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“Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can’t function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living

“When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't "settling" or "keeping the problem in place." We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“A person who is walking around with the belief I am safe in my body is going to
approach the world from a very different place than someone who doesn't believe
that. That person will be more confident in approaching others, as Sonia was in
sharing her business at the women’s event. They’re going to be much more willing to put themselves out in the world, to be vulnerable in relationships, and to be willing to risk and dare, because they’re operating from a place of safety. Page 60”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward—or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Though we’re not yet sure why, tapping seems to turn off the amygdala’s alarm—deactivating the brain’s arousal pathways. Tapping on the meridian endpoints sends a calming response to the body, and the amygdala recognizes that it’s safe. What’s more, tapping while experiencing—or even discussing—a stressful event counteracts that stress and reprograms the hippocampus, which compares past threats with present signals and tells the amygdala whether or not the present signal is an actual threat.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living

“When you’re experiencing a negative emotional state—angry or upset or fearful—your brain goes on alert. It prepares your body to enter a full-blown, fight-or-flight response. This response evolved to mobilize the body to face an external threat—think of a tiger coming after your ancient ancestor. All the body’s defense systems are turned on to support either fighting or fleeing from the danger. Your adrenaline pumps, your muscles tense, and your blood pressure, heart rate, and blood sugar all rise to give you extra energy to meet the challenge.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living

“For many of us, the internally generated stress response is triggered by a negative memory or thought that has its roots in past trauma or conditioned learning from childhood. The stress response in the body takes the same form, whether the trigger is the tiger (external) or a negative memory (internal). The adrenaline flows, the heart races, and so on.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living

“There was no focus, no sustained passion for what I was doing—and the results showed.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“It’s important to be aware of the end goal, the grand theme, the big vision. But once that is clear to you, then you just have to take the next step in front of you. What’s amazing about using EFT with this strategy is that it works perfectly on addressing just that: the next step. The next obstacle. What’s in front of you right now!
Even though I’m overwhelmed by all the things I have to do with this project …
Even though I’m not sure what to do next …
Even though I don’t feel confident that I can figure out how to get this done …
Even though I’m out of my league and don’t know what I’m doing …”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“As I said before, EFT isn’t a mind eraser; it doesn’t delete memories in any way, but it does clear the negative emotional and energetic patterns behind a memory. Thus it changes our approach and response to the event—and to life going forward.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“So when you’re stuck or don’t know what to tap on, don’t be afraid to take a leap. Try something else. Just the process of tapping can often relax the body and mind enough that different ideas, impressions, and leads come your way. Through trial and error, you can determine what’s really going on and how to clear it.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Through a guided, closed-eye visualization, where she continued to tap through all the points, I took her through “uninstalling” her old program and “installing” the new program.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“It’s not about the next big idea, get-rich-quick scheme, or huge opportunity. Those are a dime a dozen. What are not a dime a dozen are healthy financial tapping trees—people who can actually take those big ideas, dreams, and opportunities and make them happen.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Sometimes EFT is as simple as that: slotting a few minutes into your day. Tapping when you feel stuck, frustrated, or lazy. Of course, EFT is amazing for the huge challenges in our lives, but it works just as well for the little stuff. The thing is, it’s the little stuff that turns into big stuff.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Tapping, he explains, addresses the psychological symptoms through the body, which is an important and powerful resource for PTSD sufferers. “Psychologically, a trauma process is a down-spiraling vortex,” he says. That vortex often involves physical memories like the smell of fire or the feeling of water filling your lungs. Because tapping lets survivors access their emotions and their physical energy simultaneously, it can free them from trauma much faster than talk therapy.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Tapping can help you make all kinds of positive changes, including letting you overcome weird, unusual stressors or obstacles that may have become part of your life over the years.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“There’s nothing wrong with venting, letting off a little steam. The problem comes when you find yourself venting about the same thing over and over again, with no change and no resolution. Add tapping to the venting and a few things will happen: a. You’ll let go of the story much faster. b. You’ll begin to come to a new awareness about the issue. c. You’ll naturally come up with creative solutions. I’ve had many people tell me that there’s no solution to a particular situation. I nod and ask them to tap while telling me about their stress, or anger, or sadness. More often than not, they discover potential solutions they didn’t even believe existed, right there in real time.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Whenever you’re tapping, look for key words and phrases that really strike a chord.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“when you change your perspective, often your feelings, reactions, and the situation itself naturally change, too—most of the time for the better.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“If you feel any physical pain, you owe it to yourself to explore tapping.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“To harness the full healing power of tapping, you have to tap through your entire tree, starting with the symptoms, and progressing all the way down through your limiting beliefs.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“When the question and desire are strong enough, an answer appears.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Once again, here are the eight steps of EFT tapping. It may be helpful to bookmark this page so you can come back to it as you move on to the chapters that follow. That said, most people learn these steps rather quickly, so you may not need this reference for long! 1. Choose your Most Pressing Issue (MPI).
2. Rate your MPI using the 0-to-10 SUDS.
3. Craft a setup statement, using your MPI to fill in the blank: Even though __________________, I deeply and completely accept myself.
4. Speak your setup statement three times while tapping on the karate chop point.
5. Tap through the eight points in the EFT sequence while saying your reminder phrase out loud. Tap five to seven times at each point, starting with the eyebrow and finishing at the top of the head.
6. Take a deep breath.
7. Rate the intensity of your MPI using the 0-to-10 scale.
8. Repeat, or move on to a different MPI.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“What do I know to be true about this pain?
What have my doctors told me is going on with my body?
What did I read online about what’s going on with my body?
What do I believe to be true about my condition?”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Your job is not to “fix” your partner, and tapping isn’t a tool to do that with. Work on your own stuff first. If your partner angers easily, don’t think of ways you can change that. Rather, think about how you react to that anger. Are you open and loving? Or do you react back? Then use EFT on yourself to change the pattern. You’ll be pleasantly surprised with what happens!”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“Here’s a strategy: tap on the beliefs that are keeping you from living a healthy life. Then you can make a separate decision—and do a separate round of tapping—on whether or not you want to make those other changes.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

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― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living

“EFT is not a tool for making people do what you want; it’s about clearing emotional energy.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living

“To forfeit that feeling of safety around human contact, sexual or platonic, is a major loss. Our bodies are meant to be held, touched, and loved.”
― Nick Ortner, The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionaly System for Stress-Free Living