Pilot How I Overcame Anxiety Using EFT and Why You Should Try It

Have you ever felt trapped in repetitive thought patterns that drain your energy and keep you stuck? That's exactly what Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) helps address. As someone who's practiced EFT since 2009, I've experienced profound shifts in my mental wellbeing through this powerful combination of ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology.

In this deeply personal episode, I take you through the fundamentals of EFT—a practice that works by tapping on specific meridian points while focusing on emotional challenges. The beauty lies in its simplicity and effectiveness. You'll learn the exact tapping sequence I use, starting from the eyebrow and moving through key points on the face and body while affirming self-acceptance: "Even though I feel [emotion], I deeply and completely love and accept myself."

What makes EFT remarkable is how it brings us into the present moment, away from dwelling on past traumas or future anxieties. I share a touching story about a little girl who overcame her phobia of buttons in just 20 minutes using this technique. My own journey with EFT has been transformative—helping me navigate life at 50 with its inevitable responsibilities and challenges. Rather than getting lost in overwhelming emotions, this practice guides me back to my inner wisdom, building resilience and trust in myself.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to EFT
• 1:55 Personal Challenges and Sharing Tools
• 3:21 Understanding Emotional Freedom Techniques
• 5:12 The Basic EFT Setup Process
• 7:42 Benefits and Practical Applications
• 12:04 Self-Care and Looking Ahead

Transcript

Carleta aka Lita: 0:00

So, moving forward onto episode two, we're looking into tapping into emotional freedom, an introduction to EFT, emotional freedom techniques. You are with Lita and this is the Empowerment Diaries. I'm your host. This is a podcast I've launched so that I can network, build a community, talk through hints and tips for self-care, resilience, spiritual awareness. Thank you so much for being here and for listening.

Carleta aka Lita: 0:36

I do hope you enjoyed the very first episode introduction and it explained my career background. It explained my life, my childhood and my desire to share my wisdom and knowledge. Now, age 50, and hopefully with my life experience shared, you can navigate a lot of challenges and changes in your own life easily and comfortably. I am a consultant hypnotherapist, I do life coaching and in my day-to-day life I love to practice emotional freedom techniques. Now I know it's been a while since our last episode and I want to be honest with you. I'm still figuring the podcasting out and I'm still figuring life out. That's at 50. There is no time limit Terms for the podcast. I scripted everything that I wanted to say, well prepared, and then life started happening as it always does and my focus shifted. But I reflected earlier today that actually these are the very moments and challenges that is worth actually sharing, sharing how one gets through. I can't wait for perfection and for ease, to be in a position to share the tools and the tips that everyone needs right now. So, putting perfection aside, makeup is on for those that can see me and for those that are listening all of you, thank you so much for being here. Personal challenges and changes we all go through them, don't we? And I know often we are soothed with ideas that things will get better. And ultimately they do, do they not? Well, welcome to this podcast, which is really focused on growth, empowerment and community. It is about me sharing tools with you, and hopefully, you can share tools with me too, tools that have transformed my life and can transform yours too. I'm loving the capabilities of this podcast, which encourages you to leave a message, ideas for future podcasts, and I'm happy to take on the feedback and respond accordingly.

Carleta aka Lita: 3:08

Today, I'd like to share emotional freedom techniques with you. It is a powerful tool that combines ancient Chinese acupressure with modern psychology. That's what it says. I've been practicing it since 2009, when I first qualified as a consultant hypnotherapist. It works by tapping on specific meridian points, which we can release our emotional blocks, and, it's said, to calm our nervous system. My experience tells me it's about our intention. There is a belief that there is a spiritual side of the work where, in intending to focus on something, we're able to minimise it, break it down and release it, the idea being, our behaviour is very much based on our core beliefs. Emotional freedom techniques has definitely been a lifeline for me, especially when it comes to storytelling, repetitive storytelling.

Carleta aka Lita: 4:17

Anyone that's been through any form of trauma will tell you that there are times when there's certain stories that come up again and again. Whether you meditate, go for counseling like it's about being aware of the story. Emotional freedom techniques gives us the opportunity to tap into the here and the now, bringing us forward into the here and now. So we do do less looking back, less looking forward. We're present, which means we end up feeling less stress, less feelings of being overwhelmed. It is a process. I have been practicing it since 2009 and I definitely still have my anxious moments. They are few and far between. It helps us to develop more faith in life, regardless of your religious beliefs, spiritual inclination. It helps us to be so present that the story, on a level, doesn't matter. We actually start maturing into ourselves, as we acknowledge, a lot of the stories that we tell ourselves are just that stories.

Carleta aka Lita: 5:24

I tap whilst doing emotional freedom techniques with others. On my own, I no longer need to tap, but it is worth learning the basic setup for yourself. You can do it for yourself, with your partner, with your child. In fact, when I was doing the course in 2009, there was a little girl that had a phobia about buttons. She came with her parents and she was afraid of touching anyone that wore buttons, which meant her father could not hold her whilst he was in his usual chat. Everyone wears buttons occasionally, right, and it was a little girl. The tapping pursued because you can do it for others as well, and within I'd say, 20 minutes not even that long she was able to go to others with buttons. Now, for some people, emotional freedom techniques work quickly. It can help not just with your beliefs, but beliefs are attached to habits, right, so it can help you tap into your habits and release your habits.

