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Dr. David Lake's public speaking phobia
Hi Everyone,
Those of you who attended the second recent Seminar were privileged to meet one of our most delightful participants, David Lake, MD from Australia. Those who have (or are getting) the video tapes will view the complete session I had with David regarding his fear of public speaking.
His initial fear was quite intense. He came up on stage with a pounding heart (a 9) and, as the session progressed, all fear symptoms subsided. Further his problem with clarity of thinking, which was his most difficult impediment while speaking, was nowhere to be seen as he spoke in front of the audience (by himself) and fielded their many questions. It was a fun session. There was a lot of humor and David was quite relaxed.
The question often asked about these procedures, though, is "does it last?" David called me yesterday gleefully recounting a recent public speaking episode where, to his surprise, he had no fear of public speaking whatsoever. However, and this is important, he had a fair amount of emotional discomfort before his presentation in anticipation of the fact that his old fear would resurrect itself.
In my experience, this could arise from two possibilities. First, there may have been some aspects that were not covered in our initial session that were now showing up. This is usually a simple matter of tapping on them to complete the job. Second, and this is what I believe happened here, David had always had this public speaking fear and so expected it to show up again. It is the way things had always been. To have no fear of public speaking would be unknown to him. True, he had no fear during our previous session but that is easily "explained away" subconsciously as a one time thing. The true test would be speak in public on his own and outside of a session. This is what he did.
David tells the story below.....
Hugs, Gary
Dear Gary,
Here is my e-mail for the group as I promised today on the phone.
I would like to tell you exactly what I (and Steve Wells) have been up to this week in Melbourne and Sydney. Since the Advanced Workshop, and my treatment module with you, I had not volunteered for any public speaking. In truth, I didn't know if I was cured or not. My friend and energy brother Steve decided to "stretch" me and asked me to present a workshop about EFT with him; I said "yes" (moaning inside about what kind of a friend would test the therapy in such a direct way!). As the weeks passed towards the date, I found to my alarm that the first workshop had 40 therapists. Flying to the city involved a lot of tapping for a vague fear and a lot of "not knowing".
In the room, attendees began to arrive. Instead of feeling as if I was "walking the plank", I enjoyed meeting them.....still I believed that the problems would come when I was introduced, and when I actually had to do something. To my enormous (delighted) surprise NOTHING BAD HAPPENED! Even better, I was totally relaxed! My pulse didn't rise one extra beat...my voice was firm.....breathing OK......mind clear and responsive/receptive. What a feeling!
Well, I ran with this and had a great experience. Steve says he will tell the group too, but if I tell you that the first day involved leading a group through a pain minimisation procedure, and demonstrating my therapy with an individual session, and that the feedback was very good, then you can see I had to struggle mightily to avoid getting a swelled head! For me, it was a therapeutic multi-orgasm! In fact, I would rate this day as one of the greatest experiences I have ever had---right up there with the birth of our first child.
So many people have now had benefit from the healing art of EFT and been helped to learn and teach it too, all as a result of your professional and compassionate approach, Gary. Personally, I now think the sky's the limit, but we aren't going to take the credit for all this, are we? I am going to give the credit to you and Steve (and a bit to me----I did my best work!) but I think you would give it to God....
I give thanks that I am in the right place at the right time, with all of you.
May all of you have as much healing as I have had.
My loving intentions,
David Lake, MD
