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Using EFT to Create a Storehouse of Positive
Memories
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
Gary Craig
has suggested that with EFT we are on the ground floor of a healing high
rise, and I am certain that the positive uses we have found for EFT so far
are but the tip of the iceberg. In this series of articles I will be
sharing with you some new uses of EFT that I have been using with my clients
and myself, and about which I am very excited.
Today I
will tell you about a method by means of which you can consolidate memories
of fleeting positive experiences that may occur during the day and otherwise
be ignored, and then reproduce these same experiences later on so that you
can resonate with a feeling of well being, goodness, optimism and
appreciation any time that you want to.
I think
you would agree that this is a desirable outcome. If you happen to be
familiar with the work of Abraham-Hicks (The Law of Attraction), or the
popular version of their viewpoint presented in the recent movie “The
Secret” (see references at end of article) you will understand why
changing our “vibrational level” (the emotional tone of our lives
which includes the tone of our entire physical being) is fundamental to
creating the life we want. What is intriguing about this is that I have
found that we can use EFT to help achieve this goal!
Even if
you don’t accept the concept of vibrational levels (some people
don’t), you will probably agree that being able to change your
responses to life events so that you experience them differently, with relish
and delight and a new sense of meaning, is something to be desired.
I have
recently been using EFT to create a virtual storehouse of positive memories
which we can draw upon at any given moment to change our emotional state
whenever we want.
This
storehouse of “captured” positive experiences can be created
through the use of EFT, then later be made available to us again, by using
EFT at another time.
The
positive memories that are stored by this process do not consist of words,
sentences or mental images alone, but are made up of deeply-felt and
compelling experiences that EFT can bring back to us whenever we need them.
The
experiences that are captured in this way are those precious fleeting moments
in our lives that we may actually come into contact with far more often than
we realize, but which, in the usual hassle of life, often pass by so rapidly
that we barely notice them, if in fact we notice them at all.
The
demands made upon us in modern life can engulf us so fully that we find
ourselves responding to our days negatively as we try to fight off the
distress that not being able to meet all these demands creates in us
–– and of course we can never come close to meeting all of
them! As a result, we often forget that we have within us the
possibility of an amazingly deep joy in living.
The
exciting news is that we can use EFT to shift our awareness so that the side
of ourselves that revels in life for its own sake becomes far more available
to us than it is at present.
To show
you how this process works out in action, let me give you an example from my
own life.
On a
cloudy morning about a month ago I awoke to the sound of a soft pattering of
rain on my window pane. It was a delicate sound, and I have always
liked the sound of gentle rain. However, my tendency, like that of many
other people, has been to listen to it for perhaps 15 seconds or so, and then
get up and go about my day because there is ”so much to do”.
On this
particular morning, however, I decided to use EFT in the new way I had been
experimenting with.
I wanted
to fix this experience in my memory using EFT. To do this, I created a
short phrase that summed it all up for me:
“The sound of rain on my window.”
Without
using any elaborate EFT statement, in fact without using any negative
statement at all (there was no “even though…” phrase) and
without the use of self acceptance affirmations or Choices statements, I
repeated that one simple phrase at each tapping point, starting with the
inner eyebrow and ending up on top of my head.
This is,
of course, is the Short Form of EFT, but you can do this using the long form
or any other EFT variation.
The
process went like this:
Inner
eyebrow: “The sound of rain on my window…”
Outer
eye: “The sound of rain on my window…”
Under
eye: “The sound of rain on my window…”
and so on
for one complete round.
One round
of EFT was all I did, but at the end of it I felt an unusual sense of
peace. The sound of the rain pattering on my window pane had now
assumed much more importance because I was “tapping it in” with
EFT.
A
deeper awareness
Tapping on
this experience also seemed to have sharpened my senses because I was now
aware of another sound, one I had not noticed before. It was that of a
single raindrop repeatedly tapping on an iron chimney which extends from my
bedroom through the roof, connecting an old stove in my room to the outdoors.
The sound
was hollow and seemed to reverberate like a distant bell. The drop (it
was actually a series of consecutive rain drops) was tapping intermittently
at its own pace and had its own rhythm. I decided to “capture
it” for my repository of positive fleeting moments, so I tapped on the
phrase:
Inner
Eye: Sound of the raindrop on the chimney…
Outer
Eye: Sound of the raindrop on the chimney…
Under
eye: Sound of the raindrop on the chimney…
Under
nose: Sound of the raindrop on the chimney, taking its own time…and so
on.
I was
impressed by the fact that the raindrop so clearly took its own time. I could
not force it into my rhythm but had to allow it its own pace. As I
continued to tap, I was aware of an increasing acceptance on my part of the
drop’s pace and its unpredictability, of allowing it to be outside of
my control.
The more I
tapped on the sound of the single rain drop against the metal of the chimney,
the more it seemed to have a beauty of its own. I didn’t want to
leave the room, but to stay and listen to it.
Even
finer awareness
Then I
became aware of a faint sound in the distance of Canadian Geese honking in
the early morning, a sound I frequently hear when awakening but usually pay
little attention to. I now tapped on:
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