Tap Away Stress
Hello everyone! Welcome back to The Positively Healthy Mom Podcast. I’m your host, Laura Ollinger, and today I’m thrilled to introduce you to Sophia Torrini, a certified clinical EFT practitioner and NCS trainer with Dr. Joe Dispenza. Sophia brings a wealth of knowledge on how we can release limiting beliefs and patterns that hold us back, and she’s here to share powerful tools you can use today.
Understanding EFT and NCS: A Path to Emotional Freedom
Sophia expertly breaks down the complexities of Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and the Neurochange Solutions (NCS) program. Clinical EFT, an evidence-based approach, combines cognitive psychotherapy with tapping on acupuncture points without needles. The premise is that emotions become stored and blocked in the body, disrupting cellular communication. By tapping, we can release this blocked energy, allowing the body to flow better. Sophia emphasizes that while thoughts initiate emotions, it's the emotions that anchor beliefs. Releasing these emotions can unlock and transmute long-held limiting beliefs.
Tapping into Daily Calm: Practical EFT for Moms
As busy moms, we often experience daily stress and overwhelm. Sophia provides practical ways to use EFT to navigate these challenges. When feeling overwhelmed by endless tasks, tapping while breathing deeply can help release the emotional flood. This simple technique can shift your perspective, allowing you to prioritize and be more present. Sophia explains that low-frequency emotions like stress and overwhelm lead to physical tiredness, while higher frequency emotions like joy don't have the same draining effect.
Redirecting Your Emotional Patterns
Once an emotion is released through tapping, Sophia guides us on how to consciously redirect our patterns. This involves focusing on gratitude, positive memories, or anything that activates the heart. Aligning the heart and brain creates coherence, opening the door to solutions and possibilities. Even a brief two-minute exercise of recalling a positive memory can shift your state.
Uncovering Root Causes: Healing Past Patterns
Sophia delves into how our current emotional patterns often stem from experiences in early childhood, typically from birth to age seven (or up to 13). These programmed beliefs can lead to default reactions like fear or overwhelm. By revisiting and releasing the emotional attachment to past memories, we can break free from these automatic behaviors. Just as Pavlov's dogs were conditioned, our early experiences can create automatic emotional responses. Clearing the root cause, rather than just addressing the present symptom, is key to lasting liberation.
The Ripple Effect: How Mom's Calm Benefits the Family
Sophia highlights the profound impact a mother's emotional state has on her children, even from pre-birth. Emotions are chemical and can be transferred in utero. After birth, children in their programmable brainwave states (Delta and Alpha) and through mirror neurons, absorb the emotional environment around them. A stressed or overwhelmed mother can inadvertently program these patterns in her children. By processing her own emotions and cultivating calmness, a mother creates a more supportive and emotionally healthy environment for her children, breaking generational patterns.
Actionable Steps: Tapping into Your Best Self Today
Sophia provides a simple yet powerful actionable step for moms: before the mind starts creating stories around a feeling, take a few moments to be present with the physical sensation. Acknowledge the feeling and then gently begin to tap on specific body points. These points include the side of the hand, brow, between the eyebrows, side of the eyes, under the eyes, under the nose, chin, collarbone, under the arm (bra line), wrist, and top of the hand. Tapping sends a safety signal to the body, activating the parasympathetic nervous system and calming the overload of emotions. By focusing on the emotion and the physical sensation while tapping through these points, you can begin to process and release the overwhelm.
If you're ready to tap into a calmer, more empowered version of yourself and positively impact your family, connect with Sophia Torrini. Visit her website at www.yourbestself.com for more information and to explore a complimentary session. Discover how EFT and neuroscience-based techniques can help you release stress and create a life of flow, breaking free from survival mode. Take the first step towards a more peaceful and present you today!
