Two days ago I had a grand opportunity to put EFT to the test. I was going to have full-mouth laser surgery on Wednesday morning.

To describe it quickly: they burn a laser light between your teeth and your gums to burn out old tartar and bacteria. Amazingly enough, it’s purportedly great for regenerating bone growth.

You might say it’s a bit painful, so they numb your entire mouth. Takes about half an hour and some pretty big needles just to do that.

I didn’t want to walk in feeling like that guy on the left there!

So I called my EFT buddy, Helena Summer Medena to do some massive tapping with me because, in my experience, the energy builds up more powerfully with more people tapping. (Helena: LivDelicious.com)

I felt so fortunate to be able to tap with her – she’s got good EFT skills and has great intuition. She saw things I had missed. We spent a good long while tapping Tuesday night – on all my old fears of the dentist, of pain, swelling and other surgery-related stuff, as well as on some unfun beliefs around dentists and doctors I still had.

And since I have the privilege of being the one who is designing and creating sports performance expert Stacey Vornbrock’s sports injury and trauma recovery ebooks, I got her permission to use some of her tapping protocols for the trauma and pain and injury I expected. (Stacey: BreakthroughPreformance.com)

Stacey has created more powerful, effective and unique protocols than you can imagine. I tapped every one of them, and I went to bed feeling relaxed and actually pretty happy. (I can tell you right now you can’t wait to get copies of her books – they are nothing less than awesome.)

I was feeling lots of energy running through my system the next morning, but I wasn’t even a fraction as freaked as I’d have been if we hadn’t worked on releasing and clearing.

When I sat in The Chair getting prepped, the assistant took my blood pressure.

This is where it started to get good. The reading was 131 over 76. I asked her to humor me a second, and silently did some tapping – no more than a minute’s worth – even though my BP is up and I want it under 120….).

She took the reading again, and it was down to 116 over 76.

She was blown away, and wanted to know right away what the heck I’d done, so I gave her a three second overview about EFT. There wasn’t time for more since the procedure was now underway. (Later they bought copies of my EFT Shorty Book for their patients to read at both their offices!)

The first two hours went OK – yep, 2.5 hours+ total – it’s a long time! When they numbed my mouth, they numbed ALL of it – top, bottom and all sides. I haven’t had the greatest relationship with administered drugs in the past, so I imagined and tapped on creating an energetic ‘wall’ surrounding my mouth area, ending at my nose, under-jaw and ears that would confine the numbing stuff to the mouth area only. I don’t
know if that stuff migrates, but I wasn’t taking any chances.

I also tapped on asking and allowing my body to heal lightning-fast, not even allowing any bruising or swelling, with any part of me healing as fast as it got hurt by the dentist’s hands or tools. (Thanks to Rebecca Marina who started the ‘asking and allowing’ script!)

I pictured a bubble of reality where things healed as fast as thought, and created a mental image where I inserted my whole mind and body into that bubble, and tapped on not believing that could happen until it felt true that it really could.

I have to admit I never could completely relax – there was always a stiffness in my upper back – I felt like I was holding on to the get-ready-to-fly feeling – but it was only at about a 2 out of 10 rather than the nose-bleed 100 out of ten it would have been before.

I mostly felt OK, and just observed as they (all three of them – 4 hands in my mouth and 2 more assisting!) did all the things Helena and I had tapped on.

And instead of viewing them as hurting me, I kept remembering they were helping me preserve a pretty important part of my body if I was going to live to over 100 (as my son keeps insisting he wants me to do) – I’ll be damned if I’m going to get all the way to 100+ and be toothless!

I tapped silently and steadily the whole time, squeezing the karate chop point and the ends of my fingers since I couldn’t make big tapping moves under the dental bib they had me wear.

Suddenly at the beginning of the last half hour, I lost my concentration. I was exhausted from keeping the vigil. I kept forgetting to tap – I even forgot that I could tap on forgetting….

