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I just read a piece about the difference between positive and negative emotions. You thought you knew the difference right?

Positive emotions make you feel good and negative ones make you feel bad. Well it has a little more depth than that. This study said that positive emotions broaden your perceptions, thoughts and behaviors, while negative ones narrow them.

Hum, with that type of definition it sounds like there are times when negative emotions are helpful. The negative emotions can help you focus in a crisis. They are the ones that alert you to danger. But the positive ones help you be creative and see all sides to a situation.

What I believe happens is that we get stuck in the negative emotions. Our jobs require our focus and the stress in life often makes us focus and live in crisis mode. But it is the positive that makes life enjoyable and meaningful. What we need is to get unstuck. The negative emotions should only be used sparingly and only when they are truly needed.

How do you unstick yourself? Meridian Tapping or EFT is great at unsticking negative emotions. I publish a monthly tapping routine that is geared to moving you out of the negative and into the positive. Go to www.naturallyresilient.com and sign up to receive this free monthly self-help routine. Sometimes I will send out information that I think may be helpful but I will never sell or give you e-mail address to any one else.

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I have talked about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) before. But I cannot emphasize enough that every one should know how to use it. It should be in every mom’s medicine cabinet.

One Sunday afternoon, I went with a bunch of kids from our church to a fancy out-of-town playscape for their enjoyment. We had not been there more than 10 minutes when one of the little girls came running out of the playscape saying she was having an asthma attack and had not brought her inhalers.
I have had asthma in my past and realized how scary it can be. I imagined having to load all the kids back on the bus and driving back home. But I decided to try something.

I called her over to me and told her “let’s see if this does anything” and told her I was going to tap on her face and showed her where. Then I started tapping and talking about how scary not being able to breath can be. When I tapped the 3^rd point, I saw her face change and knew she was ok. I asked her how she felt, and she said “Oh, better” and ran back into the playscape to continue playing. So with less than one round of tapping her attack cleared. Her mom was there and was amazed at the results.

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I often say that EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and MTT (Meridian Tapping Techniques) only remove the negative in our lives and leaves the positive because we are born with the fruits of the spirit and as we live our lives we collect negative baggage in the form of negative emotions. Often this negativity occurs from the day we are born and I think some would say from before that.

What exactly do I mean by the fruits of the spirit? According to Galatians 5:22-23, the fruits of the spirit are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

Let me take this apart and compare it to what emotions a newborn baby may come into this world with. I can see a baby being born with love and joy, but peace and patience or self-control? I just don’t see it. Let’s dig deeper.

Have you ever known a peaceful baby? I have. So the ones who are not peaceful may have had some contributing baggage already in their young life. It could have been as harsh as a drug abusing mother, or a physically abused mother or maybe something along the lines of a medical problem that cropped up for the baby or the mother while in the womb. I can see any of these leading to a restless, unhappy baby.

Some of these positive emotions are automatically compromised because we start out as helpless babies. Who would not lose patience and self-control when they can’t communicate what they need to those around them. So these positive emotions go out the door real fast.

This leaves goodness, faithfulness and gentleness. These qualities would be hard to see in a young baby. By the time the child is of an age to actually express these qualities in their life, family, friends, society and even TV have already influenced them. The child has had plenty of opportunity to learn the negative traits

What are your thoughts on this?
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I am having a great time doing the surrogate EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) tapping study. Some issues I have worked on have shown great improvement while one in particular has been a real hard one to get any change to occur (if you are reading this, you know who you are). Most people have reported a general improvement.

I am closing the study on January 31. If you want to be included and get a free EFT session where you don’t even have to attend, fill out a comment for this blog and I will get back with you. All I ask from you is to fill out a questionnaire before the session and then another one after the session.

Thursday I am doing a session for a friend’s dog. I am not just limited to people.

In February, I will compile my data and have it available. Sign up for my Monthly Tapping Routine on my website at www.naturallyresilient.com and don’t be left out on other great opportunities that come along.

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You have heard the term “bad vibes”.

When we were looking for a house to buy, I would enter the house and check for any bad feelings or vibrations from the house. You may have done that yourself. Have you ever entered a place and felt you did not like it, or met a person who did not sit well with you even before they said anything.

I had a friend that purchased a house where an estranged husband had broken in and chased the woman down the road and killed her. When I visited this friend, I listened close to what the house was emitting and felt it was clean. I did not feel any bad vibrations; I guess they had followed the woman down the street.

