​You’ve just completed a great EFT tapping session, feel calm and relaxed, and good in the moment.  Then perhaps later on in the day or the next day, you notice something bothering you, a new emotion an old emotion, just something’s amiss.  You want to tap, to recreate that feeling of calm, but you don’t know what to say. 
 
Did you know that tapping can be just as effective without using words?  When you’re not sure of what to say, simply tapping the points can provide a great sense of ease.  Don’t’ remember the tapping points?  See the chart below for the points.  
 
Notice what’s bothering you.   Tapping gently on each point 7-10 times, start on the side of the hand, then move to the top of the head, and continue along down the points until you’ve tapped under the arm.  Then take a few slow breaths.  That’s considered one round.  Tap another couple of rounds and then notice your feelings.  You may notice you’re feeling calmer, or you can tap another couple of rounds and assess your feelings again.

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Does it seem like you’ve been working on the same issue and not moving forward?  Repeating patterns like sadness, anxiety, anger, or other emotions/behavior may be influenced by our ancestors.
 
The study of epigenetics has an explanation -- It’s in your genes.  In the book ‘It Didn’t Start With You’ the author Mark Wolynn cites research and examples of this throughout his book.  In the book ‘Family Energetics’ by Deborah H. Donndelinger, Deb presents “a loving and effective approach for unraveling family entanglements that block our path today” by using EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or tapping to discover these hidden ancestral patterns (Donndelinger, 2012).  Note:  Family Energetics is also referred to as Ancestral Energetics.
 
Case Study
A client had difficulty charging her customers for her services, since one of her beliefs was that people don’t have the money.  Using the FE (Family/Ancestral Energetics) process (Donndelinger, 2012), she realized that her ancestors had worked very hard to succeed and that many people in prior generations didn’t have a lot of extra money.  The belief that there’s not extra money was passed down through her ancestral line.  We worked with that belief using EFT and she reported feeling much lighter.  She is now willing to attach a fee to her services.
 
Another client felt judged by her family for her chosen profession.  We used the Family/Ancestral Energetics process (Donndelinger, 2012) to discover her family message; make the family proud, support the family, be prosperous in order to continue the family legacy.  At the end of our work together, she was able to “feel comfortable shining in her own creativity and not live in what she perceived of as their judgement.”
 
Sometimes we aren’t aware of our blockages.  We do know that we have blockages that baffle us.  When released, we experience greater self-expression and creativity.
 
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References:
Wolynn, M. (2016).  It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are And How To End The Cycle. New York, Penguin Books.
 
Donndelinger, D.H. (2012).  Family Energetics: A Revolutionary Approach To Heal The Past And Reshape Your Future. United States, Deborah H. Donndelinger.