The Magic of Tapping: Brad Yates Explains EFT

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Welcome back to "Tried & True with a Dash of Woo"! Today, I'm thrilled to bring you an enlightening conversation with Brad Yates, a renowned expert in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), also known as tapping.

Brad's unique blend of tapping and positive psychology has helped countless individuals overcome their fears and transform their lives.

In this episode, you'll discover:

-The basics of EFT and how it works to reduce stress and anxiety.
-The connection between meridians, emotions, and how tapping can release stored energy.
-How naming and acknowledging your anxiety can actually help in overcoming it.
-A live tapping session with Brad to help you feel more relaxed and open.

Plus, you'll get a taste of Brad's infectious humor and light-hearted approach, which makes the process even more enjoyable.

Whether you're new to tapping or a seasoned practitioner, this episode is packed with valuable insights and practical tips to help you harness the power of EFT.

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Brad Yates’ YouTube Channel: @tapwithbrad

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Speaker 1: 0:00

The body keeps the score. It's not the mind keeps the score, it's the body. So to take, you know, hypnotic languaging I also started as a hypnotherapist taking that kind of languaging and then having this somatic component, where we take it into the body, where those emotions are stored and energy is trapped, then it's a much more powerful way of creating shift.

Speaker 2: 0:22

Welcome to Tried and True with a dash of woo, where we blend rock solid tips with a little bit of magic. I'm Renee Bowen, your host, life and business coach and professional photographer at your service. We are all about getting creative, diving into your business and playing with manifestation over here. So are you ready to get inspired and have some fun? Let's dive in. You guys are in for such a treat.

Speaker 2: 0:52

Today, I have Brad Yates on the show, and if you don't know who Brad is and if you don't follow his YouTube channel yet, you're going to want to. You are about to get introduced to one of the coolest people and, honestly, like what he does on the daily through his YouTube and his programs is life-changing. I have been tapping for years, but if you don't know what it is, you're about to figure it out, you're about to get to know it, and he's actually going to walk us through a tapping exercise as well, and so, by the end of this episode, you're going to feel a lot better, just emotionally. You're going to feel a lot better just emotionally. You're going to feel more regulated, you're going to feel more calm. So, yeah, this is a phenomenal episode, so I'm excited, excited to get into it. So Brad is internationally known for his creative and often humorous use of emotional freedom techniques, also known as EFT, also known as tapping. He's a speaker, teacher and bestselling author and knows that we all have greatness within us and he's made it his mission to help people reveal it. He combines tapping with positive psychology to help others overcome the fears that hold them back and redefine themselves in a positive light. And when Brad isn't on stage somewhere, you can find him on his YouTube channel, which has grown to over 1300 videos with over 44 million views and 269,000 subscribers.

Speaker 2: 2:18

As of the recording of this podcast episode, I'm going to put all of Brad's information in the show notes, obviously, so you can go and find him and learn from him. And yeah, this is a really powerful episode. I'm very excited to share it with y'all because I've been tapping for years. I kind of speak about this a little bit in the episode how, being a massage therapist and really, really understanding this whole mind body connection for years now, I love tapping. I think that it is such an effective way, but also, like I said, it's kind of like a fast track right. And now that I've been doing it for years myself, I'll combine some of my own hypnosis tracks and suggestions with the tapping as well. But if you want guidance in your suggestions and how to do tapping, a great place to start is obviously Brad's YouTube, and he has some free five-day programs that I'm also going to link for you guys in the show notes, because you are probably going to get addicted to this just like I did.

Speaker 2: 3:24

All right, let's get to it. Brad, thank you so much for joining us today. I'm really excited to introduce this to my audience because I'm a big fan of your YouTube. I mean, you've got a massive following and I would be surprised if a lot of my listeners didn't already know who you are. But if they don't if you guys don't you are in for such a treat because Brad is like the master at EFT we're going to be talking about that in a second. So welcome to the show, brad.

Speaker 1: 3:52

First of all, Thank you, renee, I'm very happy to be here.

Speaker 2: 3:56

So okay, eft for people who don't know what it is right, emotional freedom techniques. But it kind of looks weird, right Like you know, I've done it at parties and people are like what are you doing? Walk us through, just like, the basics of what it is and you know why it's so powerful.

Speaker 1: 4:15

Yeah, absolutely so.

Speaker 1: 4:17

Eft short for emotional freedom techniques, and a lot of us just call it tapping, because we are quite literally tapping with our fingertips on these different places on our face and torso, and I know that if you're new to it it looks very strange, but there's a very good reason why we do it.

