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EFT Case Studies

Here is a collection of some EFT case studies written by the practitioners on this site. Some are single-session case studies, others are multiple-session case studies.

The results of some of these sessions are quite impressive. They are written by skilled practitioners of EFT and they are true accounts of real sessions with real people, whose names have been changed for privacy.

EFT, especially when used by a highly skilled practitioner, often provides remarkable results, but not always. In order to keep things in perspective, provide context, and to create and to foster a realistic approach and expectations of what EFT can do for you it is helpful to keep the following three things in mind:

1. EFT does not always work.

EFT often provides impressive results, as it oes in some of these case studies below. However, there are times when EFT appears not to work at all. Although there are not so many articles on EFT not working as there are about articles.

Estimates of how often EFT works are only estimates but most skilled practitioners maintain that EFT works around eighty to ninety percent of the time. It seems that the more skilled you are with EFT, the higher the success rate. But noone has a one hundred per cent success rate with EFT. (N.B. the definition of success can vary from partial progress to complete resolution of the issue)

2. EFT doesn't always work as quickly as it does in the examples below.

There are times in which EFT can work in minutes, or even seconds, providing immediate and profound relief, even for long-standing problems. These are known as one-minute wonders and, whilst they can happen with EFT, they are quite rare.
There are times when EFT's progress is very slow and a lot of patience and tenacity is required before progress becomes evident.

3. EFT tends to work better when working with a skilled practitioner.

Self-applied EFT can be very effective for many simple issues. However,when you get stuck often all that is required is the help of a practitioner. It's true that the basics of EFT can be learnt a few minutes, but going from good results with EFT to excellent results requires skill, training and experience.

Case Study: Ghosts
Practitioner: Marion Walder
Client Details: Name: “K”, Gender: F, Age: 13
Case History/Details: One of my Reflexology clients recommended me to her sister and her daughter. My client told me her nice was seeing ghosts from when she was a little child. Up until now she could more or less cope well with it, but since recently a new ghost is residing in her room who is threatening her. He had attached himself to the girl whilst she was visiting a historical site with her mum and now neither the girl nor the mother can sleep well and both are very scared about the situation. They do not know who to contact about it either.

I said I could probably help her with EFT. (NB: I had read about a Practitioner’s session on an Entity in one of Gary Craig’s Newsletters last year). “K” was very suspicious and anxious about meeting a therapist, so we made just a � hour appointment, in which the girl could meet and talk to me and we could possibly already get an issue solved with EFT.

Session 1

“K” was very shy and spoke in a quiet voice, so that I could hardly understand what she said, if she spoke at all. She would uncomfortably sit down on the chair, her spine bent forward, her legs tensed up, nervously playing around with her fingers. In presence of her mother “K” told me that one male ghost is attacking and threatening her with weapons as soon as her mum would leave the room at night. I explained to them that EFT is like acupuncture, but without the needles. By tapping on the meridian points of the body and tuning into a problem the issue gets resolved and the energy can flow freely again. I said that ghosts are lost souls and as they are consisting of nothing else but energy, EFT should work on them as well. They both agreed that we should try it.

Both, “K” and her mother decided that I should do a one on one session with “K”. I could see that she was very nervous (flushed cheeks and not sitting comfortably on her chair), so we started with a

Setup rubbing the sore spot “Even though I’m very nervous about this session and I don’t know what all this will do to me, I’m a cool chick.” (she smiled for the first time)/“Even though I’m so nervous, I love and accept myself”/“Even though I am anxious, I am o.k.”

NB: Throughout the whole session tapping the shortcut, plus top of head and inside and outside of wrists instead of fingers. Also using 9 gamut.

1 round of tapping “I’m nervous”/”I’m so anxious” SUDS from 10 to 5

2nd round of tapping “remaining nervousness” SUDS 0

I assumed that, as “K” is psychic, she could check her room for the entity from where we were. I asked her to “see” whether the man was in her room right now. She “tuned in” and nodded, suddenly looking frightened. I asked whether she was o.k. and she said yes and that we could continue.

NB: As I am open to the spiritual side of life and well aware of harmful energetic influences, at this point I asked (just in my thoughts) for protection for my client and myself. Then I asked “K” to do the following setup with me.

Setup, tapping on KC: “I ask my energy system to protect me whilst I am tapping for the entity in my room. I am safe. I am now tapping for the entity in the room”

Tapping 2 rounds “As the entity in the room I no longer need traumatizing others”/”As the entity in the room I am ready to move on”/”...I can forgive”/”...I accept the guidance of a higher being to continue my onward journey”/”...I trust and forgive”/”...I am ready to move on into the light”, swapping the sentences randomly, finishing on top of the head.

I then asked K to tap on her thymus gland whilst repeating “I am no longer tapping for the entity in my room”, then repeating her Name “K” five times. NB: I did this for grounding her and separating her energy from the entity’s energy. I did the same for myself.

I asked “K” to check her room again. N.B. Her energy felt much lighter now. She “tuned in” and then looked at me with a big smile on her face. She said: “Feels good, he’s gone.”

After informing her mother on what we had been working on and that we have been successful in “removing” the vicious entity, both agreed for “K” to come back for another session, this time for 1 hour. There was a second entity, named “N”, who was a 19 year old girl residing in “K’s” room since several months. “K” was generally fine with the girl, but said, if she had the choice, she would rather like her to leave.

The following day “K” sent me an SMS saying that she felt great. She had recommended her mum to also have some EFT with me as it would help her. NB: I made a separate appointment, not described in this study, for “K’s” mother, who had big problems dealing with the whole situation.

Session 2 – 1 hr

I asked “K” how she felt about having this ability and whether her friends knew about it. “K” said, she once told a school friend’s mother about her “problem”, as this lady was a psychic medium and she was hoping to get some advice. Her girl friend overheard the conversation and told it to everybody at school the next day. She was then massively being teased and mobbed. This happened 18 months ago, and by now everybody had forgotten about it. However, “K” was scared someone could find it out now.

Setup rubbing the sore spot “Even though I’m scared that somebody at school could find out about me seeing ghosts, I’m a cool chick.”/ “Even though I have this fear that someone could find out about me...I asked: what if? What would they say? “K” is a nutcase, she is weird? She replied: I’m weird, crazy and retarded...Even though they call me weird, crazy and retarded, I deeply and completely love and accept myself” “Even though I am scared about my friends finding me weird, I totally accept myself, just the way I am”

NB: Throughout the whole session using basic recipe. Tapping the shortcut, plus top of head and inside and outside of wrists instead of fingers.

Tapping “Scared that someone could find out”/”My fear they call me weird”/”They call me weird, crazy and retarded”/”My fear they will find out I’m seeing ghosts”/”I’m scared”/”All this fear” SUDS from 10 to 2.

I was not sure about the 2, so invented a movie scene. I asked “K” to imagine a big school assembly with all students and teachers being present. Someone is pointing at her and whispering something to a friend. Then they pass the message on to others. How does she feel? She said: “it scares me”. Her SUDS went up to a 10 again

Setup rubbing the sore spot “Even though I’m scared that they gossip about me, I deeply and completely accept myself.”/“Even though I’m freaking out cause the whole school finds out, I’m a cool chick.”/“Even though I’m scared, I am o.k. and I love and accept myself anyway, just the way I am”.

Tapping 1 round “I’m scared they talk about me”/“Everybody staring me/“They say I’m retarded”/”They call me crazy”/”I’m totally nuts”/ “I’m crazy”/”I’m scared they talk about me”/“They call me a weirdo”/ “I’m so weird”/”I’m scared”/”A complete idiot”

I could feel her energy changing as did the expression on her face. Asking how she felt, she said: I’m angry. (A cognitive shift). She had no physical pain related to it.

