a beginner’s guide to eft tapping

When it comes to unlocking your true potential, there’s plenty of motivating and inspiring advice out there.  You can do it! Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right. You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.  And these quips are great. The problem is they don’t help us take action. They don’t help us come to believe that we  can  accomplish our goals. They don’t help us  break through  those walls we’ve built around ourselves.

Enter EFT tapping… Consider this a beginner’s guide to EFT tapping.

You may or may not be familiar with Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT tapping. EFT tapping is a proven healing tool—used universally across age, sex, race, ethnicity and gender—to remove the physical, mental and emotional blocks that prevent us from becoming the truly amazing people we are. By tapping on various points along the Chinese meridian system, we can rebalance the body’s energy system and cleanse ourselves of the negative stories we tell ourselves—the stories that keep our potential locked away and prevent us from becoming our most extraordinary selves.

Sound like a bunch of mumbo jumbo? There are libraries of research that validate the science of EFT tapping. A simple online search for “eft research” will reveal countless studies performed by Stanford, Harvard, and many other prestigious universities, clinics and hospitals. But no matter how many successful studies are performed, the true test of EFT tapping is the effect it has on  you.

Are you ready to get started? Here is an easy EFT exercise for beginners, designed to help you take ownership of your own happiness—the first step to unlocking your true potential. Watch the video, or follow the written instructions below.

Step 1. Rate your happiness on a scale of 1-10, 1 being completely happy and 10 being not happy at all. The number you rate is the number of times you will repeat this exercise.

Step 2. Tap on the karate chop point of your hand and recite the following:

Even though I’m not sure I’m ready to really own my own happiness because that would mean me being happy, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Even though I’m not deserving of my own happiness, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Even though I’m afraid of stepping into my own happiness, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.

Step 3. Negative reminder phrases: Recite the following phrases while tapping on the corresponding points.

Step 4. Positive reminder phrases: Recite the following phrases while tapping on the corresponding points.

Repeat Steps 2 through 4 the number you rated yourself in Step 1.

Walking through these EFT steps can help support you in taking ownership of your own happiness. EFT Tapping can support you in many areas in life. Read more in our article Emotional Freedom Technique: What Conditions Can EFT Treat? and What is EFT Tapping ?

If you enjoyed this exercise and would like to further explore EFT tapping to help in other areas of your life, schedule a free phone consultation with us. We offer EFT therapy to help clients process trauma, address fears and phobias, improve self-esteem, reduce stress, manage food cravings & support weight loss, and much more. Complete the brief form below to request your free consultation and a member of our team will reach out to you to partner you with a therapist to suit your needs.