Tapping Our Way into Healing

In the early 2000s, during a painful time when I was grieving the loss of my grandmother and transitioning my career from human-resources management into mental health counseling, my therapist taught me tapping. After our session, I went home, lay down on my couch with my beloved dog, and tried it....

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Published in:Psychotherapy networker 2024-01, Vol.48 (1), p.15-16
Main Author: Ruse, Stacy
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Anxiety
Emotions
Empowerment
Mental health
Nervous system
Regulation Q
Therapists
Therapy
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Summary:In the early 2000s, during a painful time when I was grieving the loss of my grandmother and transitioning my career from human-resources management into mental health counseling, my therapist taught me tapping. After our session, I went home, lay down on my couch with my beloved dog, and tried it. In EFT, it's called meridian tapping because it uses the fingers to tap on bodily locations where, in Chinese medicine, chi, or life-force energy, is thought to flow. Findings from a 2022 clinical trial that analyzed fMRI findings, published in Science Direct, demonstrated that tapping works on a neural level, changing brain activity in regions involved in pain modulation.
ISSN:1535-573X