Episode 30: Interview with Jennifer Moore
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:
Understanding EFT: EFT is a blend of Chinese acupressure and modern psychology that can be used for emotional and physical well-being.
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.
Amygdala Reset: Tapping techniques help to reset the amygdala, shifting your body from a fight or flight state to one of calmness.
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.
Touch and Breathe: A simplified "touch and breathe" technique is introduced for quick stress relief.
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.
