I wrote this on tapping, for Herbie's and my book:
Tapping involves the ancient Chinese meridians of acupuncture together with affirmations. Affirmations are positive thoughts or words you tell yourself such as:
I feel calm and relaxed
I have no pain
I’m healthy
I am strong and healthy.
I’m at peace with myself and everyone
I forgive myself and everyone
Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.
I’m not worried about anything.
My mind is at peace.
You can watch free videos on how to tap and what to say while tapping if you go online to the YouTube web sites of Robert G. Smith. It’s free and from the tapes you’ll see, it has worked for thousands of people.
When and where do you tap and with what do you tap?
1. Think of a pain or repressed emotion such as a bad childhood memory or financial worries, something that causes anxiety, anger, fear, or any other negative feeling. Imagine that feeling on a scale of from one to ten, the higher the better.
2. Begin tapping over your eye five to seven times with your index finger and the finger next to it while saying out loud (not silently) some positive affirmations such as “Even though I feel this pain, I deeply and completely accept myself. I release and let it go. It’s okay to let it go. All sadness, fears, all emotional trauma, stress, anxiety.”
3. Tap at the side of the eye, and repeat step 2.
4. Tap below the eye, and repeat step 2.
5. Tap on the collar bone (where a necklace is worn) and repeat step 2.
6. Squeeze a wrist, then repeat step 2.
7. Take a deep breath through the nose, hold it a few seconds, then let it out through the mouth, and say “Peace.”
Smith also suggests imagining a tree and you’re pulling it out by the roots. The tree represents the bad emotion in you and when you pull up its roots the tree dies and so does the bad emotion -- it goes away.
Feel the emotion, tap it, release it, let it go. Keep tapping until the pain or memory of a bad emotion is gone. Go back and imagine the scale of your anxiety, anger, fear or other negative emotion and see if it has gone down from ten.
If it has gone down but is not totally gone, repeat the tapping and affirmations until it is. This could take minutes or longer. If the bad feeling or pain goes away but comes back later, tap again.
Tapping tells the unconscious mind you are ridding yourself of the pain or bad emotion. It is another way to practice TMS. Physically tapping helps many people to be pain-free faster.
If you tap about the pain or other stress, the relief you feel may not be permanent. To be rid of the pain completely you must address the root cause of the pain or other problem. That involves the TMS approach to healing… discovering the repressed emotion and thinking of that as you tap each acupuncture meridian.
