Italian Earthquake Script Translated into English

We gratefully acknowledge Angela Canestri for creating this powerful script for us.

Angela is in Italy and will be conducting tapping events on May 5th regarding the earthquakes that occurred in Italy. You can see her Italian version on this site.

Our very huge thanks to Anna for translating and to Mary Myers (a World TapFest founder) for coordinating the translation!

EFT Earthquake Script

This surrogate EFT script is intended to be done for:
- the victims of the Abruzzo earthquake
- the EFT practitioners and their families and relatives
- anyone else who might receive benefit from this procedure

From now and throughout the procedure, you will tap on yourself as if you were the person receiving it. For this reason you tell yourself:
“For the entire time of this surrogate EFT process, I am homeless, I am from Abruzzo, even if at this moment I am tapping on myself.”

After stating this intention, try to feel the feelings of the people affected by the earthquake, while using the following Set Up phrases.

1st Round
Karate Chop Point: Tap the side of your hand with four fingers while saying out loud, 3 times:

Even though this violent earthquake, in the space of a few seconds, broke our dreams and our hopes of a better life for ever, I accept myself and my land.

Even though in the middle of the night, there was this terrible sound, and this strong wind, and we were afraid and ran out of our houses with only the clothes we were wearing, and we didn’t save anything else, I love and accept myself and my country.

Even though I can’t go back to my home, I accept and love myself and this land.

Reminder:

EB: the earthquake broke all our dreams
OE: hopes for a better life
UE: a terrible sound
UN: the strong wind
CHIN: feelings of panic
CB: we ran out in our pajamas
UA: we didn’t save anything
Top of Head: we can’t go home

2nd round

Karate Chop Point
Even though we lost everything because of the earthquake, we are alive, healthy and we can start again.
Even though we don’t have anything, not even our clothes, I choose to believe we can heal, helping each other.

Even though I can not forget the terrible dark and the screaming, I choose to trust in our ability to recover.

Even though the wind was so strong and we didn’t have anything to cover ourselves or to protect us, we are alive, healthy, and we can start again.

Reminders:


EB: we lost everything we had
OE: we don’t have anything else
UE: we don’t even have clothes
UN: we cannot forget
CHIN: the darkness and the screaming
CB: there was a strong wind
UA: we didn’t have anything to cover ourselves
Top Head: we didn’t have anything to protect ourselves


3rd Round:
Even though I had to pull my sister out from the debris and the house was falling down... Even though I spent the night in the car, didn’t know what to do or where to go…
Even though I’m still afraid of the earthquake, because there are still some tremors, and the tremors seem to have no end, I accept and love myself and this land.

4th Round:
Even though I still have the sounds of the earthquakes in my ears, I can still smell it,
Even though I woke up with rubble on my legs, I was trying to go down the stairs but the steps were gone, I am still afraid that I will be trapped inside a building, and nobody came Even though we had an alert three months before, but there were no ambulances, no help for hours, and there was only one doctor, I accept and love myself and this land.

5th Round:
Even though I feel angry because there were warnings but nothing was done,
Even though the authorities didn’t prepare any plan to intervene, and nobody was advised on time,
Even though there were no ambulances, water, blankets and we already knew there were people dead and injured under the debris…

6th round:
Even though our lives and the lives of our loved ones are still in danger, and nobody knows when these tremors will end,
Even though with each new tremor, our fear and anxiety return, and it feels like we are always on alert,
Even though I cannot sleep, I can’t eat, I feel like I have something stuck in my throat, I accept and love myself and this land.

7th Round:
Even though I have some blank spots in my memory and I can’t remember everything that happened in those first few hours,
Even though I cannot focus, and I’m doing everything mechanically,
Even though I frequently start crying and feel no hope and like I’m too old to start over, I accept and love myself and this land.

8th Round:
Even though I’m hyper protective with my two daughters, and I don’t want to let them out of my sight for a moment,
Even though I can’t really understand what happened, I avoid all the places, people and things that remind me of the earthquake,
Even though I don’t even know who I can trust…
Even though I have deep sadness and hopelessness, I accept and love myself and this land.

9th Round:
Even though my grandparents are dead, I don’t know where my neighbors are, and the house next door collapsed, and we don’t know where they went to,
Even though I’m trying to distract myself and think about other things, but all of a sudden I see the desperate images again…
Even though we were forced to leave our homes, and it’s a miracle that we are alive since the house was almost destroyed, I accept and love myself and this land.

10th round:
Even though there is an alert from the government, and we can’t go back to our homes because of the danger of new and stronger tremors…
Even though Abruzzo is one of the coldest regions in Italy, it’s cold and raining, and the tents are leaking…
Even though I feel a lot of anger because the tremors started weeks before and nobody predicted the chance of such a catastrophe, I accept and love myself and this land.

11th round:
Even though I can’t even imagine the pain of the people who lost their families under the rubble, and most of all the people who dug with their hands trying to save their child or their friend or their parent, I accept and love myself and this land.
Even though the government of Aquila started an investigation to discover about the use of proper construction materials, because they suspect the use of beach sand in mixing the cement and the iron poles of the foundations weren’t put at the proper distances apart, I accept and love myself and this land.