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Obviously
something other than the ordinary EFT protocol was needed here. On the spur
of the moment during one of her telephone sessions with me, and knowing that
she was talking on a cordless phone, I asked her if she would be willing to
try an on-the-spot EFT treatment for her fear of bears. After only brief
hesitation, she agreed to this.
Edie went
outside her house, held the phone and talked to me while she walked five feet
from her house. At five feet I asked her to stop and take her Intensity
Level. On a zero to 10 point scale of Intensity, it was a 9 just thinking
about the possibility of meeting a bear on the road. Edie then tapped on
this, but her intensity level didn't come down much. It stayed hovering
at about an 8. There was apparently a tough barrier to overcome here.
As I tend
to do in difficult situations, if ordinary tapping is getting nowhere, I
asked Edie if she knew anyone, perhaps someone in her neighborhood who had
the kind of attitude toward bears that she would like to have -- an attitude
that would "solve the problem for you if you had it."
With no
hesitation she said she thought of her friend, Susan, whom she described as
being so put together about things (including bears) that she cheerfully took
long walks along the road without giving them a thought. Very occasionally
Susan had met up with a bear, but this hadn't seemed to bother her at all and
she had handled it beautifully.
I asked
Edie to use Susan as her Personal Resource, and to create an EFT Choice that
would include her. The setup phrase she came up with was:
"Even
though I feel sure I'll be targeted by the animals, I choose to be like Susan".
This
Choice, used along with regular EFT tapping, worked wonders. In one round
Edie had come down to a zero Intensity Level when standing five feet from
house. [Learn more about The Choices Method]
With my
encouragement, she now increased that distance to 10 feet it was
till a zero. Then she went to 20 feet. At this point her Intensity Level rose
to a three -- and I had her tap it down again, still using Susan as her
Personal Resource.
Once again
her Intensity reduced to a zero and so she was able to walk another 20 feet.
She was now 40 feet from her house and at this point she had to stop because
the radius of the cordless phone had reached its limit. She tapped her
intensity down to zero again and we ended the session there.
However,
as is typical of this cooperative lady, Edie was into doing EFT homework on
this matter. Accordingly, I asked her to make an EFT Choice Card (a 3' by 5'
card on which she would write her setup phrase), and every day to walk out of
the house for as far as she felt comfortable to go towards the road. When she
felt any distress she was to stop and tap her anxiety down to zero, using
Susan as her Personal Resource.
Two weeks
later, when she checked in with me again, she said she had forgotten to do
the homework after the first three or four days, but she realized, on talking
to me, that she had been walking down to get her mail each day with no fear
about bears. Her not realizing this until we talked about it was a version of
what is known as the Apex Effect, where a person does not realize themselves
a beneficial effect of EFT. It was unusual in this case, however, because
Edie feels EFT has been very valuable for her in many respects and has no
difficulty admitting this. It seems that she simply didn't notice the change
in herself THIS TIME until asked about it.
"Have
you seen any bears in the past two weeks?" I asked.
"Only
from the car and that doesn't count" she said. "It was exciting to
see a bear from the car."
I am not
certain that she would have been so at ease seeing a bear from the car before
she had worked on this issue with EFT. There is no way to tell about this
since we didn't test it beforehand. For all practical purposes, however, her
fear of bears has now come down to a very manageable level making Edie's life
in the mountains much easier.
Of course
it would have been more convenient if we had used a cell phone instead of a
cordless phone for this exercise for then we would not have had a limited
radius for our experiments. In more recent sessions, with other clients, this
is in fact what I have arranged for. The cell phone may be a great help to us
in our EFT work. Imagine, for example, a golfer taking a cell phone on the
golf course with them and talking with their therapist from time to time, who
is leading them in tapping down specific anxieties as they arise. The
possibilities are exciting. In the future, I will report on developments
along this line.
EFT
Master, Dr. Patricia Carrington
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