Tapping

Anonymous

Is anyone using this method to relieve stress and keep on track with positive affirmations? I just started last week, and I must say that it's helped me during appoints and other times when I find it hard to relieve fear.  Dr. Wayne Dyer and Kris Carr (Crazy Sexy Cancer) both swear by it.

Claire

barbe1958

I believe anything that can keep our systems flowing to it's optimal is good for us. I used massage every week for 5 1/2 years to keep lymph moving and to break up pools of lactic acid in my body. As the therapist worked on my body I used visualization to imagine "bad" stuff leaving my body on my breaths out. I even had her use tapotement after an earlier breast biopsy to break up the bruising. (Was so disappointed when I just couldn't afford it any longer, and am now beginning to show my age.) The concept of tapping being totally psychological is missing important physical benefits. It likens itself to acupuncture without the needles. When I tried acupuncture the tech put electrical connections to some of my needles to increase the electrical flow and I loved it! I believe tapping in the proper areas could also help you avoid lymphadema. Did you have breast surgery? Ask your PT where you could tap to help the lymph flow.

How much does it cost you per treatment? Can you teach a partner to do it to recorded affirmations that you could play? Can you use just the affirmations afterwards to "top up" the benefit and to ease your stress? I would pretty much trust Wayne Dyer with my life, so anything he promotes can only be a good thing!

Keep us posted on how it is going for you. I'd love to hear what your therapist would think about lymph flow and tapping.

Anonymous

Hi Barbe1958, you can learn online....there are videos...

I use it to relieve fear and to tell myself I'm strong (or safe) and cancer-free. It does use chinese acupressure points, so I agree it probably does more than just mentally relieve problems.

I have a hard time meditating because my mind is overly hyper( think hamsters and wheels whirring away), but using tapping works for me because it's hard for me to let another thought in when I'm using all of my senses to "meditate" via tapping.  It keeps me on target when I'm practicing affirmations, I think.

I do it in bed at night when I've woken too soon, and after yoga during our final savasana.  

It costs nothing; anyone can do it. I've linked a couple of sites where you can check it out.

http://eft.mercola.com/

http://kriscarr.com/blog-video/emotional-freedom-t...

barbe1958

Claire, I was wondering if we had to hear the validations from someone else, so it's good to know I can do it myself. As for the hamster wheel....yiyiyi!!! I even took Mindfulness Meditation but I too, just can't turn off my brain! Sometimes at night I'll just go over my entire day, thanking my blessings (sunrise, sunny day, etc) minute by minute until I bore myself to sleep. hehehehehe I think it helps me appreciate what my day has held. Good to know you "get it" when I mention the physical benefits of tapping.

Anonymous

Barbe thank you for reminding me I need to "tap"! 

Seriously, I understand getting to sleep; for me it's staying asleep. I read myself to sleep pretty easily, but staying asleep is another story. If I curl into a fetal ball and "drive" myself through some of the cities I've lived in, going from place to place, I can get myself back to sleep without taking a xanax.  Lately I've tried tapping with different "sleep time" affirmations and it helps too. I also keep a pen and postit pad by my bed, and write down what I am worried about or need to remember to do. That helps as well.

dlb823

Thanks for the reminder about tapping!  Andrew's Weil's Self Healing With Energy Medicine has some wonderful tapping exercises on it, as well as an excellent explanation of energy healing.  I haven't listened to it for awhile, but am now inspired to dig out that CD again.      Deanna

gemini4

Claire, I chuckled at your mental "drive" to get back to sleep. My go-to mind-numbing brain exercise to induce sleep is to list in my head all the states on the US map, starting in the northeast with Maine. I'm usually asleep by the time I get to the Dakotas. ;-)

I have several meditation mp3 tracks that I listen to on occasion. Here's a site where you can mix your own custom tracks and apparently even record your own affirmations -- http://www.omvana.com.  I haven't tried it myself, but some of you may want to check it out. Please report back if you do!

Anonymous

Here's another story: my daughter, who is 32, has a sometimes overwhelming fear of flying...and yet she flies nearly every week for her job.  She was having a panic attack some time ago on a plane, and she was sitting next to a psychologist, who taught her tapping techniques which really help her now! (With xanax at times, too)

Deanna, I've been following Dr. Weil since he wrote his first book in '95...thank you for sharing that title with me.

Gemini4, all 50 states...if  I get bored trying to imagine driving from house to work every place I've lived, I'll try that ! 

When you tap, be sure to remove your jewelry, esp. watches. Apparently that can have some invasive influence with moving energy, I was told.  

Claire

althea

I listen to the world tapping summit every year for probably 4 or 5 years now.  Anxiety is a strong family trait and it helps me tremendously.  I highly recommend it.  I am also a big fan of Donna Eden and energy medicine.  She has a five minute energy routine that I practice daily.  She and her daughters are findable on youtube. 

RSS

Oh.. tapping helped me cope my stress of cancer, chemo, rad and the BIGGEST fear of all... Claustrophobia in MRI machine! Highly recommend it

Also Bach Flower essence

pipers_dream

I've had some great experiences with tapping and one bad one. The bad one was a day that I had a mentally ill student get very aggressive and I was watching him closely to make sure he didn't hurt anyone--he was very obviously angry. I put several others on alert and was getting more and more stressed and then I decided to try tapping with him. We went thru two cycles and he did great--he was fine after that. He bopped back on into class and was talking to his friends and I realized that whatever was in him had passed into me and I got very angry! It was all I could do to keep from screaming at the kids and tapping was not making it go away, though it did get a bit better. That was one very stressful afternoon and evening and something I did not need to be dealing with in my health condition. Fortunately he graduated and I won't have to deal with him this year.