All stress (and stress relief) is not created equal.
Did you know that some stress is actually good for you? In small amounts, stress can improve brain function, make you more creative, help you get fit, lower your risk of breast cancer, Alzheimer’s, and lots more.
It’s chronic stress—the “stress overload” you feel day in, day out—that’s silently but systematically sabotaging your health and well-being.
Here’s the thing, though. You’re smart. You exercise, get your 7 hours of sleep, do deep breathing, yoga, meditation… You’ve even logged hours on the couch (the therapist’s couch!) trying to get to the “root” of your stress.
But still, you feel its effects. Even worse, this stress-related disease shows up everywhere you look.
So what gives?
The Answer: Like stress, not all stress relief is created equal.
Stress isn’t just in your head. Stress is also physical. (There’s loads of scientific research proving this, by the way.)
Until stress is fully released, it stays lodged in your body and in your cells, running rampant, putting your health at risk.
Still unconvinced? The health-damaging effects of chronic stress are scientific fact.
1. You think about something stressful—work, money, relationships, family, whatever’s bothering you.
2. Your amygdala (in your mid-brain) senses danger.
3. Your amygdala helps to initiate your body’s fight-or-flight response to stress.
4. In “fight or flight,” your body releases adrenaline and the “stress hormone” cortisol, diverts blood away from your digestive tract, leaving you less able to digest food and absorb nutrients AND more likely to gain weight.
5. In this physiological “crisis mode,” you’re more vulnerable to pain—from chronic illness, arthritis, fibromyalgia, migraines, stomach upset, and more.
6. In this state of heightened physiological “alert”, your brain’s creative center is deemed “non-essential” and shuts down. Down goes your problem solving, your creative skills, your intuition.
7. You feel increasingly irritable, isolated, and impatient. Your relationships suffer.
8. Stress affects your sleep. Your metabolism slows.
9. Your body secretes even more cortisol, wreaking more havoc on your digestion (and waistline), increasing your blood pressure, and lowering your immune response.
10. After releasing too much cortisol for too long, your body goes into “adrenal fatigue.” You feel depleted, exhausted, and depressed.
11. You no longer have the energy to adhere to your exercise routine, your healthy eating, meditation, yoga. Migraines, insomnia, stress-related hair loss, chronic pain, and any number of other issues become regular parts of your life.
12. Battling low energy, you can hardly focus at work, and elsewhere. Your relationships suffer.
13. Your depression deepens. You (and your body) are STRESSED OUT.
And while you may feel better, it’s often only until the next morning or credit card statement.
40% of the population exercises for 30 minutes, 1-4 days per week.
NO debate here. Exercise is crucial for a healthy lifestyle. Physical activity promotes the release of endorphins, known as the “feel-good” neurotransmitters. These make you “smarter” and more creative by increasing blood flow (and oxygen) to your brain and acts as “meditation in motion,” providing mental and physical stress relief.
The reality: However critical, it’s hours, even days after that stressful meeting with the boss or that fight with your spouse before you can seek out the solace of your running shoes. (If you have that healthy habit…)
38% of Americans use “complementary and alternative medicine,” which includes yoga, meditation, and other natural stress relief.
Again, NO debate here. These practices provide powerful stress relief, increased focus, creativity, and lots more.
The reality: Yoga and meditation provide significant stress relief and other benefits that yield significant results in weeks or months with regular, frequent practice. Many who try meditation give up too soon because they feel it’s “not working.”
A study performed by Dr. Dawson Church, Ph.D. and Dr. David Feinstein, Ph.D., measured cortisol levels before and after treatment.
83 participants were divided into 3 groups: the 1st group received an hour of Tapping, a practice that combines “talk” therapy with acupressure treatments; the 2nd group received an hour of psychotherapy (“talk” therapy); the 3rd group (control group) received no treatment.
Results: The 1st group demonstrated a 24% decrease in cortisol levels; the 2nd and 3rd groups showed no change in cortisol levels.
The reality: Psychotherapy alone relieves stress, but over a long period of time. The immediate benefits of psychotherapy don’t register in your body, where excessive amounts of the “stress hormone” cortisol still run rampant, putting your health at risk.
Tapping, the practice that produced a 24% decrease in cortisol after just one hour, blends Western psychotherapy or “talk” therapy with Eastern wisdom about “meridian points” or acupressure.
It acts fast and you can use it anytime, anywhere. It only takes 5 – 20 minutes.
