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August 11, 2020
How Tapping Helped a High School Student Control Her Anxiety and Asthma
In April Mia began experiencing COVID-like symptoms that became serious enough to require immediate medical attention.
At that time during the height of the novel Coronavirus pandemic in New York City, all the emergency departments had large outdoor tents set up outside. The tents were specifically for patients who had COVID symptoms that did not require immediate hospitalization. Mia went to the emergency department and was assessed in the tents by the team of medical personnel who were staffing the tent, and then she followed up afterward with a medical student by telephone with daily check-up calls for 2 weeks.
The medical student assessed Mia’s progress, documenting what she said, and then called physician Dr. Melanie A. Gold, who is a professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and medical director of New York Presbyterian Hospital’s seven school-based health centers in Harlem, Washington Heights, Inwood, and the Bronx.
“Mia needs a refill of her inhaled steroid prescription,” the message said: “Could you refill this for her?” After electronically sending Mia’s prescription orders to the pharmacy, Dr. Gold called Mia by phone to discuss her asthma and ask about what she was doing to help manage her symptoms.
The Breakthrough
Dr. Gold asked if she had meditated before. Mia said she had explored meditation, and she didn’t think it had helped her. Then Dr. Gold offered and sent Mia the link to The Tapping Solution app and mentioned the “Releasing Anxiety” meditation and “Coronavirus Stress: Release Constricted Breathing” meditation.
Mia used The Tapping Solution App while waiting for her inhaled steroid to work because it takes like a week or so to kick in. “It’s really good to know that I always have the Tapping App,” she told Dr. Gold when they communicated the next day on the phone. “Can I use Tapping for other things?”
“Like what?” Dr. Gold asked.
“Well, I get migraine headaches,” Mia said.
“Yes,” Dr. Gold told her. “Go for it – there’s a specific meditation called ‘Support Your Healing: Headaches.’”
So, Mia used that meditation next, and it worked well for her “Can I use The Tapping Solution if I can’t fall asleep at night?” she asked Dr. Gold the next time they talked on the phone.
“What’s happening at bedtime when it’s time to go to sleep?” Dr. Gold asked.
“I have a racing mind! It won’t stop – it just keeps going,” Mia responded.
“There is a Tapping Solution meditation on ‘Quiet My Racing Mind.’” Dr. Gold said.
Mia recently told Dr. Gold that Tapping has helped her to stop her mind from racing so much, which makes it easier for her to fall asleep at bedtime. She said she’s glad she has this tool to help with her anxiety, migraine headaches, and asthma symptoms too.
Dr. Gold has mentioned that the younger children she has introduced to The Tapping Solution app love it, and they enjoy following and repeating the phrases as they tap. She explained that older adolescents and teens may start off curious and slightly skeptical, but after they have done a round or two of a Tapping meditation that most of them have found some positive relief of their symptoms.
Explore The Tapping Solution App for yourself (it’s free!)
Share it with the parents, teachers, children, and teens in your life who may be stressed about heading back to school during the Coronavirus Pandemic.
**Names and identifying details have been changed to protect the confidentiality and privacy of patients.**
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July 23, 2020
“You Are Enough” Tapping Challenge: Release Stress and Anxiety
Do you ever struggle with the belief that you aren’t enough?
“I’m not smart enough.”
“I’m not pretty enough.”
“I’m not thin enough.”
“I’m not successful enough.”
“I’m not good enough.”
And on and on the list goes…
If this sounds like you (and I’m willing to bet it does) then let’s do some quick tapping to release any stress and anxiety you may be holding onto right now.
Just play the video below or watch it on Facebook here, and then keep reading below to learn more about the “You Are Enough” Challenge that you can join and be a part of.
As I shared in the video, I read a comment in our Facebook Group a few months back that was so incredible, that it sparked an idea to help others achieve the same results with Tapping that Myra achieved. You can read her post below:
And so our first ever Tapping Meditation “Challenge”! (which includes a $1,000 cash prize!) was born!
