"Anecdotal Evidence"

Anecdotal evidence for anything isn't generally given much weight: in fact, the very term has a dismissive flavor to it.

But when the anecdotes in question are about yourself, you feel a sense of 'wow, this is working! who else can it help?'

Since I've been mentioning how excited I am with the effectiveness of Tapping in all my recent posts, I thought I'd share three anecdotes of ways that it has been helping, besides all the intangible increase in energy, reduction in anxiety, increase in positivity...

1) Something that I've been 'tappping' on, while working through my body image issues, is the fear of going hungry, of starving. I knew already that my body has a hair-trigger fear of starvation, having experienced way too much of it. During tapping, I promised myself that I would never make myself go hungry. That very day, I rushed off to a meeting around mid-afternoon, right around when I would be getting hungry for a snack, and forgot to take anything with me. Self sabotage? I realized the omission right away and wondered about sabotage, but surprisingly, the promise that I'd made to myself felt more valid than the lack of snacks on hand. I was stopping at the grocery store on the way to my meeting anyway, so I bought a bag of carrots and a coconut, knowing that these would provide an easy quick snack and a less easy but more substantial snack if I really needed it. The anxiety was gone, and I was less hungry too: a couple of carrots was all I needed.

2) I tapped on not getting down to my poetry writing and feeling resistance and anxiety around it, even though it's the most important thing I have to do. I identified some underlying causes for the anxiety and resistance, and I have been writing lots all week!

3) (This one is a great example of how feeling so much better does not mean that one never encounters adversity, but that maybe one can handle it better.) A couple days ago, I'd been in our storage bunker refilling coconut oil jars, etc. When I was replacing the hatch, two big, heavy doors that were propped up on the other side fell on my head. Once I'd gotten them off of me and back up, without falling through the hole to the bunker(!), and gotten back to the cabin, I set the bag of jars down and it instantly fell, breaking one of the jars, and then I cut my finger clearing up the broken glass... Ordinarily, a sequence like that would have left me traumatized--probably tears, definitely a huge burst of adrenaline and huge crash soon after. This time, I went straight for the rescue remedy, which I know to help in 'shock' situations but often forget to take, and immediately resolved that I would take things easy for the rest of the day. Probably I'd have been forced to take things easy if I'd freaked out like I usually would have done, but somehow making the decision to take it easy up front felt so much more positive and powerful. I was able to laugh about the whole catastrophe much sooner too!

Bonus story: there's a very special birthday party this evening, and that Peanut Butter Mousse Brownie has been requested. Well, in addition to making it (with a richer brownie recipe because I wasn't pleased with the one I used last time), I made a miniature 'white chocolate' version with a raw, no sugar crust and a white chocolate fudge topping based on the white chocolate I shared last time, so that I can have some too without any compromise of the yeast cleanse or adverse dark chocolate effects. I even put flax seeds in the crust/brownie, to balance omega-6's in the peanut mousse! Self-care seems to be coming more naturally.

It really does look like spring here. Temperatures in the teens at night and early morning, but bright sunshine and temps just above freezing all day, solar oven in here, melting everywhere. We're remembering the huge blizzards at the end of March last year and trying not to be fooled, but it's very hard not to be fooled.
There are even seeds at the grocery store!

Have you tried Tapping?
How do you feel about anecdotal evidence? Does the fact that I'm sharing such a positive experience with it make you at all intrigued to try it yourself?
Have a beautiful weekend.