Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 3, Issue - 1, ( 1 July 2018) | Page 23

schooling, back- ground and language and there are no costs
or other requirements, allowing us to spread TTT using printed
calendars, videos (for example on Youtube), posters, leaflets,
songs, dance and even by using a megaphone. T
he Magic of
Empowerment 
 “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself
in the service of others.” 
 Mahatma Gandhi 
 We have been
teaching the Trauma Tapping Technique to many people who
previously were considered as victims: for example women
subjected to sexual violence in eastern Congo where rape is
used as a weapon in warfare. 
 Being treated as a victim and
internalizing this concept can be devastating for the self-esteem
of a person.
When looking for help at a local or international 
 organization or
hospital it is often required to repeat the story of what hap- pened,
over and over again, each time deepening the neurological pathways
of this identity. Finally the victim’s identity becomes just that: being a
victim.
When learning a technique like TTT these things can change
dramatically. Suddenly these victims can help not only themselves,
but also others who need to relax their nervous systems from the
pains of certain memories. The possibility of assisting victims to
become healers is one of the main reasons for us to
 do this work. The
empowerment of helping others often reinforces your own healing
process. To help others is to help yourself!
During a TTT workshop in Bukavu in eastern Congo, Chantal, one of
the women in a micro credit project, told us her story: She had fled
from her village to Bukavu when her husband was killed. Bukavu had
become in a way like an urban refugee camp: Everyday people came
hoping to find a safer place. Different armed groups were making life
unbearable for the ordinary people in the countryside. With guns as
their means of power the rebels and soldiers loot and kill and most of
all they rape women and girls to disintegrate the society.
Following the TTT workshop, Chantal said:
“We who don’t have anything, who live like rats in houses with leaking