Setup rubbing the sore spot “Even though I’m angry that they gossip about me, I’m o.k./“Even though I have this anger, I deeply and completely love and accept myself”/”Even though I’m angry cause my friends call me weird, crazy and retarded, I’m a cool chick”.

I assumed her SUDS being a 10

Tapping 1 round “My anger”/I’m so angry”/”They call me retarded”/ “They say I’m weird”/”I’m so angry”/”I’m furious”/ “They say I’m crazy”/ “The whole school laughing at me”/”I’m angry”/”Everybody is watching me”/”My anger”

NB: “K” was shuffling in her chair, suddenly sitting upright, with a straight back. She generally looked very relaxed, and much more confident.

I asked how she felt. She said good, it’s gone. I sang at her like little children do: “K” is retarded, she’s so weird, “K” is a weirdo! She laughed. I asked how this felt and she replied it would no longer bother her. In a firm voice she said she thought that she had a great gift and it was quite cool to be able to see ghosts. Who knew for what purpose this fantastic ability could serve her in the future.

I asked whether she now wanted to work on the girl, “N”, in her room. She said yes. I asked her to check whether she was there. “K” checked her room and said that she could not find her. She said maybe because it’s in the afternoon and she always visits me in the mornings. We decided to try it anyway.

I used the same setup and tapping as on the male entity and we left it for now. Breathing out, “K” said: “This feels good!” I asked “K” to check in the morning whether “N” was still there. “K” said that she will do that, but even if she was still there it would not bother her too much as she’s fine with “N”.

I realized that whilst talking to me “K” was nervously picking on her fingers. I asked whether she was nervous, but she said no. I asked whether she would peel the skin off her fingers (along the side of her nails) often. She said yes. I saw that her nails were bitten as well. I proposed to do EFT on this issue and she was happy to try it.

Setup “Even though I bite my nails, I deeply and completely accept myself”/Even though I peel the skin off my nails, I’m a cool chick”/Even though I can’t stop biting my nails and I don’t even know why I’m doing it, maybe I’m nervous, I accept myself just the way I am”

We tapped one round using the basic recipe. This was the end of the session, lasting 1 hr.

The next day “K” sent me an SMS: “Looked for “N” today and she is still there, but I’m fine with it. Stopped biting my nails! Did EFT on mum and she stopped her nail biting as well!

She made a third appointment.

I had talked to “K’s” mother after I had finished the session with herself which was about dealing with “K’s” psychic abilities. (The mother felt that she had let her daughter down by not taking this matter seriously enough and now felt guilty because her daughter was in such difficulties.) She then asked me whether, in a third session, I could work with her daughter on an accident the girl had at age 9. “K” had crushed two fingers of her left hand in a door. The fingers had successfully been reattached and “K” has physically fully recovered. However, since then “K” would injure herself very easily and was always overly scared about getting injured. She had taken on a victim roll. If she ever was with friends, which did not happen very often, she would tell them all about the injuries she ever had.

Session 3 – 1 hr

I assumed that the reason why we could not get rid of the ghost girl was that “K” had bonded with her. The entity had become like a friend. “K” agreed that this may be the case. I did muscle testing letting “K” say: I want “N” to leave and “I like “N” to stay with me”. She was strong on the second sentence.

Setup “Even though I want to keep “N” as a friend, I fully love and accept myself”/”Even though I do not want to let her go, I’m o.k.”/”Even though I want to keep “N”, I accept myself anyway”

Tapping 1 round “I want to keep “N” as a friend”/I don’t want her to leave”/”I need “N” to stay with me”/”She’s my friend”/”I will feel lonely when she’s gone”/”I feel bad about sending her away”/”I want to keep “N”

Setup, tapping on KC: “I ask my energy system to protect me whilst I am tapping for the entity in my room. I am fully protected. I am now tapping for the entity in the room”

NB: I used the words “entity in the room instead of the name “N” to further create a distance for “K” to her ghostly friend.

Tapping 2 rounds “As the entity in the room I accept it is time to say good bye”/”As the entity in the room I am ready to move on to a better place”/”...I can forgive”/”...I accept the guidance of a higher being to continue my onward journey”/”...I trust and forgive”/”...I am ready to move on into the light”, swapping the sentences randomly, finishing on top of the head.

I then asked K to tap on her thymus gland whilst repeating “I am no longer tapping for the entity in my room”, then repeating her Name “K” five times.

“K” checked her room (this was a morning session) and there was no trace of “N”. I did a muscle test which found that “K” wanted “N” to move on.

“K’s” mother had told me that the girl had been worried that whilst here in Cairns for a holiday, she might be fine, but getting back home it might all start again.

Setup “Even though I am scared that the vicious man may come back, I deeply and completely accept myself”/”Even though I’m worried he will return, I am fine, I am safe and I’m in control”/”Even though I’m scared he’s coming back because this EFT does not keep forever, I’m ok.”

Tapping 2 rounds “I’m scared”/”What if he comes back?”/ “I’m sure he’s just hiding”/”I doubt this EFT will work forever” “For sure it won’t last long”/”It’s too good to be true”/”Just too simple”/”All my fear” SUDS 10 to 5 to 0

Then we started to work on “K’s” trauma. At age 9 they were playing in the classroom, throwing things around. She caught her girlfriend’s perfume and, without any further thought, sprayed it on her classmate, “S”. This started an asthma attack in the boy and all her classmates screamed at her, how she could do that, everyone knew that “S” had asthma.“K” said, she didn’t know about the condition, because if she had known, she would never have done this, it was just meant to be a silly joke. She ran off to the bathroom, wanting to hide, but a girlfriend tried to keep the door open. The door finally slammed and “K” crushed two fingers on the left hand so that they were barely attached anymore. Her mom picked her up and rushed her into hospital where the fingers were reattached in a 5 hour surgery. As “K” spoke, she was getting very upset.

No setup used, we went straight into tapping incl. 9 gamut

I sprayed perfume on “S”/I feel so bad about it/I started his asthma attack/I sprayed perfume on “S” SUDS 10 to 5

Setup “Even though I still feel a bit bad about spraying perfume on “S”, I fully accept myself.”/”...I still feel a bit guilty of causing him asthma, I’m fine, cause I didn’t mean it, it was just a silly joke, I didn’t know he had asthma, but I did it, and I love and accept myself anyway”/”....I made this mistake, I’m fine.”

“Remaining guilt/remaining feeling bad/remaining causing him asthma” “I didn’t mean it/”I know “S” has forgiven me” SUDS 2

I asked “K” to follow my finger from floor to ceiling, not moving her head repeating the words “remaining guilt” 5 times. SUDS 0

I asked “K” to tell the story again and she did well until she came to the point where everybody was blaming her.

Setup “Even though the whole class was blaming me for causing “S” asthma, I love and accept myself”/”...everyone said that I made “S” very sick, I’m ok, cause I didn’t mean it, and “S” would agree, it was just a silly joke, I love and accept myself anyway”/”....everyone is blaming me, I’m ok.”

Tapping “The whole class is blaming me”/”They say it’s my fault”/”Everybody hating me”/”Everybody shouting at me”/”It’s all my fault” SUDS 10 to 5

Tapping one round of “Remaining everybody blaming me” SUDS 2

I asked “K” to follow my finger from floor to ceiling, not moving her head repeating the words “remaining everybody blaming me” 5 times. SUDS 0

I asked whether “K” had seen “S” since. She said no, he had moved soon after.

I asked “K” to imagine that she would coincidently run into “S” today. How would she feel? She said she was fine about it and smiled.

We then went on to work on the belief and fact, that she would always injure herself easily.

