Photo Tapping EFT for Unresolved Emotions
WHAT’S UP: Here are two easy ways to apply EFT Tapping for self-compassion and self-love via photo tapping exercises. Photo Tapping EFT is a great way to get a sense of how powerful and gentle Emotional Freedom Techniques tapping can be. There is a deeper quality to the clarity and compassion that emerges from emotional decluttering when we introduce a self-regulation mechanism like Silent Tapping / Continual Tapping. Give it a go to get the essence of the tapping tool.
PHOTO TAPPING - EFT for UNRESOLVED EMOTIONS
Photo tapping works great for helping with healing emotional wounds from:
- a painful break up, divorce, or friendship
- questions around identity
- grief and loss
- betrayal
- being misunderstood
It’s also great for doing some gentle but powerful Inner Child work.
Disclaimer: Self-care EFT Tapping meditations do not constitute a replacement for therapeutic coaching with an EFT Practitioner. If you feel stuck or overwhelmed by an emotion, get help.
Choose an album from a period in your life that when you think about it, it brings up
some difficult emotion or maybe a disconnection where you’ve just kind of tried to bury it, forget about it because it was a painful time in your life.
Maybe it’s a previous marriage or a relationship that ended in a very painful way. Or maybe it was happy memories from raising your children, from
their childhood, and they’re now adults. They’re going off to university and they’re working. Even though it’s a happy memory, at this point in time it brings up some difficult emotions or sensations
when you think about looking through it. Or it might not even be a difficult emotion.
It might be just you feel like you’d like some clarity on what happened at that phase in your life.
Just choose whatever album it is that you want to work on, and as you have it in front of you, before even opening the photo album, you start tapping. What’s going on in your body?…watch video for more.
Another way that you can apply EFT Tapping for gaining clarity or emotional decluttering is to choose a particular phase in your childhood. So this is really great for Inner Child work, own work homework kind of own work exercise in between sessions with your coach or therapist.
If you’re doing any therapeutic coaching work or any psychotherapy work, this is something you can do in between sessions to help gain clarity. Or you can bring it to a session with your therapeutic coach or your psychotherapist.
Choose a period in your life. It could be from the time you were born to age 5 or 6, or from your teenager years. Lay out a series of photos from different parts in your development from within your chosen time frame. You can tap through all the EFT points, or you can just choose one point that you find particularly comforting in the moment and just stay at that one point.
And as you’re looking through these photos, notice if at any point there’s a shift or a surge in emotion or a surge in kind of disconnection of like, “I don’t connect with myself there”. Or “I’m feeling really sad when I look at this”…watch video for more.
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MEET ELENI
Eleni Vardaki (BA, PGCE, QTS, MEd, Advanced EFT Practitioner) is an experienced educator and therapeutic coach who specializes in stress, anxiety, and academic success. She works with both school and university level students who want her assistance on clearing their inner blocks to achieving their personal, career-related, or academic goals. She leads online and on-site group sessions for psychotherapists, classroom teachers, and other allied professionals interested in learning new tapping skills.
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