Is EFT Tapping in the Bible?

Sometimes I have people ask me, "Is EFT in the Bible?" Well, of course, it isn't, nor is our automobile (wonder what Jesus would have ridden in on Palm Sunday instead of His donkey???!!), or airplane or refrigerator and washing machine, and we still use those freely. What is IN the Bible is lots of humans with lots of negative emotions that caused all kinds of societal fallout, as it does today. We are human, we have emotional turmoil, but it doesn't HAVE to rule us. Once again, God has provided everything we need, including a path out of emotional pain. The EFT tapping tool sits waiting for us to grab it and use it! Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Trauma and Memory Holes

Trauma sends our hippocampus (mind's historian that keeps track of events and time) off-line. The trauma is so hurtful the mind simply shuts it down! Trauma also shrinks the hippocampus up to 25-30%, particularly when one has post-traumatic symptoms, so it makes sense that many of us have big memory holes! The hippocampus comes on-line about age 2-3, if I remember correctly, but our amygdala (alarm center) is present in utero; therefore, we have alarms ringing in our mind before we have processes to figure out what is going on. It amazes me how much tapping we practitioners do on VERY early memories, some of them we swear happened before we were born, and as a practitioner, we just go with whatever the client brings to the tapping table. Sadly, science clearly shows us that we carry around so much epigenetic trauma from our ancestors! It's no wonder some of us are so burdened down with emotional stuff! Anyone have a tapping story to share around any really, really early memories? We'd love to hear them! Sherrie Rice Smith Certified EFT Practitioner EFTforChristians.com Author of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Tapping Example from a Client Story! God is so Good!

With permission I recount this client (Jennie) story:

EFT Tapping is such a versatile tool. Here is a practical use of it!

Jennie was having anxiety and some fear around this her upcoming colonoscopy appointment.

And so we tapped on all the different aspects (details) that were bothering her including:

1). Fear of what the doctor might find

2). Anxiety about the procedure itself, including the sedation

3). Anxiety about the awful prep including the diet, as the allowable pre-test foods are things Jennie doesn't usually eat!

4). Fear of catching COVID at the clinic

5). Inconvenience of needing to go to clinic 2 days early to get a COVID test

6). Anxiety about previous prep reactions - feeling horribly cold, shaking, and generally feeling miserable

7). Anxiety about trying to remember to take some car seat protective covering in case of an accident.

8). Fear about getting an IV pre-op, reactions to the anesthetic, and whatever else we tapped about!

PRAISE REPORT

Wonderfully, the following morning I receive a phone call! Jennie is now actually excited to get this colonoscopy done and over. Yes, read that! Excited!

Her reframe (changing of our mind) is she is going to ENJOY the 5 day prep! After looking at the dietary list, she realized she would buy and eat foods she loves but rarely eats because they don't fit into her lifestyle right now. She planned to TREAT herself to something special!

Jennie wrote out her menus and created her grocery list. She also wrote out a time line of what had to be done when in order to eliminate re-reading the pages and pages of instructions. Nothing would be missed or mixed up now!

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This is EXACTLY what EFT tapping often does for us!

As we tap God "reframes" and changes our mind about thing to come and things that have happened in the past, so that we can settle down and enjoy His presence right here right now in a state of grace without worry or preoccupation.

Tapping does so much more than just this, but if we just used it for issues of today, what a wonderful gift from our Lord!

What have you recently tapped about that God gave you an exciting gift as He switched up your emotions?  Leave me a message, so I can rejoice with you!

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Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound medical or psychological care, so please contact your own personal physician when you need that type of help.

We tap for Jesus!

Sherrie Rice SmithCertified EFT PractitionerEFTforChristians.comAuthor of EFT for Christians 5 Book Series

Brain Signals & EFT

"The signals from our brains are communicated constantly via the matrix of energy conduction within our bodies. Every thought you think is echoing through your connective tissue communication system, turning genes on and off, producing either stress responses or healing responses."

Genie in Your Genes, Dawson Church, page 159

Our thoughts give us the ability to turn our disease genes on and off. Negative hurtful memories and thoughts turn the genes on; positive, peaceful thoughts turn genes off.