Because it accesses your emotions and body simultaneously, it provides powerful stress relief, lowering cortisol levels faster than most traditional and alternative stress relief methods.
Study findings show that Tapping balances activity between the sympathetic and parasympathetic regions of your brain, producing “a neutral emotional state,” the gold standard of health and wellness.
The sympathetic region of your brain
Prepares your body for vigorous physical activity, speeding your heart, dilating pupils, contracting blood vessels, reducing digestive secretions.
In a perpetually active “stressed out” state, you’re more vulnerable to heart disease, high blood pressure, insomnia, weight gain, irritability, and impatience. This is what chronic stress looks like in the early stages.
The parasympathetic region of your brain
Prepares your body for relaxation, cell regeneration, and digestion by slowing the heart, constricting the pupils, stimulating digestive secretions, and dilating blood vessels.
In an overactive state, you suffer from depression, weakened immune response, fatigue, and diminished motivation. This is what chronic stress looks like over time.
“High sympathetic/low parasympathetic ratios have been linked to both psychological and physiological disorders and may, in fact, “be the final pathway linking negative states and conditions to ill health.’” CREDIT: Dr. Dawson Church, Ph.D. and Dr. David Feinstein, Ph.D., “Modulating Gene Expression Through Psychotherapy: The Contribution of Non-Invasive Somatic Interventions”
EFT Tapping regulates activity between these regions to achieve balanced activity and optimal health.
Study findings show that EFT Tapping is “substantially more powerful” than diaphragmatic breathing at lowering cortisol.
Extra Benefit #1: Relief from the excessive cortisol and adrenal fatigue – your body and mind re-balance. Your energy is restored, you sleep better, feel healthy again. This revitalizes your metabolism and your body is again able to heal itself.
Extra Benefit #2: The rapid and comprehensive body/mind stress relief you get from Tapping normally takes hours, weeks, or months to achieve with meditation, yoga, “talk” therapy, and other treatments.
Extra Benefit #3: If you already practice meditation, yoga, affirmations, and others, Tapping can enhance the benefits of those other practices by lowering your cortisol levels much quicker, promoting even deeper relaxation “on the cushion” and beyond.
So, what does it all mean?
Chronic stress is sabotaging your health and well-being, making you more vulnerable to depression, disease, and worse.
EFT Tapping quickly relieves chronic stress on physical and mental/emotional levels.
One of the easiest ways to get the relief you’re looking for is with The Tapping Solution App!
With over 100 Tapping Meditations readily available on your mobile device whenever you need it, it’s like carrying a personal Tapping Professional around with you wherever you go. 🙂
Until next time…
Keep Tapping!
Nick Ortner
Copyright © 2024 The Tapping Solution, LLC
Very clear and useful review of the power of Tapping to relieve stress, in the context of other popular and/or complimentary options, without negating those options. Thanks!
Tapping sounds like an extraordinary opportunity to manifest using means
of unblocking techniques to allow for energies to flow smoothly through our
beings, some for the first time in their lives. Think of the incredible possibilities
on the horizon to all who put this technology to use for the betterment of their
lives! I for one, am excited and grateful this has come to fruition.
16 years ago I noticed a warm swollen area on my throat. Dr said it was “Graves disease” and after a dose of radioactive iodine I was given thyroid medication. I knew my inability to deal calmly with my crumbling marriage, small children, rising debt and worries was caustic but I didn’t know how long the stresses would last. 16 years later…the children have flown, the husband disappeared and after battling on alone I got diagnosed with COPD. Crazily I swallowed every pill/potion the Dr gave me, even antidepressants. That was until I heard about Adrenal fatigue and started changing my diet to whole organic food and reading “Kryon” messages from Lee Carroll and Quantum Jumping with Burt Goldman. My health has improved so much I can move freely around the house again without help and garden in small doses. I would love to add Tapping because I believe I have Adrenal Fatigue. Maybe soon.
I have used EFT with reat results, but not consistently…I have been sooo stressed out with my divorce, that I will now start tapping DAILY!! I now understand better exactly how that quiet, and consistent voice in my head that’s often worrying, complaining, resisting, is what has lead to my bouts with exhaustion and depression over the past few months. Thanks for the article!
