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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:   Allergic Reaction to Food  ( plus clearing a long-term blocked nose and freedom from snoring)
Practitioner:  Marion Walder
Client Name: B
Background details: I had introduced B to EFT 9 months ago, as she had been suffering from a blocked nose since she could remember. I said it was like a kind of acupuncture, but just tapping on meridian points instead of using needles. We tapped 3 rounds on her blocked nose, and the blockage was gone. It never came back again.  As B was not into any this “airy fairy stuff” at all, she was quite surprised. However, she was more than happy about the outcome, now being able to breathe properly. She told me later that the nose blockage had never come back again and that this short treatment had also freed her from snoring.
Two months ago, I received a phone call from B late at night. She could hardly talk, telling me she is having a severe allergic food reaction. It had got to a stage where she was feeling she would suffocate. A few months ago, when she had such an allergic reaction, she was taken to hospital. At the emergency department she was given antihistamines and insulin. She reacted heavily to this treatment, suffering from heart palpitations for several hours and she thought she was going to die. For that reason, she was scared to get an ambulance this time, but also felt bad about calling me in the middle of the night. Her partner finally “made” her to call me. Her partner had called an ambulance at the same time, just in case, but it was no longer needed when they arrived. Warning: Always seek medical assistance in any medical emergency. EFT is not a substitute for professional medical advice.
The EFT Session: I said “Do you remember the tapping on your nose blockage? We are going to do exactly the same thing right now.” As I had been hoping, these words calmed her down as she would remember the success we had the last time tapping.
NB: I used no setup, as it was obvious that she could not breathe and I had to act quickly. I used the shortcut throughout the whole session, no finger points.
1 round of tapping “I can’t breathe”/”I can’t get any air” I could hear her taking a deep breath and felt a big relief for myself. She started giggling, breathing in and out, telling me it had “gone”.  SUDS down to 5. In the background I could hear her partner stating: “I can’t believe it, even these b........ spots are disappearing!”
NB: B also had a severe skin reaction, starting with red spots on her decollete (chest) spreading onto her neck, arms and hands, and, by the time she called me, her whole body more or less was covered in red spots.
Setup statements, rubbing the sore spot:
“Even though I still have some of this allergic reaction left, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.” 3x
Tapping 2 rounds remaining “I can’t breathe”/”I can’t get any air”/ ”allergic reaction”/”red spots”  SUDS 3 then 0
B could now breathe normally and there were only 3 red spots left on her arms.
She said she was fine, so we finished the session (15 minutes) for now. I said, if she had any further problems, she could give me a call at any time.
The next morning B called me to report that after the phone call the breathing problem had slightly started to come back and she instantly tapped on it. It went away, as did the remaining red spots, and she had a good night sleep.
B said that the allergen must be an additive in a chilly sauce they had used in last night’s dinner, although, there was nothing stated on the label. As all the other ingredients were fresh, it could only be this sauce. She already had taken a quarter teaspoon full of the sauce this morning because she wanted to have proof. She said she would call me within the next 2 hours, because that would be the time range for the allergen to start the reaction. I said she should be careful and whether somebody was with her. She said that her partner had a day off. Warning: If testing allergic reactions, extreme caution should be taken, especially when life threatening symptoms, such as breathing difficulties, are present. Only perform such tests under medical supervision. EFT is not a substitute for professional medical advice.
She called me one hour later, telling me that she was shifting some heavy boxes when the allergic reaction slowly started by showing red spots on her decolletee (chest). Her partner said “you better start tapping on that” and she said yes, let’s just finish with these boxes and I will tap it out. Saying these words, the spots instantly disappeared! The allergic reaction did not set in.
I was glad she had it under control. However, I suggested we had another session in my practise to get to the core of the problem.
B came to my practise 2 days later. She brought the sauce. Over the past 10 years B has had several of these allergic reactions, each time eating out at a Thai or Chinese restaurant. Since then, she avoided that kind of food, whenever she could. She could not (or did not want to) remember any particular event that was linked to the reactions, or with whom she had been out at that time. 
Setup statements, rubbing the sore spot:
“Even though I have this allergic reaction and I don’t know where it is coming from and when or what or why it started, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.” (Repeating the love and accept myself part, she looked at me in a “funny” way)
“Even though I am allergic to some kind of ingredient in sauces, like in this tube here on the table and I don’t know what it is, I don’t need to know what it is, it may be the chilly, it may be something else, I love and accept myself anyway.”
“Even though I had this allergy for many years, and it is threatening my life, I deeply and completely accept myself just the way I am and I am open to the possibility that there is some emotional issue related to this problem.” (This setup I had seen on one of Gary Craig’s DVD sessions and this time she looked at me even funnier, frowning).

This issue was worrying her a lot and restricting her life. However, being able to use EFT she felt better about it SUDS 7
Tapping the full sequence, including fingers “This allergy is threatening my life”/”All these negative emotions”/”My fear about this allergy” SUDS 3. Tapping one more round “remaining fear”/”remaining worries”  SUDS 0

I asked her how she felt about having to live with this severe allergy and she said it would not bother her anymore, as it had gone. I asked her whether she was absolutely sure it had gone. What if it came back one day? Her fear was a 9.
Setup statements:
“Even though I am scared that this allergy might come back one day I deeply and completely love and accept myself”
”Even though I am afraid of this allergy coming back, I had it for 10 years, why shouldn’t it suddenly come back?, I don’t know where it came from back then, how can I be sure it is not suddenly hitting me again?, just out of the blue, like it did then?, but EFT has helped me to get rid of it, maybe forever, if not, I know how to handle it now, I did not believe in EFT either and it worked anyway, (she smiled) so it could work this time as well, and I am o.k. with it.”
“Even though this allergy may come back, I know that I am safe now.” 
Tapping 3 rounds of the above negative, alternating with positive affirmations “I know I am safe now”/”I know I can handle it”/I am in control” SUDS 4, then 1, and then 0
Follow-up:
This was the last EFT session B had with me. As she had been super critical to EFT, I asked her to send me a testimonial, which she did.
"One night I was suffering from a severe allergic reaction from food additives. I wasn’t sure whether to call an ambulance, but then decided to call Marion as I was starting to panic.
I called her and she recommended EFT. After receiving EFT treatment via phone, the breathing became much easier after only a couple of minutes of treatment and all the red spots on my skin disappeared.
Two days later I had another EFT session with Marion on my food allergy. The next day I ate what has caused the allergic reaction (chilli paste) and had no problems at all.
Since then I highly recommend EFT! It has worked very well for me.
Thank you so much Marion" 

Case Study:    Self (body) Image, Weight Loss.
Practitioner:   Steve Baldock
The Client:     Wayne has suffered from an overall image problem for most of his adult life. He cannot think of a specific event that begun this issue and is certain that he has never been picked on by anyone his entire life. Wayne is happily married with 4 children and a wife who adores him. Wayne’s major concerns are his body image and excessive weight which stops him from going on holidays, the beach, fun parks etc with his family. Wayne has made numerous efforts to change his life around and makes New Year resolutions every year that he will get fit and healthy again. These New Year’s Resolutions last about 3 to 4 weeks.

