I grew up in the U.S.A., and one of the things I remember about living there was that socks seemed to go missing. You could be very careful to put both parts of a pair into the washing machine, and yet somewhere between the start of the wash and coming out of the dryer one of the two would disappear. It was as if there was a miniature black hole somewhere in the wash/dry cycle. There were even products you could buy to hold your socks together in the wash, yet even from these gadgets my socks managed to escape into the great beyond. If you are living in the U.S., I bet this has happened to you as well. It was a common experience for my family and friends as well.

Interestingly, this is a not a phenomenon that occurs in Japan. You can wash and dry your socks in Japan to your heart’s content, and both socks of a pair always return, clean and ready to be worn. I have never lost a single sock in Japan! When I ask my Japanese friends about it, they haven’t lost any single socks either. And they think it’s odd that I even consider it a possibility.

What’s the difference? Do Japanese washing machine and dryers have special ‘sock catchers’ to prevent them from escaping? No, they don’t. There is no need. People in Japan don’t hold the cultural belief that single socks go missing, so in this country they don’t. In other words, people expect their socks to return safely from the washer and dryer (or clothesline), so they do! Even though I wasn’t consciously aware of this difference, the surrounding group culture impacted my physical reality.

The same is true with children’s clothes in nursery school and day care. My family warned me when my son started nursery school not to dress him in nice clothes because they would ‘disappear’. I soon noticed that all the children were wearing nice clothes, and when I asked other moms and dads if they worried about losing their child’s clothes, they looked at me like I was from outer space! As instructed their clothes were labeled with the child’s name, and they were confident that if there was a clothes mix-up that the clothes would be returned to them.

Surely enough, we did have our share of clothes mix-ups; but as the other parents predicted all clothes were returned to us, washed and in pristine condition. And if we received another child’s clothes by mistake, we did the same. More physical evidence that the group culture is impacting my reality.

So my question to you is: In what way is your surrounding culture impacting your reality? Are you happy with it, or would you prefer to change it?

Here’s to Your Transformation!
Teresa

I might not have believed it if I hadn’t experienced it myself! I had just finished editing a very important recording on our MD stereo unit and was about to celebrate a job well done when…ga-cha  ga-cha  ga-cha  ga-cha  ga-cha  ScreeEeeeeEeeeEeeeeech – the MD wouldn’t come out of the player!

EFT is of course a part of my daily practice, as is surrogate tapping (a form of remote healing where you tap on behalf of someone else, even if that person is in another location). Miracles about, so much so that I forget how ‘miraculous’ the results of EFT energy healing can seem to my friends, clients, and students. Until this incident with the MD getting jammed in the MD player, I had limited my use of EFT to humans. Having read anecdotal evidence of EFT practitioners and even novices finding EFT to be effective on inanimate objects, I was desperate and decided to give it a go.

I used phrases like, ‘Even though this MD is jammed….Even though I’ve sick of making and editing recordings…Even though I’m feeling stuck…Even though I’m tired of doing this…Even though I’m worried about what to do if the MD doesn’t come out…Even though I don’t really care about this anymore.

After several rounds of tapping I felt much better, but it seemed that the player didn’t yet. I thought about the people who are using EFT on animals, and discussions I’ve read about adjusting the tapping points for that animal’s anatomy. By this time I was in a silly and playful mood, and began to wonder about the ‘anatomy’ of the MD deck.

I started tapping on the top, ‘Even though I’m stuck…’
Then on the side of the player, ‘Even though Teresa keeps pushing my buttons…’
Then on the bottom of the player, ‘Even though I don’t want to release this recording…’
And POP – out it came!

EFT really does have tremendous potential – so the next time you’re in a jam, you might want to try it to see if the situation will release. If nothing else, at least you’ll feel better, and there’s a good chance that the situation will improve as well.

With affection,
Teresa