June 25, 2024 • 44 mins
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Welcome back to "Tried & True with a Dash of Woo"! Today, I'm thrilled to bring you an enlightening conversation with Brad Yates, a renowned expert in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping.
Brad's unique blend of tapping and positive psychology has helped countless individuals overcome their fears and transform their lives.
In this episode, you'll discover:
-The basics of EFT and how it works to reduce stress and anxiety.
-The connection between meridians, emotions, and how tapping can release stored energy.
-How naming and acknowledging your anxiety can actually help in overcoming it.
-A live tapping session with Brad to help you feel more relaxed and open.
Plus, you'll get a taste of Brad's infectious humor and light-hearted approach, which makes the process even more enjoyable.
Whether you're new to tapping or a seasoned practitioner, this episode is packed with valuable insights and practical tips to help you harness the power of EFT.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The body keeps the score.
It's not the mind keeps thescore, it's the body.
So to take, you know, hypnoticlanguaging I also started as a
hypnotherapist taking that kindof languaging and then having
this somatic component, where wetake it into the body, where
those emotions are stored andenergy is trapped, then it's a
(00:20):
much more powerful way ofcreating shift.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to Tried and True with a dash of woo, where
we blend rock solid tips with alittle bit of magic.
I'm Renee Bowen, your host,life and business coach and
professional photographer atyour service.
We are all about gettingcreative, diving into your
business and playing withmanifestation over here.
So are you ready to getinspired and have some fun?
Let's dive in.
You guys are in for such atreat.
(00:52):
Today, I have Brad Yates on theshow, and if you don't know who
Brad is and if you don't followhis YouTube channel yet, you're
going to want to.
You are about to get introducedto one of the coolest people
and, honestly, like what he doeson the daily through his
YouTube and his programs islife-changing.
I have been tapping for years,but if you don't know what it is
(01:13):
, you're about to figure it out,you're about to get to know it,
and he's actually going to walkus through a tapping exercise
as well, and so, by the end ofthis episode, you're going to
feel a lot better, justemotionally.
You're going to feel a lotbetter just emotionally.
You're going to feel moreregulated, you're going to feel
more calm.
So, yeah, this is a phenomenalepisode, so I'm excited, excited
(01:36):
to get into it.
So Brad is internationallyknown for his creative and often
humorous use of emotionalfreedom techniques, also known
as EFT, also known as tapping.
He's a speaker, teacher andbestselling author and knows
that we all have greatnesswithin us and he's made it his
mission to help people reveal it.
(01:56):
He combines tapping withpositive psychology to help
others overcome the fears thathold them back and redefine
themselves in a positive light.
And when Brad isn't on stagesomewhere, you can find him on
his YouTube channel, which hasgrown to over 1300 videos with
over 44 million views and269,000 subscribers.
(02:18):
As of the recording of thispodcast episode, I'm going to
put all of Brad's information inthe show notes, obviously, so
you can go and find him andlearn from him.
And yeah, this is a reallypowerful episode.
I'm very excited to share itwith y'all because I've been
tapping for years.
I kind of speak about this alittle bit in the episode how,
(02:38):
being a massage therapist andreally, really understanding
this whole mind body connectionfor years now, I love tapping.
I think that it is such aneffective way, but also, like I
said, it's kind of like a fasttrack right.
And now that I've been doing itfor years myself, I'll combine
(02:59):
some of my own hypnosis tracksand suggestions with the tapping
as well.
But if you want guidance inyour suggestions and how to do
tapping, a great place to startis obviously Brad's YouTube, and
he has some free five-dayprograms that I'm also going to
link for you guys in the shownotes, because you are probably
(03:22):
going to get addicted to thisjust like I did.
All right, let's get to it.
Brad, thank you so much forjoining us today.
I'm really excited to introducethis to my audience because I'm
a big fan of your YouTube.
I mean, you've got a massivefollowing and I would be
surprised if a lot of mylisteners didn't already know
who you are.
But if they don't if you guysdon't you are in for such a
(03:44):
treat because Brad is like themaster at EFT we're going to be
talking about that in a second.
So welcome to the show, brad.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
First of all, Thank you, renee, I'm very happy to be
here.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So okay, eft for people who don't know what it is
right, emotional freedomtechniques.
But it kind of looks weird,right Like you know, I've done
it at parties and people arelike what are you doing?
Walk us through, just like, thebasics of what it is and you
know why it's so powerful.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Eft short for emotional freedomtechniques, and a lot of us just
call it tapping, because we arequite literally tapping with
our fingertips on thesedifferent places on our face and
torso, and I know that ifyou're new to it it looks very
strange, but there's a very goodreason why we do it.
So it's originally based onacupuncture.
So for thousands of years inChinese medicine they've said
(04:36):
there's a flow of energy throughthe body running along these
pathways that are calledmeridians, and when the energy
is flowing naturally weexperience our natural state of
health and well-being,physically and emotionally.
And when this energy getsdisrupted or stuck in some way,
then we don't feel so good, wedon't think as clearly, we don't
make the best choices, there'sall kinds of unfortunate
consequences.
So in traditional Chinesemedicine the doctor would stick
(04:59):
needles in these key points tostimulate that healthy flow of
energy.
And now we're just getting ridof the needles and just using
our fingertips to stimulatethose same points.
We have a growing body ofscientific evidence showing that
it's a profound way ofdown-regulating stress.
So when you consider that most,if not all, of the issues that
bother us physically andemotionally are either caused by
(05:21):
or worsened by stress, then youcan see that having a very
simple technique for calmingdown the stress response can be
so beneficial in so many areas.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yes, okay.
So as someone who has dealtwith just like anxiety basically
my entire life didn't actuallyknow it was a thing until didn't
put a name on it until mytwenties, right, like I just
thought you know, know, I have anervous stomach or whatever.
So, as someone who has dealtwith, and still does, a lot of
anxiety underlying or you know,just a lot of thoughts, right
(05:53):
Like so, a lot of my people andI know that you guys are
listening deal with the samekind of thing.
Lots of overactive minds comesalong with being a creative.
So I know that this is going tobe really powerful for you guys
.
But I kind of want to touch realquick before we move into some
other stuff.
Talk to me a little bit aboutthe meridians, because a lot of
(06:15):
people listening I've been doingacupuncture since my early
twenties, so I understand a lotof that.
But talk to us a little bitabout what that is like, the
meridians, and why that'simportant.
And do you use all themeridians, cause there's a lot
of them, like you know.
Kind of walk us a little bitthrough that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So these are these, these energy pathways.
Just like you know your veinsand arteries that blood flows
through.
These are energy pathways andthere has been more modern
research showing that there arepathways in the fascia that we
can actually find that match upwith these meridians that have
been used in acupuncture forthousands of years.
(06:52):
So there are different keypoints in traditional
acupuncture.
There are meridians that runthrough the body.
There are points all over thebody.
Dr Roger Callahan, who was thepsychologist who first developed
the tapping process his wasthought field therapy, which was
later transferred intoemotional freedom technique by
(07:15):
Gary Craig.
But Callahan found thesedifferent eight major points,
eight major meridians that hewas tapping on and in his
original version he would do adiagnosis on the person to
figure out okay, given yourissue, we should tap, let's see
this point, and then this point,and then this point, and he
(07:37):
would come up with differentalgorithms depending on the
issue.
And Gary was one of his firststudents and Gary had his degree
in engineering and said okay,thinking like an engineer, how
do we simplify this?
And rather than spending a lotof time to figure out which
points to use, in which sequence, what if we tapped all eight
points, because that wouldactually be quicker than trying
(07:59):
to figure out which points touse, and found he's getting the
same great results.
So that more simplified versionwas called emotional freedom
technique.
Now there may be times whereyou may just feel compelled just
tap one point.
It's not that every time youhave to tap every point.
It's sort of a matter of let'scover all the bases, because
it's so simple to do it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Okay, that does make sense.
It's interesting because I dofind myself and and I feel like
maybe this is common that aftersome time you just sort of like
intuitively know what needs tohappen, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And the different points, the different meridians
in traditional acupuncture areassociated with different organs
of the body which areassociated with different
emotions.
So, for instance, right here atthe beginning of your eyebrows,
associated with sadness, underthe eye associated with fear,
side of the eye, anger.
So there may be times that youmay feel compelled to do it like
(08:53):
that.
There are times where I amfeeling something and I may just
feel compelled to tap a certainpoint.
It's like okay, well, that'snot actually the point that's
associated traditionally withthat emotion, but I just go with
it instinctively becausethere's so much crossover.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, that makes sense.
So the thing that reallytripped me up in the beginning
of all this right, because I amwhen I started, you know, this
whole tapping journey I love youknow learning about the
unconscious mind.
I love you know learning aboutthe unconscious mind.
I'm certified in hypnosis andall kinds of different things
(09:30):
that you know will help usreprogram, rewire things.
But I'm also a massagetherapist, like I went to a very
hippy dippy massage therapyschool after I got my degree in
psychology, and so I'm very muchabout the whole in the body
situation, right, like so it's,and that's what I love about
tapping it really, you know, itgets us in the body and I feel
like that's one of the reasonswhy things can happen so much
(09:53):
quicker when you're tapping,because you are integrating
everything together, which isreally powerful right Dr Bessel
van der Kolk, who is one of thepremier experts on trauma.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
His book is called the Body Keeps the Score.
