This is my Arizona license plate that I’ve had for years!
When my clients would tell me about something that happened to them in-between our sessions, my first question would be, “did you tap on it?”.
I knew I wanted to have a license plate that reflected my tapping work and one day it hit me – I’ll turn my question into a statement.
A lot of people wonder if I’m a tap dancer!!
Dr. Kirk Mahoney has written a wonderful book, “Mental Tricks for Endurance Runners and Walkers”, that I consider to be an endurance runner or walker’s bible!
Whether you are new to running, considering training for a marathon for the first time, or you’re a seasoned runner but want to take your performance and results to the next level, this book is a “must have”.
I had the opportunity to interview Kirk on my radio show and we talked about how he discovered meridian tapping and how he’s incorporated tapping into his daily routine. He also offers us his key mental tricks for runners and walkers.
Access this radio episode here: http://bit.ly/ct6x2E
To read Kirk’s blog and find out how to order his books, visit his website, Spry Feet.
Here’s an easy way to calm your body and mind down before bed so you can relax and sleep well. Just watch the video and tap along with me: http://youtu.be/zd-aEABqjmY
Are you having trouble taking your great shots on the range into your round? Do you drop putts on the practice green and then fall apart on the putting green? Are you always making mechanical adjustments with your swing during your round of golf? Do you often blame bad shots on your mechanics?
You’re not alone! This is a habit I’ve observed with most golfers and it’s due to mental laziness. What? I know right now you’re saying, “I’m not mentally lazy”, but I guarantee that is what’s going on.
In this radio show I’ll teach you how to become mentally tough by doing a few things during your range practice and your round that will make a major difference in your results. Access this episode here: http://bit.ly/nkkO1C
Finally take your driving range and putting practice into your round!
After you listen to this show, you can access the tapping protocol for “Mental Laziness” here.
When I need a laugh I read this page of Yogi Berra quotes: http://rinkworks.com/said/yogiberra.shtml
By the time I’m to the end, I usually have tears running down my face from laughing so hard.
God bless Yogi Berra!!
Anger is a very powerful and necessary emotion! Anger can help us take crucial action in our lives. It can be the most useful emotion in certain situations. Experiencing anger and expressing it in an appropriate way is a natural part of our human experience.
But did you know that some people become addicted to anger? The cell receptors in our body (and we have zillions of them) can become addicted to the emotional chemical of anger. Then our body creates hard wired pathways of thoughts to activate the release of the emotional chemical of anger. Then we subconsciously create situations that cause those hard wired thoughts to fire and that causes anger to release so the cells get their fix.
Everyone’s body has a cellular addiction to an emotion. It’s easy to discover your body’s emotional chemical addiction…what is your predominant emotion that comes up for you over and over? Mine is worry/fear. (Worry is really a function of the mind, but then my brain then releases the chemical of fear.)
Maybe you know someone who is often sad, or someone who is often guilty, or someone who is fearful about everything, or someone who is always hurt, or someone who is always angry. That is their body’s cellular addiction.
In my presentation tonight at the 2011 Tapping World Summit, I’ll address the cellular addiction to anger and how to tap for that to help the body begin to release this addiction. Although we focus on anger in my presentation, the remedy I provide applies to any emotion that your cells may be addicted to.
In addition, we’ll be talking about and tapping on all aspects of anger – whether you are someone who is angry all the time, has trouble recognizing anger or who is afraid of anger, you won’t want to miss my powerful presentation on anger.
If you haven’t already registered for the 2011 Tapping World Summit, it’s not too late. Just click on this link to register:
http://www.thetappingsolution.com/cmd.php?Clk=4172856
Two tapping experts are presenting every day at the Summit and you have 24 hrs. to listen to their presentation for free. You won’t want to miss this valuable event that runs from February 21st – March 3rd, 2011.
