Tapping With Bach Flowers

Taking time for healing: the EFT process

I would encourage you to get acquainted with the chart. Each of the tapping points are named and marked clearly for you. This will also help in your use of the meridian list. For instance:

(HT) Heart – Anger / Forgiveness LF/WRIST

We can see that the Heart channel has a direct connection to the Little Finger and the inside of the wrist. If we have an especially aggravating day filled with anger and resentment then spending a bit of time tapping, perhaps giving our little finger or wrist a little extra attention, with a loving affirmation, I can assure you it will put a smile on your face.

(A note on tapping: when you tap, use the tips of your first two fingers everywhere but under the arm, where you can use all four fingers. The points you will be tapping are small and using two fingers assures you of hitting the appropriate spots. Also, tap gently enough to not cause bruising but hard enough to be felt.)

STEP ONE: Before tapping, take time for a short meditation on the discovery statement: “The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system.”

Think about it. Let it sink in. Something may have happened to you in the past: trauma as a child, angst as an adolescent, a failed relationship that left you with a twitch and a broken heart, and the list goes on. Unlike psychological therapy which may have you dredge up each unpleasant episode ad infinitum muscling through for the next 20 years, with EFT you deal with the root cause of your issues; a disruption in the body’s energy system.

I have seen Gary Craig, time and again, ask someone in his class to explain where their fear/phobia/pain/whatever came from and they will stretch far into their past to dredge up some episode and he will stop them mid sentence and point at the statement on the blackboard; The cause of all negative emotions… Become acquainted with this statement. That is step one.

STEP TWO: Here you will be gauging your discomfort on a scale of 0 to 10, 0 being the least amount of discomfort and 10 the greatest it’s ever been. Is it physical? Is it a fear of flying? Do you suffer from an addiction? Whatever the issue, gauge it in your mind. Picture yourself boarding a plane, or lighting up a cigarette; whatever it takes to rouse your reaction, then gauge it.

STEP THREE: Set up your affirmation. We will expand on the importance and usage of affirmations in the section on the Bach Flowers. Not understanding it now won’t lessen the effectiveness of the session.

If you are suffering from stage fright, for instance, you will be saying something to the effect of, “Even though I have stage fright, I deeply and completely accept (or love) myself”. Or, “Even though I feel sick to my stomach at the thought of going on stage, I deeply and completely accept (or love) myself”. Whatever comes closest to describing your emotional state at the time is fine.

 

“Examine all of your beliefs about yourself and the nature of reality; and one belief, if you let it, will lead you to another. Imagination and will power are never in conflict. Your beliefs may conflict, but your imagination will always follow your will power and your conscious thoughts and beliefs.” --Seth

“Physical reality springs from the imagination, which follows the path of your beliefs” --Seth

This may be a good time to mention that some people are uncomfortable with the concept of loving or approving of themselves. If this is the case, the first thing they will want to tap for is this issue. The affirmation could read, “Even though I have trouble loving myself, I deeply and completely accept myself.” This issue may take some time to actually resolve due to the length of time this particular belief has been embedded in your psyche but EFT is one of the most powerful, immediate ways I have found to make a profound change.

You have gauged your discomfort level, let’s say an eight, and you have found the perfect affirmation. Now lets move on.

STEP FOUR:  On the right side of the chart is a breakdown of the entire EFT process which runs in this order:

Setup - Sequence - 9 Gamut - Sequence again

In the setup you will tap on the KC (Karate Chop point) or rub the Sore Spot while repeating the full affirmation 3 times. (The sore spot is found about three inches down the sternum from the collarbone then three inches in on either side of the chest. Poke with your fingers until you find a tender spot. This is a lymphatic drainage point. If you find it, don’t tap it for the setup, just rub it while repeating the affirmation three times.)

