Welcome to the EFT for Procrastination Study Guide!
I am delighted that you are renewing your EFT Universe Clinical EFT Certified Practitioner credential. This renewal option is based on the book EFT for Procrastination by therapist and long-time tapper Gloria Arenson.
Procrastination is one of the most common reasons for which people use tapping. You’ll find a wealth of insight on how to work with them in the approaches and examples below.
In this course, you’ll read this short book and complete quizzes that test your knowledge of the material.
Prepare yourself by taking notes as you read. That will make passing the quizzes the first time easy. There are questions about EFT techniques, about the content of each chapter, and about the case histories provided as examples. Here are some sample test questions to give you an idea of what to expect:
Q: According to the author of EFT for Procrastination, what has contributed to the rise in procrastination?
- A lack of discipline
- Increased stress and multitasking
- Genetic predisposition
- A lack of motivation
Q: What common belief do many procrastinators hold that contributes to their delay in taking action?
- They enjoy the rush of completing tasks last minute
- They are afraid of making the wrong choice
- They believe everything must be perfect before starting
- They don’t care about the consequences of their procrastination
Q: How does EFT address the emotional responses that may arise during tapping?
- By ignoring the emotions and focusing only on the problem
- By suppressing the emotions to make progress
- By allowing the emotions to surface and tapping on them
- By repeating positive affirmations only
Q: What is one of the common beliefs of perfectionistic procrastinators?
- If I can’t do something perfectly, I shouldn’t do it at all.
- I must never make mistakes.
- I should always complete tasks without help.
- If I fail, I will be loved less.
As you can see, these questions are easy to answer if you’ve been taking notes. Pay close attention to the text, record pertinent points, and your notes will allow you to complete the quizzes effortlessly. If you’d like to get a hard copy from Amazon, here’s the order link.
The quizzes are “open book.” You can keep the PDF open in one screen or tab while you answer the quiz questions on a second screen or tab. You can also use the “search” function within the PDF to locate key words from a question or answer. The objective of the quizzes is to help you remember the important points from the book, and having the book “open” while you complete the questions assists with the process.
We also have an interview I did with Gloria Arenson, author of EFT for Procrastination. You can Watch it below. This material is optional and not on the quiz.
Even though you’re already a seasoned practitioner, you’re likely to learn a lot from this material. So approach it with “beginner’s mind” and have fun with this renewal course!
What’s Underneath Procrastination: Gloria Arenson and Dawson Church in conversation.
Gloria Arenson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. She specializes in using Energy Psychology methods such as EFT and The Phoenix Process. Gloria is the author of Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing, How to Stop Playing the Weighting Game, Born to Spend, Desserts Is Stressed Spelled Backwards, Freedom At Your Fingertips, EFT for Procrastination and Grownup Love: Getting It and Keeping It. Here Gloria and Dawson share about about:
- I was in two 12 step groups to deal with my own issues
- Energy Psychology blew me away, the best tool anyone could have
- When I was craving or stuck, I used tapping
- I was married to compulsive spender, drove us into bankruptcy
- I consider procrastination a compulsion
- I have clients keep an appropriate diary like a food diary or a spending diary
- Case history: Several days of healthy eating, then 10 donuts!
- The client’s behavior mirrored her emotions
- As clients tap, emotions like anger and fear dissipate
- Psychologist Wendy McCarty finds that many problems stem from birth
- For instance breech births or an umbilical cord around the neck
- Can result in an adult with trouble expressing themselves or unconsciously in survival mode
- Pre and perinatal psychology shows you can heal clients’ trauma from pregnancy and birth
- Look at the energy and intention beyond the behavior
- The procrastinator’s emotional malaise spreads to the people around them, work and family
- The EFT practitioner is like a detective, listening for clues
- Like body language, expression on client’s face
- Body sensations can be birth memories
- Clinical EFT training makes us more alert as therapists and coaches
- Case history: Rebecka, fear of flying, and enclosed spaces
- Linked to breech birth, her body was remembering that terror
- Make a list of all the life experiences that have constricted you and tap on them
- Dawson’s procrastination around doing big projects
- Around 25% of people had a traumatic enough birth to affect their adulthoods
- Muscle test yourself for what age you were when you first felt that sensation
- Asd: “Was it before I was 10 … 5 … 1 … “ and so on till you find the origin
