Lena (not her real name) came to see me some 9 months ago with a long list of issues that were causing her to feel unhappy with life, and we have worked together in about 8 sessions. My main modality in sessions is EFT, and I use a motivational coaching style and psycho-educational approach (when necessary). Lena’s main goals were to reduce her negative thinking, and feel more optimistic about her life.

Presenting issues were: loneliness; anxiety; depression; negative thinking and worry; waking up feeling lost and empty; confusion; feeling stuck; some social anxiety, not comfortable meeting new people; stress at work and difficulties with boss; feeling ignored and rejected (boyfriend of 6 years, plus her friends in Europe where she came from were not emailing her); and some ongoing physical symptoms that had been affecting her health for some time.

Lena, an intelligent and self-aware 30 year old, was a willing participant in sessions as she was motivated to feel better about her life. She felt overwhelmed at times with all her difficulties (although after a few sessions many similar ‘trees’ fell away easily). We did not plan what issue to work on as there were many, so sessions began with where she was at on the day – what emotion or physical discomfort she was struggling with. Invariably this led us to other aspects and events, to her upbringing, and how the negativity and criticism of one parent has impacted on her life (writing on her wall) to cause her to feel fearful and lack inner peace. She felt burdened by her father, and often had to listen to him when he was himself depressed. “Nothing is ever just great or OK for him!” Over time, she began to ‘see’ the links between a lot of her current negative mood and reaction to events and people, with her childhood experience of living in a very negative environment.

Lena was also not feeling fulfilled in a vocational way, though she worked part-time in fashion. She had a love for wildlife, and was passionate about studying and working with animals.

Gradually at each session we worked through many issues. I often started a session with the Constricted Breathing technique when I intuitively felt she was constricted. A few times she emailed me with her progress, difficulties or feelings, and I offered email support with affirmations to tap on that I believed might help, and reassure. At subsequent sessions I tested for intensity about any concerns raised in these emails – this was a helpful benchmark as she was able to clarify if an intensity still existed for more detective work, or an issue had changed in quality, or did not bother her anymore.

At our last session in February 2010, Lena shared her journey and progress with me for this story, though she wanted to remain anonymous.

Self-Image – at one of our sessions Lena said she was never satisfied with her image, and felt fatter than usual when she glanced in the mirrors at work. We tapped on affirmations, ie. ET when I look in the mirrors and see cellulite thighs, I love and accept myself anyway. After reducing her dissatisfaction somewhat, I introduced CHOICE affirmations – ET when I look in the mirrors at work and still see my cellulite thighs, I CHOOSE to focus on my good points, etc. When she ran the ‘mirror’ movie again, she found she was only looking at her face (which is beautiful)!

Stress at work with boss – Lena experienced criticism from boss and this caused her anxiety, and there was never any praise for the good work she did. We tapped on many aspects and issues as they arose from session to session, ie. ET I get upset when my boss comes into work; ET my boss talked behind my back, and it made me so angry, I deeply and completely accept myself (and after, I CHOOSE to stay calm) . When re-running the movie, all she could bring up was pity for her boss. After a couple of sessions on the specific situations and feelings, she found she could go to work and cope better with her boss’s offhanded and critical manner. Lena also felt uncomfortable with customers at times, and in our last session she reported that she is more relaxed with customers, and does not feel anxious going to work.

Social Anxiety/ Meeting new People – a week before Xmas she felt anxious about going to a party where there would be other young slim and fashionable women. She felt “fat and unsexy”, and didn’t want to go. We tapped and reduced her fears down to a zero. When I enquired post-party how it went, she replied that it was great! And I sensed that she may not have remembered her initial intense anxiety, and how EFT had worked so well! This is a good example of the subtle effects and cognitive shifts that occur, that Gary Craig talks about.

Relationship with partner – Lena felt alone quite a lot as her partner was either working, or engaged in study. She didn’t feel No 1 in his life. He was ‘not there’ for her, and she blamed him mostly for her depressed mood. They had been together 6 years and sexual relations were virtually non-existent in the previous few months (also due to her physical condition). We tapped on many many aspects of their relationship, as well as her physical symptoms – here are just a few examples

ET Andre says he is not the reason for my depression, I want to love and accept myself anyway.

