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Jill (not her real name) came into the clinic,  sat in a client chair and said “Can you help me?”

I noticed that her head was jerking to the right about every ten seconds.  I said “Is the jerking what you want me to help you with?”

She said “Yes the doctor called it Tardive Dystonia, and the only way he could stop it was to cut through the muscles in my neck. And I don’t fancy my throat being cut, so I came to see you. ”

I pointed out that I am not a doctor and I don’t know much about Tardive Dystonia but as a myotherapist I do know a lot about muscles, so maybe I could help.

In taking Jill’s history I discovered that she had suffered much abuse as an adult and child. It seemed to me that this was likely to be the cause of the problem, as many physical problems have an underlying emotional cause.

I asked her if she would tell me of a time when she was abused as a child. ( This is a technique known as tell the story.)  Jill agreed and launched into a story about something that had happened when she was just seven years old. Within 30 seconds of starting her story Jill’s eyes were squeezes tight shut, and tears were streaming down her face.

I decided straight away to use continuous tapping,  so as Jill talked, I tapped on her acupuncture points.  We went on like this for about 35 minutes until Jill reached the end of her story, took a deep shuddering breath, opened her eyes and said “That’s better.”

I said “OK, its time to check the results.”  We went back over the most traumatic parts of the story and there was no emotional charge left. Best of all her head was steady, with no jerking at all.

This is a problem she had been going to doctors, a neurologist and others for two years without a result, and EFT cleared it in 35 minutes. Sometimes I am amazed at the results.

PS. I asked Jill to come back for a checkup in 90 days . When she did there was no sign of the Tardive Dystonia.

This client story is from Pain Busters Clinic

Gary Clark

Gary Clark is an EFT practitioner, myotherapist and founder of Pain Busters Clinic in East Victoria Park, Western Australia.

It was five minutes to six and I was packing up to go home to dinner when a good client rang to say that a friend of hers was at her home and in excruciating pain and could I help. I suggested that maybe the hospital might be the best place for her friend, but she said her friend wanted to see me, not a hospital. I relented saying that my dinner could wait a while, and I would see her if she could be at the clinic in ten minutes ( I knew she lived close by) .

Five minutes later my client arrived with an arm around her friend, who was whimpering with the pain, and helped her into the clinic. The friend wasn’t able to tell me much about her pain, so we got her onto the massage table so I could check her out. That’s when discovered the pain was so widespread that the only place I could touch without hurting her was her hand.

The hand and wrist have many acupuncture points, so I confined myself to tapping on those while directing her attention to the pain. After only five minutes of this tapping, she sat up and stated that all the pain had stopped and could she go home.

I did inform her that we had only scratched the surface of the problem and that some extra work should be done to make the results permanent. But she just wanted to go and that was that.

I have heard of five minute miracles in EFT but that was the first one I have ever seen.

This client story is from Pain Busters Clinic

Gary Clark

Gary Clark is an EFT practitioner, myotherapist and founder of Pain Busters Clinic in East Victoria Park, Western Australia.

Janet (name changed for privacy) attended my clinic to gain relief from an intense fear of snakes.

So intense was her phobia that Janet could not even bear to look at a picture of a snake and just the mention of the word “snake” would send her into fear mode with goose bumps.

What was interesting about Janet’s case was that she was visiting Perth from New Zealand which, to the best of my knowledge is snake free so my curiosity was aroused as to what could have caused such an intense emotional response.

After some questioning in an attempt to become as specific as possible Janet revealed that it was more the way that they move their head “cobra like” that struck fear into her.

So we started with a fairly global round of tapping on “…this fear of snakes” just to take the emotional edge off before proceeding further.

Further questioning revealed that Janet had spent a considerable amount of time as a child listening to her Father relate stories about his experiences during the second world war in the dense jungles of Malaya wherein he was required to stand sentry duty along with other soldiers during pitch black nights with the only allowable means of communication being to tap on the butt of his rifle.

These jungles were rife with venomous reptiles and guess what? He was intensly afraid of snakes.

Relating this story and it’s associated visual image sent Janet’s emotional intensity up to a 9 (on a 0 – 10 scale, with 10 representing maximum intensity) and after a further round of tapping this was reduced to a 5. Janet’s image then shifted to a barrier preventing further snake images and further tapping shifted this barrier to reveal a “huge eye” amongst trees.

