CASE STUDY: EXAMPLE of the profound effects of EFT:

JANE'S STORY: (Given with her permission to help others in their healing journey)

 I knew Jane had been sick and had had several surgeries over at least 2 years.
(four major ones in less than two years and a couple minor ones)
I'd offered to work with her before but it never seemed to work out that we
had enough time while I was visiting in her area.

Eventually, one day I was in that area, visiting relatives and several
people that I ran into asked me: "Have you seen Jane lately.
She looks like she's dying. She's really bad you know.
You need to go and see her." After about the third person told me this and
said they'd just seen her a half hour earlier uptown at a park,
I decided the Universe was telling me something so I got into my car and drove
up to find her.

Sure enough, I didn't even recognize her, she looked so ill. I stayed and chatted with
her for quite a while as she was trying to work at a temporary job.  In between customers,
she was so exhausted that she was having to lie down.
She looked worse than my 95 year old aunt and she's only in her mid fifties.
I eventually asked her if she'd like me to her house and do
some work with her the next day.  She was relieved as she said, "Please do. I'll try anything!"

The next day I arrived at her house. She was so weak that she couldn't even get off the couch.
I told her to stay lying down. She said she'd eaten something the night before and
had been up all night sick and rejecting what she'd eaten. At this point, I didn't know what
was wrong and really didn't need to know yet.  I already knew that she'd seen numerous
doctors and been to numerous hospitals and had regular emergency visits.
I also knew the list of Specific Events was going to be very very long.
The medical profession had almost given up on her. I felt that I had nothing to
lose by working with her as everything else that she'd tried had seemed to only
make matters worse.

I quickly sat down and began talking to her, wondering where to start
when she suddenly just blurted out that a friend had given her a book about
how some people don't want to get well.
(Ah, ha! An open door here) Already the tears were starting as she said,
"I DO want to get well."
The tears were quickly flowing so I just tapped on her for a few rounds with no
words until she settled down. 

Then, with no further information, I took her frail hand in mine, and we began working with 
this issue of the friend giving her this book and all the little pieces around that.
I asked her to repeat after me as I gently started tapping and opened the door to this
issue with: "Even though June gave me that book and it makes me so
angry and hurt because I DO want to get well and I do love and accept myself."

 After a couple rounds of what the friend had said, how she said it, what Jane said
back to her, what she'd wanted to say and so on, up bubbled:
"I've been having dreams about me and my husband---younger days.. (more tears.)
I asked if this was 'normal' for her to remember dreams?  She said, "No, never." 
We began tapping and just saying things like:
Dreaming about my husband, our days together,
I WONDER what this means. Her response: "I think I'm getting ready to leave him ..to die."
I next said:  O.k, so let's just explore those words and see what it brings up. 

Intuition was leading me with the following words:
"Even though my dreams might be telling me I am doing to die, what if they are telling me
that I have a choice here, that I can either join my loved ones on the other side or that maybe 
SOMEONE (I didn't want to interpret her dreams or put words into her
mouth yet so we went with someone.) still needs me here,
I deeply and completely love and respect myself?"

 Light bulb went off in her as she immediately and excitedly said, "YES! My husband.
He still needs me.  I want to live for him.!

(I could suddenly sense her block to healing and I could see that her 'belief' had
shifted and that she saw a reason to continue living.)  

So we explored this issue/internal civil war of wanting to live, yet not wanting to live.

(This major part of her illness had started not long after she'd lost her very best friend,
then another friend, then her younger sister.
These events had only been the icing on the cake after having lost her younger brother in a
freak accident about 10 or 15 years before followed shortly thereafter by her Dad.

She's had at least 6 miscarriages in past years. Her daughter has had 13 miscarriages and has
no children.  I knew all this so intuition took me down the next VERY IMPORTANT road.
Since there were so many aspects here, we worked a bit at clearing out trees and brush
by saying things like:
"Even though part of me wants to live, maybe a part of me thinks LIFE IS JUST TOO HARD.  
THERE'S THE CORE: BIG TEARS.      Strong nodding of the head.

Three point trauma tapping followed that!!!!

No words needed here for several rounds until the emotions subsided.
Continued on with Shifting global energy around biggest issues with Set-ups such as:
"Life's too hard"
"Maybe it's not worth getting well for."
Even if it's not, I love myself and want to be here for my husband."

This bubbled up SADNESS: We collapsed some sadness by tuning in to one of the
Worst Specific Incidences and the worst part of that.   

First session then ended: She was tired and very weak. She had been falling asleep off
and on as I worked on her but I just continued tapping, just saying words for her, knowing
she was still absorbing it as she slept, perhaps even more so as her mind was out of the way
for the healing.

 I explained to her that she'd be very tired as she let go of a lot of stuff including toxins
and toxic emotions and blocks to healing. I told her to continue sleeping as much as possible
and to drink glasses of water to flush out her system.

