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Carol: Want to do just a quick remaining “overwhelmed” on the eyebrow? Eyebrow: This remaining feeling of overwhelmed…
Side of the eye: …this remaining tension… Under the eye: …this remaining tension… Nose: …this remaining tension…
Chin: …the remaining tightness… Collarbone: I can handle it.
Under the arm: I can make the right decisions. Top of the head: I can make the right decisions…
…and I love being calm and peaceful.
Carol: Take a breath.
Rick: Ahhhhh… (deep breath)
Carol: If you’re calm and peaceful when you look at your overwhelm, you
can do something about it. You can’t when you go into a state of shock. In overwhelm, and too much noise, and too much static, you can’t do
something. That puts us into paralysis of some kind. We really can’t operate under that.
Rick: It’s like the clutter creates a repetitive, traumatic “freeze” response… Carol: Absolutely.
Rick: …where you look at something and you’re saying, “I don’t know what
to do,” and that overwhelm to me is I’m frozen.
Carol: Yes.
Rick: I cannot engage the higher mind in making decisions… Carol: Right.
Rick: …about what to do. There are really only a few decisions. I’m going
to file it, I’m going to discard it…
Rick: …I’m going to put it in a calendar for some time in the future, I may
give it to somebody else. There’s not that many things that we can do with a particular piece of information, or a particular item. There are not many things that you have to decide, but when you’re frozen, I felt it. I could feel frozen around it. Right now, I’m not feeling frozen around it. There’s still tightness, honestly, but it’s about a 2.
Carol: Mmm-hmm. 2 is a very different energy.
Rick: I think that’s probably around some of the other emotions that we’ll
start tapping on now.
Carol: Mmm-hmm. And what’s interesting is I’m noticing, and I didn’t
notice it before, but next to the pile that I use as my prop, first of all it’s totally changed. (Isn’t that funny? It’s down in my stomach, and it’s not as high at all.) But I’m noticing this enormous area under a hanging bookcase that I completely cleaned up weeks ago, and I have not gone back to it. You know, whenever there is a hole or a space in my office, I put something in it. I have not done that, and that’s new for me! I clean up, and then a week later, something is in the same space that I just cleaned up. I have kept this. So I’m now noticing a new space that is clean, noncluttered, and I’m also noticing some real progress. I’ve done a kind of decluttering where I’m not just having to put things back in a different place.
Rick: That starts feeling like appreciation. Carol: Yes. Absolutely.
Rick: That’s feeling like I’m noticing the ways that I am on a journey
toward a space that is more and more and more to my liking. Is that feeling in the stomach overwhelm still, or is that another emotion?
Carol: No. Isn’t that funny?
Rick: Not really. To me, when the place in the body where it changes,
usually in my experience the emotion has changed.
Carol: It was interesting: as you were talking, my first thought was, “oooh,
that’s anxiety - I know that feeling,” and then it turned out it’s not anxiety. It’s excitement.
Carol: It’s in the same place, but I’m excited to get going on this and to
keep doing this because it reminds me of another topic I wanted to make sure we talk about. It’s the idea of a deep-clean clutter versus the surface. Some people only have surface clutter, and it’s a matter of time. They clean it up, and it’s fine. I have, and have had, a deep-cleaning problem. I need to go into the drawers and get the old junk out, so the right stuff goes in there that is chronologically appropriate there, but it needs to be a deep clean for me. When I deep-clean, everything changes. For me to do surface clutter - what’s the point? Right? Three days later, the mail is piled up
again. So, I want people to really evaluate for themselves: “Oh, am I just a surface clutter, and that’s easy, or is this a really deep problem?” Because if you don’t go to the deep cleaning, your problem will not get fixed. It’s a little bit like if you don’t go to the core issue emotionally with EFT, it will come back because something will trigger it.
Rick: Absolutely.
Carol: This last year or two I’ve been doing deep cleaning and decluttering,
and that’s what’s making a difference. The idea of just taking stuff off the top shelves once a week - that’s not what I need in my life, but other people may have that.
Rick: For most people, I think, it’s a combination of things. If you want to
make an energetic shift in your life - to feel more abundant, for example - those areas which you’re not facing… For example, you have a fear of facing that closet. You have a fear of facing the mess in your relationship. You have a fear of facing anything. We can become good at not facing it…
Carol: Right.
Rick: …but our subconscious is still staring it right in the face. Carol: Exactly.
Rick: There’s no aspect of our life that, if we’re not facing it, that a part of
our energy system isn’t giving it “the stare”.
Carol: Right! I guess you’re right.
Rick: When we talk about the vibration, people learning about the Law of
Attraction often focus on that which is only in their conscious mind, whereas your vibration is primarily a vibration that is holistic: those things which you’re not facing - which you’re not looking at - as well as those things which are right in front of your face.
Carol: Right. I call it that “pebble in the shoe”. There’s always just that
one thing that bugs you. You’re trying to ignore it or deny it, but it’s there.
Excellent. Shall we go on to another emotion?
Rick: You want to do the fear of facing it?
Carol: Yes, why don’t we just segue right into that.