At the end there was one point where the dentist went out of the room and I had to use the rest room. As the assistant helped me out of the chair, my legs went kind of weak. In my life, there have been times when time simply froze, and I knew I could make any choice I wanted. When that happened again as I got up from the chair, I could clearly see I could choose being weak and faint or I could choose my body being strong and enduring. Well, I’ve been the weak route before and didn’t much like it, so I chose strong.

When I got back to the chair, I realized I had overcome an old pattern – as a kid if I was sick or acted out, I got my father’s attention. I saw that I didn’t have any of that need left. It was an odd experience, because it felt as if there was a hole where the old behavior had been.

I decided being happy no matter what would work for me, and even in spite of the pain during the last 30 minutes, I tried cheerfulness on – even though they were using my chest as shelf for their dental tools and it hurt when they tossed stuff on me! More tapping….

Helena and I spent another half hour talking and tapping after she took me home. I was given a prescription for pain pills and never filled or needed it. I barely needed the Ibuprofen, and stopped using it after the first day.

There was the most infinitesimal amount of  pain and the littlest, itty-est swelling. People tell me that when they had the same thing done their entire heads looked like black and blue melons, but I’ve had no bruising, no soreness, no inflammation.

I went in the next day to have my bite adjusted a bit, and the dentist was so astonished that he took photos of how good my mouth looked.

In case you have any dental procedure to go through, here’s a list of some of the things I tapped on. I did exaggerate a bit just to make sure I got it all! I won’t include Stacey’s tapping items here – you’ll have to get her books!

Even though…
•   I’m afraid of pain
•   I hate going to dentists and doctors
•   I’m afraid I won’t be able to pull away in time if he jabs me
•   I hate the frickin’ water sucker thing
•   and how the assistant pokes me with the thing
•   and the company that makes them with those hard, unsoft ends – what were they thinking?!?
•   I hate the drill, the sound of the drill, the smell of the stuff he uses, the chair, the needle, x-rays, the mouth wash and how undignified I look drooling all over the place
•   I hate feeling stupid when I ask for what I want (like information or a break)
•   gagging
•   terror
•   trauma
•   pain
•   swelling
•   rage at a couple of earlier dentists who really messed up my teeth
•   I can’t eat anything but soft foods for ten whole days
•   no chewing, even!
…and there’s more, but I’ll leave it at that.

Maybe knowing that a potentially trauma and pain-filled procedure can come out so well will help you get through your next dental visit.

Even if you don’t believe it works to tap, remember that you don’t have to believe in electricity for your lamps and heaters to work.

Tap like this:
Even though I’m so afraid,
•   I know he’ll hurt me
•   I’ll get poked and prodded
•   my body is afraid,
•   I still love and respect myself, and
•   I’m choosing to let the fear go!
•   I’m asking and allowing my body to heal fast
•   all the way down to the cellular level,
•   and to send away trauma as fast as it comes.

Tap remembering that all a feeling is is an indication that there is energy there to be released and transformed into usable, creative energy. When you say, ‘I hate dentists,’ all you’re doing is releasing feelings you’ve had for a long time and that need to come out.

Once they are out, it’s easier to relax and choose to use that same cleaned-up juice to make your new choices – just as I did when I got up out of the chair to use the rest room.

It feels weird sometimes to be free of pain or complaint because we are all so encouraged to see the dark side and hang out in victim mode.

Don’t let that whole sob-story suck you in. Take back your power and tap!

Exchange that corrosive, downward-spiraling  energy for the lovely, bright, ever-expanding energy that is YOU at your very core, and that is eternally at your beck and call.

Smile and say ahhhhh – life is good!

much aloha,
Angela Treat Lyon

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© Angela Treat Lyon 2009 • I invite you to feel free to use this article as long as you use it in its entirety, including my © and contact information. Lyon at IDareYouRADIO.com • Thank you!

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