Release Stress With Mindful Tapping

This is an active meditation using a technique called Modern Energy Tapping which involves tapping lightly on acupressure points on the head, collarbone, and hands to release stress and feel more calm and relaxed.

The points used are top of the head-crown, middle of the forehead-third eye, top corner of the eyebrow, outside corner of the eye, under the eye – directly in line with the pupil, under the nose, middle of the chin, collarbone edge - k27 point. The base of the nail on the outside edge on the thumb and all the fingers and Karate chop point - outside edge of hand halfway along.

If you would like a diagram you can google modern energy tapping points. Modern Energy Tapping was developed by Silvia Hartmann.

Transcript

Hi there,

My name's Kelly and I'm going to share a technique with you today for releasing stress and feeling more calm and relaxed.

It's an active meditation using a technique called modern energy tapping which was created by Sylvia Hartman.

So if you'd like to get ready to start the best place to do this is either sitting up or slowly walking around.

So the first thing to do is place your hands over your heart,

One hand over the other and from here we're going to take three nice breaths in and out.

We're going to make the out-breath slightly longer than the in-breath as this sends a message to your body that it's safe for you to relax.

So let's start now taking a breath in and then breathing all the way out making that out-breath longer and again breathing in and breathing out.

And one more of those breathing all the way in and all the way out.

So now take one of your hands and use the first two fingers on the very top of the head,

The crown,

To gently and rhythmically tap that acupressure point and as you tap we're going to say it's safe for me to release all the stress and feel calm and relaxed.

Now take a breath in and out and move your hand down to tap the middle of your forehead.

You're tapping gently and kindly.

I let go of any stress that's built up and feel calm and relaxed.

Take a nice breath in and all the way out.

Now move your hand over to the top corner of your eyebrow tapping lightly and rhythmically.

I let go of all the stress and feel calm and relaxed.

Take a breath in and all the way out.

Slide your finger along the eyebrow and down to the corner of the eye tapping gently and rhythmically.

I let go of all the stress and feel calm and relaxed.

Nice breath in and all the way out.

Now sliding your finger round on the eye bone to just under your eye directly in line with where your pupil would be but on the bone underneath as you look straight ahead.

I let go of all the stress and feel calm and relaxed.

Even more calm and relaxed.

Nice breath in and out.

Taking the fingers down to tap the point under the nose.

I let go of all the stress and feel calm and relaxed.

Calm and relaxed.

Take a nice breath in and out.

Now moving down to the point in the middle of the chin.

I can let go of any built-up stress and feel calm and relaxed.

So calm and relaxed.

Nice breath in and out.

Taking your hand slowly down to your collarbone.

Tapping on the end point of your collarbone.

The K-27 point.

I let go of any stress and feel much more calm and much more relaxed.

You're tapping slowly and rhythmically.

Just about three or four taps per second.

Good.

Now we're moving down to the hand and we're going to be tapping on the base of the thumbnail on the outside edge.

So if you're tapping with your right hand onto your left hand,

You're tapping on the right hand side of the thumbnail.

And if you're tapping with your left hand on your right hand,

Then you're tapping on the left hand side of the thumbnail.

I let go of all the stress and feel wonderfully calm and relaxed.

Nice breath in and out.

Moving through to your first finger.

Again,

If you're tapping on your left hand,

You're on your right side.

And if you're tapping on your right hand,

You're on your left side of the base of the nail.

I let go of any stress now and feel calm and relaxed.

Calm and relaxed.

Moving through to your middle finger,

Same side,

Base of the nail.

It's safe for me to release any stress and feel calm and relaxed.

Wonderfully calm and wonderfully relaxed.

Nice breath in and out.

Moving on to the next finger.

Your ring finger.

I let go of all the stress now and feel calm and relaxed.

Beautifully calm and relaxed.

Now onto your little finger.

It's safe for me to let go of this stress so that I can feel wonderfully calm,

Wonderfully relaxed and ready for my day.

Nice breath in and out.

Now we're moving to a point called the karate chop point.

And it's on the back side of your hand.

Just as if you're doing a karate chop movement.

I let go of all the stress and feel calm and relaxed.

You're tapping halfway down the back of the hand.

I give myself permission to let go of the stress and feel so calm and so relaxed.

Now replace your hands back over your heart and we're going to take a few nice breaths in and out here.

And as you take those breaths I want you to imagine that you've been carrying around a heavy rucksack and in the rucksack were all the things that were causing you stress in life.

Some of them things you knew about and some of them things you didn't.

But now you're taking your rucksack off and freeing yourself so that you can feel more calm and relaxed.

Even as you stand back up from placing that rucksack on the floor you notice you feel lighter and freer and brighter.

And now as you walk away from your rucksack I want you to visualize yourself in a place that is calming and soothing for you.

This could be a place of nature such as a beautiful garden or maybe you're on your own private beach and the weather is just perfect for you.

Or you could be inside maybe sitting in front of a beautiful open fire reading your favorite book.

It doesn't matter as long as it feels calming to you.

See yourself there.

Make yourself comfortable within this space and take in the sights and the sounds.

Feel that calm and relaxed energy expanding within you now.

Give yourself permission to have more of this and imagine you're breathing it in and on your out breath you're flowing it down through your body and out through the soles of your feet.

Every cell of your being is being bathed in calm and relaxing energy.

And now I'm just going to leave you to spend a few moments here enjoying this time.

Calm and relax.

And I hope you've enjoyed this and you have a wonderful rest of the day.

Namaste.

Reviews

So soothing and relaxing live the flow of the meditation. Added to my play list !

Thank you …going on a cross country airplane trip and needed to relax due to excitement! Namaste!

Thank you for this. Your voice and words are very comforting and I was able to change my state ofmind significantly with your help.

Absolutely wonderful ❤️

Beautiful! I recently decided to make tapping a part of my morning routine. I feel a rewiring of my brain is in order. Too much stress over the course of my life has left me too quick to anger with the ones I love most, my husband and children. Looking forward to a new way of being for myself.

Thank you for this lovely version of tapping. 🙏

Amazing how quickly my feeling of anxiety I woke up with in my stomach disappeared. I'm now feeling calm and relaxed. Thank you

A very calming practice I had never tried before but I'll be sure to be back to this one. I felt so relaxed afterwards. Thank you!

This fantastic meditation lifted my heavy energy, so thank you for this. I am just tickled pink that I found tapping on Insight Timer!

Perfect! Thank you Kelly 🙏🐬❤️

I loved this meditation. So peaceful and soothing. Thank you!

Thank you 🙏 I have enjoyed this meditation it has helped a lot book marked and will visit again 💖Namaste x

Very nice variation of EFT. Your voice is very soothing and relaxing blended with your choice of back ground music♥️

Really enjoyed. I would love pictures to show the points, since I wasn’t sure where the “karate chop” one was on the back of the hand. Thank you.

This really helped- thank you!

Excellent! Done tapping few times before but now love it that I have a version on IT , which I use very day. Bookmarked in my favs . Thank you dear one ☝️ ❤️

Brilliant. The tapping helps me to let go more easily. I only had one difficult thought throughout. And

The technique was new to me but it was very effective! I’ll definitely be looking more into it. Thank you for sharing it!