- Fears And Phobias
- Agoraphobia
- Flying
- Fear of flying and many aspects
- Getting behind a complicated Fear of Flying case
- 57 year old fear of flying vanishes in one EFT session -- 3 month follow-up included
- EFT eliminates fear of flying--over the telephone
- Treating "fear of flying" as a trauma case.
- A Fear of Flying turned out to be a metaphor for another life issue
- Solid detective work finds the true cause of a Fear of Flying
- Quality session for a fear of flying insects
- A good example of EFT's Generalization Effect with the fear of flying
- Surrogate tapping for the fear of flying
- Brad Reed helps with the fear of flying (followup at end)
- Do you want to skydive?
- A fear of flying case with a unique twist
- Fear of Flying, Public Speaking and All Phobias Gain Rapid Relief From New Meridian Based Procedure
- Turkish MD finds core issue for a flying phobia
- Intense fear of flying eliminated with EFT -- with follow-up and interesting side benefits
- Chrissie Hardisty's former fear of flying
- Simple EFT Basic Recipe collapses phobias regarding ladders, flying and cats.
- Fear of flying subsides--follow up included
- Eliminating a VERY intense fear of flying 6 weeks before getting on the plane
- EFT "on the fly"--the fear of flying
- Second hand tapping on the fear of flying
- EFT eliminates fear of flying--an excellent study in aspects
- No Drugs Necessary to Reduce Fear of Flying, Jet Lag and Air Travel Health Risks
- Fear of flying, leaving home is dangerous, and you can never come back!
- Up, up and away--the fear of flying
- How my computer helped clear a fear of flying
- Can we collapse the fear of flying even when there is no airplane around?
- What was really behind Janice's fear of flying?
- Animals
- The bird fear that had an unusual aspect
- A detailed "fear of dogs" case using SPECIFIC EVENTS
- Ten year old boy uses EFT to rid his friend of a dog phobia
- Fear of birds is minimized in minutes
- Breaking down a phobia into many aspects
- A dog phobia case that required persistence
- Success using EFT while imagining a phobia
- A quality look at how to test your work
- Sarah's cat phobia and other newcomer issues
- Fear of dogs disappears as EFT is used on an "unremembered memory"
- An EFT one minute wonder for fear of dogs gets a nanny a new job in a home with a 90 lb. dog
- Was the fear of cats the real issue?
- Claustrophobia
- EFT newbie helps claustrophobic husband prepare for full body scan machine with great results
- The Skeptic & Claustrophobia (or how I was treated like a
- EFT for panic attacks and claustrophobia -- quality approaches
- Claustrophobia has traumatic birth memory as its core issue
- Claustrophobia relieved in one session
- A follow-up on claustrophobia
- Testing claustrophobia results.
- Driving
- Applying EFT remotely to a driving phobia in India
- Jack Foriska eliminates his own terror of highway driving
- Essential Tremor and a cliff-driving phobia
- A bridge-over-water phobic crosses the Golden Gate Bridge
- Resolving many aspects of Freeway and Bridge Fears
- 40 year driving fear gone: "Now I drive that mountain like I own it!"
- Borrowing benefits brings a welcome side effect
- A skeptic, escalator & freeway phobias and converging lines (with a lead in discussion on "getting worse")
- Using the Movie Technique in client
- Success with Fear of Bridges over Water -- with 7 month update
- Loren Fogelman collapses her own driving anxiety
- Driving fear in Louisiana
- EFT for motorway driving anxiety
- Heights
- A seemingly simple height phobia with underlying causes
- Surrogate mental tapping achieves success for a height phobic in a balcony
- Successful surrogate EFT on Hiccups, Fear of Heights and a Sore Throat
- Textbook height phobia case--two rounds of EFT and "Poof"
- EFT helps with fear of heights in the California Sierra Mountains
- A height phobia with traumatic roots
- The Fear of Heights was not really the Fear of Heights
- Movies and a fear of heights
- Newbie completely collapses a fear of heights
- Nate's fear of heights: From the Grand Canyon to a helicopter experience
- A phobia with an unusual cause
- The height phobia that wouldn't move
- A couple of one minute wonders - fear of heights and feeling dizzy
- A height phobia in Poland with a classic Apex response.
