We often have little (or big) unexplained issues that we don't even notice until someone points them out. Here was one of mine:

When I would get up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom, I used to have to turn on the light. Even though it was painful to my eyes and woke me up more than necessary, I could not stop myself. It was a compulsion. There was an underlying fear there but it was such a habit that I never even realized that I turned the light on where some others don't as I had done it all my life. I only became aware of it when someone pointed it out.

When I finally turned my attention to it, I realized that I didn't want to feel compelled to put the light on, that the underlying fear causing the action was uncomfortable and unnecessary. I decided to tap:

Even though I'm afraid to leave the light off when I go to the bathroom at night, I completely love and accept myself.
Reminder phrases: Afraid to leave the light off. Can't leave the light off. I have to see.

As I tapped, some thoughts came up that seemed a bit out-of-place for a middle class woman who has always been exposed to clean living conditions, but I continued:

Even though I'm afraid something dangerous is in the toilet, I completely love and accept myself.
Reminder phrases: Have to look in the toilet. Afraid something's in there.

Even though I'm afraid something's going to bite me when I sit down, I completely love and accept myself.
Reminder phrases: Afraid something will bite me. Afraid something will attack me. Something's in the toilet.

Well, I may never know exactly what it was that I feared was going to be in the toilet (in some past life, a rabid rat or a poisonous snake perhaps) but at least I no longer worry about it. Like most people, I now stumble blindly to the John in the middle of the night, DON'T turn the light on, sit down, do my business, flush then stumble back to bed with no thoughts or fears about what may or may not be in there... thanks to EFT.