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Using EFT over the Phone for On-the-Spot
Issues
By Dr. Patricia Carrington
Gary Craig's Introduction:
Most of us have had the experience of completely collapsing a
fear of something (e.g. flying, heights, public speaking) while the client is
sitting in a comfortable office located a far distance from the feared object
or event. So long as the client can "tune into" all the
various aspects of the problem, we can often "tap it away" without
the client being "on the spot" (e.g. in an airplane, on top of a
tall building or in front of an audience).
This is not always the case, however. Sometimes the client
needs to be "on the spot" in order to tune into all the aspects
involved. Unfortunately, we can't always be physically present during
these times and this is when the telephone becomes indispensable....
particularly portable cell phones. By using EFT over the phone we can
be available just about anywhere our client goes.
EFT Master Patricia Carrington, PhD shares a live example of this
process at work. Within her engaging story she also weaves in (1) a
clever "choices phrase" and (2) the important and useful concept of
borrowing "Personal Resources".
This idea has wide ranging applicability and is not limited to
fears. It applies to confrontations of every kind as well as sales call
reluctance and athletic performance (to name a few). There is a lot of
useful info here. Read on.
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Recently
I have been experimenting with an interesting method of leading people
through an EFT session at a distance right when a fear-arousing situation is
occurring. The client is at the other end of a cordless or cell phone as they
confront a real-life fear head-on and talk to me at the same time.
I first
tried this "portable phone technique" with my client
"Edie," who had done extremely well in therapy, dispelling the bulk
of her multiple phobias through the use of EFT. One by one we had chopped
down the "trees" in a huge forest of issues involving a fearfulness
of life in general. However, one remaining area was so persistent that she
chose to devote a whole session of her therapy to a fear of -- yes -- BIG
BLACK BEARS, the kind that come out of the woods and "stare at
you".
Edie
lives in a residential community in the mountains where the houses are
situated on forested land and typically have long winding driveways that lead
several hundred feet to the street. The mailboxes are all on the street, and
so it is a bit of a journey to get to them in the morning.
Although
Edie has lived in this same area for many years and her children have grown
up there, and although most of her neighbors easily wander down to their
mailboxes daily and many of them even take long walks on the road through the
woods without even thinking about danger, Edie could not go 10 feet from her
house without beginning to feel panic arise in her. She would have to get
into her car and drive the several hundred feet to retrieve her mail, and
needless to say she did not even want to think about walking on the road
itself, which wound through forest land.
Because
a species of large black bears does inhabit these hills, people in her
neighborhood typically encounter a live bear once or twice a year on their
walks, but when they do they follow a few simple bear-encounter rules such
as:
If a
bear crosses your path, especially if he or she stops and stares at you
pointedly, stand still and face the bear but don't look it in the eyes.
Keep an
eye on the bear's legs or feet so you know where it is.
If you
return to your destination, walk backwards so that the bear's hunting
instinct is not aroused.
There have
been no accidents whatsoever in many years regarding the black bears in her
vicinity. Apparently these bears are as afraid of people as Edie is of
the bears.
Being
very adept at EFT, Edie had tried tapping for this fear, but had made little
headway with it and whatever gains we were able to make in any of her therapy
sessions did not generalize to real-life. She was unable to go further than
10 feet from her house without severe "bear-anxiety".
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