Tap away your stress!

You can do a simple Google search on ‘how to avoid heart disease’ and one key factor that will always come up, is to reduce your stress levels but many of us completely bypass this. Instead changing our diet, start exercising, lose weight and even quit smoking. Now don’t get me wrong, these are all amazing things to do and your heart thank you for it but in today’s world we are living in a constant state of stress and this is having devastating impacts on our physical bodies and our mental health.

When we are in a state of stress, we can have more than 1,400 biochemical responses to that perceived stress, this can include an increased heart rate, elevated blood pressure and the stress hormone cortisol released through the body. If this is happening consistently it can increase the risk for hypertension, heart attack and stroke along with many other dis-eases _{(American Heart Association News, 2020)}.

How can I reduce stress?

Introducing EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, or often known as tapping.  EFT is a stress reduction technique that you can perform on yourself whenever you feel stress creeping in. The process of tapping your fingers on acupuncture points on the face and body has been around for more than 40 years and the 250+ published journal articles show it affects a range of biochemistry in the body (e.g., Blood pressure, brain activity, cortisol and DNA expression) therefore having a positive impact on our physical health _{(Stapleton, 2019)}.

We tap with our fingertips on specific points on the face and upper body whilst focussing on a problem, event, emotion, physical pain or phobia. While tapping, we voice the negative emotions that we are feeling about the issue for a few rounds and once the intensity has come down, we then switch the statements to be positive and what we want to feel instead.

The combination of tapping whilst voicing the negative aspects instead of avoiding them works to clear the emotional block and its’ energy system that is your body, thus removing the negative impact it has on your life. 

The best thing about this tool though is that it is accessible to you at any point in your day. Empowering you to take back your life and take control of your own stress.

Look out for my short video on ‘Tapping your stress away’ coming soon!