How the EFT session came about
My business card was given to Wayne by my naturopath. Wayne initiated first contact.

The 1st Session
After explaining to Wayne what EFT was and making sure he was going to be comfortable we decided to proceed. When asking Wayne to think about his current situation, he rated feeling a stress of 9 out of 10 and stated that the worst part of the issue was what he thought other people must be thinking or saying about his size. *From my perspective Wayne was only 15 to 20 kilos overweight. It was certainly nothing excessive.

We began several tapping setups, (see below), and followed each setup by tapping on all meridians including the 9 Gamut.

Statement

Suds Before

Suds After

Any New Issues

Even though I’m overweight, I deeply and completely accept myself.

9

5

But other people must think I’m fat and lazy

Even though other people must think I’m overweight and lazy, I deeply and completely accept myself.

8

2

Other people look at me when I get takeaway or sit in a restaurant.

Even though others may be aware of my eating issues I deeply and completely accept myself.

7

2


Even though I don’t know what other people are thinking about me, I deeply and completely accept myself.

6

1


Wayne said he felt more confident after our session and agreed to book in for another three sessions. One per fortnight.

The 2nd Session
Wayne’s outlook for his second session was notably improved. He mentioned that he wasn’t as concerned about what other people were thinking of him, but was now more disappointed that he was approaching 40 and for the past 20 years had been telling himself that he was going to get into shape. He felt he was a disappointment to his wife and children because he was so big. *I have not mentioned to Wayne that his weight was not excessive from my point of view.

Statement

Suds Before

Suds After

Any New Issues

Even though I have not been able to resolve my weight issues over the past 20 years, I deeply and completely accept myself.

9

3


Even though I have told myself and my family that I would change and I haven’t, I deeply and completely accept myself.

8

2


Even though others may be aware of my issues I deeply and completely accept myself.

3

0


Even though I’m approaching 40, I deeply and completely accept myself.

10

8

Wayne expressed his resentment that he was turning 40 and he feels he has wasted the last 20 years in every area of his life and wishes desperately that he was 20 again.

We stopped the tapping for now and I asked Wayne about his life over the past 20 years. Wayne feels that his greatest achievement is his family, but his greatest down fall is his weight, his work and his self confidence. Wayne stated that even though his wife loves him he finds it very difficult to understand how she can find him attractive sexually as he feels so big and that this alone has affected their sex life on more than one occasion. He wishes he had more confidence to accept higher paying roles. He honestly feels that he has wasted the last 20 years of his life by not taking more responsibility and quite often thinks of how he would do things differently if he could do it all over again. Wayne was physically crying here and wanted to stop the session. I have to say I was worried that I would not be able to handle the situation.

I asked Wayne to do one more tap before closing off the session and decided to do the Movie Technique to incorporate the past 20 years into one tap. After describing this to him he titled the movie “20 Years”.

We began tapping again and used the following setup statements.

  • Even though I don’t like this movie called “20 Years”, I deeply and completely accept myself.

  • Even though this movie called “20 Years” has annoyed me and I feel hopeless because of it, I do deeply and completely accept myself.

  • Even though this movie “20 Years” makes me feel sick and gives me a SUDs value of 11, I deeply and completely accept myself.

While tapping on Wayne’s meridians I asked him to increase the brightness, sound and colour of the movie, while repeating shorter statements like, “This movie”, and “This feeling”.

Wayne said that his overall SUDs of 11 had been reduced to a 2 and requested that we finish there as he needed time to think.

The 3rd Session
The 3rd session was not what I was expecting.

Wayne said he was very happy with the outcome of the last two sessions, but still continued to put himself down with statements throughout our conversation like, “I know my wife doesn’t find me attractive,” and “I know I wasted the past 20 years, but I’m ok with it now,” and “I can now accept my kids disappointment in me.”

I suddenly felt that Wayne may have been getting something all these years from complaining and feeling sorry for himself. It was his way of communicating to his wife and kids how he felt and then he would immediately receive their warmth and appreciation in the form of hugs and positive statements. So essentially he would complain and then get a reward.

When I mentioned this to Wayne he sat in absolute shock and then realised what he had been doing. We began tapping on the setup point and I decided to try some reframing statements. I asked Wayne to tell me something he thought was true about his current situation.

Reframe 1
Wayne: “My wife finds me unattractive.”
Me: “How do you know that she finds you unattractive?”
Wayne: “She looks at my body when I get undressed.”
Me: “How do you know she’s looking at you with disgust?”
Wayne: “I guess I don’t”
Me: “What specifically has she said that makes you feel like you’re unattractive?”
Wayne: “She has never said anything like that to me.”
Me: “If it was another lady looking at you getting undressed would you feel just as vulnerable?”
Wayne: “Without a doubt.”
Me: “So is it possible that you’re feeling this way because you don’t like your body shape?”
Wayne: “Yes.”
Me: “Where would you like your wife to look while you were undressing?”
Wayne: Smiling with a hint of a laugh, “At me.”
Me: “So how would you feel if every time you undressed she looked somewhere else or turned the other way?”
Wayne: “I’d feel worse, and would really think she didn’t find me attractive.”
Me: “So you’re now ok with her looking at you while you’re undressing?”
Wayne: “I am now and I feel grateful because of it. I feel energised and I’m going to apologise to her for all this rubbish.

Reframe 2 – Still tapping on the setup point
Me: “So tell me what is it about you that your kids are disappointed in.”
Wayne: “It’s just that I don’t go swimming with them and stuff like that.”
Me: “So who goes swimming with them?”
Wayne: “My wife and I take them and she will sometimes swim with them.”
Me: “So how do you know that they’re disappointed?
Wayne: “Because they want me to get in and I don’t.”
Me: “Does that ruin their day does it?”
Wayne: “No.”
Me: “Do the kids then complain that their day was bad because their Dad didn’t swim with them?”
Wayne: “Not at all, it’s just I know their disappointed.”
Me: “How do you know this though?”
Wayne: “They just have to be.”
Me: “Do they verbally complain or look physically upset when you say no to them?”
Wayne: “Know they don’t.”
Me: “Do they still have fun regardless if you’re in the pool with them or not?”
Wayne: “Yes they do.”
Me: “Is it possible that your kids are not disappointed at all, but perhaps you are?”
Wayne: “Yes it’s not the kids...my god it never has been...it’s my disappointment!”