We constantly send out vibrations that others pick up on. I see that in my cats all the time. Cats are more sensitive to energies and are better at judging and reacting to them. I have a cat that sends out a vibration of fear and in doing that one of my other cats is always attacking or acting like she will attack. I think in sending this vibration out he is actually attracting what he fears back to him. I wish I could explain to him that his actions are attracting what he doesn’t want. I have another cat that Misty will also try and intimidate but he ignores her and she gives up and leaves him alone.

How much negativity are we attracting into our life by our vibrational frequency we are sending out. This is the law of attraction at work. You get more of what your emotions are sending out. If you don’t like what your vibration is attracting, change it. EFT and meridian tapping are great tools to easily change your vibration.

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I am continuing my study of the benefits of surrogate tapping till the end of January. More volunteers are welcome as a study is only good if you have a decent sample number.

What I need are people with problems they want help on. It could be a fear, phobia, ongoing pain of some type or something more general such as anxiety or panic attacks. I will be calling your energy to me to tap on for the problem. You will not know exactly when I will be tapping for you.

The main tapping technique I use is EFT. Through this session the problem may be cleared up or only slightly reduced for a short time and a few people may have no reaction at all.

Look at the questionnaire below and if you would like to participate just leave a comment and I will reply to you with an e-mail address. (Comments are not automatically put on blog, I review everything first so don’t worry about your comment being posted as a blog comment). You have nothing to lose as this will not make anything worse and it may help.

Questionnaire for Surrogate Tapping Volunteers

I will perform one of two different types of sessions.

Correspondence will be by e-mail.

Those that answer yes to question 1 below will be given a one-hour session. I will notify you of the session 24 hours before I perform the session but will not give a specific time. A follow up questionnaire will be sent to document any changes.

Those who answered yes to question 2 below will be given 5 short (10 to 15 minute) sessions during the week. I will notify you by e-mail when the series of sessions will start. A follow up questionnaire will be sent after the 5 consecutive sessions have been held.

If you answer yes to both 1 and 2, I will decide which session to use.

1. Do you have a specific issue, incident or pain you want worked on? ______
a. If you do what is it?
b. When did it start?
c. What was going on in your life at the time?
d. Any other info you think is pertinent.
2. Is there a nonspecific ongoing emotion you wish to work on such as depression, panic attacks, anxiety, etc.?
a. When did this start?
b. Do you know why it started?
c. Was there a specific event that happened at that time?
3. Are you willing to fill out a form with in 24 hours after notification that a session has been completed? ______ This form will be sent with the notification that a session has been completed.
4. Provide your name and City, State (or Country if not in the United States).
5. Please provide an e-mail address. This e-mail will not be sold or given to others.

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To whom all reads this. I am running a study on the benefits of surrogate tapping. I would love to have more participants. A study is only good if you have a decent sample number.

What I need are people with problems they want help on. It could be a fear, phobia, ongoing pain of some type or something more general such as anxiety or panic attacks.

Look at the questionnaire below and if you would like to participate just leave a comment and I will reply to you with an e-mail address. (Comments are not automatically put on blog, I review everything first so don’t worry your comment will not be posted as blog comments). You have nothing to lose as this will not make anything worse and it may help.

Questionnaire for Surrogate Tapping Volunteers

I will perform one of two different types of sessions.

Correspondence will be by e-mail.

Those that answer yes to question 1 below will be given a one-hour session. I will notify you of the session 24 hours before I perform the session but will not give a specific time.  A follow up questionnaire will be sent to document any changes.

Those who answered yes to question 2 below will be given 5 short (10 to 15 minute) sessions during the week. I will notify you by e-mail when the series of sessions will start. A follow up questionnaire will be sent after the 5 consecutive sessions have been held.

If you answer yes to both 1 and 2, I will decide which session to use.

1. Do you have a specific issue, incident or pain you want worked on? ______
a. If you do what is it?
b. When did it start?
c. What was going on in your life at the time?
d. Any other info you think is pertinent.
2. Is there a nonspecific ongoing emotion you wish to work on such as depression, panic attacks, anxiety, etc.?
a. When did this start?
b. Do you know why it started?
c. Was there a specific event that happened at that time?
3. Are you willing to fill out a form with in 24 hours after notification that a session has been completed? ______ This form will be sent with the notification that a session has been completed.
4. Provide your name and City, State (or Country if not in the United States).
5. Please provide an e-mail address. This e-mail will not be sold or given to others.

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Did you know that most energy work could be done without the benefitting person being touched?

The NAET person I go to for allergy elimination will work on babies, small children and animals. But for each of these she has the parent or owner hold the baby or animal or in the case of a horse the owner touches the horse. This is to put the benefitting entity in the energy field of the surrogate (parent/owner) while the practitioner works on the surrogate. The benefit is transferred to the one being touched.  Isn’t that wild?

