Gwyneth Moss – Imagineering – EFT for Severe & Chronic Pain

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EFT Master Gwyneth Moss

Part 1: What Exactly Is Imagineering?

The obvious place to begin when utilizing EFT with a bodily ailment is with the pain. But what if there is no discomfort? When individuals come to us for treatment with a physical ailment, they often describe how terrible it has been and how they expect it to become worse, but when you ask, “on a scale of 0 to 10, where 0 is no pain at all and 10 is the worst it can go, what number would you give it now?” “Well, it doesn’t hurt right now,” they respond. Oh, where do we begin with EFT when the patient has a painless ailment with no obvious symptoms?

I devised the Imagineering approach for these painless, undetectable ailments and then discovered it had many other uses. I’ll give you an overview in this post and then teach you how to utilize Imagineering in the next.

To build metaphors of reality, your imagination employs your entire consciousness. Our aware consciousness is located in the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the part of the brain that seeks meaning and causation and processes in a sequential manner. Our imagination is the left half of the brain’s knowledge of sights, sounds, and felt senses originating in the right side of the brain, which processes spatially or concurrently in reaction to emotion created in our emotional brain. Does that seem too complicated? Let us try once more,

Our words are as follows:

related to visuals, connected to emotions, and connected to our bodies

In Imagineering, we exploit this network of connections to get mild and indirect access to the causes of disease.

This is another approach to add to our arsenal of EFT ‘soft techniques.’ We understand that our physical ailments have emotional underpinnings. When a person is unable to manage their emotions, they avoid recalling their emotional experiences. That might be how the physical ailment manifests itself. Imagineering provides an indirect and symbolic access to the emotion buried in the symptom, allowing the relaxing and cleansing benefits of EFT to take action. The main difficulties may then be safely brought to light. We may construct metaphorical reality by accessing deeper awareness through imagination. Using EFT on different parts of metaphorical reality usually leads in change to the metaphor, which then translates into change in physical reality. But it is only an explanation; what matters is experience, therefore here is an Imagineering example.

Wendy’s Finger Problem

Wendy is a painter. She informs me that she has arthritis in her finger joint, which has made it uncomfortable for her to wield a paintbrush. “It doesn’t hurt right now, but it can get pretty awful,” she adds when she comes to me to study EFT. Knowing she is an artist, I am certain that she would appreciate the Imagineering approach with EFT, so I ask her to picture holding a little light in her palm, which might be a bulb, a flame, or simply a brilliant little light. Wendy envisions a little yet strong flashlight.

Then we put it to the test. I advise her to envision shrinking the light until it is very, very little and very, very brilliant, then inserting it into her ear and going with it right into her skull. I ask her to describe the atmosphere in there. She tells me she is in a magnificent cavern with a soothing humming sound and that the cavern is wide and expansive with shimmering and soft colors on the walls.

I inquire as to what it’s like to be inside. She says it’s warm, and there are floating about objects like old friends, her father’s dog, and her school desk, and she feels weightless and like giggling. I invite her back out and we discuss her great experience.

Then I ask her to insert the little bright light into her finger joint and bring it inside with her.

When she turns on the light again, she informs me that the inside is chilly and gloomy, with sharp spikes of shattered glass and screaming glass sounds. It’s quite lonely in there.

Then we tap on “despite the fact that I have sharp spikes and shattered glass in my finger joint…” And, “despite the fact that it’s lonely in my finger.” I ask her what it’s like to be ‘lonely,’ and she tells me that occasionally her husband travels for business, and even if it’s just for one night, it seems terribly lonely, much like when she was a child and her father, a ship’s captain, would sail to sea for months. So we tap “even though I know he’ll return, I get melancholy as when daddy went out to sea…” We then tap using The Movie Technique on a specific childhood memory of hers.

