very reasonable to start our emotional freedom technique/tapping with that memory.
there are other times when the reason we feel the way we feel might not have anything to do with the issue we are working on. we might have an issue speaking in front of a group of people and we are convinced that the reason we have this issue is because when we were 8 years old everyone laughed at us during show-and-tell, therefore speaking in public is no longer safe.
it is perfectly possible that this memory is the root (or one of the roots) to the reason	why public speaking is so hard. if we put ourselves in a 