Hi. I'm Joan Sotkin, creator of Prosperity Place, and I'm really excited about a technique called EFT that can help you reach your next financial level.

If you've read the material on this site, then you know that that your financial situation is a reflection of your thoughts, beliefs and emotions and that in order to improve your finances, you need to do it from the inside out.

In the past, when I did one-to-one coaching with people, I found myself getting frustrated. We'd identify the issues that kept my coaching clients from creating financial comfort, but many times, we'd reach an impasse because it seemed that only long-term therapy could help the clients get past the issues, especially those that were related to their family of origin.

I knew there had to be a better answer. Instinctively, I knew it had something to do with energy flow, but I wasn't sure what.

Then I found EFT, or emotional freedom technique. Now I have a well-tested tool that can help my clients get past the emotional blocks without long-term therapy. In what seems like a remarkably short period of time, long-standing financial issues can be eliminated.

When I first heard about the results that EFT practitioners were having with all sorts of issues, it sounded too good to be true. But I kept studying and practicing this technique first with people in Santa Fe, where I live and then with others out of town - we worked over the phone -- and it was true - there really is a technique to help people get beyond all of the emotional garbage keeping them from their success.

What do I mean by emotional garbage? First there are all of the underlying beliefs, such as money isn't spiritual or money is evil. Even if your logical mind knows that there beliefs are faulty, they can still run your life.

Then there are all of the personal beliefs and issues such as "I don't deserve to be prosperous." Logically, you may think that you do. But the messages you got as a kid might keep you from knowing how deserving you are.

Some of the common prosperity issues that I see that can be treated with EFT are:
Fear of success
Fear of failure
Feelings of unworthiness
Lack of self confidence
Poor self image
Disinterest with taking care of money
Fear of losing your peer group support if you get rich
Not knowing what you really want to do with your life.
The list could go on and on.

But, at this point, I'd like to get right down to EFT - what it is and how you can do it.

The basic philosophy behind EFT is called Energy Psychology, which says that all negative emotions and behaviors, and many of the physical discomforts that they cause, are the result of disruptions to your body's energy system.

The energy system refers to the meridians which are used in Chinese Acupuncture. These are energy channels that are connected to all of your major organs that run throughout your body. When a acupuncturist works on a patient, they adjust the energy with the use of needles. In EFT, the same thing is done without needles. Instead, your fingers are used to tap on certain points.

When the tapping therapies were first being developed, there were a lot of complicated treatment patterns, or algorithms, as they are called, for various problems. But Gary Craig, who developed EFT, created a much simpler method for treating a very wide variety of problems. The success rate is consistently 80% or higher.

On the page that you were on when you clicked to listen to this, there are diagrams of the points used in EFT. I'd like you to look at the diagrams now as I walk you through the treatment procedure. Yes, this is something that you can do for yourself once you know the system.

I might say here that although you can do it on yourself, it does help to have someone guide you through the process in the beginning to help you learn how to identify your issues.

If you'll look at the large diagram you will see two different kind of points. First are the points called the sore spot. Take your index finger and see if you can locate the point on one side of your body. Keep pressing until you find the spot that is a little sore. You might have to press deeply to find it.

Have you found it? For now, just remember where it is.

Now, as I go through the other points, I'd like you to use the index finger and the middle finger on one hand, either one, to tap on each of the points. During a treatment, you'll tap 7 to 10 times on each of the points. As we go through this demonstration now, just tap a few times.

Ok, first is the spot on the inside of the eyebrow. Not between the eyes, but just at the beginning of your eyebrow.. Tap that a few times. Next is the spot on the outside of the eyebrow. Tap Tap Tap. You can do this on either side of your body. Don't pound on the spots, just tap them.

Next is under the nose. Tap tap tap, then between your mouth and chin, in that indentation. Tap tap tap.

Next is the collarbone spot. First find the end of the collarbone on each side. Using your thumb and index finger, you'll find two bumps, one on either side of your body, just below the middle of your neck. Can you feel the two bumps. These are what I'm calling the end of the collarbone. Now on one side, either left or right, go down about an inch below the end of the collarbone. That's the collarbone point.

The last point on the body is under your arm. You'll have to lift your arm for this one. It's a few inches below your armpit. For women, it's about where your bra goes around under your arm.

These are the points that we use most of the time. But sometimes, we use some additional ones, which I'll show you now.

First, let's do the points on your hand. Tap just on the outside edge of your thumbnail. Tap tap tap, the edge of the nail of your index finger, the same place on your middle finger, then the same place on your pinky.

The last spot on the hand is what is called the karate chop point. It's on the bottom edge of your hand. Just tap this with the fingers of your other hand, palm open. (so you'll be hitting it with more than two fingers.)

The last spot is in the third picture on the web page. It's on the back of your hand. We call this the gamut point. It's used for what is called the nine gamut exercise, which we only use on occasion as a brain balancer. I'll tell you about that when I take you through a treatment.

