Working with Emotions and Tapping
On a healing journey, especially when chronic pain, fatigue, or LongCovid leave you feeling overwhelmed or numb, your buried emotions can add a layer of stress to what you’re already carrying. Working with these emotions is a powerful step toward reclaiming balance. One powerful tool I recommend is EFT Tapping; an approach that invites you to release trapped energy with self-compassion and care.
What Is EFT Tapping?
EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, involves lightly tapping on specific acupressure points on your face, hands, and upper body while speaking. It’s a way of using touch to help to dissolve stressors, release emotional blocks and rewire neural pathways.
An Invitation to Practice
Try this guided EFT practice below, designed specifically for those with chronic illness – to help release fear, anxiety, and remove a layer of stress. In the video session, I guide you through the tapping process.
Before you begin, a word of caution:
EFT Tapping is a somatic practice for releasing stressors and emotions, and this guided video is suitable for beginners. However, if your condition is very severe or you’re feeling extremely fragile at the moment, please wait until you feel a bit more stable to try EFT.
Watch the Video for Fear and Anxiety Release
Tip: Turn on the closed captions (the CC button) to follow along with the words.
How to Integrate this Practice
After you do this Emotional Freedom Technique tapping session for the first time, take a moment to reflect on any shifts, any sensations. Consider jotting down your thoughts in a journal as a way to honour what comes up.
As you begin to work with EFT, remember that every step you take is a meaningful act of self-care. Allow yourself to try the session, and then give a day or two to feel whatever arises, knowing that you are beginning to regulate your nervous system and rewire your neural pathways.
Final Thoughts:
You can return to this practice whenever you need relief or a moment of connection with your inner world. Over time, EFT helps rewire your brain and ease symptoms. If sensations shift or intensify before settling, know that this is part of the process. Your mindbody system is learning a new way forward.
Next Steps for Real Recovery
If this guided EFT practice resonated for you, you might like to explore one of these next steps:
Discover the recovery resources on this site for practical tools, somatic practices, and brain rewiring support.
When you’re ready for deeper, personalised support, explore the coaching framework
With warmth and care,
Amari 💗