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ne of the biggest challenges I’ve had with athletes is getting them to look at a sore part of their body in a whole new way and then tap for that. Athletes are so conditioned to think that if some part of their body is sore, it’s because they were over-using that part of the body either in competition or practice. (I’m not talking about soreness that accompanies a real injury or after workouts.)
I’ll illustrate this by sharing a great story. I worked with an MLB catcher for three seasons before he retired. During the season, we would do weekly sessions to stay on top of issues that arose. For three solid seasons we had the exact same conversation, and it went like this:
Me: How is your shoulder and how are your knees?
Him: Well my shoulder is a little sore because I’ve been catching a lot this week (or my knees are a little sore because I’ve been catching a lot this week).
Me: Your shoulder (knees) isn’t sore from catching, it’s because there’s something you are emotionally upset about that didn’t get processed out of your body and it’s sitting in your shoulder (knees). Do you have any idea what that might be?
Him: No, not really. (Sometimes he did know.)
Me: How are things with your wife? How are things with your kids? How are things with your teammates? How are things with management? (After getting to know him, I narrowed it down to this list of questions.)
Him: He would name what he was upset about.
Me: Okay, move your shoulder (or bend your knees) and tell me on a scale from 0-10 how sore it feels.
Him: It’s about a 6 (that usually seemed to be the level of soreness).
Me: Let’s tap on the emotional upset. We do the tapping and then I ask him to move his shoulder or bend his knees and now tell me the level of soreness.
Him: He giggles and says “that’s amazing, it’s gone.”
Me: Yes, that’s because the soreness wasn’t from throwing and catching, it was the emotional upset that got stored in your shoulder (knees) to get your attention.
On the very last day I worked with him, we had this conversation again and tapped one more time for his soreness. Only this time we had a different ending (after he giggled and said “that’s amazing, the soreness is gone”)!
Him: So what you’re telling me is that when I’m upset about something it can settle into my shoulder and knees and cause soreness.
Me: Yes, that’s exactly what I’m telling you.
Him: So all these old retired catchers that are walking around all crippled, it’s not from catching all those games, it’s from all the emotional stuff that happened during the course of their career that never got processed and is still sitting in their body.
Me: Yes, that’s exactly what I’m telling you.
Him: So what you’re telling me is that I don’t have to be crippled when I’m older.
Me: Yes, that’s exactly what I’m telling you.
It brings tears to my eyes every time I tell this story. This man believed he would suffer the same fate as some other retired catchers and have to live a life crippled and in pain from years of catching. He now knows this isn’t true.
My experience with him is a common one among all my athletes. From golfers who believe their shoulders and backs are sore from swinging too much to runners that believe their legs are sore from practice, time and time again I’ve been able to show them it’s not what they think it is.
While emotions have an energy and frequency to them, first and foremost, they are chemicals that are released by the brain and flood the body. When you are angry with someone, that chemical of anger releases from your hypothalamus and floods your body, docking onto cell receptors made just for anger. I have come to believe that our body will place that anger (or whatever the emotion is) in a location that will be sure to get our attention. For athletes, that location is usually in the part of your body you use the most in your sport. It sure does get your attention!
With the use of Emotional Freedom Techniques it’s easy to speak to the body and release that soreness. The biggest challenge is the athlete’s conditioning around this issue. I spend a fair amount of time retraining athletes to ask this question when they notice soreness and their mind says it’s from competition or practice, “what’s happened in the last 24 to 48 hours that I’m upset about?” Your mind will do a “computer search” and pop up the answer and that’s what you tap on. Keep tapping on the issue and all the aspects around it until the soreness is gone. I promise you’ll be amazed!
Welcome to my Blog!
I’ve been pioneering the use of Emotional Freedom Techniques or “tapping” with professional and amateur athletes since 2003 to release mental, emotional, physical, and mechanical performance blocks.
I help professional and amateur athletes achieve breakthrough performance by:
I’m starting this blog to share my knowledge and experience working with athletes and to spread the word about the power of tapping. Please visit my website for complete details and to view my sports performance products at http://www.byebyeblocks.com
