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Sunday, 27 April 2014

Do These Gremlins Sabotage Your Happiness and Success?



The independent documentary "The Tapping Solution" (formerly known as "Try It On Everything") produced by Nick Ortner, and its companion book "Discover The Power Of Meridian Tapping" written by Dr. Patricia Carrington, show you how you can powerfully and permanently chase away anxiety, insecurity, sorrow and even physical pain in just seven easy steps…and lead a fruitful and successful life!

Among others, "The Tapping Solution" tells the powerful story of Rene: "Oh, My God!!!" he screamed as he recalled the moment that changed his life forever.

The "movie" of that horrific event played over and over in his mind, thousands of times a day. Total paralysis gripped his life.

No one could blame him for the intensity of his emotions: less than a year ago his life was shattered when his car was hit by a truck merging onto the highway, and his beloved wife and soul mate Raquel was killed instantly.

She had just announced that they were expecting their first child together…

Her two children from a previous marriage, who had been living with them, were sent back to their biological father in Puerto Rico. His lively home was suddenly empty and silent – except for those screaming voices inside Rene's head. His remorse at not having been able to avoid the accident was unbearable…

How could he ever go on again? Was he even willing to try?

As told in "The Tapping Solution", just ten weeks after the accident Rene saw a sign announcing a workshop designed to help resolve precisely this kind of emotional issues. He applied, and was immediately accepted.

The film further documents how he was able to regain his ability to sleep, reduce the intensity and intrusiveness of the crash memories, and even begin to plan his life – including starting a new business venture and buying a house in Puerto Rico. He reports that he's now working out again and has lost 15 lbs!

And what did he discover at the workshop that helped him so much?

MERIDIAN TAPPING, which is described as a remarkable yet incredibly simple energy psychology technique that has already helped millions of people all around the world.

You, too, can discover this fascinating method, as well as more details about Rene's transformation, in the documentary "The Tapping Solution" and its accompanying book "Discover The Power Of Meridian Tapping."
"The Tapping Solution should be in every home. If you find acupuncture, chiropractic and alternative healing methods to be a part of your life, then you MUST watch this film and learn this simple and effective healing technique."

– ARIELLE FORD, author, "The Soulmate Secret"


Overcoming Vexing Issues


"I have been using MTT for years and have found it a pivotal tool in creating the life of my dreams. Finally a film that captures this technique in a heartfelt, down to earth and EFT Techniques Jack Canfieldpassionate way. This information is essential if you want to live your best life!"

-Jack Canfield, Co-Creator of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" Best-selling Series- Featured in "The Secret"

However, Rene is not the only beneficiary of Meridian Tapping you'll meet in this film…

The people you meet in "The Tapping Solution" tell their real life stories and how they were able to overcome many different issues – issues that impaired their ability to live their lives the way they yearned to live them.

Their stories, like Rene's, are revealed in "The Tapping Solution" and its companion book. The film and book show you exactly how to apply Meridian Tapping to your own life, to counteract the things that holdyou back from a fully successful life.

And you don't even need to leave your home to use it! You can do it in the privacy and comfort of your own home.

Dr. Patricia Carrington, clinical psychologist and author of the book, states that the Meridian Tapping techniques presented are a "genuinely effective way of changing human emotions and behaviors for the better."

Certainly the many devoted followers of "The Tapping Solution" agree with her. Consider the story of Bernadette….
Stressed and Beating Herself Up For Gaining Weight

EFT helps with weight loss

When asked to rate the role of stress in her life on a scale of 1 to 10 – with 10 being the highest possible level of stress – Bernadette rated her life at a "10."

A single working mother who raised four sons on her own, she suffered from a number of medical issues and reported that she'd been steadily gaining weight for twenty years. She was worried that she was "a heart attack in the making."

"The Tapping Solution" details Bernadette's battle with food issues over years. She really wanted to free herself from her struggles, and seemed to have so much to live for – an engaging circle of family and friends, and a rich and vital spiritual life.

During her difficult years of being a single working mother, she viewed lunch-time as the highlight of her day – her only time to be alone and enjoy pure and simple pleasure. Food consequently took on a highly emotional value in her life.

