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“Let Go of the Past”: Tapping Meditation

Written by: Nick Ortner

Tapping-MoviePerhaps the greatest power in Tapping comes from the ability to let go of the past.

If we have experiences that haven’t fully healed, that we haven’t let go of, the reality is, they ARE affecting us on a daily basis. Sometimes this effect is unconscious and we aren’t even aware.

Has something happened to you in the past, that when you think about the event, it still holds an emotional charge?

Perhaps a broken heart that still aches? Difficult financial events that you can’t seem to let go of? Did you do something that you can’t seem to forgive yourself or others for?  

One of the fastest ways to let go of these past events is to use “The Movie Technique”.   So if today, you want to feel a little lighter, let go of a little more, find that energy and joy again, then I have a free Tapping Meditation for you.

This meditation is designed as a companion to my book, The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief. But even if you’re NOT in pain, the meditation helps with any event from the past.

“Letting Go Of The Past” Audio Tapping Meditation

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What came up for you during this tapping meditation – Share your experience and insights below!

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  1. Yvonne says:

    Amazing discovery that all my life I have an overwhelming fear of being left on my own and guess what that is exactly what I have created.

    Even down to having found a wonderful husband but we are never together as he works away all the time!

    Thank you so much for giving me my life back

  2. Annette says:

    I feel more calm after I took the “Movie Technique”. I didn’t know what topic to choose, or how to “view” it, I just knew I had a lot of traumatic rejections in my life. I saw myself in a telephone conversation with my mother many years ago. She said: “You don’t belong to the Family”. I also heard: “You are not good enough”, “I only love you if you behave a certain way”…. It wasn’t even upsetting me. I just tapped and I let go of that Family, (they have passed away) as I realize, that I was only born into that Family to learn certain Things and grow and let go. It is still difficult for me to feel that loneliness, to be without a Family. I dream about finding a new tribe, who will love me. I have bought books about HOW TO LOVE MYSELF. – I just tapped on it!

  3. Kerry says:

    Thank you for this wonderful exercise. I’ve been unable to forgive myself for several years over something I did to someone who did not deserve it. I know there are more layers that I need to work through but I was able to release the intense feelings surrounding a particular incident by doing this exercise and it gives me hope that i will someday be able to be free of the shame that has been holding me back and affecting my weight. I’m taking part in Jessica’s tapping for weight loss but your recording has helped me a great deal tonight! Thank you so much for making it available!!

  4. Marie says:

    My best friend of 65 years just died. I am 75. I didn’t know quite what to expect. What came up was an event where we went to this dance. We took pillows and books and tried to ignore the ‘guys”. Well, it didn’t last long for her. She was everyones friend and she was gone—. I was left there with no one asking me to dance. I felt so alone and so rejected. All my life I have wanted to be like this friend. What came up then was the connection that I have wanted to include people and see that they were not left alone. I hadn’t realized that is where that part of me started. I have learned to be out going as a result. I organize things that others would like to do etc. Thanks.

  5. Janice says:

    Loved the meditation. It helped me more than anything else. Thank you for all you do to help others. Love you and your sis.

  6. Leona Wellington says:

    I love your book and tapping has blown me away, uncovering emotions that were really buried and incidents as well. Thank you

  7. Mary Susan Praitano says:

    I am very grateful for the loving support and kindness surrounding me right now, that I am able to start receiving the good. I am working on feeling worthy of this. I had I lot of physical tightness leave the body, and I was also able to let go of tension from not being able to have bowel movements. Thank you God and thank you Nick and your team
    Lovingly,
    Mary Susan Praitano

  8. Roya says:

    This Technique is amazing. I’ve been practicing it for about 2 weeks so far and just now I finished the Meditation. I really appreciate your work and wisdom. I used to have Asthma for so long and it seems I don’t have it anymore. The very first day that I used the Tapping Method, I threw out all my medications and inhalers. I had this feeling of healing permanently. I’m so grateful for this and don’t know what to do for you. The only thing that just came up in my mind during this meditation, was helping you to spread this technique in the world. I was wondering if I can translate your book and Meditation in Persian(Faris) and give it away to the large amount of Persian people or not?? I really appreciate your response. Even though if you don’t let me do this, still I will talk about this in English and tell people to visit your page and change their lives.
    Thanks again and Happy Holiday !
    Love & Light

  9. Charla says:

    Fabulous videos – wow!!! I will be using the tapping solution for pain relief for the sciatica that has plagued me for the last year. And the personal “movie” that I played through gave me great insights. Looking forward to complete recovery using tapping. Thanxabunchabunches!!!

