Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation [Paperback]

Laurel Parnell (Author)

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Publication Date: January 1, 2008

A leader in the field of EMDR presents a self-guided training course for ¿tapping in¿ to our inner resources of strength and healing.

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Laurel Parnell, Ph.D. is one of the world's leading experts on EMDR. A clinical psychologist, she has trained thousands in EMDR in her international workshops. Dr. Parnell is the author of Transforming Trauma (Norton, 1997), EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused As Children (Norton, 1999), and A Therapist's Guide to EMDR (Norton, 2006).

About the Author

LAUREL PARNELL, PH.D., is one of the world's leading experts on EMDR. A clinical psychologist, she has trained thousands in EMDR in her international workshops. Dr. Parnell is the author of Transforming Trauma: EMDR, EMDR in the Treatment of Adults Abused as Children, and A Therapist's Guide to EMDR. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 290 pages
• Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (January 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1591797888
• ISBN-13: 978-1591797883
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,448 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #85 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > New Age > Mental & Spiritual Healing

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Laurel Parnell, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized clinician, author, consultant and EMDR trainer with over thirty years experience as a meditator and spiritual practitioner. She is former core faculty at John F. Kennedy University, Graduate School for the Study of Human Consciousness and has presented on EMDR and spirituality at the Association for Transpersonal Psychology and EMDR International Association conferences. The author of four books and a book chapter on EMDR, her article, "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Spiritual Unfolding," was published in the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology. Her two most recent books are Tapping In and A Therapist's Guide to EMDR. Dr. Parnell maintains a private practice in San Rafael, California.

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75 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Important and Innovative Contribution, January 31, 2008

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John J. Prendergast - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation (Paperback)

Tapping In is an important and innovative contribution to the self-help field. With this book, Laurel Parnell, a clinical psychologist and internationally renowned EMDR trainer, has separated out a critical element of the EMDR protocol known as "resource installation" and made it safely accessible to the general public. The method - resource tapping - is very simple: relax and ground yourself, visualize and sense as clearly as possible an inner resource such as safety, calmness, confidence, strength, compassion, creativity or memories of success, and then tap alternately right-left with your hands on either your knees or arms (using a "butterfly hug") for as long as it feels good. It is a surprisingly effective way to access and/or reinforce healthier ways of thinking, feeling and acting. I know - I've used a version of it for years with my psychotherapy clients. I'm glad that this simple yet powerful method has been liberated from its EMDR roots and is now available to anyone. It is also refreshing to encounter Dr. Parnell's inclusion of an explicitly spiritual dimension to inner resource work that draws from her many years of meditation and self-inquiry. Clearly written, filled with guidelines tailored to a wide variety of applications such as reducing anxiety, calming oneself after a trauma, boosting performance, or enhancing creativity, and fleshed out with interesting case reports, Tapping In is a practical and highly effective guide for accessing the wellspring of our inner resources.

-John J. Prendergast, Ph.D. (EMDR trained psychotherapist, Adjunct Professor of Psychology at CIIS, senior editor of The Sacred Mirror and Listening from the Heart of Silence)

34 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very accessible manual for a very powerful technique, February 19, 2008

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Marty L. Cooper - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation (Paperback)

Briefly put, "Tapping In" is a wonderful book, an accessible description of how to use the "tapping" part of EMDR to find and strengthen the already existing resources within oneself. Dr. Parnell details the process of using EMDR's bi-lateral stimulation (the sequential tapping on both sides of the body) to do this "resourcing" work, and then gives a myriad of suggestions on how to apply this to different situations. It's not at all a complex process she's describing, and unlike EMDR, which requires a trained professional to be safe and effective, Resource Tapping seemingly can be used by everyone. I have actually used it with a range of clients, including the actively psychotic, and all of them have benefited.

You can tell in her writing what absolute confidence Dr. Parnell has in a person's ability to find their own strengths, and that these exist in the first place. It's such a simple and yet powerfully transformative experience when people find out that they can adjust their internal states and moods with about the ease that they'd adjust their body if sitting in an uncomfortable position. And for this change in perspective and experience, Dr. Parnell's book is a great guide.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Parnell focuses very heavily on the positives, September 10, 2009

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This review is from: Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation (Paperback)

Laurel Parnell, trained in EMDR, has adapted this method in an interesting way. EMDR invites people to focus on their trauma memories and current symptoms while alternating stimulating the right and left sides of the body. This produces intense emotional releases that rapidly clear these issues. When the negatives are cleared, positive cognitions are installed to replace the negative ones that have been released.

Parnell focuses very heavily on the positives. She has people visualize a "safe/ peaceful place, nurturing figures, protector figures, and inner wisdom figures." (p. 45) These help people calm down when agitated, fearful, injured or upset in other ways. She discourages people from focusing on previous experiences that might resonate with the current issues.

Parnell reports dramatic improvements, not only in the primary issues being addressed, but also in attitudes, self-confidence, openness to accepting positives from others and more. She also notes that with repeated practice the positive effects with her method are more easily achieved and stronger. You will find many suggestions for positive images and cognitions one can install in this book.

My hesitation about what I read is that my personal experience of clearing current issues over a period of four decades and my experience of helping clients do the same has been that current issues very frequently resonate strongly with earlier issues. In many cases, the current issues appear to be invited to occur or even to be generated by the earlier issues. Without clearing the early issues, I would be concerned that further problems could easily arise down the rocky roads of life.