EFT TAPPING

SECRETS YOU
OUGHT TO KNOW


Sonal Pandey
tap-easy.com

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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

Introduction
You probably know by now that
EFT tapping is a powerful mind-
body healing method.

As an EFT enthusiast, I am
constantly learning and looking for
information on how to get the best
out of my tapping efforts.

This e-book contains some of the most effective strategies
that I have found in my use of EFT through the years. I hope
you will derive much use from incorporating these tips into
your own use of tapping.

If at any point while youre reading these tips you have any
questions, please dont hesitate to contact me. You can
email me at sonal@tap-easy.com.

If you want to learn how to start using EFT, have a look at
my video here: http://tap-easy.com/927/how-to-start-using-
emotional-freedom-technique-eft-within-minutes/

In the mean time, I just want to thank you for taking the
time to read this e-book. I hope it provides you with the
information you need to really take your tapping to a whole
new level.

Good luck!


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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

Best time to tap
One of the best times to tap on any issue is in the
middle of the night. You may notice that tapping
works faster when youre half asleep. It may be because
your conscious mind isnt posing as many barriers, so
the message reaches the subconscious more easily. So
if you find yourself awake from a nightmare or just
because of sleeplessness, it might help to tap on some
hot issues at that time.

The second best time to tap is before going to bed at
night. Why? Two reasons:

1. Tapping before turning in for the night calms
and sedates your body and mind, so you get a
good nights sleep.

2. As you try to fall asleep, you are vulnerable to
worries and stresses of the day swooping
down on you. That makes it a good time to
start tapping on those worries, so you go to
bed with a clear head. Nightly tapping is a
great ritual to incorporate in your bedtime
routine.

But the best time to tap is in the heat of the moment.
That is when your emotions are all over the place and
you are strongly tuned into the problem. Tapping right
when you start to feel upset works fast because you do
not need to recall or dig out the negative feelings you
want to clear. What you are feeling in the moment is
what you need to clear out.

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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

How to start out tapping
The first thing I suggest is to tap on exactly how you
feel right now before starting to tap on the specifics of
a problem. Very often, the feeling is of overwhelm or
resistance.

Examples of overwhelm and resistance - Im never
going to get over this / I just dont want to release this
anger / this issue is just too emotional for me to tap on
etc.

Tap 1-2 rounds on that before going into the nitty-
gritty of the issue.

Examples of specifics They said such hurtful words / I
cant get that sound of the crash out of my mind.

This sounds simple, but we often get so overwhelmed
that we forget to first calm ourselves down enough to
think clearly about what it is that we want to clear out.

This important practice of first tapping on how you feel
right now will clear the fog and overwhelm that make
an issue look like a mammoth.

Wait a second, or more
After a round of tapping, just wait for a few seconds
and watch what rises up. This is important because all
too often we get tempted to keep going with our
tapping without leaving enough time for the dust to
settle in between rounds.

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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

After a round of tapping, it may take a few seconds
until the effects of tapping become known to your
conscious mind. A little wait also creates a good
partition between rounds and brings clarity.

This little wait between rounds will bring to your
attention the next aspect of the problem to tap on. That
is very useful when you are tapping on complex issues.


When issues are too big to
handle

This is an important tip that will help you clear major
issues on your own without getting overwhelmed or
losing track.

Even if looks like there will be tons of tapping needed,
it may not be so. You do not need to tap on every
event or every word spoken.

Only tap on those aspects that rise up at the end of a
tapping round or during one. It is in that Daisy Chain
format that your mind has sorted the information
about this matter. So that forms a logical step-by-step
process for you.

With an issue where there have been tons of painful
moments, it is easy to get distracted during a tapping
round. Just as soon as you start tapping on one aspect,
you may be reminded of other things. This is lethal.
Before each round, decide on what exactly you are
going to tap on.

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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

As you are tapping, thoughts about other related
aspects will come to mind. Do finish tapping on what
you started with. And then wait and watch if the related
aspect that rose up during this round is still high in
intensity. And then tap on that aspect if needed.

When tapping isnt working
Tapping helps to clear energy blockages that are
created by holding on to negative emotions. Often
tapping clears issues within minutes. Sometimes it
happens that you spend a lot of time tapping, but you
are not satisfied with the results. In such cases, it is
possible that the bodys energies are not flowing in the
right direction and tapping isnt taking root.