Isn't it wonderful God implanted in us this healing ability?

Tapping is a wonderful tool to assist you to neutralize and change abusive, hurtful, and damaging memories.

Email me if you want a Christian EFT Practitioner referral!

Blessings in Christ!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical care. Contact your own personal physician when medical help is needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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"Resistance" to Tapping: What is That All About?

Emotional healing is personal to each of us. 

How we do life is all based on what we learned as youngsters. If our family understood emotions, listened to each other express them, and reacted in an appropriate way, we often live our adult lives in a more comfortable emotional way.

When a child has seen much emotional abuse, learning to express oneself as an adult is often more difficult. It is a learned behavior. 

There are times when we wish or think we are ready to heal, but doing so just plain doesn't come easily.

Why?

The youngster inside us doesn't feel it is safe to confront or access earlier feelings now because it wasn't safe to do so back in childhood. Our feelings today directly reflect how we felt decades ago.

Tapping is all about feeling safe. 

Sometimes during talk therapy, and I know this from personal experience, discussing how we feel now about something decades ago often brings a torrent of tears, anger, and sadness. It just plain feels safer NOT to discuss any of this. Leaving it buried deep within our psyche seems to be a more prudent course of action, however, doing that usually doesn't bring healing.

When a client doesn't seem ready to change, we call this "resistance" in the EFT trade. Sometimes it sounds like we are blaming the client for not wanting to get emotionally better.

In reality most of the time it has to do with safety and feeling ok to discuss, tap on, and let go of our old emotional baggage that just isn't allowing us to move forward as our Lord would have us do. 

It isn't satan holding us back, it is our own stored stuff. And it may not be our fault we aren't ready to heal now. It is our responsibility to try to work on it though, as emotional healing usually brings us closer to our Lord.

EFT is one of the best techniques and the closest thing to a safety net that is known today. When we access a memory that makes us uncomfortable, tapping most often will settle down the feelings that come up around it. A few tapping rounds usually does the trick.

Don't beat yourself up if there are memories you aren't quite ready to tackle alone with tapping yet. You can also email me to obtain a referral to a Christian EFT Practitioner who can walk beside you as you do tap on these memories. 

Andy Hunt's article is all about feeling safe during tapping in order for us to access and let the emotional content of old memories go back to the Cross where they belong.

God bless your healing!

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for sound emotional or medical care. Call your own personal physician when you need that kind of help.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians 4 Book Series

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Just Tap!

Awhile ago some long time EFT practitioner accused me of tapping too much.

I took that to heart....for a short while, wondering if there was something wrong with just tapping to tap.

Now, I'm an indefatigable tapper, as are many other Christians I know!

Why?  If, as the research now shows, an hour of tapping just to tap lowers cortisol levels 24% at least, why not tap?

All of us could use lower cortisol levels!  We know high cortisol is NOT a good thing.  It hardens our arteries, wears out our heart, causes tons of diseases such as diabetes and cancer.

Tapping isn't just lowering cortisol though. It also lowers many of the other chemicals in our bodies that contribute to these same above problems.

I tap when I pray, I tap when I do my devotions, I tap in church, I tap while I drive,  I tap while I watch TV or a movie, I tap while I walk. I just tap.

God instilled in us an amazing healing capacity, so why not use it?  If God put that mechanism in there, He must have done so to help us.

Join me!  Tap!

Remember, EFT is NOT a substitute for medical care.  Take responsibility for all of your own personal medical needs. Call a doctor when you think you must do so.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
Certified EFT Practitioner
Author EFT for Christians series on Amazon

Outcomes

EFT is an amazing tool to allow us to stop carrying emotional loads that we need to simply let go and let God handle.

Often we are too vested in other peoples' outcomes when those outcomes aren't up to us.

Tapping helps us divest ourselves of holding ourselves responsible for other peoples' actions, thoughts and habitual behaviors.

Let God handle it. Tap!

EFT is not a substitute for standard medical or psychological care, so please consult your own personal physician when needed.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians (2015)

Author of EFT for Christians, Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced (2017)

Author Interview for EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions

Here is an interview I did for the Christian Book Show around the 2017 released EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions book. Have you picked up your copy yet? 

EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions takes EFT to an entirely different level of practice.

This book has a short weekly devotion followed by a tapping "action" part that the reader can practice and meditate on all week long. 

It is a great teaching tool to help the reader understand the various questions that one can ask to gain the tapping insight needed to clear life's emotional stuff.

Grab your copy today to deepen your relationship with your Lord!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for sound medical advice, so consult your own personal physician when that need arises.

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced  (2017)

Author of EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)

Author of EFT for Christians Devotions (Christmas, 2020)

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God Heals in Different Ways

God heals in different ways. 

We humans sometimes want Him to do things differently, but He knows us as a complete being. God created us in an integrated manner - body, soul, mind, and spirit.

Quite often as I do teaching and ministering with EFT, I hear from Christians that they have gone to the altar for prayer very often, but still the emotional pain persists. Frustration has now set in and sometimes their faith begins to waver.

I'm all about prayer, and I highly encourage it, especially when coupled with tapping.

But as we ponder what tapping & prayer is on a spiritual level, let's consider a thought:

What if a pastor feels illness is only a spiritual problem, and he tells his congregants to have more faith, worship more, pray more, etc? Illnesses can definitely have a spiritual component. Scripture is full of examples.

But what IF the congregant's issue is more emotional? What IF that person being counseled had parents that divorced young, or he witnessed his brother killed, or she was abused at a young age, or the mother had a mental illness?  

Asking someone with an emotionally charged childhood to pray more and have more faith frankly isn't always helpful. The science of how their brain is wired sometimes precludes them from doing those exact spiritual exercises. 

While prayer, worship & faith help us cope, there most likely is more going on underneath emotionally for the parishioner. This is where EFT, in addition to all of the above things mentioned, comes in extremely handy! 

The emotional piece is affecting the physical piece that affects the spiritual piece that ends up making us a big life mess! It's all intertwined. 

For EFT, there's something about the actual tapping physically that often integrates it all. Our physical body cellular-ly holds the emotions. Too many negative emotions makes us sick. When we feel physically bad, it affects our spiritual well being & our emotional composure. 

Tapping often relieves the emotional turmoil which heals us physically whereby we give glory to our God for the healing which then brings us spiritually closer to Him in relationship. 

We see our God as a God of unity - all His models show unity. Church, family, health, etc. 

Tapping is a tool to help us get there on so very many levels. 

It truly is an amazing God created tool for healing!

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com

Author of EFT for Christians Tapping in God's Peace & Joy (2016)

Author of EFT for Christians Advanced  (2017)

Author of EFT for Christians 52 Tapping Devotions (Christmas, 2017)

Author of EFT for Christians Devotions (Christmas, 2020)

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Repentance & Tapping

Repentance is tied tightly into healing. Acts 28:27 where Apostle Paul repeated Isaiah 6:9-10. is one example of where this is stated.

This is one of the difference between Christian EFT and regular tapping. God rains on the just and the unjust, but because of Jesus and our chance to repent before Him of what we do to others which offends Him, we get a complete healing now and in eternity.

Repentance means "changing our minds" and that often is exactly what we do when tapping. We think one way, usually negatively, until we tap & God changes our mind. Some of that changing is forgiving those who have offended and hurt us.

There are so many different levels of healing going on here!

Isn't our God amazing?

Your thoughts? We'd love to hear them!

Remember, EFT is not a substitute for medical care, so please phone your own personal physician for all medical and psychological needs.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)
Author of the EFT for Christians series on Amazon

Huffington Post Who is Ultimately Responsible? Life Matters, and EFT Just Might Help!

Emotional health matters. Abuse matters. Read this story please, as it has a twist you aren't going to expect.

Please learn to tap effectively! There are other Ali's out there who are waiting for your help.

Thank you!

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

EFTforChristians.com 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-demon-inside-who-is-ultimately-responsible_us_57f560b9e4b0568704999ceb?

