Teaching EFT To Children and Adolescents.

There has never been a more significant time to realise and acknowledge the importance and acceptance of the body-centred approaches to improving our inner life and performance.  This is particularly true for our children.

So much time and money is spent on the outer games and social activities; any parent or teacher reading this will be only too aware.  The netball, the hockey, the football, the piano lessons, the singing lessons, the ballet lessons, the list goes on…….there has been, however, a slow but sure increase in the awareness of the importance of some very basic body centred approaches to improving performance and relieving stress such like, basic breathing, movement, relaxation, meditation and now much more profoundly EFT.

Often times when working with adults having negative memories, an unwanted behaviour or pattern that have become outmoded and just plainly detrimental from the past becomes apparent; I have thought how much easier it would have been to have been there at the time to assist the child in integrating the incident into their experience without the negative patterns being formed. Negative memories from things your parents said, teachers said and did and not surprisingly what peers may have said.

EFT and Hypnotherapy can uninstall the negative “programming” in adults and help to rewrite your emotional patterns formed during formative years.  How much easier it is to deal with the negative experiences for children at the time so

to speak.  I find that children and young people respond in much the way they do with physical illnesses and dis-eases.  One minute they can be quite poorly and then they are up and bouncing around, illness quite forgotten and off they go. 

Now with a simple self-help procedure that is safe, easy to teach and learn and simple to use this is now possible with all emotional disturbances.                

My experience working with children and young persons at a General Hospital taught me a huge amount dealing with this age group.  Some of these children and adolescents had experienced losses and situations that are hard to imagine BUT still always inspired and moved me with their resilience and desire to heal once given the tools to do so. 

Here is just one typical example in my practice 

A mum telephoned me to say that her youngest son was due to take his 11 plus exam to gain entry into a school that both he and his parents wanted him to attend.  He suffered from dyslexia but hadn’t been given an official diagnosis and therefore was not being given extra time that is normally given in these circumstances.  He had sat lots of pre-exam tests and couldn’t finish them in the time allotted.  Whenever he got stuck on a question he would go into a panic and couldn’t think straight.  The more this happened, the more he panicked and so the proverbial “loop” was created. 

After the initial chat with him (mum was present at all times) I first established that he wanted to go to this particular school and so there were no underlying blocks in this regard, we got tapping on the feelings he did have every time he was confronted with the situation.  It was quite a surprise to him and to mum when an underlying anger came up!  He was quite angry at having to do a test that he didn’t deem as necessary!  After a couple of short sessions, I am pleased to say that he was sailing through his pre-tests and indeed did very well on the day.   

Have a look at this heart warming video by Dr Deborah Miller on using EFT in a hospital setting with children.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OajzRBwjh8