You’re Manifesting What You Tolerate! Break the Pattern with Rapid Tapping | Poppy Delbridge
In this interview, host Matt Cooke chats with rapid tapping practitioner Poppy Delbridge (and guest Corisande) about how the technique can be used to break limiting patterns and manifest desired outcomes. Poppy explains her "7 Ds" framework—Desire, Decision, Debunk, Ditch, Do, Done—used to score and shift beliefs from subconscious to super‑conscious levels. She expands on the "Done Energy" principle, which treats a goal as already achieved to align the nervous system and neuroplastic pathways, and stresses the importance of nervous‑system regulation (e.g., the butterfly tap) before any manifestation work. Real‑world case studies illustrate the method: a client who hit a £1 million business target, Poppy’s own experience of manifesting a house and a marriage, and an unexpected offer from Virgin Atlantic to film rapid tapping in the air. The conversation also covers applying rapid tapping to children through game‑like exercises, training practitioners worldwide, and promoting her book Unlock Your Power and a live performance at the Royal Academy of Music. Practical resources—including the Rapid Tapping app, her website, and social channels—are shared for listeners to try the method themselves.
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I had everything that people would consider success. Everything. And yet there was something missing and I couldn't work it out. There was one day my body just stopped working. Just wouldn't come with me.
It was just—
something was wrong. Very wrong. And all of these little voices in my head were still saying to me, you're not good enough, you're rubbish, what is wrong with you? You can't manage all this. You're a terrible wife, you're a terrible mother. You know, like we all get.
You call them imps.
Yeah.
What are imps?
A lot of us self-blame. A lot of us think that our character is set, and a lot of that is because we think it is actually our character. Having gone through that, it wasn't me at my core that was struggling. It was just invisible mind patterns.
Imps. Love that.
On my shoulder, doing their business in the back, running everything for me loudly and loudly, louder and louder, and What I realised is that if you—
They run the show.
Yes.
And you don't always know, 'cause they're not necessarily loud. Like people right now might be saying, well, okay, well, how do I know if I've got an imposter? Like, it's just, it can be so silent and subtle.
Yeah, very subtle. You think it's you and it's not you.
So I'm super interested to get into what you do, rapid tapping, EFT. But first, what is tapping?
So tapping, Poppy Delbridge. Welcome. Thank you.
It is so great to have you on Beyond. And I've just finished your wonderful book, Unlock Your Power, which we are gonna get into. But what I find truly amazing is how, like, less than 2 months ago, we didn't know each other, did we?
No.
And we met at Manifest and we sort of hit it off. We realised we had a lot in common when it came to quantum mechanics and manifestation. And Poppy, for anyone tuning in who might be discovering you for the first time, in your own words, how would you describe what it is that you do?
Well, I love, passionately love to help people remove patterns within themselves that are blocking them in their humanness to create the lives they want in their Infinite nature.
Wow.
I love that.
And where did that begin? Let's, let's go right back because we've all got our story, haven't we, of how we get into this work. And yeah, I know myself and I know you, Corisande, as well, like we can't wait to literally unlock all of that and talk about how we got there.
Yeah, I'm not trying to race ahead.
Yeah, yeah, let's, let's not race because I, I know, you know, being in the manifestation space, I call it falling off the baseline and a lot of people don't know how to get back on. But we all get knocked off. And a lot of the time, that's our sort of great awakening, isn't it? And you've got such an incredible story. You're a great storyteller, by the way, in your book. I really did love it. Take us back, like as far back as you want to go, so we can paint the picture of who Poppy is and how you've ended up here.
Yeah, I found it interesting writing this book to choose one of the very many stories.
Yeah, I can imagine.
Awakenings and catastrophes and all the rest of it. I guess I feel drawn to go back to when I began things early on in life. I grew up with what I would call inherited beliefs that we all have, inherited beliefs that you absorb from other people.
Hmm.
The people around me actually gave me beliefs that were full of possibility, and I shouldn't really have had them. But I've realized as I've gone on and all the things that have happened in my life and experiences, and now, you know, what I do as a career, um, is that a lot of people don't have the fortunate life of having those beliefs installed in. And when I was growing up, where it all began and why I was using affirmations and things when I was 8.
Really?
And writing it on my— yeah, like writing on my mirror, carpe diem. Um, I've always been very spiritual and very interested in what we can do and what's possible and all of the things that feel out of reach. And the reason being is that When my dad was quite young, and when I was very young, and we grew up in a very small town in Cornwall, he was given 10 days to live and got a really rare cancer in his late 20s. And you might know from the book that in my late 20s, I had a similar catastrophe happen where I thought everything was sort of broken and done. And He obviously did not live for the sort of 10 days they gave him to sort out his affairs. They did all that they could and said, there's nothing else we can do medically. And they were brilliant. But yeah, he showed me, and my mum showed me, that actually really incredible things are possible with the power of the mind and nutrition and wellbeing. And so I grew up in this really interesting place Not all of it good, not all of it on paper very good. It was hard. But my dad defied a lot of these sort of, I suppose, ways of being that you might think, well, that's the end of that then. And so, I was always interested in this kind of work. And I think that actually supported me, that those early beliefs of possibility to to move into my career against a lot of the odds. My first career was in television, and I rose up really quickly through that. Very, very young, got married very young, had my son very young, you know, went to uni, did all of those things, and then suddenly landed this incredible job, glitz and glamour of London, and was probably one of the youngest people running sort of shows at the time and spotting talent. And that was my job. And I was working with really incredible people. Like, you know, my department was in charge of The Voice.
Wow.
Bringing it over from America. So, you know, sort of being around will.i.am and these people was just second nature to me. And all the while I had a baby. So I feel as if that is where I'd like to start today, because what I have learned is that even if those beliefs that you have weren't possibility-led like mine were, and even if those beliefs get broken, which mine were, you know, I had to start all over again. You can actually install the self-belief that allows you to connect back at any age, any circumstance. So that always drives me. And I know you'll understand that. That is what drives me in my work. 'Cause I think, no, it is possible. Let's get it done.
That's such an incredible story to start with, isn't it?
Yeah, I'm wowed by that.
Because I think so many people don't grow up with possibilities, do they?
No.
Can I just unpack that for a moment? So when you were a kid, do you mean that your parents always taught you that anything was possible and that you could just put your mind to it and that you could achieve it? Like, is that what you mean when you say you grew up with sort of possibility?
I grew up being shown possibility.
Okay.
I saw it with my own eyes and I noticed how they were living and I noticed they were finding this frequency of joy. when they shouldn't. So I thought, okay, well, my external circumstances are not the dictator of my own frequency.
Hmm.
And then the second thing that they showed me was what I think actually it's all about, which is unconditional love. They gave me unconditional love. So even though, you know, so much terrible stuff happened, we moved house a lot, like it was not, pleasant. It was not easy. And I was in probably a state of limbo a lot. Is he gonna live? Is he not gonna live? What's happened? We lost all our money. It was difficult. I had unconditional love. I had these inherited beliefs. I saw that and witnessed what it could do if you did use the power that we all have inside us and life takes it away.
So what did you turn to? If you go back to that point, what did you turn to in those moments, do you think?
Hmm.
I was, I was, I used affirmations.
Did you?
I really did. I was a real nerd. You know, I had them up on the, I had everything up like in my room. Lots of people have like posters of stuff, you know, like, and I didn't. I had like little Post-it notes, like, go for it.
And how old were you?
I was tiny.
Really?
Yeah, I would've been about 8, 9. And then all through my teenage years, And all of that. So for me, it was just a really, just a very, you know, you get used to things. That's what my book's about. It's about patterns. You get used to it and then it just sort of silently operates and it either helps you or hinders you.
Because there's quite a moving part in the book that I remember reading about your dad and your mum used to, was it massage him because he couldn't move from his wheelchair? And was it your mum sort of teaching you at a young age that everything's energy and that I need to move energy. And you'd see the color come back in his face. And I mean, what were you like, 8 or 9 at that point as well? As you're there witnessing that? I mean, it's—
Yeah, all my life.
Yeah.
I mean, all my life. I mean, my dad had ups and downs and he, and towards the end it was difficult for him. And he had, you know, edema, which is this sort of condition where you just sort of basically get bigger and bigger. It's difficult. And, um, oh, lots of different things around it. But they always instilled in me that so much more is possible than, than what meets the eye.
Yeah.
