Two days after my operation for reconstruction of ACL, I got dizzy and nauseous. Probably side effects of the painkillers. The dizziness and nausea were unbearable. On scale 0 -10 (where 10 is very distressing), it was 8. So I tapped:
Side of the hand (SH):
Even though I feel dizzy and nauseous, I deeply and completely love and accept myself. x3 (repeated 3 times)
Eyebrow (EB): this dizziness
Side of the eye (SE): and nausea
Under the eye (UE): this dizziness
Under the nose (UN): and nausea
Chin/under lower lip (CH): this dizziness
Collarbone (CB): and nausea
Under the arm (UA): this dizziness
Top of the head (TH): and nausea
EB: these painkillers
SE: they make me feel dizzy
UE: and nauseous
UN: this painkillers
CH: affect my body
CB: my mind
UA: my wellbeing
TH: I feel sick
EB: I feel sick
SE: I feel dizzy
UE: my head feels dizzy
UN: these painkillers
CH: they make me feel sick
CB: in my stomach
UA: in my head
TH: this dizziness and nausea
EB: sick and nauseous
SE: sick and nauseous
UE: in my stomach
UN: dizzy in my head
CH: as if the head and the stomach were connected
CB: as if there was a thread going between my head and stomach
UA: when the head feels dizzy
TH: the stomach feels sick
EB: this thread
SE: connecting my head and stomach
UE: when the head moves and gets dizzy
UN: the stomach feels sick
CH: this thread
CB: pulling in both directions
UA: dizzy and sick
TH: dizzy and sick
(here comes the NLP, I normally ask myself questions as if I was my own client, that creates a flow and works great if I get stuck; the answers you get in NLP are very subjective, personal and the solutions people come up with are no like others - it is because we all see and experience things according to our emotions, background, life experience etc., there's no right or wrong here, you are who you are)
How does the dizziness looks like?
(continuously tapping on all the points)
like a watercolour, blurred, colourful painting
moving left and right
like a ship on a rough sea
and whenever it moves, I feel dizzy and the stomach goes crazy
What can you do about it?
I can cut the thread between the head and the stomach so it doesn’t react to the painting
Do you want to do it? Does it feel safe to do it?
Yes
If so, cut the thread and see what happens.
the thread is cut and the stomach relaxes, it is not affected by the head and dizziness anymore
The blurry, colourful, watercolour paining - I want you to make it black and white.
Then make it clear, so that you can clearly see what’s in it.
About the movement of the painting, what can yo do about it?
I can stabilise it… like, to put in on a chicken’s head 😂, chicken’s head keeps balance no matter what happens to the body, no matter how much the rest moves, the head stays in balance so that would be good, to put both the painting and my head on such stabiliser, so even though everything around seems to be floating and drifting the head sees a stable picture
How does it feel now?
Much better, the vision is clear, no unnecessary distractions like colours, and stable, all is stable
(I did two rounds more)
EB: these painkillers
SE: they affect me
UE: my body
UN: my mind
CH: my wellbeing
CB: there’s nothing to do about it now
UA: that’s the side effects
TH: the side effects of the medication
EB: I can fight it or
SE: I can relax into it
UE: I can release it
UN: I'm not gonna pump my stomach because of it 😉
CH: or cut my head off 😆
CB: I let it go
UA: these are only side effects
TH: these are only side effects
After the tapping and applying some NLP the uncomfortable feeling went down to 4. I still felt „slow” in my head but the stomach was unaffected.
Yes, the chicken head part is funny. That's the charm of EFT and NLP - you are who you are and the thoughts flow freely through you, allowing you to go to places that your conscious mind would only criticise and reject. The tapping does not have to be serious every time. There's time and place for everything.