Learn How to Tap: A Beginner's Guide to EFT Tapping

Hi,

I'm Erin Lashley.

I'm an EFT practitioner and a Reiki healer and in this video I'm going to do a quick demo for you of the EFT tapping points so that you can follow along with any videos or meditations that you'd love to do or even if you'd like to try this in your own practice solo.

It is such an accessible tool,

It's so simple and I just know that it's really going to support you.

So when we tap we start on the side of the hand and I should mention that what we're doing when we tap we're tapping on our different meridian points or acupressure points in the body and when we do that we send a calming signal to the amygdala in the brain and it helps us to soothe that stress response or that cortisol response so that we start to feel calmer,

Safer,

We can relax,

We can release some of that stress or tension and when we do that we actually create a beautiful environment for healing.

So that's what we do when we tap so let me show you how we do it.

So we start here on the side of the hand and what we're doing here is we do a setup statement and the setup statement is very important because it is basically acknowledging what is,

It's saying I feel like absolute crap right now but I'm accepting how I feel and I love and accept myself anyway and that is such a powerful statement to make because that acceptance really creates the pathway for us to then heal whatever it is that's coming up.

So if you're feeling particularly anxious or stressed your setup statement as you tap here might just be even though I'm feeling really stressed and anxious right now I'm acknowledging how I feel and I love and accept myself anyway.

If you're not comfortable with saying that you love and accept yourself if that doesn't feel great right now which it might not you might just say something like I love,

Sorry,

I acknowledge how I feel and I'm okay or it's safe for me to feel this feeling something along those lines whatever feels good for you.

So we do the setup statement generally three times then what we do is move through the tapping points.

So I like to start at the top of the head you can start at the eyebrow but you just want to either start or finish at the top of the head so you might like to start here and just take a deep breath as you follow along with this video and tap that's the first tapping point that I personally like to use.

Then we go on to the eyebrow point so just at the start of the eyebrow now you can use two hands or one hand it's whatever feels more comfortable for you there's no right or wrong with that.

Okay so two hands or one hand then going to the side of the eye you want to sort of do maybe a few centimeters from the eye and remember when you're tapping you're not you know bashing your head or going too intensely it's a really gentle unlocking.

Okay the next point is under the eye so not on the sensitive part under the eye just just on basically the top of the cheekbone tapping here on the rim then you want to go under the nose so between obviously your mouth the ridgy part there very technical term ridgy part then you want to go under the mouth on the chin and then you want to go on to the collarbone point now this is a point I love to kind of hang out in for a while so you can either tap here on sort of your knobby knobbly parts here of your collarbone it's also quite nice to tap along the collarbone whatever feels good and here's where you can kind of settle in and really reflect on what's coming up.

So let's just take a deep breath while we do that taking a breath in and letting it go and then the next tapping point it's under the arm so you want to get a hand's distance from sort of the crease of your armpit if you're a lady watching this it's probably around the bra line it's a bit of a sensitive spot so again not pushing or digging in too deeply but just tapping in that general area and then the final point that I personally like to use is on the ribs so I don't know if you can see but just below I'm sorry my microphone's in the way just below the bra line on the top of the ribs or the bottom two ribs just tapping here and this one I find especially effective because it's um for uh lung lungs lung point and that's really with grief so hope that helps you know and understand what's going on my neighbors just started chopping wood I'm not sure if you can hear that but I'm sure that that video has done the job of teaching you the tapping points I have many meditations available on insight timer I have programs you can work with me one-on-one um maybe you already are and you're watching this video but I hope that that was helpful and that you start to integrate some EFT into your day so sending lots of love and have a great day