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EFT was originally developed to reduce the therapy process from months/years down to minutes/hours. As emotional problems faded, both physical health and personal performance improved (often dramatically). As a result, EFT is spreading quickly among the healing community. It is an emotional version of acupressure wherein certain meridian release points are gently stimulated by tapping on them with the fingertips.







EFT and Sports Performance

Last post 07-04-2008 12:51 AM by Biocoach. 24 replies.
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  • 02-18-2008 10:32 AM In reply to

    • philvt
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    Re: EFT and Sports Performance

    Two excellent sources for add'l info along this line are Stacey Vornbrock and Stephen Ladd. Stacey is a sports performance coach and is on the cutting edge of this field. She can be found at http://www.breakthroughperformance.net/ , and has been written up in Sports Illustrated for her work. A copy of that article is available and can be found at my site at  www.EmotionalFreedomCenter.com under the Downloads link.

    Stephen Ladd is a golf performance coach that utilzes EFT exclusively, his site is a redirect from www.tapingolf.com

    Both of these practitioners graciously contributed to my two books, and you can hear interviews with them both, as well as other professionals at my website at www.NoLimitEFTbooks.com, under the audio segments.

    Phil

    Once all resistance is released, only Love remains...

    www.EmotionalFreedomCenter.com
    www.LearnEFTgolf.com
    www.PassionForPutting.com
  • 02-20-2008 3:07 AM In reply to

    • David Perrins
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    Re: EFT and Sports Performance

    Hello Jan

    I am going to coach my son in one hours time on his golf at the driving range.

    I shall use some of your very helpful questions & set up phrases. I'm doing this for the first time although I'm not new to shiatsu etc. I'll let you know how I get on!

    Kind regards

    David

     

     

  • 03-17-2008 12:57 PM In reply to

    • philvt
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    Re: EFT and Sports Performance

     

    Some people really on the leading edge in EFT for sports performance are:

     Stacey Vornbrock www.breakthroughperformance.net

    Alex Lees www.DrAlexLees.com

    Stephen Ladd - http://www.rmtforgolf.com/

    and brad Yates www.GolfBeyondBelief.com  among others

    Phil

    Once all resistance is released, only Love remains...

    www.EmotionalFreedomCenter.com
    www.LearnEFTgolf.com
    www.PassionForPutting.com
  • 04-06-2008 8:51 AM In reply to

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    Jan, I have read your post with some thought.  I don't know EXACTLY what is keeping me from winning at tennis, but if I had to guess I would say I am avoiding the pressure of being a winner.  I just formulated and used the Set-up phrase "I have the courage to win at tennis".  Can you think of a more effective phrase that would cover fear of pressure as well as any other reason I can't fathom? I absolutely put in enough hours and have the physical ability to be a winner.   Many thanks, Julie BPositive

  • 04-06-2008 9:23 AM In reply to

    • chris
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    Re: EFT and Sports Performance

    You don't need to find a phrase that covers everything in one go. You can tackle the issues one at a time.

    There are almost certainly several issues that are blocking you from having the success that you want. They're what Gary calls "aspects", and they're well worth keeping an eye on as switching aspects is one of the things that cause people to think EFT isn't working. So you tackle the issue of courage to win, but another aspect, lets say "worry that you'll embarass the person you're playing against if you beat them" crops up. If you don't spot that you've switched aspect it's easy to spot that it isn't working.

    You can also try tapping on things like "even though I don't know why I perform better outside of a match, I deeply......" You may be surprised to find that suddenly a reason occurs to you. Then you can try tapping on that reason.

  • 04-25-2008 3:53 PM In reply to

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    Just wanted to share an experience especially with  nkp9999 and BPositive, where I used EFT on my own sports performance.  I show horses, and have used EFT with really excellent results.  I hope you'll forgive the long post, but it helps me when I read very specific descriptions from other people.

    Because I don't get to ride and practice very often, mental training and EFT help me advance even with limited practice.

     I was at a show recently and had a bad practice ride a few hours before my competition.  My trainer gave me one of those very frank "coach" talks about what had gone wrong and what it would take to fix it.  When I asked if there was anything I could do in my competition (it's called a "class", although it's the actual competition when you're being judged) he pretty much said, just hang on and try to get through it, we'll have to fix these problems later in practice.  This is usually because when a horse goes into a class, he knows he's not likely to get corrected in front of the judge, and will often magnify whatever performance problems he had in the practice ring or indulge in any bad habits he's gotten away with in the ring before.