Speaker 1: 4:32

So it's originally based on acupuncture. So for thousands of years in Chinese medicine they've said there's a flow of energy through the body running along these pathways that are called meridians, and when the energy is flowing naturally we experience our natural state of health and well-being, physically and emotionally. And when this energy gets disrupted or stuck in some way, then we don't feel so good, we don't think as clearly, we don't make the best choices, there's all kinds of unfortunate consequences. So in traditional Chinese medicine the doctor would stick needles in these key points to stimulate that healthy flow of energy. And now we're just getting rid of the needles and just using our fingertips to stimulate those same points. We have a growing body of scientific evidence showing that it's a profound way of down-regulating stress. So when you consider that most, if not all, of the issues that bother us physically and emotionally are either caused by or worsened by stress, then you can see that having a very simple technique for calming down the stress response can be so beneficial in so many areas.

Speaker 2: 5:31

Yes, okay. So as someone who has dealt with just like anxiety basically my entire life didn't actually know it was a thing until didn't put a name on it until my twenties, right, like I just thought you know, know, I have a nervous stomach or whatever. So, as someone who has dealt with, and still does, a lot of anxiety underlying or you know, just a lot of thoughts, right Like so, a lot of my people and I know that you guys are listening deal with the same kind of thing. Lots of overactive minds comes along with being a creative. So I know that this is going to be really powerful for you guys.

Speaker 2: 6:08

But I kind of want to touch real quick before we move into some other stuff. Talk to me a little bit about the meridians, because a lot of people listening I've been doing acupuncture since my early twenties, so I understand a lot of that. But talk to us a little bit about what that is like, the meridians, and why that's important. And do you use all the meridians, cause there's a lot of them, like you know. Kind of walk us a little bit through that.

Speaker 1: 6:31

So these are these, these energy pathways. Just like you know your veins and arteries that blood flows through. These are energy pathways and there has been more modern research showing that there are pathways in the fascia that we can actually find that match up with these meridians that have been used in acupuncture for thousands of years. So there are different key points in traditional acupuncture. There are meridians that run through the body. There are points all over the body.

Speaker 1: 7:04

Dr Roger Callahan, who was the psychologist who first developed the tapping process his was thought field therapy, which was later transferred into emotional freedom technique by Gary Craig.

Speaker 1: 7:16

But Callahan found these different eight major points, eight major meridians that he was tapping on and in his original version he would do a diagnosis on the person to figure out okay, given your issue, we should tap, let's see this point, and then this point, and then this point, and he would come up with different algorithms depending on the issue. And Gary was one of his first students and Gary had his degree in engineering and said okay, thinking like an engineer, how do we simplify this? And rather than spending a lot of time to figure out which points to use, in which sequence, what if we tapped all eight points, because that would actually be quicker than trying to figure out which points to use, and found he's getting the same great results. So that more simplified version was called emotional freedom technique. Now there may be times where you may just feel compelled just tap one point. It's not that every time you have to tap every point. It's sort of a matter of let's cover all the bases, because it's so simple to do it that way.

Speaker 2: 8:19

Okay, that does make sense. It's interesting because I do find myself and and I feel like maybe this is common that after some time you just sort of like intuitively know what needs to happen, you know.

Speaker 1: 8:32

And the different points, the different meridians in traditional acupuncture are associated with different organs of the body which are associated with different emotions. So, for instance, right here at the beginning of your eyebrows, associated with sadness, under the eye associated with fear, side of the eye, anger. So there may be times that you may feel compelled to do it like that. There are times where I am feeling something and I may just feel compelled to tap a certain point. It's like okay, well, that's not actually the point that's associated traditionally with that emotion, but I just go with it instinctively because there's so much crossover.

Speaker 2: 9:07

Yeah, that makes sense. So the thing that really tripped me up in the beginning of all this right, because I am when I started, you know, this whole tapping journey I love you know learning about the unconscious mind. I love you know learning about the unconscious mind. I'm certified in hypnosis and all kinds of different things that you know will help us reprogram, rewire things. But I'm also a massage therapist, like I went to a very hippy dippy massage therapy school after I got my degree in psychology, and so I'm very much about the whole in the body situation, right, like so it's, and that's what I love about tapping it really, you know, it gets us in the body and I feel like that's one of the reasons why things can happen so much quicker when you're tapping, because you are integrating everything together, which is really powerful right Dr Bessel van der Kolk, who is one of the premier experts on trauma.

Speaker 1: 10:04

His book is called the Body Keeps the Score. It's not the mind keeps the score, it's the body. So to take, you know, hypnotic languaging I also started as a hypnotherapist taking that kind of languaging and then having this somatic component where we take it into the body, where those emotions are stored and energy is trapped, then it's a much more powerful way of creating shift.

