From The Tapping Q & A Podcast

Begin by tapping on these point for 5–7 taps:

Side of the hand…eyebrow…chin…collarbone…under the arm…side of the hand…eyebrow…under the eye…chin…under the arm…side of the hand…top of the head…under the nose…side of the eye…eyebrow…chin…collarbone…under the arm…chin

Read aloud as you tap:

I recognize that I’m in a low energy state right now……I’m dragging just a little bit…It is natural from time to time for me to have low energy…But at the same time, my natural state is not sluggishness…My natural state is not grogginess…And I give my system permission to release and let go of anything blocking my energy…I give my system permission to release any known, unknown, or hidden blocks for me being fully energized in this moment…It is safe for me to be energized…It is healthy for me to have vigor and energy…I give my system permission to reset its energetic state…It is safe for me to be present in this moment and taking action…As my body resets…As my body re-energizes…I give my system permission to ask for whatever it needs in order to be re-energized…In order to be focused…In order to be fully in this moment…Energetic is my natural state…I give my system permission to return to that state.

I recognize the value of kindness…I appreciate when other people extend kindness to me…My intention for today is to show up from the disposition of kindness…My intention for the day is to be fiercely kind…As I think of kindness, I recognize that there are extremes…At one end, I can be too kind for my own good and be other people’s doormat…At the other end, I am too fierce and I start interfering with other people’s lives…Acting as if I know what is best for them…My intention for today is to be fiercely kind..To let kindness lead my actions…To have kindness as my leading thought…Accepting others with kindness doesn’t mean that I am a doormat…Accepting others with kindness doesn’t mean I’m always putting others first…Accepting people with kindness means I see their humanity…I see the context of their life…I understand the circumstances they are in…I am able to act with generosity of spirit…Kindness is hard to pin down and define…Which means some moments I’m going to be better than at others…My intention for acting with fierce kindness is an intention to be more present…It is an intention to do better…It is an intention to be more engaged in this moment…Even if I do that in a imperfect way…By having this intention at the front of my mind…I know I will be more present to who I am…I will be more present to those around me…My intention is to be fiercely kind…And to learn how to be more human in the process. 

I recognize the fact that it’s been hard recently…I recognize the fact that it’s been slowly wearing me down…Little by little…Day by day…It has gotten harder and harder…Because it has been a gradually building burden…I didn’t realize the consequences of how hard it has become until this moment when it feels really, really hard…I give myself permission to acknowledge that I’m struggling right now…I give myself permission to recognize that I am really overwhelmed…I give myself permission to admit how run down I am at the moment…This is not a failing…This is not a judgment of how I got to this particular place…Instead, this is a simple acknowledgement of the reality I’m experiencing…Because having ups and downs is natural…At this particular moment, I happen to be at a down point…I give myself permission to acknowledge where I am as the first step of towards healing and transformation…As the first step of being able to move forward…Now that I am aware of where I am, I give myself permission to make thoughtful, deliberate choices…I don’t have to change everything all at once…I don’t have to turn it all around in an instant…But it is possible for me to make thoughtful choices that are in my best interest today…To make another choice tomorrow…And another choice the next day…In doing so I will start to turn myself around and rebuild my resilience…In doing so I will start to feel better…With each day, as I feel a little bit better, it will be easier to feel build on these small improvements…And I might backslide in the process and that’s OK too…After backsliding, I can move forward again…I can make thoughtful choices…I can make deliberate choices…The goal is to be moving up the emotional scale…Not to fix everything all at once…The first step is being honest about where I am right now…And doing that will make the next positive choice an easier choice to make…As I work my way back to health and strength.

I give myself permission to celebrate…It is OK for me to celebrate small victories…It is good for me to celebrate small victories…When I recognize the victories both big and small, I appreciate the moment more…I engage with the moment more…I find more richness in that moment…When I celebrate small victories it opens my eyes to recognize even more small victories…And because I am noticing what is good, I am much more likely to notice what is good…I give myself permission to be easy with myself…Knowing there’s a part of me that resists celebrating…Thinking that it is egomaniacal…Thinking I am making it all about me…Thinking by lifting myself up, I’m putting others down…But none of that is actually true…Celebrating small victories lifts me up…Celebrating small victories is motivating…Celebrating small victories helps me to move forward with a smile…Celebrating small victories gives me energy…I give myself permission to celebrate my small victories…I give myself permission to celebrate them right now…I give myself permission to know that I’m allowed to celebrate those victories…Experiencing this joy as part of the human experience…The more I engage with that feeling, the more likely I’m going to find it again…So I give myself permission to celebrate my victories, both big and small.

