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From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete.
Episode #24 – Vibrational Approach to Healing
- Use your emotions to change your vibrational health first.
- Lots of tension, urgency, and fear can come with a diagnosis.
- Tension and anxiety make pain worse.
- Don’t deny real feelings.
- Tapping: “I’m not doing enough!”
- Becoming relaxed… and not just when sleeping or napping.
This podcast refers to the Denver Workshop: The Vibrational Approach to Healing, held June 12-14, 2008
Companion Guide
A diagnosis, injury, or persistent symptom can launch an urgent campaign: change everything, research everything, and do it all immediately. The fear is understandable. Yet the pressure of “I am not doing enough” can add another layer of strain to an already burdened body.
A vibrational approach begins with the emotional environment around healing. It does not replace medical evaluation or treatment. It asks how you can bring more calm, presence, appreciation, and choice alongside the care you need.
This Guide Helps With
- tension, fear, or urgency after a diagnosis
- believing you must overhaul your life immediately
- finding a slightly better feeling without denying reality
- supporting medical care with emotional regulation
- learning to be consciously relaxed, not only asleep or distracted
Start With the Emotional Impact
The facts matter. So do the fear, grief, anger, inadequacy, and uncertainty that arrive with them. Trying to jump from “I may not get better” to “Everything will be perfect” often creates a strong internal protest.
Look for one believable degree of relief:
- I do not know everything that will happen.
- There may be options I have not learned about yet.
- I can ask another question at my appointment.
- Rest is something supportive I can offer my body today.
- I can enjoy the sunlight or the garden even while this is unresolved.
The aim is not forced positivity. It is moving from A to B rather than demanding a leap from A to P.
“I Am Not Doing Enough” Is Its Own Stressor
Urgency may inspire a sudden new diet, exercise plan, treatment schedule, supplement routine, and research project. Some changes may be wise; others may need professional guidance or gradual introduction. When everything is driven by panic, it becomes harder to hear what is truly useful.
Ask: What requires action now? What needs a clinician’s advice? What can wait? What would help me feel accompanied rather than alone? What if relaxation is also part of what I can do?
Tapping: Softening Healing Urgency
Side of the Hand: Even though I feel as if I am not doing enough and I have to do it all right now, I accept the fear and urgency I am feeling.
Even though the stakes feel enormous, I do not have to make every decision from panic.
Even though I wish I had done more before, I choose to appreciate my body and support it from where I am now.
Top of the Head: I am not doing enough.
Eyebrow: No wonder I feel all this tension.
Side of the Eye: I have to do more right now.
Under the Eye: What if I miss the one thing that matters?
Under the Nose: I feel inadequate and urgent.
Chin: My body has already been carrying so much.
Collarbone: What if relaxing is something supportive?
Under the Arm: What if a little relief is enough for this moment?
Top of the Head: I can invite clarity about my decisions.
Eyebrow: I can ask for the medical information I need.
Side of the Eye: I can make changes at a workable pace.
Under the Eye: I can honor my real feelings without living only in them.
Under the Nose: I appreciate what my body has done for me.
Chin: I can participate in my care without attacking myself.
Collarbone: One grounded choice at a time.
Under the Arm: I look forward to working with my body in the healing process.
Take a breath. Notice what now feels truly urgent and what can be approached with more time, support, or professional guidance.
Conscious Relaxation Is Practice
Try a short period of being awake and unbraced: sit outside, listen to music, place a hand on your body, or tap gently without demanding an outcome. If tiredness comes, rest. If fear returns, acknowledge it specifically.
This approach makes no promise about a diagnosis. Its value is relational: you are reducing unnecessary internal warfare so that your body, judgment, support team, and medical care can meet in a steadier environment.
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