Issue 2, Winter 2005
E-ZINE
Official Publication of the Association for Thought Field Therapy Issue 2, Winter 2005 Suzanne Connolly
Thought Field Therapy in the Middle East Front: Intisar Al-Haddad, Manal Al-Musallam (sponsor), Kkhayal Al-Bader by Middle: Muneera Al-Ghanim, Suzanne Connolly (trainer), Omyma Al-Baddah, Sushila Suzanne Connolly, TFT-Dx Taylor, Nadia Amin Back: Farah Talal Al-Musallam, Dr. Sahar Shaqeidef, Aisha Al-Badar, Buthatna Al-Howly, Altaf Al- Sabah The ship, owned by the Hotel (SAS Much has happened in Kuwait since Radisson), is where Kuwait’s first Sadam Hussein sent his ill-fated army Thought Field Therapy training took In This Issue of Iraqi Soldiers into Kuwait. The Ku- place. The large ship contained several wait Towers have been rebuilt and are TFT in Kuwait...... 1 meeting rooms and grand ballrooms and once again a popular tourist attraction. is a far cry in size and splendor to those Homes and hotels that were destroyed President’s Message 2 original fishing vessels. While I was have risen once again like Phoenix’s presenting the Algorithm Training, an from the ashes. It is a bustling metrop- elaborate Kuwaiti wedding ceremony TFT with Animals..... 3 olis with crowds of white robed men (the bride’s part which I was invited to and colorfully robed women. And, the peek in on) took place in an adjoining Roger on P.R...... 4 Thought Field Therapy Training that ballroom and in the main foyer an Em- had been planned two years ago by my bassy Dinner was being held. Despite Kuwaiti sponsor but cancelled due to Case Study...... 6 it’s grandeur, the wooden meeting the U.S. led invasion of Iraq has finally room/ ship was built true to the style of taken place. the original fishing boats complete with Quantifying Toxins.. 9 A group of 14 women, mostly wooden nails and it has a permanent Kuwaiti’s assembled in a large ship doc in the beautiful Arabian Gulf. Marketing Tips...... 12 modeled after the fishing boats used by Kuwaiti’s refer to the body of water we the original occupants of the territory in the West now call the Persian Gulf as that is now Kuwait. A Good Day’s Work.. 14 the Arabian Gulf. Kuwaiti’s point out - Continued on Page 2 - Carolyn Sakai...... 16 ATFT UPdate TFT in Kuwait (Continued from Page 1) that they are the decedents of Arabs not Persians. The Training took place over three evenings and the group of women expressed delight that the group, by accident not design, turned out to be composed exclusively of women which led to a more casual and less restrictive atmosphere. The attendees were warm PRESIDENT’S Mary Cowley, Ph.D. and friendly and kisses on both checks ATFT President were exchanged frequently. These women had attended many trainings MESSAGE I am also pleased to report that Dr. arranged by my sponsor but they Caroline Sakai has joined Dr. Roger repeatedly expressed that the Dear ATFT Members, Callahan as co-chair of the Scientific information they were receiving during Archives committee, which is currently the TFT Training was the most helpful. I am pleased to welcome you to the collecting materials that will help All problems presented for treatment second issue of the “ATFT Update”. facilitate the understanding of Thought were quickly resolved with the simple Our TFT community has been greatly Field Therapy, and which will be posted TFT Algorithms. On the last evening expanding, and with it, the need and on the ATFT web site, www.atft.org, one young woman who had been opportunities to share news, ideas, and for member access. These will include treated by me in front of the group as a practical tips and tools related to the scientific articles and studies related to demonstration said to me “I promise practice and growth of Thought Field TFT; references (and links, if possible) that I will think of you every day for Therapy. I invite you to enjoy this e- to articles on Heart Rate Variability the rest of my life for what you have zine issue, where you will find an from the medical literature and relevant done for me.” It is a warm and abundance of articles on TFT, practice to TFT; references to published wonderful thought that this young tips, and other information. scientific studies related to toxins; woman from another culture on the As announced in the inaugural issue, books that have been influential in the other side of the world might be the ATFT Board of Directors declared development of, and/or have some thinking of me. this the “Year of Growth”, and indeed it relevance to, TFT theory; and Suzanne Connolly is a Licensed Clinical is proving to be such. Our membership opportunities for grants and funding to Social Worker, Marriage and Family do future scientific research on TFT. Therapist, Independent Substance Abuse is continually increasing. Through the Counselor, and TFT Trainer leadership of David Hanson we are The growth of TFT in areas of the adding to the practical tools and tips we world that suffer from disasters or can offer members, to help them epidemic disease is a main goal of the increase their success with TFT and ATFT Foundation, and I invite you all grow their practices. to read the encouraging article about the Many of us can benefit greatly from Foundation’s efforts by Ms. Joanne help with marketing what we do, and Callahan, Foundation President. we are very fortunate to have David’s Regarding TFT help for trauma victims, expertise and willingness to share it. if you know any victims of a disaster or I have used TFT with several The number of approved algorithm anyone who has access to them, you can “ trauma patients (RTA victims, trainers is also growing, along with the now refer them to the ATFT web site, traumatic losses, assault Board of Director’s focus on this vital where Roger and Joanne Callahan have victims) with some amazing area. I’m pleased to announce that Dr. been generous enough to allow us to results. Intrusive images and Jennifer Edwards recently accepted the post Chapter 3 of “Stop the Nightmares of Trauma”, enabling anyone in the nightmares were totally gone chairmanship of the Algorithm Training
world to learn the simple steps to after one session. Thank you committee, and will be looking at ways
to improve training materials, protocol trauma relief quickly and at no cost. for developing“ such a brilliant Warm regards to you all, and may I treatment, which is so easy to and standards, as well as expand the invite you to please let us know if there use. types of TFT-related workshops trainers can offer. is something in particular you’d like to - Psychotherapist - Denmark see in the next issue of the “ATFT Update”. We love your input. Issue 2, Winter 2005 offered to introduce me to the manager. After some convincing – and resolving of ‘test’ cases – I soon became a regu- lar visitor and used TFT successfully with a number of dogs in their care. It was here that I met Tazzy three years ago. One day when I went into the center I was told that a traumatized dog had been brought in and I was asked if I would do some TFT with her. Tazzy was a one year old German Shepherd crossbreed whom I first saw cowering in a corner of her kennel. If anyone talked to her as they walked past, and especially if they went into her kennel, she tried to retreat even further into the wall. She was to be featured in a television program about rescued ani- mals and the producers planned to film Picture above: Tazzy, the author’s dog, cowering in her kennel, before the TFT treatment. the TFT as part of her story. It was clear that it would not be fair to the dog, nor necessarily safe, for me I am writing this article with Tazzy, and a jaw large enough to sink his teeth to go straight into the kennel with the a happy, confident dog, asleep next to into my elbow while I was combing TV crew and attempt to do TFT – which me. She is the dog who was a star at the him. After tapping for anxiety, anger is what the producer had envisioned. recent London Step B training where and rage he lay on my knee and seemed I was told that I could have as much she was happy to be ‘tapped’ in front of quite relaxed while I combed out the time as I needed and so I sat outside her a group of more than seventy people. tangles. Ben, our rescue cat, who had run and put my attention on her while This may not sound especially impres- probably been trampled in his former tapping myself. She began to look at me sive but few people who knew her his- life, used to turn into a spitting, hissing and stopped pressing herself against the tory would have expected her to be so ball of teeth and claws when his feet wall. We were soon able to open the relaxed. were touched. He calmed down and door and I went into the run, sat on the Tazzy provides a constant demon- started to tolerate being handled. floor in the corner, and continued tap- stration of the transformations that can A friend’s horse, Dignity, had a pho- ping myself. happen with TFT, as well as offering bia of anything that looked like a whip; She began to move towards me and I many timely reminders that we still she changed within minutes and let us was