MAGIC BUTTONS BEARS                  

PERFECT FOR ‘BEING’ YOUR ADDICTION.

 Hold Magic and focus on his eyes, as you put your addiction into him while you tap
for how you feel about your addiction.  Notice that very special energy that is working
through this very special/unique bear.  Pick out a bear that seems to ‘speak’ to you.

Let me give you an example of how I’ve used Magic Buttons as a client’s Addiction with amazing results.

My client had been going through Cancer treatment while using EFT to handle all that
goes with such a severe trauma. After we’d cleared many other things, she eventually
wanted to work on her addiction to cigarettes.
Magic became her cigarette addiction.
PHASE I:  She tapped and told her addiction how she felt about it.
KARATE CHOP:  Even though you, Magic, are the cigarette that I can’t live without,
yet you are literally killing me, I want to love and accept myself.
Even though I’m so angry at you, cigarette, because you have such a hold on me,
I want to love and accept myself enough to be able to give up my need for you.
Even though I can’t give you up and you are literally killing me, I want to love and
accept myself enough to be able to release my need for you.
TOP OF HEAD:  I am so angry that you have such a hold over me.
EYEBROW:  You are literally killing me, eating me alive yet I cannot give you up.
SIDE OF EYE:  How can you have so much power over me.
UNDER EYE:  You are not only ruining my life, you are literally taking it.
UNDER NOSE:  I’ve had to go through hell because of you.
CHIN:  I’ve had parts of my body cut out and have had to fill my body with dangerous
chemicals because of you, yet I still cannot give up my need for you.
COLLARBONE:  I’ve been to hell and back with chemotherapy, radiotherapy,
poisonous pills…the lot, yet you still won’t release your hold on me.
UNDER ARM:  How can I let you go easily and willingly?
WRIST:  What if I never let you go?

Phase II:  She tapped and gave herself permission to be ‘okay’ even if she kept the addiction.
KARATE CHOP:  Even if I never can give you up I want to love and accept all
parts of me anyway, including the part of me that cannot release you.
Even if I never ever let you go until you get the best of me, I want to love me anyway.
Even if I continue to let you control me instead of me having the choice to say ‘no’ to you,
I accept all parts of me, including my need for you.
TOP OF HEAD:  What if I never am able to let you go?
EYEBROW:  What if I struggle with you until the end?
UNDER EYE:  What if it’s already too late to stop smoking you now?
UNDER NOSE:  Why didn’t the doctors tell me I ‘had’ to give you up?
CHIN:  If they’d told me I ‘had’ to, maybe I could have done it.
COLLARBONE:  When did you take over control of my life?
UNDER ARM:  When did I lose my power to you?
WRIST:  What do you help me do that I can’t do in a healthier way?

Phase III:  She began to take tiny little steps to shifting the brain towards thinking
about letting this addiction go.   (small steps)
KARATE:    Even though I really need you, I would like to ‘begin’ to ‘think’ about
being ‘willing’ to release the need for you.  (x 3)
CLEARING POINTS:  Follow through with things like:  I’m beginning to think about
being willing to release the need for you.  I want to begin to think about it.

Phase IV:
Can then go into things like:  Is it safe to give you up?  What was going on in my life when
you and I first got attached to each other? What do I recognize happening in my body now
when I really need you?  What feelings do you help me deal with?  What exactly do you do
for me now?     

As you are tapping and asking these questions and focusing on Magic, who is your addiction,
let your mind go on ‘google’ and see what this brings up.  Keep FLOWING with it. 
The more you focus on Magic, as your Addiction, the more layers you will get to. 
This is just one of Many ways that you can use the wonderful Healing Tool of
Magic Buttons Bear.

The CLIENT worked on the above, for only about 30 minutes of her session.  By the time
she came in for her next appointment, she had cut out all cigarettes for nine hours
of her day while she was at work and going to and from work.  This was done easily
with no resistance and no willpower.  She simply no longer thought about smoking
during those hours.
We had also previously used Magic to BE her cancer and she tapped on Magic
while she told her ‘cancer’ exactly how she felt about discovering it, being told the
‘bad’ news (that it had gone into the lymph glands) what the doctors had said, etc. 
Allow Magic to BE your Disease, your spouse that you are angry with, the boss who
made you redundant, the Mother who didn’t love you enough, the partner who left you,
and so much more. 

Linda,
Thanks so much for the work that you did with me and especially for Magic Buttons. 
Here I am a middle aged adult and for the first time ever am taking a stuffed animal to
bed with me.  When I’m too tired to tap on myself, I tap on him.  At other times I just
have him comfort and support me and I feel a strong connection to you.   