Setup “Even though I had this accident when I was 9 and since then I’m always injuring myself, I’m a cool chick”/”...I’m so vulnerable, I love and accept myself anyway”/”....I hurt myself easily I’m ok.”

Tapping 3 rounds of the above, including 9 gamut, round 2 and 3 using “remaining vulnerability” SUDS 10 to 3 to 0

I asked “K” to tell me the story again from beginning til the end and she was able to repeat it in a calm way, even smiling here and then.

I asked “K” how this accident would affect her life today. She said: “I can’t play Netball anymore. 1 year ago I nearly passed out when the ball approached me and I should catch it. I was so scared to hurt my fingers again. I then quit.” I asked: “Would you like to play again?” “K” said: “Yes, but my old team is too far away, since we have moved and I would have to join a new group”. Asking what the problem was, she said she was scared to meet the new people. She was no longer scared to hurt her fingers.

We did this Setup together, me asking her questions and using her replies as a setup, whilst tapping on KC.

“Even though I’m scared about the new team, I deeply and completely love and accept myself”/”...I’m scared about the new people and what they think about me, I’m ok”/”...I’m worried about whether I play good enough and what they think of me, I’m a cool chick.”

Tapping 1 round “I’m scared about the new team”/”Scared of the new people”/”Scared not being good enough/”I’m a failure”/”Can’t catch properly”/”Worried whether they like me”/”Scared to meet new people” SUDS 10 to 3

Tapping 1 round “Remaining fear”/”Remaining not playing good enough”/ “I know I can play though”/”Everybody’s making mistakes”/”Remaining fear of new team”/”Remaining never good enough”/”Remaining doing it all wrong” SUDS 2

I asked how she would like to feel if she had a choice and we tapped on “Remaining fear” “I choose to feel good about myself and be confident” SUDS 0

1 round of negative, 1 round of positive and the 3rd round alternating neg/pos, ending with positive.

“K” said she wanted to get in contact with the Netball organisation to take up playing again.

This was the end of session 3, lasting 1 hour.

“K” and her mother were at the end of her holiday and would leave back home the next day. She was looking so much more self confident and spoke in a clearly audible voice when she left. I said I would send an email in the following days to see how they both were going. Below is the reply I received from the girl’s mother one week after the final treatment.

Hi Marion,

We arrived safe and sound back home.

I asked “K” last night if she's seen any thing since we've been back and she said she's seen some lines and circles but no people. “K” has been sleeping ok, however she did get freaked out one night so she did some tapping which seemed to put her at ease. I’ve noticed “K's” nervousness at night time increasing though. I’ve been encouraging her to continue with the tapping, but she seems a little reluctant to do it on a regular basis.

Since returning home her confidence has gone through the roof! It’s not only me who has noticed it either. Both family and friends have all commented on the change in her. She stands taller and certainly has a lot more to say. It’s great to watch. Her nail biting has continued but to my surprise, I have stopped biting mine! Every few days I do a bit of tapping on that though. It seems to be working. Thank you for sharing your tools with us. As far as using us for a case study, you're more than welcome. Only time will tell, but the changes I've witnessed with myself and with “K” since meeting you have been fantastic.

Kind regards, “I” :)

Case study: I Have to Be The Best
Practitioner: Robyn Chuter
Client/issue details: LK is a long-term client with whom I have worked on a wide range of issues, including food cravings, golf performance and social anxiety. LK's core issue revolves around her lack of belief in her own worth. She was the middle child, with an older sister who was lauded by her parents for everything she did, while, LK's and her younger brother's achievements were never acknowledged. LK has felt 'not good enough' for as long as she can remember. As our work has progressed, she has become able, for the first time in her life, to entertain the idea that she might be able to be really good at something - although she doesn't yet know what. However, the countervailing thought that she has to be 'The Best', and if she isn't then she just isn't good enough, kept popping up and preventing her from further exploring her potentials.

As LK was already very familiar with EFT, I launched straight into tapping on the set-up phrase 'Even though I have to be The Best and anything else is failure, I deeply and completely accept myself.' Half way through the round, LK stopped tapping and expressed frustration at the tack I was taking. She asked me how this was going to help her, since we had already tapped so many times on her 'not good enough' issue in various ways, shapes and forms. I asked her to think of a specific incident that resonated with her conviction that she needed to be 'The Best'. She said that she couldn't think of one single incident but that the thing that bothered her most was that she had never received praise from her parents for anything she did. Acting on an intuitive flash, I asked her whether this made her feel irreparably damaged - as if, not having received that good parenting then, she could never be happy now because she wasn't taught back then how to be happy and to like herself. She enthusiastically agreed with this formulation of her core issue.

We tapped on set-up phrases such as:

Even though I have this deep sadness about not getting praise and acknowledgement from my parents, I deeply and completely accept myself.

Even though I have this conviction that there's only one first prize and everyone else is a loser (because that's how it was in my family).

Even though I feel irreparably damaged by it and I don't know how I can ever be happy.

As LK moved through her sadness and despondency, she began to feel angry at her parents for not noticing her and her needs. We tapped on this, and I encouraged LK to use some fairly colourful language to express her anger! I knew from previous sessions that LK finds it very liberating to swear during our sessions - something she was never allowed to do as a child.

In a previous session, I had asked LK to name some of her proudest achievements. At first she couldn't think of any, but with further prompting she had remembered that her HSC art major work had been one of three in the state selected for display in a travelling exhibition, and publication in a magazine. Obviously this was a major achievement! LK, however, could not recall her parents giving her any acknowledgement whatsoever for doing so well. I decided to use this incident in our current tapping session because it was deeply emotive, and would provide me with the opportunity to affirm that LK had achieved success, and the fact that her parents had not acknowledged that success didn't mean that LK couldn't relish it herself. In other words, I wanted to challenge the belief that she was irreparably damaged by her parents' emotional neglect, and reframe her dependence on them for positive feelings to a conviction that she could generate positive feelings about herself rather than waiting around for her parents to express them to her - especially since her parents were both now dead!

Since LK didn't have a clear recollection of receiving the news about her major work being exhibited, I asked her to create a stage play, in her imagination, of her art teacher sharing the good news with her. My aim was to create a situation in which she could experience giving herself praise, and imagine receiving the praise of another person, so that she didn't have to feel reliant on having her parents praise her. She pictured her parents standing silently to one side of the stage while her art teacher enthusiastically praised her achievement. We tapped on the disappointment and abandonment that surfaced when she thought about where her parents were and what they were doing. Then we tapped in the praise of her teacher and her own sense of pride, using phrases such as 'I did such a good job,' 'I really am talented at art,' 'I'm so proud of myself for my achievement,' 'my teacher is so proud of me and I deserve it.'

Then I asked her to bring herself, the adult LK, onto the stage and tell her parents - while tapping - what they should be doing. LK really warmed to this task, and told the teenage LK's parents, in no uncertain terms, that they ought to be ashamed of themselves for just standing there, and they should go straight to teenage LK, tell her how much they loved her and how proud they were of her, give her a hug, make a fuss of her, and take her out for a celebratory dinner. I asked her whether this is what she would do for one of her own children, and she replied 'Of course!' This gave me the opportunity to point out that she had learned from her childhood experiences and decided not to repeat them with her own children, which was evidence that she wasn't irreparably damaged - she didn't have to keep repeating the past. LK reported that she found this final tapping sequence deeply empowering, and she left the session appearing calmer and walking taller than when she'd come in.

