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Using EFT to Create a Storehouse of Positive
Memories
“Sound
of the geese in the morning…” for one whole round.
EFT
“Haiku”
My
experience on that morning was meditative, gentle, and brought me close to
all around me. The EFT phrases that came to my mind reminded me of a
Japanese Haiku poem. If you are familiar with Haiku, you know that the poet
who constructs these poems works within a strict grammatical form most of
which is lost to us in translation. However, the spirit of Haiku is
translatable and consists of simple everyday experiences which have been
isolated as precious moments, much like the ones I had been noticing.
When we
read a Haiku poem, however, it only speaks to us if we ourselves resonate to
the experience that it describes. When it is effective it is because we
respond to it much as a tuning fork responds to vibrations from a nearby
instrument.
A Haiku
poem comes to us from the outer environment, however. It has been
created by another person, whereas when we capture a fleeting second of our
own life using EFT for this purpose we preserve our own personally meaningful
experience.
Shifting
our attention
During the
day that followed, when things around me became hectic and tasks of the day
demanded my total attention so much that I was becoming tense and hurried, I
would repeatedly stop and commence a round of EFT, saying to myself one of
these simple phrases I had tapped into my memory in the morning, as in:
“The sound of rain on my window.”
This use
of EFT reminded me that there is a totally different dimension of living that
has nothing to do with the pressures of the day, one which is outside of
schedules and in a sense outside of time. This is a dimension of life where
my own experience is so deep and so full that it eclipses everything else,
and EFT can bring it back to me when I need it!
Later in
the day I experimented with visual images as well as auditory ones, using EFT
to embed them deeply in my memory. I was driving my car in a light fog
when I decided to do this because traveling on a highway in a fog is not
ordinarily a desirable circumstance and I wanted to change the impact of it
upon me so I could function at my best.
Accordingly,
I pulled over to the side of the road to use EFT. I could see the cars
ahead of me through the mist, a string of little red tail lights that wound
along the highway in front of where I was parked.
Tapping on
the positive aspects
I decided
to tap mentally on the mist and the lights, I wanted to use EFT on the
positive aspects of driving in a fog rather than on the inconvenience or
potential dangers of it, so I tapped on:
“The
mist on the highway…the mist on the highway … the mist on the
highway…”
As I did
this, I became keenly aware of the drifting nature of the mist and of the
little jewel-like lights twinkling through it.
I found
myself becoming much less tense and I knew that I would be able to drive much
better when I resumed the trip.
The lights
began to look extraordinarily beautiful to me. Something had happened
when I had used EFT to preserve this experience –– it had
sharpened my total awareness.
Next, I
noticed that the mist seemed to extend almost infinitely into the
distance. It was an amazing effect, one well worth preserving, so I
mentally tapped on:
“The
mist reaches to infinity,,, The mist reaches to infinity...”, repeating
this phrase at each imagined EFT point.
When I
resumed driving –– even though the fog was still present
–– I now enjoyed the drive.
Later when
I was back home, I physically tapped on many of the positive experiences I
had stored away during the day, repeating the same or almost the same phrases
as I had used originally.
Doing this
called forth a vivid reliving of each experience rather than a formal
memory. The feeling tone, the emotion, the thoughts that had grouped
themselves around that experience, all were available to me once again.
The tapping was actually recreating these experiences. They had become
a powerful inner resource.
“Tap
in” your own experiences
I will be
sharing more of my observations about tapping-in positive experiences with
EFT in the next articles in this series. In the meantime you may want
to try this method yourself. If so, here are the steps:
First,
notice what is actually happening around you.
Next,
select a fleeting experience that you want to capture, much as you would take
a snapshot of a physical object in order to preserve it. The
experiences you will use for this purpose will probably be simple ones, small
details of life that you might ordinarily ignore.
When a
fleeting moment occurs that seems worthy of retaining for later use, put it
into a few words that have meaning for you, such as:
“The
light coming through the petals of the orchid…”
Or,
“The quietness of my breath as I let it slowly out…”
Or,
“The way my reading chair cradles me…”
Then
“tap in” this experience using EFT.
As you do
so, the experience will become a valued personal resource that you can draw
upon at any time. If you like, jot down the phrases you create in a
notebook or write them on cards to keep with you and take out and use any
time you feel you need to get back to the original positive state. I
encourage you to experiment with this new method, as I am doing.
References:
Esther and
Jerry Hicks ( 2006). The Law of Attraction. Hay House, Carlsbad, Ca.
“The
Secret”. Movie available on DVD (2006). Amazon.com.
Dr.
Patricia Carrington, EFT Master
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