Hello, my name is Deirdre & I'm a FasterEFT master practitioner
& we're here in Habilitat today and
it's a great pleasure for me to interview Robert G. Smith. Hello Robert,
How are you today?
I'm doing great. Nice to be here with you.
I want to just, for the benefit of people watching
to clarify a few things
around FasterEFT.
So, first of all,
for the ordinary "Joe Blow" in the street.
What is FasterEFT?
FasterEFT. FasterEFT.
is a thinking system.
It's a system about
why we have problems.
How we have problems. How to change problems.
and understanding that problems aren't really problems but merely
creations from what we hold within us.
That means our life experiences are accumulated.
and that we just act from them.
So FasterEFT is a thinking system. It's a
it's a healing system.
We know that if you change
how you represent things in your mind your body will heal.
Your relationships will improve.
Your attitude about yourself will change.
So, it's about healing your life.
It's about transforming how you think,
how you represent the world.
It's about creating something better.
It's a thinking system. It's a healing system.
It's a personal transformational tool.
It's a lot of things mixed together in all one big package really.
So, why should somebody use it?
Well, people should use it because
they probably want something better.
I mean, they want to be in control.
They want to feel better about themselves.
They want to impact their children's lives. They wanna help other people.
They want to be at peace.
They wanna have some kind of control,
some kind of just, maybe just even liking themselves,
being at peace where they are, no matter where they are.
so it's a, it's just a self-empowering tool, really. It's just
something that just adds to your life, to your value
And how does it work? In a simple way, how does it work?
How does it work? The simplest way. -Yeah.
Basically, if you were to break it down to the most simplest ways
of why it works, it actually
changes
how you hold things in your mind.
and, of course, how you hold things in your mind
will determine your actions and your behaviours
Now, of course, we have loads of tools & skills to help
transform what we hold
but it's basically what you think becomes real in the body
and it's the unconscious mind driving the bus
and what we're actually learning to do is make friends with our unconscious mind
that means understanding how it works
understanding that you're a success.
You successfully produced whatever it is you currently have in your life
because of the recordings in the unconscious
The unconscious helps us create and generate from what we hold
and so it's basically helping us learn how to drive our unconscious
Make peace with your unconscious.
It's trying to help you.
It's trying to keep you in alignment from where you came from.
and so we understand how it works.
You can also use the workings
to manifest and produce something better.
That's really what it's all about.
So, say for example, I'm depressed
-Uhum -How can FasterEFT help me?
Well, of course Faster EFT believes that you're a success,
so you're successfully depressed
and the question is
How do you know you're depressed?
Do you have proofs of why you should be depressed?
and experiences, umm,
Do you have a cultural conditioning?
do you have love attachments with people who were depressed?
You have experiences that you hold within yourself
to manifest and produce depression?
So, if you're depressed,
what we'll do is we'll help you
change the resources
that you hold within you
to successfully create depression, you know
Okay.
and just to add a little bit to that is
depression is an expression of all your life experiences
happiness is a chemical problem as well
that means if you think certain things you're going to create happy chemicals.
The chemicals did not cause it,
but it is an expression of what the mind holds
and it's, you know, like
it's not energy either, it's just emotional expressions
and you feel it
but that's not the cause, it's the expression
of what we hold, and what we developed and the ideas we created
from experiencing the world
-So, can it work for anybody?
It works with almost everybody
and when I say almost
It will work definitely with anyone
who will set down.
Who will step into their mind and address what they hold
anyone and everyone
It doesn't matter if you were born
with, what they would call,
you know, a mental disability, it will still help people with,
with anything
because it addresses the number one cause and that is your stressed emotions
how you perceive things
It will not work with dead people (she laughs)
You know
I think it would be obvious
with this, because they're dead
but, it will help people
who hold dead people in their minds
that means they can go in their mind
and make peace with those who've passed.
So, it works with every person
No matter what the issue is
because it addresses stressed emotions
If you change your stressed emotions
then you'll feel better about yourself.
That doesn't mean that, say for example, you were born with blue eyes
and you don't like blue eyes. It won't change your eyes
but you'll make peace with it
and you'll say, "Hey, you know what? I'm born with blue eyes."
I accept myself
and there are some people who have certain things that can't be changed
but you'll learn to accept yourself and be happy regardless
of whereever you are and what you experience in life
-Very good, so
I've been diagnosed with an illness by the doctor.
How can Faster EFT help me?
Well, FasterEFT works with the power of the mind
The power of the mind has the great ability to heal itself.
scientifically proven
over and over and over again, the mind can heal itself
Even when doctors can't and that is proven with the
with the
the, the
placebo effect, of course when you hear 'the placebo effect' people think, Oh, it's
you know, it's usually a doctor with a lemon in his mouth talking about it
the placebo effect proves
the fact that you can take a sugar pill
and the sugar pill doesn't heal you
but it's the mind of the individual who believes
& who's doing inwardly something correctly to manifest healing
now, we call that the universal pattern of creation/belief
because, see, we work with how the mind works
and the mind will heal itself.
and it's done it over and over again
and so we use that and understand the 'nocebo effect'
the 'nocebo effect' is that you're getting the right surgery, the right drugs,
and yet nothing works
because these two individuals are doing exactly the same thing
but they're looking in two differnt directions.
