All Things EFT, Heart-Centered and Good-Ageing Focused! 

The other day I was working with a health therapist friend who was feeling so frustrated with herself that she approached me for some tapping. “But how does it work?” she asked.  I explained what tapping was and how it used the meridian system (explained in the blog: “ Meridians – aren’t they woo-woo? ”) to send messages to the amygdala* in the brain, our main pathway involved in the fight, flight or freeze response.  I say main pathway because I’m quite sure there are many o

The meridian system is a term you’ll hear used in EFT to explain acupuncture and acupressure points that have been used in traditional Chinese medicine for over 2500 years. Until recently, Western medicine considered them something they couldn’t verify, so these energy-based concepts were all lumped into the woo-woo basket. But not any more!  In 2021 scientists isolated and identified this meridian system and found it to be an extremely fine matrix of fully networked circulat

“We must walk a spiritual path. Ego must wear itself out like an old shoe, journeying from suffering to liberation.” My Ego is not a worn-out shoe! To the contrary! - Chögyam Trungpa   Well, I disagree! I’m not wearing my ego out!  Because my view of ego is different from most people’s. Those of you who’ve been with me a while know that how I see ego is that, as human-beings-being-human, ego is the seat of all our emotions, while the rest of us is in the beingness of who we

A couple of months back an older relative had just read some ‘latest research’ that ‘proved’ she had a high chance of developing dementia, and she told me it made her scared.  "Ageing isn't for the faint-hearted," she sighed, clearly worried. We discussed it and I’m not sure I was able to allay her fears that much.  Hopefully I did a bit. As we age it’s easy to become caught up feeling that our minds and bodies are becoming more and more vulnerable.  All our lives we have be