ET Andre says I complain often, and have no love for myself, I WANT to accept myself

(I often have clients say “I WANT to accept myself” in the acceptance part as many times when I check in, they reply that the regular statement is not true for them).

ET I often get disappointed with Andre, and feel let down when he doesn’t support me, I accept myself anyway. And a positive round, I CHOOSE to believe he is doing his best.

One month later Lena reported that they had had a deep and meaningful discussion that resulted in a night of passion. She said she “felt heard” and “acknowledged” for the first time in ages, and that her partner was more understanding and supportive. At our last session she informed me that everything is going well, they are taking one day per week to do something special that she likes, ie. excursions into nature, and she feels happy.

Feeling ignored / Friends – when we cleared issues around rejection feelings and feeling ignored, she began receiving more emails from her friends. Towards the end of our time together Lena had made a new female friend who she was enjoying spending time with.

In all our sessions, we have done a lot of work around her anxiety, negativity and lack of self-worth. I have used reframes often, with the result that she has experienced many cognitive shifts about the possibilities, and how her life could be. When testing for results or intensity, I often asked her to “tell the story” . I regularly gave her homework, introduced her to journalling – morning pages to start the day, and instructed her in simple meditation using the Heart Math technique.

When last seen, I began testing for results – about her initial concerns when she first saw me. Lena reported that she doesn’t feel empty anymore, she is more accepting of her parents, and is generally happy with her partner. Her fear of life has turned into faith. I have also referred her to a woman doctor who specializes in hormonal issues, for a checkup, and/or subsequent treatment.

 However, as she talked about returning home for a holiday soon that she was looking forward to, she brought up another issue about anxiety about flying in planes, due to past experience of turbulence. We then finished the session with more tapping on the various aspects of flying, ie.

ET I still feel anxious about flying, I accept these feelings

ET I remember the feeling in my stomach that caused my heart to flutter, I love and accept myself

ET I was scared when the plane dropped, just maybe it’ll be a smooth flight this time.

ET I still have anxiety about flying, I’m going to be ok, etc. When she ran a future movie of getting onto the plane and going home, she experienced a sense of excitement about seeing her parents and friends again.

I am looking forward to hearing from her after her arrival in Europe, as she has indicated she will keep in touch.

Mariana Trapera has been working intuitively with people using a variety of energy therapies for 16 years to assist them to feel better physically and emotionally, first as a bodyworker, followed by work in Counselling and then EFT since 2004. Mariana is based in the Northern Rivers of NSW, and has post graduate Diplomas in Applied Counselling and Social Ecology, and energy therapy qualifications in EFT CC, Reiki Master and Qi-gong. She has also worked as a Careers Counsellor and Case Manager with clients in government agencies, as well as in private practice.

Mariana can be contacted on mob 0430 175 923, via skype “Mariana Trapera”, email her at marianatrapera@gmail.com or visit her website: www.eftvibrations.com

Verena and I enjoy working together in our self development business, but in 2005 when she spent a month in Switzerland it wasn’t easy. I was running the business, seeing my clients and some of Verena’s. I had a dog with 9 puppies to care for, and a fourteen your old stepson, who was more hindrance than help. I was working over 16 hours each day, and getting about 5 hours sleep.

I had an upcoming workshop in Shepparton for a group of 50 people. It’s usually a two-day seminar that I ran for smaller groups, but I was condensing it into half a day. I needed time to edit the content, but I was too busy. As the day approached I became anxious because I wasn’t really prepared. At one point I even imagined having a car accident on the way and phoning to cancel the seminar.

It was 5am the morning before I was due to deliver the seminar, when I woke up drenched in sweat. There was severe pain in my right kidney. The blood in the toilet bowl confirmed that I had a kidney stone. I had a similar problem about 15 years earlier. It was a serious condition, and I was in hospital for several weeks on a drip with antibiotics.

Next thing I knew I was in an ambulance on my way to hospital. Karen the ambulance officer was drawing a syringe and said, “This is morphine for the pain.” I said, “No, I don’t want that.” I knew that if I took the morphine I might avoid the symptoms, but I also would avoid having the learning. Then I would have to create some other uncomfortable situation to get the lesson.

