01/09/2012. Eureka Morrison EFT practitioner

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1 Tapping, Stress-Trau Trauma and the Brain and how we can best help with EFT Eureka Morrison EFT practitioner Presented to Arthritis Foundation Workshop 23 rd August 2012 Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa What We Will Cover This Morning Conventional vs Alternative treatment Stressors emotional, physical, infection The three brains Trauma-Time Capsule The body s energy system What is EFTand how do we use it? What are chakras and universal energy? The seemingly impossible is possible experts can be wrong 10 Week program EFT and chakra re-balancing Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 1 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 2 1

2 Conventional vs Alternative Treatment What is EFT? Treatment will be unsuccessful if it does not change the brain The sensitive temperament needs to be taken into account Emotional Freedom Technique Is a meridian tapping technique Therefore we must use a mind/body/spirit approach = EFT Developed by Gary Craig who simplified and added some NLP to Research into EFT interventions demonstrates brain changes There are no side effects Approaching the problem any other way is not big enough The Thought Field Therapy developed by clinical psychologist Roger Callaghan Which in turn was developed from Kinesiology and Acupuncture Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 3 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 4 2

3 Emotional Freedom Technique? It does What It Says on the Tin! A somatic enhancement to Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies Similarly effective to EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) and sufficiently gentle to be self applied A bridge between the talk therapies and the touch therapies Life Throws it at You Some of it flies past Some of it slides off And some of it sticks Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 5 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 6 3

4 And When It Sticks You re Stuck Traumatised People It Sticks in Your Head And It Sticks in Your Body You feel it, think it, obsess it You sweat it, breathe it, its instinctive Any little thing sets it off, day or night You can t relax Your body reacts with dis-ease Are Fixated on the Past Unable to distinguish Now from Then Unable to give meaning to emotions, behaviours and body sensations Obsessed with avoiding triggers Constantly vigilant Inarticulate and non verbal, there s no words for this Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 7 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 8 4

5 Re-living not Re-telling The Triune Brain Neuroscience for Dummies Little Things and I m Right Back There Primitive Brain The croc brain Survival and Territory Dog Brain Protection and Pleasure Harmless triggers set off the body s emergency responses to the original threat even in conditions of safety Energy is absorbed by keeping a lid on emotions rather than paying attention to the reality of here and now The Human Brain Intention & Imagination Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 9 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison

6 Communication Pathways Between Our Three Brains Dog and Croc brains very well integrated: emotion leads to motion Human brain interprets and gives meaning to emotions and behaviours Dog/Croc responds to abstraction created by Human brain Human brain has no pathway to Dog brain (except in trance states) Beyond a threshold level of emotion the Human brain cannot inhibit involuntary response What our Dog Brain hears when we try to fix it with the Human brain Fluffy, I ve told you before: Big Jack can t bite you! He died last year! Now be a good doggie and lets carry on walkies. What Fluffy hears. Fluffy Όήίΐϊώΐ Good Doggie Όήίΐϊώ Walkies..ΫΆΣεΰΘΌή Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 11 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison

7 Response to Threat Sh t Happens Animals respond to threat with action: fight, flight and finally freeze Once the threat recedes and the animal reaches safety freezing is discharged Successful discharge increases future resilience If freeze cannot be discharged, resilience is lowered A Rip in Fabric of Consciousness Traumatising Events are: A Violation of Expectations A Dramatic Threat to Physical Survival or Identity Isolating I m on my own Powerlessness There s nothing I can do Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 13 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison

8 What is inside the Trauma-Time Capsule? The Trauma-Time Capsule The Sensory and Motor Nervous System State of the Freeze is Isolated as a Trauma-Time Capsule What is seen, colours, shapes, patterns What is heard, sounds, tones, pitch, words Tactile sensations, pressure, heat Smells and tastes The Emotional state or states The Motor state, position, movement, physiology Traumatic Memory is Frozen Time With no coherent language As current events with no sense of time With all the sensory experience of the there and then With all the emotional and body response of the event Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 15 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison

