There are 6 dumb mistakes people make when doing EFT Tapping. These mistakes stop tapping from working well and make the tapper frustrated with tapping, or even give up on EFT altogether. 
Are YOU making any of these dumb mistakes?
1. Just Want to "Tap It Away"
Do you use tapping with the prime purpose of running away from your painful, upsetting emotions? If you do, you're ignoring the possibility that the upsetting emotion came to deliver you wisdom. Simply "tapping it away" taps away the wisdom with it.
Instead of having the desire to eliminate your upsetting emotions quickly, try this instead.
Welcome the emotion. Use your tapping to open yourself to its wisdom. You might even say, while tapping, "Even though I don't like the pain of this emotion, I'd like to be open to its wisdom."
2. Don't focus fully on your tapping. You've got other things you should be thinking about.
Multi-tasking for anything usually brings poor results for all the multiple tasks. Tapping, like anything you want great results for, needs your full attention.
If you tap - tap with all of you. Stop everything else you're doing. Get into a private place . . . even if that's a bathroom stall or your car. Put your full attention on your tapping.
You'll end up with a more clear mind and more energy for your other commitments.
3. Avoid feeling the emotion - it's too painful
Tapping really doesn't work at all if you avoid feeling the emotion while tapping. It's the energy of the emotion that connects the thoughts and your body. If you avoid feeling or tuning in to the emotion, you might as well not tap at all.
To move the energy by tapping the meridian points, you must first activate the energy. How do you activate it? You activate it by feeling the emotion - by putting your awareness on the emotion.
4. Tap immediately on the positive - that's where you want to be anyway - right?
This, like all the other dumb mistakes, is actually understandable and pretty smart! Your intention is to be in a positive place, so why not start there?
And this tactic actually works for a lot of people. But for many of us - I'm one and you may be one - jumping immediately to the positive does not work.
If you have a lot of inner resistance - like I must - then you'll need to transition gradually from your initial negative state toward the positive.
I recommend language like "What if . . ." and "Wouldn't it be nice if . . ." or "Maybe . . ."
Tapping those transitional statements will bridge the gap between negative and positive and allow you to get where you want to go.
5. Tap quickly, with a time deadline
When you set a deadline for your tapping, like anything that needs time and attention, it seldom works. You can plan to do some quick tapping - but don't do it with expectations of exactly where you'll end up.
6. Assume this tapping session should work just like the most effective previous tapping session you did
When you have strong expectations, especially when you're comparing your results with great results you had before, you set yourself up for disappointment.
This seldom works.
Plus, it makes you limit your success with the belief that nothing short of your previous great success is good enough.
Every tapping session needs to be a fresh start. Let it unfold as it will. You are a different person in each moment. Your emotions are fresh and new in each moment.
Allow yourself to be open to new information. New results. New life. New you.
By correcting these 6 dumb mistakes people make when tapping, you can greatly increase your positive results. Tapping will help you feel happier, have more energy, get more good things done and feel better doing it.
Tune in, Tap, Transform!
p.s. Be sure to get signed up for the 2012 Tapping World Summit, starting in April. The 2012 World Tapping Summit is a great way to learn new tapping skills, boost your positive vibration and clear some major issues!
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