My sister is presently publishing a book, I know not the name, about Mental Health. I have studied Carol Tuttle’s book Remembering Wholeness, as well as used Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) as she uses it, and met with Ginny, a friend of my sister’s in learning more about EFT.

I had two purposes initially in studying this topic. First, I have battled mood swings for a long time. In fact, I started taking birth control pills about the same time that my husband and I got engaged. Not for worry-free sex, we believe in abstinence before marriage and total fidelity after, but for moods. Mood swings are bad news for any mother, but it was intensified by my husband’s and my determination to homeschool our children. To translate, that means very little time off for me in case I wake up on the crappy side of the bed. Just in case, I have always packed an arsenal of fabulous science videos for those days that I’d rip the head off a sleepy puppy, let alone children that make mistakes. I also have memberships to various places (mostly science oriented) just for those days. (Can you tell science is my weak point?)

So I have used EFT and tapping for things ranging from self-esteem issues to perfectionism and definitely money! I am now investigating ways to use these techniques to strengthen my children’s images of who they are and their importance and their God-given abilities. The whole concept behind all of these techniques is that we are creators. We have perfectly created whatever mess we may be in which means . . . that it is in our power to create a different reality. Put another way, we are where we are because of the decisions we have made. Or, we are where we want to be. So if my children are well behaved, I have created that in some way. Or if they are not, I have created that. My purpose is to create children who are purposefully creating their own realities, rather than being totally shaped by external influences.

If you have ever read the book, Think and Grow Rich, the basic idea is that our thoughts determine where we will go and what we will be. In Carol Tuttle’s vernacular, we are creators and our thoughts are energy. Everything (substantiated by quantum physics or some such scientific field) is energy. We create that which we put out to the universe through our thoughts and intentions.

Let me put this in another way that my sister taught me: No matter what our religion, we all have basic beliefs probably defined in some book. That may be the Bible, the Talmud, the Koran, whatever. Most of us believe in some kind of Divine Being or Creative Force. I believe in a personal, loving Father in Heaven. But whatever you may call it, most believe in some power greater than themselves and in a higher law or order of things handed down to us in some book of holy writ.

My journey is to discover the higher-order principles that I am using or am trying to use to benefit my family. That’s my starting point.