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The 4 Most Common Reasons Why You May Struggle to Sleep and How to Use Tapping to Get to Sleep Fast

About 68% of Americans struggle with sleep at least once a week, according to a poll by Consumer Reports.

That’s roughly 164 million people. Considering good sleep ranks with nutrition and exercise for good health, it’s no surprise that many people look for a quick fix. In 2015 alone, $41 billion was spent on sleeping aids and remedies.

If you struggle with sleep, you’re probably looking for solutions, and you likely want them now (especially if you’re reading this while lying in bed trying to fall asleep!).

In this post, I’ll share some of the most common causes and solutions (many of which work great for simple challenges!). I’ll also detail why the technique known as Tapping has become one of the most effective techniques for overcoming sleep issues, based on years of scientific research, and how you can use it immediately to start sleeping better.

The Issue is More Damaging Than You Think…

Before we get to the solutions, it’s important to understand just how much of an effect the lack of sleep is having on us. Just pushing through our days, thinking we can get by on less sleep, or that there’s nothing we can do about it, often becomes a habit that has more dire consequences than we realize.

Here are 6 serious consequences of not sleeping enough:

1. Shortened life expectancy – An analysis of 16 different studies that covered over 1 million people showed that sleeping less increased risk for death by 12% compared to those that slept 7 to 8 hours a night. (Source)




2. Increased Risk of Accidents – There’s a reason why you see signs on the highways saying that if you’re tired, pull over. You may have even seen awareness campaigns offering free coffee if you pull off an exit. Not sleeping enough impairs your reactions and increases your risk of having a car accident (and other accidents!).




3. Increased Risk of Mental Health Disorders such as depression and anxiety.




4. Increased Risk of Medical Health Conditions – Some of these include obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, inflammation, sensitivity to pain, seizures, asthma attacks, and stroke.




5. Impaired Thinking – Want to be productive in your business or at your job? A lack of sleep can seriously impair your thinking. In fact, it interferes with brain function at a cellular level. A study at UCLA showed that it interferes with the ability of some brain cells to function and communicate with each other. (Source)




6. Lowered Energy Levels – A lack of sleep disrupts hormone levels, including serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol, which has an effect on our mood, thinking, and energy.




The good news is that there are easy and inexpensive ways to get a good night’s sleep. But first, you have to find the root of the issue.

The 4 Most Common Reasons For Why You May Have Trouble Sleeping (And What You Can Do About Them!)

There are a number of reasons why people struggle to sleep, and people often think there is no solution. The four reasons outlined below are the most common.

Reason #1 – Chronic Body Pain

Nothing is more frustrating than wanting to fall asleep, only to have chronic pain keep you awake night after night. The worst part is that it enters a vicious cycle. When you struggle to sleep, you struggle to heal, causing you more pain and more trouble sleeping.

There are a number of psychological techniques that are used to overcome sleep issues related to or caused by pain. They include:

-Deep muscle relaxation

-Visual, sound, or other sensory imagery

-Focusing elsewhere rather than on the pain

-Hypnosis

The challenge with these techniques is that they all involve trying to distance oneself from the physical pain, rather than addressing and releasing it.

Tapping, on the other hand, works on the underlying mental, emotional and energetic causes of pain to release them. It has shown, time after time, to reduce the levels of physical pain in just minutes. And when you can reduce the pain… you can sleep!

It works because of the mind-body connection. I detail much of the scientific research behind why Tapping works for pain relief in my book “The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief”.

How to Use Tapping Right Now to Eliminate Physical Pain and Fall Asleep Fast 

If you just want something that you can implement now, I recommend downloading our Tapping Solution App. You can listen to and tap along with one of the “Heal Your Body” tapping meditations, as they can guide you to achieving pain relief in just minutes.

If you’re new to Tapping, the app will teach you how to do it quickly. It’s simple, easy and effective!

DISCLAIMER: Always consult your doctor before starting any new treatment for pain and to find out if there is an underlying medical condition that needs to be treated.

RELATED: How to Use Tapping for Pain Relief

Reason #2: Racing Thoughts (a.k.a. stress!)

With all of the constant challenges we have in our modern society, it can be difficult to turn off the thoughts when it’s time for bed. Typically, these thoughts lead to one underlying emotion… stress. Occasional stress can be good for you, but chronic stress can be debilitating. If you have any of these 23 signs, you have far too much stress in your life.

