So now you have new rules and are okay with where you are. Okay, maybe you still need a little work on some of it. No biggy. You don’t have to do Law of Attraction perfectly. You just need to get in the neighborhood. You know, hand-grenade close.

After all is said and done, there are two things that you really need to do to get what you want:

• Ask for it.
• Expect it to arrive (so much, that you are fine with how things are now – i.e. nonresistant).

Everything else we’ve talked about greases the wheels, but we really only need to ask and expect.

Common sense tells us that asking is the easy part. But is it that easy? We are taught in our culture that it is not polite to ask, so we hem and haw around the asking. We kinda sorta hint at what we want. We envision being debt-free or having a new car in the driveway or a notion of fulfillment – and figure the Universe knows how much we need. We do all sorts of clearing blocks and attuning of vibrations in an attempt to manipulate the Universe in kind of a bargaining way, not unlike what some of us used to do in prayer, “God, I’ll be really, really good if you [fill in the blank].” Only it’s, “I’ll do this guru’s exercises so as to become in alignment with what I am asking for,” or, “If I do what I love, the money will come.”

Only we never actually get around to asking.

It should be firm and commanding.

• I want $2000, and this is how I will feel as I do [fill in the blank] with it.
• I want $22,500 to stabilize my business, which will then operate like this [picture].
• I want $53,000 for a new bright red Cadillac CTS.

Don’t try to manipulate the universe by “working it,” doing those things you think you have do before you can receive. Just ask for it.

Recently in a private session with Paul, as channeled by Frank Butterfield, I asked if they could help me develop a tool so I could work with the Universe more effectively. They answered that I had it backwards. I don’t work the Universe, the Universe works me.

What they meant was that when I am clear about what I want, and I tune into what I want, and I place myself into the nearest thing I can imagine is Source Energy – that part of me that is so much bigger than anything I can imagine while in physical form – then Source Energy takes what I have brought into the “Vortex” and amplifies it, bringing it forth into manifestation.

It uses me, my wants, my vision, to help me manifest the world around me.

(c)2010 Chip Engelmann

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Hopefully by now you have established your rules about money and have taken them into a relaxed state and played with them a bit to try them on for size. If you have not, please take the time now to catch up.

Now that you have the feel for the rules, let them go. They are not a goal in themselves, rather they are the instructions you have given the Universe to follow in creating the money you want. You will ease into the reality of these rules as you go about the process of manifesting money and acquiring the stuff you want.

Another reason to let go of the rules is that, for some people, these rules represent a “reality” that is just too far away from where they perceive themselves right now. Abraham-Hicks, in the book Ask and it is Given, provides us with the image of a playground merry-go-round. Just as you might want to experience the delight of building up the most speed you can obtain without being thrown off into the bushes, similarly you might want to build up to the highest, best-feeling truth you can get to and still stay on the ride.

For many of us, stepping into our new rules is like jumping onto a speeding merry-go-round. The shocking jerk of such a change can throw us off the merry-go-round and into the bushes. The better way to step into our new rules then is by taking baby steps in our current financial situation – pushing the merry-go-round ourselves faster and faster – while at the same time staying in alignment with the rules we just created.

Just as Abraham gives us an emotional scale to guide us through our feelings, a financial scale exists as well. For just as it is difficult for someone who is in a state of depression to imagine jumping straight to joy even if they wanted to, it is hard for someone struggling with bills and a clunky car to imagine driving to their hangar, getting into their new Lear jet and flying to Paris for fresh morning baguettes. Both throw you in the bushes.

The following is a scale I created to give us a point of reference of where we are and where the next step is. Keep in mind that all reference points are suggestive to the individual’s experience. Destitute might mean having the car you are living in towed by the city, or it might mean having to move from your $20 million mansion to a $2 million tract house. It is also a sliding scale. After reading this you might decide that you are 1/4 of the way above security on your way to comfort.

After determining where you are on the financial scale, set your sights on just the next level up. For instance, if you are at Secure, set your sights on Comfort.

If you are starting at a very basic or frightening level, as described in the Communion of Light segment of Spiritual Tools that Work, Part 2, where the wolves are in your house, what feels a little bit better is getting the wolves outside your house. After that, you can work on getting them outside your front gate.

The trick to moving up the ladder is a concept that is rarely talked about. You have to be honest about where you are on the emotional scale. Abraham tells us that we have to look for what feels like relief in any situation. They say to look for the feeling you will get when the bill is paid. Maybe if you are honest, you might hate a certain bill collector and the way he makes you feel, so much that the relief of paying him off will feel more or less like “up yours.” That is relief to you and it is a big step up from powerlessness.

