Emotional Freedom Techniques – EFT for Stress Relief. If you only ever do EFT, for one thing, do it for stress.
I can’t even begin to tell you how important this is for health, general well-being, and for achieving your goals in life.
Stress plays a big part in most people’s life and sadly most people only pay attention to it when the levels are super high and causing big problems. I want you to deal with stress even when it’s at low levels and especially when it’s at those high levels.
In this post, I’m going to talk about ‘Stress Talking’ – I’ll share a quickfire EFT Script that as the name suggests you can do quickly to relieve stress and I’ll share two ideas to help release more serious stress levels and share some tips to help you understand how to make the most of EFT for stress relief.
If you’re new to EFT – please read my Emotional Freedom Techniques – EFT – How to Tap post here on the blog.
Find me on TikTok – Here’s a super quick EFT video to help release stress.
Stress Talk
When you’re stressed you rarely focus on the real issue or at least just the real issue. Most people will add in loads more stress talk problems that are often either not real at all or not really an issue.
When we tap we release stress talk so that we can clearly focus on the real issue. With that in mind, I recommend starting any session where you’re tapping on a problem or anything that is emotionally charged in a negative way with a couple of rounds to relieve stress.
You can simply work through each of the tapping points by saying the word stress. I encourage you at this stage to also take a nice deep breath in and out between the tapping points.
Set up – Whilst tapping the side of your hand say “I release any stress I am holding on to. Repeat 3 times
Tapping points – top of the head, forehead, eyebrow, side of the eye, under the eye, under the nose, under the mouth, collarbone, side of the hand. Simply say the word stress.
(This is a combination of classic EFT and Heart and Soul EFT – Please use whichever EFT style you prefer).
As an alternative to using the word stress, some people prefer to say “Grounding” to help them gain a sense of feeling grounded.
Quickfire EFT for stress relief
The beauty of the quickfire sessions is that they are quick and easy to remember, with no complicated wording.
You can pop into the bathroom and do a few rounds if you’re feeling stressed at an event for example. I’ve done this kind of tapping many times sitting in my car before going into a meeting, etc.
It’s also perfect when you need really quick relief. In this quickfire session, I’m going to use 2 different statements only.
I will alternate between “Releasing this stress” and “I’m Calm and Relaxed” you can change the wording as you want. Sometimes you might want to say “I’m Calm and confident…” Use whatever words fit how you want to feel.
Start with clearing the stress and follow up with how you want to feel.
- Top of the head – Releasing this stress
- Forehead – I’m calm and relaxed
- Eyebrow – Releasing this stress
- Side of the eye – I’m calm and relaxed
- Under the eye – Releasing this stress
- Under the nose – I’m calm and relaxed
- Under the mouth – Releasing this stress
- Collarbone – I’m calm and relaxed
- Side of the hand – Releasing this stress
Focus on your breathing whilst tapping and saying your statements. Breathe in calm, breathe out any stress.
Releasing stress at a deeper level
Below I will share the steps to release stress at a deeper level. Give yourself plenty of time to work through this EFT for stress relief session.
Step 1
I want you to focus on how you feel right now and give that feeling a number between -10 (minus 10) and 0.
– 10 means that the feeling is very intense and at zero you would feel neutral, feeling okay but not positive. Write your number down.
Step 2
Have a drink of water as this will help with your energy flow and place your hands over your chest (one hand on top of the other) – This is the heart healing position and we are going to now use the Heart and Soul Tapping style.
With your hands gently in the heart healing position focus on your breathing. Take 3 nice, slow, deep breaths in, hold for 3 seconds and slowly release and then relax your breathing to a nice steady rhythm.
Step 3
State why you are tapping keeping your hand in the heart healing position. There are 3 ways you can do this.
