At my recent workshop “Launch Into 2014,” I led a group of participants through a series of Intention-Setting exercises. We didn’t focus on end-results so much as WHY we want to accomplish the things on our Intention list. The main question is: How will I feel when I have what I want or accomplish what I’m setting out to do? And how can I feel that way now? I introduced 5 concepts as the foundation of the workshop, and for moving forward (Launching into 2014)
Concept #2: -Tapping is the stimulus that will help us overcome limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns, and free us to raise our frequency (feel good).
I believe that Tapping is the most powerful technique available to help us move beyond our long-held beliefs, and into a greater realm of possibilities. Tapping is the tool to upgrade your personal emotional operating system – which is stuck in primitive mode for most people.
I’ve seen and experienced the effects of Tapping – quickly releasing life-long emotions and beliefs that have kept people stuck in suffering and misery.
Ask yourself these questions to see if you could use an upgrade to your emotional operating system:
- Do you find yourself swirling in negative thought, not even knowing how you got there?
- Is there someone who has done something to you that you can’t let go of or forgive?
- Are you waiting to have, be, or do something before you can enjoy life?
- Do you often get angry when you’re driving in your car?
- Do you hold on to regret, guilt and shame?
Let’s do some Tapping, in a general way, on this topic. Keep a notepad and pen handy. You can tap more specifically on your own for anything else that comes up during this round. If you need more guidance, please contact me or another Tapping practitioner.
Begin by taking a deep breath in and out. Really deep and full. Don’t rush.
Sense into your mind and body, and notice any sense of swirling, overwhelm, tightness, or stuckness. Rate the intensity of these feelings using the 0-10 scale, 10 being the most intense. Write down the number.
Starting on the Karate Chop Point (KC), tap gently and say:
-Even though (ET) I feel this swirling, overwhelmed feeling, I Deeply & Completely Love and Accept Myself (ID&CL&AM)
-ET I feel this tightness, this stuckness, and it’s holding me back, ID&CL&AM
-ET I don’t even know where these negative thoughts came from, ID&CL&AM, and I choose to know that I can feel let all this go
Then Tapping around the points
Top of the head (TH) – This swirling overwhelm
Eyebrow (EB) – This tightness and stuckness
Side of Eye (SE) Holding me back from what I want
Under Eye (UE) Keeping me safe but stuck
Under Nose (UN) I honor these feelings for all they are trying to tell me
Chin (CH) And I choose to stop resisting them
Collarbone (CB) I choose to allow them to flow through me
Under Arm (UA) And I choose to release them
(TH) – This tightness
(EB) – Holding on
(SE) – Holding me back
(UE) – I want to move forward
(UN) – I want to be free
(CH) – And just like a Chinese finger trap, the only way to be free is to stop resisting
(CB) – I can stop resisting
(UA) – I can choose to go with the flow
(TH) -How will I know when I’m going with the flow?
(EB) -It must feel different than this tightness
(SE) -This swirling stuckness
(UE) -It’s like swimming downstream
(UN) -Instead of paddling against the current
(CH) -Downstream doesn’t even feel like work
(CB) -Downstream is easy
(UA) -Until I try to stop, or turn around
(TH) -I choose to let go
(EB)-I choose to allow
(SE) -I choose to go with the flow
(UE) -I choose to swim downstream
Deep breath in and out. Nice and slow. Check back in with the feelings above, and re-rate the intensity. Note any thoughts or images that came up during that round. Tap on those, too (go to my website for more tapping videos and audios – you’ll soon get the hang of it!). Contact me for assistance.
