When people ask me, “So, what do you tap on,” I echo EFT founder Gary Craig’s answer.
I say “Everything.”
Folks look at me, still perplexed. But when I say “everything,” that’s what I mean. Here’s a fun example…
More tapping into the movies…
If you happen to love a good movie and have a favourite, why not just take a moment now. Think about the themes in that movie that might intrigue or draw you in?
Is it the hero/ine? Maybe it’s a supporting actor’s role that you really resonate with? Or the story arc of what the hero/ine is dealing with? Is it the satisfying ending (whether happy or otherwise)? Maybe, it’s the setting or time of life depicted?
Whatever it is that you love about that movie, chances are it’s because there’s something about that story that also resonates deep inside you – in your unconscious. Perhaps the movie reflects your beliefs, your feelings, or possibly the challenges you are also facing in life.
Whatever it is, you can tap along with the movie as you’re watching it. Tapping in this way can be an enjoyable way to help ‘borrow benefits.’ (If you’re not sure what that means, check it out here).
Tapping out of scarcity and into abundance…
For example, in another post (here) I reflect on tapping along with the movie Scrooge, while I happened to be focused in my daily life on manifesting abundance consciousness. To manifest abundance, we need to first clear out old outmoded and often unconscious human beliefs, feelings and experiences that are like obstacles to our success. That particular movie is terrific for identifying some of the ancient fear-based patterns of human greed and selfishness that have plagued humanity for centuries. But the transformation into deep gratitude and sharing our abundance in the latter part of the story arc is magnificent to tap into as well. And it’s as simple as tapping along, to ‘borrow the benefits.’
The goldmine offered by children’s movies…
Here’s another wonderful example. Ever notice how sometimes children’s movies really reflect what’s happening in the developing consciousness of humans on Earth?
Look at Mary Poppins, emerging in the early 1960s, as family life began to morph and change after a brief 50s hiatus after WW2. The movie’s themes are: the absentee over-worked father, the mother trying to claim rights and a voice for herself beyond motherhood, the children yearning for magic in a bleak and joyless world. All adding up to a family coming apart at the seams. And it’s the magic of Mary Poppins and Bert, silly laughter, kites and wonderful chalk paintings that help weave the family’s relationships back together in a new and transformed way.
But if you want a really powerful metaphor for why this tapping work I do matters so much to every single human on Earth (imo), regardless of age, colour, sexual orientation, religion – regardless of all our magnificent differences – watch Disney’s Frozen I and II.
Where the Journey begins, in Frozen 1
The first movie details the heroine Elsa’s (in this case) childhood journey – into experiencing a tragedy in her young life. Given her magnificent gifts, her only way of healing is to freeze herself off from all she loves: to retreat into a trauma capsule of frozen despair. Separated from those she loves, she despairs of how that trauma changed how she sees herself, her gifts and the world so profoundly. She is rescued from her painfully desolate isolation by her sister, who loves her tenaciously.
Healing the old trauma from Frozen 1, in Frozen 2
In the 2nd movie, Elsa is focusing on learning who she really is, what her powers truly are. She goes on the Epic Journey, behind the curtain of mist (not unlike the veils of forgetting that separate 3D life from the morphic field), where she learns to heal what felt irreparably broken and was taken from her. This includes what had been trapped in her grandfather’s time, in the long ago. It takes courage and a willingness to heal old ancestral patterns, to discover the truth (and this is where Hacking Reality tapping also really shines!)
I love that this also entails the heroines re-aligning with all the elementals – something which is much needed in our world. And in this healing, Elsa comes into a new fullness, a wholeness, a new maturity – older, wiser and ready to lead her people. And her younger sister Anna is also likewise transformed. The hard truths they find and face – and the unforeseen almost magical solutions that then open up to them – well, that’s purely what I’ve experienced and witnessed in Hacking Reality sessions.
It’s such a great story, laden with messages for our unconscious…
Children’s brains are like sponges – they absorb everything they see and experience.
And you know how kids love to watch movies – like 30 billion times? I love thinking that this next generation of kids will have these messages stamped deep into their unconscious. They will have absorbed and reabsorbed what’s possible in healing.
And this story has been ‘thickened’ in the Field by all those combined, collective viewings.
Now just imagine if children have been taught to tap. And they also tap along with parts of the movie that move them emotionally. This could be either through their fear or worry or anxiety. Or maybe it’s through the happiness, success, healing themes that are also in the movie.
I can’t speak for anyone other than me, of course. But I find this whole story arc, and particularly the unexpected truths Elsa discovers ‘there’ in the Field, to powerfully reflect the journey into healing that’s available to all of us. The gateways for us are through tapping and Hacking Reality.
We have everything we need, to reclaim our own gifts, our majesty, the miracle and the wholeness that each of us truly is.
Just by stepping through those gateways, we can heal ourselves from the separation from our Younger Selves. These are the very separations (within frozen trauma capsules) that steal our energy from our current lives. The endings in this story always bring me to tears – that’s how I know it deeply resonates in me.
Benefits of more tapping into the movies…
Watching these films, know that in some form these human archetypal characters and themes are alive in us too. And we can simply tap along with the heroine’s story arc.
This is such a fun and easy way to begin (or continue) our own healing journey with tapping. No needing to know what words are needed – in fact, no words are needed at all.
You can just tap along, or hold one (or more) of the tapping points. You’ll be re-programming your brain and body away from stress and the fear response, into greater physiological relaxation.
Not bad results, from just watching a movie!
