How to Get Back to Sleep Using EFT-Tapping

How to Get Back to Sleep Using EFT-Tapping

The question bugging all of us is, “how do I get back to sleep in the middle of the night?”

It is 3:11am. I turn over and look at the clock. I am awake. Like clockwork, I can rely on waking up at the same time every morning – or at least I used to. What is your wake up time? 2:45am? 4:05am?

Whatever your wake-up time is, here is a handy trick for getting back to sleep. It works for me every time.

Step 1: Remember to use this technique! At first it may be hard to remember. There is something about those wee hours when our brain is not fully on. But once you use it and you find it works, it is easier to remember next time.

Step 2: Use EFT Tapping (Emotional Freedom Technique). Here is how.

1. Are you new to EFT? Go to this Chart to learn the 8 tapping points.

1. Set up statement: With EFT it is important to be as specific and honest as you can when you do your set up statement. You can use any of these set up statements with the corresponding Reminder Phrase (RP) or make up your own:

• Even though I’m wide-awake, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. RP: wide awake.

• Even though I’m wide-awake and worried, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. RP: wide awake and worried.

• Even though I’m wide -wake and can’t get back to sleep, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. RP: wide awake and can’t get back to sleep.

1. Tapping Sequence (tap 5 to 7 times on each point):
   1. Karate Chop Point: Even though I’m wide-awake and worried, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Say this 3 times. While tapping the Karate Chop Point.

1. Eye Brow Point:         wide-awake and worried.
2. Side of the Eye:         wide-awake and worried.
3. Under the Eye:          wide-awake and worried.
4. Under the Nose:        wide-awake and worried.
5. Under the Lip:           wide-awake and worried.
6. Under Collar Bone:   wide-awake and worried.
7. Under Arm on Ribs: wide-awake and worried.
8. Top of the Head:       wide awake and worried.
9. Repeat the points again if you like, doing a second round starting at the eyebrow point.
10. Take a breath and relax.
11. Chances are you will be waking up in the morning, not realizing when you fell asleep.

Other things that help me:

• No caffeine after 3pm. No coffee after 1pm.

• If I’ve had a stressful day I’ll tap before sleeping. Sitting in bed I’ll tap on the stresses of the day for a couple of rounds. Typically I’ll then sleep all through the night.

• Some people just visualize tapping and it works just as well for them. I’ve tried it, but I like physically tapping. At night I tap with one finger very lightly.

• If it is not working, meaning you are still awake 5 minutes after tapping, try changing the set up statement. Make the set up statement as real as you can for what is happening for you. Name your experience as accurately as possible.

• It is good to be well hydrated when tapping. The water in our system helps to process the tapping effects. Although I rarely get up and get water in the middle of the night. I just tap.

Since I’ve started using this, I now sleep through the night most of the time, unless I’ve disobeyed my coffee rule, above. When I first used it, I could be lying awake for an hour and then remember to tap. I’d be asleep within 5-minutes.

Good luck! Happy Tapping!