Introduction To EFT Tapping For Stress Relief

This short meditation explains how to use EFT tapping to calm and regulate your nervous system to bring more calm into your life. It is a gentle mind-body practice that can be used whenever you feel strong emotions.

Transcript

Hello,

This is Anne Diamond from Resilience Rebel and I'd like to explain how EFT tapping works and show you a little bit of tapping so you can try it for yourself.

EFT tapping is Emotional Freedom Techniques.

It's a tool that can be learned by anyone at any time of the age and it can help you to problem solve and overcome barriers that are blocking you to reaching your goals.

It can also be effective for things like depression,

Anxiety,

Food cravings,

Dealing with pain,

For trauma and PTSD and for dealing with phobias and fears as well as general emotional dysregulation that you might get with ADHD or neurodivergent conditions.

I am a qualified ADHD coach and an advanced accredited EFT coach and I combine these approaches in my coaching to help you deal with challenges as you in our sessions.

There are over 300 now peer-reviewed published studies on EFT tapping showing its benefits and its ability to reduce the amount of stress hormones circulating and influence genes that cause inflammation and other health challenges and it's a really lovely combination of the acupressure points we know acupuncture and talking therapies techniques so it can be done whenever you like but obviously I'd like to say that you don't do this if you're driving and also have to concentrate on anything and find a nice quiet calm space where you are feeling safe and able to tap without feeling embarrassed and if you wish to talk or repeat the phrases then that's also somewhere you might need to be quiet too.

I'm not a qualified medical practitioner so I can't give medical advice I'm simply sharing in this meditation how to tap and if there is anything you want to deal with that is very emotionally triggering for you I'd advise you to seek a qualified therapist or practitioner to help you with that and this meditation is intended to show you how to tap and how to use it to tune into your body and tune into your emotional state and use tapping to tune the emotional state so let's get on with it.

So the great Louise Hay said that if you want to clean house you first have to see the dirt so in EFT tapping generally start with naming or noticing what the challenge is that we're trying to deal with because by acknowledging it we can actually see it's there and listen to our bodies and see where we feel the response to that thing that we're trying to clear so when we start we just simply sit quietly and notice tune into our breath and just gently breathe in through your nose hold it and then let go by breathing out doing this we're already starting to calm our nervous system down even start tapping and we're just asking ourselves what's causing us a problem right I think why is that causing where do we feel it so we sometimes ask people to describe where they feel the response in their body tension is it a color is it a temperature is it sharp is it soft is it hot is it cold and how strong we feel that so we tend to scale it on a scale of one to ten and once we've identified it and noticed it then we try and identify the emotion that comes with it and it's not a problem if we it's really helpful to identify that motion and it's important here to note that all emotions are valid so we don't label them as good or bad we just notice and if we can name them if we could just name where we feel we can start tapping so we've calmed our nervous system down we've identified the most pressing issue as we call it and then start tapping and by tapping we're sending an electrical signal to the stress control in our brain by tapping on different acupressure points around our hand face and up to say in this moment even though i'm thinking of this thing that's causing me this stress response in this moment when i'm tapping i am safe and i so then you're asking your brain to make an issue to say even though i'm triggering this stress response because that tells me i'm not safe because when i initially triggered that stress response to the thing that's causing me to trigger that stress response i wasn't safe at that time but right now whilst i'm thinking of that thing that's causing me to initiate that stress response actually i'm telling myself i am safe because i'm tapping here calming myself down then that gives us that little bit of space between the automatic triggering of the stress response and choosing how we respond so tapping helps us create that space and it helps us to find that little bit of calm to ask ourselves is this really true is this still true how else could i respond and we can work through that with gentle rounds of tapping and peeling away the layers of the onion as it were because the really deep stuff is often very well protected to keep us safe and eft is a very gentle technique straight in there and try and re-traumatize you by asking you to talk about the things that are really for you to think about we start with the symptoms the leaves of the tree the things you can see and then we gently at your own pace and when you are ready tap and release different layers to try and help you to understand leave that you are safe to think and decide whether you want to hold on to that thought or the response to it or whether you choose to release it or reef so it's very gentle and it's done at your own pace there are lots of ways we can do this and as a trained practitioner we're trained in trauma-informed approaches and we're trained to work with the client and with the needs of the client as a priority so i'll just take you through the tapping points now and describe to you how to do it and then if you listen to my other meditations i can do some basic eft scripts to help you think about what you might say when you're tapping but i'd like to say here that it's still perfectly valid and actually very effective to not say anything when you're tapping and just gently tap around the tapping points to help you calm yourself down so even if you can't think of what to say you can just tap and breathe and that can help in the moment to help you find a response so the first tapping point is the side of the hand so any hand and then you can just gently tap with your fingers on the side of your doesn't matter how many times just gently tap and breathe and the next point is between your eyebrows so gently tap with maybe one or two fingers between your eyebrows and the next point is at the side of the eye so you can either use one hand or both hands and gently tap on the side of your tapping and breathe and then the next point is under your eye tapping and breathe one or both hands the next point is under your neck and sometimes we stroke this when we're sucking off or even when we're older under your bottom lip on your chin the next point is on your collarbone so if you feel the centre of your collarbones and then move along just gently pressing and you'll feel some sore spots between just before you get to your shoulder and just gently tapping under those the next point is giving yourself a hug so you're tapping under your arms for people who wear bras it's about where your bra line is so gently under your armpits and then the final point in the sequence that we use is on the top of your head so just gently with the flat palm of your hand just tap all around the top of your head and you've now completed a round of tapping so try it and see how you feel just try tapping and breathing or if you wanted to try with the phrases you can just say this pain or this tension in my wherever you feel when you discussed at the beginning and see what happens to it as you're tapping and breathe try that and i'd love to know how you get on thanks for listening