One is saying "I'll never heal. It will never work for me."
and they're doing something in their mind to create no healing.
and the placebo effect person
is doing something that creates healing.
That means they're using their inner resources, the power of the mind
to heal their body
It's not the sugar pill.
-Uhum. It's the power of the mind.
FasterEFT steps into the understanding
what you're doing successfully to manifest and produce
and if you use the unconscious resources
you can create healing, you can create
anything you want
I mean, you gotta think about it, everything we're doing in our life: the car, the air conditioner
everything is a creation from the unconscious mind the creative mind, and so
that's why it works, it works with the power of the mind
-So, can you do it wrong?
Only way you can do it wrong is not do it at all.
-Okay Now, a lot of people like, when they start using
any process, doesn't matter if it's FasterEFT, or talk therapy, or any other type of therapies
what will happen when you start using it
other things show up, other memories, and emotions and feelings will show itself up.
and then, what we have to do is realize that
we have to just keep working
keep cleaning and clearing because there is, some will call it the healing crisis
I just say this stuff is still trying to work its way out
& you're trying to make peace with your unconscious mind
and the memories that it holds. The only way you can do it wrong is not do it at all.
-Okay So, that's how I see it.
-Okay and how do you do it? How do you do it to do it properly? What do you do?
The most important thing is knowing inwardly. How do you know you have a problem?
It's aiming. It's aiming and how you internally represent the memory
It's the belief.
It's the memories that you use to create it.
It's the attitude. It's the emotions. It's the physical sensations.
It's the voices in your head. It's the pictures you have
Aiming at these and knowing when you get done
when you're finished, the memories change, the feelings change
Your attitudes change, your beliefs change and your actions change.
-Okay. So: How do you aim? What does that mean?
You aim at the emotion. What does that mean?
Well, aiming is, you know, you've got a problem
you know you have a problem. Well, I know it I feel it right here.
-Right. I know it because they said something.
I know it because I have a picture in my mind
-Okay That's aiming, that's how you know
then you notice how you know in your body, how you know internally.
Then you just tap. I release and let it go. I release and let it go. (inhales & exhales) Peace
Now, as you're tapping you have to focus on, your tapping, just your tapping
Don't focus on the problem, focus on your tapping, then go back and check it again.
Aiming inwardly.
How do you know you have a problem?
How are you successfully creating, manifesting, producing & representing the problem?
-Okay and then changing that.
-Okay So then you just, when you're tapping
you're not thinking about the problem you're just thinking about tapping
on those and then, deep breath in and then go back and check.
Go back and check what you're aiming at.
Uhuh.
Because, see, it's hard to let go of something if you're holding onto it.
-Yeah.
So, we notice it, we notice how we know and then we're aiming at the knowing.
The feelings, the sensation
and we're pulling in and out of trance, you know, because
there's an understanding that
when you have a problem
a problem, even though we call it a problem
it's an undesirable outcome or experience
When you have a problem, you know because you're bothered by it.
the bothering and the physical expression
is a manifestation
and what we wanna do is, you notice it
and then we release it
by de-fractionating, which is
when you have a problem you go into a trance
When you remember something
When someone looks at you a certain way,
when you hear a song and you start to drift into a memory
those are hypnotic states of mind.
We do this thousands of times a day.
Well, problems are just hypnotic states of mind.
It's the unconscious mind with all its data
producing what we know how to produce from the data and
the life experiences we hold.
So what we do is, is we de-fractionate, basically you take a record or
a DVD and you just scratch it
you de-fractionate it over and over again until eventually it can't play.
De-fractionation
is a pattern interrupt
with a desired outcome in mind
and that means we want to re-write the story
reimprinting it
So that all sounds very exciting and
what's the best change you've ever seen in a person?
What comes to mind when I ask you that?
-Biggest changes? You know, there are so many, but
Usually it's the earlier ones,
Like the pivotal "Ah Ha's" you know
The first lady that came to mind, she read an article in the newspaper
Yukon Oklahoma
and when she came to see me, I was working at a gym
and doing massage and tapping. -Uhum.
and she's walking with this little walker
and I'm following behind her & I'm thinking
"My God, it's gonna take forever to get out there, to get to my office."
-Uhum So then she, I started working on her
and we addressed this specific memory. Her leg was hurting and
she bumped the coffee table
but I said, "Have you ever hurt this leg before?"
and all of a sudden she goes back to a memory
when she's 12 years old.
She steps out of a '57 Chevy and a rattlesnake bites her leg.
But that's not where it all began. Cause back when she was in the hospital,
in the ER
and the doctor said she's dead & she can still hear her mother crying.
and then, that was like emotional, gigantic.
and then, so after I cleaned all the emotions & everything else involved
we worked a little bit on work
and then she walked out carrying the
the walker. I thought "That's...
big time. That was like at the very beginning.
