Are you ready to unlock your emotional potential and find the peace you've been searching for?  Tune into today’s episode and learn how the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) can be a game-changer for managing stress, pain, and enhancing emotional well-being.  

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Show Notes:

Introduction

• Host introduces Jennifer, an EFT expert, to discuss the emotional freedom techniques and how they can be used for a variety of applications from mental well-being to physical health.

Explanation of EFT

• Jennifer provides a comprehensive breakdown of EFT and its origins.

• Discussion on how EFT blends Chinese acupressure and modern psychology to offer therapeutic benefits.

Tapping Technique

• Jennifer walks listeners through a guided tapping session.

  • Tapping points include crown of the head, eyebrows, sides of the eyes, under eyes, below the nose, chin, collarbone, and under the arm.

  • A "reminder phrase," such as "this brown buzzing blob in my stomach," is used while tapping to help focus the mind.

Real-time Experience & Feedback

• Host tries the tapping technique and experiences reduced stress and increased calmness.

• Jennifer explains how tapping helps reset the amygdala and shift from a fight or flight response to a state of calmness.

Other Applications of EFT

• Jennifer elaborates on the multi-faceted uses of EFT: physical pain, sensitivities, memories, emotional turmoil, limiting beliefs, ancestral trauma, and even past life issues.

Brief Technique: Touch and Breathe

• For short bursts of stress relief, Jennifer introduces a simpler technique called "touch and breathe."

• Instead of tapping, one simply touches the points and focuses on their breathing.

Additional Resources

• Links to Jennifer's EFT instruction site and her guide on empathic safety are included in the episode description.

Key Takeaways:

1. Understanding EFT: EFT is a blend of Chinese acupressure and modern psychology that can be used for emotional and physical well-being.

2. Guided Tapping: The episode includes a step-by-step tapping technique focusing on key points in the body to alleviate stress and focus the mind.

3. Amygdala Reset: Tapping techniques help to reset the amygdala, shifting your body from a fight or flight state to one of calmness.

4. Versatility of EFT: Beyond stress and emotional issues, EFT can be used for physical pain, sensitivities, memories, limiting beliefs, and even ancestral and past life trauma.

5. Touch and Breathe: A simplified "touch and breathe" technique is introduced for quick stress relief.

6. Resources: Additional instructional resources are available for those who want to dive deeper into EFT.

Transcript:

Hello everyone and welcome back to Better Than A Pill. Today I am so excited to have Jennifer

Moore here as a guest, and Jennifer is an author, an empathic mentor and master trainer for E

F T International, and today she's gonna help us understand exactly what an empath is, as well

as explain more about a method called E f t, what it is and how it can be used for self-care,

healing, physical pain, and also emotional regulation. So welcome Jennifer. It's so good to have

you here today.

Thank you so much, Carrie. It's so, so good to be here.

You know, you have been doing your work for quite some time, and you are a bit of an expert at

this point, right?

I guess you could say I'm a bit of an expert at this point. I can definitely say I've been doing it for

a while. Excellent. Yeah.

So, tell me, what is the difference between empathy and being an empath and, and how does

that relate to women over 40?

How does it relate to women over 40? So, for one, so, so let's start with the first question, which

is, what's the difference between empathy and being an empath?

So sometimes it's actually, ironically, it can almost be the exact opposite, because to have

empathy means the ability to imagine what another human being is going through and to put

ourselves in their shoes and to feel what they're experiencing. But, Very much aware that we

are feeling what somebody else is experiencing and imagining that, that, you know, that that's

what they're going through.

So there's an understanding of that separation. An empath, which is a science fiction term,

which started back in the 1950s from a short, uh, sort of a novella, um, story called the empath,

and then sort of started to get mainstream. Popularity through actually both the original Star

Trek and then the next Generation is a term for a being who has extra sensory perception that

allows them to, or sometimes it's not, allows them to, but causes them to pick up the thoughts,

the feelings, the energy and the sensations from the world around them.

But the difference between somebody who is very intuitive or very psychic, um, or even

somebody who has. Empathy is that the empath processes all of that information as if it's their

own. And so what makes it challenging to be an empath is that often the empath will be sensing

distress. Instead of being like, oh my goodness, I sense that there's a lot of distress here.

