So I’m sure you’ve heard of EFT Tapping by now, or maybe you’ve seen various peeps on your feed tapping around their eyes and mouths whilst blabbering a bunch of statements and you’re like ‘wait, wtf am I watching?’
Well I’m here to clear it all up for you and share exactly what EFT is and how YOU can use it to heal, grow and enhance your overall experience here on planet Earth.
So, What is EFT?
EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Technique, but is also known to many as ‘Tapping’. This technique is a form of alternative therapy that can help reduce anxiety, PTSD and other forms of physical or emotional pain through tapping certain points on the body, mainly on our face.
You’ve heard of acupuncture, right? Well EFT uses the same concept of applying pressure to our ‘Meridian Highway’, a pathway of points throughout our body where energy is believed to flow, to reduce pain and stress.
Basically, it’s a mind/body connection thing. When we experience stress or anxiety, our energy isn’t flowing like it should and it gets trapped. This can cause all sorts of problems such as physical pain, further emotional stress, sleep problems, even diet problems.
Imagine it like a blood clot; if a blood clot occurs in your body, blood is being physically stopped from flowing to where it needs to be in order for your body to function correctly. Ignore that blood clot and your life is in serious danger.
It’s the same with energy. Just because you can’t see it, it doesn’t mean it’s not there (kinda like oxygen). Clear and free-flowing energy is necessary for the body and the brain to be able to function at its peak. Leave energy blocked and you’re wellbeing will suffer.
[Totally random but very relevant side story, I had a back injury in 2018 that left me with multiple problems. My physiotherapist helped a little, but after several months with him, I didn’t see the results I wanted. Then in the Summer of 2020, I had one, just ONE session with a healer in Bali, who helped me to piece together the emotional trauma with the physical.
Rather than trying to heal physical damage, he encouraged me and showed me how to heal the mental trauma and emotional damage that was causing my injury … poof, goodbye long term back pain. Anyway, back to EFT…]
So, anyway, by tapping these energy points, we’re helping to get the energy flowing again! Tapping them restores the balance of energy to resolve the physical or emotional issues we’re having.
Make sense?
K, it sounds really weird and complicated, I can assure you it’s not! Let me walk you through how it works, starting with the tapping points…
Pin the Points?
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The main points are:
- TOP OF HEAD
- THIRD EYE (although not all practitioners use this spot, I do)
- IINNER EYE BROW – right on the bone
- SIDE OF THE EYE – again, right on the bone
- UNDER THE EYE
- UNDER THE NOSE
- THE CHIN POINT – right smack bang in the middle of your chin
- INNER COLLAR BONE – many people tap on the middle, but the meridian point of energy flow is on the edge of the inner part of your collar bone
- UNDER YOUR ARM – not right in the pit, it’s further down, kinda in line with your heart
- KARATE CHOP POINT – this is usually used for opening or closing statements and not part of ‘the rounds’
- GAMUT POINT – also used similarly to the KCP
How to Tap: Traditional EFT vs EFT Energy
There are technically two ‘official’ ways to EFT, the traditional way, or the newer ‘EFT Energy’ way.
Both ways involve measuring where you are on a scale prior to tapping, but they each use a different scale to measure, and use different statement styles to tap on.
Traditional EFT uses a scale called SUD (Subjective Units of Distress) where you measure how you feel around this issue on a scale of 1-10, 1 being fine and 10 being when you feel the worst.
You then create a statement in the past tense and tap on that, so that you’re unblocking energy whilst also affirming that this issue is a thing of the past.
EFT Energy however, is a little different. It uses the SUE scale (Subjective Units of Experience), a scale ranging from -10 (feeling your worst) to +10 (feeling your best).
You create a negative statement and a positive statement and begin by doing rounds of tapping on the negative statement, such as “I feel I am lacking in confidence”. Throughout the experience, as you feel your energy begin to shift and you move up the scale, you switch to the positive statement whilst tapping, such as “I am feeling more and more confident”.
However, I like to use an almost evolved version of EFT Energy to not only release energy blocks, but also to manifest, but I’ll get to that later…
EFT & Me
I first heard about EFT Tapping when I was having a lot of anxiety around things that were completely out of my control – mainly the outbreak of COVID, wonderfully timed with an argument with my then-boyfriend who decided to take some time to decide if he still liked me (eye roll) – and a friend of mine recommended I try EFT.
Well, obviously I did what most people do when they don’t have their sh** together and someone offers them advice, I ignored it and went off to figure things out on my own.
Yeah that worked real well (more eye-rolling).
But around six months later – after A LOT of personal trauma, including a miscarriage, a break-up, a failed biz launch and one international move from Bali back to live with my parents (ahhh fun times) – I had finally started getting my sh** together.
Part of this ‘Get My Sh** Together’ project involved hiring a business coach, and it was she who advised me to try EFT. She said it might help ease the anxiety I had around my coaching business, my ability as a coach along with some other underlying issues I clearly had with money.
With her guidance I pulled together a script to release the fears I had around my business and my confidence as a coach and I started tapping through it. Although I was skeptical at first, I saw instant results! My confidence increased, I felt so present in my business & clients started flying to me!
Soon after, I created my own script to help heal my relationship with money. This one was more of a slow-burner because I had such restricting and limiting beliefs around income; seriously, my money mindset was SHOCKING!
But this was by far my most powerful script. I put this new tapping ritual into my daily morning routine, and began to see AMAZING results, and that’s because I was actually combining tapping with manifestation!
This is when I knew I was onto something spectacular, but before I went ahead and shared this process with my clients, I wanted to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing, so I decided to take my EFT obsession one step further by studying it.
During my course with udemy, I learnt about the history of EFT, the science behind it and the traditional and more modern ways of not only EFT but TFT too.
In January 2020 I completed my certification and officially became an EFT & TFT Practitioner.
How I use EFT Energy to Manifest
Whilst I liked the EFT Energy process, I’ve found that using multiple statements, rather than just two, to be much better for me.
For this I usually write out a basic script or prompt to follow, doing four or five rounds of tapping. Each round has a different feeling:
- Round one – Feel & express the fear
- Round Two – Feel ready to change the fear/belief
- Round Three – Allow the change
- Round Four – Feel the new belief
Sometimes it’s a new statement for each tapping point, other times it’s one statement per round.
Round one: I feel the fear and tap whilst saying multiple statements, so lets say it’s abundance focused, I would start by tapping saying: “I have this belief I am not deserving of abundance” and go onto tap: “it feels difficult to consistently make money ” and then finish that round with “I feel guilty for wanting more money in my life” all whilst tapping the points.
Round two: I change my statements to focus on how I am ready to feel an energy shift happen, such as: “I am ready to feel deserving of abundance”
Round three: This round is about allowing myself to feel this new energy: “I allow myself to feel abundant AF everyday”
Round four: This round is all about feeling a new energy, the new belief! It’s about embracing the new belief as if it is one of your core beliefs, so maybe starting with “I am deserving of all this abundance” or “I am worthy of having money flow into my life with ease”
I have created a special FREE Bundle of EFT scripts for you to try if you’re up for it?
Interested in learning more and becoming an EFT Practitioner?
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