Hello everyone!

I realized this morning that I hadn't tapped for a while and think it'll help me if I resumed it.

I've had CFS for years now but from what I understand, my weak point is the intestines, apparently they are damaged which causes candidiasis, thyroid issues (hashimotos), viruses to emerge chronically (EBV etc), sensitivities to some food and susbtances etc.. 

Consequently,  I have vitamines deficiencies,organsweaknessesand symptoms quite hard to bear like strong dizziness, fatigue, digestion issues, cravings etc..

 

Now instead of tapping on all these pathologies, wouldn't it be easier to just tap on my intestines? like "even though my intestines are damaged, I totally accept myself", "even though my intestines are my second brain and are affected by the stress I feel, I totally.." "even though my intestines are suffering, I now give them everything they need to heal"

 

is it good to say this?

Can i just tap around my ear saying "my guts are healing and are stronger every day"? before going to sleep?

 

thank you for your help!

 

carolinejili:

Now instead of tapping on all these pathologies, wouldn't it be easier to just tap on my intestines? like "even though my intestines are damaged, I totally accept myself", "even though my intestines are my second brain and are affected by the stress I feel, I totally.." "even though my intestines are suffering, I now give them everything they need to heal"

 

carolinejili:

Can i just tap around my ear saying "my guts are healing and are stronger every day"? before going to sleep?

Of course you can. 

You can also imagine your intestines in your mind, surround them by a loving light, and ask yourself on a scale of 0-100%, how well are they today? It sounds freaky, but trust me, I've done it, with amazing results. Let's say the answer that comes to you is 60%. Then you can tap "Even though my intestines are only 60% well, I deeply..." Keep tapping till the number goes up.  The next day repeat. Do this daily till they stabilize. 

 hello Suzanne!

Thank you very much for your help! You too had health issues? and are you cured now?

Many people with CFS think they'll never heal and are too pessimistic about it. I'm trying not to listen to this negativity because I believe we are ill for a reason and we all have the power to heal inside us.

do you also believe in trans-generational issues?

 

I think I kinda stop EFT for a while because I didn't know what to tap on anymore and found it hard to focus. Now it's easier if I can tap on the same issue every day. 

 

I can picture my intestines easily, I understand how you work because I do the same! sometimes I have a look "inside" and try to imagine my cells, and organs-if they are happy, scared, sad, ill, it's funny to do this, I mean funny in the sense that we communicate with them and it's important. I'll do what you suggested every day and will keep you informed! Also, my naturopath tells me it's important to be aware of what we eat or takes as supplements, like when you take a pill, try to see what it does to your body or if you eat raw milk, try to picture the farmer, the cow etc who produced it.

 

I could do that to help digestion too. I have been told-and it makes sense- that candidiasis is just the consequence of a damaged gut and not an illness by itself, it is created in the body to actually repair the gut's walls because candidas overgrow and get stuck on the walls to "help" in a sense, although somehow it does not help but you see what I mean. Nature is so interesting, isnt it? so I could talk to my candidas like "now my intestines are healing, you can return to where you were, I dont need you anymore, I thank you for the great job you've done for me" and in EFT that could be "even though my intestines are 60% damages, every day they heal and allow more candidas to be free/go away"

 

thank you for your help!!

carolinejili:

Thank you very much for your help! You too had health issues? and are you cured now?

 

I have a scar on my left lung and the issues that arise from that. I am about 80% better today, which is on the low side. I have been extremely ill, though, and EFT has made a huge difference. You are welcome to my personal blog (in my signature) for tapping ideas.

 

carolinejili:

Many people with CFS think they'll never heal and are too pessimistic about it. I'm trying not to listen to this negativity because I believe we are ill for a reason and we all have the power to heal inside us.

We all have ups and downs and this is even more so with a long-term condition. Anybody's health does go through downward blips, and with CFS it can be disheartening if and when it happens - a case for "Even though I have this disappointment,..." and you'll soon be feeling better!  :-)

 

carolinejili:

do you also believe in trans-generational issues?

I have worked on those personally and with clients, so yes. If you have an inkling of what it may be, just tap on it anyway and see how you feel.

 

 

 thanks Suzanne! your blog is great! it's really helping!

I'm glad to read EFT helped you with your health issues, it must have been really hard!