It seems like somebody must be really upset about something. The empath walks into a space

and is like, why do I feel so upset? Why do I feel so sad? So for example, if they went to a place

where maybe there had been a sickness and a death and a lot of grief, The psych, a psychic

would've walked in there and gone, wow.

I sense there's a lot of grief here. It seems like somebody must have recently died. The empath

goes in and is just like, oh my God, I feel so sad. I feel so much grief right now. And so the thing

about this is that I, ironically, when somebody is wired in this way to be picking up the thoughts,

feelings, energy, and sensations coming from the world around them.

Sometimes it can be so overwhelming to be processing all of this extra stuff that it's actually

really hard to have empathy for other people because we're so, we're drowning in the emotional

soup and, and also not necessarily able to recognize what's ours and what's not ours. So, to

answer the next question, which is what does this have to do with women over 40?

What I have found to be true for so many women over 40 is that this whole, you know, all of the

sort of. Um, more woo concepts that younger people like millennials and, um, gen Zs and all of

these people are sort of like, they take it for granted. They, they just sort of like, are like, yeah,

this is just how it is for many of us who are 40 and over.

We grew up in an environment where this stuff did not exist except on Star Trek. Nobody was

talking about it. Nobody was acknowledging it. And those of us who were highly sensitive and,

you know, and, and who identify or who didn't even know the term empath, but were

experiencing what it's like to be an empath or often being told, you're being too sensitive, you're

overreacting, you're taking it too personally, you're making too big a deal out of it.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. There's nothing going on here. And so I think

that. For many women, especially women, 40 and over. There is a way in which there was so

much denial and, and, and ignoring of. Hour of this sensitivity that a lot of times what that did

caused us to doubt our truth and doubt ourselves and doubt our reality because we would be

like, we'd pick something up and instead of our mother or father or friend being like, oh my God,

you're so right.

I'm really feeling this thing. Often because we lived in a time where everybody was kind of like,

you know, going along to get along and again, sort of like keeping up with the Joneses and

everything was all about appearances and looking good as well as just kind of like suppressing

emotion. There was very often a lot of invalidation and denial that went on.

And so I think we have an entire generation of women who've been kind of struggling with it.

Like, why am I feeling this way? There is nothing wrong in my life. There's nothing like it, it

doesn't make sense that I feel so weird. I must be broken. There must be something wrong with

me because I'm feeling this and that doesn't make any sense at all.

And because of that, I think that for women, especially over 40, There is a lot of, it's really

important to be able to be like, oh, this is what I am, this is why I've been experiencing this, and

instead of sort of drinking the Kool-Aid and going along with the people who are like, there's

nothing wrong here.

Pay no attention. Like, yeah. You know, just stop worrying about it. Moving along folks, nothing

to see here. That instead of complying with that, There is such incredible power in saying, no, I

know what is going on. I know this to be true. You may not wanna acknowledge it, you may not

wanna validate that this is happening, but I am an expert, I'm sensing something and it's not

coming from here.

You know, like the call is not coming from inside the house. Yeah, no, that's, uh, definitely new

information for me, and I'm sure for a lot of our listeners here today, because I didn't know. The

difference until you just described it. Yeah. And that's a big difference. I mean, I know that I can

have empathy, but em being an empath is a totally different thing.

It's a totally different thing. And you know, it's a, it's becoming a really popular word and it's

going around all over the place. And there's a lot of like, Different people have very different

definitions of it. Some people equate it to being psychic. Some people equate it to being a

medium. Some people use it as an excuse for why they can't go out into public or why they can't

be around people or why everything is difficult.

A friend of mine posted something, just the other day on Facebook basically saying, being an

empath, uh, if anything requires more boundaries, not less. And if you can't be around people

you need to look at your behavior and how you are handling these things. But, you know, the

thing is that the term, as I mentioned before, it's not a clinical term, it's a scientist science fiction

term that pop culture has picked up.

But for people who have been wondering or struggling with, Sensitivity for their entire life and

wondering why I feel so intensely, especially when it doesn't correlate with anything in my life.

What I have often found is often through using E F T and tapping that many, many times, we

start realizing, oh, I started to feel this way after I had this encounter with these people, or I

started to feel this way because the person in the next room is struggling mightily and that's why

I'm experiencing this insomnia.

