Cancer/Diseases and Epigenetics

As a R.N. I've often thought about this! We know fear generates a ton of internal stress, so fear of death or whatever other stresses (financial, relational, etc.) someone encounters during cancer treatment could potentially mess with any treatment.

We also now understand if one fears GETTING cancer or any other disease (based on family history) is probably enough for gene expression to occur. Simply the stress from fearing a possible disease could be enough to give one the disease!

How many times have we heard a friend say something like this, "My grandmother died of ovarian cancer, my mother now has ovarian cancer, so I guess I will get ovarian cancer?'

That statement repeated often enough could possibly come true! You may not even have an ovarian cancer gene in your body that was going to give you cancer, but repeating the above statement (about anything) could be enough to epigenetically express a cancer gene.

This same idea goes for anything in our lives, not just diseases! "My parents were divorced, so will I", "my grandparents died young, so will I", my sister flunked out of college and she is smarter than I, I can't possibly graduate", etc., etc. are all epigenetic statements of sorts.

Watch what you say in daily life! Tap the negative beliefs away!

Internal stress reduction is imperative, especially the thoughts you simply think about - the ones you keep repetitively telling yourself in your own head!

https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-09-20-bombshell-study-shows-that-stress-hormones-caused-by-the-fear-of-a-cancer-diagnosis-interfere-with-cancer-treatments-oncologists-are-killing-people.html

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so consult your own personal physician before using EFT.  Thank you!

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
Certified EFT Practitioner         
Author EFT for Christians (2015)
Author of EFT for Christians, Tapping into God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced (2017)

Author of EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions (2017)

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Thomas Merton & EFT

"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."

Thomas Merton

Tapping is a wonderful tool to help end the emotional pain that does torture us.

What Thomas Merton didn't know scientifically is that the more we think about something bothering us, the deeper and more ingrained our subconscious mind implants the thought, often making it come true, into our neurons.

It's all biology!  The way God created it to work!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for psychological or medical care, so please contact your own personal physician if you feel need to do so.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced  (2017)

Author of EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)

Author of EFT for Christians Devotions (Christmas, 2020)

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Words Becoming Reality

Listen to yourself speak!

Can we hear ourselves speaking negatively positive?

By putting a positive spin on a negative thought doesn't make either our speech or our thoughts positive! It's still negative.

Examples: "If we have an accident we have sufficient insurance to get us through."

"Even though genetically I will probably get cancer because my family is riddled with it, God will take care of me."

"I'm accident prone, so even if I fall off this ladder, I hope I will just bounce."

Although those are poor examples, and a good one eludes me at this moment (!), perhaps a better way of dealing with these types of thoughts that eventually become speech is to tap about our thoughts and feelings about an "accident" or "cancer" or the "genetics" or being "accident prone."

Something else is going on underneath in the subconscious mind that even allows these ideas to surface & to stick.

With some mindfulness, listening to the words we use, and some tapping, our speech patterns can change.

Why would we want to do this?

Words and thoughts become our reality. Dwelling on a thought for an hour doubles the nerve connections around that thought, hardening them into becoming our default thinking. Once the default thinking becomes our go-to thought about a topic, our subconscious mind often brings it to reality because nerve connections in the mind talk to nerve connection in every other body part.

Philippians 4:8 tells us, "Finally, brothers {and sisters}, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." ESV

Remember - EFT is not a substitute for sound medical assistance, so please contact your personal physician if you feel you do need medical or psychological help.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced  (2017)

Author of EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)

Author of EFT for Christians Devotions (Christmas, 2020)

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EFT for Christians Video #34 Generational Healing

Hi all!

Another instructional Christian EFT video here:  EFT for Christians Video #34 Generational Healing

Hope you enjoy this video!

Be blessed!

Sherrie Rice SmithCertified EFT PractitionerEFTforChristians.comAuthor of EFT for Christians Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)Author of EFT for Christians Advanced (2017)Author of EFTforChristians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)Use Promo Code SAVE20 to get 20% Off 

EFT for Christians Video # 21: Verbal Descriptions of Tapping Spots

Here is another YouTube for EFT for Christians entitled:  
Verbal Descriptions of tapping spots  found here. 

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological care. Please call your own personal physician and take responsibility for your own emotional and physical health.

