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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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