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Tag Archives: Forgiveness

Why I Am Giving Up On Self-Improvement (But I Haven’t Stopped Tapping)

May 20, 2021 By Gene Monterastelli 17 Comments

This was originally written Jan 5th, 2010 and has been updated. Author Nick Hornby was interviewed by Jesse Thorn from the radio program The Sound of Young America around the time that his new book “Juliet, Naked” was published. In the ...

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Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: Forgiveness, God, Grace, Gratitude, Health, Phrases, Self Esteem, Soul, Thanksgiving

Pod #449: Tapping For Self-Forgiveness

April 20, 2020 By Gene Monterastelli 6 Comments

One of the most difficult parts of the healing process is being able to forgive ourselves. It's common to believe that if we forgive ourselves, we are letting ourselves off the hook and failing to take responsibility for our past ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Easy With Self, Forgiveness, Free TapAlong

Pod #396: Tapping For When We Have Let Others Down

October 16, 2019 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

I pride myself on being a thoughtful and helpful person. I like to believe that I am good at living up to my commitments. Most of the time this is true. BUT I am also human and I do make mistakes and unintentionally let people down. This ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Forgiveness, Regret, Shame

Pod #385: Tapping To Let Go Of The Emotional Burdens We Have Picked Up For Other

September 8, 2019 By Gene Monterastelli 4 Comments

Tapping To Let Go Of The Emotional Burdens We Have Picked Up For Others

It is difficult for us to see the people we love suffer but often we don’t consider the consequences when we rush in to help. Our need to bring peace and comfort can override all other thoughts and considerations. This is not always the healthiest ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Audio, Body, Family, Forgiveness, Memory, Physical Response, Premium Member, Surrogate, TapAlong Member, Thanksgiving

Pod #231: EFT For Facing Past Choices

July 27, 2016 By Gene Monterastelli 8 Comments

My favorite phrase that I hear from my clients when we are in the middle of a session is "this probably has nothing to do with it, but…" and then they share some story that seems unconnected. We usually find that a story coming out of left field like ...

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Filed Under: Podcast, Tap Along Tagged With: Forgiveness, Past

Pod #198: EFT For Beating Yourself Up Over Your Past

December 9, 2015 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

As humans we are skilled at learning from our past. This also means that we can be overly critical and spend too much time beating ourselves up over poor choices we have made in the past. Part of us resists self-forgiveness because of the concern ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Forgiveness, Self Love, Self Respect

Guilty v. Regret

September 28, 2011 By Gene Monterastelli 7 Comments

[In this series we examine the importance of the words we use and how changing our vocabulary can change our mind giving us opportunity for transformation. More articles can be found in this series @ Tools: Words] photo by ...

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: Fear, Forgiveness, Guilt, Peace, Regret

The Hardest and Most Radical Tapping You Can Do

May 28, 2011 By Gene Monterastelli 3 Comments

photo by Abby I was working with a client named “Jane”. Jane really knows Emotional Freedom Techniques(EFT)/tapping.  I said to her, “I have a radical suggestion for you. And you don’t need to do it. But it is a thought. I think you need to ...

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: Awareness, Forgiveness, Future, Peace, Surrogate

Strategic Self Kindness

February 23, 2011 By Gene Monterastelli 2 Comments

[Note from Gene: One of the biggest struggles I face in my own healing is the ablity to be easy with myself. I want better for myself. I expect more of myself. I know what I am capable of better. I WANT IT NOW! This makes it very hard to be easy ...

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: Compassion, Forgiveness, Guest Author, Janet Hilts, Kindness

Pod #41: Power of Forgiveness

August 24, 2010 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

One of the most powerful tools in transformation is our ability to forgive ourselves and others. When we forgive we are not saying it is ok. We are not saying we want to have the same thing happen again. What we are saying is that we are choosing no ...

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Using The Ways Others Aggravate Us As A Tool To Self-Healing

March 26, 2010 By Gene Monterastelli 3 Comments

Here is a tweet that I love: @robpurdie i am the things i don't like about other people. Sometimes this is a really hard fact to admit, but I know in my own life it is true. When I am really bent out of shape by someone else's actions it is ...

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Filed Under: Tools Tagged With: Forgiveness, Others, Self Aware, Self Esteem

Top 9 Articles/Topics

August 25, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

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Filed Under: Resources Tagged With: Abundance, Body, Don't Know What Words To Say, Emotions, Fear, Focus, Forgiveness, Future, Health, How To, Pain, Phrases, Physical Response, Relaxation, Resistance, Self Esteem, Surrogate

Being able to say “No.”

May 26, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

Sometimes the hardest word to say is “no”. We want to be helpful. We want to give. We don’t want to be seen as selfish. We want to be asked again in the future. There are so many reasons to say “yes”. But there are also many good reasons to say ...

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Filed Under: Tap Along Tagged With: Forgiveness, no, Peace, Phrases, yes

Pod #10: Healing The Wounds of Abortion w/ Dene Ballantine

May 25, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

Dene Ballantine There are few wounds that run deeper than being part of a decision about abortion. In this pod I talk with Dene Ballantine about how it is possible to heal this type of wound. Dene offers expertise from her own story and her ...

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Filed Under: Podcast Tagged With: Abortion, Audio, Dene Ballantine, Forgiveness, Peace, Premium Member, TapAlong Member

Losing My Ability To Feel Emotions

March 31, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli 1 Comment

I have been successful with EFT when it comes to working on minor aches and pains. There are some big emotional things from my past I would like to tap on, but I am afraid. I worry that I am going to tap away my ability to feel emotions. Is EFT going ...

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Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: Emotions, Fear, Forgiveness, Health

I Don’t Deserve Healing

January 5, 2009 By Gene Monterastelli 4 Comments

One of the biggest struggles in our process of growing and changing is the fact that we don’t often believe that we deserve healing. We believe: We have too much We have done too much wrong It is too late Sometimes it is just a deep ache ...

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Filed Under: Tap Along Tagged With: Forgiveness, Health, Peace, Phrases

Don’t Know How To Forgive Myself

November 21, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

What is the best procedure a person can take to learn how to forgive one’s self? I need to forgive myself desperately but don’t know how! The question of forgiveness comes up a lot with the clients I work with. In the article Forgiveness Equals ...

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Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: Forgiveness, Peace, Phrases, Thanksgiving

Tapping On Someone Else’s Behavior

October 30, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 2 Comments

There is someone at work who drives me crazy, always picking fights and causing lots of disharmony in the office. Changing jobs isn’t really an option for me. Is it possible for me to tap to change their behavior? If you read most EFT websites ...

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Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: Forgiveness, How To, Phrases, Surrogate, Work

Forgiveness Equals Condoning The Action

October 1, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli Leave a Comment

I was introduced to EFT about a year ago and I love it. I’m amazed at the way it quickly gets rid of unwanted emotions, but I’m wondering if this is always a good thing. I made some really poor choices in the past. I feel really bad about these ...

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Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: Forgiveness, Peace

Using Poetry with EFT (in this case for forgiveness)

June 10, 2008 By Gene Monterastelli 3 Comments

In a recent newsletter you talked about using a forgiveness poem as a tapping tool. I’m not sure what I am supposed to do. Can you give me more instruction? photo by Pankaj One of the reasons I love Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) ...

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Filed Under: Q&A Tagged With: Daily, Focus, Forgiveness, How To, Peace

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