I was recently in a really difficult situation where I needed to stay calm and resourceful. It wasn’t appropriate to tap outright. I was among people who, seeing something that looked so odd and foreign to them, had the power to make an already sticky situation worse.

I utilized tapping in a unique way that certainly saved the day for me, and possibly created an energy field in which the situation resolved more quickly than it might have.

I’ll tell you the story first, and then tell you how I used EFT in this new way to stay calm and (more or less) centered during a challenging experience.

In July I was on my way to teach an EFT class at the spiritual community of Findhorn in Scotland. This is a non-denominational spiritual and educational foundation where I lived for seven years in the 1970′s and 80′s. I have been returning there annually for a few years to teach EFT.

DarkAngelSunsetArriving at Heathrow Airport in London, I was stopped where you present your passport and your landing card at Immigration, and they ask you questions like “Why are you here?” This point in the process has never been a problem before. But this time I was told to “wait over there.” A long time later someone appeared, and I was taken into the back rooms and hallways of the Immigration authorities.

I was searched, and my personal effects were confiscated (I was allowed to keep only my money and my credit card, “So you can’t claim that we stole money from you,” they said). I was photographed several times, fingerprinted, interrogated by different authorities, some more than once. I was locked up and guarded. They researched my background and that of the Foundation online.