able to shuffle towards her. Soon I have much to learn. Whilst TFT can be wave a whip around her back and her was able to touch her and tap some of demonstrated to be highly effective with head. (For the record, Dignity’s owner the meridian points for trauma, fear and animals, the process of working with did not want to use a whip – she wanted anxiety. She responded and just a few them is more complex than with hu- to resolve Dignity’s fears which could minutes later she was trying to lick the mans (primarily because we do not have sometimes have dangerous consequenc- camera lens and to eat the fur cover two way verbal communication with es.) from the microphone. This was a quan- them) and has often led me to try ap- Charlie, a friend’s horse who would tum leap from the cowering dog that we proaches that I would not have needed not have his mane hogged (clipped) had had seen earlier that day. if I worked only with human clients. previously been labeled ‘too dangerous’ I continued to visit Tazzy and to do I first heard that TFT could be used by three professionals who had at- more TFT with her and the filming of with animals more than five years ago tempted it and said that they would not her story was completed over the next during my TFT Diagnostic training. want to try again. He settled down few days. When the program was even- Since then I have used TFT with ani- within two TFT sessions and since then tually shown on national television mals whenever the opportunity has pre- has let his owner hog his mane on her there was no mention of TFT and no sented itself, including the following own. pictures of TFT being used with Tazzy, examples. Around that time I had a client but there was ample evidence of the ma- My first candidate was one of my (human) whose phobia was easily dealt jor change that had taken place. So cats, Buster, a large Maine Coon with a with using TFT. He was connected much so that the handler said on camera coat that often needed to be detangled with a local animal rescue center and “She’s just amazing. She’s come round
TFT with Animals - Continued on Page 5 - ATFT UPdate Dr. Roger Callahan on ... Psychological Reversal
As most of you know, psychological pr is corrected (usually in seconds) the reversal (PR) was the first (1979) dis- same treatment, which did nothing the covery in TFT . For a number of moment before, suddenly works. months, I knew when PR was present, I When I named this phenomenon knew that it was not good because it about 25 years ago, I used the term was predominant among my most recal- "reversal" as a metaphor. Later, I found citrant clients It was quite thrilling, sev- reasons to believe that there is much eral months later, to finally be able to more than a metaphor going on and I discover the treatments that corrected now believe there is a literal reversal of a sensitive voltmeter placing the elec- PR. The therapy for PR is one of the polarity in parts of the body associated trodes on different parts of the body. key factors contributing to the extraor- with PR. First, a little dinary high success rate of TFT. I con- background. The results were as follows: jecture that if it were not known how to Soon after I first discovered PR, I treat PR, then our success rate would found that each client (in a general psy- No malignant condition likely be about 40% to 60% less than it chotherapy practice) who happened to Positive polarity 74 is. have cancer also had a PR. (Most of Negative polarity 4 PR prevents or blocks otherwise those who have a PR, however, do not 95% of the normal group showed the successful treatments from working. have cancer.) Another psychologist who measured polarity to be positive. For a good example of this interesting took my training, Dr Lee Shulman, who phenomenon see the video called Intro- specialized in treating cancer patients Those with malignancy duction to TFT. Find the part where I found all his patients showed PR. Positive polarity 5 treat Tom Snyder for his fear of I had heard of Harold Saxton Burr Negative polarity 118 going up a ladder. Observe how my who was a biologist at Yale. He be- 96% of this group showed polarity to be treatment has no effect on his fear. lieved and established, using a sensitive negative. Then, after correcting the PR, I re- voltmeter, that all living things had po- peat the very same treatment which a larity (see his book Blueprint for Im- Cancer group: 96% negative polarity moment earlier had no effect on Tom. mortality). One of his students, Louis His fear is immediately gone and he Langman, went on to become a gyne- Non cancer (normal group): 5% nega- climbs the ladder with ease. cologist and then a professor of gyne- tive polarity cology at New York University. Following is a small portion of what Langman believed that cancer was basi- The cancer group has a striking pre- I wrote on PR in the Glossary of “Stop cally a problem with field forces in the ponderance of women showing a rever- the Nightmares of Trauma” by Callahan body and he measured his patients with sal of normal polarity. This finding and Callahan: the same voltmeter that Burr used. To correlates with what Dr. Shulman and I check his idea he examined cellular di- found re identifying psychological re- PSYCHOLOGICAL REVERSAL (PR) agnosed cases of cancer under blind versal with a muscle test. A state or condition which blocks natu- conditions; that is, the pathologist and Dr. Langman then studied an addi- ral healing and prevents otherwise ef- Dr. Langman did not know who was tional 737 patients who had a benign fective treatments from working. who. He compared these cases (in mea- gynecological condition. He found that Evidence, surements of body polarity by Burr's in this group 611 showed a positive apart from the PR test for the state of pr method) to normal individuals. The polarity and 126 were negative; i.e., is revealed when an otherwise effective measurement of polarity was done with 83% positive and 17% negative. treatment does nothing - then after the
Psychological Reversal (Continued on next page) Issue 2, Winter 2005 (Continued from Page 4) TFT with Animals easily as a dog actually being aggres- A further strong confirmation of - Continued from Page 3 - sive. All of us who have dogs need to Langman's relationship between polar- be aware of this (even a member of the so well in just a short space of time. ity and cancer received strong support British Royal Family found herself in You wouldn’t think that this is the same from the fact that when cancerous tu- court recently). It is not difficult to dog that was cowering in the back of mors were surgically removed the po- imagine that if a dog had TFT one day the kennel just a few days ago.” It was larity changed from negative to positive and bit someone the next, or was even a pity that TFT didn’t get the recogni- (Langman, in Burr 1972, p 144). over-exuberant, an anxious owner tion it deserved. Werner Loewenstein is one the might say that ‘he wouldn’t have done Not long afterwards, Tazzy came world's experts on intercellular that if he hadn’t been tapped’. This home with me and she has now been communication. In his book (1999) he would not be helpful for either the TFT with us for three years As well as the states: "Let us check briefly on the per- practitioner or for the public image of pleasure of having her, I have had the formance of [these units of information] TFT. opportunity to use TFT with Tazzy over reception and transmission] to see how I am convinced from my experi- a long period. I have been able to no- ences that TFT can be used very effec- well they measure up to that promise. tice what has worked and what hasn’t, tively to help animals although working First, their directionality. To get a as well as identifying some of the is- with them is not as straightforward as message through a communication sues involved in rehoming a trauma- working with humans. I cannot, as I channel, the information flowing tized dog of which I would otherwise would with a human, ask an animal through it must have a direction. In the have been unaware. about its problems, nor ask them how channels of our technology, the direc- Despite major changes she has badly they feel on a 1-10 scale, nor use tion is given by irreversible (one-way) made, Tazzy’s rehabilitation has some- language to identify the thought fields transmission stations. This is also true times seemed a slow process. However, that may be involved. for the intercellular channels, though I have met other people who have re- It has been the practice to say that there may be an occasional reversible homed rescue dogs and many of them when working with animals we may be demon too along the line. But it's the have said to me that their dogs have dealing with perceptual fields rather irreversible ones who bring home the never regained their confidence or that than thought fields, in the belief that it bacon - they are the ones who get the at best the process has taken many is more likely that animals react only in message through (pp 194-195). years. Tazzy has