After reading this post, my belief in EFT has strengthened. By also reading the scientific proofs and realities that back EFT’s effectiveness clear the doubts that whether it’s better than other techniques and therapies or not. Clearly, this seems to go to the bottom of the situation/problem and brings a person face to face with it and helps him work through it. I am not just saying it, I tried it and it did clear my mind from the stress I was having and keeps working for other issues I have. The best thing i find about this technique it that its utility is so broad. I mean i dont think any other technique can help us address so many problems as this one. It makes us work with our subconscious. We don’t realize that how important it’s role is in determining our personality. I had never really given it a thought until I discovered tapping. I think EFT should be encouraged and it’s use should be widened around the globe so that everyone can benefit from it. Stress is inevitable these days and everyone becomes a victim to it and it feels so bad that no one can really find a solution to it and they give up which is worst cause it has the ability to over power you resulting in many health hazards as mentioned in the article and ofcourse an isolation from all the happiness and peace one is worth. So yes to EFT!
I just wanted to leave my testimonial about the eft method. First off I want to thank all of the people that brought this to light. I have been suffering from depression for over a year over a failed relationship with a person that truely is not the relationship type. I walked around with this heavy sharp pain in my chest for an entire year while trying to cope with the end of the relationship. I couldn’t see a way to stop the pain, and so I sort of learned to live with it. Last night the pain got too intense to just push down, and I began weeping uncontrollably. I called up that person and had a big blowout about how much of a terrible person she was to use someone like me for her own selfish needs. At the end of the call I told her she would never hear from me again. After crying for about an hour I decided I was going to fix this feeling that I couldn’t shake. So I pulled up an instruction video of the eft method and proceeded to follow along. After the first 15 minutes I could not believe how much of a difference there was in how I felt. I was dumb founded and almost afraid that it was so easy to eliminate so much hurt and physical pain in no time at all. I tested my new found feeling by going over old pictures of us, and it took roughly 20 minutes before the feeling returned, although it did not return as intensely. So I went through the video once more. And again I could not believe the results! No matter how long I thought about her or the things she did, I could not produce not one tear. Not one feeling of pain in my heart. And not one ounce of depression or sadness. It’s as if someone waived a magic wand and numbed my feelings. I’ve thought about her periodically today, but there’s no sadness, no depression, no anger, no hurt, no pain in my chest. Just acceptance. If only I had found this a year ago, I wouldn’t have wasted a year of my life being pitiful over someone who didn’t deserve to occupy my heart at all. I cannot thank God for you enough. Thank you thank you thank you!!
This was a well-written article! Thank you for the research you’ve done. There are logistics to the most important things for us in our daily routines. Tapping truly has benefits that can be documented by modern science and psychology. In my life, I try to make 25 minutes of yoga a daily habit because I know it conditions my body AND resets my nervous system. Since The 2012 Tapping Summit, I have decided to make tapping another part of my day. I’m on Day 7 of a 40 day “tapping” cleanse, as suggested by Jessica Ortner. Amazingly, my family and I are already seeing dramatic results in how I act and feel! With more clarity, I can see this as something that I’ve got to continue.
I too had looked at tapping years before. I guess I thought it seemed too weird. At this time in my life stress and past traumas had caused fibromyalgia, digestive problems, extreme fatigue, and hopelessnes. I signed up for the summit and began to tap along with Jessica and your guest speakers. I still am having the panic attacks and anxiety but now I can actually feel my body combating it for me. I can actually feel my muscles unclenching by themselves. Before I would have tell my body to relax. (even that was stressful) And then I can actually do some tapping that makes me feel even more peaceful than just the relaxing of my muscles. I thank God. It was what I had been praying for. The healing of my brain. Thank you ALL for going out on the limb and making Tapping availible to the hurting multitudes. I will continue to follow you all on your website. Again, Thank you and GOD BLESS You.
Pam
Excellent article! I have heard about EFT for many years, but because quite a few therapists already do it, and do it well, and do it for me, I didn’t think I needed to learn it. Instead, I just sent clients to them! Nick’s article states facts and sites examples clearly and simply. I am now able to fully comprehend the personal benefits of learning the technique well and administering it skillfully and with compassion. I will be looking into taking a class and then buying the DVD to screen on an upcoming movie night. Mahalo for putting it all out there!
I learned the effectiveness of tapping – immediate and efficient, doable and cost -free.. Yes, I am stressed out due to trying to get out of the situation I am in and trying to get ahead – finances are a big part of it. I am committed to trying to get out of it for real right now will try tapping on it for 40 days – hopefully I can do it right..
This is the story of my life. I have experienced so many of the stresses and have suffered through it without knowing there was relief. I have tried tapping and I feel as if a curtian has been lifted and I can see a new world out there.
