E.F.T. FOR WEIGHT LOSS

One of the most practical everyday uses of the Emotional Freedom Technique is as an aide to losing weight. The tapping routine can be learnt easily to combat cravings, for example. When you are tempted to raid the cupboards for chocolate, crisps or other fattening snacks a quick session of tapping can often be enough to remove the longing. There are even discrete ways of using the technique when you are in company, so that you are able to resist the extra helpings and fattening foods which will wreck your slimming plan.

Very often though, this is not enough. Many people have gained a lot of weight at a certain period in their lives and despite their best efforts are not able to lose the weight and keep it off permanently. It is suggested that if our body is holding onto weight, it is holding onto emotion, and in my experience this has proved to be true.

We over-eat for a reason - usually due to uncomfortable emotions we are trying to forget. By using the Emotional Freedom Technique we can discover what these are and rapidly neutralise, or heal them.

An example: A. had been at her slimmest after the painful collapse of her marriage, but in the following years had become seriously over-weight. In her first E.F.T. session we quickly discovered that actually the most painful event affecting her was the death of her father. Her grief was still raw twelve years later. We were able to address this with E.F.T. and a homeopathic remedy, after which A. lost seven pounds in the next two weeks.

In our next session it came to light that her particular "dietary downfall" was potatoes. Was it a coincidence that her father had worked for a potato marketing company and was able to bring home plentiful supplies of potatoes for the family? Perhaps to A. they had become a symbol of the love she missed from her father! Once she realised this she was able to cut down on her potato consumption without feeling deprived. She is now steadily losing weight and looking good.

Another example: G. was a "yo-yo dieter", able to lose two or three stone with no trouble but always only a few weeks after reaching her target weight she would start to pile it back on.

We started by discussing her feelings about her weight, and about herself when she was slim, what made her feel good or bad and using E.F.T. on all the negative emotions that arose. Before long it came to light that whenever she became slim and started wearing the fashionable clothes she loved, her husband would become unbearably jealous and so she would give up and start to over-eat again. Using E.F.T. we were able to deal with her confidence issues and fears about her husband. She was then able to maintain her preferred weight as well as becoming stronger in herself.

E.F.T. helps you find the reason behind your weight problem and then heal it...!