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!

By Monica Broadfoot Johnson, M.Ed

Dear Gary,

I would like to share a success that I had regarding an elementary school boy. I work in an elementary school as a counselor and have been using EFT for 2 years now. I also know that many people believe that school counselors usually do ‘bandaid’ work, and that the real work goes to real therapists. I work at a school in a poverty area, and the parents do not take their kids to therapy. So here is my story. Jake (not his real name) had a father who committed suicide the summer before I started seeing him in a grief group and he was doing pretty well. However, one day there was a knock on my door and Jake and his friend were standing there. Jake’s friend had brought him to me because there had been an accident on the basketball court. Another boy had been hit with something and was knocked out. The boy had a bad cut on his head and while lying on the court, blood was pooling around his head. So Jake was brought to me and looked as if he were ready to pass out. He began telling me what had happened on the court and how it reminded him of his dad lying on the street with the blood pooling around his head. I tapped on him while he was telling me this because he appeared to be in shock. Not only was the picture of his dad putting him into a re-grieving state, but another aspect arose. During his dad’s death, the police officer had picked up Jake, put his head into the officer’s neck, told him not to look, and walked with him away from the situation. And, of course, being a little boy, he looked. So here is the aspect of not doing what he was told to do, and then seeing the horror. I tapped on him for about 10 minutes. I just let him keep talking while I used the basic recipe. I also added and had him repeat this psychological reversal statement with forgiveness added. Even though I didn’t listen to the police officer, I’m still a survivor; I’m just a kid and I am a survivor … I forgive myself for just being a kid and looking when he told me not to. Even though an adult probably couldn’t handle it, I’m just a kid and I forgive me … I am a survivor. Then he went back to class and made it through the day. I don’t know how we would have gotten through this without EFT. Pre-EFT, any trauma lasted so much longer. Thank you Gary for developing this wonderful technique.

Monica B. Johnson, M.Ed.

taken from www.emofree.com