Speaker 2: 10:27

So it tripped me up and I get. I get it now, but I want you to kind of walk us through it, because this might, this might have some of the a similar effect on some people, right, is the naming of the anxiety right? Like so, those of us with anxiety especially, and we have like this fear of fear, right. And so part of tapping is like you're naming what you're trying to get through and but you're not just naming it and seeing it. You're like actually sort of like repeating that.

Speaker 2: 10:55

And it's like at first I was like whoa, whoa, whoa, I do not want to integrate that in my body, right, and it was like all my alarm bells went off, like I don't know if it was just my own programming or like the fact that, you know, I kind of came from that very old school I mean maybe not old school, but like Louise Elhay, like you know what you believe you're going to integrate in your body, and I guess I had some stuff surrounding that. So at first I was like whoa, this feels counterproductive, like I don't want to actually make this happen. But first I was like whoa, this feels counterproductive, like I don't want to actually make this happen, I don't want to manifest this. So talk to us a little bit about that, because and we'll go through a process in a minute You'll walk us through something so you guys can actually see and hear what I'm talking about. But why do?

Speaker 1: 11:40

you do that. So in general with EFT, we start off with a setup statement and we'll say, even though I feel this anxiety or even though I feel this anger or whatever and when I'm introducing this to someone for the first time, sometimes people say well, wait a minute. No, no, no, you can't talk about the negative. Power of positive thinking. Always focus on the positive, just focus on the positive. Well, if you're feeling what you're feeling is not positive, then saying the positive isn't going to help a lot.

Speaker 1: 12:06

Now, but this is not about ruminating. You know it's like well, if I keep repeating the problem, I'm just no, because we're cleaning. The tapping is a cleaning process. So if you were to imagine, let's say, you spill coffee on your kitchen counter and you grab a rag or a sponge and you're wiping it up, you wouldn't say, okay, but I can't say coffee while I'm doing it, otherwise the coffee will still be there. Yeah, you can say coffee. And then, when I'm also working with a group, and if someone doesn't have anxiety and say, well, if I say anxiety, now I'm going to be taking it on, it's like no, because you're still wiping the counter, you're tapping.

Speaker 1: 12:49

You're going to be cleaning it. So it's not like if I'm wiping the counter and it's a coffee spill and I say orange juice, it's like, oh, now I'm going to put orange juice there. It's like, no, you're cleaning it up. Whatever you're saying.

Speaker 1: 13:03

Now, we can also say positive statements, but it's very effective to focus on what it is. Because, again, if I've spilled coffee on my countertop, I want to focus on where the spill is. So by saying coffee, coffee, coffee, I'm focusing on okay, here's where the coffee is spilled on the countertop, as opposed to I'm just kind of randomly doing this and I might just find myself wandering over to another part of the kitchen and haven't completely cleaned up where the coffee was spilled. So that's why we want to focus on it. So we keep our attention on where it is and then, as we're tapping and we clear out the energetic charge on that, the energetic charge on that, then I can be saying coffee or anxiety, or anger, and it's like, yeah, I'm not, I'm not feeling it. Now, it's neutral because I cleared that.

Speaker 1: 13:56

So when people talk about trigger words, things that upset them, okay, you can choose not to say that, that's okay. But wouldn't it be even better if you just cleared the charge around that so that when that word comes up it's like yeah, I may not prefer that word. This is not about, you know, being totally okay with people saying offensive things. No, in an ideal world, no one wants to say offensive things. But it's about getting to a place of okay. My well-being is not dependent upon 8 billion people all thinking right.

Speaker 2: 14:28

Yes, exactly. And there's a lot of empowerment too in sitting with it and noticing it and the awareness of it, because what you resist will persist, right? Yes, absolutely. And those of us with anxiety though I just wanted to kind of highlight that because it is our natural go-to any kind of anxiety or OCD especially our natural tendency is to run away from it because we don't like it. But it gets bigger, and that's the one thing you don't want to do and that took me, I don't know upwards of 25 years to figure out through all of these different things. Is that no, no, no. If we just sort of like look at it and we just notice it and we get to that neutral space, getting to that place of like taking that charge away is so empowering and important in the next steps, which is moving through it, right?

Speaker 1: 15:21

And tapping creates the safety for that, because, understand, when we have anxiety and I struggle with anxiety myself we want to yeah, absolutely, we want to run away and we can't bear to be with it, and because it feels so uncomfortable. So the tapping calms down that stress response where I can start to say oh, okay, let me take a look at this. And I love the Walt Whitman quote be curious, not judgmental. I have it up on my wall here to always remember that, so that when we get that, rather than judging ourselves for the anxiety, rather than judging ourselves for the fear or whatever else it might be, it says let me just get curious.

