Learn EFT Tapping

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A free, practical course by Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli

EFT Tapping can help bring relief from stress, anxiety, overwhelm, pain, distressing thoughts, difficult memories, and limiting beliefs. You can learn the basics in minutes and return whenever a particular practice feels useful.

Start at the beginning, follow a Part, or choose the lesson that meets you where you are today.

How to use this course

If tapping is new to you, begin with Transform Your Emotions and continue to the Tapping Points. If you already tap, choose whichever practice or abundance script feels useful today.

The first section includes this downloadable guide.

Transform Your Emotions with EFT Tapping guide cover by Rick Wilkes and Cathy Vartuli

Explore the complete course

Open any Module to see its Parts and lessons. Choose a starting point and return whenever a lesson feels useful.

Module 1: Transform Your Emotions with EFT Tapping

Part 1: Introduction

  • Welcome to Transform Your Emotions with EFT Tapping
    Begin with the foundations of EFT Tapping and a downloadable guide you can print, save, and share.
  • Why Do EFT Tapping?
    EFT Tapping (also called Emotional Freedom Techniques) can bring you quick, effective RELIEF from stress, anxiety, overwhelm, pain and suffering, distressing thoughts, disturbing…
  • What Is EFT Tapping?
    We humans touch, hold, pat, and rub ourselves for comfort… and always have. We naturally reach out to comfort others.
  • What Can You Use Tapping For?
    Tapping gives you instant access to relief at your fingertips. It aligns the energy of your whole being.
  • Where Did EFT Tapping Come From?
    Have you ever seen someone rub their forehead when they were stressed? Or clutch the base of their throat when shocked? Hold their heart when it is breaking?
  • Quick Relief… Rich Rewards Over Time
    Some people report "one-minute miracles," where long-lasting changes occur in minutes. We've had them ourselves personally and with clients. They're wonderful!
  • Resources to Get Started (Included in section resources)
    For those of you who are new to EFT Tapping, you can learn so much by going through this course!

Part 2: Let's Get Tapping!

  • EFT Tapping Points Diagram
    Notice that the EFT Tapping Points are convenient to tap on with one or both hands (by design):
  • Okay, How Do I Tap?
    Getting started is very simple. It takes about 2-5 minutes to learn the basics.
  • Let’s Put It All Together
    Now, we'll combine the basic tapping sequence with tuning into your body-mind, speaking a truth about how you feel right now, and choosing how you'd like to feel.

Part 3: Examples to Get Started

  • Headache Tapping
    Practice a complete tapping sequence for a specific headache, then notice whether the intensity, location, or sensation changes.
  • Frustration Tapping
    Use a specific frustration—such as feeling stuck in traffic—to practice naming the body sensation, tapping through it, and noticing what shifts.
  • Changing a Habit Tapping
    We all have habits we want to change. How many times have you promised yourself you'd stop? Tapping can help you replace that old habit with a better one, like appreciating yourself…

Part 4: Tapping Tips to Get Started

Part 5: Just the Beginning!

Module 2: EFT Tapping Tips, Practices and Approaches

EFT Tapping Tips

  • No “Wrong” Words
    Let go of finding the perfect phrase and learn to tap with the words, sounds, or feelings that are actually present.
  • Opposite Hand Tapping
    Experiment with your non-dominant hand, crossed-over tapping, and different body positions to help new material surface.
  • Try A Nurturing Location
    Discover how tapping in a park, near water, or in another nourishing place can help you focus, renew, and feel supported.
  • Look in the Mirror
    Try tapping in front of a mirror to deepen self-connection, notice subtle shifts, and strengthen visualization.

EFT Tapping Practices

Approaches for EFT Tapping

Module 3: 7 EFT Tapping Scripts for an Abundant & Thriving Life NOW

Introduction to Abundance

Let's Get Tapping!

  • Resources to Get Started (Included in section resources)
    Find the foundational Learn EFT course, an anxiety-breathing practice, and options for additional coaching and support.
  • EFT Tapping Points Diagram
    Use this gender-neutral tapping-points diagram as a quick reminder while you follow the abundance scripts.

7 EFT Tapping Scripts for Abundance and Thriving

  • Feeling Safe (#1)
    Tap with the difference between being safe and feeling safe, helping your body soften chronic vigilance and open to more possibility.
  • Deserving (#2)
    Notice the tension, doubts, or old beliefs that appear when you imagine having what you want, then tap with those blocks to deserving.
  • Self-Acceptance (#3)
    Use tapping to soften self-criticism, strengthen self-worth, and make it easier to receive care, rest, play, and abundance.
  • Letting It Be Easy (#4)
    Explore old rules that say good things must be hard, and tap with fears or self-sabotage around letting life feel easier.
  • Celebration (#5)
    Tap with hidden fears that can make success, joy, recognition, or celebration feel unsafe.
  • Trust (#6)
    Build emotional resilience around trust so you can relax, connect, and better discern what and who feels safe.
  • Allowing Love (#7)
    Notice what closes you to love, then tap to reopen to appreciation, connection, warmth, and the love already around you.

Growing in Abundance & Thriving

  • Opening to Abundance in Small Steps
    Practice allowing small moments of love, pleasure, support, and possibility—the building blocks of an abundant life.
  • It’s Better Together
    Explore why tapping with skilled, compassionate support can help old experiences feel less alone, unsafe, and stuck.

Questions are welcome

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