Nick Ortner Has a Tapping Solution
SL: The majority of people have some sort of addiction, it can be related to alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling or eating. How effective is tapping for people with an addiction?
Nick: It can be very effective, I consider tapping a tool. People will bring tapping into ‘twelve-step recovery programs’, they will make it a component of the work they’re doing. The tapping works on addiction in two primary ways:
- The physical craving and the addiction – I’ve seen it work, again and again with that; and
- The emotional part of the addiction
SL: In your book you write: “Every human being wants to succeed – on the conscious level. Unfortunately, our unconscious mind often has its own agenda”. Tapping is an action of the conscious mind. How will it affect the unconscious mind then?
Nick: We often start tapping on an issue that we think is the issue and that we think is going on. As we do the tapping we’re calming the body, we’re getting into a more relaxed state and that’s when the unconscious mind starts bringing things up. Similarly, with meditating you get some thoughts or an insight, the same thing happens with tapping. You could be tapping on back pain and that’s your focus, and next you’re thinking about something that happened twenty years ago. Where did that come from? That’s the unconscious mind feeding a little message that it might be connected, that there might be something going on. That’s how this works together, the inner play of it – focusing on the issue, tapping, relaxing, see what else comes up and continually work through that.