So I was taught to use imagination, to, to desire what I want to desire, to know that it, that, that it wasn't wrong to go for things that were above your normal or above your station or above where you're meant to be in life. So for me, quantum leaping, that kind of thing, was something that actually I didn't just sort of sit, you know, feel, I did it. You know, I really did go to uni and, you know, a few things happened there.
Can you speak a bit about uni?
Yeah, I was gonna say, yeah, 'cause that's, you know, an amazing story really.
Talk about that. What I'm just picking out here for anyone sort of tuning in who I think will be fascinated by this is, Actually, what you're saying is you had the mindset of possibility, you'd affirm it, but actually your external reality was tough, wasn't it? By most standards, you know, you're watching your father, you're an only child, are you? Having sort of terminal cancer. Most people, like I remember I lost my mum to cancer, there was definitely not possibility.
No.
You know, but it clearly got you through it. And you were married young.
So young.
I did read. I love that in the book. What did you used to do at uni, whilst at uni?
Yeah, like other people, like going out, doing sour shots, getting drunk. I got married.
Yep.
Saved up a bit, and so did he. Cobbled together enough to get a repossessed house in this area, which then led us to go to uni.
Married.
And then at uni, I lost my dad.
Wow.
I'd say he survived a long time, didn't he?
He did.
He lived a—
He did, like 18 years.
10 years. Really?
Mm-hmm.
18 years.
Wow. And, um, I moved away and, and within 6 months of losing my dad, I was pregnant with my son.
Oh my goodness.
And, you know, the uni were like, I don't think this is gonna work. And they were a bit funny with me, actually.
I bet they were.
They didn't really like it. Yeah. And it was quite strange. You know, I was really— and so they said, oh, just go and wait. And I remember thinking, no, no, I can do this. I have installed this as something that can be done for me. And so, yeah, I went through uni pregnant and then had my son, I think in my second year. And then that all worked out quite well in the end and did well.
And you were breastfeeding in between lectures? This is in the book, by the way.
Yeah, I was breastfeeding. It was really random. I mean, I had like, you know, you, right, you get this, and anyone who's ever been with us, I He was like the other way round. So he looked like an alien in my stomach.
And I'm small.
Oh, really? Right? So I was going up, cobbling up these stairs, like to go to lectures. And he was just like, you know, when you kick out like little hands and stuff. And so that was, first of all, very strange for people to see, but I kind of carry on. And then, yeah, I went back and it was doing lectures, you know, breastfeeding in between. Yeah, I mean, it wasn't the easiest thing I've ever done, but in a way it was. I mean, it was me.
Yeah.
Then when, you know, I did that and I took him, I got first class degree and then I took him up with me to get it. And I thought, come on.
Wow.
Women everywhere. And it wasn't from a determination, it wasn't from like, I'm gonna, it was just more of a— so I became quite obsessed with this, how we could start to use the imagination to create things before they're done. So that's what I was always looking at, always thinking about. Yeah, of course it's going to happen. Of course it's going to happen. It's done. It's done.
And that was just in your awareness way before you do what you do now? You just— that was just how you were programmed?
Like ingrained into you.
That, that was why I manifested everything so quickly and so well early. And then it broke.
Do you think you were doing that consciously? All of that?
No, I don't believe we're doing much of it consciously. You know, only if the neuroscience says 3 to 5% is conscious. The rest of it is something that you have to install into yourself. So if the, if the pattern is not there to start with, you have to create the pattern.
Yeah.
And so that— but then on the other flip side of that, when all of that was shattered and broken and I had to start again, I realised my strength and how you could rewrite these patterns and beliefs, and then you could, you could create anything from anything. And so, I became really interested in that. And in the end, I just thought, right, well, I'm gonna get out of this TV job and start this new thing.
So, from university, how did you then end up in TV? How did that, how did that all happen? Was that for you a conscious decision, or?
Well, that's a good story. I actually got a job, and this is another fun story. We love fun stories.
Yeah, we love the fun stories on here.
Yeah, stories.
I wasn't living in London, obviously. I didn't have any contacts, didn't really know anyone, and had a baby.
Yeah.
And so what I did have was a cousin who lived sort of an hour and a half out of London or something like that, and I thought, right, I'm gonna start like I'm gonna, I'm gonna come in and like leave my son, then like go and do some interviews, which I got. And then I got a job. I actually got a job. No one knows this actually. I got a job in, in, it was like in events, I think. Yeah, it was in events. It was for like magazines. I wanted to write actually. And I got it. And then anyway, they found out I had a son, then they were like, yeah, there's something wrong. And then I didn't have it. I thought, oh, okay, not— it's not meant for me. And then I remember I was sat there one day and I entered a competition and I just knew I was going to get it. It was a national competition and it was in The Guardian or something like that, and it was with Sky. And I did win, and it was creative ideas, and it was then this various sort of fast-tracking of of sort of new talent. And I won it and I carried on. And I got a great shot at a place called Endemol, which was the biggest TV company at the time. And they knew that I had my son and I left him with my cousin and I kept doing this. And they gave me a brilliant shot. And then I learned from just brilliant, brilliant creative minds, jettisoned in, working with the top people in the industry. as a creative. So I started as an intern and then I worked my way up and that worked out quite well. And yeah, my first career was glorious and wonderful.
And I love that about what you said, 3 to 5% is conscious, 95% of who we are is subconsciously programmed. And I have a saying that we don't manifest into our life what we want, we manifest into our life who we're being. You say we manifest what we tolerate, which I love.
Yeah, I like that.
Great. And therefore we manifest what we believe we are subconsciously. So as a youngster, for you, those first years are fundamental. You're programmed about possibility. And it's interesting how most people, Poppy, go the other way around.
Yes.
Struggle, struggle, struggle, and aren't told that they can dream and believe and don't feel possibility. And let's say most people who get pregnant at uni wouldn't walk out with the first, but you're Your 95% is, it's going to work out, it's going to work out, it's possible, it's possible. Hence why you end up landing this huge job in television. And you're what, in your mid-20s by this point? Mid to late 20s?
I got that job when I was 21, straight out of uni. And I worked my way up through that, and then I left probably at the height And I was still pretty young, but I think I was about 28 when I got— 28, 29. That was a kind of melting pot change for me. And then shortly after everything went wrong, I then got a brilliant job. I was headhunted for a brilliant job and then started working for another production company within Warner Brothers. So, it became a much bigger thing. And then I started judging the BAFTAs. Royal Television Society.
Judging the BAFTAs.
Yeah, like Glamour were like, you're one of the top women in— well, I think they did things like one of the most powerful women in TV.
And how did that feel being at that level? Because you're that level, you've got a baby. I mean, let's just talk about that for a second, just juggling.
Yeah.
The fact that I know from having a baby how difficult it is with your emotions. So it's pretty inspiring that you're juggling that and you've got a baby. So you're going home to another job, Because it is another job.
Yes, yes.
Isn't it, really? It's a full-time job as well. So how are you coping with being at the top there and that feeling of needing to be at the top being a mum as well?
Hard.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're riddled with mum guilt.
Yeah.
This is where all what I call these patterns pop up.
Yeah.
And for me, they all were in personal life.
Yeah.
You know, it's really tough. And when, you know, what happened with me was You know, there was one day that I was waking up normally and about to go out and do my normal job. I had everything that people would consider success, everything. And yet there was something missing and I couldn't work it out. And all of these little voices in my head.
Mm-hmm.
was still saying to me, you're not good enough, you're rubbish, what is wrong with you? You can't manage all this. You're a terrible wife, you're a terrible mother. You know, like we all get.
Yeah.
And on that very normal day, I had this eye thing happen to me where my eye just went bloodshot. The other one followed. I was about to just go on whatever, you know, just carry on like usual. And it just like my body just stopped working, just wouldn't come with me. It was just something was wrong, very wrong. And my husband dropped me to hospital and he was going to Hong Kong. So he went to Hong Kong. And I then found myself in this weird situation where I felt like, oh, okay. I'm like 29, I'm in an MRI scan, and I felt this history repeating thing, like with my dad. And I thought, this is bad. And they said to me, this is bad.
Were you the same age as your dad?
I was the same age.
Who at the time was diagnosed, was he diagnosed at about 29 as well?
Yeah.
So how did you feel in that moment? Like it was sort of—
remember thinking, okay, this is a life-threatening thing.
Mm-hmm.
And that's what they said. And you could lose your sight. I think it could be oxygen on the brain. I later find out a lot of this was to do with just, you know, stress and a lot of that, that I had somehow masked away and thought I could just deal with it. And you forget a lot of the possibility when These things are so loud.
