Workshop Video: Using EFT to Manage the Mental-Emotional Side of Pain

29 minutes
Share the link to this page
Copied
  Completed
You need to have access to the item to view this lesson.
One-time Fee
$49.99
List Price:  $69.99
You save:  $20
€46.05
List Price:  €64.47
You save:  €18.42
£39.49
List Price:  £55.29
You save:  £15.80
CA$67.81
List Price:  CA$94.94
You save:  CA$27.13
A$76.24
List Price:  A$106.75
You save:  A$30.50
S$67.17
List Price:  S$94.05
You save:  S$26.87
HK$391.08
List Price:  HK$547.54
You save:  HK$156.46
CHF 45.01
List Price:  CHF 63.02
You save:  CHF 18
NOK kr535.66
List Price:  NOK kr749.97
You save:  NOK kr214.30
DKK kr343.41
List Price:  DKK kr480.81
You save:  DKK kr137.39
NZ$82.93
List Price:  NZ$116.12
You save:  NZ$33.18
د.إ183.57
List Price:  د.إ257.02
You save:  د.إ73.44
৳5,480.63
List Price:  ৳7,673.33
You save:  ৳2,192.69
₹4,164.53
List Price:  ₹5,830.67
You save:  ₹1,666.14
RM235.95
List Price:  RM330.35
You save:  RM94.40
₦69,818.03
List Price:  ₦97,750.83
You save:  ₦27,932.80
₨13,890.88
List Price:  ₨19,448.35
You save:  ₨5,557.46
฿1,812.16
List Price:  ฿2,537.17
You save:  ฿725.01
₺1,609.45
List Price:  ₺2,253.36
You save:  ₺643.91
B$248.66
List Price:  B$348.14
You save:  B$99.48
R946.25
List Price:  R1,324.82
You save:  R378.57
Лв90.10
List Price:  Лв126.15
You save:  Лв36.04
₩66,978.72
List Price:  ₩93,775.57
You save:  ₩26,796.85
₪182.71
List Price:  ₪255.81
You save:  ₪73.09
₱2,812.41
List Price:  ₱3,937.60
You save:  ₱1,125.19
¥7,562.33
List Price:  ¥10,587.87
You save:  ¥3,025.54
MX$833.86
List Price:  MX$1,167.47
You save:  MX$333.61
QR182.14
List Price:  QR255.02
You save:  QR72.87
P685.45
List Price:  P959.69
You save:  P274.23
KSh6,598.68
List Price:  KSh9,238.68
You save:  KSh2,640
E£2,388.54
List Price:  E£3,344.15
You save:  E£955.61
ብር2,836.85
List Price:  ብር3,971.82
You save:  ብር1,134.97
Kz41,835.51
List Price:  Kz58,573.06
You save:  Kz16,737.55
CLP$48,859.22
List Price:  CLP$68,406.82
You save:  CLP$19,547.60
CN¥360.84
List Price:  CN¥505.21
You save:  CN¥144.36
RD$2,950.90
List Price:  RD$4,131.51
You save:  RD$1,180.60
DA6,723.57
List Price:  DA9,413.53
You save:  DA2,689.96
FJ$112.36
List Price:  FJ$157.32
You save:  FJ$44.95
Q389.47
List Price:  Q545.30
You save:  Q155.82
GY$10,447.10
List Price:  GY$14,626.78
You save:  GY$4,179.67
ISK kr6,875.12
List Price:  ISK kr9,625.72
You save:  ISK kr2,750.60
DH503.14
List Price:  DH704.44
You save:  DH201.29
L882.28
List Price:  L1,235.26
You save:  L352.98
ден2,837.43
List Price:  ден3,972.63
You save:  ден1,135.20
MOP$402.32
List Price:  MOP$563.28
You save:  MOP$160.96
N$947.06
List Price:  N$1,325.96
You save:  N$378.90
C$1,837.63
List Price:  C$2,572.84
You save:  C$735.20
रु6,662.11
List Price:  रु9,327.49
You save:  रु2,665.38
S/184.95
List Price:  S/258.95
You save:  S/73.99
K188.56
List Price:  K264
You save:  K75.44
SAR187.49
List Price:  SAR262.50
You save:  SAR75.01
ZK1,337.01
List Price:  ZK1,871.93
You save:  ZK534.91
L228.90
List Price:  L320.48
You save:  L91.58
Kč1,162.98
List Price:  Kč1,628.27
You save:  Kč465.28
Ft18,255.62
List Price:  Ft25,559.33
You save:  Ft7,303.71
SEK kr527.33
List Price:  SEK kr738.30
You save:  SEK kr210.97
ARS$42,803.93
List Price:  ARS$59,928.93
You save:  ARS$17,124.99
Bs345.07
List Price:  Bs483.12
You save:  Bs138.05
COP$194,174.56
List Price:  COP$271,859.92
You save:  COP$77,685.36
₡25,095.87
List Price:  ₡35,136.23
You save:  ₡10,040.35
L1,232.84
List Price:  L1,726.07
You save:  L493.23
₲367,034.02
List Price:  ₲513,876.99
You save:  ₲146,842.97
$U1,894.96
List Price:  $U2,653.09
You save:  $U758.13
zł198.58
List Price:  zł278.04
You save:  zł79.45
Already have an account? Log In

