EFT and the Emotional Scale

I have been mulling this post over since I went to the Abraham-Hicks workshop in Asheville. So many things were said at the workshop, in different segments, that when pieced together, sort of completed the puzzle for me. It has just taken me a while to get to a cohesive understanding of what I have found and I am going to try and put it down here for all to read.

Innately, I have always felt that if any healing were to be done on myself that it had to come from within me. Yes, doctors and healers can have a dramatic, though sometimes temporary effect, on a client’s health, but if the vibration that caused the illness or dis-ease hasn’t been dealt with, the ailment can return or show up in another form at a future date. If the vibrational cause is dealt with, then that dis-ease will have a very difficult time showing up again, unless that person slides back down into the emotional abyss that caused it in the first place.

When I discovered EFT, I was skeptical. How in the world could something as simple as tapping on my face and hands do ANYTHING at all to help me feel better? I got The EFT Course and the Borrowing Benefits DVDs because I knew I didn’t like how I was feeling emotionally and needed to do something, anything, to regain control.

I tapped through the the Borrowing Benefits DVDs and didn’t really notice anything to start with. About a week later, I noticed something that was monumental to me. My nails were growing. Sounds silly, I know, but for someone who has been a stress picker and chewer for the majority of her life, it was a WOW moment. My nails were growing and I didn’t have all the sore spots around the nail like I had had for as long as I could remember. I fully attribute the change to the tapping that I had done along with the DVDs. It was an innate knowing that something had shifted after I had spent some time tapping.

I used the EFT through the years that followed, for both myself and my children and did see an improvement in issues I was tapping for. If you have any experience with any of the EFT experts out there (Gary Craig, Carol Look, Rick Wilkes, Patricia Carrington to name a few), you will see that they have an amazing way of phrasing things and making the EFT session flow and feel right. When I first started out, I couldn’t think of WHAT and HOW to say what needed to be said to make things better so I would end up saying the same thing over and over again as I tapped the EFT points. It worked to a point, but I always felt that there was more to it and that the effects would be more pronounced if I just knew the right way to phrase things and how to get to the heart of the issue. Listening to the various EFT experts doing their tapping only made me feel inadequate and frustrated (hmmm may be something that I need to tap on ) because I couldn’t figure out how to do it on my own.

I never lost the desire to make EFT and Abraham’s teaching mesh together. The workshop made the light bulb go on for me. The final piece of the puzzle fell into place. Abraham’s Emotional Scale is the key to making EFT work for me. I CAN do this and feel confident in knowing that I am shifting my vibration to a more positive place.

In another post, I will talk about how I made this work for me with a specific personal instance in my life, but for now, I am going to give you a basic description of how to make it work for you. If you don’t know EFT, I suggest that you download Gary Craig’s free EFT Manual so you can understand a bit better. You don’t need to be an expert to shift your energy Any one can do this.

If you have an issue you would like to work though, think about it and give the intensity of the feeling a rating from 1 to 10 with 1 being hardly bothersome at all and 10 being as emotionally charged and upsetting as it could possibly be. Remember that number.

Look at the emotional scale below. Where are you on that scale? How would you describe the emotion you are feeling? You may want to keep the emotional scale within view as you are doing this so it is easier to figure out what you should be reaching for next.

Do a round of EFT tapping on your issue focusing on the emotion that you picked on the emotional scale. If your emotion is anger, you can tap the spots with phrases that verbalize your anger about the person or situation. I suggest you do a full round this way. Re-evaluate what your rating is. If it has dropped, review the emotional scale and see if you are still identifying with anger in regards to your issue, or if you are more able to identify with an emotion further up the scale. Maybe you can verbalize discouragement, blame or worry now. Do another round of EFT with the phrases that express the emotion from the emotional scale that the issue now evokes. Re-evaluate and repeat the steps above for as long as you are comfortable doing so.

The cool thing about this is that you don’t have to go all the way to joy. In moving from Anger to Blame, you have totally changed the vibrational charge of the issue that was causing you grief. You have turned down stream with this little change if vibration and in doing so, you are flowing towards what is it that you have in vibrational escrow. It is, in my opinion, an empowering way to release the past and let you move toward the life that you have always wanted. Holding on to the negativity to the past is holding you stagnantly where you are. Who wants to give all their power to someone or something that they can’t change? I am certain that I don’t want to do that and I am working on moving through all the childhood programming, one step, one emotion at a time. I KNOW I will get there and life will continue to improve as let go of the negativity.