Yeah. I was gonna ask you that because this, before you have your breakdown and burnout and then get into what we'll talk about in a moment, 95% of who you are though is of possibility. So what happened there, do you think? Do you think the, you call them imps?
Yeah.
What are imps?
A lot of us self-blame. A lot of us think that our character is set. And a lot of us think that it's really difficult to change who we are and embody what we want. And a lot of that is because we think it is actually our character. My feeling, having gone through that, was that it wasn't me at my core that was struggling. It was just invisible mind patterns. Imps.
Love that.
On my shoulder, doing their business in the back, running everything for me loudly and loud, like louder and louder. And what I realized is that if you work out that you are not that, then you are not those patterns, and that is not you broken, you are not ever broken, that you can see those imps as a sign that you're ready. And I didn't wanna listen to that because I was trying to stay in this life that I'd carefully constructed for myself that should not have felt wrong, but it felt so wrong. And the imps were so loud, you know, guilt, doubter, you know, controller, like super pusher. These were mine. Most of us have about 3 we play around with, trying to ignore. Then what happened was I realized, ah, I'm not that. And that allowed me to feel who I was for the first time in a really long time. And that became my passion point really. This book came from that.
And do you think if there's anyone listening, 'cause I'm just thinking, I'm actually relating this to my own, sometimes my own feelings of that. Do you think there were any things now that you look back that, say, if you hadn't have had anything physically happen, that you can think, hang on a minute, there was also that? Because there must be many women or men get to their A-game, and they're going, yeah, everyone's saying, well, you've done so well, and the pressure's there of you having to upkeep that. But is there anything else that you think people should be looking out for, other than just burnout physically and mentally? Is there anything? Because some people just feel a disconnect.
Yeah.
You're not quite sure what it is.
Yeah. I mean, most of the people I work with are people who are already successful.
Really?
Who feel that they should stay feeling somehow successful, but haven't realized that they're only really able to manifest past the point of these patterns.
Yeah.
And so it's not always a physical manifestation. It's very often a nervous system. issue, which it was for me and is for a lot of us, because we continue on empty, trying to push through and drive on and try harder. That's when things, for me, look really bright now.
Mm-hmm.
And I see someone on the edges of that, on the cusp, I'm like, okay, right. You've outgrown that system. You've outgrown that way of living. And that's not available for you anymore. So let's try it this other way and go within. And then you'll see an external manifestation of that.
So that bout of blindness for you, that burnout, was the physical manifestation of that energy, wasn't it? Essentially.
I feel for me that I've got a body that sort of gives me clues. Yeah.
Yeah, I relate to that. Yeah, I really relate to that.
Yeah. And we are a mind-body, so when we, um, get scared, yeah, we gasp and it's like You know, you can't really disconnect the two. I'm interested in the relationship with the two, but also you also can feel it in your mind. You can feel it in the way that you feel about something, how you approach something. And you can also feel it in your energy when something, you can't put your finger on it, but it's just off.
Yeah.
I call it like an off feeling. And that's the frequency often I use this frequency scale in rapid tapping and it's +10 at the top where you feel really connected. Whatever that feels like to you, might be joy, might be bliss, might be calm.
Yeah.
Coherence. Then you go to 0, which is that kind of murky ground where a lot of us hang out. Fine, you know, I'm carrying on, everything's okay. Sort of flat energy. You feel off, you don't know why. And then you go all the way down to a -10 where you do feel completely disconnected. I was very disconnected to my body. I have to work to bring the two together. And I think a lot of people are like that. It's hard to feel the things because you're just trying to carry on.
Yeah.
And so I kind of think the scariest place to be is in the middle. The scariest place is when you feel fine because nothing's going to tip you over the edge. Yeah. If you feel really high joy, you're going to be like, wow, I want this again. If you feel really low despair and disconnection and you're cracking like a seed does, you're like, Whoa, I'm forced. And I was forced, so I understand that. But now I know a lot of, a lot of people are not in a position where they can be forced. So it's everyday micro changes and pattern changes that can make the difference then.
So I'm super interested to get into what you do, rapid tapping, EFT. But first, what I'm interested in is understanding how you got into it. Obviously burnout you know, what happened to your body. How do you then start discovering tapping? Like, talk, when is that? What period of time is this? How far back are we going?
Yeah, so quite far back. We're talking about 16 years ago.
Really?
Wow, okay.
My mum introduced me to tapping. Or reintroduced me, should I say.
Of course she did. Why am I not surprised?
Yeah, 'cause you know, they were the OG kind of biohackers. A little bit like that, yeah. They were like nutritional supplementation. I know so much about nutritional supplementation. I should be a nutritionist.
Yeah, that's brilliant.
Yeah, you know, I was raised vegetarian, and so I know a lot about this way of living. Doesn't mean you need to do it though, does it? No, no, no. So when I got into TV, I was like, nah, all right, I'm fine. Um, and so when everything went wrong, yeah, and, and that happened, and you know, long story short, it, it was horrible, and I found out a lot of stuff, and suddenly my life had completely changed overnight. And I sort of became like a solo parent, a breadwinner. I had to carry on my job. I was— I had a job and had to just go in. And my— I didn't have a husband anymore. And I found out all this stuff and I was like, oh, this is just too much.
Oh, really?
And so personally, that was the hardest moment of my life. And I just couldn't— I just I just was like, I don't know. And my mum was like, tap with me. And I've always been a bit wild and spit my mind. I was like, no.
Yeah.
What is that?
What is that?
Stop tapping on your face. And I did it. And I was like, wow, I can breathe. I can feel something different.
And how were you feeling at that time?
Oh, broken.
Totally broken. So you'd separated from your husband at that point, had you?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Had you resigned from television at that point?
No, I did that later. Later.
I had to gather a lot of courage to do that. Yeah, I was gonna say.
For tapping out.
Just to throw that one into the mix as well. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What happened to your body?
Yeah, this was where—
Getting into the burnout breakdown.
Yes, autoimmune disease. I mean, I'm glossing over it, but it was really, really bad.
Okay.
I mean, it was really, really bad. I mean, I was about 7 stone, you know, I was just broken.
And is that how you'd explain how you felt? Broken?
Yeah, I felt broken. I thought I was broken.
'Cause there'll be a lot of people listening to this right now who do feel broken.
Yeah, they're not.
They're not.
No.
So tapping, how did you, what, for anyone listening, what is tapping?
Yeah, so tapping helps you connect to who you are behind all of the rubbish.
Right.
That you think is you.
And I know it sounds really silly, but is it literally tapping that energy of feeling broken out of your body?
Not really.
No.
It's, that's how I would sort of see it.
I'm like, is it literally kicking it out of your body?
It's actually got a lot, you know, it's got a lot of evidence behind it. Yeah. It's hundreds now of clinical trials around the efficacy of it and the evidence behind it. So I trained also in EFT, which is Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Yes.
So it's a big part of my practice. Trained lots of different disciplines, hypnotherapy, lots of things. That was the one that I found very, very fast to work on specific trauma and blocks. And of course, a lot of my work covers a lot of trauma. And so I may appear like, hey, hey, hey, but I'm working with deep trauma.
Deep trauma. Yeah.
Because that is your subconscious mind. Anyway, that was what I first was using. And that technique is, if you look at it like mind-body, so what you're doing is you're tapping on specific points, in that case of EFT, which are mainly in the face and that ends the meridian line. So you're talking about the energy system of the body according to ancient Chinese medicine. Actually, originally that was.
Yes.
TCM. And people might know it as acupressure or acupuncture. So you're doing that and you're tapping with your fingertips. At the same time though, you are saying things and evoking emotion. So it was actually a psychologist in America called Dr. Roger Callahan originally, and it was called TFT originally, who discovered it because he was interested in these different techniques, alternative techniques alongside Psychotherapy.
Right.
And so it's almost like a talking therapy with regulation. Right.
Okay.
So it's really effective on phobias and specific memories where you want to dislodge from the emotional attachment to that. So I was scared of dogs most of my life. Now I've got a little dog, which you've seen.
Oh, okay.
That's everywhere with me.
Yeah.
EFT helped me. Disappointing.
Not today.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know. And then lots of other people, you know, that I've worked with have, you know, managed to surpass the emotional stress of something major, you know, relationship trauma, you know, going through very heavy things, things that have happened in the past. It's a great thing for past trauma. That's what I would say about that. And so, I became obsessed with this, it's safe to say. And then, Because what now is this book, when I was in that dark room, 'cause I couldn't really open my eyes or do normal things for a while, back in 2010, I started to listen to lots of audiobooks.
