One day last week, I received an email from an old boyfriend that dug up some very unpleasant memories (I mentioned before that I've had some pretty un-fun relationships...). At the suggestion of my new beau, I looked up some of the older emails from the previous guy that had a lot of anger and accusations in them and decided to tap on all the emotions I had about his emotions. Those emails dug up quite a bit of "dirt" so I cleaned it up (it took me a few hours so I won't go into it here) and then I went to bed.

I didn't notice any foot problem on waking but once I was at work, I found I was limping around the office. My right foot/ankle felt tight and a bit painful. I didn't have full mobility. It was only about a 4 or 5 but not pleasant. As I've mentioned before, I do have a bunion (hallux valgus) on my right foot so the pain could logically be attributed to the pure physical problem but I never let anything get off that easily... especially if there's a chance of finding relief for it!

I started tapping on the pain itself in a very general way: 

Even though I have this pain in my right foot and ankle, I completely love and accept myself.
Reminder phrases: Right foot pain. Right ankle pain.

That didn't seem to shift it much so I tried some more physical aspects: 

Even though I have this restricted mobility, I completely love and accept myself.
Reminder phrases: Restricted mobility. Tight foot.

Nothing really happened there either so I explored the possible emotional reasons: 

Even though I have these "old boyfriend" related emotions, I completely love and accept myself.
Reminder phrases: "Old boyfriend" emotions. Old pain. Old anger. 

That brought it down by about half, and it's possible that the pain became more localized at that point, though I didn't notice this at the time, so I figured I was on to something but further tapping about that aspect: Remaining "old boyfriend" in my foot... didn't change anything so I went back to the physical descriptions while finally noting that it felt as if the ball of my foot was now more obviously the stiff part: 

Even though I have this pain in the ball of my foot, in my bunion, I completely love and accept myself.
Reminder phrases: Pain in the ball of my foot, pain in my bunion. 

I was doing this as I was walking around my office because that's when I was aware of it. As I walked, it melted out of my foot on these last words and I was back to normal. 

I just LOVE this stuff! I so enjoy experimenting with what it can do. It's such a pleasure.