The sequence consists of tapping about 6 or 7 times on each of the following points while verbally stating the issue you are dealing with: TH, EB, SE, UE, UN, CH, CB, AP & inside of wrists. (Notice the sequence begins at the top of the head [TH] and works its way down to the wrists. You can tap either the left or the right side of any paired points [two eyebrows, two side of eyes etc] or both at the same time if you wish). It is unnecessary to count the taps. You will get in the 6 or 7 taps in the time it takes you to state your issue out loud. 

If you are tapping for a fear of flying, for instance, after using the setup affirmation of “Even though I have trouble flying, I deeply and completely accept myself”, the sequence will look like this: Tapping gently at TH (Top of Head) point use the statement “This fear of flying”. Move on to EB (eyebrow) point repeating “This fear of flying”, and so on, continuing through all the points.

At this point you will take a moment to evaluate your progress and gauge your results. Has the issue gone down from an eight? When you bring up the picture in your mind you thought of in step 2 are the reactions the same or less? Gauge it again. Let’s say it has gone down to a five. Repeat the setup and sequence, only now you will use the affirmation, “Even though I still have some of this fear of flying, I deeply and completely accept myself” with the sequence statement, “This remaining fear of flying”. You can repeat this process until either you move to a zero reaction (YAY! with a little happy dance) or you are blocked at a number and can’t seem to move past it. If this is the case you will move on to the 9 Gamut.

The 9 Gamut is very different as you will not be using either the affirmation or sequence statement. To find the gamut point (GP), run your index finger along the groove between your little finger and your ring finger on the back of either hand. The gamut point is the deepest point of that groove. This is where you will be tapping.

During the 9 Gamut you must hold your head perfectly still while facing front. When you look down, move only your eyes, not your head. Lets begin: As you tap continuously on the Gamut point, close your eyes, open your eyes, look hard down to the right, look hard down to the left, roll your eyes clockwise all the way from the floor to the ceiling, now roll your eyes counter-clockwise, hum the first verse of “Happy Birthday”, count 1 to 5 out loud, then hum “Happy Birthday” again. You can choose any song you want as long as it is short. The purpose of this exercise is to stimulate left brain (counting), right brain (humming) activity.

After you have walked through the 9 Gamut routine, finish up by going through the sequence again.

How do you feel? Probably much better. But you may notice, if you look closely enough, that other, seemingly unrelated issues have just gone away.

There are no vacuums in our minds. Everything is intricately conjoined and built upon each other. And we created it all.

“You make your own reality. You get what you concentrate upon. There is no other main rule. The truth is then that you form your reality directly. You react consciously and unconsciously to your beliefs. You collect from the physical universe, and the interior one, data that seems to correlate with your beliefs.”-- Seth

When dealing with an issue, imagine it as one tree in a forest you are standing in. You cut down the tree you are facing (the issue at hand) and as it falls you hear the sound of several others falling around you (aspects of the issue). You have touched upon a very great truth here; the soul wants to heal the mind and body and will take every opportunity and use any tools available to accomplish that.

The place of Aspects

During the course of your tapping your statement will generally reflect the issue you are dealing with. For instance, you have tapped for a pain and after the initial setup and sequence of “This pain” you have gone from an eight to a four. The next round would be “This remaining pain” with a drop to a three, but it occurs to you that there is an episode you had that was related to this pain you had not thought of in years; perhaps the shoulder pain was linked to a relative jerking your arm in anger and the thought of this raises your anxiety level back up to an eight. This is an ‘aspect’ and will start the process all over again.

After gauging the discomfort you will start with the setup; “Even though I have this resentment for my uncle for having hurt my shoulder, I deeply and completely accept myself”, or words to that effect. The sequence would be, “This resentment” or “Forgiveness to my uncle”. You have total creative freedom. After all, this is your reality you are creating.

This has been known to completely ‘do the trick’ as they say. There was a young lady that came to us with pain in her shoulder. As a rule we simply tap for physical issues first without a great deal of background as it just works most of the time. The pain just goes *poof* (oh yeah, that’s a technical term). If not, we get some background information.

