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Pod #598: How I start every tapping sessions

February 14, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Tapping is such an easy tool, that at a moment's notice we jump right in and start tapping.

Even though this is the case, I think it is important that we don't rush in too quickly. To help me get the most of a tapping session I have created two checklists that I read through before I start tapping. There is one checklist for when I am doing personal tapping and another for when I am working with a client.

These lists are designed to make sure I am fully present to the work I am doing AND to make sure I am getting the most out of each tapping session.

You can find the checklist here.

You can hear a full explanation of what each point means and why I focus on them in this week's podcast.

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Pod #597: How to stay on track while tapping

February 7, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

One of my favorite parts of tapping is the fact that when we sit down to tap, not only do we get a chance to clear and release issues but we also have the opportunity to discover other issues that are deeper under the surface.

The cliche that is most often used (because it contains truth) is doing this work is like peeling an onion. As we remove one issue we find another one underneath.

This is powerful because it gives us access to deep work that we can do, but it can also be a distraction. What we thought was one issue now feels like five issues.

When this happens two outcomes can occur. We can become so overwhelmed by the amount of work that we need to do that we stop tapping or we can end up jumping from issues to issues losing our focus. If we end up jumping from issue to issue we end up in the situation where we do a lot of work (tapping on lots of issues) without making much progress because we aren't focused enough to get work done.

This week in the podcast I share with you the way I tap to make sure I stay focused on one issue without being overwhelmed or jumping all over the place.

The process is so simple that after you hear the instruction once you will be able to implement it right away.

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Pod #596: The question you must ask before you sit down to tap

January 31, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

Over the last four or five years I have had a major shift in how I think about tapping. This shift is moving from the idea that tapping is an approach, to tapping being a tool.

This realization has not only changed the way I think about tapping, it has also changed the way I think about transformation as a whole.

No two rounds of tapping are the same. When I say that, I don't just mean I change the words I am using or I change the issues I am addressing. Instead, one round of tapping might be to calm myself down in the middle of a stressful situation, and another might be me working on a childhood trauma that I am still carrying with me.

Even though I am tapping on exactly the same physical points, those two types of tapping are radically different from each other.

In this week's podcast, I explore what it means to see tapping as a tool with many different approaches. From this understanding we look at the different types of approaches we can take when tapping. I also share one key question with you that you should ask yourself before every tapping session to get the most out of it.

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Pod #595: Tailenders – The most value part of a round of tapping

January 24, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

One of the very first ideas I was introduced to when I was learning the basics of tapping was something called a “tailender”.

Tailenders are the little (or big) pieces of resistance that speak up when we are tapping.

For example I could tap on the phrase “I am going to lose 25 lbs to start the year.” The moment I finish saying that phrase, my subconscious mind speaks up with “No you are not. You failed before and you are going to fail again!”

It is a tailender because it is something that is said on the tailend of us saying something else.

I have come to realize in my own tapping practice and also working with clients that these tailenders are actually the key to deep lasting transformation.

This week in the podcast we do a deep dive into what tailenders are, why they exist, and how we can use them to facilitate a more powerful healing process.

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Pod #594: Tapping when you are feeling emotion beaten up AND how to bounce back

January 17, 2024 by Gene Monterastelli

My daily tapping practice is NOT designed to make my life go perfectly. Instead, it is designed to build my emotional resilience.

What I mean by this is that the more emotionally resilient I am when something goes wrong, either it doesn't impact me and my progress OR it has minimal impact on me.

Even when we spend time working on building our resilience, it doesn't mean that we are impervious to taking emotional hits. Sometimes, really big things happen which can knock us off our stride. At other times, the sum total of lots of many small things going wrong adds up.

That is exactly what happened to me in December. So many small things went wrong over the course of a number of weeks. Some of those were errors that I had made. Others were because of external factors beyond my control.

In some ways, it felt like a death by a thousand paper cuts.

In this week's podcast I share about my experience, how it impacted my emotional resilience, and what I have been doing to bounce back.

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