I've been using EFT for 4 months or so, along with the Tapas Acupressure Technique, and have made significant progress. I still have a ways to go.
About a month ago I was at a community event that happened to have a
contra dance. I've gone to a couple contra dances before and could see
how much fun I could have, but since I was kinda shy, it just ended up
being agonizing. It was the same this night. One of my friends, who's
been contra dancing for many years, put me with one of his friends
(after I metaphorically and jokingly kicked and screamed and made a few
excuses about how I shouldn't) and after the initial discomfort of the
introduction I had a blast. I was enjoying myself far more than at any
other contra. At the end of the dance, it was time to choose other
partners, and I just laughed. There was no way I was going to be able
to do that. So I made another excuse and just watched the dancing for
the last dance. Despite my fears, I asked my friend when the next
contra was, and decided that I would figure out what my fears were and
resolve them beforehand using EFT.
So a few days later I took a couple hours and imagined going to a
dance, asking people to dance, being asked to dance, talking with
people, dancing, asking women I found attractive to dance, talking with
them, and through muscle testing I realized a whole bunch of my fears:
making people uncomfortable, being boring, being overbearing, acting
like I'm an idiot, acting like I'm not intelligent, not having anything
to say, doing something wrong, intimacy, asking women to dance, talking
with women, dancing with women... I think there are a few others that
I don't recall. In any case, using muscle testing I found that EFT would resolve all of
them, checked for reversals - each one had a bunch - and went
through the whole recipe for each.
I tested afterward and found each of the fears to be false, which
was very encouraging, but there wouldn't really be any way for me to
tell for sure until the next dance, which was a couple weeks ago. So the dance came, and right off the bat I was
asked to dance by an actually quite stunningly beautiful young
woman before I even considered asking anyone, which might have helped,
but I had no trouble at all the entire night, well, other than with the
dances themselves, and getting things wrong periodically was actually
kinda fun! I asked several people to dance, was asked by a few others,
talked with people... It was amazing the absolute transformation of
myself that I had witnessed.
Just last Saturday I went to another dance, again had a wonderful time, and I do believe I have found a new favorite hobby. I just wanted to tell my story to people, to give them another idea as to what EFT can do. And this was with one session. Be sure to consider reversals - those buggers will stop any change from occurring. All of these tappings worked the first time, at least most of the way, but remember that even if it doesn't work the first time, that shouldn't discourage you from tapping again.
Keep tapping!
Jason