Here’s how it’s all going to work.
1. Sign up for the FREE “You Are Enough” challenge here.
2. Once you sign up, you’ll receive one “entry” into the sweepstakes that goes with the challenge. One “winner” will receive a $1,000 CASH prize in addition to a lifetime premium membership to our App ($399). We’ll also have a 2nd prize of a lifetime membership to the App and a $500 credit in our store, and a 3rd prize of a lifetime membership to the App. 
June 3, 2020
Racial Anxiety Relief – Tapping Meditation
One of the most important elements of Tapping is its ability to create the space to see and honor one’s pain.
It’s not about ignoring it or just trying to think positively, but about being with your feelings and validating your own experience. That is an essential part of healing, and one of the reasons why Tapping works so well.
As the nation mourns the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, we are beginning to truly witness the pain in this country. For some of us, it’s a pain that’s been part of our daily reality, and for others, we are only just becoming aware of its depth.
True healing comes when we can stop and acknowledge this pain; when we don’t try to reason our way out of it or dismiss it, but accept it and thus begin the healing journey.
Here at The Tapping Solution, we are committed to listening and learning more about the struggles being faced within the black community and other communities whose voices haven’t been heard.
We are committed to creating a safe space where everyone feels loved and accepted as they continue their own journey of self-love and self-acceptance.
To that end, I want to introduce a new resource created with our Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community in mind, by reintroducing one of our Tapping World Summit presenters, Dr. Damon Silas.
Here is a special note from Dr. Silas, and below it, I’m also sharing resources that we can all benefit from.
“Hi, I’m Dr. Damon Silas, a psychologist who specializes in anxiety and trauma. I am also a black man in mourning.
During this time especially, it can feel impossible to relax. I get it.
That’s why I felt called to create a Tapping meditation for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color to experience some ease from the anxiety (alongside many other emotions) that comes from racial injustices – injustices that we are witnessing and experiencing across this country and within our own community.
The pain we are feeling is justified, and our bodies still need a break. Whether you are having trouble sleeping, experiencing headaches, stomachaches, or a racing heart, we need to take care of ourselves so that we can connect to our own power.
You can find this free Tapping Meditation in the Crisis Support section of The Tapping Solution App or simply type Racial Anxiety Relief in the search bar for easy access.
As I was recording this, I had to pause as I almost began to cry. I was reminded again of the power of acknowledging your feelings and Tapping. Sending Peace, Love, and Light to you all.”
We know many members of our community, regardless of race, color, or creed, are struggling to navigate this difficult time. Here are some additional Tapping Meditations that you can find in the Tapping Solution App. These resources are provided at no cost. I encourage you to share all these resources with anyone in your own community who can benefit.
Sleep Support: Quiet My Racing Mind
Sending you much love and healing.
Until next time…
Keep Tapping! (And loving)
Nick Ortner
How do you feel after tapping with Dr. Silas? Let him know by commenting below!
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May 14, 2020
Tapping for Child Anxiety: A Personal Story
“What if I didn’t know about EFT?”
Have you ever asked yourself that question when suddenly faced with a physical or emotional crisis where you had to use Tapping?
I sure have, and so did a woman named Danielle when she ran into her 10-year-old son’s room to find him in the middle of a full-blown panic attack.
Pretty scary!
How did Tapping help? Here is Danielle’s story in her own words…
Danielle’s Story
How does one begin to articulate how challenging 2020 has been?
We have seen our very way of life turned upside down due to the arrival of a novel virus, and families all over the world are struggling to find a “new normal” in the face of massive societal changes.
We are all looking for safe and effective ways to manage the heightened stress related to these turbulent times – which brings me to how Tapping has recently helped my family.
In my home, I have a little boy who had already experienced some occasional anxious moments related to school. We have used Tapping off and on since he was in 2nd grade with great results. However, we have found that we’ve needed to use it much more frequently for sleep disruption when he started 6th grade this year.