9 The capsule leaks like a sieve What happens after a traumatic event? See, Hear, Touch, Taste, Smell something (or imagine that you do) That matches something similar that is frozen inside your Trauma-Time capsule The Capsule is sealed so that YOU can reach safety Your DOG DOG brain fires off emotion Your CROC CROC brain sets off a fight or flight response Your HUMAN HUMAN brain goes, What the!!!???!!! Then it opens to discharge the contents Animals normally shake when this happens Humans reach for a cigarette / drink / pills Humans become dis-eased Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 17 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison

10 What happens after EFT? So what is EFT? Tapping and Talking I m seeing it from the outside. Its not in here anymore its out there. Its as if it happened to someone else Its more distant now, I m detached. Oh, that? That doesn t bother me. Words tune in thoughts Thoughts open the capsule Body goes into unbalanced energy state Tapping on Meridian points rebalances Clearing out the Trauma-Time Capsule Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 19 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison

11 The body s Energy System GDV image of a fingertip Can we see this energy using scientific equipment? Oh yes, we can! GDV instruments can take photographs of the body s energy system Electro-photonic Kirlianglow around a human fingertip recorded using GDVcamera. This is the view from underneath, through a semi-transparent glass electrode that provided electrical field excitation. Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 21 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 22 11

12 Is that my Energy? Body Static Rub your hands together then begin to move them apart slowly. Bring them together and apart several times until you can feel a pull between them. This is some of the energy from your body. Another exercise Marble & Plasticine Other experiments might include rubbing a balloon on your hair or shuffling your feet along a carpet. Each will produce static. For messages to reach the brain from any part of the body there needs to be an energy system along which they travel. Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 23 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 24 12

13 Acupuncture and the Brain The Tapping Points What about the Meridian System? When people are put in a brain scanner and acupuncture points are needles the Dog brain areas light up The meridian system is in some way connected to the Dog brain EFT is accessing the human brain with words And the Dog brain with meridian tapping Clearing out the Trauma-Time Capsule Underside of wrist Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 25 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 26 13

14 The Setup Statement Karate Chop The Reminder Phrase A typical set-up statement might be something like this:- Even though I have this _ name the specific issue _ I deeply and completely love and accept myself Or Even though I have this this _ name the specific issue _ I choose to love and value myself Or: Even though I have this this _ name the specific issue _ I m okay You should feel comfortable with whatever positive statement you make. Tap three rounds of your setup statement on the karate chop point Once the set-up phrase is complete and 3 karate chop point rounds tapped it is now reduced to a reminder phrase. E.g. If you are working on this pain in my legs is killing me it can be reduced to This pain in my legs on the remainder tapping points: top of the head, eyebrow, side of eye, under eye, under nose, middle of chin, collar bone, under arms and end on the top of the head. Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 27 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 28 14

15 The Nine Gamut procedure The Gamut Spot is on the Top of the Hand between the last two knuckles near the base of the ring finger. For the 9 Gamut, you continuously tap on this spot while performing the following 9 steps: # Close your eyes #Open your eyes #Eyes hard down to the right #Eyes hard down to the left # Roll the eyes 360 in one direction (clockwise) # Roll the eyes 360 in the other direction (counter clockwise) #Hum a bar of a tune (A song you like, maybe a favourite from your childhood #Count out loud, # Hum the bar of the tune again. Imagine that you are singing it right into your cells. About the 9 Gamut: The 9 Gamut has been called the Brain Balancer. The eye movements, humming (right brain) and counting (left brain) help to engage the right and left sides of the brain. Try it out Unless you experience EFT for yourself, it remains just a theory. An exercise for any discomfort. Scan your body find ONE specific pain Rate the discomfort on a 0-10 scale and let s work on that... Setup statement: Even though I have this pain in my I choose to deeply and completely love and accept myself. Reminder 2 rounds starting at the Eyebrow and ending with the top of the head: This pain in my End with the 9 Gamut Exercise for everybody! Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 29 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 30 15