Paul, in A Communion of Light, Creating Money Series CD #3, says, “The desires to have something be different than what it is, that are so strong and resistant to what is, are causing you to feel like you are not in the flow.”

I take this to mean that not only do I have to be honest with where I am on the emotional scale, I have to be okay with it.

I have to achieve a state where I can acknowledge what I feel, as being perfect just the way it is.

Accepting ourselves as we are is always in alignment with where we want to be and what we want to become.

Exercise

Make a list of those things you don’t like, that make you feel bad, or just plain cause you conflict about your current situation. Be as precise as you can about how you feel.

EFT Master Sue Beer, in the book EFT and Beyond, edited by Pamela Brunner and John Bullough, tells us on page 85:

“… Heart truth…is actually our natural state, our birth right, and the opposite of what I call the ‘addicted-heart’– that state in which you experience yourself as disconnected from the Field or Source –or at least seem to be.”

She goes on to give an exercise on page 87 to activate your “Heart Anchor,” which puts you in touch with your heart truth.

“The first step is to try out the energy points of the Heart Anchor without any particular expectation. Put one hand on the centre of your chest (or heart chakra area) and gently rub. This is the heart point and is connected to an invisible network of energy channels that spread out and open up the lungs and chest area. Then place your other hand of the Top of the Head Point where you would balance a ball, and rub both points lightly at the same time. There is literally and energetically a pathway that runs from the heart to the emotional brain. Sense that pathway and then sense it going beyond the constraint of your physical body. You may or may not notice tingling, energy moving or some other shift in your physiology as you touch these points. Either way is fine.”

The reason that I present this exercise is that sometimes it is difficult to isolate an emotion in conflict well enough to describe it, which is what I just asked you to do in the above exercise. Using Sue Beer’s Heart Anchor technique allows us to focus on the “heart truth” of the emotion we are experiencing by helping us to focus on our own connection with Source Energy.

So as accurately as you can, write down your truth about how you feel. Feel free to use the Heart Anchor Technique liberally.

Some examples:

• My neighbors annoys me beyond belief. I’ve got to find another house.
• I envy people who make money so effortlessly.
• I really hate those credit card collections people.
• I am so frustrated by how financially stuck I am.
• I feel so confined in my kitchen.
• I hate this trapped feeling.

Abraham tells us when we are stuck in a particular vibratory state, such as those we just listed, to take each thought and find a better feeling one until we have transformed it into something that doesn’t keep us stuck. EFTers have the option of taking the emotional charge out of the statement through the tapping process. This is what I suggest you do with each statement of truth you expressed above. Tap on the emotion until you are okay with it–paying particular attention to the part about “loving and accepting yourself,” which I feel is the most powerful part of the EFT process.

You may have to take your seeking the truth of how you feel through several layers.

Once you have reached the state of being okay with your situation, take the time use Abraham’s pivoting process. Look at what you don’t like, expressed in each of the statements you wrote, and use it to determine what it is you do want.

Now write what you do want, making the statements as empowering as you can, yet still keeping them within range of what you think is possible for you:

• One day I will live peacefully in my neighborhood.
• I am starting to imagine what it is like to make money effortlessly.
• It will feel relieving and expansive to pay all my bills easily. I can just taste that feeling.
• Much sooner than I think, my income will start increasing every day.
• It is going to be wonderful to have an open, homey kitchen where I love to cook.
• I can’t wait to feel free! And, you know, inside myself, right now, I am free!

Next time, Asking.

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If we look at the last sentence, we see that the key to creating money is finding a connection with it. Therefore it seems counterintuitive to believe we can achieve success by focusing on what is keeping us from forming a connection with money. Yet, that is exactly what most people do.

They look at their ability to create money, see they are not getting what they want, then look for all the reasons why they are not getting it. They come up with blocks, issues, things their parents taught them, etc. They work with people like me to remove these blocks though EFT, Sedona Method, or Light TappingSM, thinking that once the blocks are removed, money will flow.

True, but in practice, we have to turn our attention from what we don’t want, to what we do want. Certainly the above methods do help us to remove energetic vibrations (and corresponding emotions) that distract us from our goals. However, if the “goal” is just to clear blocks and issues, we are stopping short of doing what it actually takes to make the money we want.

Let’s say we do achieve ground zero, a clean slate, an unencumbered starting point. We still have to create a connection with money.

So let’s turn that boat around right now and find a path of lesser resistance. In my last post, I asked you to observe that your rules about money are reflected in your words about money. Now, we could work on isolating each of these rules and overcome each limitation. But that would be akin to attempting to stop a boat from sinking by pulling the drain plug to let the water flow out the bottom. Unfortunately, you are achieving the exact opposite of what you intended.

