“I am feeling a resident sadness in my heart”
There is a lot that is weighing heavy on our hearts these days. One woman said to me, “It is scary to move forward into the world from my heart. Inside me there is a young girl wanting to make the world a better place. But how do you do that in this world? I am feeling a ‘resident sadness’ in my heart.”

These comments come directly from a highly sensitive temperament finding it painful to be so open, and yet still deeply committed to making the world a better place.

Listen for a metaphor
I was captured by her phrase, “a resident sadness in my heart.” I love to listen carefully to peoples’ language, and I always assume that some part of them is speaking literally through a metaphor. So this meant to me that there was a presence in her heart that was somehow “not her” – heavier, more painful, and only living there temporarily, not at home there in her heart.

It is interesting to use the metaphors that people speak in to develop tapping phrases. My thoughts and intuition here were going toward imagining what would entice this resident to transform itself or leave, and I also wanted to learn what aspect of her was truly at home in her heart. Then we would do our co-creative work together to make a place for happiness and peace in her heart.