Emotional Healing in Minutes: Simple Acupressure Techniques For Your Emotions. Paul Lynch

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       Figure 5 - The Major Meridians

       Eyebrow (EB) – Bladder Meridian

      Tap seven times at the beginning of your eyebrow point at the top of the nose, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Side of Eye (SE) – Gallbladder Meridian

      Tap seven times at the corner of the eye socket bone, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Under the Eye (UE) – Stomach Meridian

      Tap seven times at the centre of the bone below the eye, level with your pupil, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Under the Nose (UN) – Governing Vessel

      Tap the middle line between the nose and top lip seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Chin (Ch) – Central Vessel

      Tap the middle of your chin, level with your gum line seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Figure 6 - Facial Positions

       Collarbone (Cb) – Kidney Meridian

      Where the collarbone meets in the centre, just below the neck, a point can be found by moving down one inch and then outwards an inch, on either side. If you tap with all your fingers you will be assured of tapping the right spot. Tap this point seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Figure 7 - Collarbone Position

       Underarm (Ua) – Spleen Meridian

      On the torso under the arm, level with the nipple in men and the seam of a bra for women. Tap seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Figure 8 - Underarm Position

       Thumb (Th) – Lung Meridian

      On the outside edge of the thumb, level with the base of your thumbnail. Tap this position seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Index Finger (IF) – Large Intestine Meridian

      At the side edge of the index finger (nearest to thumb), level with the base of your fingernail you will find the index finger point. Tap here seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Middle Finger (MF) – Circulation/Sex Meridian

      At the side of your middle finger (nearest to thumb), level with the base of the fingernail. Tap this place seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Little Finger (LF) – Heart Meridian

      At the side of the little finger (nearest to thumb), level with the base of the fingernail. Tap seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Karate Chop (KC) – Small Intestine Meridian

      On the side of each hand, roughly an inch below the little finger. Tap this point approximately seven times, while repeating the reminder phrase.

       Figure 9 - Hand Positions

      Once you have completed this sequence, close your eyes and take a deep breath – in and then out.

      3 THE GAMUT

      Step 7 – The Gamut

      The Gamut Point can be found on the back of either hand, one centimetre below the knuckles between the ring and little finger.

       Figure 10 - Gamut Point

      Tap this point at the same time as performing the next few steps.

       Eye Movements

      

Close your Eyes.

      

Open your Eyes.

      

While holding your head still look hard down right.

      

While holding your head still look hard down left.

      

While holding your head still look hard down right.

      

While holding your head still look hard down left.

      

Keeping your head perfectly still roll your eyes in an anti-clockwise direction.

      

Repeat the same process rolling in a clockwise direction.

      

Take a deep breath in and out. Allow a few moments for your energy to reconfigure.

      These procedures may seem a little strange, but they do have an important function. We often process many of our feelings through our dreams. Rapid eye movement (REM) is the brain’s way of clearing and sorting through many of the trials and tribulations that occur during waking hours. This can be observed during REM sleep. In moving the eyes in this exercise we recreate the brain’s natural processing action. NLP creators, Richard Bandler and John Grinder, observed that we store different types of information in different areas of the brain. Our thoughts, memories, feelings, sensations, sounds and visual images all have their individual storage areas in the brain. These different mental functions can be accessed by means of certain eye positions. You may have noticed the particular eye movements people make when trying to remember a piece of information or when describing a physical sensation. Quite often people look in different directions when they are retrieving or tuning in to internal processes. Within EFT, rotating the eyes initiates a balancing action within the various parts of the brain. It also addresses and clears the different thoughts, memories and feelings that contribute to a problem.