EFT in the hands of a skilled practitioner usually feels effortless, with releases often occurring through giggles and giggles. However, there are occasional tears, and while they are safely, calmly, and quickly removed from the body by your experienced doctor, they can be frightening for the newcomer. This is how Linda tapped to overcome this challenge with ease.
“Linda” (name changed for privacy) was having a session to help her cope with the serious illness of a beloved pet. This is where one person would just go through the experience without feeling much and another would be totally grieving. Our pets can be very close to our hearts. They give us love unconditionally. They are always there for us. They are almost like surrogate children for us, our babies. Linda was very affected by her dog Butch’s cancer, and in this session, she began by saying that she felt too overwhelmed to tap (EFT) on it.
So she started her session by tapping for the overwhelm. He tapped on the usual EFT statements such as “it’s too overwhelming” as well as silent tapping on all points. Such was the enormity of this grievance that Linda had held it back until it was safe to let it out in her session. And, when finally in that session, all the burden and grievance spilled over, almost immediately.
As the stress subsided, Linda felt that it was not acceptable to cry. This is when people sometimes discover that crying is not socially acceptable, it must be because of a much bigger problem and not because of something that is considered unimportant, a sign of weakness, or the person may feel pressured to cry to facilitate release. . Linda had an element of each of them, so she tapped on alternative points “it’s okay to cry”, “it’s not okay to cry”, while she tapped on all of her favorite points, between the extremes of simple tapping. -and- cry. She soon calmed down, stopped crying, and stopped feeling pressured to cry or not cry.
Linda was used to EFT and was happy to allow this tapping to bring her to a point of calm. However, sometimes newcomers to EFT are struck by the sudden urge to cry and, unfamiliar with the speed at which tapping brings them to a calm point, they get scared and stop tapping, for what they keep all that sadness, still unresolved. This is especially so if it was not safe to cry as a child, or if there came a time in life when the person felt so hurt that they decided never to cry again. If you or someone you love has been afraid of EFT for fear of crying, I hope the suggestions in this article are helpful. And if you’re new to this fast-acting quick release method, you can learn how to do it with a free download of instructions from many EFT practitioners’ websites.
Wishing you calm and peace, I thank Linda for generously allowing me to publish her story.