Hello Linda,
Many thanks for your help in teaching me how to use Magic Buttons Bear. 
All my children are greatly taken with him and I’ve already, after just one day since
working with you, tapped with all of them using Magic.  Jeff is hugely captivated with the
bear – has already done more tapping on Magic than he was ever prepared to do on himself
before and, for the first time ever that we can remember, he got himself out of bed at night
to go to the toilet rather than just lying there crying or simply sleeping through.
Can’t wait for all the other changes!

Dear Linda,
I just wanted to thank you for "Magic Buttons" - he has given me a lot of comfort tonight.
My Father is quite unwell and currently in hospital awaiting surgery for fluid on lungs.
He’s already been in for nearly a week and is going downhill emotionally as a result.
I got into bed around an hour ago and then suddenly felt a very strong urge to get Magic
and to try and tap out as many of the issues as I could think of - feeling scared and alone,
hating being in that place, being in pain, not knowing what was happening, being surrounded
by old people ill and dying and thinking that he was dying himself, etc, etc. I had a major release
during the scared and all alone bit but it did calm and then I tried to tap in some positives - called on
all his angels and guides to be with him and surround him with healing, comfort and protection,
tapped in remaining calm, also on learning any lessons to be learnt from the illness and on
releasing any unresolved emotional trauma. Finally that he would sleep easily and deeply and awaken
restored and refreshed.
I was then kind of praying and Magic just seemed to be looking at me with wise and
sympathetic eyes.
So thank you!

Although many of us have seen amazing things happen after tapping for someone else,
none of us can really say for sure if it was definitely the tapping that caused the changes. 
Recently, however, I had my own ‘proof’ that Surrogate tapping is doing something profound.

I call this my ‘Ophelia Story.’
A few months ago, while visiting my son in the U.S, I noticed his little dog, Ophelia,
was holding one leg up and hopping along and if you didn’t pick her up just so, she would yelp. 
She also couldn’t manage to hop up onto the sofa without having a stack of cushions propped against it. 
When I asked my son what had happened, he explained that he didn’t know and was terribly
concerned about her.  He’d recently taken her to the vet for x-rays but they showed nothing physically wrong.

With my son being a scientist, I didn’t dare mention that I’d do some tapping or healing for Ophelia
so whenever I was holding her, I’d secretly do some mental tapping and a bit or Reiki but she wouldn’t
sit on my lap for very long so I didn’t get much done while there.  By the time I left, I was seeing no change,
yet upon seeing how upset my son was by his ‘baby’ having this problem, I vowed to myself that I’d do a
more thorough job of tapping for her when I got back to England.

Once I’d unpacked and overcome jet lag, I got out my ‘Magic Buttons Bear’ and began surrogate
tapping for Ophelia.  I began by tapping for all the things that might have caused disruption in her
life lately – Mummy going away to another graduate school and daddy selling the house and moving
into a strange house with a stranger/roommate, Mummy coming home every few weeks, then with
longer and longer times in between visits.  Then daddy moved again and Mummy didn’t come home
anymore, what if daddy leaves too, etc.  (one of the first things that I do when tapping surrogately for
animals is to take a look at what is going on at home and in the relationship of the owners.) 

I tapped a few times for two or three days, then sort of forgot about it.  About three weeks later,
I attended a healing day where we practised doing some Theta healing on each other.  The gal who
worked with me said that she’s been getting pretty good at Angel readings and asked if I’d be interested
in having her do that.   I said I’d be thrilled to have one of those done.  She began doing her reading and
seemed to be very apt with some of the things she was relaying to me. 
Suddenly she said, “I keep getting a picture of a dog and every time I try to push it away,
they keep showing it to me again.  I’m getting a bit frustrated here with this.  Do you know what it means?” 

I started thinking, “Dog?  I know lots of people with a dog.  I don’t have a dog.  I wonder what that means.”  
Then she said, “It’s a very tiny little dog.”
I gasped.  “Oh my gosh, that’s Ophelia!”
She asked, “Do you do EFT?  Have you been tapping for this dog?”
I told her that I do and I had.
She said, “Well, they tell me to tell you to keep doing it, that it’s helping her.”
I was so excited about this that I had to write and tell my son, even though he ‘is’ a
scientist who often thinks that the things I do are airy fairy, etc.   I told him that I was sure
Ophelia would be okay so not to worry anymore about her.
Of course, he didn’t respond to my email and I can only imagine what he thought as he read it.  (“Right Mom, what other weird things are you in to now?!”) 

