Phobias (Frogs/Toads) and ASPECTS

A couple of years ago I was one of three practitioners that ran an evening "Tapping Group" on a local housing estate, in their Community Centre.  Many wonderful things happened here and the following story is one of them and the reason for its inclusion here, is due to the "group" effect that it had.

We were coming up to the end of the evenings work, when the group - around 12 - 14 ladies - were asked if there was anything else they would like to bring up.  One lady said "I get really scared when I walk the dog at night and there are frogs about".  At this point about four others said they had issues with either frogs or toads.  So, as it was going to be a group tap, we took each one and asked for ONE thing that they were panicked by.

"The way they skitter about in the leaves (it was autumn)", "their slippery, shiny skin", "that tongue!", "horrible eyes", "JUMPING UP AT ME!", " that warty skin" and I'm sure, several more.  So we wrote these down on the board and used them all to make the set-up phrase and then reminder phrases as we tapped around the sequence.  Before we commenced we asked for the SUDs of each one and 8, 9 & 10 were the results.

We did one full round of EFT which included the fingers and Gammut sequence and the SUDs dropped appreciably.  I asked then if any further aspects had surfaced - they often do once the overriding aspect(s) have been reduced - and a couple had so we added them to the reminder phases and did two more rounds of the short-cut routine.  This cleared everyone down to between zero (most) and two.

They felt great and we closed the evening's proceedings.  At this point, we would normally just clear away the chairs and cups etc. and the ladies would gradually wander out chatting or hanging back to ask us about personal issues.  This evening however, it was like they were on speed!  the doors were flung open and a grand frog-hunt was on to test their results.  Remember these were women that fifteen minutes earlier were imprisoned on autumn evenings due to their fear of amphibians!  They were last seen heading for the fields shouting, "There's one; oh @*"#, it's jumped away!"

A success I think.  The following week they were fine and reported walking dogs and generally walking out of an evening was now something they did without thinking about the jumping, skittering, slimy menace lurking for them.


Next time - The Big Bang!