Self-Healing for Trauma Using EFT Meridian Tapping

EFT Meridian Tapping
How to Help Your Patients Heal
Instantly
Kim D’Eramo, D.O.
Mind and Body are One
The Body Heals Itself
The Challenge We’re Facing:
The Challenge We’re Facing:
“My parent’s divorce put me in a wheelchair.”
Mind-Body-Motion
How can we ACTIVATE the mind’s power AND the body’s ability to
HEAL itself?
What We’ve Been Missing
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If body heals itself….what’s the problem?
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Where does illness COME FROM?
Objectives
What You Will Learn Here…
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WHY people are not healing and are chronically ill
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Self-treatment to reverse ROOT CAUSES of illness
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reverse anxiety
release pain
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improve test performance
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TREATMENT for patients who have “tried everything” without results
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RESOURCES for continued learning for you and your patients
What is EFT?
Scared to DEATH…
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Roger Callahan, clinical psychologist and Thought Field Therapy,
(TFT)
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Gary Craig developed into
“Emotional Freedom Technique,” (EFT)
Research in EFT
Anxiety
 Depression
 Phobias
 PTSD
 Children’s symptoms
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Pain and physical
symptoms
 Weight loss and
cravings
 Sports and professional
performance
 Traumatic events
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Amazing Results…
Why Don’t Doctors Know?
Patient Case
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55 yo male with 10+ years severe back pain
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MD psychiatrist
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Tried acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, medications
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“I know you can’t get me out of pain,
but……maybe you can help me deal with it.”
Patient Case
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Underlying emotions:
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Frustraion
Anger
Helplessness
Fear
Hopelessness
Disgust
Embarrassment
Patient Case
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39 yo female with autoimmune illness
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Chronic severe pain B hips, L knee, back and neck
Depression, anxiety and chronic fatigue
H/O MVC driving her sister in car
OMT with some improvement
EFT Tapping with complete resolution of pain AND remission of
autoimmune disorder
Patient Case
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Thoughts/Memories/Beliefs:
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“I will always be sick”
“It was my fault”
“Better me than my sister”
“My mother can’t accept me”
“I have to try harder to get well”
“I’m broken”
Patient Case
 29
yo female, new onset thyroid disease
Failing out of school
 Abnormal TSH, T3, T4, prescribed thyroid medications….not yet
begun
 Anxiety over school, relationship
 Depressed, fatigue, weight gain, difficult to exercise, struggle with
her body
 Results after EFT for 3 sessions: no thyroid disease, off medications,
wt loss, running again, happy and very successful
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Patient Case
 Emotions/Beliefs
“I’m not good enough”
 “I need to push and work harder”
 “I’m too fat”
 “Proving my mother wrong”
 “I can’t really have what I want”
 “I have to compromise my relationship for my career”
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Patient Case -Child
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11 yo male with anxiety and abdominal cramping X 1 year
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Prior to basketball and baseball games
Nausea, worry that he will “blow on the court”
Inconsistent social phobias
Patient Case -Child
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11 yo male with anxiety and abdominal cramping X 1 year
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Hx: episode of vomiting on himself while in baseball uniform
Father- “Don’t be a wimp!”
Mother- Feeling powerless to stop dad and help child
EFT X 1 session with complete resolution (used at home with mom for a
week)
How Does EFT Work?
• Send new information to
BRAIN about the
thoughts, ideas,
emotions, and memories
Amygdala: A KEY to the MindBody Connection
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Memory
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Emotion
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Cognition
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Behavior and reactions
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Sympathetic NS stimulation
How Does EFT Work?
Amygdala communicates with:
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Hippocampus
Sensory Cortex
Associative Cortex
Prefrontal Cortex
Viscero-Sensory Cortex
Sensory Brainstem
Olfactory Bulb
How Does EFT Work?
 Modulatory
Systems:
NE, DA, Ach, 5HT arousal
How Does EFT Work?
 Associative
Cognition
Cortex:
How Does EFT Work?
 Ventral
Striatum:
Instinctive Actions
(subconscious)
How Does EFT Work?
How Does EFT Work?
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Hypothalamus,
Periaqueductal Gray Matter:
 Fight-Flight-Freeze
 Hormone regulation
How Does EFT Work?
 Vagus
Nerve:
Parasympathetics
EFT and Illness
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Memory –stored information continuously signaling amygdala
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Emotion –at time of event
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Cognition –ideas about incident and meaning of incident
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Behavior and reactions –automated for survival in future
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Sympathetic NS stimulation –hypervigilance and hyperalertness
Meridian Points
How To Do It
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Step 1: Find MPI (Most Pressing Issue)
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Step 2: Scale from 1-10
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Step 3: Tap
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Step 4: Breathe in and out
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Step 5: Recheck
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Repeat Steps: Tap on next MPI
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Bonus Step: (Optional)
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First: FEEL YOUR BODY!
 You
Are An Osteopath
How To Do It
 Step
1: Find MPI (Most Pressing Issue)
Experience/Memory
 Emotions
 Thoughts/Ideas
 Symptoms: location, severity, quality
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How To Do It
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2: Scale from 1-10 severity (10 is most severe)
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How To Do It
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3: Tap
Karate Chop point with “Setup Phrase”
 Trigger: “Even though I have (this problem/symptom)”…..
 Counter Trigger: …“I love and accept myself fully” OR …“I
choose to embrace my life now”
 Tap on general points using “Trigger Phrase”
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How To Do It
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4: Breathe
Have patient take deep breath in….
 And full breath out
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How To Do It
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5: Recheck
0-10 Scale; better/worse/same
 “What came up for you during the tapping?”
 Note other thoughts, emotions, ideas or experiences
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How To Do It
 Repeat:
Tap on next MPI
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How To Do It
 Bonus
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Step: “Affirmative Tapping” (Optional)
May add this after MPI intensity is 3 or below
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training videos:
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The Power of Your Body
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