I went to see a holistic naturopath and she told me that diseases which are hard to cure like CFS or HIV or cancer etc often have a root above us. She asked me a lot about me and my family and she told me sthg that I already had found out in a family constellation but with more details and it really makes sense to me. I'm tryng to communicate with the soul of one of the person involved to make peace, it's not easy, dont rzally know what to do..

 

Anyway will tap now, I really need it!

 

have a nice evening!

Cheers!

carox

 Whatever the issue from somewhere above, ancestral, or past life, it is in your cellular memory today. Working with you and what you are aware of within you now is, from my experience, the best way to proceed.

Doing some positive thinking/tapping will help, but only to a point. Your body is full of negative energy, whether from beliefs, past lives, ancestral issues, however you perceive it, and this is what is doing the damage. When you release, forgive, accept and love, your body moves into healing.

I have found that, behind CFS and other autoimmune diseases, is a feeling of not being safe. This is compounded usually by sensitivity, and a strong 'need' or desire to keep everyone around you happy. This leads to giving out more energy to others than you pull in for yourself - and like a car, if you don't put petrol in, it stops working. The need to keep others happy stems from the insecurity and hyper sensitivity to other people's energy. When they are angry or guilty or ashamed or disappointed, it is painful as a sensitivie person to feel their energy inside your own body. Thus we work out ways to protect ourselves, and keeping everyone else happy is often the best strategy we can devise.

I recommend looking at the work of Jim Self at www.masteringalchemy.com for his energy tools, learning to keep your own energy for yourself and separating from others' energy. Learning how to create safe boundaries for yourself will be essential for healing, and gaining a sense of safety and value in the world.

This is quite brief about what is a complex issue because of all the beliefs that get set up to maintain the sense of being in control in some way. So long as we look for control in our external environment we will always feel powerless, because our power comes from knowing ourselves as sovereign beings whom nobody can alter - only we can choose.

So you could look at why you don't feel safe, then look at what you have been doing to try to feel safe, and work on that issue. It may take you into all sorts of places/energies but that is the real core issue.

If you haven't already done so, please check out Rue Hass's work (www.intuitivementoring.com) for her brilliant expose of the Highly Sensitive Person.

love & blessings

Marian

Hi Caroline,

Trauma expert, Dr Robert Scaer calls IBS, CFS and so on "dis-eases of the freeze response". The freeze response is energy that the nervous system (which people often forget includes the brain!) generates to deal with a survival threat (hence the importance of the theme of safety Marian talks about) but, for whatever reason, this energy is not discharged from the nervous system and freezes. These responses are often unconscious and therefore repressed, as very often these patterns and imprints are laid down while we're still in the womb and very early in life. We also inherit some of them as they're passed on. But the powerful thing is, we can relieve it NOW. If this frozen response happens often enough during a lifetime, the nervous system becomes more and more overwhelmed and as that energy has nowhere to go because it has not been discharged, it very often manifests in dis-ease. In my opinion being sensitive means being aware, of you, others, what's around you, being highly or hyper sensitive is in fact an overwhelmed nervous system. You can see a diagram here of symptoms of undischarged traumatic stress (the freeze response) from the nervous system from Peter Levine's site http://www.traumahealing.com/images/pptSlide01.gif

EFT helps soften and dissolve this frozen energy so it can move and we can release it from the overwhelmed nervous system so calm and health can return. What we're doing is creating the conditions whereby the body, mind and spirit can heal itself.

Hope this helps, Noreen.

 Thank you very much all of you!

 

I have read the PDF on the alchemy website and this is so good! it'll definitely help!

 

Noreen, this theory makes sense, Ashok gupta created DVDs to help CFS patients (he suffered from it himself) and explains how to get out of it. all this is really interesting. I'm really determined to get well!ç Sometimes when tapping, I realise when thinking of being healthy again, I get scared so I tap on that too!

 

have all a great evening and thank you again so much for all your help!

Namaste:

In my opinion being sensitive means being aware, of you, others, what's around you, being highly or hyper sensitive is in fact an overwhelmed nervous system.

