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EMDR:

Resource Tapping

Inspired by Laurel Parnell, Ph.D. Attachment Focused EMDR, and, Tapping In: A Step-By-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation

Tapping In is described as:

Imagining a resource
Evoking as much sensory information as possible so that you truly feel the resource within you (taste, touch, smell, sight, sound)
When it feels fully positive, add 6-12 slow, rhymic taps alternating right-left-right-left as though you're savoring a walk in nature. Taps may be a butterfly hug tapping on your shoulders, collar bone, upper arms, or elbows. Taps can also be on your thighs or marching in place or tapping your toes in your shoes.
Pause and ensure the experience is fully positive. If it feels it can strengthen more, add another short set.
Stop tapping if the experience spoils at all. We do not want Resource Tapping leading into free associating trauma reprocessing. If a resource becomes contaminated with traumatic material, use a Container to store the traumatic material and return to some other Resource to calm your system in the present moment.
Then, when you're in an experience when you want to call on a resource, you can activate the resource and tap it in using the same slow, rhythmic taps.

Types of Resources:

Resources for Comfort
- Nurturing Figures
- Body Safe Place
- Comfort Memories
- Food Memories
- Music, Chants, Prayers, and Mantras
- Sacred Place
- Safe/Peaceful Place
- Spiritual Figures
- Your Circle of Inner Helpers (called Ally Oasis in DARe or Support Team)
- Your Safe/Peaceful Place Through Drawing
Love Resources
- Circle of Love
- Heart as a Place of Refuge
- Loving-Kindness Meditation
- Those Who Love You
- Those You Love
Resources for Peace and Calm
- Calm and Peaceful Resource Person
- Images from Nature
- Memories of Feeling Peaceful
Resources for Empowerment
- Boost Performance
- Circle of Protection
- Core Inner Strength
- Courageous Figures
- Images from Nature as Power Resources
- Inner Mentor or Coach
- Inner Support Team
- Memories of Being Courageous
- Memories of Being Creative
- Memories of Being Powerful
- Memories of Limit Setting
- Memories of Overcoming Problems
- Memories of Saying 'Yes'
- Memories of Success
- Other People Overcoming Difficulties
- Others Who Can Say 'No'
- Power Figures
- Protective Adult Self
- Protector Figures
- Saying No, Setting Boundaries
- Strengthening Successes
- Your Actualized Goals
- A Healthy You

Uplifting Resources
- Beauty
- Creativity
- Experiences of Awe and Wonder
- Favorite Things
- Freedom and Expansion
- Gratitude
- Humor and Laughter
- Inspiration
- Joy
- Precious Life Meditation
Spiritual and Wisdom Resources
- Essential Spiritual Self
- Higher power
- Inner Mentor or Coach
- Inner Support Team
- Inner Wisdom Figures
- Insights and Life Lessons
- Sacred Place
- Spiritual Experiences
- Spiritual Figures
- Spiritual Teachings
- Wise Being
Resources for Healing, Illness, and Trauma
- Grounded Breathing
- Images of Letting Go, Expanding, or Opening
- Hearing or Singing Self a Soothing Lullaby
- Nurturing Figures
- Peaceful Place
- Protector Figures
- Inner Wisdom Figures
- Memories of Recovery
- Positive Memories of Health and Wholeness
- Healing Imagery
- Encouraging or Reassuring Words
- A Healthy You: Imagine Yourself Healthy and Whole
- Higher Power
- Wise Self
- Body Safe Place
- Image of Someone You Know or Heard of Recovering from Illness or Injury

"Although the world is very full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."

|| Helen Keller

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