Let’s tap into the Power of DOING
YASSS! It’s time for us to announce the new Book Club selection!
🥁 Drum roll, please…🥁
The new book for our STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT☕️🍵 is…
REWIRED: The Breakthrough Tapping Method to Stop Overthinking, Calm Your Body, and Finally Feel at Ease by Nick Ortner, Jessica Ortner, and Alex Ortner!
Why this book?
As I’ve studied books like the ones we’ve selected for my STUDY, SAVOR, & SUPPORT Each Other CHAT☕️🍵, I’ve incorporated them into the THINK portion of my VICTUS Method, to Think-Do-&-Be my way to who I’m meant to be.
Each of them have forced me to not only Think, but Re-Think, to question who I am and who I want to be.
- In THE ARTIST’S WAY: Recovering a Sense of Autonomy, Julia Cameron taught me to give myself the gift of Morning Pages, to take the time to journal, to reflect upon what I am feeling and thinking each and every day, so I can center my Creative Self and pinpoint the pathways to my progress.
- In BEYOND ANXIETY: Curiosity, Creativity, and Finding Your Life’s Purpose, Dr. Martha Beck taught me to consider how my thoughts and actions have fit neatly into society’s “Roles Rulebook” and — while that’s been fulfilling and fruitful in many ways — her words have encouraged me to be brave enough to question, “Is that trajectory aligned with who I am now & who I want to be in the future?”
- And, in ON BECOMING AN ARTIST: Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity, Dr. Ellen J. Langer reminded me to be careful, to make sure I am not living my life in a mindless way that fails to question what I am doing with my life, because our lives are precious. We are all given a limited amount of time on this Earth and when we live our lives mindlessly, without stopping to question what we are doing and why, we can miss out on all of the wonderful opportunities that we have available to us in the present moment, to listen mindfully to our inner compass.
All of these ways to THINK have one thing in common:
They show us Better Ways of Being.
And invite us to question…
“Am I living my life in a way that allows me to live up to my fullest potential?”
Not only in terms of our profession, but who we are as people, holistically.
For me, it means asking…
“Am I allowing myself to be the Creative I wish to be?”
The desire to take my Creative Work seriously feels like a quiet yearning that’s been building inside of me for years.
And what a journey it’s been. I tried to deny that part of me, suffered tremendously as a result, and found some semblance of peace since I started publishing my creative writing.
From the outside looking in, it might look like an easy transition. I’ve been writing my science fiction books for years. I am about to release the second book in my series, THE OBSIDIAN CHRONICLES. And I have been publishing my VICTUS Mindset & Meditation: Synergy of Science & Self newsletter every week, for over a year now. I certainly see myself as a Creative Writer now.
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But there are other aspects to my Creative Self — like the musician in me — that I cannot see as clearly.
I know I love to sing and play piano. Music enlivens and invigorates me, in a way that feels deeply rooted. Like it centers my soul. At the same time that it challenges me.
But, I do not see myself as a “Musician.”
And that makes me pause. It makes me wonder, “Why not?”
Perhaps it’s because of my history, abandoning piano lessons as a child.
It’s made me regret and lament what could have been.
Intellectually, I understand.
Most likely, it’s because working in music was never proposed as a professional possibility for me. Being a Musician was allowed for other people. But not for me.
Just like being an Artist wasn’t on the table, either.
But…
Emotionally, I don’t understand.
No matter how many years pass, my Inner Child’s questioned, “Why?”
“Why not?”
Psst…“If they can, YOU can.”
That’s what’s been whispering in my ear lately.
Because I’ve been busy Thinking and Re-Thinking…All. These. Years.
Problem is:
Thinking — without Action — doesn’t have the power to bring peace.
It’s knowledge without wisdom.
It’s the mind, paralyzed.
It’s potential, moving in circles.
Always on standby.
Never embodied.
Not lived.
It’s the DOING that needs to be done.
Not later.
Now.
It’s time to move onto the next step in the VICTUS Method: DO.
Which is precisely why my goal with this Book Club Pick is to focus on the DOING.
