Fibromyalgia pain is eliminated after getting to core issue of anger

Hi Everyone,

Follow this article by Dr. Kay Heaston closely. It illustrates beautifully the connection between our emotions (anger in this case) and our physical pains. Notice how Kay conversationally brings up more aspects to work with until her client’s intense shoulder pain is zero. Please consult physicians on all medical issues.

Hugs, Gary

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This series should be studied by anyone wanting to introduce EFT into skeptical environments such as hospitals. Part 1 alone is extraordinary in this regard and contains numerous common sense ideas. The other parts are appended and be accessed by clicking one of the links below.

Part 1 of 4 — Introducing EFT to hospital personnel
Part 2 of 4 — Using EFT for Pre-Operative patients
Part 3 of 4 — Surrogate tapping in the hospital
Part 4 of 4 — EFT for a ruptured appendix

By Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.

Part 1 of 4

If EFT is important in your life, as it is in mine, you must surely have imagined what it would be like if EFT were made readily available to people facing emergency medical conditions. For many years I have pictured desirable scenes which include the availability of EFT for patients in an Emergency Room, or for their distraught families in the waiting room; or have envisioned medics using EFT for patients in ambulances before they arrive at the hospital.

I have also thought about how it could be used pre-surgically and post-surgically and in connection with many different diagnostic procedures. There is no limit to the ideas one can come up with on this subject because this is such an obvious application of EFT, and will be so extremely practical when it occurs — and it will occur, this is simply a matter of time and diligent work by those who recognize its value.

In my report to you today I have the satisfying experience of telling you about EFT’s recent application within a hospital. The important thing about this story is that it is true. In order to protect the confidentiality of patients and the staff of that hospital I will disguise the name of the hospital and the very able EFT-practitioner nurse who has reported some exciting results.

“Chris” is a respected member of the staff in a community-based, nonprofit hospital that is more open to new ideas than most hospitals, although scarcely radical in its outlook. She directs an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation program at that facility.

What is particularly important about what I am going to tell you is the manner in which Chris has introduced EFT into this hospital. The way she has done it can serve as a model to anyone attempting to bring EFT to medical settings. I think you will be interested in how she has gone about this.

The first important thing that Chris did was make sure that she learned EFT thoroughly herself and had used it on herself with excellent results, before trying it with others. She bought all of Gary Craig’s tapes, subscribed to and carefully studied every issue of Gary’s e-newsletter and of my own. She passed the Basic and Advanced examinations and earned both EFT Certificates of Completion — proof that she has thoroughly studied and understood what Gary Craig is teaching in his fundamental courses.

She began using EFT on herself about two years ago but only ten months ago did she start using it with staff and patients in the hospital where she works. What she did in this respect teaches us a great deal. She did not to rush in to the hospital administrators enthusiastically recommending a new program that she wanted to institute there. Instead, she helpfully began to meet the needs of various staff members for assistance with some of their own personal issues or problems, when these arose.

When Chris heard of a staff member facing a problem causing them special stress she would often volunteer to help them with EFT. She used EFT initially for one staff member who had claustrophobia with some remarkable results and a friend of EFT was created then and there. She used it with another staff member who was experiencing dizziness and nausea because of her reaction to the death of her son’s close friend. After the woman tapped on that issue for a few rounds it entirely cleared up –another friend of EFT had been born.

Chris then used it for flashbacks experienced by a staff member who had witnessed a woman killed in the street in front of her own home. This trauma was cleared up by the use of EFT and another friend of EFT was created within the hospital. Chris also used it on a nursing supervisor in the hospital who initially expressed total disbelief about EFT. This woman’s shoulder was frozen and she could not lift her arm. To start with she had a distress level of 8 (on a 10 point scale). Her immobility went down to a 5, then to a 2 on the second round, and this woman could now raise her arm above her head. Chris left the woman still skeptical, however, and when she returned the next day she told Chris that the pain was still there, but that she didn’t want to try EFT on it (some people’s prejudices die hard!.) Chris simply said, “Well, if you want to try it again let me know.” A few days later Chris received an email saying, “I believe in this… I think?.” Chris worked with her again and she was able to make still more progress with her shoulder.

These are only a few of the instances where Chris has been able to help staff members and thereby gain support for EFT within the hospital. Gradually the word has been spreading about EFT. It has become known in different parts of the hospital because of firsthand experience, and now it is beginning to be used with patients.

Here is an example of how this “get to know EFT personally” policy has been working within the hospital. Recently a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit contacted Chris with regard to a problem she and other staff members were having with a particular patient. A woman in the ICU was experiencing severe nerve pain in her legs whenever her legs were touched, even with a feather touch. This presented a serious problem because the woman refused to get out of bed or do any physical therapy.

When Chris arrived at her room, the patient’s husband was present, trying to persuade her to get out of bed, but neither he nor the nurses were getting anywhere with this. Chris kept things simple. She said to the woman, “I know a technique that might help.” and the woman agreed to try it. She adopted the set-up phrase, “Even though I have this excruciating pain in my legs…” Initially her pain was a 10 on a 0-10 but it had gone to a “0″ at the end of one round. She did not feel any pain whatsoever in her legs now — one of those amazing occurrences that Gary Craig refers to as “one minute wonders.” The patient was incredulous, as was her husband and the nursing staff.

