Tapping into health with Peta Stapleton

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A listener production. This is Crappita Happy and I am

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your host Castunn. I'm a clinical and coaching psychologist and

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mindfulness meditation teacher and of course author of the Crappita

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Happy books. In this show, I bring you conversations with interesting, inspiring,

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intelligent people who are experts in their field and who

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have something of value to share that will help you

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feel less crappy and more happy. Today, I am very

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excited to introduce you to doctor Peter Stapleton, who has

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twenty five years of experience as a clinical and health

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psychologist here in Australia. She's an Associate professor in Psychology

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at Bond University and she is a world leading researcher

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in EFT that is emotional freedom techniques otherwise known as tapping.

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So Peter's research focuses on this fourth wave of psychological

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therapies that really focus on the mind body connection. And

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if you're a regular listener of this show, you will

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know that we've been talking a lot about this in

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recent episodes, which is why I was so excited to

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get Peter on to tell you all about the latest,

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most current research that is supporting tapping as a therapeutic intervention.

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I think you'll find this really fascinating. Here is my

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conversation with Peter, Doctor Peter Stapleton. Is such a pleasure

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to have you in the Crappy to have you studio today.

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Thank you for being here.

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Thanks so much, Cas. I really have been looking forward

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to this one, Peter.

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You know, I'm a fan of tapping, and on this

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show we actually had an episode on tapping a few

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years ago. I've got a friend who's a psychologist who's

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been using tapping in her practice for probably close to

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almost twenty years, over fifteen for sure, and we talked

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a little bit about some of the research then. But

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I think even in that time, the interest in EFT

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tapping has grown, the research has grown, and so I

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really want to to come back and revisit this topic.

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And this time goes straight to the source of a

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lot of that really fascinating research, which is where you

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come in. So it's really exciting for me to have

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you here. So, Peter, though, for anybody who is listening

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going who is still kind of new to this whole

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EFT tapping thing, how would you describe what it is?

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Yeah?

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Look, the most simple way I would actually describe EFT

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emotional freedom technique, so we nickname it. Of course, tapping

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is a way to reduce stress in the body, so

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it is simply a stress reduction technique. What it involves

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is obviously staying present to what's happening for you, but

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at the same time tapping with two fingers on an

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acupuncture point, so people might understand acupuncture instead of needles,

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we just tap on an acupuncture point into instead. So

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really its most simple definition is it is just a

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way to reduce stress in the body.

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Yeah, And so essentially we're using our two fingers to

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just tap light. I typically tap maybe eight times on

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a particular point, and we go around a series of

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points on the face and parts of the body, right,

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so we just tap tap tap.

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That's right, yes, yeah, so it is tap tap tap,

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and it does just follow a fairly simple kind of

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recipe if you like. You know, there's only eight points

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that we actually tap on, and you're right, you know,

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you might tap seven or eight times on each. Mostly

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we're staying focused on what it is that we're feeling,

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which kind of makes it a little bit counterintuitive to

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some other talk therapy approaches that maybe you know, encourage

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you to sort of find the silver lining or think

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more differently, we actually stay present. So if I feel angry,

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that's what I say when I'm actually tapping on those points.

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And we'll get into the research, I'm sure, but how

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that works in the brain to actually shift the feeling

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of anger is quite profound.

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Yes, I am very very interested to get to get

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into how that works. So generally speaking, Peter, you are

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a clinician as well as a researcher, which is really exciting.

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So from your experience both as a treating practitioner and

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as a researcher, what kinds of problems can be effectively addressed, resolved,

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improved using tapping.

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Yeah, look, it's wide ranging, and sometimes that kind of

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makes people sort of think, oh, how can it work

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for so many different things? So everything from perhaps clinical

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issues like post traumatic stress disorder or phobias, anxiety, stress disorders,

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that type of thing, as well as things like depression,

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but then also everyday kind of issues, even chronic pain.

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We're currently doing research in that space. It might even

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be things like just an annoyance that's going on for you.

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So it is quite wide ranging. Children as young as

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four and five years of old age can actually do tapping

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as well, just on how they feel insomnia, sleep issues,

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things like that. And the reason why it does have

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an impact on all of those different areas is because

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if at any level is playing a role and we

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come the body down and reduce stress, whether that's hormonally

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or just as a feeling state, then we seem to

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get a shift in the other symptoms that might belong to,

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you know, whatever it is, even addiction and things like that.

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So certainly, you know, I've had people sort of say, well,

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it seems curious that it doesn't just work for a

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kind of a group of conditions but everything out there.

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And that's really the most simplistic answer is if there's

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stress involved and you can calm the body down, then

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you will feel differently afterwards and you might make a

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different choice. So I'm quite known for my food craving

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weight loss research in this typing space, and what we

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actually do is obviously reduce the craving response to certain foods,

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and if that happens, then people don't want to eat

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the food anymore, so of course they lose weight over time.

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So yeah, just if everybody kind of keeps their mind

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around that idea is that if you reduce stress and

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you feel pretty calm, lots of things can change in

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your life.

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That is a really great way of thinking about it,

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because when you think about it, so much of the

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problems we experience, as you say, all encompassing, if there is,

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they all create some kind of stress or dysregulation or

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disharmony in our body. So hence why tapping can be

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so effective in so many areas. Yeah, interesting that you

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mentioned food cravings because I did have Glenn McIntosh on

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the show a little while ago, and he certainly mentioned

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tapping as part of his conversation as well, which I

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know is why a lot of people will be really

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interested to him more about that. So, Peter, I know

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that last time when I spoke to my friend Jackie

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about this, my gleaning of the research at the time

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was that this had been shown to be pretty effective

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with as you said, PTSD and predominantly anxiety type disorders.

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From a research perspective, like, how has had that expanded now?

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Like what's the evidence now to show the clinical or well,

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you know, sort of therapeutic effectiveness.

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Absolutely, So, I would say the last decade has really

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seen an exponential growth in the clinical research coming out

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of universities worldwide.

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We obviously do our here Upon University.

