Tag Archives: Psychological Reversal

Reversal, psychological reversal, and polarity reversal are all terms are thrown around a lot when working with tapping. These can be caused by our thoughts, what we put in our body, and the electronic devices that surround us.

It doesn’t really matter what you call them, if they are present then tapping isn’t going to work very well (if at all). In this interview I talk with Lindsay Kenny two major types of reversals and what you can do to correct them.

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 been spending a great deal of time thinking about set-up statements lately. Using the phrase “I love and accept myself…” it one of the bigest challenges my clients face. For some reason it just feels icky to say “I love and accept myself”. Even though it doesn’t feel good, it is good for you. Besides clearing psychological reversal it provides an opportunity to create some gentle reframing moments.

We are taught when tapping it very import to be as specific as possible. The more specific we are the faster Emotional Freedom Techniques(EFT)/tapping works. Sometimes it is better to take a more global approach to an issue. Instead of moving from the general to the specific we can use the specific to find our way to a much deeper issue. When doing this we see the specific as being a symptom to a much larger issue that we weren’t aware of. In this article Vermont based practitioner Jade Barbee shares an experience were he was able to take a very specific issue to find a much deeper issue to do work on.

These are necessarily the best articles on the site, but these are some of my favorites. To make it easier to navigate I have chosen one entry from 11 different categories. Please add a comment to the bellow on what some of your favorites have been.

One more time, what is the deal with psychological reversal and how does it relate to secondary gain?

One of the most often used terms and at the same time most misunderstood term used by people in the tapping community is “psychological reversal”. In this interview, in easy to understand language, Gwenn Bonnell describes what PR is, what is symptoms are, and many techniques for clearing it.