Showing posts with label Christian EFT. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christian EFT. Show all posts
Thursday, March 14, 2024
Is EFT Tapping in the Bible?
Sometimes I have people ask me, "Is EFT in the Bible?"
Well, of course, it isn't, nor is our automobile (wonder what Jesus would have ridden in on Palm Sunday instead of His donkey???!!), or airplane or refrigerator and washing machine, and we still use those freely.
What is IN the Bible is lots of humans with lots of negative emotions that caused all kinds of societal fallout, as it does today.
We are human, we have emotional turmoil, but it doesn't HAVE to rule us.
Once again, God has provided everything we need, including a path out of emotional pain. The EFT tapping tool sits waiting for us to grab it and use it!
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
EFTforChristians.com
Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
Emotional Pain Sticks to US
It’s indeed a bit like treating the symptoms vs. treating the cause.
The “symptoms” are our emotional angst and possibly physical issues.
The underlying “cause” (disease) is our trauma, big stuff or lots of little stuff, hurtful memories, and disturbing events in our life.
Those emotional “causes” stick around in our cells where our unconscious mind puts them, completely unknown to us. Our cells can be equated to a house attic, storage unit, old barn loft, etc. We stuff items in any or all of those places, forgetting about them, until sometime possible catastrophic happens and NOW we have to deal with the stored up junk.
Emotionally it’s the same thing. Bad stuff happens, we “get over it” (time doesn’t heal all wounds, sorry, folks!), move on and THEN our body starts yelling and our emotions begin to flare, forcing us NOW to deal with the past - all those things we stuffed in our emotional attic, barn, and storage unit.
Tapping BEFORE we accumulate all that junk keeps the “storage” unit of our unconscious mind clear, clean, and uncluttered!
Tap, tap, tap!
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
EFTforChristians.com
Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Dopamine, Our Pleasure Neurotransmitter! Friend or Foe?
Sunday, March 13, 2022
EFT for Christians is Alive and Active on our Facebook Venue
Facebook EFT for Christians discussion group is up and running full speed.
Come join us there for interesting teachings and discussions on all things Christian EFT.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/352652964926202
See you there!
Sherrie Rice Smith
Sunday, January 30, 2022
EFT for Christians Discussion Network
Facebook EFT for Christians discussion group is up and running full speed.
Come join us there for interesting teachings and discussions on all things Christian EFT.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/352652964926202
See you there!
Sherrie Rice Smith
Sunday, January 2, 2022
Why Christians Can Use EFT Tapping!
This article succinctly says what I have tried to explain in the 5 EFT for Christians books I have written.
1). Chinese medicine and Chinese religion are 2 different things, just as Western Medicine and any western religious beliefs are completely different. Usually, when we show up in an ER, we don't ask the trauma physician if he or she is a Christian, we are just grateful for their help!
2). As a Practitioner in EFT when working with a client who has physical issues, our first question is, "have you seen a doctor?" There is definitely a place for both Eastern and Western medicine. If I have a gangrene gallbladder, probably caused by my reaction to abuse, where I carry around rage, anger, hatred, I'm not necessarily going to try to "cure" it with tapping. I want a competent surgeon to remove it before it bursts and I become septic. Then I will want to deal with the negative emotions that got me in the fix to begin with so something else physical doesn't go haywire!
3). Being a history buff, I agree with this author that not all early Western medicine researchers, such as William Harvey, Lister, Salk, etc. were Christians. They might have been. Who cares? Does that mean I reject all their findings? Of course, I don't. Their religious beliefs as they researched how God put together the human body has absolutely no bearing on what they personally believed about the Creator Himself!
4). Research surely now seems to show that there is a direct relationship between our emotions and our physical health. God is in the healing business. Jesus performed many miracles, as did His apostles. Miracles still happen today. Healing is God's purview, not satan's. satan never healed anyone! So, like the instructions to Apostle Peter in Acts, eat sacrificed meat, it doesn't matter what the original intent or belief system was, God blesses it and sanctions for our good because He created it for our wellbeing.
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Personal and Family Epigenetics Running Our Present Lives
Here is an interesting article that explains the new field of epigenetics.
What often is running both our emotional and physical health is our own personal past. There truly is still more affecting us than we ever envisioned decades ago!
