Jack Canfield & Pamela Bruner on Tapping

So you talked about meridian tapping, acupressure points. Those are terms a lot of people may not be familiar with either. So this comes from Chinese acupuncture, where there are these meridians in the body that are related to organs, and some of those organs are related to different kind of feelings. And you tap on specific points, talk about these points a little bit. What are you tapping on? What's really happening when you do that?

Well, actually, when tapping was first sort of brought into use in the 1970s, 1980s, there was no good science to tell us why it worked. And so people assumed that it was based on the energy meridians of Chinese medicine. And the truth is, very recently, in the last year or two, the scientific studies are showing that the reason that tapping works is that it cuts the fear response in the brain. The primitive part of the brain jumps into arousal mode. It's very afraid. It's not rational. And if you tap while that response is going on, you short circuit the response. So the reason to tap the acupuncture or acupressure points is that they're more electrically sensitive. But in this case, what science is showing is it's more about interrupting that fear response than it is about clearing energy.