Healing the Nations

After a talk about EFT, Dave (not his real name) a Native American elder came up to me and asked me if I could help him to work on, what he called, “intergenerational trauma.” He indicated that he had a lot of anger and hostility towards the white man for what they had done to his people. The next day we met, and he told me the story of how his great-great grandmother had walked the trail of tears and what happened to her. I will spare you the gruel details as they should not occupy anyone’s consciousness. He also said that many people had told him to forgive and forget, “but,” he said: ”I have no clue how to do that.” After he was done telling the story, I felt it safer, as the intensity was really high, to ask him first if there was anything in his own life that was representative of this trauma. He recalled a time in first grade where he was the only Native American child in the class room and his, also white, teacher showed all the kids the yearly school pictures and hung them all up in front of the class. When Dave’s picture came up, the teacher started to laugh, and then all the children started to laugh, making Dave feel humiliated, ridiculed and singled out as the laughing stock of his peers. He strongly felt the sense of not belonging there. He scaled the intensity at an 8. We tapped on the feeling of not belonging, the sense of humiliation, the feeling of being shamed for who he was. After a few rounds he felt the intensity go down to a three. We did a few more rounds and it came down to a zero.
Then I asked him if he was ready to work on the memory of the stories that he told me earlier, and he said he was ready. He scaled his intensity on this issue around a 10. We tapped on all the feelings of anger and hostility in him and the fact that the white man was absolutely clueless about how the Native Americans lived and how close they were to the earth mother; that his people did not understand the concept of owning land. We tapped on the feelings of powerlessness as the white men took their land, their children, their women, and whatever else they could get their hands on. Then we tapped on his anger towards the white men for displacing his tribe on foreign land so they could not even provide for their own families. After many rounds just tapping and tapping on all the aspects, he reported to feel surprised about how much lighter he felt around all this.
I asked him if anything else had come up during the tapping. He responded that he felt sometimes still angry when white people came to his tribe’s Sun dances and took even their sacred ceremonies and often used them for their own self aggrandizement. We tapped on that a few more rounds saying things such as: “they still have not learned our ways, they still are takers, and they still are clueless” After a while the intensity on this reduced also to a 0.
At end the session we did a little tapping ceremony to ask the Great Spirit to accept his anger and frustrations and replace it with peace and joy, to also see his Native brothers and sisters released from this trauma and dancing in joy. To realize that the white men can take all the possessions they have, but they have never been able to take away the love for the Great Spirit that the Native Americans still hold in their hearts.
After the session Dave hung his blanket over my shoulders and said: “I want to thank you so much for what you have done. Now you are my sister”
This was one of the more powerful sessions I have ever done as it was amazing to me that a Native American elder would ask a white practitioner to help heal the wounds that were inflicted by my race. I was deeply humbled as we were sitting there tapping. I realized that I was representative of the perpetrators and Dave was the representative of the victims. And we both were there with a deep intention to heal. It will never stop to amaze me how far EFT’s healing powers reach. As we are all One in consciousness, there really is no limit in what we can heal and whole.