Reframe 3 – Still tapping on the setup point
Me: “So how does someone waste 20 years?”
Wayne: “They don’t. I haven’t wasted it.”
Me: “But you mentioned to me that you had.”
Wayne: “I feel different now. I haven’t wasted it I’ve only just missed out on certain opportunities with the family, my wife and my job.”
Me: “And that doesn’t feel like a waste to you?”
Wayne: “No. I’ve actually done heaps over the past 20 years. If I have wasted it, it has only been in small parts because I have acted like a goof every now and then.
Me: “So how do you feel when you now think of all the missed opportunities with your family, wife and job?
Wayne: “I actually feel ok with it. I think now I feel really inspired to live life fuller and not let my negative feelings stop me.”
Me: “So you think this?”
Wayne: “Ok...I know this,” laughing, “I’m really excited and the fact that I have missed out on opportunities like swimming with my kids in the past is now making me feel more excited and more dedicated to changing this.”
Me: “Well that’s all good to say, but how are you going to respond next time you’re at the pools or your wife looks at you while you’re undressing, or another job opportunity comes up? Because it’s easy to say in this room right now things are going to be different.
Wayne: “I just know ok, I can feel it and I’m looking forward to this!”

We began a standard tapping session

Statement

Suds Before

Suds After

Any New Issues

Even though I didn’t like my movie called 20 years, I am deeply and completely at ease with this now.

2

0


Even though I used to feel like I had wasted the past 20 years, I am deeply and completely at ease with this now.

1

0


Even though it was my thoughts that were creating my kids disappointments, I am deeply and completely at ease with this.

2

0


Even though I didn’t like my wife looking at me while I was undressing, I feel good about it now and I’m looking forward to it.

1

0


The 4th Session

The 4th session took place 3 weeks after the last session and was really just a follow up. Wayne had joined a gym and had been going every morning. He had been swimming twice with his kids and he stated that he has more energy now than when he was twenty. He is very excited about life and the opportunities he will come across in the future.

Wayne’s only concern was that this new energy wouldn’t last, and that he may slip back into his old beliefs and actions. We began tapping, but this time excluding the 9 Gamut.


Statement

Suds Before

Suds After

Any New Issues

Even though I feel concerned that what I have now won’t last I deeply and completely accept myself.

5

1

Doubt

Even though I still doubt this statement a little, I am deeply and completely at ease with this now.

1

1


Even though this doubt may come back again in the future I know it’s just me getting used to this and that I will handle it with ease. I am also completely ok with this and I trust this process.

1

0



Summary
So far the EFT treatments Wayne has been receiving have been successful in a number of different areas including his self image, belief about what others thought of him, resentment of turning 40 and disappointment of wasting the last 20 years of his life.

I phoned Wayne yesterday (20/02/2011), just to touch base and to get a feel of how he has been coping since our last EFT session over 4 weeks ago. He has lost 10.5 kilos, is now more positive and outgoing and has been able to maintain his goal of losing weight. He has reported a huge difference in the amount of daily energy he has and is often up at 5:30am to get to the gym.

Case Study:  PTSD - Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Practitioner: Robyn Chuter
Client Name: NZ
Background details: NZ had been experiencing PTSD symptoms of intrusive thoughts and memories; avoidance behaviours; and emotional lability for the last two months, since she had found her father unconscious in his garden shed. I saw her a week after Father's Day, which she reported had triggered her painful memories intensely, leaving her an emotional wreck.
NZ had never heard of EFT. I told her that it was 'emotional acupuncture without needles', and that we would be tapping points on her body's energy meridians (which I explained were channels transmitting electricity through her body) while tuning into various aspects of the distressing memories that were troubling her. I explained that through this procedure, we would be
changing the way the memory apparatus in her brain stored this incident, so that she could think about it without distress. She was quite sceptical but agreed to give it a try.

The EFT Session:  Because of the deeply traumatic nature of the incident, I decided to use the Movie Technique so that I could work gently, without re-traumatising her, and then segue into the Tell the Story technique. She chose the title "Finding Dad" for her movie and rated her distress at the title at 12/10. We commenced tapping (alternating between karate chop and sore spot for the
set-up, and using the short-cut sequence with top-of-head and wrist points) on the feelings she had about the movie title. I tend to use quite long and discursive set-up statements, incorporating information the client has given me in preliminary discussions, as well as my own intuitive flashes, but the essence of the set-up phrases I used included the following
Setup Statements:
Even though I have all these feelings about this "Finding Dad" movie, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Even though I have all these feelings about this "Finding Dad" movie stored in my brain and body, I accept myself and forgive my brain for what it's been doing to me - it's been trying to protect and defend me.
Even though I have this fear/panic/overwhelm [I focused on a different emotion on each tapping round] I accept myself deeply and completely.
Reminder phrases: I used various elements of the set-up e.g. 'all these feelings stored in my body,' 'all this fear when I even think about the movie title,' 'all these feelings about this "Finding Dad" movie.' When tapping with clients I tune into my intuition, saying whatever pops into my head and gauging their response to it. I encourage clients to alter the reminder phrases to make them more accurately describe how they feel and think, as required. After several rounds of tapping, her intensity level dropped to 3/10.
At this point, I find clients more open to reframes of their experiences, and to exploring and expressing more positive feelings and beliefs. I led her in tapping on the following set-up phrases, which were intended to reframe the PTSD symptoms as attempts by her body and mind to defend her against a threat that was no longer operative:
Setup Statements:
Even though I still have some of these feelings left, I'm open to the possibility I could let these feelings go, and feel calm and peaceful about what happened.
Even though my brain has been holding on to these feelings, thinking that it has to protect and defend me, it's over now, everything turned out fine, and I don't need that kind of protection anymore.
Reminder phrases included:
'I'd like to let it go,' 'it all turned out fine and Dad is perfectly alright now,' 'it's safe for me to release these feelings from my body', 'I don't need to be on guard anymore because everything turned out alright,' and 'I did the best I could do and it all
worked out just fine.'
By this stage she had no intensity left when she said the movie title out loud, so I asked her to talk me through the first 'scene' in the movie, instructing her to tell me when her intensity level rose above a 2/10. My intention was to draw out and neutralise all the elements of the memory - visual, auditory, kinaesthetic and olfactory - that might be capable of triggering NZ's traumatic response.
She described how she had become concerned about her father when she suddenly realised she hadn't seen him pottering around the yard for a while, as she usually did when he was working in the shed. Her intensity rose slightly so we tapped on the fear and anticipation of what was to come. When that subsided she described how she had walked out into the backyard, and caught sight of her father sitting in a chair just inside the shed, with his head lolling to one side. We tapped on the distress she felt at remembering how she instantly knew something was wrong.
Next she related how she had rushed to him, noticed that a gas cylinder was leaking near his face, and realised he had inhaled gas and that she knew she had to get him out of the shed. We tapped on her memory of how heavy he was, how she despaired of being able to get him clear of the shed, how it seemed to take an eternity to get him out onto the lawn, and how scared she was that she might have arrived too late.
Next, NZ described how she had pulled out her mobile phone to call an ambulance, but in her haste had dropped it so the battery fell out. She then had to run into the house for the cordless phone. We tapped on her frustration, and her fear of leaving him alone. Then she related how the control room operator had spoken to her (as she perceived it) rudely and unempathically, and we tapped on her anger at that. She recalled the operator telling her that the gas could ignite, and that she should move as
far away from it as possible. NZ became very emotional as she told me how she shouted down the phone in return, "There's no way I'm leaving him in danger while I run to safety - if he goes, I go!" We tapped on her feelings until she felt calm, and I encouraged her to shout out what she had said, while tapping, so that she could access and neutralise the full intensity of  the emotion she had experienced.
The next spike in intensity was when the ambulance crew arrived, and she had to leave her dad again to open the front door, and the side gate of the house, to let them in. We tapped on her memory of the frustration of not being able to find the right key, and her fear that something terrible might have be happening to her father while she spent all this time letting in the
ambulance crew.
Then she related how one of the ambulance crew had told her that her father might have suffered brain damage, so we tapped on her fear and horror. As her intensity level dropped, I segued to reminders that it all ended up OK and he had no brain damage after all. The final intensity spike was her recollection of being taken to hospital herself in a second ambulance,
suffering a panic attack. By this stage, her intensity spikes were only around 5-6/10 and took just a round or two to subside to 0. I explained to her that this was a clear sign that the memories were no longer triggering her amygdala, and instead were being transferred to normal 'storage' in her limbic system, so she would be able to recall what had happened without becoming emotional about it.
NZ now looked very calm. I asked her to run the entire movie in her head, and tell me if there was any remaining intensity - even the tiniest spike. She did so, and reported that she felt completely calm when recalling it. She was plainly bemused by what she was experiencing: she simply could not get herself upset about any aspect of her "Finding Dad" movie. She then
confessed that when I first started leading her in the tapping, she had thought I was completely crazy, but now she couldn't deny that it had worked.
I explained to her that this result was probably going to be permanent, but that if she had any other troubling memories about the incident, they were simply aspects that she had not thought of during this session, and she could tap on them in the same way. I emailed her a summary of the EFT points and tapping process to use at home.

