Testimonial #2

Pam Thurlow has recommended your work as Founder of both the Gaia Humanity Project & The Unity Drum Dance Tour.

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Dear Gary,
I’ve written this recommendation of your work to share with other LinkedIn users.

Details of the Recommendation: “Gary has exceptional knowledge of whatever he chooses to teach and what he uses for a healing method. He knows his stuff and works well with everyone. When Gary says he’s going to be somewhere, he is there on time and ready for whatever is being discussed. He always gets good results on his healing methods, using his instincts to know what is needed and what needs to be done.”
Service Category: Healer, trainer
Year first hired: 2006 (hired more than once)
Top Qualities: Personable, Expert, High Integrity

Testimonial #4

“Gary,

 “Your coaching and training have helped me quickly find the source of some inner turmoil.  You have helped me release that, and I am now able to enter a relationship, a brand new relationship with out fear, knowing that as we begin this journey of discovering ourselves together, there is room to live in “Divine Love”.  Your stand for authenticity, creativity and integrity has helped me create the foundation for a life that is totally aligned with my values.  Your capacity to identify a person’s emotions and weld them to their dreams is truly unique.  Best of all, you have super charged my heart!

Thank you”. DD (Client requested anonymity)

Testimonial #5

Gary Woodings was a guest presenter for a number of my Oral Communication classes at Hesser College.   In less than three hours, Gary helped numerous students move through their major fears of presenting in front of the class.  This is quite a feat since public speaking is said to be the number one fear for adults. Gary taught the students a method called Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). It is a simple procedure that breaks our attachment to emotional reactions that limit us.  

 Gary is an exceptional presenter. He is animated, knowledgeable and makes the ‘work’ fun for those participating.  The students loved him! 

 I observed definite changes in many of the adult students as they presented in classes to follow Gary’s visit.  They were more confident and numbers of students reported to me that this one class with Gary truly did help them to release their fears and anxiety about public speaking. 

 I highly recommend Gary to you, for personal performance enhancement for business or any other forum where public speaking is required. Whether it is sales, or executive levels of verbal presentations, this process will definitely boost confidence and enhance personal power to anyone who experiences any level of anxiety about giving presentations. 

 Donna Packard, M.Ed.

Adjunct Faculty for Hesser College, University of New Hampshire, World University and the American Institute of Creative Education

Personal and Professional Development Coach and Consultant

P.O. Box 318

York Harbor, ME 03911

(207) 363-1925

e-mail: donnapackard@aol.com

Testimonial #6

My name is Trudy.
For years I have suffered with Seasonal Depression and Anxiety. It was after lost my very best friend to a drug overdose, that I started sessions with Gary Woodings in September 2006. He introduced me to EFT and it has changed my life forever.

I learned to Love and accept myself for who I am, as well as learned to accept others for whom they are. I use EFT as needed and it has helped me through many of stressful times. I highly recommend Emotional Freedom Techniques to all who are looking to change their inner self. When my sessions ended with Gary, I wrote this short story as my Thank You for his teachings.
The Sparrow meets The Wolf

Once upon a time there was a timid Sparrow, who seldom spread her wings to fly. She was afraid of what the world would think of her and so she kept to herself and the few friends that accepted her as she was.Till one day one of those friends, her very best friend, crossed over and the timid sparrow felt so alone and empty. Not long after that she met a Wolf, a strong handsome wolf with a tender heart. She trusted this wolf with her deepest intimate thoughts and fears and the wolf helped the timid sparrow learn to love and accept herself as she was.

Soon the wolf told the sparrow it was time for him to move on, this news surprised the sparrow but she knew in her heart that some how she and the wolf would always be connected.

The sparrow learned so much from the strong handsome wolf and now she knows she is ready to soar.

If you wish to ask more about my healing work with Gary feel free to email me at Soaring_sparrow@hotmail.com

Another Testimonial came from Trudy and her sister Dianne, who I also work with for several months.  It was a Song Tribute which was presented to me at my going away party before leaving NH. They both sang the song in front of dozens of people at the party and presented me with a recorded version.