I request that she place the light back within the finger joint. She tells me that it’s warmer in there now, that the glass has turned to ice and is dripping and melting, and that the screeching sound is diminishing and becoming more distant. We tap more: “even though there’s pouring ice in there…. ” When she returns to the finger with her small light, the ice has melted, and there is a clear blue pool with a lovely humming sound, and she feels peaceful. She looks changed as well; her face has softened and her eyes sparkle.

Later that year, she informed me that her arthritis was much less bothersome over the winter, that the discomfort was much less frequent, and that her finger seemed to move more readily and did not interfere with her painting. When her finger hurt, she closed her eyes for a few moments, sat quietly, and thought on the pure blue water, and the pain went away.

In the next post, I’ll show you how to utilize Imagineering.

EFT Master Gwyneth Moss

Part 2: Using Imagineering

Imagineering is a compassionate way to coping with symptoms that are painless and/or invisible. In this post, I’ll walk you through the process of utilizing it and provide an example.

First, determine where the symptom is located in the body and which regions of the body are not impacted by the ailment. Some illnesses may be concentrated in a single place or organ, while others may be widespread, and you will need to ask questions to determine where it is most concentrated or afflicted and where it is not.

Ally comes to me in great anguish. She just detected a lump in her breast and is awaiting a doctor visit to have testing performed. If she presses, she can just barely feel the lump, but there is no pain or feeling. We determine that the lump is in her left breast and that the rest of her body is OK.

I then explain to her that our linguistic consciousness exists on the left half of our thinking brain, while the right side is the domain of imagery, metaphor, and dreams (our imagination), and that the right side is more connected to her emotional brain, which is connected to her body. To engage with that chain of connections: words-imagination-emotions-body, we will use her imagination.

At this moment, a person may reply, “I don’t have an imagination.” This might be a case of “Writing on the Walls” (see EFT and the Palace of Possibilities). You can eliminate the obstacle by asking polite inquiries and tapping. You might also point out that all of their fears and anxieties are caused by a lack of imagination, and that you can’t be nervous until you have one. I also explain that everyone’s imagination is unique, and that everyone will have their own experience, and that there is no right or wrong way to do this – it’s a judgement-free zone in which to play. Some individuals have vivid imaginations with colors, images, and forms; others have noises, music, or voices; and still others have a sensation of being present. Whatever you receive, you get it.

When we are calm and comfortable, our imaginations perform best and we have greater access to their output. So I advise the individual to take three long breaths, each a bit slower and deeper than the last, and to let their out breath float gently out and away, carrying any stress or fear with it. Then I ask them to picture holding a bright light in their hand, whether it’s a flame, a flashlight, or just a ball of light, and shrinking it down so that it grows smaller and brighter and fits on the tip of a finger. We are now ready to put our imaginations to the test. I like to do this on the inside of the skull, but you could do it on any other region of the body as long as it is not the most impacted by the ailment.

I shine my bright light on my finger, and Ally mirrors me as I put my finger in my ear and close my eyes. I ask her to take the light within her mind and let her imagination beam it around. I remain silent for a minute or so while she accomplishes this, then advise that she return when she is ready. She claims there is nothing there, but I invite her back in, to wait calmly, with curiosity, and to let her imagination surprise her, to imagine. What would it be if there was something there? She claims she is in a woods, where it is peaceful and still, and there are little birds everywhere. She now enjoys doing this.

Some will describe an extremely accurate visualisation, such as an anatomy book, while others will record a metaphorical or dream-like experience, and a large proportion will first state “nothing” and may require encouragement to “pretend,” “guess,” or “make it up.” The most critical aspect of the test run is that they have some level of experience. Now that we’ve conducted the test, we can move on to the symptom. I usually inquire as to how the light will enter the room. Some people like to inject it through the flesh, while others prefer to swallow it or push their finger into their navel or back into the ear.

I wait patiently as Ally places her finger to her breast and closes her eyes. After a minute, she removes her finger and exclaims, “There’s a round hard boulder of rock.” “Even if there’s this round hard boulder of rock in my breast…” we tap.