The patient’s pain returned a couple of days later when she was scheduled to have an ultrasound procedure on her legs. The nurse asked her if she would like some pain medication to help her undergo the procedure, but she said, “No, I want to do that tapping.” Chris had instructed a nurse on the unit in EFT and the latter was able to run the patient through EFT again. Once more it worked – the pain subsided to “0″ and the patient was able to go through the ultrasound procedure without any difficulty.

This is only one of the instances where, right on the spot, in a hospital setting where it is so badly needed, EFT is now beginning to be used. I will have more to report about what Chris has been able to do in her hospital, in a future post.

In the meantime, I thank Chris in the name of all of us who respect EFT for what she is doing for the many future patients who will benefit from just such pioneering efforts.

Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.,

Part 2 of 4

Using EFT for Pre-Operative Patients

“Marie” (her actual name is disguised to protect patient confidentiality) is a nurse in a large hospital where she has been increasingly able to use this technique with patients. Her experience with the pre-operative use of EFT hopefully foreshadows many similar interventions in the future. I can envision a day when EFT is an accepted procedure in hospitals and a part of standard pre-operative protocol. This seems to be a vision worth holding for all of us.

Marie is well-known among the nursing personnel in her particular hospital because she heads an inpatient service. Also, she has helped many hospital staff members with their own problems by using EFT –not only a helpful gesture for the recipients, but a means of allowing EFT to become known and accepted within the hospital (See part 1 of this series above).

Recently Marie was summoned to a floor where a woman patient was terrified of an impending operation that was necessary and imminent. She was nearly hysterical due to her fear of the surgery, The nurses were at a loss as to what to do about this. Remembering Marie’s helpful EFT interventions under other circumstances, the clinical nurse specialist called Marie to come to the floor.

When she arrived, she found the patient distraught and terrified. Marie asked her if she would like to try “a simple technique to help you with your fear that involves light tapping on your face and upper body.”

The woman agreed and the set up phrase they formulated went as follows: “Even though I’m terrified of surgery…”

In the middle of the second round of tapping the patient stopped abruptly when she had reached the under- nose spot and exclaimed, “Oh! It’s gone!” She would have stopped EFT at that point had not the nurse specialist (the person who had called Marie to the room) insisted that she complete the round.

This patient’s panic was completely gone. She consented to surgery without a problem and the operation went smoothly, although there were delays. The staff was impressed. Word was spreading that EFT could be helpful.

Marie visited this woman the next day and while this patient did have some anger issues around the several delays before her procedure, she said she did not want to work on her anger. She felt the anger was justified and seemed to fear that EFT would take away her right to be angry — a frequent misconception about EFT. Actually, the fact is that while using EFT might have lessened the emotion of anger here, it might also have made Marie more effective in promoting EFT’s benefits to the hospital staff by showing how it can be used effectively to defuse emotionally upset patients.

Marie describes the following types of distress that patients are apt to experience preoperatively. These are well-known to nursing staffs. Here are some of them, not necessarily in order of severity or frequency:

Fear of anesthesia. This is a very common pre-op fear. It often involves a fear of saying or doing something inappropriate while under anesthesia. In addressing such a concern, one useful EFT statement might be: “Even though I’m afraid I will lose control and act inappropriately (under anesthesia), I choose to be appropriate and calm during the procedure.” This way of applying EFT uses the Choices Method which calls for constructing a statement reflecting the specific goals of the individual.

Fear of dying. To target this major fear, if the patient’s belief system is consistent with this notion, one might suggest the set-up phrase, “Even though I’m afraid of dying during the operation, I know that God will be with me at every moment.” For a patient who may not have such a spiritual perspective, one might suggest the phrase, “Even though I’m afraid of dying during the operation, I choose to handle whatever happens, beautifully” ,or “I choose to be calm and confident that everything will go smoothly.” The first of these phrases reflects the fact that not being able to HANDLE a crisis, or ultimately not being able to HANDLE the experience of dying, is often the most powerful and compelling fear of all.

Fear of Pain: A possible EFT Choice for this might be, “Even though I am afraid of pain after the surgery, I choose to be relaxed and have my pain fully under control.”

Fear of things going badly in surgery. A possible EFT Choice for this might be, “Even though I’m afraid the surgery will go badly, I choose to have it go exceptionally well and peacefully”.

Frustration with hospital routines or mistakes can often result in severe pre- or postoperative anxiety. Some of the distress may involve disruptive or upsetting roommates or frequent, disturbing night awakenings. EFT statements to target such distress might go, “Even though they woke me repeatedly last night when I needed sleep so badly, I choose to have my body feel deeply rested now and able to cope well with the surgery”

Marie has observed that the patients who have received EFT tend to think more clearly, make better decisions and cope better with whatever comes up. A beneficial spin-off of this is reduced problems for the hospital staff.