As mind and brain research continues to unfold, scientists are only just beginning to understand that experiences and memories of our forefathers and foremothers are also running our personal biology.
I'm not talking about "past lives" or "reincarnation", so please don't confuse epigenetics with that topic!
God wrapped up so very much in the human body when He created us. Part of that experiential learning is bound up in the new science field of epigenetics. In order to survive life, all species, including humans, have to learn and REMEMBER what they experienced so as not to repeat that possibly dangerous behavior.
Often these behaviors were repeated so often and are so hardwired into our subconscious memory! God created this as a good thing! However, with sin entering the world, it can often go awry.
When we remember not only the incident but all the accompanying emotional pain and fallout from something horrific, this piece of the learning also gets stuffed into our body's cells.The cells remember the pain which can then get triggered when we sense a danger that is closely akin to what happened in the past.
So, we not only remember the incident as a safety valve to protect us, we remember the emotional pain to reinforce that learning.
Often this is subconscious! We don't know we have inherited great, great grandma's issues, but we have and we can.
We have lots to tap about! Tapping can make a huge dent in this ancestor stuff. And when we clear it using EFT and/or Matrix Reimprinting (or other somatic techniques), often our physical issues also heal once the body's cells release the pain they have been holding.
God is amazing! He thought of it all! We truly are blessed!
God bless your tapping journey! Join us on Facebook for more discussion opportunities!
Visit my EFT for Christians website and request the free EFT information I have listed there.
And grab a copy of my 5 EFT for Christians How-to Tap books to obtain a thorough understanding of how to incorporate the Christian components into your EFT tapping!
Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal physician when you need that type of help.
Sunday, December 5, 2021
Tapping Example from a Client Story! God is so Good!
With permission I recount this client (Jennie) story:
EFT Tapping is such a versatile tool. Here is a practical use of it!
Jennie was having anxiety and some fear around this her upcoming colonoscopy appointment.
And so we tapped on all the different aspects (details) that were bothering her including:
1). Fear of what the doctor might find
2). Anxiety about the procedure itself, including the sedation
3). Anxiety about the awful prep including the diet, as the allowable pre-test foods are things Jennie doesn't usually eat!
4). Fear of catching COVID at the clinic
5). Inconvenience of needing to go to clinic 2 days early to get a COVID test
6). Anxiety about previous prep reactions - feeling horribly cold, shaking, and generally feeling miserable
7). Anxiety about trying to remember to take some car seat protective covering in case of an accident.
8). Fear about getting an IV pre-op, reactions to the anesthetic, and whatever else we tapped about!
PRAISE REPORT
Wonderfully, the following morning I receive a phone call! Jennie is now actually excited to get this colonoscopy done and over. Yes, read that! Excited!
Her reframe (changing of our mind) is she is going to ENJOY the 5 day prep! After looking at the dietary list, she realized she would buy and eat foods she loves but rarely eats because they don't fit into her lifestyle right now. She planned to TREAT herself to something special!
Jennie wrote out her menus and created her grocery list. She also wrote out a time line of what had to be done when in order to eliminate re-reading the pages and pages of instructions. Nothing would be missed or mixed up now!
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This is EXACTLY what EFT tapping often does for us!
As we tap God "reframes" and changes our mind about thing to come and things that have happened in the past, so that we can settle down and enjoy His presence right here right now in a state of grace without worry or preoccupation.
Tapping does so much more than just this, but if we just used it for issues of today, what a wonderful gift from our Lord!
What have you recently tapped about that God gave you an exciting gift as He switched up your emotions? Leave me a message, so I can rejoice with you!
God bless your tapping journey! Join us on Facebook for more discussion opportunities!
Visit my EFT for Christians website and request the free EFT information I have listed there.
And grab a copy of my 5 EFT for Christians How-to Tap books to obtain a thorough understanding of how to incorporate the Christian components into your EFT tapping!
Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal physician when you need that type of help.
We tap for Jesus!
