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This first contact occurs through publicity efforts on your behalf of some
kind – this may be advertising, telling people about EFT, public demonstrations
at health fayres and shows, personal demonstrations to key people at health
centres, sports centres, holistic centres, radio shows, TV, and even what you
put on your web site or into practitioner listings.
We are holding here a most profound two edged sword.
On the one edge is the fact that EFT is profoundly effective when it is done
well and really can make inroads into almost every presenting problem anyone could
bring to your door – from Aardvark phobia to Zuluitis. This is true and we
know this BUT.
The other edge of our profound sword is that stating all of that will
probably cause the opposite of what we have in mind for most people; rather than
causing them to think, wow, this is great, they’ll probably think, yeah right,
that and Dr Snake’s Health Oil.
Personally, I have found it useful to go the other way in my explanations of
EFT and all I say these days is that it does only one single thing – it
releases negative emotions.
Would that be useful to you?
No matter what the circumstance, be it cancer or golf, dyslexia or hay fever,
DID or MPS, childbirth or bereavement, addiction or phobia, the answer to that
question is always a resounding “Yes!”.
We know that emotional drivers are at the root of most, if not all, diseases
of the mind and body and that by releasing the core emotional drivers and
returning the whole system to a state of calm and balance, all these many
longstanding physiological and psychological problems can simply melt way but it
has been my experience that you can’t tell people that straight to their face
and not expect a huge backlash of disbelief, distrust, fear of disappointment
(again!) and all kinds of other negativity that isn’t necessary if you focus
and target your explanations to your specific audience at the time and leave out
all that is not relevant to them at this point.
There are two reasons why selling EFT like snake oil is counter productive
and will cause more trouble than its worth:
The majority of people who should learn it will reject such approaches
immediately – nurses, careworkers, support staff, reporters, allopathic
practitioners and indeed, any westerner who has any kind of self concept as
being sensible, rational and “no fool”. Once they are in the rejection mode,
you have to move mountains to change their minds again – if they had been
approached just a little more softly, this initial rejection need never happen.
The rest might have completely unrealistic expectations of what the technique
can do. Oh, it can do a great deal, but it can’t change a great many things
– the life you’ve led, the size of your feet and so many other things that
simply are. Also, it is not practical nor even legal to promise instant cancer
remission or making the blind see in a single session. Great as the techniques
are, we are dealing with highly complicated systems with two arms and on legs
and we simply cannot ever be 100% sure that indeed, all the problems will be
overcome quickly and right away.
To overcome this problem, I suggest two courses of action.
The first is to limit oneself to a particular field and concentrate on the
uses, effects and benefits of the technique in that particular field.
For example, if one was to particularly address autism in children, to
collect appropriate case histories, have a good old think about a theoretical
proposition that might at least seem to explain WHY it works and HOW it works,
to be familiar with the particular emotional and practical challenges in that
one field and to speak the language correctly will produce an introduction to
those who are actually in that field – practitioners as well as those who live
with and around the problem – that will raise interest and have the people
there come forward to find out more.
This is the absolute key to having people come into meridian and energy
therapies and the role of EFT – to be an embassador to a whole new realm of
empowerment and healing.
Embassadors are diplomats. They respect the customs of the countries they
find themselves in and learn their language before they say anything at all. If
they did not, diplomatic relationships break off and we find ourselves at war,
needlessly and to the detriment of all concerned.
We, likewise, must create through our advertising and presentation an
atmosphere of interest and excitement, whilst not contravening the laws of those
to whom we speak and with whom we are trying to communicate.
I said there were two ways to have people come forward with interest and
wanting to find out more. The first one was to be very specific when speaking to
a specific audience.
To speak to a global audience, one by needs must be global and focus on the
very global effects of EFT – relaxation, calmness, releasing stress, releasing
fear.
That is believable, possible and sounds certainly like something that would
be useful and desirable.
Further, as the ones who have come forward and tried it are amazed and
delighted that they got more than we promised to start with, there is no
disappointment, no angry backlash and this will help to spread the word and have
even more people come forward and just try it out for themselves – which is
always the outcome of our advertising efforts, to get to a place where people
will give EFT a chance.
(to be cont.)
Silvia Hartmann
http://www.starfields.org
Advanced Training In
Meridian
Energy Therapies For Serious Practitioners with Silvia Hartmann
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