Last week I got an unexpected letter from the IRS and kind of freaked out! My mind immediately went to “Oh no! I’m being audited!” and the feeling of dread was intense.
Have you ever felt anxious about opening a letter or email? Or hitting play on a voice message?
Whenever I’m faced with a situation like that, especially if the stakes seem high, I fall back on simple EFT tapping. This may seem too “woo woo” for some folks, but I believe we can actually hack our reality this way.
Many physicists believe there are multiple alternate Universes potentially branching out from every moment. Naturally we’d prefer a reality with good news (and no audit, thank you very much). But do we really get to choose?
Maybe.
There’s such a thing as Karma, no doubt. And perhaps our lives are mostly planned out before we’re even born. But if it is possible to choose our reality, this simple trick may work wonders for you.
The Hack
Before opening the letter, email, message or whatever, sit down and prepare to tap. Start by measuring, on our zero to ten scale, just how upset you’re feeling.
Next, go ahead and set a timer (you probably have one on your phone). A timer is helpful because you just keep tapping until it goes off.
I usually start out with 10 minutes and if I’m not down to zero, I just set the timer again and keep tapping.
The idea is to tap your intensity down to zero, or as low as possible, until you feel neutral, or even at peace with the potential bad news.
What should you say while you tap? Start by naming your emotions and where and how you feel them in your body: “Even though I have this cold, gray lump of dread in my stomach…”
Once the intensity starts to drop a bit, you might shift to worst case scenario tapping:
“Even if the test results do come back positive…”
“Even if I didn’t get the job…”
“Even if he’s writing to break up with me…”
“Even if I am being audited, and it’s a huge giant hassle and maybe I owe money, I want to get to a calm and peaceful place….”
Whatever your worst fears are, name them and tap down the intensity.
Sometimes it can help to throw in words of perspective:
“…I’ll still be okay”
“…this won’t kill me”
“…I’m actually safe and there are good people in my life who care for me”
“…I’m not trapped. I do have options”
The point here is to help reassure your body, to help get it out of fight or flight. This may help get more blood flowing to your frontal cortex and new solutions may arise.
It’s totally okay to be repetitive with your tapping. In fact, it might be for the best to just keep saying the same words over and over. Again, the goal is to get your emotional intensity as close to zero as humanly possible.
At that point, go ahead and open the letter, email, message or whatever.
Does this actually work? Will doing this tapping avert disaster, or bump you over into a better alternate reality? There’s really no way to know, but I’m convinced its worked for me many times.
The first time I tried it I was new to tapping and facing a minor financial crisis. I tapped for 40 minutes straight until I felt a sense of peace. When I checked my bank balance there was an extra $4000. I kid you not! More recently, that letter from the IRS turned out to be some generic announcement.
Whether or not this hack has any effect on your outcome though, it will have a profound effect on you! Wouldn’t it be nice to move through this chaotic world with a more unshakeable peace and equanimity?
That’s a lofty goal perhaps, but this simple hack might actually help.
Copyright 2023 Rob Nelson
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