I’ve been thinking about the fears that we can clear with EFT. My thinking was on the topic of using EFT in helping us achieve our goals. Using EFT for healing traumas is a different topic.

My supposition is that there are only two things that stop us moving towards our goals: knowledge and fear. It’s rarely for lack of knowledge that we don’t do something and, in a coaching or therapy role, I don’t normally supply knowledge to my clients; at least that’s not my primary focus. My role is to help the client clear the fears that are stopping them from taking the required actions to achieve their goal.

But is the absence of fear all that is required for someone to take action? If we clear all the fear between where a person is now and where it is they want to be, will they then take the actions that will help them achieve their goal?

Then I started thinking about motivation and the accepted model that we are motivated to “move away from pain (fear of that pain)” and “move towards pleasure“. If we humans are motivated by pain and fear, and we use EFT to clear that fear we’re moving away from, are we reducing our motivation? Do we end up in a sort of neutral state without fear to move away from but not enough pleasure to move us forward?

In some personal change strategies (e.g. Tony Robbins’ Dickens Process), you magnify the fear of not changing to give people the motivation to change rather than using ways to lessen the fear and pain.

So should we use EFT to clear the fears that are between us and what we want yet leave those fears that are motivating us so that we move forward?

A friend (nod to Si Dawson) suggested that moving away from fear is short term fuel. It was good for getting away from the sabre tooth tiger yet we can’t use it for long periods of time without burnout. On the other hand, moving towards pleasure could be considered long term fuel since it draws us forward.

So what do you think? Should we keep some fear to help us move towards what we want and only apply EFT to the fears that are between us and out goal. Share your thoughts in the comments.

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Tags: fear, goals, motivation

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