Follow-up work:

LK's lack of self-belief is by no means cured! During the following session, one week later, we worked on her self-sabotage behavior in golf. We formulated it as 'The Rule' - she must always fail or underachieve. After we finished a round of tapping, she described how an image of Wile E. Coyote had popped into her head in connection with The Rule. I consider these apparently random images to be absolute gold, as they represent the workings of the unconscious mind as it constantly processes information and makes connections between seemingly disparate occurrences in our lives. I encouraged LK to elaborate, and she talked about how Wile E. keeps on trying to get the Road Runner, employing incredible ingenuity and determination, but he never, ever, ever gets that damn bird! We did some tapping on feeling like Wile E., doomed to keep trying but never succeed. Then she had a dramatic flash of insight: what if she changed the goal? No one even knows why Wile E. wants to catch the Road Runner! What if she stopped trying to be The Best in order to garner someone else's praise, and just focused on doing what makes her happy?

I have not seen LK since this session (at the time of writing this). In subsequent sessions I would like to tap on more incidents like this, in hopes that if we saw enough legs off this table of 'not good enough', the tabletop will collapse.

Case Study: Insomnia

Practitioner: Steve Baldock

Client: Jamie (female) has had trouble sleeping for the past 10 years. She had been unable to identify what was causing her to wake between 2am and 3am in the morning. Once she is awake she finds herself just lying there until 7:30am when it is her actual time to wake up. She is not overly tired during the day, but is very exhausted by 6:30pm. On most nights she goes to bed around 10pm.

How the EFT session came about: Jamie and I met at a Reiki Course. She had been using Reiki to help give her a better night’s sleep. Although this worked the results were limited and did not last more than a day or two. Jamie was very open to anything that may help.

The 1^st Session
After explaining to Jamie what EFT was and making sure she was going to be comfortable we decided to proceed. When asking Jamie to think about her current situation, she rated her feeling of annoyance at the situation 8 out of 10.

We began tapping with the setup statement of “Even though I cannot sleep at night, I deeply and completely accept myself.” We did this 3 times and then taped on all meridian points including the 9 Gamut.

Jamie still rated her frustration at the situation 8 out of 10 so we began tapping, “Even though I’m frustrated at my current situation, I deeply and completely accept myself.” We did this 3 times and then taped on all meridian points including the 9 Gamut.

Jamie said she just wished she knew why she was waking so early so we began tapping, “Even though I don’t know why I’m waking so early, I deeply and completely accept that I am.” We did this 3 times and then taped on all meridian points including the 9 Gamut.

Halfway through the last tapping session Jamie smiled and I knew that there had been a change in her head. After the tapping finished, I waited for her to speak. She said that she had just realised that she woke every morning at 2am because this is what time she used to be woken up to feed her twin children, who were now 3 years old. Jamie was laughing at this and stated that it was silly as both her children have been sleeping through since they turned 18 months.

We began tapping again, “Even though my children don’t need me at 2am any longer, I deeply and completely accept myself.” We tapped on all meridians, but I did not do the 9 Gamut this time. Jamie was laughing through the process this time.

To finish off the session I asked Jamie to repeat, “I give myself permission to sleep,” while tapping on all meridian points.

The Follow Up
Approx 4 weeks later Jamie and I ran into each other at a Reiki Open House. She was very excited to see me and stated that she had only woken up early six times over the last four weeks, and each time she did wake up she simply gave herself permission to go back to sleep.

Case study: Public speaking and Making Presentations

Practitioner: Steve Baldock

The Client: Michelle has had trouble presenting at company meetings all her life. Although she gets through the presentation ok, she blushes and sweats so much that she is saturated by the end of the presentation and feels she needs to change her blouse. Her colleagues have not mentioned anything to her, but she is certain that other staff members are aware of her issues. She cannot think of any reason why she blushes and sweats so much as she has never had a bad experience talking out loud.

How the EFT session came about: Michelle and I have worked with each other for the past 12 months and I suggested an EFT session would be good for her to look into after she mentioned her issues to me over lunch. At first I thought it might be better to get another EFT Practitioner to do this as I felt I may have known Michelle too well, but she was insistent that she would be more comfortable with me conducting the session.

The 1^st Session
After explaining to Michelle what EFT was and making sure she was going to be comfortable we decided to proceed. When asking Michelle to think about her current situation, she rated her feeling of stress 11 out of 10 and stated that the worst part of her issue was the sweating underneath the arms before, during and after her presentation.

We began several tapping setups, (see below), and tapped on all meridians including the 9 Gamut.

Statement	Suds Before	Suds After	Any New Issues
Even though I sweat a lot while presenting, I deeply and completely accept myself.	11	5
Even though I blush excessively while presenting, I deeply and completely accept myself.	8	2
Even though others may be aware of my issues I deeply and completely accept myself.	7	6
Even though I don’t know what other people are thinking about me, I deeply and completely accept myself.	6	1

Michelle said she felt a lot better and calmer after our session. Her next presentation was only 5 days away, so I suggested we meet 1 hour before work on the day of the presentation and discuss her feelings over a morning coffee.

The 2^nd Session
Michelle was notably nervous about the Management Meeting at 9am. So we decided to tap the same statements as the last session. I have forgotten to mention that I was going to present at the meeting so I was also eager to see if these sessions would work.

Statement	Suds Before	Suds After	Any New Issues
Even though I sweat a lot while presenting, I deeply and completely accept myself.	11	5
Even though I blush excessively while presenting, I deeply and completely accept myself.	8	4
Even though others may be aware of my issues I deeply and completely accept myself.	11	6
Even though I don’t know what other people are thinking about me, I deeply and completely accept myself.	10	4

Although Michelle felt slightly better, she was still nervous. I have put this down to the fact that she had not yet had a chance to see if the EFT sessions worked.

Over lunch Michelle said she was both disappointed and curious. She still sweated a lot, but she did not blush or turn red in the face at any point throughout the meeting.

We agreed that further sessions would only help and decided on a further 3 sessions before the next monthly management meeting.

At the next EFT Session Michelle asked to change the statement from, “I deeply and completely accept myself,” to, “I am deeply and completely at ease with this.”

Statement	Suds Before	Suds After	Any New Issues
Even though I sweat a lot while presenting, I am deeply and completely at ease with this.	8	2
Even though I blush excessively while presenting, I am deeply and completely at ease with this.	6	0
Even though others may be aware of my issues, I am deeply and completely at ease with this.	9	3
Even though I don’t know what other people are thinking about me, I am deeply and completely at ease with this.	5	0

After only two more sessions Michelle stated that she didn’t think any further sessions would be useful as she was also doing them at night before bed and she was actually getting excited about the next meeting so she could prove to herself that she could get through it without any issues arising.

The Follow Up
Approx 2 weeks later Michelle and I were in the Management Meeting, where she presented. At no stage did she look nervous, red or wet from sweating. Over lunch Michelle thanked me and said she was so excited about the result and would never again have to drag herself into the office for a meeting. She said she wished she knew what had caused the problems in the first place. I told Michelle to tap on it and she promised she would.

Fear of spiders and sexual abuse

By Deirdre Brocklebank

I obtained as much information as I could from my client (whom I will call “Anne”), before our first session according to the “Client Information “Assessment Sheet” that I use for all my clients for reflexology (and for the other techniques and modalities that I use). This saved time in the first session and gave me a chance to prepare and research.

Client profile:

Anne was in her late twenties when she first came to see me for assistance with several conditions including general anxiety, irritable bowel, asthma (when under stress) and back pain from having broken her Lumbar 4 & 5 and her coccyx several years ago. She also had an extreme phobia for spiders generally and the Australian Huntsman spider in particular. She was also concerned about her weight.

This is an interesting case as it demonstrates how her phobia of spiders was interwoven with her lack of trust of men, fear of violation/invasion and fear of being alone in a house.

I mainly used EFT but also muscle testing, Theta Healing, muscle testing and reflexology as appropriate in eight sessions over a 2 year period.