certainly demonstrated the presence of a stressor. Whilst I al- What does all this mean? Well, I that this does not always have to be the ways teach an owner a tapping se- think it means that when you correct a case. quence so that they can use it with their PR you are actually changing the polar- So what have I learned about using animal when it is stressed I am not per- ity in a system which was blocked by TFT with animals? The first thing to sonally convinced by this argument. It an error in polarity. You are unblocking mention is that in the UK anyone who seems to me that a key issue is not this system and this allows the healing wants to use TFT with animals must whether or not animals have thought energy to flow freely; the treatment you take account of the law and it is advis- fields, but of how they can be accessed, do after the PR correction now can able that any TFT practitioner wanting especially when the animal is not in the work. The healing message can get to use TFT checks the legal situation in stressful situation. through. their own locality. In the UK the Veter- There is undoubtedly more to be inary Act states that it is against the law discovered and much of it is likely to References: for anyone other than a veterinary sur- help to understand more about other Burr, H.S. and Northrup, F.S.C The geon to diagnose and treat an animal. It applications of TFT. As one of the par- electrodynamic theory of life. 1935, is therefore important to make it clear ticipants in London said to me, “I Quarterly Review of Biology. p322-333 that we are working with behavioral wasn’t looking forward to hearing problems and not health issues, and about working with animals as I’m not Burr, H (1972) Blueprint for Immortali- even then the application of the law is interested in doing that – but I learned ty: The electric patterns of life: uncertain. Those of us who are not vet- so much from the presentation with London: Neville Spearman. erinarians are, however, able to work Tazzy about how to use TFT with hu- with animals under the supervision of a mans, too”! Callahan, R and Callahan, J (2002) Stop veterinary practitioner and to use TFT the Nightmares of Trauma. Chapel with our own animals. Hill, Professional Press We also have the Dangerous Dogs Jo Cooper is a Diagnostically trained CT-TFT Act which can be applied to any dog practitioner who resides in the UK. She not only Loewenstein, W. (1999) The Touch- whose behavior can be perceived by works with humans, but with animals as well. stone of Life: Molecular information, anyone as dangerous. This could apply Visit her internet website at: cell communication, and the founda- to a dog bouncing up to a child, just as www.thoughtfieldtherapy.co.uk/animals.html tions of life. NY: Oxford University Press. ATFT UPdate was an artist, reported that he had al- rience of “touching for his or her own ways been attracted to Nancy’s curves. pleasure.” The reason Bill felt like he was distanc- Toward the end of our therapy ses- ing himself from Nancy had nothing to sion, Bill mentioned that he reacted with do with Nancy’s body. Bill perceived intense anxiety when Nancy expressed Nancy as controlling and he reported any disappointment in him. Bill stated that Nancy frequently demeaned him. that he reacted to Nancy’s frequent ex- Nancy had frequently been critical of pressions of disappointment by emo- Bill’s sexual performance and Bill felt tionally and physically withdrawing. intimidated by Nancy. He felt that Eventually Bill’s anxiety would build to Nancy put the responsibility for their a point where he would experience an- sexual difficulties solely on him and he ger and resentment and rather, than act- needed Nancy to acknowledge that she, ing out, Bill would react by retreating too, was a part of the problem. Addi- even further within. This resulted in Bill tionally, Bill felt that Nancy did not al- being distant and emotionally unavail- low him any space for his feelings and able, and I suggested that we try using opinions. Thought Field Therapy with the thought In doing a brief family of origin his- that reducing Bill’s anxiety around tory, Bill reported that his mother had Nancy’s expressions of disappointment been chronically ill. He described his might help him stay more present to mother as someone who controlled by work on the relationship. In our session, using her illness. Due to his mother’s Bill had no problem working up an anx- neediness and dependence on him, there iety with a SUD of about nine just had been no room in his childhood for thinking about the possibility of Nancy Bill’s feelings. expressing disappointment in him. Us- Bill stated that he very much wanted his relationship with Nancy to include sexual intimacy, but Nancy, he said, was difficult to please and Bill never Prepared and submitted by felt adequate. To make matters worse, Nancy frequently compared Bill to past Suzanne Connolly, TFT-Dx lovers. Bill and Nancy had been married for Despite his willingness to address six years and had not had sexual inter- the issue of sexual intimacy, Bill ex- course for the past three. They ex- pressed a great feeling of relief when he plained to me that they were each learned that their therapy would initially experiencing such severe emotional pain begin with a no-sex contract, as he and ing the simple Thought Field Therapy that they would either reach their goal Nancy began the traditional Master’s anxiety algorithm, Bill soon reported an of becoming sexually intimate or they and Johnson Sensate Focus, or touching absence of anxiety or fear when think- would divorce, and continue on with exercises. ing about Nancy expressing disappoint- their lives separately. Nancy felt that In the first Sensate Focus exercise, ment. Bill had lost interest in her. She felt re- partners meet at an agreed upon time. The next day I saw Nancy for her jected by him and suspected and feared In most cases they wear no clothing. individual appointment. Nancy stated that he had lost interest due to the fact One partner, (the toucher), explores the that her marriage had felt like six years that she had gained weight. other partner’s (the touchee’s) body of continual rejection. She added that After their initial interview, I met with the goal of experiencing how it sex with Bill, from her perspective, had with Nancy and Bill individually one feels to touch as opposed to the goal of never been satisfying. Nancy empha- time each to take their sexual histories pleasuring the partner. This begins as a sized her point by relating that she expe- in the tradition of my training in classic non sexual exercise with breasts and rienced anxiety and feelings of rejection Masters and Johnson-style sex therapy. genitals off limits. The toucher touches whenever she was in their bedroom. In Bill’s individual session, he re- for as long as he or she wants (unless Nancy agreed to try Thought Field ported that he had once been physically the touchee is uncomfortable). When the Therapy in an attempt to reduce her cur- attracted to Nancy. In spite of the fact toucher is finished, the partners switch rent anxiety around her relationship that Nancy was quite large, Bill, who places and the toucher becomes the with Bill as represented by that room. touchee and the partner begins the expe- Nancy reported a SUD level of eight when just thinking about their bedroom. Issue 2, Winter 2005 We used the TFT algorithm for trauma/ she had been comfortable during the They related the following story: anxiety and Nancy’s anxiety around two conversations she had with her fa- Shortly before they were married their shared bedroom and the feelings ther during the previous week and she Bill had shared with Nancy a commit- of rejection that their bedroom had had not been triggered by his lack of ment he had made to himself earlier in come to symbolize for her were reduced “getting who I am.” his life. Bill had felt a need for a spiri- to a one. She was no longer personaliz- While Nancy was initially experi- tual retreat and had decided to spend ing the current lack of sex in the rela- encing a great deal of difficulty with some time in solitude in the desert. Bill tionship and the bedroom was, once and resistance to the no-sex contract, had been trying to find the time to make again, at least a neutral zone. Bill was enjoying the non-sexual touch- this retreat for several years. Fearing During this session, Nancy also re- ing for his own pleasure (the first part that the constraints of marriage would ported that her relationship with her of the prescribed exercises). Bill was make this journey even more difficult to parents had been, and still was, ex- undertake, Bill asked Nancy for her tremely difficult. Nancy’s mother was blessings and asked to take this retreat ineffectual and not there for her. She before their marriage. Nancy replied, experienced the most disappointment, "If you go, don't expect me to be here however, in her relationship with her when you get back!” father. Nancy lamented that her father Bill was torn. He wanted to marry could