753. Expert Interview: Tapping Your Way through Adversity

Terri Mays

“With our smart devices, …how many of us have a moment without that?… we are constantly checking things. Every time. It may give us a notification of something─a text or email. We get that signal and it dumps cortisol just like that in our body and now we have that flush feeling. That is why you will notice more and more people are walking around in a heightened anxiety level. It is very hard to find the calm.”

Terri Mays is an Advanced Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) practitioner, certified Jack Canfield Methodology Success Trainer, and Radical Forgiveness Life Coach. She loves teaching students and educators how to raise their emotional tone—mind state—utilizing EFT tapping. She has been a healer and intuitive for over 30 years and is the founder and CEO of the HOPEnUp Foundation, helping students in all areas of life challenges realize their full potential, self-acceptance and self-esteem with EFT tapping.

Tapping Your Way through Adversity

EFT, or tapping as it is referred to, was discovered by a psychologist, Gary Craig, in 1980. It draws on various theories of alternative medicine including acupuncture, neurolinguistic programming and energy medicine. “I love teaching students and educators how to raise their emotional tone—mind state—utilizing EFT tapping. It allows you to master your fears and experience new freedom and possibilities.

Why Is This Important?

“As we each have experienced, the stress level in our society today is at an all-time high and continues to increase as technology gives us access to more tools and applications to help us be more effective and work even faster. Nowhere is this more evident than with our students. And that is the population I have chosen to focus on because the EFT technique can be taught to students directly and to their teachers or coaches with only a modest investment of time and energy on their part. The results have proven to be highly beneficial and lasting on so many levels of a student’s life: relationships, studying, athletics, sleep and overall physical and mental health.”

What Are the Key Lessons Learned Here?

“The feedback I am receiving from teachers about their students’ results from practicing EFT is very gratifying. A few examples: in one school, teachers reported that the test results of the students improved from 10% to 20% as their anxiety about test taking diminished; an underperforming volleyball team went to the playoffs for the first time in years, and in one school the students who performed in the orchestra and in the school plays were far more relaxed and able to perform at their best. As little as 5 minutes a day yields very positive outcomes.”