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EFTfor
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EFTfor
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REACTIONS Jo Hainsworth 2008
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I was chronically ill for 16
years, starting at age 10(chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS),
recurrent sinus infections and
systemic candidiasis).
I have long thought that the food
sensitivities I had were a result
of the effect of the illness and the
treatments for it.
My partner Rex and I have recently learned EFT, the Emotional
Freedom Techniques, so we decided to take on my dairy and
wheat difficulties, and see what we could do.
DAIRY AND WHEAT FREEI have been dairy and wheat free for 10 years, with the exception
of occasional tests with small amounts of dairy and inadvertent
tests when Ive been unknowingly exposed to wheat.
The reactions to dairy are nearly immediate after eating, however
not as severe as the reactions to wheat, which after the smallest
exposure can leave me seriously debilitated for several days.
FEELING UNSAFEWe began our journey with EFT and allergies one day after
seeing Carol Lookmake a comment on one of the EFT Training
DVDs, to the effect that underlying a lot of allergy issues, is a
feeling of being unsafe.
Given that, in addition to the food sensitivities Ive long had
chemical sensitivities as well, this resonated with me.
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UMBILICAL CORD, VITAMIN K and FEAR!It prompted the memory of my mother telling me that I was born
with the umbilical cord around my neck, and an email to confirm
that also revealed that I had been administered a Vitamin K
injection shortly after birth.
I also remember my mother talking about her having fear during
her pregnancy with me. Body dowsing (muscle testing) confirmed
that this was the place to start.
The First Session
We began with the earliest issue, and worked on me not feeling
safe in the womb. Instead of assigning a level of intensity we
used body dowsing to check when we were clear.
Next we moved on to the umbilical cord, and as soon as I startedtapping I burst into tears and was filled with emotion. Two rounds
took care of it.
We then moved on to the Vitamin K injection, taking the approach
that when I arrived in the world I felt unsafe as I was first nearly
strangled (with the umbilical cord), then stabbed with the
injection.
While I initially started with no emotion I soon started shifting to
interesting new aspects, which after lots of tapping and some
imaginative testing on Rexs part, resulted in a great by-product of
me losing my fear of needles!
We decided to end the session there, as it had been quiteemotional, and give me a break before carrying on the next day.
However, my body had other plans! Later that afternoon I ate
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some pickled garlic as I have been doing regularly over the last
few months. An hour later my abdomen was bloated and I felt
very uncomfortable (I had not reacted to it on any of the occasionsId eaten it before).
Rex suggested I tap on it, and all of a sudden I started crying as I
flicked into when I had systemic candidiasis, and had been eating
lots of garlic to try to kill the candida.
This led to realising that my body had been a war zone for somany years, with my main metaphor being that we had to do
whatever we could to kill the bad guys. This was a big part of
me feeling unsafe for years, as I felt so vulnerable to the bad
guys for so long.
Later that night some of the minor symptoms that I used to have
when killing candida came back, so I tapped on them, and they
were gone the following morning.
The Second Session
We commenced the second session with the fact that (as told by
my mother) I threw up every time she fed me, and she had to feed
me again.
We had concluded that perhaps after the initial traumas of my
birth, I had just associated the next thing that came my way (milk)
as traumatic as well.
So we tapped on, Even though soon after I was born I felt that
food was unsafe for me,I now choose to feel delighted that my
body can deal appropriately with all foods.
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In arriving at this choice, (and dealing with the psychological
reversal standing in the way of getting there!), I finally realised
that my reluctance to let go of my reactions was because I sawthem as warning signs that I was in unsafe territory, and therefore
I saw them as my friends.
We then worked on the fact that I was weaned from the breast
at three months and introduced to dairy and wheat (my two main
food sensitivities).
After that we did a positive round on It is safe for me to let go of
my reactions to food.
We continued with working on several aspects of feeling unsafe
with food, then went in on dairy products (cows, goats and sheep
separately).