I think the thing that strikes me about these facts is something I may have known on a subconscious level, but never really was consciously aware of…. that EFT works SIMULTANEOUSLY on all levels – mental, emotional AND physical! I can’t think of any other therapy that does this right down to a cellular and energetic level on all three fronts, is so ridiculously easy to use, and immediately available at any moment. Even in public – since you can do it ‘in your head’ as a visualization and it STILL WORKS. How does it get better than that?
These past few months have lead me to embracing changes and a chances to learn, expand and grow. Thank you so much for this tapping solution… I asked and it was delivered when I absolutely needed it most! May you and yours be blessed! Thank you!!!!! <3
I suffer from Rheumatoid Arthritis and have realized that a lot of the symptoms are directly connected to the level of stress or how i manage stress in my life. EFT helps although there are times i feel it is stressful in itself. Did i get it right… why am i not seeing a difference…so what exactly am i not open to that may be effecting me. Is it a fear of knowing…buried for too long and in a memory that i deny…no idea. wish i had the answer. I have dealt with it …I am ok with it…why do i need to bring it back up again. EFT to go …lol
I have had a wonderful D.O. that has been in to alternative therapies and has really gotten into different versions of tapping, exploring and developing some of his own. It is amazing how tapping can restore blockages along the meridians and reconnect the brain so the body can do what it was created to do; heal its self. I have recently really gotten in to learning about accupressure points and red light therapy as well as tapping. Yours is very timely information!
The flow of “dis-ease” you write of describes my experiences to a “T”!. Many years of traditional therapies have failed, and, acutally caused iatrogenic harm. They have failed for a reason, targeting the wrong issues, using the wrong paradigms. Ignoring mind/body connections, calling adrenal fatigue, etc. fadd. Prescribing pills. Not paying homage to flow of energy and where blockage occurs. Focusing on what is wrong, opening Pandora’s box, not putting Humpty back together again…..
Just started working with an EFT practitioner in UK. Many issues to work on. But such a cleansing, kind method of healing. Accepting oneself unconditionally, even when others do not. The healing power of kindness, acceptance, embracing oneself…
Aaaaaaaaaaah! Metta!
Those of us who suffer from a lifetime of tension need to be reminded of how tension increases cortisol and how much cortisol undermines our mental and physical and emotional functioning. And we need to remember how important EFT is in releasing tension, restoring equilibrium and transforming our lives by the renewal of our minds.
I really enjoyed the physical explanation, thank you.
The previous post makes so much practical sense to me based on my challenges and experiences during the past 40 years. I was properly diagnosed with PTSD and treated with EMDR in 2005. Since then,…my night sweats of 34 years have stopped and many other symptoms have lessened. However, I am still plagued with what I think is a phobia / anxiety that has developed during the same 40 years.
I just puchased started using Jack Canfield & Pamela Bruner’s new book “Tapping Into Ultimate Success”.
I look forward to utilizing this “Tapping” / EFT technique to peel back another psychological layer so that I can begin to live life rather than [exist] as I have been doing in isolation mostly.
Howard Lovely, Jr.
I have taught EFT to the students in my college Psychology class. Students are invited to come early on the day of the test and tap to reduce test anxiety. It works!
I am looking forward to putting this into practice and I want to tell everybody. I thank the Universe for putting this in front of me. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you !!!
I’ll admit I haven’t given tapping a real shot, but I’ve been hearing more and more about it from more and more different sources, and Its starting to ring a bell with me. I really want to try it out.
Looking forward to the summit and learning more. I find it rather interesting that stress could
be the main reason for the terrible way that I have been feeling. I am excited to know that there is possible relief ahead.
I’m so looking forward to take up my tapping again after a pause of many years now. Thank you so much for bringing hope and motivation to so many people, I get such good vibes from this event…. Wow!
Love and tap, tap, tap
/Karolina~
Absolutly incredible I have been finding my inner self in the last few months with little success until I stumbled over you guys . This EFT tapping helped me get over some of my pains I have and am going deeper too find whats blocking me from the past I’ve never been so excited over something in so many years fantastic Love your work don’t stop now. I’m looking forward to your Tapping summit 2012 and all the new info that you have to share.
Thank you Nick- This came at the right.. Although I know about EFT for almost 3 years and have attended the summit for 3 years in a row somehow I am not very consistent in it. I know about all the benefits of EFT but when it comes to any day to day problem I fail to try it on everything. I really have big hopes from Summit 2012 and I am looking forward to use EFT more in day to day activities..
