What Is Tapping And How Can I Start Using It?

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What Is Tapping And How Can I Start

Using It?
15-19 minutes

The video below, originally filmed for our 2013 Tapping World
Summit, has Nick and Jessica discussing what tapping is and how
you can begin to use this tool immediately. Press play below to
watch this interview now!

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.

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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

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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.

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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 Science Behind Tapping’s Success

Like many healing arts that draw upon ancient wisdom, Tapping
has been met with a fair share of skepticism. Many doctors and
psychologists have been quick to dismiss it as “woo woo”, despite
the heaping anecdotal evidence from practitioners and people who
have used EFT on their own.

In recent years however, there’s been a growing pool of undeniable

research that proves what millions of people the world over have
known for some time now: that EFT produces real, lasting
breakthroughs and significantly improves or even eliminates
conditions that hospital treatments, medication and years of
psychotherapy often fail to adequately deal with.

Studies done at no less than Harvard Medical School verify these

assertions. Research done at the prestigious university during the
last decade found that the brain’s stress and fear response – which
is controlled by an almond-shaped part of your brain called the
amygdala – could be lessened by stimulating the meridian points
used in acupuncture, acupressure, and of course, tapping.

Although these studies focused on acupuncture and as such, used

needles, follow-up double-blind research revealed that stimulating
the points through pressure, as we do in tapping, gave rise to a
similar response!

Another exciting set of research was undertaken by Dr. Dawson

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Church. His team performed a randomized controlled trial to study

how an hour-long tapping session would impact the stress levels of
83 subjects. To do this, Dr. Church and his team measured their
level of cortisol, a hormone secreted by the body when it undergoes
stress. Their findings? The average level of cortisol reduction was
24%, with a whopping reduction of almost 50% in some subjects! In
comparison, there was no significant cortisol reduction in those who
underwent an hour of traditional talk therapy.

Dr. Church also created The Stress Project, which teaches tapping
to war veterans suffering with PTSD. The results have been
astounding: an average 63% decrease in PTSD symptoms after six
rounds of tapping. It’s mind-blowing and exciting research, which
has converted many non-believers in the scientific community along
the way. All signs indicate that this trend of revealing research and
swayed skeptics will continue as millions of people around the
globe continue to discover the power of tapping.

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

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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

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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.

Introduction to The Tapping Points

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

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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.”

Perform the set up.

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

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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 (TH)
The crown, center and top of the head. Tap with all four fingers on

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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 (CP)

This point is right beneath 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 (TH)

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.”

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Now take another deep breath!

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.

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.

Now that you’ve focused on dispelling your immediate anxiety, you

can work on installing some positive feelings instead.

Note: This approach is different from 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.”

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“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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