This is an email I received from a former client and now friend (Trudy of the previous testimonial).  We completed her EFT sessions over one year prior to this email, for Seasonal Depression Disorder. After completion of our EFT sessions, Trudy is off her medications and has no more “Winter Depression”.

The phrase “Tap it girl” is one I use often with clients when they find themselves in either crisis or mildly difficult emotional states. Trudy’s testimonial precedes this one and here is what she has to say.

Jun 26, 2008 

 Hello Gary,

How the heck are you today? I thought about you a lot yesterday and did some major tapping. I woke up to my pet turtle dead in his tank, and then went to leave for work and my car was dead in the driveway. Now keep in mind I have not had any ME TIME because Mike is out of work and around 24/7. So I went out to my garden and sat on the rock, had a good cry and then heard your voice saying “Tap it girl”. So I did, then I walked over to Phil’s and hung out with him for a few hours. I feel much better today, see you and I are still connected just wanted you to know EFT still works for me.

 Hope all is well in sunny Florida…miss ya, Trudy

Testimonial #8

August 2010

My experience with EFT has been life altering!

I am a Healing Practitioner  of different modalities but when it comes to our own process of healing it can be challenging  when what’s coming up is ancient and deeply engraved in the emotional body and cellular memory.

Gary came to my rescue with EFT and his innately intuitive gifts and talents.

I was suffering from an intensely deep lumbar spine/back pain.  Little did I realize it was ancient, from past lives of death and prosecution of the Divine Feminine.  My back pain felt like a chastity belt in my pelvis on the left side.  I was beside myself  in pain and lack of range of motion and mobility.

As I started tapping guided by Gary with the “full recipe” of acupressure points, I became very emotional and with Gary’s assistance, we were able to remove deeply engraved energetic & emotional blockages in my pelvis that were holding physical trauma, deep sadness, and feelings of defeat and failure of past lives.  Those past lives were of being a Priestess in a Sisterhood of the Divine Feminine, where we upheld and honored the Divine Mother in all Her forms. In that lifetime, I was sliced and killed by soldiers of war on the left side of my pelvis.

Needless to say, the EFT session literally lifted and removed my physical limitation and emotional distress I had been carrying around in my body for lifetimes.

EFT WORKS AND IT WILL TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE….If change and transformation IS WHAT YOU REALLY WANT!!!

I am infinitely grateful for Gary’s patience, clairvoyance, strength and dedication to healing not only himself but all those who come across his path!

Infinitely grateful for this Life,

KaliShakti

This detailed account of one of my treatment cases for PTSD for a Vietnam Veteran was reviewed and approved by my client as a testimonial.

Kenneth Upton Vietnam Veteran Four Day Intensive

One Man’s Freedom from War Memories and PTSD after 38 Years

My Four Day EFT Intensive Work with a Kenneth Upton Vietnam Veteran

In early March of 2008 I was contacted by Bryan, who is the son of a Vietnam Veteran by the name of Kenneth Upton. Bryan described his father’s condition and extremely debilitated due to PTSD. Bryan said his dad has participated in nearly every type of program the Veterans Administration has to offer and has not recovered enough to function. The family was desperate for Kenneth to receive the help he needed, as was Kenneth. Despite Kenneth’s skepticism about yet another program, he agreed to work with me.

The family flew me from Fort Lauderdale FL to Houston TX for a four day intensive EFT treatment. Upon Arrival Kenneth expressed his doubt that anything would help him. With 38 years of treatment that has created little if any change for him, his skepticism is understandable.

Friday 06/06/2008 Day One With Kenneth;

A good portion of this four hour day was dedicated to building rapport with Kenneth as well as building an outline of what we would be focusing on during our four days of intensive work. We planned to focus on a list of Kenneth’s most intense war memories and to clear the constant feelings of impending doom and anxiety he had been suffering for 38 years. The most recent ten years has been debilitating.

We decided to work in four to five hour increments of time, for four consecutive days, for the duration of our intensive treatment schedule. This allowed us approximately sixteen to twenty hours of total therapy to completely clear Kenneth’s PTSD.

Kenneth had recently returned from a PTSD Intensive Program in the VA Hospital in Wako TX. The program was three weeks long and required hospitalization for the entire program, with the ability to return home on weekends. This program is supposed to be the newest and best treatment currently available through the VA for the treatment of PTSD.

