Here is an interesting problem that you will certainly encounter if you are an EFT practitioner. You might even notice it in yourself.

In certain situations you might feel anxious, even fearful, and you find yourself metaphorically (maybe actually) curling up, making yourself very small, crying for help—or being very still and quiet—and hoping for a miracle. You feel numb. You might even feel as if you are watching what is happening to you from a distance.

You want to tap for an unhelpful response to a situation, but since you can’t feel what you are feeling, you don’t know where to start or what to say.

Following is an email exchange that I had with a former teleclass participant, asking about numbness:

Dear Rue, I valued listening to your teleclass. I had my issue all in mind, but alas, I never got any feelings about it to measure. This is always how I am. Your volunteer is lucky to ‘feel’ her connection to the problem. How can a person benefit from EFT if there is no emotional recognition in one’s self? Tho I desire to change, and I do all the tapping, I am yet to ‘feel’ anything so there is no reducing the number if it is already zero when it should be a ten. What is wrong with me?!!

I have tapped on being afraid to feel, accepting myself even tho I don’t have the feelings on the conscious level, etc. But I seem to stay the same!

Has anyone else asked you about this ‘defect’???