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 Look

Carol 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 Takeaways

Practicing 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 Look

Mentioned in This Episode

Unlock 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

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Transcript

Victoria Bennion: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome. I'm your host, Victoria

Bennion, and the founder of the best podcast guest booking agency. And you're

listening to the best guest, the podcast for business owners, creatives, and

entrepreneurs who want to harness the power of podcasts to grow their platforms

and increase their visibility.

Victoria Bennion:

We're here to support you on your journey, bringing you actionable tips with

each episode. Now let's begin.

Victoria Bennion:

Today we're diving into a truly transformative conversation with our client

psychotherapist and world renowned EFT Master Carol. Look, I feel incredibly

lucky to have someone with Carol's level of expertise joining us today, not

only to explain the why behind our emotional blocks, but also to walk us

through how we can move past them.

Victoria Bennion:

Carol shares the science backed benefits of gratitude and why its so many of us

unconsciously resist happiness even when we know what's good for [00:01:00] us. But what makes this episode especially

powerful is that Carol doesn't just talk about the healing potential of EFT

tapping.

Victoria Bennion: She

gives a live demonstration with me right here on the show. And honestly, I can

say 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 one

you'll want to bookmark and revisit.

Victoria Bennion:

Hello and welcome to the podcast, Carol.

Carol Look: Thank

you, 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 to

talking to you about your new book.

Carol Look: Thank

you. I'm excited about it. Thank you for getting me on so many podcasts

already.

Victoria Bennion: Oh,

you are welcome. Could you begin by talking to us a little bit about the

science behind Gratitude?

Carol Look: It's

funny, so I wrote this book about gratitude. So Yes, Thank You. Tapping into

the Superpower of Gratitude, and I knew gratitude was amazing and fun, and

people feel good, but I didn't have all the [00:02:00]

statistics, so I did research. About the statistics physically and mentally and

emotionally. What it does for you when you keep a consistent gratitude

practice.

Carol Look: And it

was amazing. It was incredible. So I knew I was gonna write this book, but to

back it up with the science was really fun. For instance, it lowers your stress

levels by 28%. It lowers your risk of. Serious diseases. It lowers your

hypertension, it improves your ability to sleep, both the duration and the

depth of your sleep. I, all these things that we, I think we take for granted

and people, I think, take a gratitude list for granted, and that's part of why

I was writing the book, because people aren't consistent with it. So the

science just kept, tumbling and tumbling and showing incredible results.

Carol Look: From

people 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: I

never would've guessed that. Can you talk a little bit about how gratitude

rewires our brains?

Carol Look: It

rewires it in the chemicals. So the statistics are showing that what happens is

it calms down your fight or flight response and calms down your cortisol. So

cortisol is the big bad, the big bad hormone that gets triggered under stress

and duress. And when you practice a gratitude list or a gratitude practice

consistently, it starts to rewire your brain because you're sending different

chemicals.

Carol Look: So

instead of being hyper alert and instead of having your sympathetic nervous

system on all the time. We're tapping into other chemicals, other emotional

states, calming ourselves down, which of course improves sleep, lowers the

stress level, calms down the blood pressure issues and the, the hypertension [00:04:00] issues.

Carol Look: So it

rewires by literally changing the pharmacy. Changing the pharmacy in our brain.

Victoria Bennion: So

with all those benefits, why do you think it is that so many of us avoid a

gratitude practice?

Carol Look: It's so

interesting. That was part of the premise for the book is that even though I

know I didn't know the statistics, but I certainly know what's good for you. I

dabble I was doing it sometimes, not all the time, and I go through my history

personally, and then I go through as a psychotherapist for decades what I have

found that keeps people from being consistent and in my life it was.

Carol Look...