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Contributing Columnist Tom Dorzab is a retired biologist from Kansas and now lives with his wife in Spain. Tom followed his passion and is now an energy medicine practitioner specializing in Eden Energy Medicine.  Contact Tom here


Tap, Tap, Tap
By Tom Dorzab

As the number one reason for physician consultations in the United States, pain deserves special recognition. Being so common among the population at large, I will be spending a fair amount of time on the subject. As there are many different reasons for pain, it is possible that finding relief from it could become more of a process than an event. It's also possible that a simple intervention could wipe the slate completely clean and long standing chronic pain can disappear very quickly. As an example, an older gentleman once approached me complaining of a chronic leg pain he had had for years. I took the time on the spot to try something quickly. I tried a technique some of you may have heard of before, EFT. We went through two rounds of EFT and then checked back on the severity of the pain. It was gone! Completely gone! He was amazed and I have to admit so was I. I had hoped to give him a little relief and instead he was completely pain free. Years later he is still free of the pain and I have received a Christmas duck, watermelons and assorted other thank yous from him. Not bad for 5 minutes work.

Since readers of this newsletter are pretty well up-to-date on meridian tapping techniques, I'm not going to go into it other than to say it often works wonders and, since it's so simple, why not try it? But, did you know there are other tapping techniques you can use for pain? In this article I'm going to describe several other simple tapping techniques that can also work wonders for pain.

The first is called Zone Tapping. Zone Tapping is not a meridian tapping technique but instead is based on the well known art of Reflexology. In Reflexology the body is divided into zones as you will soon see. This technique is best used for localized pain.

Before tapping, you will first need to determine the location of the pain. Then you will need to determine in which body zone it's located. Once that's done, you simply need to tap on certain points on either the wrists or the ankles. Pretty simple huh? So where are these zones and tapping points?

The body will first be divided into eight general zones. First imagine a line around the waist. This line divides the body into two parts, upper and lower. Then imagine a line passing straight down the center of the front and back of the body. Now the body has been divided into upper right, upper left, lower right and lower left, or four parts. And finally imagine a line passing straight down the center of each side from head to feet. Now the divisions are front upper right, front upper left, back upper right, back upper left, front lower right, front lower left, back lower right and back lower left for a total of eight zones.  We have now defined the basic zones.

In general, the tapping points for the upper zones are located on the wrists and the tapping points for the lower zones are just above the ankles. In addition, the tapping points for the upper front of the body are on the insides of the wrists, those for the upper back are on the backs of the wrists, those for the lower front are on the inside of the ankles and those for the lower back zones are located on the outside of the ankles. Now you know the basics.

Now you need to simply divide each zone into three relatively equal parallel vertical sections. Essentially you now have parallel lines running up and down the front, sides and back of the body. There are three points on the inside ankle, outside ankle, inside wrist and outside wrist of each leg and arm. While ideally you would want to tap on specific points for each area, you can also get good results by tapping on all three points at once. Since I like simple, let's go there.

The simplified version of this technique is to first locate the area of the pain. Then, if it's in the front upper right area, tap on the right inside part of your wrist just above the joints. If it's in the front upper left, tap on the inside part of your left wrist. For the right upper back tap, tap on the  outside part of your right wrist. And for the left upper back, tap on the left outside part of the wrist. Use the same rational for the lower zones tapping on the insides of the ankle for the front and the outsides for the back. Just draw a line across your lower leg about an inch above your ankle on the inside and outside and tap along the indicated line.

Don't worry too much about being exactly on the right point. If you use your whole hand to tap, you will easily hit the point you need. The tapping sequence is also important. First tap about ten times and wait about ten seconds. Then start tapping again, but this time tap for about a minute.

If you're like me, then after reading a description like this, your head is almost ready to spin right off your shoulders. Let's go through the process so you can see just how simple this technique really is.

So you have a localized pain on the front of your right leg. Since the pain is in the lower body, the tapping points will be just slightly above the ankle either on the inside or outside. Since the pain is on the front of the lower body, the tapping points will be on the inside. Now just tap with your whole hand over a line across the inside of your lower leg about one inch above the ankle. Tap for ten seconds, wait ten seconds and then tap for about sixty seconds. Now wasn't that easy? I hope that simplified it a
little.

Pain Location             Tapping Location

Upper body                  Upper body
Right upper front           Inside of right wrist
Left upper front             Inside of left wrist
Right upper back          Outside of right wrist
Left upper back            Outside of left wrist
                           
Lower body                   Lower Body
Right lower front            Inside of right ankle
Left lower front              Inside of left ankle
Right lower back           Outside of right ankle
Left lower back             Outside of left ankle        

This techniques begins working right away and continues until the maximum improvement is felt about 10 minutes after the technique is performed. You can do this on yourself or on others.

Tapping for pain relief doesn't end here. You can also try simply tapping directly on the point of pain using either your fingertips or something great to use for neck pain is a hairbrush. Just tap until you feel a shift has occurred. How much more simple can it get? Remember that this technique is not to be used directly over an open wound.

Well there you have it. You now have two more simple techniques to slip under your belt or in your energy medicine toolbox, but we're not done yet. There will be more to come so be sure to tune in next month.

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