accept myself.
So essentially what you are doing is acknowledging that there is something bothering you … but you accept yourself anyway. This combination of tapping while talking about the problem and adding the positive affirmation consistently eases the upset, pain and disruption.
EFT developer, Gary Craig designed EFT to be a self healing tool that is simple for anybody to use in its basic form. While it was initially created to enhance the psychotherapy process, EFT users quickly reported beneficial side effects.
In the early days of EFT, Gary Craig worked with hospitalized Veterans over a period of several days, teaching them the process of EFT and working with them on intrusive thoughts about traumatic war memories and other symptoms of PTSD.
Not only did the Veterans report a reduction in the number of nightmares and intrusive memories but many also reported having less physical pain and many of them were also sleeping better.
We really don’t know exactly how EFT works, but the consistent successes are far too coincidental to abandon its use. Hundreds of thousands of people all over the world have found their way to the EFT website and at the beginning of 2010 there are nearly half a million subscribers to the EFT newsletter. More than a million people have downloaded the free EFT Manual .
Many people begin by tapping on their own issues while reading the manual. There are countless cases of people reporting “One Minute Miracles” where a few minutes of EFT tapping has eased longstanding pain, anxiety, fear or phobia – even depression.
Many people also report that consistent and persistent daily tapping eased their physical symptoms or emotional pain over a period of months or years. While people of all ages easily perform EFT on themselves, sometimes the expertise of an EFT practitioner is beneficial.
An important point about EFT is that no matter what the issue being addressed, the exact same protocol of tapping and verbalizing is performed.
What differs is the individual and the issue they are addressing, and their thoughts, feelings, beliefs, past traumas and memories associated with their issue. For some people, each of these aspects will require some tapping before the issue is resolved. Herein lies the need for persistence with doing EFT on a regular basis.
Now this is basic EFT we’re talking about. And in its basic form, EFT is hugely effective. As you get past the basics, you can really play with EFT for even deeper healing. Play and healing are rarely found in the same sentence! Play with the issue you want to clear and let your imagination participate.
Think about this body pain you’ve had for years … just focus your attention on it for a moment. NOW quickly think of a person. And nobody’s face or name may spring to mind but in most cases someone will. So for the sake of playing with EFT, we’re making an association between your pain and that person. Here’s what your tapping phrases might look like:
Even though I have this pain in my neck, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I’ve associated Jimmy with this pain in my neck, I accept myself.
Even though Jimmy is a pain in my neck, I accept me and Jimmy.
You might wind up also having to do some tapping on the problem with Jimmy, but your neck pain is probably better.
I’ve seen some amazing stuff happen with EFT. For me, I have permanently alleviated many of my own allergies; I have corrected my vision and used EFT as first aid for falls, burns and stings – to name a few things. And I’ve eliminated my own writer’s block and become a published author… oh and I’ve had countless hours of fearless dental work done.
In my ten years of private practice, and whether it’s in person or on the phone, I’ve seen profound shifts in about 90 percent of my cases. I love the fact that my creative clients – actors, performers, writers and musicians – have abolished stage fright and writer’s block and gone on to live their dream lives in their chosen creative careers.
I’ve also worked with many clients with chronic pain – whether from fibromyalgia, cancer or frozen shoulder – and when we’re finished, they have less pain. I’ve seen frozen shoulder thaw before my eyes. Part of the key with using EFT for physical pain is to acknowledge the mind/body connection and address any underlying emotional issues that are linked to the pain.
When I ask a client who has fibromyalgia how she feels about the pain in her fibro spots, she has definite feelings about it. It might be anger, sadness, grief or fear … but in my experience, I’ve have very few people who couldn’t identify (and therefore clear) the emotion associated with the pain.
When the emotion (or trauma) associated with the pain is cleared, EFT users feel emotional relief as well as physical relief. Often the results are permanent and other than shedding tears while tapping on the emotional stuff – there are no side effects (in my experience).
I reiterate that we don’t know quite why this tapping technique works, but it does. It works consistently and in most cases the results are permanent
I mentioned earlier that the EFT Manual (79 pages) is a freely available download on the EFT website . However, EFT founder, Gary Craig, has announced his retirement as of the first of March 2010 and after that date the EFT Manual will no longer be available. Even if you think this is a lot of hooey, get the free Manual anyway.