Anne was very sensitive to touch and to energy shifts, so I worked within her comfort zone and continually checked each session that she was comfortable with what I was doing. For the EFT process, I spoke the words and asked her to repeat after me and to follow me in tapping the points until she was familiar with the whole process and the nuances involved in EFT. I also did Continuous Tapping even though I have not always mentioned this in my notes on Anne. Anne was very sensitive to touch and energy shifts so I regularly asked if she wished to tap on herself, or if she preferred me to tap on her when she felt too overwhelmed to tap on herself. I was careful to tap as gently on her as was necessary.

First session

Therapies: EFT (short routines, Continual Tapping, Forgiveness eye roll), Theta Healing, muscle testing, 90 minutes, 30 minutes of reflexology.

Before each session started, I muscle tested to see if she was hydrated and ensured that she drank during the session as I regard hydration as being very significant to the effectiveness of EFT.

I explained the principles of EFT to her using the chart that I have developed as a reference to indicate the meaning of the points being tapped and their relationship to Chinese Medicine and kinesiology.

I generally did the routine with the Setup and points from TH – KC (without the gamut) but have indicated when I have done a shorter routine. I include “accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude” in the Setup because of Dr Emoto’s work on water and the impact of the vibration of those words on water – given we are composed of over 70% water.

I largely worked intuitively to determine the issues (and the order in which they were addressed) but I also used muscle testing where I felt it was appropriate to do so.

I also explained Theta Healing and reflexology to her in the first session and what the treatment would involve using these modalities.

Discussion –continual tapping KC(while talking)

Her pain in her lower back was of most concern to her.
I asked her if she could remember any incidents when she hurt her lower back. She recalled the following 3.
abasailing - age 14 –fell off a tower
bailing hay – she fell but couldn’t remember what happened
haki sac – big leap – fell “broke it again” ie referring to her coccyx.(she recalled being “pushed emotionally” at the time - dealing with lot of friends dying and more than 7 births).

a)Incident 1 - absailing TH – KC Rate 10

No setup.

Me tapping on her – she talking.

She mentioned she has panic attacks generally and especially around home violation. I decided to address this violation after we had addressed all 3 incidents.

I encouraged her to repeat the story while tapping KC. Rate 0

b) Incident 2 - hay bailing Rate 10

No setup

Talking –she tapping KC

She was exhausted and she fell. She felt scared when she closed her eyes to recall the incident as she “saw demons”

She recalled thinking that she had a “cold heart chakra” at the time. Rate 10+ (increased rate as new aspect with the demons)

c) demons Rate 10+ tapping on herself

Even though I still feel terrified when I think of the demons I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: I still feel terrified when I think of the demons

Repeat story. She couldn’t move as she was laughing and realised that she “feels safer with my eyes open” when recalling her “own demons”. Rate 2

I asked her to repeat the story and to try to visualise her demons. She said that she couldn’t bring them in. Rate 0

I encouraged her to run through the incident again in her mind. She felt “nothing”.

d) Incident 3Haki sac

No setup

talking tapping KC

She fell when playing Haki sac just after she broke up with her then fiancée. She took out a restraining order against him. She was about to do exams and it was very stressful. She had the insight that she broke her ankle a year later just before more exams. She related the broken bones it to the breakup with her ex-fiance (“Joe”) and she felt “angry about that”.

The break up with her fiancé was an highly emotional issue for Anne. I suggested that we address her belief that “it would be hard to shift”, with EFT.

e) hard to shift block to EFT TH – KC not rated

Even though this will be hard to shift I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: hard to shift x 2

She had extreme pain in her heart and nearly as bad in her stomach. I asked her to feel and name the emotions, feelings and sensations as they arose while she tapped from TH-KC without doing a setup as follows.

f) break up with fiancé- TH - KC Rate 10 pain in heart, rate 8 stomach

No setup

Negative: I’m in agony, hurt, betrayed, my stomach hurts etc x 2

Heart still “heavy” but she began to see her former fiancés perspective as she “felt sorrow and compassion and sadness for him”.

Tapped TH – KC – I feel sorrow compassion and sadness for my ex fiancé x 1 round.

The pain in her heart and stomach cleared but her breathing was shallow and she appeared stressed so I suggested we tap for “this constricted breathing”.

g) this constricted breathing TH – KC Rate 8

No set up

Negative: this constricted breathing x 2 Rate 6

Repeat: this remaining constricted breathing x 1 Rate 3

Repeat x 1 Rate 0

When she thought about her ex fiancé she “felt better”. The most overwhelming aspect for here was that he “betrayed” her trust.

h) betrayed TH – KC Rate 10

Even though “Joe” let me down and betrayed my trust and I felt rejected I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative : Joe let me down and betrayed my trust and I felt rejected x 2 Rate 3

Forgiveness eye roll – KC tapping (She tapped her KC while following my hand from floor to ceiling with her eyes, while keeping her head still and repeating the following):

Even though I still have some of this remaining feeling of betrayal of trust I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

I forgive anyone who played a part in this including God/the Universe/Joe etc, I forgive myself for attracting this; I am willing to release it now; I let it go: I let it go completely.”

Repeat story in her head without speaking – rate 1

Negative: constricted breathing x 1 – still some tension

Negative: this remaining constricted breathing x 1 Rate 0

I asked her to think of Joe with the other woman (L...).

She felt better thinking about her ex-fiancé after this tapping, but intuitively realised from a pain in her collar bone that she “betrayed herself.” She felt this was because, against her better judgement, she had befriended the woman who betrayed her with her ex-fiancé.

I suggested that she tap on her feeling of having betrayed herself and include the choice statement in the following sequence.

i) betrayed self – collar bone pain TH –KC Rate 8

Even though I betrayed myself by befriending L.... against my better instincts, I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: It’s all my fault – x2 – NB I tapped on her as she was upset.

I now choose to move on from this experience with love and gratitude for the lessons I have learned x 2

She laughed when she retold the story of her broken engagement and said she felt much better. She still had some “heart bruising” but her collar bone no longer hurt. The efficacy of this work was confirmed when she thought she saw her ex-fiancé in the distance two weeks after the session and she wasn’t affected in any way by this.

Because of her issue with broken bones and feeling unsupported I cleared some associated beliefs with Theta.

Second session (13 days later)

Therapies: EFT (short routines), Theta Healing, muscle testing 60 minutes, 30 minutes reflexology.

She agreed to address her weight issues and was pleased that I suggested this. I used Theta to quickly clear beliefs including the following:

a) weight beliefs were to do with frustration, negative beliefs eg I am fat, I don’t want to lose weight, overeating addictions, compulsions, fears eg I’m afraid I’ll feel deprived if I lose weight. I selected the beliefs from lists using the pendulum and then cleared the relevant belief and downloaded and taught new feelings around eating high vibrational foods to nurture her body.

A belief that she was angry at herself muscle tested positively and we addressed this with EFT.

b) angry at self TH – K not rated

“Even though I am angry and I don’t know why, I just am and I will be if I want to be, I deeply and completely love and accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.” X 3

Negative: I’m angry, I don’t know why, I just am and I will be if I want to be etc

After tapping she realised that she was afraid of being alone and this made her angry.

I changed this belief with Theta plus the associated ones of “I failed” and “I don’t deserve happiness”.