Donna Eden, a master and pioneer of Energy Medicine
suggests unscrambling the energies before you start
tapping. She suggests a few simple energy exercises to
get your energy flowing in the right direction. Doing
these exercises has brought new life to my own tapping
practice.

Here is a link to my post with video demonstrations of
Donna Edens energy exercises:
http://tap-easy.com/3888/tapping-world-summit-donna-
eden/

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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

When tapping is working
If you experience yawning, sighing, deep breaths, tears
or some coughing during tapping, it is okay. Although
these signs are not necessary for successful tapping,
they seem to indicate that you are making progress and
that the energy is shifting.

Here is my list of 8 major factors that indicate you are
making progress: http://tap-easy.com/4751/eft-tapping-
issue-clear-signs/

Out of this list, there are 3 strong indicators to show
your tapping is working:

a. This one involves recalling the details of an event or a
bothersome issue as if you were describing it to a
friend. If an issue is resolved, you may notice that you
are not even able to concentrate on describing the
event without getting distracted.

Your attention keeps slipping from the thoughts of that
event to things in your environment. It is as if you have
disconnected yourself from that event by discharging
all the pain and negativity through tapping. You feel
bored talking about the issue.

b. If you start to think that the problem was not a big deal
in the first place, youve definitely cleared it! That is
because the changes with tapping happen at such a
deep level that our thoughts about that issue change,
often completely and ending with a positive bent.

c. The imagery that you see in your mind when you think
of an issue may change to a more positive or
compassionate one. If before tapping you thought of a
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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

childhood incident and all you could see in your minds
eye was the image of you falling off a bicycle, it may
now change to the memory of how your father gently
picked you up and you were fine.

This memory of your father would be the image of what
really happened, not an illusion. It is just that the mind
has learned to focus on a positive aspect of the
incident. So when you look back at that childhood
incident, you feel safe and cared for instead of shocked
and hurt.

Break it up
The idea of EFT is to focus on how you feel when you
are in a certain situation. Say someone at work said
something that upset you. So when you are tapping,
just think back to that incident, put yourself there and
actually feel how you felt when those words were
spoken.

Did you feel like you were tightening up as you were
listening to that person? Did you feel crestfallen as that
person went on with their off-handed remarks? Play
that incident as a movie in your mind as you tap.

EFT clears feelings. So once you no longer feel bad
about that incident, any negative thoughts
automatically stop forming. You start feeling like it was
no big deal after all and that you're really okay. That
sort of a calm and casual attitude is exactly what helps
one deal with stress.
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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

Being vocal helps
Recent research at UCLA has shown that verbalizing
how you feel makes you feel better than just keeping it
all within. So calling an angry face an angry face makes
us feel better than just looking at an angry face.

Going by that, it makes sense to actually say out how
you feel as you are tapping on an issue. How you do
that is by way of describing the incident as if you were
talking to a friend about it.

If you are only mulling the incident in your mind, it can
feel like one big blob of negative feelings and at any
time you dont have a handle on the exact emotion you
are trying to neutralize. So you end up spending a ton
of time with little progress.

Make a short phrase for each round such as "so upset
about losing the match" and say it out as you are
tapping. Both the reminder phrase and the act of
saying it out will help you to maintain your focus.

Keeping this in mind, I have created a process called
Easy as Pie, for ease of locking in on emotions to be
targeted through tapping in any given situation. My
motto is if you can name it, you can tame it. The Easy
as Pie process helps you name your emotions, so you
can tame them with tapping.

The Easy as Pie process is explained with examples
here:
http://tap-easy.com/5077/easy-as-pie-method-eft-tapping/ .
Why not give it a whirl and see if this process resonates
with you?
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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

Being specific cuts through
problems
It helps to get as specific as possible. The right
wording can help you access your feelings better. For
example, saying this fear of driving may not be as
effective as saying I feel like I freeze up in fear as a
huge truck passes by my car or what if I mistakenly
press the gas / accelerator instead of the brake while
driving?

Honesty pays
One of the most important factors behind effective
tapping is honesty. It sometimes needs courage to
accept how you feel about certain things. But trying to
cover up emotions because they make you feel
uncomfortable will cause tapping to simply skim the
surface instead of rooting out the problem.