Christine Wheeler, MA, is one of the few Certified EFT Practitioners in the world and works with people by phone or in person in Vancouver BC Canada. She’s also a freelance writer, editor and ghostwriter and co-author of IBS for Dummies and IBS Cookbook for Dummies. An expert in using EFT to eliminate the number one fear in North America – public speaking – Christine co-developed a successful audio program to help listeners combat that debilitating fear. www.TappingVancouver.com. You can also find her on Twitter
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Tim, you somehow always seem to get guest posts on topics I’ve long wondered about!
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Hey Tim, Great post both about the social media “contributing” something I have thought about and questioned and also EFT. Two days ago I went to Gary Craig’s website and downloaded the book and also ordered his DVDs. I am excited to learn more about this practice and I thank you and Christine for bringing it to light.
BTW I am coming to Orlando….would be fun to meet perhaps as you have long inspired me.
Katie
EFT does sound very good. I have heard of it before studying psychology but never sat down and actually read detail into it – thanks for that.
Interesting thoughts on ‘contributing without contributing’. I’d like to think social media allows more people to contribute – including those that don’t feel they can make a monetary contribution. That way the overall contribution is more. If people did the social media thing instead of contributing, that would not be good!
Anyways, by way of example I’m going to give my own charity fundraising a plug. I wanted to use social media to try to raise more money, but made the first contribution myself – a ‘double contribution’ in the hope of encouraging others. It was very successful:
http://www.justgiving.com/happy-birthday-mum
ETF sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing your post.
EFT sounds very interesting. Thanks for sharing your post.
It’s interesting that EFT is based on acupuncture. A medical doctor friend of mine went on an acupuncture course for doctors and was told that it did work because the act of having a needle inserted seemed to stimulate healing – but that it had nothing to do with meridians (i.e. you could stick the needle anywhere). My own conclusion is that if you’re in an acupunturists office, then seeing the certificates, hearing the expertise about meridians and energy channels helps you to buy into it. And it is fairly well proven that mind helps matter.
With EFT the meridians are also used. However, I wonder if the tapping provides the same stimulus as needles (i.e. could you tap anywhere and get the same results from a physiological point of view at least)?
I’d be very interested in any responses from trained acupuncturists or EFT practitioners.
I’ve heard of EFT before and tried it. I guess you must do it all of the time to see it’s benefits. I watched Paul McKenna on The Bonnie Hunt Show, and he used these techniques to help people lose weight. Perhaps I’ll give EFT a try to help me with my financial situation.
@ Vlad – We’re brothers from another mother man! ;-)
@ Katie – Let me have the details and if I’m free that would be cool. I have the in-laws here for 4 weeks from late Feb, so that time may be a tad tricky. Drop me an e-mail.
@ Mark – “I’d like to think social media allows more people to contribute”
I’d like to think that too, I’m just not convinced its true.
Have you just blown the cover thousands of years of Chinese medicine?
@ Craig and life coach – You’re welcome
@ Rebecca – Wow, I never knew McKenna did EFT! Thanks for that.
Tim, first of all, I’d like to say how much I admire you for the fearless honesty of your posts. You’re one of only a small group of bloggers (Penelope Trunk being another) who post honestly about their own shortcomings as often as their successes. This is of real value to people, since most of us live daily with the consequences of our own shortcomings, and self-actualization requires a fearless confrontation with those shortcomings.
Having said that, I note here that your first impulse upon hearing about the earthquake doesn’t seem to have been to donate money to the Red Cross.
It may be worth thinking and talking about what role social media plays in helping during natural disasters, but the first order of business — objectively speaking — is getting money into the hands of the people who are actually helping victims. Donating $10 to the Red Cross via texting 90999 takes less than 10 seconds.
This may be an occasion for some personal reflection: are my actions aligned with my principles? It sounds like — in this one respect at least, and prior to your Starbucks moment of realization — they may not be. Why? Is it time to take practical steps to change? I note that your blog post doesn’t actually help get money into the hands of those actually helping actual people in need. Why not? Was this a conscious decision that you made when you were drafting the post? Is it time to think through your own role in helping people and how you can help more at zero marginal cost?
Another way to think about this: if one of your life-coaching clients came to you with this problem — I learned about an earthquake but didn’t do anything to help, and I feel guilty about this — how would you approach this as a life coach? Obviously, this has to be a judgment-free conversation, and I’m afraid I’m skirting the edge of judgment in this comment even though that’s not my intention.
I think that, given the level of fearless honesty you express in the blog and that I value so much, you are more prepared than most bloggers to look these issues in the eye and formulate concrete, practical steps that other guilty-but-silent readers may be ready to confront in their own lives.
Please keep doing what you do! I’m a fan and will continue to be one.
