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One Accident, Two Benefits Using EFT
Author: patsy anthony
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!
I’m going to miss you – EFT, Hugs and Tears
Author: admin
I just concluded my first long-term supply in a local elementary school after graduating with my Education Degree. During this time I had a student that suffered from anxiety. Since I used EFT throughout by university years to reduce my own stress and anxiety, it seemed quite natural to me to want to give the benefit of EFT to my students as well. As a result of seeing Mary Stafford’s “EFT Shortcut for Children” and owning a Tappy Bear myself, doing so was quite easy. I just brought Tappy Bear into my class and did regular tapping with my students, which I called the silly dance. The silly dance was using Mary’s simple points and doing it in a fun and entertaining way. We used the silly dance before our Friday Tests and when I just felt that some of the students needed to have the benefit of tapping.
In my class, there was a student that suffered from severe anxiety. She participated in our regular class tapping and I even sent home a package to her mom about the benefits of EFT and how it can be used in so many ways. I am not sure if it was used at home but there was a noticeable difference in her anxiety levels . Until…
During the last two weeks she appeared to be really anxious and cried a lot. No one really understood why, but on the last day of school she told me she was really upset about me leaving. So right there as she hugged me, I gently tapped on the top of her head as she sobbed and told me that she was going to miss me. We tapped and did a few breathing exercises while she was totally in her sad feelings. In a very few minutes (it did feel like forever though) she told me she felt much better and was still a little sad but she knew that everything was going to be okay.
We cried together! During our sobbing, I told her that crying was sometimes a good thing and this is one of those times. She agreed!
I still spend a few minutes each day tapping her in my own mind. I believe its good for her and I know its good for me.
MKW
First Year Elementary School Teacher
School Counselor on anger and tension
Author: admin
School Counselor on anger and tension
Two weeks ago, I attended my first ever conference on energy therapies. It included EFT and seemed to me to be the easiest one to use for anyone, including children.
I work in a school setting and have had the opportunity to use EFT with four students.
Student #1 was a second grader who was experiencing nightmares and intrusive images about an incident involving a knife. He ranked his anger as a 10 on the SUDS scale and it remained unchanged after the first round of tapping.
After the second round, it decreased to a five. It was down to a one after the third round and to a zero after the fourth. I followed up with him yesterday and his anger continues to remain at a zero. He did mention that he has had a couple of dreams where he is being chased (the earlier difficulties involved his brother). I asked if he would like to work on those, but he declined.
Student #2 is an eighth grader who has been dealing with a variety of grief issues and is acting out in class, along with having academic problems. He identified tension as his main difficulty and we were able to reduce it from an 8 to a zero after three rounds of tapping. I spoke with him yesterday and he reported that his tension remains at a zero. He reports feeling better, doing better with his behavior and having his grades improve. He shared with me that during one class, he was feeling especially frustrated and decided to tap. He tapped on his chest and his hands; he noticed a decrease in his frustration and an increase in his energy level.
Student #3, a third grader, has been struggling with his parents’ divorce. As a result of his anger, he had been taking out his aggression on his younger brother. When I met with him, his anger level was at a five. We reduced it to a zero with one round of tapping. I called his mom to explain what I had done and she asked if I could put this tapping sequence on paper, so she could help him with it at home. I met with him yesterday and the anger remains at a zero.
Student #4, an eighth grader, has dealt with a myriad of issues at home and has the propensity to rage when he gets in touch with his anger. He rated his anger yesterday at an 8. After the first round of tapping, it was decreased to a 4. After the second round, when asked to rank his anger, his only response was “I don’t know.” My sense and the sense of the other teacher in the room was that it had most likely decreased to a one or a zero and the student was unable to get in touch with that feeling. During the second round of tapping, his voice volume decreased and his whole body appeared more relaxed.
In the interest of confidentiality, I would ask that you only refer to me as a school counselor, not using my name or initials.
School Counselor
taken from www.emofree.com