EFT and Worry - Philippians 4

Philippians 4:6 reads, “in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God”.  All our fears, anxieties, and worry are to be placed into His loving arms. It is His to carry.

But what happens when the fear, worry, or anxiety continues to rear its ugly head?  Is God not answering our prayers?  I don’t believe that to be the case at all. God created us with a specific physiology. He knows what He created and how we function within our bodies.

God’s physiology goes something like this:  We learn worry early in our lifetime. Oh, it might be something that today we would find inconsequential, like not being picked for a kickball team, or not understanding the math in an upcoming big test. Worry and anxiety set in. The cognitive learning process instilled in our mind has just begun.  Over the following decades, other problems arise that reinforce all that worry and fear and anxiety. Each time, it seems we worry more and more, or the worry is more deep set. Finally, by middle age, we find ourselves literally worrying about nearly every single thing in our lives. We can tell ourselves a million times that we have nothing to worry about – God has it all under control, but, for some reason, that never really reassures us, and we continue to worry.  Eventually, the guilt about worrying begins to set in, adding to the angst. We know in our heart it is wrong, and we pray diligently to be delivered from it.

We all know God can do whatever He finds necessary. Sometimes, He simply rescues us from our deep-seated worry, setting us free. Other times, it continues, like St. Paul’s thorn, leaving us overburdened and sick. God, at other times, brings alongside us something else to assist us, and answering our prayers in other ways.

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is another of those answers to prayer. While He allows worry, fear, and anxiety to be part of our human experience, one started in response to original sin our first parents committed in the Garden of Eden, He also instilled in us a mechanism to relieve just those emotions.

EFT, or tapping, is a physiology process where by these fore mentioned emotions can be permanently dismantled. How? By allowing the subconscious to bring to the surface those early memories where the worry first began, and tapping away the emotions attached to those events.

The tapping sets up a vibration that interferes with the neurochemical reaction at the cellular receptor level, breaking the cognitive learning pattern of childhood.  It re-regulates the amygdala, the alarm center of our brain, telling it we are safe. God is handling our issues. It’s how God created us when He breathed breath into Adam’s nostrils on the sixth day of creation.

Free yourself of those emotions of anxiety, fear, and worry through EFT, opening you up to an awakened spiritual experience through God’s mighty grace.  Allow God to instill into you the peace of God that passes all understanding by using this EFT mechanism God implanted in you at birth.

If any of these emotions or any other overwhelming emotion is running your life, messing up your prayer life and spiritual walk, email me. It would be my Christian privilege to teach you how EFT can change your spiritual life, as you dismantle the crippling effects of those early leaned memory patterns. Or attend one of my EFT classes in Milwaukee.

Always remember to take complete responsibility for your own health and well-being. EFT is not a substitute for medical care.

God bless your walk with Him!

For more information, go to  www.EFTforChristians.com

To schedule a free EFT 15 minute consultation session, email me at EFTforChristians@gmail.com

Sherrie Rice Smith

Certified EFT practitioner

Author of EFT for Christians

Christian Disbelief and EFT

Recently I had this question pop up on one of my author’s boards: “How do you deal with Christians who are resistant to EFT? I am not a Christian, but I have met people who seem afraid to take responsibility for their own wellbeing and development. How do you address this?”

I would love to answer this question!

Often Christians are fearful, like everyone else, of what they don’t know or don’t understand. We in the West are conditioned to believe that God heals us through doctors and medicine. And sometimes God heals supernaturally. The body is a mechanical machine and it must be treated as such. There apparently is no in-between.

Back in the 16^th century, when Rene Descartes was alive and active in his philosophical thinking, he concluded that much of matter is simply mechanical. He supported a dualism that mind and body were completely separate, and those parts did not interact with each other, except at the pineal gland where there could be some intersection.  Touch was the only true “sense”, according to Descartes. http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/4h.htm

This philosophy was at complete odds with Eastern ideas which teach our body and our mind is a cohesive unit. Each part influenced the other and each was integral to the functioning whole.

