Psychological Reversal and the Inner Demon Destroyer

[Guest guest]

Doc and Group,

 

I did the Inner Demon Destroyer on a friend today when something interesting

happened.

 

As my friend was doing the psychological reversal part ( " Even though X I

deeply appreciate and accept myself " ), her fear started getting worse and

worse.

 

Her face scrunched up in pain. She turned all red. And she ended up

breaking down and crying.

 

Now the thing is, I was holding her neurovasculars this whole time!

 

I was thinking, " Whoa, what the hell? This has never happened to me before,

what do I do? " So I go into hakalau, ask the magic question, and the thing

that came back was " Stop the PR and keep going with the IDD. " So I did.

 

I stop her and hold her while she cries and calms down for a bit. She asks

me if she was supposed to feel worse and I just reframed it as " Yeah, it's

getting all the emotional toxins out of your body. " I'm not sure if this

was the right thing to do, but I just couldn't leave her in that state.

 

Anyway, we continue with the tapping and at first she seems to be getting

even worse. But as we go on through the sequence she gets better and

better.

 

Until finally she's laughing about how silly she feels hitting herself and

repeating the same thing over and over.

 

I just tell her that at least she's not feeling bad anymore.

 

So the story has a happy ending, but I still wonder, What the hell happened

during the PR? What caused her fear to get worse?

 

Also her fear only went from a 10 to a 5. Pretty good, but not as good as I

want to be at IDD. Usually I get it down AT LEAST to a 2 or 3.

 

So is the problem just a really big fear? Or is there something that I

miscalibrated or did wrong?

 

I want to know so I don't repeat the same mistake again and/or know how to

handle the situation next time it comes up.

 

Thanks.

 

Mike