Basic Recipe
Basic Recipe Transcript
Let’s now review EFTs basic routine. It’s called the Basic Recipe. It’s quick and easy to learn. Once you have it handy, it’s at your fingertips when required.
The first point is called the karate chop point, and it’s found on the side of the hand. You tap there with the fingertips of the other hand, lightly, 7 to 10 times.
The remaining points you tap are these: The spot where your eyebrow meets the bridge of your nose, the side of your eye, under the pupil of your eye, under your nose, and under your lower lip. Then tap the collarbone point, which is just below and to the side of the hollow in your chest above your breastbone. You’ll feel a little indentation there.
Finally, you’ll tap on the underarm point, about 4 inches below your underarm.
With those basic points in mind all which you can find in The EFT Mini-Manual, as well as on the How To Do EFT page, let’s go ahead and tap on a real issue, just for practice. Find some part of your body where you feel pain. Find any kind of physical pain. It could be a bit of a headache. It might be back pain, knee pain, or shoulder tension.
Give that pain a number on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being the maximum and 0 being the minimum. Zero represents no pain. Ten represents extreme pain. Think about where the pain resides in your body, and what your number is.
Now let’s craft what’s called in EFT a “Setup Statement.” This has two parts. One simply focuses on the problem, the pain. The other is a statement of self-acceptance: “I deeply and completely accept myself.”
You say these two in combination, while you tap on the karate chop point. Say aloud with me, “Even though I have this pain, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
Even though I have this pain, I deeply and completely accept myself
Even though I have this pain, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I have this pain, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Now tap on each of those points with two fingers.
Eyebrow: This pain.
Side of Eye: This pain.
Under Pupil of Eye: This pain.
Under Nose: This pain.
Under Lip: This pain.
Collarbone: This pain.
Under Arm: This pain.
Now take a nice deep breath. Hopefully the pain has gone down. If it was a 7, maybe now it’s a 5, 4, 3 or 2. It may have gone down only one point to a 6.
Let’s go ahead and do this tapping routine again. This time, focus on any emotional association you have with the pain. Think back to any event associated with the pain. When did the pain start? What was going on in your life when the pain first began? What do you miss because of the pain? What activities can you not do because of the pain?
Pick one event that is associated with the pain. As we tap together again, I’ll just say the words “This event,” but you will say the name of your actual event.
Tap the side of your hand, and say three times, “Even though this event happened, I deeply and completely accept myself.”
Even though this event happened, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though this event happened, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Now tap on each of those points with two fingers.
Eyebrow: This event.
Side of Eye: This event.
Under Pupil of Eye: This event.
Under Nose: This event.
Under Lip: This event.
Collarbone: This event.
Under Arm: This event.
You can tap either side of your body, or both sides at the same time if you’d like to. You can alternate tapping side to side. Do whatever feels most comfortable and natural for you.
By now, having done two rounds of EFT, hopefully your number has gone down from wherever it was before to a much lower number. This is the basic approach you take when using EFT for any problem. You focus on the issue, accept yourself and tap.
You accept yourself just the way you are. You don’t try to accept yourself in a better future state. Don’t say, “Even when the pain is gone, I’ll accept myself.” You accept the pain, the problem and the issue the way it is right now.
Whenever you have a problem, watch this short video again, tap along with whatever the problem is and notice your numbers go down.