Follow-up:
I saw NZ 12 days later. She told me she was still feeling perfectly calm about the incident with her father. She was completely comfortable about going into the backyard, which she had previously been avoiding. I asked her if she had gone into the shed yet, as she had reported to me during the first session, that the mere thought of that made her feel panicky. She told me she hadn't yet had a reason to do so, but was still a little worried she would be triggered if she did. I suggested tapping on her fear of being triggered.
I saw NZ again 3 weeks later. She told me she was completely over the incident and had no trouble whatsoever going out in the backyard and the shed.

Sexual abuse and grieving
By Deirdre Brocklebank 

I obtained as much information as I could from my client (whom I will call “Lorna”), 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.

Issues: personal difficulties with office colleagues. Physical blockage in her throat. Had been raped more than once. She was also experiencing a vaginal itch which had flared up from a recent abusive relationship. She had been in a series of destructive relationships. Heart beat hurt. Emotionally despondent.

First session. April 2008

Therapies:

I used EFT, Theta Healing, muscle testing, visualisation (White and Pink lights) for 1 hour 10 minutes, followed by 50 minutes of reflexology. I muscle tested to see if she was hydrated and ensured that she drank during the sessions as I regard hydration as being very significant to the effectiveness of EFT.
I explained the principles of EFT to her using my chart as a reference to indicate the meaning of the points being tapped and their relationship to Chinese Medicine and kinesiology.
I generally did the whole routine with the Setup and points from TH – KC but have indicated when I have done a shorter routine. I tapped on myself while she tapped on herself. I prefer to speak the words and have the client follow me until they are familiar with the whole process and the nuances involved in EFT.
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 and what the treatment would involve using these modalities.

Issues: vaginal itch, rape, throat tension, heart numb, “child within” dead

a) vaginal itch. She was very concerned about her vaginal itch to I started with this issue.

I suggested possible metaphysical reasons for vaginal itch according to Theta Healing, Louise Hay and Annette Noontill. I have found that identifying the metaphysical reasons often jogs my clients’ memories about incidents in their lives which they need to address in order to heal on all levels.

I explained Theta Healing to her and the meaning = Irritation dealing with confrontation. Inadequacy and unworthiness. Reflects what is going on in your life.

Louise Hay = Anger at a mate – sexual guilt. I rejoice in my sexuality.

Noontill = Children pick up your feelings and emotions. Love your enemies, Forgive them for the lessons you were taught.

Lorna related to the above meanings and it enabled to her to open up about the abuse that she had experienced, including rape.

Discussion – I asked her to tap her KC continually as she talked about the vaginal itch and the rape.

  • Vaginal itch – worse with period- used to be constant. Developed after last abusive relationship

  • Hard to forgive herself for the rape

  • She didn’t know if she can forgive him He “put her on a path I would not have gone on.

As she talked I occasionally stopped her and cleared the following beliefs and downloaded positive beliefs with Theta Healing. (I muscle tested to check that she had a belief and then I retested her to check that it was cleared).

Theta –

  • It’s all his fault that I’m on the path I’m on

  • I wish I could forgive him

  • The trauma of the rape is in my DNA

  • The trauma of the rape is in my soul beliefs

  • It’s hard for me to forgive

I asked her to tap her KC while talking about the rape. It happened at her year 10 formal. She felt a lot of guilt and self loathing for herself for going for a walk with a man she had just met at the formal. She also felt a lack of trust for men in general and low self worth.

I decided to start with the circumstances of her rape (when it happened) as it seemed very vivid in her mind and was affecting her throat.

EFT

b) rape – blockage in throat rate 10 TH - KC

Even though he asked me to go for a walk I should have known better I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude even though he raped me.

Throat not much change - rate 8

Negative phrases from TH – KC No one heard me – he didn’t stop – I could hear the traffic – no one came to help me - I felt powerless – I was ripped off – I was cheated and betrayed – it hurt x 2 rounds

Negative phrases – it was all my fault, I asked for it, I deserved to be raped, I shouldn’t have trusted him (and other similar phrases) x 2 rounds

She felt that the reason for her throat tension was “emotional” as it was a “tight dark ball unknown source”.

She had the following insight (cognitive shift). She was in a relationship for 10 years and when she tried to break it off (13 years ago) her vaginal itch first started.