Once you’ve visualized the metaphor, whether it’s visual, audible, or felt, simply enter their description, their exact words, into EFT and tap for a round or two. Then put them back in there with nothing but their imagination. Assuming that anything will be different, incorporate their new description into the EFT setup and tapping.

Ally returns inside and discovers that the boulder now has an entrance similar to a cave, so we tap “even if there is an opening and a tunnel in the boulder…” When she returns to the cave, it transforms into a womb, and when she uses the word “womb,” she bursts into sobs, so we simply tap a few rounds with the single word “womb” until she calms down. Now the womb opens, and she sees her adult son (who has mental health issues) coiled up and sulking within. Ally tells me that her son is now living independently and that things are going well for him, but that this was not always the case, and that there were years of intense and overwhelming difficulty. We use The Movie Technique to help him process the emotions of several traumatic events that occurred when he was a teenager. We talk about her guilt, her helplessness at not being able to help him, and her rage at his constant demands. When she returns inside, she notices him smiling as he picks up his bag and exits the cave/womb, waving to her. We tap some more, and when she eventually returns inside, the boulder appears to her as soft rubber, similar to a child’s ball. Ally is smiling and appears to be at ease. I find out the results of her tests a week later: the lump is a benign cyst.

Imagineering can frequently lead us to the underlying issue that underpins the physical manifestation of disease. It’s a gentle approach that allows the specific core issue to surface when the person is ready to receive it and make the connections. Begin by tapping for whatever they imagine, then tap to clear the emotional intensity of any related memories that come into awareness. Use The Movie Technique or Tell the Story. There is no set pattern in these cases; simply begin with the imagination, images, sounds, and feelings, and allow the person’s body wisdom to take it where it needs to go. You do not need to know the diagnosis or anything about the condition as the therapist; you can trust that whatever is relevant will emerge.

To guide the person’s imagination into a healthy part of their body for comparison is one way to use imagination as part of Imagineering. Susan has eczema, so we take her light into the broken and itchy skin after a mental test. She is a musician, and she claims that everything in there is an angry red, and she can hear discordant and jarring Stockhausen. The light is then directed into a clear patch of skin on the other arm, where the color is clear blue and she can hear Bach. So we use EFT choices: “Even though my eczema skin is angry red and jarring Stockhausen, I choose clear Blue Bach all over me!”

Imagineering is gentle and fun for both client and therapist because the client’s images and metaphors bring their own humour and can fill therapy sessions with lightness that counteracts the serious nature of the condition and memories that may emerge. I hope you have fun with it.

EFT Master Gwyneth Moss

Part 3: An EFT Imagineering Experience Mary Nugent took part in my EFT Level Three course. I teach and show the EFT Imagineering approach as part of the course. This is a technique I invented that involves using a person’s imagination to ‘enter inside’ a bodily ailment in order to gather information to tap with. I detailed the approach and how to utilize it in the previous two EFT Imagineering posts.

Simply envision a little bright light at the tip of your index finger, then take a few calm deep breaths to relax (imagination flourishes when consciousness softens) and test your imagination by placing the light in your ear and going straight inside your mind with your imagination.

“I saw an old-fashioned university library with stained glass windows and shaded lights shining off polished wooden tables,” Mary adds, “but half of my skull, approximately one fourth in a mezzanine level, was filled of miniature cartoon creatures from a childhood comic book, the “numbskulls.” Everything was running smoothly thanks to the numbskulls. I appreciated how the absurdity contrasted with the solemnity of the academic library. I should mention that I have never considered myself to be a particularly visual person, and I have never been comfortable with visualisation exercises since I believed I had to work too hard to acquire any mental pictures. However, this was not the case with the imagineering.”