Speaker 1: 15:59

What am I afraid of? Where did this fear come from? Who told me to be afraid? Was it a misunderstanding? Did I make some Pavlovian association? That isn't warranted? And now I can actually look at it. So the tapping gives me that permission to calm down and go all right, let me look at it. What am I really afraid of here? Oh, is that what it is? Yeah, there's the shadow, the giant shadow. And then you turn and look. It's like, oh, it's a mouse, but there's a light right behind the mouse. So it's creating this giant shadow. And now I can say oh okay, now I can totally change my relationship to this issue.

Speaker 2: 16:33

Yes, that's so huge and it gives it like I don't know it's such a fast track. I really feel like to doing that because it does. It calms, like there is the scientific aspect, you know, to it, like we talked about calming down the nervous system, but it's really interesting how it opens up your intuition, which I thought I mean like even in times of stress, even in those moments of like whoo, you know, like I am not feeling open, I'm feeling very constricted. The tapping allows you to open up so much faster, especially just like anything else. The more you do it, you know, the easier I feel like you fall into it.

Speaker 2: 17:15

So I'm sure you've seen lots and lots of success stories about all of this throughout the years and in all that you do, I mean, first of all, you've got a lot of videos, and we'll get to one in a second Like we 'll kind of talk about maybe working through a tapping exercise, but you have a lot of videos that are even just like five minutes, six minutes, you know, like 10. So speak to the the time, because that's a big pain point for people, it's like, oh, I don't have time, like that's. That's kind of cool about this is that you can just do it in the moment.

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Speaker 1: 19:02

So if you only have a moment tap and you could be tapping throughout your day, you know, at different times, without saying anything, the process of the tapping is going to be down regulating your stress, and most of us are carrying more stress than we know. We have at least ambient levels of stress. Most of us are carrying a little device that constantly tells us here's something to be stressed out about. Thank you internet. And so to imagine, you know, constantly eating and having stuff on your teeth and never brushing your teeth.

Speaker 1: 19:36

That's kind of where we're at with our energy, for the most part.

Speaker 1: 19:39

So that's why I recommend tapping on a daily basis, if at least just for a couple of minutes a day. The more you can do the better. Just like with exercise. You know if you can do more you're going to get more benefit. But it's very cumulative and when we tap the effect is immediate and profound, especially if we're working on a particular issue that's really bothering us and we can go oh, I definitely feel some relief there. Sometimes it may not be obvious and maybe we may be tapping and go. Yeah, I don't feel a whole lot different. But we have biological markers that have been measured with scientific research showing cortisol levels, our stress hormone downregulated, fmri studies showing the brain activity changing. So even though you may not be consciously aware of the change, we know that it's happening. So it's like taking vitamins. Nobody takes a vitamin and says, wow, I feel so energized right now. But you know that a cumulative effect of taking care of your body and putting good stuff into you is beneficial over time. Same with tapping, so that even if you're not noticing it right away. So you know that with the videos it was kind of a quick way to do something.

Speaker 1: 20:58

When I'm working with a client or doing a live workshop, tapping around may go 20, 30 minutes as the ideas are coming. And it's funny because people, when I and I always have a timer going when I'm shooting videos for YouTube, because, like I try to stop at the five minute mark, generally don't make it only because the ideas are coming through. It's like the thought of oh, like I try to stop at the five minute mark, generally don't make it only because the ideas are coming through, it's like the thought of oh. But I gotta say this, I gotta say this Okay, now I need to wrap it up and early on, if the video was over five minutes I would get people complaining Could you make your video shorter? It's like you'll spend an hour watching some dumb TV show and you can't take five minutes to do some cleansing on your energy and at the same time it's not to shame anybody. I totally get it. I know that if I go on YouTube, I'll I'll look at how long a video is. Do I have time for that? And especially if I, if I'm new to tapping and I'm not sure it's going to be beneficial, it's like I don't know that I can invest that time. So I have a whole bunch of videos. They're like three to five minutes, okay, but I ideally, you know, if we have more time, like I just uh, I was just down visiting my mom on mother's day and two and a half hour drive and I'll listen to a bunch of recordings of tagging videos the entire drive, just because I know when I spend that much time clearing stuff out, it just feels so good and I know that I'm much more open to things, including intuition.

Speaker 1: 22:20

The extent to which we don't have what we say we want tends to be the extent to which we're resisting it, not because we're bad or stupid, but because we have old programming about why we couldn't or shouldn't have it, including our intuition, because parts of us might say, you know, if I was really open to my intuition, if I was open, especially as creatives? Every creative act is a form of channeling. We are the conduit, we are the prism through which the light comes in and comes out as a rainbow, and the more clear we are, the more spectacular that process is, the more open we are.