Her throat still felt a bit tense so I decided to address the physical aspects.

c) throat tension rate 5 TH - CB

Even though I’ve got this tension in my throat I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative - TH– CB x1round

Negative - – this thing in my throat

She felt the tension was smaller and lighter and it moved to the back of her throat which was a bit tight – rate 2

Negative - TH – CB – this remaining tightness. (It cleared so we didn’t tap past CB).

She didn’t feel any tension it was gone. Rate 0

I put my hands around her throat to gauge her reaction. She only felt a slight fear.

Rate increased 1

Tapped TH – CB

Negative - I can’t breathe. Life strangles me

Rate 0

Muscle testing confirmed that the work was complete around the throat problems.

I asked her to talk about her rape while talking and tapping her KC.

I muscle tested the following and cleared the blocked beliefs with Theta Healing

I don’t hate my rapist – true

I don’t want to hate him – yes

I hate me cl+d (cl + d = cleared and downloaded)

I love who I am – yes

I love what I am cl+d

Men are out to get me cl+d

I held her with both hands around her throat. She felt OK.

When she held her throat she felt some slight block. She also felt numb in her heart space.

I asked her to visualise the White and then Pink lights to clear blockages. This visualisation involved talking her through allowing the White then the Pink light to flow through her body from the crown chakra to the rest of her body including the other chakras. (I developed this routine and have found it to be very effective in clearing emotional and physical blocks).

She felt less numb in heart space.

I asked her to place her hand on her heart. For the previous12 -13 years she hadn’t feel her heart beat. Last year when she started to feel it beat it hurt. It was still hurting a bit.

d) my heart is hurting TH – CB rate 6

Even though it hurts to feel my heart I now choose to feel healed and happy when I hear my heart beating.

Negative: it hurts to feel my heart beating. I need to feel pain in my heart to know I’m alive etc x 1round

Choice statement – I now choose to feel healed and happy when I hear my heart beating x1round

Alternate negative with positive phrases on alternative points x 1 round

Rate – 0 could feel her heart beating strongly.

e) “child within” dead (I didn’t rate this but her relief was evident after the tapping) TH - CB

Even though the child within me is dead I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative - The child within me is dead x 2 rounds

She did a visualisation for the “child within” by imagining the child and seeing it feeling secure and loved.

I asked her to check her heart with hand on it. She said, ‘I can feel it. It’s fine’

She also felt the child within was feeling happy.

She no longer felt a sense of being overwhelmed (which was how she normally felt).
 

Second session (a week later)

Therapies

I used EFT (full sequence and Run the Movie Technique), Theta Healing, muscle testing, for 1 hour 10 minutes, 50 minutes reflexology.

Issues: death of a loved brother. Sexual abuse.

Discussion and feedback

  • Thinking “more positive thoughts and generally feeling less negative”

  • She can be intolerant of those with different beliefs but now she felt less judgemental and self critical

  • Felt lighter – has forgiven the rapist – “never thought I would - but I have.” “I think he has gone.”

  • Slight headache the night after the first EFT session

  • Only slight vaginal itch since that session

  • Her brother was killed in a terrible accident overseas. She was very emotional about this.

a) brother’s death- Rate 10+ (crying) TH - KC

Tapping talking KC

  • Brother travelled overseas for years

  • She idolised him

  • He was crushed between trains in the London underground 21 years ago

Run the Movie Technique

I explained the Run the Movie technique to her. She called it “The Horror Movie” and it ran for a few minutes.

I asked her to tell me what happened as she tapped through from TH – KC. (I tapped on myself at the same time). I then asked her to talk the incident through as a black and white movie as though she was the projectionist. I then assisted her to run it backwards by prompting her story when she found it difficult to do).

  • She felt sadness in her heart

  • I encouraged her to send him unconditional love and to allow White light into her heart space

  • She felt love coming from him to her

Theta Healing – I muscle tested to see if she had the following beliefs. I cleared the beliefs with Theta and downloaded more positive feelings. I then rechecked with muscle testing to confirm they were cleared.

  • It’s all my fault cl+d

  • I should have been there to protect him cl+d

  • It’s my dad’s fault for making him leave home cl+d

  • It should have been me cl+d

  • Only the good die young cl+d

I asked her to rethink the “movie”

  • She was feeling “cheered up a bit”

  • While thinking about the accident she felt “happier”

  • She “started to think about him living rather than being dead” (NB excellent cognitive reversal)

I asked her to retell her story about her brother. She felt calmer and then her anxiety increased as she remembered that some of her friends told her about her brother being killed. She recalled that they watched her reactions and she knew they did this in order to be able to gossip about it.

b) “friends” betrayal. Rate 10+ TH - KC

Even though I am furious that my so called friends took advantage of my vulnerability I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: Talking tapping round the setup eg They are nasty mean people – hurt me too much x 1 round

Negative: I don’t want to let it go x 1 round.

She felt shortness of breath and fear.

Negative: I am afraid if I let it go I will always be vulnerable. x 1 round

NB cognitive shift when she realised “My strength lies in my compassion and ability to forgive.”

I forgive K... and M....... in the name of unconditional love for the best and highest good of all. X 1 round

Rate 0

I wanted to check that she really had forgiven the rapist after the last session so I used muscle testing to check her believes around this and Theta Healing to clear them.

c) rape forgiveness

I forgive P.... (this was the first time since the rape she has been able to say his name) for raping me.

I forgive myself for allowing it.

I muscle tested if she felt there was anything bad about forgiving herself. Muscle testing showed this was clear. Rate 0

She mentioned that she had been sexually assaulted another time.

d) second sexual abuse Rate 10+

I asked her to talk about the incident starting prior to it, while tapping KC.

  • School trip

  • Males at a party got the girls drunk

  • She was trapped in bathroom by a man

  • He wanted sex she said no

  • Avoided rape but submitted to a sexual act out of fear and to avoid being raped

  • She was feeling “so humiliated and embarrassed,”

  • “I’m a slut, dirty, carrying the trauma of that night in my DNA

  • I’m humiliated by what I did

  • I feel betrayed my partner/team/self

  • I feel cheated by my aggressor incident

  • I am carrying the aggression of my aggressor”

Run the Movie Technique

I reminded her how to do this technique and guided her through it as mentioned previously.

She called it “The abuse” The movie ran for a few minutes.

She was feeling “sad and depleted” .

After she ran it forwards then backwards in her mind she felt “better” and she was laughing.

I asked her to rerun it again in her mind. She didn’t feel any reaction.

Rate 0

Lorna recalled another incident of sexual abuse when she was 17 years of age. Her memory was not strong but it still had a charge and I thought it was important to address it in this session with the other abuse incidents that we had already dealt with.

e) third abuse

I asked her to tell me about the incident while tapping from TH – KC. (No setup). She mentioned the following and other details:

  • Doesn’t feel too bad

  • End of school party at the coast

  • Friend of a friend raped her

  • “I silently wept”

  • “The following week I rang and asked him out”

  • “I was foolish – it was horrible”

Negative: After tapping a couple of rounds using words around the above she sighed and said, “There’s no big deal about it, it just happened.”

