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EFT Tapping for Overwhelm | Stress & Release

by Sarah Hofing

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If your to-do list feels endless, everyone needs something from you, and you just can't catch your breath, this guided EFT tapping session is for you. EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, works like acupuncture without needles, using gentle tapping on meridian points to move stuck emotions through the body. We start by acknowledging what feels heavy and work through it together, round by round, until you begin to feel the shift. All you need is a few minutes and a willingness to show up for yourself. You came here for a reason.

Transcript

Hi and welcome to Emotional Freedom Technique,

EFT or tapping.

As it's called,

For releasing overwhelm.

This is a generalized EFT for releasing overwhelm.

When I do one-on-one sessions,

We do a specific script that we do that I channel.

And this one is generalized because I don't know who's going to be watching the video.

But what's really neat is that because I'm just allowing things to come through and to channel,

Then it is going to reach whoever it's meant to.

And i hope that you feel that it was meant for you and that it's going to help you to release some of the emotions and some of the feelings that you might have had stuck in your body for a long time as a coach as a healer as a psychic medium i have seen so many people who,

You know,

It's wonderful to talk and do the coaching piece of my business,

But I really believe that the other side of that is to allow those emotions that are stuck in our body to release and to have that relief and that movement of the emotions because when they get stuck in the body,

They can create sickness and disease.

And so I'm so happy you're here.

I'm so excited that you're willing to do this work and that you're showing up today to do it.

And so I appreciate you and I appreciate that you are making the time for yourself,

Even though you're overwhelmed and that you're here because you're overwhelmed.

So thank you.

I am going to show you an example of the tapping sequence.

You may have done tapping before and I may do it differently than how you learned it.

I find everybody kind of has their own way of doing it.

It might be similar,

But shift a little bit.

And what I've noticed with a few practitioners is kind of the base is really similar and it can kind of move a little bit in how it's done.

So just be open to it.

Just allow things to happen and know that you have come here for a reason.

And I like to think of EFT almost as acupuncture,

Where with acupuncture,

You've got needles into specific spots to help move the energy.

And with EFT,

We are doing tapping on different spots of our meridians in order to move the energy.

But we don't have any needles.

We have our fingers that are going to tap and move the energy.

I am going to allow myself to.

.

.

Channel anything that comes through And as we're tapping on the points that I'm about to show you,

You're going to repeat what is said and I would love for you to repeat it out loud so that your body hears what you're saying and it can feel it and hear it and receive it.

If you can't or you don't feel comfortable and you're just receiving and listening to me.

Or you're saying it in your mind,

That's okay too.

And we're just going to look at this and do it,

You know,

Be open to it without judgment.

Allow your body to receive whatever it's meant to.

And so let's begin first by just anchoring and I want you to just bring your hand to your chest and another one to your stomach and just take a nice big breath in.

And out.

Good job.

Another big breath in.

We're just allowing our bodies to arrive into this session.

Good and out.

Beautiful.

One more big breath in.

Good,

And out.

Beautiful.

And before you open your eyes,

I would like you to just keep your eyes closed.

Allow yourself.

To feel into your body.

And I want you to rate how you came in today.

So when you saw,

Oh,

I better do this EFT for overwhelm.

How was the overwhelm?

Zero being peaceful,

Calm.

Not an issue Or 10 being big issue running my life.

This is at its max.

And so in that range of 0 to 10,

Where did you fall?

When you came in today.

And just allowing that number to come without judgment.

Good.

And then just allowing yourself to put that number in your back pocket.

And we don't need to worry about it or think about it or judge it.

We're just putting it in our back pocket for later.

Good.

Nice big breath in.

And out.

Good,

And we are going to open our eyes and just bring our hands to wherever feels comfortable.

So I'm going to run you through the example of where to put your hands.

And so the first part,

I'm right-handed,

So my left hand,

I usually use my right hand to tap and my left hand to receive.

It doesn't matter whatever works for you and feels comfortable do what works best for you okay and so when you see this baby finger there's this fleshy mound of skin here and we're just going to tap Okay?

And you can use three fingers,

Your whole.

.

.

All your fingers you can use your two fingers whatever feels good And what's going to happen is that when we do a round,

You are going to repeat after me three times and it's an anchoring statement.

And so we're going to say it three times.

And then we're not going to do this again until the end.

So it's like closing a loop.