Tapping is quickly achieving what years of EMDR could not. After a lifetime of suffering with PTSD and generalized anxiety disorder, I now have the cure with Tapping. My gratitude cannot be measured.
Thanks for all this great information. A reminder that I need to get tapping. Look forward to the 2012 Summit!
I have heard wonderful things about EFT but I have never tried it myself. I am very interested in learning and practicing it myself to see if it will help me with adrenal fatigue, high-stress levels, etc.
Thanks Nick
Good summary of the scientific basis of cortisol and the vicious circle. It has motivated me to go back and watch the first video again on how to tap, strengthening my intention.
Kerry
I have been on a journey of my own to release chronic pain in shoulders and jaw and to relieve the huge amount of stress and baggage I have carried since early childhood. I started having panic attacks and depression after giving birth to my third child 4 years ago. It has been an incredible journey of refusing anti-depressants and seeing multiple specialists who tell me “Everything is Normal”. Thankfully I know myself well enough to know this is not normal. I have to agree that yoga and meditation are extremely effective sources to go to, but they do take time to practice. Through multiple sites I somehow landed on your site and while I do not understand it yet, look forward to learning more. I will not give up and I really hope that this is the answer I have been looking for. Thank you for healing and helping others.
This is the weirdest thing ever. I’ve just begun saying yes to the universe and with trepidation said yes to opening the link to Nick that was sent to me. I watched the video thinking it was total bunk, put what the heck, it wouldn’t hurt to try it. Did I feel a difference? Maybe. I gave it another round. Hmmmm, I dunno, but let’s go for broke and do a third round for the pain in my back, left leg, knee, and feet that has had me in excruciating pain for the last 4 – 6 weeks. Okay, whatever. Then I got up from my computer to use the bathroom, and noticed I wasn’t hobbling as badly, that my back felt like someone had oiled a rusty hinge, and my feet felt a bit more like feet instead of instruments of torture. I’ve been doing this now for a couple of days, whenever I feel discomfort, an ache, or a return of pain. And it’s working. I still don’t get it, it seems to easy. But the massages, pain meds, chiropractor, and water exercise were taking too long to do what a couple days of tapping have done. I still think it’s weird, but I’m doing it and feeling better and starting to explore using it for stress, insomnia, and emotional dis-ease. Thanks, Nick!
HOw about struggles related to a mental health diagnosis….someone on meds for schizophrenia, bipolar, ADD….how does tapping work in those diagnoses that involve chemical imbalance in the brain?
I’ve had severe migraines for a very long time. They’ve gotten better through alternative treatement but I still get the ocasional migraine attack. Some are so sever that I can’t get out of bed because it hurts so much and I get nauscous. I tried using EFT Tapping to alleviate them but I would love more instructions on that. I have been also trying EFT Tapping for stress and anxiety. It helps while I’m tapping but I still get the anxiety.
Providing a therapeutic method to decrease stress and improve wellbeing. Awesome!
Having read this article and feeling the lovely anticipation of this years Tapping Summit….I have finally found the silver lining to the condition of chronic stress in our society! I never would have discovered EFT and it wouldn’t be making such tremendous strides without stress, (physical, psychological or emotional)! Now we can ‘bless the stress’ as we tap away that and many other issues we’ve hung on to!
I can’t wait for this years borrowing benefits! Very exciting to have the summit to look forward to – namaste, many thanks and many blessings, CJ
I didn’t realize a simple thought that’s considered stressful can trigger such a dangerous chain reaction in the body. I thought exercise was enough to relieve it but apparently, I need to change this since I can only do it a few hours (sometimes days) after the stress trigger. Thanks for the tapping tips! Will tap away 🙂
I was introduced to tapping only a few days ago in a link sent from Bob Proctor. I have been practising it since but can’t say I feel any relief at all from the pain in my body! I can however identify with life experiences in some of the blog comments, but as I have had no immediate noticeable change (other than an increase in the pain! of course this could be a healing crises!) I can only conclude that like other meridian therapies, reflexology and reiki for example, the pace of recovery/healing varies for each individual – what may be days for one person, could be months for another. I think as with any holistic treatment it is still a matter of looking at the whole. Although it is new and exciting to discover the promise of a cure for a world plagued with sickness, – which is unbelieveably down to how we think , what we think and how we identify with both right down to the cellular level – I have my doubts! However I will keep on tapping in the hope of a painfree existence, and who knows??? I may be the next to rave about it!!!!
Great Job Nick, it has really got everyone thinking and talking.
