On our recent EFT training course, as part of the teaching, I gave an EFT demo. With permission I share the client’s story:
EFT Level 1 Training
When LG was 5 years old, she was getting ready for school one day while Ben by Michael Jackson was playing on the radio. A few minutes later she opened the front door and nearly stepped on her dog, who was lying dead, having been run over. Since that day she has not been able to listen to that song. The shock had been embedded into her body and associated with “Ben”.
We began the EFT session without any detail of the story so as not to reactivate the trauma, keeping the process as gentle as possible. I asked her to give the memory (or “movie scene” as we call it in EFT) a title and we simply tapped on that. She called it the Dog Movie and on a scale from 0 to 10, where 0 is not intensity at all, and 10 is the most intense imaginable, she rated it at a 9. After one round of EFT the intensity reduced to 5 and a subsequent round reduced it to a 2.
I then asked her if she would be willing tell the story of this event and we tapped on emotions arising as she was talking including sadness in her chest, scared feeling in her stomach, confusion and feeling like it was her fault, being pulled out the way by her father and resentment at feeling she needed to be strong for her parents.
At the end of the session she felt calm and peaceful about the memory so I suggested listening to the song Ben. Initially she couldn’t stand the idea – it was associated with horrible feelings inside her. But with another round or two of EFT, she felt fine! Finally testing the work, she was able to listen to Ben with no negative feelings at all!
As an addendum which I am adding 3 years after I wrote this article, yesterday my daughter just got home from school really upset as she had just seen a dog run over and a young girl sitting next to it crying. She had HEARD a scream and crying as she approached and SEEN the dog. Both of which she could still see and hear. As a parent I was really upset that she had witnessed this and also for the dog and owner. I really don’t know how I would have supported her without EFT! Within a few minutes, the sound and image was distanced and although she was still sad, she was back to her normal self! EFT is my parenting tool and my self help tool!
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