Instead, let’s pivot (to use an Abraham term). Use a limiting rule about money from your current belief system to determine what it is you don’t want. Once you know what you don’t want, turn it around to determine what it is you do want.

Creating New Rules for Money

At this point, take out your notebook, journal, or paper on which you will write your new rules about money. The rules you make are totally yours to create. However, feel free to borrow from others whose rules resonate with you.

Write on the top of the page:

When I looked at my words and my thoughts about money, I found a common thread. “Making money is a difficult struggle. And there is never enough.” So my first rule about money is:

Rule 1: Everything about money is fun and easy.

Money is fun and easy to acquire. Money is joyful to spend. Money is fun and easy to give away. It is fun to think about money, touch it, imagine filling a bathtub with it and jumping in it. It is fun and easy to pay bills and taxes. It is fun and easy to keep track of money. It is fun and easy to invest money and watch it grow.

For my second rule, I am borrowing from Frank Butterfield.

Rule 2: Money continuously flows to me whether I ask for it or not.

Frank points out that he has enough money in his vibrational escrow to last him quite a while. When I look at all the money I’ve asked the Universe for up to this point, I see that if I just get that, I’ll be extremely rich for the rest of my life. I’ve spent entirely too much time either thinking about or worrying about money. Frankly, it’s getting a little boring. So I am letting the Universe take over handling the bulk of it. If I have a special project, then we’ll play with that, but for now, Universe, it’s all yours baby.

Rule 3: What I receive will always exceed what I ask for.

Whenever I start a project, I think I know what I want. However, as I am manifesting, I tend to see improvements I can make. So if I ask the Universe for $500,000 to build a playground, and decide it would be even better if I added a garden path for the elderly, my new rule says I’m covered without having to go back to the Universe to put in another request. Likewise, if I decide that I want a 96″ high-definition wall-mounted monitor and find that I can get a radar array that receives video broadcasts from the intelligent gasses on Pluto–if I buy the special package–I want to be able to take advantage of it.

Take a few minutes to formulate your new rules. Take them into meditation, contemplation or just relax around them. Play with them. What will it be like when these rules are firmly a part of your universe? What will that feel like? How will things be different?

Next time: Making it real.

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If the Universe can navigate all my blocks and still find a way to manifest what I want, then where is my stuff? Show me the money.

It’s still there.

Okay, let’s start at the very beginning. No, back further.

There is only one rule to manifesting your universe. You make all the rules. I mean all of them. Okay, some of you willingly borrow from others or get talked into rules or whatever. But even this borrowing is a subset of some variation of the rule: I co-create with others.

You make all the rules.

When you came into your physical experience as a being of light and love you were a blank slate — pure potential, like an artist with a blank canvas. You can create anything you want. In fact, that is how you create. You simply want it.

So with your blank canvas you say. “I want a big stroke of red here.” And you enjoy the red for a while. Then you say, “I want a stroke of yellow next to it.” And you enjoy the harmony of the red and the yellow. Then you say “I want a stroke of blue that crosses the red and yellow.” And you enjoy it, but your emotional guidance system kicks in and you start to feel angry. Anger tells you that something is in conflict with the way you think things should be. The blue clearly is creating a conflict.

So you say, I want the blue to run parallel to the red and yellow. You shift it and like it, so you create a rule about it. “From now on, all colors will run in parallel.”

So you start adding colors and they all fall neatly in parallel and you like it a lot, until you add pink. Pink just doesn’t seem to fit anywhere, but pink is such a pretty color and you want it in your experience. So you make a new rule, ” If the color is pink, it goes perpendicular to the red on the left edge.” From then on, all pinks will go on the left edge.

And we are still creating in this fashion. We want things; then when they are in conflict, we revise our wants. Then to make things easier, we create rules.

Perhaps the rule that keeps most of us from getting what we want is, “It takes time.” Of course the sub-rule also applies, “The bigger the thing we want (the farther it is outside our comfort zone) the longer it takes.”

There is a joke:

A man asks God, “What is a billion dollars like to you?”

God answers, “A billion dollars to you is like a penny to me.”

And the man asks, “And what is a billion years like to you.”

And God answers, “A billion years to you is like a second to me.”

And the man thinks about it. “Can I have a penny?”

God replies, “Sure, in just a second.”

Non-physical Paul, the collective known as the Communion of Light channeled by Frank Butterfield, tells us that because we are in a physical reality of time and space, the manifestation process does take time–about a second.

What takes more time for us is that we apply our rules to the process. And from these rules, we form expectations. Our expectations determine when “what we want” will manifest. And we can observe our expectations in what we say.

