Posts Tagged ‘EFT Children’
Hit With School Bag
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6 year old Josh had recently been on a school bus trip and on the journey home, was hit over the head with a school bag by one of the other boys. Not only did Josh have a stiff neck but he had refused to return to school feeling traumatized after the event. His mother was naturally concerned on both counts.
When I saw Josh I asked him to show me with his outstretched hands how scarey it was for him to return to school and see this boy again. He reflected back with both arms outstretched to the maximum indicating a 10 out of 10 on the SUDS scale.
We tapped on:
- Even though Tim hit me over the head, I’m still a good kid.
Just 2 rounds of this and Josh had no further anxiety and said to his mother with big smiles, that he was happy to go to school this afternoon.
Interestingly, (many know it often happens) when addressing emotional issues that Josh’s neck had totally freed up also and he was in no further discomfort.
Such a quick and easy resolution is truly heart warming. One can only imagine how long this drama may have taken to resolve itself.
Robyn Wood
http://www.tappingyourpotential.com.au
Teacher Displays Many EFT Benefits Achieved by His Students
Author: TappyBear
Over the past 5 years of being an Advanced EFT practitioner and a guitar instructor I’ve seen so many emotional and physical issues relieved with EFT it just amazes me. Here are some of them:
1) Students who complain of finger pain get instant relief by simply tapping the fingers of the opposite hand that hurts. Typically the left hand fingers hurt the most from pressing on the strings. The youngsters I teach they are amazed when there pain is gone in two to three rounds of simple finger tapping.
2) A 15 year old student who continually beat herself up for not playing the right notes got relief in one session. This turned out to be a global OCD issue which affected her in all areas of her academic life. She felt the need to do everything perfectly the first time. The OCD started when her second grade teacher scolded her for not drawing a good picture and promptly crumbled up her picture and threw it in the garbage. From then on she would obsess over doing everything perfectly related to schoolwork and learning. She feared being reprimanded for not doing perfect work. All this was gone with 30 minutes of EFT.
3) A 50 year old student complained of hearing loss and tinnitus in his left ear. This was the result of a surgery for an abscess in his ear 10 years prior that left him with 50% hearing loss and tinnitus. We tapped for less than 10 minutes, focusing on just the tinnitus in his left ear. His hearing returned and his tinnitus reduced to almost zero! He said that he could hear in “3D” for the first time in years. He was simply shocked and astounded.
4) Students often come in to their first lesson with anxiety about learning music, new teacher, performance anxiety etc. Since it is their first lesson I use mental or remote EFT, just imagining the meridian points lighting up red. Usually in 5 minutes all of them are relaxed and ready to learn. I can do this while I’m teaching.
5) On many occasions I’ve had students who were squinting to see the notes. I ask them if they are having trouble seeing. If they say yes I ask if they would like to try a simple technique that may help them to see better. This has never failed me. Every student that has had blurry vision had it clear up with about 5 minutes of EFT. All of them were younger students from 5-15 years old.
6) Students with physical complaints of headaches, neck pain, back pain, leg pain, wrist pain (carpal tunnel), and foot pain all get relief with less than 10 minutes of EFT. There are also many one minute wonders.
7) Students with allergies, runny noses, coughing, itchy eyes, get a good degree of relief within minutes of applying EFT.
Students who come in with anger or depression issues from home or school get quick relief and can then focus easily on their lesson.
9) Students with ADD/ADHD often need more EFT than I can give them in a 30 minute lesson. Ten minutes of EFT seems to calm them down enough to be able to focus for the duration of the lesson. I often use remote EFT as the physical tapping takes too much time away from the lesson.
10) This one is probably the greatest asset to any teacher who struggles with a rowdy group of students and it is EFT at its best. Can you imagine a classroom full of rowdy kids and all of them with EFT points lighting up at the same time? I’ve tried it and actually have seen them calm down within about 5 minutes. It is possible to do this but requires very good visualization. If you are a teacher familiar with remote or distance EFT try it sometime. If you can’t visualize the whole classroom of kids just try a few of the loudest troublemakers first. You may be very surprised by what is possible just using your imagination and EFT!
As you can see EFT has been a Godsend for my students and myself. EFT has allowed me to teach music much more effectively. The results I see with so many different types of issues are close to 100%. In my humble opinion EFT should be a standard therapy every teacher should know.
Many Blessings
Steve Levine
SCL555@netzero.com
http://www.freewebs.com/stevelevine/
Elementary School Students Becoming Skilled EFTers
Author: TappyBear
EFTtm was the second peace-making tool I introduced. I began the semester by teaching the children how to use a talking stick, followed by each student making their own to take home and use with family and friends. During lunch recess I also encourage them to use this tool to resolve differences.