- I’m tapping to release this stress
- If you know that you are stressed about something specific, you can say “I’m tapping because I feel stressed… (then go on to explain why you are stressed) – Example – I’m tapping because I feel so stressed with all the work pressures I have going on at the moment”
- If you don’t really know why you feel stressed or you don’t want to actually put it into words, simply focus on the feeling and say “I’m tapping on this feeling”
Step 4
Let’s start tapping. You’re going to really focus on the way you feel and tap on the EFT points – I recommend that at each point you say either “This stress” or “This feeling”
The important thing as you start tapping is to focus in on that feeling. The tapping points you are going to use are…
- Top of the head
- 3rd eye – middle of the forehead
- Eyebrow (the thick point)
- Side of the eye
- Under the eye
- Under the nose
- Under the mouth
- Collarbone (Gentle use your fist and tap the bone at the base of your neck)
- Side of the thumb
- Side of the index finger
- Side of the middle finger
- Side of the ring finger
- Side of the little finger
Remember to keep your breathing nice and relaxed. If you need to, take a nice deep and slow breath in and out during the session.
I’d like you to do two full rounds doing this and then move to the next step.
Step 5
Check-in with how you feel now. What is your number now? Remember that minus 10 is where the feeling is really intense and 0 is neutral.
Hopefully, your number will be closer to 0 now but don’t worry if it’s not yet, just continue with the breathing and keep tapping. Nice and slow, don’t try to rush things when your stress levels are high.
The aim is to get your number to zero. Now, I do want to say that nobody is going to come and do a test to check you’re giving the correct number, it’s just a rough guide for you.
Step 7
Once you get to zero or close to it, you can switch to positive EFT and tap in the feeling you want. In the example earlier I used “I’m calm and relaxed”
This is definitely a statement that works well for me personally but you can use whatever you want. At this stage, it’s a really good idea to ask yourself “How do I want to feel now?” get your answer and tap on that.
I like to stand up and move around when I’m doing positive EFT, this really gets the positive energy flowing really nicely and you start pumping out positive vibrations out into the Universe. This is a very good thing for you.
I personally like to switch to quickfire tapping for positive EFT using less of the tapping points but do whatever you feel you prefer.
These are the tapping points I like to use…
- Top of the head
- Forehead
- Eyebrow
- Side of the eye
- Under the eye
- Under the nose
- Under the mouth
- Collarbone
- Side of the hand
Do as many of these positive EFT rounds as you want
Going back to that number scale we can then go up to PLUS 10 where you’re feeling absolutely fantastic.
In law of attraction terms, minus 10 would be a very low vibrating emotion and PLUS 10 would mean that your vibrations are super high and make you more of a match for attracting the things you want.
An alternative way to tap
An alternative way to use EFT for stress relief it to use the tapping points and as you tap and move through the tapping points, talk about why you’re feeling stressed. Simply say anything that you are feeling even if to anyone else it wouldn’t make any sense.
Imagine that I am there with you and I’ve asked you to tell me about how you feel and why you think you are feeling this way.
USEFUL READING: Hand Tapping – EFT for when you’re in public.
EFT for stress relief tip
I have already mentioned these tips throughout this post but I want to bring them together now.
- Drink some water – This will help your energy to flow nicely helping to clear any blocks causing the stress
- Do the breathing, this is a super quick way to relieve stress – Breathe in calm and breathe out stress. Nice and slow.
- The Quickfire EFT is perfect for when you have what I call short-term stress that you need to relieve quickly. A few times I would use this is when tensions are getting a bit high between my son and me and I need to just let something go and calm down, when I’m planning or I’m about to go on a long journey or when something is going wrong with my business (usually a techie issue).
- If you have more long-term stress that is more ongoing, especially if it’s causing high-stress levels, please set aside more time to do the longer tapping sessions
- For more on EFT, sign up for my weekly coaching emails and one of the free gifts you’ll receive is the EFT – Clearing Limiting Beliefs Guide
- Over the past few years, I’ve created quite a collection of EFT videos which are great to follow along with.
Stress really can cause us so many problems including health problems and causing blocks to achieving things we want.
I would really love every single person to do some EFT every day to either clear stress or simply to keep the energy flowing freely without energy blocks. I am positive that the world would be a much calmer and happier place for everyone.
EFT for stress relief is powerful and it’s ALWAYS time very, very well spent.
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