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Hi, everyone!  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll discuss some of the body-based techniques that you can use to quickly calm your nervous system.  If you've watching some of the earlier videos in this series, you already know that I talk with my clients a lot about neurobiology and specifically about the brain-body connection.  For a long time, psychologists have ascerted that in order to feel better,  we have to change the way we think.  And that can certainly be true.  However, we now know that calming the body also calms the brain -- and this process is far faster and more efficient than the reverse.  In fact, for every 1 signal that your brain sends to your body, your body is sending 4 signals to your brain.  So, although you can TRY to get your body to calm down by changing the thoughts from your brain, it's far more efficient and effective to work on your body to calm your brain down.   I th...

Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel, and in today's video I will demonstrate the simple steps that I follow to do EFT tapping on my own. I call it PETS# Tapping. I'm a big fan of body-based calming techniques and my favorite by far is EFT tapping.  I did a 2-part video series that included a demonstration and explanation of how it works to discharge emotion and calm the nervous system.  If you don't know anything about basic tapping, go back and watch the first video in that series before watching this one.  So, I think highly enough of this technique that I use it almost daily to manage my nervous system and investigate feelings that I'm having.  I tried to meditate 10 minutes a day for something like 5 years -- with pretty dismal results.  I'm just a little too ADHD to meditate successfully.  I think this technique has a lot of similar benefits, but is more active and engaged, which I MUCH prefer.  I've said this in previou...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll continue my series on EFT Tapping.  I think it's a brilliant way to gain Self-Compassion and what I call Internal Emotional Safety.  This is the second in a two part series. In the first video, I gave you an overview of EFT tapping and talked about the verbal, emotional, and physical components to it.  In this video I'll cover why I think it works and how it evokes self-compassion or internal emotional safety.  First of all, Why Does it Work? Honestly, we don't really know.   Again, I'm not convinced by the initial claims around releasing stuck energy.  But, here is my theory.  I think the tapping activates our soothing and nurturance system.  Engaging this system was how we calmed down as babies.  Parents use a gentle voice and touch to calm and sooth unhappy babies.  This releases all of these feel-good neuro-chemicals like oxytocin and...

Hi, everyone.  This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today's video, I'll talk about using EFT Tapping as a way to gain Self-Compassion and what I call Internal Emotional Safety.  This is the first in a two part series. I think emotional safety is the key ingredient to making lasting and real changes in your life.  You can see my video on this, but the upshot is that even though I think both external and internal emotional safety are important, only  internal safety is required for lasting behavior change. Meaning -- you have to give yourself love and compassion.  The ability to be kind and sooth yourself allows you to face the world in all its challenges and difficulties and know that you can handle it and will bounce back.  But the big question is -- how do I go about feeling emotionally safe?  How do I learn to be self compassionate?   We understand how to heal with others by learning how to trust, but how the heck am I su...