Subsequently, for several weeks, I then brought my Tappy Bear to class, beginning each class with an EFT session, such as:
”Even though we are feeling so fidgety this afternoon, we can hardly sit in circle, we are awesome kids!”
”Even though I’m not sure I want to be here. I’d rather be outside playing soccer, I’m an awesome kid…”
”Even though I know we’re about to do something fun, and I need to stay put for just a few minutes to find out how to do today’s project, I feel so antsy…”
If a particular child had a burning issue upon getting to class, we would address that issue, with everyone tapping for the child with the problem.
By introducing EFT through Tappy Bear with these elementary age children, I found I was able to get their full attention quite easily. Of course, with young ones, I make a big fuss about the under-the-arm point, allowing them to decide whether doing it makes me look like a monkey or a chicken. And I take great care both at the beginning and whenever we practice, to emphasize being gentle with your tapping, especially around the eyes. So, after a couple of weeks, I simply asked the children if they would like to have Tappy Bears of their own to take home and use every day. To my delight and surprise (we only do projects in this group with TOTAL CONSENSUS), everyone wanted to do this. And so, the following week our craft project was to make our own Tappy Bears. With the generosity of the non-profit that oversees this program, we procured the new bears. I simply picked up some colored fuzzy balls and tacky glue, and we were set. Older children helped younger, and by the end of an hour, everyone had a Tappy Bear to take home.
The following week, I asked my students whether or not anyone had actually used their Tappy Bears. I had already spoken to them of the special benefit one can get by tapping away any of the day’s leftover icky feelings before bed. I had also sent home a couple of newsletters to parents, sharing what was going on in class, inviting dialogue, and directing them to www.emofree.com.
Every child in the group spoke of using Tappy Bear and EFT at bedtime, some every night, others just once or twice. I found it most interesting that when I asked if anyone wanted to share something they had tapped away, no one volunteered. The oldest in the group actually said it was too personal.
Since that 4th week, we have used EFT in class for whatever comes up: for both negative states, emotional and physical, as well as for peak performance.
We ended the preholiday semester by inviting parents and siblings in for a ½ hour EFt demonstration. Several 3rd and 4th graders volunteered to lead the sessions, with me helping with set ups, and them directing the sequence portion of the demo. We had to tap for nervousness before our guests showed up; had a bit of stage fright. That tapped away, my students were amazing in their ability to lead the group through the short sequence. And every issue we tapped on (turned out the siblings had all kinds of bodily injury for us to work on) was either considerably improved or totally relieved in just 2 or 3 rounds.
Personally, I have been longing to bring EFT to more children, educators and families for a long time. What I am learning this year is that introducing it through the younger children is thus far my most effective way of truly making it a daily tool. When I have introduced EFT to adults, when I follow up, very few actually take it and run with it. Somehow, we adults are so busy, we tend to make it a priority not for today but for tomorrow. My younger students, on the other hand, are eager to incorporate EFT into their daily lives. And my hope is that not only will their families become interested, but that they can also teach peers how to tap and in how many situations it can be helpful.
In closing, let me relate a story a mom told me that last class in mid December. She came up to me after class and said:
”I’ve been meaning to tell you this. My son (our one kdg student) was having a melt down last weekend. When he gets in these states, I have to give him time outs in his room, because he is so unworkable. Usually it takes a long time for him to calm down. Well, this time, he calls from his room, still crying and gasping, “mom, where is my Tappy Bear?”. I called back, “I don’t know. For a couple of minutes he was very upset he couldn’t find it. Finally it got quiet. I went to his door and peeked in, and I couldn’t believe it. He was holding another teddy bear, tapping on his EFT points, and CALMING HIMSELF DOWN! I was amazed and just had to tell you!”
I am sharing this entire story in order to inspire others with EFT skills to simply offer it even to your youngest clients, students, friends’ children. I feel that by respecting the inner knowing of young children, their natural ability to accept into their lives what is truly healing, we can spread the practice of EFT much faster than waiting for their adult caretakers to get on board. At least, for the past year, this has been my personal experience.
If you have questions regarding interfacing with public schools as a layperson, I’d be delighted to share with you how I was invited in. I am also available to coach teachers, parents, grandparents, all caregivers of children in introducing and problem solving family issues with EFT.
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Karen Zorn, EFT-ADV
http://overtheriverandthruthewoods.com
Email: tingdzin@indra.com
