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Chapter 1: What is tapping and how is it used for calming the nervous system?
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So Tegan, you look pretty chilled, always.
Do I?
I'm like a swan. I'm serene on the top and paddling furiously underneath.
Right, the animal version of the swan rather than the human version of the swan. The Norman swan. Yeah. Yeah, I think we're both the same. We're just outwardly cool, but inwardly, you know, we're just going that way. And, you know, sometimes you drum your fingers, sometimes you jiggle your legs, and some people tap.
Tap like tap dancing.
No, tap like...
If you can't see Norman right now, he's thrumming his forehead with his finger.
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Chapter 2: What evidence supports the effectiveness of Emotional Freedom Techniques?
What have you heard about it?
So I've heard that this is a technique that's very controversial among psychologists. I don't want to give away too much, but I'm skeptical.
Okay. Well, let me tell you a little bit about its origins. According to, and the main source I found of the origins of the emotional freedom technique is unsurprisingly from the emotional freedom technique website. So like proceed with a nice hefty grain of low sodium salt. Okay.
Basically, it was pioneered by this guy called Gary Craig, who actually died earlier this year, according to the website. But basically, he's building on something from the 80s called thought field therapy, which there was an earlier guy, a psychologist, Dr. Roger Callaghan, and he develops this thought field therapy. And the idea was that if you tapped on meridian points...
while you were in psychological distress. So acupuncture points, basically. Yes, exactly. So there's very specific points on your body, but it was quite a complicated thing. So there were different sequences for different problems. There were algorithms for anxiety, for phobias, for trauma. And then a practitioner had to sort of diagnose what the issue was and then prescribe the correct sequence.
And you're kind of tapping on the points where you would normally put in the needles, right?
Yes, so it's building on the idea of acupuncture. Anyway, Gary Craig, who claims to have founded the emotional freedom technique, was like, what if we did this differently? So he was actually an engineer who went to Stanford. I don't really know what that has to do with psychology, but like he's a smart guy, right?
There are all these tech bros out there doing biology, so why can't Gary do it?
Anyway, so Gary ran some experiments and was like, okay, I don't think we need to make this this complicated. I think we just tap and breathe and I think I'll just let it be free for everyone. And he created a website called The Palace of Possibilities. Oh, lovely. Which, and it looks exactly as you imagine it would. It looks like...
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Chapter 3: How did the concept of tapping develop over time?
If these gases can make air shifts... See where he's going. I'm like, those are light gases. No. Alan says, if these gases can make airships to fire gravity, then surely they must be adding buoyancy to our bodies in a tiny way we float. That's an interesting concept, isn't it? Why not? Shelley says, I was... Shelley is being so nice to us, Norman.
We're pretty impressed with our own humour a lot of the time and I'm not sure if other people are.
Yeah, we laugh at our own jokes.
But Shelley says, I was fully convinced I was listening to a comedy act during the farting episode. It was so funny. I wasn't even offended that WA, where I'm from, was named as the farting capital of Australia.
Oh, thank you, Shelley.
I can't remember if it was the most volume of farts or if it was the smelliest farts. I'll have to go back in.
I think it was the length.
No, wait. No, wait. I just remembered. It was stench and linger was the terminology.
Just means she wanted to catch a plane to Perth, doesn't it?
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