EFT - Unlock The Energy Magician Within
Sooner or later, people using the new energy therapies including EFT will
come up against some inner blockages to really making the best of these
wonderful new healing and developmental techniques - their own fears, doubts and
blockages about "energy magic".
This doesn't kick in right away, at least not as long as "nothing is
happening".
But when something does happen, as it is bound to because the techniques
actually do work (!), old beliefs and all kinds of fears which may have even
been entirely unconscious before come to the fore. In general, it affects people
in two ways.
One group will simply "forget" all about EFT et al and go back to
whatever they were doing before. When asked why they haven't used it on their
latest problems, they will look very surprised and have no answer - but they
will forget it again as soon as the person who asked has left the room and they
just don't use it any longer.
Another group will continue to use it but will not be as efficient in using
it as they could be - if there weren't some serious reservations somewhere to
which we will come later. In the same way as Group 1, they might also simply
"forget" to use EFT with more serious issues or just fail to notice
the most obvious opening statements, for example.
Most of us are not in these two categories but their experiences are a
pointer to how *we* can make all our energy work, with ourselves and with
others, much more potent and effective.
Energy Techniques Reversals
Any form of existing "energy techniques reversals" will of course
make it harder to do any kind of energy work, and including using EFT in self
help, congruently and with the power and effectiveness. You could think of it as
trying to do fitness exercises in handcuffs, with stones in your shoes, tin cans
tied to your ankles and a bag over your head. That's what reversals, blockages
and contortions on the subject of "all that spooky energy stuff" do to
a person who sincerely wants to learn and use these amazing techniques.
This of course, is just as it is and no-one's fault nor character flaw; I
think we all know ourselves enough by now to know that there is an awful lot
about ourselves we're not consciously aware of. All kinds of old entrainments
are "in there", running beneath the surface and causing contortions of
all kinds; now's the time to relieve ourselves of these so that we can get to
use EFT and the new energy techniques and systems, from therapeutic touch to
martial arts, congruently, easily and with a clear and calm mind.
Let's Be Honest ...
No-one is going to know or hear what your objections to energy work might
be.
Do this by yourself, on your own, with no wide-eyed students watching; and
don't be afraid. If you *are* afraid, that's fair enough and nothing but another
energy systems blockage or injury to take care of. In the name of healing, flow
and logic, just take heart and go for it.
It doesn't matter how utterly "silly" these objections might
sound.
Please do not censor the thoughts which might come to you when you have
created an open confessional space to your own self on the topic of
"objections to working with energy". There is NO such thing as a silly
objection that may be brushed aside because it "seems childish" or
because "I've already taken care of that in therapy 5 years ago". If
it is here, then it isn't resolved and it needs treatment!
Do NOT dismiss thoughts that are contrary to your own most important
beliefs.
A great many people have lovingly and carefully build themselves new belief
sets from the ashes of their old ones - beliefs they were taught by their
elders, school, church etc. In order to do this, they had to severely dismiss
the old beliefs and thoughts, time and time again until it seemed that they have
ceased to exist. If you open a space for such things, they might well re-surface
and there may well be an understandable and reflex-like action to push them back
down. Try and remember, should this be the case for you, that we are finally
healing these things and really having them be gone and that this is really
going to help you in all ways - as you can imagine.
General Objections To "Unleashing The Energy Magician Within"
I smiled as I typed this - I could have chosen a much, much more
un-controversial title for this essay and the reason that I used the term
"Energy Magician" is exactly to have some of you who read it
experience a moment of fear or uncertainty, or rejection, "No, no, I'm only
a healer! I only want to do good and help other people ..."
I am not sure why, but energy and magic have indeed, been linked across the
ages. We often hear people say that "EFT works like magic" and we may
have even thought this ourselves on occasion. Magic, as I'm sure you know, does
not have a pure white resonance to it - that's not something we can help, any of
us who have been brought up with the precepts of the Western World, from fairy
tales to full out good VS evil indoctrination.
You may laugh, but it is *extremely common* that people who work with energy
have a great and deep fear below their own awareness that energy work may just
be - not good.
Not just actively religious people - and the actual denomination matters
little if at all - are at the low end unsure, and at the high end very scared
indeed when their healing or their self healing really works as if by magic.
There is also a common idea that doing energy work is somehow contrary to the
teachings of any particular religion, and this very strongly includes the
religion of science. In this particular religion, energy work is NOT a part of
any of their many bibles and causes people who particularly pride themselves on
being sensible, rational and logical to have much the same reversal and
blockages as those who were raised in other types of religions.
Personally, I see energy work - from therapeutic touch to martial arts! - as
just the same as seeking to make sure that the body has a reasonable diet and
that if it is injured, it is cared for in the proper and effective manner as it
deserves.
It is totally normal, purely systemic and completely sensible; and there is
no need to "buy into" any kind of world view, any kind of religion or
anything else than just being practical in order to learn and use EFT to a level
of mastery.
