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Applying EFT in Clinical Practice

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EFT for a Child’s Plane Sickness

By Patricia Carrington

A colleague of mine, Stephani Fried, whom many people on this list probably recognize because of her insightful postings to it, joins me here in reporting a recent successful EFT treatment in which we were both centrally involved — she as the mother of the little girl who was being treated, I as her therapist.

The family had decided to have me work with Miriam around her lifelong motion sickness on airplanes and while riding in cars.  Although young Miriam is a seasoned plane traveler, having flown back and forth from the east coast to California or Arizona at least four times a year since she was 3½ weeks old, ever since she was less than a year old she has regularly become motion sick to the point of vomiting frequently during her plane trips and feeling ill the rest of the time.  Judicious use of homeopathic remedies and/or Dramamine had not provided any solution to this, although Dramamine did retard the vomiting somewhat.

Since Miriam's most recent trip to California before seeing me, which was an especially difficult one for her, she had been expressing much distress about an upcoming plane trip which was to take place at the end of May.  Some of her concern about this had started after a close friend of hers, traveling with her mother, had had an unfortunate landing on a recent plane trip with minor injuries sustained by the mother.

Although Miriam is a seasoned EFTer — Stephani uses EFT liberally with her own family and herself as well as with her clients in psychotherapy — this time Miriam refused to use EFT for her anxiety, telling her mother that she didn't "feel like doing it".  Not wanting to create any negative feelings toward the practice of EFT which has been so beneficial to her daughter, she honored Miriam's refusal and suggested instead that maybe she would like to go to a therapist who specialized in EFT to get "someone else's slant" on all this.

Miriam's response to this suggestion was "Oh yeah! Great idea! But do you really think it might help?"  She apparently liked the idea of a therapist of her own, especially since an older relative whom she looked up to had consulted a few times with a therapist when this child had been troubled by a death in the family.

Another reason Stephani felt inclined to bring Miriam to an outsider for help with this particular problem was that she herself had suffered from motion sickness and felt she might not be objective enough to select the correct issues for Miriam to tap on – a hunch which, in fact, turned out to be correct.  In retrospect, Stephani thinks she would not have identified the specific issue that I did: the one which worked.

The day of the appointment arrived and the family's request that I see Miriam for one session which could (hopefully) "fix" her lifelong plane phobia before an upcoming cross-continental flight scheduled for four days later, was a bit of a challenge.  Here was her mother, a sensitive and experienced Energy therapist who had used EFT successfully with both of her children on numerous occasions — and she was bringing her child Miriam whom (although I hadn't met her) was a member of the upcoming "EFT Generation" of children, sophisticated in its use at 8 years of age — and they wanted ME to help solve this child's problem using EFT?

I accepted the challenge, but when mother and child arrived for their appointment my first reaction was that I hadn't expected Stephani to remain in the room during the entire session, which she was happily doing, although I felt immediately that doing so was a right decision on her part and didn't question it.  Later Stephani told me that she has always called Miriam her "Velcro child" because she tends to snuggle up and sort of cling to her mother in unfamiliar situations, and that she had thought this might happen in the therapy session.

Although, I knew about her indirectly through her parents, I hadn't expected the absolutely unique little being who sat across from me on the couch, cuddling next to her mother, looking at me with shining eyes with a shy but wonderfully sincere (although somewhat tentative) smile on her little face.  There was no need to tell Miriam about EFT, she could have told me about it, so we got right to the point.  We began to talk about her upcoming trip, her really "great" cousins in Arizona whom she just couldn't wait to see, and then (I brought it up of course) — the upcoming "Plane Trip".

In answer to my questions she quickly told me "how" she got upset on planes.  Looking seriously right at me with that open look of hers, she made it clear that it wasn't, as my questioning had suggested, the takeoff that bothered her at all.  It was when the captain told them to unbuckle their seat belts!  At that point she said she began to feel sick at her stomach and "funny" and the rest of the trip would be a lost cause for her.

What's a belt got to do with it, I wondered?  I'd already inquired about several possibly unsettling stimuli — being up so high above the earth, a fear that the plane might crash (nothing came from this question at this point, although later on another aspect did emerge which was related to this), the loud sound of the motors, etc.  Nothing had clicked.  I wondered what could possibly be unsettling about a belt being unbuckled. Could it be an issue to do with security?  It didn't seem appropriate to introduce such an abstract concept to even this bright a youngster because she was still wonderfully childlike.

And then, for some reason I thought of testing this out with a SIMULATED seat belt.  I have no idea why I thought of this, I just had the feeling that it might lead us toward where we should go, get us a little closer to the meat of the matter.  I also had a sense that this action would bring Miriam even more fully into the therapy session, make it more interesting and real for her and maybe even make it kind of fun.

I asked if she'd like to try on a "pretend" seat belt and she nodded, bright eyed.  Since she liked the idea, I went to find one.  I had a vague idea that in some closet in my house (my office is in my home) there was a wide leather belt from an old discarded coat of mine that might be just right.  I really wasn't surprised when I was able to instantly lay my hands on it when I opened the first closet— sometimes when I really get "into" my work with a client (or anyone else for that matter) I seem to become part of some flow and things seem and often are possible that might not be otherwise.

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