There is something about the way we think about the challenges in our lives that make them easier or harder to deal with. If we call something difficult, painful or a struggle, we set ourselves up to experience difficulty, pain or struggle. Fortunately these same descriptions can give a way to effectively work with these situations. This webinar will give you a simple, step by step, process to help you process these limited responses to challenging situations into a much more resourceful state of mind. You can watch a recording of the webinar here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgMA_ePcIk8

1. From Description To Solution
Using A Problem
Against Itself
By
Andy Hunt
© Andy Hunt, Practical Wellbeing, 2013

2. What to expect
How descriptions cause problems
and
How to use descriptions to find creative solutions

3. Everything Has A Label
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4. Would you like an apple?

5. Would you like a delicious apple?
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6. Would you like a rotten apple?
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7. The label tells you how
to respond to the object

8. Labels
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Description – What 'it' is like

9. Labels
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Description – What 'it' is like
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Prescription – How we should think and feel

10. The Power Of The Label
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Housework is easy

11. The Power Of The Label
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Housework is easy
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Housework is a struggle

12. The Power Of The Label
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Housework is easy
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Housework is a struggle
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I am upset

13. The Power Of The Label
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Housework is easy
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Housework is a struggle
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I am upset
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I am devastated

14. The Power Of The Label
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Housework is easy
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Housework is a struggle
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I am upset
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I am devastated
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Work is interesting

15. The Power Of The Label
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Housework is easy
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Housework is a struggle
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I am upset
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I am devastated
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Work is interesting
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Work is boring

16. The Problem With Labels
How we label the problem contributes
to how we think and feel about it.

17. Problem Goggles
Image courtesy of Atomic Mutant Flea Circus

18. How can we use these labels to help us?

19. The Nobel Art Of Label Jitsu

20. Step 1: Find The Labels

21. Step 1: Find The Labels
This situation/problem is:
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...

22. Step 1: Find The Labels
This situation/problem is:
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hard
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23. Step 1: Find The Labels
This situation/problem is:
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hard
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painful
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…
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24. Step 1: Find The Labels
This situation/problem is:
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hard
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painful
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a struggle
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…
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...

25. Step 1: Find The Labels
This situation/problem is:
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hard
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painful
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a struggle
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unfair
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26. Step 2: Find The Strongest Label
This situation/problem is:
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hard
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painful
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a struggle
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unfair
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...

27. Step 3: Defuse the label
If the emotional charge on the label is high, this
needs to be softened before moving on.

28. Step 3: Defuse the label
If the emotional charge on the label is high, this
needs to be softened before moving on.
Use regular tapping: “Even though … etc”. to
bring down the charge.

29. How do you go from problem to solution?
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Problem state

30. How do you go from problem to solution?
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Neutral state

31. How do you go from problem to solution?
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What's next?
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32. Why not use the Choices Method?
Pat Carrington's Choices Method:
“Even though I [problem], I choose to [solution]”

33. Why not use the Choices Method?
Pat Carrington's Choices Method:
“Even though I [problem], I choose to [solution]”
Two disadvantages:

34. Why not use the Choices Method?
Pat Carrington's Choices Method:
“Even though I [problem], I choose to [solution]”
Two disadvantages:
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The choice is made by your conscious mind

35. Why not use the Choices Method?
Pat Carrington's Choices Method:
“Even though I [problem], I choose to [solution]”
Two disadvantages:
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The choice is made by your conscious mind
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The choice is just one choice.

36. What's an alternative?
Paradoxical Tapping

37. What's an alternative?
Paradoxical Tapping
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Creates many alternative solutions

38. What's an alternative?
Paradoxical Tapping
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Creates many alternative solutions
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Engages the creative unconscious mind

39. What's an alternative?
Paradoxical Tapping
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Creates many alternative solutions
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Engages the creative unconscious mind
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Side steps the doubting conscious mind

40. What's an alternative?
Paradoxical Tapping
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Creates many alternative solutions
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Engages the creative unconscious mind
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Side steps the doubting conscious mind
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Taps out any problems with the solutions

41. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 1: Find The Opposite

42. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 1: Find The Opposite
a struggle ...

43. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 1: Find The Opposite
a struggle … a delight

44. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 2: Create the paradoxical tapping statement

45. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 2: Create the paradoxical tapping statement
I [label], and in how many different ways could I
[opposite]?

46. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 2: Create the paradoxical tapping statement
I [label], and in how many different ways could I
[opposite]?
It is [label], and in how many different ways could
it [opposite]?

47. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 2: Create the paradoxical tapping statement
I am discouraged, and in how many
different ways could I be enthusiastic?

48. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 2: Create the paradoxical tapping statement
It is a struggle, and in how many
different ways could it be a delight?

49. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 3: The setup statement
Even though it is a struggle, I accept myself and
how I feel. x 3

50. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 4: Alternate tapping the paradoxical phrase
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EB: It is a struggle,

51. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 4: Alternate tapping the paradoxical phrase
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EB: It is a struggle,
SE: and in how many different ways could it be
a delight?

52. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 4: Alternate tapping the paradoxical phrase
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EB: It is a struggle,
SE: and in how many different ways could it be
a delight?
UE: It is a struggle,

53. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 4: Alternate tapping the paradoxical phrase
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EB: It is a struggle,
SE: and in how many different ways could it be
a delight?
UE: It is a struggle,
UN: and in how many different ways could it be
a delight?

54. Step 4: Paradoxical Tapping
Part 4: Alternate tapping the paradoxical phrase
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EB: It is a struggle,
SE: and in how many different ways could it be
a delight?
UE: It is a struggle,
UN: and in how many different ways could it be
a delight?
repeat through the tapping points

55. Step 5. Test
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Test how you think and feel about the problem
now.
Rinse and repeat as necessary

56. Paradoxical Tapping Results
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Original problem eased

57. Paradoxical Tapping Results
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Original problem eased
Thinking and feeling about the problem
situation becomes more resourceful and
flexible.

58. Paradoxical Tapping Tips
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It works best on negative thoughts and
emotions to help you be more resourceful.

59. Paradoxical Tapping Tips
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It works best on negative thoughts and
emotions to help you be more resourceful.
It doesn't work on external factors

60. Paradoxical Tapping Tips
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It works best on negative thoughts and
emotions to help you be more resourceful.
It doesn't work on external factors
It is a tactic not a strategy, best for
dissolving/resolving components of bigger
problems.

61. Next webinar: What Works For Me
How I approach using EFT to work on everyday
issues and challenges.
Some of the strategies and tactics I've developed
over the past 10 years tapping
Thursday, December 19th, 3pm GMT