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Fear of Surgery Going
Bad
A possible EFT Choice for
this might be, "Even though I'm afraid the surgery will go badly, I
choose to have it go exceptionally well and peacefully".
Frustration with hospital
routines or mistakes can often result in severe pre- or postoperative
anxiety. Some of the distress may involve disruptive or upsetting roommates
or frequent, disturbing night awakenings. EFT statements to target such
distress might go, "Even though they woke me repeatedly last night
when I needed sleep so badly, I choose to have my body feel deeply rested now
and able to cope well with the surgery."
Marie has observed that the
patients who have received EFT tend to think more clearly, make better
decisions and cope better with whatever comes up. A beneficial spin-off of
this is reduced problems for the hospital staff.
Another area in which she
had used EFT very successfully is for those who are waiting anxiously in the
OR waiting room for news of their loved ones. It can be of great help to such
people during this tense period and she envisions the day when someone will
be present in the Operating Room waiting area to help these people to use
EFT.
She also notes that EFT can
be used in preparation for surgery even when the patient does not exhibit
anxiety. EFT produces a highly suggestible state very rapidly and specific
requests to one's own body to handle the surgery and postoperative condition
can be extremely effective if embedded within the EFT procedure. These
requests should be as specific as possible to get the best effect. For
example, a non-anxious preoperative patient might tap on the positive
reminder phrase ONLY (without using the negative phrase, "Even
though..") as follows:
"I ask my body to
send pain-relieving chemicals to me throughout this operation and afterwards".
Specific directives to the body may be honored exactly if made during EFT
tapping.
Or, such a patient might
say:
"I ask my body to
heal as quickly as possible." -- with this positive phrase repeated
at each tapping point.
An observation that Marie
and I share is that many patients do not seem to want to go to the zero point
on the intensity scale for their issue. This is particularly true for pain.
My speculation is that the zero point is outside of these people's belief
systems and therefore is rejected. They are used to a familiar level of
discomfort and when they get to a tolerable level (say when their pain has
come down from a 10 or an 8 to a 4 on the Intensity Scale) they tend to stop.
Few people are used to going for what they really want in any situation. They
have been trained to settle for "better" and for
"bearable," so for many people that is the point where the nurse
practitioner or medical assistant trained in EFT will have to let them stop.
When EFT is used as a strategic intervention, such compromises are
acceptable. However, should the patient want to follow up with more
information about EFT, this could be provided to them.
EFT
Master, Dr. Patricia Carrington
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