• Rome wasn’t built in a day.
• You have to put in your time.
• Don’t fall for get-rich-quick schemes. Save, invest and grow rich slowly. You’ll get there.
• I’ll never get rich.
• I have to clear out my blocks first.
• I have issues around money.

Abraham, as channeled by Esther Hicks, gives us the example of ordering from Amazon.com. When we place an order for a book, we expect it to arrive in 3 days. We place the order. We forget about it. Sure enough it arrives on time. What we don’t do is go to the mailbox on the next day, see it is not there, get upset, and place our order again. We know the book is on its way.

Yet when we place our order with the Universe, we don’t let it go in full expectation that it is done and on its way. Instead, we place our order with the Universe something like this: “I want $500 to pay my bills by the end of the week.” Of course, the Universe complies in alignment with your expectations. But instead of expecting the money to manifest by the end of the week, we check back on day one and ask, I wonder if my stuff is coming? And ask again on day two.

In essence, we doubt whether the Universe got our order (and the Universe complies), and we replace our order. And the Universe gets the wheels in motion again. The next day we look around and see the money is not there and ask again. Finally, it is the day before the bills are due and the money still has not arrived. And the feeling that has been building all week hits home. “Oh my God, the money is not coming!” And the Universe complies.

And we jump to the foregone conclusions:

• I have worthiness issues.
• What my parents taught me about money was all wrong.
• I have blocks to the Law of Attraction.
• I just can’t do it.

We solidify our expectations.

The trick here is to trust that the Universe will deliver. In other words, change our expectations to allow it to be.

Tapping for allowing can be useful. No set-up statement is needed, just tap a round on your variation of each of the following:

• I give myself permission to allow (what I want) to manifest.
• I give myself permission to have (what I want) no matter what my issues.
• I give myself permission to have (what I want) in spite of my blocks.
• I give myself permission to trust that the Universe will deliver.

Expect the results you desire and you will have them.

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A couple of weeks ago, my friend Frank Butterfield, channel for the Communion of Light and co-producer of the “Creating Money” series (pictured), and I were having a conversation and he happened to use the term, “the path of least resistance” within the context of the manifestation process. When he did a light bulb went off and I made a mental note to explore it later. I am both exploring this subject and reporting to you through this series of blog posts.

Einstein once said that you never really understand something until you can explain it to your grandmother. So what I am doing for myself in writing this blog series is zeroing in on the topic and writing about it so I can achieve this level of understanding. Not that you are anything like my grandmother of course.

The first thought that went off in my brain like a silent cherry bomb was that I am the path of least resistance for many people. They have made an intention to break through a particular issue or obstacle and, for them, asking my help to co-create a solution represents the easiest and most efficient way for the Universe to navigate their belief system.

You see, the Universe always finds a way to bring you what you want no matter what your issues, blocks, beliefs, etc. You just have to maintain your intention, and trust that the Universe will make it so. Sometimes the easiest path involves manifesting someone to help you co-create what you are looking for. This could be a friend, doctor, attorney, EFT Practitioner, Light Tapper^SM (grin) or significant other.

Those of you who insist on doing everything yourself or feel that your relief or happiness is not worth investing time or money into, take heart. You are only shutting down one group of channels. The Universe can still find a way.

My egocentric revelation that I am the path of least resistance for some people had two significant impacts. The first is that if the Universe can find a way for me to manifest no matter what my belief system, then I don’t have to worry so much. My level of trust in manifesting via the Law of Attraction grew.

The second is that I became more curious about what beliefs I was throwing out there that the Universe has to circumnavigate in order to bring me what I want. Now, I have been “curious” about this for some time, I admit it. The thing is, a shift had occurred. Before, my “curiosity” had been fueled by a sense of desperation. I had to identify my blocks and remove them or I wouldn’t get what I want. And the Universe found ways I never would have thought of.

But since I realized that the Universe can always find a way, my curiosity has become detached, as if whatever I throw up there really doesn’t matter. I can look at these blocks and issues with calm and be okay with them.

For instance, I have always associated making money with struggle. The Universe will find a way around or through this, either by allowing me to indulge myself in an appropriate amount of struggle, or by finding a way to bring me money that is otherwise okay in my belief system–like say a fortuitous tax refund check or repayment of an old debt.

The thing is, if it really doesn’t matter whether or not I struggle, then I have to ask myself why I struggle. Do I want the struggle for some reason? Does it serve some purpose? In fact, the struggle served the purpose of making me look somehow greater when I succeeded. It fed into my need to be the hero so I could impress those people I felt didn’t love me enough.