Transcript

Okay, so the mental emotional pain, everybody knows that back pain has a really strong emotional component. There's a specific technique that I have found that helps with that mental emotional aspect. It's outside of the box. So you have to keep trying to keep an open mind with this one. I know Ellen, I'm pretty sure Ellen knows what it is. So she's the open minded one in the group.

This particular strategy that I learned was probably the last part of the seven steps that I use for myself and I wish it was the first because my mental emotional perspective seemed to hold on to my restrictions and hold on to my pain. Had I addressed that in the forefront, everything else might have gone a lot smoother. It took me about seven years to get through all of my own problems and get to where I'm pretty stable and not don't have any fears. Doing anything I know that I can handle whatever comes my way. And even if I do pull my back, I know I'm going to be okay. But it took seven years for me to get there.

And that's doing this particular technique called EFT Emotional Freedom Techniques was part of that process. And I want to give you a little bit of background. Throughout my career, I was puzzled why there was some people that would respond really well to a treatment and other people that just didn't do the same exact thing and they seem to have the same exact symptoms. They're the same problems going on. But they responded vastly different to the treatment. It's like they were holding on to their pain and regardless of what was done, nothing could solve their problems.

One example that puzzled me, I had two patients, they both had a total knee replacement. They were both done by the same doctor. They were done back to back on the exact same Day. So I mean, everything was the same about them, there's their body structure was pretty much the same. The huge difference was the first day. I got him that that morning, right after, you know, Great Britain The day after they had their surgery, one walk all the way across the gym all the way to the very end.

The other one barely made it 10 steps, huge difference from one to the other. But the surgeon was the same. The surgery was the same. The medications were the same, every everything was the same. They're both women it could even say it was because one was a man and one was a woman. They're both women.

Fast forward to the very end, because I saw him all the way to the very end. When they were in homecare one got discharged a full month earlier than the other one. And when she got discharged a month earlier, she had no pain. The other one got discharged A month later and she still had pain. So this is something that just kind of sat in my head and tried to figure out why you know Was this the big question mark on top of my head? Why, why is this happening?

And that just kind of led me down that foundation of understanding this mental emotional aspect of pain. So I want to fast forward a few years and I learned about EFT for phobias. I learned about it from another physical therapist, he was teaching another seminar. And he was really excited about the EFT stuff. So at the end of his seminar, he was like, hey, do you guys want to learn something really cool, new? We're like, Yeah, why not?