She also reports that she couldn't motivate herself to exercise consistently, and found it difficult to even walk a short distance without tiring.

As shown in "The Tapping Solution," since learning to use Meridian Tapping, Bernadette has been able to feel secure with or withoutfood. She now feels happy and comfortable with herself, and although she hasn't lost astounding amounts of weight, she is very pleased at having lost seven pounds.

More importantly, as you'll see in the film, she's no longer angry with herself for being overweight, and no longer feels that food is controlling her. She now walks every day for an average of 30 minutes, and loves it!

And now, whenever she recognizes stress building up in her life, she taps and finds instant relief.

Bernadette suggests to those considering Meridian Tapping: "Try It! You have nothing to lose. It's easy, simple, and above all, it works! Anybody can do it and it doesn't take long to learn."

Now, a bit about the legitimacy of Meridian Tapping…
Does The Film Discuss Any Evidence for This Stuff?

EFT Energy Pathways

According to Nick Ortner's film and Dr. Carrington's book, if you've read anything about acupuncture you probably know it's based on the concept of a flow of special vital energy throughout your body. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, this energy flows through your body along certain invisible pathways called Meridians.

The theory behind acupuncture, they state, is that the cause of all pain and illness is a disruption in your body's energy system.

Dr. Carrington points out that, even though it might seem so, the ancient idea of your body as a system of energy pathways is not inconsistent with modern views.

She urges the reader to consider: Why do we hook patients up to electric sensors to monitor "life-force"? Why is a flat line on a heart monitor (meaning "no electrical activity") such a disturbing thing to see in a hospital? And why do we jump-start the hearts of fellow human beings with scary-looking electric paddles?

She says that your body – and life itself – can be easily viewed as an elaborate energy system. Every organ and body system seems to have its corresponding energy field and pathways.

The book tells us about U.S. Army tests that have measured the electro-magnetic field of the human heart as it extends up to eight feet outside the body. These fields and their corresponding currents are measurable and tangible. Without the continuous flow of energy through your body, you don't have life.
Energy Sciences and Energy Psychology


EFT Techniques John's Back Pain was gone by the second day and did not return















"The Tapping Solution" details how we're now seeing the development of new "energy sciences" and how one of their apparent discoveries is that theexpressionof genesis as crucial as their mere existence. According to the experts, that expression is controlled to a large degree by the energetic choices we make – thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and decisions…

The relatively new field of Energy Psychology likewise recognizes that we are, first and foremost, energetic beings. It regards energy centers, energy pathways, and bio-fields as vital players in human psychology… and attempts to address stubborn psychological issues by dealing with the bio-energy that's causing the felt emotional state.

The book explains the belief that if energy can be re-routed, dispersed or reshaped, your emotional state will change.

According to Dr. Carrington, traditional talk therapy can be helpful in tracing the origins of energy disruptions. But it's the disruption of the energy field itself that's responsible for negative emotions. Energy psychologists now attempt to treat energy patterns directly.

Dr. Carrington further states that when it's done successfully – as she says it often is with Meridian Tapping – phobias and self-destructive thinking patterns can permanently disappear after only one, or at most a few short treatment sessions.
"Stunning! This eye-opening film reveals how ANYONE can heal virtually anything with "tapping". I've used it for years and highly recommend it."

- JOE VITALE, best-selling author, "The Attractor Factor"


Just What is This Meridian Tapping Discussed in the Film?


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Meridian Tapping is a self-administered technique that can be practiced either alone or under the supervision of a trained therapist, to relieve negative emotional patterns.

Its underlying premise, the film explains, is that all negative emotions are a result of a disruption in your body's energy system.

The film suggests that Meridian Tapping is deceptively simple.  "It is just like acupuncture – only without the needles."

It involves nothing more complicated than repeating custom-made verbal affirmations and tapping repeatedly on specific key locations on your body. On the surface, that's all there is to it.

The book "Discover the Power of Meridian Tapping" reports about the work of Dr. Roger Callahan, an American psychologist specializing in anxiety disorders.  He stumbled on a key discovery that eventually led to the development of Meridian Tapping – namely that if a person is focusing on a specific fear at the time they tap, that fear can be removed, often permanently.

