How I Used a Special Tapping Technique to Overcome Inner Resistance, Tapping Therapy
EFT Tapping, or Emotional Freedom Tapping, is a great tool to use when you’re intending to make some big changes in your life, but feel inner blocks coming up. Using the form of Emotional Tapping I describe below will help you uncover unconscious conflicts so you can keep moving toward your dream.
The following tapping technique is a form of tapping therapy that works great to uncover the hidden source of resistance. To learn more about the archetype I call the Inner Lifeguard, see this first post, introducing the Inner Lifeguard.
My Story
I’m in the process of making some big changes in my life.
I’m selling my house in Milagro Cohousing, in Tucson, Arizona.
I’m selling or giving away most of my possessions.
I’m letting go of the forms of livelihood that have supported me for the last ten years.
And I’m leaving everyone I know and love to explore the world.
I don’t yet know where I’m going. Probably somewhere in Latin America. Maybe Mexico. Or Nicaragua. Or Guatemala. Probably all those places and more.
Am I Nuts?
OK, aside from possibly thinking I’m totally out of my mind, you may also think I’ve created some pretty big challenges for myself.
Yep. (And if I didn’t have the tool of Emotional Freedom Tapping, I’m not sure how I would be coping. Actually, I’m pretty sure I would have given up on the whole idea a long time ago.)
But back to my Inner Lifeguard.
The other day, I tried out this Safety Statement on letting go of my possessions.
It won’t be safe to let go of all my stuff, because_____
Actually I thought I was just doing a little experiment. I figured since I’m not a very materialistic person, letting go of all my stuff would be easy. But I decided to use the Safety Question anyway, just to see what might come up.
I was sitting in my office at the time, surrounded by lots of technology
2 laptops, 2 big monitors, a printer, various still and movie cameras and all the stuff that goes with them, a walk-in closet full of office supplies and tools, some nice framed stuff on the walls, and three bookcases filled with books – mostly about personal transformation and energy psychology. I had only read maybe half of them.
So I said, “It won’t be safe to let go of all my stuff, because…”
…and I listened for the answers. They came fast and strong. As I looked around my office at my books, art, technology, I heard:
You can’t let go of your possessions because they are a part of you!
You are your possessions!
Who will you be without your possessions?
You won’t be safe without your possessions.
And I was grateful, happy, shocked to hear all of that.
Why would those answers be good news?
I didn’t know that’s what I’d been thinking and worrying about, just below the surface of my awareness.
Most importantly, I now knew what was blocking me, so I could tap on those statements and clear them.
I could release that inner block that had been making me crave carbs (my old carb cravings had recently returned).
I could clear an unconscious conflict that could have sabotaged my move.
And best of all, I could use tapping therapy on those statements, right from the mouth of my own Inner Lifeguard and release my blocks.
There is one more post in this series about the Inner Lifeguard and playing safe and small. See the conclusion of this story and to see how you can use this tapping technique to loosen the grip of your inner resistance.
Warmly,
Natalie Hill
p.s. I love helping people with big dreams discover and overcome their blocks. If interested, check out these various ways we might work together.
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Natalie Hill is a Transformational Coach for women entrepreneurs. She loves empowering women to bust through their blocks so they can be who they were born to be. Contact Natalie at Google+
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Hai Natalie,
I am searching for the script to let go of the inner life guard but can;t find it on the website……..could you provide me with the link.
I find it a good analogy but now I want to get rid of the obstacles:)
greets enjoy your time in Thailand
jan-marc
Jan-Marc,
As far as I can remember, I’ve never made a script specifically on the inner lifeguard. There could be so many different scripts, depending on just what your unique forms of resistance are.
I suggest you do the following.
1. What is it you want to do, that’s not happening for you?
2. Make this statement, aloud, or internally, and wait for the completion: It’s not safe to __________ (what you want to do), because___________.
3. Create your own tapping script based on what you hear.
Love to hear how this works for you.
Hi Nathalie,
I do use EFt for a couple of years now but I’ve never had thought about the ‘inner lifeguard’ and using EFT to get over beliefs that do hold me back to live a free life. I’ve used EFT to get over faalangst, fear of failure.
Thanks,
John
from the Netherlands
John, that’s great. If you’ve used EFT to get over the fear of failure (you actually have a word for that!), then you’ve used EFT for clearing beliefs that hold you back. It’s the same process.