Why Does EFT Tapping Work?
When you’re experiencing a negative emotional state—angry or upset or fearful— your brain goes on alert. It prepares your body to enter a full-blown, fight-or- flight response. This response evolved to mobilize the body to face an external threat-think of a tiger coming after your ancient ancestor. All the body’s defense systems are turned on to support either fighting or fleeing from the danger. Your adrenaline pumps, your muscles tense, and your blood pressure, heart rate, and blood sugar all rise to give you extra energy to meet the challenge.
Stressors in ancient days were very real threats to survival. Today, however, the fight-or-flight response is rarely activated by a physical threat. Most of our fight-or-flight responses today are triggered internally. For many of us, the internally generated stress response is triggered by a negative memory or thought that has its roots in past trauma or conditioned learning from childhood. The stress response in the body takes the same form, whether the trigger is the tiger (external) or a negative memory (internal). The adrenaline flows, the heart races, and so on. What tapping does, with amazing efficiency, is halt the fight-or-flight response and reprogram the brain and body to act-and react-differently.
The stress response begins in your brain in the almond-shaped amygdala, one of the components of the limbic system, or midbrain. The midbrain is located between the frontal lobes (the cortex) and the hindbrain (also called the reptilian brain-the earliest, most primitive part of the brain). The limbic system is the source of emotions and long-term memory, and it’s where negative experiences are encoded. The amygdala has been called the body’s smoke detector. “Uh-oh, here comes trouble,” says the amygdala. “Something is threatening our safety.” It signals the brain to mobilize the body in the fight-or-flight response. Tapping on the meridian endpoints helps to deactivate the amygdala’s alarm and sends a calming response to the body, and the amygdala recognizes that it’s safe.
And as I’ll show you in just a minute, research is showing just how powerful it is.
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How to do EFT Tapping…
I’ll show you a video demonstration on how to tap below, but here are the basic principles to know:
The basic technique requires you to focus on the negative emotion at hand: a fear or anxiety, a bad memory, or any other aspect around 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 “chi.” 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 chi… 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 acupuncture, Tapping involves NO 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.
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The Science and Research Behind EFT Tapping…
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 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.
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What Experts Are Saying About EFT Tapping…
Because of the overwhelming scientific evidence as well as personal experience with the technique, more and more medical doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, personal development experts and others have come out in support of EFT Tapping in recent years.
Below is a short video of what some experts are saying about EFT Tapping. You can see a full list of what experts are saying about EFT Tapping by clicking here.
The Tapping Solution Book…
“The Tapping Solution – A Revolutionary System For Stress-Free Living,” a New York Times Bestseller and Amazon #1 bestseller, is a fast and effective approach to targeting and then eliminating the true underlying causes of any challenges you have going on in your life, and all with the use of “Tapping” or “EFT”.
With this book you’ll learn how to get to the root causes of financial challenges, weight loss issues, emotional problems, relationship hiccups and any other issues and learn how to use EFT Tapping to address them right then and there to get immediate results.
Tapping works because it restores balance to the energy system of the body in ways that nothing else can.
Check out the quick video trailer for the film below, then learn more about this EFT Tapping book and pick up your own copy, by clicking here.
The Tapping Solution Film…
When I first learned about EFT Tapping I was so blown away with how effective it was that absolutely knew that I had to find a way to teach others the technique.
So I spent over 2 years making the documentary film The Tapping Solution, an independent documentary film that chronicles 10 everyday Americans using Meridian Tapping Tehniques to heal both physical and emotional issues.
The ten are challenged to open up and use Tapping for their fears, traumas, pains, phobias and much more.
In the film you’ll get to see the participants remarkable journey and the physical and emotional transformation brought on from this simple healing technique. You’ll witness moments of struggle, support, and hope as what is revealed, with startling clarity, is that we can heal ourselves through our meridian system.
Some of the challenges that the participants deal with are: PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), Chronic Back Pain, Fear of Public Speaking, Fybromyalgia, Abundance blocks, Weight Loss, Phobias, Addictions, Anxiety
and much more…
and much more…
Along with the following the remarkable experience of the 10 participants, you’ll also get step-by-step details on how to do EFT Tapping, as well as hear expert commentary from Dr. Jospeh Mercola, Cheryl Richardson, Bob Proctor, Bruce Lipton, Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale, Carol Look, Dawson Church, Ph.D, Dr. Patricia Carrington, Carol Tuttle, Rick Wilkes, Brad Yates, David Rourke, and Fred Gallo, Ph.D.
Check out the quick video trailer for the film below, then learn more about this EFT Tapping movie and pick up your own copy, by clicking here.
How to get started using EFT Tapping…
Here at TheTappingSolution.com we have a variety of different resources available for you to get you going with using EFT Tapping. Here are some simple recommendations.
#1 – Download the first two chapters of The Tapping Solution book along with powerful Tapping for Stress Relief CD in mp3 format. They’re yours free. In the first two chapters of the book you’ll learn further details on the history and science behind EFT Tapping in chapter 1 as well as get detailed information on how to tap in Chapter 2. To access these downloads now, just fill in the form below:
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#2 – Visit The Tapping Solution Blog to watch videos, read articles and get access to further resources, all 100% free. You can visit our blog by clicking here, or you can visit some of these powerful posts from our blog:
#3 – Pick up a copy of my New York Times and Amazon #1 best-selling EFT Tapping book The Tapping Solution as well as The Tapping Solution film. These are two incredibly powerful resources that can change your life forever.
#4 – Explore this site, use it as a resource to improve your life, and above all…keeping Tapping!
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