According to "The Tapping Solution", Meridian Tapping is now the most influential and widely known Energy Psychology method in the world.
But Does It Really Work?

As Jack Canfield, the renowned co-author of the "Chicken Soup For The Soul" series, explains, "The proof is in the pudding." And that's what the film so successfully documents: ten people working on their issues, using nothing but the practice of Meridian Tapping, and obtaining amazing results.

And six months later, when they are brought together for a reunion, they maintain most, if not all, of the results they obtained at the workshop.

Dr. Carrington furthermore describes research studies that strongly confirm that Meridian Tapping does work.

One such study, the well-known Wells Study, was reported in the Journal of Clinical Psychology in 2003. Psychologist Steve Wells and his team of researchers tested Meridian Tapping against a deep-breathing technique, as a treatment for fears and phobias of small creatures like rats and cockroaches.

According to the book, they hoped to discover two things …


Whether MTT could deliver immediate benefits to participants, and



Whether benefits gained through MTT held up over time.




As Dr. Carrington explains, the results were surprising. Tapping proved far more effective than the comparison technique in four of five measures. Only pulse rate showed no statistical difference.

Most significantly, when subjects were re-tested six to nine months later, the gains achieved through Tapping had held up much more strongly than those achieved by the comparison method.

And this was after only one single 30-minute Meridian Tapping session with no intervening treatments.

Dr. Carrington also tells us that, spurred by the Wells study, a team of scientists led by Dr. Harvey Baker of New York (called the Baker-Siegel study) decided to try to replicate the Wells study, with a few new twists. Their comparison method was called the Supportive Interview, and utilized methods used in traditional talk therapy.

They also had a third "control" group who were present in the lab but didn't receive any treatment.  And they stretched the study period to 1.38 years.

The results suggested that although the initial benefits of Tapping shrank over time, they did not disappear by the time of re-testing more than a year later. This was with no further treatment during the interim, similar to the Wells study.

Dr. Carrington also discusses a recent large-group study conducted by psychologist Jack Rowe and published in the Counseling & Clinical Psychology Journal. The study looked at participants at a conference led by Tapping expert Gary Craig.

More than 100 attendees took the SCL 90-R – a highly respected measure of psychological distress – five times… one month before the workshop, at the beginning of the workshop, at the end of the workshop, one month later, and six months later.

As Dr. Carrington discusses, the results suggested a highly significant decrease in distress from pre-workshop to immediately after the workshop.

Six months later the gains from the workshop were still holding up strongly – with only minor diminishment of intensity, as might be expected.
"I had a serious knee injury and tapped along as you suggested and the pain is just gone. My knee is perfect. Now, I know that Tapping works, but it still amazes me how spectacular it works."

- Madalyn M. Richardson


Why Nothing Works All The Time

EFT Techniques Jodi's Knee Pain Disappeared

The film and book point out that there's nothing that works one hundred percent of the time. Talk therapy doesn't… medication doesn't… breathing techniques don't.

In fact, during the four-day workshop recorded in "The Tapping Solution", there were a few people who didn't seem to be helped by Tapping. The film explains that several of the attendees had "one minute miracles", almost all improved substantially over a longer period of time, while a couple of attendees saw little difference.

They suggest two possible factors…

From Dr. Carrington's perspective, some people may have a hidden agenda for maintaining their life the way it is, and therefore resist changing. There are people who don't want to face the changes that getting rid of a phobia would require of them.

She also explains that fears often have numerous aspects … meaning that multiple memories, emotions and psychological considerations are driving the fear, each of which must be addressed individually.

One example given in the book Discover The Power Of Meridian Tapping, is fear of flying, which often presents these common aspects …



Fear of being in an enclosed cabin


Fear of not being in control during the flight


Fear of the plane crashing


Fear of heights


Fear of being hijacked, etc.


