Frequently Asked Questions - Lena's Healing Haven

Emotional Freedom Techniques

Disclaimer

EFT is a very flexible improvement tool that can be used for just about everything. I am using my version of it here and have had extraordinary results. I urge you to contact me for more information. The original version and complete training can be found at http://www.emofree.com.

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• What is Emotional Freedom Techniques?
• How long does relief of the problem last?
• What if I don’t fully believe in it?
• What if I want to bring my loved one for therapy and he or she is not open to it?
• What can I expect from the sessions?
• How can I maximize these sessions for myself?
• Why should I choose you as my therapist?
• How do I know if this is the right therapy for me?
• But I have tried EFT on myself and it doesn’t work.
• Are there any side effects?
• How many sessions do I need?
• What if I cannot afford the sessions?
• Can I do EFT consultations with you over the phone or Skype?

What is Emotional Freedom Techniques?

Often known as “emotional acupuncture without needles”, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an amazingly simple yet powerful energy technique that is used by millions of people around the world for physical and emotional ailments, such as headaches, allergies, anxiety, depression, phobias, etc. Developed by Gary Craig ( www.emofree.com ) based on holistic principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine, it involves tapping on key meridian points of the body to release blocked energy, hence allowing the body to heal itself of negative emotions and physical symptoms. Just like removing a dam in the river, the water then starts flowing naturally, and with the use of EFT, you will find yourself not only feeling better but also gaining new perspectives and solutions for your issue.

How long does relief of the problem last?

Depending on the complexity of the issue and experience of the user, this can produce immediate temporary relief, or even release deep-seated blockages that result in permanent shifts of the original problem. In our sessions together, I will combine my experience and intuition to clear the roots of your problem, allowing deep and permanent changes to occur for you, which often has a ripple effect on other areas of your life.

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What if I don’t fully believe in it?

It still works! EFT is a body-based technique and does not require belief for healing to occur.

What if I want to bring my loved one for therapy and he or she is not open to it?

It is possible for us to do surrogate therapy and hence help your loved one indirectly. Surrogate EFT is where we tap on the person’s behalf without his or physical presence or conscious knowledge. This is based on the assumption that our intentions are pure and intended for healing to take place for that person’s highest good. I will also work with you directly on your response to that person’s issue, because often we contribute to the problem without knowing it. Many of my clients find that just by clearing their own emotional blocks, their loved ones change for the better as well.

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What can I expect from the sessions?

That it would be gentle, light hearted, profoundly relaxing, and deeply healing! I bring to the session my many years of experience, excellent intuition as well as my deep belief that we are divinely supported by higher beings for healing to occur. Hence, our sessions would be like a seamless flow that brings about only wonderful healing for you. Each session is different, but in a typical session, there would be a lot of EFT work, which I would blend together with other healing interventions such as sound healing. Through our sessions, you will also learn to use EFT for yourself so that you are empowered to manage life’s challenges more effectively for the rest of your life.

Also, expect that I am only your facilitator. I am not interested in giving you advice and telling you how to solve your problem. My interest is in empowering people in finding their own answers and strengths. Hence, expect a lot of respect from me, and to be guided gently and sensitively so that you reconnect with your own wisdom – and trust me, it’s there.

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How can I maximize these sessions for myself?

Knowing EFT is not a must, but if you do know EFT, it saves me some time in explaining and teaching you the technique, which means we can spend more time doing actual healing work. You may come by for one of my “ Prosperity with EFT ” sessions on Friday evenings to experience EFT first, or purchase my highly popular book “Emotional Freedom At Your Fingertips ” which has been praised by many as concise and inspiring and you can easily read in an hour.

Also, be committed to your healing by coming on time and doing your homework between sessions (which I promise to keep simple!). Above all, set a strong intention for healing, and come with an open mind, ready to receive healing!

Why should I choose you as my therapist?

First of all, because you came to my website, this means the universe has guided you to me, for me to assist you in your healing. Second, my style is gentle, intuitive and loving – all of my clients feel very safe with me, and this also means that healing will only occur on a deeper level which is good value for money! Third, EFT is a very great passion of mine, and so is my mission to support others in realizing their true potential. I do not believe in long term therapy, as I truly believe that you already have all the wisdom and resources to walk your path, including the difficult parts. My job is just to help you connect to your wisdom and resources, so that you can progress on your path and achieve your goals more swiftly.

