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Healing childhood trauma with the “Bundling Baggage Technique”
Hi Everyone,
I find it most efficient to break down ongoing problems into specific events and then collapse them one by one. However, there are times when good work can be achieved by "bundling them together." A method for doing this is described here by Carna Zacharias-Miller.
Hugs, Gary
Hello Gary,
I am an EFT practitioner specializing in emotional pain surrounding "missing mother" and sometimes father (childhood trauma). Recently, I took a teleclass conducted by EFT Master Lindsay Kenny. She introduced the "Bundling Baggage Technique" to remove what she calls serial childhood trauma (not a single event but an ongoing stressful situation). It went very well, and so I decided to try it with one of my clients. Here is the result.
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I have been working with Marie (not her real name), 56 years old, on her missing mother and father for some time. Alcoholism and sexual abuse have been the big negative themes in her unstable childhood. We have made good progress, but sometimes she still feels haunted by her dark past. She agreed to work with this new technique. This was all done over the phone.
First we "bundled her baggage" by gathering phrases and messages that she heard time and again in her childhood. She came up with the following:
- You are too sensitive.
- Save your tears, you'll need them when you get older.
- You should know better.
- What's the matter with you, you are fine.
- There is something wrong with you.
- You are defective.
- You are not good enough.
- You are no good, less than dirt.
- You have to be a servant to be appreciated by others, especially by men.
At that point, the overall level of discomfort was at an 8 on a scale of 0 to 10.
She reported that her left hand was clutched and the muscles in her body were tight and rigid. We did reversal neutralizations on the karate chop point and the sore spot: Even though I am affected after all these years by these childhood traumas... Then we tapped two rounds on the reminder phrase: these childhood traumas, and after that several rounds on the actual phrases and messages. The level of discomfort was now at a 5 to 6 out of 10.
We proceeded to tap several rounds on her emotions of fear, anger, consternation, disappointment, regret, and sadness, followed by Even though I still have some anger, resentment, and fear ... there is a part of me that wants to let that go. I want to let that part of me to win. And I love and accept both parts. And I want to let go of these emotions. I want to get over these traumas.
At that point Marie said that tears of relief were streaming down her face. "I understand,” she said. "They did not like me because I knew what was going on, because I knew the truth. They did not want me to know the truth. I have known in my head for some time that there was nothing wrong with me, but now I can feel it. What a revelation." She was down to a discomfort level of 1 out of 10, and very happy.
We built a "Choices" sentence that she will continue to use on her own: Even though there is still some childhood trauma left in my life, I choose to feel strong and clear about my past and present.
All this took about 45 minutes on the phone. Three days later I received the following email from her: "I'm still amazed how clear the feelings and awareness were about being the little girl, and at the same time realizing the truth of how the adults really felt. It wasn't because they REALLY believed I was dumb and defective in some way, it was because they didn't want to admit what was really going on and chose to lie, to themselves and me. I guess I've heard this before, but people or books can tell someone these things all day long - until you really feel it in your heart and mind's eye and see from their perspective, it just doesn't go as deep. It's like giving myself a pardon from a self-imposed, (albeit manipulated by the adults) emotional prison.
I've found no other technique besides EFT that unveils the false beliefs in such a way as to allow the truth to be revealed almost instantly."
CARNA ZACHARIAS-MILLER, EFT-CC, EFT-ADV