Even with the issue of multiple aspects, those who are eager to chase away the 'gremlins' that hinder them from living life to the fullest should find that Meridian Tapping is worth a try. And it can be used for so many areas of life …
"The clips from interviews with a great range of experts are very helpful, worth watching again and again for the insights they bring. Thank you so much for the care and love you have put into the making of this great little DVD. It¹s a gem."

-Lynsey Ferrari, New Zealand


The Many Sides of Meridian Tapping Success

The movie and the book advocate using Meridian Tapping for every area of your life.

Which of these areas would you like to improve?

In the book, Dr. Carrington encourages the reader to try tapping for any and all of these things…


Fears and phobias– dental visits, surgery, elevators, needles, flying, public speaking, death, physical pain, enclosed spaces, creatures like snakes, mice, and spiders… and many other objects or situations


Performance Enhancement– musical performance, athletic performance, public speaking, dance, academic skills, exam taking, job interviews, sales, writer's block, business success …


Weight Loss– dealing with the underlying emotions that affect eating, including sadness, loneliness, depression, boredom, guilt, frustration, and discouragement


Physical Conditions and Pain– In her book, Dr. Carrington quotes Gary Craig as saying:
Drugs tend to temporarily help the chemical causes of pain but they have limited ability to reduce any long term underlying emotional causes. Tapping, on the other hand, collapses these emotional causes and that is why long-term pain relief is often achieved.

The book states that toothache relief is one of the most frequent benefits reported from Meridian Tapping. It also reports relief from back pain/injury, burns, insect stings, muscle cramps, accident injuries, arthritis, infections, sore throat, and many other things.


Creating Desirable Habits– The film and book are intended to help you rid yourself of behaviors that are not serving you well, and replacing undesirable habits with self-enhancing ones.


Using Tapping directly on emotional states that you want to change – These may include anger, hatred, depression…


Sleep issues – Meridian Tapping can help you feel "pleasantly drowsy" when it's time to sleep


Addictions– Due to their usual complexity of underlying causes, these conditions require persistence. For majoraddictions, the author suggests working with an experienced Tapping practitioner.



Allergies– hay fever, rashes, insect stings, anaphylactic shock, food or milk allergies, and more. The book emphasizes that caution should be employed here – some allergic reactions can be life threatening. The author does not suggest you quit your doctor's advice that may put your life at risk.

One related caveat… The producers of the movie and the author of the book expressly state that Meridian Tapping is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or psychological disorder. They urge that Tapping is nota substitute for medical or psychological treatment.

They expressly clarify that reading the book and using Meridian Tapping on yourself should not replace your health care from medical/psychological professionals. And information contained in the book and film are not to be considered a recommendation to stop seeing any of your health care professionals, or to stop using prescribed medication without consulting your health care professional.
Launch Your Attack Against The Gremlins in Your Life Today

The Tapping Solution shows you exactly how to implement Meridian Tapping for yourself in the privacy of your own home… to bring about the changes you want in your life.

You'll get actionable how-to's from Nick Ortner and other Tapping practitioners, plus testimonials from many dozens of users that will inspire and motivate you. And the book includes a five-page list of special resources. Both the film and the book explain how to:


Discover the exact tapping locations that release obstructions in your energy flow


Uncover the specific affirmation statements to use for each area of your life that you use Tapping for


Be able to use Meridian Tapping anywhere, at any time.


Be able to reduce or eliminate your fears, phobias, performance blocks, post-traumatic stress, and many other common problems.



Find out how truly gentle it is, how simple and easy to learn.

The movie shows you how to launch yourself into a new lifestyle, free from the stresses and limitations of phobias, fears, and the other 'gremlins' that rob your capabilities and your joy, and to empower yourself like never before.

You'll want to get started watching the movie and reading the book today…!
"Just watched both the 6-month follow-up and Making of the Film and am weeping. How very, very beautiful! Can't thank you enough for making this film and helping to change the world for the better."

