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In-depth data analysis has shown significant changes in individuals that utilize Tapping, also known as EFT, to address fear, anxiety, depression, stress, and more. Tapping provides an inexpensive solution for often overlooked or misunderstood personal struggles.
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Lower Cortisol Levels
A study by Dr. Peta Stapleton, published in 2012 in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, found that EFT Tapping lowered cortisol significantly more than traditional talk therapy or resting.In a randomized, controlled trial, cortisol levels were measured via the saliva of participants before and after treatment. Each group received treatment for 50 minutes and cortisol was measured in their saliva before and after as well as psychological symptoms. The EFT Tapping group had a 24% drop in cortisol, while the non-treatment group and sympathetic listening groups only had a 14% drop in cortisol.RESEARCH STUDY
Minimize Test Anxiety
Test anxiety in high school students was reduced significantly after EFT Tapping.In a large study, American researchers examined 312 high school students and identified 70 of them with high-level test anxiety using the Test Anxiety Inventory. They randomly assigned these 70 students to a control group that received progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) techniques or to an experimental group that received EFT Tapping treatment. A statistically significant decrease occurred in the test anxiety scores of both the experimental and control groups. The EFT group had a significantly greater decrease than the PMR group (p < .05). The scores of the EFT group were lower on the Emotionality and Worry subscales (p < .05).
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Relief for Veterans with PTSD
A Study Shows 90% Drop in PTSD Symptoms after 6 weeks of EFT TreatmentIn this study, not only did EFT far outperform the effects of standard care for PTSD, but the results were also substantially maintained at the 3- and 6-month marks. A group of veterans meeting the clinical criteria for PTSD were randomly assigned to either EFT treatment (30 in total) or standard care (29 in total). Over the course of 6 weeks, each participant in the EFT treatment group received one 60-minute EFT session per week with a practitioner.After the 6 weeks, 90% of participants who received EFT no longer met the criteria for PTSD (moreover, they would no longer be diagnosed with PTSD). For the group that received standard care only 4% no longer met the criteria for PTSD, moreover, 96% of that group remained clinically diagnosable with PTSD.
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Healthcare Workers Alleviate Pain and Distress
4-hours of EFT Tapping produces a significant reduction in psychological distress, pain, and cravings in health care workers.Immediately before and after a Tapping workshop, participants measured their pain levels, emotional distress, and food cravings. Everyone received a 2-hour workshop on EFT Tapping and then a 2-hour session where they self-applied the technique. After the 4-hours, they reported significant improvements in their pain levels, emotional distress, and food cravings.90 days later all participants were contacted to see if they had continued to self-apply EFT Tapping once a week, 3 times a week, or not at all. Higher use of EFT Tapping was associated with a steeper decrease in psychological symptoms. The study found EFT Tapping to be effective for immediate and prolonged relief from issues typical in burnout: pain, distress, and cravings.
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EFT Tapping Reduces Food Cravings
After Tapping, fMRI scans prove that those parts of the brain that usually activate cravings and hunger in response to certain foods no longer did.In this study 15 obese adults in total; 10 were allocated to an EFT Tapping treatment, and 5 to a control group (where they received no intervention for their cravings). They were all scanned using fMRI before and after a four-week EFT Tapping treatment phase.RESEARCH STUDY
Reduce Anxiety in Under 10 Minutes
Brain scans confirm 76% of patients treated with EFT experienced complete remissionThis study included an inspection of brain changes after treatment for anxiety. It was the first EFT Tapping study to do so and used pre- and post-treatment functional brain imaging (through computerized EEG, evoked potentials, and topographic mapping). The brain scans show a shift toward normal levels of brain activity in patients treated with acupoint (EFT). The images shift from red (highly dysfunctional waves) to blue (calmer state), and this corresponded with a decrease in the frequency and intensity of anxiety symptoms. Patients who received CBT with medication also showed similar changes in their scans, but they took a longer treatment time to achieve this. After 1 year, CBT patients’ scans were more likely to have returned to their higher, pretreatment levels than the acupoint (EFT) patients. The EFT patients were more likely to maintain their improved state of lessened anxiety.
The World Health Organization stated that between 1990 and 2013, the number of people suffering from depression and/or anxiety increased by nearly 50%.
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Fight Depression and Ease the Mind
EFT Tapping demonstrated a very large effect size (Cohen’s d across all studies was 1.31) in the treatment of depression.A meta-analysis study for EFT Tapping and depression examined 20 studies and included outcome studies (with 446 people), as well as randomized clinical trials (a total of 653 people: 306 EFT and 347 control subjects). The outcome was that 90% of the treatment group was above the mean (average) of the control group and there was an 82% chance that a person picked at random from the Tapping treatment group would have a better score than a person picked at random from the control group. The average depression symptom reduction across all studies was 41%.RESEARCH STUDY
Positively Influence Your DNA
In a pilot study on the physiological effect of EFT Tapping, the genetic expression changed in 72 genes implicated in overall health.Generally, immunity genes were up-regulated while inflammation genes were down-regulated.This included genes associated with:
- suppression of cancer tumors
- protection against ultraviolet radiation
- regulation of type 2 diabetes
- insulin resistance
- immunity from opportunistic infections
- antiviral activity
- synaptic connectivity between neurons
- synthesis of red and white blood cells
- enhancement of male fertility
- building white matter in the brain
- metabolic regulation
- neural plasticity
- reinforcement of cell membrane
- And more