She actually was so tired the she didn't even get off the sofa to see me out the door, yet there
was also a huge relief there as well. 

 SECOND SESSION:

Because she was so ill, I went back the very next day.  She was able to sit up today when I came in,
however I again had her lay down as we began to work because although she was much improved,
she was still very weak.  Immediately I realized she was now OPEN for receiving energy so did some
Reiki mixed in with tapping...tap a round, stop and hold my hands over an area, tap, stop and send energy
to her, etc.   Or hold one hand over her to send Reiki while I tapped with the other. 

We CHASED her pain areas today, describing how they feel and working with her words, etc.
Up to this point, she had been getting hypodermic shots, having to go to the emergency room at the
hospital at least three times a week and had been doing this for months and months.
One doctor had refused to give her the shots anymore unless she was in very intense pain because
they thought she was getting them too often and should learn to live with the pain.
A couple other doctors continued giving them to her because they didn't know what else to do.
These little facts all began to bubble up as we continued to tap.  Sometimes I'd go in the door of the
Doctor's words but this didn't seem like the right door at this point in time. 

We started with her worst areas of pain...her stomach area. She had started all this two years ago
with ulcers and had had quite a bit of her stomach taken out. There were three very painful areas.
After a few rounds of describing and then chasing the pain, first in one spot until it was completely
clear and tested,  then another, we got the pain in two of those areas to go completely away for the first
time in MONTHS!   She was amazed and although I often see this,
so was I because I know how much pain she's been in for a very long time!  Even though I see the
miracles of EFT all the time, each case still amazes me.

Next I was drawn to work on the chest area. I didn't know why but it just felt like I needed to work there
so I laid one hand on her chest as I continued to tap with the other hand and talk about things in her life,
me asking questions, her answering. I had no clue what the chest had to do with these stomach issues
but I could tell she was taking lots of energy so kept one hand there. This was clear to me because I began
profusely sweating even though Jane had her air conditioner on high and it had been cold when I first arrived.
This heat, for me, is a signal that the healing energy is strongly flowing through me whether I'm doing Reiki
or EFT, it's all the same energy. 

Intuition eventually led me to ask her: "Do you feel guilty for living while others and more younger loved ones
are gone?" She lowered her head and eyes and said, "Yes."  

Back to Karate chop with: "Even though I feel guilty because I'm still living and my younger brother and sister
are gone, I'm not sure I should enjoy life. (she nodded)  After a few rounds of focusing on aspects around that and 
collapsing those and using a bit of EXAGGERATION  (there's no way I 'should' still be here.  I have no right to live, 
why do I get to stay?)  I then asked her how those who had passed over would want her to live? 
Would they want her to give up, be unhappy?   Would they be angry because you were still here?

She said, "No," so we kept going with what they might say, if she could hear them and so on.  We reframed
with things like:
"They are proud of me for how well I've handled all life's challenges.   (she nodded so I kept going)
"They're cheering for me, supporting me, wanting me to be happy.
(I could see this was causing her mind to shift)
(this is where you really watch for those subtle clues and stop and ask more questions)

THIRD SESSION:

Unbelievable improvements!

She MET me at the door.
(remember she couldn't get off the couch the first time and barely the second time.)
Her first words were: "I've been so hungry that I just had to fix myself a fish sandwich to eat."
Remembering how she'd been sick all night before our first session and seeing how thin she was now,  
I said, "Wow, that must be a good sign!"

I then asked her how her appetite had been and she told me about how she hadn't been able to keep
food down, had lost a lot of weight, and doctors had wanted her to go to a bigger hospital to put in a feeding tube
but she'd refused.   She'd gotten down under 90 lb. when her normal weight would have been something nearly
double that. 

 She also told me that the Home Health Nurse had been checking her every single day. 
Previously, they had not only wanted to put a feeding tube in her but had also wanted to drain her lung 
because it had fluid on it.   (the area where I felt all that heat and energy moving the day before)

Wow! This was the first I knew of all this. I like it when I don't know...then I get myself out of the way
and let the Universe guide healing to where it's most needed.

Well......Home Health had come that SECOND DAY after our healing session and could NOT BELIEVE the change!

Upon finding her so much improved on this third day, they had phoned the head office to tell them
they no longer needed to come every day. The head office said that couldn't be possible and that they HAD
to come again every day. The Nurse pleaded with them to trust her, she was so much better she didn't
need them every day. Finally, after much stressing and convincing, they believed her and let her cut back
the visits to three a week.

It wasn't until this point that I realized all that was wrong with this lady. ..the feeding tube, the fluid on the
lung, lump of infection in her stomach, scar tissue causing pain, something wrong with a tube to her
pancreas, etc.