Tap tap tap and the struggle had no reason to be there. I was then able to release a huge burden, using a process similar to releasing a sentinel. It turns out I was attached to my struggle and had to tap on the sadness of seeing it go. It was, after all, a struggle I’ve been carrying around almost all of my life.

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It has been a while since last wrote and I need to acknowledge a couple of events.

First, my good friend Lee Ann Slayton passed. If anything, her smile is brighter than ever.

Second, my good friend Frank Butterfield released a CD version of “The Communion of Light: Creating Money.” I have talked about this series in the past, and still recommend it. It is available in time for Christmas, so you can buy it for your friend “who really needs it” and then borrow it from her/him so you can hear it just because you are curious . BTW: This one of those gifts that gives you back, so feel free just to get one for yourself. Find out more here.

When I heard Abraham speak of paddling downstream – or trying too hard to “go with the flow,” I envisioned a determined person with a steely-eyed resolve, digging their paddle into the water and forcing themselves to go downstream faster than the current. I equated it with a sort of spiritual gluttony, where someone gets a little insight and gobbles up as much as they can, as if it will get away from them if they don’t. Or they see something they want, and they try to do more faster to make it come quicker.

Little did I know, I would soon find my own way of paddling downstream – a Super Mario Brothers way. Picture me doing a wild-eyed Wario driving a souped-up water cart, and Dong Kong riding shotgun and slinging magic, exploding pink and purple mushrooms at any rocks in my path.

Okay, it’s not like I woke up one day and decided I was going to be a complete idiot.

It’s more like I was wandering around in my consciousness/belief system like it was a big, stacked-block Jenga game, found a key block in the center and said, “Let’s see what happens if I get rid of this one.”

Backing up a bit, if you have been reading this blog you know that I have found a way to release emotional structures called sentinels, which are simply the vibrational energy of a block. First, I use tapping to release attachment to the sentinel. Then, once the emotional attachment is dissipated, I allow the sentinel to return to Source Energy.

So I wondered what would happen if I applied that technique to a worn-out belief – one that intellectually I had moved past, but still dwell in from time to time (okay, more often than I admit to):

Victimhood

So I tapped on:

It took a few more rounds than expected, because I was more attached to it than I cared to admit. But soon I released it and watched it return home to God.

Two days later I became very ill.

I stood up and had what I thought to be an asthma attack (which I’ve never experienced before). I became dizzy and couldn’t breathe. It seemed every part of my lungs were blocked. I made my way back to my desk and finished my work day. As long as I limited activity, everything was cool.

Except that my left leg started hurting. I couldn’t stand or even remain vertical without the pain becoming so intense I had to sit or lie down.

Okay, so about this time one might think this guy should be in the ER with tubes in both ends getting EKGs, EEGs, MRI’s, & CAT’s. That’s not me. I knew my body was telling me something. My lungs indicated I was not allowing Spirit or Source Energy to do its thing. My leg symbolized resistance to moving forward on a project that was almost manifest. Piece of cake. (Well, sort of.)

So, what had happened?

Let’s first take a look at what victimhood is.

Walking around in physical shoes is a trial-and-error thing. When we try something and its manifestation is not to our liking, it doesn’t feel good. That creates a conflict which also doesn’t feel good. So what happens if we try, say, 20 different things that don’t feel good?

We need a filtering system to keep us from being in a state of total overwhelm.

One filtering system that we have created – and is often passed from generation to generation – is the idea that some things happen to us that are not our fault. We are just in the wrong place at the wrong time. And we can’t do anything about those things.

It would seem victimhood would feel bad, but on closer inspection it is a story we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better.

It also serves to keep conflict management focused on what is going on in our lives right here and now.

However, as we become more and more aware, and as we become more adept at distinguishing what we don’t want from what we do want, we can accept more responsibility for what is manifested in our lives. Therefore we become better at conscious co-creating. We are the victim of fewer and fewer things.

Or put in another way, we are quicker to catch ourselves when we create victim stories. Once aware of the stories, we can use our emotional guidance system to guide us to create what we want from the situation.

So I was working in several spheres in my life last week. In addition to my practice, I was co-producing Spiritual Tools that Work Part 2, with Paul Zelizer. I was involved in an ongoing JV partnership where the other person was not doing what they agreed to do and I felt responsible to pick up the slack. I was also in the process of remodeling our house.

The combination of responsibilities was creating discomforting stress. I reduced the levels of stress using blame, the false face of victimhood. I blamed my JV partner, so I couldn’t work on that. I blamed paint fumes for making me angry when I painted, so I couldn’t do anything about that.

On the positive side, taking those activities off the table allowed me to put my attention on the aspects of my life where I could be more effective: my practice and Spiritual Tools. On the other hand, feeling like a victim was starting to become rather transparent.

