Prayer & Tapping

"Tap continually while you pray. I hear people tell me they only use tapping when they feel upset about something. My best advice is to tap the entire time you pray. Don't stop. Keep going.

Make it an open, honest communication with your Lord. I often walk down the street tapping away, praying to God in my head. We just talk. What I find amazing is how often God really opens up for me different lines of thought if I tap while converse with Him. He gives me ideas that I would normally never think, let alone consider.

Much of my writing is composed while tapping and praying. While I tap, I begin talking to Him on a subject, and I will simply ask His opinion or question Him as to why something happens the way it does. Answers come." 

Page 111 EFT for Christians Advanced, Change Your Feelings, Change Your Life by Sherrie Rice Smith

EFT is not a substitute for good medical care, so please consult your own personal physician if you need that care.

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 EFTforChristians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)

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Remorse over Sin

Thought:

"God designed us to feel remorse over sin in order to produce repentance that leads to victory (salvation, deliverance). This leaves us with no regrets. but sorrow of the world works death." 2 Corinthians 7:10 TPT

Most of the time our tapping is directed at our negative emotions that are usually centered around what someone else has done to us.

There is a time and place for us to allow the remorse (an emotion) we feel about our deeds to lead us to both repentance for the sin we committed against another AND for us to tap about how we feel about what we have done.

Paul points out that "sorrow works death."

He didn't know the emotional physiology in the depth as we now do. Sorrow, regret, and remorse stress our body and it can indeed cause dis-ease and eventually death.

Remember, once we confess our sins God remembers them no more (Hebrews 8:12), so why do we continue to carry them negatively in our body?

Are you holding onto something, perhaps punishing yourself, that you should let go? Jesus already carried whatever it is to the Cross. If you have confessed it multiple times, but still you think often about the deeds committed, perhaps time has come to tap about those feelings.

Once we tap, allowing that emotional control over us leave our body, we can do as Apostle Paul tells us earlier in this chapter.

2 Corinthians 7:1b "we must remove everything from our lives that contaminates body and spirit, and continue to complete the development of holiness within us." This is sanctification - a job EFT excels at doing! EFT frees us to move on with our life and live that way God wants us

This is a spiritual application of tapping - purification of ourselves so we can do what pleases God. Philippians 2:13 says God will revitalize us, implanting a passion in us to do what He wills.

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound personal medical care from your own personal physician, so please contact that physician when medical help is needed.

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 # 32: Being Specific When Tapping

Here is another Christian tapping YouTube instructional video for your viewing pleasure:

EFT for Christians Video # 32: Being Specific When Tapping

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical or psychological care, so please take care of your own personal needs.

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)

Science Continues to Show Us Why We Should Tap!

Here is a pretty short article explaining the brain mechanisms behind tapping.

This science is good stuff, but the part that many everyday, non-"energy" practitioners don't necessarily have an answer for is HOW to quit thinking thoughts that bother us!

It's like Pastor preaching on Sunday telling us we must forgive those who have hurt us, but he never tells us HOW to do the forgiving. We usually want to forgive, but it just seems impossible.

Well, we DO have a technique that fairly easily disconnects the tormenting thoughts! Tapping!

As we do EFT, the process dismantles the emotional content of the hurtful memories, helping us to get to a place of peace, and hopefully joy, that Apostle Paul discusses in Philippians.

God be praised that He has covered every contingency!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical or psychological advice or help. Contact your own personal physician when assistance is needed. Take care of yourself.

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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Tapping Specifically Article

Good article from Andy Hunt! Tapping SPECIFICALLY is what is necessary to get the emotional job of neutralizing our negative feelings done.

I want to make one rather BIG and important addition.

In Step 5, last 2 sentences Andy writes, "For example: “Even though they are looking critically at me, I accept myself and how I feel”, etc. The aspect may yield to simple tapping or you may need to track back to memories of similar feelings to neutralise the source of the aspect."

The Set-up statement he uses as his example is, IMHO, still wayyyyyy too broad to be tapped on. It is imperative to "track back to memories" to get the tapping job done effectively.

If a client came to me and told me that exact same sentence "they are looking critically at me," wanting to tap on that issue, I would continue questioning the client asking, "When was a time when you felt as though someone was looking at you critically? Give me a concrete example."

That should afford the client the opportunity to respond with a statement such as, "Well, when I was 13 years old I had to stand up in class, and Mrs. Schmidt gave me the evil eye while I gave my report on the Battle of Gettysburg."

That's a pretty specific time "when" the client thought she was looked upon critically. I might even go on further to get even more specific by asking, "How do you feel now when thinking about that evil eye back then?" or "What exactly did Mrs. Schmidt evil eye look like to you and did you feel about that?"