Examples Of Blockages & Reversals
Each person must of course, find their own objections and reservations in
their own time. These examples here are only meant to draw your attention to the
many different kinds of "blockages" which exist in people and which,
if left untreated, will directly impact their ability to make the most out of
learning and experiencing the benefits of our wonderful new techniques.
Traumatic "Otherworldly" Memories
You may laugh but it is true - a child severely scared by a ghost (or what
they might have thought was a ghost!) may well become "allergic to the
para-scientific". The same holds for teenage experiences with ouija boards
and Tarot decks, and many other similar experiences, including frightening
dreams and "sensing strange entities" which is far more common amongst
young children than most would suspect.
As a good proportion of people in the energy therapies field have been on a
long and colourful journey across a great many modalities before they arrived
here, there may also be traumatic experiences with soothsayers, channellers,
healers, groups or on workshops to be considered in this context.
Remember: If it still hurts to think about right now, it is an energetic
injury and requires healing!
Remember: Fear does NOT protect us. It clouds rational thinking and gets
between you and the true experience of the Universe itself!
Treat such memories with the Story Protocol until they are restored and your
mind, body and energy system runs cleanly when you think of the experience.
Religious Entrainments
These are very powerful entrainments and based primarily on the emotion of
fear - fear of displeasing God, the authorities that are as good as God (elders,
parents, priests, teachers etc), fear of hell and damnation, fear of "not
being good". Young children can experience emotions far more profoundly
than older people do, simply because firstly "now is everything" and
secondly because they do not yet have the barriers of conscious thought to
protect themselves; so even people who might think they are completely over
their old upbringings and limiting beliefs may still have true wounds in their
totality which do require healing now, and especially if they wish to work with
the energy systems of their own bodies.
Remember: To love God wholeheartedly you need love, not fear. Fear gets
between you and God, no matter what religion. To heal the injuries that result
in fear is a good thing and will lead to more capacity and more instances of
love. This is always worthwhile, whether you wish to work with energy or not.
Scientific Entrainments
Science has done a good job of marketing itself "as the only choice for
the thinking man" - and thus, played an opening gambit that makes rational
investigation beyond its own bounds virtually impossible.
For someone with a "scientific mind" it is very difficult to not
have a great many objections to the whole subject of energy approaches. Here are
a few common examples:
- I feel uncomfortable with this energy stuff.
- There are parts of me that don't like it.
- There are parts of me that just don't believe in it.
- If this was any good, why wasn't it taught at school?
- Its just not "my kind of thing".
- It's all unproven mumbo-jumbo.
- I don't want to turn into some dolphin freak.
- I'd like to believe in it but I can't.
- It doesn't make any sense to me.
- The theories are unscientific and flawed.
Just as in the religious objections you are not "tapping
your love for God" away, in the scientific objections your are NOT
"tapping your common sense" away.
Remember: Feeling ill at ease clouds the thinking mind just
as well as it clouds the loving heart and it *reduces your effectivity* in
learning more about these techniques, doing your own research, making up your
own mind as to what is useful and what is only superstition.
Perceived Personal Limitations
This is the last of the "energy magic blockers" I would draw your
attention to.
We have spend a lifetime constructing these strange things called "self
concepts" - often if not always erroneous, unhelpful constructions full of
conflicting decisions as to who or what we are, and what we can get to be and
do.
Once again, what we are looking for in order to correct (heal) so that each
one of us is able to do what we are doing more congruently, easier and thus, a
great deal more powerfully in every way, is anything that causes confusion, with
our old friend "fear" once again a high priority. Of course, all other
types of emotions (read alarm signals to an underlying injury in the energy
body) which make themselves known should also be treated, as soon as you become
aware of them.
Here are a few examples of "perceived personal limitations" which
indeed, have a strong effect on your experiences with the energy therapies and
techniques:
- You need a special talent - and I don't have it.
- I have some talent but nothing special.
- I'm only a
- I couldn't handle that kind of power and/or responsibility.
- I have never been any good at anything - why should this be any
different?!
- I don't deserve to be good at this.
- I'm not a healer so I don't need this.
- I don't want to be good at it because it would mean ...
Remember: We have noses, we have arms, we have a heart and we have an
energy system. You are entitled to make use of all of it by right of birth
alone.
In Conclusion
Using EFT to get better at using EFT is quite obvious and really, very useful
indeed.
Apart from helping you to unlock some of your resting potential, I would also
consider this issue of our relationship with working with the human energy
system as a particularly important step in your development as "a human
being who is beginning to learn about their own totality".
This is also a superb opportunity to revisit our respective energy systems
and to do some much needed, long overdue healing which can only be a helpful
thing for anyone, and no matter what they desire to do with "energy"
after that, or their particular mission.
Dr Silvia Hartmann, PhD
25. 04. 2003
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