An excerpt from a talk by Jennifer Partridge, an EFT tapping teacher and author who developed an approach she calls Dream Awake Tapping, given during Pinchbeck's Future of Consciousness online course in 2024. Partridge presents EFT as a combination of three elements: modern psychology, in the practice of speaking thoughts, memories and emotions aloud to reach the subconscious, which she says holds the great majority of a person's patterns; Chinese medicine, in the percussive tapping of acupressure points along meridian lines that she notes contemporary research has linked to nerve bundles; and neuroplasticity, in revisiting the memories that installed limiting beliefs. She describes working with early childhood, ancestral and cultural conditioning, and demonstrates the method with a participant. She closes by arguing that individual nervous system regulation has consequences at the collective scale.
Guest: Jennifer Partridge
In brief
- Partridge claims the subconscious stores roughly ninety percent of a person's behavioral patterns, and that voicing thoughts and memories aloud while tapping opens access to it.
- Partridge argues that trauma blocks the meridian lines carrying prana through the body, producing illness, and that the mind then generates stories that reinforce the unresolved physical state.
- Partridge describes fear as the substance gluing synaptic pathways in place, and says that bringing love, compassion and empathy to those pathways during tapping dissolves the bonds and permits rewiring.
- Partridge states that tapping calms the amygdala and shifts the nervous system out of the fight, flight, freeze and fawn response into a parasympathetic state.
- Partridge distinguishes tapping from relaxation techniques such as massage, arguing that it clears the underlying root rather than temporarily easing symptoms.
- Partridge argues that widespread individual clearing of the fear response would produce better boundaries, stronger communities and a different global situation.
Full text
and that is why I am so passionate about bringing EFT tap into the world because it is out of all of the tools that I have studied it has been my fastest tool to Healing my fight flight freeze and for response and since practicing it I've helped and worked with thousands of human beings with this and this is why it works so EFT Blends some really potent pieces together mod psychology we're going to talk about Chinese medicine and neuroplasticity so when we talk about modern psychology we're looking at the practice of voicing our thoughts memories and emotions out loud when we do that we start opening up the subconscious the subconscious is where we store 90% of our patterns and so this method allows us to start getting into the subconscious and the the guidance points in the method not only allow us to look at our early traumas but they allow us to look at our ancestral traumas our family patterns the things that we picked up from Early Childhood from our culture from the media from religion it helps us look at all of the stuff that wired the programs in and then asks us what is supporting me and what isn't supporting me what's giving me fear what's giving me fight flight freeze for okay I'm going to clear that stuff out that got wired in and the way we clear it out is through an aspect that we use from Chinese medicine by percussively tapping on specific Meridian points on the body so these Meridian points are the same points that you would tap or put an acupuncture needle or press in Chinese medicine these acupuncture points or acupressure points are connected to meridian lines energy lines that run up and down the body modern science has now shown that these points where the needles go are actually also connected to nerve bundles in the body so the beautiful thing about the ancient tradition of Chinese medicine which is over 5,000 years old is now being refor reinforced and knowledged by modern medicine that both of them can weave together and so when you are tapping on these specific points you are clearing out the energy lines the energy lines are basically what bring in Prana life force into the body it happens through the breath it happens through the chakra system and that flush starts flushing through these energy lines when we have a trauma mental emotional physical spiritual trauma these these lines start to get blocked creating disease or illness not to mention all of the psychological imbalances that start to happen because the mind will analyze when the body is off and the mind loves to create stories like what we just went with Stephanie when we can actually just witness the emotion or the feeling and without the story that's when it starts to clear but when the body is in discomfort because of something that's unresolved simultaneously a referencing that happens in in the mind that fuels the story of what happened in the body and so this helps us clear out the stories that are stored in the body as well then we move into neuroplasticity so we start to look at the memories that wired these limiting beliefs into our brain in the first place so something happened as a child maybe there was some kind of abuse you started to move into a protection mechanism that protection mechanism created belief patterns also habits of protection as well like we had discussed and responses when we do tapping basically what we're doing is we're bringing love compassion and empathy into the fear-based systems that are wired in the brain and what they've shown happen is basically you have these synapsis inside the brain that are basically shooting on autopilot things get wired in they go on autopilot it's a it's a easy way for the system to work but a lot of the wiring doesn't support us some of the wiring is super supportive you know I know how to drive a car I don't need to get taught over and over again but some of the wiring is unsupportive you know our fear-based systems that make us go and take a smoke or drink alcohol or overindulge in food these kinds of wirings which are connected to the earlier memories and the traumas and so what they have shown in tapping when you start bringing love compassion and empathy to the Wi ing the synapsis that's gluing one Pathway to the next shooting it back and forth in place there's these scaffolding or or protein bonds that are gluing it together the love and compassion and empathy actually melts the protein bonds which is being glued by fear and the synapsis opens up and you're able to rewire the brain so then you're because you're bringing love and compassion and empathy you're rewiring through love compassion and empathy there's also an impact that happens when you're tapping when you're working with the amydala because the amydala gets triggered by the memories as well which when you're tapping it helps calm the brain and the fear response which really is the fight flight freeze and for response um and then your the impact on the nervous system which I touched on which is you're regulating the nervous system you're reducing the stress you're coming back into a parasympathetic state so all of that happens as you're clearing out the trauma this isn't just a massage that gets you relaxed and then you get triggered the next day by the same thing we're combining the touch the clearing with the clearing of the deeper Roots so what is possible if all of us on an individual level started doing this more emotional intelligence a deeper level of participation in life recognizing that challenges are here to create more resilience and growth more sustainable success that's driven not only by results but also personal well-being deeper and more profound boundaries that are healthy that promote authenticity and mutual respect empowered initiative that inre that increases efficiency from a place of peace and Clarity and not the bottom line and results all the time social connectivity enrichment with our communities mindfulness mental physical and spiritual health flexibility an ability to relax and enjoy life more no matter what is coming through and a receptive openness to really Foster personal growth and stronger relationships so if we are all able to do that within ourselves through clearing out our fight flight freeze and forn response how does that overflow potentially into what is happening in the world this is what I see as possible and you could call me a dreamer but my belief and my depth and commitment to this work is that when we change it individually it starts to change systemically across the globe so we create more peaceful resolutions there's more diplomacy versus fighting and War there's more sustainable practices social equity so there's fairer systems so that there's more equal opportunities because we're not in fight or flight or fear right all of this greed and power and all of that is coming from that so there's more Unity more cooperation bridging divides more Harmony racially healing those historical wounds more stable in our prosperity so that everyone can feel secure Collective Wellness a mindful consumption meaning that we're not overly consum consuming because we're we're lacking anything we're just we're consuming based on what truly satisfies our needs and environmental stewardship so proactive efforts to restore and protect the planet so these are Big Dreams and for me it all starts right here with each and every one of us because we hold 10,000 Generations in our DNA we hold the history of the planet in our DNA and when we can do it for ourself how we show up as leaders in our communities and what we're doing on the planet creates ripples we become a positive influence for the world around us so with that I am going to go ahead and lead a little tap for us thank you for hearing my mission and my vision and what I feel is possible for all of us and today what we're going to do is we're going to support ourselves in coming into a deeper level of peace and empowerment in our life
Automatic transcript, lightly edited for readability. Originally published on the Liminal News channel.