Beyond Allergy Meds: How Tapping Provides Natural Relief from Seasonal and Sinus Issues

I recently received this wonderful testimonial from Joyce that I wanted to share with you:

“Tapping has been a blessing!! I started tapping before the app was out! I read the books and I learned the scripts. It took 3 weeks by doing tapping everyday for allergies & Sinus issues. I was on allergy meds for 15 years and after tapping I no longer need to take medicine for that. It also relaxes me.”

Joyce, thank you for sharing your incredible success story! After 15 years of dependence on allergy medications, finding freedom through Tapping in just three weeks is truly remarkable. Your dedication to learning the scripts and practicing every day clearly paid off in a profound way.

What’s particularly impressive about your experience is how it highlights something I’ve seen countless times: our bodies have a natural ability to heal and rebalance when we give them the right tools. Tapping doesn’t just mask symptoms—it helps address the underlying patterns that keep our bodies stuck in cycles of reactivity.

Let’s explore why Tapping can be so effective for allergies and sinus issues, and how others might benefit from your experience!

The Hidden Connection: Allergies, Sinuses, and Your Nervous System

Most of us think of allergies as purely physical reactions—our immune system overreacting to harmless substances like pollen, dust, or animal dander. While that’s technically true, there’s a critical piece of the puzzle that conventional treatments often miss: the role of the nervous system in allergic responses.

This isn’t something you’ll hear from most allergists, but when your body experiences an allergic reaction, it’s not just your immune system that’s involved—it’s your entire nervous system jumping into protection mode.

Why Your Body Overreacts: The Nervous System Connection

Think about what happens during an allergy attack: your body perceives something ordinary (like pollen) as a dangerous threat. This kicks your nervous system into high alert, triggering inflammation, excess mucus production, and all those miserable symptoms we associate with allergies.

But here’s the fascinating part—your nervous system can actually “learn” to be hypersensitive to these triggers over time. In fact, research has shown that chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation can make allergies significantly worse and more persistent.

This is why conventional allergy medications, while helpful for managing symptoms, often don’t resolve the underlying pattern. They address the immune response but not the nervous system pattern that keeps it hypersensitive and overreactive.

This is precisely where Tapping enters the picture.

How Tapping Retrains Your Body’s Response

When you tap on acupressure points while focusing on your allergy symptoms, you’re essentially sending calming signals directly to your amygdala—the brain’s alarm center. This helps to:

1. Break the stress-allergy cycle: Tapping helps regulate your nervous system, lowering the stress hormones that can amplify allergic responses.
2. Retrain your brain’s threat detection: Over time, Tapping helps recalibrate your brain’s perception of allergens, helping it recognize that pollen, dust, or pet dander aren’t actually dangerous threats.
3. Reduce inflammatory responses: Studies have shown that Tapping can help lower inflammatory markers in the body, which play a major role in allergic reactions.
4. Process emotional components: Sometimes, allergies have emotional triggers or patterns associated with them that Tapping helps to process and release.

Joyce’s experience—being able to stop medications after 15 years—suggests that Tapping helped her body establish a new, healthier pattern of response. Rather than just suppressing symptoms like medications do, Tapping appears to have helped her nervous system update its programming around allergens.

The Three-Week Transformation: Why Consistency Matters

I was struck by Joyce mentioning that it took her three weeks of daily Tapping to see results. This timeline actually aligns with what we know about neuroplasticity—the brain’s ability to form new neural connections and patterns.

Creating new neural pathways typically requires consistent repetition over time. Think of it like carving a new path through a dense forest—the more often you walk that path, the more established it becomes. Joyce’s daily practice for three weeks gave her brain enough time to establish this new pattern of response to allergens.

This is an important takeaway: while Tapping can sometimes create immediate relief (especially for emotional issues), physical conditions like allergies often require consistent practice to see lasting change. Joyce’s commitment to daily Tapping for three weeks was likely a key factor in her success.

A Tapping Sequence for Allergy and Sinus Relief

If you’re inspired by Joyce’s story and want to try Tapping for your own allergies or sinus issues, here’s a comprehensive sequence you can use. Consider this a starting point—you can personalize it to reflect your specific symptoms and triggers.

Step 1: Acknowledge Your Current Symptoms

Step 2: Address the Nervous System Response

Step 3: Release Emotional Components

Step 4: Invite Healing and Balance

Beyond the Basic Sequence: Targeting Specific Allergy Patterns

While the sequence above addresses allergies generally, you might find it helpful to target more specific aspects of your experience. Here are some additional approaches to consider:

For Seasonal Allergies (Pollen, etc.)

Try tapping while saying: “Even though spring (or fall) always triggers my allergies, and my body expects to react to pollen, I’m teaching my system that these seasons can be comfortable and safe.”

For Pet Allergies

Try tapping while saying: “Even though my body reacts to my pet (or other people’s pets), I’m training my nervous system to recognize that these animals are safe for me to be around.”

For Food Sensitivities

Try tapping while saying: “Even though my body has been reacting to certain foods, I’m helping my digestive and immune systems recognize which foods truly serve me and which don’t.”