Yeah.
So tapping was one of the ways that I started to build my emotional health again. But what I really found during that point actually was manifestation, neuroscience.
Neuroplasticity.
Neuroplasticity, quantum mechanics. And that was then something that I brought into the everyday nervous system work. Neuroplasticity is a huge part of the tapping approach I have, which is rapid tapping.
And how does rapid tapping It's based on possibility. Whereas EFT is more on—
Acknowledgement and awareness. I have this thing called the 3 A's, which is also in the book.
Yeah.
Acknowledge how you're feeling. Don't paper over it.
Yeah.
Accept that feeling, that that's happened. And that this is what you're dealing with and that you are love.
Yeah.
And then thirdly, which is the forgotten part that maybe I'm very obsessed with, which is affirmation.
Yes.
What do you wanna affirm? Because a lot of people are familiar with those separately. You wanna affirm something, say it, repeat it, say it in front of the mirror. But if you can't connect with it, it's difficult. And I've been there where you're saying, yeah, I'm a great mom, I'm a great, I'm great at this. I feel so happy, healthy, and you don't. I go back to the first 2 A's. So I now look at it when I teach sort of this around the world now, like tapping, is that EFT is fantastic for the first 2. Definitely. If you need to acknowledge something.
Yes.
And it's difficult to do. It helps you with that. And you can help to accept yourself through that. I'm interested mainly because, you know, it's me. And I'm a go-getter. I'm like, what can we do? Let's live our lives in possibility. And how you create goals and how you create things to be so much more wild and wonderful than you would possibly, you know, the past self of you would ever think.
I think what I sometimes struggle with, and I'm interested to get your thoughts on this, is something like EFT, for example. Like, I love the tapping, but I'm like you, I need, there needs to be like something I'm going after after it because I don't necessarily, So, you know, like you talk about trauma, I don't necessarily want to go and live in that trauma. I want to acknowledge that it's there and I want to release it, but I don't want to live in that. So what are your thoughts on like, do you think people need to go and revisit what it is that's like the root cause of why they feel like they do? Like if it's a childhood, you know, trauma, or if it's something that's happening now and then, does that need to be a thing that they need to find? Or is it Is it really not that important what it is? It's just how you're feeling.
In my process, the first key is to desire. Because if we don't kickstart the ignition of imagination—
Yeah.
And get clarity on where you think there might be a possibility for you to be and live and how you are. Then your imps will always drag you back because you are wired to embody a pattern and many multiple patterns. So if you think about something like neuroplasticity, that really is our brain's ability to remodel itself. And you can do that at any age, at any time, no matter what you've been through. That we know since the '50s. Professor Diamond, speaking my first book on that, I became obsessed with this woman who championed it and everyone said, no, it's not really a thing. What are you talking about? What do you mean you can rewire the way you think?
They believed your brain was fixed, didn't they?
Yes.
Up until not very long ago. Not very long.
Yes.
But now anyone at any age can rewire their brain, can't they?
That's right. And you debunk the stories.
Yeah.
But I became fascinated in Well, hang on a minute. What if you haven't got a story or helpful piece of information that you want to remodel yourself with? What do you do then? Because your imps are gonna win. So you have to do 2 things with neuroplasticity. Number one is you have to repeat it.
Right. Yeah.
All the time.
Which is why affirmations are good. It's why rapid tapping is based on repetition and small and often. And the other thing that is often forgotten about is emotion. So, you know, can you bring an emotion to it?
Can you feel it? Yeah.
And if you can't feel it, what happens then?
I'd love to use both examples because I'm sure people listening are going to be like, I'd love to try it. I mean, I think a great one is, like I said earlier, people fall off baseline, you know, and Coruscant, you're happy to admit that.
On a daily basis.
Yeah.
And I think mine comes from, and I get a lot of women message me about this, and sometimes I don't know how to answer this question, is that I've got a nearly 2-year-old who wants my attention at all times, and I want to give it him, but I can't always, 'cause I'm also working. And sometimes he needs me, I need to finish something, he needs something from me, and I'm pulled from one side to the other. And that feeling of being pulled for me is like, The overwhelm kicks in. And I stand there and the imps, they come in like a beautiful army, Poppy. They're like, all right, we're here. Thank you very much. You've given— you've opened the door. You're not a great mum. You shouldn't be working. You're not listening to him. You're missing that moment.
Yeah.
But then on the other hand, I've got them fighting with, yeah, but you have a mission. You want to also build something. So we're going to fight. And they're just— my brain's gone at that point. So that's where I struggle, because in that moment, I just want to just sort of hide.
Yeah.
Because I can't do it all.
Yeah.
And I think there's a lot of women that I know message me and say, how do I do it? I've got 4 kids.
Yeah.
How do we fit it in? What would you suggest in that moment?
Well, I think a lot of us want to do everything, and that is when we're overwhelmed.
Kids. Yes.
And I think the first thing is to nurture yourself. We forget that that is the point of life. One of the ways that I found to help me, and when I work with clients, this is what we use, is to use what's in the book called the Poppy Way.
Yes.
Which is this concept of isolating different petals of your life and focusing on the flower that is in fact in the middle, the core, you, energetically speaking, without any responsibility, any labels, any anything. That's the most important part to look after. And so I always say at this point, well, lots of things, but I'm thinking for what you are saying here, when we're trying to do all of these petals at once, You're trying to do the work, you're trying to do the love, you're trying to do the physical wellbeing, you're trying to do the money, you're trying to think of all these different things at once. That's when the mind boggles. That's when you start overthinking. And overthinking is imp thinking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They love it.
Oh, they love that, don't they?
They love it. They just whip in there and go, okay, right, we'll get a little bit louder because you've forgotten your core. So the idea is like, if that happens, it's like, right, Go back to the core because that is going to help support all of the petals anyway. And also, you can't be blooming all day long. There is a cycle of life. It's a creative process.
So what can someone do? Like, let's imagine, because when this tends to happen with Coruscant, I get caught in not wanting to be a coach, wanting to be a husband, but then obviously, Being the husband, knowing I need to be the coach. And I think sometimes Corisande needs a technique. So, and I often, like I've said earlier, I think with manifestation, which we'll get into, you know, I always say you can't think greater than how you feel. And if thoughts slip by your awareness, then you tend to, you know, feel a certain way. And that's what you do. So can we do the rapid tapping together for anyone listening?
Yes, I'd love to do that later.
Using the example of Corisande, I mean, where do you start? Do you start with the acknowledgement? So in Cora-san's case, would that be overwhelm? What would you—
I think it would be overwhelm. I think it'd be anxiety.
Yep.
I think it would be questioning whether I'm doing a good job constantly, and whether I'm failing him. Like now, if I just tell you what's going on, the imps are loving life, by the way, up here. And they're saying, you're away from him today. You know, potentially, there's a couple of bedtimes I'm going to have to miss because I'm busy. And that's running the show. Yeah, you're not doing a good job. You should be there comparing to other women who are, maybe who are living a different life to me. So that's, that's, that's happening.
Okay. So we would then look at what I would call raising your frequency to make sure that you are prioritizing that. Rather than going for a goal right now.
Right. Okay.
So we would perhaps, if we wanna do it, should we do it?
Yeah, I'd love to.
I mean, anyone could do this 'cause everyone feels overwhelmed at some point. And, you know, I think life, this baseline thing, I totally agree with you because what you, and rapid tapping is based on this sort of getting a baseline and knowing that actually it's okay if it goes really high and really low.
Yes.
It's just, you have to know how to bounce back quicker and quicker.
Yeah, right.
And that's when the baseline creeps up. And before you know it, you're really quite high. And you're like, ooh, I'm actually an 8 most of the time. And I've had clients go from a -4 most of the time up. And you see, when you do things like this practice every day, you are getting into your body, you're acknowledging how you feel, You're then accepting yourself and the situation that you're dealing with, and then you start to affirm what could be possible.
Okay.
So we'll go through that whole 3 acts.
Yeah, that'd be great. Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
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So we'll put our hands over our heart center, one on top of the other.
Mm-hmm.
And I think first of all, we'll just notice, we'll do, there's 2 ways to do rapid tapping, one for kind of goals and manifestation. And one for just general frequency. And I think we'll do the frequency today for that, because you already know what it is that you can acknowledge. So, let's say this and let's notice where you are at the moment and just be honest.
Okay.
Okay?
Yeah.
So, you say you feel a bit overwhelmed.
Yeah.