Be blessed in Christ!
Sherrie

EFT for Christians Video # 8: Science Studies About EFT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbfuw76bqBc

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EFT is not a substitute for medical advice or help, so please consult your own personal physician if you need medical or psychological assistance.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
EFTforChristians.com
EFTforChristians@gmail.com 

EFT for Christians Video # 9: How-to Tap, Demo of Technique with Christian Set-up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxyMce64sw

EFT is not a substitute for medical advice or help, so please consult your own personal physician if you need medical or psychological assistance.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
EFTforChristians.com
EFTforChristians@gmail.com 

EFT & Cortisol

Why does excitement in our lives make us feel alive as humans?  What causes the buzz we feel when we are participating in stressful things in our lives?

The answer to both questions is learned stress hormones.  Adrenaline, Cortisol, Norepinephrine are the 3 major stress hormones in our lives that are triggered by our limbic brain.

So, how does all of this connect together, giving us an understanding of how this impacts our lives today? 

Our limbic system, comprised of Thalamus, Hypothalamus, Cingulate gyrus, Amygdala, Hippocampus & Basal Ganglia, was created by God to keep us safe from predators and other bodily threats. If a loud, unexplained noise occurs, the hypothalamus, a small area in the base of your brain, sends an alarm through the body via intricate system of nerve and hormonal signals, prompting the adrenal glands, sitting on top the kidneys, to release a flood of hormones, including adrenaline and cortisol. The flight, freeze or flight mechanism has just been activated, keeping us alert and aroused, watching out for danger.  Heart rate increases, blood pressure is elevated, glucose to the tissues is released, blood leaves the neo-cortex for the larger muscles in the legs in case flight is necessary, digestion is interrupted (no time to eat now!), immune system literally takes a hit, suppressing it, sex and growth are out of the question at the moment, as survival is utmost in the body’s mind. Estrogen, testosterone, & the neurotransmitters, dopamine and serotonin, are also involved in this struggle to a lesser extent. All non-essential bodily functions cease until the situation resolves.

This survival mechanism was implanted only for short-term use. The limbic fight, flight, or freeze is activated, problem gets resolved, and the stress hormones return to normal levels, dropping the heart rate & glucose levels back to normal. Sometimes it takes days for the stress levels to fall back to normal levels, especially when the body has chronic stress.

DHEA levels are restored from their depressed levels for more bodily repair and growth, allowing immune system to take over maintaining good health. Now, time has come to think about food and sex!  The body has returned to a relaxed state.

A problem remains today; however, in that we humans tend to remain in this high state of alert because of the high functioning lifestyles we lead, many times by choice. We actually become addicted to the elevated stress levels, leaving us feeling sad and uncomfortable when we begin to slow down for a short period of time. Once accustomed to high stress levels, the subconscious tends to want to keep us there. It has become our standard MO. In fact, the subconscious will even put us in situations to provoke an increased stress level, keeping the hormones & glucose at higher levels. It truly is addicted to the chemicals!

We may feel relaxed, but most times we continue nearly constantly in a high beta brain wave state. It’s the state of modern life.  Unfortunately, it is killing us - literally, killing us. Our bodies weren’t built for long term limbic activation.  Continuous high levels of cortisol are known to cause huge physical issues, including increased abdominal fat, weight gain, obesity, memory impairment, heart disease, etc.  Metabolic syndrome, with its illness list, is caused by these huge glucose level increases, necessitating activation of the pancreas to pump out extra insulin to deal with it.  This introduces diabetes, more heart disease, & stroke. The depression of the immune system is a gigantic issue, as it opens us up to every infectious disease we encounter, including just that continuous cascade of one viral cold after another, that chain of unending illness that sap our strength & endurance, giving our employer fits because we need sick day after sick day.  Because of the decrease in immune function and the lack of DHEA to promote growth, we open ourselves up to other illness, such as cancer.

Since most of us no longer face true physically life threatening situations, the threats are really just “paper tigers” – they are all in our mind. Because of the physiology of the brain, particularly the limbic system, our mind doesn’t know the difference between a real physical threat and the one we create in our own imagination. Case in point: The body treats worry just the same as it treats something really happening. Worrying about the boss firing us or the boss actually firing us will trigger the exact same chemical release in our bodies. Each situation appears to be the same to our mind during our thinking and feeling process. The limbic system doesn’t differentiate between perceived and real situations. Worry is stress, as we all know. That same worry will break down our bodies, causing physical illnesses.

So, how do we solve this problem? There are many true “relaxation” techniques out there, including meditation. Often times, when we feel relaxed, we actually aren’t relaxed at all.

