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Good afternoon!
The other night wasn’t my proudest moment.
I have been a little out of sorts and wasn’t feeling my best.
I had ridden my skateboard (yes, I ride a skateboard) down to the 5th Street pier on the East River to do my evening prayers while looking over at Manhattan. Normally this is a great way to end the day. I am outside enjoying the fresh air blowing off the river, the beautiful view, and time to spend in thought and prayer.
Maybe it was because I have been working so much this week. Maybe it was because I hadn’t made time to work out because I had so much work to do. Or maybe it was just one of those blah days.
I don’t know why I was that way, but I did know what I needed to do.
I decided I needed ice cream.
So I walked to the grocery store and stared at the ice cream. For ten solid minutes I stared at ice cream. Part of me absolutely knew it was a bad choice and part of me just wanted ice cream. I can’t imagine what I looked like just staring into the freezer?!
Bought the ice cream. (Dulce de leche if you must know.)
Walked home.
Ate two bowls.
Felt better.
And woke up at 3am feeling bad.
I know why I did it…I just wanted to feel better in the moment and my system knew on some level that a cheap ice cream fix would do the trick (in the short term).
I should have tapped, but I didn’t.
The interesting thing is even though tapping right then would have been a better choice (and not eating crap food and getting a better night’s sleep) I’m not sure it would have resulted in a long term change.
This week I want to share with you something I have been thinking a lot about lately.
The idea is this: There are times when I tap that it makes me feel better in the moment, but it doesn’t result into any long term change. It is good that I feel better in the moment, but it is also easy to fall right back into the bad habit or bad feeling I was tapping for.
In the short term the tapping is much better than eating ice-cream. In the long term it really doesn’t make much of a difference (much like eating ice-cream doesn’t make a long term difference) because I am still falling back into my old ways.
You can read my thoughts here on how we can feel better in the short term and make a long term difference: https://tappingqanda.com/?p=9270
I would love to hear your thoughts on tapping to feel better, tapping for action, and getting caught somewhere in the tolerable middle.
As always, let me know what I can do to be helpful.
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