How To Tap All Day (& Not Look Like A Nutcase)

EFT is a pretty useful tool. The only downside is that whacking yourself in the face in public tends to make you look a bit crazy.

And we don't want that, right?

Now, you can tap with your mind — focus on each point in turn, and simply imagine the tapping process — & that does work pretty well, but here's another way.

I picked this up from EFT down under — a couple of local blokes with international renown. I thoroughly recommend downloading their free report (it's all of about 4 pages long) — tons of good info in there.

Anyway, not trying to steal their thunder, but this technique is super useful so I just had to spread it a bit further. How simple is it? Well, you just whack your thumb against the edge of each of your fingers in turn — 5 to 10 times on each finger — just between the tip & first knuckle. Keep looping around to your heart's content! Like this:

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Fear my giant sky hands! fear! feeeeaarr!

Of course, you have (I hope) two hands, so for even more impact, you can do it on both hands at once.

How does this compare to regular tapping? Well, I've found that if I'm shifting something big or complicated, then regular tapping kicks slightly more ass, but this is super useful, and effective about 80% of the time. A lot of times this has already shifted enough that I only have to tap one of the "regular" points in order to clear the bigger stuff anyway.

The other big advantage — because it's the kind of thing you can just do in the background while you're doing anything else, it is really useful for clearing out a ton of those niggly background thoughts. You know, the kind of noise that just jiggles around, but isn't necessarily big enough to really put your finger on (umm). After a day of doing this — just a few loops now and then when I remembered, without focussing on anything in particular, I felt a ton of background noise disappearing. Funniest thing was, I couldn't even figure out what I'd lost, just that things were clearer, & I felt a lot calmer.

I also find that because I can tap much faster with my fingers, I can cycle through a lot quicker, so I'm shifting things much much faster too.

Since this style of tapping is so unintrusive, it's the kind of thing you can idly do while you're on a bus, walking down the street, writing with the other hand, whatever. Best of all, without anyone really noticing, or getting yourself chucked in the loony bin.

It's super handy. Heh, as it were.

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  • http://www.dailybread365.com Lucy-Ann

    Hi Simon,
    I just got an EFT clearing audio from Mary Hall — it is wonderful and I am beginning to appreciate the effectiveness and simplicity of this amazing energetic healing, so completely resonated with your above post! Learning about this, and other amazing techniques (just learned of the AIM program) and of course wonderful healing food, and helping others is the key to life really! Best wishes to you Simon, Lucy-Ann

  • http://sidawson.org Si Dawson

    Oh wow, that's great Lucy-Ann. Super happy to hear it. There really are a ton of useful techniques out there — & combining them all (eating well, being surrounded by loving people, giving, gratitude, exercise, energy healing, etc) works super well.

    Everyone has shit in their lives, of some kind or other. Just a matter of finding anything that helps get rid of it :) Am glad EFT is resonating for you, it is a super useful thing.

  • http://www.sushizume.com Deanne

    This is really helpful and reminds me of a technique I would do as a little kid, an instinctual tapping of the tips of my fingers in rounds. I always had trouble sleeping…ha ha not much has changed it is 3:30am…so I would tap my fingers in rounds. I had no idea that it could be helpful or that I would later discover EFT, it just felt calming.

  • http://sidawson.org Si Dawson

    Sounds like you instinctively discovered this for yourself — that's so awesome!

    I love it when our inner selves naturally guide us to a place of brilliance. It's such a nurturing feeling to realise we're really so well looked after.. all we have to do is get out of the way occasionally..

  • http://michiganrawfoodblog.blogspot.com/ Alison

    That's really interesting! I love EFT, but yeah, I definitely don't need any help looking any crazier than I probably already do :) So, I'll keep this in mind :)

  • http://www.xanga.com/eternalvoyageur eternalvoyageur

    I used to wonder whether this would work… am glad to have found a confirmation !
    Somewhere on Wikipedia there was a study that stated that the exact tapping points were not terribly important anyway. I think that the tapping serves two puropses apart from the pressure points thing: 1. It keeps the mind from wandering (just like the ritual set of bows etc in Islamic prayers !) It keeps the conscious mind on the tapping, not letting it "think" about the issue, and this lets out things from the subconscious mind.

    BTW have been missing your posts lately !

  • http://sidawson.org Si Dawson

    There's some subtlety to that — EFT taps way more points than may be needed for any issue. Often only one point is blocked. As your sensitivity improves, you can often just tap that one point for the same effect — but you do have to tap meridians. You couldn't just tap, I dunno, your elbow :)

    There are little meridians on the edges of your fingers, between tip & 1st knuckles (I didn't just randomly pick them *laugh*)

    The ritual/rhythmic nature of it does definitely help though, you're very right.

    .. & thank you. I just haven't had much to say. Professional bloggers HAVE to post all the time — it's their job, after all. I figure it makes more sense to just post when I have something worth saying. Everyone is so busy, & time/attention starved. There's no point in just adding to the mental noise in the world. That's what I figure, anyway. I'm sure I'll kick back up again soon enough.

  • http://tamikkarochelle.wordpress.com Tamikka

    This is great. I used to do the full tap series in my car during my commute. It doesn't look as strange, that is, until you do the whole facial contortion thing. It works well and have turned others on to the unique clearing process.

    Thanks for sharing!

  • http://sidawson.org Si Dawson

    Awesome! Glad you like it.

    Recently I've also discovered, and this just cracks me up, that this technique is enormously useful when you're in a bar, & a friend needs help with clearing something that's stressing them out. You can just sit there, surrounded by punters, getting healthier, happier & better all round, and nobody has the slightest clue what you're up to — or even notices *grin*

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