We also noticed the disturbances in his sleep seemed to increase throughout the weeks leading up to the stay-at-home orders, as he shared with us that his daily homeroom news segments at school were reporting constant updates about the effects of the virus.
This global event has really been challenging for our children, to say the least. Thankfully, within our family, we have had the benefit of being able to use and apply Emotional Freedom Techniques.
Tapping Before Bedtime
EFT has been an excellent tool to help our son calm down when his mind races, often in association with his worries for the world or what is happening with his friends and loved ones. This is especially true at night just as he would be trying to rest.
With just a few rounds of tapping at bedtime, I have seen my son go from being highly restless and anxious to being totally relaxed and ready for sleep.
Sometimes we talk about how intense his level of discomfort is, but usually we keep it simple and begin with an opening statement of, “Even though I am feeling all this anxiety that is keeping me from sleep, I deeply love and accept myself,” or maybe, “Even though I am having all these racing thoughts and worries, I honor how I feel and I deeply love and accept myself.”
We address both the negative feelings while we go through the acupressure points as well as how nice it feels to trust that we are “safe”, knowing that our bodies want to sleep and that we can do it.
The phrase “I am safe no matter what” is always the anchor that we come back to in many of our finishing statements, as that seems to be a powerful trigger for some big yawns too.
One night, my son was really struggling to the point that he came out into the family room and asked me to tap with him, as he felt like he could just not get to sleep, even saying he “worried that he would ‘never’ get back to sleep,” which was making him very tearful.
We tapped on that fear of never getting back to sleep and by the third round of tapping, the total shift in his countenance and body language let me know he was finally able to relax into sleep again – and he did.
Interestingly enough, I had seen a message on The Tapping Solution Facebook page, encouraging people to share about how EFT had been helping them during this stressful time. And so I had decided to write about how Tapping had been helping both my mother and my son’s sleeping issues…
And then my son had his first, full-on anxiety attack.
I had received a notice from his school that he was missing a few assignments in the new online format and so I told my son to go into his account and look around. Well, because it was a new marking period, the missing homework had taken his grades into failing status, and he immediately began to panic.
I heard him in his room, sounding like he was hyperventilating and definitely crying, so I ran in and asked him what was wrong. He was holding his face and sobbing, but then he finally was able to get his breath and verbalize that he had “failed” his grade, just before busting out into another round of sobs.
Of course, I knew this could not be true and instructed him to breathe as deeply and slowly as he could manage.
I told him we were going to breathe and tap together until he could find his calm, and then we would go back into the system and figure out what we needed to do to fix this problem.
Seeing my son so distraught had me feeling a fair amount of panic too and I wondered to what degree we would be successful in regaining his balance. I trusted EFT, but I had never had to use it for an outright panic attack before.
In my head, I could see all the case histories and the science I had studied racing by, proving how Tapping calms the amygdala, lowers stress hormones, and engages the parasympathetic nervous system towards anxiety resolution…
We had nothing to lose, and so we tapped…
Within a matter of 5-10 minutes of tapping, my terrified, anxious child was breathing steadily with a total return to his senses.
I could see he was cognitively present and while shaken, he had his composure back and felt in control again.
He picked up his Chromebook, began looking for the assignment instructions, and he completed the missing work – just as though he had never gone through that moment of crisis.
As I watched him come out the other side of this anxiety attack, smiling and seemingly unaffected, I also could not help but wonder…
What if I didn’t know about EFT? What would I have done for my son??
Obviously, I would have held him and tried to comfort him, and I do have an educational background in psychology with a few other tools at my disposal, but my son was in the middle of a very intense anxiety episode.
Outside of taking him to an emergency walk-in clinic, which I really would not have wanted to do concerning coronavirus exposure risks right now, I would not have had many other options.
Thankfully though, I DID have Tapping, and I was able to use it to help my son right on the spot. I am so grateful for the Ortners who have brought EFT to the public in such a generous and accessible way.