- Getting to specific events for resolving a height phobia
- Needles
- A Newbie overcomes her own needle phobia
- Client with two phobias: Fear of mice and needles.
- Challenging needle phobia is eliminated
- Fear of needles is cleared after addressing many aspects with EFT
- Using EFT when having blood taken - even if a vein collapses and you have a fear of needles
- Five sessions of EFT for a severe needle phobia - every detail needed tapping
- Getting beyond a 30 year fear of needles in 15 minutes
- Medical
- Being creative about a stubborn dental phobia
- EFT clears an obsessive dental phobia: Note the insightful questions involved
- Using EFT for the fear of dentists - including a several year follow-up
- EFT for obsessive health fear
- EFT for a fear of surgery
- Client spontaneously recalls important core issue while tapping for Fear of Choking
- EFT for a fear of anesthesia allowed Mara's client to have a lung transplant
- Nurse had a fear of taking blood samples
- Elimination of fear of death and loss of two children in 15 minutes
- John was paralyzed with fear over his wife's cancer
- Success with infertility issues and "The Fear of the Fear."
- EFT helps a 12 year old girl with a dentist fear go from screaming and crying to singing
- Fear of Gynecological exams cured with EFT
- EFT newbie uses EFT successfully on a fear of roller coasters and high blood pressure (hypertension)
- EFT for fear of blood tests: Anorexia patient is able to receive hospital treatment
- EFT Newcomer takes care of her own phobia of dead animals
- EFT eliminates a serious fear of vomiting
- Snakes
- Being Alone
- Water / Swimming
- Overcoming the fear of swimming in a lake--many aspects treated
- Anthony's water phobia--gone in an afternoon
- Atrial Fibrillation, EFT as a University Curriculum and a Water Phobia session saves lives
- Niki LaMont on a water phobia
- An intense test of a water phobia relief
- From extreme water phobia to swimmer with EFT ... "I wouldn
- A stubborn fear -- The importance of persistence and 'seemingly unrelated issues'
- Elevators
- Spiders
- EFT for different aspects of a tarantula scare
- Rapidly collapsing a complicated spider phobia
- Lainy Wells' first EFT test--spiders
- "I have a fear of spiders you can't begin to touch!!"
- Spider phobia relief as a side benefit
- Two at-risk teenagers simultaneously resolve severe phobias with EFT in one session
- EFT for a child
- High-fiving a spider - a skeptical newbie's first case
- General
- Professionally stepping through an intense phobia case
- From being "scared to death of math" to an A in Algebra for a 36 year old returning to school
- A model case for all complicated phobias
- EFT for musicians
- Helping a young girl ride her bike
- It seemed like a bus phobia
- EFT calms a little girl
- EFT for a core fear brings a useful side effect
- 10 year follow-up on multiple phobias and dependency issues
- Roseanna Ellis helps an 11 year old boy overcome phobias
- EFT's Peace Potential: Establishing rapport and trust with a wasp
- How tapping for a fear automatically brought up a core issue -- birth trauma
- How EFT stopped 2 young boys from crying at the barbershop - a lesson in surrogate tapping
- EFT for fear of bees
- The impossible phobia--how did you do that?
