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We then checked for others deserve for me to get over the trauma. The muscle was strong, indicating there were no others. I then proceeded to check muscle strength with the statement, God deserves for me to get over the trauma. Not surprisingly, the muscle was weak. When asked about it, Jonathan said that he did not feel anger but wondered what kind of God allowed so much suffering. After doing the Forgiveness Affirmation for God, the muscle turned into strong.
In a follow-up of six months, Jonathan best had only a couple of minor persisting signs. He attended computer school and was longing for gradually get off medications.
Then we proceeded to deal with his anger at David for dying. Jonathan did not feel any anger on a conscious level. How might one be angry at someone for dying? he asked. I explained that this is exactly the challenge. It is irrational to be angry at someone for dying. It was obviously not Davids choice. He was the victim. Yet, on a subconscious level, there was anger, as was evidenced by EMT.
Next I asked Jonathan to inform me the details of the trauma. He all started to talk. He still felt emotionally numb, but felt tightness in his chest, rated 9/10. We tapped on it and got it down to 0/10. Yet he had sharp pain over the left side of his head, rated eight/10. We tapped it down to 1/10.
There were no more weak muscles. A strong muscle with the statement, There is100% subconscious support to finding the preferrred method to getting over the trauma, indicated that now we can get answers about the most well liked method of treatment.
We were able to successfully remove this sabotage. Now when Jonathan said, David deserves for me to get over the trauma, the muscle that was weak before SCT was rock forged.
On a conscious level, Jonathan was not angry at the lieutenant. He said, It was as in war. He rationalized even the very fact that he was promoted and achieved a notably better rank so quickly. He said, The lieutenant was macho, tough and without sentiments; the material good commanders are made of.
As we talked, it turned into apparent to me why Jonathan was angry at his lieutenant. The order that was given did not make any sense to me. It did not make sense to Jonathan, nor did it make sense to his friends in the special unit. The order unnecessarily put the squaddies lives at risk. It was not best my judgment that it was a nasty order, according to Jonathan, the captain was also angry at the lieutenant for giving this order and chewed him out loudly and passionately about it. Yet, in the long run, the lieutenant was promoted and is now a colonel.
Jonathan was totally detached from his feelings. He said he without doubt remembers a certain moment during combat that he felt so emotionally overwhelmed with problem that he felt he was disconnected, like he was looking at himself from the external. Since that time, he might not feel anything. He refused to talk about what happened.
When Jonathan continued telling more information about the trauma he felt anxiety, rated 7/10, and we were able to tap it down. He continued talking and a pair of times along the story, the anxiety went up. We were able to successfully reduce it down considerably to 1/10. This was good enough, as Jonathan felt he would not recognize himself if he would be completely symptom free. He also expressed his problem that should he be symptom free, treatment would be stopped, and he was not ready for it. He also wanted to be sure the military pension he received would continue until at least such a time that he would be able to be gainfully employed.
I worked with a soldier, Jonathan, with a pair of years background of PTSD, with the classical signs of nightmares, flashbacks, emotional numbness, and dissociation from life. He had been in therapy twice a week with a psychologist in the last four years and was on a whole cocktail of medications. With all this his condition had not improved, and he had not functioned at work or socially.
Based on his story, I checked with EMT and located a weak muscle also when checking if David deserved for Jonathan to get over the trauma, indicating another fashion of subconscious sabotage. I explained to Jonathan there was no way he might possibly get over the trauma when he subconsciously felt that these two did not deserve for him to be healed.
The first thing I did with him was to check using Energy Muscle Testing (EMT) when he said the statement, I deserve to get over the trauma. The muscle was strong, indicating, against my guess, that he did not have survival guilt, like many other squaddies Ive treated. Yet the muscle was weak when he said, Others deserve for me to get over the trauma.
We proceeded with, The preferrred way is EMDR, weak muscle (no).
The preferrred way is EFT, strong muscle (yes).
Then I asked Jonathan to guess, if he would talk about the trauma, where would he rate his anxiety to be, on a scale of 0 to 10. He guessed 10.
With a pair of rounds of the full protocol of EFT, we were able to decrease it down to two.
This emotional numbness and disconnect is a classic presentation of Dissociation. Jonathan told me he thinks his flashbacks and nightmares were the way his mind was trying to force him to face the trauma and deal with it and, therefore, was therapeutic. Yet, it was very disturbing!
The first culprit was obviously his commander. Indeed the muscle was very weak when Jonathan stated, My commander deserves for me to get over the trauma.
We then proceeded to use SCT to remove the sabotage. Because of the severity of the signs, I instantly decided to use the Personalized Forgiveness Affirmation. It took quite a long time to remove the subconscious sabotage towards the lieutenant.