Thank you to the entire Tapping Solution team, as well as all the amazing doctors, educators, and facilitators who have been diligently sharing the science behind Tapping, helping to educate the public about this safe and effective modality.
EFT Tapping is a family-friendly tool that anyone can learn how to use, and I hope that more families will not only hear about it, but also experience the benefits of this amazing modality as they find their way through these truly challenging times.
Sincerely,
Danielle Augustine
This is an AMAZING story that not only shows how quickly EFT Tapping can work, but also in demonstrating its effectiveness as an emergency tool that everyone can have on hand.
We really appreciate Danielle for sharing her personal story and we hope it inspires you to explore how you can use Tapping with your kids or with children you work with!
For additional resources, I encourage you the check out our blog post on Tapping for Parents, Teachers, Children, and Teenagers.
Until next time…
Keep Tapping!
Nick Ortner
Have you taught Tapping to your kids or children you work with? Have you seen a difference? Comment below!
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May 4, 2020
We’re Hiring!
$3,000 referral prize! If you know someone who is exceptional and would be a great fit for one of these positions, please forward this email to them and tell them to apply. We’re paying $3,000 to whoever refers the winning candidate so they MUST include who referred them in their email. If the same candidate is referred by multiple people, the first person to refer them gets the credit.
My brother, sister, and I made a decision a few weeks back, and that’s to recommit and redouble our efforts to spread EFT Tapping to those who need it most, especially in these tough times.
Even though we’ve had to cancel or delay a couple of internal promotions because of the economic climate, and that’s tough for a small business like ours, we believe now is the time to grow this message.
If you’re interested, please review everything in this email to ensure you apply correctly
April 24, 2020
Tapping Meditations to Help Children Sleep
I’m SUPER excited to announce that we’ve just expanded our Tapping Solution App collection to include more tapping meditations for kids.
These 4 new ones by my brother Alex were specifically recorded to help your children go to SLEEP.
Calming the Body and Mind for Sleep: Ages 5 and Under
Calming the Body and Mind for Sleep: Ages 6 to 8
Calming the Body and Mind for Sleep: Ages 9 to 12
Calming the Body and Mind for Sleep: Ages 13 to 17
We’re making these free in the app for a limited time, so be sure to try them out.
Helping to relieve stress and anxiety for everyone during these uncertain times is our primary goal, so we hope these meditations will be helpful.
April 20, 2020
Forks and Inner Strength in Tough Times
My sister Jessica recorded a short video about a special “fork” a few weeks back and it’s now been viewed over 2 MILLION times on Facebook. What could be so special about a fork? And why is it so relevant to inner strength and what’s happening today?
Watch the video below to find out.
Edit from Jessica: Thank you to everyone who has shared their stories with us. I am so inspired! And I did misspeak at one point. Kids can be impacted by this virus. My friend is feeling great and he and his family have fully recovered. Sending much love to all!!
Until next time…
Keep Tapping!
Nick Ortner
Do you have an item or a memento that provides you strength, hope, or inspiration when times are tough? Comment below!
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My sister Jessica recorded a short video about a special “fork” a few weeks back and it’s now been viewed over 2 MILLION times on Facebook.
What could be so special about a fork? And why is it so relevant to what’s happening today?
Watch the video below to find out…
Until next time…
Keep Tapping!
Nick Ortner
Do you have an item or a momento that provides you strength, hope, or inspiration when times are tough? Comment below!
The post How a Fork Can Remind Us of Our Inner Strength When Times Get Tough appeared first on The Tapping Solution.
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April 17, 2020
Tapping for Dementia: A Personal Story
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Below, I’ve included the entirety of her written personal experience to preserve her voice, with only minor changes to help with formatting. I hope you feel as moved as I did.
Tapping for Dementia – Soothing a Father’s Mind: A Personal Story
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Below, I’ve included the entirety of her written personal experience to preserve her voice, with only minor changes to help with formatting. I hope you feel as moved as I did.