- Kay Christopher

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Saturday, 12 April 2014

He lives in a tree, doesn’t wear shoes, and brushes his teeth with a pinecone


Talk about living off the grid. About 25 years ago, Mick Dodge shed his shoes, grew his beard, and left modern civilization (and a family) to live alone in the Pacific Northwest’s Hoh rain forest. But he’s not a total isolationist; he’s dialed into a community of mountain dwellers and agreed (although it took convincing) to be the subject of National Geographic Channel’s series “The Legend of Mick Dodge,”


In the first story, Dodge’s mission is to scatter his late father’s ashes up in the mountains — if he can recall where he stashed them. “My family has perfected the art of dodging civilizations for hundreds of years. All I have to do is follow my feet,” says the backwoods philosopher. He’s a memorably quirky character with a unique take on life, as this interview illuminates.
MNN: What was your life like before you moved to the woods? Did you have a job? Did you get an education?
Mick Dodge: Yes, as a heavy equipment mechanic. I have also dug ditches, chopped wood, washed dishes, and taught the Earth Gym practices. I graduated Kubasaki High School in Okinawa, Japan. Never been to college, but like to read books. If the book makes sense and has value for the earth, I plant a tree and share the book. If the book does not make sense, I plant a tree for it and use it as [toilet] paper or fire starter. My life was about the same as it is now, learning the ways to walk and explore physical exercise and how to create a physical practice that finds the middle ground between the wild and tame, between the gated wild and the walls of modern domestication. However, I must add that I have no feet pain, back pain and my heart is strong [since] I became a barefoot nomad.
What prompted you to go to the forest in the first place?
My feet hurt. I had hammertoes, plantar fasciitis, deformed feet. They hurt so bad that I could barely walk and I had always used my walk and run to handle the stress of modern living, make sense of the modern world story that I was living in, and the Hoh is home for me. So I went home to heal my feet.
In following my feet I found myself stepping out of the insulation of the modern world and landing in the earth. The results came quickly. Not only were my feet healing, but my back pain, neck pain and most of all my heart pain disappeared, and in no time at all I was back into a dead run, stepping out of the sedentary, stressed, sedated and secured living of the modern world. I was muscling my mind into the heart of the matter. I was dancing as the fire, running as the wind, strengthening as the stone and flowing as the water within, by the simple act of touching with my bare soles and allowing the Earth to teach. It is a simple matter to follow your feet, but is does not come easy. The Earth will eat you if you are not paying attention.
Is there anything you miss about modern civilization?
I don’t miss it. There is no way to get away from it. So I developed a physical fitness practice in how to step in and out of it, stepping out of the walls, machines, electronics, social babble for awhile, ground back into the natural flow of the land, and then go back in.


