SIMPLICITY: TAPPING

Three days ago, an excruciating pain up and stabbed me so bad it was like the spear of an ancient Centurion who hopped out of his grave and ran full-tilt all the way from Rome to jab the living shit out of my hip.

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I almost fell over on the spot. No one told me getting old was THIS bad! Sure, aches and pains, but this? This was unfair!

Co-incidentally, for the past few days, I’ve been feeling bogged down, thinking about the gazillion 2026 projects on my want-to-do list. It all just seemed so much, so time and energy-sucking, so impossible for one old gal.

It doesn’t make it easier that I can’t walk well, or am deaf as a post. But as I’ve said before, I don’t let those things stop me.

Except that today it was so bad I couldn’t get out of bed. Literally. No matter what way I tried to move my body, that screaming pain stuck me again. I had to stop moving completely.

Back in 2002, I learned EFT, the Emotional Freedom Techniques, or, tapping, as people refer to it now. At the time, it saved me from doing The Bad Thing that resulting from being unable to handle the emotional loops I’d been suffering from for decades.

So today I thought, you silly, why haven’t you tapped on this stupid thing? So I did.

At first it was like the pain was saying, “Meh, that all you got, wussy-wuss? So sorry, ain’t gonna work. We ain’t movin’. We’s stayin’, and we’s gonna hurt you like you never been hurt before!”

So I kept on, because I know from years of tapping that that was only the first layer. I tapped on all the physical aches and affects I was feeling.

Still nothing. Yet. Nothing discernible, anyway – I knew things were moving underneath the appearance of ‘nothing’.

So then I get to the emotional part. “I hate this pain, it hates me, it’s making me feel useless, worn out, like I’m just old baggage. I’m afraid it will never stop . . . .’ And a lot more – how I felt, how I felt about how I felt, and so on.

Still, pain persisted.

Then, I took a break, and happened upon a video about the psycho/spiritual shifts that are supposedly happening to the planet. I thought, there’s where the stuckness is! I betcha! So I started tapping – and got traction!

I tapped “I’m claiming my sovereignty; I command you (the underlying energy of the pain) to leave my body; I release any invisible ties to dark beings or forces who have been feeding on my energy; anything not me or mine, leave now!”

At that last declaration, the pain reduced by 80%. It’s still there, but I can turn over in bed, I can slide out of bed without the pain murdering me or making me gasp from the electric-like-pain-shock. And I can walk again.

(If you’re not familiar with the invisible realms and scoff at that last round of words, that’s your problem – don’t bug me with ‘it’s not real’ bullshit. It’s real, and I won’t argue with you – I’ll just block you if you try to impose your experience of reality upon mine.)

The fact is, tapping works. On every level. If you don’t know about tapping, get my tapping book at EFTBooks.com. Or get the ebook version HERE. Read it and use it.

Tapping is easy, simple, and fast. You can do it out loud, silently, alone, within groups, in bed or on a plane. Almost anyone can use it; and you don’t need anything but your own thoughts and feelings, and a set of fingers to tap with. If you don’t have fingers, you can tap mentally. For real.

In the kind time, I’m stoked to be able to move again without my body trying to slay me.

It was such a simple solution! Isn’t it amazing how we suffer so much, for so long, before we give up the complexity and turn to the simplicity right in front of our own eyes.

p.s. Let’s be clear: I’m not looking for pity or sympathy by writing about the pain I experience. I write about it because I hope others who experience similar stuff can be inspired and get hope and solutions from reading my story. I do enough feeling sorry for me – no one else needs to!

If you have pain and can get over your doubts about tapping, for heaven’s sake, what are you waiting for? Get the freaking book and put it to use!

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