Again, I forgot all about this.  About a month or so later I returned to the U.S and my son
and Ophelia came to my house for the 4^th of July.  Lo and behold, Ophelia suddenly had become
‘my’ dog.  She didn’t want to be away from me and when my grandkids would try to get up on my lap,
she’d snap at them as if to say, “Go away.  This is My grandma.” 
All of us were quite shocked because Ophelia had never been my dog. 
I’d always had to bribe her with treats and when the treats were gone, so was she.  
I also noticed her leg was much better.
Then in September I went back again to the states and was the last one to arrive at a big birthday
party.  As I walked into the noisy party, and began talking to people, my son suddenly started hollering
from across the room.  He very excitedly and surprisingly said, “Mom, listen to Ophelia.  She recognized
your voice out of all these voices and she’s going mad in her kennel wanting out.  She’s been hiding in that
kennel because of all the people but now she wants you!”
Again, I was shocked and so was he. 
Not only was her leg almost completely healed, but she was ‘attached’ to me and didn’t
want me out of her sight for the two days that I was there. 

At Thanksgiving it was the same thing.  This time she even slept in my bed with me. 
And when we were all sitting and watching movies, she’d hop on Daddy’s lap for a few minutes,
then end up snuggling up on mine for the rest of the movie.  This had ‘never’ happened before in the
five years she’s been in our lives.  She was attached to either her Mom or Dad, but never to anyone else.
My ‘unscientific’ conclusion to all this is that not only does surrogate tapping work, but it also
somehow forms an attachment between the sender and the recipient.

I’ve had people who use the Magic buttons bears (that I make for surrogate tapping) say that they
feel as though I’m there with them when they are tapping.  How to prove what is happening here is
beyond me but it certainly is amazing and is proof enough for me that ‘some’ thing is happening
when we tap for others whether it be on a bear or on ourselves.    
Perhaps the REAL clincher in all this is that as my son left my house in the U.S after the
Thanksgiving holidays, he said to me, “Mom my friend has a dog who is having some problems. 
Do you suppose you could tap for her dog?”
GULP!!!  You could have knocked me over with a feather!!!! 
I did tap for the dog and he is better.  We’ll see now what happens when I see ‘this other’ dog next time. 

About two months ago, a lady emailed me and asked if I could help with her granddaughter
who seemed to have so many intense fears, some actually being dangerous.  One in particular
was that when they were driving down the interstate and a fly happened to get into the car, Susie
would go berserk and start climbing all over everyone, including the driver, almost causing them to
crash, in an attempt to get away from this fly.   

I told her that I’d be glad to work with her granddaughter and asked if she and the Mom and little girl
could all come see me together.  Grandma told me that she’d not mentioned EFT to the parents yet
so would tell them about it and see what their reaction would be.  A few days later she contacted me
and said that the parents didn’t seem interested in learning this weird stuff; however, Grandma was
still determined to do something to help.

Since she lived so far from me, I suggested that she come spend a half day with me and I’d teach her
how to use Magic Buttons Bear showing her not only how to work with Susie when she was at her house,
but also how to surrogately tap for her.   Grandma immediately scheduled an appointment, drove the three hours
to get to me and brought Grandpa along, who was very sceptical about this working but was willing to try anything
at this point.  Grandma picked out a Magic Buttons bear and sat across from me as we started our tapping lessons. 
Grandpa decided to ‘tap along’ with us and picked out a bear, yet pulled his chair back into the corner where he
was going to mostly observe. 

I’d had Grandma previously make out a list of things that were most ‘out of control’ so we began by tapping on
various things on her list.  Rather than trying to collapse things, I was mainly showing her ‘how’ to do it when
she was on her own. 
Grandma had only recently discovered EFT.  She’d downloaded and read the manual, the newsletters and other
information on the emofree site so she was pretty much a newby to EFT but caught on extremely quickly. 
I was quite impressed.