Speaker 1: 22:58

When we close that off, it doesn't come out so well and there are parts of us that are afraid of being that open, that are afraid of being that clear of a channel, that brilliant, because if I'm more brilliant, I'm going to have to be more seen, more open to criticism, more open to you know. It's like that's fine for these other people, but I don't want to deal with the judgment. I want to play small and totally understandable. So when, as we clear the fear, it's like, oh, I can handle this and oh, there's an idea. Oh, you know what, if I did this, I could. And this stuff just starts coming. That's why I love my work. So, as I'm tapping, I'm much more open to ideas coming through.

Speaker 2: 23:49

You just hit the nail on the head too, for, like, I think everybody who's listening that's a really big part of it. For so many people is that deep seated, like programming of, you know, fear of being seen because it opens you up to judgment and to whatever, and so that's what. That's what usually keeps people from being as amazing as they're meant to be, I believe. So, yeah, I mean okay. So, all right, walk us through something that would help with that.

Speaker 2: 24:19

There's a lot of creatives who feel that way, who are afraid to show up and also afraid to ask for money, for, like that's. The other thing, too is like, oh, I'm a creative and I sort of fall into this amazing business because I'm good at it and it's kind of like easy for me, and then, oh, I can make my own money being an entrepreneur. Oh, wait, nope, now I have to actually like, do the business part take money? Why do I have such money? Issues, like all of that stuff comes up too right, like so there's a lot of that underlying. So, if there's something, maybe that we can kind of show people how to walk through that, and then after that we'll talk about what with it in a more creative way, but uh, so the very basics of eft is you take whatever is bothering you.

Speaker 1: 25:21

So let's say I'm I'm feeling anxious, I'm feeling stressed. I would rate that on a scale of zero to ten in intensity. It's like, oh, wow, it's like an eight. I'm pretty feeling, pretty nervous and I check with how I feel that in my body. So, oh, my heart's really pounding or I have a knot in my stomach or there's this tightness in my shoulders. So I'm aware of what I'm going through. And then I'm going to take the fingertips of my index and middle finger and gently tap on the side of the opposite hand, and you can tap with either hand, whatever the dominant hand is. And as we go through the points, I'll be tapping down one side, but you can tap with both hands at the same time. You can switch back and forth.

Speaker 1: 26:05

So we start with the setup statement, which is even though I have this issue, I choose to love and accept myself. So, whether the issue is, I feel distress, I feel nervous, my shoulders are tight, I'm really angry at Bob, whatever it is that's bothering us. So we say even though I have this issue, I choose to love and accept myself. So we want to state a level of acceptance because, as you were saying earlier, renee, what we resist persists. So it's like I'm not going to resist, I'm just going to accept. Even though I have this, I choose to still love and accept myself. So we'll say that three times and just sort of creates an opening for the process. Then we'll tap about five to 10 times on each of these points and we'll repeat the statement.

Speaker 1: 26:50

So, even though I feel all this stress side of the, or all this stress side of the eye, all this stress right under the middle of the eye, all this stress right under the nose, all this stress right under the lower lip, all this stress Now, right here, where your collarbones just about come together, there's a little bit of a U shape at the base of your throat and you can tap with all your fingertips or even make a fist and tap that whole area All this stress. Next point is about four inches below your armpit, it's right about bra strap level, and I'm sure even the guys can figure out what that is. All this stress Find the top of your head. So, just with all your fingertips tapping around the crown of your head, all this stress you take a deep breath tapping around the crown of your head all this dress, you take a deep breath and then you check in again and rate again on scale zero to 10. Now sometimes it'll go from an eight to a zero, like that. Sometimes it'll go from an eight to a 7.75. It's like okay, but if it's been an eight for a while, 7.75 is going to feel like some relief and it's often like peeling the layers of the onion.

Speaker 1: 27:55

So I might be tapping through and go, oh, I know what this is about and I might be as I go through different points and it might shift. It's like, oh, if I'm tapping on, all this anger at Bob, all this anger at Bob, all this oh, you know what? It's not even Bob, it's that what Bob did reminded me of what Cindy did to me in the third grade. And I'm still all this anger at Cindy all the same. And I can clear up decades of stuff that has been weighing me down, you know, and totally open myself up to even more good, even more intuition, even more creativity, because I'm now letting go of things that have been weighing me down for ages. So, you know, as we tap through, if we can get to a zero, great. But even if we just get down a little bit. That gives us more freedom to think, to move, to take actions Awesome. So that's. That's basic, basic EFT Now. Now we're going to have some fun with it, okay, so what I'd like everyone to do is go ahead and close your eyes, take a deep breath in and hold it and let it go Now, just breathing comfortably with your eyes closed. Go ahead and just allow yourself to be present, as present as possible so as to receive maximum benefit from this process, and just pulling your breath through your body, just to allow yourself to be aware of how you're feeling physically and emotionally.