How Stress Affects Your Body and Keeps You Up at Night

Our ancestors relied on stress and the “fight or flight” mechanism in their brain because it pushed them into heightened states that allowed them to move faster and react quicker, literally helping them to survive.

For example, if hunting went awry, and they were face-to-face with a wolf, the flight-or-fight response would activate. It would help them to quickly make a decision about whether they were going to run away or fight the wolf.

As a result, adrenaline would be released, along with cortisol and other hormones. Working together, they activated functions essential for their survival. Their heart rate was increased to quickly pump blood to their muscles. Their breathing quickened to increase their focus by giving their brain more oxygen. In other words, they were primed and ready to go.

In our current day and age, real life or death situations, such as this example of encountering wolves, rarely happen. However, the brain does not distinguish between what is real and what is imagined, and because of the constant stressors in our modern society, our brains are in a constant state of fight or flight.

While there is a laundry list of causes of chronic stress today, some common modern-day situations that trigger stress include:

Worrying about money and paying the bills
Conflict with other friends, family members, work colleagues, and others
Perceived job insecurity
Raising children
Health challenges
And many others!

The problem, of course, is that if you’re in a state of stress, and your fight or flight mechanism is triggered, your body is in a heightened state of awareness, and so falling asleep becomes difficult.

Imagine our caveman ancestors trying to fall asleep with a wolf 20 feet away… it just wouldn’t happen. That’s what happens to you when you have chronic stress!

Fortunately, Tapping has been proven to reduce chronic stress fast.

Research Shows That Tapping Reduces Stress

In a double-blind study conducted by Dawson Church, Ph.D, Tapping was shown to produce, on average, a 24 percent drop in cortisol levels after just one hour of Tapping. Cortisol is often referred to as the “stress hormone” because it is released when we experience stress.

On the other hand, the people in the study who were treated with traditional talk therapy or no treatment at all didn’t experience any significant cortisol reduction. In other words, they were just as stressed at the end of it all, while those who tried tapping walked out with significantly less stress!

How to Use Tapping to Reduce Stress Right Now, to Release the Racing Thoughts and Finally Fall Asleep

If you want to try tapping right now to reduce stress, I recommend downloading our Tapping Solution App. Listen to and tap along with one of the “Emotional Freedom” tapping meditations or the “Sleep Support” tapping meditations, as they can guide you to reducing stress and falling asleep in just minutes.

Reason #3: Issues With Your Sleeping Environment

This issue is probably the easiest to fix, but even when fixed, doesn’t always allow sleep, as oftentimes there are deeper issues, such as the physical pain and stress addressed above. Here are a few common environmental issues and some suggested solutions:

TOO MUCH LIGHT IN THE BEDROOM: Too much light in the room is a common issue that hinders falling asleep and staying asleep.  Remember, our ancestors didn’t have bright alarm clocks, television sets, phones, music systems and other electronics creating light as they tried to sleep. They slept in… the dark! The more light you have in the room, the more trouble your brain will have switching off and falling asleep.

TOO MUCH LIGHT BEFORE BED: Equally important is reducing the amount of light you (and your brain) take in before bed. Blue light reduces the production of melatonin, a hormone that brings on sleep and keeps us there. Reduce the amount of blue light you get in the evening by using free programs such as f.lux to lower blue light from your computer or phone, by using lights in the bedroom with less blue light, and by wearing blue light blocking glasses.

TOO MUCH MORNING LIGHT: Also important is to not allow sunlight in the morning if it is coming up earlier than when you’d like to get up. If it is, get black-out curtains to keep that light out in the morning. Those black-out curtains will also keep moonlight out on those bright full moon nights!

ROOM TEMPERATURE: Once again, remember that our ancestors who passed on their DNA to us lived in an environment where it became colder at night as the sun went down. If your environment is too warm, you may struggle to sleep. Play with different temperature settings to see which helps you to sleep best!

Reason #4: Your Partner

If your partner snores, tosses and turns, or takes up too much of the bed, it can make it difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep. And if they’re fast asleep, it can leave you staring at them in frustration, staring a little too intently at your pillow, wondering what you could do with it.

