If you're like the rest of us, you occasionally screw up royally.

When we do that, it's normal to feel guilt, remorse, shame...

Holding Onto Guilt

I’ve talked about holding onto neurotic guilt in this post on Paying for Mistakes. But if you want the really short version, holding onto guilt after the fact hurts us in several different ways.

So, what to do?

Well, we can choose to let it go.

"Oh, is that all, Jewell? Yeah, just let it go. Why didn't I think of that already?" 😉

Forgiving ourselves when we screwed up (especially when we hurt others) can be tricky. Trust

me, as someone raised in an old-school Catholic household, I know a thing or two about guilt.

But the good news is, it can be done. Know where I'm going with this...?

How to Forgive Yourself and Let Go of Guilt and Shame Using Tapping / EFT

I do it regularly. And it works. Some things tap out in just one go, and some of our more significant mistakes...…..

Well, they could take some repeated goes at it.

But each time you tap on guilt and shame, you take away a piece of it.

You take away its hold on you, so you can forgive yourself and become the best version

of yourself.

Now full disclosure, when I started creating this tap, I wanted it to be a 3-5 minute mini-tap (the video

ended up being 13:30). I mean, we're all busy people. And I certainly don't tap on guilt for more

than 5 minutes most days.

But I figured that I would leave the video as-is.

First, because some issues run deep, we could use a few extra minutes on

them.

And second, you can always pull out your favorite bits to create a shorter version of your

So that's it!

And if you'd like a refresher on what exactly is going on with tapping, you can check out this blog post

on how to use EFT / Tapping for more details.

Until next time, Happy Releasing!