After she told me about all this, we then began our third session.  I worked more on the chest.
But I couldn't feel anything in this area anymore.  We then focused again on another spot in the
tummy, using words connected with how she described it and  eventually on her knee. 
She said there had been NO MORE pain in ANY of the previous areas that we'd worked on, cleared
and tested. 

Remember that she'd been needing emergency shots several times a week up to this point
and that these shots had been going on for MONTHS!!!!

So no more emergency shots, no more emergency trips to the hospital so far.
No throwing up.  And she'd been wanting to eat again!   AND she was up and about.

                                                                            FOURTH SESSION:

 The following Monday--three days after her third session, Home Health nurse had visited again, just
before I came to Jane's house. They were flabbergasted. The lungs were COMPLETELY CLEAR!
She'd actually gained 10 pounds so there was no more danger of having to have a feeding tube.
The knee had no change to her. (To me, the swelling was down quite a bit.)

Her voice was different. She was laughing now, getting out more.
She'd actually gone away for the weekend.
AND...she had even had fun that weekend.
Overall, she was just a different person. She had light in her eyes again.
She was getting back in to life again.

She had a list of concerns that she was going to ask the doctor the next time she went so I asked if
she wanted to work on each one of those.    We tapped on aspects around applying for permanent
disability, exercising the knee, and her other lists of concerns and the pieces connected to them.
I injected little reframes such as, "If the doctor does give me permission to exercise my knee I
realize that it's important to take baby steps." (She has a tendency to push herself too hard)

 Again, we worked some globally on shifting thoughts around life-balance, things like
her taking care of herself, putting herself first now, slowing down, listening
to body, etc., a lot of cell communication here. 
We thanked her body for its years of service, asking forgiveness from body and self
and all others for anything we might have done to cause all this, including that we've done the best
we could with what we had to work with and considering all the challenges we've had to face, etc.
We worked on loving the self enough to take care of ourselves, resting when needed and loving the
self like I love my daughter. (that reframe really clicked with her.)

 When we'd finished wrapping up the session and done a calming down routine, she jumped up and
hugged me with a huge bear hug and blurted out very emphatically:   "I LOVE you so much!" 
(Wow!)  What more worthwhile work can we do here than that!

A couple days after this last session I saw her out in her backyard and she volunteered the information
about her third bad pain spot which as we were imagineering and tapping in that area the previous day,
she had visualized as a pocket of pus and infection. She said, "That spot is way down, not nearly as swollen
and a lot less painful today."

Even though I see this so often, I am still always in awe!

(So we'd seen energy eliminate pain in two areas that had been bad for months, clear the lung which had been
causing her extreme pain and being up all night, etc.,and gotten her appetite back and reduced the
infection in the third painful area.)

My time in this area had come to an end so I couldn't work with her physically anymore and she didn't
have a landline phone at this time so we decided to leave it be and see how the healing progressed for
a while before doing any more work. 
Had I been able to do a couple more sessions, I would have carried on working around the
area of balancing her life (what exactly is she running from) and not pushing herself too hard and
impressing the having fun and deserving to enjoy life,etc.
But it was time for me to go.
Just before I left, she'd been invited back out to her work place, where she thought she'd never
be able to work again due to her current health conditions, for a morning coffee.
When she got back home she excitedly phoned me to say: "Everyone out there was absolutely amazed at how
much better I look. They kept saying there was something about my EYES that looked so different."

I personally think her soul had decided to come back into her body.  The eyes are the window
to the soul. I was certain then that she had chosen to live and that we'd broken through her Reversals
on that.   Whew!   I now knew she had the healing energy moving but still was a bit worried
about her life/work balance.

I strongly feel that the Reiki alone could not have created this amazing healing miracle.
It was the valuable tool of EFT, kick-starting her body's own powerful healing ability that had saved her life.  
It was the EFT that was able to break through her internal law that "Life was too hard."
And it was EFT that helped her release the emotions connected to the pain.

UPDATE:

 I returned to the UK.
Three months later I phoned her to see how she was.

Previously, before this healing experience, she had been going through the process of
filling out all the forms to get disability and had resigned herself to the fact that she'd
never work again.

 Here, 3 months later, she was back at work full time, feeling like a new person.

But even more profound was the fact, that she'd only had ONE pain shot in all that time,
compared to having 3 or more a week for months and months!
(remember.. One doctor had refused to give her anymore)
And this current pain shot was for a different spot than the ones we had collapsed, also
showing us that this was a 'new issue' connected with this one. 

I had been worried that we'd not gotten to work enough with EFT on her slowing down
but the little bit that we had done had obviously made a big difference because she had
quit one part time job and given up a volunteer job at the church and she was finding ways to
have more fun in her life.

EFT was the tool that helped to save her life!

Now, several months later, I've heard that the healing is still holding!