Emotional Freedom Technique Tapping
EFT tapping
- Combine tapping on energetic acupoints and cognitive behavioral therapy.
- Start with SI3(hou xie) followed by BL2(zan zhu), Gb2(tong zi Liao), St2(si bai), Du26(Shui Gou, Renzhong ). Ren24(cheng jiang), Ki27(shu fu), Sp21(Da Bao), Du20(bai hui) in sequence.
- Start tapping Si3 with positive affirmation three times.
- “Although I feel emotional such as anxious, worried , unsettled, scared, angry, sad et al, I completely deeply accept myself and how I feel”.
- Acknowledge our feelings while tapping along
- At the last point tell ourselves to let go of the feelings and worries.
- Tap several rounds until relaxed
- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7X4FIDPXOVM
- https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/watch?v=Sqe3h3l8a7w
How to Maximize the effect of Tapping
- Drink water to keep hydrated
- Put favorite music on or follow the tapping meditation
- Measure stress anxiety or pain level at scale of 1 to 10 before starting
- Take deep breath and close eye to internalize energy
- Do minimum three rounds up to 15 minutes for each session and two sessions per day
- Be persistent for six days to see significant result
- Enjoy as a bed time routine or whenever stressed
Research Evidence on EFT
- Four to six one hour sessions are required to help PTSD patients to reduce PTSD measurement score to non clinical level(Church&Feistein, 2017).
- Only 14% of 49 veteran exceed PTSD measurement score after 6 one hour sessions of EFT and the effects lasted at six month follow up beyond post treatment(Church &Feinstein, 2017).
- A system Review concluded that acupressure point tapping part play a very important and active role and contribute to the efficacy of EFT protocol and the effect of EFT tapping lasted at six month follow up assessment (Church, Stapleton, Yang &Gallo, 2018).
