(This assumes that you are familiar with the EFT procedure. If you are not please download the EFT manual from www.emofree.com and read it before continuing)
This has been a scary event for my son for the last year. He was scared of the doctor, nurse, and most seriously the tounge depresser.
What to do but tap using EFT to ease his fear. For this I asked him how intense was his fear by using butterflies in his tummy. 0 butterflies means he’s not scared. 1 butterfly means he’s a little scared. He told me there were “eighty-twenty-hundred” butterflies. So here’s the script:
Even though I’m scared of this doctor, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. (Until butterflies became a 1)
Even though I don’t want to see the doctor….
Even though I can’t talk to the doctor….
Well by this time my son said he would open his mouth for the doctor so he could look inside his mouth but without the tounge depresser.
This was fine and enabled us to visit the doctor without too much anxiety until he had a sore throat which was inflamed. The doctor needed to get a throat swab. The doctor left us alone for 5 minutes after seeing the anxiety that over-took my son.
I tried to reason that he needed the doctor to check his throat. This didn’t work so I asked “Why don’t you like?” to which he replied “Because I hate it” and so I tapped a couple of rounds.
Even though I hate this thing in my mouth…
Then he I asked why do you hate it? “Because I can’t breath when it’s in my mouth” Again I tapped a couple of rounds.
Even though I feel like I can’t breath when it’s in my mouth…
Why can’t you breath? “Because it makes me choke” and so I continued questioning until the doctor arrived.
Even though it makes me choke….
Even though I feel like I’m going to puke…
After all this, we were finally able to get a swab.
I had to wait a couple of days to get the results. So during this time I tapped on his sore throat. By the time the results came my son was feeling fine and all his symptoms had cleared up
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Followup:
A month later we visited the doctor’s again and my son was comfortable to talk with the doctor and allow him to use the tounge depresser.