The Buddhist concept of the "monkey mind" describes our human tendency to get restless, distracted, or confused.

For some reason, my monkey mind has been going crazy these past few weeks. I feel like I haven't been dealing with a monkey so much as a troop of them! (I just learned that a group of monkeys is called a troop!)

Every fifteen or twenty minutes, I have found myself looking at social media or a news website or my inbox or an online dating app or what the weather will be like tomorrow.

It was as if I had completely lost control of my attention. One minute I was working and concentrating on the task in front of me…and the next, I was firmly in Distractionland.

Instead of beating myself up, I decided to do a little tapping experiment.

The results were AMAZING!

In this week's podcast I share what I tried, how it worked, and what I learned.

This is something you will want to add to your own transformational tool box right away!

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One of the most common forms of resistance people encounter when doing any sort of deep transformational work (tapping included) is the fear of what will be uncovered.

The two most common fears are either that there will be an overwhelming number of emotions that will be difficult to handle or that a previously suppressed traumatic memory will surface.

There is another version of this resistance that is less emotional and less dramatic.

That is the fear that you will learn or be reminded of something that you don't want to hear.

It could be:

• an uncomfortable truth about your life
• an action that you need to take but are avoiding because you know it will be hard
• a toxic relationship that you need to exit
• a harmful habit that is you need to give up
• a realization that you failed in the past because you were unwilling to show up for yourself

Nobody wants to deal with these types of truths BUT if we want to create lasting change and transformation in our lives, then we need to face up to these truths and heal our relationship to them.

In the podcast this week I share a simple tapping phase I love that will make it easier to be open to healing and transformation.

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One of the phrases that Gary Craig used in the original EFT training videos that has stuck with me is "the comedies of our mind".

When using this phrase, Gary was referring to the recurring thoughts that we had about ourselves that, when they were examined in the light of day, were seen to be comical or even farcical.

For example, right before I try something hard my subconscious mind will pipe up with, "You have failed before and you are going to fail again."

Unexamined, that thought could stop me in my tracks. But if I pull it from the echo chamber of my subconscious mind and into the here and now, it loses its power. It might slow me down, but I can work my way through it,

This week in the podcast I share with you the process I use throughout my day to ensure I am not a prisoner to these unhelpful and untrue thoughts.

This is an approach that you can use in your tapping and also in your daily life without having to tap.

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New opportunities can be so exciting as they bring the promise of growth, change, and countless possibilities.

The problem is that most of us already have full lives and we don't have the time or energy to add something new.

When this happens, we have a tendency to take one of two approaches.

One approach is to take the plunge in the hope that things will "just work out"...but they rarely do. We find ourselves stretched too thin and not doing anything well.

The other approach is to not try at all. We decide our life is already too busy and allow great opportunities to pass us by, only to feel bad about missing out afterwards.

This week in the podcast I share with you the five questions I use when I am presented with an interesting opportunity. These questions have changed my life to help me to add new exciting things to my life, while still maintaining balance.

I also share how I use tapping to super charge these questions.

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Tapping without words is one of my favorite ways to tap and I do it multiple times a day.

Recently, a few of my friends from the tapping community referred to this type of tapping as "content-free tapping".

When I heard this, not only did I learn a new piece of vocabulary, it actually reframed my understanding of wordless tapping.

This week in the podcast I share with you my eight favorite ways to use content-free tapping.

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Maintaining high standards for ourselves is a good thing and means we have goals to shoot for and measuring sticks with which to evaluate our progress.

Unfortunately, it is all too easy to fall into self-criticism and self-judgment if we fall short of these standards. So much so that it rarely feels like a choice, but the moment we fall short, the internal critical voice comes roaring forward to berate and belittle us.

Even when we are critical of ourselves, we are still able to extend kindness to others and give them the benefit of the doubt.

Evaluating our actions is a good thing…but becoming overly self-critical is harsh and unhealthy.

When I am too hard on myself, one of my best friends gently chides me in a way that transforms the way I feel about myself and what comes next.

He doesn't say, "Gene, you are being too hard on yourself!" because that would not shift my mind or mood.

Instead, he says something completely different that turns everything around.

In this week's podcast I share the one phrase that changes my perspective in these situations, and how that phrase can be incorporated in our tapping.

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One of the highlights of this year's 24 Hours of Tapping was the conversation that I had with Kerri Rhodes. Kerri is one of the program directors of the Helping Addicts Recover Progressively (HARP) program in the Chesterfield (VA) County Jail.

The inmates use many of the tools created by the Peaceful Heart Network to create emotional healing and transformation as part of their recovery process.

In addition to learning about the HARP program from Kerri, we also had the opportunity to hear from the women in the program. Not only did they share their firsthand experience of tapping, but they also led us in a number of rounds of tapping.

This is a conversation that you don't want to miss.

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Most of the time, when we sit down to tap, we are trying to create positive change.

We are trying to:

• Release a negative emotion and create a positive one in its place
• Clear resistance and limiting beliefs so that we can take consistent action
• Heal a past trauma or story so that our present is not haunted by our past

I love every single one of these tapping outcomes!

But there are times when we cannot create profound change or facilitate deep healing.

Sometimes the best and healthiest course of action is simply to be fully present to the emotions we are feeling. And that is no bad thing.

This week in the podcast I explore the power of feeling the full depth and breadth of our emotions in the moment as we tap. It is one of my favorite ways to tap and something I do multiple times a week.

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