So,
As always,
I'll start with a prayer.
Dear God,
Please do your will for this tapping session.
Please say the words for me.
Please help us release whatever we need to release.
All the anxiety that's within us,
Please help us release that.
Please help us receive your love and your will for our lives.
Please say the words for me as I do this tapping,
And please do your will.
So today we'll be doing an EFT tapping on anxiety inspired by the movie Inside Out 2.
If you haven't watched the movie,
There are no spoilers,
It's just a tapping specifically for anxiety.
So we'll start with Saida Pan,
And you can repeat after me as you tap along with me.
Even though I have this anxiety in my life,
I still deeply and completely love,
Accept,
And honor all of my emotions,
Including anxiety.
Even though it feels like anxiety is taking over and is leading all of my emotions,
All of my actions,
And all of my decisions,
I still deeply and completely love,
Accept,
And forgive myself,
Including my anxiety.
Even though it sometimes feels like anxiety rules all,
I still deeply and completely love,
Honor,
Accept myself,
And I forgive my anxiety and anyone else who may have contributed to these anxiety feelings.
Eyebrow All of this anxiety Side of eye I have so much anxiety in me.
It feels like anxiety rules all.
It feels like all of my emotions are led by anxiety.
Whenever I make decisions,
Seems like I make them out of fear.
It seems like anxiety leads my decisions.
All of this anxiety in me,
It does not feel good.
It may make me believe I'm not good enough.
I'm not good enough to do what I want to do.
I'm not good enough to be included.
I feel the need to constantly try and prove myself.
I feel the need to keep doing so much extra stuff,
Just so I can feel included.
All of this anxiety.
It sometimes makes me make decisions that I'm not particularly proud of.
In the moment it may feel like a good decision,
But maybe afterwards I'm left with regret.
Maybe afterwards I'm left with guilt.
But I cover up those regret and guilt feelings with even more anxiety.
Maybe as a child,
If I didn't have my anxiety,
It would have felt like I will make bad decisions.
Maybe it would have felt like I would make decisions that would cast me out.
So maybe anxiety wasn't very bad to begin with.
It might not feel like a good feeling.
But what is the motivation behind anxiety?
What does anxiety want for me?
Dear anxiety,
What are you trying to do for me?
What are you trying to tell me?
Are you just trying to protect me?
What are you protecting me from?
What led you to be here and take over everything?
All of these feelings of not being good enough.
The more I feel like I'm not good enough,
The louder my anxiety gets.
Because my anxiety truly cares about all these feelings of not being good enough.
Everything that anxiety does for me,
Every decision anxiety gets me to make,
It's out of the love anxiety has for me.
It's out of the need for me to feel included and accepted.
It's not anxiety's fault,
Just like it's not my fault.
If when I was a child,
I was so used to feeling this anxiety,
I was so used to feeling stress,
It could be a possibility that I am attached to these emotions.
Stress emotions happens through the hormone cortisol,
And cortisol can actually be addictive.
I could quite literally be addicted to feelings of stress and anxiety.
Addiction comes from the need to cope.
The best way I knew how to cope at one point in my life was to constantly feel anxiety and stress,
Which caused a lot of cortisol in my body.
I may have been led to believe staying stressed and having anxiety is the way to keep myself safe.
It's like if I prepare for the worst case scenario,
Then when or if that worst case scenario happens,
I will be prepared.
So really all I've ever been trying to do is protect myself and keep myself safe.
Anyone who tries to protect anyone usually does it out of love.
And so all this time I've been feeling anxiety,
I have just been trying to love myself.
Maybe I just didn't know there are other ways to love and protect myself.
And there's no use being upset at someone for not knowing something.
I wouldn't get upset at a child for not knowing a language they never learned.
And I wouldn't get upset at a child for knowing the only language they were ever taught.
I learned the language of anxiety.
I learned that that's how I can protect and love myself.
But now that I am an adult,
I can learn a new language if I choose.
And clearly I have the willingness to learn a new language.
Otherwise I wouldn't be tapping on my face right now.
The new language I would like to learn is how to protect myself with love and acceptance.
It's learning the new language of unconditional love.
Whoever taught me the language of stress and anxiety,
I allow myself to have compassion and understanding for them.
That was the only language they knew how to speak.
And that was the only language I knew how to speak.
I choose to forgive myself for not knowing the language of unconditional love.
I choose to forgive myself for allowing anxiety to take over and lead.
I did it out of love for myself.
I did it out of desire for safety and protection.
But now I can have that love.
I can have that safety and protection.
In new and better ways that serve me.
Love serves me better.
Peace serves me better.
Joy serves me better.
I allow joy to take over now.
I allow myself to feel good in my body.
I allow myself to forgive anyone and everyone who made me feel anxious.
Who taught me that I needed my anxiety.
I want to remember that I am a human being.
And if anxiety sometimes comes back,
That is okay,
That is normal.
I choose to pick up this new skill now.
Whenever anxiety wants to come back or wants to be heard,
I will allow them to think of only things that are simple.
Things that will not harm me.
For example,
If anxiety is here,
I can ask anxiety,
What do we have control over?
And what do we not have control over?
We can plan and strategize over things we have control over.
And we can let go and surrender things we don't have control over.
I allow myself to find peace in letting go and surrendering.
I allow my anxiety to be calm by only focusing on what we can control.
I allow my emotions to all have a space.
I allow all of my emotions to be heard,
Rightfully so.
And as I allow all of my emotions to be heard,
That is me allowing my true self to be heard.
I hear myself by authentically feeling all my feelings,
But not letting my feelings take over or take control.
I allow God to be the leader of my life.
God who unconditionally loves and accepts me.
God who created joy in place of all the things I can feel.
I can allow myself to feel joy even when I'm feeling all my other feelings.
Because that's how free I aim to be.
That's how loving and loved I choose to feel.
I release my need to feel like I need to be in control.
And I allow myself to know that God and life takes care of my every need.
And all these anxious feelings,
I release it with so much love,
Understanding,
Compassion,
And gratitude.
And you can take a deep breath.
And breathe out.
Thank you.
And allow it to feel all your other emotions,
Including anxiety,
And not let anxiety take over.
Thank you so much.