  10. Daphne Radenhurst says:

    This was very profound. Separated from my mother at the age of four and left with nuns, I feel this pain and anger has never left me. I was able to reanimate it and gradually began to feel my mother’s pain so that all my love and compassion was transferred to her. and I felt this immense love for my mother. My own paid was left behind. The movie seemed to be suffused in a golden glow of peace and harmony. Thank you for this. I did not believe it possible. I know the answer now. My life seems to have been turned around in an instant.

  11. Denise says:

    This Letting go of the Past tapping is a blessing. I saw and let go of an event that hurt me terribly, more than I ever knew. I was able to face it and see it and let go. I am so grateful for your kind and generous help.

  12. Aurora says:

    Nick, I have been doing healing work on myself for years, meditating, doing yoga, always “skirting” around this particular issue regarding pain and fear of being here. While I would touch upon the issue and find relief, sooner or later it would re-surface in some way, shape, or form. Today I feel like I hit the “bulls eye”, right on target with the core issue and it was with the help of your gift of releasing the pain and running the movie. I feel like I shed 5 pounds of stuff I’ve been holding onto all my life since the time of the womb! I used this technique yesterday and it helped shift myself and the way people respond to me immediately. But this morning I awoke with pain and immediately went into the tapping, and got right to the core issue.

    What’s amazing is the more you tap, the deeper you go, and the deeper the release. What’s even more amazing is that if old patterned thinking crops up during the day, it’s so much easier to release those thoughts with “I can let this go” even without the tapping!

    Thanks again to you and to Jessica for your Light, Love, and generous sharing of your gifts and talents.

    Peace, Aurora

  13. Regina says:

    This was amazing in helping me let go of this painful event that just occurred with someone I care deeply about. My ways of how I perceive events has dramatically changed towards the positive, I’ve forgiven myself and have let the negative charges wash away. Thank you immensely!!! I’m growing to be a more positive, better being daily?

  14. zahia says:

    Vraiment vous être très gentil vous m’avez soulagée est merci je vous aime bien merci

  15. Cheryl says:

    Thanks first of all, for the beautiful background music–Paul Avergerinos,right? I tapped on a rather scary interview I had to do for an article on a tough subject, and the source was loud and hyper…I felt threatened on the phone, and as I was doing the interview from home, it felt invasive. I did not realize until I was tapping that I felt physically threatened, and it also made me realize that it is time for me to leave behind these toxic clients/situations. I am transitioning my work, and it was extremely helpful in refocusing my energy. I also feel safer and know it is absolutely my choice as to how I feel; I do not have to put myself through every struggle as a test. I deal with difficult subjects and it is time to leave them behind as the environment I am in is completely non-supportive.

    Thanks, as always, Nick. And great job at I Can Do it! New York!!! Renewed my zeal for tapping.

  16. Karren says:

    Dear Nick,
    Following you and your tapping. I appreciate the value of tapping and how beautifully it works, however, I never thought about going back in time to start tapping when (for example) the fibromyalgia started. Things were very different in my life then. Thank you, I will begin to work on this aspect.

