Tuesday 29 January 2008

The Tapping News goes BLOG!

Dear Readers

The Tapping News is the newsletter that I've sent out once a month (or so, sometimes months accelerate without me noticing) for the last four years to those who have trained with me on Emotional Freedom Techniques workshops. EFT is also known as the tapping therapy because that is what we do. Well the Tapping News will still go out in Newsletter form but tonight I have taken this big step into the web of life and here I am BLOGGING!!!

On Friday a girlfriend and I went to The Craiglands Hotel which was our venue last year for www.eftmasterclass.co.uk and is where April's exploration of EFT and Brainwaves will be held www.eftevents.com only this time it was for a night out with the Idle Hands superb local jazz and soul trio. After an excellent meal we watched slightly envious as several couples glided around the dance floor with apparent ease. "Can you dance?" I asked and Linda confessed shamefaced that as a tall girl at school she had been a "boy" in dance lessons and now couldn't not lead! I laughed because that had been exactly my experience too. Every attempt to dance had failed because my body hadn't a clue how to follow and I'd crushed the egos as well as the toes of potential partners.

Of course I got to thinking about EFT. Could I tap to unlearn a learned behaviour? And if successful would I then have to learn the behaviour not learned? This seems to me fundemental to therapeutic change. We learn something when young which fits at the time then as our circumstances and environment change what was once a solution becomes a problem. Part of the change is the unlearning of the old solution and the other part is the learning of the new solution.

Your thoughts?

Gwyneth