CHEESE!At this stage I felt ready to try some cheese, and I was pleasantly
surprised at my reaction to Rex saying, Ill have to cut the mould
off the sides and tidy it up, the only cheese Ive got is a bit gross.
Normally something like that would trigger all sorts of warning
alarms and there is no way I would eat it. The fact that it didntbother me gave me great encouragement that what we had done
had really dealt with my feeling unsafe with food.
About an hour after eating two slices of cheese (and enjoying it!),
I suddenly had itching all over my body. Rex body-dowsed and
established that it was not a physical reaction to the cheese, but
rather a reaction to my anxiety about the possibility of a reaction!
We tapped a few rounds on the itching and there was no
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difference. Then all of a sudden my level of intensity shot up as
I realised that I had a major issue with the Its all in your head
phrase that anyone with something like CFS has heard or heardimplied many times throughout the years.
We tapped on that, and the itching started to subside, but not
disappear. The 9 gamut and floor to ceiling eye roll brought the
itching down to 0.
Next I started thinking about how people have said that if youhavent eaten dairy products in a long time, your body doesnt
have the enzyme to digest them, and so we tapped on that too,
just to be sure.
That afternoon, something incredible happened. It was like I was
all of a sudden redefining my whole beliefs about food.
I realised for the first time in my life that, despite my
lifelong battle with dairy, my body does not have
a problem with food; its the subconscious beliefs
that cause the reaction, not the substance itself.
I wasnt able to realise this until after wed cleared the Its all in
my head, and as we cleared that, I ended up tapping on, It really
is all in my head, and thats OK! (and got to the point where I
could laugh about it!)
I later found myself asking Rex all sorts of questions on how he
saw different types of food, and I began to sort my food beliefs
into valid and untrue.
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I realised for the first time that white bread is not nutritionally
usefulbut it is not poison to the body (as I had long claimed).
I found myself for the first time ever entertaining the idea of
actually choosing to eat small amounts of food for their taste,
even if they arent nutritionally great (Ive been very strict with my
diet ever since my candida days, and although I have enjoyed
what Ive eaten, Ive now come to realise that my metaphor with
a lot of food was the same as my metaphor with the candidaa
war zone, with my body trying to kill the bad guys (like dairy andwheat.))
I actually found myself daydreaming about trying the chocolate
croissants they make here in France, made with two former
poisons.
The next evening, we decided to go for broke and really test it.
Rex made cauliflower cheese, which for me was the greatest
testmilk, butter and cheese all in one dish.
I ate a good helping, and had no anxiety, except feeling a bit
strange that I didnt have any anxiety!
I was a bit phlegmy the next morning and sneezed a couple of
times, but thats a reasonably regular occurrence for me, so we
concluded there is no reason to believe that my body cannot
handle dairy products, it being a far cry from past reactions to
even small amounts of dairy.
I have had multiple chemical and food sensitivities for at least 20
years.
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For the first time in my life I can now see that it
is not a case of something poisonous invading
my body, but rather an overreaction caused by
my seeing myself as unsafe, and under attack.
This has been a major revelation to me. My metaphor has for so
long been that of the canary in the coalminealerting the world
around me that what we are doing to the environment and ourown bodies is not OK.
The metaphor has now changed, and the canary is now out of the
cage and flying free. However I still have real concerns about our
bodies needing safe ways to alert us when what we are doing is
not OK. This is something I think I will integrate over time.
Third Session
When we started the third session, we felt that we had made
huge inroads into all my allergy issues, as a result of dealing with
the issue of not feeling safe, and the realisation that it wasnt
actually my body reacting all that time, it was as a result ofinvalid
associations in my subconscious.
I was, however, still quite nervous about trying wheat, as a result
of the severity of past reactions.
I still also felt I had an issue with not wanting to let go of the
allergies due to feeling like if I did, nobody would believe that
I had ever been sick (this is common for people with illnesseslike CFS who have had the Its all in your head implications
throughout their lives).
