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Share what you noticed when you tapped through the provided script
I felt tired and had to yawn during and after the tapping.
After the tapping my mind felt blank.
Profound sadness at so much time wasted. Yet understanding the layers that had been built up like a glass block wall. I can almost see to the other side. Oh, I just noticed the door…!!
I feel relief, hope and more ease. instead of feeling frustrated that I am “still” worrying, after all the work and healing I’ve done, I can make more peace with this part of me. I don’t have to fight the worrier, and I can thank it for what it’s been trying to do.
January 7, 2026
“Make your issues your allies.”
Good one, Gene!
Similar to “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
This evening, I find myself experiencing intense fear (which is growing in me due to an upcoming event) disguising itself as annoyance and feelings of being in a pissy mood. The tapping was bloody annoying. No fault of the script!
I am riffing my own EFT, along with phrases from Noah St. John.
See you and the gang tomorrow.
I began to notice specific times in which it wasn’t safe, so I’m finding new things to tap on.
This was a great day of tapping for me….I realize the fatigue I often feel is resistance…so now I can tap on that, instead of what I thought the resistance was.
Since I just found the way to post these responses online, I’ll start with day 1 and 2 briefly.
Day 1. Stuck area is never knowing how to start to do anything new. I’m great at doing things I’ve always done, have pined to do something new in concept and practice and have no clue where to start despite instructions that I think I understand. I think the resistance is that I have always run into this. I seemed to never do things the way I was “supposed” to, including cleaning my room (where do I put everything?). One response to that task that sticks in my craw is opening the window and throwiing it all out onto the driveway. Who has time to clean their room on a nice day to play outside? Of course, when my parents went to get in the car for an evening out, there was my stuff. I interpreted poetry different from what was deemed “correct”. I did math my own way, but couldn’t show it. Right answers weren’t enough. Thus, resistance was born and is still with me. I kind of always knew but rarely knew how. ADHD? Sure, but wasn’t diagnosed until middle age. Supports the resistance though. But I don’t feel like I’m resisting. If I am, I’m shooting myself in the foot.
Day 2. I asked the resistance and it told me that I was afraid I would never get it right. It has the proof described above in day
Day 3. I can see the resistance more clearly now. It’s going to be tough to convince sub-conscious mind to back away after I thank it.The conversations in VIP helped a lot, as did the tapping script. I can see that this fear is enough to lead me to self-sabotage every time. The miniute it gets scary or I feel unclear about what to do, I freeze and do something that comes easily. That can keep me very busy. Harder to shoot a moving target, right? It’s interesting because, when doing inner child work, I’ve been able to convince my younger parts that they had done a great job and had earned the privelege of an early retirement. They could just go play. I guess I need to do more because this resistance and what it brings up from my childhood feels like some pretty strong old stuff. Maybe the younger parts are out playing and I’ve been relying on an adult that let some stuff go, but didn’t recognize the huge resistance that is still there. Kind of leaves me thinking, now what?
Homework done – a feeling of release – letting go – like letting out a deep breath.
WOW!
I initially felt a dragging on my jaw, but then I thought ‘what if I changed and my family didn’t like me’- and I sobbed as my heart literally shattered into a thousand tiny unfixable pieces!! Was intense but didn’t last as I tapped it down. (Interesting as the closest thing to this on my ‘what is it afraid of list’ was that I might hurt my family !!!)
There is so much relief and relaxation in doing this tapping it is unbelieveable. I just love it 🥰
Relief, appreciation, yawning ,tearing up, looking forward, expanding and making space
Done
Mostly frustration: “I’ve done this so much; I never feel anything; What is this thing called ‘feeling’ anyway? I don’t feel shifts; I’ve tried so many systems & nothing works for me; I’m never going to get any better” … blah blah blah
…OR I get bored, distracted, forget what I’m supposed to be saying or doing — Squirrel! Hello, ADHD brain — before I’ve been tapping long enough….
Homework completed.
I read it three times. Made me realize that I acted in a way to please my boyfriend , not only because I love him, but because I need a man around the house to help me with the work. When tapping, I saw all the actions I took over the years to become autonomous, including an important one decided two days ago, so I realized I was truly and honestly able to say thank you resistance but I no longer need you. I found a new path.
After I tapped through the script, I felt so much safer all over my body …. especially at my heart … feeling deeper gratitude and self compassion, curiosity instead of self judgement. I want to get IT right, not be right and this opened up another dimension of me that helped me do this. This is about me being ME, not all the old stories, old stuff that no longer serves me.
I’m feeling moved. I’m feeling soft, hopeful, humble.
Wow I noticed my behaviour that I am trying to change is actually protecting me from another sabotaging behaviour, so if I don’t drink wine in the evening I fear I wont get to sleep and all my thoughts will go to proving that I am a bad person, (mum and ex husbands behaviours/ events) so I have internalised their accusations in a form of self protection and then because that is painful i drink wine to help me sleep to protect me from that other sabotaging behaviour – bit waffly but hope that makes sense.
