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Margaret Munoz |
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The end of all problems.
How could that be possible?
And yet it is, when we’re able to access ‘the most important dimension of human existence – the sacred, the stillness, the formless, the divine’.
If you’re new to EFT you could be grateful to discover that EFT fixes your headache in three minutes, or that you’re now free of the anxiety caused by a past trauma. This is indeed wonderful, but what is even more wonderful is that EFT can also be used at the most profound level to help you bring about a shift in consciousness so that you experience peace, joy and fulfilment.
Humanity is now taking a quantum leap forward in its evolutionary development and one of the leading teachers in this development is Eckharte Tolle, the author of “The Power of Now” and “The New Earth”. Following his own experience of transformation he is a particularly clear teacher of ancient wisdoms. We learn from these teachings that the ultimate freedom is to live the realisation that all problems are created in the mind and that there are no problems when you access the eternal present.
The freedom bit sounds great, so does peace, joy and fulfilment but how on earth do you get to feel like that when you’re busy, stressed to the hilt, dashing around with ‘to do’ lists in your head, trying to pay the rent or mortgage, look after the kids, deal with difficult relationships, the technology revolution, information overload, as well as battle fears, anxieties and addictions. Let’s not even mention the incessant critical voice in your head. Does it ever stop?
It’s difficult to know where to begin but a good place would be to make a decision to create some space for yourself and at the same time make a commitment to support yourself by consistently tapping on whatever obstacles are in your path. Use your preferred method of tapping and let the suggestions I give you trigger off your own tapping sequences.
First of all, make that decision!
Even though I’m so busy and stressed, and I don’t see any way out of it, I choose to find space and time for myself.
Even though I’m so busy with _______ (work deadlines/business/family/travelling/social commitments etc.) that I don’t have time for myself, I deeply and completely accept myself in this moment.
It’s really pretty difficult to find any stillness when you’re always on the move:
Even though I always seem to be rushing, I choose to STOP, and create space for myself.
After all, what are you achieving by all this doing? That’s a question a great many apparently successful people ask themselves. There can be great wealth or great achievement but despite this there is still an underlying unease or emptiness persists.
Even though I feel the need to be doing and achieving, I choose to learn how to just be.
Then there’s that racing mind to be calmed down:
Even though my head is full of thoughts whizzing around which never stop, I’m ready to let them go or at least slow down.
Even though I can’t sleep because my mind won’t switch off, I deeply and completely accept myself.
I find that many people are so up in their heads they are quite disconnected from their bodies and even have a sense of experiencing their emotions in their head instead of their body.
Even though I’m disconnected from my body I choose to become more grounded and connected.
There are a couple of difficulties associated with living in your mind. The first one is that you are either in the past or the future, neither of which actually exist, and not in the present moment which is all there ever is. No wonder you don’t feel vibrant and alive – you’re not where life is!
Even though my mind is always in the past, regretting things that happened, I choose to live in the moment.
Even though my mind is so often in the past relieving traumatic events, I choose to release the past and recognise it no longer exists except in my mind.
When your mind is in the future it tends to do what I call ‘catastrophising’. I don’t think that’s actually a word but I know you know what I mean by it! All those ‘what ifs’ that scare the living daylights out of you. The thing is you can’t possibly deal with the imagined scenario because it hasn’t actually happened yet. How stressful is that?!
Even though my mind is always creating anxiety for me by imagining the future, I choose to stay in the present moment with what is here now.
Even though I’m always creating worst case scenarios in my head, I choose to stay with what is real.
The second difficulty is that you tend to actually believe your thoughts, some of which are at best highly un-useful and at worst totally untrue. Your thoughts are just passing through and it really pays to examine whether they are really true.
Even though I buy into my thoughts and react accordingly without ever examining them to see if they are true, I totally accept myself.
Even though I think thoughts such as “I don’t deserve _______,” I recognise that this is truly misguided thinking.
Yes, our mind is all over the place and usually not where we are. Check out what happens when you are doing a routine job like washing the dishes – the odds are you will find your mind elsewhere, on a track far removed from washing up. And what about when you drive somewhere, arrive at your destination and wonder how you got there because your mind was totally on other things!
Even though my body is doing one thing but my mind is elsewhere, I choose to bring my awareness back to the task I am doing.
Even though I’m so seldom in the present moment with what I am doing, I keep bringing my awareness back to my body.
The major difficulty we seem to create in our lives is that we don’t like what is happening, think it shouldn’t be happening and are actively resistant and reactionary to what is happening! We do it on a small scale like being annoyed because it is raining when we wanted to have a picnic as well as going into a huge funk because we feel rejected by someone. Some people are so reactive they kill other people – or themselves, because we are also resistant and reactive to ourselves (i.e. rejecting of our own selves). That critical voice that never takes a break - “you should have done this, you shouldn’t have said that, you are such a loser.” We have little sense of the power of acceptance in creating the change that we seek.
Even though I’m so reactive to situations and people, I choose to accept how they are no matter how difficult it seems.
Even though I fight my life, I’m willing to totally accept it as it is. (You might have to do a lot of tapping on this one!)
Even though I think that things will never change if I accept them, I’m ready to discover the power of acceptance.
When you can start to accept each moment for however it is and however you are in it, then peace emerges.
It’s quite a journey to recognise that ultimately there are no problems except the ones created in your mind and you can be free of those when you live in the present moment, experiencing your eternal nature. EFT is a powerful and effective tool that you can use to support yourself in this journey. |
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