    Love & Light

  17. Suzana says:

    Dear Nick
    thank you for entering my life when i needed it the most. I am tapping with you for some weeks and tonight( I am in Oslo, Norway) , with you, i went through tapping” Letting go away the past.”..
    Thank you.
    I have to say, there has been 3 times exactly that moments in my “film” when my throut has been closed and i felt very hurt and i cried. Then the pain and sadness slowly dissapiered.
    I started to smile. Pain has been released…I felt better and better.
    Well, I believe in what you do. I see the results very sonn. On me… So I will keep tapping..
    .I would like to thank you very much, that you came by…and helped me to get the best in my life. Abudance in all.
    With LOVE- I hope to meet you one day in person — and music regards:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzlD7yyWdkg
    Yours, Zuzana Martinsen- a singer from Oslo, Norway

  18. grace says:

    Thank you for your beautiful gift!

  19. Anita Carter says:

    Thank you, Nick, for yet another generous offering to assist in the healing of all of us out here…It felt good to cry and to begin to forgive myself and I know there is more but it makes such a difference to have this is the ‘medicine cabinet’.

  20. Sandra says:

    Amazing, helped me a great deal, thank you Nick, very grateful to you for this meditation. I felt as if I was watching a movie I had never been part of, watching it from the outside as an observer.

  21. Teeder says:

    Hi Nick,
    I found recalling old emotions and senses really brings focus to the tapping. This movie technique kept me on track, the questions kept me digging through the grey matter, and I found myself remembering forgotten issues. All good. Tapping has evolved. Thanks.

  22. akaren kelly says:

    RELIEF ! PEACE !!! about a 20 year old divorce…thank you…thank me
    I found more heeded self love.., XO

  23. Rosalie says:

    This is my first experience with you, Nick. It’s what I’ve been looking for, what I believe in. I plan to go get your book today. The funny thing is, I had that book in my hand to buy just yesterday, but decided to wait for whatever reason. So perhaps I have jumped in here ahead of myself. The movie I saw was one that shows a kind of nightmare. It makes me feel ill. I don’t know how to forgive this event. But I did learn a lot from it… why my legs are failing me, for one thing. Why I’ve allowed myself to become less of a person rather than more as a defense. It won’t be easy for me to clear this from my mind, but I am grateful you are here. I will ‘see’ you again soon. I’m off to Barnes & Noble now.

  24. Adriana says:

    I’m sure that everyone said many things about this meditation, but I would like to sum up my feelings in just one word (how unfair this is): AMAZING.

    I can’t believe how much this short meditation helped me change the rage, upset, frustration and deep soul pain into a beautiful calm state of peace.

    Thank you Nick. Your work helps so many people in need and one of them is me.
    Thank you again from the bottom of my heart!

  25. Dottie says:

    I have been using the tapping for about 7 years now. I am a retired RN. I used it on my daughter, during her ALL NATURAL labor & delivery with her FIRST CHILD!!! We were both amazed! The nurses were too- they came in & sat on the floor & watched us. When she didn’t want me to touch her, near the delivery time, I tapped surrogately – on myself! The tapping technique I learned 7 yrs ago, included tapping on my fingers. This is much simpler & easier. I do have a question- my grandson is 8 mos old & having trouble going to sleep due to painful teeth coming thru. While he is in his bed, I have been tapping around just hus eye & top of his head. While repeating his restlessness & pain & it seems to help, but should I do somewhere else on him? I tap on myself while beside the crib too. Help.

  26. MaLa says:

    I again listened and tapped through both the movie audio tape and the tapping for pain relief video. Relief comes in many stages as I progress through repetition. I now understand the deep connection between my severe leg pain and a happening between my mother and myself when I was 15 years of age – I am now 76 years of age. And how this connection not only affects my pain but also my connection to money or the lack thereof. Best of all, this round I experienced a deepening of forgiveness toward my mother who never intended for me to react to deeply to her words. She, too, was hurt and frustrated at that time, and thought she had expressed herself accordingly, but my mind picked up the hurt which I had imagined was intended for me. Forgiveness for both her and myself flows like a river through my body, a truly genuine experience of the energy which flows through our being, most of the time still unnoticed. And how wonderful to notice it now. Thank you again from the bottom of my heart for your kind and generous contribution to help me to grow and heal.

  27. MaLa says:

    A very wonderful and relaxing experience tapping through feelings of anger and rejection. Thank you so very much, Nick, for giving me this opportunity to keep healing my emotions and the impact they made on my whole being.