And you know, the thing is it's not black and white. It is not just like this or that. And so often as

highly sensitive empaths, what can happen is, We can be picking up on things that are going on

from the world outside of ourselves, but we will also be activating things that are within us that

resonate with that.

And so it's not necessarily just a, it's always about the other person. It's often a both a both and.

I see. Yeah. So and, and this led you to do the E F T work, which I'm so curious to learn more

about and exactly what is E F T? So, E F T stands for emotional freedom. I. Techniques and

what led me into e F T is that, I mean, I've been a lifelong heal, a lifelong learner, a lifelong

seeker, uh, also a lifelong healer, and always looking for modalities and things that can be

helpful.

And as I definitely identify as an empath, as an empath myself. I struggled a lot and and

honestly still do at times struggle with anxiety and also like bouts of blueness and what, I

wouldn't call it depression because depression I think is more chronic and I tend to be more like

I just have these dips and ever since I was like nine or 10 years old, I've been contending with.

Actually, probably ever since I was about four or five years old, I've been contending with my

emotional state and contending with my moods. And so I had, I. Come across. I was, you know,

I, I was following a number of sort of healing newsletters and things, and I kept running across

this one, one newsletter where this guy kept talking again and again about emotional freedom

technique.

And so I kind of checked it out and it just seemed weird. You know, I'll be honest, it involves like,

emotional freedom technique is basically to describe it. It's. A form of, uh, best way to, it's like a

mental, emotional acupuncture without the needles where what we do is we either tap or apply

light pressure to certain acupuncture, me endpoint meridian endpoints on our face.

On our torso, and on our hands are the dominant places where we do, where we tap and think

about whatever the issue, the memory, the physical sensation is that is, is sort of that, that feels

either out balance and or painful or uncomfortable that we want to shift. And by just basically

focusing on it and using what is called a setup statement, we start by just acknowledging it and

tapping on the side of the hand and just acknowledging it.

And then after we've done that, we move through the tapping points it seemed, from my

perspective, like, how is this even gonna work? And I will be the first to say, I was not a fan of

the idea of like, Looking like a monkey, tapping on the top of my head and all over my face when

I first started to do it.

And I first discovered it back in, the early aughts and, uh, you know, like maybe even, I think it

was like, I don't know, like 2005, 2007 or something. And I tried it and it didn't land for me. It

wasn't until. I was driving in an ice storm. My husband was driving and I was the passenger, and

I have a history of car accidents and I was really panicking.

I mean, we were driving in two inches of sleet and it was not, the weather conditions were not

conducive, and we were coming up from Massachusetts. To about, you know, an hour and a

half, almost two hours north to our home in Maine. And so I just asked my husband, would you

mind if I tried this tapping thing while you drive?

And he is like, knock yourself out, do it. And I went from very distressed, like nine or 10 on a

scale of zero to 10, with zero being no feeling whatsoever, and 10 being practically off the

charts. I went from very agitated, like nine 10. To a zero within two rounds of tapping. And I was

like, oh my God, there's really something to this.

And that was what hooked me. That's what had me go, wow, this really worked. I. And what I

believe personally is that the reason that it had never worked before was that I was never

actually tapping on anything that mattered. I was just kind of doing it in theory instead of actually

working on something that was quantifiable because I was experiencing distress.

Like I was like, oh my God, we're gonna die and. It was really funny because it went from, oh my

God, we're gonna die to, yeah, we could die. It was like, and I was just like, okay, you know it, it

will be what it will be. If we get into an accident, we'll deal. But I was like, there was just no

emotional charge left on it.

I was just completely calm, and that was the moment when I went. I really need to learn about

this because I was like, there's something to this thing. And that's what kind of drew me in. And,

what is amazing about it is that it has given me a tool to be able to really discern. What's mine?

What's not mine?

What do I need to work on and what do I really just need to let go of and sort of acknowledge

and pretty much say NAMA circus. NAMA monkeys. Wow. That is definitely a powerful story. To

see that you got immediate results through doing it. And now, it's part of your life. It is part of my

life. And I will say, I mean, I was in, so I was in a car accident when I was 18 years old.

