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Persistence pays for chronic health problems
Hi Everyone,
Here's a good example of how persistent detective work can bring benefits when you are seemingly stuck. Terry Morel of the UK was making minimal progress on a client's chronic health issues even though, presumably, a core issue was being addressed. As it turns out, that core issue was not the only one. Please consult physicians on all medical issues.
Hugs, Gary
Pat, who is in her mid 40,s had a history of long standing physical problems that her doctors had been unable to specifically diagnose. She would suffer from severe abdominal pain and diarrhea shortly after eating which in turn meant that she would eat very little, especially in the evening.
In fact at one stage, she was found to be ketotic when she went to see her doctor. She was also anaemic and following an endoscopy she was found to have oesophagitis. She was certainly very pale and tired looking when she came to see me with dark circles under her eyes.
I started off by asking her how long she had been having these health issues. She thought for a bit and replied that she hadn’t been really well for about 14 years or so but that the problems were slowly getting worse and she was losing faith in conventional medicine.
I asked, “What was happening in your life about that time?” She replied after some thought that her first child was born at that time. She didn’t see the connection at first but I felt it was worth exploring how the childbirth experience had been for her.
As Pat was telling me about the labour, she was obviously getting quite distressed at the memory of it all. I decided to use the ‘Sneaking up on the problem’ technique and start globally before getting specific to take the edge off of the distress.
We started with her own setup statement of Even though it was a nightmare of a delivery… After a couple of rounds of tapping the distress was down to an intensity level of 1 out of 10, and I started to get more specific by using the Movie Technique. I asked Pat to pick an incident from her labour and she said it would have been having the epidural set up.
Trying to get her to have a very specific event in mind, I asked, “How long does this incident last?” We eventually got to a 5 - 10 minute scene. When I asked her to give the movie/scene a name she answered without hesitation ‘Out of Control’.
Pat’s 2 day labour had left her and her husband totally exhausted and while she wanted as natural a birth as possible, she ended up having the labour augmented, an epidural and traumatic forceps delivery. On top of this the epidural had only worked partially leaving her legs feeling numb but still feeling everything else. The labour room staff had shown little compassion, and failed to explain things, leaving Pat and her husband feeling vulnerable, alone and unsupported.
I would like to be able to say that I performed a ‘one minute wonder’ with Pat and that after one session, everything was fine. Sadly things didn’t work out like that and we had several sessions and went back to the childbirth trauma many times clearing different aspects and getting short-term improvements in her health but nothing lasting. Each time, we tapped on a slightly different aspect of Pat’s experience and it is a testament to Pat that she kept coming back for more sessions. Many of them were very emotional.
We were able to get good and lasting results from other issues like improving motivation and a phobia about flying but the health issues still remained. As homework, I had asked Pat to tap on herself daily and use a Personal Peace Procedure which she did and helped to improve lots of other things too.
She had also tried different things such as hair analysis, changing her diet with dairy free and then gluten free and each time she would get a temporary improvement but then it would all come back again. We discussed and tapped for primary and secondary gains for her ill health and I was coming to the conclusion that I must be missing something. We tapped on the short cuts form and also the full form of EFT, Chased the pain, Daisy Chained over different sessions but still no permanent resolution.
I decided that maybe there was something else going on. Maybe there was another core issue. So I asked her, “If there was one event or person in your life you would rather not have had, who or what would that be?”
“My ex boyfriend,” was her immediate response. Using the Tell the Story Technique she told me about the relationship she had before she met her husband. I could see she was undergoing a whole range of emotions. She was angry and sad and contemptuous and guilty etc. all at the same time
We tapped for all of these emotions and also for Even though I am angry at myself for giving my ex all this energy which I should be giving to my husband and children…
Finally I decided to use the Five Minute Daily Energy Routine as described in ‘The Healing Power of EFT and Energy Psychology’ by David Feinstein, Donna Eden and Gary Craig. We discovered that her energies were forming a homolateral pattern. And we got significant results from the Homolateral Crossover exercise.
This case is still ongoing as Pat is still not 100% fit though there have been some improvements. Her anaemia has improved from 8.4 to 11.2, and her blood pressure has dropped from 168/94 to 135/76 and she is also having longer periods between diarrhea and abdominal pain.
While deeper core issues are more difficult to shift, the resolution to other issues such as fear of flying, maths, and motivation, within one or two rounds of tapping showed that EFT was working. Pat is a very complex person and many times I have had to revisit the same issue which I thought I had cleared previously and have uncovered a different aspect.
I learnt so much from this case. I believe that Pat had several core issues and that the experience of childbirth was the one that opened the floodgates, which led to her poor health. I was also able to use a variety of EFT techniques and it was fascinating to see how the human mind makes sense of things and creates its own reality. I am deeply indebted to her for her patience and allowing me to work with her for so long.
Terry Morel
