Pain relief is one of the most widely used benefits of EFT.  Even though EFT doesn’t work in every single case of pain it works more often than not and many people have turned to EFT to alleviate and manage their pain.  Patricia Carrington in her book ‘Multiply the Power of EFT’ gives us this new way of working with pain.

I have tried this method with great success and recommend that you try it too.  The method makes use of something called re-framing’ and involves changing your thoughts about a pain or discomfort from their present context and looking at it in an entirely new way.  This involves speaking and thinking about the pain in a different way.  (Using different words to describe it.)

Patricia tells the following story to illustrate how this works.  She encountered a man on a workshop some years ago who told her this story.  Over 30 years previously at the age of 30 he had been diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor.  He was offered an experimental and highly risky operation which he decided to chance.

The man recalled lying in his hospital bed after his operation feeling down, frightened and abandoned as he listened to the comments of the medical personnel around him saying his situation was hopeless and that there was nothing they could do for him.

As the days passed in the hospital he developed a very disturbing symptom.  Several times a day he would feel as if he had been struck by a bolt of lightning which would literally pin him to the bed.  It was painful and terrifying and each time it happened he felt as if he was being struck a mortal blow.

Then one day something unusual occurred.  A thought entered his head and told him to start to view these attacks in a different light.  He immediately decided to re-label them in his mind as evidence of healing and from then on each time he had one he would thank his body for the healing that was happening.  He would say to his body, “Thank you for healing me.”

Within a little while he actually started to look forward to the shocks as evidence of his healing.  What is remarkable about this story is that he mysteriously stared to heal and was eventually discharged from the hospital with an inexplicable case of remission.  At the time of narrating the tale he had been free of any re-occurrence for over 30 years.

He did not have EFT of course to help him with this re-frame he did it without so with EFT imagine how much easier it can be.  Here’s how to do it:

First identify the pain, discomfort or distress that you would like to get rid of and give it a name like, ‘this pain’ or ‘this distress’ or ‘this stiffness’ etc.  Now write down a detailed description of the pain or stiffness and either articulate it or write it down.  An example would be:

“This ache in the right hand side of my back behind my ribs.”…………..

Then add any other details or descriptions making it as detailed as possible.  When you start to tap on it you will simply refer to it as ‘this pain’ or ‘this distress.’  Your deeper mind will know what you mean by that statement.

Next, take an intensity rating on the 0 to 10 scale and formulate a re-framing statement thus:

“Even though I have this pain (stiffness/ache), I choose to know it’s there to heal me.”

Or “Even though I have this pain (stiffness/ache), I choose to accept it as evidence of my healing.”

Or “Even though I have this dis-stress,  I am grateful to the Universe for giving me this pain to bring about a breakthrough in my healing.”

Try not to figure out what the healing is or how it will manifest itself, simply say the statements and know and trust that something will happen, somehow.  Rejoice when the pain is present saying, “Oh good I’m being healed.”

After using either one of the above statements three times or, if you are feeling adventurous, using all three once each, go on to tap around the points repeating the negative at each point and then tap another round using the positive thus:

Negative Phrase:

“This Pain/Stiffness/Ache.”

Positive Phrase:

Do one whole round, followed by one whole round of:

EB…. “I choose to know it’s there to heal me.”

SE……”I choose to accept it as evidence of my healing.”

UE……” I am grateful to the Universe for giving me this pain to bring about a breakthrough in my healing.”

UN……” I choose to know it’s there to heal me.”

UL……”I choose to accept it as evidence of my healing.”

CB……” I am so grateful to the Universe for giving me this pain to bring about a breakthrough in my healing.”

UA…….” I choose to accept it as evidence of my healing.”

TH…….”I choose to know it’s there to heal me.”

Hint: As you say the statements it helps to emphasize the words in bold as this adds feeling to whatever you’re saying meaning the statement is accepted much easier by the subconscious mind.

After one whole round of positive and negative take an intensity rating on the pain and repeat.  Carry on doing this for a few days and the pain will more than likely recede into the background.

EFT is so wonderful.  Please try this.

To your success Christine

To contact me email me at christine@makingpositivechanges.co.uk or visit my website http://www.makingpositivechanges.co.uk to sign up for my free newsletter and pick up the over 60 page report on EFT.

Giving loving attention to your pain by doing EFT can help to alleviate the pain and often can affect the actual healing of its underlying causes too.

The reason this method works is because pain of any kind is the body’s way of telling you there’s something wrong.   The pain behaves much like a screaming baby in that it insists we pay attention to it whether we want to or not.  If we try to ignore it, it will usually just yell even louder for the attention it needs and wants.

When confronted with a screaming baby we all know it doesn’t help to hit the child or cream back at it.  If we can’t identify the child’s distress right away or we aren’t able to remove the cause we will intuitively seek to comfort the baby by giving it loving attention.

Surprisingly, this often works and the infant’s creams will often fade away as it realizes that its call for help has been heard and that someone is there giving it loving attention.  This same comforting, loving behavior can be applied to any physical distress of our own that may be screaming for our attention.

Suppose for example that you are suffering from a severe headache and nothing you have done has helped it.  You may decide to provide comforting and loving attention using EFT to the painful area.

You could try this:

“Even though my head screaming for my attention, I chose to let it know I love it pain or no pain.”

Babies, heads, stomachs and any part of the body or mind wants to know that it is loved no matter what.  Loved with no strings attached and no demands made upon it to feel better or to go away and leave you alone.

Once it has your loving and totally accepting intention instead of your annoyance or anxious insistence that it go away or shut up the pain, like the crying baby will start to calm down at having received your unconditional acceptance.

When confronted with pain or acute physical distress of any kind an excellent way to handle it is like this:

“Even though I have this pain, I choose to give it my loving attention.”

Or “Even though I have this pain, I choose to hear its cry and give it love.”

Or “Even though I have this pain, I choose to recognize its cries for comfort and give that comfort with all my heart.”

The ways to formulate the statements are endless but the point is to understand the principle behind the statements.  You will be changing the whole dynamic from un-acceptance and anger to acceptance and kindness.

Tap one round using the negative after each set-up phrase and one round using the new choice.

Try this next time either you or someone you know is in pain.  It may be the best way you can help someone else to heal.

Christine Wesson

To contact me email me at christine@makingpositivechanges.co.uk or visit my website http://www.makingpositivechanges.co.uk to sign up for my free newsletter and pick up the over 60 page report on EFT.