Another area in which she had used EFT very successfully is for those who are waiting anxiously in the OR waiting room for news of their loved ones. It can be of great help to such people during this tense period and she envisions the day when someone will be present in the Operating Room waiting area to help these people to use EFT.

She also notes that EFT can be used in preparation for surgery even when the patient does not exhibit anxiety. EFT produces a highly suggestible state very rapidly and specific requests to one’s own body to handle the surgery and postoperative condition can be extremely effective if embedded within the EFT procedure. These requests should be as specific as possible to get the best effect. For example, a non-anxious preoperative patient might tap on the positive reminder phrase ONLY (without using the negative phrase, “Even though..”) as follows:

“I ask my body to send pain-relieving chemicals to me throughout this operation and afterwards”. Specific directives to the body may be honored exactly if made during EFT tapping.

Or, such a patient might say:

“I ask my body to heal as quickly as possible” — with this positive phrase repeated at each tapping point.

An observation that Marie and I share is that many patients do not seem to want to go to the zero point on the intensity scale for their issue. This is particularly true for pain. My speculation is that the zero point is outside of these people’s belief systems and therefore is rejected. They are used to a familiar level of discomfort and when they get to a tolerable level (say when their pain has come down from a 10 or an 8 to a 4 on the Intensity Scale) they tend to stop. Few people are used to going for what they really want in any situation. They have been trained to settle for “better” and for “bearable,” so for many people that is the point where the nurse practitioner or medical assistant trained in EFT will have to let them stop. When EFT is used as a strategic intervention, such compromises are acceptable. However, should the patient want to follow up with more information about EFT, this could be provided to them.

Patricia Carrington, PhD

Part 3 of 4

Surrogate Tapping In the Hospital

Surrogate tapping, which is in effect tapping for someone other than one’s self, is still a ways down the road in terms of acceptance. However, its cousin, distant prayer, is quite readily accepted in many places the world over. People will often resort to prayer to heal a loved one even if they do not have deep spiritual convictions. It just seems a natural thing to do. Surrogate tapping is equally natural but as yet, because it does not invoke a spiritual being (although it can certainly do so if one wants), it somehow does not yet seem to fit neatly into the paradigm of healing.

Today I’m going to tell you about the interesting experience of a nurse whom I mentioned in Part 1 (above) in this series, “Chris”, and see what usefulness may be in the offing for medical personnel who elect to use surrogate tapping for their patients.

Chris heard that the husband of one of the nurses who worked for the hospital, had developed chest pain and experienced cardiac arrest. His condition was obviously critical and in order to save his life, the medical team had to “code” him (take extreme emergency measures for him) for one and half hours before he could be removed to the Intensive Care Unit.

When he arrived there his life was still in danger. He was on a ventilator and after several days, he developed severe respiratory distress and his chances of survival through the night were estimated at 50-50.

Chris had known this patient, “John”, as a very likeable man of 58 years who had diligently been trying to improve his health after an earlier heart attack. He was on her mind during that evening when, at home, she happened to be watching Gary Craig’s Ultimate Therapist videos, the very portion of those videos in fact where William Tiller was discussing surrogate tapping and “nonlocal” experiences.

As she heard him talk, Chris decided that there was nothing to lose by tapping for John who was still in critical condition in the hospital. She did this by tapping on herself as though she were John and used such sentences as:

“Even though my lungs are white, I choose to have the oxygen readily get to my tissues.”

Or,

“Even though my alveoli are filled with fluid, I choose to have oxygen flow through them easily to my tissues.”

“Even though I’m fighting the tube in my throat, I deeply and completely accept myself, and I choose to let it be OK.”

You will notice that the wording she used was very specific and the concepts very clear. She wanted to address specific medical issues and being a nurse was able to do so in a very precise manner.

The next morning when she arrived at the hospital she immediately inquired about John and was told by a staff member that he had taken a surprising turn for the better the evening before, although they were now concerned because his urine output was very poor and this was endangering him.

Chris now surrogate-tapped for the flow of urine to open up, and then went up to his bedside. She spoke with his wife and told her about the tapping she had done the night before, and that she had just tapped for the urine output. (The wife had used EFT with Chris in the past for a traumatic event.) The wife stated that he had just started to put out urine. When Chris returned to her department, she got a call from John’s wife saying that now he was pouring out urine and his blood pressure was dropping. “Tap for his blood pressure” she said.

Chris then tapped for his blood pressure to rise again, specifically directing the body to accomplish this. Within a matter of 15 minutes, his blood pressure had gone up 10 points and Chris returned to the wife in ICU and taught her how to surrogate tap for John. Both Chris and the wife then tapped together for him.

The first thing they tapped on was “Even though I’m not getting circulation in my fingers, I choose to have my blood flow naturally and easily into my hands and fingers.” As they tapped for this, John’s hands became so hot that another nurse thought that he had a fever. He did not, it was simply the return of the circulation. The rest of his arms were normal temperature.

