I had an amazing result helping an 80-year-old lady resolve her fear of injections. She needed to have injections into her eye so that she could receive her treatment for macular degeneration. She was already blind in her one eye because of this condition and so it was very understandable she very anxious in case things went wrong and she beome completely blind.
Prior to this session she already had 13 injections, although by the 10th injection she was struggling to cope with her anxiety. however, the 14th injection was just too much for her and she freaked out during the procedure and they had to abandon the session. This was followed by another failed procedure and now she was getting desperate.
When I asked her what had occured during the 10th session she told me that she it felt like the ceiling was coming down upon her but at the last sessions the whole room had become unstable and she now had intense vertigo like symptoms.
To put a little more pressure on me she told me that she could only afford one treatment. Actually, I don’t think that she expected the treatment to work or even knew what she was getting her self into – it was like the “Last Stop Cafe” for her but she had been referred to me by a client that I had successfully treated and that was good enough for her.
After a detailed history, I realised that I needed to do something more drastic so I opted to do EFT with her. EFT is a brilliant therapy as is very good at dramatically down-regulating the sympathetic nervous system. This system that is responsible for our flight-fight-freeze response mechanism whilst at the same time, allowing her to give a voice to those inner fears that she was thinking but was too afraid to verbalise. Also, EFT is also very easy to do, it is easy to follow and most importantly the person can do at home by themselves to top up the session if well briefd.
Personally, one of the great things about EFT is that if the person really doesn’t know where to start, I am able to imagine what it would be like to say what is likely to be bothering them at the start of the procedure. Because I am in tune with them, it invariable resonates for them and they get to connect to the emotions surrounding the issue very quickly. Then it is a matter of peeling the layers and allowing new information to come in and process that.
We stopped when the intensity of the feeling came down and it was possible to do a pre-emptive projection in to the future where she was having the operation. At different points along the way, where there may have been some discomfort, we looked for the learning that she needed to have before resolving the feeling further.
We stopped when she said that she was done after going through the future event a couple of times without there being any fearful feelings. In the post talk she connected to a significant event that although not connected, may be attributed to another issue that was concerning her. She agreed to do the protocol at home if anything came up for her to resolve issues otherwise, she would use it to just install positive feelings.
I am very pleased to say that the results of her effort were a resounding success. Not only did she get to have the injection but that everything went exactly as she planned she even was able to have a conversation with the doctor the whole way though the operation. I don’t think she will mind if I say that she was rather a chatter box and so, I think that would have been a great treat for her.
Posted on June 25, 2017