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tap-easy.com10. On the outside of the index finger (the endnearer the thumb) at the base of the nail11. On the outside of the middle finger (the endnearer the index finger) at the base of the nail12. On the inside of the little finger (skip the ringfinger for now) at the base of the nail13. Karate chop point (side of the hand)The 9 Gamut ProcedureThe 9 Gamut Procedure was an extra step to bettercoordinate both sides of the brain and hasten the resultsof tapping.It involves tapping on the gamut point (covered later)while performing the following actions at the sametime:1. Close eyes2. Open eyes3. Look down hard right (keep head straight)4. Look down hard left5. Roll your eyes clockwise (around in your skull asfar as they can go)6. Roll your eyes anti-clockwise7. Hum a tune (a little bit of "Happy Birthday" willdo nicely)8. Count 1-2-3-4-5 quickly-20-

tap-easy.com9. Hum againPerform all the nine steps while tapping on the Gamutpoint as shown in the picture below. All this while, alsokeep your focus on the problem at hand.Even though the modern shortcut form of EFT worksfine, you can still do the Basic Recipe as it will only help.-21-

tap-easy.comEFT on a PageSet up tapping (tap 3 times on the Karate Chop while sayingthe following phrase)“Even though I (have this problem or feel this way) ,I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”Reminder phrase tapping (multiple rounds until you feeldecidedly better)Start of the eyebrow Side of the eye Under the eye Under the nose Under the lips Collarbone Under thearm Top of the head-22-

tap-easy.comTips on TappingYou use tapping action to stimulate the acupressurepoints located in an area. That helps to dislodge energyblockages, which in turn clears negative emotions.How many taps per point?Tap approximately 7 times on each point. It is perfectlyokay if you tap more than that. You do not need to saythe reminder phrase 7 times, you only need to tap eachEFT point approximately 7 times while saying thereminder phrase.Tapping for at least 5-6 rounds on any problem is a goodidea even if you start to feel better within the first roundor two. Your pattern of thoughts will change as youcontinue tapping on a problem. If a problem resurfaces,it is most likely because some important aspects of itwere left untapped.How much force?As you tap, you should feel a little bit of bounce backfrom your skin. With tapping, more force does notnecessarily mean more benefit. The idea is to feel thestimulation of the tapping points. This stimulation can-23-

tap-easy.combe felt through a buzzing sensation or an increasedblood flow in that area.As you stimulate these points, your feelings will start tochange too. You will start to feel calmer about whateverit is that you are tapping about.The tapping points can be stimulated through tapping,but they can be stimulated just as well through touch ormerely thought. Simply touching each tapping point for5-10 seconds while focusing on your worry works too.You should never be feeling sore from tapping. If youare, then you need to cut back on the pressure andimpact of your fingers.You will get maximum tapping force while using yourindex and middle fingers together. Remember to useyour fingertips for tapping, and not the ends of thenails. This is to avoid soreness. A gentler approach is touse the pads of the fingers rather than the fingertips.To tap very gently, such as on children or on delicateskin, use your middle finger. The little finger or pinkieworks great when you want to stimulate your tappingpoints by only touching and not tapping.-24-

tap-easy.comMental TappingWith continued tapping, the tapping points becomestimulated enough so that just thinking about a tappingpoint can stimulate it. This is the basis for mentaltapping, a way of tapping where you think about yourproblem and imagine tapping on the tapping points.Once you become comfortable with mental tapping, youcould use it anytime during the day – at work, in the car,while talking to someone. With mental tapping, you getinstant relief from whatever stresses you in themoment, without the fear of looking weird.Tapping AmnesiaBecause negativity clears up at a deeper level when youuse EFT, you may feel so much lighter afterwards thatyou may not believe how much an issue used to botheryou and what big shifts tapping has created. Since yourthoughts about that problem have changed and thatproblem no longer looks like the sword hanging overyour head that it once used to, it is easy to downplay therole of tapping.This may keep you from using tapping the next timesomething bothers you since you won’t think tapping as-25-

tap-easy.combeing very powerful. Often, the changes that happen asa result of tapping can seem so natural that you thinknothing of them. It has happened with me many times.-26-

tap-easy.comWhat Words to Say While TappingNewcomers to EFT often struggle with what words tosay while tapping.This is made more difficult by the state you are in. Whenyou are all worked up about something, you are notthinking clearly. That makes it hard to be logical andfocus on forming the right words to say. That makesconcentrating on that elusive feeling difficult.All you know is that you are feeling bad. And you wantto feel better. You could be least bothered with findingthe ‘appropriate’ statements.While a short reminder phrase such as “this angertoward Bob” works just fine when you are tappingthrough the points, the real power of EFT unfolds whenyou start to get more and more specific about what’sbothering you.How do you get more specific with your wording? It’sactually as easy as ABC.-27-