Here is where Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) excels. When employed regularly, EFT will cut through this stress and worry, taking us back to a state of relaxation on a daily basis, allowing us to short circuit this flight or fight mechanism implanted in us. The neural networks are reconfigured. We unlearn the cognitive patterns of our earlier years, breaking down those destructive habits that keep us locked into those stressful states, whatever they may be.

EFT is easy to learn and it takes much less time than meditation. In our hurry up world, we all look for shortcuts. EFT is one, but it is a good, healthy shortcut.

I can also teach you other quick stress reduction techniques, if that is of interest. There are many other ones out there.

Is EFT God’s healing mechanism for you?  Pray about it please, and email me for a free Christian coaching with EFT consultation. I’d love to talk with you.

For more information, go to www.eftforchristians.com

To schedule a free EFT coaching session, email me at eftforchristians@gmail.com

Always remember to take complete responsibility for your own health and well-being.

EFT & Trust in God

Wow, is God really exploding some of His truths into my consciousness! This is almost scary!  I pray often for the Wisdom of Solomon, and I know that many times I understand far beyond what I probably should, or see what is really happening below the surface, in situations around me.  At times, it is a heavy responsibility because, if I speak out with the truth, I’m ignored or rejected. I believe this is a true gift from the Holy Spirit – it is discernment, a rare gift.

Does it make me more special than anyone else? Nope!  Everyone has gifts of the Holy Spirit. The only question is:  are we willing to submit to His holy will and use them for the glorification of His Kingdom? One gift is no better or any worse than another. St. Paul tells us in 1 Corinthians 12: 4-6 & 11, “There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit distributes them.  There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.  There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines”. God gives us exactly what He wants us to have, but the point is we must use what we are given. I mean used actively for the furtherance of His Kingdom here on earth.

My heart is nearly overwhelmed with God’s truth of the past several days. I’m trying to figure out, well, the Holy Spirit is doing the work here, how to make a Christian EFT model, one that can be implemented easily & quickly into the churches nationwide - something understandable with simple concepts on all aspects of the science & psychology of all things EFT.

I’m working with a particularly “difficult” client right now, not that she is being difficult, but that her negative life process is so deeply embedded from years and years of depression. This in & of itself makes this a tough case, but it all goes one step further. She, and I shall call her Edith, is some prominent in the community. Edith is a Christian who is in a rotten place in life, not by any choice of hers.  I need to make Edith’s faith plain to her as we use EFT. God is showing me how He wants Christian EFT to go through Edith’s pain.

The other “difficulty” here is as much as I want to divorce my own personal feelings from this tapping case, I find myself slipping back into some of my old patterns of self-doubt and fears, too.  I’ve tapped about all this, and I’ve rebuked satan & covered myself with the Blood of the Lamb, but the doubts linger. What if I fail? What if I screw up here? What if EFT lets me down? What if Edith’s disease process is so bad that not even EFT can pry it loose? On and on I go with the internal questions.

I have a small squadron of my personal prayer warriors standing behind me, as I do these tough cases. I would never even consider doing any of this work without having myself covered in prayer, and with this woman even more so!

I’ve prayed now for 3 years for God to reveal what & how He wants me to use the EFT that He has given me. I feel He wants me to produce a specifically Christian brand of EFT for the churches, something most denominations will be comfortable with, no matter how liberal or how conservative. When I started developing this I had absolutely no idea what it would look like. None. I had an offer of a free website, specifically for Christians, and I jumped on that. I won’t turn down something free. Once, the website was agreed upon, I embarked on writing all these blogs, as a free blog was also part of the website deal. As I write God just explodes in my head, one idea after another, stuff I would have never, ever thought of myself. Wow, is God amazing, or what?

However, in this process, and in this new “difficult” case He dumped onto my lap, I’ve realized/learned a few new things.

This is an added dimension of trust that I found in me. I never realized it was there, and I know it is enhanced by own personal EFT work. This is a God thing!  This is not of me. As I work daily at this new website and blog, and now this new case with Edith, I realize how vulnerable I feel. I’ve just opened myself up once again to rejection and fear of failure. Today, I realized (while having iced tea with a dear sweet young gal & her 2 beautiful little daughters) exactly what I’m feeling. I’m scared I will screw this all up. That was a huge fear of mine as a child, well into my adult life. It kept me tied up, holding back from doing what God wanted me to do. I couldn’t even trust Him to make stuff work out.

