Tapping Into Gratitude with Carol Look

In this week’s episode of The Best Guest podcast, we welcome Carol Look, psychotherapist, Founding EFT Master, and author of Yes, Thank You - Tapping Into the Superpower of Gratitude. Carol explains how consistent gratitude practices can transform your brain chemistry, reduce stress, and improve sleep and emotional wellbeing. She dives into the science-backed benefits of gratitude, why we subconsciously avoid happiness, and how EFT tapping can remove deep-rooted emotional blocks that hold us back.About Carol LookCarol Look is a psychotherapist, Founding EFT Master, best-selling author, international speaker, and creator of The Yes Code, her signature coaching method. She combines her traditional training as a psychotherapist with clinical hypnosis and advanced applications of EFT for unprecedented results with her clients.Known for her laser-like focus and state-of-the-art approach, Carol has used EFT Tapping for over 25 years to help clients release their limiting beliefs and emotional conflicts so they can enjoy lives of exceptional success and fulfillment.Carol is a world-renowned EFT workshop presenter who has taught at The Omega Institute, Kripalu, The Eden Energy Fest, and the energy field’s primary teaching conference, ACEP.Carol has taught workshops in England, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and all over the United States. She is a regularly featured energy medicine expert on leading global telesummits and in the field’s leading documentaries.Carol authored the energy field’s original book on abundance, Attracting Abundance with EFT. Her book, The Yes Code, became a #1 Amazon bestseller in several categories, solidifying her reputation as a leading voice in personal transformation. She has just released her newest book, Yes Thank You: Tapping Into the Superpower of Gratitude.When she’s not working, Carol enjoys spending time with her family, listening to music, and walking in nature.Key TakeawaysPracticing gratitude consistently can lower stress levels by 28%, improve sleep, and reduce blood pressure.Gratitude rewires the brain by reducing cortisol and calming the fight-or-flight response.We self-sabotage because it feels safer to stay small. Tapping reveals and clears these subconscious blocks.EFT tapping is an evidence-based technique that calms the amygdala and reduces emotional reactivity.Consistency and specificity are key to making both gratitude and tapping effective.Quote“The question is never, is it good for you or not? That’s not the question. The question is, how much joy and happiness can you handle?” Carol LookMentioned in This EpisodeUnlock the Yes, Thank You book portal filled with free resources to support your journey. Inside, you’ll find, nine instructional videos showing you exactly how to do tapping along with a detailed PDF guide of all the tapping points and a 30-day gratitude challenge. www.theyescode.com/thankyou Connect with Carol LookWebsite: www.carollook.comConnect with Victoria BennionLearn more about us: https://thebestpodcastguest.co.uk/Download our Podcast Guest Starter Kit: The Podcast Guest Starter Kit gives you a proven plan to find the right shows, craft a winning pitch, and maximise every interview. https://thebestpodcastguest.co.uk/podcast-guest-starter-kit/Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebestpodcastguestJoin the Best Podcast Guest Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebestpodcastguestSubscribe to our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@victoriabennionConnect with Victoria on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoriabennion/TranscriptVictoria Bennion: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome. I'm your host, VictoriaBennion, and the founder of the best podcast guest booking agency. And you'relistening to the best guest, the podcast for business owners, creatives, andentrepreneurs who want to harness the power of podcasts to grow their platformsand increase their visibility.Victoria Bennion:We're here to support you on your journey, bringing you actionable tips witheach episode. Now let's begin.Victoria Bennion:Today we're diving into a truly transformative conversation with our clientpsychotherapist and world renowned EFT Master Carol. Look, I feel incrediblylucky to have someone with Carol's level of expertise joining us today, notonly to explain the why behind our emotional blocks, but also to walk usthrough how we can move past them.Victoria Bennion:Carol shares the science backed benefits of gratitude and why its so many of usunconsciously resist happiness even when we know what's good for [00:01:00] us. But what makes this episode especiallypowerful is that Carol doesn't just talk about the healing potential of EFTtapping.Victoria Bennion: Shegives a live demonstration with me right here on the show. And honestly, I cansay I felt a real shift. So whether you've struggled with self-sabotage,stress, or just want to feel more grounded and joyful, this episode is oneyou'll want to bookmark and revisit.Victoria Bennion:Hello and welcome to the podcast, Carol.Carol Look: Thankyou, Victoria. It's great to be with you and see you this way.Victoria Bennion:It's really great to have you on the show, and I'm really looking forward totalking to you about your new book.Carol Look: Thankyou. I'm excited about it. Thank you for getting me on so many podcastsalready.Victoria Bennion: Oh,you are welcome. Could you begin by talking to us a little bit about thescience behind Gratitude?Carol Look: It'sfunny, so I wrote this book about gratitude. So Yes, Thank You. Tapping intothe Superpower of Gratitude, and I knew gratitude was amazing and fun, andpeople feel good, but I didn't have all the [00:02:00]statistics, so I did research. About the statistics physically and mentally andemotionally. What it does for you when you keep a consistent gratitudepractice.Carol Look: And itwas amazing. It was incredible. So I knew I was gonna write this book, but toback it up with the science was really fun. For instance, it lowers your stresslevels by 28%. It lowers your risk of. Serious diseases. It lowers yourhypertension, it improves your ability to sleep, both the duration and thedepth of your sleep. I, all these things that we, I think we take for grantedand people, I think, take a gratitude list for granted, and that's part of whyI was writing the book, because people aren't consistent with it. So thescience just kept, tumbling and tumbling and showing incredible results.Carol Look: Frompeople sticking to a consistent gratitude practice in blood pressure, in sleep,in cortisol levels, it is just really quite [00:03:00]amazing and quite exciting,Victoria Bennion: Inever would've guessed that. Can you talk a little bit about how gratituderewires our brains?Carol Look: Itrewires it in the chemicals. So the statistics are showing that what happens isit calms down your fight or flight response and calms down your cortisol. Socortisol is the big bad, the big bad hormone that gets triggered under stressand duress. And when you practice a gratitude list or a gratitude practiceconsistently, it starts to rewire your brain because you're sending differentchemicals.Carol Look: Soinstead of being hyper alert and instead of having your sympathetic nervoussystem on all the time. We're tapping into other chemicals, other emotionalstates, calming ourselves down, which of course improves sleep, lowers thestress level, calms down the blood pressure issues and the, the hypertension [00:04:00] issues.Carol Look: So itrewires by literally changing the pharmacy. Changing the pharmacy in our brain.Victoria Bennion: Sowith all those benefits, why do you think it is that so many of us avoid agratitude practice?Carol Look: It's sointeresting. That was part of the premise for the book is that even though Iknow I didn't know the statistics, but I certainly know what's good for you. Idabble I was doing it sometimes, not all the time, and I go through my historypersonally, and then I go through as a psychotherapist for decades what I havefound that keeps people from being consistent and in my life it was.Carol...