never “get who I am.” Nancy but also wanted to take this As Nancy began to relate specific longed-for respite. He decided against incidences having to do with her rela- making the retreat and Bill and Nancy tionship with her father, his personality soon married. Bill ended up going traits emerged, such as his need to be through with the wedding with mixed right, his constant criticism of her and feelings. Bill and Nancy reported that his rage when anyone dared to infer that even the wedding pictures revealed he was less than perfect. I shared with Bill's unhappiness. Bill stated in this Nancy that her father was likely a Nar- session that he had felt that Nancy cissistic Personality Disordered person would always have things her way and or at least a person who was severely that his needs and his feelings would narcissistically impaired. Unfortunately used to doing things for others and the never be important. Bill admitted that for her, he was quite unlikely to change. concept of touching for his own plea- he still to this present day harbored re- I explained to Nancy that this was sure had never before occurred to him. sentment about this incident. about her father's limitations and not When she understood that the exer- Resentments over events from the about her, but Nancy did not experience cises could be helpful to their ultimate past frequently linger and cause un- my statement as good news. Just think- goal of being sexual, Nancy reluctantly speakable pain and damage to an other- ing about her painful relationship with agreed to continue with them. I pro- wise good relationship. Such a situation her father combined with my prediction ceeded to give Nancy and Bill their sec- is an excellent opportunity to use that he was unlikely to change brought ond Sensate Focus Exercise and we Thought Field Therapy to heal these tears to Nancy’s eyes. Nancy was soon agreed to meet the following week. resentments, hurts and angers. In Bill sobbing uncontrollably and when asked, The second Sensate-Focus exercise and Nancy’s case, Bill agreed that he reported a distress level of ten. is precisely like the first, except that this would like to put this episode behind We did the Thought Field Therapy time, touching breasts and genitals is him. With Nancy present in the session, grief algorithm and soon Nancy re- allowed. The couple is reminded that Bill was able to work up an anger level ported peace and acceptance (a SUD of this continues to be a non sexual exer- of seven by just thinking about this one) around the fact that her father cise. It continues to be touching for emotionally laden experience. Using the would likely never be who she wanted “your own pleasure” and the touching is TFT simple trauma algorithm combined and thought she needed him to be. not to be thought of as foreplay or as an with the anger algorithm, Bill was able A week later I met with both Nancy attempt to pleasure the partner. to alleviate his feelings of anger around and Bill. Bill reported that he was no At the beginning of their next ses- this memory. With his anger out of the longer reacting with anxiety, which in sion Nancy and Bill excitedly reported a way, Bill was able to empathize with the past had quickly turned to anger and major insight they had immediately fol- Nancy's past feelings of fear of aban- distancing, when Nancy expressed dis- lowing their most recent sensate focus donment. Most important, it now felt to appointment in him. Nancy acknowl- exercise. Bill like something that had occurred in edged that Bill had been more present the past, which no longer had any bear- in the relationship since his individual ing on the present. session. Nancy happily reported that Case Study - Continued on Page 8 - ATFT UPdate
Case Study - Continued from Page 7 - Thanks to Bill and Nancy’s insight we Reduced Fees were able to use Thought Field Therapy to remove this enormous obstacle from Bill and Nancy's path to a closer relationship. By the seventh session, Nancy and for Bill reported that they had recently begun TFT Practitioners having sexual intercourse (a little ahead of their sensate focus exercise schedule). However, Nancy, still difficult to please, complained that her orgasms weren't al- ways as powerful and dramatic as she would like them to be. With a little help, Nancy was able to The Center for see that in her dissatisfaction with any- thing less than perfect she was a little like her father. If things weren't perfect she was disappointed. Uncomfortable as the Extraordinary analogy to her father was, Nancy let the comparison sink in and this became an “Aha” experience for Nancy. Living With a little probing, Nancy acknowl- edged that she felt anxiety when things were not perfect. In this session, Nancy was able to tune into her anxiety around lack of perfection and using the Thought Field Therapy anxiety algorithm her anxi- ety around a lack of perfection in her life and in the world was reduced to a one. Bill and Nancy moved to another area not long after their last session. When they were settled they gave me a call and Removing blocks to let me know that they were enjoying each other as sexual partners and as friends. In Nancy’s words, “Things are much better, Self-awareness & at least most of the time. Everything's not perfect, but that's okay.” In just seven sessions, Thought Field Being the person you Therapy combined with more traditional sex therapy helped this couple success- fully resolve core issues that had been in- want to be terfering with their desire to have a satisfying, intimate and sexual relation- ship. This case history illustrates how Thought Field Therapy (TFT) Thought Field Therapy can be used with traditional sex therapy approaches such as Voice Technology (VT) the Masters and Johnson Sensate Focus Exercises. For a more complete and de- [email protected] tailed description of Masters and Johnson Sensate Focus Exercises please see: The Illustrated Manual of Sex Therapy Mary Cowley,Ph.D., TFT-VT (second edition) by Helen Singer Kaplan, M.D., Ph.D. Appointment by phone 858.756.7131 Issue 2, Winter 2005
A new testing process for substance, I used the following declarative statement for testing: “This substance with a relation to milk at 100 toxic units is … more than 100, 200, 300 etc or less than 100.” I continued till the exact number was By reached and my arm was STRONG. If I June Kennerley went too far in either direction, I would TFT-Dx, DpAc, MBAcC get a weak arm and then I was able to Toxin-O-Meter refine the number. If I got something that was between say 30 and 40 I would use the higher Just before I attended the Step B I spent the most part of one weekend number. course in Indio earlier this year, I had a trying to find a washing powder that The results were very useful. cold that refused to be healed by was not an IET! So using milk as the 100 Toxic acupuncture (my therapy) so I had some One of my toxins was milk and as an Units standard my other results were as VT with Colin Barron which, of course, English woman, I love my cup of tea (2 follows: did the trick. We also found some of or 3 a day with a little milk) and I was Sprouts 130, Turnip 130, my IET’s (Individual Energy Toxins) . darned if I was going to give it up. Cauliflower 30, Bananas 70, Potatoes There were many! So, I created a list. I looked squarely at the whole thing 35, Organic eggs 40, Raspberries 60, I also used VT just to check out my and thought, “I can’t be having with all sea salt 40, Tap water 97, Filter water diet /toxins in general and the list grew 100!! - masses of things were BAD! And then came the shocks and Surprisingly, much of my “healthy” “ ” surprises. After a thyroidectomy 25+ food and drink was BAD including years ago, I take thyroxine replacement green tea, chamomile tea, sprouts, “I have my (Eltroxin) which is an IET for me. cauliflower, spinach, turnip, bananas, Other results were: raspberries, olives, pumpkin seeds, Eltroxin: 3560 life back!” Lo salt: 3000 + organic peanut butter and most of the - June Kennerley good quality supplements that I take. Regular salt 3000 + In addition: this.” Body Lotion (perfumed) 700 All Dairy - BAD Many years ago when given a choice Green Tea 450 Eggs – BAD of things to have (or to do) I weighed Total 7710 toxic units Alcoholic drinks - OK the pros and cons and then chose one. Additionally: (Amazing!) One day an interesting question Pumpkin seed 8 Sugar OK came into my mind. It was, “Is there Peanut Butter 18 Meat OK any way I can have both in this present Olives 20 Fish OK day?” In other words, can I have my Bold Soap Powder 2 I am inclined to eat healthily and IET cake and eat it, too? Simple Body Lotion 35 towards being vegetarian/vegan - even I applied this to my IET problem Sea-salt 40 miso soup was BAD! and with the thought that nature is not Calcium Supplement 2 All the products I used: soap, this complicated – that there is an easier washing powder, body lotion---BAD! way if you look for it – I started to look. I determined from this that giving up At the Step B Training in Indio, Since my cup