Okay. And you're a little bit anxious.
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
So, on an imaginary scale, if at the top was +10, go down to 0, and then down to the -10. Where are you, if you had to guess, now, when you think about being away and all of that?
I'd say minus.
Yeah.
Probably about -5, -6. Yeah.
Yeah. So, we're just going to notice that. Yeah. And you're just going to just feel it. I can really feel that. Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, we're just going to acknowledge it and let the energy energy do its thing for a moment. Yeah.
So now we're just going to do a little bit of this. Okay? So this is what we call a butterfly tap. So you're just getting your nervous system, and you're just going to breathe with me to let everything start to calm down. So breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Good. And now we're going to just push where you were tapping.
Okay.
So you're just going to push in a couple of inches down from your collarbone. Should feel a bit sore, a bit tender. Called the sore spots.
Ah, they're the sore spots.
Yeah. And we're going to say a few things here in a particular way. And you can just fill in the gaps for me and just say what you think. Just blurt it out. Don't overthink it. It's just imp thinking if you overthink. And your intuition. Okay. So let's say this.
When I think about being away, When I think about being away, I feel— I feel—
tell me.
Guilty.
Because?
I'm not a good mum. I'm missing the stages. I'm not seeing what I should be. He's missing me. He's needing someone else and not me. But?
But it is possible for me.
But it is possible for me to, to do both.
Okay.
To be both.
To be both.
Yeah.
Yeah. Okay. Take a deep breath in. Breath out. Okay. What do you notice already? Permission.
Yeah. Permission granted. Yeah.
And just a bit of a Yeah. Yeah, just a release of it.
Yeah. A bit of release.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay. Where do you notice it in your body?
Chest.
Okay. What does it feel like if I were you?
Light.
Yeah.
Lighter.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah. So let's do a little bit of tapping through that now. Okay? So tap with me here, 2 hands on the forehead, and we just go all the way around. We do some different things.
Okay?
So tap in here. We'll say this.
Ah.
Ah. Side of the eyes and just move around with me. And we're going to say this. I feel a bit lighter.
I feel a bit lighter.
Under the eyes, we'll just flutter back and forth.
Good.
And just take a breath.
Ah.
Good. Under the nose, we'll just go down like this. And we're just going to say this, I do feel a bit guilty. I do feel a bit guilty. And then we're going to go round and under the chin.
Oh, wow.
And then we're going to lift up our head a bit and go down the sides of the neck. And then we're going to go here, heart and collarbones. I'm just going to tap here for a bit. Yeah. I'm going to say, because I'm a human being.
Because I'm a human being.
That's okay.
It's okay.
But.
But.
It is possible for me.
But it is possible for me. To be okay. To be okay.
Oh, bit relieved.
Bit relieved.
Maybe I can do both.
Maybe you can do both.
Maybe.
Maybe.
Hmm. It is possible for me.
It is possible for me.
To feel lighter.
To feel lighter.
And be here.
And be here.
Maybe do both.
And maybe do both. Hmm.
All right, so we're gonna rub our hands together, get some energy going, lift it up a little bit.
Ooh, yeah.
Get some energy going. How are you feeling now?
I'm feeling great.
What's the emotion that you'd love to seal in?
Freedom.
Freedom. Yeah. All right. So keep it going. In a minute, I'll count you down.
3, 2, 1. Okay.
You'll hold your head. It's called a head hug. One hand on the back of your head and one hand on your forehead. You just hold, breathe, and just feel yourselves change as they're listening. Say what you wanna feel because it's real, huh? Yeah. What else do you feel? Happiness. Yeah. Okay. 3, 2, 1. Hold. Take a smile. Say happiness. Feels nice.
Happiness.
Yeah. Take a breath here.
Yeah.
Just sort of shake off your hands a bit and you should feel a little different.
What would you feel like? Wow.
Well, I feel— I just feel a lot of joy in that moment because I saw Corisande's energy change.
Yeah.
In real time, it was a genuine emotion that I could see of her. Prior to us hitting record, Corisande had a phone call that Humphrey had been stung on the hand by a wasp. And, you know, and that adds to the mom guilt, doesn't it, of being away?
Yeah.
And I think you— I could tell your imps were playing.
Yeah, because— yeah, because— and this is what I think is so powerful about your story, Is that it gives not just women, but if I talk about women for a minute, it does give us a sense of permission.
Permission.
That I think we all need. And I think that when you talk about imps, you know, they do, they run the show.
Yes.
And you don't always know, 'cause they're not necessarily loud. Like, people right now might be saying, well, okay, well, how do I know if I've got an imp? Like, it's just, it can be so silent and subtle.
Yeah, very subtle. You think it's you, and it's not you. So you have to really get in there. How do you feel now, Coriselle? Like, if you put your hands back and we did that frequency scale again, have you gone up?
Your frequency? Oh, I feel honestly like an 8 or a 9.
Yeah.
Because I think I'm the only— like, you just saying that then, Poppy, gives me permission in that moment to go, yeah, just take back control. Just take back control.
Yeah.
And it is hard in those, that, I mean, that there is so simple for someone to do.
Yes.
Just take, what was it, not even 2 minutes?
No.
I love the rapid, by the way. As soon as you said rapid, I was like, yeah, I'm in.
We haven't got time.
I'm in. Who's got time?
I like though, Poppy, how, and I have to say that.
Oh, Poppy, I love that. Yeah.
Thank you for that.
Thank you. I loved that.
You're welcome.
Let's be honest, we all feel it, don't we? We all feel overwhelmed. But actually, I think, do you know what, just holding yourself, Yeah. And like giving yourself a hug.
Yes.
Especially the one on the head.
Yes.
And even acknowledging and saying, we're a human.
Yes.
Like I often say myself that, you know, there's a waitlist to be a soul on Earth, you know, to be, to incarnate in a human body. But by nature, it's hard. You know, it's set up. It's hard down here. And I think sometimes we forget that things trigger us, don't we?
Yes.
And just being kind to ourselves. And, but what's so great there in that is that it's a tool, isn't it? That you can now, like I saw yesterday, bless you, I was on a coaching call and I know something triggered you and you didn't, you just went off down the garden, didn't you? And it's just having that in your back pocket as a tool to tune into.
Yeah. Like for anyone listening, that's just—
Yeah, for sure. I mean, that's what it is. I developed it as a tool. in between the ups and downs of life, really.
So what made you, so you've got EFT tapping. As you said, you've added the affirm. What made you think, okay, right, well, I'm gonna develop it in my own way now. And this is what I'm gonna, how I'm gonna develop it.
I actually noticed that a lot of clients were saying to me, what are you doing? This is sort of different.
Oh, really?
Yeah. And I was sending them away with small, okay, I worked with a lot of execs and busy people and people on TV, people that, you'd know, or people that are very, very busy.
Yeah.
I mean, that is sort of my thing. And so they didn't have a lot of time to go and do a long session with me and this kind of thing. And I found that it was, it sort of built itself. And I didn't particularly set out to create this thing. And then suddenly it got in the paper, actually. And you'll like this because the day before it got in the Sunday Times, because a few big people had talked about it, they said, what's this rapid tapping in Hollywood? And the night before, I didn't know it was gonna be there. This is back in 2020, something like 2021. I don't know. Before I wrote my first book. It was around the same time. And just before I thought, oh, do you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna set up an Instagram for rapid tapping.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And I just felt really strongly I was gonna do it. And I was sat there and I was living in the Cotswolds at the time and I'd just moved. I'd just like changed my life completely and moved to the Cotswolds with my son. And it was like pandemic kind of, yeah, I'm just gonna do it. 'Cause I do stuff like that. Yes.
I love it.
Okay, let's go.
Let's pivot.
Yeah.
And then I did it. And so I had it set up and I was like, okay, cool. That looks good. I didn't have branding or anything. And, you know, I bootstrapped all my businesses myself, by the way. Didn't have any—
That's incredible, by the way.
Yeah, we love the app.
Yeah. And yeah, and I didn't have the app at that point. And I woke up the next day and this is about following your intuition, right?
Yeah.
And just going, that's weird. Why do I want to do that? It's weird. I'm going to I'm just gonna do it. I've learned to trust that voice, not the imps. And so the next morning I get all these things going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, what's gonna happen? What's been happening? I was like, I don't know, what, what? They're like, get the Sunday Times, you're in the Sunday Times Style Barometer, top of it. And I was like, what? And I suddenly had thousands and thousands of people on that Instagram. And now I've got like 25,000 people on there.