If you think you may be in denial about something, try
a couple rounds of tapping like this: even though I
dont want to admit my true feelings about this issue, Im
okay or even though Im resistant to admitting how I
really feel about this issue, what if I gave myself an
honest chance for once? And then tap on the real
problem.

If you dont shy away from honesty, youll see great
results from even a little bit of tapping.



Gamut, what?
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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

This next tip is for issues that have a high emotional
intensity, such as a lot of fear, worry etc. If even after a
lot of tapping, your emotional intensity feels very high,
it is time to use the gamut point.

In the good old days of yore, EFT consisted of a few
more points than the 8 currently used. The gamut point
was part of the longer form of EFT and is not used
much anymore. The gamut point is a very powerful
tapping point that calms your fight or flight response.

This point is located in the fleshy area at the back of
your hand, between your ring and little fingers. Tap on
this area, while focusing on your feelings, especially
fearful ones.



Out of all the EFT points, you may find that one or more
points are more effective in shifting your energy, almost
always, or for any given issue. You can know this if you
find yourself sighing deeper or yawning more while
tapping on certain points. Tapping longer on that point
will help make progress faster.

Tapping Amnesia
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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

Because negativity clears up at a deeper level when you
use EFT, you may feel so much lighter afterwards that
you may not believe how much an issue used to bother
you and what big shifts tapping has created.

Since your thoughts about that problem have changed
and that problem no longer looks like the sword
hanging over your head that it once used to, it is easy
to downplay the role of tapping.

This may keep you from using tapping the next time
something bothers you since you wont think tapping
as being very powerful. Often, the changes that
happen as a result of tapping can seem so natural that
you think nothing of them. It has happened with me
many times.

Negativity is good
While tapping on an issue, focus on negativity as
much as you can. This goes against the conventional
wisdom of focusing on the positive. But EFT works by
dissolving negative emotions as you tap.

The idea of EFT is to dissolve negativity by focusing on
the negative feelings during tapping. So it is perfectly
okay to acknowledge all the negative emotions and use
rants or even swear words (!) that come to your mind
while tapping.

Doing the first few rounds with a negative focus is very
useful. Tapping neutralizes the negativity, so the mind
spontaneously veers towards the positive. Even if you
start out by tapping on a positive affirmation, say, Im
going to have a great day today, do acknowledge any
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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

negative tail-enders or but what if kind of thoughts
and tap them away.

After a few rounds focusing on the negative, it is a
good idea to tap in some positive statements. But you
don't have to bring in the positive forcefully. Positive
emotions start to surface spontaneously once enough
rounds of EFT are done to dissolve negativity.

You no longer feel the anger or stress or fear so
intensely, so you find that suddenly your good sense is
thinking up of the positives in that situation. So then
doing a couple rounds acknowledging the positive is a
good idea, to seal it all in.

How many taps per point?
It is said that you should tap approximately 7 times on
each point. It is perfectly okay if you tap more than
that. You do not need to say the reminder phrase 7
times, you only need to tap each EFT point
approximately 7 times while saying the reminder
phrase.

Tapping for at least 5-6 rounds on any problem is a
good idea even if you start to feel better within the first
round or two. Your pattern of thoughts will change as
you continue tapping on a problem. If a problem
resurfaces, it is most likely because some important
aspects of it were left untapped.

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EFT tapping secrets you ought to know

Play along
As you start to tap on any issue, sometimes you find
that your mind is drifting to a totally unrelated
memory. It may be that your present tapping is
bringing to your awareness certain beliefs that were
acquired in the past. These beliefs may be related to
the problem youre tapping about.

For example, you are tapping about your relationship
with your spouse and you are suddenly reminded of a
bully who used to terrorize you when you were little. At
such times, it may help to go back to that memory and
tap on it as well, as it could be at the root of your
present relationship problems.


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This brings us to the end of the list, but only for now. There
are a ton of tips, tapping scripts and videos on tap-easy.com
that cannot be condensed into this small e-book.

Here are some links you can use as starting points for a
deeper journey into the world of tapping and Tap Easy:

Glitzy gallery of EFT tapping scripts

The Burning Questions Project

Easy as Pie checklist of emotions

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my
passion for tapping with you. If you have come this far, why
not come and say hi to me at sonal@tap-easy.com?

Remember, if you cant shrug it off, tap it off!

















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