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As we tapped on this particular aspect, I realised that the main
issue was that while I was very sick but the doctors couldnt find
anything wrong with me, I started to doubt my own sanity.
We were unable to get past psychological reversal on clearing the
wheat until we addressed this aspect.
It was interesting to note here that once we started on this issue,
I started crying and accused Rex of making light of the issue and
not taking me seriously! It was very hard for him to understand,and I would imagine that any therapists who have not had severe
allergies might not realise just how significant this was for me or
others like me.
We also addressed the issue that, once I no longer had reactions,
I needed to choose to rely on my intuition to let me know if
it wasnt a good idea to eat something. As the lifelong dairy
allergy had disappeared so rapidly and easily, I felt it was also
important to do a round on, Its just too easy!
We also did a round with a choice, choosing to be free by learning
to choose my own limits, instead of letting my body set them for
me.
We then started on the wheat itself, and tapped on the three most
recent and severe times I could remember reacting to wheat. We
tapped on Even though I recently heard an expert say that wheat
is incredibly difficult to clear even with EFT
We then worked on cravings, as I had noticed that Id been
craving cheese ever since the first bit of testing a few days prior.
By this time I was feeling ready to try some organic wheat bread
we had purchased for the testing that morning. My only concern
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was that I wasnt concerned!!! After enjoying a slice without any
symptoms, we made some soup to enjoy the bread with for lunch,
and the rest of the day was symptom-free.
It took a bit of getting my head around this, as past exposure to
wheat had left me in pain and with all sorts of horrible symptoms
for several days, starting within a couple of hours of eating the
wheat.
I noted later in the day that the cravings I had had for cheesesince eating the first lot to test had stopped, and I was not craving
the bread at all, which is very unusual as I usually even crave the
wheat free bread I eat sometimes.
Something else that really stood out for me is that I am normally
very paranoid when handling wheatI always wash my hands
right after giving the dogs a biscuit to avoid touching anything that
I could later touch before eating. After the tapping, I was very
comfortable handling the wheat and had no desire to wash my
hands or clean up every crumb on the bench.
That evening we decided to go for broke, and I ate wheat bread,
together with three different types of cheeses, with dinner. I
enjoyed it, no anxiety at all! A little while after dinner I noticed I
was starting to swallow a bit of phlegm. I did a couple of rounds
on it, and discovered that I was feeling guilty that Id eaten so
much, expecting my poor body to be able to cope with digesting
it all, for the first time in so long. The phlegm stopped.
A few days later we had dinner with a friend, and as I sat debating
in my mind whether to ask what the dessert was, and what it was
made of, I realised that it was the first time in 10 years that I had
been able to trust that it was OK to eat something without knowing
exactly what was in it.
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I realised that I have used controlling my
food as a way of giving myself a false sense of
security, masking the feeling deep down that I
wasnt safe in the world.
It was a real eye opener.
Summary
This whole thing has completely blown me away. To think of
all the hell I went through during all those years, and it was just
because I arrived in the world feeling unsafe, and continued to
build evidence that that was true as I grew up!
Im having to revisit everything Ive learned about allergies over
the years, and am integrating the fact that it appears that for all
these years, my body has not been reacting to substances, but
rather to my perception of the lack of safety of those substances.
Its been hard for me to come to terms with, particularly as Ive
had occasions in the past where I have reacted when neither Rex
nor I have known that Ive ingested wheat, and only discovered
after some detective work after the symptoms appeared that Rex
had unknowingly used stock with a small amount of wheat in it.
However, despite what my conscious or unconscious mind thinks
I know, I am now symptom-free after eating dairy and wheat (and
some chocolate for the first time in many years!), and looking
forward to enjoying a life without so many limitations.