It's not the mind keeps thescore, it's the body.
So to take, you know, hypnoticlanguaging I also started as a
hypnotherapist taking that kindof languaging and then having
this somatic component where wetake it into the body, where
those emotions are stored andenergy is trapped, then it's a
(10:25):
much more powerful way ofcreating shift.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So it tripped me up and I get.
I get it now, but I want you tokind of walk us through it,
because this might, this mighthave some of the a similar
effect on some people, right, isthe naming of the anxiety right
?
Like so, those of us withanxiety especially, and we have
like this fear of fear, right.
And so part of tapping is likeyou're naming what you're trying
(10:49):
to get through and but you'renot just naming it and seeing it
.
You're like actually sort oflike repeating that.
And it's like at first I waslike whoa, whoa, whoa, I do not
want to integrate that in mybody, right, and it was like all
my alarm bells went off, like Idon't know if it was just my
own programming or like the factthat, you know, I kind of came
from that very old school I meanmaybe not old school, but like
(11:12):
Louise Elhay, like you know whatyou believe you're going to
integrate in your body, and Iguess I had some stuff
surrounding that.
So at first I was like whoa,this feels counterproductive,
like I don't want to actuallymake this happen.
But first I was like whoa, thisfeels counterproductive, like I
don't want to actually makethis happen, I don't want to
manifest this.
So talk to us a little bitabout that, because and we'll go
(11:32):
through a process in a minuteYou'll walk us through something
so you guys can actually seeand hear what I'm talking about.
But why do?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
you do that.
So in general with EFT, westart off with a setup statement
and we'll say, even though Ifeel this anxiety or even though
I feel this anger or whateverand when I'm introducing this to
someone for the first time,sometimes people say well, wait
a minute.
No, no, no, you can't talkabout the negative.
Power of positive thinking.
Always focus on the positive,just focus on the positive.
Well, if you're feeling whatyou're feeling is not positive,
(12:02):
then saying the positive isn'tgoing to help a lot.
Now, but this is not aboutruminating.
You know it's like well, if Ikeep repeating the problem, I'm
just no, because we're cleaning.
The tapping is a cleaningprocess.
So if you were to imagine,let's say, you spill coffee on
your kitchen counter and yougrab a rag or a sponge and
(12:25):
you're wiping it up, youwouldn't say, okay, but I can't
say coffee while I'm doing it,otherwise the coffee will still
be there.
Yeah, you can say coffee.
And then, when I'm also workingwith a group, and if someone
doesn't have anxiety and say,well, if I say anxiety, now I'm
going to be taking it on, it'slike no, because you're still
(12:47):
wiping the counter, you'retapping.
You're going to be cleaning it.
So it's not like if I'm wipingthe counter and it's a coffee
spill and I say orange juice,it's like, oh, now I'm going to
put orange juice there.
It's like, no, you're cleaningit up.
Whatever you're saying.
Now, we can also say positivestatements, but it's very
effective to focus on what it is.
(13:08):
Because, again, if I've spilledcoffee on my countertop, I want
to focus on where the spill is.
So by saying coffee, coffee,coffee, I'm focusing on okay,
here's where the coffee isspilled on the countertop, as
opposed to I'm just kind ofrandomly doing this and I might
just find myself wandering overto another part of the kitchen
and haven't completely cleanedup where the coffee was spilled.
(13:31):
So that's why we want to focuson it.
So we keep our attention onwhere it is and then, as we're
tapping and we clear out theenergetic charge on that, the
energetic charge on that, then Ican be saying coffee or anxiety
, or anger, and it's like, yeah,I'm not, I'm not feeling it.
(13:55):
Now, it's neutral because Icleared that.
So when people talk abouttrigger words, things that upset
them, okay, you can choose notto say that, that's okay.
But wouldn't it be even betterif you just cleared the charge
around that so that when thatword comes up it's like yeah, I
may not prefer that word.
This is not about, you know,being totally okay with people
saying offensive things.
No, in an ideal world, no onewants to say offensive things.
(14:18):
But it's about getting to aplace of okay.
My well-being is not dependentupon 8 billion people all
thinking right.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes, exactly.
And there's a lot ofempowerment too in sitting with
it and noticing it and theawareness of it, because what
you resist will persist, right?
Yes, absolutely.
And those of us with anxietythough I just wanted to kind of
highlight that because it is ournatural go-to any kind of
anxiety or OCD especially ournatural tendency is to run away
(14:53):
from it because we don't like it.
But it gets bigger, and that'sthe one thing you don't want to
do and that took me, I don'tknow upwards of 25 years to
figure out through all of thesedifferent things.
Is that no, no, no.
If we just sort of like look atit and we just notice it and we
get to that neutral space,getting to that place of like
taking that charge away is soempowering and important in the
(15:18):
next steps, which is movingthrough it, right?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And tapping creates the safety for that, because,
understand, when we have anxietyand I struggle with anxiety
myself we want to yeah,absolutely, we want to run away
and we can't bear to be with it,and because it feels so
uncomfortable.
So the tapping calms down thatstress response where I can
start to say oh, okay, let metake a look at this.
(15:44):
And I love the Walt Whitmanquote be curious, not judgmental
.
I have it up on my wall here toalways remember that, so that
when we get that, rather thanjudging ourselves for the
anxiety, rather than judgingourselves for the fear or
whatever else it might be, itsays let me just get curious.
What am I afraid of?
Where did this fear come from?
Who told me to be afraid?
Was it a misunderstanding?
(16:05):
Did I make some Pavlovianassociation?
That isn't warranted?
And now I can actually look atit.
So the tapping gives me thatpermission to calm down and go
all right, let me look at it.
What am I really afraid of here?
Oh, is that what it is?
Yeah, there's the shadow, thegiant shadow.
And then you turn and look.
It's like, oh, it's a mouse,but there's a light right behind
(16:25):
the mouse.
So it's creating this giantshadow.
And now I can say oh okay, nowI can totally change my
relationship to this issue.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, that's so huge and it gives it like I don't
know it's such a fast track.
I really feel like to doingthat because it does.
It calms, like there is thescientific aspect, you know, to
it, like we talked about calmingdown the nervous system, but
it's really interesting how itopens up your intuition, which I
(16:56):
thought I mean like even intimes of stress, even in those
moments of like whoo, you know,like I am not feeling open, I'm
feeling very constricted.
The tapping allows you to openup so much faster, especially
just like anything else.
The more you do it, you know,the easier I feel like you fall
into it.
So I'm sure you've seen lots andlots of success stories about
(17:18):
all of this throughout the yearsand in all that you do, I mean,
first of all, you've got a lotof videos, and we'll get to one
in a second Like we 'll kind oftalk about maybe working through
a tapping exercise, but youhave a lot of videos that are
even just like five minutes, sixminutes, you know, like 10.
So speak to the the time,because that's a big pain point
(17:43):
for people, it's like, oh, Idon't have time, like that's.
That's kind of cool about thisis that you can just do it in
the moment.
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Thanks so much, Renee, for allyou do and I can't wait to work
with you again this next round,Any tapping that you do is going
to be causing some of this downregulation.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So if you only have a moment tap and you could be
tapping throughout your day, youknow, at different times,
without saying anything, theprocess of the tapping is going
to be down regulating yourstress, and most of us are
carrying more stress than weknow.
We have at least ambient levelsof stress.
Most of us are carrying alittle device that constantly
(19:22):
tells us here's something to bestressed out about.
Thank you internet.
And so to imagine, you know,constantly eating and having
stuff on your teeth and neverbrushing your teeth.
That's kind of where we're atwith our energy, for the most
part.
So that's why I recommendtapping on a daily basis, if at
least just for a couple ofminutes a day.
(19:43):
The more you can do the better.
Just like with exercise.
You know if you can do moreyou're going to get more benefit
.
But it's very cumulative andwhen we tap the effect is
immediate and profound,especially if we're working on a
particular issue that's reallybothering us and we can go oh, I
(20:06):
definitely feel some reliefthere.
Sometimes it may not be obviousand maybe we may be tapping and
go.
Yeah, I don't feel a whole lotdifferent.
But we have biological markersthat have been measured with
scientific research showingcortisol levels, our stress
hormone downregulated, fmristudies showing the brain
activity changing.
So even though you may not beconsciously aware of the change,
(20:29):
we know that it's happening.
So it's like taking vitamins.
Nobody takes a vitamin and says, wow, I feel so energized right
now.
But you know that a cumulativeeffect of taking care of your
body and putting good stuff intoyou is beneficial over time.
Same with tapping, so that evenif you're not noticing it right
away.
(20:49):
So you know that with thevideos it was kind of a quick
way to do something.
When I'm working with a clientor doing a live workshop,
tapping around may go 20, 30minutes as the ideas are coming.
And it's funny because people,when I and I always have a timer
(21:10):
going when I'm shooting videosfor YouTube, because, like I try
to stop at the five minute mark, generally don't make it only
because the ideas are comingthrough.
