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EFT Meridian Tapping How to Help Your Patients Heal Instantly Kim D’Eramo, D.O.
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EFT Meridian TappingHow 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
If body heals itself….what’s the problem?
Where does illness COME FROM?
ObjectivesWhat You Will Learn Here…
WHY people are not healing and are chronically ill
Self-treatment to reverse ROOT CAUSES of illness
reverse anxiety
release pain
improve test performance
TREATMENT for patients who have “tried everything” without results
RESOURCES for continued learning for you and your patients
What is EFT?Scared to DEATH…
Roger Callahan, clinical psychologist and Thought Field Therapy, (TFT)
Gary Craig developed into
“Emotional Freedom Technique,” (EFT)
Research in EFT
Anxiety
Depression
Phobias
PTSD
Children’s symptoms
Pain and physical symptoms
Weight loss and cravings
Sports and professional performance
Traumatic events
Amazing Results…Why Don’t Doctors Know?
Patient Case
55 yo male with 10+ years severe back pain
MD psychiatrist
Tried acupuncture, massage, physical therapy, medications
“I know you can’t get me out of pain,
but……maybe you can help me deal with it.”
Patient Case
Underlying emotions:
Frustraion
Anger
Helplessness
Fear
Hopelessness
Disgust
Embarrassment
Patient Case
39 yo female with autoimmune illness
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
Thoughts/Memories/Beliefs:
“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
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”
Patient Case -Child
11 yo male with anxiety and abdominal cramping X 1 year
Prior to basketball and baseball games
Nausea, worry that he will “blow on the court”
Inconsistent social phobias
Patient Case -Child
11 yo male with anxiety and abdominal cramping X 1 year
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
Memory
Emotion
Cognition
Behavior and reactions
Sympathetic NS stimulation
How Does EFT Work?
Amygdala communicates with:• 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 Cortex: Cognition
How Does EFT Work?
Ventral Striatum: Instinctive Actions (subconscious)
How Does EFT Work?
How Does EFT Work? Hypothalamus,
Periaqueductal Gray Matter:
Fight-Flight-Freeze
Hormone regulation
How Does EFT Work?
Vagus Nerve: Parasympathetics
EFT and Illness
Memory –stored information continuously signaling amygdala
Emotion –at time of event
Cognition –ideas about incident and meaning of incident
Behavior and reactions –automated for survival in future
Sympathetic NS stimulation –hypervigilance and hyperalertness
Meridian Points
How To Do It Step 1: Find MPI (Most Pressing Issue)
Step 2: Scale from 1-10
Step 3: Tap
Step 4: Breathe in and out
Step 5: Recheck
Repeat Steps: Tap on next MPI
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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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Step 2: Scale from 1-10 severity (10 is most severe)
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Step 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
Step 4: Breathe
Have patient take deep breath in….
And full breath out
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Step 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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Repeat: Tap on next MPI
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Bonus Step: “Affirmative Tapping” (Optional)
May add this after MPI intensity is 3 or below
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Complimentary Training Videos
Doctor training videos:
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Send Your Patients:
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The Power of Your Body
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BE the Medicine…
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What If…?
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