How Does Meridian Tapping Work? A quick review, history, different methods

BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO MERIDIAN TAPPING

Central to Chinese Medicine, meridians are pathways in the body, which energy flows along. Meridians are usually associated with a bodily organ, but that may confuse some people because it is not just about that organ. These lines run vertically throughout the body carrying the life force, chi, or spirit. It’s the power lines running through our physical house, the body.

The funny thing is that even though I know that now, I did not know more than a thimbleful about meridians two decades ago when I did my first meridian tapping. But…it still worked.

Way back, as my kids would say, when I began business as a massage therapist in a fairly large city, my schooling was lacking in the area of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) and energy work. A little smattering of it was taught, but very darn little. However, I learned a lot from my clients.

One of my regular ladies taught me to tap certain places on her back. She instructed me to place one hand an inch or so above her heart, or the top of her head, while tapping with the fingertips of my other hand. The results were amazing. You may laugh at this, go ahead, but I didn’t even know what to call it. I just did it. It worked on my clients, and own my own sore spots.

THAT WAS AND IS MERIDIAN TAPPING…ENERGY CLEARING.

So, twenty years have gone by along with tons and tons of studying and learning about energy. What makes it flow. What makes it stop. What makes it short-circuit, how to fix it so that the flow of life begins again.

In practical terms, meridian tapping and energy clearing makes everyday life so sweet with freedom from emotional and physical pain. Whether it’s depression, anger, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, ulcers, whatever…people are finding out that meridian tapping, or, a combination with other methods of clearing energy works.

One wonderful woman who mightily changed my life for the better is Carol Tuttle through her book “Remembering Wholeness” and her interactive website of tapping along with Carol on any of the many topics listed there.
She is one special lady who combines several things together in what I call the Power Package which includes Tapping, Clearing, Meditation, Rapid Eye Movements, and all the tools you can get your hands on. To try out her videos, buy her book or check out her website, click here.

It was affordable and a whole lot cheaper than going through years of counseling, therapy, or analysis. I’m not saying those things never work, but for fast permanent results try tapping your meridians with EFT Gary Craig’s method, or, Carol Tuttle’s method, or, Carol Look’s method. Out of hundreds to pick from there is an EFT, or Tapping facilitator suited to just your style. Each Tapping Counselor or Facilitator has their own personality and their own style - which is great. Pick one who fits you.

Gary Craig who coined the term Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, originally started the big bonfire of popularity around EFT with thousands of testimonies and spectacular results. However, before Gary Craig, there was a therapy called Thought Field Therapy (or TFT) formulated by a psychologist, Dr Roger Callahan.

Gary Craig learned the TFT system and was impressed by it's capabilities. But he felt it should be available to everybody, without the expense and delay of having to see a therapist every time. Gary finally concluded that if you repeatedly went through all of the tapping points that were used in TFT, regardless of the problem, it would still work. And, he was right. His website is called Emofree.

Now, years later, the energy clearing world is still developing with new styles, new methods, new ways of doing the same thing. Dr. Bradley Nelson who wrote the book “The Emotion Code”, which I highly recommend, uses magnets to clear along the central meridian lines while setting intent on the emotions needing cleared. That works too! To purchase his book from Amazon, click here. I’ve only begun to use the magnetic clearing method, but it works. Works great! This is simply another tool in my toolbox when I know the client will not do the tapping, or, I need a “quick fix” for some pain. It’s great, however, I see some advantages to the meridian tapping.

The advantages to meridian tapping and other energy clearing methods are that while tapping, other emotions often surface which can be cleared next, then next, and so on. It makes sense to have more than one tool in your toolbox.

Carol Tuttle also uses meditation techniques such as Reframing past events like your birth to reform the memory and its ‘thought form’ which brings a lot of healing. When meditation is used along with Meridian Tapping and Energy Clearing, that is the POWER PACKAGE with rocket boosters.

There is another special wonderful couple who combines all this into a Power Package – Phillip and Jane Mountrose of www.gettingthrough.org.
They also offer convenient courses which you can take in your own home by books and DVD’s.

Carol Look has a wonderful set of DVD’s on EFT for Pain. Carol uses her own adaptation of Tapping which is a free-style method. The “Tapper” uses whatever phrases come to mind as he/she taps along. It is the neurolinguistics version of Tapping.

Remember to have fun as you go. Enjoy the ride. Laugh at your own faltering steps, and keep on going. I’ve had more fun the past few years as a student, and a practitioner of Meridian Tapping and Energy Clearing than the previous two decades. Love, laugh, and TAP your troubles away!!!