It was, it was a doozy. I was in an altered state of consciousness, which did not make things, did

not help. And I was, I was in the passenger seat. We rolled over three times. We skidded 160

feet. The car was completely totaled. I have sort of dual memories of waking up on the ground

and climbing out of the car.

Like, like it was really quite an intense experience. The driver was thrown out of the car and

broke his back and, you know, interestingly, just out of people outta Curie, you know,

interestingly, he, this man died in a car accident about 10 years later. I, I, I am grateful I was not

in that moment, but, you know, he just, he was somebody who was just kind of destined to go in

a particular direction.

But that accident, I had been experiencing PTsD about it for years and years and years

afterwards. And I would have nightmares, I would get anxious whenever we were driving. I had

tried doing, I had done. More talk therapy about it than I could even begin to, I could even begin

to count. I had done shamanic healing practices, soul retrieval work, breath work around it,

doing breath work while driving past the accident site, like all kinds of stuff.

Even E M D R, because my husband is a trained psychotherapist and at one point was training

in E M D R and he was like, Hey, you wanna be my Guinea pig? Nothing had put a dent in it. I

mean, I was, I was able to drive, I was able to function, but nothing had ever really made it

better until I tapped that day.

And that was like, it was like a complete sea change. It was like a game over. Complete

difference. And that's what, what had me go, I must learn this. I must share this. This is so

valuable. And what's. Awesome about it and I love, you know, the reason you know I love the

name of your podcast better than a Pill is that for me, this really is better than a pill because it is

something that we can do for ourselves.

You don't need to work with a practitioner. Sometimes it's helpful to work with a practitioner if it's

something really intense or something that you just like, you don't really wanna go there. It can

be really helpful to have somebody, a skilled practitioner, guide you through. That process in a

really gentle way, but for the basic stuff, like you've got a headache or maybe your knee is

aching, or maybe there's just sort of a minor annoyance.

It is, anybody can learn how to do this and it takes maybe five or 10 minutes to learn the basic

recipe and you can change things. I was able to go from extreme sensitivity to fragrances where

I could not walk, I mean, I don't know if I would still choose to walk into like a Yankee candle

company store, but like I would have to hold my breath in like the detergent and the candle

aisles in any kind of a store.

I would start to wheeze if I was like in the mall and walking past Abercrombie, like I would just

be like, I would have to hold my breath to walk past like a place like Abercrombie or you know,

Victoria's Secret or something. Any place that was pumping out perfume. And as well as I had a

lot of food sensitivities and I was able to use tapping to really calm my body down, my nervous

system down, and my reactivity down so that at this point in time.

I would not say I'm a massive fan of driving in bad weather. I'm a lot calmer driving in bad

weather. I'm a lot calmer just being a passenger as well as driving. I can eat foods that I used to

not be able to eat, and while I certainly do not enjoy smelly fragrances, I no longer, like I, my

lungs don't feel like they're seizing up when I'm exposed to a fragrance in the way that I used to.

Like, it used to be that if we went to a hotel and they had, you know, like a designer fragrance

sort of signature fragrance in the lobby. And everything smelled a certain way. I would just be

like me, I would have a really hard time being in a place like that. Like there have been times

where I've just been like, we need to get outta here.

I can't tolerate this space. And tapping completely changed that for me. So it is definitely better

than a pill, and the wonderful thing about it is that not only can it help people with emotional

issues, but it can also help with physical issues. That is great and it's amazing. I mean, yeah,

this sounds wonderful.

I, so, so you can do it in a short period of time as well, is what it sounds like. You don't need to,

yes. You don't need to. I mean, if you're working on a really big thing, you know, you can decide

what you're gonna like, like untangle the tapestry and pull the threads and go down the rabbit

hole and do an hour or even a 90 minute tapping session, that's possible.

But even with like 5, 10, 15 minutes, tapping can help to shift gears and can really help and

especially when we are focusing on something really specific. And one of the sayings that, Ann

Adams, who's one of the OG master trainers, and master, you know, E f T Masters from Gary

Craig, who is the founder or the, you know, the founder of E F T as we know it today.

Ann Adams is one of his, his sort of original, uh, students. She always says, specific is terrific.

