Somehow this got lost in my email. I wanted to express my gratitude and let you
know that this is a really exciting letter. I love these ideas and I am going to
start right now.

  Thank you so much.

           Earl.


From: treehugger1946 <treehugger1946@...>
Subject: [MET] Re: I could use some suggestions on wording and tapping.
To: meridiantherapy@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 10:43 AM

















When I read about your test I thought,"What a train wreck!" then it
occurred to me that we know how to treat people who've been in train (or auto)
wrecks. You can look up some examples on the emofree website if you want.



Go back to the time just before she talked you into taking the test then tell
the story to someone real or imagined. Every time you feel any discomfort,
physical, emotional, mental or whatever, stop and tap for it until it's gone. If
you're not sure if you feel something or not, stop and tap anyway. Do this for
the entire experience of the test and even how you felt afterwards, to be
thorough.



When you think you have everything, go through the experience again,
exaggerating everything that did or could have gone wrong and tap for any bit of
negative feeling.



If you still have trouble connecting with feelings about this, set up a
made-at-home version of the test and get a friend to role-play the instructor
and have them carry on and exaggerate until you feel it.



In a separate session you can then picture going through the test perfectly,
filled with confidence and being totally at ease. As you picture this, tap for
anything that comes up.



You could also think about the test that didn't go well, and how that made you
feel, and ask yourself "What does that remind me of?" or "When I have felt that
before" and tap for those experiences also. Use this also for anything else at
the school that felt a bit bad. If you interpreted an experience as being
belittled or patronized chances are it's not the first time in your life you've
felt that way.



If you haven't tapped on the experiences of having an alcohnolic father working
on that might help also as there may be some parts of you in conflict about
serving booze.



Before you take the test, if you still work with affirmations, try something
like "I am a MAGNIFICENT BARTENDER" or whatever term you would use, and then tap
for whatever feelings you get or contradictory thoughts you have.



This seems like a lot of tapping, but remember that a lot of people spend 4-8
years at University to change professions, and this is a lot less than that.



You can also consider hiring a professional EFT or EmoTrance practitioner for a
couple of sessions. While it costs some, you can think of it as part of the
education cost and might be worth it to get rid of those feelings whether you
ever take the test again or not.



BTW, I'm an amateur EFTer not a professional and I've had success with things
like this so keep the faith! There are so many ways you could approach this, and
these are just the ones I would try first.



--- In meridiantherapy@ yahoogroups. com, "wetlazer" <wetlazer@.. .> wrote:

>

> I have had an issue that I have worked on for years.

> This all started well over a decade ago. My father

> wanted to help me with money for college and so he

> got a few dollars together and paid for me to attend

> bartending school.

>

> The problem was that I just couldn't remember the

> drink recipes. I used mnemonics and all sorts of other

> things, yet nothing stuck.

>

> I tried self hypnosis and meditation and writing them

> down a hundred times and they would stick for about

> a day and then evaporate.

>

> So I gave up, but I ended up going back a few years

> later, and the same thing happened. Over the years I

> have gone back several times.

>

> Now it did occur to me that the reason I was stuck was

> because as a child my father was a drinker and I had

> some unpleasant memories, but now as an adult I have

> many friends who drink and they are not out of control

> when they drink.

>

> In any case I used eft and that was the thing that finally

> made me able to learn the recipes. I have something like

> 50 recipe cards and I can recite them backwards and

> forwards now. Which is very amazing to me.

>

> Here is where I would like some advice though.

>

> See the last time I went to the bartending school one

> teacher was pushing me very hard to take the final test.

> I told her I was not ready and she said just try.

>

> Well I tried and started to blunder things. Just in case

> you didn't know in a bartending school you make drinks

> the same way you would in a bar you just have colored

> water in the bottles.

>

> Well the teacher is asking me how to make a this-or-that

> and I would start to make it but she would stop me and

> say oh no you need to add this not that.

>

> I told her we should stop because I obviously was not

> ready, but she continued to push me and I began to

> screw things up even more. Finally I just walked out

> because my tension became so great I couldn't even remember

> the most basic drinks.

>

> At this point I know the drinks, and I know that I know

> the drinks because I have had people talk to me and mention

> some drink and I would say "Oh yeah isn't that..." and I

> was right.

>

> The issue is going back to the school. I have tapped several

> times when thinking about the teacher and that school but

> something is not connecting. I want to go back and yet I

> am still afraid of f-ing things up again or having someone

> belittle or patronize me again.































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