Good morning,

Last Saturday I led a retreat in Florida about mercy.

At one point during my presentation I made the comment:

"If I were to distill the work that I am doing to heal and transform myself, it comes down to becoming comfortable in my own skin. Much of this process is the daily practice of showing mercy to myself.

Showing mercy to myself includes forgiving myself as well as recognizing that I am not perfect. Sometimes there will be circumstances I am not able to deal with easily or well. Not because I have failed, but because I don't have all the resources I need to be able to respond well.

Showing mercy to myself is about knowing that I am good enough, that I am worthy of the love of others, and (most importantly) worthy of loving myself."

Coincidentally, when I planned out the order of the podcast interviews that I was going to share with you, this week's episode featuring Gala Darling covered exactly that topic.

Gala is a bit of an internet celebrity who has dedicated her work to what she calls "radical self-love". It is precisely what I was talking about above.

I love hearing other people's perspectives on the topic and I learned a lot from my conversation with Gala.

I also wanted to share this interview because it comes from the point of view of someone who is not a tapping professional or practitioner, but instead is from someone who uses tapping in a simple way in her daily life.

Her story is a great model for how you can use tapping in your life.

Listen here: http://tappingqanda.com/?p=11499

I have a love-hate relationship with the traditional EFT set-up phrase "Even though I have this issue, I love and accept myself." It is a great sentiment AND at the same time I don't find it very useful when I am tapping.

I have created a nifty little tool (and, yes, I just used the world nifty). It is a webpage that will provide you with lots of alternatives to the set-up phrase. In fact the page is capable of coming up with over 2500 alternatives.

Ten new phrases will be generated for you to tap along to each time you reload the page.

You can find it here: http://EFTSetupPhraseGenerator.com

It is great way to start your day. Just load the page and tap along to what it suggests.

I hope you find both of these resources helpful.

Have a great Thursday,

Gene

EFT For Radical Self-Love – When we are able to think of ourselves in loving and gracious terms, it becomes much easier for us to thrive. In this conversation with Gala Darling we talk about how we can work towards that goal using tapping.