EFT tapping during Holosync

The last 2 days, I've managed to get up and do my Holosync at the beginning of my day.  This was thanks to encouragement from Gemstar to call the Hotline.  Now, both Gemstar and I had thought of an issue more related to Qigong than Holosync.  The man at the Hotline didn't really have any idea about any adverse effect of being in water.  He did say most people get up an hour early and do it in the morning (though I note Gemstar does it after the evening news).  When do you do your Holosync meditation?

I have known about EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) for at least year but other than buying course materials and taking a peek, had not done alot with it.  At the moment, I'm involved in something called the 45 Day Boundless Living Challenge and the creator of that event is a big fan of EFT and has brought in experienced practitioners and made available audios of the sessions for the members of the Challenge program.  Through that, I got some real time experience with the tapping and found some “effects”.  I'm not as regular with it as others in the Challenge.

The first morning I did Holosync after waking, well into the meditation, I noticed a tingling or itch under my nose.  This is one of the EFT points (it is accupunture-like for releasing energy blocks).  I guess Gemstar got me equating Holosync with energy work and so, I tapped. Later, I tapped whenever a place on my body got my attention.  It wasn't terribly active, just momentary movements, with big spaces of non-movement in between.  I felt like it did some good.  Some of the “points” weren't tradition EFT places and I didn't do the full sequence (continually tapping from the head to under the arm - maybe 8 different places - then repeating) as is normally done in EFT.  Just occasionally released energy at a specific point, when it occured to me to do so.

Also, Gemstar mentioned not falling asleep as an indicator that you are ready to move on.  Actually, I'm in no hurry, I plan to give it the Awakening Prologue a full 4 mos (which will occur around the beginning of Nov - the anniversary of my FILs death a year ago, which Gemstar will probably remember as it connected us in a unique way).  I don't fall asleep listening, unless I take it to bed with me.  I find that I may have drifted off occasionally in the bath.  The morning meditation seems to allow me to stay alert.

I don't have an appropriate chair.  The best place I have is sitting upright on the edge of the futon in our library (the only private room in the first floor living space of our old farmhouse).  I alternate from lotus to feet on the floor (as there is a basement below me, I can't really connect to ground).  At the moment, my biggest challenge is riding out restlessness (which I understand is the typical experience for beginning meditators).

Deborah

Re: EFT tapping during Holosync

Actually, I do Holosync at different times most days - although I find my best times for remaining alert and getting the most “charge”, is from around the Noon hour, around 4 PM in the afternoon and occasionally around midnight, with more intensity earlier in the day.  However, in summer I sometimes find it best to get up around 7:30 and do a session then, before needing to put on air-conditioning and fans, which noise tends to interfere with my experience of the binaurals.  I would say that I probably do Holosync once every 16 to 18 hours.  If I've missed a day and it's near the end of the time for listening to a CD (after listening at least 6 weeks), I will sometimes just crash in my lazy-boy at night, and set the Immersion track to repeat continually after the initial Dive.  I drift in and out of consciousness.  When my head has had enough (usually maxed at two hours of Immersion), I will completely wake up, and wander off to bed.

My advice, Deborah:  watch for yard or estate sales in your neck of the woods and find yourself a more comfortable chair for a few bucks, throw some cushions on it, a soft blanket over that, and settle your body in comfortably for the hour. I put a rolled towel in the space between my neck and the chair to give my neck support, with my head back against the chair.  I prop the big sony ear-phones on the upturned ends of the towel (still snug to my ears though), stacked on my shoulders - that way I don't have the top of the 'phones pressing down on the top of my head, so the crown area doesn't have something sitting directly on it.  I put my feet up on a foot-stool, as they tend to swell if I let them hang down. I unplug my phone and let calls go to voice mail. 

To me, listening to Holosync isn't about endurance tests or being in the perfect alignment (just not going to happen with my creaky old body ;)).  Sure, if you're young and you've got a super body that lets you comfortably contort into Lotus - go for it!!!  For those of us who don't - Eliminate distractions to the degree possible, develop the attitude this is YOUR time, and you deserve it, and sit quietly for the hour.  Certainly, if you want to use a mantra or watching your breathe, or whatever you would consider normal meditative techniques, these will go along nicely with the listening session.

I will occasionally throw in a healing meditation (for self or others), or “power-breathe” as Paul Scheele instructs on one of his Paraliminals, usually only for the first 15 to 20 minutes, though, and then I just sit quietly for the remaining time.

That's pretty much my so-called Holosync listening “technique”.  ;)

Cheers!
Gem

Re: EFT tapping during Holosync

Hi, Deborah. I'm not sure I understand the tapping thing. Do you tap parts of your body that feel itchy (or twitchy)? I do get restless when I am “holosyncing”. I still find the second half of the routine really long and I get restless towards the end.