Following this incident the word spread throughout the hospital floor and more nurses became interested in learning how to use EFT.

John recovered, returned home, and is doing well. Chris has since taught other nurses how to surrogate tap for their patients who are too ill to do this for themselves.

What does this indicate about the potential of surrogate tapping within the hospital setting?

First, it provides an additional avenue by which a nurse or other medical attendant can actively assist in the healing process for the patient under their care, and do so simply and with minimal training. It also provides an avenue by which the very seriously ill or comatose patient can be helped even though they are unable to tap or even to conceive of tapping because they are in such a critical condition. This would be an important plus for emergency health-care.

It is not inconceivable that surrogate tapping could become an approved team procedure for critical or seriously ill patients, giving the medical personnel medical and nursing personnel a sense of empowerment. A sense of futility with regard to what one can do to help a patient is one of the most frequent causes of burnout in medical personnel.

Another advantage, evident in the example given above, is that knowledgeable medical personnel can target the desired outcome in the very precise manner that even the patient themselves, were they conscious, might not be able to do. This is consistent with Gary Craig’s admonition to be as specific as possible in pinpointing the difficulties involved in any medical condition — here we simply extend the specificity to the outcome portion of the set-up phrase as well as the initial statement of the problem. Both need to be stated in very precise terms for greatest effect.

Chris agrees with me that surrogate tapping might be far more acceptable to many nurses than one might suspect. Although she has been pleasantly surprised by the acceptance of EFT by the staff, it is possible that surrogate tapping might be less readily accepted. Often the way we introduce something is crucial in terms of its acceptance. For some, introducing surrogate tapping as a simple form of nondenominational distant prayer might be the bridge that Gary Craig talks about to gaining acceptance. I believe that distant prayer and the study of this, as has been written about by such investigators as Dr. Larry Dossey may have helped to pave the way for surrogate tapping within medical settings.

However, some staff may want to get consent from the patient or their family before using surrogate tapping. There has been some controversy concerning healing prayer as to whether or not one must obtain a person’s consent before praying for that person’s recovery. Gary Craig has, however, persuasively argued that a recipient of surrogate tapping is not open to healing unless he/she “wants it”, whether this be on a conscious or subconscious level, in other words that one cannot force healing upon a person. I would concur with this. It may be however that some permission procedure might have to be instituted in certain hospital settings for legal reasons.

Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.

Part 4 of 4

EFT for a ruptured Appendix

I want to tell you about a little boy of 11 years old whom we shall call “Bobby”. This is not his real name but I’m using it because many of his friends regularly surf the Internet and “might see me there.” His mother, however, has no objection to the real family name being used.

Bobby exemplifies for me the future that we are all hoping for in terms of strategic uses of the EFT. His story is surprising as well as inspiring.

To start at the beginning, Bobby comes from a family that I call an “EFT family”. His mother has been practicing the technique for many years and in fact, although she is not an EFT practitioner and does not use it professionally, she has taken and passed both the Basic and Advanced EFT Certificate of Completion exams, thereby demonstrating her thorough knowledge of Gary Craig’s work. She took the trouble to do this because she wanted to become “more proficient at using EFT for my family.”

Both of Anita’s children, her husband, and herself use EFT, and her youngest child Bobby were brought up “tapping.” When about 7 years old, Bobby had over 50 food allergies and his mother tapped endlessly for him to correct them. She did this surrogately (to find out about surrogate tapping go to the EFT Search Engine and enter “surrogate”). As a result, Bobby has overcome his allergies to a remarkable degree and is no longer symptomatic.

Anita usually taps for Bobby and repeats the EFT phrases out loud for him, but in recent years, as he has grown older, she usually does not have to tap surrogately. Bobby tells her when he wants EFT. This is generally when he is falling asleep at night and has various nighttime issues. His mother has the impression that, among other things, he loves the undivided attention he gets from his mom when she does EFT with him.

(Note: Tapping on a child rather than having the child tap on him/herself is not the only way to use EFT with children because even very young children of 3 and 4 years old can learn to tap on themselves. As you will see, however, it turned out to be a very effective approach in this case.)

Athough her teenage daughter often rolls her eyes when EFT is mentioned (she is, after all, an adolescent), if she is really in trouble she will also say, “Please tap for me Mom.”

Here then is the story of Bobby’s recent health crisis when he and his mom used EFT to remarkable effect.

Several weeks ago Bobby suddenly developed a severe pain in his abdomen. He could barely talk because he was in so much pain and could only remain in bed clutching his belly. He asked for EFT and his mother went to work using it while making an emergency call to their pediatrician. In the meanwhile she asked Bobby to “breathe through” the pain. They used the EFT phrase, “Even though I have this terrible pain, I’m an awesome kid and I know I’m going to feel better soon.”

The pain became much more bearable after this tapping but his mother noticed that he was favoring the right side of his body when he walked. However, upon examination, when the pediatrician pressed on his right lower abdomen, it was tender but he didn’t jump. It didn’t look to her like an emergency, however she decided to send him to the emergency room just to “make certain.”

