Good morning,
One of the teachings from my NLP training that impacts me the most in my daily life is the presupposition that "All communication is judged in the responses."
In reality, that is just a fancy way of saying "It is not what is said, but what is understood."
I'm sure you have experienced this countless times. You have said one thing and the person you are talking to hears something completely different to what you intended.
This is even more common when we are talking about something that is outside most people's experience.
Talking about tapping can be difficult because...well, you know...tapping is kind of weird and it is difficult to explain clearly how tapping on the body makes us feel better.
"Energy" is one of the words people use the most in attempting to explain what is going on in tapping, but have you ever stopped to consider what we mean by energy? This is where the problem of communication comes in because energy can mean so many different
things.
Over recent months David Feinstein has been writing a series of articles summarizing the latest and greatest research in the field of energy psychology.
This month he tackles what we mean by the word "energy". He explains the five different types of energy referred to in the research AND how we can use these explanations more effectively when talking about tapping and other tools.
This is a must-read article for anyone wanting to talk about tapping more clearly and I encourage you to share it with your tapping friends.
You can find it here: https://tappingqanda.com/?p=18252
Gene
PS: Time for me to climb on a soap box for a bit of a rant.
When trying to explain energy medicine, people often use this quote from Albert Einstein: "Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not
philosophy. This is physics."
I think the reason people like to use this Einstein quote is because it appears to lend credibility to tapping and to energy psychology more broadly.
The problem is that there is no proof that Einstein ever said those words! In fact, there is no known source for this quote before the year 2000, 45 years after his death.
Please stop using this quote.
When we use fake quotes to support our arguments we end up undermining both our credibility and that of tools like tapping that we know to be powerful.
When talking about tapping (or any tool) it is OK to speak without certitude. It is OK not to need to prove anything to anyone else. Share your experience and your desire for them to have access to something better. Then trust their ability to find tools that work for
them.
