The following books are recommended reading in a variety of areas relating to Coaching, EFT, AFT and healing/spirituality in general. I have personally read all the books listed here and have found all them useful, instructive or simply interesting and inspirational in my own development.
Fast forward to books on >>> Coaching, EFT, AFT, Other Energy Psychology, General interest
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Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work
and Life |
Amazon |
The text book for the Coaches Training Institute. Worth looking at if you want to know more about the CTI model or to improve your own coaching skills |
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Taming Your
Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself |
Amazon |
A classic and a concept used by many coaches. |
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Life
Strategies: Doing what works, Doing what matters |
Amazon |
Good down to earth stuff! |
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The
Life Strategies Workbook |
Amazon |
The workbook to Life Strategies with lots of exercises to work though. |
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Self
Matters: Creating Your Life from the Inside Out |
Amazon |
More good positive stuff and excellent on the subject of personal responsibility vs victimhood. |
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Living
Your Best Life |
Amazon |
Great at distilling down the most important factors for success and happiness - with interesting and inspiring personal history about how Laura got into coaching. |
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Sacred Contracts: Awakening Your
Divine Potential |
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Not strictly a coaching book - but relevant and thought provoking reading for anyone whose goal is to find their life purpose. |
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The Art & Science
Of Emotional Freedom |
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By the trainer who trained me. As well as containing a description of how to apply the EFT procedure, it also goes in depth into the meridian system and significance of each meridian for different emotions. |
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Adventures In EFT: The Essential Emotional
Freedom Techniques EFT Training Manual |
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Possibly the most comprehensive book on EFT, covering the use of EFT for a range of specific areas. A good beginner book while still being very thorough. |
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Choices - How To Create Positive
CHOICES In Energy Psychology |
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Takes EFT one step further by installing the positive after eliminating the negative |
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Getting
Thru to Your Emotions with EFT |
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A good primer but then goes deeper into specific subjects including Stress, Insomnia, Weight, Smoking, Pain and Physical Well-being. |
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Energy
Tapping |
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Also aimed at the beginner, but a bit more in-depth and slightly more academic than other primers. Includes chapters on Belief Change, Trauma and Memories, Sports Performance, Weight, Addictions and Relationships. |
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Power
vs Force - The Hidden Determinants of Human behaviour |
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Describes Attractor Fields and the Map of Consciousness in depth. Accessible must-read for anyone wanting to understand the basis of AFT. |
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The
Eye of the I - From Which Nothing is Hidden |
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Covers spirituality and consciousness topics. Of interest to those interested in using AFT to increase consciousness. Quite esoteric reading though. |
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I - Reality and Subjectivity |
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Further exploration of consciousness and enlightenment and the path towards them. Even heavier going that Eye of the I. |
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Chaos |
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A readable primer on Chaos theory - the origin of the idea of Attractor Fields. Of interest if you want some science behind AFT. |
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The Attractor Factor |
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Very easy read on the idea and feel of living according to Attractor Field theory. Very American and comes across as quite money focussed but principles applicable to anything. |
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Seven Experiments That Could Change
the World |
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An easy read with understandable examples of how unseen energetic forces influence the everyday world. |
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Energy
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A source book for energy workers - cataloguing many different techniques for correcting or improving energy flow and describing many different energy systems within the body, not just the meridian system. |
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Tapping
the Healer Within |
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By the originator of Thought Field Therapy, and hence, via Gary Craig, EFT. Slightly more academic than most but still very readable. Interesting section the science behind TFT, describing clinical research. Includes TFT algorithms for a range of issues. |
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General
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Subtle
Energy: Understanding the Life-force energies that surround us |
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The
Field: The Quest for The Secret Force of the Universe |
By the journalist and author of What Doctors Don't Tell You, this book is a review of scientific eveidence currently going on in the field of |
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The Biology of Belief |
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Discussion of the biological basis for consciousness - by a biologist. |
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The Endorphin Effect |
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The effect of endorphins (brain chemicals) on emotion and consciousness - and how to use them to improve health and wellbeing. |
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The Physics of Consciousness |
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The Science of Human Transformation |
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Conscious Acts of Creation |
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Physics of the Soul |
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Emotion: The Science of Sentiment |
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The Feeling of What Happens |
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