The 4 Most Common Reasons for Why People Struggle to Sleep and How to Use Tapping to Get to Sleep Fast

About 68% of Americans struggle with sleep at least once a week, according to a poll by Consumer Reports. That’s roughly 164 million people. Considering good sleep ranks with nutrition and exercise for good health, it’s no surprise that many people look for a quick fix. In 2015 alone, $41 billion was spent on sleeping aids and remedies.

If you struggle with sleep, you’re probably looking for solutions, and you likely want them now (especially if you’re reading this while lying in bed trying to fall asleep!).

In this post, I’ll share some of the most common causes and solutions (many of which work great for simple challenges!). I’ll also detail why the technique known as Tapping has become one of the most effective techniques for overcoming sleep issues, based on years of scientific research, and how you can use it immediately to start sleeping better.

The Issue is More Damaging Than You Think…

Before we get to the solutions, it’s important to understand just how much of an effect the lack of sleep is having on us. Just pushing through our days, thinking we can get by on less sleep, or that there’s nothing we can do about it, often becomes a habit that has more dire consequences than we realize.

Here are 6 serious consequences of not sleeping enough:

1. Shortened life expectancy – An analysis of 16 different studies that covered over 1 million people showed that sleeping less increased risk for death by 12% compared to those that slept 7 to 8 hours a night. (Source)

2. Increased Risk of Accidents – There’s a reason why you see signs on the highways saying that if you’re tired, pull over. You may have even seen awareness campaigns offering free coffee if you pull off an exit. Not sleeping enough impairs your reactions and increases your risk of having a car accident (and other accidents!).

3. Increased Risk of Mental Health Disorders such as depression and anxiety.

4. Increased Risk of Medical Health Conditions – Some of these include obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, inflammation, sensitivity to pain, seizures, asthma attacks, and stroke.

5. Impaired Thinking – Want to be productive in your business or at your job? A lack of sleep can seriously impair your thinking. In fact, it interferes with brain function at a cellular level. A study at UCLA showed that it interferes with the ability of some brain cells to function and communicate with each other. (Source)

6. Lowered Energy Levels – A lack of sleep disrupts hormone levels, including serotonin, dopamine, and cortisol, which has an effect on our mood, thinking, and energy.

The good news is that there are easy and inexpensive ways to get a good night’s sleep. But first, you have to find the root of the issue.

The 4 Most Common Reasons For Why You May Have Trouble Sleeping (And What You Can Do About Them!)

There are a number of reasons why people struggle to sleep, and people often think there is no solution. The four reasons outlined below are the most common.

Reason #1 – Chronic Body Pain

Nothing is more frustrating than wanting to fall asleep, only to have chronic pain keep you awake night after night. The worst part is that it enters a vicious cycle. When you struggle to sleep, you struggle to heal, causing you more pain and more trouble sleeping.

There are a number of psychological techniques that are used to overcome sleep issues related to or caused by pain. They include:

-Deep muscle relaxation

-Visual, sound, or other sensory imagery

-Focusing elsewhere rather than on the pain

-Hypnosis

The challenge with these techniques is that they all involve trying to distance oneself from the physical pain, rather than addressing and releasing it.

Tapping, on the other hand, works on the underlying mental, emotional and energetic causes of pain to release them. It has shown, time after time, to reduce the levels of physical pain in just minutes. And when you can reduce the pain… you can sleep!

It works because of the mind-body connection. I detail much of the scientific research behind why Tapping works for pain relief in my book “The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief”.

How to Use Tapping Right Now to Eliminate Physical Pain and Fall Asleep Fast 

If you just want something that you can implement now, I recommend downloading our Tapping Solution App. You can listen to and tap along with one of the “Heal Your Body” tapping meditations, as they can guide you to achieving pain relief in just minutes.

If you’re new to Tapping, the app will teach you how to do it quickly. It’s simple, easy and effective!

DISCLAIMER: Always consult your doctor before starting any new treatment for pain and to find out if there is an underlying medical condition that needs to be treated.

RELATED: How to Use Tapping for Pain Relief

Reason #2: Racing Thoughts (a.k.a. stress!)

With all of the constant challenges we have in our modern society, it can be difficult to turn off the thoughts when it’s time for bed. Typically, these thoughts lead to one underlying emotion… stress. Occasional stress can be good for you, but chronic stress can be debilitating. If you have any of these 23 signs, you have far too much stress in your life.