I realized today that EFT has taken me beyond all that, at least for today, and that is all God asks of us – walk with Him one day at a time, trusting Him the entire way, to deal with whatever befalls us. As I have tapped away my childhood issues, God is faithful to me. He has opened up an entirely new level of trust & dependence on Him. I see where, and I knew this before, but it never stopped me from worrying, my failure and possible rejection has absolutely nothing to do with me.  This is huge! If I have complete and total dependence on Him, then, if failure occurs, it is His will for His purpose that it happens. I’m not a failure in His eyes, no matter what other men think. I’m a failure only if I fail to do as He bids me do. I fail if I allow myself to fall into disobedience to His holy will.

Now, don’t get me wrong, intellectually I always knew all this, but today, for the first time in my life, I feel this! I finally get it!  Something has changed in my physiology! EFT tapping has changed something, making it now a part of me. God is at work.

I’ve cleared out enough emotional garbage that God can finally use me for His eternal purposes. Most of the self-doubting worry is gone. And I mean really gone, as in vanished. I think I have arrived at the place where the lilies of the field live!  Matthew 6:25-33 reads:
 “Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?  Which of you by worrying can add one cubit to his stature? So why do you worry about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;  and yet I say to you that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?  For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you”.

I’m not called to look down the road a hundred miles, I’m only told to take one step at a time within the will of God, & seek His Kingdom first. I have no need to know what is ahead, and now the past is disabled, thanks to EFT. All that counts is the present. God has the past and God has the future (“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” Matthew 6:34).

I need only concern myself with the here and now – live in the mindfulness of the present, enjoying every minute God has allowed me to have on this earth. And the here and now is listening to the beckoning of the Holy Spirit, His instructions for my life, and then stepping out in faith & follow exactly those instructions. It means being completely and totally yielded to Him in everything.

What a spot to find myself in!  I’ve never been here before. I think it is pretty neat! Will I falter again & resume worrying? Possibly, but God has given me a wonderful tool in EFT. When worry or doubt sets in, I stop, excuse myself from the conversation, and head to a remote, quiet place and tap. What do I tap? First, I repent of the worry & doubt, and then I tap & pray, asking God to once again restore unto me His precious peace and confidence in knowing that I am walking in His perfect will. Psalm 51:10-12 reads: “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.  Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit”.

What an amazing place to be, now that I’m 60 years old! The bottom line here is this: As I have tapped my way into internal cleanness, dredging up & discarding all of my emotional junk, God has honored me by blowing open a spiritual component to my Christian life that I never dreamed possible. Maybe this is the stuff, dimensions that the Christian mystics and fathers have spoken of in eons gone by. I knew nothing of it. How could I?  They were so buried under my pain and hurt and negative feelings, nothing good could penetrate them. I’ve picked and prodded myself, peeling away layer upon layer, of useless emotions, arriving at a spot I desired, but never thought possible. This may well be the peace that passes all understanding that St. Paul talks about in Philippians (“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus” – Philippians 4:6-7). If it isn’t, then what in the world does that look like? I’d surely be anxious to know, wouldn’t you? Peace & trust, what a wonderful place to dwell. Thank you, Lord, thank you!

If you are interested in finding out how to get to this trustful place in your life, email me. I would love to show you how to do that with EFT. It really does work as I say it does. God be praised!

For more information, go to  www.eftforchristians.com

To schedule a free EFT coaching session, email me at eftforchristians@gmail.com

Always remember to take complete responsibility for your own health and well-being.