- Tapping to release future fears
- Tapping on a single point brought fear and pain to a halt
- MD introduces an innovative idea that brings relief for stubborn relationship issue
- Teenager
- Fear of worms points to critical "core issue"
- Mom uses EFT to help her fearful son ride a bike
- Progress with a "Social Phobic"
- Cell phone phobia
- Fear of social occasions resolved despite not finding the cause
- Resolving fear of stepping out of the house brings improved blood pressure and cholesterol levels
- One brief EFT session releases a fear that originated at birth--Important for serious EFT students
- Tapping during a frightening movie to remove the fear
- Quick phobia work aims at specific events
- Creative EFT session brings up many specific events underlying a tunnel phobia
- EFT for getting over the fear of giving a teleclass
- Fear of clowns and mimes
- EFT for 7 year old Jasmine's stage fright
- Michelle LaPrise's email phobia
- Deborah Lindsey shares her opinion about three major fears and phobias
- Fear of small spaces...a case with many aspects
- Trouble with math clears up after doing EFT on a "ghost vision"
- EFT reduces test anxiety in moments
- A birth trauma was the core issue behind this phobia
- Lifelong fear of "Screaming Sirens" fades after attention to many aspects
- Fear of entrapment and a useful way to uncover core issues
- Finding the REAL issues behind two (presumed) phobias
- Stripe phobia
- Collapsing fears associated with a gay man
- Severe tunnel phobic goes through 42 tunnels with minimal anxiety
- Surrogate EFT calms a frightened boy at school - a pipe bomb scare
- Extreme phobia eliminated after finding the core issue
- EFT side effect -- Banishing a show jumper
- Bonnie's fear of stairs
- Mandy Momberg's friend was afraid to be in her own home -- One month follow-up verifies EFT success
- An Intense fear of tunnels in Norway
- 21 year swallowing phobia clears after 2 simple rounds of basic EFT
- A very, very detailed look at undoing a fish phobia
- Some thoughts on EFT for fear
- An intense fear of choking on food was linked to stress at the dinner table and cleared with EFT
- Fear of riding on horseback disappears - but only after getting to the core issue
- 40 Years of Terror gone after 60 minutes with EFT--smoking addiction gone too.
- Tapping for fear of the
- Tunnel phobia--"oh that is so easy"
- EFT and gay issues - fear of men
- Using EFT for stage anxiety
- EFT for the fear of failure/success -- this time with an actress
- Bathroom phobia
- Camera-shy problem disappears after getting to core issue
- Using EFT for the wedding day jitters
- Very simple relief for an intense phobia. What is a phobia anyway?
- Young boy's eating phobia aided by a fascinating intuitive/surrogate session
- Virtual EFT on a motorbike in South Africa
- Young Debby enjoys her day -- no more fear of the Austrian Alps
- Young girl
General
A very, very detailed look at undoing a fish phobia
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Hi Everyone,
Aileen Nobles takes us behind the scenes of an intense fish phobia case. Note how her language aims at the phobia's many aspects.
Hugs, Gary
Hi Gary,
Phobias come in many forms but this is my first fish phobia. Rhonda was so terrified of fish that she would get all the classic panic symptoms if she saw a fish, a picture of a fish, fish on television or in a movie. She would be completely overwhelmed thinking about them, and the thought of of eating one was not in the realm of possibility.
For Rhonda it was completely rational to think that fish were like monsters, and they were going to attack and kill her. She had a fleeting past life memory that she drowned and was eaten by fish. No incident in this life connected with fish was traumatic. We approached the situation addressing fears and experiences from both lifetimes."
Rhonda's level of fear was 10 plus.
We started with the basic recipe:
- "Even though I'm terrified of fish, and have been this way since I was a little girl and I don't know why, it's OK I 'm still a terrific person."
- "Even though I hate the way fish look, even though I'm terrified of the way fish look, even though I cant stand the way fish look & I think they're going to attack &hurt me, its OK , I'm still a wonderful person anyway."
- "I don't know why I think they are going to hurt me, but I'm sure that they are.."
- " I don't know why I feel this way but I'm sure they are going to get me."
- "Its possible they got me in a past life when I drowned, ooh if they nibbled my body no wonder I hate them."
- "If that happened to me, it is in my cellular memory, and if I do have a cellular memory of drowning and being eaten by fish now is a good time to release it."
- "I don't want to hold on to that memory on any level of my being."
- "If I do have a cellular memory of drowning and being eaten by fish I am ready to let go of it."
- "It isn't likely to happen in this lifetime, so there's no point in me being that afraid of fish, they are not going to attack me."
- "Especially if they are in water and I'm not....cause their legs don't work very well."
- "So I really want to lose this phobia about fish. But I cant stand the way they look. They look so slimy. I hate the way the look so slimy and slithery."
- "I hate the way it makes me feel looking at them".
- "They are slithery and slimy and they look like monsters."
- "They may also be looking at me thinking that I look like a monster and be terrified of me . They are probably thinking, she may eat me or hurt me."
