In the future, we will offer a series of videos featuring Paula guiding you through the process of the basic EFT instructions and later other key tapping themes. Due to her heavy schedule at present she requests you in the meantime to avail yourself of the free illustrated instructions on Gary Craig’s site:  www.eftuniverse.com....... Or click here for simple verbal instructions at the bottom of this page.
             
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Dropping Suffering At a Cellular Level With EFT
Strange as it may seem, one of the most powerful human addictions is to emotional suffering. When you consider that the ego’s habit patterns of suffering are what incarnate in each body life after life, in the form of our mental clinging to all of our incomplete desires and the previous experiences we have resisted, (which act to magnetize the same sort of experiences in this life until we transcend them), it becomes easier to understand why we tend to attract the same mistakes over and over again.

Due to our automatic resistance to suffering, it tends to persist. We have lived with emotional suffering for so long,  it has become almost like a second skin, and for most people it has become a part of their character and it is difficult for many to consider being without it.

The truth is, suffering makes the ego feel alive, and even though in reality, the ego is an imaginary conglomeration of a number of thoughts of who you think you are, and thus has no real substance. As a mere thought, which has gained tremendous power due to our belief in it over time and space, you could almost say that each one of us is possessed by our ego and its own unique proclivities. In other words, the ego (or our attachment to it),holds a far more dangerous hold over the mind than any “ghostly” possession ever could.
 
Although it is true that we resist suffering on a surface level as we try to make our life comfortable and go after goals that we think will make us happy, underneath it all, our ego secretly craves whatever suffering pattern we have become addicted to, and as we will explore further on, our body even becomes chemically addicted to it. .
Our biggest resistance is actually to bliss (because the ego is not present when we are in this state). The ego will do anything to stay in control, and any form of suffering will support this control. Bliss puts us in touch with the awesomeness, the unlimitedness of who we truly are: the emptiness and simultaneous fullness of awareness itself.  But to the ego, this is quite scary....and ultimately unacceptable.

Suffering takes on different appearances in different people. Sometimes it is very subtle. The one common denominator in all people however, is identification with some form of negative emotion. In Jnana Yoga we learn how to dissipate this with simple noticing. Sometimes however, with strong patterns of negative emotions which arise due to karmic circumstances it is difficult to let them go.   

Recently I attended the EFT 2011 conference on line. The jewel of the conference for me, was the insight provided by Stacey Vornbrock, an EFT practitioner who specializes with helping athletes increase sports performance.
Stacey discovered certain scientific studies which show how when human beings are confronted with a difficult situation which evokes a repeated negative emotional reaction, this creates in the body an actual physical craving for the chemical produced by that emotion. This gives us a clue as to why it is the emotion which needs to be tapped, even more than the particular issue.

As Stacey points out in her interview on line, we actually develop a cellular addiction to repeated emotions. It seems that after enough repetition of a particular emotion, our cell receptors adapt and begin to crave the same chemical of the emotion, especially the negative ones like anger, fear and guilt.

The body has fifty to one hundred trillion cells. Each cell can have up to one million receptors. You can almost imagine that with repetitive emotions, these become like mini drug addicts in our body. As different circumstances occur in our life, which evoke certain emotional reactions to repeat themselves, the cell receptors become addicted to the specific chemicals of the emotions which are provoked.

People you know who are always angry, who are always consumed with some victim complex, are suffering from this kind of addiction. When you tap on the particular addiction, you begin to increase the time span when you are free of these emotions.

Tapping on the actual addiction to the emotion, rather than the issue which first evoked it (you can do this later), is paramount, because the body will actually find a way to have your brain fire off negative thoughts so that the body then reacts and produces the corresponding chemical so that it gets its “fix”. In other words, the cells in your body will cause the brain to fire off neuronets of negative thoughts which will in turn release the negative emotion so that the body gets its chemical high.

From this you can see the critical importance that you recognize that it is the physical addiction to the emotion which must be tapped to interrupt the process, not only the specific issue causing the negative emotion.

Because of this crucial insight, I am inspired this month to feature the following slightly edited version of Stacey’s EFT rundowns on anger, the fear to taking action in regard to the anger and the often hidden hurt behind the anger.  
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An excerpt from Nick Ortner’s EFT 2011 Online Conference:
Stacey Vornbrock: Anger and Hurt (Use With All Emotions)
www.breakthroughperformance.net    
Emotions: When repeated too often, create a biochemical addiction on a cellular level.
The impact of anger on the body is intense: people who have rage, have greater risks of strokes. Anger releases cortisol, creates blood sugar problems, suppresses thyroid function, raises heart rate, raises blood pressure, impedes circulation, the bottom line: anger kills.
How can tapping address this addiction to the chemical of anger? Don’t bother tapping a particular anger. Tap constantly on the anger addiction itself.
Note: Wrist to wrist tapping takes care of all finger points.

