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Boundless Life

Tapping & EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique): Pseudoscience, Quackery or Wildly Effective Healing Modality?

Boundless Life

Ben Greenfield

Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness, Fitness

4.65.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2018

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Does tapping really work? Tapping (also known as EFT or "emotional freedom technique") is a practice in which you tap specific parts of your body and simultaneously say an affirmation. It is supposedly a wildly effective healing modality that...

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0:00.0

Well, hello, it's Ben Greenfield.

0:04.0

I got my buddy Nick on today's show.

0:06.9

He's kind of weird.

0:08.3

He's in the tapping, tapping, like emotional freedom technique and pushing little buttons

0:14.2

all over your brain and your body.

0:16.8

It's actually pretty intriguing though.

0:18.9

What he does, I figure, is high time.

0:20.8

We got somebody on to talk about tapping because I've actually used it.

0:24.6

I've used it for sleep and I've used it for stress and for some weird reason.

0:28.5

It actually seems to kind of work.

0:30.8

So, call it what you will.

0:33.2

Kind of woo-woo, but we're going to talk about it either way.

0:36.2

But before we do, I want to get your mouth watering because on the menu this week, our stuffed

0:42.8

poblamo peppers with tomato raddish salsa and chipotle yogurt, a seared fish and ferro

0:49.4

salad with summer vegetables and a peach and pickled pepper grilled cheese.

0:54.8

My kids love grilled cheese.

0:56.7

As got butter, lettuce and radish salad with it.

1:00.7

All of these are on the apron this week from Blue Apron, the leading meal kit delivery

1:05.4

in all of America.

1:07.7

They make a ton of stuff and they send it to your house, all the ingredients.

1:12.1

So it doesn't come to you cooked.

1:14.5

No, you don't have to sit there and eat it right away before it cools off.

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