 

Noreen, I can't completely agree with this. As a sensitive person myself, I haven't found my sensitivity diminishing as I have cleared traumas from the past. In fact, I'd say it's the opposite, as I'm much more sensitive now. The big difference is that I can differentiate between 'mine' and 'theirs' energy and not engage with the emotions and energies I'm reading around me. I'm no longer using the sensitivity to detect safety issues. 

love & blessings

Marian

Hi Marian, I'd call that being receptive. I'm what's called sensitive too, and speaking from personal experience have been "too" or "highly" sensitive in the past. I have found the more clearing I have done and do, I'm becoming more receptive in a healthy way. I don't think being sensitive is the domain of a few, I think everyone, when they're healthy, has the capacity to tune in and be receptive without absorbing all the energies around them. When I look at the signs of being what's termed highly sensitive; hypervigilant, anxious, nervous, presence of chronic conditions, depression these are signs of an overwhelmed nervous system, to me they're not signs of being emotionally healthy, receptive or calm. All the very best, Noreen.

 Noreen, I like your way of describing the difference. It's always helpful to have different words for different concepts, especially when 'sensitive' is often laden with judgments from childhood for so many people, especially men! Thank you for your clarity.

 Hello Noreen and Marian!

 

Today I don't know why but I had to "go to the past" and dive myself in those good memories for a few hours. I have always done that when things get really hard. My life stopped when I was 12 and I don't know how to deal with this. I've had therapy for years and I know all my health issues have their roots in this and I know I'll get better and am strong enough to get over this but at the same time I don't want to forget it, how great it was back then. I use songs to send me right back there, it's the most powerful tool you can use, along with smells to relive moments of your life. Since 94, I've been listening again and again these songs I loved back then and I still feel the same now, life was so perfect back then and I feel so empty now, it is like my life was colourful and is in white and black now. When do I know that I've finally grieved? I thought I had but I obviously have not. I still dream of the flat we lived in at the time. I regularly dream that it is now my second home and I go there if I'm closer to that flat and I feel so happy inside cos I want to go there, or I dream that there are new residents in there and I scream and cry saying that they stole our flat, that it's ours and then I go there when they're not home, I squat and then leave when I see them coming back. I havent dreamed of that for a while though.At the moment, I have nightmares all the time, I either dream that someone is chasing me, or that someone is chasing me and is shooting me until I'm dead so I pretend I am to flee and I have blood and try to find places to hide and I'm scared to death and no matter where I go they find me. I have looked up the meaning of this in a dream dictionnary and they say it means I'm not facing things that are wrong in my waking life. It's true of course and it's time I face it and take the first steps towards better health.

About insecurity issues, I tap but I dont feel anyting really and dont know how long i have to tap. It's not easy but I'll get there, I'm a bit touchy right now probably the hormones.. also I have put on a lot of weight because I'm on a high fat and protein/low carb diet to get rid of candida and have a better immune system so at first I lost so much weight but throughout the months I cheated so many times that I put on so much weight-all back+extra pounds and I feel horrible , ugly, fat can't stand this image of myself and am so scared to stay like this so I can't stop eating! Everytime I lose a bit of weight I feel so great that I dont want to eat anymore but when I put on weight it's the opposite. Also I'm scared I have screwed up my metabolism with such yoyos! do you think it's possible? I'm scared my body will never lose the fat because I screwed it :-s

 

oh dear that's a good thing to tap on right now, I'll do that!

 

I hope you are both ok!

Have a nice evening!

Caroline

carolinejili:

At the moment, I have nightmares all the time, I either dream that someone is chasing me, or that someone is chasing me and is shooting me until I'm dead so I pretend I am to flee and I have blood and try to find places to hide and I'm scared to death and no matter where I go they find me.

 

Hi Caroline,

One of the events that are good to work with is our nightmares.  Nightmares are the unconscious mind's way of saying "I'm ready to start releasing this now". Literally tap on the nightmare itself. For example:

"Even though someone is chasing me, I deeply love and accept myself"

 

 Hello suzanne!

That's great I didn't know it could work that way too! I'm lucky because I always remember my dreams, I have just woken up and I remember dreaming I'm really tired, it's weird to dream that but it is linked to my waking life as that's how I feel.

 

thanks for the advice I'll do that now!

Carpx

Hi Caroline,

Tap on your nightmares/dreams as Suzanne said. Also tap on the feeling of feeling empty, this could very well be behind you eating to "fill your self up". Also tap on the theme of feeling safe and secure Caroline. You could use slow EFT for this or regular EFT. Have you got a friend or family member that you could tap with? Someone you trust to really help you go where you don't feel safe so you can access those feelings to dissolve them with EFT? Also, Caroline, you are still here trying to solve your issues, so work that into your tapping too, for example, Even thought this is difficult, I'm willing to heal and I'm still tapping! All the best, Noreen.