There are at least partial results every time you do an EFT session. This is true whether you are doing EFT on your own or with a practitioner. And tappers usually feel better between sessions than when they first started working on the particular issue with EFT. However, on occasion, the symptoms worsen after a session. Why is this and what can we do about it?
In a small minority of cases, when we start working on a problem, it gets worse before it gets better. In all healing modalities, this is a phenomenon so well known that it has its own name: a healing crisis. Experiencing a healing crisis does not mean that the tapping has not worked. And unless you haven’t gotten even a partial result in an entire session, that doesn’t mean EFT won’t work for you. Rather, I find that this is because a part of us wants to call attention to their need for healing. And the only way you can do that is by drawing your attention to your symptoms.
Let’s consider weight loss as an example. I have worked with many weight loss clients for whom a specific food craving was totally released but who continued to simply maintain their weight. Some have even gained temporary weight. What this means is that we address current cravings for some foods, but we don’t address the core issues behind weight. Conversely, when both current cravings and several core issues are addressed, the weight is lost. This is what happened to Marianne, which released her craving for chocolate and also released relevant core issues. Marianne had tried before but she hadn’t gotten very far. And you too can be successful, even if there is a temporary setback first.
Sometimes the core issues are elusive. It may well be that the door through which you can access the core problems is the symptoms themselves. In each session, the symptoms can provide a new core problem to work on. And sometimes a part of us wants to move on and another part feels insecure doing so. An easy way to resolve this is to continuously tap on all of your favorite spots while the two parties talk to each other. This is a version of EFT of part therapy or part healing. You can give each party two minutes to talk, and then switch to the other party for two minutes, then switch back and continue in this way for about 20 minutes or so. You can then separately work on anything that came up in the process. We can also thank our mental body for bringing the symptoms to our attention so that we can complete our healing.
When you work with what your mental body gives you as cues and cues, you may be pleasantly surprised at how good you’ll feel in the end. Meanwhile, persistence in tapping can do wonders to keep you in balance.