Do note, however, that I only ask that you would receive the healing you need at this time of your life – and even if it means you seek it elsewhere, I would still rejoice for you. If you do feel connected to me through my website, I will only do my utmost best to ensure that through our sessions, you receive maximum healing for your highest good.

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How do I know if this is the right therapy for me?

EFT has been known to deliver results more quickly than most therapies and even medical doctors and psychologists around the world are incorporating it into their practice because of its simplicity and effectiveness. You may come for my “Prosperity with EFT” sessions which are held on every Friday evening to get an experience of EFT first. Fees are by donation and you will feel the effects immediately, after which you may then decide if you wish to have EFT sessions with me for more intensive healing. To find out more about EFT, you may visit the original website by Gary Craig, founder of EFT, at www.emofree.com where you can download a free 79-page manual and read countless testimonials and case studies by professionals and normal folks like you.

But I have tried EFT on myself and it doesn’t work.

Seasoned EFT practitioners like myself use EFT with 80-95% success rate, due to our training and experience. People who find that EFT hasn’t work on them are probably applying the technique wrongly or focusing on overly global issues which is a very common mistake. When used in a proficient manner, EFT can often work wonders, and even beginners can frequently get very good results, as long as they are doing it correctly. You might want to attend my EFT workshops or buy my book “Emotional Freedom At Your Fingertips ” to improve your knowledge and proficiency in using EFT. Also, during our sessions, I will demonstrate EFT with you to ensure that you do it correctly, as well as break down your issues into smaller pieces, which will help you experience results more quickly.

Are there any side effects?

EFT is a very safe and natural therapy that taps on your body’s healing ability to clear energy blockages. The only possible side effects are what some may call “healing reactions” which are similar to detoxification effects. Healing reactions that may be experienced by a minority of my clients during or after a session are tiredness, feeling light-headed or dizzy, and very rarely, headaches or nausea. These symptoms are signs of intense energy processing in the body and will usually ease in a short while, though for a few it may take a few days. Hence you may consider scheduling lighter activities after a session to give your body the time and space to process the shifts more quickly.

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How many sessions do I need?

One session of EFT with an EFT expert like myself can bring even greater results than 10 sessions of traditional talk therapy, which also means you get greater value for money. Clients are often amazed by how remarkably different they feel after one session with me, and in fact by the shifts they experience just after less than 10 min of tapping. I usually recommend a minimum of 3 two-hour sessions for you to experience complete transformation in the selected area of your life (e.g. health, relationship, finances). For more complex cases such as serious illnesses as well as people looking for major life transformations, I would recommend up to 10 two-hour sessions.

What if I cannot afford the sessions?

Please understand that I do not offer discounts because of the law of reciprocity – you only receive as much as you give out, and hence for healing to occur for you, you do need to invest a certain amount of energy, which is represented in the session fees as well. However, your healing is my top priority, and I would be happy to let you pay me in installments without any interest charge, and in your own time. Just ask yourself, “If money is not an issue, will I see Lena for healing?” If your heart gives you a yes, just come! Because money is NOT an issue. :-)

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Can I do EFT consultations with you over the phone or Skype?

Of course! A huge number of my clients are from overseas, or live in Singapore but have no time to see me as frequently as they would like. EFT works amazingly well through long distance, and surprisingly, it can be even more effective to “see” me over the phone or Skype because that’s when my intuition is the strongest. The main disadvantage of phone/Skype consultations is that you need to do the tapping for yourself. Sometimes (but not always) I will tap physically for you during face-to-face consultations so that you can focus more deeply on your inner experience. However, advantages of phone/Skype consultations are that you save on traveling time and cost, you can do it in the comfort of your own home/office, and as long as I am available, you can have a session with me in the middle of a crisis, or right after a crisis, which means you can clear those intense emotions straight away.

