The Monkey Procedure

Over the years I have developped this technique with my own children. I found that when trying to tap, especially late at bed time, they sometimes were reluctant to tap, they could not be bothered, and even begun to see it as another chore...


So I thought of introducing humour in my tapping routine and developped this Monkey technique for young children. These tend to find it funny and enjoy the tapping as if it were (which really it is) a game. The problems get sorted without the children even noticing they are working on them....

I simply get the child (or children as it is even more fun when done in groups) to imitate me as I tap very, very quickly on the points I feel need working on while pretending to be a monkey myself. So there is a lot of tapping with both hands on both sides of the body, and I tap on two points at the same time. For instance, I might tap under my arm while tapping on top of my head, next I pretend to scratch my chin while still tapping under my arm, I try to make a funny face while tapping with my hands on my eyes, cheeks and chin, etc.... I try and tap on all the points of the shorcut version of EFT. On each set of points I would say a reminder phrase to keep the child focused on the problem. Again, I would try to exagerate and "make fun" of the problem. For instance, I might try and get them to see the bully that is making their life hell at school from another point of view. Humour, often enables me to give the problem a less threatening appearance.
The beauty of this technique is that often, the child, who was initially reluctant to tap, will take part in this game, have fun doing it and will be mostly unaware that we are actually working on the problem, and making progress. Usually, by the end of the first round of the shortcut version of EFT, the chlid is laughing and the problem is mostly, if not entirely, resolved.