The Tapping Solution for Manifesting Your Greatest Self

Oxytocin only increases as a result of stimuli. Left to their own devices, our oxytocin levels naturally hover at a baseline that’s around zero.

In general, the default setting of the brain is to overestimate threats, underestimate opportunities, and underestimate resources both for coping with threats and for fulfilling opportunities. Then we update these beliefs with information that confirms them, while ignoring or rejecting information that doesn’t. There are even regions in the amygdal

“negativity bias.”

They don’t need to come from a significant other. Anyone you care to hug counts!

the longest-living participants had, among other things, consistently dedicated themselves to helping others.

most people will do more to avoid loss than to benefit from an equivalent gain.

What’s most challenging about looking at the truth is not the process itself but how vulnerable it makes us feel.

“We think if we can beat vulnerability to the punch by imagining loss, we’ll suffer less.”2

When you think about telling the truth about what’s happening in your life right now, do you feel any physical tension, pain, tightness? Do you feel anxious or fearful?