So there I was in the ambulance trying to use EFT and other techniques for my condition, but I wasn’t able to focus. I wasn’t feeling any better when I got to hospital. Again, they wanted to give me Morphine and Maxilon, but I knew I needed to clear this myself.

Then I remembered how Eckhart Tolle talked about the pain body, and becoming the observer of the pain. I imagined stepping out of my body to observe the pain, and asked “ what is the learning to be gained from this pain?” The answer from within was loud and clear. “Gratitude”

I gave thanks for the healing and tapped two rounds using EFT, and the pain was gone instantly. For the first round of tapping, I said, “Even though I have this pain in my kidneys, I accept and love myself deeply and completely.” For the second round I said, “Thank you for this healing.”

I felt my kidney in disbelief. I rubbed to see if the pain would come back, but it was gone. I told the nurse I was feeling fine, and wanted to go home. She said, “No, we have to do scans. We got your blood and urine tests back. You have infected kidneys and probably have kidney stones.” I said to myself, “I had kidney stones.” The nurse said, “We’ll have to do scans later this afternoon.” She was surprised when I said “I’ll be in Shepparton by then.”

I came home, passed a kidney stone, took a shower, dressed and went to Shepparton. The workshop went well. No one there knew about my condition until the end, when I shared this experience with them.

Kidney conditions are often about fear or anxiety, and kidney stones may be associated with unresolved anger. I had both at that time. I had the anxiety of doing the talk that I wasn’t prepared for in front of a large group of people. I also had the anger and frustration with my stepson who wasn’t helping with the puppy toilet training, and I was overwhelmed with work as well.

EFT is an amazingly powerful tool, but clarity and focus are needed in order for it to be effective.

Russell Cunningham is Director of Australian Institute Of Self Development Phone 03 97 222 678 www.selfdevelopment.com.au

He and his wife Verena run EFT workshops and are NLP Masters. Russell is also an NLP Trainer, business and personal success coach. He employs Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) to help people overcome obstacles and reach their full potential in their career and personal lives.

I was working with an EFT client, Margaret, for an ongoing period and in each consultation we were making progress. We found some core issues relating to the presenting issue, but when Margaret returned normally 2-3 weeks later she would present in the same disempowered way and reciting the same issues. After having a discussion within supervision, I asked Margaret if she was a twin and it turns out that she is. So for the next session we worked on a lot of relationship issues to do with her being a twin and also cut any energetic ties with her twin. Now this does not mean that she will never see her again, it simply means the relationship is reformed on a new level and this is exactly what happened. Not long after the session, her twin reached out to her for the very first time in a long time. I felt that it was some of the twin’s issues that we had been working with also.

I was working with another client, Lucy, who was in quite a rut and hiding away from the world. She had a lovely family, but felt like crying all the time and could not work out what was wrong and why she was feeling so depressed. We worked on a variety of issues, such as her fear of flying (loss of control was beneath this), and we worked on a financial decision that she had made and had regretted immensely. We also worked on several childhood issues around an emotionally abusive grandmother, but there continued to be an overriding feeling of depression, tearfulness and being stuck. Lucy also saw a doctor and was diagnosed with depression and was given a prescription for anti depressants.

In one of the sessions Lucy had mentioned that she had received a healing some time ago and that it was indicated that she was a twin and her twin had died in the womb. She had no actual proof of this, although her mother had told her that she always cried when left alone as a baby and as a child she had been fascinated by twins and had wished she had a twin sister. So I suggested for this session that we would pretend that being a twin was true and we did a lot of tapping around feeling abandoned, angry that she never stayed (the twin), sadness and grief for what could have been, missing out on the opportunity to have a sister, and also energetically cut the ties. Whenever she had previously talked about the twin, Lucy felt extremely tearful and there were also very real emotions present throughout the session. This was a huge turning point for Lucy and the difference was incredible. It took about a month of healing to process all this, then Lucy was off signing up for many things that she had always wanted to do and felt very excited about life and where she was heading. We have had a follow up session regarding her family and grandmother, but now the strong emotions and thought patterns seem to have dissipated and there is no sign of depression. Lucy said it felt like a switch had physically flipped in her head and she now feels and thinks differently.

