Coaching practices for Eft Tapping

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• The distress is here right now and I’m restless with it
• One part of this calmed down and I thought I was through it, but then a different angle of the same thing flared right back up
• There’s a big thing coming up
• When I explain my work it’s all so obvious in my own head that I’m genuinely baffled when people look lost
• My thumb finds the same two apps and opens them before I even know I picked up the phone

Practices that may help

1. EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
   Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), developed by Gary Craig, combines tapping specific body points (derived from acupuncture meridians) while making verbal statements about a distressing experience. Multiple randomized trials report reductions in anxiety, PTSD symptoms, and cortisol, but study quality is variable and the control conditions rarely isolate the tapping component. The evidence suggests EFT produces real effects; whether the acupoints are the mechanism or whether the benefits come from the exposure, distraction, or somatic-attention components is genuinely unresolved.
2. Run the tapping sequence from eyebrow to underarm
   Tap each of the nine points in sequence while repeating a reminder phrase about the specific problem.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
3. Work on specific aspects, not global emotions
   When EFT stalls, you have probably hit a different aspect of the problem — target it specifically.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
4. Apply EFT to specific performance anxiety triggers
   EFT has the strongest self-guided evidence for test anxiety, public speaking, and sports performance stress.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
5. Take the tap test before you present
   Literally tap out a melody and notice how obvious it is to you — but invisible to listeners.
   The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach
6. Increase friction on high-capture apps
   Add steps between you and the apps most likely to capture you — every additional tap reduces automatic use.
   Grayscale Phone Mode and Behavioral Design
7. Craft an honest setup statement
   "Even though I have this [specific problem], I deeply and completely accept myself."
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
8. Know when EFT is not enough — and what to do
   Self-guided EFT is suitable for manageable anxiety and mild distress; clinical presentations belong with a trained EFT or trauma practitioner.
   EFT Tapping: What It Is, How to Do It, and What the Evidence Shows
9. Cultivate deliberate awareness of the pain signal during payment
   Slow down during the payment step to let the natural aversion signal register.
   Pain of Paying, Made Practical
10. Use the pain of paying to slow down spending
    Paying in cash (or seeing the real number) activates loss aversion and reduces mindless spending.
    The Marshmallow Test and Your Money

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