Open EFT Letter to a Depressed Friend

As difficult as it could possibly be, try your best to tap for 15-20 or more minutes a day, tuning into whatever it is that the Holy Spirit brings to mind for you (I have literally tapped thousands of hours for my healing - it had to be a priority to me, or I was simply going to end up a physical wreck - I know where I was headed). If you can do so, whenever a feeling of one sort or another washes over you during the day (or night), if you can do so, stop right then and there and start tapping, calming yourself. Slow deep breaths of 4-5 seconds in, holding for 2 seconds, and breathing out for another 4-5 seconds does similar stuff by dropping us into that alpha/theta brain wave area where we tend to be a bit steadier. Its similar brain waves to those who meditate. EFT drops us into that same brain wave state, too. It's your way of telling the limbic system to quiet down. It understands that language! I have no idea how long this will take, but after you have done enough of this, and you will never know how much is enough until the feelings break up (which isn't really too helpful for you!), call me & I will teach you, if you so desire, the next steps in EFT. The manuals tell us to get specific on events. That's what I would show you - some shortcuts and ideas of how to clear all that out of your memories. Remember, EFT doesn't remove memories; EFT just pulls the emotion out of them, neutralizing them by calming down that limbic system where the stress trigger lives in the body - yours is working overtime! Anyway, tapping globally, as we have been doing, is ok when the pain is high, but, if you can do it, tapping on specific events will undermine the stress level much more quickly. By specific I mean, grab hold of a very detailed memory of your past. Pull it into your head with all its glory, and then tap out of that memory every single emotion involved in it. Just tap the emotion, if you want to say something - at each tapping point. No need to get fancy. Simply works. If EFT calms you in the moment, then it should calm you long term if enough is done. Try something else, if you want - say "I'm so happy" at each tapping point. Obviously, it isn't true, but sometimes it confuses the subconscious enough to switch neurons around. I would have gotten to that with you eventually. There is another technique that is part of Dr. Patricia Carrington's (former psychology faculty member @ Princeton University who has used EFT for 20 years) Choices Method where she alternates between the positive and negative tapping statements at each tapping point. "I'm so happy", or "I'm so depressed", or any variations of that, or "My life is wonderful", etc. There are a couple of reasons why this sometimes helps - my favorite answer is the technique so confuses the subconscious that it simply gives up the ghost because it, literally, doesn't know what the hell you want! Remember, the subconscious is literal, linear, & logical. By constantly telling it negatively, without tapping, how you feel, it just encodes that deeper into the cells because it thinks that is what you want. It's why "talk therapy" rarely works because there is no tapping going on, or some other release method used. It's also why clinical psychologists by the dozens are switching from talk therapy to EFT! Talking without tapping drives the emotion further into us. http://eftuniverse.com/component/content/article?id=9000 Anytime, you are on the phone or talking to anyone about how you feel, tap! Use those finger points I showed you, if you can't tap on the body or head points. This technique is called "Tap and Rant" or "Tap and Complain". We all do it, but make sure we tap while we "vent" (the old psychology term)! I tap on my finger points during the sermons in church. Brad asks if I'm upset. No, I'm simply tapping. Tapping, just to tap, is therapeutic (we could get into the quantum physics of what goes on when tapping, too). The "bodymind" understands what we are doing. It's like a hug to our own self. I tap all the time. Tapping when I'm happy or joyful, encodes that into my cells, too. I want God's joy encoded! Out with the old; in with the new! It took time, nearly 2 1/2 years for me, but I'm there, or nearly so! Some people do this in a matter of weeks Like I told you, there are dozens of different EFT techniques, and I mix and match them, along with different energy modalities. In other words, there are 100s of things that can be tried. I only showed you a couple. I did as I was led by Holy Spirit to do. Here is the EFTUniverse.com website with other "depression" cases listed. I haven't read them, except for the above one from Valerie Lis. http://eftuniverse.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9313 Remember, too, with depression, one of the hardest things is to recognize that you might feel a bit better with EFT. Because the pain is so deeply embedded in those cells, and the cognitive pattern so set in what seems like cement, noticing an improvement is one of the issues with depression. Watch carefully please. EFT makes very, very subtle changes that you yourself may never notice, but Pastor or the girls might. It is very subtle in many cases. I warn clients of this...someone else may notice before you do! If they do, they are correct. I tell clients to see if they can beat their families in noticing their personal changes! Pay close attention to how you feel. The changes are most likely there; you just have to see them, and then allow God to build on them. Thank you for the privilege of tapping with you! Please let me know how you are doing. You are in my prayers and I have put you on a couple of permanent prayer lists in other states. There are prayer warriors out there on duty before the Throne of God 24/7! For more information, go to www.eftforchristians.com To schedule a free EFT consultation coaching session, email me at: eftforchristians@gmail.com Always remember to take complete responsibility for your own health and well-being

EFT and Energy Techniques

I had a crazy thing happen yesterday. It was my day to go to a personal EFT session with Irene Baum, EFT-INT, on north side of Milwaukee. Last week, Irene & I pulled out some real emotional dirt for me around my baby sister’s death back in 1961, when I was 8 years old. We cleared a lot of it, but I knew it wasn’t done, so I made another appointment with Irene for yesterday. Last week, a day after the appointment, I finally tapped, asking my subconscious to please hang onto the junk for another 4 days. It has done it for me for 52 years, I just needed 4 more days over the 4th of July holiday weekend, and it could cut loose at 1 P.M. on the Tuesday thereafter. I’d be at Irene’s for this appointment and we would deal with the emotional pain/issues then. The subconscious complied until early afternoon on the following Monday. I wondered if I miscalculated and should have told it “5 days”! The subconscious is very literal, you know. It does exactly what it is told to do, right down to the minute sometimes, I think. Monday afternoon hit and I could feel something building, once again, in my chest. I was getting crabby and irritable. This is how I feel when something is trying to escape from my memories. A couple nights before, for some unknown reason, I felt so itchy all over, and suddenly the words came to me, “Something is itching to get out!” Seriously? Monday, I knew it was really “itching” to escape.

