tapping the depths of the soul

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EFT points and tips on how to tap

The EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)Basic Sequence

1. IDENTIFY THE ISSUE: Focus on bringing an emotion or issue or physical ailment into your awareness in the present moment.

2. THE EVALUATION: When you have brought the emotion or sensation up to its full intensity (or whatever intensity feels comfortable), measure how strong it feels between one and ten.

3. THE AFFIRMATION: While tapping the “Karate Chop” point shown above in a steady, fashion; repeat the following affirmation three times:

“Even though I have this ____________, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

So, for example, if you had a headache, you would repeat three times something like: “Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself “

Note: The affirmation may be modified to suit whatever you feel is the best approach for you and the best way to heal yourself. Some principles for healing are: acceptance, love, freedom, peace, forgiveness, gratitude, joy, and all that empowers.

Some other possible examples are:

Even though I have a sore back, I love and accept myself anyway, or

Even though I feel really angry right now, I choose to be peaceful instead, or

Even though I feel guilty about not doing the right thing, I forgive myself or

Even though I am wheezing, I allow myself to breathe freely etc.

4. THE TAPPING SEQUENCE: Using your index and middle fingers, tap with a medium pressure, about seven times on each of the acu-points in the order shown on the diagrams above while repeating the following reminder phrase once at each point: “This ______________.”

Note: You can tap on the points on either side of the face or body. It doesn’t matter which you use.

So using the example of the headache again, after going through the initial affirmation whilst tapping the karate chop point, you would then tap on each of the other points as follows

Begin with the top of the head, tap whilst saying “This headache”

then tap the eyebrow point and say “This headache”

then tap the side of the eye point and say “This headache” etc.

Note: the order and sequence of the points is of no importance. We have chosen to go down the body simply to make it easier to remember all the points. The technique is very flexible and forgiving. It usually works even if you forget one or more points.

5. THE RE-EVALUATION: When you have completed the tapping sequence, take a moment to focus on the emotion or issue again and notice how it feels. Evaluate it again between one and ten to bring any difference in your experience into your awareness.

Go back to step 1 and repeat sequence until intensity diminishes or passes.

valdereee ....

a bushwalk every fortnight or so, alternating with long bike rides
(start of a life plan, any way)
first walk, somewhere north of melbourne - near mount macedon, perhaps

and here's another one! we can visit my mummy at the same time

down at flinders on the mornington peninsula, tea tree creek bay walk (as seen on bob's bushwalking site!) looks lovely, especially on a warm autumn day

bob says:

Tea Tree Creek Bay is a wonderful secluded cove on the Flinders coast, 90 km from Melbourne, in the Mornington Peninsula National Park. It is about 3 km west of the town of Flinders, and is accessed by a 1 km foot-track and staircase from the Boneo Rd. A small car park is located at the start of the signposted track. There are magnificent views looking south across the open ocean of Bass Strait, as well as the dramatic coastlines from the clifftop, in either direction, with waves breaking over large basalt rock formations.

thanks, Bob! (i think this is possibly the blowhole track - not sure! not it's NOT. bob has a google map - it's further west than the blowhole track) it's very close to the wonderful "golf course drive" just outside flinders, though.

shoe love, i'm sure these would look nifty at the end of my legs as i walked (or cycled!) along, peach/pink on grey; navy/yellow

still researching appropriate "knapsacks on my back"

• Speaking of maps, this one's fantastic for finding walks by locale
  this guy also categorises his walks by
• region or grade or time or distance - i love the obsessive!

photos from a recent walk at mt baw baw national park

soothing the soul

some art to see

acca

Annika von Hausswolff
Hey Buster! What do you know about desire?
1993
Colour photograph
Courtesy of the artist and Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Mortality
8 October – 28 November 2010
Some of the world’s leading artists explore life’s journey from the moment of lift-off to the final send-off and all the bits in-between in this new group exhibition, part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
Exhibiting artists: Charles Anderson, George Armfield, Melanie Boreham, Bureau of Inverse Technology, Aleks Danko, Tacita Dean, Gabrielle De Vietri, Sue Ford, Garry Hill, Larry Jenkins, Peter Kennedy, Anastasia Klose, Arthur Lindsay, Dora Meeson, Anna Molska, TV Moore, Tony Oursler, Neil Pardington, Giulio Paolini, Mark Richards, David Rosetzky, Anri Sala, James Shaw, Louise Short, William Strutt, Darren Sylvester, Fiona Tan, Bill Viola, Annika von Hausswolff, Mark Wallinger, Lynette Wallworth, Gillian Wearing.
Plan your visit
MORTALITY includes several durational works. In particular you may wish to plan your visit to coincide with the screening times of Tacita Dean’s Presentation Sisters and Bill Viola’s The Passing.
Both films run for approximately an hour on the hour.

centre for contemporary photography

15.10.2010—12.12.2010

Gallery 1

TARYN SIMON

AN AMERICAN INDEX OF THE HIDDEN AND UNFAMILIAR

Inspired by rumours of WMDs and secret sites in Iraq, Taryn Simon decided to address secret sites in her own country, photographing hidden places and things within America's borders. Ranging across the realms of science, government, medicine, entertainment, nature, security and religion, her subjects include glowing radioactive capsules, a braille edition of Playboy, a death-row prisoners' exercise yard, an inbred tiger, a teenage corpse rotting in a forensic research facility, and a Scientology screening room. An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar explores a dialectic of security and paranoia that is distinctly American. Offering a heart-of-darkness tour of Bush-period America, it also reflects on photography's role in revealing and concealing.