How often should I practice EFT Tapping?
The short answer is all you need. The beauty of EFT, Emotional Freedom Techniques or Tapping is:
- Always works
- You can never play too much.
- Once you have cleared all your negative things, you can tap on your positive feelings and what you are grateful for. You don’t have to wait for this, but most of us do.
You must use EFT continually because as you change, so does your environment, your results, and therefore your emotional responses to events and people.
When tapping and EFT, you initially take your emotional intensity score on a 1 to 10 basis.
10 – You carry your negative emotion with you. It’s like you have the weight of the world on your shoulders.
1 – That, provided that your negative emotion does not affect you at all.
With the Emotional Freedom Techniques, you always want to lower your level of emotional intensity to 2 and 1. Ideally, you want to reach zeros.
This question often comes up because you will be tapping and nothing seems to be changing and you are not getting close to the 2 and 1.
Yes, you can keep tapping on the same emotion and it will eventually come down to 2 and 1. Why? You will be playing with different triggers in your environment when you play constantly. Your day, time, space would be different. At the exact moment you’re tapping, you’re really in tune with what you’re feeling and, like magic, it clears up the way you want it to.
If things don’t clear up, take a closer look at how and what you are tapping on.
Are you doing full, full rounds of tapping?
Are you starting with the setup phrase and tapping on the karate chop?
Are you in tune with your problem and emotion?
If you are tapping in the following rounds, are you changing your opening phrase to:
Although I have this…
Prayed
I still have this though…
Are you really describing what you feel? How many more ways could you describe it? Look up what you feel in a dictionary or thesaurus.
Change your environment when tapping for this particular issue, there may be something in your environment that is preventing you from clearing that final piece.
If you have doubts, take a break. Do something else. Something you really enjoy doing. Something that will really take your mind off things. Before you know it, you’ll have the inspiration to tap on another word, phrase, or take some other action at the same time.