Would like to add a point that wasn’t covered in your article and that is:-
Stress is the physical sensation and manifestation of internal conflict between mind, subconscious programs (memories, beliefs, trapped emotions etc) and our True Intuitive Self / Soul, Eternal aspect.
Just clearing the Stress symptoms with EFT is rather like “shooting the messenger”, it may make you feel better for awhile when you don’t want to know the message.
In the long run, unless you combine the tapping with personal life changes, the wonderful tapping effects will only serve as a salve. You will have to keep on and on and on tapping away the symptoms, rather like continuing to run on the same spot and expecting progress!
True progress comes when you clear the drivers in your subconscious that are causing you to take actions that push you into unsupportive and non-nourishing situations.
The key to stress relief is to clear the drivers, allow the power of your true inner intuition through, listen to it and act on it. Then work on clearing all the emotional discomfort and distress, still residing in the various parts of your body, THEN your body and your life will quite naturally rebalance and heal its’self.
Have a great day everyone.
I learned that I CAN actually help myself get better from ME/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. After feeling helpless for so long I can see a light at the end of the tunnel. Thank you 🙂
I had heard of EFT or Tapping several times in the recent past…but I had never tried it personally until today. I took a “mental health sick” day off today. Feeling stressed out because I worry over all sorts of things in my life. Work…I feel my job is in jeopordy. My finances…I worry that I will never be able to retire and I’m close to sixty years old. I worry about my relationship with my husband because he is a diabetic that does not adhear to a good diet or exercise plan and he has a huge amount of debt due to his gambling addiction. My relationship with my son…who seems to have no love for his mother or himself. I worry about my expanding waistline and my personal health…even though I work very hard at buying and making healthy meals.
Laying in bed this morning, after listening to how to Tap from Nick and Jessica, I tapped for the first time. At first I tapped to have the willpower to sustain a healthy diet but then I began to change my reasons for tapping that led to an emotional past event. I tapped to release my guilt from not being able to say a proper good bye to my father. My Dad was a wonderful man and I was most fortunate to have him for my father. He died of Prostate cancer in 1995 and I have never forgiven myself for not telling him that I loved him. This is still very emothional for me as I am crying as I type this message but I do feel a relief after my tapping session. I will be listening to the 2012 Summit.
what a grace-filled blessing.
something so accessible RIGHT NOW to every man, woman and child.
with no special requirements or cost to learn, offer and benefit by.
Hallelujah!
In my mind the benefit of EFT Tapping is irrefutable. All the self improvement seminars, meditation, spiritual practices and etc. etc. certainly helped me, but the benefits I have received in the last two years with EFT Tapping have cleared a childhood that was filled with abuse, self doubt, and grief and has taken me into a place where I have found the real me. Thank you Nick, Jessica and all concerned with this wonderful modality. Looking forward to all the new information that will come forward in 2012 Summit.
Nick:
I am a health care professional that sees how stress affects the body everyday. I began using “Tapping” to help deal with all of the negativity I am exposed to in my work environment, and, continue to use it with great results after only a short time. I am one of those people who has been looking for a way to be more healthy most of my life. Thanks for introducing me to “Tapping”, I am looking forward to seeing more science on this method.
Sure makes me wonder if this is exactly what I need…..the first step starts the journey…..
Very informative. I imagine this could cause people with ‘insulin production problems’ to experience severe mood swings, confusion, etc. since the cortisol and adrenaline diverts blood (oxygen) away from the digestive system / pancreas. Maybe tapping will help those with diabetes and hypoglycemia. What a breakthrough that would be. Already ordered my 2012 platinum/gold package and can hardly wait for May 2012. Tapping 2011 helped me release FEAR and we made a much needed move to a new location. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Nick and all.
I suppose that, from a lay viewpoint, the most revealing part of this article is the reassurance that, for stress relief, tapping is symultaneously effective both on physical and emotional levels, as well as faster and more long-lasting as compared to conventional psychotherapy.
Waht you seek will come to you when you need it at the right tim. Thank you for the information Nick. I was researching on this topic and received your article. I have known about for some time now and have used it intermittendly used it, forgetting at other times. So this is a reminder call to be more consistent and reap the benefits. And my biggest issue to begin with is procrastination and confidence.
Love and blessings
I learned about all the signs of chronic stress. I am a care taker of a brain cancer patient and I am experiencing many of the symptoms described. i am trying to include tapping in my life to relieve my stress and help my loved one as well. After one tapping session that we did together, he fell asleep.
Thanks for the reminder about stress and how it affects me. Off to do some tapping now….