EFT Successes in My PracticeIntroductionEFT successes are common in my practice as a Psychiatric Mental Health Practitioner. This report gives information about the results that clients have experienced with the use of EFT in my practice. To my amazement, within the first few days of learning this technique, I began to see EFT successes with my clients. I simply read the manual that is a free download from Gary Craig's website at www.emofree.com and began to try it on myself. "EFT is a very flexible improvement tool that can be used for just about everything. I am using my version of it here and have had extraordinary results and urge you to contact me for more information. The original version and complete training can be found at Gary's website for now. Since Gary Craig has announced his retirement, it is unknown how long this website will be available. While his site remains accessible, you can read of many EFT successes in just about any situation or condition you can imagine. After I got positive results and EFT successes in my own life, I began to explain it to clients, and with their permission, to apply this technique to a variety of problems. Here are some of the experiences I call EFT successes, with the names and identifying characteristics changed to provide for client confidentiality. Enjoy, and be encouraged.
Danette's Experience(continued from Managing Depression page)1. Started with: "Even though Reginald did this horrible thing, I deeply and completely accept myself. .." (Then I thought: Well, it's probably my fault he did it, because I don't like intimacy) Tapping again...." Even though I don't like sex....Even though I don't enjoy intimacy with Reginald (because I have never had any kind of intimacy with anyone else, I don't really know if I like it or not), I deeply and completely accept myself." ...hmmmm.... (Then I thought: Yeah, but even though I didn't like intimacy, there are other ways we could have dealt with it. He never told me our infrequency was bothering him. And it was his choice to break our vows.....) What other blockages are hurting me? "Even though I don't get along with Denise (my sister), I deeply and completely accept myself" ---How do I know I can honestly say that? Because from the age of 9 through the time I left for college, I gave her almost constant attention. Activities like playing games, reading, drawing, dancing, going swimming, taking her with me and my friends, going to movies, getting ice cream cones.
Loving acts like going to her recitals, loving her and buying her tee-shirts, telling her stories and playing word games as we did dishes.
I gave her everything I had inside me, and when I left for college, she hated me for leaving her, and found more reasons for hating and blaming me as time went on. She never gives me credit or builds me up in her children's eyes, or thanks or acknowledges the love I gave to her.... "Even though Denise never acknowledges anything good I did, I deeply and completely acknowledge it, myself "..... but then, neither did my parents acknowledge the summers I spent babysitting for Denise when I could have been earning money for school, or for clothes. I knew they gave me a home to live in and food to eat, but how hard would it have been to say I was doing a good job at school, or with Denise, or with something? I guess we all just took each other for granted. "Even though my parents never acknowledged anything I ever did, I (I start to cry) "...then I tell Reginald, who's in the other room, that this EFT is really uncovering some blockages that are very profound for me. I can tell they really hit some sore spots, because just knowing something has been exposed, I feel lightened up. It also opened up some possibility of why Denise hasn't let her kids come to visit me or hasn't really invited me to be around her family.
Denise knew how much she loved me and how I provided uplifting and encouraging experiences for her (like taking her little drawings to elementary school with me, and asking my teacher to mark an "A" on them.
Then I would take them back home and say, "See, my teacher gave you an "A"!"
Or taking her to college classes with me when she visited in the summer time.) It's possible that she didn't want her kids to love me "more" than they did her......even our older sister said that maybe Denise was jealous of me, because I had always been so good with children. If that's so, it's so sad. I never would have tried to replace her or outshine her. I have always praised her to our family and have refrained from gossiping about her, except to say that I don't understand why she does the things she does. But as I process it through EFT, some things seem to become clearer. So. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! Now back to Video Kokoro Kara, Kansha shiteimasu. (Japanese: From my heart, I am thanking you.) Danette (real name withheld for purposes of confidentiality)
Stories from others. . . .Although I no longer offer telephone treatment sessions, I have enjoyed working with a number of clients in this way, with great results.Diana received incredible results when we uncovered a core issue freeing her from a flight phobia. Thomas overcame two prior emergency surgery memories to move comfortably through an elective surgery procedure. Joanne was able to defeat several issues which were trapping her in self esteem problems. Doris overcame a 50+ year fear of riding in the back seat of a car.
Post Cancer Surgery Anxiety VanishesOne of my clients was a middle aged man who had had radical surgery to correct cancer. He had many traumatic experiences with the process, from the memory of the moment he received the diagnosis, to the upcoming visit with his surgeon, after a second surgery. EFT successes can even occur in a twenty minute medication management session! I really wanted him to try this, so we began with his anxiety in the office. This particular day he began with a level 6 (0-10 scale) distress. We did two rounds of tapping on 'this anxiety' and it was gone. In subsequent sessions we addressed his distress at the memory of the original diagnosis. This responded to a couple of rounds, and then other aspects appeared, which we then tapped on until they reached 0. There was the fear of death, and thoughts of having to leave his family. Concerns about potential disfigurement of the proposed surgery were present as well as the possibility that the cancer would recur. EFT successes depend on addressing all of the aspects of a particular experience. One of the most disturbing aspects turned out to be a comment he heard in the operating room as he was going under anaesthesia. It,too, collapsed after a sequence or two of tapping. We ended up with 'telling the story' of his upcoming trip to Portland for a recheck on his second major surgery. As it turned out, it wasn't so much the worry about what was about to occur, as it was the memories attached to the various points along the way. We systematically tapped on the fears and anxieties that accompanied each leg of the trip, and each step of the visit. Faithfully, this meridian tapping technique relieved the distress at each level, until the whole story could be told without any intensity at all.
Courage to Leave an Abusive RelationshipEFT successes do not change others around us or our circumstances. Elaine is a woman in her late forties who has lived in an abusive relationship for over twenty years. She has stayed, as most spouses in abusive relationships, for the sake of her children, her financial security and her fears of being alone. Breaking free of past abuse is one of the common EFT successes. After seeing me for almost two years, she came in shortly after I had learned the tapping technique. We treated her fear of being alone, and her fear of being unable to manage as a single person. She walked out of the office and within two weeks had filed for divorce and was making plans to move to her own place and live her own life. She recognizes there will be good days and bad days as she adjusts to her new lifestyle, but she has a hope for a future that wasn't there before. She has not tapped regularly at home, nor have we done any further treatments. This is often the case with EFT Successes. God Cannot Forgive What I Have DoneSome EFT successes are works in progress. Roger is a veteran of the Viet Nam War and yet his most disturbing thoughts have to do with his substance use after he came back home. He had prayed and prayed, but truly felt that he was not forgivable. We used his faith in Christ to tap through the guilt, and with phrases such as "this guilt is not mine, this is what Jesus died for", "I am responsible, for what I have done" , "but forgiveness is available". "Guilt is a waste of my time", "I could spend this time and energy in positive ways." Each time there was doubt, we would follow that with tapping on the particular issue until it was gone, and after many tears, and some disbelief, he acknowledged he felt no guilt, and actually felt forgiven. Some folks are reluctant to acknowledge the results of treatment as EFT successes, and attribute them to other conditions and changes. It is not our purpose to discount other approaches, only to celebrate victories! It is important to note that this man is a devout Christian, and had prayed in every way he knew to, but had not had the release from his guilt. EFT successes can clear barriers we have to hearing from God, and accepting the promises He has for us. Years of guilt and shame sometimes take a series of sessions, and/or regular tapping between sessions. Roger still has work to do, but he now has hope, and is enjoying his freedom.
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