EFT for Headaches
My good friend, Anna, has a tendency to get headaches fairly often. They’ll just appear during the day or sometimes she wakes up with one. She has had them all of her life, and figures that it is probably caused by stress and this stress she holds in her shoulders and neck very often. She typically does yoga to s t r e t c h and keep loose but when she has missed some classes, the headaches will begin to appear, even slightly, and then become more severe. If you also have headaches, I am sure you’ll agree, they’re really more than just a thorn in your side. So, since I’m a proponent of EFT, and I tell all my clients to do this, I suggested that she consider tapping to relieve her headaches. She started with a number reading between 0 – 10 (0 = no headache pain, 10 is the worst ever headache pain) to use as a gauge to see whether there’s a change in the pain once she started tapping. Here are some set-up phrases I suggested she use. Pick the ones that you connect with most easily:
“Even though I have this headache, I choose to love and accept myself anyway”
“Even though this headache really hurts and it’s interrupting my day, I choose to love and accept myself anyway.”
“Even though I have this headache, I forgive myself for whatever I did or didn’t do to cause this pain, and I forgive them, whoever they are for whatever they did or didn’t do to cause this pain.”
“Even though I have this headache behind my eyes (or this sinus headache), I choose to release it so I can begin to feel better now.”
“Even though I don’t totally and completely love and accept myself right now, and think maybe I have caused this headache, I accept that I don’t completely and totally love and accept myself right now because that’s the truth.”
So now some verbiage for the rounds…
• My head is killing me!
• I wish it would stop pounding
• I want to get on with my day
• I wish this pain would just GO AWAY!
• Why do I have to have this stupid headache?
• I can’t function with this pain
• I always get a headache at the most inopportune times
• GO AWAY ALREADY!
• I am choosing now to release this headache pain
• I choose to let myself relax and to feel better
• It’s served its purpose, whatever that purpose is, and I receive the messages the pain is sending me
• I now release the pain to the universe (or heavens, etc., whatever feels right)
• It feels good to have this pain gone now and I am grateful
• I love the way I feel when my head feels fine
• This headache is going away and my body is allowing me to feel better
• I release this pain
Any feedback from you about your headaches (or other body pains) would be good to know about. I invite you to go ahead and leave a post!