What disasters like Haiti needs is MONEY not tweets or links or any other way society in general uses to avoid putting their hands in their pockets. Think if every if every person in the UK gave just £1. The people who don’t own up to their social responsibility to redistribute some of the wealth (and to be frank you don’t have to give much to make a difference if everybody does it) are also the people that write “somebody should do something” and “I have no idea what the answer to that is”. You have left me feeling very frustrated and no matter how hard I tap myself and repeat “Even though I am so angry at your post, I deeply and completely accept myself.” it doesn’t seem to be making a difference! I know, I’ll imagine you made a donation and breathe deeply – ahhh yes, now I am relaxed!!
It’s nice to see an article which explains EFT so well. EFT works wonders and it is very, very easy and simple to use.
@ Kerry – Here’s the deal. I do not watch or listen to the news. I had no idea you could donate $10 to the Red Cross via texting 90999 until I saw an ad watching the football on Sunday after I had already donated. I also didn’t realize the intensity of the catastrophe until a day or two after and then only via Twitter.
I fairly often mention and link to charities on this blog and if you read here you’ll already know that. I donated 3 cases (about 100) of my hardback prior to Christmas to different appeals. There is a link in the above post to 12kfor12k a charity I donated 6 coaching sessions to 6 months or so ago. I have also just taken on another pro bono client and a also a young guy doing what I do, that wants mentoring.
I’m currently in the process of trying to raise $1m so we can give away free copies of HTBRA to people that can’t afford it.
I don’t really know why I’m defending myself and I actually hate doing so, but equally, I hate people being misinformed.
At the end of the day this blog is not about raising money for charity. If I can help do that every now and then that’s a bonus, but I’m not going to start hammering people with it and putting them on a guilt trip.
As far as a client coming to me with the issue you mentioned, I would have a whole different take to yourself and I’d not be asking them questions like:
I note that your blog post doesn’t actually help get money into the hands of those actually helping actual people in need. Why not?
Unless that is I want them jumping to defend themselves and feeling like they are under attack and being judged.
You know, a bit like I do now.
@ Kelloggsville – I actually did donate $20. I also have pledged all money from my book sales this month towards the appeal. I even spent 2 hours over the weekend seeing how the hell we could manage on one income if my wife who is a nurse, volunteers. We’re still waiting to hear back from her employers on that one.
So now you don’t need to imagine anything, except maybe ranting on other peoples blogs is a great way to make a difference in the world.
@ Roseanna – Thanks, I’m glad you got something out of it.
How fasinating that you read the tone as ‘ranting’ and also that you felt the need, after receiving comments from different people, to ‘justify’ your own position when in its original outset your hadn’t felt that was necessary. You clearly invited comment with “I’d love to hear your take” but it’s a shame that this then turned you to a defensive stance on receiving it. You will note that I wrote -’angry at your post’ not ‘angry at you’. These are 2 very different positions. I am sorry my statement did not have enough clarity. I most definitely agree that ‘ranting’ about a problem does not support a solution and only positive action can make the actual difference. This presumably is also where EFT is coming from. And I appreciate my humour on this did not go down well, for which I also apologise.
Thank you for the information your share on your blog which I regularly enjoy.
Tim, I get you on the contributing thing. I was encouraged to see lots of people tweeting, blogging and donating their sales money to Haiti, but for me doing that felt uncomfortable. I do give to charity, regularly, but I tend to see that as a private thing.
Yes, I gave money. This is the only place anywhere on the ‘net that I’ve mentioned it, and I feel a bit awkward even doing that.
I think it’s easy to get caught up in the frenzy of a (very well intended) campaign and not take the actual *action* necessary. Actually, I think we do this a lot in life … I know that if I *talk* a lot about my novel, I often feel like I’ve done something — whereas what I actually need to do is write some words!
@ Kelloggsville – My point of asking ‘What’s your take’ was about the whole question as to whether people are using the fact that they helped spread an idea to thousands of people as a way of thinking they had done their bit for the cause.
I understand the difference about being angry at me as opposed to the post, but I really don’t get what caused the anger at the post? I can only conclude you must get angry fairly easily.
Was it that I admitted I got my head stuck up my ass for 24 hours, or that I questioned peoples motives on social media? I can’t really see anything else in there to stir up such a strong emotion as anger.
I could have said in the post “But I saw the sign and gave 20 bucks and then sat down with my wife that night to see whether we could get her down there” but that wasn’t the point of the post. A tiny minority of people read comments, about 5% or less on my blog, so I was responding directly to you and Kerry.