I am not sure of the progression of her thought but her fear about spiders came up. Her biggest fear was for big, Huntsman spiders. After speaking with her about her fear she realised that she is also frightened by their hairiness and when they move.

c) fear of spiders TH – KC Rate 10 +

Even though I hate big, hairy, moving Huntsman spiders with attitude I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: I hate big, hairy, moving Huntsman spiders with attitude x 2 rounds Rate 6

The above setup was very general and the rate still high so I asked her to tap her KC while recalling and talking about specific incidents about spiders. She remembered the following:

1. age 4-5 – baby sitter told her that when she was taking a shower she found a huge huntsman in her towel against her skin – she was feeling strong fear remembering it and she dry retched

2. her sister put a tomato shell on her shoulder and told her it was a spider – still feeling fear talking about it.

d) baby sitter spider incident TH - KC Rate 10+

Even though my baby sitter told me she had an experience with a spider on her towel and I took on her fears as I was only a child and I had a great imagination I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude

Negative: I took on my baby sitter’s fear of spiders x 2

I now choose confidence and peace around big Huntsman spiders (and white tail spiders) x 1

Repeat story – she still felt something

Negative: remaining fear of huntsman spiders x 1

Repeat story - no charge – I triggered her fear by tapping on her leg to emulate a Huntsman spider’s walk.

e) sister and tomato TH – KC Rate 10

Even though S... pretended there was a big spider on my shoulder and I freaked out and was hysterical I deeply and completely love and accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: I freaked out x 2

Retell story – she still felt something

Negative: this remaining fear of Huntsman spiders.

She then repeated the story with no reaction. However, when I tapped lightly on her leg like a Huntsman walking on her, her fear was slightly retriggered.

She was tired and requested we finish the session with reflexology.

Session three (a week later)

Therapies: EFT (Run the Movie Technique, Future tapping), muscle testing and Theta 75 minutes

By the third session Anne reported a significant change in her reactions to the thoughts of spiders and associated events because of the EFT. However, she still felt some reaction when I asked her to think of the spider incident with her baby sitter again. I suggested we address the incident using the run the movie technique and I explained it to her. I suggested that she observe the movie but not be involved in it and to tap on herself from TH – KC while she talked it through.

a) baby sitter spider incident Rate 6

Run the movie technique -“The Lucky Escape.” 20 seconds.

She saw a small child in a kitchen.
The baby sitter was showing off and scared the child with a spooky story when she saw the child playing happily with a spider.
The babysitter warned her to be careful.
The child left the kitchen very frightened.
When she re-ran the movie with her eyes closed, she thought of the spider up against her and shuddered. We addressed this new aspect of her remaining fear with the following:

b) hairy Huntsman against her skin TH- KC Rate 8

Even though I hate the thought of a big hairy Huntsman against my skin I know it’s my baby sitter’s fear but I can’t help it and I took it on, even so I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: my baby sitter’s fear of big hairy Huntsman spiders

She was obviously very scared so I tapped on her with her permission and asked her to identify with the spider by naming it. She called it “Hairy Legs”. She was still reacting to the thought of it on her bare skin. Rate 6.

c) hairy legs on her bare skin TH – KC Rate 6

No set up.

Negative: hairy legs on my bare skin x 2

She intuitively felt that her fear was based on control issues. I affirmed with muscle testing that she had the following beliefs and cleared them with Theta:I need to be in control of my life all the time; I’ll die if I fail. She cried as she realised that this was a very emotional issue for her.

She agreed I could again test her reaction to the thought of the spider on her bare skin so I brushed her arm slightly. She had no reaction to that. However, she still reacted to, the thought of “crawling legs on my bare skin.”

d) crawling legs on her bare skin TH – KC Rate 6

No set up

Negative: crawling legs on my bare skin. X 2

No reaction when I lightly tapped her arm, while she thought of the spider on her skin and she felt “better.”

This was a very important session as Anne had the realisation that her fear of intruders, fear of being alone and fear of her nightmares (of someone climbing in her window when she was asleep and of being kidnapped and tortured, started after the first spider incident). It was such a strong fear that her parents found her asleep under a couch one night, when they returned after being out.

e) invaders TH -KC not rated

Even though I dreamt that someone climbed in my window and I was kidnapped and tortured I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: someone climbed in my window and I was kidnapped and tortured

Repeated her story while tapping TH - KC

She agreed to try my suggestion that it could help to connect more strongly to her emotions around the nightmare of being invaded if she gave the invader a name. She called him “Spider Man”. I also recommended that she tap in advance for her fear of nightmares and we did the following sequence as an example to help her.

f) nightmares TH – KC

Even though I am scared I will have the invasion dream tonight and respond accordingly and I’ll be unable to wake myself up and if I do I’ll be paralysed with fear and unable to move, even so I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: I’m sleep deprived x 2

Negative: I’m scared I will die x 1

Negative: The invasion dream means death x1

Negative: I’m scared I won’t be able to wake myself up x 1

I now choose to sleep soundly and safely and wake refreshed x 2

I suggested that if she wakes up in the dream, that she “be in the feeling” and tap until she no longer feels a reaction.

Fourth session (a week later)

Therapies: EFT (photo), Theta Healing- 60 minutes

I showed Anne a photo of big Huntsman spider to test her reaction to the efficacy of the work we had done in the previous session on her fear of spiders and the Huntsman in particular. She had a strong adverse reaction to even looking at it. It triggered the memory of what she had initially thought was a dream that she’d had about a White Spider. However, when she woke she found it was not a dream. She was so scared that she slept in another room.

a) spider (dream) incident TH – KC Rate 8

Even though the White Spider disappeared under my bed and I couldn’t find it. I was terrified and I didn’t know where it was and I can’t sleep in a room with a spider in it, I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude

Negative: the White Spider disappeared under my bed and I couldn’t find it and I was terrified and I didn’t know where it was and I can’t sleep in a room with a spider in it x 2

I suggested that she tap and say descriptive words about the spider.

scary, stunning, translucent, beautiful, and running quickly spider x 1

scary spider, white, beautiful, translucent, unpredictable, fast, devious, well hidden, camouflaged, sneaky and kamikaze x 1

Negative: wake me up spider x 1

Positive: very delicate and beautiful spider x 2

NB It was interesting to note that from her own volition she had begun to use positive descriptive words about the spider, including “white, beautiful, translucent”, with the less positive, “unpredictable, fast, devious, well-hidden, camouflaged, sneaky and kamikaze.” This resulted in a significant change, for when she looked at the photo of the spider again she could hold it and described the spider without any symptoms of stress. She also was able to look more closely at it as she mentioned its mouth mandibles and that it only had seven legs.

Following this tapping, she intuitively felt that the dream was telling her that her real fear was she “couldn’t satisfy her need to be in control.” She felt increased anxiety and a “band” around her head.

b) band around head from the spider TH – KC Rate 8

Even though I have this band around my head I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: if I look at the spider I will hold onto the fear x 3 Rate 2

Negative: this remaining fear x 1 Rate 0

I cleared related beliefs with Theta to do with doubts about her abilities, plus the most significant belief that “I am vulnerable when I am sleeping.” This was related to her fear of being attacked while asleep and it only cleared after “I am a failure” was replaced with positive downloads. The belief that “I can never let down my guard” was cleared after we changed, “I have to control my life in order to survive.” After changing “I am afraid of spiders” she then muscle tested positively to “I am not afraid of spiders.” However, she was resistant to letting the belief go consciously, as she said “I don’t believe this, because I am still afraid.”

Fifth session (one week later)

Reflexology 60 minutes

Anne requested only reflexology at the fifth session as she felt very sensitive after the session the week before and was feeling nauseous at the start of this one. She had used the EFT for herself during the week whenever she felt anxious.

EFT workshop (3 months later)

Anne attended my EFT workshop approximately three months after the fifth session and two days before the sixth session. She addressed her remaining fear of spiders and issues of betrayal. NB The efficacy of the EFT work on her fear of spiders was confirmed according to her email following the workshop. (Attachment A).

