Letting ourselves down is one of the deepest betrayals that we humans can experience.
It feels like such a harsh gut punch when it is something we know we should have been able to do.
After we let ourselves down in such a powerful way, our subconscious will do everything in its power, through resistance to take action so as to keep us safe. It reasons that since it was so painful to let ourselves down, the way to avoid that pain in the future is simply not to commit to something better.
Intellectually we know this is a bad plan, but the resistance will persist, trying (and often succeeding) to hold us back.
This week in the podcast we look at why we created this resistance, how to overcome it in the moment, and how to avoid it in the future.
If you are serious about healing and transformation, clearing the resistance to making commitments to yourself is essential.
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The words change and improve are very close in meaning.
Not all stress is created equal.
One of the most consistent struggles my clients have is coming up with the “right” words.
Grief is unlike other emotions when it comes to tapping.
We often refer to tapping for stress and feeling overwhelmed as emotional first aid. That is because we are applying a tool for quick relief in the moment in the same way we would use first aid for a physical injury.
A number of years ago I was visiting my friend “Mike” and his family.
There is a huge difference between bouncing back from being tired and being exhausted.
One of the hardest parts of being a caring person is witnessing others in pain.
There is this moment in every tapper's life when we move from “This tapping thing is amazing” to “Oh my goodness there are soooooo many issues for me to tap on. Every time I clear one issue I find four more!”
Over the years, so many of my clients and students have told me that two of the biggest obstacles preventing them from sitting down to tap are having too many issues so that they don't know where to start, and the fear that their emotions will be too big to handle when tapping.
Even though we might not be conscious of it, every time we sit down to tap, our desire is for total, instantaneous, eternal transformation.
Sometimes tapping feels nothing short of magical!
One of the fundamentals I repeatedly return to when I am working with clients or teaching practitioners is: We emotionally respond to the world in the way that we describe it.
For the longest time, I found tapping for feeling overwhelmed one of my most frustrating issues.
The dawning of a new year is a great time for reflection and planning. We have the chance to see what we would like to release, what we would like to change, and what we would like to add to our lives.
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One of the realities of our relentlessly connected world is our ability to know what is happening anywhere in the world in an instant.