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And what really has happened in this EFT tapping space

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is it has been subjected to a lot of physiological

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biological clinical trials, which I think is really different to

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a lot of other talk therapies out there that typically

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and we do too, just use self report measures. So

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really what we've been able to show in the last

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decade is that tapping on these acupuncture points has a

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profound impact and effect not only things like the amygdala,

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the stress center, but you know eeg brainwave scan, So

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they've been looked at to see that tapping actually brings

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them into a more coherent kind of wave state, including

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heart ratevability, those sorts of things.

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Cortisol we test quite regularly.

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We've done that here in Australia, it's done in the

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US for different conditions to see that happing actually has

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an impact on cortisol. So even one hour of tapping

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did we replicated a trial a couple of years ago.

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Our group that sat tapping compared to two other conditions

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had a forty three percent reduction in cortisol in one

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hour like to have that kind of profound that has

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an impact on weight for a lot of people, Yes,

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stress hormone, whereas we were just teaching them how to

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use it for stress. We had two other comparisons in

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that a talk therapy based standard kind of approach and

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a reading relaxation group that read magazines.

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Now, the reading group had an increase of.

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Cortsol that actually really worse. It doesn't really kind of

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help you relax if you just take time out.

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But our talk.

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Therapy group, I only had a nineteen percent reduction in

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that one hour learning about what stress is, so definitely

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tapping kind of really stood out there. Proud to say

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that the American Psychological Association published that study in one

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of their key journals, which is quite quite a big

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kind of thing in the academic world to have like

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the APA sort of publish that. But coming back to

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our biological research, we've even done an fMRI study, so

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a brain scan study here in Australia which is published

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and then these scans are on my website.

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Anyone can go and have a look at them.

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So we taught people, we put them inside the machine,

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showed them pictures of high calorie foods, saw which parts

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of the brain fired, and then we sent them away

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for a four week tapping program, so eight hours over

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four weeks on food issues. Brought them back five weeks later,

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put them inside the machine, scanned them again looking at

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those calories and the reduction in so you can actually

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see these brain images on my website. The reduction in

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activity in the brain in the reward and loss pleasure

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center is so dramatic you can't even see it. We

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say it was lit up like a Christmas tree, and

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then four weeks later after tapping, and which corresponded to

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the people coming out and saying I didn't really have

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any desire to want to eat those foods, even though

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they did four weeks four weeks earlier, which we could.

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Obviously clearly see.

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And we're about to do an fMRI study in the

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chronic pain area in the coming couple of months. So yeah,

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there's lots of stuff that's coming out. We're sitting at

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now about two hundred and fifty clinical trials published on

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EFT worldwide.

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Lots of different areas covered in that.

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But it is certainly it's now got government acceptance in

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the UK and the US, and we have aspects here

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in Australia hospitals that include it. So it is growing,

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and I think it is a space to kind of

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watch because it's quite different in that level of biological

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research that's actually coming out. A couple of DNA studies

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have actually been done in the US, and one particular

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study showed one hour of tapping change the expression of

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seventy two genes in the bottom. Now they were genes, yeah,

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attached to inflammation, immunity, cancer suppression. Now, if a gene

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is upregulated or is expressing itself, we tend to have

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a symptom if it's down regulated and not expressing itself.

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Tapping change seventy two genes expression. Another study showed ten

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sessions of EFT. Now this was for post traumatic stress disorder,

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So ten weeks of tapping actually changed the expression of

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six genes associated with PTSD, and six months later those

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war vets still didn't meet criteria and the genes hadn't

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kind of you know, started expressing themselves again. So we

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literally have this technique taving on these actipressure points, which

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Think is profound, and we can change gene expression.

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So I don't know anything else out there I'm pretty

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excited to stay in this space.

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It is profound, as you said, and I think that

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is that why people still tend to be a bit skeptical.

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People feel like surely not like, surely it can't be

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that simple, But really the science is saying that, yes,

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it can be and lasting.

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Yeah, And I think you know, you're absolutely right. We

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probably are a little bit conditioned to want things to.

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Be a bit harder, or if we've had an issue

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for a long time in our life lives, we might.

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Expect that it should therefore take a long time to

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overcome or to get relief from.

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And the reality of neuroplasticity and how the brain works

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is that doesn't even match what we understand about the brain.

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The brain likes to learn fast and quickly. So if

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there's a technique that actually matches that, Eft's one, there

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are other ones, so EMDR the eye movement one and

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a couple other somatic based ones very similar. If it

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matches that ability to kind of release quickly.

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The brain's happy with that.

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We don't necessarily need twenty four sessions over two years

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to because that doesn't match what neuroplasticity tells us about

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the brain's way of learning. So if cost effectiveness or

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something like that's an issue or time, certainly these techniques

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that have lots of evidence wrapped around their rapid ability

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I think suit a lot more people. So I forever say, look,

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just stay open. If someone's listening going oh I don't

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know about this, or and it's like, well give it

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a go. Research is there. What have you got to

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lose kind of thing, But at least stay open to

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the possibility that lots of these things actually will get

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your relief a lot faster than some of the traditional ways.

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Yeah. I recently also had doctor Nicole Leperre on the podcast,

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so she's the holistic right, it's good, It's great, isn't it.

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Obviously anybody who hasn't listened you should. But she's the

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holistic psychologist on Instagram, so she has millions of followers,

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and she posted something I noticed about tapping on her

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Instagram to her three and a half million followers, and

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somebody in the comments wrote, look, I really love your work,

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but if you're going to go talking about this pseudo

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science while I'm unfollowing, like, you're just reducing your credibility

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when you start talking about this you know, woo woo whatever.

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I thought, that's so interesting that there are still people

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who take that attitude, which is why I thought it

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was so important to have you on to to dispel

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some of that, because there are still people who really

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don't don't not know probably about the research that supports it.

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something that's called the translational gap, where the suggestion is

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it takes about seventeen years on average, so sometimes a little.

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New therapy to be accepted into mainstream. So that translational

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gap happens across lots of different fields medicine therapy, and

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their suggestion is only four percent of therapies that are

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kind of being tested that a new will.

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Make it across that.

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Now we've probably had the last fifteen years in the

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EFT research world really have solid research come out, so

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we're approaching that seventeen year mark. So it doesn't surprise

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me that people still might go, m look at Wikipedia,

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might say it's a pseudo science because anyone can edit

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the Wikipedia.