Sixth session (2 days after the EFT workshop)

Therapies: EFT (Nine Gamut sequence, Forgiveness eye roll, Trio Formula – Patricia Carrington,) 75 minutes

This sixth session was very important as Anne confronted several incidents in which she had felt some betrayal and self recriminations where she felt she had let people down. There were some new incidents and also some different aspects of issues that she had addressed at the workshop.

a) L... betrayal Rate 10

Even though L... slept with Joe I’ve never forgotten that look on L’s face I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: L.. betrayed me with Joe Rate 5

Negative: she betrayed me, I should have known, I should have confronted her, the truth hurts, I should have trusted my intuition, the truth hurts. Felt sick.

Retell story – Rate 5

Headache – vice around my head and nausea

b) vice around head Rate TH – CB Rate 5

I tapped her gamut point while asking her to repeat the forgiveness eye rollsequence after me while following my hand with her eyes from the floor towards the ceiling: I forgive myself for creating this; I forgive anyone else involved (including L...and Joe); I am ready to let it go; I let it go now; I let it go completely.

Negative: remaining vice around my head x 3

Rate 0 no headache or nausea

While doing the forgiveness sequence she recalled two incidents where she felt guilty for not being there for others. One was about her mother and the other was to do with her uncle “R”.

c) not there for mum TH – KC Rate 10

Even though I wasn’t there for mum when she almost died I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: I wasn’t there for mum x2

Retell story. Rate 0

d) Uncle “X” died EFT and Theta TH – KC Rate 10

Even though I blame myself for dear Uncle X’s death. If I’d been there he would be alright I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: I wasn’t there – I let him down I could have saved him but I didn’t etc x 3 Rate 3

Retelling story. Still feeling something.

She realised that she felt a deep sense of betrayal when neither her mother nor father believed her when she told them that her Uncle X whom she loved and trusted, had made improper advances to her.

Theta

It’s too hard to love my parents - cleared

Whoever I love hurts me - cleared

Retell story re Uncle X – felt “ better”

e) Uncle betrayal TH – KC Rate 2

No setup

Negative: Uncle X betrayed me

I now choose unconditional love and self acceptance x 2

Retell story KC tapping – “feel fine” “I did patch things up with him before he died”

f) Mum let me down- TH – KC Rate 8

Even though mum should have known (about Uncle X) and believed me and stood up for me she didn’t. I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: she let me down, wasn’t there for me, did nothing about it x 2

Repeat story – mum dismissed it as a figment of my imagination, didn’t trust me, didn’t acknowledge my truth, she didn’t believe me. Rate 4

I now choose to believe that mum loves me to the best of her abilities x 2

Recall story KC – felt “better”.Rate 0

g) dad’s reaction TH – KC Rate 8

Even though I was shocked Dad didn’t believe me even though he knows I never lie to him and I felt betrayed I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: Dad didn’t believe me. I felt betrayed – he cut me off – dad shut me out x2

Nausea

Tapping heart chakra.

Negative: I lost my voice

9 Gamut sequence and then tapping on gamut “ still feel dad betrayed me and shut me out, didn’t believe me, even so I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.”

Eye roll forgiveness: Tapping KC repeating sequence (including forgiving father and self).

Repeat story. Rate 0

h) mum didn’t support me about Joe and L... TH –KC Rate 10

Even though mum didn’t support me how I would like to be supported when I told her about Joe and L... and it stopped me from telling her things in the future I now choose to accept mum for the person she is.

Negative: mum is not emotionally there for me when I need her.

Positive: I now choose to love and accept my mother unconditionally.

Alternate: Neg, Positive (starting with negative and ending on positive). Trio Formula. Rate 0

Seventh session (approximately 5 weeks later)

Therapies: EFT and Theta Healing approximately 60 minutes

The seventh formal session was just prior to Anne moving into a new rental property on her own. She was scared to be in the house on her own because of fear of invasion. She related this fear to an incident in which there had been intruders in her house and she slept through it. She was still feeling ill when she realised what had happened. This was very much related to her fear of relationships with men.

a) scared of being invaded TH – KC 10

Even though I’m scared I will be invaded when I’m alone in the house and I won’t wake up and I’m scared what could happen if I do wake up or if I don’t wake up even so I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude and I now choose peace and harmony

Negative: I’m scared of being alone in the house, scared of spirits in nightmares, of being defenceless etc.x 2

Repeating her story KC

There was still some charge so I muscle tested for and then cleared the following beliefs with Theta.

Theta

If I go to sleep I’ll die
This belief is in my genetic belief system
If I go to sleep I’ll be violated
I deserve to be punished
Men can’t be trusted
I’m a sex object to men
I can’t be a friend with a man
Men only want one thing
Men only hurt me
I am not safe around men
Men are dangerous
Drink plus men leads to unpredictability - strangled feeling

b) strangled feeling Rate 10

No set up

I suggested she name her feelings, emotions and sensations.

Negative: vulnerability - dizzy - stuck in my throat - not being able to ask for help - no voice etc

Felt better

I now choose to be heard x 2

I now choose strength and harmony x 2 Rate 8

Anne realised that she doesn’t set clear boundaries with others and this causes problems for her. I muscle tested for and cleared the following beliefs around this.

Theta

I know how to say no

People believe me when I say no

Digging – if you didn’t have this fear living alone what would your life be like?

Sense of peace

Worst Thing? – I might ignore something, I have to be responsible for myself

I need drama to live

I hate drama

Drama = always an overwhelming problem I can’t fix

I always make the wrong decisions

My life would be boring without drama

Muscle testing confirmed that no more work was necessary on drama and sexual incidents that session.

Anne continued to build on the EFT work that we had done in confronting and addressing her fear of spiders with excellent results. See her feedback of 4 Feb 2008 re cleaning out an outdoor spa enclosure. (Attachment B).

Surrogating Anne’s dog (8 months later)

Both Anne and her dog (“Sonny “) benefited from surrogating. This was done as an exercise by the participants of one of my EFT workshops. I explained and talked them through it. They surrogated for Sonny but Anne had intuitive recognition of the ramifications for herself of the work that was done on Sonny. (Attachment C).

Eighth Session (3 weeks later)

Therapies: EFT (Choices Trio), Theta 75 minutes approx

Discussion – tapping KC – NB Muscle Tested right then left arm (as right tired)

Anne requested that we only use Theta healing to address her feeling “blocked in her art” and her money blocks. I did however, with her permission use EFT for the pain that she experienced in her arms.

a) Pain in arms TH-KC Rate 8

Even though I have pain in my arms I now choose to go with the flow and new directions in art and new medium and techniques.

Negative: pain in my arms

I now choose to go with the flow and new directions in art and new medium and techniques.

Alternate:

Pain less. Rate 2

Theta (beliefs around the following).

1) Art and money

3) Affirmations for Abundance and Prosperity (selected with pendulum beliefs to test-

4) New beginnings

5) Affirmations for Creativity and Manifestation

6) Happiness and success affirmations

7) Health and health affirmations

Anne experienced different emotional and physical sensations during this session. She told me about a month after the session that she had felt much freer in her art and was completing new work much more easily and using new techniques without effort. (Attachment D). Both Anne and I believe that the success of the session for unblocking her creativity built on the work that we had already done with EFT as well as Theta.

Summary

I believe that the EFT proved to be an invaluable healing tool for Anne either on its own or combined with other modalities. It was also a journey of discovery to find the many emotional ramifications intertwined with her fear of spiders. Although she no longer has an intense fear of spiders she still has a natural reserve towards them. (Attachment E).

During the sessions with me Anne resolved many relationship issues involving trust and feeling abused. (Significantly she has now been in a stable relationship for the last 4 years. She started sessions with me 4 years ago just after she commenced the relationship). She is much closer to her parents. She is no longer fearful of being in the house on her own at night.

