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Alex Ortner Co-Founder of The Tapping Solution at The Rewiring Your Brain World Summit #eft #tapping

17 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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This is a short transcript excerpt from a YouTube talk (Alex Ortner at The Rewiring Your Brain World Summit) that explains how emotionally focused tapping (specific points on the body) is claimed to send calming signals to the amygdala, the brain region responsible for the stress (fight-or-flight) response. The speaker emphasizes that the amygdala is an ancient survival structure that is now often overactive, producing frequent stress, anxiety, and related emotions.

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Off with, number one, is that what the research shows is that when we actually tap on these specific points, and they are very specific points on our body, that it actually sends a calming signal to the amygdala of the brain. The amygdala of the brain is the stress area of the brain. It's that fight or flight response in the brain. So when we're feeling stress, anxiety, overwhelm, anger, sadness, any of these emotions that are regular human emotions that that amygdala is triggered now, it's a really important part of our brain. It's a survival part of our brain for thousands and thousands of years. If we didn't have this, we would not survive. The challenge we have nowadays is that that amygdala fires all the time.