About Co-Met

EFT is easy to do all by yourself: you can download Gary´s manual from www.emofree.com, print it out, and just do the stuff. It´s what I did when I started out with EFT.

But then I went on an EFT course (with Val and Paul Lynch, who appeared on the Richard and Judy show), and experienced EFT at the hands of experienced practitioners. Amazing!

The thing is, when you´re doing EFT by yourself, it´s sometimes difficult to pay attention to the Problem at the same time as you´re paying attention to the Process. So it´s great to have the practitioner there, attending to the process, and allowing you to pay attention to the problem. You fairly whiz along! But there are problems here, too:

• The practitioner costs money. And so they should: they have just as much right to earn their living as anyone else. But if you feel that you’d like to do a lot of this work, you’ll need to find the cash to pay the practitioner.
• Practitioners have only 24 hours in their days, just as the rest of us do, and may choose to use some of those hours for their own uses! You may have to wait!

Co-MET The Third Way: EFT with a Little Help From My Friends

In a Co-MET training course you work with a set of other people from your area who want to use EFT. You learn to do EFT on yourself, and you learn to use EFT on each other. The key difference between Co-MET and going to an EFT practitioner is that:

   The Client is in Charge
If you´ve ever had anything to do with co-counselling (James was a co-counselling teacher for years), you´ll recognise that phrase. It means that we all take responsibility for ourselves, and we guide our Co-MET practitioners to give us the help we need.

At the end of the two-weekend training course, you join your local Co-MET community (or form your own, if you´re the first in your area). You may meet together in each other´s houses on a regular basis, and you´ll probably keep a phone list of community members.

When you feel that you want to use EFT with some help, you call another community member. If they also need to do some work, you arrange to meet. If you both have a couple of hours to spare, then you have an hour each. An hour when you´re the EFT client, and your Co-MET partner is your practitioner. At the end of that hour, you swap roles. You´re the practitioner; your partner is the client. That way no one owes anyone any money. And you´ve a long list of people to call, when you need to.

What Do I Learn on a Co-MET Course Apart from EFT?

Most importantly you learn a whole extra level of paying attention to your own process, so that you can tell your Co-MET practitioner what you need. Next you learn how to be a practitioner working under the guidance of the client. You learn about the Co-MET contracts, and you learn a whole host of different ways of working together.

Why is it called Co-MET and not Co-EFT?

You mean apart from the fact that comet is easier to remember than coeft? Because EFT is a part of a whole family of therapies that are all about sorting out the body´s energy fields by being nice to acupuncture meridians. If you want to peruse the whole set, go look at the website of the Association for Meridian Energy Technologies. So, once you´ve got the basic idea of EFT, and the basic idea of Co-MET, there´s a myriad of other stuff that you might want to bring in, in the spirit of constant inquiry, which is the sole of life!

For instance, EFT switched me on to the idea of energy medicine, and so decided to investigate further. One thing that I tried, and which I think is great, is Reiki. I became a Reiki Master mainly so that I could teach Reiki to Co-MET people who are interested, and so that I can attune them up to Reiki level 3—or indeed, help them to become Reiki Masters, too. (This begs the question of “What is Reiki?’ I shall write that web page soon!

Click here to read James' paper, "Power to the People" that he's reading at the Brighton Conference on Energy Therapies, 2003.

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