Soooo…..

I released the belief system of victimhood, and the crap hit the fan.

My filtration mechanism was gone, and I now had to deal with all of my stresses simultaneously. The more I tried to ignore my victim tendencies, the more they clamored for attention. “You want to see victimhood? I’ll show you victimhood!” And my body – knowing I listen to it – did me the “favor” of expressing this battle smack in my face as pain.

Now, ten days after the sudden onset of pain, I find I have crossed over a bridge and cannot go back.

• My perceptions of the role of victimhood and blame have shifted.
• I look at situations and there is an emptiness where blame used to live.
• By necessity, I must recognize and resolve conflict quicker. And I am getting by.
• I find that I need to release my body from the role of being a “lightning rod” for unattended stresses, and rely more on my emotional guidance system.

By paddling downstream, am I ahead of the game? Maybe. I’ll let you know when it doesn’t hurt to walk.

Oh well….Next time I’ll tell you the results of my next project: releasing my attachments to Time and Space. Kidding. Kidding!

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Telling the story below of how I discovered my new, more efficient system of meridian tapping (see previous posts) has been very healing. In doing so, I have had to let all my woo-woo hang out. I am surrendering the last of my self-consciousness about being labeled as “out there.” I have to face it. I am out there.

Ever since I “discovered” the technique, it was evident that it needed a name. This need reached a peak a couple weeks ago when Paul Zelizer and I were working on the tele-workshop series, “Spiritual Tools that Work.” I was to be one of the featured speakers and needed with a title. No matter how I sliced it, “This New Tapping Thing I Do” was not going to cut it. Besides, my friends Michelle Casto (pictured above right), Wendy G. Young (pictured left) and others were encouraging me to name the process so that it could become a brand for me. But the best I was coming up with was something like, “Meridian Tapping to Remove Energetic Eddies from Your Vibrational Field” — which is about as easy to catch as a potato chip dropped from a three-story building on a windy day. In desperation, the name Light Tapping^sm and Tapping into the Light ^sm popped into my mind.

Thanks

Since the Spiritual Tools series forced the naming of my technique, it is only appropriate that I express my thanks to all who were involved as listener, asked questions, volunteered, or spoke on the live calls. Every time I do a joint venture with my co-producer Paul Zelizer (pictured right), it gets better and more fun. I got a chance to reconnect with Jen Blackert, who every time we talk moves quickly into a Source Energy connection. I met and connected with Gurutej(pictured below left) , who was introduced to me by Mary Adams (pictured below right), who runs the coolest Internet radio station, Co-Creator Network. I became fast friends with Jeannette Maw (pictured next section left), the Good Vibe Coach, whom I spent an hour giggling with in our pre-interview-get-to-know-each-other call.

If you missed it, you can still listen to the recordings by going through the same registration process as if you were listening to the live call. The events became recordings minutes after the calls ended. As a reminder, the titles were:

• Chip Engelmann on “Tapping into the Light”
• Jen Blackert on “Eliminating Fear”
• Gurutej on “More Energy: What Women Truly Need”
• Jeanette Maw on “The Art of Vibration Management”

So onto how I learned Light Tapping^sm.

I learned early on that it is very difficult to work on yourself. Think about it. If you are hiding something from yourself, how would you know? I started by trading sessions. One such trade has been ongoing weekly for three years now. But as I met more people who became friends and colleagues, quite commonly when we were chatting and one of our “issues” came up, the other person would say, “Let’s take care of it right now.”

All of the events leading up to the creation of the Light Tapping^sm technique happened in this spirit of giving freely.

I have also been aware for some time that I do my best work when I go into a state of seeing both myself and my client as Source Energy. This is what it is about for me. I enjoy this state so much that if I have an afternoon free, I will go onto Twitter and offer a free session just to keep up the vibes.

Tapping into my Spirit Guides

So when my sister-in-law Minda Bernstein (pictured right), a certified life coach, revealed to me that she has been a channel for years but has neglected to tell anyone, the first thing that popped into my mind was, “I wonder what meridian tapping looks like to non-physical beings?” Now Minda does not channel a named set of beings like Esther Hicks channels Abraham or Frank Butterfield channels Paul. Rather Minda contacts her spirit guides and tells them your question. Her spiritual guides contact your spiritual guides (it’s a little like a party, as they say) and the question is asked. Your spiritual guides’ answers are then relayed to you.

My spirit guides replied, and I am paraphrasing: When a person engages in tapping they create an intention that allows the person’s guides to “rewire the brain” to align with that intention and help the person make a life change. The practitioner can help by consciously inviting the guides to help – and even more, by having the client invite her guides as well.