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the two hundred and fifty clinical trials, ninety eight percent

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of them show positive outcomes, and I think that shift

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is happening, but we are still se just below that

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translational gap kind of idea. But you know, it took

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about twenty years for EMDR to be accepted into mainstream

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and even though that's now considered a gold standard, if

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you went back twenty five years ago to my university days,

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everybody would have said, that's absolute rubbish.

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How can moving your eyes, so I decide, have an

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impact on trauma? And now it's a gold standard for trauma.

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So I like to give that.

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Comparison to sort of say, look, you know, EFT and

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tapping is kind of working in a similar space in

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timeframes as well, So five years time we might be

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having a different conversation.

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It is a slow old process, isn't it getting anything?

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To kind of just getting that science to catch up

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with what you know. For example, my friend Jackie who

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said fifteen twenty years ago, look, I don't know how

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it works. I just know that it's helping my client,

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So I'm going to keep doing it as long as

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it keeps helping people. We were the same, so that's

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right exactly. So it's a frustration, but you know, it's

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just a part of the process. I guess, Peter, I

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know that there are you know, you talked about the

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we can see the corsol and we can see the

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changes in the new you know, the fMRI studies about

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what's happening in the brain. Do we actually know how

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or why that happens? Like, are we any closer to

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understanding what's actually happening in the body when we touch

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these points?

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Yeah? So not us, But Harvard University actually did a

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teen year definitive study where they mapped all of the

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acupuncture points in the body. So they actually, which is fabulous,

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a couple of papers published out of there where they

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were just looking at what people sometimes call, you know,

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the meridian system in Chinese kind of acupuncture fields and

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complementary medicine areas. You might have seen one of those charts,

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you know, if you've ever gone off to have a

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massage or something like that. So they actually over time

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mapped all of those and showed definitively that where we

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or where medicine have typically said there's an acupuncture point,

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there is indeed a density of that vascular structure that

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comes together it's actually showed and that's published in scientific

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journals that where an acupuncturist might put a need or

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that is indeed a density and other areas of body

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that don't have that. And we actually have studies that

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include sham tapping or sham acupuncture where a needle is

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put somewhere where there isn't a known sort of density

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of that vascular structure. And of course the results absolutely

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show when you do sham or placebo like that, people

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don't get the effect, even if they are unaware. They

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might think that, oh, yeah, that's the tapping point, but

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there's not actually one there kind of thing. So they've

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been done in EFT, they've been done by people that

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actually are trying to disprove, but they still come up

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with those results that the group that get the true

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ef T on a known acupuncture point get the outcomes.

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So there is something about the actual stimulation of an

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acupressure point that has that effect that direct message back

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to the amygdala, which is the stress center in the brain.

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That kind of thing.

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So we've got other theories. Memory reconsolidation is one of

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them that suggests how it lasts so quickly over time.

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And how it works.

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And the proposal there is that if you bring up

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an emotional state that's distressing or uncomfortable, but at the

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same time that that's happening in the brain, you do

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something that's the opposite. So tapping for us is the

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calming technique, but someone else might do the eye movements,

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someone else might do some sort of breathing technique. If

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at the same time you've got the brain can't hold

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a negative, distressing feeling and a calming one, turns out

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the calming one wins.

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So if you repeat it enough.

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You give the brain a different kind of experience and

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that starts to sort of, if you like, pull apart

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that association. So memory reconsolidation is the reason why if

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you're doing it at the same time, which often people

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when they start having they say why am I saying

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my problem?

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It's like you have to engage in it enough for

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this to work.

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That you've got to bring it up just enough then

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do the tapping that you get that opposite response that's there.

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So and just a bit of a nerdy moment, what

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we're doing here at Bond University is we've actually partnered

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with Stephen Porge's team at Indiana University in the US

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polyvagel theory are now testing so excited it's my nerd moment.

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Of plow yes, I'm here for it. I'm here for it.

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So we are actually measuring in our chronic paintrol that's

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currently happening vaguel tone and efficiency with a little device,

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and their team analyzed the data for us because their

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team and Ow's are starting to theorize that EFTs probably

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have been quite an impact on vagel tone and efficiency,

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which is why you know, we've done two years follow

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up on our food craving weight loss trials and two

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years later, people can't remember the food that they did

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on nor do they eat it anymore, and they haven't

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for two years.

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And it's like, why do you have to not keep tapping?

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You know, shouldn't you.

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Keep tapping every time you see the cockroach in the

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corner or the chocolate cake on the counter, But you

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don't have to.

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Once it's collapsed, you appear not to need it.

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And the suggestion there is that we're moving into hopefully

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being able to show that we're improving bagel tone, which means,

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you know, get triggered anymore down the track, same with

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the PTSD patients that you know get followed up and

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things like that as well.

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So a couple of different things. It is. And I recently.

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Said to a committee here at Bond University we were

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talking about these kind of things that we probably did

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it a little bit differently in this field. We went

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out and we showed that it worked. Now we're actually

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coming back to sort of talking about what's going on here,

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So that's where we're at, which is very exciting. I

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still think, you know, polyvagel theory, memory reconsolidation are sound

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theories that already exist, and we might be able to

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kind of talk about this in a couple of is time.

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With what we're gathering at the moment.

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I hope that you're enjoying this conversation and realizing the

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benefits of positivity in your own life. If you are

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enjoying the show, please be sure to like and subscribe

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head on over to Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen

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and leave us a rating and review. You mentioned something

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interesting then, Peter about sham tapping. I think this is

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really important, So it is not just about tapping anywhere

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you like on your body, there are certain points. Can

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you just for listeners, can you just please explain that

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research about testing tapping on different points and how that

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doesn't necessarily work.

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Yeah, it is really important to make sure that that

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kind of research does get done. And interestingly enough, in

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the tapping world, those studies have been run by people

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that weren't necessarily tapping research, so they were quite unbiased,

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which is a really good thing, and they were perhaps

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even trying to show that it doesn't work, So we

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call them dismantling studies. A lot of the time where

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it might be that there's quite a few conditions.

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To see what's the active ingredient here.

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So one group might just say the words that people

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say in the tapping sequence but with no tapping.

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Another group might.

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Say the words but do deep breathing instead of tapping,

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just to see is that having the impact. Another group

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will tap on the normal tapping points, but then.