How Stress Affects Your Body and Keeps You Up at Night

Our ancestors relied on stress and the “fight or flight” mechanism in their brain because it pushed them into heightened states that allowed them to move faster and react quicker, literally helping them to survive.

For example, if hunting went awry, and they were face-to-face with a wolf, the flight-or-fight response would activate. It would help them to quickly make a decision about whether they were going to run away or fight the wolf.

As a result, adrenaline would be released, along with cortisol and other hormones. Working together, they activated functions essential for their survival. Their heart rate was increased to quickly pump blood to their muscles. Their breathing quickened to increase their focus by giving their brain more oxygen. In other words, they were primed and ready to go.

In our current day and age, real life or death situations, such as this example of encountering wolves, rarely happen. However, the brain does not distinguish between what is real and what is imagined, and because of the constant stressors in our modern society, our brains are in a constant state of fight or flight.

While there is a laundry list of causes of chronic stress today, some common modern-day situations that trigger stress include:

Worrying about money and paying the bills
Conflict with other friends, family members, work colleagues, and others
Perceived job insecurity
Raising children
Health challenges
And many others!

The problem, of course, is that if you’re in a state of stress, and your fight or flight mechanism is triggered, your body is in a heightened state of awareness, and so falling asleep becomes difficult.

Imagine our caveman ancestors trying to fall asleep with a wolf 20 feet away… it just wouldn’t happen. That’s what happens to you when you have chronic stress!

Fortunately, Tapping has been proven to reduce chronic stress fast.

Research Shows That Tapping Reduces Stress

In a double-blind study conducted by Dawson Church, Ph.D, Tapping was shown to produce, on average, a 24 percent drop in cortisol levels after just one hour of Tapping. Cortisol is often referred to as the “stress hormone” because it is released when we experience stress.

On the other hand, the people in the study who were treated with traditional talk therapy or no treatment at all didn’t experience any significant cortisol reduction. In other words, they were just as stressed at the end of it all, while those who tried tapping walked out with significantly less stress!

How to Use Tapping to Reduce Stress Right Now, to Release the Racing Thoughts and Finally Fall Asleep

If you want to try tapping right now to reduce stress, I recommend downloading our Tapping Solution App. Listen to and tap along with one of the “Emotional Freedom” tapping meditations or the “Sleep Support” tapping meditations, as they can guide you to reducing stress and falling asleep in just minutes.

Reason #3: Issues With Your Sleeping Environment

This issue is probably the easiest to fix, but even when fixed, doesn’t always allow sleep, as oftentimes there are deeper issues, such as the physical pain and stress addressed above. Here are a few common environmental issues and some suggested solutions:

TOO MUCH LIGHT IN THE BEDROOM: Too much light in the room is a common issue that hinders falling asleep and staying asleep.  Remember, our ancestors didn’t have bright alarm clocks, television sets, phones, music systems and other electronics creating light as they tried to sleep. They slept in… the dark! The more light you have in the room, the more trouble your brain will have switching off and falling asleep.

TOO MUCH LIGHT BEFORE BED: Equally important is reducing the amount of light you (and your brain) take in before bed. Blue light reduces the production of melatonin, a hormone that brings on sleep and keeps us there. Reduce the amount of blue light you get in the evening by using free programs such as f.lux to lower blue light from your computer or phone, by using lights in the bedroom with less blue light, and by wearing blue light blocking glasses.

TOO MUCH MORNING LIGHT: Also important is to not allow sunlight in the morning if it is coming up earlier than when you’d like to get up. If it is, get black-out curtains to keep that light out in the morning. Those black-out curtains will also keep moonlight out on those bright full moon nights!

ROOM TEMPERATURE: Once again, remember that our ancestors who passed on their DNA to us lived in an environment where it became colder at night as the sun went down. If your environment is too warm, you may struggle to sleep. Play with different temperature settings to see which helps you to sleep best!

Reason #4: Your Partner

If your partner snores, tosses and turns, or takes up too much of the bed, it can make it difficult to fall asleep or stay asleep. And if they’re fast asleep, it can leave you staring at them in frustration, staring a little too intently at your pillow, wondering what you could do with it.

The Tapping Solution App – Motivate Me to Have a Productive Day Tapping Meditation

This meditation is a sample from our Tapping Solution App that’s now available to download.

I’m sharing this with you so that you can get a taste of what’s available in the app, along with over 100 other Tapping Meditations from a wide variety of categories.

