EFT: Let's TAP into this Simple Practice with Profound Power
Remembering there's POWER in The Littlest Ways You Take Care of Yourself
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In Chapter 2, Your First Tap: A Simple Practice with Profound Power, the Ortners describe how we can tap on these 9 meridian acupressure points:
Side of Hand
Top of Head
Eyebrow
Side of Eye
Under Eye
Under Nose
Under Mouth
Collarbone
Underarm
Whenever we think with focused attention on whatever is bothering us (by using whatever “Setup Statement” we wish to use to describe our concern), the fight-flight-freeze-fawn-or-flop modes activate in our Sympathetic Nervous System, and we can acknowledge our feelings as they are — even if they’re negative — by saying, “Even though I feel x, I completely love and accept myself.”
When we do this while tapping the 9 points, magic happens: the piezoelectric acupressure we apply with our fingers sends calming signals to our brain.
As the Ortners put it, “Your brain gets confused — in the best way. [Our brain] is registering the problem but receiving safety signals. In that contradiction, it can finally update its response.”
The rest-and-digest modes in our Parasympathetic Nervous System flips on and, as we do as many rounds of tapping as we need, we can literally gauge how our subjective, felt experience of dis-ease in our mind and body reduces on the Subjective Unit of Distress (SUD) Scale, from a high 10 to a next-to-nothing 1.
My MINDFUL Reflection
What I love most about this EFT Practice is how flexible it is.
I was able to use it many times this past week, to overcome the dis-ease I felt:
When I didn’t feel like running errands.
When I missed my morning piano practice two days in a row and was feeling guilty about it.
When I wanted to put off some weeding that had to be done in the garden.
When I had to fill out some paperwork for mailing at the Post Office.
In every instance, tapping helped me to move past the resistance in a way that was much kinder than normal. Usually, these kinds of tasks bother me, because they generate this low, yet persistent, level of dread. Like a never-ending “ughhhh” at the thought that I “have to” check it off my To Do List, mainly because I know my To Do List will never end because there’s always something new that has to be done. A few To Do’s every once and a while would not bother me much, but they do add up and generate this ever-present, icky “Background Stress.”
EFT was like a little tap on the proverbial shoulder, where I got to acknowledge that small part of my Adult Self that doesn’t always want to do the Adulting. Without letting myself off the hook, without allowing myself to avoid these tasks, I was able to help myself to feel better. To feel seen and understood. Without taking a lot of time. I really did feel better after a few quick rounds of tapping, whenever the ick arose. And it helped me to just get on with it. To just do the damn do.
Then get back to what I really wanted to do, to enjoy my life instead.
It’s helped me to remember…
There’s POWER in the Littlest Ways we take care of our Self.
And, the way we do the small things matter.
The smallest irritations prepare us.
To build up our resilience.
To relax into our routine — even when its the icky Adulting we don’t feel like doing.
To TRUST in our ability to do what’s best for us.
To be POWERFUL when the Big Issues come along and challenge us.
Now, Take a Mindful Moment, to ask yourself:
⭐️ The next time you feel stressed or upset this week, give EFT a try for 10 minutes. Before and after tapping, rate how upset you feel on the SUD scale of 1 (not upset) to 10 (highly distraught).
⭐️Did EFT help you to acknowledge your upset and allow it to pass?
⭐️Did you feel a greater sense of self-love, acceptance, and compassion?
⭐️ Might EFT be the little, yet powerful, tap on the shoulder that your nervous system needs to feel understood and enter a state of calm?
⭐️ How can EFT train your body and mind to relax, despite your daily life stressors?
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🧠🎨 The EFT Practicing You, 🎨🧠
Marisa
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That icky background stress is so relatable!
The problem I’m currently coming up against, which I will also need to tap on, is that the part of me that does not want to work on the to-do list tasks does not want to participate in the tapping just so I can accept it and do the tasks. It says, “stop finding ways to optimize yourself so that you can perform and produce even when you’re exhausted.” So in order to make any progress, I’ve had to promise myself that tapping to improve my self-love and self-acceptance does not mean I am required to then be more productive. Unless I genuinely want to be. But I’m not doing this to achieve that, if that makes sense.
A similar thing happened with my art practice. I was working on a series that I came up with in order to pitch a showing of it at a local shop/gallery. I got to the final piece of the series, and discovered I feel completely unable to start it. I finally had to promise myself this morning that completing the piece does not require me to submit it, or anything else for a show. I can just finish it and then put it in a drawer with a bunch of other paintings if I want to. But finishing it is important, as is starting other pieces. Maybe I’ll decide to submit it down the road, maybe not. First I need to finish the damn thing if I even want to have a choice about it.
All this to say, it’s definitely baby steps for me, with lots of gentleness, compassion, and patience for where I am at. 🖤
Thanks for sharing, @Tinashe D. Ndhlovu !