Tapping Into The Heart: A Personal Story

by Gwendolyn Evans
www.lovingself.net
Essex Junction, Vermont, USA

I often use very creative guided imagery in my personal meditations. I find it relaxes me and often creates a path to insights that are deeply meaningful for me. Recently, I have been using imagery that has to do with being in an artist’s colony, more specifically at an art exhibit, themed Art of the Heart. For my purposes, there were a lot of heart images that supported my work on my own heart center. My personal work centered around my negative beliefs about being in a romantic relationship. This is not a new issue for me, but this is definitely the most creative thing I’ve done with this issue and with EFT.

As I wandered this exhibit in my mind’s eye, I felt as though there was something for me to learn or discover, but I didn’t know what. I met a being, someone I choose to call a guide, who joined me. After wandering around the different artistic expressions of the heart, I found myself alone with this guide and trying to figure out what I was supposed to learn from this. I was feeling frustrated with the meditation as it was not producing for me. I think I even exclaimed something about being sick of this old negativity.

To my surprise, my guide suggested that we tap on some of those old negative beliefs. So I found myself literally being tapped on, by this guide during my meditation and here is what we said

Set up:

Even though I have these negative beliefs, that I can’t have a romantic relationship…romantic relationships are toxic for me…. I deeply and completely love and accept myself

Even though I’m still holding on to this, I’d really like to release that…
Even though these beliefs linger on within me, I’d love to have other options…

Shortened phrases:

old negative beliefs…. no longer serve me….I want other options….

My guide and I did several rounds of tapping and I was amazed at the emotion that was brought up within me, just imagining that we were tapping. I felt energy coming to the surface and releasing. I was reminded also that any potential mates probably have similar fears to mine and I’m not alone in this.

My guide then presented this notion to tap on: “What if the right man for me is trying to come through to me?” We tapped just on that one question on all of the spots. I began feeling noticeably lighter, but also a bit of a strange sensation as well. I described that as something strange in my heart, and we decided that it was my ego squirming at this notion that the right man might be wanting to connect with me.

Then my guide began tapping on my heart center (sometimes known as the heart chakra). He asked me:

“Do you want to love this man?”

“Do you have space in your heart for this man?”

And as he tapped and I answered yes to these questions, I felt a huge release within my heart center, with tears and gratitude. I am not sure where the notion to tap on the heart came from, but it seemed to anchor this work and finish clearing the energy.

As a follow up to this, I have shared this story with some of my clients and they in turned have asked about tapping on the heart center. I’ve begun to incorporate that into some of my sessions and clients are having good experiences with it. I’m told that it “feels very good” and that it’s helping to “finish the work.”

This is just another way of getting at those really sensitive issues on one’s own — using EFT within the creativity of meditation, when you might not want to tackle the tough issue head on. EFT is just as effective in this forum, as it is in person, on the phone, with or without a practitioner guiding the process. EFT is truly that versatile.

I have long found that combining the wisdom of the Law of Attraction and setting clear intention with EFT facilitates the shift we desire. Another possible application for this is for people with limited or no range of motion in the upper body. I’ve been aware that EFT works even if we just imagine that we are tapping. This opens the use of EFT up to some folks who might not have thought about this tool. Adding the tapping within the meditative process lends more dimension and creativity to this healing tool.

Gwendolyn Evans
www.lovingself.net