I want to be more successful…I want to have more opportunities…To share my gifts with the world…I’m working hard to do exactly that…But at the same time I see what others are doing…I see the actions they are taking…I see the attention they’re getting…And I want that too…I want more opportunities…I want more recognition…That’s a normal human experience…I recognize when I feel the sort of jealousy it’s corrosive…It steals my motivation…It steals my hope…It steals my desire to move forward…Because if the world feels unfair, I don’t want to try…Because it doesn’t feel like it’s going to work out…Even though other people have opportunity…Even though other people have chances that I don’t currently have…That doesn’t mean I’ve run out of opportunities…It doesn’t mean that there aren’t enough chances for me…I recognize the fact that it is possible for me…To acknowledge what other people are doing without feeling like their success undermines me…There is enough opportunity out there…There are enough chances…There are enough platforms for me to stand on…I give myself permission to be easy with myself…I give myself permission to trust my actions…I know that I can find the success that I want…Because there are more than enough opportunities for everyone…And when other people are successful, they’re actually creating more space for all of us to be successful…I give myself permission to have hope…I give myself permission to have confidence…I give myself permission to step forward in a thoughtful and deliberate way.

I recognize that I have failed…Not that I failed at everything…But I have failures in my past…Things that I committed to and did not complete…Things that I did, but did not give them the attention they required…Things that I did that did not live up to expectation…This is because I am human…Because I am human, I am imperfect…But these failures are still rattling around inside of me…I have not processed them all…They have become emotional anchors…They are holding me back from moving forward…Because I don’t want to face failure like this again…But staying stuck here prevents me from moving forward…Which could involve even more failure…Which could be even more treacherous…I recognize the fact that I don’t need to stay stuck in the past…I recognize that I don’t have to keep reliving these failures…I recognize that I don’t have to stay stuck inside of this narrative…I give myself permission to release and let go of the emotional burden that I’m still carrying from these failures…Moving on does not mean I am forgetting the lessons…Moving on does not mean that I’m not taking responsibility for my past choices…Moving on does not mean that I’m simply over it…But instead I give myself permission to process…I give myself permission to heal…I give myself permission to be in this moment…Learning from the past…Without staying stuck in that past…Learning from my experiences…Without staying stuck in those experiences…It is OK for me to move on…Those past memories do not serve me by staying stuck inside me emotionally…I give myself permission to be easy with myself…I give myself permission to be gentle with myself…Letting go of these past failures without having to relive the past failures.

I might understand that I am worthy of healing…Intellectually…I might understand that I’m worthy of transformation…But just because I can say that clearly…Just because I can intellectually know that it’s true…It doesn’t mean that every part of me buys into that fact…It doesn’t mean that every part of me sees that as true…It is possible that there is a part of me that does not believe I am worthy of transformation…It might be afraid that since I squandered healing in the past…That it is too late for me to have it now…It might believe that I have done things that are so horrible…That it is too late for me and I can’t come back from it….There might be a part of me that thinks I’ve always been broken…That I’m just not enough and therefore I’m not worthy of total transformation…I’m not worthy of true deep healing…Other people are worthy of healing…Other people are good enough…But not me…It is too late…I am too far gone…I was never capable of it…This is simply not true…Even though there’s a part of me that feels it is really emotionally true…There is a part of me that doesn’t believe I am truly worthy of transformation…This part of me is just trying to keep me safe…This part of me is just trying to keep me healthy…It is simply working from a misinformed place…I give myself permission to believe emotionally I am worthy of healing…I give myself permission to believe it is safe for me to heal…I give myself permission to believe that it is not too late for me…Some parts of my being understand this…Some parts of my being and embrace this…Some parts of me see this clearly…I simply want to encourage this part…To know that it is OK to believe that…I also recognize that I don’t have to believe this every moment of the day…It is OK for me to be skeptical about my transformation…As long as I’m open to the possibility of transformation when I sit down to tap…I can do some work today…I can create a little more capacity to recognize I am worthy of this…Even if I increase my belief in my worthiness of healing by only a few percentage points…It will make today a little bit easier as I become more open to those opportunities for transformation…Transformation is not an all-or-nothing proposition…Transformation has never been an all-or-nothing proposition…Therefore I don’t have to believe all of the healing as possible in this moment…I can doubt my worthiness of healing and continue to heal…I can be skeptical of the possibility of my transformation and still have transformation happen…My healing and transformation is incremental…Therefore, my belief in my healing and transformation can also be incremental…I am made for healing…I am made for transformation…It is safe for me to heal and transform…I give myself permission to embrace that possibility.

