Fear of getting it wrong is one of the quietest brakes on a life. In a seven-minute EFT tapping video published October 12, 2026, teacher Brad Yates takes that fear as his starting point and makes a specific argument: the emotional state you act from matters more than the perfection of any single decision. You cannot guarantee a flawless choice, he says, but you can improve the odds by first clearing what is not peace or love. The video works as a spoken script for tapping along, built on the repeated phrase "I choose to clear what isn't peace or love." What follows explains the logic behind that script, what it asks of the listener, and how to use it when a decision is sitting on your chest.
Yates opens with the problem rather than the remedy. "One of the things that so often stops us from taking action is the fear of not getting it right," he says, naming the fear that "I'll make a mistake." He calls it a legitimate concern, and he does not dismiss it. His point is that the fear is rooted in an accurate observation: nobody is perfect, so no action carries a guarantee.
That honesty sets up the central move. If perfection is off the table, the question changes from "Will this be right?" to "What state am I deciding from?" Much of the anxiety around choosing comes from treating each decision as a test of worth, with a single correct answer waiting to be found. Yates removes that frame. The goal he describes is not perfection but "at least good actions."
The claim at the heart of the script is that a choice made from peace and love will tend to be better than one made from its opposite. Yates is careful about the wording. "We certainly increase the odds of our actions being better actions, maybe not the perfect action, but at least good actions." He is describing probability, not a formula. Nothing in the script promises that a calm person always chooses correctly. It argues that agitation narrows what we see and shrinks our options, and that a settled mind is more likely to land on a sound decision.
This is a useful distinction for anyone who has tried to "just relax" before a hard choice and felt worse for trying. The script does not ask you to pretend the stakes are low. It asks you to lower the emotional noise enough that the decision can be made with clearer eyes.
Yates lays out a chain of cause and effect that is worth reading slowly. In the script, the sequence runs from feeling to choice to action to result. "Those other feelings sometimes lead to unfortunate choices. And that leads to unfortunate actions. Which often leads to unfortunate results."
"Those other feelings sometimes lead to unfortunate choices. And that leads to unfortunate actions. Which often leads to unfortunate results." (Brad Yates, in a tapping video published October 12, 2026)
The chain is simple, which is part of its power. Most bad decisions do not look like bad decisions while you are making them. They look like reasonable responses to pressure: a rushed reply, a sharp exit, a sign-off made to escape discomfort. Yates is suggesting that the emotion is upstream of the choice, and that tending to the emotion is therefore a practical act, not a luxury. The reverse also holds in his telling. If you move back toward peace and love, the choices and actions that follow are more likely to be ones you can stand behind.
The script is not a campaign against difficult feelings. Yates repeats a stance of acceptance throughout, and it may be the most important line in the piece: "I'm not wrong for feeling these other things. They're there for a reason."
He frames fear, anger, and shame as protective responses. "I love and appreciate all these parts of me that feel all these different feelings as a way of trying to protect myself." This matters because it changes the goal of the practice. You are not trying to get rid of fear so that you can feel nothing. You are acknowledging what the fear is trying to do, learning what it needs to tell you, and then allowing yourself to move back toward a steadier place. Yates describes this as "allowing myself to learn what I need to learn, to know whatever I need to know. And then start moving back towards peace and love."
Readers who have spent years trying to argue themselves out of anxiety may recognize the difference. Judging a feeling tends to add a second layer of distress on top of the first. Yates's language does the opposite: the feeling has a job, and the job can be finished.
The video is built as a sequence of affirmations that repeat in a rhythm, pairing a clearing statement with a statement of self-acceptance. The recurring structure goes roughly like this: "I choose to clear what isn't peace or love. And I choose to love and accept myself." The script then widens the list to specific emotions: "I choose to clear fear. I choose to clear anger. I choose to clear shame." Each named emotion gets its own line, which is one reason the script is easy to follow along with.
Yates also includes a line that extends the practice beyond the self: "And maybe anyone else who might be involved." The intention is less about resolving a specific conflict than about approaching the situation without carrying residue from it.
The script closes with a pause rather than a conclusion. "Take a deep breath, close your eyes. And just let that rattle around inside. Notice how that feels." He invites the listener to check the result, and he suggests the check may reveal "other things that you might want to tap on." In other words, the session is not designed to end every emotional question. It is a way of finding the next one.
The video's description places the practice within EFT, which it calls "a simple yet effective mind/body process for down-regulating stress and other physical and emotional discomfort." The description also points viewers to a research page, but this article does not summarize those studies. Readers who want to judge the evidence should consult the source directly.
The emotional spine of the script arrives near the end, in a sentence that reads almost like a creed: "Peace and love is who I really am. And I'm really allowing myself to feel that. In body, mind, and spirit." Yates is making a claim about identity. Fear, shame, and anger are real, but in his framing they are layers over a core that is already settled. Clearing them is not an act of creating peace from nothing. It is removing what obscures it.
That idea has a practical edge. If the core is peace and love, then the choices that come from it are not ones you have to invent through effort. They are the choices that remain when the noise drops away. Yates says as much: "if I clear everything else away, all I'm left with is peace and love. And then that's all that I have to share with others."
He also gives joy and gratitude a place in this picture. "I can feel other cool things, too. Like joy and gratitude. But maybe I can categorize those with peace and love." The implication is that the goal is not a life without strong feelings. It is a life in which the strong feelings sit inside a larger field of calm rather than driving the car.
The script is short enough to try in one sitting, and its logic can be applied without the audio. Start with a decision you are dreading. Name the fear underneath it without judging it. Ask what the feeling is trying to protect you from. Then say, in your own words, that you choose to clear what isn't peace or love, and that you choose to accept yourself while you do it. Take a breath and notice what has changed before you decide.
A few cautions. The video itself asks viewers to take responsibility for their own well-being, practice self-care, and seek appropriate professional help when needed. Tapping is presented as a complement to that care, not a replacement for it, and anything that feels overwhelming deserves support from someone qualified to give it. Yates's own closing line offers a reasonable frame for the whole practice: keep clearing what isn't love, so that you have more love to share with others.
