Tapping to Lessen Guilt

October 20, 2014: Tapping to Lessen Guilt:

Today we tapped with friends in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Our topic was guilt and its many forms.

We all have a potential for feeling guilt. Guilt may be for an actual wrong we have done. Guilt may also be for a perceived wrong done to someone else. Or, guilt may be felt for a wrong someone had done to us, yet we feel the guilt and a sense of responsibility

Other words we talked about to define that sense of guilt are:

regret

shame

self-reproach

embarrassment

We tapped on family guilt:

“Even though I cannot be there all the time for my parents, I deeply and completely accept myself and my feelings of guilt.”

We understood that tapping may lead to solutions. We talked about he generalization effect, that helps you tap on your own problem with group focused on someone's different problem.

Question: Is tapping better than just thinking about solutions?

I believe tapping relaxes you more. Once you are relaxed, more answers/solutions often come into your mind. Also, tapping leads to reframes of problems. You see from a more developed and open view.

Question: What about when another has treated you badly by saying negative words about you, and you feel also guilty about that treatment? Let's ask more questions of those negative words:

Is it true?

Is only part of it true?

What can you do to improve situation, if part of it is true?

Do you understand you may also choose to leave it be? You may choose to not respond in any way. Your own behavior and reputation speaks for itself.

Tapping is a personal and spiritual development tool. You will often find solutions and also reframe a problem and see the problem in a much broader view. In addition, with relationships, you may just start to see that YOU ARE THE OTHER PERSON. We are all connected.

Suggestion: Try tapping morning and night for just one week. I suggest once in the morning at wake up, and I also suggest once in the evening at bed time. Then review and scan your body. Tell me how you are feeling.

All the best,

Maggie H.