I first heard about "Melinda" from her mother. She had been banned from visiting due to a time when it was suspected she stole to support her buttons and dagga (Cape Town slang for mandrax and marijuana) habit. Her mother explained that Melinda was a good person who had gotten involved with the wrong people, and that she thought Melinda was off the drugs but had many emotional challenges to overcome. When I met Melinda, she insisted that she had been clean for just over a month. She explained that she had insomnia since stopping smoking the buttons and dagga. She also had a number of fears. I explained that to help her live free from addiction and get a job, it would be good to get rid of the energy blocks in her path. I briefly explained about EFT, short for Emotional Freedom Techniques, and how it releases unwanted feelings and behaviour with a mixture of acupressure and releasing wording. She agreed to try it.
Before we started, Melinda needed to use the toilet. Upon her return, she revealed that this was a scary experience due to being inside the cubicle. Now we have a lovely toilet, so this fear was very much a phobia, so we started work there. I asked her on a scale of 10-0, if she were to be in the toilet again, what number fear would she have, where 10 was the greatest. She said it was an 8. So we tapped something like "Even though I have this toilet fear..." and "Even though it was an enclosed space...", bringing this down to a 2 or 3; within minutes.
I then took a detour and asked her what the scariest thing in her life was, and she said it was her brother-in-law. We tapped a specific brother-in-law incident from a 9 to a low number. Then I had Melinda close her eyes and vividly imagine the incident, in case there were fears lurking in the background that we had missed which could surface later. Indeed there were, and we tapped them all down to a 2 out of 10. We then went back to the toilet incident and brought it down to a 1 out of 10. We then finished with some easy tapping homework that Melinda could do in-between sessions, and we scheduled another session.
When I next saw Melinda some 2 weeks hence, she had been able to have normal conversations with her brother-in-law and had even confronted him about an issue that was bothering her. She also visited the toilet without fear.
The reason why I worked on seemingly non-drug issues with Melinda is to help her release the negative emotions that can lead to re-addiction, and to help her re-build her life with confidence. I did not work directly on the insomnia in this session, because other issues were higher priority at the time. She is doing very well and going from strength to strength.
? Suzanne Zacharia 2011. My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is. And of course, you are advised to consult with your medical practitioner before embarking on any course of alternative, complementary, or beauty therapy. Want to use this article? You can, as long as you credit me with it and invite your readers to get my FREE "EFT How-to for You" and regular free EFT Tapping script samples in my newsletter at http://www.eft-scripts.com/ - New to EFT? No worries, just get your own copy of "EFT How-to for You" and start EFTing with ease very soon!
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