Part 2
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 five to seven 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 memorise 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 science behind tapping’s succes, like many healing arts that draw upon ancient wisdom, 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 Emotional Freedom Technique (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 randomised 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 per cent, with a whopping reduction of almost 50 per cent 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 post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
The results have been astounding: an average 63 per cent 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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