Brad Schipke demonstrates the butterfly hug, a bilateral tapping technique that mimics REM sleep and helps process emotional memories. Cross your arms, tap your shoulders alternately, and keep going. He was skeptical until panic attacks made him desperate enough to try it.
the tapping that actually stimulates the left and right hemispheres of your brain, which stimulates REM sleep cycle. If you have trauma or PTSD, one of the best tools to stabilize your symptoms is something called the butterfly hug. It's super easy. You do it in 3 steps. You cross your arms, you start tapping, and then you keep tapping. That's it. It sounds silly. It sounds stupid. I know. I didn't believe it in the beginning, but I tried it out of desperation. I was like, this looks silly and this looks stupid, but I'm gonna do it anyways because my life— I I just, I need something. So if you just try this out, what you'll find is that your symptoms start to calm down. Your panic will reduce, your anxiety will reduce simply from the tapping. In the REM sleep cycle, what your brain is doing is processing memories and things from the day and anything in the past, which is where all of our dreams happen. So when you're doing that tapping left and right, and it doesn't have to be under your shoulder blades here, you can move your eyes left and right. You can tap the top of your thighs, whatever works for you. But by doing that, you are hacking into that part of your brain and helping you process the emotions in the moment. So give it a try. It's free, nothing to lose.
