The Missing Migraine

One of my favourite EFT discoveries is that when we release negative beliefs or heavy emotions that might have something to do with dis-stress or dis-ease the body is feeling – pain may just go away.

Releasing the emotions that may, at least partially, be creating the pain, as well as relieving the emotions that usually accompany having pain in the body, can not only relieve symptoms, it can increase the quality of many people’s lives.

I love to use EFT to help people who are afraid of speaking in public or who have performance anxiety. EFT quite often helps people who are severely limited in pursuing their dreams in the performing arts arena. My work with theatre folks is what connected me to a theatre mom named Sharon and her migraine.  Her name has been changed for this article to protect the innocent.

Sharon was not a client. We both just happened to be in the same place at the same time and she happened to have “one of those” migraines. She didn’t think she could do anything to make “that thing” go away.

I was teaching EFT at a weekend Performance Anxiety workshop, sponsored by a prominentsinging school. I was working with a group of about thirty  people. We were addressing fear of singing, dancing, microphones and other issues that are related to performing in public.

I had just finished teaching and noticed that Sharon, who was going to teach Stage Presence and Stage Make-Up, was standing outside holding her head. She was in a very agitated state and she was due on stage in twenty five minutes.

I left the workshop and went outside to ask her if I could help. She had “one of those” migraines, she said, and she didn’t know how she was going to teach. I asked if she would like to try something that couldn’t hurt her and might actually get rid of her headache.

I also told her it might be a bit strange to her. She said, “Yes.”

There was no diagnosis or talk of curing or healing the body. My goal was to release any heavy emotions and negative beliefs that might have had something to do with her pain.

I knew a little about her life as a stage mother and supporter of theatre. She did everything from costumes and makeup to directing and being active as a stage mother for her own teenage daughters as well as many other theatre folks of all ages. I had never seen this woman when she wasn’t busy taking care of someone else. We only had twenty five minutes before she was scheduled to teach, so I quickly began talking her through EFT, using my intuition and the information I already knew about her life.

It was not a usual client situation.

We tapped on the various EFT points while saying,

“Even though I have this head full of everybody else, no room for me. No room for what I want. I don’t even know what I want. Head full of things to do. Never enough time. No time for me. Head full of kids. Head full of costume making. Head full of helping, helping, helping, always helping other people. So much to do, so little time. Even though all these things are true, I deeply and profoundly accept myself.”

After only a few minutes, she was laughing at some of the things I said, nodding her head at some, and adamant about others.  Some of these were on target and were serious business. While some of what I said was probably not right at all, I knew we were addressing some pertinent issues.

When we stopped, after about five to seven minutes of continual tapping, her headache had gone from a 10 to a 4 or 5 on the Intensity Meter.