I am regularly tongue-in-cheek and people often think I’m being serious when I’m joking. That’s the danger of the written word, so if I was on the defensive and missed the humor, then I apologize.
@ Ali – I get that and agree 100%. When people run to tell me how much money they donated to a given cause I usually feel uncomfortable. As I said above, I could have put that in the post, but what for? It really is between me and my conscience.
My job and what I do is about helping people and I think I need some coaching to help me get over myself when people question my motives which is always going to happen.
Tim, I’m glad you mentioned that you don’t watch or listen to the news. I was hoping our conversation would be about something concrete and actionable like that rather than the emotional component of this issue, and this fact helps me to understand what led to your moment of realization in the Starbuck’s line.
From reading the blog, I’m aware that charitable giving is an important principle to you, which is why the post topic is such a great one, and why I value your honesty so much in talking about it.
I restrict my news diet also. In fact, I learned about both the Text 90999 Red Cross program and the incredible severity of the earthquake from my Facebook friends. They re-posted video footage and NY Times coverage, among other things.
In your post, you question both the motivation and the value of the social networking component of people’s behavior around issues like this. To the extent that this behavior led to a) me giving money and b) you realizing you hadn’t given money yet, I think it’s extremely valuable. Do you agree? Also, as a tool that enables people to both not watch or listen to the news AND help people in need, I think it’s a tool of enormous value.
My take on this, apart from feelings of guilt, this had a completely positive outcome for you.
It does lead me to another question, though, which is this: to the extent that a Starbuck’s-moment-of-discomfort is something you personally want to avoid, what practical step can you take to do so? Is your desire to not watch or listen to the news at odds with your desire to help disaster victims? How can that be bridged to your satisfaction?
(By the way, my wife’s also a nurse, and we had the same conversation about her going down there. We made some calls and it quickly became clear that logistics are driving the pace of helping people there, and that another volunteer would probably do more harm than good. That may change in the weeks to come as the aftermath settles in. Let us know what decision you and your wife come to!)
One of the great things about EFT is that there is now lots of scientific studies being done to support its efficacy. (See http://ow.ly/YlNX ) making it much easier to promote myself as an EFT Practitioner
One of the earliest studies on the use of tapping techniques was “Energy psychology in Disaster Relief” by Feinstein, D. (2008b) Traumatology141:1, 124-137. The results were quite amazing compared to traditional approaches.
And this ties in with the other part of your post about Haiti: while donating money is sometimes the easiest and important thing to initially do, sometimes donating you time and expertise can be just as valuable in the long run; whether it be donating your marketing skills so that more people become aware of the distaster and donate or contributing your healing skills to help people rebuild their lives.
I take the risk of dragging this out (but as you say hardly anyone reads comments anyway) : Do I get angry easily – No. But I am very angry and frustrated by a social disease of ‘I’m alright Jack’ that much of the world seems to have. I also feel that lots of people are tweeting/blogging about how awful the disaster is but think a lot of it is just hot air and not positive action. Of course, most people don’t harp on about what they have done, just as you didn’t; so perhaps I see a one sided picture of tweet/blog inaction. So what frustrated me most about your post: (now remember I read it with no background information at all)
I read “I spread the news, did nothing else for 6 days, whilst drinking a cup of coffee that cost more than most have to live on a day I realised I hadn’t actually put my hand in my pocket – do you think others do this?”. I appreciate it is a misguided precis of your post and not what you were truly saying but I think that is the core of where the emotion was coming from and what made me ‘angry’. Don’t get me wrong, I am not claiming to be Mother Theresa – I simply explain the emotion to you. I am not giving you my actual position either on what action I may or may not have taken so now you have an opinion to form that cannot be based on all the facts either. I hope I have explained the ‘emotion’ to you.
I feel it is a shame that the discussion is away from EFT which was the interesting and informative part of the post and a post I appreciated.
@ Kerry and Kelloggsville – I know I may have overreacted somewhat above and here is the reason why.
I spend what seems like most of my waking life thinking of ways I can help other people get them to where they want to be. I left a very, very well paid job to become a coach because I felt it was my calling not because I thought I could get wealthy, far from it.
An average blog post takes me about 4 hours and even guest posts can take 2 or 3 with editing etc. Some of my longer ones have taken 8 – 10 hours and I seldom get anything back from them financially speaking.
That’s cool though because I love doing it and I know from feedback that some people love reading it and get value from it.