It's like the thought of oh,like I try to stop at the five
minute mark, generally don'tmake it only because the ideas
are coming through, it's likethe thought of oh.
But I gotta say this, I gottasay this Okay, now I need to
wrap it up and early on, if thevideo was over five minutes I
would get people complainingCould you make your video
shorter?
It's like you'll spend an hourwatching some dumb TV show and
(21:32):
you can't take five minutes todo some cleansing on your energy
and at the same time it's notto shame anybody.
I totally get it.
I know that if I go on YouTube,I'll I'll look at how long a
video is.
Do I have time for that?
And especially if I, if I'm newto tapping and I'm not sure
it's going to be beneficial,it's like I don't know that I
can invest that time.
(21:53):
So I have a whole bunch ofvideos.
They're like three to fiveminutes, okay, but I ideally,
you know, if we have more time,like I just uh, I was just down
visiting my mom on mother's dayand two and a half hour drive
and I'll listen to a bunch ofrecordings of tagging videos the
entire drive, just because Iknow when I spend that much time
clearing stuff out, it justfeels so good and I know that
(22:17):
I'm much more open to things,including intuition.
The extent to which we don'thave what we say we want tends
to be the extent to which we'reresisting it, not because we're
bad or stupid, but because wehave old programming about why
we couldn't or shouldn't have it, including our intuition,
because parts of us might say,you know, if I was really open
to my intuition, if I was open,especially as creatives?
(22:39):
Every creative act is a form ofchanneling.
We are the conduit, we are theprism through which the light
comes in and comes out as arainbow, and the more clear we
are, the more spectacular thatprocess is, the more open we are
.
When we close that off, itdoesn't come out so well and
(23:03):
there are parts of us that areafraid of being that open, that
are afraid of being that clearof a channel, that brilliant,
because if I'm more brilliant,I'm going to have to be more
seen, more open to criticism,more open to you know.
It's like that's fine for theseother people, but I don't want
to deal with the judgment.
(23:23):
I want to play small andtotally understandable.
So when, as we clear the fear,it's like, oh, I can handle this
and oh, there's an idea.
Oh, you know what, if I didthis, I could.
And this stuff just startscoming.
That's why I love my work.
So, as I'm tapping, I'm muchmore open to ideas coming
(23:44):
through.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You just hit the nail on the head too, for, like, I
think everybody who's listeningthat's a really big part of it.
For so many people is that deepseated, like programming of,
you know, fear of being seenbecause it opens you up to
judgment and to whatever, and sothat's what.
That's what usually keepspeople from being as amazing as
(24:10):
they're meant to be, I believe.
So, yeah, I mean okay.
So, all right, walk us throughsomething that would help with
that.
There's a lot of creatives whofeel that way, who are afraid to
show up and also afraid to askfor money, for, like that's.
The other thing, too is like,oh, I'm a creative and I sort of
(24:30):
fall into this amazing businessbecause I'm good at it and it's
kind of like easy for me, andthen, oh, I can make my own
money being an entrepreneur.
Oh, wait, nope, now I have toactually like, do the business
part take money?
Why do I have such money?
Issues, like all of that stuffcomes up too right, like so
(24:50):
there's a lot of that underlying.
So, if there's something, maybethat we can kind of show people
how to walk through that, andthen after that we'll talk about
what with it in a more creativeway, but uh, so the very basics
(25:17):
of eft is you take whatever isbothering you.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
So let's say I'm I'm feeling anxious, I'm feeling
stressed.
I would rate that on a scale ofzero to ten in intensity.
It's like, oh, wow, it's likean eight.
I'm pretty feeling, prettynervous and I check with how I
feel that in my body.
So, oh, my heart's reallypounding or I have a knot in my
stomach or there's thistightness in my shoulders.
(25:42):
So I'm aware of what I'm goingthrough.
And then I'm going to take thefingertips of my index and
middle finger and gently tap onthe side of the opposite hand,
and you can tap with either hand, whatever the dominant hand is.
And as we go through the points, I'll be tapping down one side,
but you can tap with both handsat the same time.
You can switch back and forth.
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So we start with the setupstatement, which is even though
I have this issue, I choose tolove and accept myself.
So, whether the issue is, Ifeel distress, I feel nervous,
my shoulders are tight, I'mreally angry at Bob, whatever it
is that's bothering us.
So we say even though I havethis issue, I choose to love and
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accept myself.
So we want to state a level ofacceptance because, as you were
saying earlier, renee, what weresist persists.
So it's like I'm not going toresist, I'm just going to accept
.
Even though I have this, Ichoose to still love and accept
myself.
So we'll say that three timesand just sort of creates an
opening for the process.
Then we'll tap about five to 10times on each of these points
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and we'll repeat the statement.
So, even though I feel all thisstress side of the, or all this
stress side of the eye, all thisstress right under the middle
of the eye, all this stressright under the nose, all this
stress right under the lower lip, all this stress Now, right
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here, where your collarbonesjust about come together,
there's a little bit of a Ushape at the base of your throat
and you can tap with all yourfingertips or even make a fist
and tap that whole area All thisstress.
Next point is about four inchesbelow your armpit, it's right
about bra strap level, and I'msure even the guys can figure
out what that is.
All this stress Find the top ofyour head.
So, just with all yourfingertips tapping around the
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crown of your head, all thisstress you take a deep breath
tapping around the crown of yourhead all this dress, you take a
deep breath and then you checkin again and rate again on scale
zero to 10.
Now sometimes it'll go from aneight to a zero, like that.
Sometimes it'll go from aneight to a 7.75.
It's like okay, but if it'sbeen an eight for a while, 7.75
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is going to feel like somerelief and it's often like
peeling the layers of the onion.
So I might be tapping throughand go, oh, I know what this is
about and I might be as I gothrough different points and it
might shift.
It's like, oh, if I'm tappingon, all this anger at Bob, all
this anger at Bob, all this oh,you know what?
It's not even Bob, it's thatwhat Bob did reminded me of what
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Cindy did to me in the thirdgrade.
And I'm still all this anger atCindy all the same.
And I can clear up decades ofstuff that has been weighing me
down, you know, and totally openmyself up to even more good,
even more intuition, even morecreativity, because I'm now
letting go of things that havebeen weighing me down for ages.
So, you know, as we tap through, if we can get to a zero, great
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.
But even if we just get down alittle bit.
That gives us more freedom tothink, to move, to take actions
Awesome.
So that's.
That's basic, basic EFT Now.
Now we're going to have somefun with it, okay, so what I'd
like everyone to do is go aheadand close your eyes, take a deep
breath in and hold it and letit go Now, just breathing
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comfortably with your eyesclosed.
Go ahead and just allowyourself to be present, as
present as possible so as toreceive maximum benefit from
this process, and just pullingyour breath through your body,
just to allow yourself to beaware of how you're feeling
physically and emotionally.
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Maybe rate yourself on a scaleof zero to 10.
10 would be magnificent,awesome.
Don't judge yourself harshly ifthe number is lower than you'd
like it to be.
Just allow yourself to be awareof where it is and ask yourself
what would it take to be at a10?
And maybe in terms of your lifeoverall or your career, your
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creativity, what would be a 10in terms of your creative career
?
Or you could focus on yourfinancial abundance, your health
.
Give yourself permission tofocus on whatever feels
important to you at the moment.
So life at a 10 would be thatultimate success.
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And imagine yourself being at a10 and ask yourself how safe
does this feel?
And just allow yourself to beaware of what your body might
feel, because in general, as Isaid earlier, the extent to
which we don't have what we saywe want tends to be the extent
to which we're resisting it, andwe tend to resist it because it
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doesn't feel safe or maybe thatyou feel you don't deserve it.
And allow yourself to be awareof any feelings about that.
Notice what you feel in yourbody, but also notice any
thoughts, feelings, beliefs,memories that might come up as
to why you couldn't or shouldn'thave what you want, including
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any fears about being seen andcriticized and judged.
Take a deep breath, open youreyes and just tap where I tap
and repeat back what I say, eventhough I might be resisting
greater success.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Even though I might be resisting greater success.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I choose to love and accept myself, Even though I
might be resisting greatersuccess.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I choose to love and honor myself, even though I
might be resisting greatersuccess, it might be creative
success.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It might be financial success, it could be health or
relationships.
There might be some areas of mylife.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
There might be some areas of my life.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That could potentially be better.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
That could potentially be better.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
And I wonder what's getting in the way?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And I wonder what's getting in the way?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And even though I might be resisting greater
success.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
And even though I might be resisting greater
success.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I choose to deeply and completely.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I choose to deeply and completely love, honor and
accept myself.
And maybe anyone else who mightcontribute to these issues,
because I choose to be that free.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
This potential resistance to greater success.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
All this resistance to things being better.
And part of me might say Idon't have any resistance to
that.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I absolutely want things to be better.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I absolutely want things to be better, and anyone
watching me?
