Name Your Emotions, Follow Your Exhale, and Experience Your Change

Become aware of your feelings and name your emotions and bodily sensations. No judgment. This is easier for some people than others. Sometimes, scheduling a time to feel, grieve, and experience what you are feeling without pretending to be positive.

Exhaling has a natural release. Follow your exhale.3x

Repeat - Become aware of your feelings and name your emotions and bodily sensations.

Experience the Change …Connect with what is different - This is the most important step. You are training the body/mind so that your life can be different.

Emotional Freedom Technique

Tapping

Pre-Post Awareness: What is the NUMBER of your feelings before you begin?

The Set Up Statement. “Even though I feel _____sadness, anger, frustration, __I deeply and completely accept myself” at the first point, side of the hand.

Then repeat….. Remaining name feeling …. tap and repeat through the tapping sequence.

Use two fingers and tap 7-10 times at each acupuncture point - The sequence or the words aren’t crucial. If you skip a point, go back and tap.

1. Side of Hand - Karate Chop

2. Top of Head - Center

3. Eyebrow - located at the beginning of the eyebrow - some people start at this point instead of the top of the head- It doesn’t matter

4. Side of Eye

5. Under the Eye - on the bone under the middle of the eye

6. Under the Nose - in the middle between the nose and lip

7. Chin - mid-way between the bottom of the lower lip and chin

8. Collarbone - at the base of the throat on each side of the sternum-use the three fingers

9. Under Arm - 4 fingers down from armpit (for women -mid bra)

10. Return to Top of the Head for a sense of completing the tapping

Post Awareness——- Give a number to what you feel now…be aware of this connection.