tap-easy.comWording made easy as ABCHere is my 3 step process to figuring out what to saywhile tapping.Acceptance Bashing Choices ABC method of tappingLet’s say you are worried that you might be given a pinkslip in the next round of layoffs at work.The worry has become a constant companion at work,and off it. You keep trying to read your manager’s faceabout signs of what’s coming. This is affecting yourproductivity and quality of life. So you decide on tap onit.Now what words to say while tapping on this situation?1.Acceptance: If you get confused about what set upphrase to say while tapping on the karate chop,here is a statement which will work for almost anysituation. The situation doesn’t really matter, whatmatters is that we are accepting ourselves for beingin that situation. Say this 3 times while tapping onthe karate chop.“Even though I am feeling bad about this situation, Ideeply and completely love and accept myself”.-28-

tap-easy.com2.Bashing: Start describing what you “think” (nofeelings business yet) as if you were confiding in afriend. Start tapping on the EFT points from thefirst word you utter.So it could go like this “You know, these people could be laying off a few in the nextround. It’s nothing, I’m not even worried, I mean I don’tcare. I’m just telling you, in case you heard something.Maybe I’ve given it a little thought, actually, I have beenthinking how I’m going to continue to pay the mortgage ifthey decide to . I’ve been trying to see what Bob (manager)might be planning behind closed doors, but he’s keeping apoker face. That man isn’t going to give out as much as atick about the layoffs. Everyone knows they are coming. Imight be in the danger zone. You never know, in thiseconomy, no one’s safe. I’m kind of worried about myself. Imean looking for a job, going through interviews, in thiseconomy. Phew!”This is the step where you feel like you have so much tosay that you can’t stop talking. You may start offhesitantly, but as you keep tapping alongside, your realfeelings will come out. That’s what’s happening above.-29-

tap-easy.comNotice that you have not made any special efforttowards finding the right words to say.Go through the bashing process in detail until you havecovered all your ‘thoughts’ about the situation. Whatmight happen if you get laid off, how bad the economyis, how somebody you knew got laid off and lost hishouse etc.Use as much negativity as you feel inside. Just don’tpretend to feel positive if you are not ready yet.Otherwise you will be trying to stuff in positivestatements without getting all the negative gunk outfirst.It helps to be as specific with your wording as possible.For example, saying “this fear of driving ” may not beas effective as saying “I feel like I freeze up in fear as ahuge truck passes by my car” or “what if I mistakenlypress the gas / accelerator instead of the brake whiledriving?”After some time you will notice that the mental chatterhas silenced. Tapping has helped you bring up and clearout the negative thoughts, it makes sense to install positive-30-

tap-easy.comreaffirmations. These are also known as reframes.This is another big area that newcomers to tappingstruggle with.When to switch to positive tapping?You switch to positive statements or affirmations onceyou start to feel okay or neutral about a situation.Forcing a positive statement before you are ready zing all the negativity.If you try to tap in say, “It is going to be alright”, yourmind is going to retort, “Oh, yeah?”. So there goes yourpositive affirmation.You need to get into a somewhat receptive state of mindfor affirmations to take root. But how do you figure outif you are in that state?To check if you are ready to use a positive statement yet,here is my secret sauce:If I heard these positive words from a friend while I wasin my current state, would I just shoot them down?If no, you’re ready. If yes, keep tapping on the negativeand bring it down further.-31-

tap-easy.comTypes of reframesNow there 2 ways of reaching good reframes.1. Often reframes arise spontaneously. Your job is done,nothing to do. An example will make it clear.Say you were worried about being given the pink slip byyour manager Bob. You tapped on your worry.As you continue to tap on your layoff worry, you mayget reminded of how Bob hinted just last week about ahigher position opening up, and even with his pokerface, you could see he was hinting at you gettingpromoted.Blinded by your layoff worry, you interpreted it asthough it was a hint about you being moved out and notupwards. Now you get it. Phew! So that was it? Yes, thatwas it. That was a reframe. A reframe is nothing butyour thoughts changing. And your thoughts of worryhave changed to those of hope. Now you can stoptapping.2. You form your own reframe. You come up with yourown statement about how you would like to view thesituation from now on. This statement can be a choicestatement or a simple affirmation.-32-