Carleta aka Lita: 6:31

I find the power in tapping into my story because I understand a number of stories can have me set in a number of illusions about life. So, however, however you want to use it, I highly recommend that you learn the setup and tap in the setup is quite easy. We start by identifying a topic that has us feeling out of alignment and we identify positive feelings as being in alignment and so-called negative feelings as being out of alignment. All feelings, in my opinion, are to be embraced. We need them so that we can identify how we truly feel about any given scenario, whether or not our feelings are justified. Life is about learning to trust our feeling because ultimately, that is our guide. So with emotional freedom techniques, the setup involves tapping.

Carleta aka Lita: 7:30

So many will tap on the head and think about the situation that is bothering them, the stress, the doubt, the conflict, and they'll rate it from 1 till 10. 1 being actually I'm very good, I'm okay. 10 actually, I cannot deal with this anymore. And you would just start tapping and you start tapping in your head and think about the situation and really tap into the emotion, really feel the emotion as to how you think and feel about that subject. It's emotional freedom techniques. For a reason You're tapping into the emotion and you will then start tapping.

Carleta aka Lita: 8:07

I will start at the eyebrow and I will say to you as follows Think about the situation. Even though I'm feeling unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. You're tapping at the eyebrow. Go towards the side of the eye. Even though I'm feeling unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Then you will tap under the eye, repeat it again. Even though I feel unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Under the nose, even though I feel unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. On the chin, even though I feel unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Collarbone, even though I feel unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Under the arm, even though I feel unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself under the arm. Even though I feel unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. And finish again at the top of the head. You can use your two hands. Even though I feel unsettled today, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Carleta aka Lita: 9:24

Breathe and what you will do. You'll score the feeling from one to ten. Ten being really feel like that one being. Actually I'm all okay and just breathe. And the idea is that you keep doing this setup and keep scoring. Ideally, you want to get to zero. One is good. You no longer have that connected feeling to the. I feel unsettled today or whatever it is that you're feeling. It doesn't end there.

Carleta aka Lita: 9:52

Once you release that feeling, when you've got some time, do tap into it and just question why you believe you feel the way you feel about this given situation. Mind you, when you're starting this it's nice to work with another because they will be able to coach you and prompt you and ask you the question. But you can do it on your own. You can start it by looking into a mirror, looking into your eyes and tapping along as you release how you're feeling that feeling that doesn't feel so comfortable, and as you get more and more comfortable and release that feeling, you can do a bit more work to identify why you felt that way in the first place. You may find the feeling was connected to a number of belief systems. That may not necessarily be true and those belief systems you can often identify if there are any shoulds, woulds and coulds in your reason for being or feeling the way you were when you first started doing the setup for emotional freedom techniques.

Carleta aka Lita: 11:03

I have been navigating my own personal challenges. I live alone, I have a mortgage, I'm 50 years old, so there are some responsibilities that many of us have at this age right, and I am one that can often go into auto mode when things start moving around me, because I often forget that it's not that I have control of the external, it's the internal that I am to get in touch with. Listen, being comfortable in listening to ourselves is really important, and emotional freedom techniques can actually guide us back to ourself, back to that inner self that talks to us, speaks to us all the time, helping us to build confidence, because, ultimately, if we cannot trust ourself, we really cannot trust anyone else. So we're building strength, we're building resilience and we're taking time out for self-care and we're tapping away at those feelings that's preventing us from seeing the bigger picture. Because the truth is, whilst we're feeling low and anxious, we're not often acknowledging the sunshine, we're not often acknowledging the flow. We're looking at the roadblocks along the way, attempting to shift those, when other things are clearly moving smoothly and flowing.

Carleta aka Lita: 12:26

Emotional freedom techniques is what I am talking about today. What other tools do you use when you're going through challenges? Some people take time out to go and talk to others. You could actually share emotional freedom techniques with your friends, with your community partners. I do believe it's the kind of tool that helps us progress together. Life is about growth, is it not? Taking responsibility for how we approach our mental health, our spiritual well-being, self-care being important. I am very much on a in a chapter of life, should I say, focusing on the divine feminine, the softer side of life. Life has been very hard and we are in a time of hardship, so it is about finding the moments in the day where we can exercise self-care and give our brains a rest. Right In the next episode, I will be exploring the energies around, tapping within, focusing on the divine feminine.

Carleta aka Lita: 13:34

I hope you'll be able to join me. Please do give me any feedback on this podcast, any hints and tips, any topics that you would like to have shared. I would really love to hear from you. I noticed a few downloads from the website. This podcast has its own link and website that you will be able to tap into. Please do give the podcast a follow.

Carleta aka Lita: 13:59

In my last episode, I mentioned I was joining as affiliates or ambassadors to a number of brands as a means of supporting my presence on this podcast. Please do tap into the affiliate links and see if there's anything on there that suits you to help support my presence. Thank you for being here. Emotional Freedom Techniques has been at the discussion point. I will be doing some videos on Emotional Freedom Techniques that you will be able to watch. If you'd like a personal demonstration, I am happy to meet via a live stream and we can do some work together, or you might want to book me directly. You're welcome to do so too. Details will be at the end of the notes here and I am on social media. Again, the notes are on here as well. Thank you for being here. Have a good one.