As we both tapped away on our bears for Susie, Grandma soon discovered her own ‘stuff’ coming up,
bringing emotions with it, then subsiding, then going away, all while continuing to tap on the bear. 
Grandma was surprised to realize that she had and has had many of the same fears as her granddaughter. 
Although we hadn’t intended going in this direction, we even brought up several of Grandma’s specific events
and collapsed them for her.  Grandpa, who was sitting in the corner expecting this to be something ‘airy fairy’,
was beginning to sit up and pay attention as he watched all these changes in Grandma, especially while tapping
away on a silly bear and before long, he even began adding his memories and perceptions of things about Susie
which turned out to be very valuable.   
They both left three hours later, not only feeling different themselves, but also knowing they now had a ‘tool’
with which to help their little granddaughter whose problems had seemed so hopeless up to this point. 
They drove the long way back home and had just settled in when they got a frantic phone call from their
daughter.  (Now -- note that she had purposely not told her kids that she was coming to see me. 
She was going to do this secretly and see what happened.)   
With her permission, I’ve printed off some of her follow-up emails to me.   

Dear Linda,    (That very night) 
Strangely enough we have just got back in the house after a desperate phone call from my daughter just
about in tears saying that they couldn't even get Susie to stay in her bedroom or go near her bed - she had
been screaming uncontrollably, actually had been like this for 3 weeks at bed time, but hadn't told us.
They asked, "Could you come and see if there is anything you can do?"
I took Magic in a secret bag and said I would take Susie upstairs for a ‘chat’ while they calmed
down the baby.

I thought "here goes, only just learnt how to do it and now I have to do it!"  She half sat on the bed,
sweating and trying to divert me - saying would I not leave her. I just got on with it, tapping the bear
‘cause he had a problem being scared in his room and didn't know what was scaring him.’  
She began to say she was scared of the airplane noises, all the noises, then began to talk about her
goldfish dying and going to heaven and you know what grandma - I'm really, really scared of blood,
( gave tremble over whole body),  I'm scared of people dying and worried about heaven, my mom and dad
shouted at me, (plus other things that mom and dad had said in desperation).

I continued the way you taught me - trying to make everything safe and loving around her, trying to break
down and cover each problem as it arose - she did the tapping on the bear then wanted to try it on herself -
and eventually after 40 mins. she closed her eyes and drifted into sleep as I still talked to her.
Mom and dad were shocked to see that I’d gotten her to sleep and also shocked to hear about the
blood problem and the rest - she hadn't told them. They were feeling so guilty about having lost their
temper with her (they needed some tapping!) 
I had to come clean about having been to see you and showed them Magic Buttons.
They listened and wanted to cooperate and learn how to do it with her - I showed them the tapping points
and what to say (basically) then showed them Gary's website and left them to find their own way round that.
I said Magic would have to come with me but they could borrow him whenever needed.
I would like to ask them to contact you by e-mail. Would that be ok?  
By the way she hasn't mentioned bugs or dogs at all! 
(This was something Grandma and I had tapped on ‘for’ Susie…she’s been as panicked around
dogs as she was with bugs.)

Hello Linda,     (The next night!)
Joy oh Joy - Susie went to bed with a smile on her face tonight.
Calmness returns to their house!
I did a bit of prep with Magic Buttons while she was with us after school --reframing with things like:
"You know that your pillows and mattress are stuffed full of love, that's why they are so soft and cuddly,
in fact just like a marshmallow."
Susie - "OOh I like Marshmallows!"
Me "Well won't it be so lovely in your marshmallow bed tonight - I bet you can't wait."
She did say -" I'm not scared to go to bed now" but I took that with a pinch of salt.
I also told her about you and how you had given us Magic Buttons Bear to look after -
and how you are sending her lots and lots of love. She is beginning now to talk about you.

Mom said that when she took Susie to school this morning - she walked past the dogs tied to the
school gates without any fuss.   A first!!   She is also talking about other things not bothering her any more.
I think things are happening - and thank you so much for your distant tapping and thoughts.
I feel as if I am feeling a lot calmer as well and a lot less apprehensive about what mood Susie is in
because I know I have the tools to use now.
Thank you so much Linda and all connected to you.  We all send our love out there and hope you receive it.
I'll keep you in touch as to how things are going - but just knowing you are there for us is such a reassuring feeling.
Love and a million thanks

Hi Linda,  (a few days later)
I just want to tell you that Susie is a different girl - going to bed happily, even though she still gets up and
goes into mom and dad's bed about 3 in the morning (I'm working on that)
She has a much calmer, happier outlook on life at the minute and so has the rest of the family
and they are talking more with her about her worries.

I think all this is having a very beneficial effect on myself as well.
You have certainly had some input into our lives Linda and we thank you so much for it.
I hope we may be able to bring the whole family to see you one day but until then I will
continue to learn and explore this great and fascinating healing therapy and hope that one day
I might be able to give something back to it.
Love and gratitude
Katie
‘Grandma’ is now going to get Gary's DVDs and take this further!