Free Flowing Energy
Food Cravings
If you want to lose weight, you inevitably end up trying a diet. People on diets often live with lack and also guilt. Lack because there are certain foods that you are not "allowed" to eat, or you are only allowed a certain amount of calories, or "sins". Guilt often comes up from indulging in eating something on your "banned" list. Neither of these emotions are helpful for losing weight.
Many people find EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) very helpful with food cravings.
Firstly think about the food you are craving, e.g. chocolate. Next score your craving on a scale of 0 to 10 (where 10 is really high craving). Then try the following script using your food craving, if it is not chocolate. If you have more than one food, then concentrate on one particular food at a time. Be specific. For example, if it is chocolate digestive biscuits then use that rather than chocolate or biscuits.
Setup:
Tap on the Karate Chop whilst repeating three times:
- Even though I really crave chocolate, I accept how I feel
- Even though I really want to eat lots of chocolate and I just love the taste of it, I deeply and completely accept myself
- Even though I can't stop thinking about chocolate, I deeply and completely accept myself and all my feelings about chocolate
Eyebrow: I'm really craving chocolate
Side of Eye: I can't stop thinking about chocolate
Under Eye: Why can't I stop thinking about chocolate
Under Nose: I love eating chocolate
Under Chin: Nothing satisfies me like chocolate
Collarbone: I want to eat chocolate now
Under Arm: Chocolate is always on my mind
Top of Head: When I eat it, I feel guilty
Eyebrow: This chocolate craving
Side of Eye: Chocolate is my friend
Under Eye: Chocolate satisfies my needs
Under Nose: I'm a chocolate addict
Under Chin: I love chocolate
Collarbone: I'm dreaming of eating chocolate
Under Arm: I really want chocolate
Top of Head: I have this strong craving for chocolate
Eyebrow: What if I could stop craving chocolate
Side of Eye: Maybe I can enjoy eating more healthy food instead
Under Eye: What if chocolate just didn't do it for me anymore
Under Nose: Maybe I can feel satisfied in other ways
Under Chin: What if I just wasn't that bothered by chocolate anymore
Collarbone: I can give it a miss
Under Arm: What if I didn't feel like eating chocolate now
Top of Head: What if I can easily choose to eat healthy foods
Check your score again. If you are not down to zero, keep repeating the tapping until you are down to zero. Try testing your craving by finding some chocolate (or your food). Look at it. Does it still look appealing? Smell it. Does it still smell appealing? Try tasting it? Does it still taste good? Often, you will not like the look, smell or taste of your food after tapping on it. If you still want it, or want it more after this testing, then repeat the tapping again.
Remember to keep tapping until your craving subsides completely. Repeat the exercise for other food cravings.
Here is a video of me tapping for food cravings. Try tapping along with me, anytime you have a food craving.
Keep tapping until you no longer crave these foods. Also try tapping on any feelings of guilt etc that come up if you do eat foods that you are avoiding.
This is just one small aspect of using EFT to help you achieve your ideal weight. Other aspects to address include things like: reasons for overeating, addressing our negative emotions e.g. eating ice-cream when you feel sad, what you are really craving (e.g. love, attention), emotional attachments to food (e.g. happy memories of eating birthday cake) plus a lot more. Drop me an email or give me a call, if you would like help with losing weight.
Energy Exercise of the Month
Spleen Thump
This is another quick one - only 15 seconds to complete.
Benefits:
- Increases your energy levels
- Strengthens your immune system
- Balances your blood chemistry
- Helps you metabolize food
To find the spleen neurolymphatic points: In line with your nipples, straight beneath your breasts and down over the next rib.
Tap firmly with several fingers for about 15 seconds. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. This exercise is part of the 3 thumps routine, together with the K27 & Thymus thumps. Do this one every day to keep your energy flowing.
To learn more about energy exercises, buy Donna Eden's excellent book 'Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body's Energy for Optimal Health, Joy & Vitality'.
Tapping Club
Would you like to do more tapping, but find you struggle on your own? Do you often start tapping but stop before you complete working on your issue? It is difficult to work on our own stuff! Would you like more support, but can't afford more one to one sessions? Do you know someone who would like to try EFT but don't have the money for face to face sessions?
Join me and a small group of people for regular tapping sessions. These will take place on the phone (or using Skype), so you get to stay in the comfort of your own home. Each session will have a theme, you will get the chance to be the volunteer, offer some issues you'd like to work on or you can just tap along with us. Tapping with groups is very powerful work. Not only do you get the benefit of tapping, you get to borrow benefits from the other tappers too and get the energy of the group. All this for a fraction of the cost of a one to one session.
Benefits:- Refresh your EFT knowledge and learn new ways of working
- Learn new techniques e.g. choices method, continuous tapping
- Tap away your negative emotions, unpleasant memories, pain and traumatic experiences
- Clear old patterns, beliefs, behaviours and fears
- Get rid of stress, anxiety and panic attacks
- Get support for a fraction of the cost of one to one sessions
If you are interested in joining me, please drop me an email for further information. Invite your friends - people can join from any part of the country, or world for that matter! No previous experience with EFT needed.
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." -- Buddha.
If you are thinking negative thoughts, EFT can help change that...
Gary Craig Tribute
If you missed the Gary Craig tribute, which featured many EFT Masters and experts, you can download the audios. I listened to the event and it was great to hear all the wonderful stories about Gary, EFT and some wonderful stories of how EFT has transformed lives. As well as hearing about the new direction EFT is heading. http://emotionalfreedomtechniques.bravehost.com/gary_craig_tribute_welcome.php
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Kind regards,
Louise Woods
EFT (Tapping) and Holistic Health Practitioner
louise@freeflowingenergy.co.uk
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