So we explained it. And basically, you're tapping on just tapping on specific burdens on them on the face, not the body. And I'm sitting there going, alright, your credibility just went way down. You know, I'm being I'm being kind of judgmental here. And thinking, Oh, my, you know, I thought he was kind of cool, but maybe he's not so cool. This sounds kind of weird.

But he's showing and I had a couple colleague of mine who is at the seminar, and she had a severe phobia of fear of bees, severe. If you told her there was a bee in the room, she would literally start screaming and run it. She didn't have to see it. She didn't have to hear it. She just had to say it, and she was freaking out. So she decided to volunteer as a subject for this beef phobia.

So he went through this whole tapping regimen took about 10 minutes, less than 10 minutes, and her phobia for bees was completely eliminated, completely eliminated. I even told her, I'm like, hey, there's a bee on your shoulder. And she looked at me and she's like, shut up. You're so full of that. I can smell it. And then I'm like, wow.

Because I know beforehand, she would have been freaking she would have been screaming at the top of her lungs. If I would have told her there was a bee on her shoulder. So I was thinking, alright, so if it helps with that, if it can take a phobia I mean, phobias are powerful, they really read, there's no rationalization to how people react with a phobia. If it can help with that, what else can it help with? So I used to know just about everything. And eventually I started trying to use it on physical pain for myself.

I wasn't using it on anybody else at that point for physical pain, but I was using it on myself. And I didn't notice a whole lot of difference. And I wasn't, I wasn't getting the whole concept of it yet. So I kind of kind of gave it up and sort of put it on the shelf for a while. And I abandoned it until later in my career. I traveled to Colorado and I had a travel assignment.

I was doing it I was there for three or four months. And one thing that I noticed out there was people were happier. They were more well adjusted to life. There was a colleague of mine who was a physician, he actually brought his family specifically out to that area because it was healthier, a healthier mental emotional environment to raise his kids. And one of the things that happened when I worked on people, when I did you know, a manual technique and maybe gave a couple of exercises, people got better, a lot faster. And I'm not saying just a little bit, I'm saying a lot faster.

I had people get better within one to two sessions. I've never seen that hear the same thing that would take months in Ohio. took one to two sessions for some of the people out there. And they would come back and I'd be like, Are you sure? And I'm sitting there in my head. How is this possible?

I'm not doing anything different. I'm not a miracle worker. I'm doing the exact same thing I did in Ohio. But people are getting so much better, faster. I couldn't figure it out I think well, maybe it's because they're more active because you know, people are more active out in Colorado than they are here. But even the people that were active out here still didn't get the same results.

So this through this whole process, I'm problem solving and trying to figure out why because I'm always trying to figure why, why, why, why? And I deducted it down to the mental emotional perspective, their mental emotional state was so much healthier, that they were able to accept healing better. And then I decided to revisit the EFT again, because if you can, if you can improve the mental emotional state, then you're going to accept the rest of the healing that much better. Does that make sense? to everybody on board so I want to demonstrate a specific exercise, we did a hamstring stretch earlier. I'm going to have you do a hamstring stretch, and you're going to measure how far you can go down.

So the first time you're coming down, you go down as far as you can feeling the pole. Wherever you're, wherever you're at, you stop there, and I'm going to measure what that distance is. And I'm going to have you write that down. Then we're going to do a round of EFT and you're going to do the exact same thing, and we're going to see if it changes. It doesn't matter. Just make sure you remember which leg you did it on.

Because I won't remember, there's too many people measuring from your finger to your ankle bone and we're at seven Okay, Jim is in charge of writing everything down. Okay, so you are about a half an inch from the end of your foot. We don't know where you are from your ankle bone, four and a half. That's the right side. You are right on your ankle bone. I want you to nice form the form that I taught you earlier and then bend forward You are about one inch All right, so we're going to do around an EFT.

I know you're familiar with EFT is anybody else familiar with EFT? Shakti? Okay. I've heard of it. That's good. So you're, you don't know what the points are.

