Welcome to episode 243 of Live Happy Now. I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us again this week.

If I told you that there was a simple practice that could lower your stress, improve your health, and boost your overall well-being, you might be a little bit skeptical.

But today's guest has a science-based solution that can do all those things and so much more.

Jessica Ortoner is a New York Times best-selling author and producer of The Tapping Solution,

the breakthrough documentary film on EFT Tapping.

She's here today to explain to us what tapping is, how it works,

and how you can start using it today to change your life for the better.

Jessica, welcome to this episode of Live Happy Now. Thank you so much for having me.

This is a wonderful topic, and I know a lot of our listeners are probably familiar with it,

but a lot of them probably aren't because tapping has been around for a while, but I think

it's really just now getting a lot

more popular. So I guess a great starting point is to have you explain what tapping is.

Yes, absolutely. We are not talking about tap dancing. This is a different time of type of tapping

where you use your finger to tap on acupressure points. When we're feeling overwhelmed and

stressed, a lot of times we naturally put our hand on our chest or we put our, you know,

kind of touch our temples or the bridge of our nose. Those are acupressure points that help

us relax. What we're doing here is we're getting clear on the thoughts that's creating

the physical anxiety, and then we begin to stimulate these acupressure points. And as we do that,

what happens is you get to the point where you can think that thought or you can think about

the anxiety, but now your whole body feels calm. This is perfect for those who

try to think positive thoughts or they try to think their way out of a problem, but the anxiety

just is incredibly physical that they have trouble moving forward. By tapping on these acupressure

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