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Originally Posted by gerber  Remember to write down how you feel about something before you use EFT on it, because afterwards you sometimes feel like it wasn't an issue at all. |
This is a key point for any variety of change work. If you want to be able to more accurately understand (and tell) your story of transformation, you have to keep track of where you start, what happens, and where you are after.
This is part of the reasoning behind the SUDs scale (Subjective Units of Distress). Rate the pain/suffering/etc. from 1-10... do a round of tapping, then rate it again. Once you get the pain down to a 1 or 0, and it stays there for a while, it might become difficult to remember it ever being all that bad, but you will usually remember "It started out as a 9."
This is one of the reasons many great mystics emphasize the importance of journaling. A journal is a live account of your transformation. Even if you aren't practicing EFT, meditation, NLP, etc.... if you journal, you may well look at entries a year earlier and think "Wow... I can't believe I was thinking that!"
But I won't preach on this too much... I just got consistent with journaling in the last year, and it still isn't everyday...
keep smiling,
Ben