Right? I've never done I should but it's one of those things that people forget to do, because it's doesn't seem like it's doing much. And that's why I wanted to do this exercise because it will, it almost always changes the flexibility just by doing that. So I'm going to word it as even though I have this lack of flexibility in my hamstring unless anybody else thinks that there's a better wording for them. Is everybody okay with a lack of flexibility is that kind of work? For everyone, that's my word.

So, when you're doing EFT, it's important for you to use your words and your terminology is tightness seem to fit better for people or flexibility. Flexibility, okay. Okay, we're going to tap here on the outside of the hand. We're going to start there. That's the the setup point. I'm going to show you all the points first.

Okay, so this is where we're going to start going to do this three times. Then you tap on the inside of the eye. You tap on the outside of the eye, underneath, underneath the nose, the chin, the collarbone is right where that collarbone attaches into your sternum, your breastbone, that's where you want to go. And they go up underneath the arm. Then you tap the wrist points together. There's a lot where you can tap on different fingers.

I like to keep I like to keep life simple. So just doing the risk. gets pretty much all the meridians for the fingers. And then you finish where you started right at the karate chop point. Okay. Anyway, Is everybody ready?

The collarbone is right where that collarbone comes and attaches. There. Yep. Right on the inside. Yep. All right.

So I'm going to have everybody repeat after me. So you're going to say the same words that I say. Start Here at the credit checkpoint, even though I have this lacks of lack of flexibility in my hamstring, even though I'm open to accepting myself anyway. Accepting myself anyway, even though I have this lack of flexibility in my hamstring. This lack of flexibility. I'm open to accepting myself anyway.

Anyway, even though I had this lack of flexibility in my hamstring, Have this lack of flexibility. I'm open to accepting myself anyway. Myself anyway. Okay now we're going to tap on the inside of the eye. This lack of flexibility in my hamstring, this lack of flexibility. Doesn't matter what side you're on his lack of flexibility my hamstring underneath, this lack of flexibility in my hamstring, flexibility, my hamstring, this lack of flexibility in my hamstring.

Hamstring, Chan is lack of flexibility in my hamstring. Flexibility, my hamstring, collarbone, this lack of flexibility in my hamstring, flexibility, my history underneath the arm. This lack of flexibility in my hamstring, this lack of flexibility in my hamstring. Other risk points is lack of flexibility in my hamstring. And then the karate chop point to finish off this lack of flexibility in my hamstring flexibility. Okay, now let's take a nice deep breath.

And we'll measure start with the right side. Five and a half. So you got mentioned suicide you're on before. You're just just a little bit past cool You're at four. I think you were four and a half before if I remember correctly. Yes.

Which isn't a lot, but every little bit counts. You are a quarter of an inch from the end of your foot. I don't remember where you were before, right? Oh, wow. Increase was that about almost two inches. Big difference.

Yeah. Doing something so simple and seemingly trivial. Right? The amount of judgmental words that came through my head when I first learned this technique was amazing. So I'm sure a lot of that stuff came up with you guys too, because I did for me, but when you see the differences That's when it really makes a difference. That's when it kind of clicks you have to see that, that it makes a difference.

Oh, I gotta remember this part of me. I'm not doing them like you're going really far. Okay, you are Pat, you're an inch past your ankle. Where were you before you were, you were almost to your ankle bone insurance so short so you got two inches two. So that's super powerful. Does anybody have any questions on that so far?

The important thing, and I kind of alluded to that a little bit in the beginning, as you want to use your words, because it's it's tapping into your emotions, your feelings. You can use anything like the stabbing pain because you can use it for pain. I just did it for some anything physical that I can measure, I can't measure a lot of the other stuff unless you're using your own pain scale, which I invite you to, if you are going to do this on your own, use a pain scale. So before you do the tapping, check in with your body. I think it's like a six out of 10. Write down, write it down, because you might not remember afterwards, write down that six and then go through the tapping points, and then check back in and see where you're at.