Kenneth described the experience as, “The program was terribly re-traumatizing to the point I felt I had a nervous breakdown or was very close to it”.

Kenneth said “They dug up many of the old memories I had managed to bury for the past 38 years and it left me feeling as raw and full of debilitating anxiety equal to when I first returned from the war”.

Ken told the Psychiatrists “I don’t feel like I am able to finish this program. I feel terrible.”

Kenneth was told “This is normal. Stick it out.”

Kenneth did what he was told and left Wako feeling, as he described it, “I felt worse than I had ever since I returned from the war! It left me unable to function. I felt as if I were twenty years old again and just returning home from Nam.”

Kenneth had explained he has been unable to function to the point that he has lost his career as a manager of a business in Fort Worth Texas. Kenneth has been unable to work or even leave the house for much other than to go help care for his aging parents. This disabling condition has controlled his life for the past ten years. Kenneth described his condition as an extremely high level of anxiety as soon as he woke up almost every morning. He knew when it was going to be a “Bad Day” and he had them much more often than not. When Kenneth tried to supervise work on some of his properties he would seize up with anxiety and have to leave immediately for home.

Kenneth’s PTSD was due to flying hundreds of missions in Vietnam as a “Door Gunner” in a helicopter. The constant adrenalin and extremely close calls that nearly cost him his life on many occasions, as well as the many kills, had left Kenneth with a constant feeling of “Impending Doom” and the anxiety that “Something Bad” is going to happen.

To help relax Kenneth from the anxieties of yet another treatment program, I instructed and guided him through one round of EFT to release some of the anxieties of facing his war memories for the next four days. They had climbed rather high due to his unfamiliarity with MTT and the Tearless Trauma Technique. Kenneth has become accustomed to traditional talk therapy and was dreading the recital of the painful memories. At the end of the MTT round Kenneth was relaxed enough to begin with our process.

Important note; The Tearless Trauma Technique was used with all of Kenneth’s War Memories. This means, for those unfamiliar with EFT, that Kenneth did not tell me any of these stories until after the emotional charges were cleared with MTT and he was able to tell the stories without any negative emotions being felt, so long as the situations are confined to a short time span. If there was a sequence of events together it was treated by each segment and the different emotions that went with each part of the event.

In our work we began each piece of the following series of emotional clearings with nothing more than the title you will see in “bold print”.

The “Lieutenant” memory and the “Ratliff” memory are the exceptions due to the time span of the incidents. As the understanding of the complexity of each of these memories came I used EFT to process our way through the memories. Due to the length of time involved in these incidents, they were more complex. The process was simplified and more completely treated by chunking them down into shorter segments of time and covering the different emotional aspects as well as going in chronological order. This still allowed us to clear the memories with minimal emotional discomfort and in a relatively short period of time. We cleared these in minutes rather than hours, days, or years of “Talk Therapy.”

THE REAL WORK BEGAN HERE

The first war memory we cleared, Kenneth titled “The Village.” Kenneth was plagued with extreme feelings of anger, guilt and shame due to this mission where a woman and infant had been among the body count when Kenneth’s shooting was over. He had been the only gunner on the mission. These feelings were constant for the majority of the past thirty eight years regardless of the therapy he had undergone with the VA. You should know that this experience has emotionally haunted and troubled Kenneth every day since the war. This incident also caused a severe emotional breakdown with the birth of each of Kenneth’s children after his return from the war.
Kenneth described the experience as “When I saw my newborn children I saw the Vietnamese woman and her dead infant lying on the ground.” During this incident a woman and her infant were killed in a mission to eradicate South Vietnamese defectors in Cambodia. This was Kenneth’s worst and most debilitating memory from his tour in Vietnam. Kenneth said a day has not passed since his return from the war where this memory has not replayed in his head.

During this part of our session Kenneth was so emotional I did the EFT tapping (tapping on the face and body points used for the EFT process) for him in the beginning two rounds of the work. After approximately five to eight minutes of EFT for the anger, guilt and shame of the experience Kenneth was then able to continue with his own with the tapping and affirmations for the rest of the clearing of this particular memory.