And anyone watching me.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Would see that every day.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Would see that every day.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I'm doing all that I possibly can to make things
better.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I'm doing all that I possibly can to make things
better.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
And maybe not.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And maybe not.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
And it's not because I'm bad or stupid.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And it's not because I'm bad or stupid.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And it's not that I'm weak or lazy.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And it's not that I'm weak or lazy.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It's just that I have some resistance.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's just that I have some resistance.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I have some old programming I have some old
programming.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I have some old programming.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
About why I couldn't or shouldn't be more successful.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
About why I couldn't or shouldn't be more successful.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe part of me says Maybe part of me says If I were
more successful with mycreativity.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
If I were more successful with my creativity.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I'd be more seen.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And the more people who see me the more people who
can judge me.
And part of me says I need toresist that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
All this need to avoid being judged, and I love
and appreciate those parts of me.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I need to resist that .
All this need to avoid beingjudged, all this need to avoid
being judged and I love andappreciate those parts of me.
And I love and appreciate thoseparts of me.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That are trying to protect me in that way.
That are trying to protect mein that way, but that's what
they call a fool's errand.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
But that's what they call a fool's errand.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
People are going to judge me, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
People are going to judge me.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
no matter what People are going to judge me no matter
what, so I might as well dowhat I love.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
So I might as well do what I love.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I might as well do as much good as I can do.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I might as well do as much good as I can do.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
And it's not going to be right for everybody.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
And it's not going to be right for everybody.
But there are a lot of peopleout there.
But there are a lot of peopleout there.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Who can benefit from my gifts and talents?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Who can benefit from my gifts and talents?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And I'm tired of depriving them.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And I'm tired of depriving them.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
For fear of the people that aren't my audience.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
For fear of the people who aren't my audience.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Clearing these fears.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Clearing these fears.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Clearing them at a cellular level.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
And all the way back through my past.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Back through all those times in my life.
Where I somehow got the messagethat it wasn't safe to be seen
and that I had to feel bad aboutjudgment clearing all the fears
(35:44):
that hold me back including allthese fears about money,
because another part of me mightsay if I really had full access
to my creativity, including allthese fears about money,
Because another part of me mightsay, because another part of me
might say if I really had fullaccess to my creativity if I
really had full access to mycreativity.
I might be more financiallysuccessful.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I might be more financially successful.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And I can't let that happen.
I can't let that happen.
Money is the root of all evil.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Money is the root of all evil.
Money is the root of all evil.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Or at least it's inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Or at least it's inconvenient, and I am a
creative, and I am a creative.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I am a right-brained person.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I am a right-brained person and money is left-brained
stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Money is left-brained stuff.
I just shouldn't have to haveto deal with that.
I just shouldn't have to haveto deal with that.
I just shouldn't have to dealwith that, and I'm clearing this
fear.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
And I'm clearing this fear.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Clearing all these money fears.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Clearing all these money fears.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Because when I let money, stop me.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Because when I let money stop me, I withhold my
gifts and talents.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I withhold my gifts and talents.
I deprive the world of my gifts.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I deprive the world of my gifts and talents.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I withhold my gifts and talents, I deprive the world
of my gifts.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I deprive the world of my gifts.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
And I deprive myself of that creativity.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
And I deprive myself of that creativity.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
And I'm done with that.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And I'm done with that.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I can handle money.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I can handle money.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
It's okay for me to allow money.
It's okay for me to allow money.
It's even okay for me to askfor money.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
It's even okay for me to ask for money.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
My gifts and talents are worthy of compensation.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
My gifts and talents are worthy of compensation.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I'm clearing all these old things that caused me
resistance.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I'm clearing all these old things that caused me
resistance.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Setting myself free to experience greater success.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Setting myself free to experience greater success.
Setting myself free toexperience greater success In
body, mind and spirit.
In body, mind and spirit.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And take a deep breath, close your eyes, go
inside and again thinking aboutlife at a 10 in terms of
whatever you were thinking of,and check in again and see on
that feeling of how safe itmight feel hopefully it might
even feel better to allow thatto show up and and also again,
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peeling the layers of the onion,notice any thoughts or memories
that might have come up.
It's like, oh, that's why I'mnot allowed to do this, and
especially for creatives, allthese old ideas of starving
artists and that's not worthy ofmoney and it's like there are
artists out there that aremaking bank.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, yeah, you can find proof of that.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yes, you know what?
Van Gogh had no money when hedied.
Pablo Picasso, on the otherhand, he was doing just fine.
So it's not that to be a greatartist, you have to struggle or
suffer.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
That's just a belief.
Yeah, I know there's a lot.
There's just some really fun,some visuals popping up for me
that I hadn't thought about inabout I don't know 45 years.
So that was interesting.
Yeah, and that's what's so coolabout it too, is that even the
onion?
There's a lot of stuff that yourealize, oh, that's still kind
of popping up.
All right, that's interesting.
(39:20):
And just looking at it withnon-judgment and huh, get
curious about that.
That's what's so cool about it.
I wonder what else is there.
That's really, really, reallyfun.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Okay, so, I've been tapping for 20 some odd years
and I was just tapping on thisdrive yesterday and a thought
hit me.
It's like oh my God, I can'tbelieve.
I can't believe I've beenholding onto this idea, this
limiting thought that I've had.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
All right, let's let that one go, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
I mean it's like, wow , okay, I thought I had gone
there, but that's what's so funabout it.
And also you use a lot of humorand lightness and I hope you
guys could, you know, really geta sense of that through that
exercise, like when you watchhis videos.
You do such a great job of that.
Why do you think that thatmakes such a big difference in
(40:14):
the effectiveness?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
It.
You know, it's been said,laughter is the best medicine,
and to me it's the spoonful ofsugar that helps the medicine go
down.
You know, because if we just go,even though I have all this
stress, stress, trauma, misery,it's like why do I want to go
through that?
So, if we can lighten it up,why do I want to go through that
?
So, if we can lighten it up,one, it just makes the process
(40:37):
more palatable, but it can alsobe very disarming and kind of
knock us out of that.
You know some of those reallytough paths that we go down.
It's like, okay, this allows meto shift something and create
an opening.
It's like, all right, now I'mable to move into another place
where it was just felt so hardbefore, and it just creates this
, this ease.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yes, I love that and anything that can help us let it
be easy is what I'm about.
That's awesome.
Thank you so much for that.
I know that you guys listeningare going to get a ton from that
.
So, okay, brad's got like amillion YouTube videos, so you
definitely should go check himout if you haven't, but you also
no false advertising.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
It's only just over a thousand, but 1,200, 1,400.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
There's a fair few, yeah, so definitely go start
there if you haven't heard aboutthis before, so you can get
introduced to all that.
But people who want more like,who are like okay, sign me up.
I feel amazing after that.
Like what would that next stepbe for somebody Like, what do
you offer people with respect tothat?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, I have a number of programs, but there is uh,
there are two different five dayprograms on my website that are
free, uh called Tap Into yourBest Self.
Okay, so I always haveMichelangelo's David everywhere,
because Michelangelo said thestatue is already there, perfect
, inside the marble.
All I have to do is chip awaywhat doesn't belong to reveal
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the masterpiece inside, and tome that's a perfect analogy for
what we're doing with tappingwe're just clearing away what
doesn't belong to reveal thatbest version of ourselves.
So five days of tapping ondifferent things like
self-forgiveness, self-love, andthen there's another one called
success beyond belief.
(42:25):
So it's five days of tapping toclear that resistance to being
more successful, just like whatwe were tapping on earlier.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
And yeah get those at tapwithbradcom.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Perfect.
All right, I will put all ofthat in the show notes, for sure
, and you guys get to tap inbecause it is life-changing.
So thank you so much forsharing all of this with us
today.
This has been amazing.
Well, I don't know about you,but I feel exponentially better
and I always do after I do anykind of tapping, but I don't
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know.
There's something really amazingabout Brad's energy as well,
like I'm a really big believerin that.
So, again, all of his links andhis YouTube and his programs
that he mentioned that's allgoing to be down below in the
show notes for you.
Whether you're watching this onYouTube or listening on Apple
Podcasts or Spotify, all of thatinformation is down below.
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So please make sure you go andengage with him and his content.
What he does and how much hegives away is just kind of
amazing.
So I hope you had as much of apositive experience from that as
I did and that it helps youlearn something new on how to
rewire some of that old stuffthat you just don't need to hold
(43:42):
on to anymore.
So, as always, if you found thisepisode helpful, make sure you
let me know.
Tag me on Instagram if you postabout it.
Tag Brad.
I'm going to have all of hislinks below for you as well.
It's always so nice to knowthat you guys resonated with the
content that I'm sharing andwith the guests that I have on.
(44:04):
So let me know, tag me so I canrepost it as well as always a
review and rating.
So so always appreciate it aswell, so you can do that really
easily by going to rate thispodcastcom.
Slash Renee Bowen and I'll loveyou forever.
So have a great rest of yourweek, guys.
I hope that it is beautiful andthat you let go of a lot.
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Love you Bye.
The body keeps the score.
It's not the mind keeps thescore, it's the body.
So to take, you know, hypnoticlanguaging I also started as a
hypnotherapist taking that kindof languaging and then having
this somatic component, where wetake it into the body, where
those emotions are stored andenergy is trapped, then it's a
(00:20):
much more powerful way ofcreating shift.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Welcome to Tried and True with a dash of woo, where
we blend rock solid tips with alittle bit of magic.
