Below is an email I received in response to this part of the post,
“YES! (Time Sensitive)”
“Is healing possible for YOU? Even if it’s a lifelong
problem? Even if it’s proven on lab tests and x-rays?
Even if it’s really “serious?”
“The answer is…
YES!”
Our friend writes:
Tell that to my friend who was torn apart in a car crash and is in a coma.
“YES sure Jennifer… you can heal everything and have your leg
re-grow even though it is gone.”
We’ll just tap on you somewhere and everything will be like nothing happened.This is the kind of “oh just do this and all your problems will
vanish” stuff out there that misleads people and can be so so disheartening
to many who end up saying “but why didn’t it work for me…what’s wrong with me?”I think you need to be more thoughtful about how you word things.
While I do believe tapping is worthwhile and effective…we have to be
careful to understand that not everyone is ready or capable to understand
and apply these ideas…maybe not in this incarnation.false hope is … well …just that
honesty about WHAT IS…at any given moment in someones life should always
accompany these ideas so people are always acknowledged for where they are
and never made to feel less if they can’t do something or make something workagain I support these wonderful ideas and expressions
we just have to remember… to take into account where people are at
any given time in their life
and let them know…they are perfect…even if the tapping doesn’t work for themjust sharing- these are just my thoughts – just like you have yours
thanks for all your good intention Alexandra
it’s beautiful what you do
Thank you SO much for writing and sharing your thoughts! First, I just want to breathe, and listen, and appreciate you.
You’ve written so beautifully about so many things…and because I’m so interested in everything you shared, I’d like to respond. Because I want to respond to EVERYTHING, and that would take a whole book–way too much for anyone to read here–I’ll just take it one idea at a time. I hope you and others will continue this conversation here.
The Extent of Possible
First, I want to directly address your first paragraph by saying that when I write an email to my subscribers, I think about who I’m writing to. I remember all of my patients, everyone I’ve coached, almost everyone who has ever interacted with me on a course I’ve taught, many people who have emailed me over the years or participated in the forum I used to sponsor on the Science of Being Well website. Often, I’ll be writing something that directly applies to people I’ve worked with that week. Even though there are people I’ve never talked with, I make certain assumptions. In this case, I was assuming that I was talking to people who were conscious, able to read and understand my words, and able to physically tap on their own bodies. That assumption does not apply to your friend Jennifer.
It’s true that I was not thinking about people with amputations, and this makes me pause and consider the question of limitations to the extent of healing that I believe is possible. Before we go there, I think we need to talk about what it means to heal.
What Does it Mean to Heal?
This is a really big question, and I’d have to say, one that really belongs to the person who seeks healing. “What would it mean to you to heal?” Personally, I think it defies the laws of the universe for anyone to EVER go back to the way they were, as if nothing had happened. I believe the nature of the universe is expansion.
If I were in Jennifer’s situation, and emerged from a coma after a car crash to discover one of my legs amputated, I’d want my leg back, fully functioning, along with my full mental and physical function, erasure of any scars, and freedom from pain. Because I don’t know of anyone who has regrown an amputated body part, and I’m unaware of a medical explanation for how that could occur, I’d have a hard time maintaining my faith that I could grow it back, even if theoretically I believe it’s possible.
It’s easy to belittle things that I wanted to believe were possible, but had a lot of doubt about until they occurred. It’s easy to say, well even though I can routinely heal myself of a cold in an average of 10 or 15 minutes, and even though I healed from multiple chemical sensitivity just by changing my thoughts, and even though that ugly, uncomfortable thyroid thing disappeared in a way that is completely unexplainable by medical science, and even though there was a time when I doubted that any of those things would happen, it’s easy to say that growing a new limb is too hard because we don’t know of anyone else doing it.
I’m not aware of anyone who has been diagnosed with celiac disease or gluten allergy (demonstrated by lab tests as well as having undeniable physical reactions after eating it) who has been cured. But I’m SURE it’s possible, and fully intend to be someone for whom it’s true.
My dentist has told me that once enamel is gone from the teeth, it can’t be regrown. Fortunately, it’s been a while since I studied embryology and human development, so I can remain convinced that it’s entirely possible to regrow it without the hurdle of being educated as to its impossibility, even though I don’t know of anyone who has. I intend to have great teeth my whole life, complete with some enamel I don’t have in physical form at the moment.
When I watch ice skaters and snow boarders and acrobats, I still have a hard time believing those things they are doing right before my eyes are actually possible. Each time the Olympics comes around, humans have pushed the envelope of what’s possible. Have humans evolved physically? Have they just expanded their belief in what’s possible?
Doctors and medical scientists could probably explain why it’s NOT possible to grow a new limb. That doesn’t actually hold any weight for me. Any time there’s a medical event unexplainable by medical science, it doesn’t seem to change the insistence that these things are not possible, nor change the accepted explanations for how things work.
Medical science relies upon explanations that lie wholly within the physical realm. Miracles, whether you believe they were caused by God, or Law of Attraction, or EFT, by definition have causes OUTSIDE the physical realm. Most doctors–and many other educated people–won’t buy anything as true unless the physical mechanism can be explained, measured, observed. From my experience, miracles, including healing that happens to people who use EFT, aren’t something you can do “to” someone. You can’t “do” EFT “on” someone. It’s not just a physical thing. It’s an energetic interaction that involves both the person tapping and the person receiving the tapping–even if usually those people are the same. (I actually find it works best if I’m aware of my identity as the loving witness at the same time as my identity as the person with the problem.)
That’s the beginning of my thoughts about your first paragraph. I welcome your further thoughts about this.
The other things I want to talk with you about include:
“Who Needs Healing?”
“Acknowledging What Is”
“False Hope”
“Lies, Promises, Discouragement”
“Disease and Death as Failure?”
We’re all in this together. Much as I sometimes get caught up in my identity as The Authority, and want to share my perspectives as if “I’m right,” the truth is I’m learning this stuff right along with everyone else, experimenting in my own life and wanting to help others by sharing what I’ve learned.
With love and appreciation,
Alexandra