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Your Brain on Tapping: How Tapping Rewires the Brain

Tapping does more than calm you, it actually changes your brain. See the infographic on what happens inside your head when you tap.

Your Brain on Tapping: How Tapping Rewires the Brain

You’ve probably heard about the calming effects of Tapping, but did you know that it actually changes your brain?

Tapping actually alters brain activity and rewires your brain. How incredible is that?

Our full guide to the science behind tapping covers the meta-analyses, the cortisol data, and the fair critiques.

Just check out the infographic below to learn all about what's going on deep within your brain when you tap.

If you're wondering whether these brain effects depend on tapping the exact acupressure points, or whether any tapping-like motion would do, our broader research overview looks directly at that question.


Infographic: how Tapping rewires the brain

Until next time…

Keep Tapping!

Nick Ortner

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