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!

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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

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.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

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.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Tapping and More Epigenetics!

To me, this Epigenetic article illustrates the VERY BEST REASON we, especially us women, should be tapping! Women do the bulk of the care-giving.

If epigenetics is true, and I suspect it is, we MUST clear our emotional junk rather than send it further down our generational lines to our grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.

In Christianity, we tout our charitable endeavors! What better charity could we do for mankind overall, and our families in particular, than use tapping to let our emotional trauma go, allowing forgiveness to enter, and clear our DNA of those genetic tags where the trauma has attached itself.

Even if you are past the childbearing age, tapping will still help clear your on-going genetic lines!

What a gift you have to give to your family! A wonderful life-giving on-going gift. Give children 2 things in life and nothing can stop them! What are those 2 things? JESUS & EFT!!!

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for medical care, so please contact your own personal physician if you have emotional or physical issues before starting EFT.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

414-232-1612Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Trauma Healing

“No one can ‘treat’ a war, or abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event, for that matter; what has happened cannot be undone. But what can be dealt with are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul: the crushing sensations in your chest that you label as anxiety or depression; the fear of losing control; always being on alert for danger or rejection; the self-loathing; the nightmares and flashbacks; the fog that keeps you from staying on task and from engaging fully in what you are doing; being unable to fully open your heart to another human being.

Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves.” Bessel Van Der Kolk,The Body Keeps the Score

And this is where Christian EFT comes in!

Mix the tapping together with our faith base, allowing Jesus to take the pain and all our feelings and thoughts back to the cross with Him!

EFT is not a substitute for sound medical care, so please consult your own personal physician when care is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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Old Neural Pathways and Tapping

This article, although it does not say this, is another reason EFT works so well.

We tap, breaking down the old negative neural pathways, ones that block our life, leaving us feeling stuck, allowing God's created brain clearing mechanism to then "carry out the garbage" so to speak as we sleep.

Our brain gets a good housecleaning as we rest! Boy, I wish my house had this ability, too!

So, tap negatively, clear out the clogged up neural pathways, and let God clean up some of the mess!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for good medical advice, so please contact your own personal physician when medical or psychological help is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

"Resistance" to Tapping: What is That All About?

Emotional healing is personal to each of us. 

How we do life is all based on what we learned as youngsters. If our family understood emotions, listened to each other express them, and reacted in an appropriate way, we often live our adult lives in a more comfortable emotional way.

When a child has seen much emotional abuse, learning to express oneself as an adult is often more difficult. It is a learned behavior. 

There are times when we wish or think we are ready to heal, but doing so just plain doesn't come easily.

Why?

The youngster inside us doesn't feel it is safe to confront or access earlier feelings now because it wasn't safe to do so back in childhood. Our feelings today directly reflect how we felt decades ago.

Tapping is all about feeling safe. 

Sometimes during talk therapy, and I know this from personal experience, discussing how we feel now about something decades ago often brings a torrent of tears, anger, and sadness. It just plain feels safer NOT to discuss any of this. Leaving it buried deep within our psyche seems to be a more prudent course of action, however, doing that usually doesn't bring healing.

When a client doesn't seem ready to change, we call this "resistance" in the EFT trade. Sometimes it sounds like we are blaming the client for not wanting to get emotionally better.

In reality most of the time it has to do with safety and feeling ok to discuss, tap on, and let go of our old emotional baggage that just isn't allowing us to move forward as our Lord would have us do. 

It isn't satan holding us back, it is our own stored stuff. And it may not be our fault we aren't ready to heal now. It is our responsibility to try to work on it though, as emotional healing usually brings us closer to our Lord.

EFT is one of the best techniques and the closest thing to a safety net that is known today. When we access a memory that makes us uncomfortable, tapping most often will settle down the feelings that come up around it. A few tapping rounds usually does the trick.

Don't beat yourself up if there are memories you aren't quite ready to tackle alone with tapping yet. You can also email me to obtain a referral to a Christian EFT Practitioner who can walk beside you as you do tap on these memories. 

Andy Hunt's article is all about feeling safe during tapping in order for us to access and let the emotional content of old memories go back to the Cross where they belong.

God bless your healing!

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound emotional or medical care. Call your own personal physician when you need that kind of help.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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Video Showing How to Tap

Here is Alina Frank demonstrating all the different techniques we as practitioners have available to use that fall under the overall umbrella of EFT.

This is what you will learn from Cathy Corbett Reiling (cathyreiling@gmail.com) when you take her Level 1 & 2 EFT classes.

Note how SPECIFIC, taking one tiny detail at a time, Alina is with the tapping.

Feel free to ask questions about this tapping session to solidify the EFT technique in your own life tapping.

EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological help, so contact your own personal physicians when you deem necessary to do so.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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God Heals in Different Ways

God heals in different ways. 

We humans sometimes want Him to do things differently, but He knows us as a complete being. God created us in an integrated manner - body, soul, mind, and spirit.

Quite often as I do teaching and ministering with EFT, I hear from Christians that they have gone to the altar for prayer very often, but still the emotional pain persists. Frustration has now set in and sometimes their faith begins to waver.

I'm all about prayer, and I highly encourage it, especially when coupled with tapping.

But as we ponder what tapping & prayer is on a spiritual level, let's consider a thought:

What if a pastor feels illness is only a spiritual problem, and he tells his congregants to have more faith, worship more, pray more, etc? Illnesses can definitely have a spiritual component. Scripture is full of examples.

But what IF the congregant's issue is more emotional? What IF that person being counseled had parents that divorced young, or he witnessed his brother killed, or she was abused at a young age, or the mother had a mental illness?  

Asking someone with an emotionally charged childhood to pray more and have more faith frankly isn't always helpful. The science of how their brain is wired sometimes precludes them from doing those exact spiritual exercises. 

While prayer, worship & faith help us cope, there most likely is more going on underneath emotionally for the parishioner. This is where EFT, in addition to all of the above things mentioned, comes in extremely handy! 

The emotional piece is affecting the physical piece that affects the spiritual piece that ends up making us a big life mess! It's all intertwined. 

For EFT, there's something about the actual tapping physically that often integrates it all. Our physical body cellular-ly holds the emotions. Too many negative emotions makes us sick. When we feel physically bad, it affects our spiritual well being & our emotional composure. 

Tapping often relieves the emotional turmoil which heals us physically whereby we give glory to our God for the healing which then brings us spiritually closer to Him in relationship. 

We see our God as a God of unity - all His models show unity. Church, family, health, etc. 

Tapping is a tool to help us get there on so very many levels. 

It truly is an amazing God created tool for healing!

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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