EFT and sabotage

I come across sabotage all the time at work and I certainly have some brilliant sabotaging strategies too. This shows up as missing appointments, thinking ‘it doesn’t work for me’, abandoning sessions, and giving up sessions just as you are about to resolve that issue you presented with.

Why do we sabotage our attempts to improve our well-being? Our brains adhere to patterns and rituals as they, evolutionarily, have kept us safe. The brain is such a brilliant pattern-matching machine that is does it’s job even when we are desperate for it to stop. It has a lot of difficulty letting go of patterns, belief systems and behaviours that no longer serve us: the very patterns that may be causing problems for us. When we use EFT we allow the brain to reroute it’s circuits and thus allow patterns and unwanted behaviours to be resolved.

Sabotage occurs when our subconscious brain doesn’t want to let the pattern, belief or behaviour go. It doesn’t know whether it’s safe to do so, so it hangs on just in case. Sabotaging strategies are particularly clever because the subconscious can make you operate against your conscious mind.

Sabotaging strategies see clients thinking ‘this is NOT working for me!’ and so they need to be reminded that they have ‘made changes A, B, and C so far, so why wouldn’t they be able to make THIS change?’. Sabotage throws up distractions from tapping including forgetting just how much progress you have already made.

Sabotage, ironically, appears with EFT a lot because EFT is so effective. Sometimes the subconscious mind is a little unsettled by just how fast things are moving. But that is fine. I’m alert to sabotage having had lots of experience of it myself and I try to educate clients about it.

But if you are having doubts about the effectiveness of EFT, are worried that it just won’t work for you, you are putting off an appointment that you really need or say things like ‘I can’t afford it’ or ‘I don’t have time’, then you are sabotaging yourself. Being aware of sabotage is the best way to move towards a resolution of your issue using EFT.