I’m writing this post in response to a message I received from a reader. The lady is starting a new business after a failed business and felt she was putting mindset blocks in her way.
This is a common problem as the emotions we carry from the failed business create all sorts of limiting beliefs and emotional blocks.
We can definitely use EFT – Emotional Freedom Techniques to help release these blocks. If you’re new to EFT, please read EFT – How to tap. It’s incredibly quick and easy to learn (minutes).
Before I get into the EFT sessions, I want to just talk briefly about failure or what we perceive as failure.
Failure is simply a way of learning. If you have a failed business behind you, see that as a positive experience because you will have learned so much through that experience.
Reframe the picture, and start to focus on what that previous business taught you about yourself and about business.
Every failure is a learning opportunity and a step closer to success.
EFT Tapping Points and Set-up
Even though these may be fairly new beliefs and emotional attachments, they are likely to be deep-rooted. I use different EFT points for different issues.
I feel that in this case, the best style of tapping is Heart and Soul EFT as we need to heal old memories, limiting beliefs, emotional blocks…
To start – Place your hands over your chest, one on top of the other. Take a nice deep, slow breath in, hold for a count of three and slowly relax. Repeat three times. Please take your time with this, let yourself relax into it.
Then move on to the tapping points…
- Top of the head
- 3rd eye – middle of the forehead
- Eyebrow (the thick point)
- Side of the eye
- Under the eye
- Under the nose
- Under the mouth
- Collarbone (Gently use your fist and tap the bone at the base of your neck)
- Side of the thumb
- Side of the index finger
- Side of the middle finger
- Side of the ring finger
- Side of the little finger
Again, please take your time, keep your breathing nice and relaxed, taking a deep breath regularly throughout the tapping sessions.
Focus on the past
For the first EFT session, I simply want you to focus on your failed business. Allow yourself to feel any emotions that come up. Keeping those feeling, start the EFT session.
Normally at this stage, I would ask you to say a set-up phrase and then say something at each tapping point but for this particular session, I just want you to focus on the failed business and the emotions that memory brings up for you.
How strong are the feelings before starting to tap? Give those feelings a number between Minus 10 and 0.
At minus 10 your low (or negative) emotions are strong and at 0 the emotions feel neutral. Later on in this post, I’m going to help you to raise that number to plus 10 where you feel super positive.
For now, give your emotions a number and complete 2 full rounds of tapping, and then check your number again.
Hopefully, you will be closer to 0. Keep tapping until you feel neutral about the failed business. Do this session when you can dedicate a good amount of time to this session. I would recommend at least 30 minutes.
You can take breaks and have a drink but I encourage you to keep tapping until you do reach that point where the emotions feel neutral. Remember to keep taking nice relaxed and deep breaths throughout the tapping session.
POSITIVE EFT for Business Success
The next step to help push you from just feeling neutral to feeling really positive, getting you to plus 10.
This time we’re going to use fewer tapping points and this makes these sessions quicker to complete so that you can easily fit them into your day-to-day life.
NOTE: I highly recommend daily EFT tapping for business success.
I like to TAP IN affirmations, for example…
- My business is a huge success
- I’m more than capable of building a really successful business that I love
- It’s natural for me to be successful
Do a quick set-up tapping the side of your hand – Just say what you want, such as “I’m tapping today to accept this affirmation”
Here are your quickfire tapping points – Say your affirmations at each tapping point.
- Top of the head
- 3rd eye – middle of the forehead
- Eyebrow (the thick point)
- Side of the eye
- Under the eye
- Under the nose
- Under the mouth
- Collarbone (Gentle use your fist and tap the bone at the base of your neck)
- Side of the hand
I encourage you to read EFT and Affirmations – The power combo and also Affirmations for business.
Other ways to use EFT as you take your next business step
With the information, I’ve already shared you now have a full EFT session to help clear old beliefs, and stuck energy… about your old business and you are able to really raise your vibrations and feel amazing about creating your new business.
Now I want to also share a few extra ideas that I feel will help.
Feeling overwhelmed
No matter what the business is and what you’re previous experience, so many people tell me that they feel overwhelmed in business from time to time. You can use EFT to release these feelings as they come up.
Set-up phrase: Even though I’m feeling really overwhelmed right now, I know this feeling is temporary and I’m tapping now to release this feeling.
Take a few nice slow, deep breaths in and out. As you breathe in, in your mind say “I’m calm and relaxed” as you breathe out say “Release.”
Then on the tapping points say “This feeling.” As the feeling releases, you can then switch to a positive affirmation such as “I’m calm and relaxed.”
Check out this blog post FEELING OVERWHELMED AND STRESSED ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS.
Letting go of procrastination
Another great phrase to use is “I now let it go.” Procrastination is something many business owners talk to me about and a lot of times this either comes from not having a clear focus or plan of action – If this is you, please read Clarity in business.
The other big reason for procrastination is fear and feeling overwhelmed. With this in mind, let’s do some tapping.
At every point, you are going to say “These feelings that cause me to procrastinate, I now let them go, soften and flow, soften and flow”
I love these ‘letting go’ sessions, they’re incredibly healing and freeing from old limitations.
Letting go of overthinking
Another thing that blocks people from taking action is overthinking. This can literally keep you stuck in your business.
Again on every tapping points say “All of this overthinking, I now let it go, soften and flow, soften and flow”
More Confidence
Now some more positive EFT. You can TAP IN anything you want more of. Whenever people have had any kind of setback in business they can suffer a lack of confidence and also when they’re going into the unknown.
Your EFT session – Set-up phrase: I’m tapping today for more confidence. At each tapping point simply say “More confidence.”
More Focus
Please make sure that you know what you want to achieve in your business. I encourage you to check out my LAW OF ATTRACTION BUSINESS PLANNING PACK and the SIMPLICITY GOAL SETTING download as these will really help you to gain clarity and focus in your business so that you always know each day what to focus your attention on.
Your EFT session – Set-up phrase: I’m tapping for more focus. At each tapping point say “more focus”
Daily tapping
I encourage you to make daily tapping a part of your day-to-day business routine. This will help you to keep your energy free-flowing and avoid blocks building up that will cause you problems and helps you to keep feeling super positive about your business.
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Using EFT to help you start again after a failed business
I really hope that you’ve found this post super helpful. Let’s do a quick recap.
- Reframe how you think about your previous business and view it as a positive learning experience
- Start by completing the heart and soul tapping session – Really take the time to clear the feeling you have connected to your failed business and starting a new business
- Move onto positive EFT – Try combining EFT with positive affirmations
- To release unwanted feelings as they come up, use “This… I now let it go, soften and flow, soften and flow
- Tap in MORE of what you want, more confidence, more clarity, more focus…
Resources
- Clarity workbook for business success
- Paid downloads BUSINESS BOOSTER WORKBOOK – LAW OF ATTRACTION BUSINESS PLANNING WORKBOOK and SIMPLICITY GOAL SETTING
- Hypnosis Download (please note that this is my referral link and I will receive a commission if you buy anything from the site) – I love this company and use them myself. Take a look at the 10 Steps to a Stellar Success Mindset from there you can explore the site to see if anything resonates with you. One of my personal favourites that has really helped me in my business is the Improve Concentration and Focus download.
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Wendy Tomlinson – Helping you to create a positive mindset that supports you.
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