Pam Wright
Emotional Freedom Specialist and Personal Success Coach
Suite 3, 88 Sydney Pde Geelong, 3220
Ph; 5242 8887 mob: 0417 524 324
www.pamwright.com.au pam@pamwright.com.au

Pam has been assisting people to regain and maintain their emotional and physical well-being for the past 17 years and EFT has been a passion for the past 9 years after first experiencing EFT 2 years earlier in her own life.

In addition to a lifetime of valuable experience, Pam has qualifications as an Advanced EFT Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner, Master in Eriksonian hypnosis, Results coaching, Meditation and Relaxation. She has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training, Certificate IV in Business Management and is an Associate of the International Institute of Complimentary Therapy.

I really enjoy doing EFT with children as I have found them to be generally very creative, open and usually co-operative, while doing the process. The young man that I am writing about in this article is an intelligent and spiritual young man of six years of age (when I first saw him) and I will call him Kyle.

I first worked with Kyle about six weeks previously when we tapped on his being bullied at school. He was initially tentative at that first session and he preferred having the door open while we did the EFT, so he could see his mother in the other room.

For his second session Kyle asked me to help him as he was scared of a dog monster that he saw in a television cartoon. He was also feeling scared during his swimming lessons because of his fear of sharks and crocodiles. He was much more relaxed and confident with me this session. I asked him whether he wanted the door open or closed while we did the EFT. This time he was quite adamant that he wanted the door shut so we wouldn’t be “interrupted”. He was quite subdued initially while telling me about the cartoon monster and he didn’t look me in the eye while he talked and tapped his karate chop point.

As he slowly gained confidence he started to look at me as I encouraged him to describe what the monster did and what it looked like. His confidence grew as I repeated his words and threw in a few of my words such as “ugly, spotty, silly old monster ‘. By this time his confidence was growing to the extent that he told me with glee that the monster did “blue farts” and that his grandfather had said “they shouldn’t show such bloody awful television cartoons to children.”

I made a few suggestions about how we could deal with the monster such as sending it into space or drawing it. He chose to draw it and then to burn the drawing. He insisted that we also burn all the matches that we used. He laughed about the monster going up in smoke and made sure that every bit of the drawing was burnt to ash. After the burning he tapped randomly on the head and body points for statements such as “the silly old monster and the gone to Monster Heaven monster.” I tapped along with him.

He agreed to do an EFT setup and round on the monster. As I mentioned previously, Kyle is quite a spiritual boy and I was impressed before we started tapping, when he looked at the sky and said, “If I look at the sky and look at God I can see my friends. My friends are John and Don.” He could also “see” his dog Darcy that had died. His friends are still alive and it was interesting to note that John was the friend who had been bullying him and he was the reason for Kyle doing the first session of EFT with me

Kyle asked me to tap on him and to speak the setup and he repeated what I said. The setup we worked out together was, “Even though I’m a little bit scared of the scary, smelly, blue-farty, pink and blue spotted monster I‘m a great, happy kid and mummy loves me.” I tapped through the points on him from the top of head to the karate chop using the descriptive words in the setup plus other choice ones that he contributed, including “yukky, stinky, jumping-from-tree and paper-ripping monster.”

Kyle said he “felt fine” after two rounds.

His second fear was about sharks and crocodiles and this also seemed to have stemmed from television shows. He had seen a surfer attacked by a great white shark on television and he had also seen crocodiles leaping out of the water at people on land and in small boats. I was very impressed when he told me with confidence that “crocodiles are like dinosaurs as they are about 100 million years old and they are still here and sharks are too.” He tapped randomly on himself while telling me this.

Kyle wanted to burn the drawing of the shark and the crocodile but as we had run out of matches he decided to tear the drawing into tiny pieces. I agreed to dispose of these later.

