on the therapy because it gave her relief for a longer time and was better than having strong medicines. I sensed that we needed to go beyond just the pain and so decided to look out for any emotions that she may be holding on to. This time around she could feel‘ frustration’ in her heel and we tapped on the emotion. As the frustration started vanishing, she started getting feelers as though that area needed some cajoling and pampering. We continued tapping with lots of positive affirmations and visualizations. She could feel and‘ see’ her heel healed. Given the fact that her heel was fine even after a couple of days, Suman decided to do a deeper tapping for her knees too.
" It is very natural for anybody to think“ how can some feeling that I had almost a decade ago manifest and grow in me now”
The next day during our“ anything and everything under the sun talks” she happened to mention that there are days when she wakes up in the morning with a bloated / swelled up feeling in her body and there is this tendency of water retention in her body. She also confirmed that she is not on any medicines which tend to retain water. The beginning of this problem too dates back to 7 or 8 years( like that of the knee pain). Although I wasn’ t sure about Suman’ s reaction, I decided to tell her my gut feel that there may be more emotions that haven’ t been checked and this time we must give hypnotherapy a try. This could be because she personally thinks that she has overcome her past feelings / thoughts or it is very natural for anybody to think“ how can some feeling that I had almost a decade ago manifest and grow in me now” or it could be as simple as feeling awkward to express it. We all feel awkward, don’ t we?
We began our next round of tapping and this time we first tapped on all her above apprehensions. Once calmed down, I helped Suman get into a simple and quick state of hypnosis. I wanted her to go back to the past so that cleansing work on her baggage could be done. Under hypnosis, Suman drifted back in time and could vividly see her feeling and emotions when she first experienced the knee pain. Lo and behold! a few minutes later, there she was experiencing her emotions and the pain that followed her emotions. Since the emotions were very deep rooted and strong, this time around I did tapping under hypnosis. It took a while of tapping to let go of the stronghold on those emotions which was then followed by a small exercise of forgiveness. But, all the effort and the act of forgiveness were worth every second.
Once the first layer of emotions was handled, we went back again to check on any buried emotions( even if they were less in intensity). She found that there were spurts of anger and irritation about small things which wouldn’ t happen the way she expected. This was when Suman realized that these emotions gave rise to a sharp pain in her shoulders flowing down to her arms and hands. For few years now, she hasn’ t been able to carry bags on her shoulders due to the excruciating pain the weight would