Navigating Change: Tapping In to Stress Relief

How to use EFT tapping to help navigate change by relieving associated stress

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Our relationship with change is complicated. We want to reach for greater goals, greater relationships, greater health, greater abundance, but according to the primitive brain, any change is perceived as unsafe — even positive change.

That might seem counterintuitive when we’re talking about change that will feel good and get us unstuck, but this is the primitivebrain we’re talking about. Its programming is basic and primal, so it doesn’t differentiate between positive and negative change.

Across the board, the brain prefers the certainty of your current experience (which it sees as safe, simply because you’re still alive) over the uncertainty of change (which it sees as unsafe, simply because it’s unknown). When we attempt to grow, expand, and evolve, the primitive brain rushes in to protect us from potential new