And that's the thing. The more precise, the more specific, the more dialed into the exact thing

that's going on for us, the more effective E F T tends to be. I. Wow. And, and for an average

person, is it something that's achievable to learn and how long would that take to learn?

You know, it depends. I mean, I guess I would say it depends on your retention, you know, it

depends on somebody's capacity for retention and somebody's, you know, just like somebody's

learning speed. But like the basic recipe, like I've done. I've done like reels and you know, on

Instagram and, and like TikTok where I have literally done a one minute tapping sequence and

I've been able to move through the entire tapping sequence.

In one minute. I have like on my YouTube channel, a learn how to do e f T, and I think the video

is like 14 minutes and. Where I explain the concepts, I teach people how it works. I mean, I

could even like, you know, I could, I could share the basic premises with you right now in five

minutes. Like, it's that simple, getting, understanding the nuances of it.

I'm still working on that. Like I've been doing this, I've been, I've been a practitioner since 2013.

I've been a master trainer since like 2018. For, yeah, 2018. I'm just thinking like I became a

trainer in 2018 you know, so I've been working at it for a while and I would say I'm still

discovering the nuances.

It is a remarkably simple tool. I. But at the same time, it is also a tool that has so much nuance

to it and can be applied in so many different ways that I'm constantly learning new approaches

and new sort of like, Hey, if you came at it from this angle, it might might be, you know, we might

be able to work on this in this other way, but five, you know, like even.

We can, we can even, even five minutes can make a massive, massive difference and

especially if. You just need to get over the hump. Like, you know, maybe you are like, oh my

God, if I have to do another dish, I think I'm gonna kill somebody. You can like to go, you know,

like if you're in the kitchen alone, you can just be even, you know, even though I really don't

wanna deal with the dishes right now, I'm open to the possibility that this can be easier than I

expected.

And then, you know, don't wanna do the dishes, don't wanna do the dishes. And even just that

acknowledgement and moving through the points and you know, and just doing one sequence

of tapping can often be enough for us to be able to move the needle so that we can jump over

that hurdle and we can move forward.

I knew somebody who, um, Was when she was first building her business, she suffered from

extreme social anxiety and was incredibly uncomfortable being around people. She would sit in

her car and cry before going into a networking event and then, but she would tap. And calm her

nervous system down and get herself to a place where she could handle it.

And then get her, you know, sort of pull herself together and then go into a networking event.

And at this point in time, you would not even recognize this woman from who she had been

because she is now like a multi seven figure business coach who is, who is thriving in her world

because she was able to move, get out of her own way by using tapping to jump the hurdle and

to be able to accomplish, you know, even these tasks, which might seem like for some people,

not a big deal at all, but going back to the empaths, A lot of times things that are not a big deal

at all for your neurotypical person can be very challenging For somebody who is highly sensitive

and empathic, as well as any number of other ways that somebody could be neurodiverse,

tapping can really help.

Okay, so I'm just wondering, could we go through a little exercise so everybody gets an

understanding, you know, verbally and so forth. Maybe an example on how to calm the nervous

system or something like that? I would love to do that. So, okay, so I'm gonna just teach you the

basic recipe and what I'm gonna show you, and I'm gonna show you.

I'll show you the basic recipe and I'll explain it to you. And then what I'm gonna do is we'll go

through, we'll go one, do one round on, just kind of like acknowledging maybe that we're feeling

sort of anxious or agitated about something. And then what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you

how to use breathing, correlating breathing with the touch, the tap tapping points, and doing

what's called touch and breathe.

So a lot of times, as I said before, specific is terrific. So a lot of times when somebody, when

somebody first experiments with tapping, they will often be a little bit too general. And so I'm not,

we're not gonna say, even though I'm feeling anxious, because that's a little bit too broad. And

the thing is, the brain is gonna try to tell us all the reasons why we're anxious, which will of

course, Add to that sense of anxiousness.

So instead of focusing on just being anxious, what we're gonna do is we're gonna focus on a

physical sensation in our body. So are you feeling any kind of, I mean, I'm feeling pretty, I'm

actually feeling pretty stable and calm right now like I've got this teeny little niggling thought

about the fact that I've got a cat litter box to clean in a.

