The Fall Off a Ladder

A person I know was outside his home. He fell off a ladder from five feet up. The ladder went one way and he went the other, landing flat on his back and elbows. He checked his body to see if he could move all his limbs. When he could, he got up and walked down a small hill, then up another small hill, then up six steps to the back door of his house.

He had done EFT before and knew I was visiting his wife. He opened the back door and hollered. I came running and pulled up a chair so he could sit. He sat and was breathing hard, doubled up in pain.

I’m being mentored in EFT, so I knew to ask if I could tap on his body. He gave me permission. Using the Basic Recipe, I tapped on the side of his hand three times with Even though I fell off the ladder and I have all this pain in my body, I accept myself. (He is comfortable with this phrase.)

I asked where it hurt. He said all up and down his back but mostly between his shoulder blades.

The rounds were All this pain in my back and body. He repeated with me word for word for about five minutes, in which time he had straightened up in the chair. He was breathing better.

I asked if there was a certain place in his body that was hurting worse than the rest. He said between his shoulder blades. There was a sharp pain between his shoulders like a pencil being poked in from the back and poking out through the front like fire coming out of his chest.

I used his words: This pain coming from between my shoulder blades like a pencil being stuck in me from the back to the front poking out of my chest. The rounds were:

• Side of hand—Even though I fell off the ladder and hurt my back, I accept myself.
• Top of head—This pain in my back between my shoulder blades.
• Eyebrow—Coming out the front of my chest.
• Side of eye—Like a burning fire.
• Under eye—This pain in my back between my shoulder blades.
• Under nose—Like a pencil poking through to the front.
• Chin—Like a burning fire.
• Collarbone—This pain between my shoulder blades like being poked through my back to the front of my chest.
• Under arm—Like a fire burning through me.

Off and on for the whole week, we tapped on the aspect of him falling off the ladder and him being stupid. Accepting himself anyway. The pain in his back. Then the pain in his elbows. One had a bruise seven inches long on it. The other elbow had small cuts.

At a week, he was still in a little pain but more worried why he hurt so much. After a week of tapping, he decided to go to the doctor’s Office for an x-ray. The x-ray showed a compression fracture in one of the vertebras between his shoulders.

This man tapped for a whole week on his pain, on healing his back, asking the body to help with the pain most of the time, and healing quickly.
After six weeks, this man is not in any pain, in any part of his body except his elbow where the seven-inch bruise was, which he didn’t tap on.

I checked up on this man at seven weeks. He reported all was pain free in his body. He used no other medicines except a muscle relaxer the first two days after falling off the ladder.