Speaker 1: 29:22

Maybe rate yourself on a scale of zero to 10. 10 would be magnificent, awesome. Don't judge yourself harshly if the number is lower than you'd like it to be. Just allow yourself to be aware of where it is and ask yourself what would it take to be at a 10? And maybe in terms of your life overall or your career, your creativity, what would be a 10 in terms of your creative career? Or you could focus on your financial abundance, your health. Give yourself permission to focus on whatever feels important to you at the moment. So life at a 10 would be that ultimate success.

Speaker 1: 30:09

And imagine yourself being at a 10 and ask yourself how safe does this feel? And just allow yourself to be aware of what your body might feel, because in general, as I said earlier, the extent to which we don't have what we say we want tends to be the extent to which we're resisting it, and we tend to resist it because it doesn't feel safe or maybe that you feel you don't deserve it. And allow yourself to be aware of any feelings about that. Notice what you feel in your body, but also notice any thoughts, feelings, beliefs, memories that might come up as to why you couldn't or shouldn't have what you want, including any fears about being seen and criticized and judged. Take a deep breath, open your eyes and just tap where I tap and repeat back what I say, even though I might be resisting greater success.

Speaker 2: 31:15

Even though I might be resisting greater success.

Speaker 1: 31:18

I choose to love and accept myself, Even though I might be resisting greater success.

Speaker 2: 31:30

I choose to love and honor myself, even though I might be resisting greater success, it might be creative success.

Speaker 1: 31:43

It might be financial success, it could be health or relationships. There might be some areas of my life.

Speaker 2: 31:55

There might be some areas of my life.

Speaker 1: 31:57

That could potentially be better.

Speaker 2: 31:59

That could potentially be better.

Speaker 1: 32:01

And I wonder what's getting in the way?

Speaker 2: 32:04

And I wonder what's getting in the way?

Speaker 1: 32:06

And even though I might be resisting greater success.

Speaker 2: 32:09

And even though I might be resisting greater success.

Speaker 1: 32:12

I choose to deeply and completely.

Speaker 2: 32:15

I choose to deeply and completely love, honor and accept myself. And maybe anyone else who might contribute to these issues, because I choose to be that free.

Speaker 1: 32:34

This potential resistance to greater success.

Speaker 2: 32:43

All this resistance to things being better. And part of me might say I don't have any resistance to that.

Speaker 1: 32:54

I absolutely want things to be better.

Speaker 2: 32:57

I absolutely want things to be better, and anyone watching me? And anyone watching me.

Speaker 1: 33:03

Would see that every day.

Speaker 2: 33:06

Would see that every day.

Speaker 1: 33:08

I'm doing all that I possibly can to make things better.

Speaker 2: 33:11

I'm doing all that I possibly can to make things better.

Speaker 1: 33:15

And maybe not.

Speaker 2: 33:16

And maybe not.

Speaker 1: 33:18

And it's not because I'm bad or stupid.

Speaker 2: 33:21

And it's not because I'm bad or stupid.

Speaker 1: 33:23

And it's not that I'm weak or lazy.

Speaker 2: 33:25

And it's not that I'm weak or lazy.

Speaker 1: 33:27

It's just that I have some resistance.

Speaker 2: 33:30

It's just that I have some resistance.

Speaker 1: 33:32

I have some old programming I have some old programming.

Speaker 2: 33:34

I have some old programming.

Speaker 1: 33:36

About why I couldn't or shouldn't be more successful.

Speaker 2: 33:40

About why I couldn't or shouldn't be more successful.

Speaker 1: 33:43

Maybe part of me says Maybe part of me says If I were more successful with my creativity.

Speaker 2: 33:50

If I were more successful with my creativity.

Speaker 1: 33:54

I'd be more seen.

Speaker 2: 33:58

And the more people who see me the more people who can judge me. And part of me says I need to resist that.

Speaker 1: 34:09

All this need to avoid being judged, and I love and appreciate those parts of me.

Speaker 2: 34:12

I need to resist that. All this need to avoid being judged, all this need to avoid being judged and I love and appreciate those parts of me. And I love and appreciate those parts of me.

Speaker 1: 34:19

That are trying to protect me in that way. That are trying to protect me in that way, but that's what they call a fool's errand.