That was like 2002
So that sticks out really, really big and
of course you know, my family, my youngest son, working with him or
or even here in Habilitat, working with addictions, you know, so,
or the lady who had the big burn marks on her hand where she was
felt like, almost electrocuted, you know because of doing some kind of,
I don't remember what it's called now, but,
in just
tapping on it in front of a big group of people
the, she shuffled to her chair
and then I worked with her probably 20, 30 minutes
the lumps on her hands, the burn marks went down
and she actually just walked to her chair
You could see the colour in her face change and all it is is just that memory
and a couple of other memories where people had died
and her body changed
you know. She just changed, just like that, in front of everybody,
but,
I mean there's so many. I mean those are some of the big ones.
There's a lady that's on You Tube
Used to, every time I'd watch her testimonial
I'd just cry, you know, and it's about OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)
of course, when she came to my office
You know, with FasterEFT, you don't have to know
the memories
you don't have to know the details of the memories, so I remember
in the office, the emotions and all this stuff
and then she came back to see me the next week and
and she had this big smile on her face
and she goes, I said "Well, how was it?" She said,
"I went to the mall and I bought shoes".
and she just, like, lit up.
and to me, "Well, okay!"
You know, I didn't know
what was going on and basically
she couldn't leave her home.
She was trapped in her home.
She had taken tons of pills just to go to work.
She would
I mean, she'd be lucky to stay in a job 2 weeks, maybe a month
and then she'd lose her job and move to the next.
and so, that one session totally changed her life and,
believe it or not, to this day
she has the exact same job she had 9 years ago.
-Hum. and she's happy.
She's got a smile, her life is completely changed.
And we did several sessions afterward, addressing other issues,
but those were some of the big ones. You know.
So, what do you think makes FasterEFT different from other modalities?
I think the,
the most important thing about FasterEFT is,
first of all
It`s very simple.
-Uh hum. It`s very easy.
It addresses the mind.
Which, that`s where I bring in the NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
because it`s the structure of thinking
and then also, with the tapping
Er, you know, EFT and
plus a lot more, EFT
basically is a pattern interrupt programme.
and so, with the, and so what I have done is I combined it all together
with an understanding of how we work, how we think,
how we process and how we manifest things
and it's taken it to the next level.
I mean, there`s a lot of guys who
Like, I started with EFT in 1999 -Uh huh
NLP, probably '94
and it's just,
an accumulation of all kinds of different understandings
and truths and spiritual understandings
things that actually do work.
and it's direct and to the point.
and it has a healthy belief system about
why we have problems, how we see things and how we produce it.
So, I think that's the
the magic, you know, it really is.
So, on a personal level
what drives you
to keep on going with this work?
What is driving you?
Tears. Emotions. Ha Ha.
See a big change (emotional tears)
(He taps on himself)
-Yeah.
Seeing people change. That's it. -Yeah.
-Yeah. -Yeah. and what do you see in the future, Robert?
What's your greatest wish for the future?
Oh, you know, I see
You know, I've gotta get some books written
-Okay
and, of course, have my books out there
-Uh huh. My 25 books!
Um.
FasterEFT taught in schools and prisons and
and rehabs. Um.
Yeah, it's just.
It's big.
It really is big. It's getting bigger
I mean, what you see of Fastereft has grown naturally.
I mean. I'm not.
There's no promoters, there's no sales
Only thing out there is 738 free videos on You Tube
teaching individuals who can't afford to go see a therapist
do it themselves.
and I think that's the number 1 thing is that it's free.
-Uh hum.
you know. Of course we have practitioners like us and those who have trained
who know how to go deeper. You know, the You Tube stuff
is not the training
it's deeper than what you see
There's more things that you can't understand
just by watching the videos because it's so rich
-Uh huh. and, of course, you know,
we do training all over the world, you know,
and the Level I training is
5 days, or actually, 7 days
and that's intense training, you know and
people say "Well, if FasterEFT is so fast, why does it take you so long to learn?"
I say because 'we' the practitioner have to be a lot smarter than our clients.
We have to be so adjustable, depending on how they create their problems,
what they do inside their head.
and we have to have a tool that, well, all kinds of tools
to adjust to whatever is in front of us.
So, it's 20 years down the line: What do you see?
I, you know, I can't even see that, it's
I don't know.
What would you like to see, if you could?
I just see a better world.
Everybody's happier, you know. Big differences made.
Um.
You know, there's peace, there's love, there's kindness
people are getting along
there's health, there's
who knows? -Uh huh, and FasterEFT has played it's part?
Major part because, it's simple,
-Yeah. It's easy.
It's universal. It fits any culture. It's universal.
It's, it has a belief system that's logical,
practical,
Um. It's serious.
and it's fun at the same time. -Good job.
Thank you very much, Robert, for this interview today.
Alright. Thank you. Good job.
Chaka. -Chakaaaaaaa.
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