Monday, December 4, 2003

 Monday, December 4, 2003

    My friend Jean told me about a tapping app. Tapping is a system of tapping on acupuncture points to resolve emotional issues. I learned it as EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique. It is debunked as pseudoscience by Wiki. I’ve known about and used tapping for the last twenty-five years. I often use it with my students but less frequently with myself. 

   My current therapist/life coach uses tapping a lot. She will often use it on herself for me while I work. I had no idea it had become so popular. I signed on. I found an app for sound sleep on the site. I tuned into it; I had been encountering some difficulty with sleep recently. I fell asleep easily but woke up early, around 3 am. I would try to mediate until five, when my alarm went off. During those two hours, negative thinking overtook me. By five am, I was exhausted. 

  When I turned on the sleeping app, someone talked for about 15 minutes, leading to a tapping session. I fell asleep easily before the man stopped talking. The background music behind the speaker continued all night until I switched it off when I got up. I slept soundly till four-thirty. The legato flute music distracted me from my negative thinking. What a blessing!

  I paid my $2,360 hospital bill today. I would have preferred to pay it next year for tax purposes, but I had to pay by December 21. I have plenty of medical expenses to claim for this year already. I dropped over $15,000 on three weeks of in-home health care.

   I had a facial today. I got the express service, and that was $150. Wow! I only get one once or twice a year. She spared me the tip, probably because I told her it was my birthday the next day. It makes me feel terrible to see estheticians and massage therapists get over one hundred an hour when people think fifty an hour is an outrageous fee for a tutor, even a highly trained one.

   I called Kia for information on my car. When I took it in the other day, they saw that the car didn’t take a charge. They told me they sent the digital information to Kia headquarters and would hear from them in twenty-four hours.