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Applying EFT in Clinical Practice

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Claude was able to identify three primary emotional reactions to this situation — “jealousy”, “embarrassment” and a feeling of “lack of confidence” – emotions quite familiar to him in other situations as well. When he tapped on “embarrassment” his intensity was originally a “10” and after three rounds it had come down almost to zero. “Jealousy” was substantially reduced by the end of the session, and “lack of confidence” was similarly lessened. Claude was pleased with these results and marched out to test them at the creek.

When he returned for his next session he said (words to the effect of)”I can’t believe it, but that tapping worked for the fishing!”  Here is his account of what happened.

When he went to the creek after his therapy session, the other fishermen were lined up and as usual were pulling in fish after fish. Claude set up his fishing tackle and waited. But this time he didn’t have to wait long. The fish began biting soon after he arrived there, and he found himself, to his amazement, bringing in so many Steel Head Trout that soon he had caught more than he could possibly use — and they were big ones too!

This was the beginning of a new era. Claude systematically used EFT each day before he fished, and each time that he tapped away his embarrassment and jealousy and lack of confidence he kept on having successes. He estimates that since he began using EFT up until now he has experienced 30 to 40 truly “good” fishing days, and only 12 days that were “not so good”, a remarkable record for him. At this writing, his success at fishing continues, contributing greatly to his self-esteem.

Asked how he explains his extreme lack of success before he learned EFT, Claude says that he attributed it to “bad luck” and that he had been “unlucky” all of his life. While he also lacked as much experience as the other fishermen, the fact that there was an immediate turnaround on the very day he commenced using EFT, strongly suggests to him that "bad luck' really didn't have much to do with it. He says that when he taps on the three issues (embarrassment, jealousy, and lack of confidence) before he goes fishing (he does this religiously) that he goes to the creek expecting to catch fish and that his lack of confidence is gone.

Claude still has major problems to confront in his life, many of them stemming from his extreme under evaluation of himself, but at least his confidence with respect to fishing seems to be handled. And under the guidance of Hank, he has been using EFT for some months now for an even more basic issue in his life – his lack of self esteem. Interestingly, he reports a marked improvement in his self-esteem since he has been doing this. Measured on a ten point scale, with 10 representing a maximum sense of “self worth” and 0 a complete lack of any sense of self worth, Claude now estimates the following:

When he was in the hospital with severe depression his sense of self worth was a zero on the 10 point scale. When he was discharged from the hospital his sense of self worth rose to a 4 on this scale. Now (March, 2002), after several months of treatment using EFT with counseling for this problem, he rates his sense of self worth as 7 on that scale and, as a consequence, his depressive symptoms are now manageable for the first time.

To get back to his improvement in fishing, although we can speculate on the reasons for the unexpected outcome, actually none of us know exactly how EFT worked to achieve its results from the standpoint of the FISH.  Since using EFT for this issue, is it that Claude is now engaging in some uncharacteristic behavior when fishing that has turned the outcome around for him, even though he is not aware of behaving differently when using EFT? Obviously if he is doing this it is not apparent to him, and it is hard to imagine how confidence or lack of it is conveyed to the fish so that they either take the bait or not.

Those who have studied the operations of energy fields have observed that subtle energies are not confined to the individual but can impact many other organisms and sometimes even inanimate objects (as in the studies of the effects of thought on random number generators conducted by Robert Jahn, Dean of the School of Engineering at Princeton University).  Reasoning from this perspective, one might possibly wonder if Claude’s much more relaxed and confident attitude about fishing is somehow being conveyed to the fish through means other than through the five senses. This would be in some ways similar to what happens during surrogate tapping.

All this is speculation. I leave it to you to decipher the mystery of the Steelhead Trouts’ response to EFT. . . .

EFT Master Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.

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