And how did that happen? Did someone just pick it up? Did someone just—
Someone had heard it because someone, basically a few people had been mentioning it who were pretty massively famous, let's say, who had been working with me as a client.
And now today, and I want to pivot in a moment because I love how we can incorporate this in with the manifestation stuff.
Yeah.
Let me ask you this question. So you're an author of 2 books, Tapping In and Unlock Your Power. Rapid tapping is— you have how many taps? Sort of like 2 million, is it?
Millions.
Millions of taps.
25,000 is your average.
It's so exciting.
You've gone from— So deserved.
Thank you.
You've gone from the arc of being raised in possibility subconsciously, having the Burnout, breakdown, and then having to rediscover. And I'm guessing obviously because of that got you into the emotional work with your mum saying, tap with me. You work with busy execs, therefore you develop rapid tapping. Because I use EFT myself, but normally for me, if I'm like, if I'm not now, but if I was nervous before a public talk, I'd just do some EFT, but it would take a while to get around. Am I right in thinking that's how rapid tapping developed? You developed your own strategy? Is that hence the name? Was it?
A little bit. Yeah. That it came from really just a completely different approach, I suppose.
Right.
Because I was coaching and very future pacing.
Yeah.
And for me, I was using it to manifest and create goals.
Yeah.
And you, that's not what EFT was used for.
Right, exactly.
At all.
No.
So I kind of was using both and I still do, by the way. I still think that I use both, but I also use other modalities. It kind of mostly came from the possibility angle actually.
Really?
Rather than it being quick, but it just happened to be very quick. Because I was like, you don't need very long. And if you do it like this, and you actually score it in a different way, because classic EFT goes down the scale.
Yeah.
So you're trying to lose the intensity of a trauma and kind of go back to neutral. I was interested in doing it the other way, and actually creating energy and frequency and connectedness to yourself. And then how high can we go? And then my other way of doing it is out of 100%. So you would create a goal, say a belief or a statement about anything. And then you, everything I do is with sort of metrics and—
Is this with desire? Is it with money?
Yeah.
So you'd use a desire. So you'd use it as a decision. So, you know, with the 7 Ds in the book, you start with desire in the middle of is, Decide. So you'd have a decision made and you'd score it, and then you would debunk, ditch, do, and then done. And then essentially what you're trying to do is you're trying to raise the belief that you have in something that you say in all layers of your mind, from conscious to subconscious to superconscious.
How would that work practically?
So practically you might say, so for example, I worked with someone who wanted to create a certain amount of money.
Right. Okay.
And I've done that myself countless times. Or you might have a goal, which is I wanna work with this brand.
Right.
Like you can actually be really fun with it.
Okay.
Right. Or you might just do it because you say, I wanna feel calm. That's enough. You start where you are. You start with what you can access. But you know, I would do it with a client, for example, who wanted to have a million pounds.
Yeah.
She just wanted to hit this million pound mark in a business. So we would use rapid tapping for that.
And she would, she or he would start by saying how, how they, how would that start? Let's say that million pound example.
It would go through. So I'd go through the steps and all of the Ds. So we'd say, what's the desire? We get clear on that. We discover the imp and the way. Yes. Discover the benefits. We do the exercises there. We then make a decision as if we're going, okay, that's done. Let's try it like it's done. I have made. £1 million from this launch of my business. Okay. So that was a beauty brand.
Yeah.
So then you'd go, I'd go through the process of working with her to go, how does that feel? When you say that desire, what immediately instantly comes up for you in the body, in the mind, any rejection of that? And we work with each of those layers from energetic to belief, To mindset. And then we would look at the score. If the score's really, really low, I'm going to adapt that. I'm going to adapt that with them. And then they're going to work to a point where it's malleable. So, I'm not going to do it if it's 20%. I'm going to say, let's lower it down and work incrementally up. So then I'd go, okay, if we're 70%, we're going to start there. And then I would do the rest of the Ds. So then I would go, okay, we're going to debunk the story. We're going to watch out what that imp is. We're going to start to work with that pattern and change it. And we're going to reimprint new information. We're going to ditch a lot of this stuff. This is a really big one, like physically, practically, what we're going to get rid of. And then we're going to do the moves, like then we're going to do the strategy. I am a strategist. That's what I actually did as a living before.
Yeah, of course.
So I do do the do and the consultancy work with people. I still do that. But it's only 20%. I don't think it's the big— I think a lot of us know the strategy, we're just doing it. So it's all about the inner game, as you know.
Yeah.
So then I would say, okay, that, and then it would be like done, the embodiment of it. So we'd work and work and work as a system until you get to the point where you're like, do you know what? I believe it. Because that's the power of subconscious change. Working through it.
Yes.
So that's how it works as the system. This book and these keys.
Everyone needs to read the book.
That's the main part. The tapping kind of got a life of its own, but it was actually the bit where you just do the testing and then you start to unpick it.
Yeah. It's great, isn't it? Because like I said, you and I have so much in common when it comes to that. Invisible mind patterns, I say, you know, it's the voice in your head, part of the default mode network. Give it a name. You know, so I say to my clients, name that voice in your head. Because as you and I started talking about Manifest, you know, you and I both into quantum mechanics, and, you know, I say the true essence is the observer behind those imps. And ultimately, as we know on a quantum level, observation collapses the wave is fundamental. So if we're not, in your case, catching the imps, the invisible mind patterns, then they take over, they create that feeling, and then you're running on that program, aren't you? So therefore, your dominant observation of reality is the imps and the feelings. So with rapid tapping and the affirmations, what are you seeing that that is actively reprogramming through like a lens of neuroplasticity? Like, how is that working when we affirm as well at the same time?
Yeah. So I actually teach this now. So I've got about 100 rapid tapping practitioners around the world. In 20 countries.
Oh, wow.
We take it out there. People are clinicians, doctors, psychologists, makeup artists, coaches.
It's great.
So we, in that process now where I train, have this certification club. It's really fun. We're always going around all of the new things in new science that could potentially help to find that kind of freedom and release some of those imps and get back to what you're saying there. The thing that I tend to go off is evidence of 2 things. And then I am also very open to things that have not yet been proven. Because as William Blake says, everything that is now proven was once imagined.
Absolutely.
So we have to do that part. The part that is really evidential and wonderful that I teach is neuroplasticity.
Yeah.
And nervous system regulation. Those are 2 of the biggest healers that you're ever going to find. Not a lot of people know what they are, how to use them. So if you think about rapid tapping and you've got that imp and you've got that feeling, that's a nervous system ceiling. That's what I call the limit. Which is a lot of people think that's it, you know, I've reached the limit of what I can do. I'm at capacity. But having been at that limit and having worked with thousands and thousands of people now to transcend that, that limit is just an internal operating system that's no longer suitable for you.
Hmm.
You've outgrown it. The beliefs, you've outgrown it. And the nervous system is always the clue. If you regulate that, then like anything, there's a bit of space.
Right, exactly.
And so that space is like, wow, I can breathe, I can see, I can feel, I can—
it's like emptying a spare room.
Like you just did with rapid tapping. It's like if I came to you when you were feeling like, oh my God, I feel terrible, you're not gonna be in a place to be conducive to accept and receive what neuroplasticity can do.
Exactly. When it comes to manifestation, you know, you can't start out with visualizing a desire if you feel Like, just looking at Corisande and how she changed in that moment.
Yeah, because I think it's like this— it's like trying to tidy up with just being surrounded by mess, or trying to work in a messy space. You need to clean that up first and start with that baseline first, I think. And I think what's so great about what you're doing there is it's like— I kind of see it like imps are like they're in random rooms, and you've just gotta find the door to let them out. That they're all banging on different doors, and you're like, okay, I don't know which, like, I've got so many doors here, I don't know which one they're in. You've just gotta find it and open it. And it's like, once you open it, it's like, I've made space for like my thoughts, and like everything that I wanna affirm, and it feels really light.
'Cause I think we all are like really light, fun, energetic beings. Yeah.
That's how we wanna live permanently.
Yeah.
And this just brings you, I feel very, very light at the moment, Poppy.
I'm loving this.
It's like floating over here, yeah.
It's all about lightness and aliveness.
Yeah, no, but it is. I think it's really, really important.
It is important, actually, play. And actually, my background in comedy, that was my main job, you know, working to create panel shows in comedy and spot talent. Oh, amazing.
Was it?
Really, really great comedians you'd know really well, like Alan Carr and things like that. That was my job, to spot talent. and create ideas for those talented people. So I got very good at spotting talent via comedy and lightness and joy and play and creativity.
