Wet, Gooshy Weirdness… (an Energy Victory!)
On a personal note, I’m getting all the scar tissue from plantar fascitis in my feet broken down by my dear chiropracter, Dr. John. My first treatment was today. He told me to expect to be crippled and crawling for a week, accompanied by severe pain and swelling. Well, that didn’t happen, and here’s an Energy Therapy case report detailing why…
I can happily report that due to tapping the EFT sequence before and during, I have had NO PAIN during this process. Well just once, when he was digging into my feet with his thumbs and hit the heavy band of scar tissue in my right foot - and it felt like billhooks ripping blood & thunder! But bar that no pain, all sensation ceased the minute he took his hands off my feet.
I stood, balanced well, put full weight upon them and felt nothing. The first night I expected to be chairbound but in fact had enough vim and vigor to trot round the shops for dinner, then give the kitchen a good scrub. With no pain.
This is in direct contradiction to Dr. John’s experience with others he’s done this for. He said he normally scheduled patients he was giving this treatment to after hours as the screams upset other patients. Reminds me of Caretaker Filch’s great line in the first Harry Potter movie: "They used to throw transgressin’ students in the dungeon y’know. Gawd, but I miss the screamin’…" <*cue evil old geezer cackle*>
I tapped on myself very vigorously during the first two sessions which were probably quite painful - like childbirth you forget the minute after, so I can’t say more than that about it. I do know I heard a sound like crumpling cellophane, was told "that’s your tissues tearing" (yikes!!!) and felt the most unusual feeling of gooshy, splodgy internal wetness, kind of like I’d stepped in water, only on the inside of my foot.
In the second session, I started the EFT sequence and worked with "anticipation of pain, feeling of pain" as the two were both in there working. Somewhere into the second minute I went totally off the algorhythm map and started hammering my K27s (collarbone points), SP21s (underarms) and LV14s (under breast points) exclusively. This worked like a counter-irritant to take my mind off the torture down below, completely removed the anticipation of pain, and a great deal if not all of the actual pain during the whole six minute treatment of both feet.
I was told I would have great pain all of the four days of this treatment, and tremendous swelling in my lower legs and feet. I prepared a little "bed office" with ample pillowage under the legs and feet….and never used it. My feet swelled minimally, I walked, gardened and shopped when needed and I have had absolutely NO PAIN. Not a BIT! And I’ve walked up and down streets in the village here just to keep the process working, and stretched both feet against the wall as prescribed, the only sensation I have is of internal wetness and fullness. Like walking on top of wet cottonballs. My chiropracter, Dr. John, is amazed.
Today was my third day… of the treatment, tomorrow is the last. I went for my K27s as he was getting started in on the worst foot (the right one) today and found them too utterly sore and clapped out to touch. I really hammered them hard in the previous two days! So as I do when I can’t tap or am too tired to, I held the TAT pose and nearly went to sleep. What Dr. John did to my feet was costing his poor thumbs dearly as he was drilling hard enough to strike oil, but to me it felt like the most delicious massage.
I know that without QFB methods, I would have been screaming in agony. So the net experience is not at all unpleasant, though the first day during the session certainly was. I’m swollen a bit, but that’s to be expected. But there’s no edema of the legs or ankles and what there is, is locally confined to the arch. I prepared well with an EFT ritual in the hot tub the day before the first session and the effectiveness of that ritual came flowing through to completely open me to the process without the blockages that typically cause pain. Wahoo!
Compared to what I thought I’d be at the end of it, I’m pleasantly suprised! Not going on any walkabouts and still taking it easy, but getting around just fine and very grateful for EFT.
Fourth Day Update
My feet still haven’t swelled to the size I was warned about. Isn’t interesting how we can choose to have the experience we want and create that stream of causality with these dear energy therapies? Here’s a hail to Gary and Larry and Tapas and all the others who have created the therapies and brought their own beautiful piece of the awareness pie to us. Feels good to be able to have such things to give thanks for. Take a moment and send blessings to the creators and passionate preachers of whatever positive, life-affirming, evolutionary, healing and transformative ways you follow. I was advised when training in Reiki to send blessings to Dr. Usui and all the great teachers of Reiki. Doing so brought blessings manyfold. Send blessings to those who have lit a torch in the darkness of the world. It is by their illumination we are able to discern higher truths for ourselves.