I was telling Carrie before we got on this, we got on the interview that our baby kitten Zuzu,

who's like 14 weeks old, decided to knock over the litter box right before we started and so she

tipped it over in her, in her special little crate. So I'd say I'm maybe experiencing about a two or

a three of just kind of like that.

But do you have any, is there any kind of thing that's kind of like, Just sort of affecting or

impacting your nervous system. Don't you do not have to go into any detail about it at all. As a

matter of fact, it's better not to go into any detail, but is there anything going on for you that we

could focus on or tune into?

Maybe slightly. Not a, not a huge amount, but I would say there, there could be a little, uh, very

low level. Perfect for that. So where would you say, if you were going to tune, imagine that yeah,

there is this little low level. Where in your body do you think it is? Is it living? Where are you

carrying it? In the stomach area.

Okay and I would say, actually I'm noticing for myself, I've got sort of a band of tension across

my forehead that's like the, oh my God, do not wanna deal with the litter box. And then, and then

this sort of little bit of kind of, Just a little bit of stomach kind of feeling as well so what we're

gonna do is, like I said, instead of focusing on the emotion right now, what we're gonna be

focusing on is just the physical sensation in our body of where that feeling of distress is.

So it's in your stomach right now and we, are you comfortable being the Guinea pig for this so

that I can.

Sure. Yeah, that's fine. Absolutely.

Okay. So what we're gonna do right now is, the second question I've got for you is, if it had a

color, what would it be? Well, the first color that comes to mind for some reason is like brown.

Okay, perfect. And if you were to guess, not to tune into it, but to just guess on a scale of zero to

10, how intense does this feel? What do you guess it would be and go with the very first number

that comes to your mind? Three. That was exactly what I imagined in my head. So what we're

gonna do right now is we're gonna start with tapping on the side of the hand and using what's

called the setup statement.

And the setup statement is a combination of acknowledging what's going on and. Offering a

neutral balance statement to it or a positive balance statement. But I often like to start with

something a little bit more neutral. So we would start by tapping on with our three fingers of one

hand on the side of the other hand, kind of going down on the side where your pinky finger is

running.

People used to call this the karate chop point, but because it is, um, Not necessarily a reference

that everybody would understand and it was considered cultural appropriation. We eventually

changed it to the side of the hand as the descriptor. So we're just gonna tap on the side of the

hand and you can repeat after me, even though I feel this brown.

How would you describe it? Blob of irritation, I don't even know what, what would you, even

though I feel this brown blob of irritation, buzzing. Yeah. Like what would you, how would you

buzz? I feel this brown buzzing blob in my stomach. I feel this brown buzzing blob in my

stomach. I'm open to the possibility I. I'm open to the possibility that this can shift, that this can

shift.

So we just acknowledged it and then we offered what's called the balance statement. Now we're

gonna do this two more times, and I like to switch hands so that I can remember that I've done it

three times. So even though I feel this brown buzzing blob in my stomach, I feel this. Brown

buzzing blob in my stomach, and maybe it's about that situation. You don't have to go into any

specifics, but you just wanna just acknowledge what it's about for you. And even if it's about,

and maybe it's about, and maybe it's about that situation. That situation. That thing I'm worried

about, that thing I'm worried about. So, and if we were tapping, if you were tapping on your own,

you would acknowledge it.

You'd be like, maybe it's about like maybe it's about going back to school, whatever it is. I'm just

acknowledging it. I'm just acknowledging it. I'm just tapping on it. I'm just tapping on it and I'm

open to the possibility. And I'm open to the possibility that this can shift. That this can shift. So

even though I'm feeling this brown buzzing blob, I'm feeling this brown buzzing blob.

It's in my stomach, it's in my stomach's. A three. It's a three. And maybe it's about that situation,

and maybe it's about that situation. I'm just acknowledging it. I'm just acknowledging it and I am

open to the possibility, and I'm open to the possibility that this can and will shift, that this can and

will shift.

And I'm okay. And I'm okay right here, right now. Right here, right now, we're gonna tap on the

top of the head, if you're familiar with yoga, right on the crown chakra or on the fontanel as a

soft spot. When you're a baby, and we're just gonna acknowledge it by using what's called the

reminder phrase, this brown buzzing blob in my stomach, this brown buzzing blob in my

stomach.