Yeah.
And I realized that that was missing a lot in the conversation around healing and trauma and practitioner work and coaching actually. So I kind of try and bring people back to that feeling because I do believe that's our natural way of being. That's why we love it so much. That's why laughing until you cry is so wonderful.
So healing, isn't it?
It's such a medicine.
Feels like you're a reminder, Poppy. You're a reminder to people of what they're capable of, which I think is what's really nice. I think what I loved about your book is, by the way, as well, I love listening to it. I was like, it's so relaxing.
Yes.
I've been like, so I was on the way to having my nails done and I was like, right, I'm putting Poppy on because I just feel incredibly relaxed when I'm listening to you. And then I'm like, no one's Bothering me on this journey. I'm just loving, just floating along. And I was just, I was thinking to myself, what's really nice is you're not saying to people slap, slap a plaster over it, just get on with it. Like just a few affirmations and you're fine. No, it's like let's, let's, let's you know, let's acknowledge it. Let's like we can all say we struggle. And I think that's what so many people are going to resonate with because I think so many people in today's society, it's a bit like just a few affirmations and a bit of journaling and you. you're all good.
Yeah.
I think that's what you do so, so well. You give people permission, which is what I love. Yeah. You acknowledge the feelings.
You have to, because otherwise, like you said, the imps will run the show. Yeah. And you have to take the mic back and run your own show. Excuse the pun. No, no, I love it. But I'm kind of like, you know, it's true. You do have to become That leading lady, that star of the show. You have to do it because otherwise you're never going to win.
No.
The fight with an imp, it's going to drain your energy.
Yeah.
Take your power away. You have to get above all that.
Yeah.
And bring your frequency up and they can't go up there with you.
I think we've covered a lot here, which is great. And I, you know, circling back to you saying we, we don't manifest what we want, we manifest what we tolerate. I love that. I really do, because I think everyone listening should say right now, what are they tolerating? Perhaps they're not even conscious too. And I think now with watching that live, we can catch ourselves every day and say, am I tolerating anxiety? Am I tolerating overwhelm? People might say, you know, even if they're stuck in a toxic relationship, Poppy, then this can help them, can't it? Just to get them back to that sort of baseline. Is there anything else there that you can think of just for people tuning in when we think of what people might be tolerating and what else they can do?
Well, if you tolerate something, you dwell in the feeling.
Yeah, exactly.
And if you dwell in the feeling that is not serving you and helping you, you will find it very difficult to get out of that loop. And so you have to find the feeling and find the evidence before you get it. And that is not taught to us, but you can find possibility anywhere. Be around the people who bring you possibility.
Yeah.
Like, listen to things that bring you possibility. Read things that bring you possibility. Dwell in possibility. There's a really wonderful poem by Emily Dickinson that I put in my first book, Tapping In, I love, I put up. And it's very simple, but it's basically, I dwell in possibility.
Yeah.
So simple, but so beautiful. And it's like, you dwell. It doesn't mean that you can't feel the feelings of pain and despair. Of course we have to, we're human. But don't dwell there forever. Make it easy for yourself. Just like if you know you're not gonna go to the gym in the morning because you're rushing about, make it easy for yourself. Put the gym equipment on the side before you go to bed. Do the things that will support your environment to allow yourself and give yourself permission to dwell in possibility. It's weird 'cause not a lot of people do it.
It's a choice, isn't it?
But it is a choice.
But it's a choice, yeah.
There's a few. We obviously read your book in our community, the Beyond community.
Yes, thank you.
Oh no, you know, it was voted in and everyone loved it.
Yeah, they loved it.
You know, we have got some questions as well. Um, before I go to the community questions, a few here that Corisande and I wrote down that we both loved.
Yeah.
That you, you said, obviously we're big manifestors. Obviously manifestation is all about visualisation. There's something I read in your book which I really loved. 2 things. The first was, You said something about how you get clear on a desire is you put your hand on your heart and you sort of say, nothing could go wrong. And there's also this done principle as well, isn't there? Where you sort of, I think you said, was it Marrakesh or something? You had like, you just put something in your diary. Can you talk us through that? 'Cause there'll be a lot of people now you've helped so much in terms of, right, okay, if I feel a certain way now, I know what I can do. Let's say someone has a vision, but they feel a bit scared around it. Can you talk us through that? And then also weaving in that done principle too.
Yeah. So the concept of like Dahn energy is a principle that you will totally get because it's the idea that everything exists in probability and possibility.
Yeah.
And so if you take that as the core of who we are and why we're here and what we've got to play with, that's so empowering and so enlightening. Then you think about who we are as human beings.
Yeah.
What a pain. Because we are psychologically threatened by everything that's new and unfamiliar. Therefore, if you think about anything that you want, a vision, a goal, anything you wanna manifest, your immediate reaction as a human being is gonna be, no thank you. Yes.
Yeah.
And the imps are gonna go, no way. So you can't fight that. So the Dahn Energy principle is to meet that differently. To not fight it, give it your energy. Your energy is a currency. You have to make sure that you don't scatter it and spend it on arguing with a mind pattern. It just wastes your time.
Right.
So my concept around the done energy is ancient and it's quantum science. And you are looking at it by going, hang on, what if I can just attune to what I want as done. If I did that, biologically speaking, would my body accept it more? Then the answer is yes. If you see something, feel something, know that it's true, your body doesn't fight it. Your nervous system accepts it.
Interesting.
So that's the concept. It's actually very biological.
Very easy, really. It's simple.
Very easy.
It's so simple, bud.
Can we think of it? I'm trying to think. I'm always thinking of someone listening. I'm trying to think of a tangible thing that someone might be trying to manifest right now.
Yeah. Well, love is a good one. Love is a great one. Because I used it to manifest love. Because I had a terrible experience of love, and then terrible experiences after, and there's some quite good ones. But I realized that actually that was my— I think we have an Achilles heel. If you think about the flower and the different parts of life, there's always one, this little bit of pain. You're like, oh, I can't really Can't really believe that one.
True.
It's like, oh, I don't really know. Can I really manifest the man of my dreams, right?
Yeah.
For me, the answer was no for a long time. I could probably manifest someone that is good for me at the time, but could I really get granular and go, this is who I deserve, I'm worthy of it? I found that difficult. So I used this principle and all of these keys actually, but this principle, especially the debunk, to get rid of the old stories.
Yeah.
But especially this principle, I found myself visualizing and imagining to the very detail, the feeling of me being with someone who treated me well, was emotionally available to me, even to the point that they were a public speaker, they worked in a certain sector. I did a list and I got myself to a point where it was so specific. And I would do my testing, you know, I would do my rapid tapping. I would check in, do I believe this? How much do I believe this? How can I debunk some of the story? And how can I bring that up? And done energy was the principle that if I said it at that point, you know, I have this wonderful, beautiful relationship with someone who inspires me and is ambitious and nurtures me and allows me to be all that I am.
Yeah.
Did I believe it? No. So the done energy principle was like, I know that my body is trying to keep me safe here. There is a predictive pattern in place and I've noticed it and that's okay. There's nothing wrong with me. It doesn't mean I can't have it, but I'm gonna lessen the psychological threat. I'm gonna lessen that nervous system response that feels stressed about having another man because it could go wrong.
Yeah.
And so that was hard for me, but I kept at it just a little bit every day. And I would always visualize this scene being in the kitchen cooking. I love to cook.
Yeah.
And he would be pouring us a wine and we'd be dancing around, music on. We love music, chatting about our day. And it was very clear to me, and I would do this over and over again. And I was feeling it, and I was debunking every single imp as it came up, debunking every story as it came up. And I was just getting ready with it. I didn't know all the detail because obviously we don't know all the detail, but I was getting certain with the feeling. And I kid you not, brilliantly, in the very date— because I like dates, I kind of like that as a target, and you can shift them, but I kind of like it because it gives me a litmus test of if I believe it in all layers of my mind. It was around September. Didn't really make sense, but I stuck with it. Because September, I'd just moved to the country and I was— and I'd sort of like gone and in the first instance, I sort of rented this cottage. It was a pandemic and like 20 people looked at this place and I was like, I'll take it. And I got it.
Wow.
To get my son into school, blah, blah, blah. It wasn't possible for me to just hop it. Right. And buy a house. I had to sort of use up this tenancy. Long story short, inexplicably in September, I ended up, and I didn't, my friend actually reminded me of this, who I told, said, you know, you've just, you've just looked around the house, you've just put an offer in on a house that you told me about in your done energy principle. And I was like, yes, in September. And inexplicably, it all worked out in the end. That's amazing. And that happened, and now we're getting married this year.