Sherrie Rice SmithCertified EFT PractitionerEFTforChristians.comAuthor of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series
Sunday, November 21, 2021
Quick Rule Summary When Tapping with Children
Quick rules for child tapping:
Let them lead the process. There is no need for a formal Set-up. Allow children to tell their story in whatever manner they want to tell it - start in the middle, start at the end, mix it up, it doesn't matter, because they are feeling whatever is bothering them, as they talk, so they usually clear the issues anyway. WE don't need to know HOW they feel about the problem, telling what happened to them is often enough to let it all go. Watch them carefully, as one or two rounds at most often solves the problem.
Don't make them do more rounds and burn them out like I did to kids who I tapped with back at the beginning of my EFT career (true confession!)!!!!
I advocate that parents teach their children to tap anytime they talk about an upsetting incident in their lives. This works wonderfully before bed because it then allows the child's subconscious mind to process the incident while they sleep. Incorporating this story telling with their bedtime prayer time is an amazingly effective way to teach children emotional regulation and self-control with God's help.
Parents can begin tapping on themselves when a child starts whining, crying, or yelling about something wrong in his/her life. The child's mirror neurons will begin to settle the child down fairly quickly. Not only does the child settle but so does the parent before s(he) says or does something regretful!
Anyone looking for tapping with children tips,can watch my first 4 EFT for Christians You Tubes (children tapping videos are Videos 1 through 4) as they were on this exact subject! In them I teach everything I know about tapping with children
It is truly amazing how quickly kids clear, often with LESS than one round! Why? Because they aren't carrying the emotional baggage we adults have hauled around for decades.
As stated in Proverbs 22:6 give a child 2 things in life and watch them grow into wonderful Christian adults. What 2 things, in addition to your love and attention? Teach them about Jesus and teach them to use EFT tapping.
God bless your tapping journey! Join us on Facebook for more discussion opportunities!
Visit my EFT for Christians website and request the free EFT information I have listed there.
And grab a copy of my 5 EFT for Christians How-to Tap books to obtain a thorough understanding of how to incorporate the Christian components into your EFT tapping!
Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal physician when you need that type of help.
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Shape of Our Heart Changes with Emotion - Try Tapping
This is a pretty interesting TED talk from a cardiologist who explains how the shape of our heart is changed by our emotions.
Another amazing reason WHY we probably need to tap, or learn how to use EFT, for emotional healing.
It surely appears God created our very organs to respond to our environment and to how we feel about our past experiences.
Enjoy!
Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical advice, so if you need medical help please consult your own personal physician.
Another amazing reason WHY we probably need to tap, or learn how to use EFT, for emotional healing.
It surely appears God created our very organs to respond to our environment and to how we feel about our past experiences.
Enjoy!
Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical advice, so if you need medical help please consult your own personal physician.
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series
Saturday, August 28, 2021
Dr. Joe Dispenza Discussing Physiology of EFT
My take-away on this wonderful video interview with Dr. Joe Dispenza: This explains WHY tapping on negative past events is the KEY to change. It's all physiology!
We tap on the emotions that keep us stuck to changing the future.
Events are lodged in implicit memories (there is something called explicit memories, too) where the events are STORED in our subconscious mind & our life is run from there.
EFT produces the alpha/theta brains waves, as it does in meditation. This is where we heal and CHANGE.
In reality past events are irrelevant (they are PAST), but it's the emotions attached to them that keep us stuck. So past events are what we tap on because they are the VEHICLE to get us to the feelings that need changed.
"Dark Night of the Soul" is God allowing those circumstances and giving us an opportunity to change.
Emotions ARE the end product of life events, thus one of the EFT techniques is "future tapping." At about 42 minutes, Joe plows into meditation. We use EFT not meditation (you can if you choose to use that), but meditation is a similar process to tapping because we are PAYING ATTENTION to thoughts and body feelings (this is mindfulness).
Life change happens when we MAKE the effort to actually tap. Not thinking about tapping or consider tapping, but tapping! This is probably the "difficult" part of the EFT tapping process - doing it! Once you have a tapping habit instilled, it does pretty much become effortless!
In this interview, insert God for Joe's "universe" and think Biblically as Dispenza talks!
Science seems to prove WHY EFT actually works! Thank you, Lord Jesus, for this opportunity to change our life to more reflect You and who You want us to be.
Remember please! EFT is not a substitute for good medical care, so please consult your own personal physician when you need medical or psychological help!