Now we're gonna tap on the eyebrow points, which are right at the top of your eyes, sort of right

where your eyebrows meet, unless you have a unibrow like Frida Kahlo, like right at the start of

the eye socket right up. Sort of like if you have glasses on, like I do kind of right at the top of

your glasses, right?

You know, right where the bridge of your nose starts. And we're just gonna use the reminder

phrase again. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach. I. This brown buzzing blob in my

stomach. Now we're gonna tap on the side of the eyes, right on the temples, kind of right

between the upper and lower lid, but not on your eyes.

So not on your eyelids, but just right on the, on the bone on the side. This brown buzzing blob in

my stomach. This brown bl buzzing blob in my stomach. It's like saying that 10 times faster.

Okay, now we're gonna tap underneath the eyes, right directly under your pupils right on the eye

socket. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach, this brown buzzing blob in my stomach.

Now we're gonna tap underneath the nose. This is where what's called the Cupid's bow, or the

rum between the lip and the nose. This brown buzzing blob. In my stomach, this brown buzzing

blob in my stomach. Now we're gonna tap between the lip and the chin. This brown buzzing

blob in my stomach, this brown buzzing blob in my stomach.

And now we're gonna tap on the collarbone points. And so it's sort of like you find your

collarbone and then just kind of come down a little bit, maybe about. Three quarters and half an

inch to three quarters of an inch below the bones. And you can sort of feel around until you feel

almost like kind of a, so sort of like just, it kind of clicks.

That's true for any point. We're just gonna use a reminder phrase again. This brown buzzing

blob in my stomach, this brown buzzing blob in my stomach. And now finally, we're gonna tap

underneath the arm sort of directly parallel to the armpit. Kind of on your rib cage past the

breast tissue, parallel.

Depending on whether, what kind of, um, support undergarment you're wearing, it may or may

not be parallel to your nipple. And just again, we're gonna say the reminder phrase, this brown

buzzing blob in my stomach, this brown buzzing blob in my stomach. And now we're gonna go

back to the top of the head, this brown buzzing blob in my stomach.

This brown buzzing blob in my stomach. Let's just do one more round with this without this

setup, but just tapping through. Now that you know we've done all the points. So eyebrow

points, this brown buzzing blob in my stomach. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach side of

the eyes. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach.

This brown buzzing blob in my stomach under the eyes. This brown buzzing blob in my

stomach. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach under the nose. This brown BT buzzing blob

in my stomach. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach under the lip. This brown buzzing blob

in my stomach. Brown buzzing blob in my stomach.

Collarbone points to this brown buzzing blob in my stomach. This brown buzzing blob in my

stomach under the arm. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach. This brown buzzing blob in my

stomach back to the top of the head. This brown buzzing blob in my stomach. It's a brown

buzzing blob in my stomach. Let's take a deep breath

and just notice how you're feeling, and if you were to guess on a level of zero or zero to 10,

where we started with a three, what do you guess? The brown buzzing blob in your stomach is

now about a one and a half. Perfect. So if we were doing a longer session, we would go in and

do another round of tapping on that one and a half.

And also what we would do is I would ask you the uh, million dollar question, what did you

notice? And chances are, I would imagine you got some clarity as we tapped about what was

going on for you and what you might be feeling the way you're feeling. That's generally how it

works for people. Yes. I feel, I have to say the thing that strikes me the most is a sensation of

calmness, prior to when we started and somehow the tapping stimulated a little bit more

calmness.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. In, in my body. Yes. And what tapping does is that, and is that, It actually.

So we have a part of our brain that is in charge of the fight or flight mechanism called the

amygdala. And what tapping allows us to do is to reset the amygdala so that we are not

remaining in fight or flight because.

Up, you know, on, up until very recently, human beings would. When, uh, some kind of situation

came up and we felt a sense of threat, we would fight, flight, or flee. You know, we would fight

flight, we would fight. But flee or freeze. Yes. And the thing is that nowadays most of our threats

are, are, are kind of theoretical.

You know, you get a nasty text from somebody, you see, you scroll social media and you see

something that's really intimidating. But what, what that does is it doesn't give us any way to

discharge the intensity of it. And so often what happens is we're in these sort of cascading loops

of distress. E F T allows the amygdala to calm down and reset so that we are not in this

cascade of reactivity that as, as a modern society, we tend to be in like sadly almost all the time.