16 How can you use EFT? Every morning before you get out of bed and every evening before you go to sleep do a tapping gratitude routine. Example: Even though I feel as though my body is betraying me I choose to focus on my healing journey: I thank the Universe for this beautiful body and I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Consider how your sensitivity is helping the world you are a wonderful shining human being the world needs people like you. A tapping routine could be: Even though I m so sensitive I know that the world needs my caring nature and talents and I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Whenever you feel anxiety/pain building do a tapping relaxing routine. Example: Even though I am fearful and so very tired and in pain I deeply and completely love and accept myself. Always, Always, Always end with the 9 gamut What are Chakras and Universal Energy? The Human Body and a Motor Vehicle what do they have in common? A car needs petrol. What happens if the car runs out of petrol? The car will not go! Now let us imagine there is a never-ending source of petrol, but we are unable to pump it into the car! Result is the car won t go! All humans are linked to an abundant source of energy that nourishes us. Think of this energy being the same as the petrol that a car needs. What happens if your body does not get this energy? The body stops going just like a car! You are now effectively dead. What happens if the body does not get enough of this energy? You become ill. Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 31 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 32 16

17 How do you keep your chakras healthy? Each chakra spins on its own axis and each chakra has its own beautiful colour and mantains certain areas of your body and your emotional, mental and spiritual health The crown chakra and root chakra spins in opposition to each other The second to the sixth chakra have openings both in the front of your body and at the back, each centre spinning in opposition creating a dynamo effect sucking in the energy and pushing it into the funnel and into the body. How do you move energy? The answer is simple with INTENT. Daily chakra exercises could be simply visualising the centre, the colour and a spinning vortices work your way up from the root chakra to the crown and remember to work on both the front and the back. The front openings spins from left to right, the back openings spin from right to left. The root chakra spins from left to right and the crown chakra spins from right to left. Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 33 Authorities can be wrong You re in good company if you re sceptical about new things. History is filled with experts whose belief systems were closed to new possibilities that later became accepted fact. "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. --Lord Kelvin, British mathematician and physicist, president of the British Royal Society, 1895 "X-rays will prove to be a hoax. --Lord Kelvin, again... "Space travel is utter bilge. --Dr. Richard van derreitwooley, British space advisor to the government, 1956 (Sputnik orbited the Earth the following year) "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done [he said, referring to research on the Atomic bomb]... The bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives. --William D. Leahy, U.S. Admiral, advising President Truman on atomic weaponry, 1944 "The energy produced by the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine. -- Ernst Rutherford, New Zealand physicist, 1933 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 34 17

18 Why do you need an EFT support person and program? You need a skilled and experienced EFTpractitioner to recognise your emotional charges. You need a loving, understanding and non-judgemental facilitator, someone who will support you every step of the way. You need structure a stepped approach where you learn to find your voice. Often fibromyalgia sufferers are unable to complete what they started because of chronic depression and fatigue. When very deep chakra healing is required I work very closely with a Brennan Healing Science practitioner. These angels on earth worked very hard for their wings 4 years of undergrad and 2 years of advanced post grad studies. I owe my life to them. Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 35 Themes of the 10 Week EFT program Calming and Clearing Chronic Pain Week ONE: Reframe your highly sensitive temperament Week TWO: Mending a broken heart Week THREE: Open the Cage of Anger and Pain Week FOUR: Open the Cage of Feeling Invisible Week FIVE: Open the Cage of Fear Week SIX: Open the Cage of Overwhelm Week SEVEN: Open the Cage of I have to be perfect Week EIGHT: Honouring your dark angels Week NINE: Stand up for yourself setting your intent and the Hara Line Week TEN: Lighting up your cells and Expanding your Light:- Your Core Star Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 36 18

19 Work done during each week of the program The key to emotional well-being is in your hands! You will receive a comprehensive 190 page manual, which includes colour charts, worksheets for written tasks, diary pages for personal thoughts Written tasks prep work for the tapping of the next session Tapping tasks completing previous week s tapping exercises Physical tasks each week you learn about and practise charging and balancing a chakra centre Proxy tapping in a group session each participant is allocated 20 minutes of individual tapping while the other three tap along this is known as borrowing benefits or proxy tapping Each participant is allocated 20 minutes on the CES(Cranial Electrotherapy stimulation device. Calming and Clearing Chronic Pain Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison 37 Copyright 2012 Eureka Morrison, 38 19