And so we're going to come here after we do the anchoring statement to the outside of your eyebrows.

And then the inside.

And then underneath of your cheek,

Like at your cheekbone.

And then your nose.

And then your chin.

Your chest,

And I like to call this the gorilla.

Under your armpit and on the top of your head.

I remember one time I was practicing and.

.

.

Doing this,

The under the armpit.

And I remember my husband saying,

Are you teaching people how to tap their armpit?

And I was like,

Yes,

I am.

So that is a round,

Okay?

And so we are going to do about five rounds,

Maybe more.

You're going to notice it's going to be very negative at the beginning because we're working through it.

Then it's going to start neutralizing.

Then we're going to start moving it into a more positive mindset where we're shifting things,

Okay?

So it's like we're creating that motion,

That movement.

So it might feel really uncomfortable at first and it might feel really frustrating.

And I need you to just allow those emotions to come up,

To bubble up,

To feel them,

To notice where they're coming.

And to continue to repeat after me and allow that to move through.

Because it's so beautiful,

Such a beautiful way of moving these emotions.

But we are moving emotions that are in there and they may come up.

So looking at it without judgment and just looking at it with compassion.

Compassion for your body that's been holding this for a long time.

Okay,

Let's begin.

So nice tapping here.

At that karate chop point and repeating after me.

Even though I am feeling overwhelmed.

I deeply and truly Love and accept myself.

Even though I am feeling overwhelmed.

I deeply and truly love and accept myself.

One more time.

Even though I am feeling overwhelmed.

I deeply and truly love and accept myself.

Good.

Coming to the outside of the eyebrows but the overwhelm can be too much.

I don't know how to function.

The list is never ending.

It's too much for me.

I'm at my max.

Everybody needs me.

There are so many people who depend on me.

I can't see the light.

The list is never ending.

And I can't get through it.

I feel like I'm never doing enough.

There's just too many things going on.

And I worry about everyone else.

I worry about all the people in my life.

And I take it on.

And I become more overwhelmed.

But I want to change.

I want to release this overwhelm.

I want it to move through.

I want to be able to clear some so I can see.

So I can start to worry about myself.

Can start to make myself a priority I don't have to get everything done.

The to-do list is going to build every day.

Can't race to finish it I'm hurting myself trying to finish it.

I just get more overwhelmed.

And I end up feeling like not enough.

But I am enough.

I am enough just as I am.

I don't have to do things.

To be enough.

I don't have to be productive.

To be enough.

It's okay to feel.

Like it's too much Because that's my body telling me.

To release.

Release the expectation.

Release the need to please.

Release the need to put everyone else first.

I release.

I release I release.

I deserve.

To be made a priority.

I deserve to feel good.

I deserve to feel grounded.

I deserve to not need to perform.

I deserve to stop the to-do list.

And become a priority.

I release the overwhelm.

Release the overwhelm I release the overwhelm.

I release.

I release.

I release.

I am enough.

I am enough just as I am.

I am enough.

Just as I am.

And just coming back to the karate chop point.

Even though I felt overwhelmed.

Deeply and truly Love and accept myself.

Even though I felt overwhelmed.

I deeply and truly Love and accept myself.

One more time,

Even though I felt overwhelmed.

I deeply and truly.

Love and accept myself.

Good,

And bringing your hands down to your thighs,

Just resting them by your side.

And I invite you to just take those nice three deep breaths.

Nice big breath in.

And out.

And I invite you to just allow yourself as you're breathing.

You're allowing yourself.

To feel the energy moving through you.

You might feel some tingling.

You might feel some heat,

Coolness.

Just allowing yourself to notice.

Notice that movement of energy.

Good,

And keeping your eyes closed or closing if they weren't already.

And just allowing yourself to remember that scale that we did at the beginning.

We've got zero if you are peaceful,

Calm.

And 10 if you are.

.

.

Overwhelmed,

This is your max.

And I want you to just give yourself a rating scale.

After we did the tapping.

What do you feel like now?

Good,

Just allowing the number to come to you without judgment.

And then taking that number out of your back pocket from the beginning and comparing it.

Did you go down even one notch?

That is improvement.

Good nice big breath in again.

And out.

Excellent.

I'm so proud of you for coming here today and doing this with me.

It's not easy work and it can feel very uncomfortable,

Very strange.

But it's important work and I'm so glad you chose to come here.

You came for a reason,

And I hope to see you again.

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