I'm Renee Bowen, your host,life and business coach and
professional photographer atyour service.
We are all about gettingcreative, diving into your
business and playing withmanifestation over here.
So are you ready to getinspired and have some fun?
Let's dive in.
You guys are in for such atreat.
(00:52):
Today, I have Brad Yates on theshow, and if you don't know who
Brad is and if you don't followhis YouTube channel yet, you're
going to want to.
You are about to get introducedto one of the coolest people
and, honestly, like what he doeson the daily through his
YouTube and his programs islife-changing.
I have been tapping for years,but if you don't know what it is
(01:13):
, you're about to figure it out,you're about to get to know it,
and he's actually going to walkus through a tapping exercise
as well, and so, by the end ofthis episode, you're going to
feel a lot better, justemotionally.
You're going to feel a lotbetter just emotionally.
You're going to feel moreregulated, you're going to feel
more calm.
So, yeah, this is a phenomenalepisode, so I'm excited, excited
(01:36):
to get into it.
So Brad is internationallyknown for his creative and often
humorous use of emotionalfreedom techniques, also known
as EFT, also known as tapping.
He's a speaker, teacher andbestselling author and knows
that we all have greatnesswithin us and he's made it his
mission to help people reveal it.
(01:56):
He combines tapping withpositive psychology to help
others overcome the fears thathold them back and redefine
themselves in a positive light.
And when Brad isn't on stagesomewhere, you can find him on
his YouTube channel, which hasgrown to over 1300 videos with
over 44 million views and269,000 subscribers.
(02:18):
As of the recording of thispodcast episode, I'm going to
put all of Brad's information inthe show notes, obviously, so
you can go and find him andlearn from him.
And yeah, this is a reallypowerful episode.
I'm very excited to share itwith y'all because I've been
tapping for years.
I kind of speak about this alittle bit in the episode how,
(02:38):
being a massage therapist andreally, really understanding
this whole mind body connectionfor years now, I love tapping.
I think that it is such aneffective way, but also, like I
said, it's kind of like a fasttrack right.
And now that I've been doing itfor years myself, I'll combine
(02:59):
some of my own hypnosis tracksand suggestions with the tapping
as well.
But if you want guidance inyour suggestions and how to do
tapping, a great place to startis obviously Brad's YouTube, and
he has some free five-dayprograms that I'm also going to
link for you guys in the shownotes, because you are probably
(03:22):
going to get addicted to thisjust like I did.
All right, let's get to it.
Brad, thank you so much forjoining us today.
I'm really excited to introducethis to my audience because I'm
a big fan of your YouTube.
I mean, you've got a massivefollowing and I would be
surprised if a lot of mylisteners didn't already know
who you are.
But if they don't if you guysdon't you are in for such a
(03:44):
treat because Brad is like themaster at EFT we're going to be
talking about that in a second.
So welcome to the show, brad.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
First of all, Thank you, renee, I'm very happy to be
here.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
So okay, eft for people who don't know what it is
right, emotional freedomtechniques.
But it kind of looks weird,right Like you know, I've done
it at parties and people arelike what are you doing?
Walk us through, just like, thebasics of what it is and you
know why it's so powerful.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
Yeah, absolutely so.
Eft short for emotional freedomtechniques, and a lot of us just
call it tapping, because we arequite literally tapping with
our fingertips on thesedifferent places on our face and
torso, and I know that ifyou're new to it it looks very
strange, but there's a very goodreason why we do it.
So it's originally based onacupuncture.
So for thousands of years inChinese medicine they've said
(04:36):
there's a flow of energy throughthe body running along these
pathways that are calledmeridians, and when the energy
is flowing naturally weexperience our natural state of
health and well-being,physically and emotionally.
And when this energy getsdisrupted or stuck in some way,
then we don't feel so good, wedon't think as clearly, we don't
make the best choices, there'sall kinds of unfortunate
consequences.
So in traditional Chinesemedicine the doctor would stick
(04:59):
needles in these key points tostimulate that healthy flow of
energy.
And now we're just getting ridof the needles and just using
our fingertips to stimulatethose same points.
We have a growing body ofscientific evidence showing that
it's a profound way ofdown-regulating stress.
So when you consider that most,if not all, of the issues that
bother us physically andemotionally are either caused by
(05:21):
or worsened by stress, then youcan see that having a very
simple technique for calmingdown the stress response can be
so beneficial in so many areas.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Yes, okay.
So as someone who has dealtwith just like anxiety basically
my entire life didn't actuallyknow it was a thing until didn't
put a name on it until mytwenties, right, like I just
thought you know, know, I have anervous stomach or whatever.
So, as someone who has dealtwith, and still does, a lot of
anxiety underlying or you know,just a lot of thoughts, right
(05:53):
Like so, a lot of my people andI know that you guys are
listening deal with the samekind of thing.
Lots of overactive minds comesalong with being a creative.
So I know that this is going tobe really powerful for you guys
.
But I kind of want to touch realquick before we move into some
other stuff.
Talk to me a little bit aboutthe meridians, because a lot of
(06:15):
people listening I've been doingacupuncture since my early
twenties, so I understand a lotof that.
But talk to us a little bitabout what that is like, the
meridians, and why that'simportant.
And do you use all themeridians, cause there's a lot
of them, like you know.
Kind of walk us a little bitthrough that.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
So these are these, these energy pathways.
Just like you know your veinsand arteries that blood flows
through.
These are energy pathways andthere has been more modern
research showing that there arepathways in the fascia that we
can actually find that match upwith these meridians that have
been used in acupuncture forthousands of years.
(06:52):
So there are different keypoints in traditional
acupuncture.
There are meridians that runthrough the body.
There are points all over thebody.
Dr Roger Callahan, who was thepsychologist who first developed
the tapping process his wasthought field therapy, which was
later transferred intoemotional freedom technique by
(07:15):
Gary Craig.
But Callahan found thesedifferent eight major points,
eight major meridians that hewas tapping on and in his
original version he would do adiagnosis on the person to
figure out okay, given yourissue, we should tap, let's see
this point, and then this point,and then this point, and he
(07:37):
would come up with differentalgorithms depending on the
issue.
And Gary was one of his firststudents and Gary had his degree
in engineering and said okay,thinking like an engineer, how
do we simplify this?
And rather than spending a lotof time to figure out which
points to use, in which sequence, what if we tapped all eight
points, because that wouldactually be quicker than trying
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to figure out which points touse, and found he's getting the
same great results.
So that more simplified versionwas called emotional freedom
technique.
Now there may be times whereyou may just feel compelled just
tap one point.
It's not that every time youhave to tap every point.
It's sort of a matter of let'scover all the bases, because
it's so simple to do it that way.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Okay, that does make sense.
It's interesting because I dofind myself and and I feel like
maybe this is common that aftersome time you just sort of like
intuitively know what needs tohappen, you know.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
And the different points, the different meridians
in traditional acupuncture areassociated with different organs
of the body which areassociated with different
emotions.
So, for instance, right here atthe beginning of your eyebrows,
associated with sadness, underthe eye associated with fear,
side of the eye, anger.
So there may be times that youmay feel compelled to do it like
(08:53):
that.
There are times where I amfeeling something and I may just
feel compelled to tap a certainpoint.
It's like okay, well, that'snot actually the point that's
associated traditionally withthat emotion, but I just go with
it instinctively becausethere's so much crossover.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, that makes sense.
So the thing that reallytripped me up in the beginning
of all this right, because I amwhen I started, you know, this
whole tapping journey I love youknow learning about the
unconscious mind.
I love you know learning aboutthe unconscious mind.
I'm certified in hypnosis andall kinds of different things
(09:30):
that you know will help usreprogram, rewire things.
But I'm also a massagetherapist, like I went to a very
hippy dippy massage therapyschool after I got my degree in
psychology, and so I'm very muchabout the whole in the body
situation, right, like so it's,and that's what I love about
tapping it really, you know, itgets us in the body and I feel
like that's one of the reasonswhy things can happen so much
(09:53):
quicker when you're tapping,because you are integrating
everything together, which isreally powerful right Dr Bessel
van der Kolk, who is one of thepremier experts on trauma.
Speaker 1 (10:04):
His book is called the Body Keeps the Score.
It's not the mind keeps thescore, it's the body.
So to take, you know, hypnoticlanguaging I also started as a
hypnotherapist taking that kindof languaging and then having
this somatic component where wetake it into the body, where
those emotions are stored andenergy is trapped, then it's a
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much more powerful way ofcreating shift.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
So it tripped me up and I get.
I get it now, but I want you tokind of walk us through it,
because this might, this mighthave some of the a similar
effect on some people, right, isthe naming of the anxiety right
?
Like so, those of us withanxiety especially, and we have
like this fear of fear, right.
And so part of tapping is likeyou're naming what you're trying
(10:49):
to get through and but you'renot just naming it and seeing it
.
You're like actually sort oflike repeating that.
And it's like at first I waslike whoa, whoa, whoa, I do not
want to integrate that in mybody, right, and it was like all
my alarm bells went off, like Idon't know if it was just my
own programming or like the factthat, you know, I kind of came
from that very old school I meanmaybe not old school, but like
(11:12):
Louise Elhay, like you know whatyou believe you're going to
integrate in your body, and Iguess I had some stuff
surrounding that.
