Life Patterns the Secret to Emotional Freedom

All signs indicate that this trend of revealing research and swayed skeptics will continue as millions of people around the globe continue to discover the power of tapping. It began in , with a psychologist by the name of Roger Callahan, and a patient with an extreme phobia of water. She was unable to take her children to the beach and was unable to drive near the ocean; she grew fearful when it rained, and could not even withstand the sight of water on TV.

She had vivid nightmares involving water. Callahan and Mary had been working on this problem together for over a year. Finally, Mary worked up the courage to sit within sight of the pool at Dr. Even doing this caused Mary extreme distress, and though she found ways to cope with the intense fear and emotional pain, she did not overcome her phobia.

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They discussed her problem, and how to overcome it, but without success. Callahan had recently been studying traditional Chinese medicines, and learning about meridians. Suddenly he had an inspiration. Remembering that there was an acupuncture point for the stomach meridian on the cheekbone, he asked her to tap there, thinking it might cure her stomach pains. Mary tapped her cheekbone as directed, and this little action changed medicinal history! The response seemed miraculous, to both Mary and Dr. Her stomach pains disappeared.

But even more amazingly, her phobia of water disappeared, too! She ran down to the pool and began splashing herself with water, rejoicing in her newfound freedom from fear.

Based on this discovery, Dr. Callahan began a series of investigations to develop and refine this technique, which he termed Thought Field Therapy.

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Gary Craig trained under Dr. As time passed, Craig began to observe some problems with TFT, aspects that he saw were unnecessary complications. TFT required practitioners to tap on a specific sequence of meridians called an algorithm for each different problem.

Diagnosing the problem required a technique called muscle testing, wherein the practitioner would measure the relative strength of a muscle, while the patient explored various thoughts or statements. Craig observed repeated scenarios in which the problem was incorrectly diagnosed or the practitioner tapped out the meridian points in the wrong order, yet the patient was still helped..

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Based on these observations, he concluded that it did not matter in which order the meridian points were tapped. EFT has one basic, simple sequence of points to tap, no matter what the situation. Because of this, thousands of people have used Tapping for illnesses and to resolve emotional problems.

Tapping practitioners have studied the techniques and trained to take on more complicated and difficult cases, and these dedicated practitioners report more successful applications daily. Many past hurts get stored in the mind and even in the body—affecting all our future actions and decisions. The results are nothing short of miraculous. These energy pathways send electrical impulses throughout the body to keep all systems working, but—in addition to moving and storing energy—it was discovered they also store emotions. Some healthcare professionals even believe that an illness or chronic pain in a specific area of the body is the result of a specific emotional pain stored in that meridian.

There are the eight main tapping points and one point on your hand known as the karate chop spot on the heel of your hand.

The other 8 points are, your eyebrow, side of your eye, under your eye, under your nose, your chin, your collarbone, under your arm, and the top of your head. There is a single point at the top of the head, but there are two eyebrow points: TFT Tapping was originally taught one-sided; you tap with either hand, on either side of the body.

Most people tap with their dominant hand. Tap lightly, but firmly. Unlike acupuncture, tapping is a very forgiving process.

The first part of the tapping protocol is to close your eyes, focus on the fear, anxiety, emotion, pain, or belief that you wish to release, and then determine on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being high, how intense the feeling or belief is. As you tap your hand, repeat aloud the belief, physical pain, or experience of hurt you are dealing with as you—most important—tune in to the emotion that belief or hurt brings forth.

Do this three times. It just is, functioning properly. But you spend a large portion of your waking hours concerned about your emotional well-being, always trying to ensure you feel good. What does that say about your emotional health? When a problem arises, rather than burying it deeper, youmend it.

You get over it. You let it go, so that it doesn't have to plague your future. But that's not how most people deal with emotional problems. Rather than fixing them, they construct the most bizarre relationships and life to protect themselves from facing their fears or traumas.

The first step in living a life of freedom is to realize that you are not your fears. You experience your fears. Similarly, you are not your thoughts. You are aware of your thoughts. You are not even your body. Rather, you are the being inside experiencing and operating your body. Herein lies why most people build their lives around their fears.

They have over-attached themselves to a particular self-concept. The truth is much more simple: You are the observer of the inner and outer world around you. You determine where you place your awareness, what psychologists call selective attention. You pay-attention to thoughts, feelings, and things that matter to you. What you focus on, expands. Your awareness of things makes them real to you.

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Rather than watching a movie, you've become lost in thoughts and memories. You are not the thoughts or feelings you're experiencing. The very fact that these emotions are rising-up is a signal you have an unresolved internal conflict. Rather than burying these emotions deeper, see them for what they are: These feelings are not you. They are something you've experienced. Don't hide from them. Don't distract yourself from them. Observe and experience them fully.

Forgive yourself or the event. This will likely be uncomfortable.