Using EFT to End Repeated Awakenings
 From Sleep During the Night

Recently I had the pleasure of participating in the EFT Masters Showcase conference in Boston. Mass. –– an exciting event where I had a chance to share some of my latest discoveries about EFT and meet many of the readers of this newsletter. Your warmth and enthusiasm was incredibly heartening. I found this to be a truly exceptional experience of togetherness for those who love EFT.

At this meeting a woman came up to me who had tried the "I Can’t Get to Sleep" technique (see the newsletter archives for the original article if you missed it by going to www.MasteringEFT.com and clicking on Back Issues of Newsletter) and told me that unfortunately she was one of the 15% of the people who answered the survey who simply didn't respond to this technique. As you may recall, 85%  of those who tried it reported positive results in our informal poll and the large majority of them were highly enthusiastic about their results. This was such a valuable experience, in fact, that I am still getting email from people who greatly appreciate this technique, some of them people who had chronic insomnia for many years.

The woman who approached me had tried diligently to use the "I Can't Get to Sleep" technique but it was simply not working for her. Upon questioning I discovered that her problem was actually not getting to sleep but staying asleep. She told me she would wake up repeatedly during the night and that this had been a long-standing problem for her.

Obviously the phrase "I Can't Get to Sleep" had no relevance for her in this context, since she was going to be several days at the conference, I suggested that she try a different phrase and report back to me the next day on whether or not it had been useful. She agreed to do so.

The next day she reported to me that the first phrase that she tried simply didn't work, but she agreed to try still a different one the next night. The new phrase we developed was, "I can't stay asleep." She was to repeat it to herself mentally at each tapping point as she lay in bed before sleep onset and see what happened during the night that followed. I told her however that quite frankly I had no idea whether it would work or not since there was a large difference between saying, "I can’t get to sleep" when dealing with sleep onset, which is an immediate occurrence, than saying "I can’t stay asleep" which would be targeting a delayed reaction. I warned her that this phrase might even go in the opposite direction and implant a suggestion that she could not stay asleep, making her sleep worse than before, but she wanted to try it because of the distress that this condition was causing her.

The next day she reported to me that, to her own surprise, she had obtained excellent results using this new phrase and had been able to sleep through the night in an unusually restful and uninterrupted fashion after tapping on his new phrase. I saw her once again near the end of the conference and she was still reporting these positive results.

I suggest therefore that if you experience repeated awakenings during the night that you may want to try this technique. If so, simply repeat the phrase "I can't stay asleep" mentally at each tapping point before you drift off to sleep at night. Then watch what it does for you.

If it works as well for a number of our readers as it apparently did for this woman we will have discovered another useful way to use EFT for sleep difficulties.

If you try this, I would greatly appreciate your reporting the results of your mini-experiment by writing to me at drpat123@yahoo.com. I will then report back to the rest of you these results in a future newsletter.

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