So at first I was like whoa,this feels counterproductive,
like I don't want to actuallymake this happen.
But first I was like whoa, thisfeels counterproductive, like I
don't want to actually makethis happen, I don't want to
manifest this.
So talk to us a little bitabout that, because and we'll go
(11:32):
through a process in a minuteYou'll walk us through something
so you guys can actually seeand hear what I'm talking about.
But why do?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
you do that.
So in general with EFT, westart off with a setup statement
and we'll say, even though Ifeel this anxiety or even though
I feel this anger or whateverand when I'm introducing this to
someone for the first time,sometimes people say well, wait
a minute.
No, no, no, you can't talkabout the negative.
Power of positive thinking.
Always focus on the positive,just focus on the positive.
Well, if you're feeling whatyou're feeling is not positive,
(12:02):
then saying the positive isn'tgoing to help a lot.
Now, but this is not aboutruminating.
You know it's like well, if Ikeep repeating the problem, I'm
just no, because we're cleaning.
The tapping is a cleaningprocess.
So if you were to imagine,let's say, you spill coffee on
your kitchen counter and yougrab a rag or a sponge and
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you're wiping it up, youwouldn't say, okay, but I can't
say coffee while I'm doing it,otherwise the coffee will still
be there.
Yeah, you can say coffee.
And then, when I'm also workingwith a group, and if someone
doesn't have anxiety and say,well, if I say anxiety, now I'm
going to be taking it on, it'slike no, because you're still
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wiping the counter, you'retapping.
You're going to be cleaning it.
So it's not like if I'm wipingthe counter and it's a coffee
spill and I say orange juice,it's like, oh, now I'm going to
put orange juice there.
It's like, no, you're cleaningit up.
Whatever you're saying.
Now, we can also say positivestatements, but it's very
effective to focus on what it is.
(13:08):
Because, again, if I've spilledcoffee on my countertop, I want
to focus on where the spill is.
So by saying coffee, coffee,coffee, I'm focusing on okay,
here's where the coffee isspilled on the countertop, as
opposed to I'm just kind ofrandomly doing this and I might
just find myself wandering overto another part of the kitchen
and haven't completely cleanedup where the coffee was spilled.
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So that's why we want to focuson it.
So we keep our attention onwhere it is and then, as we're
tapping and we clear out theenergetic charge on that, the
energetic charge on that, then Ican be saying coffee or anxiety
, or anger, and it's like, yeah,I'm not, I'm not feeling it.
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Now, it's neutral because Icleared that.
So when people talk abouttrigger words, things that upset
them, okay, you can choose notto say that, that's okay.
But wouldn't it be even betterif you just cleared the charge
around that so that when thatword comes up it's like yeah, I
may not prefer that word.
This is not about, you know,being totally okay with people
saying offensive things.
No, in an ideal world, no onewants to say offensive things.
(14:18):
But it's about getting to aplace of okay.
My well-being is not dependentupon 8 billion people all
thinking right.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Yes, exactly.
And there's a lot ofempowerment too in sitting with
it and noticing it and theawareness of it, because what
you resist will persist, right?
Yes, absolutely.
And those of us with anxietythough I just wanted to kind of
highlight that because it is ournatural go-to any kind of
anxiety or OCD especially ournatural tendency is to run away
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from it because we don't like it.
But it gets bigger, and that'sthe one thing you don't want to
do and that took me, I don'tknow upwards of 25 years to
figure out through all of thesedifferent things.
Is that no, no, no.
If we just sort of like look atit and we just notice it and we
get to that neutral space,getting to that place of like
taking that charge away is soempowering and important in the
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next steps, which is movingthrough it, right?
Speaker 1 (15:21):
And tapping creates the safety for that, because,
understand, when we have anxietyand I struggle with anxiety
myself we want to yeah,absolutely, we want to run away
and we can't bear to be with it,and because it feels so
uncomfortable.
So the tapping calms down thatstress response where I can
start to say oh, okay, let metake a look at this.
(15:44):
And I love the Walt Whitmanquote be curious, not judgmental
.
I have it up on my wall here toalways remember that, so that
when we get that, rather thanjudging ourselves for the
anxiety, rather than judgingourselves for the fear or
whatever else it might be, itsays let me just get curious.
What am I afraid of?
Where did this fear come from?
Who told me to be afraid?
Was it a misunderstanding?
(16:05):
Did I make some Pavlovianassociation?
That isn't warranted?
And now I can actually look atit.
So the tapping gives me thatpermission to calm down and go
all right, let me look at it.
What am I really afraid of here?
Oh, is that what it is?
Yeah, there's the shadow, thegiant shadow.
And then you turn and look.
It's like, oh, it's a mouse,but there's a light right behind
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the mouse.
So it's creating this giantshadow.
And now I can say oh okay, nowI can totally change my
relationship to this issue.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
Yes, that's so huge and it gives it like I don't
know it's such a fast track.
I really feel like to doingthat because it does.
It calms, like there is thescientific aspect, you know, to
it, like we talked about calmingdown the nervous system, but
it's really interesting how itopens up your intuition, which I
(16:56):
thought I mean like even intimes of stress, even in those
moments of like whoo, you know,like I am not feeling open, I'm
feeling very constricted.
The tapping allows you to openup so much faster, especially
just like anything else.
The more you do it, you know,the easier I feel like you fall
into it.
So I'm sure you've seen lots andlots of success stories about
(17:18):
all of this throughout the yearsand in all that you do, I mean,
first of all, you've got a lotof videos, and we'll get to one
in a second Like we 'll kind oftalk about maybe working through
a tapping exercise, but youhave a lot of videos that are
even just like five minutes, sixminutes, you know, like 10.
So speak to the the time,because that's a big pain point
(17:43):
for people, it's like, oh, Idon't have time, like that's.
That's kind of cool about thisis that you can just do it in
the moment.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
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Thanks so much, Renee, for allyou do and I can't wait to work
with you again this next round,Any tapping that you do is going
to be causing some of this downregulation.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
So if you only have a moment tap and you could be
tapping throughout your day, youknow, at different times,
without saying anything, theprocess of the tapping is going
to be down regulating yourstress, and most of us are
carrying more stress than weknow.
We have at least ambient levelsof stress.
Most of us are carrying alittle device that constantly
(19:22):
tells us here's something to bestressed out about.
Thank you internet.
And so to imagine, you know,constantly eating and having
stuff on your teeth and neverbrushing your teeth.
That's kind of where we're atwith our energy, for the most
part.
So that's why I recommendtapping on a daily basis, if at
least just for a couple ofminutes a day.
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The more you can do the better.
Just like with exercise.
You know if you can do moreyou're going to get more benefit
.
But it's very cumulative andwhen we tap the effect is
immediate and profound,especially if we're working on a
particular issue that's reallybothering us and we can go oh, I
(20:06):
definitely feel some reliefthere.
Sometimes it may not be obviousand maybe we may be tapping and
go.
Yeah, I don't feel a whole lotdifferent.
But we have biological markersthat have been measured with
scientific research showingcortisol levels, our stress
hormone downregulated, fmristudies showing the brain
activity changing.
So even though you may not beconsciously aware of the change,
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we know that it's happening.
So it's like taking vitamins.
Nobody takes a vitamin and says, wow, I feel so energized right
now.
But you know that a cumulativeeffect of taking care of your
body and putting good stuff intoyou is beneficial over time.
Same with tapping, so that evenif you're not noticing it right
away.
(20:49):
So you know that with thevideos it was kind of a quick
way to do something.
When I'm working with a clientor doing a live workshop,
tapping around may go 20, 30minutes as the ideas are coming.
And it's funny because people,when I and I always have a timer
(21:10):
going when I'm shooting videosfor YouTube, because, like I try
to stop at the five minute mark, generally don't make it only
because the ideas are comingthrough.
It's like the thought of oh,like I try to stop at the five
minute mark, generally don'tmake it only because the ideas
are coming through, it's likethe thought of oh.
But I gotta say this, I gottasay this Okay, now I need to
wrap it up and early on, if thevideo was over five minutes I
would get people complainingCould you make your video
shorter?
It's like you'll spend an hourwatching some dumb TV show and
(21:32):
you can't take five minutes todo some cleansing on your energy
and at the same time it's notto shame anybody.
I totally get it.
I know that if I go on YouTube,I'll I'll look at how long a
video is.
Do I have time for that?
And especially if I, if I'm newto tapping and I'm not sure
it's going to be beneficial,it's like I don't know that I
can invest that time.
(21:53):
So I have a whole bunch ofvideos.
They're like three to fiveminutes, okay, but I ideally,
you know, if we have more time,like I just uh, I was just down
visiting my mom on mother's dayand two and a half hour drive
and I'll listen to a bunch ofrecordings of tagging videos the
entire drive, just because Iknow when I spend that much time
clearing stuff out, it justfeels so good and I know that
(22:17):
I'm much more open to things,including intuition.