Due to this 16^th century thought Western medicine until recently has view the mind-body connection as non-existent. The body was the body; the mind was the mind and each was treated as separately existing. If one had a physical disease, the state of our mind had little to do with the disease itself, or the healing process. The idea that a physical illness was the manifestation of an emotional (mind) problem was near impossible to fathom.

This thinking is rapidly changing, meaning that Eastern ideas of how our body heals was correct all along, and these new ideas are making rapid inroads into Western medicine. The mind-body connection exists, as our whole body works in unison, not as separate parts as Descartes suggested.

It is new science, and most of the disbelief of Christians can simply be addressed by explaining that EFT is all physiology the way God created us. I use Scripture to address their concerns, too. Too many Christians figure if something has Chinese medicine in it; it follows that some Chinese religious belief must be mixed in there, too. This isn't at all true.

Many universities are now doing amazing amounts of neuro research, and I try to keep up on that as much as possible, and use it in my new articles, blogs, and upcoming books, as well as incorporate it into my EFT classes. Internet searches will bring up hundreds of research articles around this subject. Most of it is fascinating reading.

You & I know people heal when they are ready to heal. If they are satisfied to be where they are, afraid to think outside the box, try something new, we can pretty much guarantee not much healing is going to happen!

How Much Healing Guts Do You Have?

 When I go into a group of hurting women like those in some support group where their spouses have died, or the spouse has abandoned them for another woman, I hear that same mantra repeatedly, “I want God to heal me through and through. I’m so done with feeling hurt.”

As the group moderator continues to lead them week after week through EFT clearing, it is interesting to watch the varied reactions. Some women open up quickly, easily, baring their souls to one another; others are more reticent, holding back, waiting for the just the right time to let loose of their own personal story.

All of that is good. People heal at a different pace, and even if a woman isn’t saying a word, but continues to tap with her fellow group members, there is a good chance God is healing her, too, in a more subtle way. That way is called “Borrowed Benefits.”

Decades ago, EFT founder Gary Craig, realized something “energetic” was happening underneath the surface of the group to whom he was speaking when he had a client up on stage, tapping with her/him.

Finally, Mr. Craig decided to run a small experiment of sorts. I won’t get this story’s details exactly right, and there are many variations of it out on the internet, but he had the entire audience write down on a piece of paper at the beginning of the conference all the issues that were bothering them right then and there.  Mr. Craig then told the attendees to put the paper away for the duration of the seminar.

On the last day of the conference he asked for another volunteer to come up on stage for a tapping demonstration to be done by him. Apparently no one raised their hand. At last, he asked the group to take out that paper on which they all had written the list that bothered them and take a look at it. It was right then that Mr. Craig realized the reason no one volunteered. He immediately saw that most of the issues written on those hundreds of slips of paper had been resolved while each attendee tapped along with the client up on the stage. That amazing occurrence was dubbed “Borrowed Benefits,” and we see it routinely in every single group or classroom where tapping goes on.

There is a physiological reason why it happens, but I don’t believe that was discovered until long after Mr. Craig figured out the concept.

God put in us something called, “Mirror Neurons.” These neurons are a particular type of brain cell that fires when we see an action performed. To a certain extent it is imitation. We sneeze; someone else in the room sneezes. We grab our glass to drink; another person does the same. It might even account for why a 2 year old wants his friend’s truck to play with right now, or the concept of a mob getting out of control during a sporting event. We learn by watching others, but more importantly we heal by doing the same thing.

It appears mirror neurons give us the ability to empathize with others and they give us the ability to interpret facial expression in others – we intrinsically understand what a frown means, or was that understanding learned from another, but interpreted by our mirror neurons? This reaction seems to be automatic, not something we put any thought into.  

Two locations in the brain where these neurons have been observed are the premotor cortex and the inferior parietal cortex. There are theories that these mirror neurons help with bonding between people, and that the mirroring intensifies over time.

Let’s get back to the gals in the room talking, and hopefully tapping, about their problems.

 I often challenge people around me to think about taking Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT or tapping) a step further.

Maybe this article will motivate you to consider doing this, too.

All of us, me included, love to whine and complain about all of the awful things other people have done to us over the years. So and so did this and so and so did that to me, and “it ruined my life.”  I hear it all the time.