To tap my way there.
As I tap the keys on my piano…
I will tap my way to wholeness.
To my greatest most authentic, Creative Self.
That’s precisely what the Emotional Freedom Technique (“EFT”) of Tapping can help us to do, one round of tapping at a time.
By tapping our body’s meridian endpoints with our fingers, while thinking about anything that’s holding us back, we can combine elements of Psychotherapy with Energy Medicine to release our limiting beliefs and replace them with empowering ones.
It seems woo-woo.
But, it’s not.
It’s backed by science.
As Dr. Peta Stapleton of Bond University states, “Tapping on acupoints sends activating or deactivating signals to brain areas that have been aroused by the phrases we say.”
The tapping generates electrical signals — a form of “piezoelectricity” (electricity generated by pressure) — along the same meridian points that are utilized in ancient Eastern medicine (acupuncture). Studies have shown that these “acupoints” have less electrical resistance & therefore greater electrical conductivity than adjacent parts of the body, allowing the electrical signals we generate to travel through the collagen in our bodies.
And, remarkably, double-blind studies comparing actual acupuncture needles with non-penetrating finger-tapping produced similar clinical improvements.
What’s more, when we pair this manual tapping stimulation with a negative thought or emotion, the electrical tapping signals help us to deactivate the fight-flight-freeze-fawn-flop activation in our amygdala, and allow us to activate the rest-and-digest calmness of our parasympathetic nervous system.
Intrigued?
I was.
So, I tried it during one of my worst migraines, when the pain was so debilitating I had to sequester myself in a dark room, to close my eyes and try not to puke while struggling with the worst part — the ruminating thoughts that kept looping me in a perpetual state of anxiety.
And I took my experiment seriously:
I skipped the migraine medicine.
And gave a few rounds of tapping a try.
Miraculously, the pain began to subside. The “prodrome” symptoms were less severe than my usual. And the anxiety that felt like an 8 dropped down to a 3 in fifteen minutes.
That’s faster than my migraine medicine.
Most remarkably, after a while, I found it hard to trigger my anxiety, no matter what I was thinking. I even spoke some of the looping thoughts out-loud.
Nada.
Zilch.
The tapping worked…like magic!
And, before doing this, I was truly skeptical. It sounded too good to be true.
But I’ve done it with my last few migraines and I can see how promising it is.
For dealing with both the physical and emotional pain. And, even better, it works…FAST. Faster than I ever thought possible.
Now, take a Mindful Minute, to ask yourself —
Are YOU ready to launch an EFT Experiment with me?
Stepping into a new Creative YOU can bring up a lot of feelings — like self-doubt, uncertainty, the dreaded Imposter Syndrome, the heinous Inner Critic, and — of course — REGRET!
But, what if we had this tool in our arsenal?
⭐️ What if EFT is the pathway to freeing the Creative Self in YOU?
⭐️ EFT may be precisely what we need to embrace our “Messy Middle,” as we do “the DO.”
Because we deserve it.
And we deserve to do it in a well-regulated way, too.
So…
I hope you’ll join me, starting next week, when we begin our deep-dive into REWIRED!
Because our past is NOT “the way it has to be.”
⭐️ Let’s EFT-our-way to proclaiming this wholeheartedly:
- ♥️ “I deserve to explore Better Ways of Being.”
- ♥️ “I am ready to champion my Creative Self.”
- ♥️ “No matter what I’m feeling, I can love & accept myself.”
And get ready!
- Choose a creative activity to pursue alongside me. Not necessarily the same creative practice as I’m choosing (music). But, the creative practice that YOU choose.
- Together, we will experiment and PLAY.
And, to make it extra fun, I’m going to couple it with something BIG that I’m about to LAUNCH, so we can…
EFT-our-way-to-Freedom this Independence Day!
🧠🎨 The EFT-Healing Creative in Me 🎨🧠
🧠🎨 honors & respects 🎨🧠
🧠🎨 the EFT-Healing Creative in Each of You, 🎨🧠
Marisa
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