I’m running a day behind on this, so just completed day three, and during the tapping noticed I was not thinking about my issue with writing, but about weight and my mind started jumping around like a gremlin with a magic wand, touching words as I wrote them and revealing other meanings so I did a bit of a recap today, seeing new perspectives.
Day 1, felt I had two issues, not wanting to write again and my weight. Today the gremlin showed weight and wait…waiting to write and unable to lose weight, waiting to move forward in my life.
Day 2, brought up my resistance to writing with outdated stories, but in the corners of my mind there was the niggle that everything I was journaling about the writing was also somehow connected to weight.
Today, Day 3, the script was all about weight/wait. I keep waiting for this version to be over, like a TV show, and the new one to magically begin!!!
Can’t wait to do the work of Day 4 and see what else comes up. May all my fellow explorers make this a great day!
I was yawning a lot during this tapping script, which I believe means emotional release. I felt much lighter and happier after tapping. I feel like I released the resistance that was holding me back :D Thank you!
Felt pent up emotion, tired, discouraged. I want to make a lot of changes and have belief that i will choose wisely and dreams/plans will be true and workable.
I have realized that I am not stuck, I’m just in grief. When I went back this morning to answer the question what is the cost of keeping me stuck, that’s when this came to me, I’m not really stuck. I just need to process grief. Perhaps under that grief, there will be more things to tap on about why my projects haven’t come to fruition…
Working through the script on my goals for day three, I noticed a pain in my ear. Working on the fear now.
Lots of tears and yawns. Something is clearing, even though I’m not sure what!
done!
I didn’t notice anything specific, just that this is a really good way to tap on resistance. I appreciate that not fighting an energy, but cooperating with it and acknowledging its perceived benefits really allows change to happen. I’ve experienced this with people, but never thought about it with tapping. Very well done!
Oh Christy I love how the script opened another dimension to cooperate with and appreciate how all our energy is just trying to keep us safe. I agree that this script helps us do that! I also found myself engaging and not fighting the old stuff that was keeping me stuck. I appreciate your sharing.
Interesting that other people got yawns too! I feel like some of the exhaustion I feel is akin to being nice to someone who irritates me, someone who I wish I could not be around but circumstances have forced us together. I’m thanking my resistance but I don’t mean it (yet???) I’m still wanna fight but instead I’ll tap through the script again
@Melinda, Yawning — along with burping, gas, stomach gurgling, etc. — are all signs of energy moving when a shift takes place, that people notice in many different kinds of energy medicine (if they’re not a constant for that person, anyway!). So never be embarrassed about it; remind yourself it’s a positive sign. :)
“The right tool for the wrong job – Why your system thinks it’s helping”
Tapping on the script provided and share what you noticed when you tapped through it.
I tapped twice on the script and the second time what came to me was that I had never thought before now that the limiting beliefs could have a positive “job/role” in our lives, I had always considered them as negative, frustrating and as their name indicate, somewhat “limiting our life”…
And suddenly they could have a positive influence in our daily lives because the role “they could/would assume” could be to protect us from certain dangers although we could not be aware of it or even agree with it and it would certainly feel like an imposition to us, usually for a very long time, sometimes for a lifetime if we don’t have the understanding at any given time of those roles in order to be able to make a decision, clear certain blocks in our systems thanks to this information and make gentle agreements with those limiting beliefs to live a better life and more on our terms once we are aware…
This session today was very englightning for me about the role of Limiting beliefs and how to deal with them to live better… Thank you Gene!
Tears. The light bulb came on with a swirl of emotions from sadness to anger. Did the script a second time and had caught sight of the deeper story.
after 2 years of association w/EFT, things, may, just may be sinking in.
I feel more resistance :-\
Done, I noticed a lot of tension in my forehead / brow area, which dissipated as I continued to tap. I also noticed my body needing to take and release very deep breaths.
Tapped 2x’s but still felt resistance.
Where is the script for the tapping?
I listened to the recording but did not see a script.
Thanks for posting it.
It’s in the handout for the class and there are also daily links on the Challenge webpage (see Welcome to 5 Day Challenge email for that link).
Done.
Homework done. Thank you Gene.
Took classes and tried many ways to muscle test for years and still can’t do it so I don’t trust it and don’t want to make a mistake and spend hours on it over and over and still not be able to. Didn’t find the tapping scripts and made up a way I never heard of to muscle test that I can do tomorrow to see what vitamins to take and not take.
I noticed a huge woosh of relaxation through out my whole body from my head to my toes. Like my body doesn’t have to prepare for a fight , hold all this tension, when I’m going to set a boundary with someone.
What I notice:
— recognition. This morning, I wrote down many key points about working with my limiting beliefs as partners. A total reversal of my previous attitude! Hearing the tapping script repeat what I learned this morning was pleasant. It was reassuring that I really was clear about my need to re-orient my attitude about my limiting beliefs.
