Video Transcript
Hi! This is Gene Monterastelli, the Editor of TappingQandA.com and welcome to another Tapping Ninja video. We call them Tapping Ninja because they’re super powerful like a ninja strike but they’re really quick and they’re really simple.
Today, what we’re going to do is we’re going to talk about a technique that I was first introduced to by Marie Holliday of EFT Spain, and it’s a very simple photo technique.
As we know, when it comes to tapping the most important thing we can do while tapping is tune into the issue. Now we can say phrases to do that. We can do imagining to do that. There are lots of different ways we can do it, but we just need to find a way to tune in. They say a picture is worth a thousand words and when it comes to tapping, this is really true.
When we take a look at a picture, what we’re going to do is we’re going to tune into all the emotions we have about what’s in the frame. And so what this can do is it can be a really powerful way to tune into an issue without struggling to find the words. All we need to do is take a photo, look at the photo and start tapping.
Now, we can do this in a number of ways. One, we can take a photo of ourselves either how we are currently or how we once were, and just look at the photo and stare at the photo and gaze at the photo and appreciate what’s in the photo and move from tapping point to tapping point.
If any emotions that we have about how we look today or how we look then or how we don’t look today like we did back then, it’s going to come to the surface and as we tap from point to point we’re going to find our way to relief.
Second, what we can do is we can take a photo of somebody else. Someone who there’s an emotional charge around, be it anxiety, feeling of overwhelm, sadness, loss, missing, whatever it is, just stare at the photo and start tapping.
It could be a photo of someone who is a loved one at a time in our life where we had a good relationship with them and we don’t have that today. Or, it could be a time when the relationship was really tumultuous and when we see them in that time, in that space, it brings up an emotional charge.
We just hold the photo up and we move from tapping point to tapping point to tapping point. Again, we don’t have to say anything because the emotions are going to come flooding forward. It’s a really simple thing to do. All you need to do is find a picture. When you’re done, put the picture down and move on.
For Tapping Q and A, this is Gene Monterastelli. I’d encourage you to check out all our free instructional videos by going to TappingQandA.com/video. And also make sure you check out the other 400 free resources we have on the site.
GREAT IDEA!
What a great idea! Thanks!
Thank you Gene. It is a simple and yet powerful technique.
Hey Gene! Love the new Avitar, very becoming!
I learned this technique by falling into it – last summer i was responsible for putting together a video photo-montage retrospective for my parents 50th anniversary. And my parents are major shutterbugs, so i spent days and weeks going through hundreds, if not thousands, of photos – most of which evoked strong (and almost never pleasant) emotions…beloved people who appear in younger visage in the photos who no longer walk the earth; my mother and her youthful beauty that i never saw as a youngster but that took my breath away, the sadness at how in spite of this she hated her body…photos of my younger self, with a beauty and a thinness that was never good enough – I felt fat and ugly. POINT BEING, it was a GRUELING several weeks, tapping and crying almost the entire time…!!! Unfortunately, since it was a rush job I didn’t have the luxury of dealing with details and aspects, or even taking it through to true resolution. (Total side point: I keep saying I should get back to it, taking it slowly and aspect by aspect, but it was so intensely painful and time consuming even on a “superficial” level, that I have no desire whatsoever to actually “go there” again! Sigh….)