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The food is only a very small aspect of this, because clearing this
issue has completely changed my understanding of healing and
health, and I now feel that the sky truly is the limit. Im excitedabout taking on a 20 year muscle spasm in my neck next!!!
Note on my use of EFT
While I use the word tapping in this article, in actual fact I dont
tap at all. I have practised and taught Reiki for many years, and
have used Reiki to do a lot of emotional healing in the past. I nowcombine the two, and all of this work was done with me running
Reiki through my fingertips at each of the EFT tapping points, for
a few seconds each round. For anyone who does Reiki, I believe
that combining it with the EFT makes it very powerful indeed.
Note on the aspects with fear of needles
While not of interest from the perspective of allergies, the side
path we went down on my fear of needles might be of interest to
some. As we were tapping on the Vitamin K injection soon after
birth, the aspect of my fear of medical needles came up.
This led to all the countless blood tests Id had that hurt but
yielded no benefit as for so long the result was always we cantfind anything wrong with you.
Then it moved on to the painful twice-weekly injections of B12 Id
had during a 6 month period, when I was very ill.
Then all of a sudden once that was cleared, I suddenly realised
for the first time in my life that my fear of sewing needles beingput down on the floor might be a little irrational (for as long as
I can remember, if someone has placed a needle down while
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sewing, I havent been able to take my eyes off it, for fear of
standing on it and it going into my bloodstream and killing me!)
After I thought wed dealt with this issue, some deft testing on
Rexs part got my intensity level right back up again.
Eventually after several lots of testing, I remembered I had been
avoiding getting a splinter out of my finger, because I cant stand
needles, and suggested perhaps it would be the ultimate test.
When Rex first got a needle out, I exclaimed that he wasnt going
near my finger with such a big needle, then after another round of
tapping, it didnt seem quite so big after all!
When Rex had difficulty getting the splinter out with the needle, I
surprised both of us by reaching out for it and saying, Here, Ill do
it, and proceeded to successfully dig it out of my own finger with
no drama!
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POST SCRIPT
Now, 16 months on from writing up my story of healing the food
and chemical sensitivities I had, its hard to believe that I ever
reacted the way I did.
Long gone are the days where I couldnt fill up the mower or car
with petrol, because I would feel so incredibly sickcould hurt me,
and have even occasionally been known to eat an entire pizza,
followed by a desert, and feel great doing so.
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Spring has become a season
I can enjoyin the past I
avoided all flowers that hadthe potential to set me off
with one of my reactions, and
now I find myself deliberately
placing my yoga mat near the
flowers so I can enjoy them
while breathing deeply with
yoga.
I am living life with a sense
of freedom that for so many
years would have been
unimaginable. I had no idea
how much my feelings of
being unsafe had permeated
my life, until I was released from the prison of those beliefs. It is
just incredible, and something I will forever be thankful for.
Where in the past, I for so long had the metaphor of myself
as canary, this just seems such a foreign concept to me now.
Instead of seeing myself as weak and vulnerable, I now feel so
healthy and strong that my entire self concept has changed.
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I have set up a website called the Self Healing Portal, in an
attempt to get information out to anyone who is ill and wanting to
heal. It is so important that people realise that these days, there
are tools out there, which are free or inexpensive to learn, that
allow us to literally take healing into our own hands. If you are
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living with limitations to your emotional, mental or physical health,
know that you can learn these simple methods and turn your life
around, just like I did. Everything on the Self Healing Portalisavailable free of charge.
I have discovered since doing the EFT to heal my own health
challenges, that for those of us with deep seated beliefs around
not being safe, it can be very important to do the tapping with
someone else, who we trust, supporting us.
This need not be a trained practitioner, it could simply be a partner
or a friend. I found for a long time that I could not tap on issues
that triggered my feelings of being unsafe alone, but the tapping
was very effective when working with my partner, who while he
didnt have a lot of experience with EFT, was able to help me (and
my subconscious) to feel safe enough to heal.
Jo Hainsworth
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