     I went back to my hotel and spent an hour and a half doing EFT.  I started by writing down all my negative or limiting beliefs.  Before I started tapping, I tried to capture all the aspects that came up for me.  Then I methodically tapped on them, one by one, and was careful not to switch aspects in the middle of working on one.  Many were similar to Chris's list.  They included such things as being nervous, worrying about what others were thinking, not wanting to let my coach down, feeling I didn't deserve to win, and feeling underprepared.

    After I tapped on an item, I then tapped on a positive.  I used ideas from Gary's Palace of Possibilities, such as, "I accept the possibility that I do deserve to win" or "I accept the possibility that this limiting belief is keeping me from reaching my peak performance." Then I included "I give myself permission to change." 

    As I finished a limiting belief, I physically crossed it off on the list, as a way to reinforce that I was done with it.

    If I found an issue that caused a physical reaction in me, like tightening of the stomach, butterflies, or another manifestation of tension, I spent as much time on it as I needed to bring the level down as far as I could.  On one particular statement I used 9 Gamut, collarbone breathing, and the eye roll and never got it to zero!  But I got it to a manageable 1.

    After I finished all my limiting statements, I surrogate tapped on my horse.  I used statements that reflected what he was doing that might go wrong in the class, and finished with "I'm a good horse, I respect my rider, and I know my rider deeply and completely respects me."  For human team sports surrogate tapping might be used on a team member.

    Once I got to the show grounds and nerves kicked in, I either went off by myself to tap, or tapped my karate chop point as I felt the physical symptoms of nervousness.  This kept my nerves down to very manageable level.

     I rode into the ring and had a tremendous ride.  It was the best ride my horse and I had ever had, and his responsiveness was impressive.  We had none of the problems we'd had in my practice ride.  I won the class, and also the championship class two days later.  My trainer told me he knew the horse was in great show form but had not thought I could "get out of his way" and keep him there, and I had proven him wrong.

     As reinforcement after my first ride, I went back and wrote down everything that was right about the ride.  In preparing for my championship ride two days later, I used my list of positives and reinforced them with tapping, then I tapped on any nervousness that came up, such as the belief "I can't do it twice in a row"  or "I choke when the big prize is on the line".

    I also used a technique I'd read in Gary's newsletter, "I love that about myself", in which you begin with a negative, such as "Even though I sabotage myself when the big prize is on the line" then you inject something positive that you know to be true, like "I've succeeded under pressure at other horse shows" and add the positive affirmation "and I love that about myself" said with GREAT enthusiasm!

    All of these techniques together were the recipe for success for me, and I hope they give you some ideas that you can adapt to your own sport.

  • 04-26-2008 4:26 PM In reply to

    • coach
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    Re: EFT and Sports Performance

     Great story, Angelica. It proves again what's possible with EFT. Thanks for sharing.

    Coach Jan Lips
    Airdrie, AB Canada
    Track and Field Coach
    Homeopath
    EFT Practitioner
  • 06-06-2008 9:54 PM In reply to

    • Matti
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    Wow!  Awesome list!  I just signed up for EFT because of huge anxiety when swimming - open water swimming is freaking me out and I have not been able to get past not breathing and feeling very queasy.  When I threw up in front of about 40 people in the water, I decided to seek help - kind of smart of me, don't you think?

     

    Let me know if you have any ideas for the swimming thing.  I really like your sports performance ideas.  I have just been wondering how to get some speed into my slow twitch muscles.

     Thank you

  • 06-07-2008 7:48 AM In reply to

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     Have you watched the intro DVD's -- the one with dave and fear of water might really help you out!

     

  • 07-04-2008 12:51 AM In reply to

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    I am in Surflifesaving in Australia and helped a lady get through her 400m timed pool swim.  She told me she couldn't do it once a stop watch was produced.  I instructed her on EFT and she completed the course half an hour later.

    I also use EFT with my athletes (beach & track).  A couple of years back I had my under 15 yrs relay team go through thre tapping together (and on each other) and they consistently won the under 16 events through the season.  Of course they were a female team!!!  My male athletes use EFT but always well away from onlookers.

    I have many athletes in various sports being assisted to State, National & World titles using EFT.

    Glen

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