Motivate Me to Have a Productive Day

https://tappingsolution.s3.amazonaws.com/APP/Motivate-Me-To/Motivate-Me-To_Have-a-Productive-Day.mp3

 

After listening, let me know in the comments below what you think of this meditation.

Did you feel any shifts take place? How does your body feel after the tapping? More energized or motivated?

I hope you enjoyed it, and please help me spread the word about The Tapping Solution App!

Until next time,

Keep Tapping (On the app!)

Nick Ortner

How do you feel after using this Tapping Meditation? Comment below!

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The Tapping Solution App – Releasing Anxiety Tapping Meditation

This meditation is a sample from our Tapping Solution App that’s now available to download.

I’m sharing this with you so that you can get a taste of what’s available in the app, along with over 100 other Tapping Meditations from a wide variety of categories.

Releasing Anxiety

https://tappingsolution.s3.amazonaws.com/APP/Emotional-Freedom-Series/Releasing_Anxiety.mp3

 

After listening, let me know in the comments below what you think of this meditation.

Did you feel any shifts take place? How does your body feel after the tapping? Did your level of intensity decrease?

I hope you enjoyed it, and please help me spread the word about The Tapping Solution App!

Until next time,

Keep Tapping (On the app!)

Nick Ortner

How do you feel after using this Tapping Meditation? Comment below!

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I Love and Approve of Myself – Louise Hay

I love and approve of myself.

Louise Hay taught for years the importance of learning to love yourself.

I know it sounds easy to love yourself, but have you ever looked in a mirror and tried saying “I Love and Approve of Myself”?

If you have, I bet it was hard the first time you did it.

Watch this amazing video from Louise to find out the importance of this simple affirmation.

Until next time…

Keep Tapping!

Nick Ortner

Do you have any memories of Louise Hay or her teachings that stand out the most for you? Comment below!

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The Tapping Solution App

Every day I think about how I can help more people by connecting them with the incredible power of EFT Tapping.

And now, harnessing the power of technology, we’ve created something that will bring Tapping into the palm everyone’s hand – literally.

It’s The Tapping Solution App! And it’s now available on all Apple devices on the App Store.

This, in my mind, is the greatest thing The Tapping Solution has ever created and I’m SO excited to share it with you!

You can start seeing results TODAY with hundreds of Tapping Meditations in our library, all designed to bring relief from numerous stress-related challenges.

The Tapping Solution App Categories

Inside The Tapping Solution App, you’ll find guided Tapping Meditations for:

Stress Relief • Motivation • Confidence • Emotional Freedom • Sleep Support • Relationships • Healing Your Body • Weight Loss & Body Confidence • Releasing Fears • Wealth & Abundance • Productivity • Pregnancy & Early Motherhood • Active Military and Veteran Support • Teacher Support

The Tapping Solution App Features

Not only will The Tapping Solution App be filled with incredible content, but we’ve also packed in a ton of useful features as well. Such as:

Your Personal Dashboard with Daily Inspirational, Motivational, and Insightful Quotes
Personalized Progress Tracker for each Tapping Meditation you’ve listened to
Mark Your Favorite Tapping Meditations to quickly return to later
Built-In Intensity Rating Scale at the beginning and end of each Tapping Meditation
Independent Voice and Background Music Volume Control
Visual Tapping Point Graphics to keep you on track during each Tapping Meditation
Download Option for when you’re not connected to WiFi or the Internet
And more!


How to Get The Tapping Solution App

The Tapping Solution App is now available on the Apple App Store.

Download The Tapping Solution App here! 

The Android Version on the Google Play Store will soon follow once a stable build and user feedback has been received.

Don’t worry, though, we know we have lots of Android users, so we’ll do our best to roll that out as quickly as possible.

Tapping Case Study – Cutting Financial Family Ties

Imagine being in a situation where the rug was suddenly pulled out right from under your feet, leaving you in a financial crisis that threatened the livelihood of your family. That’s what happened to Teresa Mallon.

Check out her story below, and how she used Tapping to turn her whole situation around!

Teresa Mallon, a professional therapist and mother of three teenage boys, found herself in crisis a couple of years ago.

“My ex-husband stopped paying child support and my settlement disappeared. I was terrified, as in, madness kind of terror. I didn’t know what I was going to do to support my family, but I knew I had to do something.”