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A fourth group might actually tap on sham points.

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So that is where out of Harvard's research, there's an

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unidentified acupuncture point.

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And I can let you know that.

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The underneath your forum there are none there. For example,

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there's none on the palm of your hand. So the

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best dismantling studies will use the palm of the hand

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on that area as sort of a flat tapping because

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there's no known acupuncture point. I'll give you one example.

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There was a sham study done, quite a robust one

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on test anxiety, so you know, getting a bit worked

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up about doing an exam, that type of thing, or

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a performance. So they had one group do traditional tapping,

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talk about their stress and tap on the pressure points.

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Another group that.

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Did that open palm on the underneath it be for

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but again still do the normal words that kind of thing.

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Now, the sham group got about an eight.

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Percent reduction in their anxiousness, but the group that did

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the tapping on the actual points got a thirty nine

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percent average reduction, and that's statistically significant. So the difference

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is but they don't know. Typically the groups don't know

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they're getting the sham condition. So obviously plasce ebo effect

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can be helpful. It's like, oh, this might help me,

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but indeed, not actually hitting an ACTI pressure point is

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actually shown not to really have the impact. So you're right,

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we can't just sort of walk around and having anywhere

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we actually need to.

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And there's pressure points everywhere.

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Anyone that sort of trained in kinesiology might know other

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pressure points. We just use eight of them to make

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get nice and easy. We've got a recipe to follow.

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They work in the clinical research. If you want to

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add a few more in you know about, that's okay

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as well.

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If you want to drop a few out, that's okay.

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But it just makes it easier to sort of test

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and replicate.

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Yeah, and I want to come back to that as well.

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But the other thing I first wanted to mention before

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I forget is I heard you talking recently about imagined tapping,

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imaginal tapping, which I think is so fascinating given what

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we know about mental rehearsal in terms of look athletes

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who imagine themselves practicing the shot and they still get improvements.

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Can you talk about that in relation to tapping.

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Yeah, fantastic.

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So for a long time in the pain space or

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if someone's got insomnia, we've kind of always suggested, look,

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if you can't physically tap at the time, but you

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could imagine tapping. What we understand about that imaginal rehearsal. Certainly,

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you know there's lots of Olympic teams US at the

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Navy Seal use it in the US, lots of astronauts

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are trained in it. So if you do mental rehearsal,

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there's an understanding that the brain will still activate. So

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we were borrowing on that to sort of suggest to people, look,

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just imagine tapping but still say the words in your

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mind or whatever. But if you don't want to wake

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someone up in the middle of the night, but you

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need to tap to go back to sleep. So that

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was great and then early this year twenty twenty one,

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German researchers released a trial where they had people go

490
00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:30.960
inside and fMRI machine so MRI and do functional MRI,

491
00:25:31.559 --> 00:25:35.680
where they asked them they'd shown them images before they

492
00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:39.720
went in that were kind of of a disgust nature.

493
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:41.640
So I have the image that would making go, oh,

494
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that's yuck. So when they went inside the machine, they

495
00:25:44.759 --> 00:25:48.119
asked them to think about that image. And they'd already

496
00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:53.240
taught them some tapping sequences, and they said, imagine tapping

497
00:25:53.839 --> 00:25:56.440
while you're in there thinking of the discussed image that

498
00:25:56.480 --> 00:26:00.240
you've just seen, so that they could actually see does.

499
00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:02.960
That have any impact not only subjectively on the person.

500
00:26:02.720 --> 00:26:05.480
Going oh, I feel better now, but the brain and

501
00:26:05.519 --> 00:26:08.400
they're the first study that's now been published that showed

502
00:26:09.079 --> 00:26:12.880
actual activation in the brain doing imaginal tapping. So we

503
00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:15.680
actually now have more to suggest that if you need

504
00:26:15.720 --> 00:26:17.559
to just imagine, oh you're sitting in a meeting and

505
00:26:17.599 --> 00:26:20.599
you don't want to actively tap, if you imagine tapping,

506
00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:23.400
as long as you're still saying the words of what you're.

507
00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:24.759
Feeling, it works.

508
00:26:25.039 --> 00:26:27.839
So that study has actually been published now by German researchers.

509
00:26:27.920 --> 00:26:29.759
Was just so interesting, isn't it.

510
00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:31.200
Actually?

511
00:26:32.119 --> 00:26:35.000
Yes, the other thing you just mentioned, Peter is if51200:26:35.039 --> 00:26:38.279



you know other points, tap on them. But you know51300:26:38.319 --> 00:26:41.480



there are places where you shouldn't be tapping because there's51400:26:41.519 --> 00:26:43.480



no point, there's no active pressure points, So that's not51500:26:43.519 --> 00:26:46.599



going to have any benefit. I wanted to talk to51600:26:46.640 --> 00:26:50.680



you about. I've sat in seminars with Bethel Vanderkolt, for example,51700:26:50.720 --> 00:26:53.119



you know, leading trauma researchers who have been talking about51800:26:53.119 --> 00:26:57.839



things like tapping for a long time, and people will say, look,51900:26:58.319 --> 00:27:01.240



just tap, you know, like I don't get too hung52000:27:01.359 --> 00:27:05.200



up on specific processes and protocols and the words that52100:27:05.279 --> 00:27:06.960



you say or the order that you do it in52200:27:07.039 --> 00:27:09.480



and all of that sort of stuff. So and I52300:27:09.480 --> 00:27:12.799



think this is where people get a bit stark or52400:27:12.839 --> 00:27:17.759



confused because there is a protocol, isn't there. Like, in52500:27:17.880 --> 00:27:21.240



order to conduct research, we need to follow a very52600:27:21.240 --> 00:27:24.920



specific protocol to ensure that everybody's getting the same intervention52700:27:25.160 --> 00:27:27.519



exactly like we have to do with CBT or ACT52800:27:27.599 --> 00:27:31.480



or any other clinical intervention. But when it comes to52900:27:31.480 --> 00:27:33.640



sitting at home and I'm feeling really stressed or anxious53000:27:33.720 --> 00:27:36.200



or having a food craving, Like, what of the basics53100:27:36.200 --> 00:27:40.160



that people just need to remember and where do they53200:27:40.200 --> 00:27:42.720



can they kind of let go of any need for53300:27:43.000 --> 00:27:45.960



processes and doing it right and all of that stuff.53400:27:46.039 --> 00:27:47.359