The pain in her shoulder went down a bit the first round through, but not much, so we asked about the history of the injury. She then related the story of a car accident she was involved in a couple of years before where the young man in the other car, who caused the accident, jumped out of his car and was running away. Although she was rather severely hurt, she chased him down. She still felt the rage and anger, so there was the aspect we needed. We tapped for those issues and she walked out pain free.

Here is the key to healing with EFT: TAP FOR EVERYTHING. Got a headache? Tap. Got deep anxiety? Tap. Got a boil? Try it. What’s it going to hurt.

Reversals: changing the direction you look

The mind is an amazingly intricate environment, and every thought, belief, imagination, emotion and intention you create on a mental level expresses itself on a physical level. This includes even seemingly contradictory beliefs.

As an example; I know a young Native American woman that is being trained as a healer by a shaman. She is a smoker and he had warned her that she needs to stop as it can block her effectiveness. We tapped for the addiction, but with little result. I muscle tested her and found her reversed. Once we treated her reversal she was disgusted with the taste of cigarettes.

Essentially, although she wanted to quit smoking and her mind gave her all the reasons for quitting and her mission as a healer gave her all the impetus she needed to muscle her way through the physical symptoms of withdrawal, there was a very physical wall that had been erected by her mind that created an energy block. She was reversed in her energy field and didn’t really want to quit smoking. We reversed the energy flow, tapped for the addiction and gave her the tools for becoming the healer she desired to be.

The ‘How-To’ of tapping for reversal

Muscle testing, or Kinesiology, is a system of diagnosis based on the theory that muscle dysfunction is secondary to sub clinical structural, chemical, or mental dysfunction in other parts of the body; using manual muscle testing to help identify the primary dysfunction and treating by attempting to correct the underlying state. It is also possible to test your body’s reactions to bioelectrical stimulation caused by foods, supplements, herbs and about anything you can imagine to check for what would be considered allergic reactions.

There are several forms of muscle testing (MT) that you can do on yourself (one of which we use for testing the effectiveness of the tapping for the Flower treatments, which we will explain in detail in that section of the book) but when testing for reversal you will need a partner to test you. Make sure you are very comfortable with your partner (YP) as you will be up-close and personal.

Step one: Stand facing one another about arms length away. Your stance should be solid enough to not lose you balance, with your feet set about shoulder width.

Step two: Have YP place his right hand on your left shoulder (for stability and to create a bio-current connection). Point you right hand straight out to the side at shoulder height with your open palm facing down. YP places their first two fingers of their left hand on top of your right wrist. At the right time you will be pushing your right arm up against the pressure of their two fingers just enough to check the strength of the electromagnet flow through your system, not the actual strength of your muscles. Don’t strain yourself.

Step three: Place your left hand palm down at the crown chakra point on the top of your head (TH). Now have YP press gently on your wrist while you resist by pushing your arm toward the ceiling. This only takes a second or two. Did your arm stay strong or move toward the floor? Now reverse your hand on top of your head so the palm is facing up toward the ceiling. Test again. Which was stronger, the palm facing up or down? If it is stronger facing down than the energy entering your body is correctly polarized. If it was stronger palm up, the energy is leaving your energy field in a reversed pattern and you will need to tap to take care of it. Follow the directions in the box for tapping for a reversal.

Step four: After tapping, retest as in step three for the results. You will most likely find you are reversed from the first test. If not, take the first two fingers of both hands and tap on the collar bone points and down to the thymus area about six inches below the collar bones. Tap in that line, up and down, for a few seconds, then tap of the KC points on each hand and retest.

Tapping for reversal of issues

In treating the issue of reversals Gary Craig deals extensively with the area of toxins and their effect on our body in his book The EFT Manual, which is a free download at the official EFT website at emofree.com. I can’t commend it heartily enough.

On page 61 Gary Craig says; while virtually anything could be toxic to your energy system, there are some items that show up with some frequency. They may or may not be toxins to you but they are common. I list them below:

Perfume

Refined Sugar

Alcohol

Some Herbs

Coffee

Nicotine

Wheat

Tea

Dairy

Corn

Caffeine

Pepper