The extent to which we don'thave what we say we want tends
to be the extent to which we'reresisting it, not because we're
bad or stupid, but because wehave old programming about why
we couldn't or shouldn't have it, including our intuition,
because parts of us might say,you know, if I was really open
to my intuition, if I was open,especially as creatives?
(22:39):
Every creative act is a form ofchanneling.
We are the conduit, we are theprism through which the light
comes in and comes out as arainbow, and the more clear we
are, the more spectacular thatprocess is, the more open we are
.
When we close that off, itdoesn't come out so well and
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there are parts of us that areafraid of being that open, that
are afraid of being that clearof a channel, that brilliant,
because if I'm more brilliant,I'm going to have to be more
seen, more open to criticism,more open to you know.
It's like that's fine for theseother people, but I don't want
to deal with the judgment.
(23:23):
I want to play small andtotally understandable.
So when, as we clear the fear,it's like, oh, I can handle this
and oh, there's an idea.
Oh, you know what, if I didthis, I could.
And this stuff just startscoming.
That's why I love my work.
So, as I'm tapping, I'm muchmore open to ideas coming
(23:44):
through.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
You just hit the nail on the head too, for, like, I
think everybody who's listeningthat's a really big part of it.
For so many people is that deepseated, like programming of,
you know, fear of being seenbecause it opens you up to
judgment and to whatever, and sothat's what.
That's what usually keepspeople from being as amazing as
(24:10):
they're meant to be, I believe.
So, yeah, I mean okay.
So, all right, walk us throughsomething that would help with
that.
There's a lot of creatives whofeel that way, who are afraid to
show up and also afraid to askfor money, for, like that's.
The other thing, too is like,oh, I'm a creative and I sort of
(24:30):
fall into this amazing businessbecause I'm good at it and it's
kind of like easy for me, andthen, oh, I can make my own
money being an entrepreneur.
Oh, wait, nope, now I have toactually like, do the business
part take money?
Why do I have such money?
Issues, like all of that stuffcomes up too right, like so
(24:50):
there's a lot of that underlying.
So, if there's something, maybethat we can kind of show people
how to walk through that, andthen after that we'll talk about
what with it in a more creativeway, but uh, so the very basics
(25:17):
of eft is you take whatever isbothering you.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
So let's say I'm I'm feeling anxious, I'm feeling
stressed.
I would rate that on a scale ofzero to ten in intensity.
It's like, oh, wow, it's likean eight.
I'm pretty feeling, prettynervous and I check with how I
feel that in my body.
So, oh, my heart's reallypounding or I have a knot in my
stomach or there's thistightness in my shoulders.
(25:42):
So I'm aware of what I'm goingthrough.
And then I'm going to take thefingertips of my index and
middle finger and gently tap onthe side of the opposite hand,
and you can tap with either hand, whatever the dominant hand is.
And as we go through the points, I'll be tapping down one side,
but you can tap with both handsat the same time.
You can switch back and forth.
(26:05):
So we start with the setupstatement, which is even though
I have this issue, I choose tolove and accept myself.
So, whether the issue is, Ifeel distress, I feel nervous,
my shoulders are tight, I'mreally angry at Bob, whatever it
is that's bothering us.
So we say even though I havethis issue, I choose to love and
(26:26):
accept myself.
So we want to state a level ofacceptance because, as you were
saying earlier, renee, what weresist persists.
So it's like I'm not going toresist, I'm just going to accept
.
Even though I have this, Ichoose to still love and accept
myself.
So we'll say that three timesand just sort of creates an
opening for the process.
Then we'll tap about five to 10times on each of these points
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and we'll repeat the statement.
So, even though I feel all thisstress side of the, or all this
stress side of the eye, all thisstress right under the middle
of the eye, all this stressright under the nose, all this
stress right under the lower lip, all this stress Now, right
(27:09):
here, where your collarbonesjust about come together,
there's a little bit of a Ushape at the base of your throat
and you can tap with all yourfingertips or even make a fist
and tap that whole area All thisstress.
Next point is about four inchesbelow your armpit, it's right
about bra strap level, and I'msure even the guys can figure
out what that is.
All this stress Find the top ofyour head.
So, just with all yourfingertips tapping around the
(27:30):
crown of your head, all thisstress you take a deep breath
tapping around the crown of yourhead all this dress, you take a
deep breath and then you checkin again and rate again on scale
zero to 10.
Now sometimes it'll go from aneight to a zero, like that.
Sometimes it'll go from aneight to a 7.75.
It's like okay, but if it'sbeen an eight for a while, 7.75
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is going to feel like somerelief and it's often like
peeling the layers of the onion.
So I might be tapping throughand go, oh, I know what this is
about and I might be as I gothrough different points and it
might shift.
It's like, oh, if I'm tappingon, all this anger at Bob, all
this anger at Bob, all this oh,you know what?
It's not even Bob, it's thatwhat Bob did reminded me of what
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Cindy did to me in the thirdgrade.
And I'm still all this anger atCindy all the same.
And I can clear up decades ofstuff that has been weighing me
down, you know, and totally openmyself up to even more good,
even more intuition, even morecreativity, because I'm now
letting go of things that havebeen weighing me down for ages.
So, you know, as we tap through, if we can get to a zero, great
(28:39):
.
But even if we just get down alittle bit.
That gives us more freedom tothink, to move, to take actions
Awesome.
So that's.
That's basic, basic EFT Now.
Now we're going to have somefun with it, okay, so what I'd
like everyone to do is go aheadand close your eyes, take a deep
breath in and hold it and letit go Now, just breathing
(29:01):
comfortably with your eyesclosed.
Go ahead and just allowyourself to be present, as
present as possible so as toreceive maximum benefit from
this process, and just pullingyour breath through your body,
just to allow yourself to beaware of how you're feeling
physically and emotionally.
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Maybe rate yourself on a scaleof zero to 10.
10 would be magnificent,awesome.
Don't judge yourself harshly ifthe number is lower than you'd
like it to be.
Just allow yourself to be awareof where it is and ask yourself
what would it take to be at a10?
And maybe in terms of your lifeoverall or your career, your
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creativity, what would be a 10in terms of your creative career
?
Or you could focus on yourfinancial abundance, your health
.
Give yourself permission tofocus on whatever feels
important to you at the moment.
So life at a 10 would be thatultimate success.
(30:09):
And imagine yourself being at a10 and ask yourself how safe
does this feel?
And just allow yourself to beaware of what your body might
feel, because in general, as Isaid earlier, the extent to
which we don't have what we saywe want tends to be the extent
to which we're resisting it, andwe tend to resist it because it
(30:30):
doesn't feel safe or maybe thatyou feel you don't deserve it.
And allow yourself to be awareof any feelings about that.
Notice what you feel in yourbody, but also notice any
thoughts, feelings, beliefs,memories that might come up as
to why you couldn't or shouldn'thave what you want, including
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any fears about being seen andcriticized and judged.
Take a deep breath, open youreyes and just tap where I tap
and repeat back what I say, eventhough I might be resisting
greater success.
Speaker 2 (31:15):
Even though I might be resisting greater success.
Speaker 1 (31:18):
I choose to love and accept myself, Even though I
might be resisting greatersuccess.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
I choose to love and honor myself, even though I
might be resisting greatersuccess, it might be creative
success.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
It might be financial success, it could be health or
relationships.
There might be some areas of mylife.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
There might be some areas of my life.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
That could potentially be better.
Speaker 2 (31:59):
That could potentially be better.
Speaker 1 (32:01):
And I wonder what's getting in the way?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
And I wonder what's getting in the way?
Speaker 1 (32:06):
And even though I might be resisting greater
success.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
And even though I might be resisting greater
success.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
I choose to deeply and completely.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
I choose to deeply and completely love, honor and
accept myself.
And maybe anyone else who mightcontribute to these issues,
because I choose to be that free.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
This potential resistance to greater success.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
All this resistance to things being better.
And part of me might say Idon't have any resistance to
that.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I absolutely want things to be better.
Speaker 2 (32:57):
I absolutely want things to be better, and anyone
watching me?
And anyone watching me.
Speaker 1 (33:03):
Would see that every day.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
Would see that every day.
Speaker 1 (33:08):
I'm doing all that I possibly can to make things
better.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I'm doing all that I possibly can to make things
better.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
And maybe not.
Speaker 2 (33:16):
And maybe not.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
And it's not because I'm bad or stupid.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
And it's not because I'm bad or stupid.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And it's not that I'm weak or lazy.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
And it's not that I'm weak or lazy.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
It's just that I have some resistance.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's just that I have some resistance.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
I have some old programming I have some old
programming.
Speaker 2 (33:34):
I have some old programming.
Speaker 1 (33:36):
About why I couldn't or shouldn't be more successful.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
About why I couldn't or shouldn't be more successful.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Maybe part of me says Maybe part of me says If I were
more successful with mycreativity.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
If I were more successful with my creativity.
Speaker 1 (33:54):
I'd be more seen.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
And the more people who see me the more people who
can judge me.
And part of me says I need toresist that.
Speaker 1 (34:09):
All this need to avoid being judged, and I love
and appreciate those parts of me.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
I need to resist that .