— this give me another opportunity to thank my inner children for their HUGE repetitive efforts over many years to do their very best to “do it right” without any acknowledgement or appreciation from me once I recognized what was going on. I have spent much time and many tears over the last six months appreciating the strenuous effort that has been put forth on my behalf trying to be “good enough” or “visible” or “worth the effort.”
We work as a team now; I listen to their fears and worries, thank them for their concern, explain the decision I have made (or the action I have taken), and invite them to rest or play.
I think this is not exactly the same thing as working with limiting beliefs and my subconscious, but close enough that adopting the appreciation sandwich was easy and much appreciated.
Love the team approach with sub-conscious mind. Hadn’t thought of that. I’ve been trying to play the role of “the boss” trying to get that little bugger in line. No wonder I face resistance. Thanks Sue!
During the script I let myself get out a good cry. Happy messy sad….about how long I had actually been betraying myself when I thought I was doing myself a favor.
Homework done.
During tapping I got the hiccups – that’s a rare occurrence and continued for quite some time! I’m not sure whether it was coincidence but it was interesting.
I noticed that my brain was searching, searching for who knows what.
I felt confused and a bit lost but non worried.
I felt pretty positive during the rest of the day. Interesting to note.
I yawned a lot as I tapped. These 2 phrases in particular helped me:
“Instead of getting frustrated with my patterns…
I can start to respect the effort…”
“I don’t have to fight my resistance…
I can thank it… and begin to choose something new…”
Homework done.
There were a few phrases that supported a huge tension release for me.
1- Because maybe this belief, this old story I keep repeating, was once the best tool I had . . .
2 – the idea of using an outdated tool.
After tapping I felt less anger and more compassion for the part of me that feels like it’s sabotaging what I want, and alos more open to choosing something new.
Just lots of yawning while tapping and after. Felt kind of relief and calmness
No specific situation but a feeling of something. When tuning into that feeling the yawning went on. Curious what will come up later.
I just did the tapping, and I feel a lightening in myself. Like something is opening and I am more attuned to my breath in my lungs and my heart is ready for something new…. softening in order to receive the nourishment I deserve. I feel a gentle curiosity, like a rose.
During tapping, I noticed the words of Resistance coming back up into my memory from yesterday and noticing even though the echo is there the grasp they had is not.
I notice that the big picture, my story, remains at the forefront of any attempt to proceed with life as I dream it. Annoying.
Oh. That was so touching and surprising. I’ve tapped on this theme sooooo many times (with and without scripts) – not about office decluttering specifically, but about “I have a plan and still either sabotage myself OR do it well but only by forcing/shaming/suppressing…”
Today I both **SAW and FELT** that much of the resistance comes from protective parts:
– very young parts feeling completely overwhelmed
– protective parts
a) shielding me from overwhelm
b) fighting “inherited bad/evil traits”
Realizing there are no “evil traits” here – just overwhelmed parts – was **deeply relieving**. Now I can keep going from my adult self (today’s me *can* declutter systematically ) and tap old overwhelm feelings as needed .
The final sentence, “I can… begin to choose something new” lifted a burden I didn’t know I was carrying. The word ‘can’ gives real hope and intention.
I went back to work on an issue I didn’t get to in yesterday’s homework. When I tuned in, I felt it very close to me like a mini-wall in front of my face and upper chest. I thought I’d use a simple Eden energy technique to get a little ‘physical’ space. When I tuned in again, the resistance had gone. I thought, “Oh, yeah, I can do that thing I’ve been resisting. No biggie.” I am now interested to see how I feel when I get ready to do it (not timely yet).
Gene, if you have any thoughts on this (where ‘this’ is the interplay between energy work and tapping in the context of resistance but also other areas), I’d be glad to hear.
The fear is persistent and my anger wants to protect me. I spent most of the day in distraction, putting walls between myself and both the anger and the fear. I do not feel safe.
I didn’t tap on Day 3 until this morning. Perhaps as distraction, I believe I will be tapping that script often today, appreciating what the anger is doing for me in insulating me from fear that is always present these days.
I feel stuck.
Whew! That was tougher than I thought. I got through most of it, rather matter-of-fact-ly, reciting a script…. until the last two lines. Bingo!
When I get hijacked by fear, it is such a well rehearsed (50 years) and familiar story – it is so easy to fall into the old habit, and quite difficult to adjust to this new mindset of thanking it for its role. Thoughts on how to remember to change to this new way of thinking while hijacked!
I felt relaxed and very light, in body and spirit.
Homework done! Thank you for your insights.
Homework Done! Thank you Gene!
The emotion that came up for me was frustration. Unfortunately this is a very familiar feeling but I am feeling positive that the understanding of the emotion we learnt today and the tapping is going to make this a less regular feeling going forward.
Done and Done. Wednesday and Thursday.