I had a very unsettling morning with it taking me twice as long to hobble around and set up things for today’s open house and it taking much more energy and effort to do so because lots of my energy is going to my feet. I also suspect that much of it is going to keep the area numb. It feels numb when I press in on the tissues to massage my feet, kind of like there is no "there"…*there*. I’m hobbling because it feels imperative to be tender and go gingerly.
Today the treatment again took me to the edge of pain and had me look over the precipice, but I never went over. Did a lot of gymnastics on the table that had Dr. John simultaneously marvelling at the flexion in my sacrum and dodging my other foot. But I never have actually registered the feeling of pain. I can feel the area, which is different from my everday experience, except for when the feet have been directly painful. But the data I am registering is not pain, it’s more a gentle fullness. It’s more a firing of propioceptors measuring the ratio of muscle to water. There is a lot of fluid built up, and the arch has flowed downward towards the ground. It feels like walking on a pair of sopping wet sponges. But it doesn’t hurt. And I haven’t needed to tap on pain outside of each office visit. I haven’t had to.
Ain’t that a kick in the keister?
My darling husband J. Random WonderBear gets back to town Tuesday so I’m having private-treat weekend all weekend. Bring on the chocolate and dancing frogs! After my treatment today I booked myself into a movie and lunch. The movie was: "Because of Winn-Dixie". It was cute, but I went as I have a nostalgic fondness for the South - that’s where my Daddy came from (North Carolina). After the movie I took myself to Pizza Antica in the chi-chi recreationist European-market-town-designer-mall in San Jose and had them make my beloved Pizza Cristina (see entry under "white truffle oil") by describing it to them. The laughing Latina chef agreeably soaked it down with truffle oil and my waitress got a huge tip. The pizza, the Caesar salad, capuccino and bottle of San Pellegrino water with lime were divine. I walked slowly but energetically from the car to the movie and pizza place and back again, with only a slight feeling of fullness in the arches.
10pm on Day Four…
I can feel my arches as if I were wearing a lumpy pair of arch supports. Remember the arch supports that were filled with water? That feeling. There’s a feeling of warmth (that’ll be the inflamation) but even focusing on the feet, the worst I feel is a sense of tension and pressure. Not terribly uncomfortable, just *there*. I should probably go put them on a pillow, they’ve had enough of a workout for today, poor puppies.
Okay, I’m going to leave off here. What did you learn about how Beliefs affect a personal outcome and the power of Quantum Flow Bioenergetic therapies in this true account?
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February 21st, 2005 00:24
Maryam, can you explain in depth the speed EFT
February 21st, 2005 00:45
Hi Chris,
Well in depth is something I generally don’t have time for so let’s do “speedy” given the topic. Speed EFT is tapping from the top of the head down to the under-breast LV14 point and then going back to the underarms and up the body to the top of the head again. You keep going up and down really fast and can whack out several rounds in about a minute flat. Gary Craig uses this when SUDS is really moving, to get it moving faster. Hope this helped!
February 21st, 2005 01:23
That’s it? Where do the setup phrase or affirmation come in? How many times do I tap on each point?
February 21st, 2005 10:21
Hi Chris,
You do your setup as usual, then just quickly say or think your reminder phrase (keep it to one or two words)as you tap the normal number of times (7 - 10), but as fast as you can. This is how I’ve observed Gary Craig doing “speed EFT”. And no, the hands are not used. Sylvia Hartmann came up with the opposite “S-L-O-W EFT” which is especially adapted to self-help work that you might like. There’s more at her website here if you’re interested:
http://tinyurl.com/6d7nz
Warmly,
Maryam
February 21st, 2005 22:53
Maryam, maybe I’m a little bit slow, but I don’t get what you mean by “no the hands aren’t used.”
February 21st, 2005 23:10
Hi Chris,
Meaning, the points you tap on the hands aren’t used in Speed EFT, just the ones on the body. For further questions I’m going to refer you to the original EFT website. Plug your questions in there, many are already answered if you do a keyword search.
www.emofree.com
Warm Blessings,
Maryam
February 21st, 2005 23:28
Maryam, your last post answered the last question I had. Thanks for all of your help. I really appreciate it.
February 22nd, 2005 00:05
Chris, you’re welcome - enjoy!