EFT in the hands of a skilled practitioner usually feels effortless, with releases often occurring through laughter 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 scare the newcomer. That’s how Linda tapped to get through 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 distraught. Our pets can be very close to our hearts. They give us unconditional love. 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 silently tapping on all the points. Such was the enormity of this grievance that Linda had contained it until it was safe to let it out in her session. And, when finally in that session, all the stress and grievance boiled over, almost immediately.
As the stress eased, Linda felt that it was not acceptable to cry. This is when people sometimes find that crying is not socially acceptable, it must be about a much bigger problem and not something that is considered unimportant, a sign of weakness, or the person may feel pressured to cry to facilitate release. . Linda had one item from each, so she tapped on alternate 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 single 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 how quickly tapping brings them to a calm point, they freak out 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 was a time in life when the person felt so hurt that they decided never to cry again. If you or someone you care about has been scared of EFT for fear of crying, I hope the suggestions in this article help. 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 the websites of many EFT practitioners.
Wishing you calm and peace, I thank Linda for generously allowing me to publish her story.