of tea was a priority Lo salt, regular salt, green tea (which I more toxins were found. I began to feel especially on a morning, I gave the milk hate but drink because it is good[?] for as though eating, drinking, breathing in it a count of 100 Toxic Units so I me) and doing the Seven Second and washing was like walking through a could have lea-way on either side (tea is Treatment for the Eltroxin, saves me minefield. I was not safe anywhere! not an IET for me). I need to be clear, almost 8000 toxic units per day. When I arrived home from here, that “Toxic Units” are an arbitrary Considering Dr. Doris Rapp’s “Barrel California I started again. I gave up measurement I created for the purpose Concept”, I thought that should bring many things that showed as toxins and of this project. I needed some way of the barrel way down! did Seven Second Treatments with measuring my sensitivities with a Now I am consuming anything I like many other things. I felt so restricted. muscle test. (apart from the changes above) and I Then using a muscle test, making use boiled or bottled water which is no sure there was no reversal for each Quantifying Toxins - Continued on Page10 - ATFT UPdate TOXINS can cause psychological problems! ANYTHING can be a TOXIN! A TOXIN can be anything you eat, drink, inhale, or touch that causes an unwanted reaction . Common foods, beverages, scents, personal care and cleaning products can ALL act as toxins in humans causing not only physical problems, but psychological and emotional problems as well. Any substance incompatible with your particular body can act as a TOXIN. 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Quantifying Toxins ATFT’s - Continued from Page 9 - no hardship. SUCCESS HANDBOOK Testing this out, I did the toxin test is a great way to introduce TFT to your clients! for every other IET I had and they all showed as OK. Even since that time, making what It’s FREE and it’s YOURS as our way of saying, sees to me to be very minor changes, “Thanks” for your new membership or renewal of they all remain OK. your current membership . I have my life back! In Indio, I had an SDNN of 40+ (this is why I took Your local printer can produce your SUCCESS HANDBOOKS direct toxins so seriously even though I felt from the CD-ROM you’ll receive - - or print them on your home very well at the time). After doing the computer! Created for practitioners at ALL levels of TFT practice. Seven Second Treatments it went down to about 33. In London later this year it was 69.8 and I was eating Contents include: toxins. It was also before I started this Questions and Answers About TFT work and the air-conditioning in the Complete instructions for self-treatment room affected me greatly. Doing what I do now should make A special place to write-in custom “take home” treatment sequences my SDNN very good. It all looks very Illustrations of tapping points promising. Complete instructions for Collarbone Breathing ü EDITOR’S NOTE: To find out more Explanation of Psychological Reversal and how to correct it! about June’s toxin quantification process, please contact her directly at: [email protected] Call (760) 564-1008 to get yours! Issue 2, Winter 2005 WE LOVE FREE BOOK SUCCESS STORIES! And, we want to hear yours! Write your success story in one, short paragraph. Some of the best success stories are the ones that not only surprise the client but also amaze the practitioner. Or, the treatment that had a surprising conclusion. Write it down. And, then, send it ! Send yours to: Dr. David Hanson, UP date Editor 7311 Chambers Creek Road W #2 University Place, WA 98467. Or e-mail it to: A $14.95 [email protected] Value
A friend of mine has a Lhasa “ Apso dog that has been going progressively more lame with each month that has passed. His hindquarters were getting very - Dr. Roger Callahan, Ph.D. stiff and he was limping horribly. My friend (a TFT-Dx person) and I decided to treat the dog using the owner as a surrogate. I had the owner hold the dog and focus mentally on the dog’s painful hindquarters. We diagnosed the problem and worked until no further - Dr. David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D. perturbations were apparent. The whole process took maybe 15 minutes. We put the dog down on the floor and the improvement Yours FREE when was pronounced and immediate. There was still a slight limp but the degree of his improvement you renew your was astounding! The slight limp disappeared by the next day. His
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Mini Seminars Can Create Client Opportunities by David Hanson, DEH, TFT-Dx ATFT Membership and Publications Chairman
If TFT has any shortcoming at all, SEMINAR (hereinafter called a it is that it works too well. “FIS”) and let’s see if you can Of course, that’s great for a client in apply the same principle for your emotional pain who is seeking the quick own benefit. relief that TFT offers. With very few Back when I first got exceptions, TFT offers rapid help with introduced to TFT, I applied it no long, protracted, strings of immediately to lose 65 pounds appointments, no ad nauseum re-living (which, by the way, I have managed to of problem past experiences, and keep off). AFTER I had lost the weight, themselves of the support sessions months or years of weekly chats with a I studied Dr. Callahan’s book and tape which met on Saturday mornings, they therapist. TFT results in lots of happy set, “WHY DO I EAT WHEN I’M were expected to be there for EACH and clients. NOT HUNGRY,” (I seldom ever do EVERY one of them, they would For the self-employed therapist, anything in the right order) and decided receive a text book (Dr. C’s book which however, TFT’s high degree of that it would make a great weight loss can be purchased for Callahan effectiveness means that the practitioner support program. Techniques® at a VERY nominal price) must be constantly on the lookout for I was careful, when crafting the which was their responsibility to study new mechanisms that will replenish sales materials for this class NOT to and I would be there to work out the their client pool that is constantly being simply call it a ‘weight loss program’. I kinks of it with them individually if they drained by their successes. decided that adding the word “support” had problems. That means, if you have a practice made the whole thing a lot more Then, I ‘baited the hook’ so to speak that leans heavily on TFT, you need to realistic and practical. Understand that by explaining that I would treat learn how to market yourself better than TFT is NOT a weight loss program, but everyone who came for the introductory someone who practices less effective it does a great job of supporting a session for their problems with their forms of therapy. person’s weight loss efforts by freeing chocolate cravings (if, indeed, they had One of the promotional strategies I them of irrational (addictive) urges for such cravings - - and the majority of have used with great success is the forbidden foods regardless of the eating overweight people do). I decided I “FREE INTRODUCTORY plan they choose to follow - - ATKINS, would use Urge Reduction as my most SEMINAR.” SOUTH BEACH, etc. convincing demonstration piece. The concept isn’t new. Some of you I created an ad (shown on the top of At the program, I started by reading this may have signed up for a this page) and ran it in the paper for recapping the same material that I had class, taken a seminar, or went on a three issues. I was deluged with calls previously covered with each of them weekend junket flight to consider the and filled all the seats. When callers by phone when they made their purchase of a time share condo in Maui inquired about what the program was reservation. I went on the explain my because of a free introductory seminar. about, I clearly explained my experience own experience with TFT, then played Please understand from the outset, with TFT, who I was and the fact that the first portion of the “Why Do I Eat that I am not suggesting you follow my this program was intended only to show ...” tape - - just enough to explain the example. What follows here are ideas them what TFT is, how it works and anxiety and addictive connection and that I hope will get you thinking. And, how it is applied to weight loss. I made how it plays into common weight loss more important, ACTING! The best clear that it was the intro to a continuing problems but not enough to give ideas in the world aren’t worth squat series of support group sessions for anything away . unless they are accompanied by action. which there was a fee that could be paid Let me describe one of the ways I by cash, check or credit card. Further, I Mighty Marketing Minute have used the FREE INTRODUCTORY explained if they chose to avail - Continued on Page 18 - Issue 2, Winter 2005
