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Hey Ananga, it's good to be with you again for another Slayer session. So we're coming together today to talk a little

bit about Emotional Freedom technique or EFT. And I thought that it would probably be a good idea to start in a place of my first curiosity, which is, why does Tapping or EFT have sort of a snake oil reputation, at least in the states.

I'm just, I'm wondering why you think that is, and you're the expert.

You've written a book, you know that this technique works, and obviously we're here today

to share it with our listeners, but I thought I should start there because until meeting you and creating a relationship over these last couple of years, you know, this was something that really seemed to me

to be a little, what's the word I'm looking for,

suspicious.

And so I thought if it was okay with you,

we could kind of start there and then run through the questions that I have about this technique.

Sure. It's a great shame because the gentleman, the originator behind Emotional Freedom Techniques techniques, gentleman called Gary Craig, and he really is a

gentleman, he's a very honorable guy, he's worked very hard to present this technique and explain

it very carefully. It's a a simple thing it's not rocket

science but he's certainly invested an incredible amount of time in providing

quality training materials to share it with others who want to use it and instructions, written instructions and many many demonstrations.

He's a very generous man and he's certainly on to something that's incredibly useful.

I guess sometimes these techniques come along that are genuinely useful and they're easy for lots of people to do.

So sometimes people get a little bit excited about them and their

presentation isn't necessarily so well thought out a little bit over the top and

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