He seemed much happier after tearing up the drawing so I encouraged him to talk to me again about the shark and crocodile. I did this by asking him to pretend that he was swimming in the pool and to tell me how he felt. He said he still felt a bit of a “scaredy cat”. I tapped on him for the following setup. “Even though I’m a bit of a scaredy cat in the pool because of the shark and crocodile, I’m a great and happy kid and I’m stronger than anybody else and stronger than a shark and a crocodile.” The statements at each point from the top of head to the under arm, were based on this setup statement. After two rounds he felt “fine”.

Kyle was a much happier boy when we finished the session and he was quite happy for me to tell his mother what we had been tapping on. He even contributed to the conversation without any obvious anxiety or fear.

On the third session we tapped on his nightmares about dinosaurs. They seem related to his seeing dinosaur models in a museum about 20 months before. He described them as being100 feet tall, with grey/brown teeth about10 metres long. He was scared they were going to bite him. This has been a recurring dream as he mentioned that he woke up and rolled out of bed on another occasion because of a dinosaur dream and his mum came and saved him. We tapped two rounds for, “Even though the scary dinosaurs woke me up with a fright and I was scared, I’m a great kid and really brave and strong.” We then tapped one round of each of the following: “I now choose to sleep nicely.” “I’m a big, strong, brave kid.”

The thing that most frightened Kyle about the dinosaurs was their size. I told him about the fable of the elephant being frightened by a mouse and ad-libbed with parallels about his dreams and the dinosaurs – ie even though he is smaller than a dinosaur he is still brave and strong. (I asked him questions to ensure he understood about the differences in sizes of the animals and their comparative bravery). He agreed that the best way to deal with the dinosaurs was to tell them to go away if any more come back when he is asleep.

The value of the previous EFT work that we did on his fear of sharks was evident when he told me of another dream that he had had recently about a shark. In the dream he and the shark kept swapping teeth and finally Kyle got the biggest teeth and he bit the shark.

In the fourth session Kyle mentioned that his friend we had tapped for in the first session was bullying him again. I tapped along with him while he tapped himself for: “Even though every day John says ‘naughty, nice, going cookoo’ to me and its confusing and frustrating, I’m a great kid and I’m Okay.” We tapped two rounds for: “John gets in my head and it’s confusing and frustrating.” He felt a lot better and then tapped on himself for: “Even though I wish John wasn’t there I’m still a great kid.” This was followed by two rounds of the following: “I wish John wasn’t there but I’m still a great kid.” We then tapped together for “Even though I’m distracted by John I’m a great kid.” followed with two rounds of “I’m still distracted by John when he goes to the pencil sharpener.” He is a very insightful child and I was impressed when he told me that it was okay, because John only teases people because he is sad.

Kyle is very sensitive and he told me in a round-about way that his mother had been kicked at school when she was a child and it affected her back. He was worried that his sister would break his back because she kicks him. We tapped for: “Even though I’m worried that Suzy will break my back like what happened to mum, I now choose to accept and love myself and Suzy unconditionally.” He did one round of the main phrase then repeated the story while tapping the KC. He felt okay when thinking about it and changed the subject.

Kyle admitted that he occasionally still feels a bit scared of sharks when he swims in one particular pool because he can’t see the edge. However, once again the efficacy of the EFT that I had done with him in the earlier session was obvious. Instead of wanting to get out of the water, his strategy now is that if he thinks he sees a shark coming to get him, he just moves out of the way and it hits the wall.

His parents were discussing divorce and there was obviously a lot of strain in the family but Kyle did not mention these issues to me. Therefore, I only focussed on what he wanted to address. I will address those issues in the future if he chooses to raise them with me.

Deirdre Brocklebank
B.A. Dip Reflex Cert. IV in Assessment and Workplace Training, Theta Healing practitioner, EFT practitioner and teacher. Member RAA. d_brocklebank@hotmail.com http://bodyandsole.wordpress.com

I had a client Julie who was petrified of magpies, especially in the “swooping season”, and it was affecting her enjoyment of walking and cycling in the nearby park. This was causing distress, and inhibiting her from getting close to nature, which is an important part of living for her. She did not appear to be aware of other swooping birds, only magpies.

We tapped on their sharp pointy beaks, and beady eyes and the sound of the swooping wings and the sound of beak on helmut. There was a particular part of the path where the attacks were predominant, and so we tapped through using the Movie Technique.

