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Trigeminal Neuralgia – perhaps the worst pain known to medical science - disappears after addressing core issues with EFT
Hi Everyone,
Those who doubt that unresolved negative emotions show up as physical symptoms should immerse themselves in this fascinating article by Christine Hines from the UK. Note how she uses EFT for routine pain management but, in the face of current intense emotions, her pain was so intense that she had to search for core issues. Once found, of course, the pain disappears. Stories like these appear frequently on our website. You are encouraged to print them out, create a book from them and give them to your physician(s). Please consult physicians on all medical issues.
Hugs, Gary
Dear Gary,
In 1998 I was diagnosed as having trigeminal neuralgia (TN), which is said to be one of the most painful conditions known to medical science if not the most painful. For many people this is a devastating condition. In fact, just three years ago I saw a leading neurosurgeon in the UK who said he believed I suffered from a severe form of combined trigeminal neuralgia and atypical facial pain. I had always believed I could do things to help myself but at that time, I still hadn’t found the answer.
Before I became experienced with EFT I was fortunate to benefit from hypnotherapy but I still felt I was trapped somehow by this terrible condition, just managing to stay out of reach of its worst effects. However, earlier this year I was challenged again by some terrible pain.
Over the past couple of years I have used EFT to deal with any pain that has crept in and it has been very effective, something which I am very grateful for. However, earlier this year I slipped back and found myself in the grip of some new pain. This time it seemed as though I couldn’t do anything to modify it at all, even though I tapped and tapped again I couldn’t make a difference. My heart sank. However, I was determined and so I gave myself some time to truly focus on what was going on.
There had been a lot of ‘stuff’ going on in my personal life and I obviously wasn’t dealing with it very well.
My elder daughter had emigrated. She moved from the UK to Norway. Not such a huge distance you might say, but this was the first time she had really left home and she was going so far! Rather than a simple car drive to see her I would need to catch a couple of planes.
Two days before she left, the pain had swept into my jaw. It stayed away while I was helping her pack and when I took her to the airport but it was there over the course of the following two days. Also, for the first time ever, this pain was determined to make its presence felt even when I was completely still and reasonably (as I thought) relaxed. It just wouldn’t go. It woke me up during the night and stayed, hanging on and it was extremely unpleasant.
I became determined to tap it away. I gave myself time and I also thought about various things I tell my clients. As therapists we are very good at delivering advice but maybe not so good at following our own. And so I started tapping.
- First, I tapped on my doubts of being able to make a difference for myself … I know I could work with clients but not for myself.
- I also tapped on my feeling that I was unworthy of the time and effort, that I was unworthy of receiving relief and that my feelings were unimportant.
- I tapped on the pain of my daughter leaving; the pain of losing my daughter and my fears for her being so far away from home.
As I was tapping on my fears I realised that my fears were reflecting my mother’s fears for me and my sisters. In fact, my mother’s fears of anything away from the ordinary and already experienced. I was feeling my mother’s fears for her grand-daughter too. I realised that though I had been brought up by very good loving parents, there was a great deal of anxiety and a need to work hard and play safe.
I went on to tap on my pain and my anger at “Life allowing my daughter to leave me in this way … She should be near me … She should be near home … Why does this have to happen? … My best friend is leaving.”
That lead to recalling that I had to leave my best friend when I was 6 and changed schools and then again at 11 when my family moved and I hated my new home and my new school. I was very unhappy in the new town. “And now my best friend is leaving me.”
I kept tapping and tapping, allowed myself to make real contact with my emotions which, I realise, are usually very well hidden from me. I have been taught to keep them well under control and ‘not to make a fuss’ or think my feelings should get in the way of making ‘sensible decisions’. The tapping enabled me to remove the armour and release the emotions that had been trapped underneath.
As I tapped so the tears came, and the huge emotions that were there expressed themselves and so I just kept tapping.
I felt it was indulgent of me to allow myself take time for my feelings. My feelings … a voice from the past asked me: why were my feelings important? I tapped on that too!
I tapped on a huge range of factors that I realised have affected all of my life … or at least, all of my life once I had learned my lessons as a Catholic child.
About an hour or more had passed by the time I had finished tapping, and guess what? Yes, the pain that just would not go, the pain that even extremely strong medications had failed to shift in the past, HAD GONE.
This experience not only got rid of the pain but has also done something even more important. It has given me confidence. I now know that I can deal with anything that may arise in the future. I have believed for a long time that I could make a difference where the pain was concerned but now, I have conviction that I can do so. EFT has made that possible and I can receive the benefits of being part of that amazing creative process just in the same way that anyone else can.
Of course, as I go along and apply EFT for myself in the way of the Personal Peace Procedure as you recommend, Gary, I know I will have less and less challenges from TN and one day it will simply not be an issue in my life at all.
Oh, if anyone ever works with a client with trigeminal neuralgia, please respect their guidance about where to tap … or rather, which points to avoid. Also, as talking can be very difficult this is a time to allow intuition to lead.
Oh, another result of all the tapping that I did about my daughter leaving was that, having cleared a lot of the associated emotional pain, I made room for and allowed myself to enjoy all the positive feelings: her excitement, the wonderful adventure she was embarking on, her courage and confidence in taking this huge step. And of course, with MSN instant messaging, Norway is just a moment away and if ever she has a problem I can still send her positive healing energy too!
Christine Hines