While searching online, she came across The Tapping Solution for Financial Success and Personal Fulfilment program. She took a deep breath and registered.

“I’m a good therapist, but not a good business person,” Teresa explained. “The course had me go deeply into my money story, which was new.”

As she moved through each of the weekly tapping modules, things started to change. A year and a half prior to the course, Teresa had interviewed for a part-time job in a rehab facility. “While I was doing the tapping course, the supervisor from that job called out of the blue and asked if I could start that week.” This helped her increase her income.

“There was something about having a sense of employment that seemed to affect my private practice, which began to grow. In eight months, the rehab position became untenable. I chose to leave it, which was a big deal.”

Teresa’s private practice got so busy that she paid off a $13,000 credit card debt in six months without touching her savings. She remembers the joy and success she felt when posting about it on The Tapping Solution Facebook page. “Everyone got caught up in that joy. There was so much camaraderie. I felt really successful.”

Another Challenge Awaited

But last year, Teresa’s worry returned. She had kept her credit card balance at 0, but she also wasn’t saving. So she decided to go through the financial success course again. “The first time I didn’t get through all the modules. This time, I committed to the full 49 days.”

In Teresa’s personal life, her youngest son, Ethan, was the only one of his group of friends who didn’t attend a private school, because she couldn’t afford it. He was lonely and unhappy during his first two years.

“As I went through the financial success course, I realized that my son was being economically punished. His dad was not paying, like my dad didn’t. His dad had a huge inheritance but doesn’t share it with his kids. And I felt how unfair that was. I cried for him and I cried for me.”

During one module of the course, Teresa did a lot of tapping on family money blocks. After delving into it, and releasing a lot of old family patterns, she felt confident enough to call the private school and ask about fees. “I never would have done that before the course.”

She called the school and spoke with the registrar. “I told her the whole story about Ethan and then asked what the tuition was. She said it was $12,000 a year. I thought, well, that’s that.”

But then, she asked Teresa for more details about Ethan and Teresa and their family’s situation. “I told her he’d had a speech delay, that he’d been essentially abandoned financially by his dad, how unhappy he was at the state school. She told me she was going to send us a packet and to let me know if we wanted to come take a tour of the school.” Even though Teresa was still unsure, she felt glad she had made the call.

The Cycle Is Broken

Several days later, the registrar called Teresa. She said, “I took your story to the principal and he wants to help. Write a letter and blow Ethan’s trumpet. Include copies of his reports, and we’ll see what we can do.”

Teresa was stunned, and she quickly typed up a letter on the computer. But after sending it to her sister for review, she felt it was too formal, and that she needed to write it from the heart.

So Teresa completely rewrote the letter, in pen and ink, and put it with the packet in the mail.

Once the school received the packet, they set up a meeting with the principal, Teresa, and Ethan. At the end of that meeting, the principal thanked her for her handwritten letter, and told her how touching it was. Then the unimaginable happened.

He told Teresa he could offer Ethan a place at the school for $3,000 a year instead of $12,000. Then, the family of one of Ethan’s friends came forward, telling Teresa that they would give her $2,500 each term toward Ethan’s education!

“The outcome from this incredible story is that Ethan is not being economically punished. The cycle has been broken.”

Now, Ethan is thriving at his new school, and Teresa has fully integrated tapping into both her personal and professional lives.

What’s next for Teresa? “I’d like to write a book about how tapping changed my life. Before tapping, I never would have thought I could do anything like that.”

Thank you for sharing your story with us, Teresa. Truly inspiring!

We want everyone to have that same opportunity to experience financial and emotional freedom, so we’ve created a financial success home study course for you called The Tapping Solution for Financial Success and Personal Fulfillment.

And as you can see in Teresa’s story above, the ancestral patterns of money can be broken. Your story doesn’t have to be your children’s story.

If you or someone you know is struggling with their finances, or who is just looking for a more fulfilling life, you can begin by downloading the free ebook below.

Start Tapping Today - Free Ebook!
Discover the 103 disempowering beliefs that may be holding you back from achieving the money and success you desire.

Until next time…

Keep Tapping!

Nick Ortner

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Tapping Case Study – Finding Personal Fulfilment

Sometimes, what you think you want and you really want are two different things. Getting out of your daily routine can often be the catalyst to finding that personal fulfilment you’re seeking, just like Carol experienced below.

