Emotional Freedom Technique (a.k.a. EFT or Tapping) can be very helpful in reducing financial stress. Using EFT, clients have successfully released fears, anxieties, limiting beliefs and debilitating emotions and have found peace within despite what was happening in their external world.  EFT/Tapping is often described as needleless acupuncture and research shows that it actually changes brain chemistry over just a few sessions (for a copy of a summary of this report, send me an email).

In 2011, I wrote an article for the Austin Alchemist website. In 2016, I  received this testimonial from a woman in Texas who found the original article online and wanted to share how much it helped her.

She writes, “… I saw your article posted about finances or anything to be released, I tried it and it immediately began to help. I felt my heart change as it opened me to allow me to let go of those fears and negative feelings towards money or losing my home and I wanted to thank you. Blessings. Alice “

If you are experiencing any anxiety or stress related to your personal finances, I invite you to consider using EFT. Below you will find a sample of EFT for financial concerns. Of course, a single session or simple example such as what is included here is not likely to be as comprehensive or nearly as satisfying as working one-on-one with an EFT professional. To work with me, click here.  Yet it can bring greater clarity and peace and that is a great start.

Before tapping, imagine yourself connecting with the deepest emotion you can find about your finances. Of course, you might initially think it is anger, fear, or sadness. Ask yourself, anger about what? Fear about what? Sadness about what? The idea is to be as specific as possible as specificity improves the outcome. Now rate on a scale of 1-10 the intensity of the emotion.

So, if you found that ‘fear of being homeless’ was the emotion you found to be most intense, rate the intensity of this using the scale of 1-10. It might be as high as a 10 or about a 5. Either way, is okay. Write that number down. Tap for a few rounds and then re-test, where is the ‘fear of being homeless’ after tapping? Did it go up or down?

Then continue to tap on the different aspects that come up for you until you collapse all of the fears around your finances. If you need help, I recommend working with an EFT practitioner. EFT is practiced via phone, Zoom, or in-person. My clients find telephone/Zoom sessions are just as powerful as an in-person yet it eliminates travel time and costs.

Using the fingers of one hand tap at least 6-7 times on each of the following points verbalizing the phrases provided.

Karate Chop (fleshy side of hand below the little finger):

“Even though I am anxious and scared about what might happen to me and my personal finances because of today’s financial climate, I deeply and completely love, accept and forgive all of me.”

“Even though I am scared to death that I might lose my job and become homeless I love and accept all of me and my emotions now”

“Even though I don’t believe this tapping works or can work, I deeply and profoundly love and accept all of me and all of my doubts.”

Now using the index and middle fingers, tap on the following points.