I recognize the fact that I am distracted…I recognize that there is a part of me that doesn’t want to be doing that task…And because this is the case, all sorts of fun things are coming to mind…I can clean up my desk to make it easier to work on…There are dishes to be done…Laundry  to be folded…YouTube rabbit holes to fall down…I appreciate the sense of distraction is just trying to keep me safe…It’s just trying to keep me healthy…Because it doesn’t want to be doing whatever I’m doing in this particular moment…Maybe it’s really boring…Maybe it feels like I’m never going to finish it…Maybe it feels overwhelming…Or I’m having to look at something that I don’t like to look at…My distraction is simply a way of avoiding all of those emotions…It is simply trying to keep me safe…I appreciate that is what it’s trying to do…But I also recognize that it is possible for me to relax…To release whatever emotion I’m feeling in this moment…To release whatever overwhelm is going on…Knowing that I’m not going to be stuck doing this forever…Once this is done, I can move on to the next thing…When I take a proper break, I can enjoy whatever distraction I want…But in this moment I want to be focused…In this moment I want to be on task…I appreciate that the distraction is trying to serve me…I recognize how it isn’t doing that in this moment…I appreciate my system is trying to keep me safe…And I recognize it’s just overfunctioning.

I recognize the fact that life right now is hard…I recognize that life right now feels overwhelming…There are so many things happening in the world that are outside of our control…These feelings have built up and have been building up for a long time…Some moments we’re able to move through what is in front of us…Some moments we’re able to be present in the moment…But the burden is real…The struggle is real…The emotions are real…So I give myself permission to feel the emotions fully…I give myself permission to be present to all my emotions…I give myself permission to understand that feeling these emotions is natural…I don’t have to fight them…They’re not the enemy…I don’t have to enjoy them…I don’t want to wallow in them…But I give myself permission to admit that it is hard…The sadness that I’m feeling is for everything that’s been lost…The sadness that I’m feeling is for all of those things that are strained….The sadness that I’m feeling is for all of those things that have been fractured…It is OK to feel this sadness…Because that is where I am in this moment…That is an honest reflection of my experience…I give those emotions permission to be heard…I give myself permission to acknowledge their presence…Knowing that I won’t feel them forever…Knowing they are heavy right now, but that this is a temporary state…It’s not always going to be this hard…Even though it feels really hard right now…It’s OK that I have acknowledged that life feels hard right now…It is OK that I don’t know what to say…It’s OK that I don’t know what to do…It is OK that it all feels overwhelming in this moment…I know I am more than the emotions I’m feeling right now…I know I am more than the emotions that I’m experiencing…I also know that this is the truth for this moment…And I allow myself to feel all my feelings fully right now.

side of the eye…under the eye…top of the head

collar bone…under the arm…side of the hand

inside of the wrist…chin…eyebrow

under the eye…side of the eye…to be top of the head

thumb…index finger…middle finger

ring finger…pinky finger…collarbone

eyebrow…under the eye…gamut point

chin…eyebrow…under the eye

side of the eye…liver spot…under the arm

side of the hand…middle finger…thumb

under the eye…eye brow…top of the head

under the nose…chin…collarbone

side of the hand…eyebrow…under the eye

under the nose…top of the head…eyebrow

under the nose…collarbone…side of the hand