Surrogate tapping is a tricky topic. Tapping itself is difficult enough to explain, but trying to explain how I can tap on my body to promote change in someone else is a whole other level.
At that point it sounds like we are talking about woo-woo crap that just can’t be true.
In the last few weeks I have witnessed some amazing things with surrogate tapping (or at least they appear to be the result of surrogate tapping).
First, my sister regularly takes her dog Addison to the vet. Like many animals, Addison gets really nervous when she visits the vet and she especially hates having her nails clipped. When a trip to the vet is scheduled my sister will send me a text so that I can tap for Addison (from the other side of the United States). And next I receive a picture from my sister of Addison lying calmly on the ground completely relaxed and serene. It has happened too many times for me to dismiss this as some kind of coincidence.
Second, I have been working with a family with a child who has been diagnosed on the autism spectrum. Over the last six months the family has seen some amazing results with surrogate tapping. A few weeks ago their son started to backslide and lost almost all the progress he had made to date. I put together a short tapping sequence and within a day he not only regained everything the family had achieved from the tapping, but it also triggered a significant clearing and release on a physical level from his system (I won’t go into detail here but am sure you get the picture!).
Sometimes people ask me how all this works and all I can think to say is, “I have no idea!”
With that being said, it doesn’t always work. Just because we are surrogate tapping it doesn’t mean that progress happens. There are times when we tap and yet we cannot perceive any progress.
Two years ago, a very dear friend of mine’s 33-year-old body succumbed to cancer. As I wrote about what it was like to tap for her I asked, “Why didn’t the surrogate tapping work?”
Because of the number of people who have been asking me about surrogate tapping (and specifically about my experience tapping for a friend with cancer) I thought this would be the perfect time to revisit the idea of surrogate tapping.
In this audio I talk about surrogate tapping, when I do it, and why I think it didn’t work on my friend’s cancer.
Gene,
A lovely and very useful Christmas gift. I enjoyed listening to this very much, and it reminded me of the value in doing surrogate tapping more often. I totally agree with the points you made. I sort of see it as a form of active prayer. Of course one can always pray in a specific and yet perhaps limited way e.g., “Oh God please take away Susie’s wort,” but you said at one point “where I think I know what I need.” In terms of surrogate tapping I would add “where I think I know what the other person needs.” So clearing as best we can our ‘agenda’ on something, and at the same time remaining open for anything to occur that heightens one’s alignment with healing and wholeness. And of course that might occur on levels of experience not obvious or easy to discern. ‘Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me’, yes indeed. A prayer, an affirmation, an invocation, an emotional focus, an open invitation, that is indeed worthy to tap on.
Wonderful insight as always Gene! I love what you say about healing yourself around another’s issues, so powerful and true! and also creating space for them to make new choices. Now i feel better guided when surrogate tapping, in creating a new space for each of us to heal, in whatever way that is meant, rather than trying to guide or tap with the expectation of a specific outcome, no matter how positive or not, i may feel about the outcome.
I loved article on surrogate tapping and just wanted to wish you a happy holiday and a blessed new year.
Hi Gene, I don’t think we need to understand how surrogate tapping works – quantum physics is gradually giving us a little understanding of the magic that is the energy of the universe we live in and are a part of. I am not sure we will fully understand how it actually works, but we do know that stuff happens because of its existence. For example, does anyone really know what happens in or through a black hole? No, but millions will tell you that they know a black hole exists and that stuff happens because of its existence. In quantum physics, I understand that hard headed scientists will tell you that a particle appears to be in two places at the same time! The outcome of the experiments in the Hedron Collider are known to be effected by the emotional state of the scientists doing the experiments. Do we need to know how that happens, to know that it does happen?
As you note, the power of the energy we call love does have a positive affect on others energy and may well help them to heal completely. I can’t think of time when feeling truly supported and comforted did not make me feel better. But I had to be open to that comfort and love to feel the full benefit (after 61 years, I am clear that on a weekly basis I learn how to be a little more open to and accepting of that love!) So the receiver is crucial to the effectiveness of this energy.
I think where surrogate tapping will not have worked is because the energy fields we are talking about are so subtle. For the chance of ST to work require a depth of connection and interaction at many levels from the receiver as much as the surrogate tapper. The extent of the disruption to a person’s energy system in such conditions as, for example, cancer or MS will require even a greater depth of this energy connection.
We do not know the depth or subtleties of how peoples energy systems have been effected by their life experiences and for example the depth of their indoctrination that what the wo/man in the white coat tells them must be the truth. As you have noted, Gene, while we can become more open through tapping on our own energy blocks, and this clearly helps with establishing a better connection with with the receiver, it does not always result in the level of energetic connection/support to allow healing to take place.
Surrogate tapping works, but it does not always work because of the subtleties of the energy systems involved. But then I’m not sure that anything in the universe works for everything in the same way, every single time.
Love Amer x