Phobias

Phobias
 
According to the American Psychiatric Association, a phobia is an irrational and excessive fear of an object or situation.
In most cases, the phobia involves a sense of danger and threat. Symptoms of phobia are dizziness, breathlessness, surreal feelings, palpitations and can trigger anxiety attacks. This will cause victims to avoid the object or situations. Claustrophobia for example will cause a person to avoid lifts and enclosed places resulting in severe restrictions in travels and social life. Untreated phobias can become lifetime. Phobias are  often easily resolved with EFT sometimes in minutes but sometimes in hours depending on the EFT practitioner knowing the cause. It is advisable to seek treatment rather than allowing phobias to govern our lives.
 
-Isaac Lim
 
 
Case Story: Claustrophobia during MRI
“Jaya”, a woman in her forties, needed an MRI for a health condition. On the day of the MRI, she could not go through with it as she was frightened by the machine’s scanner tunnel. She made another appointment and asked me if I could accompany her. When we reached the imaging department, Jaya was very tense and sweating; she felt nauseated and ran to the washroom.
 
We sat down in the changing room and I did EFT with her. We tapped, “Even though I am I am feeling frightened, I love and accept myself.” After two rounds of tapping and I could see that she was more relaxed.  After she calmed down, we went back and the technician was good enough to let me sit in the room during the MRI. .While Jaya was in the scanner tunnel, I carried on tapping on myself as a form of “surrogated tapping” while she was in the MRI machine. I could feel her tension building up  and could also feel her relax as I was tapping. She went through with the MRI successfully.  Afterwards Jaya told me that she did feel tension building at the beginning but she could relax and remain still in the MRI tube which she couldn’t do the first time. Thankfully her MRI report was normal.
 
Submitted by
Patricia Thavamany
EFT Practitioner Lv.2 (EPC-MSCM)
Registered Nurse
 
Case Story: 'I am in cloud 9!'  Fear of Heights
Elis was a participant in the EFT Level 2 workshop. They were told to make a movie of an issue they had and tap along with a video. I asked her if her distress had reduced. She replied 'Yes, I think it is 0 now'. However to be certain she went to the window and looked down. She said she had a fear of heights because as a child of about 6 years old she was terrified her mother was about to fall. As she recount that incident tears well up in her eyes. I said it s not all gone there is still some remaining trauma. So we tapped on 'It is safe. My mother did not fall after all. I was too small to do anything but it is okay, she did not fall…..' 
I asked her to retell the story again and her whole countenance had changed as her face was open and smiling as she recount with great detail about the incident. Two days later she email me this elated testimony with the heading 'I am in cloud 9!' and to think she had fear of heights.
 

Hi Isaac,

Yes!!!!! I did it!!!!! I stood at the window of my office, on the 7th floor, and looked down! I could stand there without feeling the burning sensation in my whole body, no palpitations and no jelly legs!!!!! I even attempted to read the car number plates but they were too small!Thank you Issac!!!! You helped me out of my phobia that had been bothering me for more than half a century!!! The beautiful part is, you only took less than 10 minutes to clear a 50 year problem!To all my EFT classmates, it really works!!! We just have to really tune-in. So happy tapping!

Isaac, once again, I can't thank you enough. Keep up your great work!!!

Warmest regards,

Elis

 

Submitted by

Isaac LIm

EFT Practitioner Level 3 & Advance (EFT Chapter Leader)

 

Case Stories: Phobia of Facebook and Buttons

I was having a meeting with some girlfriends of mine for a new project.  We were discussing social media.  Facebook in particular.  One of the ladies in the meeting I notice was looking very stressed, her shoulders looked strained and hunched up.  I was even more concerned when I started seeing beads of sweat on her forehead.  When asked if anything wrong, she said, she was very uncomfortable with using Facebook and technology in general.  She was so uncomfortable that she did not even own her own smart phone. This was a problem for the project we were working on.  A HUGE problem.

I made an appointment with her to help her with her Facebook Phobia, only to find out at that appointment, she was nervous about buttons and switches too.  So she had a Phobia to Facebook and Buttons.  And I promised her I would help!  What had I got myself into I thought.

Her phobia score for Facebook was a whopping 9.  We started tapping using the basic recipe.  As we were tapping, I could see her shoulders started to be less hunched up, her face became more relaxed and her breathing became less shallow.  At the end of the first round of tapping her score was 6.  When I tested her with the "threat" of opening up my facebook on my Ipad she said she was a little stressed but still ok.  So we did a second round.  This time when we talked about facebook I noticed her body was reacting normally and not as tensed as the first time.  We then proceeded to tap for her "buttons" using similar tapping protocol.  Her stress level when down even further.

I tested her stress level by handing to her my Ipad to "play" with facebook.  This time her reaction was excitement and awe at what Facebook can do.  She was pressing all the different button on the Facebook page and she was not able to put the Ipad down till I told her it was  the end of the session.  She was in disbelief at first about how fast her she was comfortable with facebook and so was I!

 
Submitted by
 
Azah Yasmin
 
EFT Practitioner Level 2 (EPC/MSCM)
Registered Councellor
 
 

EFT Case Stories – Aversion to Consuming a Medication

 

Jessie, a 10 year old girl, had come down with the flu, having joint pains and fever, and the doctor gave her some medicines including a liquid antibiotic. She was so averse to consuming it every time and would feel nauseous. No amount of coaxing to say that the medicine was important, that it smelt sweet and with an orange flavor/scent, could get her to take it without a fuss. After being forced to just consume it against all her objections, she would start gagging and feeling like throwing up. Her face was showing great disgust and she was very upset.

I offered to do EFT on her and she agreed. I checked what word was the strongest or clearest to describe what she was feeling. She said “vomiting feeling”.  I started by checking how intense her aversion was and she said 9 on a scale of 10. Then after showing her the basic recipe, we tapped with “..this vomitting feeling..” After just one round, it dropped to 6, but the aversion was still there. We did about three more rounds of tapping for “disgust for the medicine”, “fear of vomiting”, “this remaining vomiting feeling”.  The intensity dropped to 3. We had to stop for that moment.

The next day, when it was time for the medicine, she felt the similar feelings at about 6. I asked if she remembered when this aversion for this particular white emulsion antibiotic began. She said it started when she had Influenza B about 8 months earlier and was admitted to hospital. She had to take that same medicine, and vomited quite badly immediately after consuming it. So I asked her to recall the incident and intensity – it was about 8. This time we tapped on that memory, then on the present feeling and intensity. It went down to 4.

I thought we should test it with some visualization. I asked her if I could bring the bottle to her to look at it close. At first she was still reluctant and we tapped for that too. It went down to 2 and I could bring the bottle close to her. More tapping, adding the phrase “this remaining …” and it went down to 0. She did not feel nausea or dislike anymore and could open the bottle cap and sniff the medicine, and finally drank it without any problem.

 

 Submitted by

Justin Victor

EFT Practitioner Level 2 (EPC/MSCM)

University Lecturer