5 Methods to Use Tapping In Trauma Areas — Trauma-Knowledgeable EFT/Tapping, Anti-Racism, Meditation, CME | Jill Wener, MD | CME Wellness Retreats for Medical doctors

Do you know that tapping (additionally known as the emotional freedom approach, or EFT) has generally been studied and utilized in trauma areas?

I truly first discovered about tapping from a psychiatrist and a psychologist who have been utilizing it to assist their PTSD sufferers on the VA (Veterans Hospital) course of their trauma. 

On this submit, I’ll be discussing 5 completely different ways in which tapping could be utilized in trauma areas.

1. Therapeutic trauma. One of many foremost methods tapping can be utilized in trauma areas is to truly heal trauma: by serving to somebody course of a latest or historic traumatic occasion. Tapping by means of a traumatic reminiscence utilizing specialised strategies adjustments the best way an individual’s nervous system processes and remembers that occasion, making it much less prone to re-activate that trauma sooner or later and lowering its emotional affect on the particular person shifting ahead. 

   Essential word: this is not one thing that I like to recommend that anybody do on their very own or with pre-recorded tapping movies, as a result of deep trauma work could be re-traumatizing if not achieved rigorously and safely. There are very particular and specialised strategies that course of traumatic recollections in a secure means, so the sort of in-depth therapeutic work actually requires one-on-one work with a talented educated tapping practitioner. 

2. Self-regulation and co-regulation. Tapping will also be used for self-regulation when an individual is activated/ triggered/ in a trauma response (i.e. to calm their very own nervous system). That is a part of the way it works: it adjustments the best way the stress middle of our mind processes stress! What’s even cooler is that if two folks faucet collectively, every particular person’s nervous system can have a chilled impact on the opposite particular person’s nervous system, additionally known as co-regulation. 

3. Processing different intense feelings. Trauma can convey up plenty of intense feelings past feeling activated/triggered, and tapping will also be used to course of these robust feelings. For instance, an individual is likely to be indignant in direction of somebody who harmed them, or they could really feel disgrace round one thing that has occurred to them, and tapping can lower the depth of these feelings. 

4. Self-care for trauma practitioners. Whereas it is extremely rewarding, doing trauma work with shoppers could be very tough for trauma practitioners. Tapping can be utilized to assist trauma practitioners regulate their very own feelings and course of the emotional affect of holding area for different folks’s trauma. 

5. The mind-body connection. Lastly, tapping might help folks keep of their physique after they’re too activated to faucet on their feelings. Generally tapping on a very intense emotion or a traumatic reminiscence can really feel too overwhelming; going again into all the emotions round a traumatic expertise can truly make the stress and the overwhelm worse. If this occurs, as a substitute of tapping on the feelings or on the reminiscence, you’ll be able to truly faucet on how your physique is bodily experiencing that emotion. Possibly there is a constricting within the chest, or there is a tightening within the shoulders, or a knot within the abdomen, or their coronary heart is pounding. No matter they’re feeling, they will truly faucet simply on the bodily sensations, protecting themselves within the physique. As a result of the thoughts and the physique are intimately related, tapping on the bodily sensations can even have the impact of regulating the feelings. 

Tapping is a beneficial instrument that may assist each trauma survivors and trauma practitioners, and it’s one thing you could think about for your self or somebody you care about. Should you’re inquisitive about studying extra about trauma and tapping and the way they work collectively, and the way you may use tapping your self or in different trauma areas that you’re in, please try extra details about my upcoming Degree 1 EFT/Tapping ‘Prepare the Coach’: www.jillwener.com/tappingtraining.