Being Specific and Bundling Aspects

I like clients to really be in touch with their feelings when they tap. They are used to being in their head and analysing and just going with the feelings instead can work so much better. The emotions will also help you to find early negative events very easily and to bundle many events together while you tap.

You can even try this on yourself.

• Think of a recent specific incident (not traumatic) which you are still feeling angry or embarrassed about.
  Consider how you feel about that, angry, embarrassed, furious, ashamed?
• On a scale of 0 to 10 how strong is that feeling, 0 is it’s not there, 10 it’s max strength. Go for something with a highish number, it’s easier to connect to.
  Where are you feeling that in your body?
• What colour might it be? Hard/soft? Rough/smooth? Moving/still?
• Be with that feeling and imagine going back over your life. When else does that same feeling come up to meet you?
• When is the earliest time that feeling is there?
• You now have an early specific event which is influencing your original event.
• Tap to clear the early event, using the description you have of the feeling and linking it to the event, eg Even though when I think of the time…… I have this hard red knot in my stomach, I deeply and completely accept myself.  This means that all the aspects of that time are bundled together and tapped on together. Follow the changes of the feeling, until there’s nothing there, or the client is comfortable. Eg Even though this is pink and soft and moving now, I deeply and completely accept myself.
• Check the scale and when you get to 0 check how see how that affects the current event. There may also be other events that came up as you tapped. Just tap on them.
• Most times an earlier event comes up, as it did for me at the weekend when a trainee worked on me. (Thank you Wendy)
• If no earlier event appears, you can work on the current event in the same way and bring in possible other events. Eg, Even though I have this hard red knot in my stomach about …..and I’ve probably had it lots of times before, I choose to clear it wherever it comes from.
• And if your client can’t feel it in their body? Ask them how they know the feeling’s there. You may need to tap on a thought or a picture rather than the feeling and that’s OK too.

These are simple ways to speed up your work and to bundle multiple aspects together as you tap.

I was taken to a much earlier relationship with the current feelings I was working on and just recognising where those feelings came from gave me an immediate sense of relief. And as usual, that durrrrhhh! feeling that comes when you think “why didn’t I see that before?”