Hi, I hope someone can advise me. Sorry if my english is not fluent, but it is not my native language. I'll try to explain what is my problem. I've been driving a car for about 25 years without any problem. In 92 a car hit my car in the back when I was waiting to take a turn. I was not ingured, except that after 2 months I got neckpains, panic attacs, not able go focus, etc. My doctor told me that I had a whiplash. Never heard of it, that time. learned to handle the panic attacks and had no problems driving. Till a couple of years ago. I was in the evening on my way to a hotel where my husband was staying that night, some 85 km from where I live. I chose to drive in the evening to avoid traffic jams the other morning. I had the other morning an appointment with a potential client (my first) at the same place my husband was staying in the hotel. Everything went well till some 10 km from my destination. I looked left in my mirror to pass a truck that was driving in front of me. I suddenly experienced a blackout, or dizziness, my heart beated, I started sweatting and immediately went back to the position behind the truck. It was impossible for me to drive faster and I was terrified! I managed to drive to the hotel, thought that if I had a good night sleep, it would be gone. (as I'm typing this I feel my heart beating, my head/neck acking). The next day after my appointment (I had a new client!) I drove to a place some 40 km further from where I was. On the highway it went wrong again. When I reached the 70 km, my head started spinning, I got dizzy, I experience balance problems, and cried my eyes out. I reached my destination! (after 4 stops at parking stops). But, my husband had to pick me up that night, because I could not drive home!.

From that day I tried several times to drive at my home town, complete fear, my eyes get freezed, it feels as if I'm not driving that car and cannot get control back. Can you advise how EFT can help me? I have all de DVD's, I've tried EFT several times, but I don't seem to hit the right affirmations. Help! I want to be driving again, because now I am so dependend of other and don't feel free to go as I like.

Lil

Welcome to the forums. Have you tried using the tearless trauma technique? http://www.emofree.com/tutorial/tutorqseventeen.htm Tap on having any intensity whatsoever on even approaching the memory of the first incident and your recent experiences with EFT, the minute you get intense stop and tap, if you can't find the words, don't worry, you're already tuned in anyway by the way you're feeling. Don't try and push through your feelings, use them instead as an opportunity to clear the short circuit, which you experiences as panic attacks, heart beating, lack of focus, neck pains, dizziness etc. Do you think you feeling nervous about trying something new triggered the old memory? You can watch an example of the technique here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSUI0AFyoPU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fuser%2FHealingMagic&feature=player_profilepage

Hope this helps.