Mary was suffering from a sore shoulder that had been bothering her for nearly six months; she appeared fatigued and depleted. The discomfort was consistent and seemed to be worse at night, making it difficult for her to sleep and waking her up frequently with pain whenever she moved throughout the night. Mary is a normally upbeat and cheery person, but the discomfort was weighing her down, and pain relievers were ineffective. After a trial run, we placed the little light within her shoulder, which had an initial discomfort rating of 9.

“My immediate impression of my shoulder was that one side of it was hard frozen white ice and the other half was the scorching inferno of hell,” Mary explains.

“Even if there is hard frozen ice and the blazing fires of hell in my shoulder, I honestly and profoundly embrace myself and I truly love myself whatever these images imply!” we tapped.

“I shined the light again, and the ice was no longer sharp or frosted, but clear and blunter, as if it had begun to melt.” The hellfires were more like embers – I think I described the heat as “granny” heat now. Which signified a gentler, more compassionate heat to me. This made me cry since I still mourn my granny.”

We chatted about her grandma briefly before tapping again for the cold and heat, and she shined the light again, saying, “This time I only received an impression of Aladdin’s genie.” This genie resembled a cartoon character, with a huge upper torso and little legs that ended in sharp feet. His feet danced from the icy ice to the hot flames, as if he were jiggling from the cold ice to the scorching embers and back. His warm feet dissolved the ice, while his cold feet cooled the embers.” Everyone could see Mary was having a good time since she appeared lighter and we all laughed at the dancing genie hopping from the ice to the flames.

So we summoned the dancing genie. Each time Mary used the light to take her imagination inside and then reported what she saw, I simply mirrored her exact words back to her using EFT. “Even though Aladdin’s genie is dancing on the icy ice and scorching flames and I have no idea where that comes from, I embrace myself completely.” Then we did it again with the light beaming. The vision shifted to Cleopatra’s needle plunging into the center of her front shoulder, where it hurts the most. We tapped for the needle and the emotions it evoked before shining the light again. “This time, when I shined the light, I saw a lizard wrapping itself around the needle, and this lizard caused the obelisk’s edges to be blunted.” We tapped and shone once again, and the needle vanished, and the lizard has wrapped itself over my shoulder to nurse and guard it.”

A lizard can seem intimidating or undesirable to some people, but to Mary, this reptile was a healer and protector. At this time, she had obviously smiled, relaxed, and softened, so I inquired about her pain levels, which had dropped to around a 2.

“Not only did my discomfort decrease dramatically, but the exercise provided me with a tool to utilize when I felt the agony or when it was preventing me from sleeping,” Mary explains. That tool was the lizard; I had the impression that seeing the lizard draped over my shoulder would alleviate the agony.”

“When I got home after the session, I still had some discomfort, but it was a 5 or 6 rather than a 9 or 10. The significant difference was that I could almost instantly sleep through the night without being disturbed by agony. Then, after about two weeks, the pain went away totally for about six months. I have some renewed discomfort again, but when it comes back, I envision the lizard and it seems to help a lot.”

“No one was more astonished than I was at the completely unexpected pictures that sprang to me throughout this activity, Gwyneth.” As I previously stated, I had never considered myself to be particularly skilled at picture work or visualisation, and I had no idea that my imagination could be so vivid and varied. The images also evoked a lot of laughter, and I believe that humour may help me shift my energy and gain a different perspective on things. ”

I like the EFT Imagineering Technique because it allows me to work with both acute and chronic physical issues.

mild and indirect
respect for a person’s privacy amusing and hilarious quick and efficient

In fact, all of the finest aspects of EFT!