They arrived at the emergency room in the morning but it wasn’t until early afternoon that the crucial blood test was done, and a CT Scan followed at 7 pm. There were many hours of waiting in the Emergency Room before it was discovered that, to everyone’s surprise, Bobby’s appendix had ruptured! He was immediately prepared for emergency surgery.

The amazing thing was Bobby’s way of handling the long hours of waiting in the ER and his pain during that time. His mother estimates that they tapped at least 70 percent of the time during that long wait. She tapped on him and at times repeated the words for him as well. She recalls that they tapped on such phrases as “Even though I’m afraid I’m going to have to have an operation, I’m an awesome kid.”

When he felt particularly out of control at what was being done to him (which was most of the time), they also used the phrase: “Even though all these things are being done to me and I can’t do anything about it, I know that Mom loves me.”

And later, in response to his expressed fear of having his appendix out and his strong wish to keep that “busted appendix”, they tapped on: “Even though if I keep my appendix I might die, I know I’ll get better if I have it taken out.”

Following this tapping he became much calmer and when he met the surgeon he liked him right away, and decided to tap on: “Even though I don’t want this operation, I’m an awesome kid and this guy is going to get me better.” Following this last round of tapping he looked straight at the surgeon and said, “OK! Let’s get it done!”

His mother, who had now been joined by her husband in the emergency room, stood by watching him in amazement. His parents were seeing a maturity in him they had never seen before. Now, instead of asking for his parents’ help in this distressing situation, the more he tapped, the more he was able to handle the situation himself. He no longer seemed to have anxiety about the operation itself and if a new issue arose that presented a fresh difficulty, he insisted they tap on it.

When Bobby was taken to the operating room, one of the surgical nurses asked what they were doing when they were tapping and his mother explained they were using an “acupuncture technique for anxiety.” Surprisingly, the nurse immediately supported their use of EFT although she didn’t know about this specific technique. She said that she had another job in an alternative health clinic in the city and added, “You know, this stuff really makes a difference.”

Anita then asked this nurse to pray for Bobby along with herself and his father, and the nurse said she would in her mind “talk” to Bobby about speed healing and send him good energy during the operation.

Anita tapped continuously in the waiting room outside of the OR while her husband made some urgent phone calls. Her anxiety went way down and out of exhaustion she had actually dozed off when the surgeon came out to greet them after the surgery and told them that the site of the operation had been “a mess”, but that the infection was so well contained that it had not spread at all. “Never in a million years would I have dreamed we would find this kind of situation when we got in.” he said, “He didn’t seem sick enough for this.” Anita is of the opinion that their extensive use of EFT may well have helped to contain the infection.

The surgeon expected Bobby to be in the hospital from four to seven days, although surprisingly he had no fever. Postoperatively they did even more tapping than before because Bobby was in serious pain and had to endure many needles. However, after he tapped about the needles, he didn’t obsess any more about people walking down the hall to approach his room to take blood. Before tapping, every time he heard footsteps he thought someone was coming to “stick him.” EFT took away that fear.

After the surgery they tapped a great deal for Bobby’s feelings of being out of control, and the result was that a surprising quiet authority came over the child. When hospital personnel came in with medications or injections that he did not feel ready for, he would politely say to them, “I don’t want to do that right now. Can I do it in an hour?” His mother doubts that she could have as effectively asserted herself under similar circumstances.

A specific example of the new maturity that he was now displaying was when one nurse missed his vein twice when trying to take blood and it was extremely uncomfortable for him. He turned to this nurse and said, “You’re not doing a very good job. Could you find someone else to do this?” So — the nurse did.

Bobby then asked the hospital authorities, “What do I have to do to get these things out of my arm?” They explained to him that he needed to be able to walk down the hall, to have had a good bowel movement and be eating a regular diet. He then set out to make these things happen and was soon able to pass all these tests. To everyone’s surprise, Bobby was released from the hospital two and a half days after surgery instead of the expected much longer time.

This was an amazing growth experience for Bobby and as they watched the way he handled himself in the hospital, his parents were viewing him differently. With his fear removed, this little boy was realizing his own ability to assert himself, quietly and strongly.

His mother comments that she would love to see every parent in the world using EFT with their children. When, two weeks after the surgery, Bobby had to return once more to the emergency room because of a stomach virus that was complicating the final stage of his recovery (he bounced right back from this and is now fine), as he was watching the other children in the waiting room who were crying and screaming in fear and distress, his comment was, “I sure wish all these kids could have EFT!”

I think we all agree with Bobby.

Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.

http://www.emofree.com/articles/EFT-hospital-series.htm

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Brenda Shoshanna’s brother was very reluctant to use EFT, but did so anyway. To his astonishment, his frozen shoulder gained complete relief. Here is what Brenda says as her article unfolds, “We kept going. This was exciting. He still couldn’t move it completely to the right or left. We tapped on ‘Even though my movement is still constricted, I deeply and completely love and accept myself and accept my arm.’ He started laughing. I did too. This was fun. This was thrilling. His arm started moving to the left now.”

