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Applying EFT in Clinical Practice

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Miriam buckled the belt that I handed her, and then unbuckled it as the "captain" told her to, but when she reported the SUDS level (her distress level) on a rung of the imaginary ladder I have children or mentally handicapped persons imagine for this purpose, she discouragingly reported "Nope, it's only about between one and a half and two, so that's not it." (Miriam is wonderfully precise!)

But the search was interesting to her and to me, and by now my heart was melting as I worked with this lovely child.  I was no longer even aware of her mother sitting and watching except as Stephani was now becoming part of the process herself.  I mention my reaction to Miriam here because I think the fact that I really loved this child as we worked together undoubtedly facilitated the therapy for both of us.  It put us into a kind of a special rhythm together.  Everybody's reactions — those of clients and therapists alike — all our feelings, and all our love (or lack of it as the case may be) go toward creating the result that we get in any therapy session.

Now we did some more detective work.  I kept asking questions, and step by step we got to the part where I asked Miriam if, when she unbuckled the seat belt, she was more apt to walk around in the plane, to go to the back of the plane to the bathroom for instance.  She said "yes" but explained that she didn't walk much in planes (Dummy me! I might have guessed that!) and that when she did she didn't like to do it because of the "vibration" (her word).

Vibration? We seemed to be on to something!  What happened when she felt a vibration like that?  Well, she said, her stomach would feel "kind of sick and sort of yucky".  I wanted to know what she would do then — would she walk back to the bathroom when she felt real sick and thought she'd have to throw up, and then feel the vibration on the floor of the plane?  "No," she explained.  "I didn't walk anywhere on the last trip.  I just stayed in my seat and threw up on my parents" (Oh well, you never know what information will come up in therapy!)

Since "vibration" was the first concrete stimulus we'd identified, I asked her to imagine the vibration on the plane.  Could she do this?  She didn't look like she was very sure that she could, and so I had an idea.  "How would it be if I lent you a little electric face stimulator that we use to hold on EFT points sometimes?  It makes a vibration sort of like a plane when you turn it on?" I asked.  There was the nicest smile in response and I leapt to go find the mini-face stimulator wherever it might be – I certainly hadn't planned for this.

I found myself immediately going to a box of these instruments in the next office which I had bought to experiment with.  They have small points like pencil erasers which can stimulate acupoints in a precise manner.  I found one immediately and when I handed it to Miriam she tightened her "seat belt" again and turned on the little vibrator.  As we worked on this issue, sometimes I had her sit on the machine so that she could "feel the seat of the plane vibrating", or put it under her feet so she could feel the floor of the plane vibrating, or at the back of her head so she could feel the back of the seat vibrating.  And NOW her SUDS level shot up to "maybe a seven and half — "Oooh, I don't like that feeling!" she said.

Miriam was now able to tap away on this problem with only minimal guidance from me.  She knew the set-up by heart and all the spots in sequence and how to use the reminder phrase, I had only to help her formulate the original sentence ("Even though I DON'T LIKE that vibration . . . .!" said with plenty of STRONG emphasis!)

We did several rounds during which, to keep her interest and liven things up a bit, I occasionally led her through my "scrambling the code" variation of EFT.  This is where I indicate that "this time around we'll do it a little differently. It won't be in any particular order and you'll watch what I'm doing (and listen to where I tell you to tap) because we're going to jump around from place to place!" 

In adults this usually gets a person out of a "stuck" place quickly.  I suspect it corrects for reversal, probably because so much concentration is suddenly needed to follow what I'm going to do next in order to get it right that the person is shaken out of any cognitive preoccupations they may have begun to indulge in — in a sense we have "scrambled the code" (the neuronal code, that is) that keeps recreating the fear so the fear (or other troubling response) can't be re-accessed.  This jumping around (I do it entirely intuitively and never in the same way twice so that it creates a sort of "wild" effect by breaking all the rules of sequencing) can be so effective in getting people moving again that it makes me think "so much for sequence in tapping!"  This, it seems to me, is one more example of what Gary Craig says about the unimportance of sequence in EFT.  In this case I used my "scrambling" variation to jazz up the process and keep a child's interest over a long series of rounds — and it did speed things up.

Soon Miriam announced that her SUDS level had come down to "somewhere between a half and one" on the vibration bit and that she felt like stopping now.  I could see that she really was at a good place and not just saying this to get out of doing any more tapping because as she talked she was running the mini-vibrator over her neck and her arms, smiling as she did so — now she actually liked the vibration! — It had turned from "bad" to "good" (ever know that to happen before with EFT?).

Now, we only had this one session to prepare her for her trip and there was still more to do. As it turned out she had the same sick feeling when riding in cars for long trips (cars cause vibration too) so now we did EFT for the vibration in cars.  This time she wanted to use the mini-vibrator on the acupoints instead of tapping with her fingers — this is an interesting strategy that can be very effective by the way, although I doubt it's superior to tapping or TABing (touching the acupoints and holding your finger there while you breathe slowly), but is probably just one more approach that SOME people prefer.  Here, though, the mini-vibrator seemed particularly relevant because of the issue being addressed — vibration.

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