Morogoro, Tanzania, from June 9 thru ATFT June 30, 2005. This team of volunteers will consist of: Dr. Mary Cowley and Dr. Cecily Resnick from San Diego, California and Mr. Chris Milbank from London, UK. Mr. Alvaro Hernandez, an engineer from Mexico City will be returning with this group. They will work with the local people to directly Foundation News help the victims of malaria and their families as well as teach a large group of Joanne Callahan, MBA local missionaries and health care President personnel. We are asking for help from all of our ATFT Foundation Makes News the extreme suffering caused throughout readers. We can accept funds for travel, the world by malaria. This disease assessment tools, teaching aids and much The ATFT Foundation project affects half the world’s population and more. Donations of airline mileage scheduled for Tanzania, Africa has kills nearly a million children a year. would assist our teams with travel costs. captured the attention of the media. Fr. Luis Jorge Gonzalez, Dr. Jenny Please join us in this vital humanitarian There were two brief news stories, Edwards, Dr. Miguel Vera and Engineer, effort! Friday, January 28, 2005, CBS and NBC Alvaro Hernandez, all TFT practitioners Just think, if we could only help the nightly news both told of the work the and teachers have been traveling to related trauma and stress on these ATFT Foundation is planning in Africa. Tanzania, Africa, over the last few years families and thereby strengthen their The following week a local, southern to teach TFT to a local Carmelite Order resistance to the spread of this disease, California, radio talk show, KPSP , of the Catholic Church and other local how many lives could we save and how invited Dr. Callahan, founder of Thought caregivers. This teaching effort has much suffering can we relieve? Field Therapy®, and Joanne Callahan, already helped many to relieve their We can accept donations in the form MBA, President of ATFT Foundation to suffering. of credit cards, mastercard or visa, or talk about the foundation’s scheduled Recently, the missionaries in checks made payable to the ATFT project for malaria related trauma relief Tanzania have invited the ATFT Foundation, PO Box 1220, La Quinta, in Tanzania. Foundation to send a team of TFT CA 92247. If you have any questions Dr. Callahan and Joanne have also teachers and researchers to explore the about how to donate for this project, just completed an interview and photo uses of TFT to reduce physical and please e-mail me, [email protected] . or shoot with the Desert Sun , a Riverside emotional suffering associated with the call me, 760 564-1925 . This is an County newspaper, for a feature article deadly disease of malaria, and to set up a opportunity for all of us to participate about the foundation’s work. study to determine the effects of TFT on in a project of worldwide importance. As President, I am grateful for this that population. Local personnel will opportunity to spread the word about the continue the study once the team has left. *Note: ATFT Foundation is an IRC work of our foundation. I also hope this It is anticipated that two to three follow- Section 501(c)(3) public charity to which media attention will lead to further up visits by Foundation members will be contributions are deductible for federal assistance with this project and contacts required for supervision, further training, (USA) income tax purposes in for other projects in the future. and monitoring purposes. accordance with the provisions of IRC We feel this is a very important If the study supports our previous Section 170. project for the foundation and our anecdotal evidence that TFT is beneficial humanitarian goals. in relieving symptoms and effects of ATFT Foundation Announcement: Worldwide, there is a great effort and malaria, the ATFT Foundation will need Mr. Alvaro Hernandez, an engineer focus on the need to reduce the spread of to proceed with the second stage of the from Mexico City, Mexico, has accepted malaria and help the victims of this project, which is to determine the most the Board of Directors invitation to join disease. In light of the recent earthquake effective methods for disseminating and the board. He will be joining the board and tsunami tragedy, the control and teaching the appropriate TFT techniques for their March, 2005 meeting. The treatment of malaria and it’s related and protocols to vulnerable populations. board is honored to have his participation trauma will continue to be an important The third stage of the project will be to and hard work toward our mission and and urgent need. carry out what is developed in stage two. goals. This is the ATFT Foundation’s first The first team of four TFT humanitarian project. It is in response to practitioners and teachers will go to ATFT UPdate to tell intimate emotional and sexual details to an older man. I stopped her TFT Makes a from going on and I reassured her I did not need to know these details for her to be better. We tapped for the trauma, Hard Day’s Work shame, guilt, rage, and fear associated with these events. I could see the A Good Day’s Work change in her as she then expressed her sense of the injustice and violence done Taking care of traumatic stress in myself and others to her by the rapist and then by elders Robert L. Bray, Ph.D., TFT-Dx who chose to blame her for his criminal behaviors. She was free to tell the truth One night, my wife asked if I wanted to talk out loud and put these past events in their place within the context of her life. about my day. I snapped back at her: “Do you The man who had been beaten by want to talk about the man who was beaten by his his mother came with a complaint about increased anxiety over the last couple of mother because he was male and beaten by the older months. His life long anxiety disorder boys in his neighborhood because he was Jewish? had been treated for the last 8 years with a medication and a variety of Or would you like to talk about the very few so I have a relatively thin skin cognitive techniques. While it had women with a chronic pain disease and when exposed to violence, evil, and never gone away completely he was suicidal depression who was sexually pain. I have survived in this field of able to function at a high level job and abused by her last therapist? Should we work because of my strong commitment be successful in many areas of his life. talk about the woman who was beaten to helping others and always taking Now in his early sixties he was able to regularly by her crazy mother, raped as really good care of myself. That good discuss his abuse as a child and many a child, abandoned by her church after a care comes from a wonderful personal years of conventional therapy had given date rape, and strangled by the father of and professional support network and, a good understanding of the impact the her child? Or, on a lighter note, we in the last 7 years, from TFT. abuses on his life. He talked about could discuss the man who, because of At the time I learned TFT, I was a work related injury, just had another close to being burned out and looking In any given day, I hear surgery to help control the pain in his for another way to help others that did hand and faced years of painful back not include only being a witness to the stories of meaningless surgery and rehab?” violence as they told their stories or violence, evil indifference, As the sarcastic words and tone fought to cope night after night. TFT is and endless despair. came out of my mouth I realized how a way to do more for my clients than much I wanted not to talk about my day hold their hands and be present for them how lately things had gotten worse but but instead to push the intense emotion as they learn how to cope with their past was unable to make sense out of why and stress of my day away. I pains and future fears. Because I now this was happening at this point in his immediately treated myself for the know that TFT can actually end the past life. As soon as he was tuned to his vicarious traumatic stress I had pain and calm the future fears I can anxious feelings we stopped talking and experienced from being present with my fearlessly enter their history and present started tapping. After the first holon clients. More myself, I then was able to psychological situation knowing I (tapping sequence) he then identified share a couple of humorous and moving always have a way to treat my own and described the precipitating event for moments that occurred in my day’s overwhelming feelings. In a usual day I this latest increase in discomfort. After work. will follow my clients as they identify some fine-tuning of these thought fields I have over twenty years of the difficulty of their day or week and and treatment the anxiety went away. experience as psychotherapist lead them in TFT algorithms or And, for the first time he felt angst, as specializing in traumatic stress diagnostics treatments to manage the he described it, from which the anxiety response. In any given day I hear overwhelming feelings and build a sprang. Causal diagnostic revealed a stories of meaningless violence, evil better life. treatment pattern that reduced this angst indifference, and endless despair. I see When the woman who was shunned even though he could not