Inspired by Laurel Parnell, Ph.D. Attachment Focused EMDR, and, Tapping In: A Step-By-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation
Tapping In is described as:
- Imagining a resource
- Evoking as much sensory information as possible so that you truly feel the resource within you (taste, touch, smell, sight, sound)
- When it feels fully positive, add 6-12 slow, rhymic taps alternating right-left-right-left as though you’re savoring a walk in nature. Taps may be a butterfly hug tapping on your shoulders, collar bone, upper arms, or elbows. Taps can also be on your thighs or marching in place or tapping your toes in your shoes.
- Pause and ensure the experience is fully positive. If it feels it can strengthen more, add another short set.
- Stop tapping if the experience spoils at all. We do not want Resource Tapping leading into free associating trauma reprocessing. If a resource becomes contaminated with traumatic material, use a Container to store the traumatic material and return to some other Resource to calm your system in the present moment.
- Then, when you’re in an experience when you want to call on a resource, you can activate the resource and tap it in using the same slow, rhythmic taps.
Types of Resources:
- Resources for Comfort
- Nurturing Figures
- Body Safe Place
- Comfort Memories
- Food Memories
- Music, Chants, Prayers, and Mantras
- Sacred Place
- Safe/Peaceful Place
- Spiritual Figures
- Your Circle of Inner Helpers (called Ally Oasis in DARe or Support Team)
- Your Safe/Peaceful Place Through Drawing
- Love Resources
- Circle of Love
- Heart as a Place of Refuge
- Loving-Kindness Meditation
- Those Who Love You
- Those You Love
- Resources for Peace and Calm
- Calm and Peaceful Resource Person
- Images from Nature
- Memories of Feeling Peaceful
- Resources for Empowerment
- Boost Performance
- Circle of Protection
- Core Inner Strength
- Courageous Figures
- Images from Nature as Power Resources
- Inner Mentor or Coach
- Inner Support Team
- Memories of Being Courageous
- Memories of Being Creative
- Memories of Being Powerful
- Memories of Limit Setting
- Memories of Overcoming Problems
- Memories of Saying ‘Yes’
- Memories of Success
- Other People Overcoming Difficulties
- Others Who Can Say ‘No’
- Power Figures
- Protective Adult Self
- Protector Figures
- Saying No, Setting Boundaries
- Strengthening Successes
- Your Actualized Goals
- A Healthy You
- Uplifting Resources
- Beauty
- Creativity
- Experiences of Awe and Wonder
- Favorite Things
- Freedom and Expansion
- Gratitude
- Humor and Laughter
- Inspiration
- Joy
- Precious Life Meditation
- Spiritual and Wisdom Resources
- Essential Spiritual Self
- Higher power
- Inner Mentor or Coach
- Inner Support Team
- Inner Wisdom Figures
- Insights and Life Lessons
- Sacred Place
- Spiritual Experiences
- Spiritual Figures
- Spiritual Teachings
- Wise Being
- Resources for Healing, Illness, and Trauma
- Grounded Breathing
- Images of Letting Go, Expanding, or Opening
- Hearing or Singing Self a Soothing Lullaby
- Nurturing Figures
- Peaceful Place
- Protector Figures
- Inner Wisdom Figures
- Memories of Recovery
- Positive Memories of Health and Wholeness
- Healing Imagery
- Encouraging or Reassuring Words
- A Healthy You: Imagine Yourself Healthy and Whole
- Higher Power
- Wise Self
- Body Safe Place
- Image of Someone You Know or Heard of Recovering from Illness or Injury
“Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
|| Helen Keller
