Stress Resilience Practice for physical pain

Welcome to this Stress Resilience Practice on feeling:

• Fearful avoidance (of stress from physical pain)

The practice itself starts at minute 01:55.

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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.