Key timestamps

0:10 — Why I like this so much.

3:10 — Beginning of a regular Sensory Focus Tapping (about 5.25 minutes).

8:31 — Beginning of a short Sensory Focus Tapping (only 1.5 minutes).

Let me know how it goes!

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(Or you can email me directly — I will get back to you!)

Resources

Printable tapping points handout

Sensory Focus Tapping calms and retrains your relationship to stress

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Series on the Stress Resilience Practice

• Step 1: You can’t heal what you don’t notice: Practicing stress awareness is the first step to remember your calm, whole self

• Step 2: Two hidden alarms are driving your stress: One comes from your past. One comes from your body. Neither sees who you are now.

• Step 3: Shifting focus: A mini-vacation from stress

• Step 4: The moon’s still there: Even when stress hides your light, wholeness remains. Step four helps you remember how to find it.

• Unfocused and sad

The practice itself starts at minute 02:00.

Was it helpful? Have a question?

Let me know in the comments!

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How to use this video

1. Do what I do (tap and breathe).

2. Repeat what I say silently or out loud. (Substitute your words if needed.)

3. Allow yawns, stretches, or other movement if you feel the urge.

4. It’s all playful experiment — you can’t do it wrong!

Resources

Stress Resilience Practice handout (you don’t need it to follow the video).

Printable tapping points handout.

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Articles on the Stress Resilience Practice

• Step 1: You can’t heal what you don’t notice: Practicing stress awareness is the first step to remember your calm, whole self

• Step 2: Two hidden alarms are driving your stress: One comes from your past. One comes from your body. Neither sees who you are now.

• Step 3: Shifting focus: A mini-vacation from stress

• Step 4: The moon’s still there: Even when stress hides your light, wholeness remains. Step four helps you remember how to find it.

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• Fearful avoidance (of stress from physical pain)

The practice itself starts at minute 01:55.

Was it helpful? Have a question?

Let me know in the comments!

Leave a comment

How to use this video

1. Do what I do (tap and breathe).

2. Repeat what I say silently or out loud. (Substitute your words if needed.)

3. Allow yawns, stretches, or other movement if you feel the urge.

4. It’s all playful experiment — you can’t do it wrong!

Resources

Stress Resilience Practice handout (you don’t need it to follow the video).

Printable tapping points handout.

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Articles on the Stress Resilience Practice

• Step 1: You can’t heal what you don’t notice: Practicing stress awareness is the first step to remember your calm, whole self

• Step 2: Two hidden alarms are driving your stress: One comes from your past. One comes from your body. Neither sees who you are now.

• Step 3: Shifting focus: A mini-vacation from stress

• Step 4: The moon’s still there: Even when stress hides your light, wholeness remains. Step four helps you remember how to find it.

Subscribe now

• Pressured numbness

The practice itself starts at minute 01:50.

Was it helpful? Have a question?

Let me know in the comments!

Leave a comment

How to use this video

1. Do what I do (tap and breathe).

2. Repeat what I say silently or out loud. (Substitute your words if needed.)

3. Allow yawns, stretches, or other movement if you feel the urge.

4. It’s all playful experiment — you can’t do it wrong!

Resources

Stress Resilience Practice handout (you don’t need it to follow the video).

Printable tapping points handout.

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Series on the Stress Resilience Practice

• Step 1: You can’t heal what you don’t notice: Practicing stress awareness is the first step to remember your calm, whole self

• Step 2: Two hidden alarms are driving your stress: One comes from your past. One comes from your body. Neither sees who you are now.

• Step 3: Shifting focus: A mini-vacation from stress

• Step 4: The moon’s still there: Even when stress hides your light, wholeness remains. Step four helps you remember how to find it.

• Frozen overwhelm

Tapping starts at minute 00:42.

How to use this video

1. Do what I do (tap and breathe).

2. Repeat what I say silently or out loud. (Substitute your words if needed.)

3. Allow yawns, stretches, or other movement if you feel the urge.

4. It’s all playful experiment — you can’t do it wrong!

Resources

Stress Resilience Practice handout (you don’t need it to follow the video).

Printable tapping points handout.

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Series on the Stress Resilience Practice

• Step 1: You can’t heal what you don’t notice: Practicing stress awareness is the first step to remember your calm, whole self

• Step 2: Two hidden alarms are driving your stress: One comes from your past. One comes from your body. Neither sees who you are now.

• Step 3: Shifting focus: A mini-vacation from stress

• Step 4: The moon’s still there: Even when stress hides your light, wholeness remains. Step four helps you remember how to find it.

Today I’m introducing a video series of my morning Stress Resilience Practice. I do this every day, and decided to invite you to practice with me!

It’s a vulnerable experiment that could fall flat. But I have this strong urge to give you all quick and easy opportunities to experience Stress Resilience right now, without waiting for a workshop.

There’s a brief intro where I clarify my main stress (as I do every day). The practice itself starts at minute 3:35 and lasts about 10 minutes.

Today’s circumstance:

• I’m nervous about my publication deadline today.

Today’s stress reaction to the circumstance:

• I’m nervous I’m going to make mistakes.

• Fearful perfectionism

How to use this video

1. Do what I do (tap and breathe).

2. Repeat what I say silently or out loud. (Substitute your words if needed.)

3. Allow yawns, stretches, or other movement if you feel the urge, which can indicate stress is releasing. It doesn’t always happen, but don’t hold back when it does!

