“Even though I don’t know what this asthma feeling is about, I deeply and completely accept myself”
I then move on to asking some questions, just keep tap- ping through the sequence as you do this,
“I’d like to ask my unconscious to let me know” “I can’t remember what these feelings are about” “but my unconscious remembers everything” “I’d like it to remind me what those first asthma feelings were about”
If this doesn’t illicit any pop up memories I would try guessing to see if anything clicks.
4. The value of the Personal
Peace Plan: By including all the memories you have of bad asthma attacks and tapping on these spe- cifically you can start to remove some of the ‘legs of the table’ as Gary Craig calls them. For me focussing on the first incident worked well and gave me good direction for the next steps.
5. Running beliefs: Another useful step in the process would be to check out the beliefs about asthma. I didn’t have this realisation until after I had done most of this work. I believed in the power of EFT to stop an attack but I hadn’t contemplated that my belief about ‘it’s an illness’ might have been holding me back.
It was this insight that led me to re-frame Asthma as a ‘physical phobia’ an unconscious learned response that was a once a solution.
6. A physical phobia: My biggest break- through came from having some help from a wonderful group at a level 3 training course run by Judy Byrne and Richard Mark. The feedback that Asthma is often a body metaphor ‘something on your chest’ or ‘not speaking out’ was interesting. Whilst initially this didn’t make sense to me I later tapped speculatively on these themes and was able to tune into various relevant aspects.
I hit on a memory of being told I talked too much and did some speculative tapping on what might have happened in my childhood. This worked really well and I cleared an issue of being told to shut up for talking back too much to my Dad.
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Using EFT for phobias often identifies that the phobia develops because of other traumatic events that happen in someone’s life around the same time as a ‘scary situation’ happens. I started to see asthma as potentially a similar issue.
The original trigger is lost and the unconscious reacts to the environmental trigger even when there is no emotion- al content. The body reaction escalates and the memory of previous attacks builds the belief that this situation isn’t safe.
7. The EFT solution: • Use EFT to resolve the original emotional trauma
• Cut the tie linking the emotional trauma to the body response
• Re-inform the unconscious mind that the environmen- tal trigger is safe • Daily tapping to re-program the body response
8. Reducing / stopping medication
I reduced my preventative dosage slowly whilst using EFT to work on the steps set out in this paper.
After I had done much of this work I spoke to the Asthma Clinic and switched to a reduced strength drug (half the dosage). I then cut the frequency.
One of the last steps I took was to tap daily (for around 30 days) using Pat Carrington’s Choices Method to enable my unconscious to recognise I am safe from the triggers. At the end of this period I stopped taking medication completely.
I wouldn’t say I am completely cured of asthma but I am delighted to not be taking the medication any more. When I occasionally have minor symptoms I use EFT and find it clears the symptoms as effectively as a puff of inhaler. I have also found it has made me much more in tune with my emotional barometer.
If you would like help with Asthma please contact Jan Biggs at
Jan@StepbyStepTherapy.co.uk or call 07785 523215
www.StepbyStepTherapy.co.uk
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