Hugs, Gary

By Dr. Brenda Shoshanna

Here is an amazing and totally unexpected (by me) EFT result. I was introduced to EFT several months ago, and have been progressively tapping and studying your wonderful DVDs. Though I’ve been trying to do some surrogate tapping, I’d never directly tried EFT on another person.

However, one day, my brother came early to an open house I was hosting. He’d had a painful, frozen shoulder for about 4 months and over this time was constantly telling me how hard it was to lift it at all, how much it hurt and that it was interfering with his sleep at night, waking him in pain. He had done some exercises for it, suggested by a physical therapist, but those exercises only made the condition worse.

My brother knew nothing at all about EFT, except that I had learned about a fascinating technique that was helping me, and I’d been tapping. He didn’t really want to hear more about it, as he is usually quite resistant to these kinds of teachings. However, I had a very strong impulse to have him tap on his frozen arm, as he seemed so uncomfortable. I said, “Why not try it just for a little while. There’s nothing you can lose, except possibly some of the pain? There are absolutely no negative side effects.” As he had been in so much pain for so long, he reluctantly agreed.

I showed him the points to tap and which fingers to tap with. We started tapping on Even though my arm hurts… After a few rounds of tapping, he began to notice the pain decreasing. Excited, he was willing to do more. We then tapped on, Even though a part of me is blocked and frozen … and I accept the blocked and frozen parts. His face lit up in a huge smile. Right before our eyes, the arm was moving. He looked shocked. Frankly, I was too. It was going way up. Before, he could only barely lift it.

We kept going. This was exciting. He still couldn’t move it completely to the right or left. We tapped on Even though my movement is still constricted, I deeply and completely love and accept myself and accept my arm. He started laughing. I did too. This was fun. This was thrilling. His arm started moving to the left now.

He had a moment of fear, saying he was afraid he was cheating, having the pain leave so quickly. We then tapped on, Even though I feel I deserve to be in pain, and have to suffer for a long time … but I am willing to let this go.

We did this tapping over and over again. In about fifteen minutes total, his arm was completely fine. No pain, a tiny bit of stiffness, (which left a few minutes later), and full movement. Both of us were shocked and thrilled. He didn’t know what to make of it. I didn’t need to make anything of it. I just felt deep gratitude.

Guests arrived at the party and we told them what had happened. In a little while lots of people started tapping, and I put on one of Gary’s DVD’s to show everyone what it was about. There was a lot of spontaneous interest and fascination. What a way to start the new year!

My brother’s arm has not hurt again, nor has the movement been restricted. In fact, he said he just forgot about what it was like for it to be frozen. He’s fine. No follow up needed.

Thank you so much for this amazing method. I use it much more now, spend more time with the DVDs and am sharing it more and more with others, and hope to learn how to do the surrogate tapping more effectively.

Actually, when I’m now involved with someone who is hurting, I don’t feel I have the right not to share this.

Brenda Shoshanna

http://www.emofree.com/Pain-management/pain-frozen-shoulder.shoshanna.htm

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Hi Everyone,

Scoliosis involves an abnormal curvature of the spine. The medical folks help to manage it with braces and surgery and it’s my guess that they would be interested in this article by Al Rodee from Canada. It points the way to another option (EFT) for handling this difficult ailment.

Hugs, Gary

By Al Rodee

Dear Gary,

My most recent, and best, EFT story is about a young woman, we’ll call Sarah, who was diagnosed from birth with scoliosis. She had been coming to my free intro session for 3 weeks. We had worked on her strained relationships with her mother and sister but one day she told me she was in pain and that her left shoulder had been frozen for as long as she could remember; part of her scoliosis symptoms. She literally walked with a lean to her right side and her arms hung unevenly (a 2 inch difference) when she stood up as “straight” as she could.

She regularly has chiropractic, massage, and acupuncture treatments. We worked, directly and mechanically, on the physical imbalance for 4 rounds of EFT with marginal impact. She then informed me that her mother had no contractions before her delivery and her amniotic fluid had dried up without anyone knowing it. This led to Sarah being dehydrated at birth.

We tapped for forgiveness of her mother and forgiveness of Sarah during this difficult delivery time. Suddenly she became overwhelmingly sad. The sadness was about the fact that no one ever took her physical pain and discomfort seriously. She had learned to downplay the impact and not complain about it and when she did talk about it her pain was dismissed as seemingly not important.

I used a visualization technique whereby Sarah imagined a bright pinpoint of light illuminating her shoulder and asked her to describe what she saw in there. The answer was a dark, round, spot of pain and the intensity was 4 on a scale of 0 to 10.  As we talked and tapped about her sadness the pain in her shoulder moved in to her neck and she developed spasms. Her arm and fingers also became very warm and tingly. GC COMMENT: This is a common occurrence within EFT and the EFT method of following after the moving discomfort is known as Chasing the Pain.  A couple more rounds of EFT, using the adjusted reminder phrases Even though I still have some of this ‘pain…, discomfort, sadness, imbalance, and she felt calm and relaxed.