Before we do an actual treatment, let's talk for a moment about the concept of psychological reversal. This happens when you energy system is reversed. This reversal creates negative or false beliefs. It's the phenomenon that keeps you from realizing your goals no matter how many affirmations you do or how many times you try to change a particular behavior. If you sabotage yourself at all, you probably have a psychological reversal.

So, at the beginning of each treatment, we identify an issue and treat it as a reversal. To do this, we either rub on the sore spot or tap on the karate chop point while saying, Even though I have this problem (and you name the problem), I deeply and completely love and accept myself. For example, you might say, even though I always feel as there is never enough, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Or, Even though my parents always told me that I'd never be rich, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. With this one, you might add "and I forgive my parents for what they said."

I might mention here, that during the upcoming free introductory teleclass on Creating Prosperity with EFT, we will be doing these treatments with people in the class. You'll find more information about how you can participate in the telelass on ProsperityPlace.com. By participating in one of these teleclasses, you see exactly how EFT works.

For this presentation, I'm concentrating on how EFT works with money and prosperity issues. But it can be used for anything, including physical discomforts and allergies, or to improve sports performance, to overcome all kinds of emotional issues and more. On Gary Craig's site, emofree.com, there are lots of case histories.

Ok, let's do a treatment session. I'm going to pick an issue that often comes up for people who are doing prosperity work. If you don't think it applies to you, then when we are saying the phrases, you can just say something that applies to you. You can always move the slider on you audio player and go back and relisten to the treatment part.

Let's do one for "I don't deserve to be wealthy." This belief is often present when people are working to create financial comfort. They might say they deserve it, but underneath is that reversal that says, you don't deserve it.

Start by closing your eyes and thinking about the statement "I don't deserve to be wealthy." What kind of feelings does saying that to yourself bring up for you? Think of yourself as always struggling financially. Can you see that picture? As you go into that feeling, think about where you are feeling discomfort. Then decide, on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being none and 10 being awful, how intense the discomfort is.

Now let's do the treatment.
Rub the sore spot on your chest while you say,
"Even though I don't deserve to be wealthy and I feel that no matter how hard I try I'll never be wealthy, I deeply and completely love and accept myself." Again
"Even though I don't deserve to be wealthy and I feel that no matter how hard I try I'll never be wealthy, I deeply and completely love and accept myself."
And again,
"Even though I don't deserve to be wealthy and I feel that no matter how hard I try I'll never be wealthy, I deeply and completely love and accept myself."

Now, as we tap on the other points, let's use the reminder phrase, "don't deserve wealth." Remember, you'll tap about seven to ten times.
Tap inside your eyebrow as you day "don't deserve wealth"
Now outside your eyebrow tap tap tap "don't deserve wealth"
Under your eye "don't deserve wealth"
Under your nose "don't deserve wealth"
On your chin "don't deserve wealth"
The collarbone point "don't deserve wealth
Under your arms "don't deserve wealth"
Outside edge of thumbnail "don't deserve wealth
Index finger "don't deserve wealth
Middle finger "don't deserve wealth
Pinky "don't deserve wealth

Now, Tap on the gamut point on the back of your hand while you follow these instructions
Close your eyes.
Open your eyes
Look hard right down
Look hard left down
Make a circle with your eyes
Make a circle in the opposite direction
Look strait ahead and Hum a few bars of happy birthday (hum)
Count quickly to five 1 2 3 4 5
Hum a few mare bars of happy birthday.

Now we are going to do one more tapping round.
Tap inside your eyebrow as you day "don't deserve wealth"
Now outside your eyebrow tap tap tap "don't deserve wealth"
Under your eye "don't deserve wealth"
Under your nose "don't deserve wealth"
On your chin "don't deserve wealth"
The collarbone point "don't deserve wealth
Under your arms "don't deserve wealth"
Outside edge of thumbnail "don't deserve wealth
Index finger "don't deserve wealth:
Middle finger "don't deserve wealth"
Pinky "don't deserve wealth"

Ok. Close your eyes and take a deep breath.

Go inside again and think about not deserving wealth. Again, give the discomfort a number fro 0 to 10. Is it less than it was before. Chances are that it is. If there is still discomfort, you can go through this again and tap some more. Then, take a reading again as to where you are with this.

There's a good chance that other issues will come up while you are doing this. You can treat any of the issues as they come up and try to get them down close to a zero.

As I said before, it is often easier, at least for the first few treatments, to have an experienced EFT practitioner work with you to help you learn the routine.

I'd like to mention here, that this is a very basic introduction to EFT. There's a lot more that you can do to make it more effective. During the free teleclass, I'll help you learn how to do a better job of this with yourself.

I also give a teleclass that goes into EFT in much more detail. By participating in this class, you will be able to identify your financial issues and release a lot of the reversals and issues that are blocking you from your prosperity.

There's a link to the teleclass information on all the pages on ProsperityPlace.com

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