EFT- Tapping Technique

Did you know you can heal yourself? Let me introduce you to my tool kit. I use alternative healing methods to assist me on my healing journey. I now know I can't do it alone and with everything out there, why would you? It's ok to ask for help and it's ok to educate yourself with the possibilities of transforming your life healing past traumas you endured, ease your chronic pain and debilitating injuries, and stress relief.

This weeks modality is EFT & the Tapping Solution. EFT, also known as Tapping, is a psychological acupressure. EFT stands for emotional freedom technique and is an alternative treatment that can be used to treat  physical pain & emotional distress. My aunt gave me a book a couple years ago and I am finally getting to read it. 
'The Tapping Solution for Manifesting your Greatest Self' by Nick Ortner. Per Ortner, 'long after the danger has passed, the nervous system can hold on to trauma.' Tapping allows the body to release endorphins which promotes healing of the physical and emotional body. Just like acupuncture uses needles, tapping uses finger tip tapping to apply the pressure that can give immediate results. 

"Of all the things trauma takes away from us, the worst is our willingness, or even our ability, to be vulnerable. There's a reclaiming that has to happen." -Brene Brown

What are we tapping? Points located on your Meridians! Meridians are pathways or channels that house life force energy and allows circulation of things beyond the nervous system to travel throughout the entire body. Meridians also known as the energetic highways in the body exist in corresponding pairs and each meridian has multiple acupuncture points along the pathway. ​Lets get to it! 

1. Identify the issue and then concentrate on it. 
2. Test the intensity on a scale from 1-10 (10 being the most difficult).
3. Establish a phrase. There are a lot of good examples online and in Ortner's book. Example: "Even though I worry about [fear or problem], I am willing to look at it from another perspective,"
4. EFT Tapping Sequence- Use 1-2 fingers to tap on the following spots. Tap each spot 5-20 times. While you are tapping, repeat the the phrase. 

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Once you complete the sequence, check in with the intensity of the problem or situation. 9xs of of 10, it'll be less than when you started. Try doing it daily or if a problem arises, take 5 minutes to 'tap it out'. I am enjoying the book I mentioned earlier as it's a 21- day guide thru tapping and manifesting my greater self which is totally my jam. For me this is just another aide in my tool kit to reach for whenever I am in need. I know that only I can heal myself by using the tools that work for me and by reaching out to my tribe of medicine men and women that I continually tend to collect.

Stay tuned for more modalities monthly!