Did you know that for most energy work, the person being worked on does not even have to be in the same room! When I am feeling sick and just don’t have the energy to work on myself, I will ask my husband to run Reiki on me. I usually ask him over the phone as he is often somewhere in the country on business. He will then run the energy when he has time, and I can usually tell when he is running energy for me, as I will start to feel better. I also know if he gets interrupted, as I will start to feel worse. I seem to require a lot of energy to get me over the hump to where I stay feeling better. In this case the energy work is not surrogate work as my husband is actually sending the energy to me. It is labeled long distance work.

With Meridian Tapping, the practitioner will often use themselves as the surrogates. I have done this. I call the person’s energy to me or if the person is too weak to allow their energy to leave, I will just say I am that person and this is for their benefit as I tap on my self.  Some EFT practitioners pretend the person is sitting in front of them and they tap on an invisible person.

Why would this work? Maybe it is because we are all connected. We all have energy running through us, could this energy be connected?  The energy of the tree, the energy of the rocks and dirt, the energy of your neighbor, the energy of your worst enemy. We are all connected. What hurts one, hurts us all. What benefits one, benefits us all.  It is the spirit of life, of existence.

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Yesterday I said I would give you some back pain stories.

Several years ago my husband and I took an aviation radio to be fixed. At the repair shop were two men, one of which was hobbling around all bent over, he could barely walk. He looked to be in much pain. My husband is the more forward of the two of us and he mentioned to him that he looked like his back was bothering him (to put it mildly). The man said he woke up like this. My husband said, “My wife can help you with that”. I saw incredulous and fear come across his face. I quickly said, “I won’t touch your back, in fact I won’t touch you at all, you will do it yourself.” Now he was intrigued. We sat down and I showed him the points I wanted him to tap on and we went through about 5 rounds. When he stood up he was amazed (as is usually the case). The pain was gone. He was walking upright again. His partner at the shop who witnessed the whole thing commented that he wasn’t twinging any more.

Then the rest of the story came out. The previous night his wife had a very bad asthma attack and he felt helpless to do anything. His body was accommodating him in feeling helpless. It is like the body says, “Oh, you can’t do anything about this but you should do something, well I will give you a real reason you can not do anything.” Then kapow! he was disabled (not able).

Another story involves an elderly lady who has to work to make ends meet. She is rather resentful that she should have to work at her age and she was telling me that working and lifting the heavy bottles at the store made her back hurt. I quizzed her a little bit and she came to realize that the back pain started when she was getting ready for work, before she even got there. This was obviously an emotional issue. I sat her down and did two rounds of tapping on the back pain. I then asked her how she felt. Well she was so startled by the change that it scared her and she did not want to go on.

The rest of the story is that she really enjoys the pain, the attention, the feeling of being a martyr and really doesn’t want to give it up. I know that if she was not so scared of losing the pain, within an hour we could eliminate the root emotional cause of the pain and she would not have it ever again. All we did at the time was greatly reduce it for that day. I have also found that emotional pain will often come back the next day but if it is consistently worked on each time it comes up it will finally give up and go away (that may take 2 –3 weeks). Or if the root cause is found and tapped out, it will go away for good.

The last story I will tell today is very interesting. I had a client who had back pain off and on, literally. When ever she put her bra on her back hurt. This lady was not heavily endowed. There was no reason for her back to be hurting because of the bra. For this client I had to dig into what the bra meant to her. Once we worked through this, the pain was tapped away.

Try tapping for your self at www.naturallyresilient.com. If you need help determining the emotion behind your pain, set up an appointment.

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There are many different Meridian Tapping Techniques but the most well know is EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), which involves tapping on specific acupuncture points. The idea is to cover the entire meridian.

By putting energy into the system you can unblock the system. Think of it as being similar to using a plunger to unblock a drain. Tapping is great at unclogging the emotional system. The clogs may be due to phobias, fears, anger, jealousy,etc, all of which we consider to be “negative” emotions. I have successfully cleared fear of heights, fear of flying, fear of spiders. Many times it only takes a one-hour session to clear others may take a couple.

What I think is interesting is that the tapping does not affect positive emotions. I have developed a reason for this. We come into this world with the fruits of the spirits. The love, peace, hope. These are innate in our being. As soon as we are born, we start tacking on the negative and we insist on carrying that baggage around with us the rest of our lives. Or maybe we just don’t know how to let go of it. This negative baggage can affect us not just mentally or emotionally but also physically. I have found that so much of our emotion is lodged in our body producing pain. I have cleared so many back pains that were emotionally induced. I will tell about some of these tomorrow.

Meridian Tapping provides a great way to release these negative emotions. Give it a try. You may be as impressed with it as I have been.

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