Last December, Carol Frances was on an eight-week leave from her job after shoulder surgery. While scrolling through her social media feed, she came across a post from The Tapping Solution. “I was bored so I had a look. I did the first meditation on The Tapping Solution site and was blown away.”

Carol very much wanted to do Nick’s Financial Success and Personal Fulfillment 7-week course, but felt she couldn’t afford it. “My sister pointed out that I’d taken a crystal workshop, a Reiki training, and a therapy course that were much more expensive, but I’d found a way. I discovered that Nick offered a monthly payment plan, so I gave it a go.”

Carol explains that it was the personal fulfillment aspect of the course that she was interested in more than financial success. She had felt stuck for a long time, and what she actually wanted was to move herself forward into a more fulfilling life.

The first week, to Carol’s surprise, she cried throughout all of her tapping sessions.

“Whatever I tapped on, something would come up, some emotional situation from the past. I was amazed that I had so much anger. I’d done a lot of work on myself over the years. I thought I’d already done a lot of clearing.”

These old issues, Carol discovered, were affecting her financial and personal life.

During the first week, she was completely overwhelmed with what came out, So she decided to do Week One a second time. By the end, she felt clear and calm.

“I was able to start seeing how I viewed myself, where I am, and the self-imposed obstacles. I saw that I wasn’t being held back, but rather I was holding myself back with my attitude. I didn’t see that before because of my anger. It was quite transformative.”

The second week of the program brought even more insights to Carol.

“We were directed to write down what our goals were. I thought my goals were to were pay off my mortgage, go for a more senior position at work, buy a car, and finish sorting out my aging mom’s finances.”

By the end of the second week, she realized those goals weren’t actually what she wanted.

“I decided I wanted to work less, so I dropped some of my hours, which made things easier on me physically. I also realized that being alone in doing my mother’s finances wasn’t because I didn’t have help; it was because I hadn’t asked. Tapping helped me open up and allow help to get my mom sorted more easily.”

After Carol moved to part-time at her job, she assumed she wouldn’t be able to afford a new car, so she put that goal aside. But then, her current vehicle totally broke down, and she had to get a new one anyway.

“I don’t know how I’m doing it. I’ve dropped hours, which means lower wages each month, but I’m not in the red.”

Now Carol taps every morning. “When I am going to work, I get up 15 minutes earlier to meditate. I usually do Jessica’s morning clearing meditation, which keeps me calm while getting to work. Then if I have something that comes up during the day, I tap on it.”

Carol offers this advice for people considering Tapping: “Just try it. It’s so worthwhile. You learn so much about yourself, it helps you deal with stress in your life, and there are just so many benefits.”

Thank you for sharing your story with us, Carol.

We want everyone to have that same opportunity to experience financial and emotional freedom, so we’ve created a financial success home study course for you called The Tapping Solution for Financial Success and Personal Fulfillment.

And as you can see in Carols’s story above, it goes much deeper than just improving your financial situation.

If you or someone you know is struggling with their finances, or who is just looking for a more fulfilling life, you can begin by downloading the free ebook below.

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Until next time…

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Finding Relief from Chronic Pain

Chronic physical pain impacts over 100 million Americans – and millions more around the world. Why are so many suffering?

Let’s first look at some recent research demonstrating the links between stress/emotions and chronic pain…

In a Dutch research study with 121 women, 62 of whom were diagnosed with fibromyalgia (which causes chronic pain), pain was induced in two groups using electrical stimulus, first while recalling an emotionally neutral event, and then while recalling an event that made them feel sad and/or angry. All of the women felt more pain when recalling an event that made them feel sad and/or angry.

In a Stanford University research study, 15 participants were examined via fMRI during the first 9 months of new romantic relationships. All study participants completed 3 tasks while being subjected to moderate to intense thermal pain: (1) viewing a photo of their romantic partner; (2) viewing a picture of an equally attractive familiar acquaintance; (3) doing a word-association distraction task that had previously been shown to reduce pain.

Both the 1st and 3rd tasks reduced pain. But only during the 1st (looking at photo of their partner) did several reward-processing areas of the brain become active, reducing pain in the body.