Instantly, I became aware that a tapping session was a co-creation process that was a tad larger in scope than I had imagined.

A lesson from Paul

A short time later, Jen Blackert (pictured left) demonstrated a technique where I placed a “block” in my hand and moved it behind my vision. She asked me to tell her what my life would look like without that block. Although I have experienced many visualizations before, this time I was acutely aware that energy was being manipulated.

A couple days later, I was able to use the technique with Frank Butterfield(pictured right). When I did, I was drawn to an old EFT technique of using symbols to focus the tapping. At the end of that session, I became inexplicably emotional–something had been triggered. I asked Frank if I could schedule some time with Paul, and Frank said, “they are ready to speak with you now.”

Paul used the very same technique on me that I had just used on Frank, only Paul had me tune into the problem’s energy or vibration rather than the emotion. This seemingly simple shift was very powerful and I was able to watch as the energy of my problem dissolved.

The shift toward focusing on energy rather than emotion has had the profound effect that I can now do in one session what used to take many. Because the energy of an issue precedes the core issue or core event, tapping directly on the energy eliminates the need to isolate the core event, saving lots of time in detective work. It also reduces the pain that the client experiences in the course of the investigation.

So that is how Light Tapping^sm was born. The discovery of the sentinel and the symbolic systems occurred after I deconstructed what I had learned from Paul and practiced the technique fruitfully with many clients.

In looking back over this post and seeing all the pictures, I realize I have been name-dropping a who’s who of beings of light and love. Once more, I send my appreciation to each of them for their role in this manifestation process.

(c) 2009 Chip Engelmann

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Abraham tells us if we have difficulty in a relationship, all we have to do is change our vibration and the dynamic of the relationship must change. The following case study shows just how rapidly this can occur. But first a little theory. Not much I promise.

Vibration is vibration–just that. But for the sake of understanding the dynamics of a relationship I divide vibration into two types: harmonic and sympathetic. These are my terms, so don’t bother Googling them.

Harmonic vibrations are those that are similar. In a relationship these harmonic vibrations are the ones that are all kissy face and huggy bear: love, compassion, joy of companionship, etc. You are in harmony with the other person.

On the other hand, sympathetic vibrations stem from repressed emotions. You literally attract a person to show you the emotions that are creating conflict. In other words, you will find a person who pushes your buttons. For example, if you harbor strong feelings of self-anger, you will attract people to yell at you. If you have low self-esteem, you will find people who put you down. If you have deep feelings of guilt, you will find people who will punish you.

Form this perspective it is easy to see that if you change your part of a relationship dynamic, the situation can shift dramatically. Perhaps it is easier if you imagine two puzzle pieces that fit together perfectly when you join their slot and tab. If you change the shape of either piece, the tab of one or the slot of the other, they no longer fit together.

In the following example, a woman changed the vibration of her relationship with her mother and shifted a 50-year relationship. This all occurred within the space of about an hour and a half.

The mother was a person who was constantly angry and carried a grudge against the world. She would often, for no apparent reason, call the daughter and tell her, ‘You are dead to me,’ and
hang up. Then they would not speak sometimes for 6 months to a year. The following occurred just after one such period of non-speaking. The daughter had dropped off a birthday present to the mother. The mother phoned to thank the daughter just before my session with the daughter.

They caught up on a little news and the mother found things to be proud of the daughter for. However, she also found that the daughter was over-extended and short of cash. Blame and accusations were bandied about until both sides were livid. One issue was that the mother could not make the gift she received, a DVD, work and accused the daughter of always giving her broken things. In the course of the argument, the mother offered the daughter $500 “if you promise never to talk to me like that again.” The daughter said that she would only accept the money “if you promise not to try to keep me from standing up for myself.”

It was left that the mother was probably going to bring over a check. The daughter did not know if she would accept it–as much as she needed it.

As it happened, it was now time for my session with the daughter.

Needless to say, the argument was very present when our session began, so we shifted our agenda to deal with it.

A sentinel (defensive vibration) was revealed almost immediately and we used the techniques presented previously in this blog to clear it. We dealt with holding onto hatred for the abusive mother, hatred for the living environment the daughter grew up in, and her lack of trust that the mother would not be angry.

We had just cleared the stored emotions, but not yet released the sentinel or energetic structure, when the mother arrived check in hand. The daughter set down the phone to answer the door. I could hear the conversation.

It was civil and respectful. They decided that the money would be a loan. The daughter showed the mother how to operate the DVD and the demonstration occurred without accusations.

When the daughter returned to the phone she expressed her shock at how the conversation went. It just never worked that way between them.

