Betty Moore-Hafter

There are many wonderful stories of one-session wonders with EFT, but I especially value the process of working with EFT over time. "Kristen" has done about a dozen phone sessions with me over the course of the last six months. As we've tapped for current issues and, often, childhood core issues that arise, she has reported steady progress. Kristen has kept a list of positive changes and it includes lessening of mood swings, no more heartburn, stopping nail-biting, handling stress better, feeling less exhausted, feeling more confident and feeling increasingly calmer and happier. I'm very lucky in that Kristen taps on her own daily and I know that her results have a lot to do with her persistent tapping.

In the most recent session, the focus was on Kristen's desire to make a job change. Her current job is stressful night work and she wants to move to a regular day schedule so she can take classes, see people and be more involved. She admits that the night job has been like a safety zone, an excuse for avoiding the richness of life that she now desires.

Still she felt paralyzed by fears of not feeling safe. As we tapped, what emerged was a feeling of "not good enough." As she said, "I think the night job has been a smokescreen to cover for me being deficient."

I asked her to really feel this in her body -- it was in her stomach. "What does that feeling remind you of?" She immediately knew. "My mother yelling at me, screaming, 'What's wrong with you?' It makes me shrivel and feel sick to my stomach."

This had happened many times during her childhood. So I had her tune into how this was held in her body and we tapped as follows.

"Even though my mother is yelling at me, screaming WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU?, and I feel it in my stomach, I deeply love and accept myself."

It took many rounds of tapping, but with each round, the feeling in her stomach was less. Finally it was gone and she said, "In my core I feel stronger!" We brainstormed some healing messages and tapped them in. (We tapped through all the points, repeating these healing messages.)

"I trust that it's going to be okay."

"I can let go of the safety line and still stay afloat."

"In my core I feel stronger."

"I AM letting go [of the old comfort zone] and it's not so bad... I can do this."

The next day, I received this e-mail from Kristen:

"Hi, Betty! 
Just wanted to let you know that I awoke happy and light as can be this morning!  After our session yesterday I thought I should nap as I usually do but found myself wide awake instead!  But I had the oddest sensation as I lie on the bed.  I actually felt like I was floating over the mattress!  It was very strange and after some thought I realized that it wasn't exactly a floating feeling but more as if someone had lifted a huge weight off my torso as I lie on the bed!  I can't explain it only that I guess a huge load was lifted from me yesterday from the tapping!  Today I feel the best I have felt in a very long time!  I will keep happily tapping along as the day progresses!  Thank you for a great session!  Signing off, worry free, Kristen"

I have a feeling that a job change will soon be added to Kristen's list of positive changes!

Betty Moore-Hafter
www.HolisticHypnotherapyEFT.com
betty@risingsunhealing.com