How To Use EFT tapping For Menorrhagia?

In this article, you will learn how Emotional Freedom Tapping techniques can effectively address the condition of Menorrhagia, characterized by heavy bleeding and painful periods in women of reproductive age. We will explore how emotions such as worry and stress can exacerbate symptoms, and delve deeper into how EFT tapping can offer relief and support for managing Menorrhagia.

Imagine yourself profusely bleeding not just for a single week, but for 45 days in a row. This was happening to one of my clients.

The stabbing pain in her lower abdomen would not allow her to get out of bed all day. The combined oral contraceptive pill, typically used to manage heavy periods, was no longer providing relief. Her worries were worsening the situation. It had become a living nightmare for her.

When the pain becomes persistent, it often disrupts one’s peace of mind and causes both frustration and exhaustion. Tapping proved to be a valuable tool in breaking the cycle of worry and anxiety associated with her blood loss.

It's essential to consider comprehensive approaches that not only address physical symptoms and blood clotting disorders but also acknowledge the emotional well-being of individuals facing challenges related to menorrhagia.

What Is Menorrhagia and Why Does It Results in Heavy Blood Clots?

Periods are never fun! Despite the biological reason for having them, one despises everything about them: Cramps, mood swings, and cravings.

In Menorrhagia, the normal process of bleeding for 3-7 days doubles which means that your period lasts for an average of 10 days. This happens when a period gets heavier and is called ‘heavy bleeding (1).

There is no exact amount of blood that clarifies whether you are having normal periods or a bleeding disorder.

Periods are never fun! Despite the biological reason for having them, one despises everything about them: Cramps, mood swings, and cravings.

There is no exact amount of blood that clarifies whether you are having normal periods or a bleeding disorder.

On average, a woman loses up to 80ml of blood every month, so anything above that standard blood count is classified as heavy bleeding. This condition of heavy menstrual flow with severe cramps is known as Menorrhagia (2).

Dysfunctional uterine bleeding, characterized by heavy or painful periods, large blood clots, and menstrual blood loss, is a common issue in women.

This condition, often linked to hormonal imbalances or uterine problems, leads to symptoms like menorrhagia, blood clots, and period pain.

For effective relief, EFT for menorrhagia, reducing stress hormones and promoting calmness, can be beneficial.

Untreated menorrhagia may result in prolonged discomfort, impacting normal functioning and possibly causing complications such as iron deficiency anaemia and blood clotting disorders, like you pass large blood clots.

Regular monitoring, including blood test, helps identify underlying issues, with interventions like the combined oral contraceptive pill suggested to regulate hormonal imbalances and manage blood loss.

For many women, it becomes impossible to relax, and further, the heavy periods drain both mind and the body. Act before it reduces your vitality, disrupts your sleep, and exhausts your body.

What Causes Menorrhagia?

There are three main causes of Menorrhagia, namely:

Uterine-related Problems
Hormonal Imbalances
Other Disorders or Illness

Although not everyone with Menorrhagia will have the same root cause, the majority will relate to the below mentioned list of possible causes:

Uterine-Related Problems or Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding

The prime causes of menorrhagia are as follows:

Uterine Fibroids or Polyps: Non-cancerous growths in the muscle of the womb or tumors of the uterus, particularly the intrauterine system, can contribute to significant impacts on mental wellbeing and the overall quality of life.
Uterine Cancer (Endometrial Cancer): This serious cause affects the womb lining, potentially leading to heavy menstruation and prompting the need for interventions such as endometrial sampling.
IUD or Coil: Certain types of birth control, including the progestogen hormone, such as Intrauterine Contraceptive Device (IUD) and coil, are well-known for causing heavy periods and influencing menstrual loss, impacting the overall experience of menstrual flow.
Pelvic Infections (Chlamydia): Various pelvic infections, notably Chlamydia, can contribute to heavy menstrual bleeding.
Pregnancy-Related Complications: Issues such as miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy can lead to irregular bleeding, necessitating vigilant monitoring of symptoms and emergency treatment.
Blood Clotting Disorder: Although rare, a blood clotting disorder can be a significant factor in the development of heavy bleeding, especially when certain medications interfere with normal clotting mechanisms.
Hormonal Imbalances: Conditions like an underactive thyroid gland and disruptions in the progestogen hormone can play a role in menstrual health, potentially leading to heavier periods and impacting mental well-being.

