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- Vietnam Vet with severe PTSD sleeps through the night for the first time in 39 years
- War veteran with PTSD gets quality results with EFT
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- Pat Farrell resolves her own PTSD
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- How I handled my PTSD (child abuse) all by myself
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- A problem staying focused and present had its roots in childhood trauma -- EFT resolved it.
- Difficulty with labor pains had its roots in childhood sexual abuse
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- A client talks about her abusive childhood and her relief via EFT
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- Cataract surgery goes perfectly after releasing inner child Issues
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- Did Brenda really abuse her brother?
- Three dissociative disorder cases
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- Three EFT sessions lift depression, anger and sexual abuse trauma
- Pat Gurnick is my hero
- War trauma--no more nightmares
- 15 minutes of EFT brings dramatic results to a Vietnam Veteran
- EFT tapping for trauma brings unexpected benefits
- EFT "Choices" for recent NYC trauma victims.
- Using EFT to negotiate with multiple personalities
- This psychiatrist uses EFT
- Pieter de Zwart combines his intuition with quality testing of his work for a first class result for trauma
- Borrowing Benefits brings up and collapses the Big One
- EFT newcomer resolves her own deep seated issues from childhood
- Handling the aftermath of a mugging with EFT...over the phone
- EFT used instead of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) on severe trauma with impressive results
- EFT Trauma Session Seemed Complete But Needed More Work
- Praise for the EFT Tearless Trauma Technique
- Another approach to the Movie Technique
- Handling an abuse case in a quality way
- Working with Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
- Rape resolved in record time
- The connection between vitiligo and a traumatic experience
- Trauma relief one week after the Sept. 11, 2001 tragedy
- EFT after an attack in the street
- Helping a lost boy and his family out in the woods - spontaneous EFT
- The value of guessing: Releasing trauma in an injured elbow
- Sexual abuse case
- EFT helps clear early date rape trauma
- How Rebecca Gurland started with the EFT Personal Peace Procedure and wound up collapsing her major core issues
- Hollywood film maker resolves deep personal traumas with EFT
- Resolving the intense after effects of child birth trauma
- A Detailed and Masterful Article on Using EFT for Trauma
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- Tapping for prenatal issues brings benefits
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- A traumatic fall from a tree
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- The Movie Technique for a traumatic memory and unresolved grief
- How to make EFT work when it "doesn't work."
- Lawyer resolves many personal traumas and writes testimonial letter
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- It started in a prison camp
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- An expert discusses EFT and sudden trauma.
- An extreme trauma with a severe abreaction--and what to do about it
- EFT in the aftermath of domestic violence
- Rapid relief from accident flashbacks
- Trauma in the trunk of a car
- Using EFT to unravel the many pieces of a child molestation
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- The layers of trauma
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- Where only the pros should tread.
- Successfully handling childhood molestation--a classy case by Nancy Morris
- The "emotional stunt double" process using EFT
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Relieving the trauma of a car accident with EFT
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Hi Everyone,
JoAnn SkyWatcher gives us a helpful step-by-step trip through a successful EFT session for accident trauma. Note how the physical problems subsided and re-appeared at a later time. This is usually evidence that there are more aspects to address.
Hugs, Gary
JoAnn,
Recently I participated in a 3-day workshop and really got to know the participants. It was truly an amazing weekend, and one of the highlights is that we would quickly come to miss the presence of someone if they weren't there.
One day we were startled to hear that “Sarah,” one of the participants, had been in a car accident on her way home from the workshop the day before. Her car had been hit by a drunk driver, and she was in the hospital. Fortunately she had not been seriously injured, and was able to make it to the end of the workshop that afternoon. I decided to volunteer my EFT services and we worked by telephone the next day.
Before the call I went to the archives of the EFT website and searched for "car accident" in order to get a sense of what other practitioners had done (because I hadn't dealt with the particular trauma of a recent car accident).
I asked Sarah to describe what she saw, heard and felt during the accident. I also asked her about her fears and other feelings. I also asked her to give the accident a name - like the name of a movie. I then asked her about the pain she was having in her neck: the color (red); shape (triangular); texture (striated muscle); sound (Ahhh!!!-screaming); temperature (hot) … and a rating of the level of intensity of the pain which was 7 on a scale of 0 to 10.
I bundled together all of the aspects of the car accident and Sarah titled it “sucks”. So, I asked her to tap on her karate chop point while she said her set-up phrase.
Even though I was in a sucky car accident…
Even though I was really scared by being in this sucky car accident…
Even though it was really scary being in this sucky car accident…
Then we did one round of tapping through the different points, saying, Sucky car accident! The next couple of rounds she repeated the following phrases that described what she had sensed while tapping on each point:
I was driving through the intersection
I heard tires squealing
And thought that was not a good noise
I saw the teal blur coming at me
I first thought nothing would happen
I felt the impact of the car hitting the back left wheel
I'm getting hit and the car is spinning
I smell the airbag going off
It smells like gunpowder
I hear the sound of braking glass
I hear the sound of the impact
The squealing tires and the smack
Like a smack across the face
The car is spinning around 180 degrees
My glasses get knocked off
My vision is blurry
I see him drive off
I heard my neighbors talking
I am pissed that he drove off.
The tapping brought her level of intensity down from 7 out of 10 to 3 for the trauma of the car accident. I then asked her about the pain in her neck, which dropped from 7 to 5 out of 10 (without directly working on the pain in her neck). We tapped on he trauma of the accident, and when the level of intensity dropped for that, I checked to see how the pain in the neck was doing.The pain dropped right along with the level of intensity of the trauma.
We continued tapping for the trauma of the sucky car accident. Her level of intensity went to 2 out of 10 and then almost to zero. However, the pain in her neck only dropped to 4 out of 10. I asked Sarah to look inside and see if there was something that she had overlooked. She realized that she was feeling angry and embarrassed.
So, we tapped on her anger and embarrassment for a couple of rounds, and her level of intensity remained the same. I asked if there was anything else that she was feeling. She reported feeling some guilt about the accident, even though it wasn't her fault. So, I tried using humor, and had her yell loudly about how guilty she was for driving the car. At each point, I asked her to yell louder.
I think the yelling helped because her level of intensity dropped to 1 out of 10 for the trauma of the sucky accident, and the pain in her neck dropped to 2 out of 10. Next, I asked her to do the 9-gamut and it brought her level of intensity to 0 out of 10 for the trauma, though the pain in her neck remained at 2 out of 10. It only took two more rounds of tapping directly for the pain in her neck bring it to zero.
The first twenty minutes of the session I used to learn about all aspects of the accident, and how she felt about it, and to describe the pain in her neck. Then we tapped for about thirty minutes to dissolve the trauma of the accident itself. We only spent five minutes directly tapping for the pain in her neck, and in less than one hour, both the trauma of the accident and the pain in her neck were completely gone.
It has been a month since Sarah was in the accident. We communicated by email today. I asked how she is doing, and she responded, "I'm feeling pretty good. My body still gets tired very easily but better each week. I'm having pain now (when I do have it) right behind my heart, at my sacrum and sometimes also in my neck. One good thing is that in my last visit to my chiropractor I had no upper cervical stuff to be worked on, which was the first time probably ever!"
JoAnn SkyWatcher
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