LEARN EFT Tapping
A tool to quickly move your energy with intention
Video version of the how-to guide here ☝️
Ready to learn how to do EFT Tapping? This is an essential technique for your mental freedom toolkit because it helps you quickly and naturally move your energy with intention.
In a crisis? With EFT Tapping, you’re able to talk your own self off a ledge – in total control of your energetic state with no need for pharmaceutical mental health drugs. 100% all you, all your power.
It’s also great when you need a power-up pep talk. Or you can even add it to your daily practice to help you access your subconscious and reprogram for lasting changes!
Are you sold yet? Ok, let’s dive in…
EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique
Tapping = Acupressure
EFT Tapping is an acuPRESSURE technique that works on the same meridian central nervous system points that ancient Chinese medicine has targeted with acupuncture for thousands of years. The meridian points are key spots in your energetic network that move “qi”– your vital life energy – through your body. Instead of needles, we use our fingers to tap these qi points, activating them with light pressure.
The tapping action is accompanied by a specific dialogue that acknowledges the challenge you are experiencing and creates acceptance + self-compassion. Combining the acupressure with reassuring self-talk allows you to move and sooth a difficult energetic wave. You also get an opportunity to reframe and reprogram – this is the moving energy with intention component!
Get these big benefits!
Scientific studies have repeatedly discovered measurable benefits from EFT Tapping. It’s proven to calm the central nervous system and reduce stress hormones like cortisol. That’s why it’s great in a crisis, but it has a slew of other benefits too:
- Improves emotional regulation = you're better able to handle life's challenges
- Reduces anxiety, anger, depression, stress and helps soothe PTSD
- Provides relief from physical symptoms of stress, such as headaches
- Improves your sleep
- Can reduce physical pain and increase your capability to cope with pain
- Reduces the power of cravings so it can help you free yourself from addictions
- Enhances feelings of well-being and boosts your creativity
- Improves your performance for literally anything you decide to tap on!
How to do EFT Tapping
1 Choose your tapping topic: what are you tapping on today? Identify both the challenge your are facing and how you would like to reframe the situation to intentionally move your energy and reprogram your subconscious.
For example: maybe you had an argument with someone you love. You might want to tap on feeling angry and choose to shift your energy into a vibration of love or forgiveness.
Another example: maybe you are feeling nervous about a big presentation and you want to reframe your emotion as excitement and give yourself an “I’ve got this!” pep talk.
2 Pick your spot: Try to find a place where you won’t be disturbed and can sit comfortably with your back straight. But, friend, I’ve hidden in the bathroom and tapped on a toilet seat in an emergency before so don’t be too strict! 😉
3 Arrive: Close your eyes gently, or focus your gaze on a single point in front of you. Take a few deep breaths and bring your total presence to the moment. Invoke your highest self to guide you.
4 Tap! Let’s do this 🙌
Here are the nine primary EFT Tapping points. You’ll tap lightly on each one with just enough pressure that your body feels the activation.
EFT Tapping Points:
- Top of Head Point: Located at the very crown of your head.
- Eyebrow Point: Located at the beginning of your eyebrow, right above the bridge of your nose.
- Side of Eyes Point: Located on the outer corner of your eye, just beside your eyebrow bone.
- Under Eye Point: Located directly under the center of your eye, on the bone.
- Nose Point: Located midway between the bottom of your nose and your upper lip.
- Chin Point: Located on the indentation in your chin.
- Collarbone Point: Located about an inch below your collarbone, on either side of your breastbone.
- Underarm Point: Located about four inches below your armpit, on the fleshy part of your side.
- Wrist Point: Tap the inside of both your wrists together.
5 The script:
As you tap, you’ll use this dialogue:
- “Even though [INSERT challenge or feeling you are experiencing here] I still deeply love, accept, respect and forgive myself…”
This script is powerful because you are acknowledging your challenge in a non-judgemental way. Then you also tell your system that it’s ok! You’ve still got your own back, you still love and accept yourself despite this challenge.
6 The reframe: EFT Tapping gets into your subconscious mind, so it’s an amazing tool to reprogram your system. If you’re reprogramming, you get to choose! So follow up your challenge with the reframe or attitude adjustment you want to make:
- “And I know I am capable of [INSERT your best here!]”
- “Right now I’m making the choice to change [INSERT your new choice here]”
- “Instead I choose to feel [INSERT your attitude adjustment here]”
- “So I let [XYZ challenge] go and free myself to move on and thrive”
7 Repeat! You can tap for three minutes or 30 minutes. Talk through the challenges you are experiencing for at least three rounds. Give yourself a pep talk with the reframe for at least three more rounds. This is YOUR session, there are no real “rules.” Let your creative juices flow, turn on your imagination and ENJOY. You should feel a marked improvement in your mood and attitude by the time you’re done.
Pro EFT Tapping Tips
- Drink a lot of water! When you practice EFT Tapping, you move a lot of energy. Staying hydrated helps you flush out what you release.
- Rate your feeling intensity. Before you start, label your emotional charge with a number using a 0 to 10 scale (0 = not bothering you at all; 10 = complete agony). After the session, check back in to see how much your number moved.
- There's one more spot! Karate Chop Point: Located on the fleshy part of your outer hand, just below your pinky finger (either hand). You can tap on this spot to ease you into the full session. Or you can use it exclusively when you want to be more subtle, like if you want to tap on the bus 😉
Try it out!
Let’s use this quick 5-minute releasing stress EFT Tapping video to practice together. Just repeat after me and notice the shift as you move energy through your body!
5-minute EFT Tapping practice session to Release Stress ☝️
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YOU'VE GOT THIS.
The biggest challenge? It’s actually USING these tools.
In a crisis moment, instead of your normal spiral, the challenge is choosing to sit down and tap instead. Or maybe you’re ready to upgrade your daily practice with tapping and the challenge is showing up every day.
Know how you get there? One choice at a time. One day at a time.
Every time you decide to sit down and tap you take a baby step towards creating a positive habit. A year later? All those baby steps can add up to major life shifts and real transformation.
So start by just trying this new tool out! Not once, but many times. Try EFT Tapping in a crisis moment. Try EFT Tapping on a good day too. Try adding EFT Tapping to your daily practice for a few weeks. And just see what resonates with you, what works, what sticks!
You can do this, and I’m rooting for you, rebel hero!
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