Commentary on Recovery; How can EFT and MTT be especially helpful?

[EFT Practitioners Pool]

Energy workers - did you happen to catch the New York Times article today on devastation and recovery?  A really fine one, and one that speaks to how well our energy techniques can aid people, collectively or individually, with recovery. BENEDICT CAREY wrote this today for the NYT, and I am taking a few of his points to poit out to you.  Please go to the full text if you're interested.  He said:

"JAPAN is in the middle of a catastrophe that transcends any talk of trauma and resilience, the easy language of armchair psychology. There is no reintegrating with friends and social networks now scattered or lost in the sea; there is no easy rebuilding of communities washed away, swallowed by the earth or bathed in radiation from ruptured nuclear plants.

Few can doubt that the country will eventually repair itself; that’s what people do, none more so than the Japanese. But some scientists say that recovering from this disaster will be even more complicated.

In dozens of studies around the world, researchers have tracked survivors’ behavior after disasters, including oil spills, civil wars, hurricanes and nuclear reactor meltdowns, as well as combined natural-technological crises, like what’s happening in Japan. One clear trend stands out: Mental distress tends to linger longer after man-made disasters, like an oil spill or radiation leak, than after purely natural ones, like a hurricane."

A sociologist,  J. Steven Picou, explained that there is a script for natural disaster that's different from a technical (manmade) crisis.  He says - and I paraphrase -that in order to move past the crisis, people need a clear storyline, and to trust that the information they're receiving is true. People feeling they've been lied to creates more hardship in putting the even to rest.

He added: “To move past a catastrophe, people usually need to be able to tell themselves a clear story about what happened. And in this case the story is not so clear.”

Adriana Petryna, a professor of anthropology and author of a book on Chernobyl, adds this:  ''Mismanagement of information creates consequences down the line....( ) ... And in my estimation this tragedy is starting to look a lot like Chernobyl.'' 

 Some Japanese psychologists say that many of their countrymen try to manage their anger, grief and anxiety alone, especially elders who are less likely to talk about mental and emotional problems.  Apparently the habit of restricting their conversation to physical symptoms that result from those feelings is more socially acceptable.

In gathering together, though, the shelter and community rescue centers offer an unprecedented opportunity to help people heal, collectively AND individually, using our tools of EFT and MTT.  We're not in 'the mainstream' yet of emergency response procedures, but every time you or I or one of our peers can offer these services, we grow one step closer to healing the world. (And of course we celebrate whenever our EFT brothers or sisters on the ground DO get to go to these areas, like Deepak Mostert.)

Towards that end, let us embrace one another and offer this healing work we do to everyone, reminding them they are not alone, in fact, that it is quite impossible to be so, even though we may fool ourselves into feeling this way in such times.

Let us help those in recovery by remembering to include all their complicated feelings and levels of distress, whether from lacking a 'clear story' or 'trust issues' or in their very real loss of all that might have culturally defined them.  Be offering to tap with clarity and honesty, we know we cut through the overwhelm and distress.  By tapping on "What is So" and the acceptiblility of "All That is Felt", we can bring Light and swift Healing to the dark places where loneliness, doubt, fear, shame and despair all hide.

May it be so, and thank you for all that you do in the world to help another.  Peace.

Jondi, for TapFest