When tapping we are digging for "emotions" to tap about? Facts are good, but facts aren't feelings, they are facts! Always, always ask yourself (or the client) how they "FEEL" about something they have just told you. They hopefully can tell you 2 things: (1) give the "feeling" an emotional name, such as sadness, anger, remorse, guilt, disdain, discouraged, dismissed, un-validated, ignored, etc. Most anything can be a "feeling" by simply adding the word "feeling" to the client or your words! (2) Hopefully the client (or yourself) can tell you WHERE (gut, head, eyes, shoulder, thigh, chest, heart, etc.) in their body they feel the "feeling" or emotion resides.

This information is ALL that is necessary for tapping specificity.

Here's what my classroom report Set-up and tapping might look like using the steps above:

"Even though I remember the time when I was 13 and I gave that Gettysburg report in Mrs. Schmidt's class, and she gave me the evil eye, right now I feel anger in my left chest, a tightening feeling, I deeply and completely, etc. - finish the acceptance statement. THAT IS SPECIFIC!

The reminder tapping statements would simply be: "this anger" or "this anger in my chest." Continue tapping those simple reminder statements on the acupuncture spots until the SUDS drops out to zero!

Go onto the next memory of the time when you felt you were looked at critically, and repeat the process.

When a client or yourself comes in with a broad statement such as "I'm looked at critically" there is probably a huge core issue underneath around self-esteem, etc.

Core issues take more work than just a few individual memories because a client's entire life viewpoint could well be built around that one thought (and sadly many of us have dozens of core issues we need to work on!)

That example I just typed about being 13 years old should give any experienced self-tapper or EFT Practitioner plenty of tapping material if the client has a core issue around the example.

There are probably 100s of other questions that can be asked. It's detective work! But the questions need to be specific while digging for feelings.

Once this memory/incident is tapped to a 0 SUDS, ask yourself or the client, "Do you have another memory of a time when you got a critical look, or a time when something similar happened?"

You continue to repeat this process until the problem is no longer the problem!

I will admit, and this is WHY I've written 4 EFT for Christians books, that any tapping questioning can go in a multitude of directions whereby you find dozens of other thoughts/feelings/events in life that need to be tapped about.

Sometimes the line of questioning gets bogged down or the client/yourself shuts down, and then you can use the advice I give you that I have already written out in detail in the EFT for Christians books.

Wonderfully written article by Andy. My opinion is the more specific we get in our tapping makes EFT so very much more effective.

God be praised!

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological advice, so contact your own personal physician if you have such needs as these!

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 # 31 Generalization Effect

Here is another EFT for Christians instructional YouTube video:  EFT for Christians Video # 31 Generalization Effect

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Blessings in our Risen Savior!

Sherrie Rice Smith
Author of the EFT for Christians series found on Amazon.com 

Why Do I Need to Tap? Why Can't I Just Pray about All of This?

One of the questions that routinely pops up within the Christian EFT world is this, "Why can't I just pray about this, why should I tap?"

Often when I try to answer that question, my tongue gets tied up in my mouth and my answer sounds like I'm advocating that tapping is better than praying. That is not at all what I believe or what I wanted to say!

So, Ronda Stone, co-author of EFT for Christians, 52 Tapping Devotions, as usual, says it so much better than I do:

"I think it may be possible that some people respond better to prayer and some need tapping to break things loose to allow healing. Some may feel relief with the prayer but still tapping is needed for complete relief because the emotional pain is stuck in their body's cells. In my experience, I have seen the Lord move on people when I have only prayed {for them}, so one has to be aware of the direction the Lord is leading one -- to pray and tap, or to tap and pray.

People who have long standing emotional issues may think God has to fix them and they don't take responsibility for the part they may have played in the problem, thus believing God is the only one Who can act to help them, they don't accept that they play a part in their healing either.

Others who have some faulty reasoning or have been disappointed with God through prayer often pull away from Him. Those with that disappointment will respond better with tapping and prayer, and in fact, maybe even better than prayer alone."

Our God is a God of miracles! There is no doubt He is!

But God also requires for us to do work on this earth. Philippians 2:11-12 talks about "working out our salvation." Many believe Apostle Paul is discussing sanctification here. We are to "press on" toward heaven. God wants to deliver us, but He requires we participate in this earthly endeavor. Salvation in Jesus is a free done deal, but our earthly job is to give glory to the Lord and to work toward becoming more and more like Jesus, as we exhibit the Fruit of the Holy Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23).

His will for us is perfect. Jeremiah 29:11 assures us He has a good plan for our life.

We must pray, but some of us must also do our emotional tapping work to bring us into a calmer, more aware, less stressed, clearer space in life. Why? Early abusive events implant the pain into our body's cells. Prayer will relieve the spiritual content of the memories, but the "damage" remains in our body. Tapping often integrates the whole - body, mind, and spirit - to complete the healing we so desire.

God has always been there for us (Psalm 54:4). Our own emotional fog hides Him from our eyes. What a beautiful gift it is when tapping relieves the painful fog of past negative life events and allows us to see our Heavenly Father for Who He is!

Consider joining the thousands of Christians who have stepped forward for their healing as they tap.

The EFT for Christians website is chockful of goodies to assist you to learn to tap.

Join us!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical care, so contact your personal physician when help is needed.

Christmas Blessings! He is born!

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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