EFT Tapping - God's Invention

“Our mind forgets what our heart refuses to remember.” And there is where our emotional pain tends to begin. Forgotten consciously; remembered unconsciously, driving our thoughts, actions, & physical sensations, controlling our very life. ……..until God’s EFT tapping enters our confined, limited space. And our Lord busts us out of that prison by His own healing invention! Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

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.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

How Has Your Movie and TV Viewing Changed with Tapping?

Have you found that your TV and movie tastes have changed? How about your desire to watch/read news items?

Our movie tastes have changed in our house over the past decade, and I know it is all due to the tapping both Brad & I have done!

Brad was a real "hack & slash" movie junkie. He would say routinely, "If nothing blows up & no one gets killed, it's not worth watching. That's why Hallmark movies aren't any good."

I'd end up watching those movies simply by default. Now, he rarely brings these home anymore from Redbox. And I understand why. And, if he does bring one home now, I tap through the movie.

Our tolerance for violence is much lower. I don't watch the evening news, or read the newspapers. I pick up quick glimpses of what is going on internationally, but I have no tolerance at all for these long drawn out international intrigues where the news organizations report every single detail. I feel my anxiety rise, and I turn into the world's crabbiest crab. And then I have to stop and tap.

There is a fine line here between paying attention to our civic duties and acting upon them, as God instructs us to do, and getting all tangled up in the details of it where we find our peace, quiet, and emotions all disturbed.

I refuse to get pulled into Facebook political arguments. Why? Because no one wins! Rarely will we change the other person's mind and we lose our sense of internal peace over a hopeless argument. It's not worth the damage to my body by raising my cortisol and adrenalin levels to overload!

These arguments are STRESS to our body. Stop being pulled down that rabbit hole! Your psyche will thank you, as will your body!

Does everyone here understand that watching a murder on TV is NO different to the subconscious mind (SC) than seeing it in real life????

How would your SC know the difference? It doesn't! There is something called "Vicarious trauma".

"Vicarious trauma" is described as this by the American Counseling Association: "The term vicarious trauma (Perlman & Saakvitne, 1995), sometimes also called compassion fatigue, is the latest term that describes the phenomenon generally associated with the “cost of caring” for others."

Public Safety organization describes vicarious trauma as this: "Vicarious trauma is a form of trauma that occurs when someone reads, hears, or sees something about an event that causes them to have a post-traumatic stress response. For example, if they see distressing pictures or videos of a terrorist attack in the media.

If there is a compelling reason to limit your children's violence viewing this is it!

If violence and murder in real life can create trauma for the body and mind, why can't it do the same when viewing movies and TV shows? The SC mind has absolutely NO way to understand one is real and the other is on a viewing BOX, especially now with these 110 inch screens. So watching whatever is happening on the TV surely does look like real life to our SC!

Proverbs 4:23 tells us, "So above all, guard the affections of your heart, for they affect all that you are. Pay attention to the welfare of your innermost being, for from there flows the wellspring of life."

The Hebrew word levav is the most common word for “heart.” It includes our thoughts, our will, our discernment, and our affections. This is probably the most compelling reason to tap - tapping GUARDS our heart! Heart is our connective place to God!

Phipippians 4:6-8 says, " Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things."

You & I know harsh violence on every TV screen in the world is NOT pure, lovely, right, admirable, noble or true, no matter who is reporting it.

Consider asking God while tapping how He would have you change these habits, and then tap out whatever stands in the way of doing what He requires you to do.

He is faithful to help you! Amen.

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal medical physician if these needs arise.

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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Breath, Life, and EFT

The word “breath” has a common theme throughout cultures and languages. It is particularly important within Christianity. Qi or chi and prana are the Chinese and Sanskrit words that are similar to the Greek word pneuma, which means spirit, wind, or breath, and, in Scripture, when the word Holy is added, it becomes the Third Person of the Trinity, Holy Spirit. The Hebrew word ruach is similar to the Greek word. Pneuma appears in the Greek text 385 times. It is used at least once as a word for “life”. Sometimes the use of the word in the New Testament means the “Giver”, or the “Holy Spirit”, and other times it is referring to His gifts. It is often difficult to know which word meaning is used, so we will leave that for the Bible experts!

In Luke 24:39 Jesus stated, “a pneuma does not have flesh and bones, as you observe me having.” Thus Jesus defined a “pneuma” as a living being without a body. James 2:26b refers to humans as “the body without the pneuma is dead.” Pneuma usually represents a living, non-physical being or a non-physical part of a human, either a soul or a spirit, or both.

