The Oaxaca Project

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.