In a George Washington University research study, lumbar CT scans of 52 patients who reported NO lower back pain were reviewed. The neuroradiologists who looked at the scans had no knowledge of the patients’ clinical histories. Of the entire group, 35.4% demonstrated disc abnormalities, stenosis, and other aging changes. These findings suggest that these physical abnormalities, which are often used to diagnose chronic pain, cannot be conclusively linked to chronic pain.

So what does all this research mean? Temporary pain, or “acute pain”, resulting from an accident, injury, surgery, etc., is a normal, healthy part of the body’s healing process. But why then, for millions of people around the world, does this pain become chronic?

The Science of Chronic Pain

Pain is defined as chronic when it lasts for a period of three months or more. When you feel pain, your body initiates the stress response. Chronic stress also contributes to chronic pain – by making you more prone to accident, injury, weight gain, insomnia, and more.

Chronic stress and chronic pain ARE related, and has been proven in a number scientific experiments and clinical trials. Here’s how stress contributes to chronic pain (and negatively impacts your life, relationships, waistline, and more) in 13 sad steps:

1. You think about a topic that often stresses you out, such as your pain, work, money, relationships, family, or something else.

2. Your amygdala (in your midbrain) senses danger.

3. Your amygdala helps to initiate your body’s fight-or-flight response to stress.

4. In fight-or-flight mode, your body releases adrenaline and the stress hormone cortisol and diverts blood away from your digestive tract, leaving you less able to digest food and absorb nutrients and more likely to gain weight.

5. In this physiological “crisis mode”, your muscles are oxygen deprived, which makes you more vulnerable to pain—from chronic illness, injuries, arthritis, fibromyalgia, migraines, stomach upset, and more.

6. In this state of heightened physiological alert, your brain’s creative center is deemed nonessential and shuts down. Down goes your problem solving, your creative skills, your intuition, your ability to connect with your body.

7. You feel increasingly irritable, isolated, and impatient. Your relationships suffer. Your pain won’t go away.

8. Stress affects your sleep. Your metabolism slows. Your body takes longer to heal.

9. Your body secretes even more cortisol, continuing the cycle of oxygen deprivation that contributes to your pain. It also wreaks more havoc on your digestion (and waistline), increases your blood pressure, and lowers your immune response.

10. After releasing too much cortisol for too long, your body goes into adrenal fatigue. You feel depleted, exhausted, and depressed. Your pain is now chronic.

11. You no longer have the energy to adhere to your exercise routine, your healthy eating, meditation, or yoga. Chronic pain seems to be running your life.

12. Your energy is low, and you have a hard time focusing. Your productivity declines further. Your relationships suffer. You’re still in pain.

13. You are stressed out. You feel depressed. Your muscles are chronically tense and oxygen deprived, making your chronic pain even more intense and more frequent. You need relief from your pain and your stress now!

Achieving Pain Relief

So what are the options available to you for relieving chronic pain?

Well, you could go the traditional route, visiting doctor after doctor, trying to figure out what exactly the problem is. You may get a diagnosis (or several), you’ll most likely be prescribed pills or painkillers (many with harmful side effects), and may even be presented with an invasive surgery as the only means of eliminating the pain (which may or may not work).

Or… you can try Tapping! This safe, inexpensive, and effective technique has had incredible results with relieving chronic pain by targeting those emotions and stressors in our lives that are connected to the pain.

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Check out the free resources above, or continue reading to find out more about our Tapping for Pain Relief program.

We want everyone to have the opportunity to experience lasting pain relief, so we created a pain relief home study course for you called:

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In The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief, I lead you through a process that will allow you to feel what it’s like to be pain-free again.

We even include the recordings for the FULL Pain Relief World Summit, an online event that was attended by over 100,000 people.

This is such a powerful process, and the results we’ve seen are amazing. I still get so excited seeing people come out of it pain-free.

Tapping App Meditation Feedback – Pregnancy Anxiety Relief: Releasing Stress Over Feeling Stress

I’d love your feedback!

This meditation is a sample from our Tapping Solution App that we are currently developing.

I’m sharing this with you so that you can be a part of the development process that helps us make these app meditations the best we can.

Pregnancy Anxiety Relief: Releasing Stress Over Feeling Stress

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After listening, let me know in the comments below what you think of this meditation.

Did you feel any shifts take place? Is there something missing? Something I need to add? Something you liked? Something I could have done better?

These are the things I’d love to hear your honest opinion about.

All feedback will be taken to heart as being constructive.