Rape can have a devastating effect on a person’s life. Some of these effects are easy to identify. It is not uncommon for people to have difficulties in sexual relationships, trust, feelings of irrational guilt, and other possible things. How can it affect a person's life? Can rape also cause or become part of a snake phobia?

Ruth participated in one of my EFT [Emotional Free Technology] training courses. In one of the activities, she mentioned her snake phobia. Obviously, in Ruth's mind snake, and in the life events she suffered from sexual assault, to some extent it is interrelated. Somehow, the way the attacker moved reminded her of a snake.

Training rarely provides enough time to fully explore the issue, as is the case here. However, we were able to handle the events she stated and deal with it so much that she felt that it no longer affected her. Related to her phobia, she found that she felt more relaxed about the snake's thoughts and their movements. However, this is not a complete story.

About a year later, I relived Ruth's snake phobia. She volunteered in good faith to let me continue to work hard to see what else might cause her problems. She also agreed that the meeting could be recorded so that others could learn more about how to use EFT.

Working with her phobia quickly found that the early life events when she was hospitalized at the age of two and came out of her body were also related to her snake fear. After using EFT to clear this connection, I let Ruth see a snake. There is a book near her with photos inside. Opening the book, Ruth exclaimed, "Well, not happy." She went on to say, "I look at their details? Their heads are really a bit of a penis."

It will soon be seen that when she saw the snake, her thoughts were linking it to the early events of her life. Ruth did a lot of work on her in this matter, even though she still vividly saw the rape itself in her mind. We participated in this activity until it disappeared from her mind and became more difficult to remember. At this point, testing her feelings about the snake got a very different reaction from Ruth. She actually expressed interest in reading them. Within a week of this session, Ruth visited a pet store and looked very calm in front of a twisted, grumpy snake. In her own words, she said, "The pet shop owner took it out of the cage. I was amazed at how beautiful her black and white markup was. I left. I asked him how he knew." He said that because she was yelling at her, she was crazy. tongue. "

Judging from our work to clear Ruth's snake phobia, it is clear that the earlier rape was a key event in her life and caused her fear of the snake. Although these two things are related to Ruth, there are many different reasons for other snake phobias.

Rape and snake phobia – can they connect? was originally published on Spring