EFT reached a milestone this month. Several years in the making, a new study was published in a peer-reviewed publication, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, with the results of a study that compared EFT to EMDR. The study was performed within Britain’s National Health Service. Theresa McGoldrick, a therapist at Forth Valley, Scotland NHS hospital, and one of the study investigators, put an enormous amount of work over a long period of time to see the study to a successful completion. It showed that EFT is just as effective for people with a PTSD diagnosis as EMDR. In both the EMDR and EFT groups, the 46 participants recovered in an average of 4 sessions. Not only did their PTSD symptoms improve; they also experienced significant reductions in their anxiety and depression symptoms. This study is important for several reasons. One is that it was done “in the system.” The primary investigators were not advocates for either therapy, ensuring impartiality. Another important aspect of the study is that it compared EFT to what many clinicians believe is the most effective “evidence-based” emotional trauma treatment, EMDR, and found similar results. To read the study abstract:

http://www.eftuniverse.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar…

Your  eyes are not alive as once they used to be

The love within your heart is entombed for none to see

I give to you so much from deep within me

 I hope only to bring release for thee.

Upon return what you give to me

a feeling of disgust from within the depths of thee.

Deserve not I, distain from you

 for I have loved you through and through

I have not broken your heart in two

I have not made your soul so blue

Not even a friend will you let me be

Daily your ignore my attempts toward thee

You have succeeded in tearing my will  down

 giving me a full thorned crown

Lilies and lace should this crown should be

wrapped with a vine of love from thee

You have twisted my heart and wrenched my soul

………..I am guilty only of loving you whole.

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Case # 1 1st Session 04/25/09                    Issue - Progressive Relaxation                   Induction - Finger Spreading/Arm Raising

Met with Client for first session, knowing him personally, I expected him to be a Physical Suggestible.  While doing the arm raising induction, I realize he is more of an Emotional Suggestible.

After attempting to raise his hand to his face, with very slow almost nil movement in the hand and arm, although the middle finger, of which I asked him to focus on, was bending in toward his face. I could see the physical signs of him going into the state thru change in breath, fluttering eyes and breathing response. I began the patter to include using his face as a magnet pulling his hand inward.  And his hand and arm finally began to move inward.  I asked which he felt was moving inward , the hand or the arm and he said no to both hand and arm, (even though his wrist moved first then arm began to follow).  He followed inferred suggestion well and went deeply into hypnotic state. While in this state, I used progressive relaxation at that time, eventually the left arm (which we were not using) began twitching and jerking. This was a surprise to me and I did not address the issue, although later my instructor advised this was just a release of stress and tension and I could have suggested to him to relax that arm. I was delighted that Client went into such a deep state. It took several suggestions to bring him forward to the wide awake state. When he did come back into conscious awareness, he was not aware that the session had started or ended, was not aware of his hand/arm moving toward his face or the twitching of the unused arm. He was vaguely aware of my suggestions but did state he saw an image or visualization of a tree (I had suggested he was fishing at a lake or river during session).   I am thrilled and look forward to another session with Client. He desires to stop smoking and we will begin working on this soon.  Later, I discovered he is prone to sleep walking in adulthood and was some as a child as well. Shall we say Somnambulist?….LOL….he insists he is not on “Som-Damn-list”…

 We naturally and intrinsically seek pleasures, even when these pleasures seem to be negative, they are often more pleasurable then experiencing the “fear.”  We create certain ideas or beliefs that are used as our “defense mechanisms.”  It is more pleasurable for us to have these limiting beliefs then it is for us to actually experience that which we fear.  Make sense?   The truth is that “nothing is as bad as the fear we experience prior to the actual event.”  We always get through those events and are ok, in spite of that which we fear about them. We then usually find out that even though the events or outcomes are not desirable, they are tolerable and we do survive them. The question which remains is whether we perceive them as learning opportunities or as damage. When they are perceived as damage, we then create “collateral damage” to ourselves as a result of our negative perceptions.  

 When something goes a different way then we expect, don’t ask yourself what you did wrong, don’t tell yourself you can’t or you failed. Look at it as an event only and tell yourself “that technique didn’t work and you can do it, but must use a different or new technique. Therefore reframing this end result eliminates the false idea that we are limited in anything. I hope this makes sense to you.

  Anyway, it is quite ironic that I know certain reasons for such behavior and beliefs, but at times, it’s difficult for me to do what I know. I also know why I have difficulty, but I am moving forward in changing and am resisting going back to the status quo of my unconscious mind, old behaviors and old limiting beliefs. I do this thru positive self programming and resistance to the old negative programming which I learned through other people’s opinions and other people’s beliefs. In conclusion, I am doing my best to let go of my expectations in relation to undesirable events or relationships in my life.  I am only causing more distress on myself through my fears……………so I MUST change those simple “thoughts/fears”, change my imagination as create healthy imagination (thoughts).

 There is nothing I can do or say to bring someone love me, nothing I can do or say to create a desired outcome of an event, I can only control MY imagination, MY thoughts, MY perceptions about life.

I choose to create healthy, positive opportunity for myself through all that occurs in my life.

Will you also choose this? 

Carol

I have come to believe in the power of  “intent”…be it negative or positive intent. Through my belief in “intent”…and some education in metaphysics as well as  my belief  Christianity…I can now say that I have an increased understanding of the power we all have within us.

That being said..and back to my opening statement, I have encountered many, who mock my therapy techniques and my new beliefs and knowledge….since I am an evidence and behavioral based person….I end this little ditty with…..TEST IT…so then shall ye not mock. i.e. Hypnosis, Emotional Freedom Techniques, Christianity

The Above link/blog was created by my brother-in-law and new sister-in-law. Please read, thanks Carol