As we tap, God neutralizes the emotional impact of whatever awful things have happened in our lives, and forgiveness begins to set in, resulting in peace within our soul. I want to toss out a challenge.

What happens if we turn the table and ask God to point out to us where we went wrong – where we ourselves hurt someone else, inadvertently or intentionally?

That suggestion often sends the roomful of women into a buzz of conversation. “What? I was the victim. What are you talking about?” as they look incredulously at each other.

“I’m serious,” I reply, “Who in this room has the guts to ask God what they specifically did wrong to hurt someone in their life.”

This idea takes some intense thought and rumination. It is self-incriminating. This is where the meat hits the bones of Christian confession and repentance.

Can you ask God that question?

Frankly, it took me a very long time to do it. I cannot ask you to do so without me first trying it, can I?

I didn’t like at all what I heard from God. I’m not going to list all the sins I have committed in the past that hurt others here, but I will tell you it was an illuminating conversation with God.

Should you truly want to heal from top to bottom and from inside to the outside, try asking God that particular question.

My guess is He will require of you what He required of me. I had stuff to repent of, and it is the best thing that ever happened to me short of learning how to tap!

It cleared my soul and spirit. It repaired my relationship with my Savior. To date, God has not required me to go to any of the people He told me I hurt and ask their forgiveness. Sometimes God requires that, and if He does of you, please go do it.

Often we know in our hearts our intentions toward someone were wrong, but that person never picked up on it as you meant it. God often doesn’t require us to ask forgiveness for those things because it would mean we would probably hurt the person in the explaining what we did and what we meant to do. We would cause more pain in the apologizing and asking for forgiveness. It’s our own guilt He wants us to deal with.

So, back to my original question: How much healing guts do you actually have? Are you willing to go that extra mile with God, and allow Him to show you where you went relationally wrong? Instead of us always complaining what others did to us, are we open enough to be told and to understand what our behaviors and words mean to others?

Only you and God can figure this one out. I simply offer it as a suggestion as an advanced technique you can use for further clearing with EFT.

God bless your tapping!

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

Author EFT for Christians (2015)

EFTforChristians.com

EFT & Negativity

Did you know that God put 100 billion neurons in us and each neuron has 10,000 dendrites on it to connect to other neurons, so when we say we take out neural pathways when we tap, and tapping takes out a lot of those pathways, wow! it makes sense now?

Donald Hebb's law is (paraphrased) that neurons that fire together, wire together. Conversely, the opposite is also true. Neurons that get taken out with tapping, take out the connecting neurons  around it, which take out more neurons connected with those, and on and on showing how the generalizing effect happens!

When we start wiring neurons with negative thoughts, no wonder those thoughts take over our life. It is a like a cancer growing in our mind, doubling the negativity every hour we think the thought!

Please take full responsibility for your emotional health. If necessary, please phone a physician for care.

Sherrie Rice Smith, R.N. (Retired)

Certified EFT Practitioner

Author EFT for Christians (2015)

EFTforChristians.com 

Paula's Story about Her Dad's Death

EFT for Christians book has been out for many months now, and exciting things have been happening.

Here is a case study outlined in EFT for Christians on pages 163-170 with a follow-up comment Paula listed at the bottom of the case study. This is a shortened version of the printed book story.

If you are a Christian, or if you know anyone interested in becoming a Christian EFT practitioner, please give them my website - http://www.EFTforChristians.com/ . My email and book ordering information can be found there.

Paula and Dad

As a member of a Christian medical organization, I was asked to give a speech about exactly what our group does. I agreed. The only business cards I had with me were my EFT for Christians ones, so I tossed them, literally, on the tables for the ladies to take if they so desired.

I did my presentation as requested. As we finished with the follow-up questions, someone asked me, “What is this?” pointing to my business card. I asked if it was permissible for me to describe it. The group agreed for me to go ahead.

During the talk, an older lady began to cry. I, of course, noticed her, and inquired what was wrong.

Paula looked me in the eye, and asked, “You mean to tell me if we tapped, I can move some of these emotions I have about seeing my Dad killed before my very eyes when I was seven years old?” I grinned and told her, “Yes, I think I can help you. When do you want to tap?” “Right now!” came her answer.

