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María Guadalupe received her very own TappyBear on Sept 28, 2011. Look how María Guadalupe has changed in just two weeks. She’s just 3 years old, and she knows how to use EFT.

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Dr Armando Quero Hernández, Head Oncologist at the Hospital General Aurelio Valdivieso, shares his viewpoint about how the use of EFT or Tapping with children with cancer improves the quality of their lives.

Watch the video to hear all he has to say about the benefits of EFT in a hospital setting.

Working with Paulina has been one of those amazing experiences. She certainly is one of my best teachers. I’ll share in my way what transpired in order to understand what you’ll see in the video.

Paulina has Wilms Tumor. She lost a kidney first then had tumors in her chest. She was given the standard radiation treatments for these tumors. Unfortunately she also had two tumors in her brain. Back in May 2010 she got really bad and went into a semi-coma for almost 3 weeks with such low life force that I feared she wouldn’t make it. Since she was not awake I started tapping with her parents to help them deal with the sadness and stress of seeing their daughter in such a dire state.

After her treatments and lots of emotional support via EFT, Reiki and other energy techniques, she was awake. Of course, awake but grumpy and angry and not willing to get up. The Head Oncologist told me she is capable of sitting up but wouldn’t. I told him, “I’ll go work on that today.” Here is what transpired.

With this information I started tapping with her as she was lying on her bed. I joked with her that I heard she didn’t want to sit up. She nodded. I started tapping on her while letting her know I wasn’t going to force her to do anything she didn’t want to. In fact I tapped that she could stay lying in bed as long as she wanted. She was like a princess with “servants”, you know all those nurses etc. She could stay there forever. Then I looked at the girl in the next bed coloring. I tapped that I thought it would be more fun to color, or how about jump on the bed. I’m sure the nurses might get mad but that’s ok. We’d only have to wash the sheets. Then I said how about we dance. Wouldn’t that be fun! I saw a spark come into her eyes.

I stopped at this point and we joked around. The next morning I had a very pleasant surprise. This little girl after lying flat on her bad for almost 3 weeks was sitting up, yes, propped up with towels, but sitting. Even her nurse was amazing at the difference as she was one of the people trying to get her to sit up for days.

I continue to tap with Paulina about coloring, jumping on the bed, dancing. We included what skirt she’d wear – her blue skirt. What shoes – her mother’s new brown shoes. That became our tapping routine about how much fun it would be.

Within days she was sitting up on her own talking about dancing every day. Then her father brought in music. She would sing along. I came in and we did what I call a “bed dance” as she had yet been up to walk. She sat up, we put on the music and she “danced” by moving her shoulders and arms. It was beautiful!

Following this dance, the next day she was up walking with her mother’s help. Watching this process was so beautiful.

Shortly after she and I were dancing next to her bed. Finally the joy of jumping on the bed.

Enjoy my dancing star Paulina.

Jareth is an incredible young lady. With EFT she raised her self-esteem and her ability to manage her cancer. She focused on her life, being happy and participating in school activities, even sports.

Listen to her words and those of her mother explaining how EFT has helped them.

Jareth has advice for others with cancer.

What do you do when you have a very ill daughter with cancer? How do you manage the emotions that arise?

Ernesto explains how Tapping (EFT) helped him stop the mind spin he had that day when he was worrying about everything and couldn’t focus. He relaxed, felt encouraged and inspired to continue helping his daughter.

That is a blessing!!

What would you do if you had to have a painful procedure like a spinal tap? A preteen named Sergio reduced the pain caused by a spinal tap with Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). By tapping on his fear of the procedure along with tapping during the spinal tap, Sergio reduced the pain.

Deborah D Miller using EFT in a hospital setting in a complementary fashion is helping many children reduce and/or alleviate the pain associated with this procedure. Deborah teaches these children how to use EFT to manage their emotions, such as fear of the procedure as well as the pain of it. This is a benefit to all involved as no one wants to cause or observe pain in a child during cancer treatments.

Sergio also used EFT to get rid of the anger he had about having cancer. EFT also helped Sergio’s father feel more relaxed as he could see how it relaxed his son. EFT supports both father and son manage stress and pain during cancer treatments created a calmer relaxed experience.

Watch this video of Arizbe, a mother who used EFT to accept that her son has cancer. Now that can be a difficult task. Making it easier and softer is just what EFT does.

Observe what happened with her son and herself as they tapped together.

Having resources such as EFT to improve the quality of life of both the child and mother is important.

Erick has a liver tumor that is occupying 90% of his liver. He is new to the hospital.

The first day he was in oncology we did some EFT together. He smiled and told me that the pain he was feeling dropped off.

I taught him how to use EFT to continue “talking to his body” in order to love himself and his body so he could feel better.

I spoke with him today and this is what he did on his own over the weekend. It is so delightful when a child takes a technique like EFT and uses it to feel better.

Watch and see how his body responded.

Enjoy watching the children at the hospital enjoy “Dia de los Reyes” when children get their Christmas toys, eat tamales and hope not to get the “doll” in the Pan de Reyes.

Lucy made Javier a very happy boy today as she donated the funds for a TappyBear for him.
You can see the smile on his face. He is happily tapping to help him feel better as he deals
with cancer.

You too can participate in being a miracle for a child with cancer.