Intro To Angie & Tapping

Hello, my CADRE. I'm Angie, and I'm super excited to be here with you today on my first ever live stream. I'm sitting outside on my deck on one of these unusually nice November days in Minnesota. And I'm just so glad you're here with me. So my passion and purpose to be joining CADRE is to teach as many people as possible this tool called tapping. What is tapping, you might ask. It is basically a simple self-help tool that you can use anywhere, anytime to lower your stress. All you need is your fingertips and a general knowledge of where the tapping points are.

But before we get into that, let me tell you a little bit about myself. So I've been a health coach for eight years, and then I've been a certified tapping practitioner for about two and a half years. I just found tapping as a patient first. I had gone through a lot of physical challenges And I concentrated on healing physically, but I was leaving out the emotional healing I needed to do. And tapping is what hoisted me up over the finish line in a way to get really accelerated healing going. Like so many of us, I would say I could have been a poster child for fight or flight.

So I'm not sure if you're familiar what fight or flight is, but essentially our nervous system operates in two modes, fight or flight and then rest and digest. And we were beautifully designed to have this fight or flight mode as a protection. So it used to be way back that we needed to protect ourselves from very large animals chasing us in the wild, right? And so when we go in fight or flight, our body is better equipped to fight this big animal or run from it, right? Blood circulation leaves our brain and goes to our extremities to make that happen.

So you can probably surmise from that we're not thinking real clearly if the blood flow is leaving our brain, but we're in automatic pilot. Get away from this threat, right? So back to explaining that a little bit more and how I would consider myself kind of a poster child for fight or flight. When I was pretty young, four-ish, my parents got divorced and we were visiting family friends who I had two boys, and my sister and I were sent outside to play with them. And I had, at the time, a stuffed owl that was like my security blanket.

Well, these boys grabbed that owl and played monkey in the middle and wouldn't give it back to me. So that's what I learned about the world at a young age. This is how the world operates. Like I have to protect myself and what I have. And I didn't even realize I operated most of my life with that running silently beneath me, that I have to be in fight or flight to survive almost every day. So by learning the tapping and using it on a daily basis, it made all the difference for me. I started noticing being able to be more calm overall.

And it's just been wonderful. And that's why I want everybody to learn it because our lifestyles today are so stressful. We have so much stimulation and so much coming at us that we need as many tools as we can to lower our stress. Yeah, hopefully that's enough to give you a basic understanding. But I think we should try a little bit of tapping and let you get a feel for it. So all you have to do is mirror where I'm tapping and then repeat after me statements that I use. All right, so let's jump in and try it.

We're going to start on the side of our hand, right where that crease forms. And we're just lightly tapping with one or two fingertips there. And then I'll give statements and you repeat them after me, either out loud or in your head. So here we go. Even though I'm feeling all this stress today, I'm feeling stress and tension in my body, and I acknowledge how I feel. This feeling of stress and the tension in my body I'm feeling a bit overwhelmed. There's so much going on. My list of things to get done is very long.

And my mind is racing with everything I need to do. But it's okay to slow down right now and just notice how I feel. Right now, right here, I'm safe. And it's okay to let some of the stress go. As I'm sending calming signals to my nervous system, it's safe to let some stress go. Allowing my body to soften and my mind to settle. Allowing my breath to be more deep. Feeling grounded and centered. As I give myself this moment to reset, I open up. I'm calm, I'm centered, and I'm ready for what's next.

What did you notice? Let me know if you felt any change from when we started till when we ended. Just that short round of tapping. I'm just really grateful to be able to be here and share this tool with you guys. And my plan is to be here every Tuesday. I'm going to call it Tapping Tuesdays. And I hope you can join me either live or watch it later. We'll do a lot more tapping and a lot less of me talking because I really think that just doing it helps you learn and understand it. But I will field questions as well as they come up.

And I look forward to what we can do together with this amazing tapping tool. All right, I'm going to sign off for now. See you later, cadre.