We finished the session by releasing the sentinel.

One last item of note. The daughter revealed to me that for the past few days she had been trying to visualize receiving $500 from an unexpected source, the exact amount of the check.

(c) 2009 Chip Engelmann

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I’ve talked about my approach to clearing blocks at an energetic vibrational level for a couple weeks now. On the following teleconference recording you will hear the technique, emotions released, and a sentinel (defense mechanism) removed, all within 45 minutes, without going to the core issue.

On a practical note, you may have noticed the little “Book Now” symbols that have appeared on my blog and website.

This method will make it much easier to schedule time with me. Rather than back-and-forth emails, I post my available times on an online scheduler and let you choose the time that is good for you.

You can click the icon to book a session or to set up a free 20 minute chat. Use the free chat to ask questions, get to know me, see if you want to have a session with me, or just shoot the breeze.

Anyway I’ve put these little icons everywhere I can think of. Maybe I’ve gone overboard? Let me know what you think.

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Today we are going to swing the pendulum a bit from the removing of “blocks” to manifesting what we want. As cool as the forms of meridian tapping are, when you use them to remove obstacles the best you can hope for is achieving a neutral state on the emotional scale. It is then up to you the individual to manifest your bliss in whatever creative fashion tickles your fancy.

But for many of us it was a struggle to get to this neutral state on the emotional scale, and so when we stand on the edge of possibility – knowing that we really can have what we want – we falter. We know we want “abundance,” or “financial freedom,” or “prosperity,” but these terms are so vague they have little power. Or to be precise, they generate a weak vibrational field.

In fact, if we are trying to manifest “abundance,” “financial freedom” or”prosperity,” our very use of those words may indicate that we are afraid to ask for what we want: the new BMW, the better house, a soul mate, a flat screen TV with digital cable, a membership at a country club, a remodeled kitchen, an Mediterranean cruise. Of course, tapping can be very useful here.

To actually create a new reality in which a new BMW exists, we have to create a vibrational field in harmony with that BMW. Both Abraham and Paul [see sidebar] are very clear (or are as clear as possible within a language symbol system) on how this is accomplished. We place our attention on the moment where we are feeling the satisfaction having manifested the BMW. We imagine how it will feel to turn the key for the first time when it is ours. How it will feel driving it home, showing it off to the neighbors, taking the family for a test drive, etc. They tell us to reach for the best feeling thoughts we can. And this is where the balance comes in. Paul cautions us not to reach too far–which I have a tendency to do–because when we go too far out of our comfort zone we may find some bad-feeling thoughts. I recently asked Paul about expanding my customer base and he gave me an exercise to do. I immediately went into over-achiever mode and imagined a very fast rate of expansion. I immediately felt sadness, overwhelm and fear. In my imagination I had to slow the rate of expansion until I was in a state that felt really good. Let’s use the BMW example again. There will be some feelings you can invoke that will feel really good to you. You may feel good imagining sitting in the leather seats, running your hand across the burl dash, and taking your family for a ride. But you may balk when you think that it is a $120,000 car, cringe at the idea of protecting it, or worry that the neighbors think you are too ostentatious.

Paul, aka the Communion of Light, is a group of non-physical beings channeled by Frank Butterfield. In a recent interview I asked Paul how he was different from Abraham or Seth. His answer was, “We grew up on the same block and went to the same school.” Although Abraham and Paul both talk about the Law of Attraction, they do so using different metaphors. For instance, while Abraham will ask you if a thought is upstream or downstream, Paul will ask you if a thought is expansive or contractive–do you feel bigger or smaller? I find the differences very helpful in breaking through to the “truth” that is Source Energy.

So what you want to do is stick to the feelings that are expansive, the ones that make you feel good. If your attention drifts to thoughts that don’t make you feel good, return to the thoughts where you did feel good.

Okay, I can hear the tappers now saying, well I’ll just tap on that. Yes, there is a place for that, but not while you are in creation mode. The second you apply the tapping process, you are shifting your attention from what you want to what you don’t want. Instead, simply return to those thoughts where you felt good. If you like, make a note of where your limits or bad-feeling thoughts are and tap on them later. But unless you make the time to spend in that good-feeling thought, the chances of manifesting the BMW are very slim.

For some people it is possible to tap while maintaining the good feeling. However, if you start to analyze the tapping and what is taking place, you have removed your attention from what you want. The purpose here is to create and feed a vibrational field.

The more time you spend immersed in the good feelings surrounding what you want, the closer you get to the center of the vortex. Keep it up, and you cross the threshold to get caught in the whirlpool, pulling you to the center, and the BMW becomes inevitable.

(c) 2009 Chip Engelmann

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