The Oaxaca Project

Jonathan was a young man of 15 years when I met him in the hospital. He hardly spoke to anyone. He was angry, frustrated and disgusted with the world so he closed himself off into his own world of misery, the pain and suffering of leukemia.

I volunteer my knowledge of EFT or Tapping in a children’s cancer ward in a hospital. Even though Jonathan rarely talked to me, I would come by, talk to him, do surrogate EFT for him while he watched me or on rare occasion participated. One of his sisters and I would do surrogate tapping for Jonathan. She told me that Jonathan’s father had died when he was eight. He was basically home alone as his mother had to leave the house to work to take care of her eight children.

One Friday Jonathan was in really bad shape. I had a mental conversation with Jonathan stating that I understood why he was so angry with his mother for not being there for him, for his father dying and leaving him alone and that he had reason to be angry with the world. I understood his anger with his mother for not loving him because she herself was like a little girl who couldn’t be there for him. He had every reason to be angry with the world. I told him that he had two choices: Stay and heal it with love in his heart, or leave and be in Spirit. I told him that either option was fine. It was up to him. I left the hospital with the feeling that he would not be alive the next time I came in. I arrived on Monday to a great surprise of him looking much better and with more of his family with him than I had ever seen.

One Friday Jonathan was in really bad shape. I had a mental conversation with Jonathan. I told him that I understood why he was so angry with his mother for not being there for him, for his father leaving and that he had reason to be angry with the world. He felt anger that his mother didn’t love him because she herself was like a little girl so couldn’t be there for him, and that his father died and left him. He had every reason to be angry with the world. I told him that he had two choices: Stay and heal it with love in his heart, or leave and be in Spirit. I told him that either option was fine. It was up to him. I left the hospital with the feeling that he would not be alive the next time I came in. I arrived on Monday to a great surprise of him looking much better and with more of his family with him than I had ever seen.

Over the following months, Jonathan became a different young man, one who smiled, talked, and was open. He did EFT with me every time I came in. He used the TappyBear too when no one was around. I tapped with his sisters and his mother and with him about his healing, about his hurts and wounds, and each of their hurts. I saw that what Jonathan wanted more than anything in life was to feel loved. By doing EFT he released many of his blocks to receiving love.

Jonathan looked truly happy and content as he left the hospital that last time I saw him. His eyes had a look of peace in them. Just before he left he told one of the other mothers that he felt good, at peace, and he was ok, but he knew his body could not recover. Even when I first met him, he was in palliative treatments as his body had not been responding to any treatment for many months. Even though Jonathan passed away a few months later, he gained something so important, grand, and incredible: he passed on feeling at peace instead of being angry with the world; he created a healing within himself and his family, one that allowed him to feel their love, the one thing he wanted most in life. That gift will live on for a long time.

Bless you Jonathan for being such a wonderful soul. I thank you for teaching me that I may not always succeed in helping the children heal themselves of cancer, but that something grander may come of it, healing of the heart and soul.