Good afternoon,

Recently I had a conversation with a client, "David", with whom I have been working for about eight weeks.

Before we started the session, David said there was something we needed to discuss.

He said, "I really appreciate the work we have been doing. I always feel better after we have a session. The concern I have is even though I feel better, I'm not sure we are making the progress I was hoping to make."

I could tell he was a little nervous to bring it up. I'm guessing he was worried that I would be offended or mad because he was questioning our work.

I smiled, thanked him for his honesty, and quickly reassured him that what he was experiencing is really common.

David's experience is something almost everyone (including me) experiences at some point during the healing and transformation process. It is the feeling of not making progress, because healing and transformation is tough to track.

That's because our "new normal" rapidly becomes our normal, and we then forget what the old normal was like.

I know that sentence sounds like transformational word salad, so let me give you a practical example.

At one point in your life, you had no idea how to send a photo in a text message. You either couldn't do it, it took you a long time, or you ended up sending the wrong photo.

Now that smartphones are the standard for many, sending a photo via text is straightforward and when you do send a photo, the fact that it was ever a challenge never even crosses your mind.

The new normal (sending a photo) has become the normal and you don't remember the old normal (struggling to send a photo).

The same thing happens with healing and transformation. We can heal an old wound and very quickly move on as our healed state becomes the new normal. When this happens, we forget our past suffering and since we have forgotten the past suffering, it doesn't feel like we have made any progress.

This is exactly where David was when he brought up the fact that he didn't feel like we were making progress!

With David, I was able to walk him through all the issues we had cleared in the past two months and to highlight all of the new actions he was now taking.

He quickly went from concerned about his progress to being proud of how far he had come in just eight weeks.

Having me there as his external witness made it easy for David to gain a wider perspective, but when we are working on our own, it is more difficult to do that because we are too close to our own experience.

This can be costly in a number of ways. First, we lose momentum to do the work because it doesn't feel fruitful. Second, we start to lose belief in the tools we are using, like tapping, because we think we aren't getting anywhere.

Both beliefs are a recipe for not taking action to create healing.

This week in the podcast, we are tackling this concern head-on as I teach you three simple ways to measure progress, so we don't lose hope or momentum.

These are ideas that everyone who is interested in transformation (not just tappers) should know and master.

Video training: https://youtu.be/nLGjhk-PSnQ

Audio-only training: https://tappingqanda.com/663

I learned this key concept early on in my healing journey and I know you will love it too.

This is one you MUST check out,

Gene

PS: Yesterday, during the Wednesday live stream we did more than 20 minutes of tapping for being caught in past failures that prevent us from taking positive action today. You can watch the replay and tap along here: https://www.youtube.com/live/6-WZ_QuWChQ?si=0FnsMp2VZgfL8hwZ&t=159