EFT Into Schools

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As a teacher I am always curious to discover how EFT might work in new situations at school. It’s fun to try tapping on just about anything and notice the positive results that we get. Recently I had the opportunity to use EFT in two different ways with my class during a medical crisis.  

My students were in the gym playing floor hockey. During the game, Kevin raced in low toward the net to score and was accidentally struck with a hockey stick right above his eye. It was nobody’s fault, just a freak accident. 

Kevin was brought to the office and was attended to by one of my coworkers.  By the time I arrived, Kevin had a cloth and an ice pack over his wound.  He was obviously in pain and very upset. 

I immediately took his hand and began tapping on his karate chop point while he relayed the details of his accident to me. I asked if I could see his cut and was shocked to notice a deep, significant flap of skin come away from his forehead. 

Keeping my own feelings to myself, I asked how he was feeling and he answered quietly, “Sick, I am going to throw up.”  He was in shock: white, clammy and shaking. I thought that he was going to faint so I continued to tap on his karate chop point while someone brought him a bowl.  

While I continued to tap I asked, “Do you want me to say the words for you?” He nodded, so I added, “I’ll just tap on your finger points though, and leave your face alone.” 

By the time his mom arrived to take him to the hospital he was calm enough to walk to the car with our help.

After Kevin left I returned to my class and attempted to teach a lesson, however all of my kids wanted to talk about the accident. There had been a lot of blood on the gym floor, and they were very upset about the whole thing.  The boy who had been in net called out, “I can’t get that visual image out of my head. I was the goalie and saw everything, even the flap of skin with all that blood. It was awful!” 

So we applied EFT in an entirely new way. We called it the “Yuck Factor”. Together we tapped on the blood and all the gory details of the accident until we were ready to create new images of Kevin’s wound being healed with stitches. That helped everyone to calm down so that we could resume our day with some semblance of normalcy. No one mentioned Kevin’s accident again until he returned later from the hospital to show us his scar and seven stitches.  

Kevin’s scar has healed remarkably well. Now that he is over the shock, he has a story that he may enjoy telling for the rest of his life.  

Feeling curious about how effective EFT had been for Kevin during the aftermath of his accident, I recently asked him if he thought the tapping had helped him at all.  He responded with a big smile.

“Yes! he said, “If we hadn’t have tapped I would have thrown up for sure!”

Thank goodness for EFT!

Exam Stress
by Mel Trudgett

‘A’ is an 11 year old girl in Dorset that is regularly achieving a grade 5, which is above average, in both Maths & English. She is in the top few % of her year 6 class for her coursework in both subjects and is generally very happy and settled at school. However, during year 6 leading up to the SATs, her teachers became very concerned that she was seriously under achieving in ALL of her tests in these subjects – she was struggling to even get a grade 4 which is below average. They believed it was just a problem with nerves, but had tried talking to her about this and it had made no difference.

During tests she would panic, spend a long time answering a question that would give just one mark and then run out of time when it came to the 3 or 5 mark questions which made her panic even more. She also felt like she ‘didn’t know the answers’ which she clearly did because her coursework throughout the year was way above average.

After a simple 10 minute chat with ‘A’ about how she felt about her tests, I was able to put together a basic EFT script based around her feelings. We tapped a few rounds on her nerves, but also on her fear of failure, of hating getting low results which meant she comes last, of worrying that she might not know the answers in the test (she did!) and generally worrying that her teachers/parents/friends wouldn’t like her as much if she did badly. After each round of tapping we talked again about the emotions she was feeling and her insecurities about tests and then tapped down the intensity on each emotion that came up. All of the intensity had gone by the end of the short session. She said she felt a definite release of the worry that had been bothering her.

However, I wanted to be sure that she had a tool to use if any of these feelings came back so I advised her on a secret tapping process* that she could use during a test if the feelings of stress came back. It could be used to calm her worries and also to give herself some positive affirmations.

‘The tapping worked!’

The first day that she had a test after the tapping, she simply said that ‘the tapping worked – I was fine’. She used the discreet tapping process during the test, not to take away her stress because she didn’t have any – she said she wanted to use the tapping to improve her score!

She answered every question on the test which is something that she hasn’t managed to do for over a year and she no longer has any worries about taking the tests, including her SATs, in the future.

Mel Trudgett
EFT & Reiki Practioner, Dorset UK
www.eftforme.com