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Using EFT On-the-Spot for Trauma Relief
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
Gary Craig's Introduction:
I urge every serious EFT student to study this case
carefully. It displays not only the power of EFT to collapse a
traumatic incident "on-the-spot" (invaluable for terrorist victims)
but it also introduces another highly useful way to "get even more
specific" and thus increase the probability of complete resolution of
the trauma.
There must be some synchronicity in the air as I just introduced
this "get even more specific" idea to a group of experienced
EFT'ers in my home last week. The basic idea is to break down the
traumatic event into its sensory sub-modalities (NLP term). This means
to use EFT on the individual SIGHTS, SOUNDS and FEELINGS within the memory
until they no longer carry a charge. Since they are often the building
blocks of the memory itself, it is easy to see how neutralizing those with
EFT can be an essential piece of EFT's application.
A thank you to Rehana Webster from New Zealand and EFT
Contributing Editor Patricia Carrington, PhD for bringing us Rehana's
harrowing experience and the innovative way it was handled. Here's how
Rehana described the trauma after applying EFT to it....
In fact I can barely recall any of the shock I felt then, and it
is as though the accident happened many years ago instead of last week. The
memory of it seems faded and far away.
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I
consider the use of EFT on-the-spot to handle emergencies to have enormous
potential. If we use it right while the emergency is still occurring or
directly afterwards while still at the scene of the trauma, this could
forestall post traumatic stress disorder by nipping it in the bud, a highly
desirable outcome.
However,
it seems that most of the time people tell us how they used EFT to clear a
past trauma, or used it to handle ongoing personality difficulties or
physical conditions, or in anticipation of an anxiety producing situation.
On-the-spot use of EFT is of course also reported, but seemingly less often,
perhaps because the many times we do use it in this way, as for example when we're
in a dentist's chair, are so obvious that they don't seem noteworthy. People
tell about and write about these less often.
I would
like to see us be able to extract some recognizable principles for applying
EFT under emergency conditions such as that occur during wartime, or during
natural disasters. A simple, easily remembered protocol for such situations
might forestall many serious problems.
To shed
some light on this, I am a submitting a report sent to me by Rehana Webster,
the New Zealand EFT practitioner whom you may remember for her outstanding
write-up on the use of EFT with recidivist prisoners. She now describes an
accident she was in that could have been fatal for her and how her immediate
use of EFT, right on the scene, averted what could have become a strong post
traumatic reaction.
I find
particularly interesting the fact that she systematically handled residual
distress in ALL of her major senses -- visual, auditory and kinesthetic, and
then dealt with some cognitive factors such as alarming self statements about
how the accident could have been fatal, etc. Systematically forcing herself
to go through all the different senses when under pressure, and presumably
when she was not at her intellectual best, was clearly effective.
It may
be that this approach can be useful to others as well. Instead of
having to think about how to handle an ongoing (or just having occurred)
crisis is hard to do if one is in a somewhat dazed state It could be a great
help if the person didn't have to figure out what to tap on but simply
remembered to ask themselves what VISUAL aspects of the scene are
particularly distressing, and then what SOUNDS seem shocking to them to
recall, and then what physical SENSATIONS they experienced that were
distressing. This could provide a framework for handling the trauma, and help
the person to process many of the aspects of the traumatic event which they
might neglect if they were too general in their approach (which is always a
temptation when under pressure).
GC COMMENT: Excellent idea!! To take
apart a memory and separate it into its sensory features allows us to get
very specific. Even though it may take a little more time to do, it
increases the odds of complete resolution of the problem.
PAT
CONTINUES:
Here is how Rehana handled the immediate aftermath of her accident.
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