Gwyneth Paltrow

Part 4: A Tenderness in the Jaw

Liz Kirsop attended my “Art of Delivery” EFT workshop and would like to share her EFT Imagineering experience. Liz states:

“Ten years ago, I began to experience pain in my jaw and face, as well as headaches that my doctor diagnosed as migraine.” It got a lot worse when I started working in a call center, and I could hardly open my mouth wide enough to speak at times. I had to take days off due to terrible “migraines.” Fortunately, my dentist fitted me with a plastic splint resembling a boxer’s gum shield. The dentist explained that the problem was caused by my grinding or clamping my teeth while sleeping, so I had to wear it every night. It did help, but I discovered that I also needed to use a special pillow or my neck and shoulders would become painful. Whenever I went on business or vacation, I brought this gum shield and my pillow with me. Still, I would experience pain after a long drive, a bad night’s sleep, or during times of stress and worry.”

We all experience stress in our lives, and when it becomes chronic, our bodies must find a way to store it. Some of us store stress in our lower back or shoulders, while others store it in our breathing or gut. The jaw is another common stress dumping ground.

“I’d had a bad night and had driven a long distance to Gwyneth’s training group, and my face was really sore, so I gladly volunteered to be the Imagineering guinea pig.” Gwyneth first instructed me to imagine a bright light on the tip of my forefinger. I couldn’t help but think of E.T! We took our time getting it really bright before exploring my knee, imagining the light on the tip of my finger entering the joint and shining around. It was a pinkish white cave with smooth walls that was quite pleasant.”

Before applying the little light to the problem area, I always do a test drive of the imagination. Typically, I test by having the person insert the small light into their ear and use it to direct their imagination to the center of their head. In the previous article, Mary Nugent did something similar.

However, Liz felt that the problem with her face and jaw, as well as the associated migraines, was too much in her head, so we looked for another area to test – Liz suggested her knee. The test run provides a person with an experience of their imagination and informs the therapist whether we are working with visual imagination or auditory or feeling imagination. Even though many people lack a visual imagination, we can still use Imagineering. I might ask those who are highly auditory to go inside with a tiny and sensitive microphone rather than a light.

“Then we went to my ear to get into the jaw area, which was the source of the problem.” There was a dark chute down to my jaw from my ear, and I didn’t want to go down it, so we came out and tapped on that fear.”

At this point, as the therapist, I simply reflect Liz’s description back to her through EFT, as in “Even though it’s a dark chute and I’m scared to go down there, I really do accept myself, whatever that means.” Then I instruct Liz to return to her jaw with the light and her imagination and…

“When I returned in, there was more light and a handrail, and I descended the slope into the jaw area.” It was dark, cold, and claustrophobic. I had to cross a shallow pool and I didn’t want to. The water was freezing, and I had no idea how deep it went or what lurked beneath it. “I was lonely and afraid.”

“Even though it’s dark and cold and scary and lonely and I don’t want to cross that pool, I truly and deeply accept myself and all of this,” we say again.

“A member of the group asked why Gwyneth had not come into the cave or the pool with me as I seemed to need that, as a child would,” Liz says. “My perception was that it was important that Gwyneth didn’t come in because it was completely my place and I had to get comfortable in it by myself in my own way.” The tapping alters the imagery and feelings. We don’t need to interpret the meaning, get involved, or actively try to change things. As the therapist, you simply reflect back whatever imagery or emotion arises through the EFT process.

Liz recalled a memory from when she was about 11 years old at this point. She’d swum to the deep end of a public pool, found herself out of her depth, panicked, and thought she was drowning. Liz had clearly been a stronger swimmer than she thought because she was able to struggle to the side on her own and regain her breath. She survived, but she thought she was going to die in that moment of panic. There were lifeguards and family members around the pool, but no one had seen Liz struggle or panic. When a memory arises while using the Imagineering technique, we simply switch to the Movie Technique and use EFT as usual, naming the Movie and tapping bit by bit through the story’s crescendos. We did this for Liz with the Deep End movie, removing the fear and panic so she could experience it as more distant and tell it without intensity.

“A surprise was that once the panic subsided, I realized that I was embarrassed for nearly drowning, and I had never told anyone about it because I was embarrassed and just thought I was being stupid,” Liz says.

