Experiment: EFT Tapping for 1 Month
So I’ve been tapping for a full month. 4 weeks. 30 days. a 12th of the year. In my first blog post about EFT Tapping, I was having great success. Things were really amazing. I was feeling divine. But then, (there’s always a but), the eclipse happened, and I was extremely exhausted. for 2 weeks I did nothing but the bare minimum to survive.. This blog explains how I got back on track and dropped the feelings of guilt and shame that were attached to the time period.
So of course, I could lie.
I could say “Oh yeah, I’m still tapping strong! My life is cupcakes and rainbows and all my dreams came true! Yay me!” But that wouldn’t be honest. That wouldn’t be real, and that’s not what you came here looking for. You came here for the truth. Brad Yates is an absolute Godsend and helped me in unexpected ways during this time.
Here’s a Timeline of my Journey:
Before the Experiment
- I stumbled upon Brad Yates while looking for other spiritual-oriented content. I forget what I actually typed into the searchbar. One of his videos had popped up and I decided what the hell and just did it. I had done EFT tapping before, so it wasn’t new to me, but I never had much faith in it and didn’t really have my heart and mind in the correct space.
- While watching Brad’s video and following along with his prompts and tapping points, I felt a physical shift within me. At one point in his video, I burst out into tears. All these feelings flooded to the surface and they came out through tears. My chest hurt, but in the heartbreak type of way that is hard to explain, heavy and dense. But the feeling lifted as I continued.
Realizing the Benefits
- After finishing the tapping session, I listened to Brad’s commentary at the end. I realized that this is normal. It doesn’t happen all the time, but it’s totally ok to work through this distraught state. Stuff does come up through EFT and I’m helping my body digest it and let it go. I did a few more videos, and although they did not have the same effect, I did feel much lighter after completing them.
- After about a week of daily EFT tapping with Brad, I decided to make this an experiment. I have this new blog that I created and I am already doing it so why not? (If you stick around long enough, You’ll realize that this is just a part of what I like to call my neuro-spicy brain and how it works. I am always experimenting).
Started My Experiment
- And so the experiment began. I was tapping during much of my free time, (which I will expain later why that was to my detriment). I felt so good! My body felt limber, both physically and spiritually. I felt “in-tune” with everything around me. I was coming to understandings that I never had before by releasing the hurt feelings that I was holding onto. Some of the situations I knew where the feelings stemmed from, but a lot of times I did not.
- Looking back on it, I realize that I was increasingly tapping more and more every day. At the peak of the 2 1/2 week every day tapping with Brad, I was tapping for over 2 hours a day, one video after the other, trudging on. I loved it and it made me feel good, but I did not realize the consequenses of doing so.
Experiment Failed
- At 2 1/2 week, I completley failed. I had the energy to do 1 video that day and then came 2 weeks of an insatiable exhaustion. It came like a whirlwind. One day I was chipper and ready for anything, and the next it felt like I cam home from war. I felt emotionally unavaiable. Responding even to texts was hard for me. I felt tired, but a deep, penetrating tired. One that no sleep could satisfy.
- For 2 weeks I didn’t do anything. I made no progress on my blog or socials. I went to work (but also called out 2 different times in that 2 weeks), and came home and went to sleep. My people-ing meter was overfull just from work and I physically could not stay awake. I tried a few times and fell asleep in my computer chair. Luckily my boyfriend woke me up and helped me into bed.
After the Experiement
- When I got the calendar reminder that my 1 month of EFT tapping blog post was due, i got this sinking feeling of guilt. I failed. I legit cried. I felt this guilt and shame that I couldn’t even do something good for myself.
- The guilt and shame lasted for about half a week. It would stay in the recesses of my mind and then come out at inoportune times, (like right before bed or while I was working on morning affirmations on my way to work). I felt a new kind of exhaustion from the guilt and shame. It built up over those first 2 weeks of exhaustion and then exploded into a fear of ‘not making it’ – whatever that means.
Then, the Realizations Came
So now that youve got the timeline of events, get ready for the after effects. They are nothing short of pure magic.
