Migraine(1)

I would like to share two inspiring successes with migraine and vertigo. In the first case, the migraine shifted from the left side to the right, and then disappeared completely. In the second case, we started working on vertigo. The vertigo disappeared, making way for , or was independently followed the next day by, migraine. A few more rounds of EFT and the migraine went away as well.

In the first case, I had known the girl socially for sometime(name withheld for confidentiality). I was aware that she had had a troubled childhood, involving a messy separation and divorce of her parents and the custody battles for her and her siblings.

When we started working on her migraine, she reported her headache at 9. We started tapping with “this headache” and “migraine”. After a few rounds, we tapped for “the remaining headache”. She reached at 4. But the pain got stuck at that level only.

Clearly, It was time to get to the emotional aspects. No guesses where they would have led us to. She remembered having these migraine attacks whenever she was witnessing, jurying over, or hopelessly trying to resolve, one of the fights between her parents. And it was first time during this session that she actually was present to the connection.

I asked her to visualize the one fight she remembered most vividly. She remembered one where the family was reuniting many years after the kids had been tossed from one parent to another. It was a time the kids (she and her two sisters ) were looking forward to. And yet, they were secretly scared.

Within a few hours of the family getting together, the inevitable happened: an uproarious altercation between the parents. While one of her siblings howled hysterically between the two of them and the other one cringed in a corner weeping silently.

We tapped for the fear, the anger and frustration at the situation, and at each of the parent, for their insensitivity and their ego trip.

We covered a few of these aspects. And then before I could ask her for any shift, she turned to me with a strange look in her eyes. She said that something unique had happened.Her pain had shifted from the right side of the head to the left side! In the long history of her migraine, this had never happened before. She was finding this itself extraordinary.

We chased the pain. (She was a little reluctant as for some reason she wanted to feel how it felt to have the migraine on the other side!!!)

One shortcut round, and the migraine was gone completely.

I last spoke to her a few months after we had worked on her migraine. And she had developed the most common side effect of EFT – AMNESIA! She had forgotten she ever had migraine troubling her so badly.