EFT: The Emotional Side of the Equation of Getting What You Want

It doesn't matter what you want, there is always an emotional side of getting the things in life that are important to you. Whether it's good health, financial freedom, closer relationships or all of the above, EFT is a tool used to remove the negative emotions that actually create road blocks in your path to success.

What is Emotional Freedom Technique? It is a quick and easy process to remove the negative thoughts and beliefs that are frequently unconscious to you but nonetheless cause havoc on you and your life. Yes, you heard me right. Your unconscious negative thinking has an effect on the situations and conditions that happen to you. EFT is used to short circuit those undesirable outcomes from their physical manifestation.

Emotions are incredibly powerful. When you are excited it makes your body tingle or become more active. If you are mad your voice changes and you might do something you otherwise couldn't or wouldn't do. Emotions can make you smile and laugh or cry. The down side is that fears like "I don't think I can", "Who cares?" or "Why try—there is nothing I can do", are negative emotions or limiting beliefs that bring about negative results.

Since negative emotions are not physical, the damage that they can do is not as obvious as a broken arm. However they can be debilitating. Fears, doubts, limiting beliefs and negative emotions are more like a virus getting into your immune system with no concern with how it affects you. Negative thoughts or emotions can be insidious because they persuade you to believe what they have to say is right or true. And then you invite them to stay even longer.

What do I mean? Maybe you lose some money and say to yourself "That always happens to me". Just now you expressed a negative emotion and you just invited them to continue their stay.

Maybe you want a relationship but in the back of your head you say "They never work out, it's just not worth trying". Ditto like the money, a negative emotion is being invited to remain at the decision table.

What about your health? Is there anything you can do about it? Are you willing to do anything about it? Afraid you won't recover from an illness? Those fears are saying "I don't think I can", "It's not worth it", "I'm not worthy of it".

Now you might try to convince me that these things happen to you and you are only responding to the situations and conditions that happen to you. The reason why you lose money is just the way it is. And the reason why those relationships stand you up is just the way it is. And your health is not a manifestation of your fears it's just the way it is. Are you sure?

More likely you have conscious and unconscious negative emotions and limiting beliefs that are dictating your actions and re-creations that create the conditions and situations that you are trying to get away from. This concept is not some new age stuff. Quantum Physics pointed out that the phenomena existed some 70 years ago and hasn't been disproved yet.

The law of attraction states the same—whatever thoughts and beliefs that dominate your thought processes, conscious or not, your mind power will help attract that into your life. This is the epicenter of where you can change your life for the better. Many of the problems in life are from unconscious issues that conflict with our current conscious thoughts and desires.

If you have more fear than faith the dominating thoughts get their way. That's where EFT becomes a very useful tool. You don't even need to know what negative or limiting beliefs that are blocking your desires in order to begin receiving noticeable benefits.

When you have a desire, regardless of what it is, you will have a series of thoughts and emotions that will go along with it. Let's say you want to buy a bicycle. Over the course of a few seconds your mind might say, "I'd love a new bike. Can I afford one? What color, what kind, where to buy?" With negative emotions including the unconscious, the chatter might sound something like:

Are you sure?

You probably won't ride it enough to get your moneys worth.

Maybe you should wait until the springtime to buy?

You really can't afford it but..., what if you need that money for something else later on?

Last time you bought a bike someone stole it, maybe you shouldn't.

The stronger emotions will win.

And that's what might happen if you wanted a bike? What if you wanted to substantially increase the amount of money in your bank account? Now we are talking about something that is more important to you. Your conscious mind loves the idea of having access to more money. The mind imagines hundreds of ways to spend that new found wealth. And the unconscious chatter? Try:

Yeah right, that's just a dream, get real.

That only happens in fairy tales.

There are so many other people who need the money more than you do.

You're greedy.

You don't even deserve that money, you'd blow it anyway.

Now tell me who is going to win?

The real problem with those negative thoughts and beliefs is that they are probably not even true. Just because you have lost money before doesn't mean it has to continue. Just because you've had problems with relationships in the past doesn't mean it can't change. Even if your health has suffered, changing your state of mind can have a positive effect. Your mind doesn't care what you want. Its job is to find whatever you desire but you need to realize how much your unconscious emotions really determine what you get.

Whether you see it or not, everything you desire has an emotional side in the equation of actually getting what you want. You can make detailed plans how to make more money. You can exercise, change your diet or take vitamins to improve your health. Or you can want a closer relationship. But if you haven't cleared out the negative emotions or limiting beliefs that live inside you then you are reducing your chances for success.

EFT is a simple, inexpensive way to heal or remove many of the problems that might have plagued you in the past. If you want more in your life but you keep getting road blocks take a look at EFT, because if you haven't tried EFT then you haven't tried everything yet.