What prevents us from being our authentic self is the act of not honoring our real feelings. We all have the habit of doing many things with our feelings, including; covering them up, dismissing them, minimizing them, denying them, withholding..We spend a lot of energy dishonoring our true nature - who we really are. Inside our unpleasant and undealt feelings is FEAR. We are afraid what we will experience or maybe terrified what more will come up. We've become invested in protecting ourselves; yet we pay a price. We become unconsciously frozen in our present life which can manifest in a myriad of ways.

Are you afraid to speak up?
Do you avoid confrontation?
Do you avoid taking risks?
Are you easily sensitive to others feedback?
Are you excessively controlling?
Do you feel depressed and anxious and sometimes not sure why?

I could list hundreds of questions pointing to how we are not being and accessing who we really are, avoiding and holding back all because of fear. When we work through our feelings, we can release our fear and judgements of self. Rage, fear, shame...can be toxic energies holding us back from unlimited potential for joy and abundance.

As you free your own energies, you free the influence of others over you, past and present

"How you meet your losses will determine the amount of peace you have".(Clay Miller- Shaman)

Tapping Directions

1. Tap along with the following tapping to reduce your negative emotions and raise your emotional vibration.
2. The goal is to reduce your emotional intensity with the tapping rounds. First we address the negative feelings to help release the negative vibrations you are holding. Then we tap on positive rounds to release the intensity and invite new positive shifts in thoughts and feelings.
3. Tune into a feeling you tend to avoid (anger, sadness etc.) example - "I don't want want to feel anger"
4. Using the 0-10 scale - rate how strong the avoidance feels 0 = none 10= extreme avoidance

* NOTE:- FEEL FREE TO CHANGE THE WORDS I USE TO YOUR WORDS IN THE TAPPING- FOR EXAMPLE YOU CAN SUBSTITUE THE WORD UPSET FOR ANGRY; WHATEVER FITS FOR YOU

EFT Tapping_- Loving Who We Really Are

Starting with the Karate chop point:

Even though I don't want to feel_____, I deeply and completely accept myself
Even though I avoid feeling this way, I accept who I am and how I feel
Even though I don't want to feel this, I accept who I am and how I feel

Eyebrow - I don't want to feel_____
Side of eye - I hate feeling____
Under eye- I don't want this feeling
Nose - I hate feeling____
Chin - I don't want to feel worse
Collarbone - Feeling this will cause more pain
Under arm - I'm tired of the pain
Head - I don't want to feel____

Take A Breath!

* Rate your intensity now - if your emotional intensity has not reduced, repeat this round again before you go to the next rounds.

Starting with the Karate Chop point:

Even though I resist this feeling, I love and accept all my feelings
Even though I am still afraid to feel this, I'm ok
Even though I've avoided feeling this for a long time, I choose to understand I can be more free by releasing this

Eyebrow - Resisting to feel_____
Side of eye - I don't want to feel____
Under eye - What if I did allow this feeling?
Nose - I might get relief
Chin - I might feel worse
Collarbone - I could never express this feeling before
Underarm - And if I did, there was trouble
Head - What if I could learn to express it safely
Eyebrow - What if I could honor this feeling
Side of eye - Releasing a little at a time
Under eye - Allowing myself to release all this old junk
Nose - I'm tired of being frozen and stuck
Chin - It's scarey to release this
Collarbone - What's really so awful and scarey?
Underarm - It's just a feeling
Head - What if I could open my heart to release just a little

Take a Breath!

Eyebrow - I choose to honor me
Side Of Eye - I'm considering honoring all my feelings
Under Eye - Including ______(your feeling)
Nose - Choosing to surrender just a little
Chin - Visualizing a beautiful healing light from the universe
Collarbone - In this light, the fear melts even more
Underarm - In this light , I can allow the feeling and watch it go by
Head - I am_____. I own it
Eyebrow - I am____. I claim it
Side of eye - It's just a part of me from years of holding
Under Eye - I choose to no longer hide from this feeling
Nose - The more I hide, the more power I give it
Chin - I feel ____and I lessen it's power
Collarbone- It's just a feeling, I honor it and it passes
Head - I choose to love and honor all my feelings
Eyebrow - Opening my heart to being who I am
Side of Eye - Allowing all of me to come through
Under Eye - I love allowing more of me to come through
Nose - Allowing in more peace into my heart
Collarbone - As I allow___ and release this
Underarm - This feeling of___has less and less of hold on me
Head - As I release the influence of the past, I can be free
Free to be who I really am

Take a Breath!

You might want to end this tapping with saying thank you to your higher power, God, Universe, source energy (whatever fits for you).
Then you are in a place of appreciation which is one of the highest positive feeling vibrations you can be in.

Author's Bio: 

Ruth is a licensed Mental Health Therapist, practicing for over 28 years. She is an advanced practitioner of EFT , AAMET Certified EFT Trainer and Certified EMDR clinician. Early on in her career,she counseled young children with behavioral issues in the school system. Later she worked in a residential treatment center for chemical dependency and alcoholism. Presently ( the past 16 years) she has a private practice in Florida and conducts EFT workshops for the community and for health profressionals, personal transformation, insomnia, and EFT levels I &II and Advanced EFT. You can visit her website at www.taptotransform.com.