Liz’s sense of shame prevented her from receiving the comfort, support, and encouragement that would have prevented the trauma from becoming lodged in her system. When we have to keep something private and don’t talk about it, our brains are unable to integrate the experience, and it becomes buried with the full emotion, ready to be triggered by innocuous triggers that match the pattern.

We returned to Imagineering after finishing the movie process thoroughly, and Liz went back to her jaw. “I got back into the pool.” It wasn’t very deep – more like a Jacuzzi – the water was blue and little warmer than it had been, and it was a relaxing place to be. There was also a crab in the water, but it was a small one, and I was glad to see it.”

When the change occurs, a creature shows frequently in the imagery: the lizard that wrapped itself around Mary Nugent’s shoulder and this small crab in Liz’s teeth. Liz’s appearance had changed at this time, and the entire gang noticed it. Her face was brighter, and she was sitting up straighter in her chair. She remained suspicious and did not report any difference on that day, but six months later she adds, “I have not needed the gum-shield or the special pillow since then, and my jaw and face have been healthier than they have been for years.” I can still have a terrible night and have some of the clunking back now and again, but it is unusual. My voice has also altered, and I have less nasal problems.”

When I contacted Liz to ask if she would like to write about her experience, I guessed that whenever she felt out of her depth in her life or work, it was triggering that stuck memory of the deep end, with all the panic and grim determination of survival and the shame of being stupid and not being able to tell anyone or ask for comfort. Liz was probably living her life with the mental calculation “out of my depth = I’m going to die.” I didn’t say anything since it would have interfered with her process at the time, but six months later I made that recommendation.

“That helped me make the link that the jaw grinding was tied to feeling’out of my depth,” Liz explains. So now I understand what the imagery means. And isn’t it fascinating how the subconscious’s language and imagery try to help us heal? We truly know what we need to know in order to heal ourselves someplace within ourselves, but we need unusual procedures like EFT and Imagineering to access those locations and decipher the information. In reality, my experience with Imagineering demonstrates that it didn’t matter if I comprehended the imagery or not. The remedy occurred prior to the comprehension.”

Liz makes an excellent argument. Her imagination and tapping worked in tandem, and her thinking mind was not required to comprehend or generate meaning. So, when employing EFT Imagineering, give your thinking mind a break. You are not required to understand, modify, or become engaged with significance. Simply utilize what your imagination supplies and trust that your inventive, creative mind and EFT will do the rest. If memories arise, simply run them through the Movie approach before returning to the Imagineering process.

Gwyneth

Part 5: The Cave’s Bones

I previously presented EFT Imagineering to an audience of nearly 200 people. I wanted to show how profound but respectful, meaningful yet amusing, and simple yet sophisticated this approach can be. I required a demonstration subject with a chronic physical disease who was also amenable to employing visual imagination. Barbara Friedman approached me the day before my presentation with a marketing question. Barbara claims:

“I’m not one to volunteer as a topic – ever – so finding myself onstage beside Gwyneth Moss on Friday morning felt strange.” I had seen Gwyneth on panels throughout the conference, and she instilled a high level of trust with her respect for the client’s privacy, depth of knowledge, and confidence in her EFT experience. Gwyneth had noticed I was walking with a cane the day before and mentioned she needed someone for her EFT Imagineering demonstration. I was open since imagery is both personal and familiar to me. I was hooked when she instructed me not to tell her anything about myself or my problem. “Are you visual?” she inquired.

Barbara staggered up the steps onto the stage the next morning, appearing exhausted and concerned and leaning heavily on her cane. I had purposefully avoided asking her about her past because I wanted her imagination and EFT to do the job. All I knew was that she is a seasoned psychotherapist who lives alone and suffers from pain and restricted movement in her right hip.

When consciousness fades, imagination blooms. To prepare Barbara for using her imagination once she had settled into the high chair provided on stage, I asked her to slow and deepen her breathing and brink.