Polycystic Ovary Syndrome or Thyroid Hormonal Imbalances

When you do not ovulate every month because of estrogen and progesterone issues—both of which are hormones—can give you a heavy period.

This is a major symptom reported by many women either with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) or having an under-active thyroid gland.

Hypothyroidism or an under-active thyroid gland is a situation when the body doesn't produce enough thyroid hormones (3).

Heavy Periods: Menstrual Blood Loss

The following are the less common causes resulting in heavy menstrual bleeding:

VWD (Bleeding-related disorder): The Von Willebrand Disease (VWD) is a blood-related disorder where the blood fails to clot properly. It is closely related to a blood clotting disorder, or you bleed heavily. Many women with VWD delays in releasing platelets so a clot takes longer to form. Hence, this results in excessive bleeding (4).
Non-bleeding-related disorders: Non-bleeding-related disorders are associated with liver, kidney, thyroid, or cancer diseases.

Signs and Symptoms of Menorrhagia

“How do you identify Menorrhagia?”

For most women, there is no abnormality with the uterus (womb). They find none of the changes within their body that are discussed above.

If you find the following points true for your body, you must consult a medical practitioner for treatment options (5):

Significant impact on menstrual flow, requiring frequent pad/tampon changes.
Irregular bleeding or bleeding between periods may indicate issues with the intrauterine system.
Doubling up on pads to control your menstrual flow.
Having to change pads or tampons during the night due to heavier flow.
Heavier periods and blood flow or abnormal bleeding.
Longer menstrual cycles lasting more than 7 days.
Blood clots larger than a quarter may suggest problems with the womb lining.
Constant pain in the lower abdomen during periods or dysfunctional uterine bleeding.
Vaginal Discharge, breast tenderness or weight gain.
Symptoms of anemia, like tiredness, fatigue, or shortness of breath.

Pain from Menorrhagia could be continuous and may have a significant impact on the quality of life. It can even occur suddenly and last for a short period.

When the doctor is aware of your medical history and painful period cycle, they'll suggest an appropriate treatment to diagnose your menorrhagia. This could include a first line treatment, pelvic exam, ultrasound, pap test, or sometimes a biopsy, utilizing sound waves and endometrial sampling to examine the womb line or further tests.

Based on personal preferences, treatment options for menorrhagia includes hormonal treatments or procedures to treat the uterine lining or remove the uterus. In some cases, an intrauterine system may be recommended to regulate menstrual loss and some other medicines.

There's another effective method to treat menorrhagia: Emotional Freedom Techniques Therapy! This is a therapeutic treatment established by Gary Craig in 1993, and it can provide relief by addressing emotional factors contributing to heavy menstruation.

For those new to EFT, it is a Tapping Therapy that combines tapping on acupressure points while speaking statements out loud to accept situations.

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What are the Two Aspects of EFT Tapping?

Emotional Freedom Technique is a form of alternative therapy method involving intentionally tapping gently with fingertips on acupuncture meridian end-points while speaking out statements founded in truth.

EFT or "Tapping" is an easy-to-learn, quick technique that anyone can use with a little guidance.

It allows you to change the way you respond to uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, and troubling memories. For example, the tension associated with profuse bleeding.

Common meridian points used in EFT are:

Karate chop point on the hand
Eyebrow
Temple
Under the nose
Chin
Collarbone
Under the arm

Touch - one of five languages of EFT Tapping

Soon with EFT Tapping, a change in energy is experienced and you start recovering from the troubles you faced initially.

Furthermore, EFT Tapping involves two primary aspects — talk and touch.

Talk

EFT's primary element is communication. Tapping, like many other therapies and healing modalities, is a form of communication.

The value of talking in therapy can be gauged by the fact that a branch of psychotherapy called Talk Therapy was developed on it.

Talking is an essential part of psychotherapy, which is why we also call it Talk Therapy. It's a mode of communication between the therapist and the distressed individual.

