When she rubbed the sore spot and repeated even though I feel resistance to employing We went on to tap for the guilt about leaving her child with his father and brought it from a 5 Then we went on to work on the guilt for attempting suicide, which also m

Robert Elias Najemy - 47 - Remove Pain – Physical and Emotional I am not sure if I really understood this connection, but it worked. Perhaps she felt some guilt about not being able to see her aunt? We never investigated this further.

10. Back pain, insomnia, depression, guilt, anger and panic attacks.

Anna experienced excruciating back pain and was able to sleep only 1.5 hours a night. She was also very angry with her first husband for cheating on her, and was now unable to be sexually open to her second husband. She felt depressed and tried to commit suicide after about 5 years of her first marriage. She also had frequent panic attacks especially when going to sleep at night. For our first session we started with her lower back she had a cyst in a slipped disc and leg pain. This brought up a. Anger at being betrayed by her previous husband. b. Pain because of his betrayal. c . Resistance towards being approached sexually by her present husband. All were brought down to 0 or 1. That night she slept for about 12 hours and felt no depression the next day. She was also able to accept her present husband more lovingly. She had a clearer mind and did not need to take her sleeping pill to sleep as she usually did. In our next session she learned how to bring the physical pain in her lower back down to zero by herself. When she did this it would disappear for about 20 minutes and then come back. She has an actual problem there. Even though she got relief from the EFT, she did it only a few times a week, which caused us to believe that there must be some type of reversal which is preventing her from employing EFT to her own benefit. I asked her to imagine herself doing EFT 10 times a day for the physical pain and 3 times a day for various past traumas, which were coming up in the discussion.

d. When she rubbed the sore spot and repeated even though I feel resistance to employing

this technique regularly for my own benefit,” she stopped and started crying and then shared with me that when she divorced her ex-husband, she was unable to take custody of their son. She then described her son’s present problems which, were really worrying her. It became obvious that part of the resistance had to do with guilt about not being able to care for her son then and also for trying to commit suicide in front of him. She had this image of him as a small child watching her as she tried to commit suicide. She shared these events with me for about ten minutes without any tapping and then I asked her how her lower back was. It had descended from a 10 to a 2 just by airing these feelings. She then understood the role of her thoughts and feelings in increasing this pain. But the fact was, however, that she did have a serious physical problem in her lower back.

e. We went on to tap for the guilt about leaving her child with his father and brought it from a 5

to 0.

f. Then we went on to work on the guilt for attempting suicide, which also moved from 8

to 1.

g. Then we tapped for the back pain, which was almost gone and brought it down to 0.

I asked her to employ EFT 5 to 10 times a day for her lower back and work on each specific childhood experience separately so as to remove their emotional charge. Some of the experiences were: • Her father was very violent, beating her brother and their farm animals and also killing cats, kittens and mice. • He rejected her constantly. • When her mother found out that she had a relationship at the age of 16, she told her that it would be better if she Anna died so that her mother could have peace. She now needed to work on each of these traumas and thus remove the general tension in the subconscious and energy field, nervous system and muscles, which were adding to the back pain problem. About a month later we worked again on her feelings of:

1. Guilt for having tried to commit suicide in front of her child.