1-1 Intensive Training
Results
Special
report on one client's results after a 1 day training focussed on
food cravings
This
month I am devoting most of the newsletter to reporting on the results
of a 1-1 Intensive EFT training that I ran three weeks ago for a lady named
Karen wanting to
focus on food craving issues. (She has given me permission to use
her name and talk
about the session).
I usually try to start the day with a short demo
of the technique to get people used to where the points are, what
to say and so on. I asked Karen to pick a "small" issue
for us to work on and she chose to work on a fear
of people touching her neck and throat area. We did a round
on "Even though I hate people touching my neck,..." and (even
to my surprise) the fear fell from about about an 8 to
a zero.
She laughed and said "Does that mean you can murder
me now?". I laughed too, but realised that we were not done!
Clearly there was a deeper "safety" issue lurking. She
indicated that although that particular fear had gone, it "felt
weird".
(I find this quite common when a belief or fear has
been held for a long time - even though the body has released it,
it feels strange to the conscious mind which is used to having it
there!).
I
had her tap on "Even though it feels weird that people can
touch my neck,...". The intention of this was not to try and
clear the underlying safety issue (which could have take some time
to work through assorted memories and aspects - and I was just trying
to do a quick demo of the technique at this stage), but to consolidate
the absence of fear for that particular perceived danger. In other
words, to make the absence of fear feel more like the status quo.
At
lunchtime, after just these two rounds of EFT, my client went for
a walk around the block. When she returned she reported that she
felt much more confident about walking down the street - less afraid
and less suspicious of the people she met along the way. I was amazed!
Even though we hadn't tapped directly on "Safety" at all,
we must have tapped on an aspect of it.
Later
in the day I was teaching Karen how to deal with multiple aspect issues
and her chosen example was the fear of being stranded somewhere with
no food and no money to buy any. We listed the aspects and rated
them each individually.
One of the aspects was "A fear of non-existance".
The safety issue had appeared again but in a different guise! Karen
reported an intensity of 10 for this aspect so we dissociated from it by tapping
on "Even though it's a 10,..." We tapped about 3 rounds
on this to bring the intensity down to a manageable level. We then
tapped on several other aspects for the overall fear - such as "Not
knowing if I'll get enough food" and "Don't know when
I'll next eat".
After tapping on all the aspects she'd listed, the "fear of
non-existence" had fallen to close to zero.
In total
we tapped a total of 2 or 3 hours during the course of the day.
At no point did we tap for the feeling of craving for any particular
food. It seems likely that tapping on what turned out to deeper
but related issues (such as "fear of non-existance" and
a strong food-related childhood memory) helped undo the underlying
anxiety that so often drives food cravings and many other addictions.
Over the next two weeks, Karen sent me three email progress
reports. Here are just a few highlights :
"Thank
you for Saturday!! Dramatic things are
happening...On
Saturday on the way home I stopped for petrol and without thinking just picked
up a bottle of water - usually it would be two packet of crisps and bars of
chocolate.
...My food cravings have
remained virtually nil. I
do the "choices" statements
and that keeps me on track. I have
actually sat with friends/relatives who are eating crisps/ cakes etc and I can
decline without feeling desperate or deprived.
An interesting "side
effect " is that now whenever I put my hand to my throat/neck it is like a signal that my stress level has
risen and I can tap or think of tapping to bring it down. Tested every day this
week - I can allow <partner> to put his hand on my throat/ neck - I would
previously felt under attack!
What
is amazing to me is that I am not thinking "that I am dealing with my cravings"
but that it is a historic issue!! All within a week. A
big thank you!!"
Of
course different clients respond at different rates and in different
ways - but I remain astonished at the results that EFT can deliver
in such a short time!
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Gary's Corner
Gary Craig, the originator of EFT maintains an excellent website packed with real case histories and articles. This month:
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