                     Clearing Anger On A Cellular Level
Karate Chop Point: Even though my cells are addicted to the chemical of anger, and I can’t get enough of this chemical, I totally and completely accept myself. Even though my cells are addicted to the chemical of anger and I have to have my fix of anger on a regular basis, I totally and completely accept myself. Even though my cells are addicted to the chemical of anger, every cell is addicted and my body feels uncomfortable if I don’t get a regular fix of anger, and even so, I totally and completely accept myself.

Side of Eye: My body feels uncomfortable if I don’t get angry.
Under Eye: Every cell craves anger.
Under Nose: Without anger, I don’t feel normal.
Chin: I have no control from getting angry.
Collar Bone: I can be feeling great and get angry over the slightest thing.
Under Arm: That’s because my brain has neuro nodes that crave the anger.
Top of Head: My cells can’t live without this anger, but I can choose to interrupt this craving for anger.
Wrists: My cells can’t live without this anger, but I can choose to interrupt this craving for anger.

Side of Eye: Although, I try to interrupt the process, I’m holding the addiction to anger in all my muscles.
Under Eye: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all of the tendons.
Under Nose: I’m holding this addiction in all of my joints.
Chin: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all of my bones.
Collar Bone: I’m holding this addiction in my cartilage.
Under Arm: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all of my tissues.
Top of Head: I’m holding this addiction in all of my nerves.
Wrists: I am holding this addiction to anger in all the cells of my body.

Side of Eye: I’m holding this addiction in all of the membranes.
Under Eye: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all the cells of my skin.
Under Nose: I’m holding this addiction in the fluids of my body.
Chin: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all of the organs of my body: in my spleen ,pancreas, stomach, kidneys,bladder, lungs and in my intestines.  Am holding anger in my sexual organs.
Collar Bone: I’m holding this addiction in all the cells of my heart.
Under Arm: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all of the cells of my liver and gall bladder which is negating my natural propensity to kindness.
Top of Head: I’m storing this anger in all the neuro pathways of my brain.
Wrists: I am storing this anger in all the neuro pathways of my brain.

Side of Eye: I’m holding this addiction to anger in every cell of my ears.
Under Eye; I’m holding this addiction to anger in every cell of my mouth and taste buds.
Under Nose: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all of the cells of my nose and smell.
Chin: I’m holding this addiction in the cells of my sense and touch.
Collar Bone: I’m holding this addiction to anger throughout my entire body, including my energy system.
Under Arm: I’m holding this addiction in the thought patterns of my mind.
Top of Head: I’m holding this addiction to anger in all the resistance patterns of my past karma and am forgetting that I attracted these situations in the first place.
Wrist Chop: The energy pattern of my aura craves anger. Every aspect of my energy body craves anger. I give my body permission to let go. My cell receptors can let go of this craving for anger. I give my body permission to let go of this addiction to anger in all of the cell receptor sites. I am helping my cells let go of this need for anger.                  

Take a deep breath and exhale slowly...

                          Anger Signals Need to Take Action

Karate Chop: Even though my anger is trying to tell me to take action, and it is safer to stay angry than take action, I totally and completely accept myself. Even though it is easier to stay angry at this person, than take the action I need to take, I totally and completely accept myself. Even though my anger is trying to tell me to take action, and I keep ignoring it, because I don’t want to confront change, I totally and completely accept myself.

Side of Eye: No matter how often I tap, I keep getting angry about this same issue.
Under Eye: It feels safer to stay angry about this issue.
Under Nose: I have conversations about letting go of this anger, but I just keep compulsively acting it out.
Chin: Maybe someone won’t like me if I take action on this issue.
Collar Bone:  I’ll just stay safe and stay angry.
Under Arm: I keep feeling angry with the same person.
Top of Head: Every time I think about this issue, I get angry.

Side of Eye: I’m afraid I’ll say the wrong thing.
Under Eye: I’m afraid this person won’t like me if I say something.
Under Nose: It feels easier to stay angry than to do something about this issue.
Chin: I like being angry.
Collar Bone: I can always justify myself about this anger.
Under Arm: I always check out when I act out my anger and I completely forget it later and blame the other.
Top of Head: It is difficult for me to admit to the degree that anger controls me. I identify with my positive side and often deny the degree to which anger controls me.

Take a deep breath and exhale slowly...

