Rant, Recognize, Remove

Another way to uncover limiting beliefs in any area of your life is what I call “Rant, Recognize, and Remove.” Our limiting beliefs show themselves from time to time and are often brought to the surface when we are ranting and complaining either to ourselves or other people. If you are stuck or frustrated with money, relationships, or, in this case, receiving signs, sitting down with a pen and paper and allowing yourself to rant and complain about it can help you uncover them. For example, if you find yourself struggling to receive or understand signs, you might sit down and write:

I’m so frustrated with myself and the universe. I’m reading the book and following the directions, but I just don’t get it. Maybe I’m not aware enough yet to notice the signs coming to me. I’ve never been able to get them before, so why would I think I could get them now? I assigned a sign like Tammy said and told my father to use a butterfly, but I waited for days and didn’t see any. I did go to a party and the bathroom had butterfly wallpaper, but I don’t think that counted because I wanted to see an actual butterfly flying around me. But maybe I should have counted that. I don’t know. This is all so confusing. I just miss my father and want to hear from him, but maybe I won’t ever be able to do it. I haven’t received any signs from the universe either. I should try the journal method Tammy talked about in the book, but it seems like so much work and I don’t have any extra time in my day. I’m too busy. I’m probably missing signs. I suck at this.

After you rant, go through what you wrote and do the second part of the process, which is recognize the possible limiting beliefs. Based on the above rant, here are the beliefs I would pull out of it and test (and feel free to test these on yourself as well):

After you rant and recognize, and be sure to test all the beliefs that come out of it to see which are actually limiting you, the last piece of this is to remove the beliefs and change them. There are several clearing methods available for releasing and changing limiting beliefs. I’m going to share two with you here, and you can even use muscle testing to find which clearing method is the best one for you to use on each belief you uncover. The first one is Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT, also known as tapping, and the second one is Ho’oponopono, an ancient Hawaiian practice for clearing beliefs and emotions through forgiveness. I’ll also share a prayer to call in elevated help for clearing and opening your intuition.

Emotional Freedom Technique

Emotional Freedom Technique, also called EFT or tapping, is a process originated by Gary Craig, a Stanford engineering graduate and author of the book The EFT Manual, who first introduced it to the public in 1995. It’s based on the Chinese meridian system in the human body, which is used in acupuncture. With EFT, you stimulate these meridians by tapping on different parts of the body using your fingertips. It can be used for many things, including decreasing pain in the body, alleviating anxiety and depression, clearing unprocessed emotions stuck in our bodies that are causing pain or illness, and clearing limiting beliefs holding us back in some area. It’s simply a way to move and remove energy from the mind and body.

With limiting beliefs, you want to tap through the different points on the body while making statements out loud about the belief you are working on. Going back to earlier when I talked about ranting, this is the approach you would take here as well. You start with a belief, such as “uncovering signs is hard for me,” and then you start tapping on the different points on the body while talking about how you feel, the reasons why it might be hard, and all your negative thoughts and feelings the belief brings up. After a couple of rounds focused on the negative and moving through all the tapping points, you can switch to more positive statements, such as, “Maybe I can learn to open my awareness more. Just reading this book is helping me do that. Maybe uncovering signs doesn’t have to be hard. I can let go and trust the signs are coming,” and so on.

To make this process easier for you, I’ve included a tapping script, sharing which point of the body to tap on and statements to use for each point. If you have never tried this before or are unsure how it works, you can follow the directions in the following exercise. I first heard about EFT when I interviewed Gary Craig for an article in the magazine and then learned how to use EFT in person when I took a live workshop in New York City, where author and EFT expert Nick Ortner walked the audience through the process. It’s very simple to learn, and once you know the tapping points and how the process works, you can use it on so many different things. I use EFT to clear beliefs and emotions impacting all areas of my life, and I continue to see results from it all the time.

EFT Tapping Points