Hey guys. Welcome to Not Another Anxiety Show. I'm your host, Kelly Walker, and today

it'll be just me answering a question from one of our lovely listeners.

So one listener writes in, have you heard about a technique called tapping to alleviate anxiety?

Does it work? And if so, where can we get information?

Now, I realize there may be quite a few people out there that have never heard of this quote-unquote tapping technique.

And funny enough, I mentioned it to Erica the other day, and her response was, what's tapping?

Is that some sort of sexual act?

Hence the reason it's just me here today.

So this idea of tapping comes from something called the emotional freedom technique.

The emotional freedom technique, otherwise known as EFT, is a technique that combines acupuncture and self-hypnosis.

It involves tapping on acupuncture points while repeating to yourself a phrase about what blockage you want

to clear. In this case, anxiety. And if you want a demonstration of how to use this technique,

then visit www.EFTuniverse.com, because it would be really hard to guide you through this technique

without a visual aid.

Plus, it's not a technique I'm particularly familiar with,

so the people from that site would be better able to lead you through it.

Now, their website shares some small peer-reviewed studies that have been published in scientific journals supporting the claim that EFT does in fact decrease anxiety.

On the other hand, there are just as many peer-reviewed scientific studies that deem this technique and other energy healing techniques, a pseudoscience, meaning the claims are particularly big, but the scientific evidence is

lacking, the substantial scientific evidence is lacking. So clearly the research is mixed.

Whether tapping works because it's simply a distraction or a placebo effect is unknown at this time.

Or maybe tapping really does unblock clogged meridians.

I'm not sure, and neither is the research at this point.

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