Side Effects of Tapping

This afternoon in the supermarket, I found myself picking up a tub of Rhubarb Yoghurt. You might think that's nothing to remark on, but last week I remember turning my nose up at the same flavour. Today I found myself wondering why I'd ever had anything against Rhubarb, remembering that I quite liked Rhubarb and Apple crumble, and deciding to try it.

Why should my irrational dislike for Rhubarb suddenly disappear? Well, yesterday I tapped some significant stuff with a friend, to do with lingering feelings of sadness I feel in my eyes sometimes. I would never have expected it to have anything to do with Rhubarb, but you just can't predict these things.

Everything is connected, and goodness knows what meaning my sub-conscious mind had attributed to Rhubarb. Fortunately the side effects of EFT are by nature, bound to be beneficial, unlike those of prescription drugs for example.

A couple of attendees of my group evening workshop course last year found that they were able to quit smoking much more easily than before. We had not worked on the smoking directly, only on self esteem and confidence issues in their lives. When the triggers of their addiction were gone or reduced, they found it much easier to stop.

As I mentioned in my last post, I used to get the most terrible stinging sore throats. These have almost completely stopped now. I did tap on them a LOT directly, when I had them, but this would never get rid of them completely at the time, and they kept coming back. However, as I tapped other issues on an emotional level, I often noticed that the feeling I was tapping was a feeling of something stuck or swollen in my throat. It's likely that tapping those emotions contributed to reducing my sore throats.

One female friend of mine who shall go unnamed traced feelings of low self-esteem back to a slew of memories about starting high school, and the associated feelings of guilt and shame to do with becoming attractive to boys and starting periods. She felt better about herself immediately, but it was a month later that she reported that her breasts had clearly enlarged by one cup size, and she was having the best orgasms of her life.

One curious effect I found was tapping some angry memories of a time I banged my head in childhood. After tapping, I found myself staring at the wall, closing one eye at a time. In my right eye, the wall looked very red. In my left eye, the wall looked very green. The wall was actually white.

I realised that previously, the views through my eyes had actually been slightly coloured the other way around. So whatever I'd tapped had removed that colouring, but my brain hadn't adjusted to the new norm yet. Very strange, especially when it happens to you.

My final anecdote is from about a year ago. I wish I'd kept samples, but a client brought in examples of her handwriting that was clearly very different after we tapped some formative childhood memories. I've never put much weight on handwriting analysis or being able to read someone's personality traits precisely, but clearly aspects of our personality are reflected in every way that we express ourselves.

So - stay aware and look for any changes after tapping sessions, you never know what might happen.