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12. Cross Body Tapping

When you experience stress or tension, your brain and nervous system encode it as a multi-sensory pattern. This pattern can include the felt sense of your body (somatosensation), along with visual, auditory and sometimes even taste and smell associations. Because these patterns are stored through multiple sensory channels, creating new patterns of ease, comfort and freedom in the body and nervous system is often most effective when using multi-sensory techniques. 

Humans are sensory beings and with stress we often lose touch with certain aspects of our body. This technique integrates somatosensory patterns (based on principles from Cognomovement). For a deeper and more powerful experience, you may also integrate frequency listening or vocal toning practices while performing.

 

While performing the following technique, make sure you continue to breathe as described below. Consider toning on your exhale for an even more enhanced effect.

    1. Inhale gently through your nose
    2. Pucker or purse your lips as you fully exhale all the air out of your lungs sensing your front lower ribs drop downwards into your belly and your abdominal wall draw in and engage.
    3. Pause ~3 seconds after each exhale.
    4. For even more therapeutic effect perform frequency listening or vocal toning practices.

Instructions: Whatever side of the body is being tapped, the opposite sided hand is doing the tapping. Example: Tapping left arm, torso or leg with the right hand. 

Part 1: Front Back Upper Body:

  1. Raise one arm out in front of you, shoulder level, palm down
  2. Tap along your arm in the following sequence:
    1. Your upper chest (near collarbone) with your opposite hand
    2. Down along the top part of your upper arm, lower arm  to your fingertips
    3. Fingertips to your armpit
    4. Armpit returning to the upper chest
    5. Then switch hands as you cross to the opposite side repeating the sequence
    6. Repeat this 3x each side

Part 2: Outer Inner Upper Body

  1. Raise one arm out in front of you, shoulder level, palm down
  2. Tap along your arm in the following sequence:
    1. Your upper chest (near collarbone) with your opposite hand
    2. Down along the outer part of your upper arm, lower arm across your fingertips
    3. Fingertips along your inner arm to your upper chest
    4. Then switch hands as you cross to the opposite side repeating the sequence
    5. Repeat this 3x each side

Part 3: Front Side Trunk 

  1. Tap around your trunk in the following sequence:
    1. Front center lower abdomen
    2. Upwards to your solar plexus
    3. Across your body to the opposite side of your tapping hand
    4. Down along the side of your trunk
    5. Returning to your lower abdomen and switching hands at midline
    6. Repeat on the other side.
    7. Repeat 3x each side.

Part 4: Front Back Lower Body

  1. Tap along your leg in the following sequence:
    1. Front lower abdomen with your opposite hand
    2. Front thigh to lower leg to top of foot
    3. Bottom of foot (skip if have shoes on) to back of heel
    4. Back of leg and pelvis switching arms as you cross to the other side repeating the sequence. 
    5. Repeat this 3x each side

Part 5: Outer Inner Lower Body

  1. Tap along your leg in the following sequence:
    1. Front lower abdomen with your opposite hand
    2. Outer thigh to outer lower leg to outer foot
    3. Inner foot up along the inner leg 
    4. Returning to the front lower abdomen/pelvis and switching arms as you cross to the other side moving first down the outer leg then up the inner. 
    5. Repeat this 3x each side

 

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