I was agreeable to tap right then and there, as the rest of the group was ready to go home to supper. A few asked if they could stay to “watch.” I gently told them I didn’t think that to be a good idea. Paula and I needed to do this tapping alone.

I found us a quiet corner in the building, and then I went looking for some tissues, and a pen and paper. I almost always take notes. I use them to go back to test and retest our tapping results. I believe I get a more thorough clearing because sometimes, I, too, get into the client’s story and to remember later the possible six, or eight, or ten different things we covered is difficult. Note-taking is a personal choice. No client has ever asked me not to do so.

As with my usual methodology, I opened with prayer and I asked Paula to begin tapping immediately. Some coaches dislike this because they feel it brings the emotions down too much, making it more difficult for the client to access what is going on in the memory. I, personally, find it does the exact opposite. It gives notice to the subconscious to wake up and help out here, it is time to tap and clear out emotional memories. 

With that earlier little crying sentence Paula gave me, I didn’t anticipate this to be a dry, tearless session – her father’s death. No way was this story going to be told without many tears.

I inquired as to how old she was when her father died. Paula answered, “I was seven and I saw it happened and it has influenced my whole life since. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about that accident. And, I know it impacts my relationship with my husband, and my children. I hover over them for fear something bad will happen to them. I can’t ever lose someone like that again, but I know I have to leave things in God’s hands, and I can’t. I worry constantly.”

“Paula, tell me the story, please, in your own words. When you hit a part in the story that is really emotional, stop and we will tap that part until you are comfortable going on,” I instructed her.

She began the story, “My dad was the godliest man I knew. He read the Bible to me, took us all to church, and treated us all so well. I pretty much just adored him. He decided one weekend to help a neighbor man move to a new apartment. He took all of us kids along in order to give Mother a break. We loved being with dad. Everything was loaded in the truck and I asked dad if I could sit in his lap. He and my older brother were sitting on the open tailgate of the truck. Dad told me no and put me up against the truck cab in front.

Off we started with the neighbor man driving. Suddenly, the truck hit a pothole. I heard the tailgate slam up and down, and then I saw both my brother and dad slide off the flipping tailgate. My brother rolled, but dad went straight down on his back, hitting his head on the pavement.”

As you can imagine, the tears began in earnest. I assisted her in tapping every single detail of those two paragraphs, until she could say them without any emotion in her voice.

She continued, “Finally, the man stopped the truck. Someone closed up the tailgate trapping me in the truck. I hollered to get them to let me out. Another man picked me up and set me down on the road. I saw dad. He was lying still with his head in a big puddle of blood.”

The crying understandably resumed at this point.

Once again, I helped her tap down all the emotions around this part of the story. She calmed, blew her nose, and said, “Let’s keep going.” What a brave woman!

A lady from across the street came to get me while all the commotion of the ambulance was happening. I don’t know who called my mother. The lady sat me down on her porch steps and gave me some rootbeer soda and a cookie.

To break the tension a little bit, I stopped her and said, “I bet you don’t like rootbeer soda to this day, do you?” Paula looked at me and inquired, “How did you know that?” I smiled and said, “Because rootbeer is associated with this horrible negative memory, I knew you’d never drink it again.” Paula looked at me like she had never thought of that before (and she probably hadn’t) and I asked her to continue with the tale.

“The ambulance took dad away and I never saw him alive again. I know he was alive in the street because I could hear him moaning.” And, once again, the crying began, great big sobs, with her shoulders shaking, as if she was experiencing the incident right now in the present. Frankly, to her subconscious, she was because, until this incident has EFT applied to it, her subconscious is playing this accident in her mind and body as it is still present tense. 

We repeated the tapping process again, covering all the specific details of this particular part of the story until she settled down and the crying stopped.

At that point, she did tell me more about what happened to the family after her dad died, and how hard it was on her older siblings and her mom to keep food on the table. Paula’s job was to watch the younger kids while everyone else went to work.

We continued to tap as she related the rest of the story details to me, but she never cried again. The “punch” had been pulled out of the incident.

