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From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete.
Episode #1—Why raise your vibration? What’s the point?
- When your vibration is high, you feel good. And when you feel good, you attract abundance.
- You cannot attract what you want in your life when your vibration is low.
- You can feel your vibration when you are quiet and tune in.
- When you’re depressed, you feel like you’re moving through mud.
- When you’re in overwhelm, what can you do to raise your vibration using EFT? Listen to the podcast and tap along!
Back in January, I posted a resolution: “I choose to feel good.” When we choose to feel good as our #1 intention, we start looking at actions and should-do’s that make us feel less than good. Instead of running away or abdicating responsibility, as some might think we would if we just “choose to feel good at any cost,” what I’ve noticed is that the choice to feel good instead helps us to re-perceive aspects of our life that may be important but not previously enjoyable. We start to intentionally make the best of it . How? By digging a bit deeper for some reason that reasonates with our heart… and particularly reaching for gratitude and appreciation for what is here NOW, and learning to be comfortable in the gap between where we are and where we want to be.
I know this is a bit fuzzy. Personal life experience always is. That is why you will have to try this concept on for a few months to see if it feels right to you.
Imagine what your life would be like if all the should’s and have-to’s were gone. People “should” all over themselves all the time, and it makes them feel terribly burdened. In every case a should can be transformed into a choice … a fork in the road. The fork to choose will be the one that makes you feel a bit better than the other option. Your emotional guidance system—your divine intuition—can and will (if given the chance) raise the vibration of one of the options so it is clearly the better choice for you!
In fact your emotional guidance system can raise the vibration of one of the options so clearly that, in doing so, you become in alignment with it. Your whole being starts to reasonate and vibrate more fully with the potential good feelings in the choice. You activate consciously the law of attraction. People and support start showing up. And you are lead in the direction of your deepest heart’s desire. You will indeed… feel GOOD.
What I teach as an emotional freedom coach is how to use EFT to clear the blocks to feeling good—physically, emotionally, spiritually, and financially. Yet, the first step has to be a choice you make—a choice to intentionally enhance your life experience. It will require long term (lifetime) attention to vibration—your emotional state—along with the intentional use of tools like EFT in order to feel as good as you have the potential to feel.
I’d like to help. In this episode, Carol Look and I discuss the reasons we choose to intentionally take action to raise our vibration every single day. You can listen using the player controls at the top of this article, or click the MP3 link above and download it to your computer or portable music device.
If you are ready to shift your vibration, I encourage you to go within yourself, listen for what your intuition is telling you, and take action. One choice is to really learn EFT, apply it to some of the aspects of your life that leave you feeling less-than-good, and commit to a minimum of 90-days working with me or another professional coach to help you become a master at consciously creating what you desire . You can also explore the Thriving Now Circle for ongoing group coaching and support.
Companion Guide
Choosing to feel good does not mean demanding that you feel wonderful, denying what hurts, or abandoning responsibilities. It means treating the direction of your emotional state as something you can notice and influence. When you feel overwhelmed, shut down, tense, or discouraged, the useful first question is not “How do I become joyful immediately?” It is “What might help me feel a little more settled, clear, or able to choose?”
Your body helps you know where you are. Overwhelm may appear as pressure in the chest, tight shoulders, scattered attention, or an inability to decide which task to begin. Depression may feel slow, heavy, or stuck. You do not need a perfect label. A body sensation and a few honest words are enough to begin.
This is why honest tapping can be more useful than putting a positive statement on top of an experience your body does not believe. Naming “I feel overwhelmed” does not create the overwhelm; it acknowledges what your system is already carrying. If the mind says, “Everything will be easy,” while the body answers, “No, it will not,” the two are competing. Tapping first with the present truth can reduce that conflict and make a more hopeful possibility feel believable.
A practical sequence is:
- Bring the real trigger into view or mind—the inbox, the pile of bills, the difficult conversation, or the task you cannot organize.
- Notice what happens in your body and use language close to the experience: “There is too much to do,” “I cannot focus,” or “I feel this pressure in my chest.”
- Tap with that truth until there is some relief. The goal does not have to be zero distress. A small reduction can restore choice.
- Only then try language that points toward what you want: “What if clarity is becoming possible?” “I am open to feeling calmer,” or “I can do what actually needs to be done.”
- Look at the trigger again. Notice whether your body, attention, or perception has changed.
A meaningful shift may show up as a sigh, warmth, tingling, a little humor, a softer body, or simply seeing the situation differently. The inbox that looked like a wall of demands might begin to look like a set of individual choices. Not everyone feels dramatic body sensations, and dramatic relief is not required.
The deeper aim is not to maintain a high emotional state every moment. It is to build confidence that when life knocks you off balance, you can listen, soothe what is activated, and take one reachable step back toward yourself. That capacity to retune is a practical form of emotional freedom.
Tapping: From Overwhelm Toward Clarity
Use this while looking at the inbox, task, or pile that activates the overwhelm. Adjust the body location and words so they fit what is true for you.
Side of the Hand: Even though I feel this overwhelm in my chest and shoulders, I choose to feel a little more calm and peaceful.
Even though there is too much to do and I cannot even focus, I deeply and completely accept myself anyway.
Even though I wish I already had clarity, I am open to letting my body settle before I decide what comes next.
Top of the Head: I feel overwhelmed.
Eyebrow: There is too much to do.
Side of the Eye: I cannot even focus.
Under the Eye: This overwhelmed feeling in my chest.
Under the Nose: My shoulders are carrying all of it.
Chin: Part of me thinks it will stay overwhelming forever.
Collarbone: My body does not believe the positive words yet.
Under the Arm: I can acknowledge what is true right now.
Top of the Head: What if I could feel a little better?
Eyebrow: What if some clarity is becoming possible?
Side of the Eye: I love feeling calm and confident.
Under the Eye: I am open to feeling more peaceful about this.
Under the Nose: I can let my body soften.
Chin: I may not have to do everything at once.
Collarbone: I can do what actually needs to be done.
Under the Arm: I appreciate every bit of relief I can feel.
Take a breath. Look at the trigger again and notice whether anything feels different—even a little.
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