Back to PWI Magazine - Q3 2012

 “What holds us back in life, both personally and professionally, are unresolved emotional issues"

Interview by Alessandra Zocca

EFT is a simple process of tapping on acupressure points on the body. By tapping on these acupressure points, we can release uncomfortable emotions and negative thoughts. As a result we feel better, think better, and handle our lives with more ease, harmony, and effectiveness. EFT is an emotional version of acupuncture without the needles. Instead, we stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them with our fingertips.
The idea is that negative emotions are caused by imbalances in the body's subtle energy system and this tapping serves to restore that balance. Properly done, even the heaviest trauma or the most embarrassing rejection becomes "just something else that happened."
EFT is a safe, easy-to-use, easy-to-learn self-help tool with lasting results.

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PWI - Frankly I suspect that only few years ago the association between emotions and profession or business was not considered “very managerial”; why –in your opinion – are we hearing more and more about the power and impact of emotions in each and every aspect of life, including business? Are the stress and insecurity caused by the current economic crisis contributing in breaking down some old prejudices about emotions?

We are all emotional beings whether we like it or not. If we don’t acknowledge and accept our emotions consciously, then we act them out unconsciously, and these uncontrolled outbursts are often experienced as unprofessional in the business world.

However, recently there has been a big shift. As women, who need to keep up with the big changes that are happening in the world, we are required to bring all of who we are to the workplace, not only our logical side but also our intuitive feminine power. The world needs our compassion, empathy, nurturing, graciousness, serenity, and understanding. In addition, constructive emotions have a positive effect on our health and well-being, especially when we decide to express them in a balanced way.
As women, we are most powerful when we balance BEing, ENJOYing, and DOing, without sacrifice.
The biggest gift we can give to the world is our own happiness. The happier we are the more we can give from a place of emotional abundance, instead of feeling exhausted and depleted.

We have the opportunity to be inspiring role models. Our transformational power comes from standing with and for each other, instead of following the outdated competition model. When we infuse our feminine power with love, we exude a graceful radiance that nurtures everyone we connect with.

Embodying our full feminine power from a place of centeredness allows us to uplift others with our enthusiasm. And… did you know that ‘enthusiasm’ is the most powerful positive emotion to influence and have an inspiring impact as a leader?

Women who have the courage to step into their full feminine power will have an enormous advantage in the workplace just by being themselves, authentically.

We can all feel it when someone walks their talk and is congruent emotionally, mentally, socially, and spiritually. When someone with these qualities steps into the board room, we can feel the difference clearly and immediately.

What I have seen with thousands of my clients around the world is that what holds us back in life, both personally and professionally, are unresolved emotional issues. We are all smart beyond measure, but certain emotional states are interfering and sabotaging our hard work, and we are not getting the results we want.
These issues drain our energy on a subconscious level and we are not even aware of the fact that this is happening. We feel out of control.

We bring our anger, frustration, and other disappointments to the workplace and we try to hide them ‘professionally’ not knowing that other people have ‘antennas’ and pick up on our undesirable state, whether we like it or not. This emits emotional toxicity in the workplace.
The best way to leverage our emotions for a better life and professional success is to resolve unwanted emotions on a cellular and subconscious level, so they don’t interfere anymore with what we want to accomplish in life.

If we don’t self-sabotage unconsciously, then we can enjoy being authentically in alignment with our goals and desires.
During the last 10 years, I have continually experienced that when our conscious mind and subconscious mind are in agreement, we access an unprecedented inner power allowing us to enjoy success easier, faster, and more gracefully than ever before.
The reason why I have chosen EFT (and continue to do so) is because it is in my experience the safest and easiest tool to release unwanted emotions on a subconscious level.

When I explain this concept to my workshop participants, I often receive the question: Where is my subconscious? And then they point everywhere outside of themselves trying to locate it. Our subconscious resides in our body, in our cells, and in our DNA.

What we are in essence doing is deleting unwanted programming on a cellular level. Once we have made ‘space’ in our subconscious then we can re-program with EFT our own subconscious with the attitudes and emotions we DO want. This gives us independence and puts us in the driver’s seat of our own life. In addition, most people appreciate having a powerful tool to manage, self-sooth, and self-calm their own emotions privately.

I know numerous other wonderful psychological disciplines, but nothing compares to EFT in terms of getting permanent results easily, gracefully, and effectively.

I always tell my clients, the day I find something better than EFT, I will let you know immediately, but so far I have not found anything that is even close to what EFT can do for us.