I have no idea how long we tapped, but my best guess is about forty minutes. I asked her to one more time to tell me the whole story again from a neutral place of having breakfast before dad loaded them all in the truck to help the neighbor.

Paula did as I instructed her. Even she was surprised at how little emotion she had about the event. She stopped twice and commented about how different she now felt. I noticed that her emphasis on particular adjectives had lessened. She changed a few words that had a harsh meaning previously to something more subdued. “Terrible” was changed to “bad”. “Huge puddle of blood” under her dad’s head was just a “puddle of blood.” The biggest change was how she said the words, “Bang, bang, bang,” complete with hand raising and lowering emphasis indicating what the truck tailgate had done when the truck hit that fatal pothole. By the third of fourth telling of the story, the “bang, bang” were just words said in an emotionless manner.We EFT practitioners see this quite often. Words change or soften once the emotion is pulled out of the traumatic event.

In the telling of the story, Paula told me how mean this neighbor man had become after that, saying, “Why couldn’t it have been him that was killed and not my dad. He began to drink a lot after that accident.”

I asked her if she hated this man. In typical Christian fashion, Paula said, “Oh, no, we aren’t allowed to hate.” I asked again, “Do you hate this man? Tap and ask the Holy Spirit if you do.”

She compiled, and she looked at me with big wide eyes, saying, “You know, I do hate him. I never realized that!”

Doing the repentance part of Christian EFT, I asked if she would like to confess that sin of hatred right here, right now, before God and complete the process. Paula readily agreed!

I lead her through a confession of sins, in a simple manner, as God doesn’t require lofty words. He just wants to hear us say that we are sorry from a sincere heart, and He will indeed forgive us. He always does! He’s our heavenly Father.

I barely  finished the prayer, and Paula replied, “I never thought of this! No wonder that man was so mean and drank so much. He had a reason to do so.” And I replied, “Yes, because he was responsible for your father’s death!”

Never have I seen such a beautiful grin as the one planted on Paula’s face at that moment. I knew in my heart God had just done another one of his miraculous healings through the power of his created EFT. My heart was bursting, knowing what I had just experienced – freeing of a sister in Christ from a lifelong haunting event. EFT most often is a permanent healing, if we did our work well.

A week later, I received a written thank you from Paula. I quote it here:

“My burden has been lifted since our session together.

I no longer feel like my witnessing of my father’s accident is still happening over and over. I am set free and know it happened, but I don’t relive it. As for my feelings toward the neighbor man, hate is gone and so is the blame. I know all was in God’s mysterious plan.

I live in the now and know I’m part of God’s plan and He leads me.

I tap and unload all other things that come up daily. We are so wonderfully made.

Thank you so much for helping me to help myself.

God bless you and all you do for others,

Paula”

Paula summed up in one small note nearly everything we teach EFT to be. It pulls the emotion out of our past, putting us in the here and now, living in the present, enjoying all that God gives us. Forgiveness and empathy tends to follow the tapping, giving us the ability to emulate our Savior when He went to the Cross on Calvary and carried all our sins, there to forgive us all.

I am so blessed to be allowed to do this process for my Christian family, and any other precious people that God sends my way. Amen! Paula and I never tapped again, although she has told me she does use EFT when anything emotional arises in her life.

“7/25/15 I must tell you of this happening yesterday. Our four children were gathered at our home for a family patio dinner. Son & wife in from MI & daughter & husband in from lower FL. Our other two children are from here. In our later evening conversation around the fire I had everyone's attention telling them how I was freed from the heavy load I carried for 68 years. I no longer break down when I mention the death of my father. They asked how so told them of my session with you & explained the tapping. This also was the first time my husband had knowledge of it & asked why. I said I felt you would think it hokum. I told them you wrote my experience changing my story in her book which she gave me. At that, my youngest daughter went inside to my bookshelf. She came outside with it finding the Paula story. With everyone silent she read the complete story to all. They were amazed! She then asked if she could borrow the book to read, I said by all means. Not one of the 18 family members belittled it at all!! I can't thank you enough.”