Kenneth told me, “This is amazing!! I find it hard to believe I don’t feel any of the old feelings from this memory! “

Kenneth also said “This is the first time in thirty-eight years that I have been able to talk calmly and clearly about the entire incident without breaking down and crying.” He added, “Even in all the years of therapy I have never finished telling the story.”

This was after about fifteen minutes of EFT. This was the only war memory Kenneth could not keep from emotionally immersing himself in, during the entirety of our work. This, I feel was due to the familiarity he had come to understand as traditional talk therapy, as well as the intensity of the experience.

Saturday 06/07/2008 Day Two With Kenneth;

It should be noted that Kenneth’s wife Teresa, chose to be present during day two and three of our work together. This was also at Kenneth’s request. I felt it would be a positive experience for the both of them. This gave Teresa first hand understanding of MTT as well as her being able to tap along and also clear some of her own issues since Kenneth’s return from the war. Teresa has been a supportive partner in Kenneth’s life. They were high school Sweethearts and were married before Kenneth went to Vietnam.

The second war memory we cleared was titled “The Pond”. Once again Kenneth was the only gunner on a mission to eradicate defectors from the South Vietnamese Army. The feelings Kenneth has carried for 38 years about this mission have been Guilt Anger and Shame for gunning down several unarmed men who were fishing with nets in a pond. Kenneth was following orders at the time of the assault on the deserters. This memory and all of its highly charged emotions were totally cleared with two rounds of MTT. Kenneth was able to tell me the entire story, in graphic detail without any of the extreme emotions he has carried around for the past 38 years, after completing the EFT treatment.

The third war memory we cleared was titled “Cam Mou.” This memory carried extreme feelings of fear, anger and anxiety. In this incident several helicopters had taken heavy fire and or been shot down. Pilots had been killed and Kenneth’s craft barely escaped being totally disabled before returning to base. These feelings were totally cleared with only two rounds of EFT (approximately 10 minutes), before Kenneth was able to tell me entire story without any negative feelings.

The fourth war memory we cleared was titled “Cobras.” This memory carried feelings of extreme fear and anxiety ever sense the war. Kenneth’s crew had been chosen for an extraction behind enemy lines and had been nearly shot down by smaller Cobra aircraft armed with Mini Guns. This memory and its emotions were cleared in one round of EFT.

The fifth war memory we cleared was titled “C&C” Command and Control. Kenneth was new at flying (early in his time at war) and they took heavy fire and a hit to their fuel cell which could have caused the entire helicopter to blow up. The feeling attached to this memory was extreme fear. This was also released in one round of EFT.

The sixth war memory we cleared was titled “The Lieutenant.” This incident had several parts to work on and is too graphic to describe in this article. In summary it was a failed rescue attempt and a retrieval of a Lieutenant’s body that had taken two weeks to accomplish. The feelings accompanying this series of memories had been disgust, anger, heartbreak and these had different aspects to each of them to work through.

After clearing the negative emotions Kenneth came to some new feelings he had never experienced before about this incident. Kenneth came to the place of having tears of joy with the realization that he was part of an intense team effort to bring home the body of one of their own so the family could at least have the closure of a funeral. Many of our veterans’ families have not gotten that.

This was the end of our work for the second day of our intensive. This was an amazingly powerful session that was able to clear so many of these deeply rooted feelings Kenneth had carried for thirty-eight years, regardless of the psychotherapy, programs and prescription drugs offered by the VA. All this was accomplished in approximately eight or nine hours, counting both days combined.

Teresa stated, “You know I have never heard any of these stories before today. Now I am beginning to understand what Kenneth has been living with for the past thirty-eight years.”

Teresa said,” Now I can better understand why Kenneth sobbed so heavily when our children were born. It was the memory of the woman and infant from “The Village” that was haunting him.”

I explained that this is very common amongst veteran’s’ wives to know little if any of the atrocities of war experienced by their husbands.