If it only drops you from a six to a five. I think that's pretty significant. Because that gives you control you control. You're not having to take pharmaceuticals, you're not having to do anything on the order. I mean, you are doing something on the ordinary, but you don't have to rely on anybody else to do it for you. The important thing is you have to use your words.

If the pain feels like it's stabbing say even though I had this stabbing pain, if it feels like a toothache, you say even though I have this feeling like a toothache in my backside, or even though I feel like I Have a sharp stabbing pain in my backside, use your words and that's going to be different from one person to the next. The other mistake that people tend to make is they try to emotionally detach from their pain, which is totally understandable. You get really good at that when you're in chronic pain for a long period of time, you have to detach, but for this particular technique, because you're addressing the, the emotional aspect of the pain, you have to be fully present with the feeling of the pain to be able to get it to go down. Does that make sense? And that's hard. That is by far the hardest part of this exercise.

That was the part that I had a hard time with, because I didn't even realize how much I was checking out. But I was really checking out a lot. I would go through the routine I'd be like to do right. But I wasn't really checking in with it. I wasn't really feeling that those sensations in my body. I mean You can get as specific as I feel if you're focusing on it right here.

Or you're feeling it right here focus on one specific spot. Instead of I just heard all over this focus on one specific area, then you can, then you can pay more attention, you can tell the difference. You have to make it somewhat measurable, or your your brain is not going to accept it. If that makes any sense, it's like, you'll explain it away on something else that seems much more rational. Because this is completely irrational, then it's hard to explain why this is happening. And so it's a form of energy healing.

That's not completely understood yet. It's real. It works. But it's not totally understood yet. So your body's going to try to rationalize it off as something else. The only way you're going to be able to stop that rationalization is by writing down your beginning number being very specific on what you're working on.

Does anybody have any questions? Ellen, would you like to share any of your experiences with EFT? I've had two very different ones. When I was in Kansas City, there was a wonderful fellow that was a think he was psychologist. And he, he guested at the Unity Church in Kansas, up on the stage, big church. And he did this with a one to one everybody in the audience and there's a one to one.

And there was a gal there from she was a reporter from the Kansas City Star. And she was fascinated by it. And she came back. This was like a week. We did this for a week. She came back to report that she was able I can't tell you now it's been a few years, but she was able to stop smoking.

Doing the dialoguing with him about the cigarettes was he working directly with her he set right opposite her on the stage and they did But we did even though I then the cigarettes, and it was like, wow, this is very awesome addictions. It's very addictions are very challenging. Yep. That that was powerful. She She came there to cover to cover it and to in fact there was a photographer there who took pictures of some of us sitting in the audience. It's a picture of me again, start going like this.

Okay. But it was very powerful to watch it. I will tell you that I did it not too long ago with a gal at unity in Medina. And it's interesting that you talked about the wording, because she said to me, even though I have this mysterious pain, because it wasn't really named yet you know what i still I don't know. It could have been surgery could have been the ankle. Who knows?

But she worded it even though I have this mysterious pain and I may have to have it the rest of my life. I didn't like that. That's not that's not where I want you to go with it I want you to focus on she was trying to take words for you. Yeah, and those words didn't work for me at all, because that's not what I want. You're not gonna, you know, I didn't I didn't accept that I've just kind of said cancel clear delete as she was saying that. But I believe that the technique has helped.

I've seen some pretty amazing, you know, things happen with people with it. And I've done things I've done it the wrong way, and I've done it the right way. And that's how I've learned because it took a long time for it to really work for me. And because my focus was on the physical body, and that's what I wanted to make changes with. So I had to make it even more specific and it was more important to have very good wording when you're dealing with the physical body for the for the body to actually listen To what you're telling it. I'm not sure why.