Sunday, August 15, 2021
Dr. Gabor Mate on Emotional Pain
A wonderful Dr. Gabor Mate video explaining why many of our negative behaviors - gambling, workaholic, alcohol & drug addiction, porn, sex, eating, nail biting, shopping, etc., etc. have underlying trauma driving it all.
It can take just one negative emotional episode, one comment, for us to begin a lifetime core belief (belief bomb) that transforms our life and sends us spiraling into some type of chronic life altering behavior, something we never asked for and cannot often understand how we arrived there.
Tapping is often the answer to this emotional pain. If you haven't begun your tapping journey, today might just be the day!
Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical care, so please contact your own personal physician if medical or psychological care is needed.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Annoyances, annoyances, oh, how I hate being "annoyed" which probably translates more into feeling "inconvenienced". Robo calls! How many of those do each of us receive every day?
A week ago, I was feeling "beside" myself with the constant home phone interruptions, none of which were anyone we knew.
I tapped on how I felt about all the excess noise and phone racket which lead me to a brilliant conclusion to have Brad dig out the phone operator's manual & figure out HOW to turn OFF the RINGER!
The answering machine still works, so we would get any important messages.
Conclusion? Calming myself, instead of whining and complaining about the rude phone calls, helped me ID a solution. And that is what tapping does! Calms us enough to help think through a problem, reaching a solution!
What has EFT helped you with recently to quiet down enough to fix a problem in your life?
EFT is not a substitute for sound medical care, so please phone your own personal physician when medical or psychological care is needed.
A week ago, I was feeling "beside" myself with the constant home phone interruptions, none of which were anyone we knew.
I tapped on how I felt about all the excess noise and phone racket which lead me to a brilliant conclusion to have Brad dig out the phone operator's manual & figure out HOW to turn OFF the RINGER!
The answering machine still works, so we would get any important messages.
Conclusion? Calming myself, instead of whining and complaining about the rude phone calls, helped me ID a solution. And that is what tapping does! Calms us enough to help think through a problem, reaching a solution!
What has EFT helped you with recently to quiet down enough to fix a problem in your life?
EFT is not a substitute for sound medical care, so please phone your own personal physician when medical or psychological care is needed.
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Tapping and Household Chores
Today while vacuuming I realized something!
What household chore do you detest the most? Bathroom cleaning, vacuuming, cleaning the basement, scrubbing floors, wiping down the inside of refrigerator?
Bathrooms don't bother me. I'm not fond of dusting or vacuuming.
Today I realized the hating why of vacuuming! Mom used to tell us to vacuum each square inch of the carpet something like 10X. It was too much work!
Now, I understand why she so instructed us. Old vacuums from decades ago had little suction, especially those old hand-pump models. It took lots of repetition to pick up a speck of dirt! Our new models suck up everything quickly!
What's my point?
If you hate some chore, take a minute and tap on HOW you feel about having to do it. Clear out the feeling content and see if it shifts to something more productive and less grueling. You might even begin to like the chore!
Just a little cognitive shift or realization around our beliefs about most anything often takes the negative out of it.
EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological physician help, so please contact your own personal doctor when any kind of medical needs arise.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Stress Effects on Our Body Video
I've written on EFT for Christians Facebook page and in the 5 EFT for Christians books extensively about this precise mechanism.
This is a wonderful visual illustration of how & what stress does to us.
Instead of meditation, we use EFT. Both are effective as they initiate the same physiological relaxation mechanisms God created in our bodies to keep us healthy.
Enjoy the short video!
Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological advice, so please contact your own personal physician when help is needed.
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
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Monday, March 1, 2021
EFT Tapping & Matrix Reimprinting
We occasionally discuss Matrix Reimprinting (MR) on this board because to become a MR practitioner one must have taken a LIVE EFT Level 1 & 2 classes. Tapping is done throughout most of the MR technique.
“Changing the memory” is often how MR is described & even I’ve been guilty of using that description.
Nice article explaining that we are changing the memory PERCEPTION not the memory itself. MR is a darn good way to change up core beliefs but, to be the most effective, should only be done AFTER all the emotions are tapped out of the negative memory or event. Otherwise all it appears we are doing is applying new wallpaper over old peeling wallpaper. In this analogy, removing peeling wallpaper first is equivalent to neutralizing the memory’s emotional content.