Sunday 06/08/2008 Day Three With Kenneth;

The seventh war memory on Kenneth’s list cleared itself without EFT being directly applied to it. On Saturday (Day Two) there had been a war memory that was on our list that we did not work on due to time. This memory carried a high level of anger for Kenneth. When we returned to the list on Day Three to continue our work, we found that this particular memory had lost all of its negative emotions and that Kenneth was able to retell the story in great detail without any negative emotions being attached. This was the beginning of the collapse of the negative impact of Kenneth’s war memories and the borrowed benefits of EFT.

The eighth war memory we cleared was titled “Ratliff Rescue Attempt.” This memory was another with several aspects to it due to the time line of the situation, as well as the different emotional aspects of the situation. The emotions surrounding this memory were huge amounts of guilt and extreme sadness. Other aspects were extreme fear and understanding shared by his crew, that this was likely to be their last mission, as they would likely be shot. This memory was surrounding an incident in Cambodia where a scout team of helicopters had been shot down. They were an escort for a supply ship moving up one of the rivers with troop supplies. Ratliff’s craft was shot down and he was pinned down under heavy fire. Two attempts to rescue Ratliff had resulted in pilots being shot. Kenneth’s crew was next for the rescue attempt. The order came just before deploying Kenneth’s craft to back off the rescue mission because it was too hot (taking too much fire).

A pilot went against orders and tried to get close enough to Ratliff, in a smaller helicopter, for a pickup. As Ratliff tried to climb aboard he was shot to death and the craft was heavily damaged. The next day the air force was called in to clear the NVA with heavy fire so Ratliff’s body could be recovered.

THE COLLAPSE OF WAR RELATED PTSD HAPPENED AT THIS POINT OF OUR WORK.

After completing the clearing of the “Ratliff Rescue Attempt” memory,

Kenneth’s remaining hundreds of war memories all lost their emotional impact.

Please remember that Kenneth flew hundreds of missions and at least one third of them were life threatening in extremely dangerous situations, each of them adding to his PTSD. After using EFT to clear the eight most emotionally charged memories from his time in Vietnam the rest became nothing more than stories and memories with no emotional impact at all. No matter how many he tried to reconnect with there was nothing he could recall that upset him in the least. This huge release and recovery from thirty-eight years of PTSD occurred in less than fifteen hours of treatment with MTT.

Monday 06/09/2008 Day Four With Kenneth;

Our remaining day of EFT work together surrounded the feelings that surrounded Kenneth’s brother’s death, the hatred and anger and feelings of betrayal around the loss of his career, the failure of his business, the feelings around having two heart attacks and open heart surgeries. These are all situations that have happened within the past ten years.

This was also a multi leveled process of different aspects of emotions that are directly connected to Kenneth’s PTSD and his war experience. To be able to clear these many emotions in a matter of five hours of energy psychology (EFT) speaks volumes to the effectiveness of the MTT process.

After those were all cleared we cleared Kenneth’s fears and phobias about being in crowded places like shopping malls, sitting in crowded restaurants or even attending church, without his back against the wall. He usually chose places and times to avoid the crowds to go out to eat. He had stopped attending church all together even though his wife Teresa is a devout Christian. We discussed Kenneth’s belief in God and he does have a core belief that he is now planning to reconnect with in some way.

Some Common Follow Up Work needed for Kenneth as well as others.

In the follow up work with Kenneth I have contacted him as recently as July, 8th, 2008 and he reports that none of the negative emotions are present from any of his war memories. There is still some follow up work to be done with Kenneth due to the changes in his sleep patterns. Kenneth has become accustomed to bad dreams that have vanished after our EFT work, yet he awakes to the old patterns even without the dreams. These are still issues easily worked through with EFT. The extreme difference in his emotional state after releasing the Negative emotions from the war memories has also created a void which says “How am I supposed to feel now?”. There are behavioral patterns of seclusion and reluctance to leave home that are 38 years old resulting from PTSD from Vietnam. These patterns must also be addressed to fully recover from the unsuccessfully treated PTSD over the past 38 years. I want to express my gratitude for Kenneth’s allowing me to share his process of recovery from his War Memories.

Testimonial #10

Gary Woodings took my training and it was a pleasure to share his spirit and pure intention to serve. I would like to give him my complete endorsement and encourage anyone who may be able to fulfill his criteria to contact him and entertain collaborating with him!

Peace,
Jack

Jack Elias, CH
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