But I had a, I had a patient that had a theory. I have a patient that had a theory, all the immigrants came in from New York. And the ones that had the stronger will had the better, stronger mentality kept going west. Just because she knows that particular patient of mine notice the same thing. The further west you went, the more well adjusted and happier people were. And if you go more east, if you go to New York, it's even it's even heavier people are I mean, there's always movies, people honking and flipping people each other off and yelling at each other and Right, right.

I mean, it's notorious how rough it is in New York because you know, people, they finally got to American. They're like, I'm exhausted, I'm gonna stay here. But then the really strong people, the strong willed people kept going. So that's that was a theory it makes sense. So that's the only theory that I have for it. If you come up with anything better than please let me know.

I know, meridian. Better your health being closer to the, but that's okay. But that's a north south fence true. So that's why I couldn't quite place the West thing. And that's the only thing that makes sense for the West because all the settlers moved west. Right.

And they you had to be strong. You had to have a really strong mentality to make that journey. Sure. And also the sunshine and when Colorado gets to shine, I mean, yeah, yesterday. Oh, was it right? Yeah.

Yesterday, I felt totally different. It was the sun was so amazing. Like within a day, things started feeling different. in Cleveland, yeah. So the sun makes a big difference. Thank cop, actually, Colorado.

I was in Boulder last year. It was just amazing was cool. It was 40 degrees. People were running outside people were having fun. And the sun. We jumped into the cold water and stuff, but the sun wanders up right away like that.

Yeah, it was really, it was beautiful. Humidity could be part of it too. Maybe a decreased humidity makes people want to be more active. More fresh air, trees and stuff that people can get outside. They just don't. People aren't inspired to go outside here.

I mean, that's some of the things that I always have to encourage people to do. Once I'm like, well, you're feeling better. You need to go take a walk. And seriously go out. Get outside in Colorado. I never had to tell People that they just did it.

I talked to someone in Colorado yesterday, for instance, and she said that everyone walks and ride their bikes and they get from A to B and there's a lot many parks eatable part healthier lifestyle, their lifestyle, but but then how did it start though? You know? Yeah. And that that's the only explanation is the migration pattern of humans. Interesting sense of adventure that will lead to more willingness to push boundaries in Kansas for me, I can just see a noticeable difference with sunshine. dark, gloomy days, vitamin B.

That's absolutely right. And and I'm finally starting to write again, writing poetry and I went through a very long deep spell, you know, with some sad Sadness in my life when I moved back here and boy I went to that park yesterday like a rocket and I've been blocked you know creatively for a while and within four minutes I got out of my car and there was this red bird up in the tree gorgeous cardinal sin in his heart out. And then a blue bird darted by I was like, whoa. And that's what my particular personality is inspired by being out in nature. And I popped out upon before I got home I was like, yeah, back. So yeah, nature is nurture nature.

It's our that's our natural healers outside in nature. Or society doesn't connect with nature enough. Yeah, you know, people are out there sitting there as your cell phone. Oh wow. World I think that's gonna get worse before it gets better. Yes, exactly.

Now, people have to realize that as human beings, we don't tend to learn the easy way. And it's unfortunate but that's what we do. The learning points for that chapter. Your mental emotional state can drastically affect your ability to heal quickly and effectively. Emotional Freedom Technique can be used to address the mental emotional side of your pain. EFT consists of this of a setup at the karate chop point, which is right here.

That's the setup. We do that three times we've that kind of sets the the system up to receive the changes and then the different tapping points. I abbreviate them the Official points there's 13 different points, but I abbreviate it and simplify it a little bit down to nine. It is important for best results to really tune into your emotional pain and your feelings. Really tune into your physical pain. It can be difficult to do because chronic pain sufferers tend to want to tune everything out.

So your that's probably going to be the biggest challenge for this technique. Does anybody have any questions on this section? Okay, does anybody need to take a break? We are getting closer to the end. We have got two more sections. We got two more sections.

Sign Up

Share

Share with friends, get 20% off
Invite your friends to LearnDesk learning marketplace. For each purchase they make, you get 20% off (upto $10) on your next purchase.