How to do the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/Tapping)

I'm going to walk you through how to do the Emotional Freedom Technique, or EFT. You can do this anytime that you're feeling stressed or overwhelmed. Hopefully you find it helpful. Try not to do this more than two hours before bedtime. You can do it at bedtime, but you don't want to get too emotional or too deep, but you can use it for symptom calming. I’m just going to demonstrate and walk you through it. As we go through, I am going to leave some blanks for you to fill in with whatever emotion it is that you are feeling. So here we go, let's get started. 

So you're going to bang your hands together along the sides and say, “even though I'm feeling [blank], I deeply and completely accept myself.” Repeat this phrase as you tap the top of your head, tap in between your eyebrows, the outside of your eye, the inside of your eye. Keep repeating this phrase with the emotions that you're feeling or any triggers you might be having. 

You're going to continue tapping above your lips, on your chin, your collarbones, under your arms, each of your fingers. I want you to keep tapping away. Hum a little tune, count to 5, take a deep breath. Check in with yourself. See how you're feeling. Remember to keep repeating the phrase “even though I'm feeling [blank], I deeply and completely accept myself.” Remember to use your symptom words like anxiety, depression, sadness to fill in those blanks.Take your time and do this cycle a few times.

I hope you find this helpful. Check in with your body, do some deep breathing, see how you're feeling. Remember EFT is good for calming anxiety and soothing depression. Do this when you need some help and in between sessions.