Are you? Yeah.
When are you getting married? It's been really lovely. December. Congrats. Oh, yeah. That's such a beautiful story. And you know, he's a 98% match. Really? No, he's a 100% match.
But you started fundamentally by saying, Sort of acting like and visualising like it's done. And do I believe it? And work layer by layer.
Yeah, layer by layer.
Breaking it down. And every day tuning back in and feeling it a little bit more and believing it a little bit more.
That's right.
And I think you could go one step further here, couldn't you? And clear out the house as if someone's gonna move in with you.
Oh, I did all that too.
Or put a date in the diary for 6 months in advance. Book a table for 6 months. at your favourite restaurant for 2. You know, things you're saying, done energy is just things—
Is action.
Is action, isn't it?
You have to do a little bit of action. Yeah, you have to, yeah. You have to play ball with the universe.
I love that. Now, we've had a great conversation. We've been going for nearly an hour and 20, which is unbelievable.
Have we?
Yeah.
It doesn't feel like it, does it?
No.
So I had a good time.
There's 3 questions here.
Okay.
From the community.
Okay.
So the first one is, if I read the first and then you can read the second. Oh, yeah, yeah. Is, if readers of Unlock Your Power, everyone needs to buy that book, by the way.
Yeah, it's an amazing book.
Could only implement one exercise, which one would have the biggest transformation and why?
Oh, I love that question. The exercise that I would always start with Is the simplicity of doing your nervous system work.
Right. Yeah.
So for me, it would be use the rapid tapping and the 3 A's.
Yes.
If you get that right, you will be more conducive to your highest desires and your higher self will have a chance to be heard. If you are running on survival mode and stress and the biological constraints of the body, that I know of as a practitioner and being there, it's going to be very hard for you to signal out that you are ready for that. And your body will most likely say no. And you might end up pushing or trying your way there, which will— could burn you out and might take longer. So you start with the regulation.
Yes.
Then you move on. And you keep that going in tandem. So that's the exercise. Simple butterfly tap is a great exercise.
Yeah, I liked that.
Yeah.
So that's the regulation.
Yeah. Yeah.
Just that.
Just allowing yourself to change your state before you do anything.
That would be my intention for everyone listening just to like, I think you're right. Just to listen. Just remember that and just to be aware.
I mean, you could do that as many times as you want.
Do it of course.
Good.
Yeah.
Just every time you trigger, just do that. The butterfly. Remember the butterfly?
And I think what's amazing— this is a great, actually, it's a question I had.
Yeah.
Um, how can tapping help children?
Oh, well, I'm really keen to take tapping into schools now.
Yeah.
And we're bringing it in, tapping into schools however we can.
Yeah.
And my son used it for himself.
Really?
Yeah. And, and so with children, you— it's so powerful because you already have a game.
Yeah.
You have something like How do you feel? Okay. And then, can you go a bit, what is your, what's your number?
Yeah.
Oh, like, so treating it like a game for children.
Yeah, like a game. And so, it's fantastic for children. You know, it's a brilliant way to get to, because you can't do much else when you're tapping.
No.
It keeps you busy, keeps your brain busy as well.
And I guess it's—
Focused.
Teaching them to vocalise emotion.
Yeah, big time.
And understand him.
Like, imagine, imagine, imagine, yeah, imagine being like 5 and understanding an early—
it's not taught at school.
It is huge.
Like, that's— yeah, so I love that. I absolutely love that.
Yeah.
The 3rd question, I feel like you might, you might say it's different, but someone in the community said, what's the most profound outcome from declaring it's done that you've experienced?
Oh, I got a good one. I decided that I would like to take tapping into the air. And the coolest airline I could think of at the time was Virgin Atlantic. Ooh!
Ooh, I love this.
And I thought, oh, when I— I thought, right, when I'm on the plane, I'm gonna imagine that I'm there on video. doing rapid tapping with people to bring up their energy when they're knackered and help them go to sleep. It's great for sleep. And when I used this process of all the Ds and done energy on that, I found myself getting an offer from Virgin Atlantic to film the first ever tapping in the air. Wow.
Wow.
And I went up in the air with rapid tapping.
And did you take action towards that or did it happen?
I took action towards that.
You have to.
That's one of the Ds, right? Do.
Sure.
But it came through inexplicably.
Yes, 'cause it always does.
It was very magical. And you know, I really believe in the science and the magic.
Oh yeah.
And so, you know, it was, It was one of those things that I was like, even the people around me were like, hmm, okay, a bit weird. No one even knows what it is, let alone getting on the biggest airline. And then it was just like many things, it was a connection of people.
Yeah.
Someone mentioned it and someone mentioned it, but it was definitely something that I had the audacity to Say could be done.
So you said it was done.
Yeah.
You took action towards it, you co-created, and then of course the magic happened.
That's right.
Literally.
Yeah. And you also debunked a little bit of—
Yeah, you did a little debunking along the way as well.
Yeah, and you stay with it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now, pass the book, Corisande. For everyone obviously at home listening now, we've only covered a slither of it.
It's amazing.
I feel like I could chat to you sort of for hours more.
I know. Yeah.
But for everyone listening at home, here you go, Unlock Your Power. Obviously, hard copy or Audible. Poppy's got a beautiful voice, as we know.
Yes.
Honestly, as I was putting Humphrey to sleep some nights, he'd be like, Poppy, Poppy. We'd have Poppy playing in the background. Now you've got a, just as we wrap here, so where can people find you firstly?
Well, my website is a good place to start. poppiedalbridge.com. And in terms of other places, mainly socially, Instagram and LinkedIn for sort of work.
Yeah. And Rapid Tapping, the app, I'd highly recommend.
Yes. Of course, to everyone. Thank you. Rapid tapping the app, please download it. It's so cool, by the way. I mean, it's great because it is a free 7-day research.
Everyone should try it for 7 days.
Everyone should try it. I mean, everyone that I've ever worked with uses that.
We'll pop the links below.
Yes.
But it is, I will say, so we both downloaded the app and we're like, when we need to design an app in the future, we're going to come to Poppy.
It's swish, isn't it?
And I love that you've kept it like— Very swish, yeah.
Very chic.
Real though, like you're just at home, Like, you're like, because look, you're gonna be tapping at home like me, so I'm just keeping it real.
I am keeping it real.
I'm not hiding it. You're not like in a studio.
No, I'm like, you're gonna use it. Like, a lot of it, once you've got the hang of it, then I want you to just listen to it, 'cause you know what you're doing then.
Yeah, I love that.
So a lot of it is audio. Yeah, yeah, it's kind of fun.
It's cool.
And then, so yeah, so Instagram, your website, rapid tapping Instagram as well, rapid tapping the app.
Yes.
Obviously get the book. Now you've got your book show.
Yes.
Tell us about that.
Oh, I'm so excited. It's probably the most terrifying thing of my career.
Oh, so you're gonna do some debunking and tapping into this?
Yeah, I'm like, follow me, we're into my heart. It's done. I am bringing the book to life on the iconic theatre inside Royal Academy of Music.
Wow.
With live music, soundscape, frequency music, and my voice. I used to be a choral singer, and I use my voice with the tapping to help people change their state. And so it's gonna be really magical, and we'll be going through the steps in the book to make real-time change and doing some of that on stage. So it should be really exciting.
How exciting.
A night out. Dare I say, with an interval. Oh, that sounds very exciting.
And people can learn more about this on your website?
Yes, at the top of the website, there's a little banner.
Yeah.
And it's literally just gone out.
Amazing.
So it's early tickets.
And it's October—
October 11th, which is a very powerful day. It's also new moon, intentional.
Yes, of course.
Serious time. And I love the 11 because I do 11:11 every Monday live. In my app. You do?
Yeah. So 2026 is a year 1 in numerology. So it's the 10th of October. Well, October being 10, and then the 11th of October. So there's a lot of 1s going on there. New beginnings.
11:11.
Yeah.
Yeah, you see?
Yes. Coruscant normally are— we normally finish with a question, don't we?
We do. I mean, there's so many times that you've gone beyond, but obviously we've called this Beyond Podcast. What do you think that means to you, to go beyond?
Go beyond your human limitations and remember that you're infinite.
Love that.
Wow.
Poppy Delbridge, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Such a wonderful conversation.
Great chat. Yeah, so wonderful.
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