Ellyn was in her third trimester when she joined my childbirth education class several years ago.She was very frightened of giving birth in the hospital.There was some fear of needles and she wa hoping to give birth naturally, without any IV medication or epidural.She did well in class and was able to master the relaxation and visualization techniques but still her fear of the hospital persisted.I suggested trying EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to identify her core issue and clear her remaining fears.During the process she remembered a time as a child when her family had been living abroad and she had broken her leg.Her neck and face flushed and her eyes filled with tears as she recalled how impersonally she had been treated and how she had been stuck several times before the nurse was able to start an IV on her.After three rounds she was able to relate the experience without any emotion, as though she were an observer.Then the "Big One" came up.She had been date raped while in college and had been holding on to enormous feelings of guilt and shame.She had reported the rape and went to the hospital for treatment.Instead of compassion she received mechanical indifference and felt as though she had been wasting their time.This, as it turned out was at the core of her fear of giving birth in the hospital.She wasn't afraid of labor, but of being perceived by the hospital staff as a "whiner", wasting their time.We tapped all over the guilt, shame, grief, anger, fear and emotional trauma she associated with her beliefs about her hospital experience.We were able to bring the intensity of those emotions to a zero.More importantly, we were able to achieve a very high level of self-confidence and trust in the birth process.Several weeks later she was able to fully appreciate and honor herself as she labored in peace and confidence, fully present in the process.She gave birth to a healthy son without any medical intervention whatsoever.This is what EFT is all about.By collapsing negative emotions and self-sabotaging thought patterns, a new level of peace, confidence and well being can be achieved.We hold the key to our own healing in the stories of our personal experience.Finding the path to imbalance and disease, reveals the way back to physical, emotional and spiritual harmony.We are born with the most important tools we will ever need. feeling and instinct.Allowed to develop in concert, they form the basis of intuition and awareness.Positive transformation becomes a natural and inevitable process once this self-awareness has been rediscovered.
Saturday, August 18, 2012
The Gift of EFT
Ellyn was in her third trimester when she joined my childbirth education class several years ago.She was very frightened of giving birth in the hospital.There was some fear of needles and she wa hoping to give birth naturally, without any IV medication or epidural.She did well in class and was able to master the relaxation and visualization techniques but still her fear of the hospital persisted.I suggested trying EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) to identify her core issue and clear her remaining fears.During the process she remembered a time as a child when her family had been living abroad and she had broken her leg.Her neck and face flushed and her eyes filled with tears as she recalled how impersonally she had been treated and how she had been stuck several times before the nurse was able to start an IV on her.After three rounds she was able to relate the experience without any emotion, as though she were an observer.Then the "Big One" came up.She had been date raped while in college and had been holding on to enormous feelings of guilt and shame.She had reported the rape and went to the hospital for treatment.Instead of compassion she received mechanical indifference and felt as though she had been wasting their time.This, as it turned out was at the core of her fear of giving birth in the hospital.She wasn't afraid of labor, but of being perceived by the hospital staff as a "whiner", wasting their time.We tapped all over the guilt, shame, grief, anger, fear and emotional trauma she associated with her beliefs about her hospital experience.We were able to bring the intensity of those emotions to a zero.More importantly, we were able to achieve a very high level of self-confidence and trust in the birth process.Several weeks later she was able to fully appreciate and honor herself as she labored in peace and confidence, fully present in the process.She gave birth to a healthy son without any medical intervention whatsoever.This is what EFT is all about.By collapsing negative emotions and self-sabotaging thought patterns, a new level of peace, confidence and well being can be achieved.We hold the key to our own healing in the stories of our personal experience.Finding the path to imbalance and disease, reveals the way back to physical, emotional and spiritual harmony.We are born with the most important tools we will ever need. feeling and instinct.Allowed to develop in concert, they form the basis of intuition and awareness.Positive transformation becomes a natural and inevitable process once this self-awareness has been rediscovered.
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