Choice statement: I now choose to learn these lessons about giving and receiving intimacy and empathy lovingly and positively x 1 round.

I advised Lorna to use EFT for her itch whenever she wanted to.
 

Third session (23 days later)

Therapies

I used EFT and Theta 1 hour 10 minutes followed by 50 minutes reflexology and bush flower essences.

Issues: vaginal itch. Down’s Syndrome brother.

Discussion

  • Still experiencing a general vaginal itch but the EFT helps

  • NB cognitive shift – She now believed that the residual itch was due to thrush rather than from the rape.

a) brother with Down’s Syndrome Rate 10 TH – K (plus eye roll)

  • One of her brothers had Downs Syndrome and he was teased a lot by the other children

  • One of her friends said that she hoped her mother wasn’t having a baby like T.....(her brother)

I asked her to tap with the following setup and to say what she felt about the issue while tapping TH – KC.

Even though my friend said she hoped her mother wasn’t having a baby like T... I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

Negative: it really hurt me, I couldn’t help him, it changed our relationship, I wanted to be where mum and T... were, I let him down, I couldn’t help him. I felt powerless etc

Rate 3

Eye roll routine

She still felt some charge so I suggested that she follow me in doing the Eye roll routine to assist with forgiving herself and others about the incident with her brother. I explained that it is a process to switch on both sides of the brain. I also said that forgiveness is very important to help in our healing. I told her that forgiving does not mean condoning an act but it helps us to move forward and heal more quickly.

I asked her to watch my hand without moving her head while I raised my hand from the floor towards the ceiling. I told her to tap on the KC and to repeat the following after me.

Even though I still feel guilty about not being able to help T.... I deeply and completely accept myself unconditionally with love and gratitude.

I forgive myself for creating this; I forgive anyone else involved (including her friends/others; I am ready to let it go; I let it go now; I let it go completely.

I asked her to tap through TH –KC while retelling the incident.

T... died at home at 15 months of age

Her friend wanted to see him. He was so peaceful Lorna wanted to share it with her friend

Her friend’s mother said it “damaged her child forever”

When I asked her to repeat the story once more she didn’t mention her friend’s mother’s reaction. This was interesting as she had reacted very strongly to it the first and second time that she mentioned it.

Rate 0

Lorna attended an EFT workshop that I conducted about three months later. Her testimonials in Attachment A and Attachment B refer to the results that she obtained during this workshop.

Client profile: son – pooing pants at school and snoring.

Fourth session: 3 months after the last one-on-one session and one month after attending my EFT workshop.

Therapies

I used EFT (surrogating for her son and Trauma Buster), muscle testing and Reference Point Therapy for 90 minutes.

Son’s Issues: pooing pants, snoring and father issues.

Discussion

  • Concerned for her son “Mike” – happy to go to preschool but pooing his pants and snoring

I explained that we could surrogate for Mike while she was tapping on her own body but speaking as him. I muscle tested her to establish that she answered to her son’s name before asking her to follow me with the following setup and process. (I muscle tested when we were finished to establish that she was no longer her son).

a)clearing Mike of guilt. Tapping for him as him. (not rated)

Even though it would be nicer for me if I didn’t poo my pants, even so I accept myself, pooey pants and all.

Negative: I poo my pants x 1round

I asked her to speak his feelings while tapping through the points from TH – KC. They included the following: not enough time to do things – busy – don’t want to interrupt – not sure what to do – panic – mixed signals – not being able to do things at the same time – not important – rather play – annoying – stopping me from playing – angry – not being able to control the poo – being controlled – don’t like it – want to stop it – stomach sick – fear – not doing the right thing – letting mum down – not being myself – nervous x 2 rounds

I accept myself and I’m OK x 1 round

Rate “OK” “0”

b)acceptance with my dad – rejection

I though it appropriate to use a technique called Reference Point Therapy. I explained it to Lorna as a process for clearing the original trauma of an issue by reference to stages in our development from where it has been identified that we can experience traumas. These can be through the DNA in our biological lines plus the following in our own bodies: conception, fertilisation, segmentation, implantation, birth and 2-3 weeks after birth. (It was developed from work done on Peak States of Consciousness). The main purpose is to identify where the person intuitively feels that the issue(s) developed and to then acknowledge it and allow it to clear).

I established with muscle testing that Lorna was speaking as her son and the issue for him was rejection.

By surrogating as her son, she identified (from the Reference Point Therapy) that the issue came through her son’s father’s father’s father’s, mother’s mother.

  • She identified feelings of sadness, racism, (his father is from another culuture) and anger. There was a sense of “ They’ll be forgotten if I let go the struggle “

  • She felt better

  • Anxiety, overburdened by history – sadness/ anger

  • Sense or stubbornness

  • She felt clearing of nervous energy

  • Her throat was tight – not be able to talk about this which she recognised as fear

  • I suggested she hold her hands on her throat and acknowledge and accept the above awareness.

Her throat cleared

c) bowels feeling Rate 3-4

NB Lorna was finding it difficult to work for her son and to not involve herself in the process. She also recognised that it often takes her a day or two to process the work that she does with me for herself and she wondered if it would be the same for her son.

I asked to place her hand on her bowels and to give herself permission to surrogate for her son in the following process. I muscle tested to confirm this had been successful. It was.

In summary there were issues of rejection at conception (father) and fertilisation and birth but these were all cleared in the process.

Rate 0 bowels feeling

d)anger with dad Rate 10 TH -KC

Even though I am angry with dad and the world I’m a great kid.

Negative: I’m angry with the world, I’m angry with dad

Muscle test - not cleared

Negative: I’m really furious and overwhelmed and angry with the world and with dad x 1 round

Muscle test – I’m angry with the world /dad– not cleared

Trauma buster. I explained that the Trauma Buster routine was developed by Rehanna Webster from a combination of NLP and EFT (including “Run The Movie Technique”). I explained further that it involved telling a story in black as white as though her son (or she as her son) would not be in the film but would be the projectionist. She would then tell the story backwards, then run it as a cartoon and rewrite the story. She agreed and continued to surrogate for her son.

The incident happened 2.5 years ago when dad last visited. It was called “Dad’s Last Visit” and lasted minutes.

B&W – excited dad coming – mum in background – me at front door – dad came – showed him around – we were quiet – then he started picking on me

We played outside – dad big – scared of him

I just started to get to know him and he didn’t come back

B& W backwards. I assisted her to do this as best she could.

Cartoon – characters boy - Mickey Mouse – dad Goofy – mum Mini Mouse

Changed the story to having fun – Goofy read to him and he came back for more visits.

Retell felt good.

