Charged Magazine

Day: December 3, 2021

  • Stress Tapping: What it is & How to do it

    Stress Tapping: What it is & How to do it

    STRESS TAPPING

    Are you looking for a new method to coping with stress, pain, and anxiety? Well, “stress tapping” is one of many ways that can be added to your techniques for maintaining your mental health and wellness. Stress “tapping” is also known as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) and is a combination of ancient Chinese acupressure and modern psychology.

    People who use stress tapping believe that it can create a balance in your energy system in your body and treat pain, whether physical or emotional. Although EFT tapping is still being researched, it has been used to treat people with anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

    EFT is compared to acupuncture in how they both focus on using “meridian points” (or energy hot spots) around the body. Based on Chinese medicine, meridian points are areas of the body that energy flows through and any imbalance can influence disease or sickness. Unlike acupuncture that uses needles to apply pressure to these meridian points, EFT tapping uses simply your fingertips to apply pressure.

    Although there are 12 major meridians that mirror each side of the body and correspond to an organ in your body, EFT focuses mainly on the following nine:

    Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) | Cigna
    Diagram: https://www.cigna.com/individuals-families/health-wellness/hw/emotional-freedom-technique-acl9225
    • beginning of the collarbone: kidney meridian
    • under the arm: spleen meridian
    • karate chop (outermost side of hand): small intestine meridian
    • top of head: governing vessel
    • eyebrow: bladder meridian
    • side of the eye: gallbladder meridian
    • under the eye: stomach meridian
    • under the nose: governing vessel
    • chin: central vessel

    Below is an easy guide for how to navigate stress-tapping for beginners:

    EFT Tapping for Beginners with Autoimmune Disease — Mount Hope Healing
    Infrograph: https://mounthopehealing.com/blog/eft-tapping-for-beginners

     

     

     

    Source(s)

    Anthony, K. (2018, September 18). EFT Tapping. Healthline. Retrieved November 4, 2021, from https://www.healthline.com/health/eft-tapping#treatment

    Ortner, N. (2021). The Tapping Solution: A Revolutionary System for Stress-Free Living by Nick Ortner (2-Apr-2013) Paperback. Hay House UK (2 April 2013).

  • Music & Emotions: A Series (Part 3 – Indignant/Defiant)

    Music & Emotions: A Series (Part 3 – Indignant/Defiant)

    Album Songs:

    1. You’ve Seen the Butcher – Deftones
    2. Links 2 3 4 – Rammstein
    3. Psychosocial – Slipknot
    4. I Stand Alone – Godsmack
    5. Ride the Lightning – Metallica
    6. The Last Ten Seconds of Life – The Face
    7. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana
    8. Duality – Slipknot
    9. Walk – Pantera
    10. Dark Entries – Bauhaus

     

    Welcome to Music and Emotions: A Series (Part 3)! In this part, we continue our series with the category of “Indignant/Defiant.” For a quick recap, an interesting study conducted by professors at the University of California Berkeley was conducted on how music evokes different emotions (Cowen et al., 2020). They decided upon 13 categorizations of music, one of which was “indignant/defiant.”  They found that the way that individuals classified music based on emotions was relatively similar. All of the songs included in the above album were utilized in this study and were some of the songs that participants most frequently categorized as “indignant/defiant.”

     

    Here, it was found that music that typically landed in this category was characterized by a “growl-like timbre” (Cowen et al., 2020). This is something often seen in music that is perceived as aggressive. In addition, there is an interesting, brief, mention of the potential connection between the threatening vocal expressions used in these songs and that of various animal species. For example, the growl of the black jaguar. This could be why there is a clear male bias in the song choices in the album since males tend to have deeper voices which are more likely to mimic the growl of an animal.

    Conversely, some examples of female-centric songs that could also fall into this category could be Shitlist by L7, Rebel Girl by Bikini Kill, and Ignorance by Paramore.

     

    As mentioned previously, they decided upon 13 categories and even included an interactive audio map where you can go in and see all of the songs used and see how you match up. Stay tuned for more of this series… 3 categories down, 10 more to go! Which other category would you want to hear about? Comment below any songs you may think hit the mark for the “Indignant/defiant” category and how you matched up to others in the interactive audio map! 

     

    Bibliography:

    Cowen, A. S., Fang, X., Sauter, D., & Keltner, D. (2020). What music makes us feel: At least 13 dimensions organize subjective experiences associated with music across different cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(4), 1924–1934. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910704117