  28. joan says:

    thank you very much. I had a difficult childhood and so it came back to me in the movie. I was 3 and was suffering ear pain. My mother took me to the hospital for a tonsillectomy, never talked to me, just brought me and left me. They put me in a crib and I felt very abandoned and tried to climb out and i remember that well. It became a part of me for many years, as our family was a mess and there wasn’t much love. I felt the fear emotion very strongly. thank you. And I have forgiven my mother during the last several years. She did the best she could!
    the tapping always helps!!!

  29. lynn says:

    Thank you for that beautiful meditation Nick. My movie was the last conversation I had with my mother before I walked out of her life. Ive always been sensitive and she was quite blunt. We were siting on her couch in her living room looking at our family album. I saw pic of me @ 13 and was shocked at how skinny I was. I was into hiking and sports so I was fit, but I had no memory of being that thin..too thin. I said “Look at how thin I was!” She patted my ever growing stomach from chronic pain that left me unable to do even the smallest amount of walking, so I gained weight. My mom put her hand on my stomach, smiled devilishly and stated that I “wasn’t all that bad now”. That hurt so much. I didn’t see her again until 18 months later when I got a call that she was dying of cancer. I rushed to her side, rarely leaving her, and was holding her hand three weeks later as she passed. Our last words to each other were, “I love you”. As I tapped on the “stomach scene” I thought, “why didn’t I just laugh! It would have changed everything!” I’m even bigger now bc I have been nearly bedridden for 10 yrs. Jessica has helped me love me, including loving my bigger unathletic body. You have given me back my mom. Blessings

  30. A Dezino says:

    Dear Nick. that was amazing! Two three years ago I would have laughed at the tapping solution but now I realised how powerful it can be. May be I am ready to hear it or may be the way you and Jessica presented the EFT. I feel so resonating. Thank you for the fisherman story with that story (fun) I got on to your your tapping solution. This is early days but I already tasted the benefit.
    Thank you.

  31. Alice says:

    Hi Nick – “played” with an event which I thought didn’t affect me any more as I have “digested” it long ago. Big surprise happened! Emotions appeared from “nowhere”. Many thanks to you and Jessica – you are doing both a wonderful work in helping people releasing whatever should be released to make the world a better place.

  32. Agneta says:

    Thank you Nick ! I love and appreciate your guided Tappingmeditations and of course Jessicas as well. I have bought your book.It has taken me many years to “let go and release” feelings .I have followed the wonderful Louise L.Hay since 1989. Once again Thank you!

  33. Suzie says:

    I am so thankful for the tapping solution coming into my life. I have prayed for some help for a long time . Especially for the grief I feel in loosing so many family members in such a short amount of time . And now the loss of my Son .i do believe in the power of tapping and it is helping me and now my sister whom I’ve told about this wonderful experience . Thank you for making this possible to those of us that don’t have a lot of money and are searching for real help.
    Thank you from my heart and soul

  34. Robyn says:

    Thank you

  35. BJ Conrad, LCSW says:

    Dear Nick- i am so impressed with this meditation that you did! You finally found your inner therapist voice of meditative calmness and it is wonderfully soothing. I am so happy for you! Now both you and Jessica can do audio clips. I have purchased your books and watched your tapping summits for years and love them. I have taught tapping to patients for whom no other option worked and it helped them feel calm and peaceful!! a wonderful tool to share with clients. Thank you.

  36. Rose says:

    I sincerely appreciate all that you do Nick to bring EFT to so many of us. I have had some positive results with Tapping. I just did the 22 min session above from Chapter 4 and then did the 7 minute video Tapping for Pain Relief. The movie for me was of my childhood and it was very helpful to me to experience a wide variety of emotions from my young years. And via the movie I was able to think about and “play out” in movie format some of the challenges I faced as a shy fearful girl and also to feel compassion for everyone in my life, including myself, whom I felt didn’t help me understand what was happening to me and how to better deal with those challenges. Everyone, including myself, was / is doing the best they know how. And the basis of our family was definitely love even though there were also negative emotions of fear, frustration, uncertainty, anger, etc. And the specific Tapping for Pain Relief did provide some movement of a particular ache. I Tap usually every day now and I believe in the process. I really like what you said about our body and mind being the same thing; that’s something I’ll continue to consider. Thank you.