Rate 0

e)son’s Snoring – I asked her (as her son) what does snoring mean to you?

  • It blocks out noise from my head

  • Stops me being interrupted in dreams –

  • Stops bad dreams - ancestors visit in his dreams.

We tapped for the following setup and then statements from TH-KC

Even though I snore to cover the noise from my ancestors because they scare me, I now choose to sleep really well and to wake up full of energy.

Negative: my ancestors scare me x1

I now choose to sleep really well and to wake up full of energy x1round

Alternate on the points : I snore, I now choose to sleep in the light x 1round

Muscle test still her son. I asked her to pretend she was asleep at night. She felt OK.

Confirmed with muscle testing that her name is “Lorna”.

I suggest that she talk to her son about his dreams and to ask what he is seeing when asleep and what was he feeling when going to sleep. I also suggested that while she was doing this she could tap or hold his Under Arm (spleen - rejection point) as she said “ daddy loves you and I love you”.
Summary

I felt that the sessions of combined EFT and the other modalities were very successful. I also found that the EFT on its own (in the workshop) was extremely effective. These observations are supported by her testimonials in Attachment A and Attachment B.

Attachment A

Deirdre Brocklebank - Case study on Gary Craig’s website.

I sent a summary of the above sessions plus additional work (including using only EFT in my EFT workshop) in a summary to Gary Craig and he presented it on his site www.emofree.com with the following comment.

Hi Everyone,

We have many cases where tapping on one issue often brings benefits for other issues. Such is the case in this article by Deirdre Brocklebank from Australia. Near the end I make the following comment, We don't always know whether an EFT benefit occurs because we have collapsed a foundational issue in the past or because tapping on some issues collapses related items. Whatever the reason, we certainly see our share of these "side benefits."Hugs, Gary

Hi Gary,

I have had four sessions with my client whom I will call Lorna. She had been raped three times on different occasions. She was also dealing with the rather horrible death of her much loved oldest brother as well as issues around her younger brother with Down's Syndrome.

At my EFT workshop, which she attended after doing the sessions with me, she recalled two instances when she had nearly drowned. On both occasions she had been saved by two of her older brothers.

She was very upset and crying as she recalled the first incident and so, with her permission I tapped on her from Top of Head to CB while repeating phrases containing what she had said about the incident including: I nearly drowned; the waves swept me out; nobody could hear me; nobody would help me; I was going under; I couldn't breathe etc. She couldn't swallow when I stopped tapping so I tapped a round of "I couldn't swallow." After this she felt OK when recalling the incident and she was able to swallow some water.

I also tapped on Lorna and did the talking for the second incident. I included phrases such as: I was being swept out to sea; I was going under; I was swallowing water etc and ended up with a round of the choice statement "I now choose life." She no longer felt any stress when thinking about the incident. She was also able to swallow water more easily and her throat no longer felt closed.

After working with Lorna on the above issues in front of the group I asked the workshop participants to work privately in pairs. I entered the room where Lorna and another participant were working in time to see Lorna nearly choking and trying hard to breathe. Her throat had constricted so much she was gagging for breath. I put her into the recovery position and with her permission I tapped gently from Top of Head - CB for "this constricted breathing". She soon regained her breath and became calmer and relaxed.

I received the following note from Lorna a couple of days after the workshop.

"Thanks so much for the work shop, I learnt a lot out of the two days. I was blown away by my response to water, I didn't think that would happen, I'm surprised that this evoked a much greater physical response than the other trauma's that we have worked on, which to me have had much greater and more debilitating effects on my life. So I'm curious - is it because you were tapping on the other issues, or is it because I am no longer paralysed by my past that I can feel them now? Maybe a bit of both? I really am quite blown away by it. Anyway, thank you once again, it also reminded me how careful we have to be (and have a bit of skill) and an idea on what you are getting into before trying to help others with issues."

GC COMMENT: We don't always know whether an EFT benefit occurs because we have collapsed a foundational issue in the past or because tapping on some issues collapses related items. Whatever the reason, we certainly see our share of these "side benefits."

Attachment B

Testimonial from Lorna for Deirdre Brocklebank

I first met Deirdre about 18 months ago when I knew very little about the world of energy medicine. Initially I saw her three times in row where she utilised a range of her skills including EFT, Theta Healing, Reflexology and Bush essences to assist me with addressing some old grief, loss and trauma issues I wanted to kick for good.

I had tried counselling and other such modalities in the past, I felt frustrated with the feeling of being left in a holding pattern and I felt I made more progress by myself. I wanted to move through it but simply didn’t know how.

About a year before I saw Deirdre I had begun again with vigour to address my health issues once I had finally given up my twenty five year habit of smoking cigarettes. Smoking was a big block in my life. It felt good and timely to get healthy and improve my lifestyle. Other motivation came from my little son, whereby I wanted to be the best I could be for him as he grew up. During this time I was making great gains, could see physical improvements, and was growing in confidence. One major improvement I was excited about was that I felt my heart beating for the first time in many years (I literally could not feel my heart or any other organ in my torso for ten years). A wonderful energy practitioner (acupuncture) I was seeing commented that while he was able to help me with many issues, much of what was going on was showing up at an emotional and energetic level and suggested EFT and referred me to Gary Craig’s website and manual. I gave that a go, and I felt it would be beneficial to see someone who knew what they were doing so I could get the hang of it. I spoke about this to a mutual friend and she in turn told me about Deirdre. So, I gave her call……

After seeing Deirdre those three times, my life changed. I recall feeling absolutely amazing, I didn’t realise how disabled I was by the emotional baggage I was holding in. I didn’t realise I was holding so much! I didn’t know I could ‘feel’ so well in all manner of ways. I felt so empowered and so inspired to learn more about energy therapies.

I started by attending one of Deirdre’s EFT Weekend workshops, which was also fabulous. Deirdre encouraged us all to be active in our own healing and that explained that we can so much ourselves. Initially I found that encouragement a little daunting as Deirdre does what she does with such ease. But I rose to the challenge and am now a regular tapper, have undertaken a Theta Healing Course and completed my Reiki 1 and 2. My journey has just begun in this area; I want to learn more and more. I feel blessed that I was led to Deirdre for my first exposure into the range of energy therapies and just how amazing they are. I don’t say that lightly either, Deirdre makes what she does look easy, but that is because she is such a skilled and knowledgeable practitioner.

Deirdre’s ways of working turned the way I viewed my health and well being upside down. I had no idea about belief work and knew very little about emotional issues being linked to different parts of the body. This was very challenging and surprising at first, I learnt a lot more about myself than I could have imagined – it’s enabled me to think in a totally new way. I was able to change patterns of negative thinking through skills shown to me by Deirdre (particularly EFT). I became much more aware of what my body was doing and telling me, I didn’t realise how often I over analysed things, and worried about things that don’t matter and generally engaged in a lot of negative self talk. Now I have the tools and a greater awareness to proactively address the situation. I don’t shy away from looking at all pieces of me. It’s a work in progress, and I’m doing fine.