In tapping we are working with perceptions. How do we feel TODAY about that memory or event that happened back then? What life beliefs did we form because of that event(s)?
We tap out the emotional content of those ugly memories and then apply MR by “resourcing” our younger selves helping them through their take-away perceptions, often changing the lens through which life is NOW seen.
EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological advice, so please contact your own physician if you have need of these kind of services.
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series
Sunday, February 14, 2021
Memories, EFT Tapping, and Matrix Reimprinting - How It All Changes our Emotional Beliefs
Matrix Reimprinting (MR) has been in play for almost a decade now after Karl Dawson "fell" upon the technique years ago. Because the science behind it is a bit confusing we often say MR changes memories. That is not a correct description.
EFT and changing memories fallacy article explains what is going on behind our mind's screen when using tapping and MR.
MR is another technique I use with clients along with EFT.
There are classes available but taking a LIVE Levels 1 & 2 EFT class is a pre-requisite.
Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical or psychological care, so contact your physician when you need this type of help.
Sherrie Rice Smith
EFT and changing memories fallacy article explains what is going on behind our mind's screen when using tapping and MR.
MR is another technique I use with clients along with EFT.
There are classes available but taking a LIVE Levels 1 & 2 EFT class is a pre-requisite.
Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical or psychological care, so contact your physician when you need this type of help.
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series
Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Epigenetics and Tapping
Epigenetics - have you ever heard the term? I wrote a a chapter on "Generational Curses" in the EFT for Christians book, Tapping into God's Peace & Joy, but it appears there is so much more going on here around "generational trauma". Exodus 34:6-7 is one set of the "sins of the father's" verses, among others. These incidents may not be "sins" per say, but trauma experienced decades or centuries ago by a family member.
Don't confuse these ideas with "past lives" as that is not what this is or what I am talking about here. There are studies, few done on humans because we live way longer than mice and nematodes (!) that show the memories live in the body anywhere from 3 to 14 generations after an ancestor experiences an untoward event IF the trauma hasn't been processed. Most of these studies looked at how traumas are transferred via male sperm because sperm are easier to study than female ovum. These types of traumas can be processed with EFT tapping and Matrix Reimprinting, the other EFT technique many of us use.
Bottom line here is some of our personal emotional issues simply may not even be our own, but DNA/RNA markers carried on our genes, as an unpleasant gift from one of forefathers or foremothers. The DNA doesn't change, but it does get a "marker" attached to it.
And using EFT tapping to thoroughly process the negative events/memories/feeling you experience could well save countless future generations the PAIN YOU ARE FEELING TODAY.
Give your kids a gift - tap and let the old stuff go!!
EFT is not a substitute for medical care, so please consult your physician first before using tapping on any medical or psychological condition.
Sherrie Rice Smith
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
EFT for Christians Tapping Video #40 - Sneaking Away Technique
EFT for Christians Tapping Video #40 - Sneaking Away Technique explains how to "sneak away" when one runs out of time during a tapping sessions.
Effectively simple!
Remember, EFT is not a substitute for good medical care, so please contact your personal physician when emotional or physical care is needed.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
Childhood Trauma & EFT
Dr. Gabor Mate in his book In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts on page 370 writes, "it's not what happened in the past that creates our present misery but the way we have allowed past events to define how we are and experience ourselves in the present.
The greatest damage done by neglect, trauma, or emotional loss is not the immediate pain they inflict but the long-term distortions they induce in the way a developing child will continue to interpret the world and her situation in it. All too often these ill-conditioned implicit ((those held unconsciously) beliefs become self-fulfilling prophecies in our lives. We create meanings from our unconscious interpretations of early events, and then we forge our present experiences from the meanings we've created."
Christian EFT is a tool we can use to learn to live in the present moment, allowing those events and memories of the past to integrate into our soul to harmoniously abide with other happier memories.
Your past does no longer HAVE to drive your future. Call a Christian EFT Practitoner today.
Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical or psychological help. Take care of yourself and phone your own personal physician.
Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
EFTforChristians@gmail.com
Author of EFT for Christians (2015)
Author of EFT for Christians, Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)
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