These images seemed to me to replicate what a child’s imagination could easily create given the jungle stories, so we pressed on with “even though I took on Dad’s fear of snakes as a child when he told me those stories,…” and worked with some specific images which allowed the SUD (subjective units of distress) levels to reduce significantly whereat the fear was replaced with a deep sadness >10.

Intent on following the more intense emotion, we delved into the source of the sadness to find that – Janet was one of the few people to which her Father would relate any of his wartime experiences and clearly these intimate discussions were of a traumatic nature to him and being a sensitive child she recognized that relating the stories helped him to cope.

A few rounds of tapping bought the sadness down from 10 to 1 but the sadness was just as quickly replaced by a sense of guilt. Janet felt that she was abandoning her Father (long since passed) by letting go of the sadness that she had been carrying for him for his inability to cope with his wartime traumas. Further tapping bought the guilt from 6 to 0 after which further tapping on the snake fear reduced it from 5 to 0.

Some further work ensued on beliefs surrounding carrying burdens for others and the session wound up after some tapping on deserving to be happy.

Janet was due to return to New Zealand the following day and a week or so later I received the following email:

….you will be interested to know that while at the Airport in Perth I subjected myself to photos of snakes in a book. Not easy but did manage to do it and felt that was a real break through. Would normally head in the opposite direction.

Since then I have had one instance when there were some on TV and although I reacted instinctively(?) to start, I told (my husband) not to change the channel and I watched while a chap tried catching one and letting it bite him on the wrist. I have to admit that I didn’t enjoy it and after a time had to say I’d had enough. Gently, gently I think I will achieve. To have done that would not have been imaginable before. J.

A few weeks later the following email arrived:

I feel clever. There has just been a local news programme that had an item on people catching snakes. I knew it was going to be on and really ’in your face’ from the adverts but I made myself stay and watch and actually managed to watch most of it. After a couple of minutes I felt I had pushed it far enough but (my husband) commended me on what I achieved. How about that???

The more I think about it the more I think this is incredible. J.

What I think is most remarkable about this case is the way in which Janet “took on” her Father’s fear simply by listening to his stories and mentally re-living his traumatic experiences prompting intense phobia over snakes without ever having been any where near one.

Janet’s email comments reiterate the fact that while we don’t necessarily want to fall in love with creatures such as snakes, spiders etc. after having dealt with earlier fears of such creatures by the use of EFT, the emotional intensity is effectively removed allowing a rational approach with any subsequent creature confrontations.

Barry

By:  Barry H. James (EFT Adv.)

Barry James is an experienced Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Practitioner (EFT Adv.) and proprietor of Tap Happy EFT in Hillarys, Western Australia.

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There are times when little or no progress is experienced when applying rounds of EFT to specific events, which begs to question why it should work so successfully in some instances and not in others. The answer can most likely be attributed to the presence of aspects.

So what are aspects? Aspects can be likened to puzzle pieces that make up an issue, different angles from which it is perceived, given shape and meaning. Now whilst you may be tapping on something specific but making little headway, it may pay to look for emerging aspects that are keeping your intensity high.

Let’s look at a ‘scary nightmare’ my son had as an example, and see how his emotional intensity dropped only once we had uncovered and neutralised vital clues/aspects that were playing a significant part.

To begin with (given that he was so troubled), we tapped on “This scary nightmare” to take the edge off his intensity. You’ve probably figured out by now that the issue was too global so he gave me a clue. There were “Scary pirates outside my school”. (Suddenly we were getting a nice specific picture, nice for the purposes of EFT but not nice in his book!).

After a few rounds of EFT I knew by his face that the intensity hadn’t diminished, so I said to him, “What was scary about the pirates?” He answered, “They looked mean and evil”. We tapped on this but still no relief. “What else was scary about the pirates?”.  “They had weapons”. We tapped on the weapons but his expression was still troubled. One by one with ‘what else’ questioning we uncovered various aspects that were holding his fear firmly in place; the pirates were going to hurt him with their weapons; they were going to kidnap him; he was going to be separated from his friends; he was going to be separated from his mum and dad.

Once we had tapped on all of the aspects (pirates, scary faces, weapons, do harm, kidnapping, separation), he yawned, smiled, said he was fine and that I could now go back to bed. And with that I did!

Caroline Crosbie

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