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Past Life Regression Therapy

• What is Past Life Regression Therapy?
• What can I expect from the session?
• What do you expect from me as a client?
• How do I know if I might benefit from Past Life Regression Therapy?
• How do I know if the past life I experienced is not just my imagination?
• Will I be able to handle the experience?
• What if I’m not sure if I believe in past lives?
• What are your qualifications related to this area of therapy?
• What about false memories?
• How many sessions do I need?
• How do I prepare for the session?

What is Past Life Regression Therapy?

This is a very safe and powerful therapy that aims at finding the earliest causes of the blockages related to the problem, by going back to a past life, and using therapeutic techniques to clear the blockages, either by releasing the frozen energy within the body’s cellular memories or resolving the conflictual relationships from that past life. Transformation takes place on a physical, emotional and spiritual level and clients who experience this form of therapy not only get relief from their issues, but also gain profound insights that allow them to have a deeper awareness of themselves, their relationships and their life path.

What can I expect from the session?

The 1st 15 minutes are for me to have an idea of your issue, and for you to have your questions about the session answered so that you feel comfortable and ready to proceed. The therapy is done with you lying down and me sitting next to you. This is to allow your body to be fully relaxed, which will help you to enter a past life more easily. In most cases, I will help you to explore ONE past life, enough to get the main story of that life time, and bring you through the death point, which is usually less scary than most would expect. Experiencing the endpoint of the past life is important as this is where I will be able to assess the physical and/or emotional blockages from that past life that that need to be cleared. Following this, transformation work will be done, allowing blockages to be fully released. You will also get the opportunity to meet your spirit guides for discussion on lessons to be learnt from that lifetime and advice for the current life. Finally, upon completion of the therapy, we will have a 15 min debrief where we will discuss your experience, and answer any questions you may have, so that you may leave the session feeling satisfied and at ease with your session. The whole session including 1st and last 15 min may last between 2 to 2.5 hours. However I suggest that you put aside 3 hours as it is important that there is no need to rush and we have sufficient time for full healing to be completed.

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What do you expect from me as a client?

Not much! Just come with an open mind, and if possible, no expectations (which I know may be challenging!) or at least, minimal expectations. If you are going to have expectations, expect that it will be a wonderful session for you. Most of my clients are able to experience a past life and receive the therapeutic benefits from the session. The very few who don’t, prevent themselves from entering a past life regression for a variety of reasons such as fear of what they might experience, doubt about the authenticity of the information they receive, wanting very badly to experience a past life, etc. If you feel that you belong to one or more of those categories, that’s ok – just let me know so that I help you with it. I also appreciate punctuality, and letting me know 1 week in advance if you choose to reschedule as I do have a long waiting list of clients and they would love to get help with their issues earlier if possible. If you are late, this will eat into your session time, and if you miss your session without early notice, I reserve the right to charge you for the session anyway, or disqualify you as a client. I do this because I take my role as a therapist very seriously, and I only want clients who are serious about getting help for their issues. If you are such a client, then it would be my privilege to be part of your healing journey.

How do I know if I might benefit from Past Life Regression Therapy?

That fact that you are looking at this is a sign! I believe that there is no such thing as coincidences and your being led to this particular webpage may just mean that your higher self knows that this is what you need. Past life regression therapy can work for almost any issue, as long as you are open and ready for this form of therapy.

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How do I know if the past life I experienced is not just my imagination?

Many people do not discount their experience as imagination because: 1) the setting/story/etc is totally unexpected and not what the person is most interested in, 2) emotions and physical sensations experienced are too vivid to be imagined, 3) there is a strong parallel between the past life and current life, 4) changes are experienced after the session. Even if you are not sure if it is a real past life, it may not matter as the subconscious mind gives us whatever is necessary for our healing, and some people look upon this form of therapy as a form of creative visualization and the use of metaphor. However, most of my clients are convinced that they have experienced a genuine past life, because of one or more of the above factors. For me, the most important question is not “was it real?”, but “did it help?”. Also, questioning if it is a real past life during the therapy may prevent you from experiencing one, simply because doubt keeps you from tuning fully into the experience. My advice is to treat the experience like you would a movie. Be fully engrossed while you are watching, and discuss it later. That way you will allow the session to flow more smoothly, which only means you will receive greater benefits from it.

