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Introduction and Tapping Basics |
What is Tapping?
Millions of people are settling for lives filled
with poor health and emotional baggage. Not knowing
how to achieve the joyful and satisfying lives they
desire, they're stuck accepting a lifestyle of
emotional trauma, chronic physical pain, compulsions
and addictions, or perhaps just an empty feeling
inside. Along with these problems come pills to kill
the pain, sleep at night, and suppress anxiety – but
this is hardly better than the disease.
If you're like many people, you feel trapped, caught
in this cycle. You're tired of feeling sad,
depressed, anxious, discontent, and unwell. You're
sick of the expensive and ineffective treatments.
You're fed up with relinquishing the power over your
health and happiness to psychologists and doctors.
You'd like to grow, flourish, and thrive, putting
the past in the past. You want to be your best,
living a life that is filled with peacefulness, joy,
and fulfillment, from day to day and moment to
moment.
With Tapping, you can do that. You can discover the
vital secret for emotional wholeness and physical
relief. You can take your physical and emotional
well-being into your own hands. It's simple for
anyone to master, and it's free.
Tapping provides relief from chronic pain, emotional
problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post
traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases.
While Tapping is newly set to revolutionize the field of
health and wellness, the healing concepts that it's
based upon have been in practice in Eastern medicine
for over 5,000 years. Like acupuncture and
acupressure, Tapping is a set of techniques which
utilize the body's energy meridian points. You can
stimulate these meridian points by tapping on them
with your fingertips – literally tapping into your
body's own energy and healing power.
Your body is more powerful than you can imagine…
filled with life, energy, and a compelling ability
for self-healing. With Tapping, you can take control of
that power. |
So How Does It All Work?
All
negative emotions are felt through a disruption of
the body's energy. And physical pain and disease are
intricately connected to negative emotions. Health
problems create feedback – physical symptoms cause
emotional distress, and unresolved emotional
problems manifest themselves through physical
symptoms. So, the body's health must be approached
as a whole. You cannot treat the symptoms without
addressing the cause, and vice-versa.
The body, like everything in the universe, is
composed of energy. Restore balance to the body's
energy, and you will mend the negative emotions and
physical symptoms that stem from the energy
disruption. Tapping restores the body's energy balance,
and negative emotions are conquered.
The basic technique requires you to focus on the
negative emotion at hand: a fear or anxiety, a bad
memory, an unresolved problem, or anything that's
bothering you. While maintaining your mental focus
on this issue, use your fingertips to tap 5-7 times
each on 12 of the body's meridian points. Tapping on
these meridian points – while concentrating on
accepting and resolving the negative emotion – will
access your body's energy, restoring it to a
balanced state.
You may be wondering about these meridians. Put
simply, energy circulates through your body along a
specific network of channels. You can tap into this
energy at any point along the system.
This concept comes from the doctrines of traditional
Chinese medicine, which referred to the body's
energy as "ch'i." In ancient times, the Chinese
discovered 100 meridian points. They also discovered
that by stimulating these meridian points, they
could heal. Call it energy, call it the Source, call
it life force, call it ch'i… Whatever you want to
call it, it works.
In some ways, Tapping is similar to acupuncture. Like
Tapping, acupuncture achieves healing through
stimulating the body's meridians and energy flow.
However, unlike Tapping, acupuncture involves needles!
"No needles" is definitely one of the advantages of
Tapping.
Acupuncture also takes years to master. Acupuncture
practitioners must memorize hundreds of meridian
points along the body; the knowledge and training
take years to acquire.
Tapping is simple and painless. It can be learned by
anyone. And you can apply it to yourself, whenever
you want, wherever you are. It's less expensive and
less time consuming. It can be used with specific
emotional intent towards your own unique life
challenges and experiences. Most importantly, it
gives you the power to heal yourself, putting
control over your destiny back into your own hands. |
The History of Tapping: An Accidental
Discovery Leads to a Healing Revolution
It began in 1980, with a psychologist by the name of
Roger Callahan, and a patient with an extreme phobia
of water. Mary's fear of water controlled her life
and kept her from daily activities. She was unable
to take her children to the beach and was unable to
drive near the ocean; she grew fearful when it
rained, and could not even withstand the sight of
water on TV. She had vivid nightmares involving
water.
Dr. Callahan and Mary had been working on this
problem together for over a year. Finally, Mary
worked up the courage to sit within sight of the
pool at Dr. Callahan's house. Even doing this caused
Mary extreme distress, and though she found ways to
cope with the intense fear and emotional pain, she
did not overcome her phobia. They discussed her
problem, and how to overcome it, but without
success.
Her fear of being near the water caused Mary stomach
pains – a common "gut reaction." Dr. Callahan had
recently been studying traditional Chinese
medicines, and learning about meridians. Suddenly he
had an inspiration. Remembering that there was an
acupuncture point for the stomach meridian on the
cheekbone, he asked her to tap there, thinking it
might cure her stomach pains.
Mary tapped her cheekbone as directed, and this
little action changed medicinal history! The
response seemed miraculous, to both Mary and Dr.
Callahan. Her stomach pains disappeared. But even
more amazingly, her phobia of water disappeared,
too! She ran down to the pool and began splashing
herself with water, rejoicing in her newfound
freedom from fear.
Based on this discovery, Dr. Callahan began a series
of investigations to develop and refine this
technique, which he termed Thought Field Therapy.
Gary Craig trained under Dr. Callahan's tutelage in
the 1990's, learning the procedures for TFT. As time
passed, Craig began to observe some problems with
TFT, aspects that he saw were unnecessary
complications.