Going barefoot, did you ever injure your feet?
On one of my long running quests in my bare soles into the highlands of the Olympics, I was taught a lesson by the mountain. It was early winter. The snows came and I almost lost my toes. I had no footwear with me. It was a 30-mile walk out. So I cut up my moose hide jacket and had to make a set of mukluks to protect my feet. It was then that I realized that … I better shift my attitude and vow about bare footing. It was a powerful teaching. I learned the meaning and wisdom of the old saying of my elders. “Don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.”
How difficult are the winters for you, with diminished resources?
It is not difficult at all. It is an adventure and I have never had to deal with diminished food sources. I just follow my feet. There is not much that I do not eat. I am an omnivore, able to eat a wide variety of food, which also means that I learned how to become a scavenger and allowed the hunger in my belly to guide me into discovering all kinds of food. For example, I would come upon an elk killed by a cougar. When a cougar kills an elk, the entire forest moves in to eat. So I do the same. I often come upon road kill. Many people are scared of such food and yet they eat jerky … and jerky is nothing more than sun-dried meat. So what I eat during a normal week changes depending upon which one of the three terrains that I am footing my way through. But there is one highly spiritual food that I try to maintain in my stashes and storage places and that is chocolate-chip cookies. My grandmothers got me hooked on them.
Have you had any close call animal encounters?
I was footing my way along the road headed for my home camp, when some idiot talking on a cellphone, doing at least 80 miles per hour, almost hit a deer and then me. The most dangerous encounters that I have ever had in the gated wild, walls of the city and in the open fenced lands are with two footed creatures.
What do you do if you get sick? Have you ever had an emergency situation?
Fire is one of the elements of the forest that I have learned to develop a relationship to use in healing. Another key element in healing is water. After all, we are all walking sacks of water. I found during those times when I had been around people from the city, I would catch some kind of cold or flu. I would enter back into the Hoh and drink the water and soak my entire body in the glacial water. My grandfather called it “kissing the foot of the glacier.” There are all kinds of mushrooms, herbs, etc. to be used for healing, and I keep a close relationship with those in the Earth communities that master the healing and herbal arts, such as my friend Doc Gare, who is introduced in the series.
Does this lifestyle give you a heightened appreciation of Mother Nature?
Appreciation is such a weak word to express what I feel for the Earth and the transitions that I have gone through and am still going through. Hell, I am just getting started. One of the ways that was taught to me on one of my long gated wild quests was to break free of the polarization of the modern world. People always trying to put you in box. By getting some distance from the comforts, habits, physical structures like shoes, machines, walls, electronics, I find myself seeking out what makes sense, what fits, and integration of the wild and tame make sense. So l learned to hunt and track the middle path, the middle way. It is not easy at times figuring out the middle way between the modern world and the Earth. But it is fun and adventure.
What’s the best and worst part of this lifestyle?
Wherever there is good there is bad. That is the game of life. My passion in life is to explore, engage, challenge and balance whatever comes in the three terrains that I run through.
I don’t imagine there are many mountain women out there. Do you get lonely?
On my journey, I have formed so many wonderful connections with women, formed strong brother-and-sister relationships with them. I may not be able to figure out what they are always talking about. But if their soles are touching the Earth, I am more able to figure it out. A few years ago my path wandered into the Cedar Woman. We share a common vision of these Olympic Mountains and a deep musing of the lands, and in order for a vision to manifest from the Earth it takes a mission — a mission brings it to a physical reality. Cedar, along with others, created the Olympic Mountain Earth Wisdom Circle. Our lives are guided by the musings that come from living in a deep connection with the Earth, and Cedar holds the feminine wisdom fire of our hearth, which I keep coming back to, what I call the base camp.


Why did you agree to do a TV series?
I have three passions in life: the first one is my teacher, the Hoh river in these lands of the Olympic Mountains, and I wanted show what the Hoh has taught me about training and living. My second love and passion is my community, my clan that is spread out all through the three terrains. And my third passion is a calling and vision that I have been pursuing and running as long as I can remember, and that is to train and share a physical practice in the Earth Gym.
I’m guessing you don’t have a television. But how do you feel about being famous and people possibly coming to look for you, invading your privacy and solitude?
The last time I watched television, I was very young and it bored me. I have looked at some clips of what the crew shot. I love the scenery. I love seeing my brothers. But I will not watch them, mainly because I cannot stand to see myself on television or hear my voice, and I am not a legend. The land is the legend. Fame is a snare used by the modern to trap and confine the spirit. Fame is one of those ways of the modern world that always comes with blame and shame. I will run from it, dodge it. After all, I am a Dodge. If any one comes looking for me, I will be out to steal their shoes, hand them a stick and rope, show them the stones and how to sack a practice in the Earth Gym.
What do you think people will make of the show? Will they think you’re crazy or be secretly envious?
I have no idea and don’t give a s**t. You will have to ask them. When I began bare-footing, I discovered a wonderful way to explore our common cultural story. I would foot my way into the city, enter into a store barefoot. I found some liked it and would begin to reflect upon times when they walked barefoot. Others hated it, mocked it and even became angry. What was interesting to me is that they were even looking at my feet. I mean, all of us are two-footed animals. It is what has made our species. I don’t have the time or desire to figure out what people think. It was once said that this is the “land of the free and the home of the brave.” It is becoming more like the “land of the free and the home of the caged.” I don’t know what people think. But I wish they would just think about not screwing up the land that we walk in.
What else would you like audiences to know?
Just stand up, step out of your shoebox and walk around through your habitat, your local area. When you do perhaps you will begin to notice some simple things. What will happen when you begin to follow your feet? I have no idea, no one does. I only know my own story. But I also know this: all of us are storytellers, so I hope people step out long enough to feel into the remembering, develop a practice of recovery and begin restoring their footing with the earth.
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