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Will I be able to handle the experience?

In all my experience with working with clients using this form of therapy, I have yet to have a client who was negatively affected by the session in any way. This is because I always ask for our guides to support us throughout the session, so that you will be safe and healing will be brought about for your highest good. I am well-trained and bring with me years of experience of doing therapy, and I can guarantee you that I will facilitate the session in a sensitive and gentle manner, which will minimize any unnecessary discomfort, if at all. Do note that some people might experience discomfort in the form of intense emotions (e.g. sadness, hopelessness) or physical sensations (e.g. hunger pangs, body aches). Such symptoms are necessary, as we are bringing buried blockages to the surface for releasing. Nevertheless, the session is fully interactive and at any point when you feel that it’s getting too much for you, you just need to let me know and I will guide you through the process.

Some people are also concerned that they may experience a past life where they are the “bad guy” and worry about how this may negatively affect the way they see themselves. Once again, because of my experience and excellent training, I will never let this happen, and you also need to trust that your guides and your higher mind will only give you whatever you need to heal from your issues – and they will never give you what you cannot handle! There are lessons we need to learn from each lifetime, and whether we learn it or not in that particular lifetime is not the key – the important thing is that we learn it in this lifetime. Experiencing past lives in therapy is not for judgment of self, but to increase our awareness which will help us in our evolution as a spiritual being. One of the most valuable lessons I have learnt from my experience from past life regression sessions as both therapist and client is that appearances of good and bad are merely illusions and it is by seeing beyond them, that we come closer to enlightenment.

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What if I’m not sure if I believe in past lives?

You don’t have to be a believer – all you need is an open mind to benefit from this form of therapy. It is not my job to convince you about past lives, but if this is a subject area that you wish to do more research on, I would recommend you to read Old Souls by Tom Shroder, a journalist who wrote about his travels with Ian Stevenson, a prominent researcher on children who recall past lives. Shroder was a skeptic-turned-believer as he observed Stevenson’s scientific methods used in his investigations and met the children themselves, whose reports are too miraculous to be coincidental. This is an easy book to read and very fascinating as well. You can find an excerpt here: http://www.childpastlives.org/library_articles/oldsouls.htm If you are game for more in-depth reading, check out Ian Stevenson’s compilation of his field studies in Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation. Perhaps the best way of verifying the existence of past lives is to experience your own past life. You may read about dreams, yet we all KNOW what dreams are because we experience them ourselves while asleep. Let your own experience give you the answers you seek.

What are your qualifications related to this area of therapy?

I was trained by Andy Tomlinson over a one-year period under the Past Life Regression and Regression Therapy professional training program which has been accredited by the International Board of Regression Therapy. Andy Tomlinson is the training director of the Past Life Regression Academy (http://www.regressionacademy.com) and has authored 2 books, Healing the Eternal Soul and Exploring the Eternal Soul, which are highly recommended by prominent experts of this field. I also bring with me years of experience with working with clients in a traditional counseling setting. I also have a BA in Social Work from National University of Singapore.

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What about false memories?

I facilitate the session with open-ended questions so that you will not be led to create false memories. Also, my intent is to let you have your own experience where my role is just to facilitate. I also maintain an attitude of openness and detachment about the outcome of the session, as I believe that healing may come in forms that we do not expect. If you are doubtful that your experience is real, keep an open mind and observe if you experience any changes after the session. Once again, to me the most important question is not “was it real?” but “did it help?”.

How many sessions do I need?

Often all it takes is one session to clear one issue, though in some cases it may require 2 or 3. If you opt for a session package and your issue is cleared within a shorter time than expected, you may give the remaining sessions to another person or use them for other issues that you may have.

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How do I prepare for the session?

Read the whole FAQ carefully and note down any questions that you may have. Also, please fill in the intake form and bring it with you to the session. I suggest that you abstain from caffeine and heavy foods on that day which would keep your vibrations high and help you to enter into a past life and receive guidance from your spirit guides more easily. Please dress comfortably, preferably in long pants. I will provide a blanket for you but you may also bring a jacket if you are sensitive to air-con. You may also bring a audio recording device if you wish to review the session in your own time.