The Tapping Solution (EFT): How To Get Started (old)

Discover How to Use EFT Tapping, a Combination of Ancient Chinese Acupressure and Modern Psychology, to Improve Your Health, Relationships, Level of Happiness, and Much More…

From the Desk of Nick Ortner, New York Times Best-Selling Author of the Book “The Tapping Solution”…

What I’m going to share with you on this page, and this entire site, is likely to drastically improve the quality of your life.

You see, when I first learned about EFT, a type of Meridian Tapping, I was so blown away with how effective it was that I absolutely knew I had to find a way to teach others the technique. Over the last 8 years it’s been my life’s mission to show others how they can quickly learn and use EFT Tapping to make life better in every way possible.

On this site, the world’s most visited EFT Tapping website, I’m going to share with you everything you need to know to help you get what YOU want out of life. To get going, you can either scroll down and keep reading this page, or simply click one of the images below to go to a particular section…

What is EFT Tapping?

EFT, otherwise known as Emotional Freedom Techniques, is a type of Meridian Tapping that combines ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology with startling results.

Tapping can help people overcome many issues. From pain relief, to healing childhood traumas, to clearing limiting financial beliefs, to weight loss, body image and food cravings, to fears and phobias, Tapping is proving to be a powerful, well-researched and easy to learn and apply technique.

Tapping utilizes the body’s energy meridian points by stimulating them with your fingertips – literally tapping into your body’s own energy and healing power.

Your body is more powerful than you can imagine… filled with life, energy, and a compelling ability for self-healing. With Tapping, you can take control of that power.

I’ll explain exactly how EFT Tapping works and why it is so effective, but before I do that, check out this video, originally filmed for our 2013 Tapping World Summit, which was attended online by over 500,000 people, for a full explanation, along with a visual demonstration on EFT Tapping…

Why Does EFT Tapping Work?

When you’re experiencing a negative emotional state—angry or upset or fearful— your brain goes on alert. It prepares your body to enter a full-blown, fight-or- flight response. This response evolved to mobilize the body to face an external threat-think of a tiger coming after your ancient ancestor. All the body’s defense systems are turned on to support either fighting or fleeing from the danger. Your adrenaline pumps, your muscles tense, and your blood pressure, heart rate, and blood sugar all rise to give you extra energy to meet the challenge.

Stressors in ancient days were very real threats to survival. Today, however, the fight-or-flight response is rarely activated by a physical threat. Most of our fight-or-flight responses today are triggered internally. For many of us, the internally generated stress response is triggered by a negative memory or thought that has its roots in past trauma or conditioned learning from childhood. The stress response in the body takes the same form, whether the trigger is the tiger (external) or a negative memory (internal). The adrenaline flows, the heart races, and so on. What tapping does, with amazing efficiency, is halt the fight-or-flight response and reprogram the brain and body to act-and react-differently.

The stress response begins in your brain in the almond-shaped amygdala, one of the components of the limbic system, or midbrain. The midbrain is located between the frontal lobes (the cortex) and the hindbrain (also called the reptilian brain-the earliest, most primitive part of the brain). The limbic system is the source of emotions and long-term memory, and it’s where negative experiences are encoded. The amygdala has been called the body’s smoke detector. “Uh-oh, here comes trouble,” says the amygdala. “Something is threatening our safety.” It signals the brain to mobilize the body in the fight-or-flight response. Tapping on the meridian endpoints helps to deactivate the amygdala’s alarm and sends a calming response to the body, and the amygdala recognizes that it’s safe.

And as I’ll show you in just a minute, research is showing just how powerful it is.

How to do EFT Tapping…

I’ll show you a video demonstration on how to tap below, but here are the basic principles to know:

The basic technique requires you to focus on the negative emotion at hand: a fear or anxiety, a bad memory, or any other aspect around an unresolved problem, or anything that’s bothering you. While maintaining your mental focus on this issue, use your fingertips to tap 5-7 times each on 9 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 “chi.” 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 chi… 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 acupuncture, Tapping involves NO needles! “No needles” is definitely one of the advantages of Tapping. 🙂

Acupuncture also takes years to master. Acupuncture practitioners must memorize 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.

For additional details on How to do EFT Tapping, click here.

How to get started using EFT Tapping…

Here at TheTappingSolution.com we have a variety of different resources available for you to get you going with using EFT Tapping. Here are some simple recommendations.

#1 – Download the first two chapters of The Tapping Solution book along with powerful Tapping for Stress Relief CD in mp3 format. They’re yours free. In the first two chapters of the book you’ll learn further details on the history and science behind EFT Tapping in chapter 1 as well as get detailed information on how to tap in Chapter 2. To access these downloads now, just fill in the form below:

#2 – Visit The Tapping Solution Blog to watch videos, read articles and get access to further resources, all 100% free. You can visit our blog by clicking here, or you can visit some of these powerful posts from our blog:

–EFT to Clear Physical Pain

–Chronic Stress is Killing You (And how EFT can change the whole story)

–Change Doesn’t Happen in a Bubble

–That Annoying Person…

–The Problem with Patience

#3 – Pick up a copy of my New York Times and Amazon #1 best-selling EFT Tapping book The Tapping Solution as well as The Tapping Solution film. These are two incredibly powerful resources that can change your life forever.

#4 – Explore this site, use it as a resource to improve your life, and above all…keeping Tapping! 🙂