And so by acknowledging it but also just moving through and tapping through on, on these

acupuncture points, it allows all of the places where sort of the energy has been kind of stuck.

To be released. I kind of think of it as almost like the sort of in, in the, one of the images that I

always have is that it's almost like an ultrasonic cleaner or something that's just kind of shaking.

Everything has just been kind of contracted and congested and, and just like in a state of like, I

gotta deal with this. Just, it allows everything to calm down, but, The other thing I mentioned that

I, that we would do another round with just what's called touch and breathe. And this is where if

you just have three minutes, you just have a minute, you can go into the, you know, like you just

need a break, go into the bathroom and just do even one round of tough touch and breathing

can really help.

So we're just gonna place our hand on the top of our head and not tapping at all, just putting

your hand on the top of your head. We're just gonna breathe in. And breathe out.

And now moving with both going to the eyebrow points and just touching those and just inhaling

and exhaling.

Now moving to the side of the eyes again, inhaling.

And exhaling

now under the eyes, inhaling

and exhaling

under the nose, inhaling.

And exhaling

under the lip, inhaling

and exhaling

collar bones. Inhaling

and exhaling.

And now under the arm, inhaling

and exhaling,

and then back to the top of the head, inhaling and exhaling.

How are you feeling?

Even calmer. That's great. Isn't that amazing? Yeah, that's wonderful. What a wonderful tool.

Yeah. Yeah. I, I, yes, I mean, I, I really, what I, I believe I sincerely believe that e f t, if we can get

it into the hands of enough people, it can change our planet. It can change our world because

we can use it to calm and reboot our nervous system because the thing is, When we are in a

state of reactivity, we do not have the capacity to see the world and to see all of our options.

We will literally develop tunnel vision and we will, we will react and we will look for the nearest

exit. I. When we can calm our nervous systems down, we become more resilient, we become

more resourced, and we also can respond instead of react, which then allows us to not be

reacting from a traumatized like so often if we've not, if we don't, haven't ever discovered any

tools to release the distress that we carry in our bodies, then what's happening is anytime

anything resembles a traumatic experience we had in our childhood or young adulthood or

anything, what happens is that that traumatized part of us is driving the bus.

So for so many people on the planet, it's a five-year-old that's in charge of absolutely everything.

What is so exquisite about E F T is that we can use it for physical pain. We can use it for, we

can use it for sensitivities and reactivity. Like I said, I was able to use it for. I was able to use it

for my food sensitivities and my fragrance sensitivities.

We can use it for memories, difficult memories, and clear the events. So eventually I went back

into the original car accident and tapped on that and shifted and released the charge on that.

We can use it for the emotions that are going on. We can use it for difficulties. In situations that

are going on where we're feeling confused or unsure or irritated or whatever, we can use it for

limiting beliefs and thoughts, uh, that are getting in our way.

Like, I'll never amount to anything or I am not worthy, or, you know, like nice girls don't ask for a

lot of money or whatever it is that is holding us back. We can also use it to work on ancestral

healing and trauma. That is way back in our ancestral lines, as well as if you're into the WOO

stuff. We can also use it for things like past life memories and past life trauma.

I have not yet found some. Anything that E F T doesn't benefit in some way. I mean, it can't set a

bone. You're gonna have to go see a doctor for that. But what it can do is it can help calm your

nervous system down about the fact that you broke your arm and allow you to be in a state of

resourcefulness and also in a state of a lot more ease and grace so that you can navigate

whatever it is that's coming next.

Yes. And there, there is so much power in all that you showed us today. And I just wanna thank

you so much for coming on here. What a gift. Absolutely. And I have included links to Jennifer's

website and she has an E F T instruction site and a guide, right, and a guide on empathic safety.

And that's all included in this episode.

So check that out and take that tool today and put it to use. And again, thank you so much,

Jennifer.

Oh, it has been such a pleasure. Thank you so much for having me. I mean, as you can tell, I

love E F T and any chance I get to talk about it, it's the best day ever. So thank you for making

my day.

Absolutely. And I can feel that in you and, and thank you again. And remember, we do new

episodes every week on Wednesday, and I look forward to having you join me then.