Have you ever failed at trying to break an old habit? If your answer is yes, you are certainly not alone. Freedom from poor habits that have haunted people for years is a common desire.

The good news is that there is a simple way for you to you’re your poor old habits for good. Emotional freedom technique tapping can be used to break the oldest of poor habits. By tapping specific stress relief points on your body consecutively, you can relieve the emotional and subconscious ties that you have to a particular habit. Ultimately, you can free yourself from any unwanted habit by tapping it out of you.

This may not work overnight, but you will probably start to feel better or notice small changes in your behavior after trying it once or twice. Once one of your bad habits is gone, you can make tapping a routine. You can begin to use it to eliminate all kinds of other habits. If you have poor eating habits, want to quit smoking, or if you want to stop swearing you can use this method to free yourself.

What is great about emotional freedom technique tapping is that you don’t have to believe in any particular system or focus on any unknown energy. All you have to do is focus your thoughts on what you want to change and tap. There is no need to worry about how or why this works. You have nothing to lose if you try it, and it certainly won’t happen if you don’t give it a chance. You can almost say that it works because people sincerely try it. This method is simple and you can do it as many times as you want or need to in order to bring these results to any habit in your life.

You can learn all about what points to tap and in what order with the Tap Yourself Free ebook. It is not complicated at all, and you can find true freedom from just about any issue of your life through emotional freedom technique tapping.

The EFT “karate chop point” is the entry point for most tapping routines. In other words this area is often tapped at the beginning of any EFT session to release initial emotional tension and to clear the mind and energy for further tapping.

Find this point along the outer, meaty portion of either hand. The entire area is sensitive to tapping, and individual tappers will find the pinpoints that are most effective for them within this region.

EFT Karate Chop Point

How does this actually work? I don’t have a nuts and bolts answer for you.

But I can tell you that after doing some light exercise or meditation you can simply use two fingers to tap into this area for 60 seconds or so and you’ll quickly feel the tension and “heavy” energy leaving your awareness. Any time you are angry, sad, feeling stagnant, or in any other way upset, you can tap this area while clearing your mind or relaxing into some deep breathing.

Most EFT teachers will give you an opening affirmation to state while you tap this area at the beginning of a tapping session. You can state these affirmations aloud or say them silently; in fact you can and should experiment between stating aloud with eyes open and saying silently with eyes closed, etc.

My favorite affirmations to combine with the tapping of this area are:

I deeply and completely love, accept, and forgive myself.

Or you can get more specific and address the problem you want to relieve:

Even though I’m really angry about this traffic ticket right now, I deeply and completely love, accept, and forgive myself.

In times of really intense emotion, it helps to just “vent” while you tap for one or two minutes:

Oh I am sooo pissed off right now. Those *bleeeeeep* people have no right to treat me like this!!! (while tapping away)

While this technique is often taught as the way to lead into a full tapping of multiple points, understand that you can use the karate chop point exercise as a stand-alone self therapy. It’s a great way to channel anger, depression, and other negative feelings out of your body and completely release toxicity and negativity from your awareness.

Give it a try and see for yourself.

And while few EFT teachers relay this fact, I want you to understand you can use this tapping point to ground yourself after a long meditation or to clear your energy after an intense workout as well. So don’t limit this practice only to releasing negativity; use it as a means to drive clarity and empowerment as well!

For more information (oh so much more!) on using EFT to accomplish an incredibly wide range of goals, please check out the Tapping Yourself Free e-book.

The main point of what many teachers simply call “Getting Clear” is to release negative energy, clean blockage, and allow yourself to be and have the self you are fully entitled to. Sadly, most of us have learned to hide from our own greatness and sabotage ourselves on a daily basis.

EFT and other methods of releasing negativity are all about allowing your true and magnificent nature to shine through. Once we come to a point in space and time where we can release these self-defeating tendencies, we are often amazed by just how vibrant and powerful we are!

A great question to ask yourself daily as you embrace your clearing practices is “How good can I stand it?”

Pay attention to the subtle response this question creates. If you look closely you will likely find that you are actively resisting the flow of great things into your life.

Why would you do this? Why would anyone want to hold themselves back?

Honestly there are many reasons. But these are topics for another article.

Instead of worrying about why, for now just verify the limitations you are placing on yourself and say out loud: “I love myself and I will be all I can be and more.”

(Feel free to rephrase this affirmation to your preference)

The exact words are less important than the meaning; you have decided to get clear of the blockage, release the negativity, and allow the real and ultra powerful you to emerge.