EFT Tapping
Tapping on points on your face and body while naming your stress out loud. Small trials, mostly by practitioners of the method, report people feeling calmer afterward. Independent studies suggest the naming and the rhythm do the work rather than the specific points. That's fine: it can still work, and the map was never the magic.
When to use it
For when the stress has a name and you need your hands busy while you face it.
Two minutes, kept for you
How to do it
- 1.Rate your stress from 1 to 10.
- 2.Tap the outer edge of your hand while saying, "Even though I feel this stress, I deeply accept myself." Then tap five to seven times on each point while staying with the feeling: top of head, eyebrow, side of eye, under eye, under nose, chin, collarbone, under arm.
- 3.Breathe, re-rate, repeat until you're at a 3 or lower.
- 4.Close with a round of "I choose peace and calm in my body."
What to notice
The number dropping. Feeling lighter or more spacious around the thing that gripped you a few minutes ago.
What the research says
The trials on tapping are small, and most were run by practitioners of the method. They report people feeling calmer afterward, and one result, a lower stress-hormone spike after a session, has held up in a second study. But when researchers compared tapping the prescribed points against tapping anywhere, or tapping a doll, everyone improved about the same. So the points themselves are probably not the ingredient; the naming, the rhythm, and the pause seem to be doing the work. It stays in this library because it can still help, and you deserve to know what's carrying the weight.
If you want to see which of these your body responds to, that’s what the app is for →