Speaker 2: 34:27

But that's what they call a fool's errand.

Speaker 1: 34:30

People are going to judge me, no matter what.

Speaker 2: 34:32

People are going to judge me.

Speaker 1: 34:33

no matter what People are going to judge me no matter what, so I might as well do what I love.

Speaker 2: 34:37

So I might as well do what I love.

Speaker 1: 34:39

I might as well do as much good as I can do.

Speaker 2: 34:42

I might as well do as much good as I can do.

Speaker 1: 34:44

And it's not going to be right for everybody.

Speaker 2: 34:47

And it's not going to be right for everybody. But there are a lot of people out there. But there are a lot of people out there.

Speaker 1: 34:53

Who can benefit from my gifts and talents?

Speaker 2: 34:56

Who can benefit from my gifts and talents?

Speaker 1: 34:58

And I'm tired of depriving them.

Speaker 2: 35:01

And I'm tired of depriving them.

Speaker 1: 35:03

For fear of the people that aren't my audience.

Speaker 2: 35:06

For fear of the people who aren't my audience.

Speaker 1: 35:10

Clearing these fears.

Speaker 2: 35:15

Clearing these fears.

Speaker 1: 35:17

Clearing them at a cellular level.

Speaker 2: 35:20

And all the way back through my past.

Speaker 1: 35:22

Back through all those times in my life.

Speaker 1: 35:29

Where I somehow got the message that it wasn't safe to be seen and that I had to feel bad about judgment clearing all the fears that hold me back including all these fears about money, because another part of me might say if I really had full access to my creativity, including all these fears about money, Because another part of me might say, because another part of me might say if I really had full access to my creativity if I really had full access to my creativity. I might be more financially successful.

Speaker 2: 36:04

I might be more financially successful.

Speaker 1: 36:06

And I can't let that happen. I can't let that happen. Money is the root of all evil.

Speaker 2: 36:12

Money is the root of all evil. Money is the root of all evil.

Speaker 1: 36:15

Or at least it's inconvenient.

Speaker 2: 36:17

Or at least it's inconvenient, and I am a creative, and I am a creative.

Speaker 1: 36:23

I am a right-brained person.

Speaker 2: 36:25

I am a right-brained person and money is left-brained stuff.

Speaker 1: 36:28

Money is left-brained stuff. I just shouldn't have to have to deal with that. I just shouldn't have to have to deal with that. I just shouldn't have to deal with that, and I'm clearing this fear.

Speaker 2: 36:37

And I'm clearing this fear.

Speaker 1: 36:39

Clearing all these money fears.

Speaker 2: 36:41

Clearing all these money fears.

Speaker 1: 36:43

Because when I let money, stop me.

Speaker 2: 36:46

Because when I let money stop me, I withhold my gifts and talents.

Speaker 1: 36:48

I withhold my gifts and talents. I deprive the world of my gifts.

Speaker 2: 36:50

I deprive the world of my gifts and talents.

Speaker 1: 36:52

I withhold my gifts and talents, I deprive the world of my gifts.

Speaker 2: 36:55

I deprive the world of my gifts.

Speaker 1: 36:57

And I deprive myself of that creativity.

Speaker 2: 36:59

And I deprive myself of that creativity.

Speaker 1: 37:02

And I'm done with that.

Speaker 2: 37:04

And I'm done with that.

Speaker 1: 37:05

I can handle money.

Speaker 2: 37:07

I can handle money.

Speaker 1: 37:08

It's okay for me to allow money. It's okay for me to allow money. It's even okay for me to ask for money.

Speaker 2: 37:15

It's even okay for me to ask for money.

Speaker 1: 37:17

My gifts and talents are worthy of compensation.

Speaker 2: 37:20

My gifts and talents are worthy of compensation.

Speaker 1: 37:23

I'm clearing all these old things that caused me resistance.

Speaker 2: 37:27

I'm clearing all these old things that caused me resistance.

Speaker 1: 37:30

Setting myself free to experience greater success.

Speaker 2: 37:33

Setting myself free to experience greater success. Setting myself free to experience greater success In body, mind and spirit. In body, mind and spirit.

Speaker 1: 37:40

And take a deep breath, close your eyes, go inside and again thinking about life at a 10 in terms of whatever you were thinking of, and check in again and see on that feeling of how safe it might feel hopefully it might even feel better to allow that to show up and and also again, peeling the layers of the onion, notice any thoughts or memories that might have come up. It's like, oh, that's why I'm not allowed to do this, and especially for creatives, all these old ideas of starving artists and that's not worthy of money and it's like there are artists out there that are making bank.

Speaker 2: 38:25

Yeah, yeah, you can find proof of that.

