The Science and History of eutaptics/FasterEFT

Robert and his team are often asked what makes eutaptics/FasterEFT different. After all, tapping is
a popular technique. There are many different methods and systems to tapping, and many different
people teaching it.
So what setseutatapics/FasterEFT apart?
eutatapics/FasterEFT was created out of years of studying systems and modalities like EFT,
NLP, neuroplasticity, and mindfulness. The strategies, methodologies and techniques involved
in eutatapics/FasterEFT are backed by science, experience, and results. Today we’re going to
look at the four main elements of eutaptics/FasterEFT.

Tapping (EFT – all versions)

EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Tehnique, and is also often called simply tapping. EFT focuses
on the meridian points of the body to restore balance to your body’s energy. You use your fingers
to apply pressure to those meridian points, which are thought of as areas of the body energy flows
through. (This idea comes from Chinese medicine.)  
EFT is a simplified version of TFT (Thought Field Therapy — the original tapping therapy
developed by Dr. Roger Callahan). After learning TFT, Gary Craig took what he learned and
simplified it, calling it Emotion Freedom Technique. He began marketing it, making it available to
the world. Gary posits that a disruption in energy is the cause of all negative emotions and pain.
His reasoning is that stimulating the meridian points through EFT tapping can reduce stress or
negative emotions, restoring balance to your disrupted energy.
Energy means lots of things to lots of different people. Energy work is something that can seem a
little out there for people, and that’s what is often associated with EFT. Being from Oklahoma,
Robert has taken the ideas behind EFT and explained it in a way that is logical. It makes sense to
most people, unlike the ideas behind most energy work. Unlike traditional EFT, with FasterEFT we
know it works because we know how tapping affects the autonomic system of the mind (something
we’ll talk about later).
There is strong scientific evidence that tapping is effective. A study conducted in 2013 on veterans
with PTSD found that patients receiving tapping sessions significantly reduced their psychological
stress, and more than half of the tapping test group no longer fit the criteria for PTSD.
Another study in 2016 compared the effectiveness of tapping over traditional care for anxiety. It
found that those with tapping treatment had a significant decrease in anxiety scores compared to
those that did not.
eutatapics/FasterEFT believes that there’s nothing wrong with you. Instead, your problems are
built from the memories of your past, consciously known or unknown. We go back to see what
you’re doing inside yourself to successfully create your problems.
eutatapics/FasterEFT is client based. Each person who has a problem has their own unique way
to create it. Instead of doing call outs and trying to do the same thing with everyone, we change the
style of technique, the speed, the intensity, based on each person depending on how they
represent their problems. We look at auditory, visual, and kinesthetic memories. We use the Art of
Change® to pull the strategy out and how they created their problems, and then we make the
adjustments.
This makes eutatapics/FasterEFT a flexible system that can be adjusted for each client. Our
problems are created by the memories we have, and they can be changed by rewriting those
memories…which leads us to the next element of FasterEFT: NLP.
  
NLP 

NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming, is a behavioral technology that allows you to change, adopt

or eliminate behaviors, as you desire, and gives you the ability to choose your mental, emotional,
and physical states of well-being. This is done through the connection of neural processes (the
neuro of NLP), language (the linguistic of NLP) and behavioral patterns learned through
experience (the programming of NLP). NLP reveals the kind of communication that matters most:
the communication within you.
Like eutataptics/FasterEFT, NLP believes that people are not broken! We’re simply responding to
inner communication and creating mindsets that cause us to behave like we are. Our behaviors
mirror our inner communication.
NLP is beginning to be incorporated in some forms of psychotherapy with great success according
to one study. It’s also been used to treat phobias and fears in another study!
NLP isn’t user friendly for yourself, though. That’s why eutatapics/FasterEFT uses the framework
of NLP to go inside each individual’s mind to help them rewrite the unpleasant memories and
experiences. It’s a tool that can be used to generate internal changes.  NLP gives you the building
blocks to how you create problems.
NLP also posits that the human mind is something like a computer, and as such, can be
reprogramed by changing our verbal and body language. In eutatapics/FasterEFT, we say that
NLP is changing how you represent your world neurologically — visually, physically, and
auditorially — and rewriting internal strategies. This is neuroplasticity, another element that is the
foundation of eutatapics/FasterEFT.

Neuroplasticity 

Neuroplasticity is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. It’s
happening continuously in your brain, even as you read this! Your neural connections (neural
pathways) are altered as an effect of environment, behavioral, and neural changes.