Talking about emotions and feelings can actually help shift perspectives and even make you feel differently.

Techniques like Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) also involve this aspect of talk in their practice.

Touch

EFT's primary element is communication. Tapping, like many other therapies and healing modalities, is a form of communication.

One of the five love languages, touch is a necessary aspect of EFT Tapping.

Touch can be an extremely important factor in healing as it communicates care, affection, and presence—all of which a troubled person needs.

Research shows that babies who are touched and held soothingly are less likely to face psychological challenges later in life, than the babies who did not receive enough or any safe touch.

EFT Tapping, as the name suggests, involves tapping on specific points on the body known as Tapping points.

EFT Tapping Steps For Menorrhagia

EFT Tapping directions and Inner Child Matrix for Menorrhagia help you accept yourself and overcome emotions linked closely with Menorrhagia.

Whether you are a patient yourself, or healing a client, you can use the following steps:

Step 1:

First, use EFT tapping on what it feels like to have Menorrhagia

Explore the physical sensations in the body associated with Menorrhagia and use the physical tension tapping process to reduce these sensations.

To get started, begin by investigating the physical nature of Menorrhagia.

Connect with the symptoms and notice where you feel sensations in the body.

Ask yourself the following questions and write down the answers if you want:

How does it feel to have Menorrhagia?
What makes me anxious about Menorrhagia?
What negative beliefs does Menorrhagia trigger in me?
If I were to no longer get anxious or worried about Menorrhagia, what changes would I witness in routine activities?

Now, bring into your awareness, a time when you felt affected by menorrhagia mentally. Briefly, you can also ask yourself the following questions to explore further:

What triggered me the most?
Where in the body did I experience the symptoms triggering?
What is the colour, texture, size, and shape of the symptoms in the body
What are the sensations like? For example, rough or smooth?

Measure the level of pain:

Now, measure the level of pain caused by Menorrhagia by asking:

"What number is the pain at, where 10 is really high and 1 is not high at all." Just go with whatever comes up spontaneously, without overthinking about it.

Tap on the Karate Chop or side of the hand EFT Tapping points:

“Even though I feel anxious about [name your symptoms eg. bleeding heavily, painful period, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, etc.] and I can feel it in my [name the part of the body where you are experiencing it] and it's at a number [mention the number at which symptom is at, say 6] and it makes me feel dizzy, and I cannot get out of bed, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

Tap on how you feel emotionally, knowing the bleeding is not stopping. For example,

“Even though I feel worried when heavy period happens, as I go back to being in bed continuously and feel dizzy when I get up, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

Tap on how you feel emotionally, knowing the medicines are not working. For example,

“Even though I am taking really strong homeopathy medication and the medications that used to help me seemingly do not have an effect, as usual, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

Repeat this 3 times.

Start tapping on the facial EFT Tapping points

Tap on the upper body, facial and finger EFT Tapping points for Menorrhagia using these phrases:

Eyebrow: This (name of the symptom) ...
Side of the Eye: So painful...
Under the Eye: Pain in my (part of the body) ...
Under the Nose: It's a red colour...
Chin: At a number 6...
Collarbone: So rough...
Under the arm: This (name of the symptom) ...
Thumb: I feel it in my (part of the body)...
Index Finger: So painful...
Middle Finger: Really painful...
Little Finger: The colour (name the colour, say red)...

Close the sequence

Close the sequence by coming back to the EFT Karate chop tapping points and repeat once:

“Even though I feel anxious about [name the symptoms you are experiencing, eg. heavy bleeding, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, painful periods, blood loss etc.] and I can feel it in my [name the part of the body where you are experiencing it] and it's at a number [mention the number at which symptom is at, say 6] and it makes me feel really dizzy, and I cannot get out of bed, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

“Even though I feel worried when starting periods or Menorrhagia happens, as I go back to being in bed continuously and feel dizzy when I get up, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

"Even though I am taking really strong homeopathy medication and the medications that used to help me seemingly do not have an effect, as usual, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

Relax

Take a gentle breath in, breathe out, and go take a sip of water.

