Tips for studying: EFT tapping to the rescue, believe it or not

According to University of Michigan researchers’ tips for studying, do-it-yourself acupressure can keep students awake in or out of class without caffeine or high-sugar snacks.

The study results, reported in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, agree with what acupuncturists have been saying for millennia – that stimulating key acupuncture points improves the body’s flow of energy for optimum health.

However, this Michigan alertness study used only physical stimulation. Students tapped on the tops of their heads and on their legs, feet and hands for several minutes at a time.

Even better results

Lay people and healthcare professionals who use EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), which combines acupressure tapping with focussed thought, report even faster and more significant results to achieve mental alertness in class or study periods. (EFT is a self-help system, and you can also have EFT practitioner assistance.)

You can easily learn to apply EFT tapping any time you feel too sleepy to study, or even too bored.

The process is a 30-second round of tapping on key acupuncture points on your face and body, while you briefly state the problem: ‘Even though I can’t be bothered staying awake, I accept myself’ , ‘Even though I feel so tired, I accept myself.’ You can repeat this until you feel energised, probably in just a minute or two. Merely saying the words won’t do a lot for you. The secret is in the tapping, which balances your meridian energy system.

Deeper causes of student fatigue

Another of these EFT tips for studying is this: EFT can also uncover and eliminate stress from previous study difficulties.

For example, it can dissolve lingering mental and emotional stress that is anchored in related incidents in the past – such as, when a need to study resulted in the painful loss of a relationship or a beloved sport, or when the pressure of study caused a breakdown.

Ongoing effects from the past can seriously block alertness, attention and comprehension, and can even induce huge reluctance to study.

Adult student Marilyn found she was putting off study assignments required for her work as a biologist, and they were piling up.  She needed to collate published research on specific topics into 40 reports.  She ‘knew’ this was going to be difficult.

‘I hate study,’ she told me.

Behind this statement we found her five years of study (she described it as ‘grind’) for a university degree, while she also held down a demanding day job. This regimen left her about four hours a night for sleeping.

No wonder the word ‘study’ was sinister!
‘I’m a slow learner’

In Marilyn’s case, we also found that she believed she was a slow learner, because a teacher had once told her this.

So, facing any time-limited study task gave her a heavy sinking feeling, and she would fear that the task was almost insurmountable. ‘It will take me so long,’ she would lament

What is a belief?

A belief could be described as simply a thought we think over and over again. We attacked her limiting belief by tapping about it, while she said these words:
Even though I believe I’m a slow learner, I choose instead to learn quickly and easily now.
Even though I’m a slow learner, I choose instead to learn quickly and easily now.
Even though I’m a slow learner, I choose instead to learn quickly and easily now.

She then tapped one round of acupressure points on her face and body while she said the negative statement (‘I’m a slow learner’), one round saying the positive statement (‘I choose instead to learn quickly and easily now’), and one round alternating these.

Marilyn said, ‘Well — I wonder if I can learn faster?’ I suggested she repeat this process daily for a week.

Fear into excitement

Marilyn was now feeling excited. She said, ‘I can’t wait to get into these assignments! I’ll feel so good when they’re done!’

Soon she emailed me that she was completing the most difficult of the reports. She wrote, ‘I have been working on this stuff and it just seems simple. I am dumbfounded. I could pick out useful stuff easily. And it was no stress. Yay.’

EFT tapping had paid off. Her learning difficulties had evaporated, and she was enthusiastic about getting on with the rest of the reports.

For more information on EFT’s surprising and empowering results, visit my website at www.EFTemotionalhealing.com

You can also buy my how-to book ,‘Tapping Your Troubles Away with EFT’, on the world’s largest online bookstore Amazon, via a shortcut on my website, www.EFTemotionalhealing.com . As well as EFT’s tips for studying, the technique can improve any problem in your life.

Perhaps you suffer from another aspect of study problems. What is difficult for you? Would you like to make study easier?