Yeah, and it's a really good point.53500:27:47.440 --> 00:27:50.000



Yes, we follow all those kind of strict, really strict53600:27:50.000 --> 00:27:52.359



protocols so that research can be replicated. And that's all53700:27:52.400 --> 00:27:55.279



fantastic for evidence. But if someone was just at home,53800:27:55.640 --> 00:27:58.039



if you were in an emotional state, so you felt53900:27:58.039 --> 00:27:59.880



really stressed, or you came home and something was just54000:28:00.039 --> 00:28:02.440



sort of you know, making a bit irritable, or or54100:28:02.519 --> 00:28:06.079



there's a craving brewing. If you're in the physical state,54200:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.960



you don't even need to think about words to say54300:28:09.119 --> 00:28:13.079



because you're already activated. If you were to just start54400:28:13.119 --> 00:28:16.279



tapping while you're in that state, you will have an effect.54500:28:16.359 --> 00:28:18.400



So even if you're not saying any words, and we54600:28:18.680 --> 00:28:21.519



sometimes just say, you know, just tap and breathe.54700:28:21.759 --> 00:28:23.920



So just tap and breathe as you're going.54800:28:24.039 --> 00:28:25.960



As long as you're tapping on some of those known54900:28:26.000 --> 00:28:30.200



acupressure points, because you're in the state, you will get55000:28:30.200 --> 00:28:30.759



a shift.55100:28:31.119 --> 00:28:33.440



It may not be that you end up kind of55200:28:33.559 --> 00:28:35.240



finding out and unpacking where this.55300:28:35.319 --> 00:28:37.920



Came from, but it may not matter because in that moment,55400:28:38.000 --> 00:28:40.920



like Besil talks about, you get yourself back in that55500:28:41.039 --> 00:28:43.519



window of tolerance to be able to just cope in55600:28:43.519 --> 00:28:46.359



the moment. So many times I might do that too,55700:28:46.359 --> 00:28:48.279



where I'm like something just sort of you know, it's55800:28:48.279 --> 00:28:49.440



a bit overwhelming, and I'm like.55900:28:49.359 --> 00:28:50.920



I'm just going to tap in the moment just for this.56000:28:51.039 --> 00:28:52.079



I don't have to say anything.56100:28:52.440 --> 00:28:56.039



I'm just going to calm my body down physiologically. So56200:28:56.160 --> 00:28:59.920



tap and breathe is fantastic. It works in that respect56300:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.680



for children who are nonverbal. So it does tell us56400:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.559



that if you're in an agitated state and you actually56500:29:07.680 --> 00:29:10.799



tap on a pressure point, you will actually calm the56600:29:10.839 --> 00:29:13.960



body down. Dawson Church and I Dawson of course runs56700:29:13.960 --> 00:29:17.599



eft Universe, one of the big training organizations. We published56800:29:17.599 --> 00:29:19.240



a paper a couple of years ago that was a56900:29:19.240 --> 00:29:23.720



meta analysis where we definitively showed from the sham tapping57000:29:23.920 --> 00:29:27.559



and other research the actual tapping on an acupuncture point57100:29:27.720 --> 00:29:30.160



is the active ingredient in tapping, not the words that57200:29:30.240 --> 00:29:32.880



you say. So as long as you're in the state57300:29:33.559 --> 00:29:36.640



and you're tapping, it works, and it will work for57400:29:36.759 --> 00:29:40.039



children who are on the spectrum on nonverbal We have57500:29:40.119 --> 00:29:42.799



lots of kind of you know schools that have those57600:29:42.880 --> 00:29:44.759



children where we've taught them tapping and they just use57700:29:44.799 --> 00:29:48.119



it as a regulation tool. So I think, you know,57800:29:48.400 --> 00:29:50.319



just to get in that habit. To me, it's just57900:29:50.359 --> 00:29:51.880



the habit of tapping. So if you can just tap58000:29:51.920 --> 00:29:53.799



for five minutes a day, you're gonna have a ripple effect.58100:29:54.200 --> 00:29:55.960



Even if it's just, oh, I didn't sleep real well58200:29:56.039 --> 00:29:57.920



last night. I'll just do a little bit of tapping58300:29:57.960 --> 00:29:59.839



on that moving call.58400:30:00.559 --> 00:30:02.240



I do the same. I do the same if I'm58500:30:02.279 --> 00:30:04.680



just feeling a bit stressed or overwhelmed or something's going58600:30:04.680 --> 00:30:09.559



on or irritated or whatever. Just connecting with the feeling58700:30:09.880 --> 00:30:13.920



and tapping on the points. That's it, right, That's the58800:30:14.519 --> 00:30:17.599



very basics. Peter, We've talked a lot about clinical issues58900:30:17.640 --> 00:30:20.839



and anxiety and you know, depression of stress and food cravings.59000:30:20.880 --> 00:30:23.920



I've also heard about tapping being used for things like59100:30:24.079 --> 00:30:29.720



goal setting and you know, like removing financial blocks or59200:30:29.799 --> 00:30:32.119



success blocks or self sabotage. Can you talk a little59300:30:32.119 --> 00:30:33.519



bit about that, because I know you do some work59400:30:33.519 --> 00:30:34.559



in that space as well.59500:30:34.680 --> 00:30:37.440



We do, and it's probably such a favorite space of mine.59600:30:37.799 --> 00:30:40.559



We've done lots of school trials here, particularly on the59700:30:40.599 --> 00:30:43.200



Gold Coast, just because they're local and heard us on59800:30:43.279 --> 00:30:44.720



news and things like that. So we go in and59900:30:44.759 --> 00:30:47.720



teach students how to use it for you know, test60000:30:47.720 --> 00:30:49.880



anxiety and things like that. But one of the ways60100:30:49.920 --> 00:30:52.519



that we often build the bridge because of course, can60200:30:52.559 --> 00:30:54.319



you imagine a fifteen year old boy looking at me60300:30:54.359 --> 00:30:56.000



going here, tap on your face. You know, he thinks60400:30:56.000 --> 00:31:00.720



