Hopscotch for the Soul: An Embodied Energy Psychology Tool for Clarity and Change

Some therapeutic insights arrive through words. Others arrive through movement, symbols, and a sudden, "felt sense" of truth.

The Hopscotch Tool was born from that second place. Inspired by Chloe Myers’ coaching model and shaped through years of working with clients who think deeply and feel intensely, this tool is for those who arrive at therapy with questions that cannot be answered by the mind alone.

This is not a tool to analyse life from a distance. It is a tool to step into it, quite literally.

Why Hopscotch?

Hopscotch is a game of childhood: jumping from square to square, balancing, occasionally wobbling, and finding your footing. In this therapeutic framework, the hopscotch grid becomes a map of your internal world.

Using seven physical markers on the floor (felt, paper, or even markers in the imagination), we create a journey of seven invitations to pause, notice, and reflect. From an energy psychology perspective, this movement reveals exactly where your energy flows freely and where it has become "stuck."

The Seven Boxes of the Hopscotch Tool

Clients are invited to physically step into each box, allowing the body and emotions to respond before the mind forms words.

1. You Arrived – What Does It Look Like?

This first box represents your goal or a desired change: your "future self" realised. This is your intention.

• The Inquiry: What does “arrival” feel like in your body? Is it light and spacious, or surprisingly tense?

• The Energy Work: Many clients have never allowed themselves to fully feel success. We use tapping for success here to help the nervous system become comfortable with the feeling of completion and clarity.

2. Inner Strengths That Helped You Get There

Here, we look at the internal qualities that carried you: resilience, humour, or compassion.

• The Inquiry: Standing here, can you reclaim the strengths you often minimize?

• The Energy Work: We use tapping for success to "anchor" these strengths into the body, ensuring they are available to you when things get difficult.

3. Inner Blocks & Irrational Beliefs

This is where the energy often feels heavy. We encounter the "I’m not enough" or "It’s unsafe to succeed" stories.

• The Inquiry: What old scripts are getting in your way?

• The Energy Work: This is the space for tapping to eliminate core beliefs. By physically standing in the "block," we can identify the specific energetic disruption and clear it.

4. External Help

Rarely do we arrive anywhere alone. This box honours mentors, friends, opportunities, and the "invisible" support of timing or spirit.

• The Inquiry: Can you allow yourself to be supported?

• The Energy Work: Energy psychology reminds us that gratitude is a high-frequency state that creates heart coherence. In this box, we remember our external help to appreciate and believe in it, shifting the nervous system from isolation to connection.

5. External Difficulties

Systems, finances, or cultural expectations: this box represents the obstacles that were not your fault.

• The Inquiry: What belongs to the world and what belongs to you?

• The Energy Work: A powerful relief often happens here. We use tapping for clarity to release the heavy "external" burdens you have unfairly internalised.

6. Tools

What skills or practices actually made a difference? (Rest, boundaries, therapy, or creativity).

• The Inquiry: What is in your toolkit?

• The Energy Work: We identify which energy psychology tools, like specific tapping sequences or chakra clearing, work best for your unique system, ensuring you don't leave this journey empty-handed.

7. Starting Point

Finally, you step into the "Beginning" and turn around to look at the whole grid.

• The Inquiry: From this vantage point, what has changed? What no longer needs to be carried?

• The Energy Work: This is the moment of integration. We use breathwork or chakra clearing to ensure the insights from the journey are woven into the nervous system.

Why This Tool Works

The Hopscotch Tool is effective because it engages the whole person:

• The Body: Through physical movement and embodiment.

• The Imagination: Through symbolic meaning and "standing" in different realities.

• The Energy System: Through energy psychology techniques that regulate and re-pattern the bio-field.

It allows you to see your life not as a problem to be solved, but as a journey to be understood. It shifts the question from "What is wrong with me?" to "Can I look at things from a different perspective?"

Final Thoughts

Therapy does not always need to be heavy to be deep. Sometimes, a single step or a shift in physical perspective is enough. The Hopscotch Tool reminds us that clarity often arrives not by thinking harder, but by standing in the right place.