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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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