I'm crazy. So will often introduce it as as a60500:31:00.759 --> 00:31:03.519



goal setting technique, and we say to them, hey, is60600:31:03.559 --> 00:31:06.000



there anything you'd really like to you know, have come60700:31:06.039 --> 00:31:07.960



true in your life or a goal that you really60800:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.839



want to achieve, And of course most teenagers will say yeah, yeah, yeah,60900:31:11.839 --> 00:31:14.000



So they write down their goal and this is exactly61000:31:14.000 --> 00:31:16.160



what we do and it's often just the bridge that61100:31:16.200 --> 00:31:17.799



we build to sort of teaching them.61200:31:18.079 --> 00:31:20.880



And then we say, so, what are.61300:31:20.799 --> 00:31:26.119



The reasons, excuses, whatever limitations that you think will get61400:31:26.160 --> 00:31:30.119



in the road of that goal coming true being achieved,61500:31:30.359 --> 00:31:32.240



And so then they write a list. So we're like,61600:31:32.319 --> 00:31:34.920



it doesn't matter, just whatever comes to mind. And this61700:31:35.000 --> 00:31:36.480



is what I would encourage people to do. So if61800:31:36.480 --> 00:31:38.680



they had a goal to, you know, go on a holiday,61900:31:38.839 --> 00:31:40.720



so why why don't you go on the holiday? What62000:31:40.759 --> 00:31:42.319



do you think we'll get in the road? They write62100:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.039



them down. Now that is what we end up tapping on.62200:31:45.160 --> 00:31:47.440



So it's almost like it could be a limiting belief,62300:31:47.559 --> 00:31:50.079



it could be something else. It could be a family saying,62400:31:50.519 --> 00:31:51.960



it could be something like a.62500:31:52.000 --> 00:31:55.279



History of a repeating pattern. That's actually what we do62600:31:55.319 --> 00:31:55.880



the tapping on.62700:31:55.960 --> 00:31:58.279



So we're actually kind of collapsing, if you like, the62800:31:58.359 --> 00:32:00.559



limiting believes that we call it the tape enders in62900:32:00.599 --> 00:32:02.599



your head, the little chattery monkey.63000:32:02.279 --> 00:32:04.440



That can't go so you can't do that, blah blah blah.63100:32:04.480 --> 00:32:07.200



If I give you a simple example, we had a63200:32:07.200 --> 00:32:09.599



young boy, grade eleven. We went into this school to63300:32:09.640 --> 00:32:11.279



teach them this, and he said, I want to be63400:32:11.319 --> 00:32:14.799



school captain next year in grade twelve, and we're like, okay,63500:32:14.839 --> 00:32:17.400



well that's good goal. Why wouldn't that come true? And63600:32:17.440 --> 00:32:20.440



he said, Oh, I only just got to this school.63700:32:20.440 --> 00:32:23.119



I haven't been here for the whole time. People don't63800:32:23.160 --> 00:32:25.440



really know me. And even though I feel okay to63900:32:25.440 --> 00:32:28.559



give a speech, I don't think my peers will vote64000:32:28.599 --> 00:32:30.240



for me because they're like, who were you?64100:32:30.240 --> 00:32:32.119



You haven't been here. So that was sort of his64200:32:32.200 --> 00:32:32.599



main thing.64300:32:32.599 --> 00:32:34.079



There were a few others, so we just did some64400:32:34.160 --> 00:32:37.240



tapping around that so that he didn't feel that sort64500:32:37.279 --> 00:32:39.960



of was so true for him anymore. Now, fast forward64600:32:40.000 --> 00:32:41.759



about nine months. I was back at the school and64700:32:41.799 --> 00:32:44.480



I was talking to the principal just about some other things,64800:32:44.519 --> 00:32:45.680



and I suddenly remembered.64900:32:45.720 --> 00:32:48.519



I said, oh, who's the school captain this year? And65000:32:48.559 --> 00:32:50.680



he mentioned this boy's name, and I just had one65100:32:50.720 --> 00:32:50.920



of these.65200:32:51.480 --> 00:32:54.519



I started laughing at the school principles looking at me65300:32:54.599 --> 00:32:55.279



like what are you laughing?65400:32:55.279 --> 00:32:57.359



And I'm like, oh, he actually tapped on that.65500:32:57.599 --> 00:33:00.119



So it's just one example, but it is a real65600:33:00.279 --> 00:33:03.559



lovely way to introduce tapping to teenagers that may be65700:33:03.680 --> 00:33:05.160



a bit skeptical because you.65800:33:05.079 --> 00:33:06.839



Know, let's face it, tapping on your face is a65900:33:06.880 --> 00:33:07.279



bit weird.66000:33:07.559 --> 00:33:10.640



So if they kind of go, oh, maybe something will66100:33:10.640 --> 00:33:13.000



come out of this for me, And I think it's66200:33:13.000 --> 00:33:16.519



such a nice way. What we're still tapping on is66300:33:16.599 --> 00:33:19.799



those underlying kind of limiting beliefs and things like that66400:33:19.839 --> 00:33:22.079



and sort of removing them so that you do feel66500:33:22.160 --> 00:33:25.559



like perhaps your belief in that goal is much higher.66600:33:25.599 --> 00:33:26.680



And then see what happens.66700:33:26.960 --> 00:33:29.720



And I'm imagining too, just listening to you talk about that,66800:33:29.720 --> 00:33:32.480



that there's there would be a flow on, like a66900:33:32.599 --> 00:33:34.960



ripple effect, right, So you might be tapping on one67000:33:35.000 --> 00:33:38.759



particular issue, but because of the effect that's happening on67100:33:39.000 --> 00:33:41.759



your nervous system and the way your brain is wirde,67200:33:41.839 --> 00:33:45.160



then you would imagine that would translate out into improving67300:33:45.759 --> 00:33:49.839



other potential problems you might be experiencing. Would that be right?67400:33:50.000 --> 00:33:50.799



Yeah, it's interesting.67500:33:50.880 --> 00:33:51.079



Yeah.67600:33:51.079 --> 00:33:51.640



Absolutely.67700:33:51.640 --> 00:33:54.000



People will often sort of say, hey, I was tapping on,67800:33:54.920 --> 00:33:57.720



you know, maybe something physical in the body, and then67900:33:57.759 --> 00:34:00.920



