Christian Confessional Tapping

How prayerfully do you tap? Have you done the set-up and the subsequent tapping as your confession of sins? James 5:16 clearly tells us that we NEED to confess our sins to another person in order to be healed.

Isn't that what we do when we tap with another person? Even though I feel this way (fill in blank), I (fill in the acceptance statement).

What if we used the set-up more as a confession?

Example (Ladies, this one is for you!): Even though, Lord, I'm really, really angry at my husband because he comes home and plops down on the recliner, leaving me to deal with dinner and the kids, right here, right now, Lord, I confess my anger to You, asking for Your forgiveness because I know you love me and I hope someday to love and accept myself just as you see me.

That might feel like a long set-up, maybe, but multiple things are going on in it! You acknowledge how you feel right now (exposure to the problem), confess your sin of anger (Eph. 4:26), asking for God's forgiveness (which is instant, (Psalm 103:12) and adding your own acceptance statement that rings true to you right now in the moment.

Obviously, when we tap alone with God, we are still confessing/repenting ("turning around" in Greek).

How many of you while tapping the rounds have done it prayerfully? Lord, I feel _____. Sweet Jesus, I'm so tired of carrying around____. Thank you, Savior, for carrying this feeling of ________on the cross for me. Or any variation of these and others that you want to use.

Personally, now, and it has taken awhile to get here, I do my tapping just like I pray. I love to add in Isaiah 53:5 as my tapping material. "I'm healed by His stripes."

Thoughts? What do you do? How do you do your tapping? What Scriptures grab you when you tap?

Be blessed!

EFT is not a substitute for medical or psychological help. Please contact your own personal physicians for that assistance.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians (2015)

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

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced (2017)

EFT for Christians Video # 18: More Aspects & Using Confession While Tapping

Here is another YouTube Video from EFT for Christians: Video # 18:  More Aspects & Using Confession While Tapping 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xHsm5ybhjo&t=12s

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological advice or care, so please consult your own personal physicians for all your physical needs.

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

www.EFTforChristians.com  

EFT is God's Pocket Change

EFT is God’s Pocket Change!

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an astounding healing modality.  It just really is. God uses it to open up our eyes to His possibilities for our life.

EFT works on phobias, fears, worry, cravings, addictions, physical issues, insomnia, abuse, compulsive disorder, food & environmental sensitivities and just about everything else.

God so wants us to live an abundant life that He sent Jesus to earth as our substitute for our sins, but God looks out for every area of our welfare. “And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail” Isaiah 58:11 ESV. We don’t have some deistic god who set the world in motion, and then backed off to watch both the humans and his inanimate creation do life in their own ways, playing out literally however the dice rolls with the strongest, meanest, and toughest winning the race. No, our God is alive and involved in every aspect of our lives from the moment of conception until the second He takes us home to heaven with Him. God is really in control. “The Lord of hosts has sworn: ‘As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand’” Isaiah 14:24 ESV.

EFT is simply another gift from a gracious God who in His mercy understands that we humans need all the help we can get to do this thing called life.  Jesus understands it so well, as during his tenure here on earth, He experienced all the temptations and travails that we are subjected to on a daily basis, even death.

By tapping, literally, into the healing process God assigned to our bodies when He created us, He gives us another tool to bring us through life in a more wholesome and pleasant manner.

As we tap away, after confessing and repenting of whatever sins are associated with the action, our emotions of things we have done, or things that have been done to us by others, we find ourselves in a position where God becomes so much more real to us.

Our lives are not polluted with the muck and mire of negative emotions that manhandle us into disease, depression, and death. We find ourselves with eye alert and wide open taking in all that God has shown us that life can be. Suddenly His creation appears bigger and brighter than ever. Colors come alive. Details of creation around us pop into focus. We are more light-hearted. Humor abounds. We even laugh at ourselves. Things of the past no longer seem so serious. Often those details around the negative events begin to fade and float away. We have no need to remember. Those memories are not who we are.

We belong to God. God is now. Jesus is alive, as is the Holy Spirit, and both become an integral part of our life, as we find ourselves free to worship in spirit and in truth. We no longer must hide who we think we are, afraid someone might find out we aren’t who we say we are. ^“Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.  God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth” John 4:23-24.

Can EFT really do all this? Yes, it can. There are millions of people who use this wonderful gift from God on a routine, often daily, basis to keep their lives in tune and on track with what God has in mind for them to do for Him.

EFT really is God’s pocket change. It is so simple to learn, and so easy to use, yet it is a powerful tool, but only a small one in God’s great big arsenal of all that He has in store for you.

Are you ready to join the EFT Revolution?  I hope so. You will never regret it.

Call a Christian EFT Practitioner today. I have a list available for you – all you must do is request it.

EFT is not a substitute for medical care. Please take personal responsibility for your own emotional and physical well-being.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

Author EFT for Christians (2015)

EFTforChristians.com

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT)

“The expressed acknowledged sin has lost all its power. It has been revealed and judged as sin. A person is no longer alone with his evil for he has cast off his sin in confession and handed it over to God” Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Wow, that is a mouthful, isn’t it, for a Christian?  James 5:16 says something similar – “Hence, declare your sins to one another, and pray for one another, that you may find healing”, another version reads, “So always tell each other the wrong things you have done. Then pray for each other. Do this so that God can heal you. Anyone who lives the way God wants can pray, and great things will happen”. Proverbs 28:13 reads, "He who conceals his sins prospers not, but he who confesses and forsakes them obtains mercy". And, of course, we have those wonderful verses in Psalm 103, “He pardons all your iniquities, He heals all your ills. He redeems your life from destruction; He crowns you with kindness and compassion. He fills your lifetime with good; your youth is renewed like an eagle’s”. And finally, Psalm 103 verse 12 reads, “As far as the east is from the west, so far has He put our transgressions from us”. 

“Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a theologian, martyr, a spiritual writer, a musician, a pastor, and an author of poetry and fiction. The integrity of his Christian faith and life, and the international appeal of his writings, have received broad recognition and admiration, all of which has led to a consensus that he is one of the theologians of his time whose theological reflections might lead future generations of Christians into creating a new more spiritual and responsible millennium. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian famous for his stand against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party. His beliefs and convictions ultimately cost him his life in a Nazi concentration camp. Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the most famous theologians and martyrs of the 20th century”.  http://www.dbonhoeffer.org/

So, what does this mean to us Christian Emotional Freedom Techniques users? Rev. Bonhoeffer was an amazing example to us. He stood up for what he felt was the moral thing to do. He loved integrity. He obviously loved his Savior, too, as he died for his Christian beliefs. I believe us EFT followers need to help create a “new more spiritual and responsible millennium”, too. We need to open our hearts to understanding the emotional plight of humankind. EFT has an enormous capacity to heal. It heals both emotionally and physically, as God wills.

But, I think, it needs to go even deeper than that. EFT, if allowed, can heal spiritually, too. We need to take the admonition of those Scriptures I typed out in that first paragraph to heart. We need to help cleanse each other from those sins and the consequences of those sins. How many of us are carrying around guilt, resentment, hatred, remorse, etc. from the countless ill fated, irresponsible things we have done? I know that I am guilty.

Through EFT, we have a chance to confess those sins to each other, and then help the transgressor tap away the emotional impact of that sin, allowing him/her to once again feel the peace that a complete relationship with our God brings. God is faithful to forgive us, but we first need come to Him in confession. He wants us back into His fold & He wants us whole, so we can be a servant to others.

He also has given us an amazing gift in EFT. After we have confessed our sin, by tapping, we can also cleanse our soul of the leftover emotions brought on by that sin.  God is faithful to remove that garbage, too.  Some people like hanging onto the remorse or guilt, as they feel it will remind them never to do the sin again. I honor and respect that, if that is their desire.  As for me, I knew when I had learned my lesson & I was ready to have the emotional consequences of my sins removed & taken from me. I don’t plan to forget any of that pain anytime soon. There are other times when our emotions are actually the result of the sin of others. We need those repercussions removed to, in order to restore a right relationship with God.

Often, the repercussions themselves, those resulting from the sin of another, become sin to us. We harbor resentment or anger or even hatred for the person who messed with us. Those sins also need to be confessed and the resulting emotional feedback tapped away. Once we lock ourselves into that trap of feeling sorry for ourselves, it is a long and difficult road back. I know, for a fact, that EFT can eliminate that road, if we choose wisely.

I, as an EFT practitioner, have had the privilege of doing just what I have discussed here. I have heard stories from Christian clients who tell me they have never “told a soul about” thus and such incident. At that point, I will ask if that sin has been confessed. If it has, that is wonderful. If it hasn’t, I invite the client, with my help, to do so right there on the spot, while we tap.

Spiritually, I cannot see how any relationship with another human being can be repaired until we fix the vertical relationship with our heavenly Father. Confession comes first, and then we humbly go ask forgiveness from the party we injured.

As a Christian practitioner, I feel confession is a vital part of the EFT process. We need to keep our priorities in the correct order, so that our heavenly Father will toss our sins as far as the east is from the west, as He remembers them no more. If He remembers them “no more”, then why should we continue to carry around the emotional consequences of those sins, beating ourselves up day after day? I don’t believe that to be the best description of an abundant life (“I have come that they might have life and have it to the full” John 10:10b).  God can heal us spiritually & emotionally through EFT, if we avail ourselves of this wonderful gift.  We just need to ask Him.

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.

Forgiveness & EFT

The more I read the more I get what is going on underneath all of this EFT stuff.

Forgiveness is the bottom line. It's what Jesus preached about alot, but when is the last time you heard a pastor tell you how to forgive?

Yep! Never! All we ever heard is forgive and forget.

Well, it doesn't work that easy. I'm tired of listening to it.

Forgetting and denial and stuffing it has never gotten a Christian one inch closer to forgiveness. We Christians are the best preachers of "get over it" I've ever seen. And mostly because we don't want to listen to someone else's pain. Why? Because it, too, triggers us. We feel it and it reminds us of our own pain.

The hurt is too deep and too intense. It's glued into our physiology the way God created it to be. Once Adam and Eve sinned, the shame of it got stuck in us for succeeding generations. It's called original sin.

Until each of us is willing to go back into the pain and look at it again, feeling it, and allowing Jesus to release it, not us release it, nothin' ever going to happen.

Tapping is the way God created in us to release it. Once we release enough of our garbage, the forgiveness just plain comes naturally. We eventually feel no angst against whomever hurt us.

They may never, ever, ever change their behavior, but that is NOT our job to change them!  That is the HS's job. Our job is to, with the help of the HS, change ourselves. Cooperate in God's method of sanctification. EFT is one method.

For more information go to www. EFTforChristians.com .  To schedule a free 15 minute EFT consultation to see if EFT is right for you, email me at EFTforChristians@gmail.com.

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