Can Body Tapping relieve Worry and Anxiety?

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is an alternative treatment for physical pain and emotional distress. It is also known as Tapping or psychological acupressure.  Similar to acupressure, EFT is based on Chinese medicine.  It restores balance to your body's energy via meridian points. These pathways are where the body's energy flow through. 

The benefits of daily body tapping include:

• Releases tension
• Instant energy boost
• Massages the entire body
• Energising yet deeply relaxing
• Instant energy hit
• Improves circulation
• Boosts lymphatic drainage
• Energising yet deeply relaxing
• Releases tension
• Nourishes skin
• Improves the appearance of skin
• Releases connective tissue and fascia
• Facilitates energy flow
• Supports immunity
• Tapping reduces cortisol, which in layman’s terms means it can help you to feel more relaxed, can reduce emotional imbalance, and can lower internal stress.”

Ready to do it yourself? ​Let's begin!

Your Step-By-Step Guide

1. Identify the matter you wish to address

Firstly, identify the matter that you wish to address. Use this as your focal point throughout your practice. Making sure you are clear, concise and focus on one point at a time.

2. Rate your distress

Using a scale of 1 – 10, identify how much distress the issue is causing you and be honest with yourself. This will serve as a means to monitor progress over time.

3. Set up your phrase

Set up your phrase but keep it short and sweet as you will be repeating it often. For example: “Even though this situation/problem is present, I accept positivity and change.”

4. Focus on each meridian awareness

There are 12 in total:

• Lungs
• Large intestine
• Stomach
• Spleen
• Heart
• Small intestine
• Bladder
• Kidneys
• Heart 
• Triple heater (there is no equivalent for this set of organs in western medicine, but think of them as a set beginning with your thorax and ending below your abdomen)
• Gall bladder
• Liver

5. Begin tapping

Using the second and third finger begin by tapping under the arm below the armpit while repeating your phrase out loud. You should repeat the phrase three times. Moving down the body, tap the following points seven times while reciting your phrase that you have set up.