By Christine Moran, EFT-ADV

Recently my family and I attended a big celebration at a friend’s house.  It was fantastic family fun and the weather was glorious (we British are so grateful for nice weather).  More than 30 children played happily in the large garden all afternoon.  Whilst I was chatting, my 12 year old daughter (who incidentally is a BIG fan of EFT) suggested that I might like to pop inside the house as one of the boys was in difficulty.

Puzzled, I went inside and viewed a group gathered around a boy of about 10 years old and saw that two adults were supporting him as he seemed too weak to stand.  He was writhing around in pain clutching the side of his abdomen.  He had uneasy breathing and was showing signs of distress.  He had been like this for about 10 minutes.

Their attempts to help him seemed to be in vain.  His mother said that he has a nut allergy, and although she didn’t think he had consumed any, he was indeed developing a rash on his back.  I had been standing at a distance but felt compelled to offer some help.  First, I fetched a chair.  He slumped down, grey faced, short of breath and moaning.

I gently asked his mum whether she minded that I try a relaxation technique that might help calm him.  She agreed as she shot out the front door saying she was going to move the car closer to the house so she could leave with him.  I picked up his left hand (his other hand was clutching his body) and tapped gently on his karate chop point as I spoke to him. “Tell me how you feel” “Pain’s here (pointing to his side) and in my back” “What does it feel like?”  “A stabbing pain”  “What’s your name?” “Matthew”

Continuing to tap on the karate chop point, I started the set up, Even though I have this stabbing pain in my side and back, I’m still a great boy.  I asked, “Is that right Matthew, you are a great boy?”  “I’d like to think so,” he whispered.  I crouched down to his level and detected a faint smile.  I tapped on him from the top of the head through to under the arm.  After, I asked him to try and take a breath in and out.

Before I got a chance to check how he was feeling, he lifted his face and made full eye to eye contact for the first time and said, “I don’t understand what you’ve done but the pain has almost gone!”  “Great Matthew, you’re doing fine, now if you wouldn’t mind we’ll just do a little more together and try and see if we can get rid of the rest of the pain.”  I asked “Does it still feel like stabbing?” and he said it was like a dull ache.

Again I tapped his karate chop point with the set up, Even though my side and back still have some ache, I am still a great boy.  After one more complete round of "remaining ache" I was faced with a bright-eyed smiling boy who had no ache … normal breathing … and NO RASH.  The whole process took about 90 seconds from start to finish.

Michael was incredulous, “That’s amazing … I feel fine now, Thanks Lady.” With that he bolted out the front door transformed and ran down the driveway calling his Mum, then pointing at me he beamed “That Lady in there made me better, go and she’ll tell you what she did.”  Then he shouted back, “Thanks Lady.”

Happy to have helped, I stood up and turned around.  To my surprise I was faced with an awestruck audience of adults and children.  They were open mouthed and fixed to the spot having watched in silence this strange technique and witnessed such an instant transformation.  They all echoed, “How do you do that?”  

Then followed 15 minutes of questions about EFT and its applications.  And, so there and then I had the Law of Freely Give, Freely Receive played out before me as three parents booked onto my next EFT introductory workshop!

Today I have checked and Matthew is feeling fine.

Christine Moran EFT-ADV