All this need to avoid beingjudged, all this need to avoid
being judged and I love andappreciate those parts of me.
And I love and appreciate thoseparts of me.
Speaker 1 (34:19):
That are trying to protect me in that way.
That are trying to protect mein that way, but that's what
they call a fool's errand.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
But that's what they call a fool's errand.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
People are going to judge me, no matter what.
Speaker 2 (34:32):
People are going to judge me.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
no matter what People are going to judge me no matter
what, so I might as well dowhat I love.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
So I might as well do what I love.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
I might as well do as much good as I can do.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I might as well do as much good as I can do.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
And it's not going to be right for everybody.
Speaker 2 (34:47):
And it's not going to be right for everybody.
But there are a lot of peopleout there.
But there are a lot of peopleout there.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Who can benefit from my gifts and talents?
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Who can benefit from my gifts and talents?
Speaker 1 (34:58):
And I'm tired of depriving them.
Speaker 2 (35:01):
And I'm tired of depriving them.
Speaker 1 (35:03):
For fear of the people that aren't my audience.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
For fear of the people who aren't my audience.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Clearing these fears.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
Clearing these fears.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
Clearing them at a cellular level.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
And all the way back through my past.
Speaker 1 (35:22):
Back through all those times in my life.
Where I somehow got the messagethat it wasn't safe to be seen
and that I had to feel bad aboutjudgment clearing all the fears
(35:44):
that hold me back including allthese fears about money,
because another part of me mightsay if I really had full access
to my creativity, including allthese fears about money,
Because another part of me mightsay, because another part of me
might say if I really had fullaccess to my creativity if I
really had full access to mycreativity.
I might be more financiallysuccessful.
Speaker 2 (36:04):
I might be more financially successful.
Speaker 1 (36:06):
And I can't let that happen.
I can't let that happen.
Money is the root of all evil.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Money is the root of all evil.
Money is the root of all evil.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Or at least it's inconvenient.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
Or at least it's inconvenient, and I am a
creative, and I am a creative.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
I am a right-brained person.
Speaker 2 (36:25):
I am a right-brained person and money is left-brained
stuff.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Money is left-brained stuff.
I just shouldn't have to haveto deal with that.
I just shouldn't have to haveto deal with that.
I just shouldn't have to dealwith that, and I'm clearing this
fear.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
And I'm clearing this fear.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Clearing all these money fears.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Clearing all these money fears.
Speaker 1 (36:43):
Because when I let money, stop me.
Speaker 2 (36:46):
Because when I let money stop me, I withhold my
gifts and talents.
Speaker 1 (36:48):
I withhold my gifts and talents.
I deprive the world of my gifts.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
I deprive the world of my gifts and talents.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
I withhold my gifts and talents, I deprive the world
of my gifts.
Speaker 2 (36:55):
I deprive the world of my gifts.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
And I deprive myself of that creativity.
Speaker 2 (36:59):
And I deprive myself of that creativity.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
And I'm done with that.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
And I'm done with that.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
I can handle money.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
I can handle money.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
It's okay for me to allow money.
It's okay for me to allow money.
It's even okay for me to askfor money.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
It's even okay for me to ask for money.
Speaker 1 (37:17):
My gifts and talents are worthy of compensation.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
My gifts and talents are worthy of compensation.
Speaker 1 (37:23):
I'm clearing all these old things that caused me
resistance.
Speaker 2 (37:27):
I'm clearing all these old things that caused me
resistance.
Speaker 1 (37:30):
Setting myself free to experience greater success.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
Setting myself free to experience greater success.
Setting myself free toexperience greater success In
body, mind and spirit.
In body, mind and spirit.
Speaker 1 (37:40):
And take a deep breath, close your eyes, go
inside and again thinking aboutlife at a 10 in terms of
whatever you were thinking of,and check in again and see on
that feeling of how safe itmight feel hopefully it might
even feel better to allow thatto show up and and also again,
(38:04):
peeling the layers of the onion,notice any thoughts or memories
that might have come up.
It's like, oh, that's why I'mnot allowed to do this, and
especially for creatives, allthese old ideas of starving
artists and that's not worthy ofmoney and it's like there are
artists out there that aremaking bank.
Speaker 2 (38:25):
Yeah, yeah, you can find proof of that.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Yes, you know what?
Van Gogh had no money when hedied.
Pablo Picasso, on the otherhand, he was doing just fine.
So it's not that to be a greatartist, you have to struggle or
suffer.
Speaker 2 (38:44):
That's just a belief.
Yeah, I know there's a lot.
There's just some really fun,some visuals popping up for me
that I hadn't thought about inabout I don't know 45 years.
So that was interesting.
Yeah, and that's what's so coolabout it too, is that even the
onion?
There's a lot of stuff that yourealize, oh, that's still kind
of popping up.
All right, that's interesting.
(39:20):
And just looking at it withnon-judgment and huh, get
curious about that.
That's what's so cool about it.
I wonder what else is there.
That's really, really, reallyfun.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
Okay, so, I've been tapping for 20 some odd years
and I was just tapping on thisdrive yesterday and a thought
hit me.
It's like oh my God, I can'tbelieve.
I can't believe I've beenholding onto this idea, this
limiting thought that I've had.
Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:48):
All right, let's let that one go, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
I mean it's like, wow , okay, I thought I had gone
there, but that's what's so funabout it.
And also you use a lot of humorand lightness and I hope you
guys could, you know, really geta sense of that through that
exercise, like when you watchhis videos.
You do such a great job of that.
Why do you think that thatmakes such a big difference in
(40:14):
the effectiveness?
Speaker 1 (40:16):
It.
You know, it's been said,laughter is the best medicine,
and to me it's the spoonful ofsugar that helps the medicine go
down.
You know, because if we just go,even though I have all this
stress, stress, trauma, misery,it's like why do I want to go
through that?
So, if we can lighten it up,why do I want to go through that
?
So, if we can lighten it up,one, it just makes the process
(40:37):
more palatable, but it can alsobe very disarming and kind of
knock us out of that.
You know some of those reallytough paths that we go down.
It's like, okay, this allows meto shift something and create
an opening.
It's like, all right, now I'mable to move into another place
where it was just felt so hardbefore, and it just creates this
, this ease.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yes, I love that and anything that can help us let it
be easy is what I'm about.
That's awesome.
Thank you so much for that.
I know that you guys listeningare going to get a ton from that
.
So, okay, brad's got like amillion YouTube videos, so you
definitely should go check himout if you haven't, but you also
no false advertising.
Speaker 1 (41:18):
It's only just over a thousand, but 1,200, 1,400.
Speaker 2 (41:24):
There's a fair few, yeah, so definitely go start
there if you haven't heard aboutthis before, so you can get
introduced to all that.
But people who want more like,who are like okay, sign me up.
I feel amazing after that.
Like what would that next stepbe for somebody Like, what do
you offer people with respect tothat?
Speaker 1 (41:43):
Yeah, I have a number of programs, but there is uh,
there are two different five dayprograms on my website that are
free, uh called Tap Into yourBest Self.
Okay, so I always haveMichelangelo's David everywhere,
because Michelangelo said thestatue is already there, perfect
, inside the marble.
All I have to do is chip awaywhat doesn't belong to reveal
(42:05):
the masterpiece inside, and tome that's a perfect analogy for
what we're doing with tappingwe're just clearing away what
doesn't belong to reveal thatbest version of ourselves.
So five days of tapping ondifferent things like
self-forgiveness, self-love, andthen there's another one called
success beyond belief.
(42:25):
So it's five days of tapping toclear that resistance to being
more successful, just like whatwe were tapping on earlier.
Speaker 3 (42:35):
And yeah get those at tapwithbradcom.
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Perfect.
All right, I will put all ofthat in the show notes, for sure
, and you guys get to tap inbecause it is life-changing.
So thank you so much forsharing all of this with us
today.
This has been amazing.
Well, I don't know about you,but I feel exponentially better
and I always do after I do anykind of tapping, but I don't
(42:59):
know.
There's something really amazingabout Brad's energy as well,
like I'm a really big believerin that.
So, again, all of his links andhis YouTube and his programs
that he mentioned that's allgoing to be down below in the
show notes for you.
Whether you're watching this onYouTube or listening on Apple
Podcasts or Spotify, all of thatinformation is down below.
(43:20):
So please make sure you go andengage with him and his content.
What he does and how much hegives away is just kind of
amazing.
So I hope you had as much of apositive experience from that as
I did and that it helps youlearn something new on how to
rewire some of that old stuffthat you just don't need to hold
(43:42):
on to anymore.
So, as always, if you found thisepisode helpful, make sure you
let me know.
Tag me on Instagram if you postabout it.
Tag Brad.
I'm going to have all of hislinks below for you as well.
It's always so nice to knowthat you guys resonated with the
content that I'm sharing andwith the guests that I have on.
(44:04):
So let me know, tag me so I canrepost it as well as always a
review and rating.
So so always appreciate it aswell, so you can do that really
easily by going to rate thispodcastcom.
Slash Renee Bowen and I'll loveyou forever.
So have a great rest of yourweek, guys.
I hope that it is beautiful andthat you let go of a lot.
(44:27):
Love you Bye.
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