I was not sure if this had been effective and we wouldn’t really know until she tried it out. She was also becoming distressed at the thought of returning to the place of torment, we tapped on that fear as well.

It wasn’t until she was sitting in the park sometime after the session that she realised she no longer reacted with fear in the presence of magpies. Here is what Julie had to say:

“I went to see Melva mainly because my fears were really starting to affect my every day life. I was terrified of magpies and to go walking with my 3 year old in the pram was a major ordeal.

In the past I have been swooped a number of times. Melva identified the fears and feelings and took me gently through a technique of letting go or dissolving all the intense and negative feelings. I also did the techniques at home to speed up the results. I was surprised even immediately after the session that I didn’t feel anything like when I’d first walked into the room.

Yesterday while sitting in the park my daughter pointed out there was a magpie right beside me and I was able to smile and tell her that that was ok and it just went away, that is a major change for me!”

Melva Wise is based in Geelong, and has a keen interest in how people live their lives. She is interested in giving people a tool to self-action, to also help them create their own life the way they want to live it, free from the traumas of the past, to where they are now, and where they want to be in the future. Melva can be contacted at The Medical Health Group, 275 Ryrie St, Geelong, 3220 on 03 5222 3838.

One of my EFT phone clients, Josie (consent given to use her real name), wanted to apply for a new job but although she believed she had the skills for it, it was a much higher classification with a significantly bigger salary than she was currently earning. She was too afraid to apply and had a history of interviewing poorly (she believed.)

In past sessions Josie had responded with pronounced shifts and I anticipated the same reaction this time.

Although we made good progress this time and tapped on various aspects of the issue, Josie didn’t seem to have the same marked responses as usual. At the end of the session she felt better about the individual aspects and the job option didn’t seem so daunting. At this stage I wasn’t certain that the matter was resolved and left it to Josie to contact me again if necessary.

Three months later I got this email from her:

“I have had my first interview last week and everything went amazingly well. In fact so well that I have just received a job offer for a highly paid position. My head is still swimming and I wanted you to be the first to know. Thank you for your amazing expertise”

Sometimes progress with EFT is really obvious and sometimes it’s more subtle. Either way, something always shifts!

Linda Black is an EFT practitioner in Melbourne (Burwood) with a particular interest in helping her clients achieve greater happiness, self-empowerment and success as they define it. You can email Linda at linblack@dreamweaverpd.com.au and visit her website at www.dreamweaverpd.com.au

Marie’s (not her real name) wedding was coming up and everything was falling into place but Marie was still very anxious as her father was going to be there and was a heavy drinker. He was bound to get drunk and make a fool of himself and embarrass the family as he had done so many times before. So we tapped on on all the things that were making her anxious leading up to the wedding, especially related to her father.

I didn’t hear from Marie until sometime after the wedding and she was so surprised with her behaviour. She had been up dancing with her father without a care in the world and only after the wedding she realised that she accepted her father for the first time.

Pam Wright
Emotional Freedom Specialist and Personal Success Coach
Suite 3, 88 Sydney Pde Geelong, 3220
Ph; 5242 8887 mob: 0417 524 324
www.pamwright.com.au pam@pamwright.com.au

Pam has been assisting people to regain and maintain their emotional and physical well-being for the past 17 years and EFT has been a passion for the past 9 years after first experiencing EFT 2 years earlier in her own life.

In addition to a lifetime of valuable experience, Pam has qualifications as an Advanced EFT Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner, Master in Eriksonian hypnosis, Results coaching, Meditation and Relaxation. She has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training, Certificate IV in Business Management and is an Associate of the International Institute of Complimentary Therapy.

I would describe Rhonda’s (not her real name) fear as unusual. Rhonda had a fear of driving out of town. She was able to drive around town with no problems at all, any town but could not drive out of town. Rhonda kept this to herself. Many of her friends had no idea of her fear and her family at times would make fun of her. As her children were now becoming teenagers wanting to go to friends and shopping in the next town the pressure increased, so out of desperation she came to see me for an EFT session. With Rhonda it was one of those great sessions where we were able to find the core and her issues collapsed from 10-0.