Speaker 1: 38:28

Yes, you know what? Van Gogh had no money when he died. Pablo Picasso, on the other hand, he was doing just fine. So it's not that to be a great artist, you have to struggle or suffer.

Speaker 2: 38:44

That's just a belief. Yeah, I know there's a lot. There's just some really fun, some visuals popping up for me that I hadn't thought about in about I don't know 45 years. So that was interesting. Yeah, and that's what's so cool about it too, is that even the onion? There's a lot of stuff that you realize, oh, that's still kind of popping up. All right, that's interesting. And just looking at it with non-judgment and huh, get curious about that. That's what's so cool about it. I wonder what else is there. That's really, really, really fun.

Speaker 1: 39:33

Okay, so, I've been tapping for 20 some odd years and I was just tapping on this drive yesterday and a thought hit me. It's like oh my God, I can't believe. I can't believe I've been holding onto this idea, this limiting thought that I've had.

Speaker 2: 39:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1: 39:48

All right, let's let that one go, yeah, right.

Speaker 2: 39:53

I mean it's like, wow, okay, I thought I had gone there, but that's what's so fun about it. And also you use a lot of humor and lightness and I hope you guys could, you know, really get a sense of that through that exercise, like when you watch his videos. You do such a great job of that. Why do you think that that makes such a big difference in the effectiveness?

Speaker 1: 40:16

It. You know, it's been said, laughter is the best medicine, and to me it's the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down.

Speaker 1: 40:22

You know, because if we just go, even though I have all this stress, stress, trauma, misery, it's like why do I want to go through that? So, if we can lighten it up, why do I want to go through that? So, if we can lighten it up, one, it just makes the process more palatable, but it can also be very disarming and kind of knock us out of that. You know some of those really tough paths that we go down. It's like, okay, this allows me to shift something and create an opening. It's like, all right, now I'm able to move into another place where it was just felt so hard before, and it just creates this, this ease.

Speaker 2: 40:57

Yes, I love that and anything that can help us let it be easy is what I'm about. That's awesome. Thank you so much for that. I know that you guys listening are going to get a ton from that. So, okay, brad's got like a million YouTube videos, so you definitely should go check him out if you haven't, but you also no false advertising.

Speaker 1: 41:18

It's only just over a thousand, but 1,200, 1,400.

Speaker 2: 41:24

There's a fair few, yeah, so definitely go start there if you haven't heard about this before, so you can get introduced to all that. But people who want more like, who are like okay, sign me up. I feel amazing after that. Like what would that next step be for somebody Like, what do you offer people with respect to that?

Speaker 1: 41:43

Yeah, I have a number of programs, but there is uh, there are two different five day programs on my website that are free, uh called Tap Into your Best Self. Okay, so I always have Michelangelo's David everywhere, because Michelangelo said the statue is already there, perfect, inside the marble. All I have to do is chip away what doesn't belong to reveal the masterpiece inside, and to me that's a perfect analogy for what we're doing with tapping we're just clearing away what doesn't belong to reveal that best version of ourselves. So five days of tapping on different things like self-forgiveness, self-love, and then there's another one called success beyond belief. So it's five days of tapping to clear that resistance to being more successful, just like what we were tapping on earlier.

Speaker 3: 42:35

And yeah get those at tapwithbradcom.

Speaker 2: 42:38

Perfect. All right, I will put all of that in the show notes, for sure, and you guys get to tap in because it is life-changing. So thank you so much for sharing all of this with us today. This has been amazing. Well, I don't know about you, but I feel exponentially better and I always do after I do any kind of tapping, but I don't know.

Speaker 2: 42:59

There's something really amazing about Brad's energy as well, like I'm a really big believer in that. So, again, all of his links and his YouTube and his programs that he mentioned that's all going to be down below in the show notes for you. Whether you're watching this on YouTube or listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, all of that information is down below. So please make sure you go and engage with him and his content. What he does and how much he gives away is just kind of amazing. So I hope you had as much of a positive experience from that as I did and that it helps you learn something new on how to rewire some of that old stuff that you just don't need to hold on to anymore.

Speaker 2: 43:43

So, as always, if you found this episode helpful, make sure you let me know. Tag me on Instagram if you post about it. Tag Brad. I'm going to have all of his links below for you as well. It's always so nice to know that you guys resonated with the content that I'm sharing and with the guests that I have on. So let me know, tag me so I can repost it as well as always a review and rating. So so always appreciate it as well, so you can do that really easily by going to rate this podcastcom. Slash Renee Bowen and I'll love you forever. So have a great rest of your week, guys. I hope that it is beautiful and that you let go of a lot. Love you Bye.