Test

At the end of the EFT Tapping directions, you can ask yourself the following questions:

Now, what number are the symptoms at?
What happens when I think about Menorrhagia?
How does it make me feel?
How does it feel to have Menorrhagia?

If it has reduced to a level, you feel happy with, you can stop. Or you can repeat this process by going back to Step 1 if you feel like the number could come down a little more.

Step 2:

Discover past experiences when you felt pain caused by Menorrhagia and clear them.

Explore memories related to the tension of menorrhagia.

To reveal the memories linked to feeling it, you can ask questions like:

When have I felt these symptoms caused by Menorrhagia before?
What do these symptoms remind me of?
When did the symptoms start? What happened?
Was there ever a time when I did not experience these symptoms?
What can trigger and bring on the symptoms?

Identify past events linked to the feeling of these symptoms and resolve them with the help of tapping therapy. You can ask the following questions:

When have I felt the symptoms before?
What happens to trigger the symptoms?
Who or what triggers the feeling of symptoms?

These questions will identify your past experiences associated with the pain.

For example, you started experiencing symptoms of menorrhagia in July 2019 when your menstrual cycle lasted for 40 days (to keep track, you can have a menstrual diary). You can say something like this:

“Even though it started in July 2019, and it lasted for 40 days and (explain symptom), my Hb went down to 8, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.”

Step 3:

Explore any other limiting beliefs that prevented you from being free from the pelvic pain, caused by Menorrhagia.

Limiting beliefs are conscious or unconscious thoughts that prevent us from growing and being happy.

Try to think of the limiting beliefs you have. Then consciously change them from negative to positive.

Explore deeply the themes that make it worse. For example, you can ask yourself:

What makes me feel angrier?
What makes me feel more stressed?
What makes me more bothered about others?
What makes me feel it's going to be ok?

If it feels like the body is bleeding from within and crying out tears through the womb of all the past and current hurt, let yourself cry it all out.

For example, "Even though I am not able to (say the thing you are unable to express or tell), and it gets worse when I am angry and frustrated, I deeply and completely accept and love myself."

Follow the tapping sequence after this.

Step 4:

Close each session with positive tapping.

Examples of positive tapping sequences are:

“Even though I have idiopathic Menorrhagia, now, I am open to feeling healthy and disease-free.”
“Even though I am bleeding too much, I am open to the bleeding stopping now.”
“Even though I was living with this disease for many years/months, now, I open myself to the possibility of being free from diseases.
“Even though it's really hard and I worried about it, I can relax now.”
“Even though when I get angry and frustrated, making it worse, when I know it's going to be ok, it gets better somehow, and I know it's going to be ok.”
“Even though all I ever wanted was their approval, I love and accept myself and I have decided to love and accept me regardless of how they see me.”

CONCLUSION

Repeating a few sentences in EFT Tapping does not mean that you are trying to convince yourself. Neither does it bind you to believe in false affirmations.

It simply means that first, you're allowing yourself to confront feelings of pain and pessimism, and secondly, dealing with them by accepting and validating them.

In other words, EFT allows your body's energy to tune itself into a more positive flow. Who wouldn't wish for a positive flow to last for a really long time?

A combination of both tapping directions and the Inner Child Matrix helped my clients with Menorrhagia build the strength needed to deal with the distress caused by prolonged bleeding.

Hence, EFT tapping is indeed an amazing tool to help you deal with the pain and worry associated with Menorrhagia.

Would you like to learn how to use the EFT technique to help yourself or your loved ones?

When medications fail to help you with diseases with symptoms suggesting Menorrhagia, EFT empowers you in dealing with the pain and other associated symptoms effectively and keeps your physical, mental, as well as emotional health in check.

You could either fight back or let it win. What are you going to choose?

Love,

Dr Rangana Rupavi Choudhuri (PhD)

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In summary, Menorrhagia is a common disorder that causes a great deal of pain and stress to the one suffering. While there are various treatments available, the best one to bring astonishing results is EFT Tapping where you tap away all the deep-seated emotions, worries. and thoughts. With faith, you use well-tailored statements on individual symptoms. Are you ready to try out this brilliant therapy?

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