I actually also got an outcome, you know, maybe my68000:34:01.240 --> 00:34:03.960



fear of public speaking decreased or something, and they didn't68100:34:04.000 --> 00:34:06.640



realize they were probably connected. And that's all it is68200:34:06.640 --> 00:34:09.119



is we often are tapping in one area but get68300:34:09.159 --> 00:34:11.599



a shift in another one because there was probably a68400:34:11.599 --> 00:34:14.119



common denominator they just didn't realize, and we're like it's68500:34:14.119 --> 00:34:16.920



a bonus, yeah, just go with it.68600:34:17.119 --> 00:34:21.519



Yeah yeah yeah. Now, Last, but not least, I recently68700:34:21.519 --> 00:34:26.119



did the evidence based EFT training and which was great.68800:34:26.320 --> 00:34:28.639



As a therapist, I felt like it was important to68900:34:28.719 --> 00:34:32.239



kind of do that and to understand that, you know,69000:34:32.239 --> 00:34:36.960



the clinical protocols and things like that for the person69100:34:37.079 --> 00:34:40.440



listening to this, who can easily go to YouTube and69200:34:40.480 --> 00:34:45.039



see a thousand more you know, YouTube videos on tapping,69300:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.960



or can download apps. You know, there's lots of ways69400:34:47.960 --> 00:34:52.000



that people can access tapping scripts and things like that.69500:34:52.360 --> 00:34:57.199



At what point would somebody kind of go and see69600:34:57.239 --> 00:35:02.000



a trained like a clinical if practitioner as opposed to69700:35:02.199 --> 00:35:04.079



just doing their own youtubing.69800:35:04.679 --> 00:35:06.559



Yes, And I do think you're right.69900:35:06.599 --> 00:35:09.519



There's so much out there, and there's good information out there,70000:35:09.559 --> 00:35:12.480



you know, on YouTube and things like that. If at70100:35:12.519 --> 00:35:15.159



any point someone's tapping along, you know, maybe with the70200:35:15.199 --> 00:35:18.079



topic that they've picked because that's what's going on for70300:35:18.119 --> 00:35:20.000



them at the moment, or an area they want to70400:35:20.079 --> 00:35:22.320



change in their life, like you mentioned, you know, finances70500:35:22.360 --> 00:35:22.639



and things.70600:35:22.719 --> 00:35:25.079



That's often an area that people will find a video on.70700:35:25.599 --> 00:35:28.760



If at any point in that tapping with the video,70800:35:28.800 --> 00:35:32.559



and of course it's not a live person, any distress70900:35:32.639 --> 00:35:36.400



level comes up that that person's really uncomfortable with, or71000:35:37.199 --> 00:35:40.280



a memory comes back from a long time ago, eg.71100:35:40.599 --> 00:35:43.440



Childhood that someone hasn't thought about for a while that71200:35:43.519 --> 00:35:46.880



maybe takes them by surprise. That is the moment to71300:35:47.000 --> 00:35:50.199



actually go and seek some support with a trained practitioner,71400:35:50.199 --> 00:35:52.760



whether that's a psychologist trained or a social worker or71500:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.880



an EFT Certifiety of t practitioner.71600:35:55.559 --> 00:35:59.280



What that indicates is tapping is working. Often people will think,71700:35:59.559 --> 00:36:02.760



all this tapping thing made me really upset or distressed.71800:36:03.119 --> 00:36:04.159



It doesn't work.71900:36:04.480 --> 00:36:07.559



It actually means tapping's working really quickly and it's kind72000:36:07.559 --> 00:36:10.840



of peeling the layers of the onion fast. Tapping does72100:36:10.920 --> 00:36:14.239



work like that, but often that can take people by surprise,72200:36:14.639 --> 00:36:16.719



and that is when it's really important to go and72300:36:16.800 --> 00:36:20.840



get support by somebody that can be objective, ask questions,72400:36:21.079 --> 00:36:23.840



support you through that process. And of course if something72500:36:23.920 --> 00:36:25.840



has come up from the past, like a memory, and72600:36:25.880 --> 00:36:29.639



the reason why people do get memories is as the amig.72700:36:29.400 --> 00:36:32.440



Dealer kind of calms itself down, the hippo campus.72800:36:32.480 --> 00:36:34.920



The memory center that sits next door to that is72900:36:35.039 --> 00:36:38.159



able to sort of give out information when the AMIGN73000:36:38.199 --> 00:36:38.719



dealer is not.73100:36:38.760 --> 00:36:39.800



Hijacking the body.73200:36:40.039 --> 00:36:42.280



So if the AMIG dealer has gone quiet, the hipper73300:36:42.280 --> 00:36:45.760



campus can then sometimes give memories up from childhood. It's73400:36:45.840 --> 00:36:47.800



kind of like the leg of the table where it's like, hey,73500:36:47.920 --> 00:36:50.679



this is related and you should tap on this, but73600:36:50.719 --> 00:36:54.599



the person may not be expecting that. They're probably two73700:36:55.039 --> 00:36:58.000



kind of flags to watch out for. Level of distress73800:36:58.039 --> 00:37:01.320



that you wonder where did this come from? All memories73900:37:01.320 --> 00:37:03.400



that pop back, they would be the two times I74000:37:03.440 --> 00:37:04.440



would even pop up.74100:37:04.400 --> 00:37:07.400



And see somewhere. Yeah, good to know. I think that's74200:37:07.400 --> 00:37:10.119



interesting to talk about the amigdala calming down and memories74300:37:10.119 --> 00:37:11.840



popping up, because I know a lot of people experience74400:37:11.880 --> 00:37:15.159



the same, for example, when they start meditation or anything74500:37:15.239 --> 00:37:17.360



like that, where you start to calm down your nervous74600:37:17.360 --> 00:37:20.559



system and then suddenly it's the hippo campus feels kind74700:37:20.559 --> 00:37:25.280



of free to bubble up all the old stuff from74800:37:25.679 --> 00:37:27.719



your childhood.74900:37:28.480 --> 00:37:30.800



Very handy, Peter.75000:37:31.440 --> 00:37:34.920



I really appreciate the work that you do. I am75100:37:35.079 --> 00:37:38.800



so grateful to you for really blazing a trail in75200:37:38.840 --> 00:37:40.960



this space of making sure that there is the research75300:37:41.960 --> 00:37:44.639



to back up what many people have kind of known75400:37:45.079 --> 00:37:47.079



to be true and effective for a long time, but75500:37:47.440 --> 00:37:51.679



it's the way forward. You have programs and courses and75600:37:51.719 --> 00:37:53.440



things on your website, is that ic? Can I just75700:37:53.440 --> 00:37:55.760



give you a moment to share what people can access75800:37:56.119 --> 00:37:58.360



through your website and your trainings and things.75900:37:58.599 --> 00:38:01.760



