• Nourishingplot
  • Courses
  • Lab Tests
  • Our Story
  • Shop
    • Our Shop
    • Recommended products
  • 0 items
GAPS Protocol Help
  • Nourishingplot
  • Courses
  • Lab Tests
  • Our Story
  • Shop
    • Our Shop
    • Recommended products
  • 0 items

nourishingplot

  • Home
  • Blog
  • nourishingplot
  • Pressure Point Accupunture You Can Do At Home

Pressure Point Accupunture You Can Do At Home

  • Categories nourishingplot
  • Tags Food, Health Support, Toxicity
photo courtesy of thrivingnow.com
photo courtesy of thrivingnow.com

Tapping on pressure points while focusing on illness symptoms, pain or breathing is showing increasingly remarkable results.

In her book The Tapping Solution For Weight Loss And Body Confidence Jessica Ortner covers the process of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) which she calls tapping. As a stress reduction and weight loss coach she speaks publicly about the benefits of tapping on pressure points. Most recently she  produced the documentary The Tapping Solution.

{We are taking a leap of faith and have added a donate button instead of using advertisers. Advertisements have been removed from this page to make your reading uninterrupted. If you learn something here, please donate so we can keep offering these posts. This post contains affiliate links, which sometimes pay for this site}.

In her book Ortner describes how tapping can manage the overproduction of cortisol, the stress hormone that controls weight.

Stress and frustration is felt throughout our whole body. She says tapping helps calm the panic stress response in the amigdala, a section of the brain that fires off in danger. This firing produces cortisol. Tension in the body with no immediate outlet creates challenges biochemically within the body.

EFT sends a calming signal to the brain and allows the body to relax lowering the stress point. A few rounds of tapping creates an immediate sense of relaxation Ortner says.

An 8 week study was performed by clinical psychologist Dr. Peta Stapleton at the Griffith University School of Medicine Logan Campus in Queensland, Australia where patients tapped for 15 minutes a day while focusing on their anxiety points. The average weight loss was 16 pounds.

She is also working on 4 other EFT studies.

Bond University refers to tapping as Psychological Acupuncture saying, “The effectiveness of EFT is starting to amass positive evidence that needle-free stimulation of pressure points can lead to reduced food cravings and long term weight loss.”

Dr. Stapleton is currently working on her third test study.

photo courtesy of thrivingnow.com
photo courtesy of thrivingnow.com

Although tapping was founded in the 1990s by Stanford engineering graduate Gary Craig, EFT is currently seeing a surge of interest.

Scientific Research (2013. Vol.4, No.8, 645-654 http://www.scirp.org/journal/psych) published an article saying, “EFT has moved in the past two decades from a fringe therapy to wide- spread professional acceptance.” They reported, “23 randomized controlled trials and 17 within-subjects studies. The three essential ingredients of Clinical EFT are described: exposure, cognitive shift, and acupressure.” Acupressure showed the most significance.

Tapping on pressure points is done by using three fingers on one hand to tap the other hand on the outside of the hand, not the palm, not the back of the hand but the side of the hand between the pinky and palm.

Taps should be light, not forceful, and repetitive for roughly 15-20 seconds.

Next take your two fingers and tap the hair where your eyebrow begins at the top of your nose, the eyebrow point. You will be tapping just to the side of center of your forehead. Then move your fingers out along the same bone tapping between the temple and the eyeball along the same bone. Continue tapping underneath the energy-tapping-points-fingers-330x330eye, again staying on the bone. Progress to tapping beneath the nose then move to tapping the chin at the crease between the lip and the chin. Then tap the collar bone directly under your chin on your chest where the color bone ends. Progress to tapping under the arm, below your armpit, where a woman’s bra strap rests, then tap directly on top of the head.

Ortner says repeating uplifting phrases of affirmation increases effectiveness. For an example click here.

 

*To support the efforts of this blog shop the affiliate links above like this one. You pay the same shopping through Amazon while the author receives a small referral fee from Amazon. This offsets the costs of this site.

*If you would like to receive further posts from this author go to the Nourishing Plot Facebook page linked by clicking here. Once there, “like” a hand-full of articles so future posts are uploaded into your Facebook newsfeed.

*Nourishing Plot is written by a mom whose son has been delivered from the effects of autism (asperger’s syndrome), ADHD, bipolar disorder/manic depression, hypoglycemia and dyslexia through food. This is not a news article published by a paper trying to make money. This blog is put out by a mom who sees first hand the effects of nourishing food vs food-ish items. No company pays her for writing these blogs, she considers this a form of missionary work. It is her desire to scream it from the rooftops so that others don’t suffer from the damaging effect of today’s “food”.

Other sources:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/vividliferadio/2014/05/20/jessica-ortner-tapping-in-to-weight-loss

http://eatingpsychologyconference.com/day-1/#thomasmoore

http://www.empowher.com/weight-loss/content/eft-can-reduce-food-cravings

http://jessica-ortner.com/

http://petastapleton.com/research/

Jessica Ortner

Dr. Peta Stapleton

Tag:Food, Health Support, Toxicity

  • Share:
author avatar
Becky Plotner

Previous post

Vegetables That Damage Your Health
August 22, 2014

Next post

Resolving Migraines and Headaches Naturally
August 23, 2014

    1 Comment

Leave A Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Nourishing Plot articles

Webshop

Courses and events

  • Advanced GAPS
  • Beginner GAPS
  • Dr. Natasha Teaching
  • GAPS
  • GAPS Recipe
  • Microbiome
  • nourishingplot
  • Practitioner Training
  • Recipe
  • Uncategorized

Alzheimer's Alzheimer's disease body cream brain health coconut oil dairy deodorant Detoxification Disease dopamine Dr. Tom O'Bryan Family Farming Food foods you thought were healthy at costco but aren't GAPS GAPS 'Oreo' Cookies Hashimoto's Health Expert Health Support Heavy Metals ingredients you shouldn't eat Lugol's Lugol's iodine Mother's Day Nourishing Traditional Diets Toxicity urine videos women


Any information on this site that is related to vaccines, masks, or religious references in any way are the sole opinion of the author and not connected to Gut and Psychology Syndrome or GAPS in any way.
◊

The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. These terms and conditions of use are subject to change at anytime and without notice

◊

This information is for information purposes only, not to be used or confused with medical advice. Any medical condition should be addressed by a medical doctor, this is not that. This pastoral education is based on how to support the body, based on recognized doctrine which is focused on how the Lord made us to function well, for you to be well through education of commonly accepted ways of improving health. This site does not promote, use, or practice medicine(s) in any way. All services are educational in format, practice, and intent. Becky Plotner is a Diplomat of the PWA (Professional Wellness Alliance) and only provides services to members.
 

Becky Plotner, ND, tdnl nat, CGP, D.PSc

© 2022 Gap Protocol Help -All content provided on this blog is for informational purposes only.