Coaching practices for Eft Tapping What it is How to Do it and What the Evidence Shows After a Setback

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

• 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
• The distress is here right now and I’m restless with it
• The thing I’d be working on is so heavy that every time I get near it on my own I end up more shaken than when I started, and I’m starting to sense this is too big to be doing alone without someone to hold the edges.
• When something goes wrong I spiral straight into the dark conclusion and the bad feeling, and I want an actual step-by-step way to slow that down and argue back with evidence instead of just sinking.

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. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. Run the ABCDE disputation
   Map adversity → belief → consequence, then dispute the belief with evidence.
   Learned Optimism: Seligman’s ABCDE Method
7. Discomfort Journaling: Tracking Evidence of Tolerance
   Keep a log of every discomfort you deliberately engaged — building an evidence record of your expanding capacity.
   Deliberate Discomfort: Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience
8. Use a landmark to recover after a lapse
   Treat a missed stretch as a closed chapter and let the next landmark open a clean one.
   The Fresh Start Effect
9. Never train to failure — ever, during GTG
   Muscular failure during a GTG session resets the nervous system to recovery mode and undoes the frequency advantage.
   Greasing the Groove, Made Practical
10. 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

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