Yeah, sure, lots of resources there, so just at my76000:38:02.119 --> 00:38:04.639



Peterstapleton dot com if people want a diagram of the76100:38:04.639 --> 00:38:06.719



tapping points or watch a video on how to tap.76200:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.440



Lots of things there are free of course, can access76300:38:09.599 --> 00:38:11.880



anyone interested in training and.76400:38:11.800 --> 00:38:12.360



You mentioned it.76500:38:12.480 --> 00:38:15.719



CAS Evidence based EFT dot com is where we host76600:38:15.760 --> 00:38:18.760



all of our programs and there's just you know, tapping76700:38:18.760 --> 00:38:20.920



for personal use if somebody just wants to sort of76800:38:20.960 --> 00:38:23.199



put them through, as well as live events of course,76900:38:23.239 --> 00:38:25.719



you know, coming back into putting some of those back77000:38:25.760 --> 00:38:28.320



on this year, that kind of thing, and of course77100:38:28.360 --> 00:38:29.320



access to research.77200:38:29.400 --> 00:38:31.719



So if anyone does want any of those.77300:38:31.480 --> 00:38:34.320



Papers we've talked about, you know, anything we've published, people77400:38:34.320 --> 00:38:35.079



loo can get access.77500:38:35.920 --> 00:38:38.199



Links are all there to my university page and things77600:38:38.239 --> 00:38:40.320



like that as well. So thank you. Yeah, anyone that77700:38:40.440 --> 00:38:42.519



wants to reach out and ask anything. We're always happy77800:38:42.519 --> 00:38:42.960



to answer.77900:38:43.039 --> 00:38:45.559



Fantastic, And I know psychologists do listen to the show78000:38:45.559 --> 00:38:48.920



as well, So psychologists who are interesting interested in adding78100:38:48.960 --> 00:38:51.159



this as a tool in the practice would definitely say78200:38:51.199 --> 00:38:53.920



go and check out doctor Peter Stapleton's website. And Peter,78300:38:53.960 --> 00:38:55.719



I can see behind you listeners can't beca this is78400:38:55.719 --> 00:38:58.079



a podcast, it's not a YouTube, but behind you. The78500:38:58.119 --> 00:39:01.320



Science of Tapping is your most recent book.78600:39:01.440 --> 00:39:05.480



Yes, yes, yes, so that is an easy to read books,78700:39:05.480 --> 00:39:07.400



so don't let the word science put you off the78800:39:07.440 --> 00:39:10.199



science behind tapping. So that book just really took all78900:39:10.239 --> 00:39:13.079



the research to date that came out in twenty nineteen79000:39:13.519 --> 00:39:16.320



in an easy to understand kind of way, all split79100:39:16.400 --> 00:39:18.519



up in the sections, and lots of client studies from79200:39:19.079 --> 00:39:21.519



case studies from the trials are included in there, so79300:39:21.519 --> 00:39:24.199



you can actually read people's stories about what happened.79400:39:24.239 --> 00:39:27.000



So that's available anyway, hay House and.79500:39:27.159 --> 00:39:29.039



Audio too, so if anyone wants to listen to the79600:39:29.079 --> 00:39:30.920



Aussie voice.79700:39:31.320 --> 00:39:33.800



So I did read that one that's on audible.79800:39:33.679 --> 00:39:35.880



Very good, and I've just realized I don't yet have79900:39:35.960 --> 00:39:37.639



that in my library, so I'll be I'll be grabbing80000:39:37.639 --> 00:39:40.920



a copy of that straight after this recording. Peter, thank80100:39:40.960 --> 00:39:43.400



you so much for your time. I so appreciate it,80200:39:43.519 --> 00:39:47.880



and I really cannot wait to see what else unfolds80300:39:47.880 --> 00:39:49.679



in this space. I think it's really exciting.80400:39:49.800 --> 00:39:52.360



Thanks so much, Cass, and we are very excited.80500:39:52.360 --> 00:39:54.280



There will be some stuff in the next twelve months,80600:39:54.360 --> 00:39:56.599



so we'll be happy to come back and share all80700:39:56.599 --> 00:39:57.079



the updates.80800:39:57.119 --> 00:40:02.920



I'll hold you to that. Thanks, Peter. If you find80900:40:02.960 --> 00:40:06.639



all of this just as interesting and exciting as I do.81000:40:07.039 --> 00:40:09.320



You can find out more about Peter and her work,81100:40:09.440 --> 00:40:11.360



as well as links to all of her trainings that81200:40:11.440 --> 00:40:15.000



she offers at her website Peterstapleton dot com. I'll put81300:40:15.039 --> 00:40:17.960



that link in the show notes. Her newest book, as81400:40:18.000 --> 00:40:21.559



she said, is called The Science Behind Tapping. You'll find81500:40:21.559 --> 00:40:24.360



it in all bookstores. It's published by Hayhouse and you81600:40:24.400 --> 00:40:27.119



can find Peter on social media as well as she's81700:40:27.119 --> 00:40:30.320



on Facebook and Instagram. Obviously, you can always connect with81800:40:30.400 --> 00:40:34.159



me over on Instagram at cast Done Underscore XO. My81900:40:34.239 --> 00:40:36.840



website is cast Done dot com and I will catch82000:40:36.880 --> 00:40:42.960



you on the next episode of Crappy to Happy. Crappy82100:40:43.000 --> 00:40:46.159



to Happy is presented by cast Dunn, produced by Davis Vilenski.82200:40:46.440 --> 00:40:53.679



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