I work with a group of extremely traumatized people: parents whose children have been taken – often unjustly – by child protective services. Some will eventually get their children back but the entire family will still be trauma victims in need of emotional healing. Others will never get their children back, and will carry the scars of extreme loss for the rest of their lives. There’s no trauma worse than the loss of a child, and when that loss is inflicted by a government agency that claims a parent is unfit, the emotional trauma is increased with shame, stigma, extreme grief, a sense of frustrated helplessness, fear for the well being of the child, and perennial anger.

Parents, grandparents, and others in similar traumatic situations need healing from emotional trauma – otherwise they will deteriorate from unresolved stresses. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) causes exhaustion, impatience, aggravation, agitation, lack of ability to focus, and emotional outbursts. If left unresolved the grief of extreme trauma can lead to further stress on the body including increased risk of heart attack and stroke. Whatever injury harms our mental or emotional bodies will probably have an effect on our physical bodies as well.

These traumas must be dealt with, and EFT is one way to do it. EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques. By resolving energy blockages in the meridian system we can clear past traumas and promote emotional stability. As we heal our emotional body, the mental and physical bodies respond as well.

Here are some articles that explain more about how to heal trauma and PTSD using EFT tapping techniques:

An EFT Formula for Specific Trauma
EFT After an Attack in the Street
Healing Emotional Trauma & PTSD From a Car Accident
Healing Trauma Caused by Childhood Molestation & Incest
The EFT Story Technique Can Help in Healing Emotional Trauma and Clearing the Past
Using the Story Technique to Heal Emotional Trauma After a Rape
The EFT Story Technique for healing Emotional Trauma After a Bombing
Healing the Trauma of a Car Accident With EFT
Healing Emotional Trauma Caused by Date Rape
EFT to Heal Trauma After a Miscarriage
EFT Self-Healing After Witnessing a Violent Crime
Healing PTSD Caused by Domestic Violence
Using EFT to Heal PTSD of a Paramedic
How a Doctor Used EFT to Heal Abuse Trauma
Healing the Trauma of Guilt After Witnessing a Child’s Death

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Melancholy can be defined as free-floating sadness, something like a dark cloud that obscures the sun of happiness from your consciousness. It brings forth emotional mind-wanderings and distress, and is a precursor to actual deep depression.

We must not let melancholy take over our lives! Life is meant to be enjoyed, not looked at through a fog of discontent. So let’s EFT it away.

How, you say?

Perhaps you don’t know the source of your melancholy. If this is the case, start there.

How much do you feel this? Assign a number, 1 to 10. (1=barely;10=extremely)

Setup phrase:

“Even though I don’t know why I’m feeling sad today I deeply and completely accept myself.”

Repeat three times. If you’ve been reading Gary Craig’s free e-book you’ll understand exactly how this is done.

Tapping: “Sadness”

Breathe deeply when you’re done tapping. How much do you still feel this? Assign a number, 1 to 10.

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Perhaps as you tapped you realized some specific event that saddened you, and that’s the next thing to tap on.

Keep going. Tap out all the aspects.

Examples:

Aspect one – your mother called and reminded you of some stupid thing you did when you were ten.

Tap on it.

Aspect two – you’re reminded how your first marriage broke up because of your mother saying similar invasive and depressing stuff to your spouse.

Tap on it.

Any other thoughts that come up while you’re tapping on something – remember, that’s usually an aspect that needs to be resolved.

Tap on it.

Restore your joy. You were born to this world to be happy, and not to suffer.

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If you’ve already worked on your most important issues using EFT to free yourself from emotional blocks, and now are unsure what to tap on next, then perhaps it is time to dig deeper. Keeping a journal is a great way to find issues that are bothering you. Simply write about your life in a notebook. As you do, things will come out… events you’ve forgotten that you still get an emotional charge from, or problems you have that have plagued you for years.

When, during the course of your journal writing, you find yourself aware of an issue that can be helped by EFT (and this includes practically any issue) then at the top of the next page write a word or two about what the issue is. Next write down your setup phrase, and a number from one to ten that indicates how important this issue feels to you. Then go ahead give yourself a round of EFT. Next, reassess the strength of your emotional reaction to the issue, giving it another number.

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At this point you’ll need to either call this issue “resolved” or go on to tap about the remaining issue… or perhaps you’ve had some insight about another aspect of the issue that needs to be tapped on. Whatever your next step is, write it into your journal on that page.

A sample journal entry:

Consistency:
Even though I lack consistency, I deeply and completely accept myself.
7
2

This example illustrates a generalization… which usually isn’t the best thing to tap on. Using a specific event would be better:

Consistency:
Even though I don’t consistently do the dishes every night, I deeply and completely accept myself.
7
2

When you remember another issue in which you have consistency problems, you can tap on that too. Keep going until you tap on every issue that comes to mind during the course of your EFT session.

Keeping a record of your EFT tapping sessions in your journal will give you something to look back at and review. After using your journal for a few months, you’ll be amazed at how far you’ve come and how much your life has changed.

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