So what are neural connections? They are connections between neurons in your brain, connecting
one part of the nervous system to another. These pathways are the basis for every thought we
think, every action we take, every feeling we feel, every memory we have. The more we think, do,
and feel something, the deeper the pathway becomes. Think of it like a dog running along a fence
line. Over time, the ground is worn deeper and deeper. Conversely, by not thinking, doing, or
feeling something, the pathway begins to disappear.
Neuroplasticity has been widely researched in the last few decades with fascinating results. One
study found that as few as ten one hour sessions of cognitive training over a period of only 5-6
weeks has the potential to reverse the same amount of age-related decline. Another
study revealed that participants (in this case, London taxi drivers) showed physical changes in the
hippocampus as a result of years of driving and studying maps of London thanks to their jobs.
Other studies of people learning to juggle and of medical students have found similar results.
In eutataptics/FasterEFT, the whole goal of the session is to rewrite memory. When we
understand how neuroplasticity works, we’re given a formula of how to rewrite the memory. We’re
able to understand how it works, thanks in part to Daniela Schiller, PhD and her work at Icahn
School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
There is a natural unconscious way that memories are always updated once you visit the memory.
We use this same principle, and by interjecting a defrac (tapping, laughter, kinesthetic action), you
can actually update memories to change the memory — quickly and effectively.
With the NLP understanding, we’re able to step inside the mind’s eye and make the adjustments.
We’re able to identify how the memory is being represented and then change each
representational system. We’re then able to reconsolidate (or update) the memory.
Memory isn’t designed to be factual. It’s designed for survival. Each time you visit a memory, it’s
changed. The emotional intensity before you visit the memory affects it. You can make memories
better or worse, depending on the emotional drivers that led you to visit it.
Neuroplasticity is often connected with mindfulness, the final major piece of the foundation
for eutatapics/FasterEFT

Mindfulness 

Perhaps the most broad concept we’ve looked at today, mindfulness has a variety of meanings.
One of the best all-purpose definitions we’ve seen is simply this: mindfulness is the basic human
ability to be fully present, aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or
overwhelmed by what’s going on around us.
Mindfulness has roots in Buddhism, but a secular version has become mainstream in recent
decades thanks in part to Jon Kabat-Zinn and his Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction program at
the University of Massachusetts Medical School. It’s also been widely studied, offering clinical and
psychological proof that mindfulness can enhance relationships, boost our immune
system, improve sleep quality, overcome trauma, improve body image, improve
businesses, reduce anxiety, reduce depression, fight obesity, and physically change our brains.
In the past couple of years even more attention has been brought to mindfuness after ABC news
anchor Dan Harris released the book 10% Happier, crediting mindfulness and meditation with
helping him after an on-air panic attack.
eutatapics/FasterEFT uses directed mindfulness. Our response to the world is based on internal
references. Directed mindfulness is going inside yourself and noticing how you’re representing
things internally, then making internal adjustments to where you’re responding to the world in a
more peaceful way. You’re becoming responsible for how you respond to the world, and your
reactions will be positive and proactive. In other words, you’re becoming emotionally intelligent.
eutatapics/FasterEFT is essentially faster mindfulness. You get direct and immediate change
without hours of meditating. (Not that there’s anything wrong with meditating! It’s a great skill to
have.)
eutaptics/FasterEFT was developed out of these four elements to be the best modality to
transform yourself. While it’s based on some complex ideas, the recipe for
using eutatapics/FasterEFT is simple:

Step 1: Aim

Go inside yourself and notice what you notice. What do you feel or see? Notice how you know you
have a problem. You don’t need to know what the emotions or feelings are, just notice how you
know they are there. What do you feel? Where in your body do you feel it? (Head, belly, left foot?)
What do you hear? How do you know it’s a problem?

Step 2: Tap

Now, change your focus. Focus only on your fingertips and where you are tapping. Using two
fingers, tap the following points while focusing on the feelings of your fingers on your skin:
 
• Between your eyebrows
• Beside your eye
• Under your eye
• Just below your collarbone
 
While you are tapping, say “Let it go” or “It’s safe to let it go”. It doesn’t matter which side you tap.
You can do either or both!

Step 3: Peace

Grab your wrist, take a deep breath, blow it out, and say “Peace”.

Step 4: Recall a happy memory

Think back to a happy memory and enjoy it.  

Step 5: Check

Go back to your problem and notice things are already starting to change. Notice what hasn’t
changed yet. Focus on it, and move to step 5.

Step 6: Repeat

Repeat steps 2-5 until the feeling or memory has changed to a positive feeling.
 
It’s truly that simple! But if you need help remembering, save this photo to your phone or computer
so you can refer back to it.