Good morning,
When I am explaining tapping to someone who doesn't know anything about it I am often asked "What can tapping be used for?"
In my mind there are three main reasons to use tapping.
First, using tapping as emotional first aid to help us to calm down in the moment when we feel overwhelmed.
Second is tapping to clear limiting beliefs and past traumas; this is the bulk of what most people use tapping for.
The third reason is one that I think is often missed AND I believe is in some ways the most important, and that is using tapping to build emotional resilience.
Emotional resilience describes how resilient our emotional state is when something goes wrong. Here are two examples of what it looks like to have or not have emotional resilience.
Example 1: Back in March 2020 I signed a book deal. It was very exciting, all the more so because the publisher sought me out. I worked really hard on the book for months and was really proud of what I put together. Then, in November I found out that publication of the book had been canceled by the
publisher because of many factors that were outside my control.
When I received the news I was so disappointed. I felt that what I had to share in my book would have been good for the world (it was on my favorite subject of tapping of course) and it would also raise the profile of my work. Leading up to the news of the cancelation I was doing lots of daily personal tapping work,
which meant I was in a great place in my life.
Because of the emotional resilience I had built up, I experienced the cancelation as disappointing, but not devastating.
Example 2: I was traveling for work. Because of adverse weather conditions I had been on and off of flights for 24 hours and was still a three-hour flight from home. I'd been on hold with customer service for 90 minutes trying to arrange a flight home, and then the call was dropped. I knew this meant that
when I called back, I would be at the end of the queue. I started to cry.
That is being in an unresilient state.
Many factors can impact our emotional reliance such as time of day, how well we have slept, the amount of stress we are under at work, or when we last ate, just to name a few.
Regular tapping can build up our resilience so that we are less impacted when things go sideways.
In this week's podcast I share how you can become more emotionally resilient in under 10 minutes a day.
You can listen along here: http://tappingqanda.com/499
I'd love to hear how you get on with this,
Gene
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