tap-easy.comBasically you are trying to tap into a feeling of hope andwellness. What sentence can you come up with thatdescribes that feeling for you? That is your reframe forthe situation.Your reframe for the situation can be a choice statementas well. Such as “I choose to be ”. Choice statementsput the power back in your own hands. One thing toremember with choice statements is to not make themnot-not sentences. Here is a not-not choice statement –I choose not to lose my cool anymore. It is better tofocus on how you want to be, not how you don’t want tobe. So a better choice statement in this case would be – Ichoose to be calm and confident.You can choose very specific reframes (I choose to becalm and centred talking to Bob from now on) or ageneral feel-good phrase (All is well in my world).Here are a few examples of reframes.“I am now calm and confident.”“I am now calm, confident and full of hope.”“It only gets better from here.”-33-

tap-easy.com“I choose to do the best I can under the circumstances,and hope for the best.”“I choose to release any remaining worry and get onwith my work, diligently, and be my best self.”Don’t get too caught up with finding the right words orforming an all-inclusive statement.Sometimes we fear that if we don’t incorporate thechoicest and juiciest of positive words, our affirmationswill be meh, limp. Or that we will miss out on at leastsome good vibrations if we are not forming an allinclusive reframe. Not so. Verbose reframes are onlygoing to bog you down unless you connect with them atsome level.A reframe should feel true to you. Then tapping it inenhances the vibration of the reframe.-34-

tap-easy.comEFT and NegativityEFT relies on our ability to tune into our example, tapping while using a reminder phrase such as“so disappointed with the result” doesn’t sound verycheerful, does it?If you are from the Law of Attraction line of thinking, orsimply a positive thinker, you might wonder why we arefocusing so much on ranting out negative thoughts. Thething is, EFT is a cleansing technique.You bring up negative emotions to the surface and clearthem out from the root.For the record, it is safe to focus on the negative whiletapping.With tapping, you bring up negative emotions to thesurface and then clear them out. After that you plantsome positive, empowering choices in their place.It is like going to a doctor or a healer. If you are onlygoing to tell them what is already healthy, they can’thelp you. You need to tell them what’s wrong.-35-

tap-easy.comWhen we are not tapping, it serves us to hold thehighest and best thoughts possible. But during tapping,focus as much as you can on what makes you feel badand stuck until you feel ready to move on to somepositive tapping.-36-

tap-easy.comSigns that Show EFT is WorkingWe all need to know when something is working, andthe more the physical evidence of it, the better. Luckily,there are some physical signs that indicate that yourtapping efforts are bearing fruit and energy is shifting.Mind you, not all these signs are necessary foreffectiveness of tapping and not all signs will show up inone single tapping session. It may be that you willexperience some of these signs quite often and othersinfrequently, or never.Also, you may very well experience other nstitution. Learning to identify these sensations willhelp you become more confident about your applicationof tapping.One of the signs that I notice in my own tapping is thatonce I have tapped enough, I get the urge to get up andwalk around my room a little bit, maybe have a sip ofwater. And then I veer back to where I was sitting andget tapping again.It seems to me that this re-adjusts my energy in someway and I feel more balanced after a little sauntering.-37-

tap-easy.comSimilarly, you may identify patterns that are specific toyou.Here are 12 of the common signs showing that tappingis repairing energy disruptions in your body.1. Gasping (a exhale of surprise)2. Sighing (an inhale of relief or boredom)3. Yawning (energy is shifting!)4. Tears or watery eyes (can happen from yawning)5. Coughing6. Lump in the throat clearing7. Knot in the chest clearing8. A buzzing feeling through the body (as if moreoxygen is flowing all over)9. Shoulders dropping10. Sleepiness11. Tiredness / weariness12. Sudden pain relief-38-

tap-easy.comKnow if an Issue is Getting ClearedThere are 8 major indicators of whether an issue hasbeen completely cleared or not.1.Often it can be just a knowing, accompanied bya feeling of relief. It may feel like a load hasbeen lifted off your shoulders. Clearly, this is avery subjective indicator.2.Before you start tapping, give the issue anumber on a scale of 0 to 10 based on how badyou are feeling from it (10 being unbearable, 0being totally fine). This number is known as theSUDS level (Subjective Unit of Distress Scale).SUDS is a way of communicating how muchdistress you are currently feeling.After each tapping round check where thatnumber stands. If you still feel some discomfortaround the issue, that is, your number isn’t zeroyet, it implies the issue is not cleared yet. Youcan attack the issue from different angles bytapping on different aspects now.3.This one involves recalling

That is where Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) tapping comes in. Think of EFT as a reset button at your fingertips. EFT is an amazing self-help technique millions are using worldwide. Tapping can be used for relief from sadness, fear, worry, anxiety, ang