TFT required practitioners to tap on a specific
sequence of meridians (called an algorithm) for each
different problem. Diagnosing the problem required a
technique called muscle testing, wherein the
practitioner would measure the relative strength of
a muscle, while the patient explored various
thoughts or statements.
Craig observed repeated scenarios in which the
problem was incorrectly diagnosed or the
practitioner tapped out the meridian points in the
wrong order, yet the patient was still helped.. Based
on these observations, he concluded that it did not
matter in which order the meridian points were
tapped.
Craig developed EFT as a simplified, improved
version of the concepts behind Callahan's TFT. EFT
has one basic, simple sequence of points to tap, no
matter what the situation.
Because of this, thousands of people have used Tapping
for illnesses and to resolve emotional problems. Tapping
practitioners have studied the techniques and
trained to take on more complicated and difficult
cases, and these dedicated practitioners report more
successful applications daily. More and more people
are discovering and exploring Tapping. Many are
discovering how Tapping can change their lives. |
Basic Tapping Sequence for Anxiety
As discussed, Tapping can be used for everything- try it
on everything! In this example, we’ll focus on
general anxiety.Try it now with this initial
sequence. Here's how a basic Tapping sequence works:
- Identify the problem you want to focus on. It
can be general anxiety, or it can be a specific
situation or issue which causes you to feel
anxious.
- Consider the problem or situation. How do you
feel about it right now? Rate the intensity level
of your anxiety, with zero being the lowest level
of anxiety and ten being the highest.
- Compose your set up statement. Your set up
statement should acknowledge the problem you want
to deal with, then follow it with an unconditional
affirmation of yourself as a person.
"Even though I feel this anxiety, I deeply and
completely accept myself."
"Even though I'm anxious about my interview, I
deeply and completely accept myself.
""Even though I'm feeling this anxiety about my
financial situation, I deeply and completely accept
myself."
"Even though I panic when I think about ______, I
deeply and completely accept myself. "
"Even though I'm worried about how to approach my
boss, I deeply and completely accept myself."
"Even though I'm having trouble breathing, I deeply
and completely accept myself."
With four fingers on one hand, tap the Karate
Chop point on your other hand. The Karate Chop point
is on the outer edge of the hand, on the opposite
side from the thumb.
Repeat the set up statement three times aloud, while
simultaneously tapping the Karate Chop point. Now
take a deep breath!
Get ready to begin tapping! Here are some tips to
help you achieve the right technique.
- You should use a firm but gentle pressure, as
if you were drumming on the side of your desk or
testing a melon for ripeness.
- You can use all four fingers, or just the
first two (the index and middle fingers). Four
fingers are generally used on the top of the head,
the collarbone, under the arm... wider areas. On
sensitive areas, like around the eyes, you can use
just two.
- Tap with your fingertips, not your
fingernails. The sound will be round and mellow.
- The tapping order begins at the top and works
down. You can end by returning to the top of the
head, to complete the loop.
- Now, tap 5-7 times each on the remaining eight
points in the following sequence:
Head (H)
The crown, center and top of the head. Tap with all
four fingers on both hands.
Eyebrow (EB)
The inner edges of the eyebrows, closest to the
bridge of the nose. Use two fingers.
Side of eye (SE)
The hard area between the eye and the temple. Use
two fingers. Feel out this area gently so you don't
poke yourself in the eye!
Under eye (UE)
The hard area under the eye, that merges with the
cheekbone. Use two fingers, in line beneath the
pupil.
Under nose (UN)
The point centered between the bottom of the nose
and the upper lip. Use two fingers.
Chin (CH)
This point follows symmetrically with the previous
one, and is centered between the bottom of the lower
lip and the chin.
Collarbone (CB)
Tap just below the hard ridge of your collarbone
with four fingers.
Underarm (UA)
On your side, about four inches beneath the armpit.
Use four fingers.
Head (H)
And back where you started, to complete the
sequence.
As you tap on each point, repeat a simple
reminder phrase, such as "my anxiety" or "my
interview" or "my financial situation." Tap firmly
with the first two fingers on each hand.
Now take another deep breath!
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Now that you've completed the
sequence, focus on your problem again. How intense
is the anxiety now, in comparison to a few minutes
ago? Give it a rating on the same number scale.
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If your anxiety is still higher
than "2", you can do another round of tapping.
Keep tapping until the anxiety is gone. You can
change your set up statement to take into account
your efforts to fix the problem, and your desire
for continued progress. "Even though I have some
remaining anxiety, I deeply and completely accept
myself." "Even though I'm still a little worried
about this interview, I deeply and completely
accept myself." And so on.
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Now that you've focused on
dispelling your immediate anxiety, you can work on
installing some positive feelings instead.
Note: This is a different
approach than traditional "positive thinking."
You're not being dishonest with yourself. You're not
trying to obscure the stress and anxiety inside
yourself with a veneer of insincere affirmations.
Rather, you've confronted and dealt with the anxiety
and negative feelings, offering deep and complete
acceptance to both your feelings and your self. Now,
you're turning your thoughts and vibrations to the
powerful and positive. That's what makes Tapping so much
more effective than the "positive thinking"
techniques that many of you have already tried. It's
not just a mental trick; instead, you're using these
positive phrases and tapping to tune into the
very real energy of positivity, affirmation, and joy
that is implicit inside you. You're actually
changing your body's energy into a more positive
flow, a more positive vibration.
Here are some example phrases to guide you:
"I have faith in my ability to change."
"I am joyful about these positive changes."
"I am accomplishing so much."
"I enjoy the calm and peace that I have."
"I love the person that I am."
"I am becoming a more relaxed and joyful person."
You can use these positive phrases with the same
tapping points and sequences described above.
Congratulations! You've completed your first Tapping
sequence.
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