I am new to this, but finding it has been bringing up a lot of stuff I can deal with. I have found something happens often: I have just been tapping on an event that happended five years ago where I have been carryibng a lot of guilt and shame, and which caused me to lose my confidence and energy. What I found was that as that feeling left me, it was replaced by another feeling from a different time, then as I progressed further into the 40 minutes of tapping I did I found I was jumping backwards and forwards in time to different situations with different negative feelings that I didn't think were linked, but they kept jumping into my mind. I aloowed this to happen and continued.

Is this normal?

Thanks

Hello, 

Your unconscious mind seems to be working very cooperatively with you at the moment, and you're certainly very lucky. Most EFT sessions go somewhat the way yours did, but it takes more time to come across the separate events, whereas in your case, they just jumped into your mind. I can see no harm in what you're doing, unless the feelings and memories start getting very intense, in which case, you may want to seek the support of someone else. 

yes.

that's the short answer.

the long answer is that you can still remain in control, and decide if you want to tap on each of these issues that surface, or tell them to wait a while until you decide that you have time and space for them.

You don't have to go into a two year depression like I did, as the part of me that wanted to "Heal Everything Right NOW" got the upper hand, and made me feel as if the right time is always right now.

If you have trouble with this, get help.

 Yes this is normal and part of the skill of being a practitioner is working out when issues arise which need to be pursued and  are related and which can be put aside to return to later, or which are just red herrings trying to put you off:)  Thats also normal as we tend not to want to go to the hard places alone.

One of the terms Gary Craig used for this is Daisy Chaining.  We tend to go off on a ramble.  What you have to remember to do is to go back to all these different things that have come up and check they have been cleared.  When working as therapists we TEST, TEST, TEST.  That means going back over the issues that came up and checking what the intensity is now.

However as it has been pointed out, your subconcious is obviously cooperating and thats a good thing.  

Often with clients an issue will come up and its towards the end of the session or a seperate thing and we imagine putting it safely in a box and leaving it on the shelf where we know where it is to come back to when the time is right.  It is therefore perfectly possible to choose when we work on an issue and a good thing to do is to start journalling or writing lists.

The Personal Peace procedure is good for this, where we make a list of events we wish to work on.  If a list is given to you you can jot that down.

It is perfectly normal to be working on bigger issues over a period of time, and perhaps as Rachel points out preferable.  

Best wishes

Gill 

Not only do I think this is normal, I think it's great that things are coming up and you're tapping through them and that you can deal with them. Well done! It looks like the change in your emotions are different aspects and the fact that you're going back and forth is good, your subconscious mind is finding the links and patterns for you. You allowing this is fantastic, allowing our feelings without judging them is very therapeutic and shows a lot of self trust! Keep tapping ;-)

As has been said, it's great that your system is ready to work on all these.  Congrads.

The piece that you want to do is make sure that you collapse one issue before you move on to the next.  Like Gill said, the Personal Peace Procedure is a great way to organize your tapping and keep making progress when there's lots to work on.  

Blessings,

Paul