Early Tuesday morning I awoke & cried my eyes red for probably 30 to 60 minutes, eventually falling back to sleep. By mid-morning Tuesday I couldn't walk or talk straight. I’m never like this. My brain was foggy. I couldn’t figure out where my feet were, nor could I string 7 words together without stopping, like an aphasic person, to think about what the topic was I was commenting on. I was a mess, and I would have had Brad take me to the appointment because I wasn’t sure I could drive decently either, except I broke the toilet earlier and he had to wait for the plumber! I’d had better days! I had brought along a picture to Irene’s of my now dead sister from 1961, showing the 2 of us sitting on Grandma’s sofa. Those haunting eyes of Karen’s are what was getting to me emotionally. Here was my little terminally ill sister at 10 months. I was beside her, but my eyes looked as though I wasn’t present whatsoever. I was off somewhere in la-la land. That was problematic to me, as it simply showed I had already checked out of life by the time I was the age of 8.

I need not tell of everything Irene and I tapped on, or how many tears I cried, but the emotional pain manifested itself in a stabbing pain in my left temple area. Then it was a knife slicing through the back of my head into that same temple, followed by some variations thereof, but I knew what it was. It was Dad back-handing me at the supper table the time he knocked me off my chair and I hit the wall. I know it was that side of my head. It was closest to him. Irene and I tapped everything on the planet out of that memory. We thoroughly scoured it to include plenty of shame and humiliation, anger and sadness, and several other emotions. At the end of the tapping, the pain had changed and I realized it was a hollow pain, like a phantom pain that amputees get, a pain where a memory had been. A deep wound that was now empty. It was a very odd feeling. Something I had never experienced before now.

Then I realized driving home that the left temple would signify what this website showed me: http://www.nlp-practitioners.com/interactive/nlp-eye-access-cues-game.php#theFace . A friend had just emailed me this site a few days before my tapping session. The left temporal area is where visual memories are stored, according to NLP. Oh, my, that awful memory and all of its accompanying emotions of humiliation and shame of being smacked off my chair in front of everyone had been held in that field ever since. My subconscious once again had been so literal.

Not only was I clouted on the left side of the head that evening long ago, it was the same approximate area where the subconscious held those types of old visual memories. About an hour later the pain just dissipated, as I figured it would do. The memory was neutralized, and the accompanying pain just faded away. This all brought me back to an EFT class I once attended that was taught by Dawson Church. I think it was a Level 3 class, if I’m not mistaken. I remember him, when discussing the use of the Gamut 9, talking about watching the client carefully when circling with the eyes, once in each direction, because, if the practitioner watches carefully, they may detect a spot where the client simply misses in that circling. When that happens, it tends to be the spot where the memory is held, and the practitioner should just go over that spot again and again until the client no longer skips over it with the eye roll. On occasion, as I would once in a while use the Gamut 9 on myself, when I couldn’t get an emotion to totally clear, I thought I caught myself skipping the 2 o’clock and the 10 o’clock positions, or simply glossing over them.

Looking back at yesterday, I suspect that was probably true. Also in Donna Eden Energy Medicine book (2008), she mentions on pages 347-350 about using eye exercises to release trauma. Her exercises are a wee bit different than the Gamut 9, but I don’t doubt any less effective. Once again, I find all of this Energy Psychology/Energy Medicine knowledge so absolutely interesting. Each different modality builds or supplements the other, having a little bit of a different twist here and there, but all of it effective and healing in its own right. Dawson Church is doing a Whole Energy Lifestyle (WEL) workshop, Aug 31 & Sep 1, 2013, in Kansas City. Maybe he is covering topics like the ones I mentioned above. I don’t know, but, if he is, I want to know more about them! See this website: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1239752 .

Wow, are we privileged to be living in this spectacular time when all of these techniques are coming into full bloom? I stand amazed! And I am grateful to God for showing me the way to use them for healing of both myself and others. I find it all quite humbling!

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