identify the in many clients the terror, fear, distrust, by her church community after a date source or a specific thought field. We pain, and suffering still carried by those rape tried to share with me these events ran out of time and stopped there but he who have experienced things which I she was overwhelmed by her feelings. made an appointment to return the next can not even imagine. My life has been She was re-experiencing the feelings week. I agreed with his parting blessed in many ways and my own she had when she sought help from the comment “this is so much better than traumatic stress experiences have been church elders. One more time she had just the talking.” Issue 2, Winter 2005 The most difficult client for me that day was the woman who had been sexually abused for years by her previous therapist. It was a productive Mission Statement session as we started talking about the The Association for Thought events in the kind of detail she will Field Therapy (ATFT) is a have to share with the licensing board nonprofit membership and the police if she decides to take action. Even with TFT to help her organization of Callahan with overwhelming feelings it had Techniques®-trained Thought taken months for her to find the Field Therapy (TFT) strength to trust me and herself enough professionals and associates, to talk about it. Without TFT it would dedicated to improving health, have been years before she could have provided details or considered taking well-being and performance by some action. She smiled when she left ATFT ATFT providing a forum for the that day knowing she was getting strategic advancement of TFT, better. I have strong feelings even WANTS establishing standards of practice referring to this predator as a therapist. WANTS and education, developing Even stronger feelings arise when remembering his threat to her, “if you support for TFT practitioners, say anything I will tell everyone you promoting ethical research, and are sick and put you back in the YOU! YOU! encouraging and offering psychiatric hospital - no one will ever Benefits of Membership community service and public believe you.” This comment is what All Classes: was still on my mind when my wife education. asked about my day. * "ATFT Update" magazine - Knowing that people can get better electronic version and that good help makes all the * Success Handbook difference in their lives and our * Eligibility for membership e-mail communities makes me proud of listserve myself and my helping profession. * Discounts on ATFT conference & The betrayal of personal and products professional trust placed with us by * Right to use ATFT logo our clients overwhelms me with * Certificate of membership disgust and rage. It is no wonder that * Listing in ATFT web site after working with these clients that Membership Directory “ I am in awe at the remarkable day I was upset and unresponsive to a transformation of what was gentle concern for me. In the case of Dx (including all listed above, plus): such a block caused by a rape the woman abused by her therapist, I * Co-op advertising programs committed by someone I must wait until my client goes public, * Opportunity to participate in thought to be a trusted friend. if ever, before I can add my voice to ATFT Foundation World It left me absolutely ashamed stopping his immoral activity. But I Relief Projects and feeling unworthy of do not have to wait to calm the disgust success in anything, even the and rage. All I have to do is to tap. If VT (including all listed above plus): basic right to being a good I care for myself I will be able to keep * Listing in web site locator mother ... For over thirty years working with her until she finds the I felt so undeserving that I strength to make the best decisions for including web site link sabotaged my relationships herself. * The Board of Directors is and career potentials. Thank I do feel good about that day’s continually investigating ways work and look forward to many more in which ATFT can you so much! TFT even days of using my years of experience further benefit its members helped me overcome a severe and training in traumatic stress and invites suggestions from gambling problem that has recovery work to help others. TFT its members. cost me thousands of hard gives both me and my clients the Classes of Membership and Dues: earned dollars.“ Thank you - means to eliminate the overwhelming * VT: $175 Thank you - Thank you! I feelings and build a life without * Dx: $125 love TFT! violence and pain. * Algorithm: $75 - Name Withheld * Associate (nonvoting; no training required): $75 ATFT UPdate With high scores (or too low scores with clients with histories of early severe traumas) in the dissociative Completeness disorders range, it would then be Completeness prudent to take longer in the preparation phase. This would include having the Of Of client master TFT self-treatments for stress, anger, rage and fear. Also Treatment Treatment included would be whatever else would be anticipated as needed coping skills with TFT when the client works through withwith TFT TFT traumas that have been so horrifying that the client’s protective survival mechanisms invoked the dissociative defense. (For those for whom treatment of dissociative disorders is outside their scope of practice, referrals would be made to the appropriate clinician. For Caroline E. Sakai, PhD, TFTdx, VT those within scope of practice but without experience, either appropriate supervision would be obtained or referral made.) The complete TFT treatment for The frequent rapidity of response to The eight phases of treatment are as trauma would be essentially following the treatment of trauma and phobias follows: up with what else comes up for the with Callahan Techniques® Thought I. Client history and treatment client after successfully processing Field Therapy® often brings sighs of planning (includes screen for through the targeted trauma. Targeting relief, cheers of liberated joy, or tears of dissociative disorders) any residual body sensations often release. The question raised by clients, II. Preparation (includes brings up further information to process practitioners, and skeptics of “how long containment strategies, informed through, more perturbations. This will it last?” is a constructive one. consent) would be continued until no more My clinical experience over the III. Assessment (includes SUD, perturbations can be found, and client seven years I have been using TFT is location of physical sensations) now thinks about the trauma or phobia that completeness of treatment with IV. Desensitization (EM or other with clearly changed perspectives, TFT can make a difference in how long bilateral stimulation) affect, thoughts, intensity, vividness, it holds with treatment of trauma and V. Installation of positive body sensations, perceptions in all phobia. Individualized energy template sensory modalities, etc. sensitivities have their retriggering VI. Body scan (includes targeting Using the Peak Performance effects on addiction, anxiety, any body sensations remaining) protocol to enhance and improve depression, fatigue, irritability, VII. Closure (includes logging or confidence in coping effectively in insomnia, etc. and at times with trauma journaling what comes up in dealing with the problem is an and phobia as well. However, this memories, dreams, thought, important component that parallels the retriggering with trauma and phobia situations) future template. The usual instructions appears, in my experience, to be VIII. Re-evaluation on follow-up for the client to call if there are any reduced with more comprehensive and session (includes treatment of recurrence of symptoms would also be complete treatment of the trauma or residuals or underlying material that in effect, as well as follow-up session(s) phobia. As Roger Callahan so often comes up) to work on residuals or other material states, we want to get to the root causes that emerges subsequently in the to eliminate the symptoms from their With treatment of traumas, waking or dream states. source of origin. screening for dissociative disorders such Dr. Francine Shapiro (2001) has as the DES and DIS (Dissociative PHOBIA OF ELEVATORS developed a comprehensive approach to Experiences Scale, Bernstein & Putnam, Client presented with a fear of the treatment of trauma with EMDR 1986; Dissociative Interview Schedule, elevators that prevented the client from (Eye Movement Desensitization Ross, 1989) is helpful. It is a self- going up tall buildings unless client Reprocessing). This approach can be administered test which only takes could walk the stairs. Working through readily adapted using TFT. about 10-15 minutes to do and score. Issue 2, Winter 2005 fear of elevators brought SUD 10 down down to 0, client then experienced supermarket, she called in distress from to a 4 with the phobia algorithm. Client waves of guilt and sadness about what her cell phone in her car. She had just then shifted thought fields with could have been different in the past. run out of the supermarket