The other totally liberating and freeing experience Deirdre opened me up to was me forgiving myself and others as part of the healing process. It seems so obvious now, but when she first suggested I try and forgive the person who raped me I nearly fell off the chair. But I did and it was great. This was an amazing transformation for me, I had long wanted to let many things go but just didn’t know how or what to do, despite having sought ‘professional’ help over the years. Deirdre has the tools and is able to effectively execute them and share them with people like me. Awesome! What a gift.

While I have always felt my own sense of spirituality through nature and believed in a higher place, I did have a sceptical view about the God I was bought up to believe in (Catholic). I disbanded from the catholic rhetoric in my teens, but still carried good old Catholic guilt – something else I had tried to shake. I now have much stronger connection to all things including my God. This crept in gently through Deirdre’s work and my ongoing journey.

There are so many facets to the changes as a consequence of those healing sessions! It’s not that I was walking around depressed or was a misery to be around prior to meeting Deirdre, but I was carrying a deep sadness with me, and now I realise just how disabling that was. I had somewhere along the line I settled for less, to ‘this is my lot and I’ll make the most of it’ type thing, unknowingly taking part time responsibility and blamed others for the bad things that happened. Those sessions with Deirdre, transformed my life and thinking. I take full responsibility for my life now – blame is gone, guilt has gone, anger has gone, Yeah! It’s wonderful, and now I can use EFT and other healing techniques myself (not as proficiently as Deirdre – not yet anyway!). What a ride, I love it.

I am now back to being the positive, optimistic, hopeful, happy and enthusiastic person I used to be when I was a young girl. Those sessions also expedited more feeling in my torso, so that had total feeling back – that was such a thrill, so wonderful. I was no long numb. Another thing, my thinking improved, my ability to process information and make decisions was faster and clearer – clarity wow!

So many improvements, a year or so on it’s easy to take it for granted now, it would be easy to forget how many changes occurred, but I don’t - it was profound. It’s a great place to be. Deirdre helped me get to that happier, peaceful and grateful place.

I am now back at Uni and where possible I try to incorporate energy therapies into my studies. Deirdre and I re-connected through her assisting in a questionnaire for my studies. From that, I feel our relationship has evolved to friendship. How lovely is that!

With love and gratitude

“Lorna”

Case Study: Sales Slump
Practitioner: Steve Baldock
Client Name: John
Background details: John has been in sales for the past 15 years, but has been suffering from poor sales results for the past 2 years. John’s belief was that somehow he had lost his ability to connect with people and because of this he was unable to understand the needs of his clients.

How the EFT session came about John was a friend of my wife’s and she suggested a session with me might help alleviate some of his issues, beliefs and symptoms. John was prepared to give anything a go as he had spent quite a lot of money of attending sales courses, which had not helped him.

The 1st Session:

After explaining to John what EFT was and making sure he was going to be comfortable we decided to proceed. At this stage John felt strongly that his poor sales performance was due to the fact that he had lost his drive and connection to understand what people needed.

When asking John to think about his current situation, John rated his feeling of discomfort an 11 out of 10.

We began tapping with the setup statement of “Even though I have lost my ability to connect to people I deeply and completely accept myself.” By the end of this first statement John became physically distressed and looked very ill.

I immediately stopped the session and asked what his thoughts were. John said that as soon as he stated that he deeply and completely accepted himself he imagined his previous Sales Manager telling him how bad he was at his job.

I began exploring this further and it turns out that John had been with his company for over 7 years; however in his last 18 months the company was forced to employ a new Sales Manager who had a different management approach. John’s previous manager was encouraging, supportive and helpful, however his new manager felt that John and everyone else in the sales team would perform much better if under pressure. To help instil this pressure the new manager resorted to name calling, putting staff down in front of clients and other members of the sales team, constantly badgering, micro managing and complaining that the sales margin they did make on their sales was never high enough.

John persisted in this role for a further 18 months before he resigned one day in a fit of panic. During this period two other members of the sales team had left, and after John left a further three other members handed in their resignation. Four weeks later that Sales Manager was fired for poor performance and lack of staff retention and all sales staff were offered their jobs back with full compensation. Only two of the five, including John, decided to accept the offer.

Although John knows that his Sales Manager was in the wrong, he admitted to always replaying the confrontation sessions over and over in his head, which made him feel nauseas with hot flushes.

John now rated his feeling of discomfort an 8 out of 10 and stated that he now felt a little better since admitting the full story. He had not told anyone, including his wife, the full storey before.

We began tapping again, this time with the setup statement of, “Even though I feel sick and hot when I think of my sales job I deeply and completely accept myself.” We did this 3 times and then taped on all meridian points including the 9 Gamut. I was especially careful that I remembered to keep tapping during the 9 Gamut phase.

John said that his uneasy feeling diminished to a zero, but still felt unworthy as a sales person because of his previous manager. He rated this unworthy feeling a 7 out of 10.

We tapped again, this time using the setup statement. “Even though my previous Sales Manger said I was no good at my job, I deeply and completely accept myself.” We did this 3 times and then taped on all meridian points including the 9 Gamut. John reassessed his feeling on the situation as a 1 out of 10.

As this point the session was stopped as John had other commitments. We agreed to talk again the following week to see if further sessions were needed.

The 2nd Session
Eight days later I met with John again.

Although the physical symptoms of John’s problem had not returned, he was still finding it hard to feel good about himself. He rated this 9 out of 10 and stated that the feeling was different to last weeks, where this time he just felt tired and dull inside.

We began several tapping routines over the next 30 minutes. For each new setup statement all Meridians including the 9 Gamut were tapped. The setup statements used were in the following order.

Statement

SUDS Rating Before

SUDS Rating After

New Issue

Even though I feel tired and dull inside I deeply and completely accept myself

9

1

Anger

Even though I feel anger towards my previous manager I deeply and completely accept myself

12

3

Sadness

Even though I am sad that I allowed myself to feel this way I deeply and completely accept myself

7

0

Mental Block

Even though I have a mental sales block I deeply and completely accept myself

5

0



The Follow Up
Approx 2 weeks later John said he was feeling better than he had in a long time and strongly felt that his sales performance was on the improve. He felt motivated after our last session to take a holiday with his wife which they had planned and booked.

John had also researched EFT on the internet and was now doing his own sessions every morning.

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Important note: While EFT has produced remarkable clinical results, it must still be considered to be in the experimental stage and thus practitioners and the public must take complete responsibility for their use of it. Further, Andrew Lewis is not a licensed health professional and offers EFT as a personal performance coach. Please consult qualified health practitioners regarding your use of EFT.