Issue #102 - August 17, 2003

Emotional Freedom & Healing News
©  2003  Richard Ross. All rights reserved.

The Temporal Tap

The following is an updated version of an article I wrote for this newsletter four years ago.

The “temporal tap” is a centuries-old technique for releasing old limiting patterns and internalizing new self-statements and spoken affirmations. This process has recently been rediscovered, and is being used in many forms by various energy therapy practitioners.

Tapping around the temporal bone (beginning at the temples and traveling above and around the back side of the ear) makes the brain more receptive to re-learning and acceptance while at the same time temporarily eliminating other distracting input. The net result is that the new affirmation can go much deeper into the psyche. The process combines a number of powerful components such as repetition, autosuggestion, and neurological reprogramming, and the message of intention is carried throughout the body.

The three steps of the process follows, but first a clarification on how to use affirmations for this particular process. We need to create and state them in both a negatively worded form and a positively worded form.

Although you can use this exercise for any issue, let's assume, for this example, that we have had past problems in finding or keeping close relationships and we are now seeking the right relationship partner in our life.

The negatively worded version will always have the same intention but will use a word like “no, not, never, don’t, won’t”. So in the relationship example the negatively worded affirmation might sound something like “Finding the right relationship partner is no longer a problem for me”.

The positively worded affirmation in this example might be "The perfect relationship partner is in my life now!".

(Note: for many of you who are familiar with working with affirmations, the negative type of wording may strike you as totally wrong. But for the temporal tap process you “must” use BOTH versions.)

Now that you have your affirmation stated in both forms, here’s the process:

1. Starting at the LEFT temple, and using two or three middle fingers of your LEFT hand, tap around the half circle above your left ear from front to back. You should tap about five or six times moving from the temple above and around the ear and down toward the top of the neck.

Make the NEGATIVELY worded statement out loud on this full pass on the left side. Repeat this four or five times on the left side.

2. Now repeat this technique on the RIGHT temple side, tapping with your RIGHT hand, but this time make your statement in it’s POSITIVELY worded form. Repeat this four or five times on the right side.

3. Repeat the entire process several times each day, until the situation has resolved, or until the energy has shifted and you have a 'knowing' that what you want is on the way. The more you tap in the affirmation, the quicker and stronger the effect on your nervous system and your field of habit. I suggest you use it for at least a week, and notice signs that things are changing.

Please feel free to write with any feedback.

A note from Richard:

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3.  Food For Thought

"Most people have to delve into the dark areas and go through them before they reach a state of freedom, light and serenity."
--- Cristina Grof and Stanislav Grof, M.D.

"Our past is neither an accident nor a mistake. We have been where we needed to be, with the necessary people. We can embrace our history, with its pain, its imperfections, its mistakes, even its tragedies. It is uniquely ours; it was intended just for us. Today, we are right where we need to be. Our present circumstances are exactly as they need to be - for now."
--- Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go

"When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders."
--- Rabindranath Tagore

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