  37. Harald schieber says:

    Tapping is great. It can do so much. But, what if you don’t remember what event there was. What if you never learned to actually name and really feel those feelings. What if you don’t know where to start in the first place? I trust that tapping can help on this, but I simply don’t know how to start

  38. Barbara says:

    Wow! I don’t have pain but that brought up a very powerful emotional response I was not expecting.
    So glad did! What came to mind was a childhood experience that I thought I had cleared but there was something left and I was able to see it without emotion! Thank you Nick.

  39. Doretta says:

    Wouldn’t you know? Last night I woke up from a dream in which I relived a past event and experienced the same trauma I felt during what had occurred at the same time. I couldn’t believe that something as insignificant as that could still be haunting me. It wasn’t any major event. But when I woke to find your invitation to relive a past event in a movie, I picked that event. It might not have been acknowledged as a big deal to me in the past, but why would it come up again for me, in what seems to be a synchronistic event? After tapping, I realized that that event was just one of many where I’d give up my power for the possibility of being rescued. And, at the end of the meditation I got a chance to resolve the situation in a new way, with the power I am now feeling. Thank you for this powerful way to let go/1

  40. Caroline says:

    The pain in my body isn’t gone quite yet but I do believe with continuous tapping it will be! so glad I found the tapping solution. Thanks Nick

  41. GEORGE says:

    thanks Nick

  42. Tonja says:

    I remembered a bike car accident I had when I was about 10. I ran into my folks station wagon with my bike. I also worked on being attacked by my nephew -in-law- last year. I think I cleared both of them . I really liked the music very much it was very relaxing.
    Thank-you for doing this.

  43. Brenda says:

    After all the years of inner work and healing I’ve done, I didn’t expect anything much when I played this meditation just see how it was before I sent it to friend. Much to my surprise, something I’d never gotten to before came up! And it was healed by the end of the meditation! I did it again a few days later and something else came up and was healed!

    Wow! Thank you so much, Nick, for your dedication to helping people heal.

  44. christiane says:

    brilliant meditation on letting go of the past. thanks so much

  45. Jerry says:

    I just felt this meditation was too focused on physical pain
    I’m not in physical pain but definitely in emotional pain. I find it hard to transfer Nicks words to fit my own particular problem on this one. I love the “I’m not enough” meditation however so many thanks!!!
    Ps. I’ve never commented on this before

  46. Dense ennedy says:

    Thank you Nick, I am so glad I found you and Tapping Solutions. I join this years summit which was fantastic and thank you for your regular e-mails they turn up when I need them most, I am suffering from PTS. after a car accident last year, I am deep into the healing reaction to this and other parts of my past. I try to tap most days on my own but tapping along side with your videos has the greatest reaction which reduces my emotional pain, from a ten to a 4 or 5 just in a few minutes. I understand some of the science behind it and it make sense. Thank you again.

  47. Joanne says:

    Wow! that was powerful and freeing. I was able to see things that brought healing to emotions that I have had for 50 years.

  48. Karla DuVall says:

    Love tapping! I’m releasing so much since I bought your recent tapping seminar 2015. I’m working on the pain in the left side of back that I’ve had for 18 months now. It seems elusive and multi faceted. It relieves then returns. I am being persistent to find the core that will release it permanently. Thank you Nick!

  49. nancy says:

    you are an angel. You help me very much. (sorry my english is no good. I just feel I have to express my gratitude to you. Thank you again!!!

  50. ANDREW ZONA says:

    i HAVE HAD BACK PAIN FOR 10 YEARS. THE ONLY TIME IT IS PAIN FULL IS WHEN I SIT FOR ANY LENGTH OR DO PHYSICAL WORK. SO DOES IT WORK IF AT THE TIME MY BACK DOES NOT HURT?

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