God is a Spirit [pneuma], and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit [pneuma] and in truth”. John 3:8 says, “The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound of it, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going; so is everyone who is born of the Spirit” [pneuma]. This verse explains that the wind does what it wants, and we hear the wind blowing, but we don’t always understand or see the results, so it is with the Holy Spirit as He molds, grows, and reshapes us into His image for His purpose. That reshaping is done beneath the surface of our physical being, somewhere with us where those nebulous things happen, like thoughts, emotions, and decisions.

Bible experts disagree on whether the soul and spirit are separate or they are one. I will use the word spirit here in this article.

Our spirit is very much connected to our hearts, and to our consciences (did you know the heart emanates 5000 times the electrical energy than the brain does?). Through its abilities, the human spirit embraces, discerns, and reveals what Jesus does in the Holy Spirit. This is probably what new agers call the “God part” in us, but, as Christians, it is so much more than just a part. This spirit within us is what connects us to the essence of what God is. Jesus talks a lot about being in the Father and the Father in Him. Jesus said in John 10:30, “I and the Father are one”. Jesus also said in John 14:9-11, “Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? Do you not believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I do not speak on my own authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works. Believe me that I am in the Father and the Father is in me, or else believe on account of the works themselves”.

This is one of the pieces of us that is like God, in His image, as He made us. Our spirit is what yearns and pines to be with God. All humans desire that connection with something bigger than themselves.  Adam and Eve lost this connection, and subsequently lost it for us, too, when God kicked them out of the Garden of Eden for disobeying Him.

Man has wandered and searched for that reconnection both physically and spiritually ever since then. We Christians have it when we accept Jesus as our Savior, but that acceptance doesn’t immediately eliminate our negative human behavior in us. And that human behavior tends to be what gets in between us and our relationship with God and with others in our lives.

And the spirit carries around all that behavior, thoughts, ideas, emotions, etc. that does interfere in those special, fulfilling relationships. The "soul" is the word “psyche” in Greek. It is the root word for our word “psyche”, which consists of the mind, intellect, will, and the emotions, etc. This is the sum total of the parts God put in us that makes up our own individual personalities. It is everything we have ever experienced, thought, hoped, felt, learned, etc. and subject to the whims of our human nature because of our God-given free will. Our thoughts and behavior change with our emotions & behavioral decisions over time and with different maturity levels. That is why the Bible uses soul and spirit interchangeably.

The responsibility of our spirit then is to submit itself continuously to the Holy Spirit. That is part of the process of sanctification. Sanctification is what makes us more like Jesus in our behavior. We can never be perfect this side of heaven, but our job is to TRY to be as perfectly reflective of the nature of Jesus as we can.

When we do that, we will move toward the ways of the Lord. Hebrews 9:14 says, “how much more will the blood of Jesus, who through the eternal spirit offered Himself up unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the Living God”.

When we are born again, God will bring our will to a point where it has no more desire than to submit itself to the sole wishes of the Holy Spirit. Our emotions must be healed and stilled before the Lord so that we can attend to that still small voice within, as written in Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know I am God”. Romans 8:2 reads, “Through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of Life set me free from the [consequences of the] law of sin and death”.

Immature believers, or believers that are still filled with past hurts, are unable to discern clearly the quiet voice of the Lord within them. When the emotions are still screaming out, they drown out the presence of the Lord. All deliverance, inner healing, counseling, and therapy (which I do not do) must be directed at setting us free to hear and uncompromisingly obey the Holy Spirit. Healing is the means of becoming a spiritual or “pneumatic” Christian. Our mind and intellect must be renewed by the Word of God so that it can adequately understand what the Holy Spirit wishes.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) does just that. As the past negative emotional events are cleansed from our physical bodies via the mechanism of tapping that God the Father instilled in us at birth, we then can move on to building a relationship between us and the Almighty. The emotional static and interference that has been preventing that is gone! It is a freeing process that opens us up to actually experience forgiveness and love in our lives. Jesus tells us to “love one another”. John 15:12 says, “This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you”.

Both forgiveness and love are feelings and we, as humans, can actually know and understand them. 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 reads, “However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him’. Yet God has revealed it to us by His Spirit. The Sprit searches all things, even the deep things of God”.

Until you have applied EFT to that mountain of negativity in your life, eliminating the junk clogging up your cellular receptors, pushing those negative emotions into nonexistence, you will have a much more difficult time experiencing the fullness of what the Holy Spirit is whispering and showing you to do. When He talks, He has to penetrate that cloud of emotional stuff you have piled up in your soul that is between God and you.

In Romans 12:2, which reads “Do not conform any longer to pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind”, gives us an understanding of what God wants us to do as Christians. Renew our minds out of our human sinful nature into the spiritual mindset of Him who is the Master of the universe.

Give EFT a try!  It will be one of the best choices you will ever make!

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