Tapping & Anxiety

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I didn't know tapping claims anxiety & stress.

Calms?
Sounds like a stim to me

It may be more reflective of an accumulated stress.

I once saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a box that had a flashing light. The ad stated that if you stared at it for 20 minutes, it would relieve stress. I thought if you stared at it for 20 minutes, you don't have stress.

Physical Movement can create neurological signals that affect the brain.

Stimming can be a good thing.

One needs to try to balance the "non-verbal-communication" aspect of it: moving feet under a table or hands out of sight may be more appropriate in some situations where there are other people around. I have several "finger games" I play in situations where "being still" is expected, but I need to move.

In meetings where there is a lot of sitting for a long time I will sometimes get up and move to the back of the room and stretch my legs or do lunges. This is less distracting or socially unacceptable to others than "wiggling in my chair" or bouncing my legs in a sitting position which may shake the floor or table and bother people.

Recently I was driving for hours and I was having trouble concentrating on the road. I couldn't "get up and move". I started lightly tapping my own face in different places with one hand to keep me stimulated and still focused enough to drive.

DBT also advocated movement and physical interaction (such as cold water on your face) as a way to be skilled in dealing with anxiety.

Some of this stuff is psychological but some of it is physical too.

Google DBT Skills.

If you're talking about tapping the body, the point of it is to try to bring you back into the present and into your body as often times when you're anxious or stressed you're in your head and it tends to just continue to go out of control as there isn't a particular limit to what you think about.

As with every other technique out there, it's not necessarily going to work for everybody, if it doesn't work for you, that's fine, there's plenty of other options. I'm a fan of holding my breath until it starts to become a bit uncomfortable and then breathing out and doing it again. You don't need to do it long enough to get out of breath, but it tends to help to stimulate the vagus nerve.