Re: [ET2] EmoTrance At The Dentists

Hi Silvia,

This is great. Good for you. I have to go to the dentist too. And something
I realised is that alot of people who dont fear the dentist so much go for
regular checkups every 6 months or whatever it is, so if a filling should
appear, its only a small one. But for someone like me I have only ever gone
when something major needed to be done and that reinforced the seriousness
of the dentist for me. I have always made it clear to my dentists that Im
not comfortable and these days they are great at letting you have what you
want. I hate lying flat, and at times have asked to be sitting semi up
right. They also let me take a break if I want to. So that all reinforces
choices and theres the paradox, if you feel you can, you dont need to.

Kate

At 04:57 AM 6/5/2005, you wrote:
>It's true, I really don't like going to the dentists.
>
>This is partially due to the fact that my childhood dentist (in Germany)
>didn't believe in anaesthetics, lest it should make you weak ;-< and
>partially due to those "other" types of memories of situations where
>folk would hold your head down and do unfortunate and scary things to
>you.
>
>I used EFT when I first had it to get me to go again and get some major
>things sorted out, but that was three years ago and a nagging toothache
>needed to be taken care of.
>
>"Father, forgive me, for I have sinned - it's been three years since my
>last dental appointment ..." ;->
>
>Anyway.
>
>As EmoTrance wasn't invented last time I went, this was my first
>experience of dentistry with EmoTrance.
>
>The last time round, EFT got me to step through the doors, lie on the
>chair thing - so far so good, but once they screw open your mouth with
>metal implements, there's no more tapping.
>
>And as I was freaking out in all dimensions with the sounds, and the
>sensations, and the dentists voice and, and, and, I used self hypnosis
>to basically talk me down into a dissociative coma.
>
>That wasn't too difficult, I've had practice ;->
>
>The dentist was a bit worried, what with the "waxy complexion" and
>breathing twice in a minute et al, but I explained upon re-emergence and
>he got used to it eventually.
>
>So, this time I didn't need to tap to get the appointment made and got
>there alright just by some application of willpower of forcing me to
>relax.
>
>I got into the chair and the usual hideousness ensued.
>
>But this time, it occurred to me to ask myself, "Now where do I feel
>that massive fear and stress in my body?" (which hadn't been available
>as an option prior to ET in 2002).
>
>To my interest and also astonishment, it was a HUGE blockage all around
>my lower back, in the lumbar region, and not at all in the head or jaw
>where I would have thought it might be.
>
>Whilst the dentist got busy out there, I set to relaxing this erea,
>softening and flowing things and that really caused a complete threshold
>shift all around.
>
>Most notably, once that started flowing a bit, I became aware of the
>acute distress of the the tissue in my lips and around my mouth, being
>stretched and forced and pulled repeatedly and also clamped with some
>metal thing, even though all of that was anaethetised,
>
>My attention went there and encouraged softening, not fighting it,
>becoming flexible and flowing with the stress put upon these ereas by
>the dentists machinations.
>
>I called extra innocent energy to that place and strongly encouraged
>calm there, flexibility and gave support from my side to what was
>happening.
>
>This was fascinating to do and completely occupied me, made the session
>pass very fast (surprisingly so!) and the end result of it was that I
>had virtually no discomfort at all following major three-root root
>drilling there once the anaesthetic wore off.
>
>What I thought after the fact was that this was the total opposite of
>disassociation - instead of fleeing my poor suffering physicality and
>leaving it behind, I came to it to HELP it out in its moment of need and
>did whatever I could to make it easier.
>
>That felt very RIGHT to be doing, a strangely loving experience, perhaps
>a hint of how it's supposed to be?
>
>I would also say that this experience has revolutionised my attitude to
>the whole thing.
>
>I will have to trust that the dentist knows what he's doing; there
>literally is NOTHING I can do other than get out of his way and let him
>get on with it. I do the best I can from my end as well and hopefully,
>things will turn out for the best that way all around.
>
>I found it easy after this for the very first time ever to make another
>appointment and be accepting of these processes.
>
>I don't think I'm afraid anymore.
>
>
>Silvia

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Received on Sat Jun 04 2005 - 13:40:48 BST