4. It’s all playful experiment — you can’t do it wrong!

Below is the handout I’m using, though you don’t need it.

Stress Resilience Practice 2025_06_20

297KB ∙ PDF file

Download

Download

Let me know how it goes in the comments below. Enjoy!

Questions? Confused?

Comment or direct message me — I will get back to you!

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Related articles

Printable tapping points handout.

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Series on the Stress Resilience Practice

You can’t heal what you don’t notice

You’re invited to my daily Stress Resilience Practice! My plan is to record as I do it, then post it for you to join in. It’s definitely an experiment. Let’s see how it goes!

Questions? Leave a comment or send a direct message. I will get back to you!

Resources

SRP Tapping Preparation Worksheet 2025 06 20

441KB ∙ PDF file

Download

Download

Printable tapping points handout.

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Series on the Stress Resilience Practice

• Step 1: You can’t heal what you don’t notice: Practicing stress awareness is the first step to remember your calm, whole self

• Step 2: Two hidden alarms are driving your stress: One comes from your past. One comes from your body. Neither sees who you are now.

• Step 3: Shifting focus: A mini-vacation from stress

• Step 4: The moon’s still there: Even when stress hides your light, wholeness remains. Step four helps you remember how to find it.

Related articles

Introduction to Clinical EFT Tapping: My favorite tool for change, calm, and resilience (my first video!)

The weird little stress relief tool that actually works: How EFT tapping helped me ditch my wheelchair, calm my body, and begin to heal my trauma

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), or tapping, is a self-applied stress reduction practice. It combines elements of exposure therapy, cognitive focus, and gentle tapping of acupressure points on your head and torso. I am certified in clinical EFT tapping, the form of tapping used in research studies.

The idea behind tapping is to become compassionately aware of your discomfort while sending a gentle signal to your body that you are safe. This triggers your relaxation response, and allows your body to rest and heal.

What does clinical EFT tapping look like?

This is a snapshot of the clinical EFT “Basic Recipe”:

1. First state what’s going on, emotionally, physically, where you’re stuck, etc.

2. Next, write down your level of discomfort so you can measure the change later. (I don’t always do this, but it’s a good practice to test out.)

3. With two fingers of one or both hands, gently tap on acupressure points while you restate the issue from step one.

4. Repeat the last step until your level of discomfort has decreased.

That’s it!

There are many variations of this process in clinical EFT designed to help with all kinds of situations and issues. You can also add tapping to other therapeutic modalities. You can tap and talk with your therapist or a friend. You can tap while you watch a movie or read a book. You can tap alone, in a group, with a recording, or with a coach.

Does tapping work?

Over 250 studies confirm that clinical EFT tapping can reduce suffering and increase quality of life. Tapping has been shown to relieve discomfort or suffering from:

• stress

• trauma

• anxiety

• depression

• physical pain

• phobias

• food cravings

• and more.

Also, tapping can improve multiple markers of physical and mental health, including blood pressure, sleep, and lower the side effects of chemotherapy treatment.

My EFT Experience

When I started using EFT tapping daily in early 2021, I tapped along with YouTube videos. My goal was to recover from emotional issues caused by past trauma. I tapped with three or four short videos pretty much every day for four months. At the end of those sessions, I practiced EcoMeditation with a recording.

After three months, I no longer needed my power wheelchair – though that hadn’t been my goal.

I’ve spend much of my adult life searching out simple, effective tools to help me recover and reclaim my physical, emotional, and mental health. While I’ve been lucky to find a handful in the past four decades. EFT tapping is the most powerful.

Research

There are hundreds of studies on the effectiveness of EFT tapping. My favorite places to look for them include:

• Dr. Peta Stapleton’s excellent video research update on YouTube. The Tapping Solution Science and Research page.

• Scientific Research Bibliography from EFT Universe.

Tap-along videos to try

• Dr. Peta Stapleton (the researcher I mentioned above) has a great series of very brief videos introducing EFT Tappng, why it works, and how to do it:

  • What is EFT Tapping

  • What are the Clinical EFT Tapping Points?

  • Tapping to Reduce Stress

• Brad Yates has over 1500 tapping videos on YouTube. Highly recommended.

• The Tapping Solution has wonderful YouTube videos and an effective app.

There are many other EFT teachers who’ve created tapping videos, including:

• Margaret Lynch Raniere (well known for money videos)

• Julie Shiffman

• EFT Universe

Tapping documentaries

The Tapping Solution Documentary, released in 2009, follows a group of people through a four day EFT tapping retreat. Issues addressed include warrior trauma (PTSD), physical pain, incapacitating grief, serious illness, and food cravings. This film doesn’t contain the latest research of course, but is still a powerful inspiration. Worth watching.

EFT in Haiti is a six minute video about how EFT is being used to help survivors of the 2010 earthquate in Port au Prince, Haiti’s capital, that killed over 250,000 people and left 20,000 children orphaned. Be sure to watch the powerful work with orphans starting at minute 4:16. Also notice how EFT was combined with creative elements like a teddy bear or singing. Lovely! (French with English subtitles.)

Questions?

Leave a comment below, or send me an email: Serena@SerenaMiraAsta.com

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