after the man flashbacks about being trapped in a This guilt and sadness was treated with standing in line too close behind her, crashed vehicle with the doors unable to TFTdx with SUD of 7 down to 0. The noisily chewed and cracked his juicy open and the imminent risk of client appeared calmer, more at peace fruit gum. explosion. After that trauma was within self, and was able to talk about The smell and sound brought back a treated with the trauma algorithm with client’s teenager with smiles, recounting memory of the primary rapist chewing SUD 10 down to 0, client then accessed fond memories. A peal of laughter and cracking juicy fruit gum, which she a memory that had not seemed broke out as client reminisced, and had completely forgotten about even connected to the phobia but now made accessed a humorous and touching past when the smells and sounds of the sense. event. prolonged ordeal had been worked Looking at what else was coming up through. Since I was in session at the now brought more fond memories, time of her urgent call, I asked if by any “... one parent died smiles, chuckles and laughter. Client’s chance she still had her treatment and not images of the teen had changed from protocol for this trauma. Although she the tragedy to happier times and images, had not used the treatment protocol understanding and this grief work was more complete death at that age, with layers and stages of grieving processed. Peak performance was used the client as a young to work on coping with the upcoming child was horrified anniversary of the teen’s death, at seeing the coffin birthday, favorite holidays and close.” activities. MULTIPLE TRAUMAS When client was a toddler, one Client had severe multiple rape- parent died and not understanding death assault trauma a couple of years prior, at that age, the client as a young child which had not responded to more was horrified at seeing the coffin close. traditional treatments of trauma. She After working through this trauma with worked through the trauma, fear, rage SUD 10 down to 0, a related trauma and feelings of helplessness with TFTdx with a close friend in elementary school with SUD 10 down to 0. emerged. After this related trauma was Earlier traumatic events then worked through with SUD 6 going surfaced, and were processed through down to 0, returning to the original with TFTdx. with SUD 8 down to 0, phobia of elevators the SUD was down SUD 7 down to 0, SUD 9 down to 0, to 0. No further memories or material SUD 6 down to 0, SUD 5 down to 0 since graduating, she still had it in her came up. The elevator phobia was then over the next two sessions. purse. She was instructed to use it a tested in situ with actually riding up and Relevant or related issues that came few times and call back. down elevators with no problems up were also treated with TFTdx to She called back 30 minutes later, experienced. remit the distress, until client could and was putting away her groceries think of no further disturbing memories which she had gone back into the TRAUMA OF A LOST CHILD or thoughts. The sequelae to the rape- supermarket to purchase. She did the Client presented with depression, assault with avoidance of many protocol a few more times before going sadness, and crying three years after the everyday situations were worked to sleep, and reported the next morning tragic death of the client’s teenager. through wherever perturbations could that she was fine, with no nightmares, After working through the grief with be found. Then peak performance was with which she had long suffered prior TFT diagnostic treatment with SUD 10 used to enhance confidence levels in to her original TFT treatments. She had down to 0, the client could talk without coping with previously avoided even gone to a store in the morning to crying. Anger about some of the situations with safety. pick up and smell a pack of juicy fruit circumstances of the death came up Client was graduated from treatment gum, which she reported doing without with queries about what else was after 5 sessions with instructions to call any flashbacks or trepidation. coming up. When anger was worked when/if any problems developed. Nine Completeness of Treatment through with TFTdx. with SUD of 9 months later, while in crowded - Continued on Page 18 - ATFT UPdate Mighty Marketing Minute and TFT. Everyone was pleased with Completeness of Treatment - Continued from Page 12 - the result. I also ended up with a - Continued from Page 17 - considerable amount of office time with She stated that she felt empowered After the video was done, we had a three different ladies that was over and and in control of herself again. She break. That gave me a chance to above what was charged for the group. was doing peak performance on her mingle a little and listen to comments I have packaged the materials I own, and we cancelled the urgent and questions that I needed to address created for this purpose and now sell session squeezed in for that morning. during the remainder of the FIS. them to interested TFTers. I apologized for the incomplete After making numerous mental My interest in sharing this story, treatment and she agreed to call if notes based on snippets of however, is to illustrate that a little there were any further problems. conversations and specific requests imagination can lead to the creation of a from individuals, we continued with the a new profit center for your therapy References: program. business. How many things can you Bernstein, E.M., & Putnam, F.W. I explained the structure of the “self- think of that might be treated with TFT (1986). Development, reliability and help” support sessions, displayed the in a group setting and could be sold by validity of a dissociation scale. book and VHS tape, passed out a FIS? Journal of Nervous and Mental registrations cards that I had prepared Well, immediately there is smoking Diseases, 174, 727-735. with a VISA/MASTERCHARGE box cessation support, peak performance in Ross, C. (1989). Multiple personality so they could conveniently pay for their golf and other sports, test taking, and disorder: Diagnosis, clinical features, first four support program sessions right public speaking. I had an idea some and treatment. New York: Wiley. away and get their book to take home time back that I simply have not had Shapiro, Francine. (2001) Eye and study before the next Saturday time to put into action yet that dealt movement desensitization and program. with the fear of airline travel. I thought reprocessing: Basic principles, Then, I started with the chocolate I could create a pamphlet that I would protocols, and procedures (2 nd ed.). urge reduction demonstration. Before circulate to travel agents and tour New York: Guilford Press. starting I made it clear that this operators through direct personal chocolate “fix” might only be contact (that means actually delivering temporary in SOME of those attending Caroline E. Sakai, PhD, TFTdx, VT them in person - - NEVER through the Clinical Psychologist and that a repeated or different mail) that sold my FIS for “White Private Practice treatment might be necessary for a more Knuckle Flyers”. And, I thought, I 1300 Pali Hwy #204 lasting result. would hold the sessions at the airport so Honolulu, Hawaii 96813-2206 Then I started with the whole group they were not only in the thought field Phone: (808)753-5797 at once. I used the algorithm and of the problem but the perceptual field (808) 536-6868 (ph/fax) applied it as though I was working only as well. If someone decided to try this, (formerly Chief Therapist at Kaiser with one person, but made eye contact let me know how it works for you. At Behavioral Health, Hawaii) with all. Everyone was to follow the moment, it is JUST an idea, but a along. With some, the urge went away workable one, I think. IMMEDIATELY and completely with Use your imagination. Some ideas the first holon. Some experienced work, some don’t. But you have to try. reversal which I corrected. Finally, I would be interested to hear your everyone there (except for two) had thoughts on what you have just read. experienced a complete reduction of their chocolate urge down to a 0 SUD. There were comments of amazement exchanged between participants. Dr. David Hanson is a “ I have tried the Callahan I asked the two that were still having diagnostically trained method and am amazed at urges to stand and, one at a time, I used TFT practitioner who the results ... I KNOW it TFTdx to completely eliminate all trace lives and works in the worked! I got a trauma of of the urge for the demon chocolate. Puget Sound region of Washington State. He can be reached 10 down to 4 then to 1 - - All but three registered for the and another trauma about program right then, without further at (253) 202-2959 or by e-mail at: hesitation. [email protected] my brother down from an 8 The weekly programs that followed to 2 - - thank you - - this is a “ were a combination of group counseling miracle. My therapist will hear about this next week!
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