I checked in on the intensity and she said it was 0. We measured her arms, as we had done earlier, and they were exactly the same length. She was actually standing in balance without discomfort. As we left that night she kept saying as she laughed “this feels really weird, I have never been able to walk in balance before”.  I guess EFT can balance the physical body while balancing our energy system at the same time.

I warned her the frozen shoulder might return as her cells re-create from what they were (body memory) and she would have to practice EFT, diligently, for herself for 21 days (think of it as changing the habits of your cell re-creation) until she had developed healthy cells again. GC COMMENT: This is an interesting theory and may have substantial merit. However, I have seen countless physical corrections occur without it.

It is my intuition, when people have chronic physical problems, to prescribe EFT 3 times a day for at least 21 days once the pain has been relieved the first time. This seems to overcome the re-creation of those cells that were created with pain receptors that attract pain peptides to them.

Follow up: Two months later: Sarah continues to walk in balance. She originally felt resistance to my prescription of tapping 3 times/day to maintain her balanced state but, being a good EFT student, thought to tap on that resistance and is now mostly pain free and walking tall.

I hope someone will get something useful from this story.  Thanks for everything.

Al Rodee

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Carol Look takes us on a detailed journey through several physical issues and their emotional causes. Many insights here. You may wish to read it several times.

Hugs, Gary

By Carol Look

“Joe” attended my recent annual EFT workshop.  He couldn’t wait to tell me how his improvements during last year’s workshop had lasted for him for the entire twelve months since I had seen him!

One year ago, Joe, a brilliant artist and retired architect in his mid-70’s, attended my pain relief workshop and was eager to work on a miserable “frozen shoulder.”  He had been riding on a bus one year earlier, and the bus had stopped suddenly and jerked him forward, partially dislocating his left shoulder.  He was eventually diagnosed with a “frozen shoulder” and had minimal range of motion.  He was only able to move his arm from his side up about 30% after the bus incident (imagine that his arm resting at his side would represent 0%, and raised straight above his head would be 100%).  After 9 months of physiotherapy, he was able to move his arm up about 45% of the way.  After attending an EFT conference, he gained an additional 5 per cent range of motion, and could hold his arm at a right angle to his body, up 50% from his side.

In addition to his shoulder problem, Joe had suffered a back injury in 1959 after falling off a ladder.  He was about to go on his honeymoon at that time, and decided to skip a visit to the doctor.  He was later told that a small piece of vertebrae had broken off.  He has suffered with back pain for 50+ years, making it excruciating for him to stand and lecture in his work, and to stand and work as an artist.

Joe considered leaving the workshop last year as his back pain and shoulder discomfort were so intense it made it difficult to sit still and pay attention.  Luckily, there was the opportunity for him to be a demonstration subject on stage.

During the workshop, Joe volunteered to be on stage for addressing emotional issues connected with pain in his body.  Joe told the class how he had been a Czech refugee in 1946, and had been forced to flee to a foreign country with nothing but a small knapsack at about age 12.  There were several main themes we tapped on for Joe:

• Extreme grief about leaving his home and everything he knew
• Hurt, betrayal and frustration because no one believed him when he described the atrocities he had witnessed in his home country
• Specific event of being “called a LIAR”
• The injustice of what he witnessed (seeing his best friend shot in front of him)

In Joe’s words, “Everything I believed in, all links to reality, were suddenly gone.  On top of everything, I was forced to speak English, and told I was an “evil child” for lying about such nonsense.”

LAST YEAR’S TAPPING

I interviewed Joe in person this year, 12 months after the original workshop, and to the best of our abilities, we reconstructed the effective tapping phrases and EFT rounds that had cleared the pain in his back and his shoulder.  Neither one of us remembers tapping on the actual “accident” or bus incident, the apparent “causes” of the physical damage, so we focused instead on the emotional conflicts.

Karate chop point:  Even though they didn’t believe me … they called me a liar, and I felt so unsupported, I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself anyway … Even though no one believed me and they called me a liar, I accept how I feel and how they responded to me … Even though they called me a liar and didn’t believe what I said, I choose to accept my feelings and who I am.

EYEBROW:  They didn’t believe me and it was so painful.

SIDE OF EYE: They called me a liar.

UNDER EYE: Why wouldn’t they believe me?

NOSE: No one supported me.

CHIN: No one believed me.

COLLARBONE: This pain is being stored in my shoulder and back.

UNDER ARM: No one supported me.

HEAD: I felt so unsupported.

EYEBROW:  How could they accuse me of being a liar?

SIDE OF EYE: I felt so scared and angry, and it showed up in my back.

UNDER EYE: I was scared and all alone.

NOSE: They called me a liar.

CHIN: No wonder my back is hurting.

COLLARBONE: I still feel upset that they didn’t believe me.

UNDER ARM: I’m storing the pain in my back and shoulder.

HEAD: I am free to give it up if I choose.

Joe was able to tell us the details of the suffering and loss he experienced while in his home country.  He told us how his friend was killed in front of him, and how he had to bury those feelings.  He tapped while telling us the details.  While that story was obviously traumatic, the fact that no one believed his story seemed to have a much higher charge on it for him.