That night she was able to drive out of town.

Pam Wright
Emotional Freedom Specialist and Personal Success Coach
Suite 3, 88 Sydney Pde Geelong, 3220
Ph; 5242 8887 mob: 0417 524 324
www.pamwright.com.au pam@pamwright.com.au

Pam has been assisting people to regain and maintain their emotional and physical well-being for the past 17 years and EFT has been a passion for the past 9 years after first experiencing EFT 2 years earlier in her own life.

In addition to a lifetime of valuable experience, Pam has qualifications as an Advanced EFT Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner, Master in Eriksonian hypnosis, Results coaching, Meditation and Relaxation. She has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training, Certificate IV in Business Management and is an Associate of the International Institute of Complimentary Therapy.

When Margaret (not her real name) first came to see me she had been suffering from claustrophobia for most of her life which was quite some time as Margret was 75 years old. Her fear of enclosed spaces had got progressively worst. It had gotten to the point where when she went to the toilet Margaret would have to use her handbag to prop the door open when she was on the toilet. Now I am sure we can all imagine how embarrassing and humiliating this had become, so Margaret had gradually withdrawn from going shopping and other places where she may have to use a public toilet.

After we worked together using EFT it was not long at all before Margret was back shopping and going out with friends and being able to enjoy her life again.

Pam Wright
Emotional Freedom Specialist and Personal Success Coach
Suite 3, 88 Sydney Pde Geelong, 3220
Ph; 5242 8887 mob: 0417 524 324
www.pamwright.com.au pam@pamwright.com.au

Pam has been assisting people to regain and maintain their emotional and physical well-being for the past 17 years and EFT has been a passion for the past 9 years after first experiencing EFT 2 years earlier in her own life.

In addition to a lifetime of valuable experience, Pam has qualifications as an Advanced EFT Practitioner, NLP Master Practitioner, Master in Eriksonian hypnosis, Results coaching, Meditation and Relaxation. She has a Certificate IV in Workplace Training, Certificate IV in Business Management and is an Associate of the International Institute of Complimentary Therapy.

At the recent Mind Body Spirit Festival (in Melbourne) I helped four different people with Whiplash. Whiplash is an injury caused when the head snaps forward and then back again and is most often associated with a rear-end collision in a motor vehicle.

Symptoms reported by sufferers of Whiplash include: pain and aching to the neck and back, referred pain to the shoulders, sensory disturbance (such as pins and needles) to the arms & legs and headaches.

I treated people with Whiplash from 30 years ago to 2 days ago. One person had experienced a head ache for 10 years after a car accident. For each person, using 5-10 minutes of EFT, they were able to completely relieve the neck and back pain associated with the whiplash.

If you have ever experienced a car accident or similar trauma to neck and spine be sure to apply EFT to the memory of the accident even if you have no obvious symptoms. Your body remembers the trauma and may still be compensating. Here’s an EFT sequence that can get you started.

Karate Chop: “Even though I have this pain in my neck and back caused by whiplash, I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though my body remembers the trauma of the accident regardless of how long ago it was, I’m ready to release it now. I ask my body to release and heal the trauma that is causing this neck and back pain, allowing myself to heal 100% even better than before.”

Eyebrow (EB): “This whiplash pain in my neck”
Side of the eye (SE): “This whiplash pain and my body’s memory of the accident”
Under the eye (UE): “All the whiplash trauma in my body”
Under the nose (UN): “This whiplash pain in my neck”
Chin (CH): “This whiplash pain in my neck”
Collarbone (CB): “The whiplash pain in my back and neck”
Under the arm (UA): “This whiplash pain in my neck, the headaches, the backaches, allowing myself to heal”
Under the breast (UB): “I’m ready to forgive myself for any thing I did to contribute to this whiplash, and open to one day forgiving anyone else who had anything to do with this whiplash”

After a few rounds, reassess your pain and range of movement, taking care of your own physical wellbeing. Usually, after a few rounds, the pain will move or change in some way. Continue chasing the pain, and come up with a new focusing phrase for the new location of the pain and continue applying EFT until there is no trace left.

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