Tools

There are lots of ways to tap for our physical health. Personally, I have a tapping script that is almost 2000 words long that I tap through morning and evening during the cold and flu season (especially when I am traveling and/or spending lots of time with germy students).

But it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Here are three simple things you can do which will make a huge difference in keeping you healthy.

Bronnie Ware is an Australian nurse who spent several years working in palliative care, caring for patients in the last 12 weeks of their lives. She recorded their dying epiphanies in a blog called Inspiration and Chai, which gathered so much attention that she put her observations into a book called “The Top Five Regrets of the Dying”.

With any thought, none of these seem very surprising. They even sound a little clichéd, but clichés are clichés for a reason.

Here are the five most reported regrets at death according to Bronnie. I have added tapping scripts for each.

There is no question that Donald Trump’s public persona is one in which he thinks a great deal of about himself. I don’t think it is a bad thing.

Sometimes I wonder if he is over-compensating for something else by talking such a big game about himself and his success. More than likely that is just my own insecurities being projected ontohis braggadociosness.

When it comes to seeking out teachers and role models for healing, growth, and self love Donald Trump probably isn’t in the first six hundred thousand names that would come to mind. Regardless what you think of “The Donald” he reminds us of some great lessons that we can learn about loving ourselves. Here are few of my favorites.

Riki Lindhome is a delightful actor, comedian, and musician. She has a podcast called Making It in which she interviews actors, directors, stand-up comedians, and casting directors about how their careers have unfolded and what lessons they have learned along the way.

In addition to being a great interviewer Riki share stories from her own journey. There is a choice she made very early on in her career in how she dealt with the comments from the people in her life that I find very inspired. Not only was it helpful for her as an actor, it is helpful for all of us in our healing process.

I head Dr. Phil interviewed once and he was talking about how an interview was badgering him about the fact all he does is repeat common sense. He response was, “Thank you very much!”

It is very easy to see Dr. Phil as a clown and a caricature of himself, but I think we dismiss him at our own peril. I have always been very impressed with what he has to say and even more impressed with his ability to cut to the chase.

We can make things too complicated (or at least I do). Here are 5 things that Dr. Phil can teach us about tapping and caring for ourselves.

Tapping with kids can be a very rewarding experience. In many cases kids take to tapping much faster than adults because they are more willing to try new things and aren’t hung up on why something is working. They just want to feel better.

Here are five things to keep in mind when teaching kids to tap. (Note: All five lessons below are hard won. I know them to be true because I have done the opposite of all 5 at one point.)

We are not just who we are now, but a sum total of all that has happened. There are parts of us that are still clinging to the past as if it is still happening. Many times when working with clients we find our way to working with the younger-self. Much of who we are today is informed by our younger years. BUT it is not who we are in totality and our past in not written in stone in such a way that it can never be changed.

I have found it very helpful to speak the my younger self. It is important to let it know that it is allowed to grow, change, and absorb the wisdom of my older self. This is how I tap for and with my inner child.

There are lots of issues we know we need to tap on, but for some reason just can’t bring ourselves to do it.

It might seem scary, overwhelming, we might know where to begin, or there is just some unknown force that is holding us back from doing the work we know we want today.

Here is a very simple tool to get after those issues with out having to diving in too deeply

It is very easy to get discounted from the still small voice of our spirit. It never leaves us, it never stops communicating with us, but it has a tendency to be still and small so we miss it. Here is a tapping script to help you reconnect with your spirit (PLUS tapping phrases for 10 other practitioners)

Our hearts are powerful parts of our system. Our emotional self has lots of information to help us to heal, grow, and live. In this simple tapping script we look at how we can connect, support, and listen to our emotional self. (PLUS tapping phrases for 10 other practitioners)