Joe’s loneliness and sense of isolation was intense for him.  And he still felt it when he remembered those years of fleeing to another country.

Karate chop point: Even though I was all alone and felt so unsupported, I choose to accept who I am and how I feel … Even though I was terribly alone, and no one would support me, I accept who I am and how I felt and how I feel … Even though it was so lonely back then, I accept who I am and how I feel.

EYEBROW:  I was so lonely.

SIDE OF EYE: Nothing was the same.

UNDER EYE: I was all alone.

NOSE: No one supported me.

CHIN: I was all alone.

COLLARBONE: I felt so lonely all the time.

UNDER ARM: No one supported me.

HEAD: I felt so unsupported.

Joe told the class participants how important it was that we all listened and acknowledged how lonely he had been.  His story of being a refugee touched many participants, and we all allowed him to tell his story, we believed him, and honored the pain he had suffered.

Karate chop point: Even though I’ve been carrying this grief for decades, I choose to accept who I am and what happened … Even though I have been shouldering this grief for decades, I accept who I am and how I feel … Even though I’ve been storing the grief in my back and my shoulder, I deeply and profoundly love and accept who I am and how I feel.

EYEBROW:  The grief has been stored in my back.

SIDE OF EYE: The incredible grief over losing my life.

UNDER EYE: I was all alone.

NOSE: I can feel the grief right now.

CHIN: The grief in my back.

COLLARBONE: This terrible grief and loneliness.

UNDER ARM: This life-long grief.

HEAD: All this grief and loss.

EYEBROW:  The grief has been stored in my body all this time.

SIDE OF EYE: This grief and loss in my body.

UNDER EYE: I suffered so many losses.

NOSE: The losses in my back.

CHIN: The grief I’ve been storing in my body.

COLLARBONE: This lonely grief.

UNDER ARM: Too many losses…

HEAD: Decades of grief in my back.

Joe regained 100% range of motion in his “frozen” shoulder, and improved so dramatically in his chronic back pain that he happily reported to the workshop attendees that instead of taking 25 minutes to hobble to the subway on the first day, it took him only 7 minutes on the last day of the workshop!

THIS YEAR:

This year at the annual workshop, Joe said he suffered from extreme tension in his legs that made it difficult to stand, and sitting for long periods also caused him pain.  When I asked him what he thought might be contributing to the pain, he immediately identified an emotional conflict.  Joe said that his adult children are both living in a foreign country, and he misses them terribly.  He said his conflict – showing up as tension in his legs – seemed to be from wanting to go visit, and needing to stay at home.  His ex wife has forbidden him to visit, and there were some strict religious complications as well.  Joe identified (1) helplessness, (2) grief and (3) powerlessness.

Karate chop point:  Even though I feel so helpless and can’t go visit, I deeply and completely love and accept myself anyway … Even though I feel helpless and powerless, I choose to accept that I have these feelings anyway … Even though I feel sadness and helplessness about my children, I accept who I am and who they are.

EYEBROW:  I feel so helpless about this situation.

SIDE OF EYE: I’m not “allowed” to visit.

UNDER EYE: I feel helpless and powerless about this.

NOSE: I have no choice.

CHIN: The conflict is showing up in my leg tension.

COLLARBONE: This conflict about visiting my children.

UNDER ARM: I miss them so much.

HEAD: I feel so powerless.

EYEBROW:  I feel helpless and powerless.

SIDE OF EYE: This conflict is showing up in my legs.

UNDER EYE: This tension in my legs.

NOSE: I miss them so deeply.

CHIN: I feel so powerless and can’t move forward.

COLLARBONE: I can’t move forward on my legs.

UNDER ARM: My legs are carrying this conflict.

HEAD: I feel so unsupported.

Very quickly Joe’s leg tension dropped from a level of intensity of 10 to a 0 out of 10, and he was able to remain standing on the stage while other demonstration participants were telling their stories and tapping.  This was quite unusual for him.  Joe’s leg tension remained cleared the next 2 days at the workshop; I plan to keep in touch with him through email.  In addition, instead of focusing on “missing” his children, he shared with the class how he had received beautiful Valentine’s Day cards and wishes from them, and acknowledged the deep connection to his children.

SUMMARY OF RESULTS:

ONE YEAR AGO:

• Joe’s back pain dropped from a 10 to a 0 on the level of intensity scale of 0 to 10.
• His shoulder range of motion improved from 50% to 100%, and he could raise his left arm entirely up over his head.
• Instead of taking 25 minutes to hobble to the subway, it only took him 7 minutes.

THIS YEAR:

• Joe showed me that his shoulder remained healed, and that he was still able to raise his arm 100% up over his head.
• He remains completely free of back pain.
• His leg pain and tension decreased from a 10 to a 0, and he told me “I ran to the subway this morning and it only took me 2 minutes!”

Many thanks to Joe for his perseverance, grace and openness to EFT.

Carol Look

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