Most of us feel overwhelmed from time to time, I know I certainly do and Emotional Freedom Techniques is really useful for releasing those feelings. It allows you to feel calmer and take things one step at a time.
If you’re new to EFT tapping, here’s my full Emotional Freedom Techniques, EFT Guide.
I’ve included 2 EFT scripts below and also shared some useful tips to get super quick results when you feel overwhelmed.
EFT Tapping For When You Feel Overwhelmed
SET-UP: Tapping the side of the hand (the karate chop point), say the phrase… I’m tapping to release these overwhelming feelings. Take a nice deep breath in and slowly release.
Repeat the phrase and the breathing 3 times.
- Top of the head: Feeling overwhelmed
- Forehead: I release this feeling
- Eyebrow: Feeling overwhelmed
- Side of the eye: I release this feeling
- Under the eye: Feeling overwhelmed
- Under the nose: I release this feeling
- Under the mouth: Feeling overwhelmed
- Collarbone: I release this feeling
- Side of the hand: Feeling overwhelmed
This EFT round will help to release the feeling. Repeat until you feel the overwhelming feelings release. At the end of each round, take a deep breath in and slowly release.
This may take as little as 2 or three rounds and other times you may need to spend over 10 minutes tapping.
Once you feel okay (a neutral feeling where the overwhelming feelings have lifted), you can move onto the positive EFT round where you focus on more positive feelings
- Top of the head: I am calm
- Forehead: My breathing is relaxed
- Eyebrow: I take things step by step
- Side of the eye: I remain calm
- Under the eye: I see things clearly
- Under the nose: My breathing is calm
- Under the mouth: I take things one step at a time
- Collarbone: I feel in control
- Side of the hand: I feel calm and in control
You can repeat his round as many times as you want. And you can add in any different affirmations that you choose.
Tips for using EFT when you feel overwhelmed
PLEASE NOTE that I share these EFT scripts as ideas. I want to show examples of how to use EFT tapping in your own life. Don’t feel like you have to use my words. The best EFT sessions are always the ones where you use wording that is your own.
So, you can make the tapping statements more personalised if you want, for example, I’m feeling so overwhelmed with this work project. You can go on to talk about specifics that cause you to feel overwhelmed.
In the example above I have shared a script for releasing and a positive EFT script. If you try to remember to tap out what you don’t want first and tap in what you do want.
The tapping points are the same, but it’s a good way to think about the tapping you’re doing.
Discrete tapping when you’re overwhelmed in public
If you’re feeling overwhelmed when you’re in a public place, you probably won’t want to do a full EFT session but instead, you can do hand EFT.
Simply tap the side of your hand and in your head, repeat “This feeling” and focus on calming your breathing.
Overwhelmed in a business situation
If you’re a business owner and your business is causing your to feel overwhelmed I’ve put together a special EFT and Affirmations script together to help – FEELING OVERWHELMED AND STRESS ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS.
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