She told me recently that she has not had any significant change in her physical conditions. She is receiving chiropractic for her ongoing back problem and seeing a naturopath for her irritable bowel and asthma. She hasn’t used EFT for several months but she didn’t mention any particular reason for not doing so. I feel she got out of the habit.

Weight does not appear to be an issue with her and she appears to be very comfortable with her body.

I would have liked to continue working with Anne on her physical issues but she has not yet indicated that she would like to do this.

Attachment A

Email re arachnophobia

I received this email from Anne two days before the sixth session and a few days after the EFT workshop that I conducted and which she attended.

“I’ve had the arachnophobia for about twenty years, since I was five or so. Over the years I’ve tried lots several means of clearing those fears but ultimately have had little success. This weekend I worked on the issue over two days. On day one a number of issues came up around spiders that we tapped through and I felt the fear pretty intensely but struggled through, tapping along the way. On the morning of day two I was in the shower when I realised there was a large daddy-long-legs above me on the ceiling. Usually I would immediately get out of the shower and would be unable to take my legs off the perpetrator until it had been removed from the house. However, on this occasion I remained in the shower and tapped on it, all the while looking at the spider. Then I washed my face and even managed to close my eyes, all the while repeating affirmations and then continuing with tapping. I have never managed to do this before and while it was a challenge I was really proud of myself afterwards. I left the spider there in the bathroom so I could allow myself to be further challenged the following day. Later on day two I felt like there was a breakthrough when I had the realisation that much of this fear is connected with feelings of betrayal that have arisen in experiences of my encounters with spiders. Through the EFT process I tapped on issues of betrayal and felt the level of fear around spiders decrease. On day three when I went to the shower my spider was gone. While I still feel there is more to work on in clearing this fear I really do feel that the EFT has helped me to clear a lot of it. So thanks heaps!!!”

Attachment B

Anne’s feedback about cleaning out an enclosure inhabited by many spiders.

“I went to the outdoor spa pool enclosure with a view to hop in the tub, but when I got there I noticed the entire ceiling was covered in thick cobwebs and that cobwebs covered much of the walls too. Before the EFT sessions I would have turned around and walked away, thinking it far too dangerous to walk into the enclosure, let alone bathe there. On this occasion, however, I decided to take control of the situation. I spent two and a half hours sweeping away the cobwebs and spiders. About twenty spiders dropped and ran around my feet and I remained calm and stepped aside or shuffled them out of the way with a stick. I still felt some fear doing so and at one stage when a seriously large spider dropped and ran I had to do a bit of tapping, but then got back into it. The end result was a very clean and tidy spa pool area. I bathed in it, knowing that the spiders had simply moved and were not gone, but also feeling comforted by the knowledge that they wouldn’t be dropping on my head anytime soon.

I recognise that the spider fear is still there and that I still have some work to do, but I am really shocked and grateful for the huge steps forward we have taken through EFT. I am certainly feeling more empowered around spiders and less controlled by this irrational fear.”

Attachment C

Surrogating Anne’s dog at my EFT workshop.

I asked the workshop participants to practice surrogating by surrogating for Anne’s dog (“Sonny”) during an EFT workshop that I conducted.

“Sonny” had been very difficult to walk in harness. I encouraged the participants to connect with Sonny and to suggest the cause of this. They felt he had been traumatised while on his harness. Anne confirmed that he had been attacked by another dog while he was being walked and the difficulty of walking him in harness started then. Participants also felt that he would be happier if walked with a lead rather than a harness.

Anne took her dog for a walk about half an hour after the session. He was walked with a lead attached to his neck collar and without the harness. Anne was very happy to report that he didn’t pull on his lead for the first time that she could recall and that he seemed to be perfectly happy being led by the lead. He also slept in his own bed the next three nights, for the first time for several months without trying to climb onto Anne’s bed.

This was an interesting demonstration of surrogating with EFT and has had positive outcomes for both Sonny and Anne. For example, she has realised that if she can be free of her own issues she will help her dog to be free of his.

Anne also noted that her fear of being alone in her house has really diminished from when I first worked with her around this and other fears and issues several months ago. Her flat mate works at night but she does not feel as needy and scared as she used to.

Attachment D

Statement from Anne about unblocking her creative potential with Theta and EFT (following session 7)

“I felt I had some mental/physical and spiritual blockages that were contributing to what I saw as barriers to reaching my goal of becoming a professional artist. I have worked hard over the past twelve months to achieve this goal. Much of this has involved focussing on refining my drawing and painting skills, improving my networks and knowledge of processes involved in exhibiting and selling art work, and promoting my work more generally.

After twelve months I noticed great progress in some areas and little progress in other areas. Notably, I had made good progress in improving my knowledge of how to get into galleries and how to exhibit work, and I had taken steps backwards in selling my art – sales had been erratic and while my prices had increased slightly the art remained underpriced and sales were few and far between.

I had been seeing Deirdre Brocklebank over the past year for help with various issues of concern in my life and we had used Theta Healing and Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to address them. I therefore, decided to see whether Theta Healing could help me find some answers and solutions to the issues I have mentioned above.

I suspected the lack of sales of my art was connected with my self-worth and that this was something that needed to be addressed in order for me to make ends meet as an artist. I had a sixty minute session with Deirdre that focused on firstly using muscle testing to identify my blocking beliefs around self-worth and creativity, including those related to art and money. Each identified belief was then cleared with Theta Healing. Deirdre also muscle tested and cleared any blockages around affirmations for: abundance and prosperity, new beginnings, creativity and manifestation, happiness and success and health. During the session we also worked on the pain in my arms and beliefs that we thought may be manifesting this pain. I felt a significant reduction in the pain in my arms during this process.

Immediately after the session I felt a sense of relief and euphoria. I went home and painted. I tried new painting techniques and managed to connect with my spirit again. This was something which I had not been consistently doing in the past 12 months -(my head got in the way). I painted on both the next two days following the session and felt frustrated that I had other activities in the way of my painting time. On the third day following our session I took the day off work to paint some more! This is something I have not allowed myself to do in the past but I felt I needed to paint and follow my inspirational leads. During this three day period following the theta session I completed three paintings, one of them larger than 100cm squared and the other two were approximately 60cm squared. I feel that all three works are superb and that they were accomplished comparatively quickly. I had put aside two weeks for completing each painting in order to be ready for my next exhibition. To have three done in three days instead of six weeks was remarkable!

Three weeks after the session I had completed several large paintings of high quality, the biggest of which was 180x120cm. I also began on detailed sculptural piece And entered art in a local competition – something I had been meaning to do for several months.

One month after the session I had completed two more large paintings (80 x 120cm) and made considerable progress on the sculptural piece. This makes a total of nine large paintings started and completed during one month. Usually I would have completed 2-3 paintings during the same time period, leading me to conclude that the theta session has been successful in unblocking my artistic creativity. I am excited about the evolving creativity emerging now and am taking a week of leave from work so I can focus on art. I am very excited about the prospect strengthening my career as an artist and am totally confident in achieving my goals. If any more blocking thoughts and beliefs appear I know I can always get help to clear and change them with EFT and Theta.

Attachment E

Email – removing a Huntsman spider

The success of the sessions with Anne’s spider phobia was further supported by the fact that nine months after the last session, she had removed a Huntsman spider from her house.

“I just took a huntsman spider outside! Admittedly it was unwell and pretty defenceless, but this is the first time I have ever dealt directly with a Huntsman spider. I found it challenging and was a bit dizzy afterwards, but took some rescue remedy and did some EFT am some ten mins later am feeling very good about it. Well done me, pat on the back! YAY!!!!

The spider lives to tell his tale in the garden and everyone is happy.”