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I didn’t question your motives. I’ve said all along that, as an admirer of yours and a fan of this blog, it’s obvious that helping others is a core principle that you live by.

I’m questioning whether your actions are aligned with your principles. This isn’t a judgment about either your principles or your motives. It’s a question about effective action.

I think you’re questioning other people’s motives, though. Here’s what you wrote:

“Are people signing petitions on Facebook, retweeting posts on Twitter and posting on their own blog as a way contributing without actually contributing? …with social media, people all of a sudden have an excellent way out of giving the one thing that is always needed in such situations.”

This may be a danger with social media, although I think the answer your question may be both impossible to know and irrelevant. To the extent that you learned about the disaster through social media, though, I think it’s value its significant — to you and to people who benefited from the help you offered. If everybody who reTweeted was lying to themselves, but a reTweet woke you up, then it’s value is high.

I also think that, to the extent at first you “contributed without really contributing” (until you woke up to what was going on inside yourself) you may be questioning YOUR OWN motives. You re-calibrated your response, and you raised the question out loud, fearlessly. That’s what it’s all about!

One of the things I like so much about your blog is this process. You ask a question, encourage a response from readers, have a complicated emotional response yourself, distill a lesson from it, and come out with greater self-awareness. You’re fearless about going through that process in front of everyone. That’s such a valuable teaching tool, and so rare on the web. Your response to me has been pretty defensive, but you could also have dismissed my comment and disengaged, and the whole value of the exchange would have been lost to both of us.

The EFT points that are typically used are believed to be closest to the surface of the skin and have a greater ‘electrical charge’ than other points. That might be making them more accessible to fingertip tapping.

All that being said, I’ve worked with people over the phone who had remarkable shifts by tapping only one or two points throughout the session because they had physical difficulty reaching some points.

Rebecca, I also saw Paul McKenna on Bonnie Hunt and saw bits of his tv special a couple of years ago. What he’s doing is EFT’s grandpa called TFT or Thought Field Therapy where its founder Dr. Roger Callahan believed that a specific series of tapping on specific points worked for individual issues. With EFT we just tap all the points for any issue and it is simple for anyone to do.

I’m thrilled with the questions and responses! I’ll keep reading and doing my best to comment!

Thanks, Tim for introducing me to your lively list!