I have also done an inordinate amount of pro bono coaching for people that have little money. I had one weird situation a few months ago when I was talking to such a client when it transpired he was earning more money than I was.
I’m not interested in people thinking I’m wonderful (well ok, if you insist) and I’m not looking for canonization just yet. However, I suppose it’s why I bristle when I think people are questioning my motives.
As for my moment of discomfort. Seriously, I can live with it, I remedied it and I’m not looking to change my life to avoid it happening again.
The fact is whereas Haiti was appalling, disasters both natural and man made are happening on a regular basis, albeit often on a much smaller scale.
We can only do what we can do and I’m happy with what I’m doing if not always the way I react to being questioned about it.
Kelloggsville,
“I think a lot of it is just hot air and not positive action”
What makes you say this? The Red Cross Text 90999 program by itself has raised $22 million in one week, and hundreds of millions of dollars have been raised through other channels.
So much help is arriving by air that planes are being unloaded and turned around at the Port-au-Prince airport at a rate of one every 25 minutes.
The country has been flooded by volunteers from around the world. Volunteers are pulling survivors out of collapsed buildings and saving their lives.
Social media is playing a role. Real-time news is getting Tweeted out, as in Iran during the riots (if you recall, that was the only source of news about the riots). Donating opportunities are being publicized through social media. People are being motivated to volunteer and otherwise contribute by social media.
How are you measuring the amount of hot air versus effective action? Is there a threshold here at which you would stop being angry? More importantly, though, what useful purpose is your anger serving, for you or anyone else? In your original comment, you managed to mock both Tim and EFT — what good is that doing anyone?
In your original comment, you make a good point: what serves Haitians best right now is money given to aid organizations. After that, though, your post stops being useful or helpful to anyone.
@ Rod – Shit sorry Rod I missed you in all the Haiti talk. Thanks a lot for the link and I’d still love you to do a guest post at some stage in the future.
You don’t listen – I leave the Discomfort – best wishes
I started from the top having a look at comments and Mark had a comment about acupuncture meridians. My understanding is that there are 14 acupuncture meridians covering most areas of the body and so it is entirely possible that even by randomly sticking in acupuncture needles you could hit an acupuncture point.
The EFT points that are typically used are believed to be closest to the surface of the skin and have a greater ‘electrical charge’ than other points. That might be making them more accessible to fingertip tapping.
All that being said, I’ve worked with people over the phone who had remarkable shifts by tapping only one or two points throughout the session because they had physical difficulty reaching some points.
Rebecca, I also saw Paul McKenna on Bonnie Hunt and saw bits of his tv special a couple of years ago. What he’s doing is EFT’s grandpa called TFT or Thought Field Therapy where its founder Dr. Roger Callahan believed that a specific series of tapping on specific points worked for individual issues. With EFT we just tap all the points for any issue and it is simple for anyone to do.
I’m thrilled with the questions and responses! I’ll keep reading and doing my best to comment!
Thanks, Tim for introducing me to your lively list!
Tim,
I didn’t question your motives. I’ve said all along that, as an admirer of yours and a fan of this blog, it’s obvious that helping others is a core principle that you live by.
I’m questioning whether your actions are aligned with your principles. This isn’t a judgment about either your principles or your motives. It’s a question about effective action.
I think you’re questioning other people’s motives, though. Here’s what you wrote:
“Are people signing petitions on Facebook, retweeting posts on Twitter and posting on their own blog as a way contributing without actually contributing? …with social media, people all of a sudden have an excellent way out of giving the one thing that is always needed in such situations.”
This may be a danger with social media, although I think the answer your question may be both impossible to know and irrelevant. To the extent that you learned about the disaster through social media, though, I think it’s value its significant — to you and to people who benefited from the help you offered. If everybody who reTweeted was lying to themselves, but a reTweet woke you up, then it’s value is high.
I also think that, to the extent at first you “contributed without really contributing” (until you woke up to what was going on inside yourself) you may be questioning YOUR OWN motives. You re-calibrated your response, and you raised the question out loud, fearlessly. That’s what it’s all about!
One of the things I like so much about your blog is this process. You ask a question, encourage a response from readers, have a complicated emotional response yourself, distill a lesson from it, and come out with greater self-awareness. You’re fearless about going through that process in front of everyone. That’s such a valuable teaching tool, and so rare on the web. Your response to me has been pretty defensive, but you could also have dismissed my comment and disengaged, and the whole value of the exchange would have been lost to both of us.
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I’ve heard of EFT a lot before in personal development, especially around the Steve Pavlina website. Maybe I’ll try it one day.