Ep. 118 - Tapping for Relief, a chat with Sarah Louise Lilley, EFT Practitioner
Mar 7, 2024
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Dr. Fiona Lovely interviews Sarah Louise Lilley, discussing how tapping can help with menopause symptoms. They explore the benefits of EFT, tapping for stress relief, and techniques for insomnia. The podcast also covers healing trauma through gentle approaches and reflecting on childhood triumphs.
Tapping with EFT can alleviate menopausal symptoms by lowering cortisol levels and shifting the nervous system.
Incorporating eye movements in EFT enhances trauma healing by replicating REM sleep patterns and optimizing memory reconsolidation.
EFT empowers individuals to reframe their relationship with trauma, fostering healing, self-compassion, and resilience through the Choices Method.
Deep dives
EFT: A Gentle Technique for Managing Stress and Trauma
EFT, or emotional freedom technique, involves tapping on specific acupuncture points while focusing on unwanted emotions, events, or trauma to lower cortisol levels and shift from the sympathetic to parasympathetic nervous system. This tapping technique helps decrease stress in the body, making it a gentle way to manage symptoms like insomnia in menopause. By tapping on specific points and using cognitive therapy, one can bring relief and create a new perspective on past traumatic events, promoting healing and reducing the impact of past traumas.
The Power of Eye Movements in Trauma Healing
While EFT focuses on the basic recipe of tapping without eye movements to simplify the technique and distinguish it from EMDR, the eye movements play a significant role in trauma healing by replicating REM sleep patterns and signaling to the brain that it's safe. These eye movements optimize the counter-conditioning of traumatic memories, helping individuals process and reconsolidate memories that trigger stress or trauma responses. By incorporating eye movements in EFT practices, individuals can effectively discharge trauma and rewire their nervous system for healing.
Choosing Empowerment Through EFT: The Choices Method
EFT empowers individuals to reframe their relationship with trauma by acknowledging and accepting negative emotions before transitioning to choosing more positive beliefs and outcomes. The Choices Method in EFT involves three rounds of tapping, focusing on negative feelings, choosing empowering emotions, and combining both to shift perceptions and cultivate a sense of trust, rest, and peace. By honoring unwanted emotions and consciously selecting more supportive beliefs, individuals can foster healing and transform their responses to past traumas, promoting self-compassion and resilience.
Rewiring the Brain: Transforming Traumatic Memories with EFT
Trauma has the power to distort one moment into a perceived truth, creating generalized fears and triggers based on past events. EFT offers a gentle yet effective approach to rewiring the brain and releasing the grip of traumatic memories, allowing individuals to deconstruct the meaning and impact of traumatic experiences. By addressing the emotional aspects of trauma through tapping and techniques like the Choices Method, EFT enables individuals to heal emotional wounds, reclaim their agency, and cultivate new perspectives that promote healing, trust, and self-compassion.
The Power of Tapping for Emotional Release
Tapping, or Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), provides a powerful tool for emotional release and healing. Through tapping, individuals can address and release emotions that feel stuck in the body, even without explicitly naming them. By tapping on specific meridian points while acknowledging the emotion, individuals can experience a gentle release and flow of emotions, leading to a sense of alignment and centeredness. This technique can be particularly beneficial in uncovering underlying beliefs and past experiences that may be affecting present emotions and behaviors.
Completing Stress Cycles for Nervous System Regulation
Completing stress cycles through techniques like EFT helps regulate the nervous system and promote emotional well-being. By acknowledging and releasing stressful experiences or traumas stored in the body, individuals can prevent these past events from lingering and negatively impacting their present lives. Engaging in physical activities like dancing, shaking, or other somatic practices can aid in releasing stored tension and promoting relaxation. By establishing a deeper connection with their bodies and processing emotions through physical means, individuals can achieve greater alignment, trust, and overall emotional resilience.
Dr. Fiona Lovely is a health and wellness expert with specialties in restorative endocrinology, functional neurology and functional medicine. Speaking to the topics of women's health around peri-menopause and menopause. Today, Dr. Lovely interviews Sarah Louise Lilley, Clinical EFT Practitioner and Mentor. They discuss how tapping can help with the symptoms of menopause, quickly! Have you ever tried tapping? It's the perfect time to listen in and do it along with us! Please listen, learn and share.
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