For Chemical Sensitivities

Try tapping while saying: “Even though I react strongly to certain smells or chemicals, I’m helping my nervous system regulate its response to these substances.”

Creating Your 21-Day Allergy Relief Plan

Inspired by Joyce’s three-week success story, here’s a structured approach you might try for your own allergy relief journey:

Week 1: Awareness and Initial Regulation

Daily practice: Spend 5-10 minutes each morning Tapping on your current symptoms and working to calm your nervous system’s immediate response.

Focus: Noticing the patterns of your allergic responses. When do they worsen? What triggers them? How does stress affect them?

Additional support: Consider keeping an “allergy journal” to track symptoms and potential correlations with stress, foods, or environmental factors.

Week 2: Deeper Processing

Daily practice: Continue your morning Tapping routine, but add a second session in the evening focusing more on any emotional patterns you’ve noticed.

Focus: Exploring any connections between your emotions and your allergy symptoms. Does anxiety make them worse? Do certain situations coincide with flare-ups?

Additional support: Add a brief Tapping session any time symptoms flare during the day—even 60 seconds can help interrupt the pattern.

Week 3: Reinforcing New Patterns

Daily practice: Maintain your twice-daily tapping routine, but now include more positive, future-focused statements about how you want your body to respond.

Focus: Visualizing and embodying what it feels like to be allergy-free, helping your nervous system “rehearse” this new, healthier pattern.

Additional support: Begin Tapping preventively before entering situations that typically trigger allergies (like before going outdoors during high pollen days).

The “Nervous System Retraining” Approach to Allergies

What Joyce’s experience points to is what I call the “Nervous System Retraining” approach to allergies. Rather than just treating symptoms as they arise, this approach focuses on retraining your body’s fundamental response patterns through consistent practice.

This retraining involves:

1. Breaking the conditioned association between allergens and danger signals in your brain
2. Calming the inflammatory cascade that follows an allergic trigger
3. Processing any emotional components that might be amplifying your body’s reactions
4. Creating new neural pathways for appropriate, measured responses to environmental triggers

The beauty of this approach is that it works with your body’s natural healing capabilities rather than against them. Instead of suppressing your immune system (as many medications do), you’re helping it function more appropriately—distinguishing between genuine threats and harmless environmental factors.

Beyond Allergies: The Relaxation Bonus

I love that Joyce mentioned how Tapping “also relaxes me.” This points to another significant benefit of regular Tapping practice—it helps regulate your nervous system overall, not just in relation to specific allergies.

This general regulation effect helps:

• Improve sleep quality
• Reduce everyday stress
• Increase resilience to challenges
• Support immune function
• Enhance overall well-being

In many ways, the relaxation Joyce experiences may be both a result of her allergy relief and a contributor to it—creating a positive feedback loop of improved health.

The Body-Mind Breakthrough: Why This Matters

Joyce’s story represents something much bigger than just allergy relief. It demonstrates how our bodies aren’t separate from our emotions and nervous system patterns—they’re intricately connected.

This perspective stands in stark contrast to the conventional medical approach that treats the body as a collection of separate systems. When we understand that allergies aren’t just an immune system issue but involve our nervous system, stress responses, and even emotional patterns, we open up entirely new avenues for healing.

And that’s exactly what Joyce experienced—a breakthrough that conventional medicine had missed for 15 years. By addressing the patterns underlying her allergies, rather than just suppressing the symptoms, she found a path to genuine healing.

Resources for allergy relief with Tapping:

• The Tapping Solution App – The app features several meditations specifically designed for allergies and immune system support, including:
  • Support Your Healing: Allergies – This session supports your healing from allergies by applying insights and affirmations from the great Louise Hay.
  • Support Your Body: Seasonal Allergies – In this Tapping meditation we’ll address the symptoms you’re experiencing and help you release stress so that you can feel better.
  • Release Sinus Pain – Address the pain and any stress related to your symptoms. This session can help lower cortisol and other stress hormones in the body so you can open the door for healing to take place.
  • MCAS Calm: Soothing the Body’s Alarm – This Tapping meditation is specifically designed to help anyone with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS) which can include symptoms of allergies and beyond. By calming the nervous system we can bring the body into balance, and help the body to move into a state of healing, comfort, and ease.
  • Instant Boost of Healing – Great for daily Tapping to help reduce stress in your system, and re-pattern your mind and body for greater balance and ease!
  • Sick Day Support: Symptom Soothers – This collection of quick symptom-specific sessions can be a great resource to address symptoms from allergies so you can experience relief.
• The Tapping Solution for Pain Relief Book – While focused on pain, this book contains valuable insights about how Tapping affects the body’s regulatory systems that are relevant for allergy sufferers too.

Note: You can access these meditations by clicking the links above using your mobile device, or type the name of the meditation into The Tapping Solution App’s search function.

I’d love to hear about your experiences using Tapping for allergies and sinus issues. Have you noticed any changes in your symptoms or medication needs? What specific aspects of allergies have you found most responsive to Tapping? Share your experiences in the comments below!

Until next time… Keep Tapping!

Nick Ortner