Many people now suffer severe Stress, particularly in their work and, if this is not treated, it can become lethal.

A little stress is fine – it helps us to keep on top and alive to our everyday living – but excessively heavy workloads can cause such extreme stress that the poor body and mind can’t cope any longer and then major physical or mental illness can take over.

This stress can often be a “basket full” of anxieties and fears which, on their own, might be manageable.  But put together as a total problem, with possible, added, panic erupting at times, then you have a major problem which must be resolved quickly.

A Thought Field Therapy cure for this problem will involve addressing each individual anxiety, fear or panic in turn by simply thinking of each aspect individually and treating by tapping on the correct meridian points.  This process might take two or three visits to cope with the complete problem.

Trauma can often be at the core of a stress problem.

The emotionally upsetting memories of past experiences can trigger present anxieties and fears and will sometimes erupt very suddenly when one of your “buttons” is pressed!

Most people try hard to repress these unwanted emotions, with or without cognitive psychological help, having varied degrees of success.   However successful this appears to be, the trauma is still present “in the background” and will make itself felt suddenly when least wanted, for example at times of great stress.

Trauma in it’s worst form will become Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, which can completely take over and destroy a person’s life.

This is because the person does not just remember the terrible upsetting past event, s/he actually replays the happening over and over again rather like a video stuck right inside the head.  Often this is also accompanied by nightmares.

Cognitive therapists, such as psychologists, psychotherapists, hypnotherapists and counsellors still believe they can help traumatised people by getting them to talk about their problems in great detail and at great length.

The British Psychological Association recognised in January 2000 that this treatment can do more harm than good.  Reliving the problem continuously is the cause of the suffering involved in PTSD.  Doing this, yet again, with a therapist, even if it is in a “structured way”, can only make matters much worse.

As we have seen, a Thought Field Therapy cure does NOT need the person to talk about their problem.  This is exceptionally important in cases of trauma and PTSD.

By just “thinking” about the past event for a short time, the destroying emotion can be subsumed in just a few minutes.

As a practitioner, I very often treat my clients knowing nothing of the traumatic event and this is, so often, a great relief to the client.  The exact details of some experiences are not ones they wish to divulge – to anyone.  All I need to be sure about is that the person is thinking of their problem during the short treatment.

Most people are amazed by their sudden lack of any upset at all, especially when they realise that their memory of the event is totally unaffected.

The memory has lost all ability to cause emotional distress and the sufferer is usually suddenly aware of a tremendous release and great feelings of relief.

Even more advantageous is the realisation that in cases of bereavement the clearance of continuing grief allows the past memories of happiness to return to the mind. And in cases of releasing the traumas of war and atrocity the deep, destructive anger and desire for revenge has also been released.