After feeling sorry for myself, I researched EFT Tapping a bit more. When I first researched it, I found that there was no set time limit for tapping and to me that meant that I could tap for 2 hours a day and be fine I guess. But the reality was, tapping for a 12th of my day was just too much for my system to handle.
I learned a Lesson in Moderation
The ancient proverb “Moderation in all things” definitely rang true for me and makes a lot more sense to me now. This experience made me realize that I do this often in my life: I take on heavy, hard, or major tasks head on, and I exhaust myself in the process. Then I’m down and out while recovering from my self-induced chaos.
Part of the reson why I felt so guilty was because we were in the middle of the 2024 April eclipse season, and I knew this was a magical time for manifestation. I was doing tapping revolving around removing my blocks and negative mindset toward earning and keeping money. Then I hit a wall and felt so ashamed that I couldn’t complete something that seemed so simple, in a major time period that I had been looking forward to.
In Came Brad Again
I decided that I wanted to continue with tapping. That this experiment did not decide who I was or what I am capable of just because I failed. Of course, I went back to Brad’s videos. And just like that, I melted again.
Brad has such a way of talking directly to your soul. Like listening to a wise old friend. I’m not sure if I’m old enough to be Brad’s daughter or not, but I like to think of myself as one of Brad’s unknown adopted children. I pray to the universe for Brad because he has helped me on my journey so much. When he looks directly into the camera and talks about the real life issues we face, I feel like he’s talking directly to me, and from comments on his YouTube, so do others.
What Makes Brad Special?
So what makes Brad and Tapping With Brad so special you ask? There’s tons of people on Youtube who make EFT videos. Theres hours upon hours of EFT content that would take a lifetime to watch. What I like about Brad’s technique is that he uses multiple types of EFT. He uses tapping himself, and creates heartfelt, and relatable content. It doesn’t feel like Brad is trying to sell you something or become the best, he wants to truly help the world, help YOU become the best version of yourself.
You see, after I had my little breakdown, I watched a video Brad made about money. He was working on manifesting too, but he was working on manifesting a million followers on YouTube. This video was a few years old and in my head I was like “Well, Brad can make that happen,, but what about me”? After the video finished, I went and looked at his profile.He only has a couple hundred thousand followers (only 😂) It made me realize that Brad had a big goal that he failed to meet, but Brad didn’t give up. Brad’s putting out new content all the time.
Brad is Honest
I mean, in his featured video on his YouTube, the first thing he says is “The Title is Misleading” and explains why and why he titled it that (all of which make sense). It amazes me that he has a smaller following than I imagine, however, I believe the more people I and others tell about him, he will become an even bigger deal.
He’s caught the attention of big people in the spirituality realm, such as Dr Joe Vitale. They have an incredible friendship and made the Money Beyond Belief EFT system years ago that you can learn about and purchase here.
Brad also has numerous courses that he created himself. I personally have the Tap Into Money Course and I absolutely love it. I go back and forth between it and Brad’s YouTube videos often.
There is No Magic Potion
There is no magic potion like in videogames that you can take and wake up in a different reality. I can quantum jump in my dreams, but to keep that energy and manifestation in the timeline I am in, I need to still put in the work that it takes to get there.
Sometimes this is disheartening to hear. Sometimes it feels like you have already done so much work, how could you possibly need to do more? (Hence, where I was and why I’m writing this). Every experience, good or bad, has a lesson to be taught. Life will keep circiling you back to the same pattern of lessons until you are ready to heal the part of yourself that is causing them.
And that right there is what I love about Brad (and honestly Dr Joe too). He does not make you feel like a failure if you did fail. In fact, in one of his videos his tapping prompts were something to the effect of “Even though I did not succeed and feel like a failure, I am choosing to understand that I did my best that I could at the time”. That was powerful for me. I needed to hear that.
I needed to hear that. You need to hear that. The world needs to hear that. I’m ready for a world where healing our traumas is a priority. Where we have compassion and patience with everyone. People like Brad carry the torch of that energy. If you’re looking for an EFT Practitioner that speaks right to your soul, feels like a kind wise friend guideing you, and really does deliver the things he says you will uncover in his videos, Brad is your man. Go check him out. He’s the real deal, and I want the very best for him and you.