Anger: Three Emotions Hidden Under Anger:
Fear, Hurt, & Anger which is self projected onto others
Clearing the Hurt (Behind Anger)
This next rundown can also be used with fear and projected anger by changing the wording appropriately. For hurt:
Karate Chop: Even though I’m really hurt but I don’t want to admit it, I totally and completely accept myself. Even though I’m feeling so hurt but I don’t want to admit to feeling angry about this, I totally and completely accept myself. Even though my anger is covering up the hurt I’m really feeling, I totally and completely accept myself.

Side of Eye: My body feels uncomfortable if I don’t feel hurt.
Under Eye: Every cell craves the victim complex.
Under Nose: Without hurt, I don’t feel normal.
Chin: I have no control from getting hurt.
Collar Bone: I can be feeling great and get hurt over the slightest thing.
Under Arm: That’s because my brain has neuro nodes that crave the hurt.
Top of Head: My cells can’t live without this hurt feeling, but I can choose to interrupt this craving to be hurt.
Wrists: My cells can’t live without this hurt feeling, but I now choose to interrupt this craving to be hurt.

Side of Eye: I try to interrupt the process, but I’m holding this addiction to hurt in all the muscles.
Under Eye: I’m holding this addiction to hurt in all of the tendons.
Under Nose: I’m holding this addiction in all of my joints.
Chin: I’m holding this addiction to hurt in all of my bones.
Collar Bone: I’m holding this addiction in my cartilage.
Under Arm: I’m holding this addiction to hurt in all of my tissues.
Top of Head: I’m holding this addiction in all of my nerves.
Wrists: I am holding this addiction to hurt in all of my cells.

Under Eye: I’m holding this addiction to hurt in all the cells of my skin.
Under Nose: I’m holding this addiction in the fluids of my body.
Chin: I’m holding this addiction to hurt in all of the organs of my body: in my spleen, pancreas, stomach, kidneys, bladder, lungs and intestines. I am holding this addiction to hurt in my sexual organs.
Collar Bone: I’m holding this addiction in the cells of my heart.
Under Arm: I’m holding this addiction to hurt in the cells of my liver and gall bladder.
Top of Head: I’m storing this hurt in all the neuro pathways of my brain.
Wrists: I am storing this hurt in all the neuro pqathways of my brain.

Side of Eye: I’m holding this addiction to feeling hurt in every cell of  my ears.
Under Eye; I’m holding this addiction to feeling hurt in every cell of my mouth and taste buds.
Under Nose: I’m holding this addiction to feeling hurt in all of the cells of my nose and smell.
Chin: I’m holding this addiction in the cells of my sense and touch.
Collar Bone: I’m holding this addiction to feeling hurt throughout my entire body, including my energy system.
Under Arm: I’m holding this addiction to feeling hurt in the thought patterns of my mind.
Top of Head: I’m holding this addiction to feeling hurt in all the resistance patterns of my past karma and in the ego’s need to keep suffering.
Wrists: I am holding this addicition to being hurt in all the cells of my body and in their need to reproduce negative thoughts in the brain to release more hurt.
Take a deep breath and exhale slowly..

EASY BASIC EFT INSTRUCTIONS WITHOUT ILLUSTRATIONS:
Although traditional EFT has four steps, currently the short form has only two. You begin after first rating your physical or emotional pain on a scale of 0 -10. Zero is no stress or pain. Ten is maximum pain or stress.

“Even though I have (.....fill in and describe completely and specifically your physical or emotional pain....), I totally and completely accept myself. (Repeat 3x)  

The Points:

For Physical Issues such as breathing, tension or any pain additionally tap the following points:

 
Usually after tapping through one run through (going completely through both steps), the stress is decreased by approximately one half. Then repeat the same sequence after rating the pain once again and give it a number. You should continue tapping until it is decreased to at least a two, one or zero.
A Typical Second Round:

You will now change the phrase slightly in step one. For example: Even though I still have some residual (precisely describe your physical or emotional pain), I totally and completely accept myself. (3X)
In step two, while then tapping the eight points on the head and torso (and adding the wrist chop and finger points in the case of physical pain), say “Remaining (list the emotional or physical) pain” as you tap each point seven times each.

Occasionally with EFT, the physical or emotional pain will increase rather than decrease after tapping. This simply means you have “stirred up the pot” regarding the particular issue and some aspect has come up which needs to be tapped separately, describing it as specifically as you can. Begin the sequence again mentioning the specific issue which has now come to mind and once again check the stress rating after you finish tapping. The more specific you are with your description, the quicker the issue or pain clears. Continue once again with a second round until the stress is reduced to a two, one or zero.
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