Q&A

I love tapping. I want everyone to love tapping. I have seen its power in my own life and I want to share that with others.

When I was very new to tapping I made many mistakes when I was sharing tapping, mostly running people over with my enthusiasm. Here are 10 things you can do when you are teaching tapping to help you communicate better, create open-mindedness in those you are sharing with, and a comfort for yourself regardless how it is received.

Question: I have a great list of goals. I know what I want. I know why I want them. I just can’t seem to move forward. How can I use tapping to move toward my goals?

I spend a great deal of time working with clients helping them to take action to move forward towards their goals. In most cases my clients have some sense of where they would like to take their life and even know the steps that need to happen.

For some reason they are just stuck. They look at their to-do list which is the same list they made the day before with nothing crossed off.

I have found that there are 5 common reasons that we don’t take the actions we know we want to improve our lives. As you read through them you will notice that you might be experiencing one, all five, or somewhere in between.

Question: I would like to use visualization and law of attraction principles with my tapping. How do I do that?

[NOTE: I have a feeling this article is going to ruffle a few feathers. I would love your feed back on this. The science sited in this is far from definitive, but very interesting. Please let me know your thoughts.]

The tool that is sited the most in the LOA community is visualization. “If you can see it, you can be it.”

Personally, I have always been a little skeptical. I fall much more in line with the line Tony Robins is credited as says about visualization. “If you sit all day in your living room thinking about what you want something will show up. It will be the repo man!”

I want to talk to my kids about their emotions and to teach them to tap, but I don’t know how to start. Do you have any recommendations?

I love tapping with kids, but not everyone is as comfortable as me working with kids. I had a chance to chat with Jondi Whitis of TappingStar about how talk to kids about emotions, tapping, and what adults can do to be better at talking to kids about their emotions.

I hope you enjoy this interview!

I respond much better to doing setups on my sore spot(s) than on my Karate Chop point. But I have found that my best response is if I tap on, even thump a bit, on the sore spot(s) rather than rubbing. Is this common or am I very unusual? Also, when I tap on my collar-bone it works much better if I tap on my sore spot as well as my collar bone spot. Is this ok/normal?

I have a lot of issues that I want to use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)/tapping on, but I don’t know where to begin. Should I do the memories chronologically or should I do them is chunks of related issues?

I recently had a chance to do EFT with someone who was having a really bad day. I didn’t have a lot of time to explain what we were doing, but I didn’t know how to start. Because I wasn’t sure how to explain what we were going to do, I didn’t do anything. Any suggestions?

I get questions daily into the site asking, “How do I tap for…?” Most of them are for emotional or physical issues. Even if I have never been asked the question before I am very rarely caught off guard, but from time to time I am asked a question that even makes me scratch my head.No matter the subject or issue here is a simple four step approach to tapping for any issue.

I have recently been diagnosed with a rodent ulcer on my chest that will need surgery…or will it? I have asked my Reiki students and colleagues to send distance healing and I wonder whether EFT may also be used? I am unsure what affirmation to use in this instance. Do you have any suggestions on phrases that I should use?

Is it necessary to have the intention of releasing or letting go of the negative thought, feeling, or physical pain while tapping? I am trying to understand why fretting, stewing, or worrying about an issue consciously doesn’t dissolve the emotions, but tapping while expressing it does.