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To my surprise, although she had tensed up a bit (not really abnormal under the circumstances) she was by no means panicking; I’d say her SUDS level was about a 4 or 5. I then started surrogate tapping for her once more, which turned out to be good for me to do because I didn’t have time to become concerned myself about the circling, and once again I saw her relax and her SUDS level come down, I estimated, to about a 2 or 3.

I still was not sure whether what I was doing had any influence on her or whether it was all just a coincidence, when I noticed that the young woman had begun absent-mindedly stroking each finger of her left hand.  She was doing this very tentatively, almost dreamily, and in a kind of bewildered way.  She started lightly stroking her thumb and sort of held it lightly as though exploring it, then went on to the next finger, and the next, very slowly.  The way she did this was as though she didn’t really know what she was doing, or why she was doing it.  It reminded me of the way a post-hypnotic subject carries out a post-hypnotic command -- sort of somnambulistic and uninvolved.  I began to get kind of dreamy myself while watching her. I thought "I wonder what on earth she’s doing?"

Then I realized something that, as the phrase goes, blew my mind.  I realized that at the exact moment that she had been dreamily handling the fingers of her left hand, each one in turn, beginning with the thumb, I myself had been imagining tapping, one by one, in the exact same sequence, the fingers of "our mutual" left hand.  She had been in synch with my progress through the EFT sequence.

Coincidence?  Always possible of course, but the odds against it, this time, were thousands and thousands and thousands to one.

The incident ended with even deeper relaxation on her part.  She was now so comfortable (after this second series of rounds of surrogate tapping) that as the plane continued to circle, coming down, rising again, coming down again -- she seemed to become more and more at ease, and finally, as it came in for landing, instead of bracing herself like almost everyone else was doing, she yawned and stretched her legs out under the seat in front of her.  No other person that I could see around me did that, including me!

I think I should add something I consider to probably be essential to this outcome.  Throughout this whole episode, I felt incredibly close to her. I experienced a kind of natural oneness with her that made this our mutual triumph -- not hers, not mine.  Because of this, when we were leaving the plane, I glanced at her to see if in any way she was going to acknowledge this closeness.  But she didn’t.  She didn’t return my glance and there wasn’t even a glimmer of recognition.  Only I saw that she was fine and there was good color in her face.

This absolute lack of recognition on her part of what had happened, this completeness of the episode for its own sake -- no acknowledgements necessary -- made it even more meaningful to me.  In some things "thank s", and even acknowledgements, can trivialize a happening because it divides people from other people. Who really is the one thanking, and who is the thanked?

I’m impressed by this episode -- inwardly and outwardly.  It has brought home to me more clearly than ever before the amazing non-separateness of us all, right there before us when we choose to tune in to it.

Maybe that’s the most important message of surrogate tapping.

EFT Master, Dr. Patricia Carrington

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