Rhonda broke out in laughter at this thought.
We continued to do basic tapping plus the head and inside of the wrists.
- "I can't stand the way they look with those big bulging eyes and they are slimy, but I'd like to lose my fear. They are much smaller than I am."
- "Its true they are in water and I'm usually on land."
- "I want to lose my fear of looking of them."
- "Whether it comes from a past life or this life I want to get over this fear. I want to relate to fish with a new attitude."
- "I want to get over my fear."
- "I choose to get over my fear."
- "I deserve to get over my fear."
- "I allow myself to get over the fear."
Rhonda when tested with kinesiology was weak on allowing. So we tapped on the sore spot:
- "Even though part of me (sub personality) doesn't feel safe allowing me to get over my fear of fish, I love and accept myself anyway."
We did a round of:
- "It's safe to get over this phobia...it's not safe."
- "Its safe to let go of my fear of the way they look."
- "They look slimy and slithery like monsters"
- "Monsters in my children's books looked different to fish"
- "Fish just look like fish"
- "My fear is irrational, and doesn't benefit me, it doesn't keep me safe, and there have been no cases of people being attacked by little fish lately."
- "A shark is a different issue, but little fish haven't killed anyone lately."
- "Its time to get over this fear."
- "Letting go of the fear that they are gong to hurt me."
- "Letting go of fear of the way they look and move."
- "It will benefit me to get over this fear now"
At the end of the session I asked Rhonda to test herself by going to look at an aquarium . In her next session she told me she had been in a delicatessen where they had fish in a tank. She had looked at them without her usual panic reaction.
We started the session by my opening a page of national Geographic magazine to a very large and not very pretty fish. Rhonda tapped on her karate point as she looked at the picture and was OK with looking at it for quite a long time. She said before the tapping, she would have slammed the book closed with a racing heart and sweaty palms.
Rhonda's level of intensity was around a 4 so we continued tapping on:
- "The way they look to me is just unfortunate, yet some people think they are beautiful. I don't have to find them beautiful, but I don't have to be afraid of them."
We did another round of:
- "Letting go of fear."
- "Allowing myself to get over it."
She was now down to 1. We tapped on residual fear and then tested by imagining that she was looking at big fish swimming in a tank.
Then she imagined herself in Hawaii, and fish are in the ocean with her. Her level rose to a two. We continued to tap on:
- "Even though swimming in the ocean with fish still scares me, its OK,"
- "I love the warm waters of Hawaii, colors of the fish in the water but its still a bit scary being in the water with them."
- "I'd like to be in the water without worrying about fish. I'd like to be comfortable swimming with those iddy, biddy, little fish."
- "Perhaps I can enjoy swimming with little fish. They may even welcome me in their ocean, and we can both enjoy the experience."
- "I can swim with these little fish and be free of the fear of them, so I can really enjoy the swimming experience."
- "I can do it."
- "Imagine doing it right now."
- "They may be saying to each other, she's nearly as graceful as we are,shes OK. even though she's got legs.
Laughter
- "I can do it."
- "I want to do it."
- "I like this idea, it makes me feel good."
Rhonda was now a zero and was excited about testing herself. We did a couple of rounds on her being able to eat fish.
"Even though I haven't been able to eat a fish, because of my fear of them, I can love and accept myself anyway."
- "I know fish are a good addition to my diet and now welcome them into my diet."
- "I thank the fish for helping me to stay healthy."
Rhonda found that the universe seemed to be constantly sending her fish tests. She would turn on television and a program about fish was showing. She would open a magazine and there were fish! I received an e-mail from her letting me know she had spent the day at the Long Beach Aquarium. She literally spent hours looking at fish and to her surprise found some of them to be quite pretty. I went to the aquarium the following week and believe me, she was eye to eye with some very large fish.
By losing this life long phobia, Rhonda felt more empowered in other areas of her life. I have found this to be the case with quite a few different phobias. I just love this work
Love and Light
Aileen Nobles
PS. Rhonda is in Europe for a while and I don't know if she has had any fish dinners yet...but my guess is...she has!!!
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