Archive for October 2009

Emotional evolution the easy way

Do you know these awesome moments when you finally GET something?

I had such an experience recently.

I had a very disturbing dream of giving an old man a massage (I don’t give massages when I am awake), and he complained and said he would not pay me. Also, two massage therapists told me that I had done a very bad thing.

When I woke up feeling horrible, I did something I usually do with bad dreams: I finished the story, in this case by imagining that I got a letter and a $1000 check from the old man telling me that my massage has been wonderful after all, and that he feels absolutely great. That made me happy.

Time to go back to sleep. However, at that moment it hit me: What if ALL the bad, painful experiences in our lives are such “patterns interrupt”? Every one of them, no exceptions. Every single horror story is only a nightmare because we left it unfinished, and all we have to do is to finish the story.

That is evolution…

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Where have all the toys gone…

Have you ever thought of tapping for the toys you lost, the toys that were taken away from you, or the toys you never got when you were a child?
The beloved teddy bear you forgot in a train, the doll house that was given away because you were “too old”, the dazzling red fire truck you never found under the Christmas tree…

As grown-ups, we tend to take these things not too seriously, but the little girl(boy) inside of us could still be deeply hurt.

So do remember, and tap on the feelings of loss, grief, anger, sadness, or whatever is coming up. The time for healing this is now.

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