May 12
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How to Tap Into the Power Within…For Outward Abundance 1
Step One
How do you create thoughts and emotions?
Memories are swirling around my head creating a cornucopia of thoughts and emotions. A relatively new therapy, first introduced as a method to rid psychiatric patients of phobias, in the late 1990s, called “Tapping” seems to have released bunches of them!
Before we go into that, I feel the need to share a brief bit of my own history that many of you have read before in the “longhand” version.
I spent over twenty-five years working alongside a psychiatrist, (M.D.) as a close friend, associate, partner in a number of businesses and “Christian ministry” which included endeavors such as our conducting “Counseling in the Power of the Holy Spirit” workshops for church pastors under the auspices of local ministerial associations.
I had written the syllabus for the workshop in collaboration with the psychiatrist and from that time forward he encouraged me to write a book – with him egging me on – I finally wrote several!
Our relationship began in an Evangelical Free Church in a small town in Northern California at which we both were officers.
He was finishing his residency in psychiatry at the large State mental hospital nearby (3,000 in-patients at the time) and head of the county mental health clinic in town. I was managing a trucking company operating throughout five states that was headquartered there.
Two years after we met, we both moved to the Pacific Northwest where he began a successful practice, full time, and I formed a training consulting firm of which he later became a partner.
A few years prior to his retirement, he became the medical director for a 66 bed, private mental hospital which also had a sizeable outpatient program. He had taken the position of Medical Director on a half-day basis (this I thought of somewhat as a joke since he spent 8 – 10 hours daily at it) and another 8 hours with his private patients.
Fun at work or work is fun?
The hospital also provided, on premises, a separate, fully furnished expansive office for his private practice, which had eliminated all his office overhead. This included reception services and the hospital switchboard handled the three lines dedicated to his private practice number; eliminating his need for an answering service.
All of the other costs formerly associated with his private practice including insurance, utilities, janitorial service, office supplies and so forth, were all now taken care of by the hospital.
Plus, he said, he was having more fun than ever in his life and so the 16 – 18 hour days were “well worth it.”
He introduced me to the hospital administrator and suggested they use my training consulting service and writing skills to develop some of the programs he had initiated and the administrator entered a contract with me enthusiastically.
This involved my working directly and indirectly with many other mental health professionals; which taught me both the human wisdom and human folly of being introspective …towards which much of the profession gravitates.
As I’ve written in the past, I drag out my close personal and business association with a psychiatrist for the sake of credibility, especially when I write about seeming “whacko stuff like demons” – publisher Ryan Bruce’s term – although he too believes that there are “opposition forces” and he, too, has had experiences with them, but he doesn’t use the term. I now prefer “spirit-agents.”
However, the psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and others on staff at the hospital, certainly believed in their existence – they thought, one and all, that the specialty for which the hospital was widely noted, Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), patients had an “evil presence” around them which was causing the problem – their term, not mine!
Hopefully this little trip down memory lane will provide a backdrop for what follows. PLEASE REMEMBER, as I stated in the introduction:
I don't kow how this works but we sure are having fun!
“In other words, I am totally excited to be on a brand new path, but am not coming to it with any expertise or success stories of personal achievement. As was my writing of the Fourth Dimension, I clearly don’t know what I am talking about experientially, but, man, am I having a time!
“Fight or flight” is a “natural survival instinct” necessary for self- preservation, but medical research tells us that it is responsible for much of the stress and tension that is the root cause of many diseases which are killing some of our number.
What this is telling me is that any method for reducing this “natural instinct,” when it arises inappropriately, can be a good thing. Yoga is one such method coming to mind, including yogic breathing and stretching exercises, which I have found extremely helpful for me.
Enter “tapping” …I have shared previously that a line from a movie has had a profound effect upon my psyche …and fits into my adopted purpose of continually asking our SPIRIT-PARENT, “what now,” about every area in my life.
The referenced line is, “It is okay to do what you want to do …until it is time to do what you’re meant to do.”
Okay, so what now? I am “meant” to write this article!
It won't take long to discover that many people are tapping.
When I started my research into “tapping” –Ryan has been utilizing the method for several months with no little successes. I asked him about it and he sent me a link to an on-line video.
I asked our SPIRIT-PARENT what I should do and felt compelled to drop all other activity and delve into it further and did so for about 18 hours over two days, watching a variety of presentations of various different techniques and applications.
There is a ton of medical science literature on the Internet that is rather impressive and explains why it is so effective.
I called Ryan after my first couple of hours and told him I was amazed because of the similarity to what I was given to do and have shared with others …and what I attribute to my own spiritual transformation; which, by the way, I first introduced in the book Leapfrog.
Ryan challenged me that it wasn’t the same and gave me his reasoning. I reminded him of one definitive likeness that made him listen to my perspective. That is, in one of our early recorded telephone interviews, “podcasts,” after experimenting with my application of Jesus’ admonition to “pound and demand” an ever increasing awareness of the presence and power of our SPIRIT-PARENT.
The “likeness” was, after spending several days experimenting with “my” application of “pounding,” Ryan expressed enthusiasm that it was an “excellent tool for anyone who wanted to experience spiritual growth.” He admitted again, almost two years after first trying it, that it had been a huge step in his own growth.
Try it, it's free!
After several days of “tapping” I have clarity about the dynamics and also the freedom and leading of our SPIRIT-PARENT to share my own finding.
As a step one, may I suggest a little research of your own that will cut through the hours I spent as to what might work best for you, but first a little testimonial of what I have experienced in the last few days.
While I am generally in excellent health for a guy going on 85, still jog and such other physical nonsense – I do experience occasional troublesome symptoms from stress …the “fight or flight” syndrome.
This morning I am noticing a huge breakthrough in the reduction of tension, particularly in my shoulders and feet – when I get excited about what I’m being given and transcribing it – I have had a tendency to tense up and stay overly tensed up until I’m finally finished – not a healthy response.
So, you ask, what is the difference – I’m sitting here relaxed and typing like crazy – and that from just understanding and applying how “pounding” at the appropriate “median points” quickens the process of “healing.”
In Step Two, up next, I will most likely share the link to the specific online video Ryan sent me and which brought me to the place of asking Daddy/Mommy/Spirit, “What now?” …and from Whom I received the “go ahead.”
For now, my suggested first step: “Google” Why Tapping Works by Ronald Ruden, M.D., Ph.D. This article explains the neurobiology of tapping. It’s long, but fairly easy to understand and, from my perspective, helped me get past some of my mild negative reactions to some of the varying applications that I thought were somewhat distracting.