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Persistent EFT for chubby issues
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Hi Everyone,
While this article by Emily P. doesn't go into specific EFT tapping details, it does an excellent job of getting behind the type of issues that cause people to carry more pounds than necessary. A good read.
Hugs, Gary
Dear Gary,
I just had a "breakthrough moment" with EFT and wanted to share! I first heard about and started learning EFT 3 years ago when my life was in quite the slump. Although I've never had a chance to see any of the videos (I'm a poor PhD student), I taught myself the Basic Technique through the EFT Manual and expanded my skills through the excellent articles in your newsletter. EFT has helped me to effectively deal with some serious issues - sexual assault, a sugar addiction, and procrastination related to my fear of success - and articles in a recent newsletter got me to tackle two longstanding problems in particular.
I have always had a serious propensity for all foods sweet and creamy - and a reputation for having an unquenchable appetite for such things. Even when I was able to temporarily eliminate my sugar addiction through EFT last year, I always seemed to end up self-sabotaging by indulging in ice cream or chocolate. So, when I read Benesch's article about the core issue behind a woman's cookie craving (the fact that her mother had never nursed her), a big light bulb went off! My mother had tried to nurse me, but wasn't able to; unfortunately, however, she didn't realise this until I lost a lot of weight and became a rather emaciated baby. I was a horribly unhappy and colicky child, and it wasn't until I was put on formula that I became a relatively happy and (very) chubby baby.
As long as I can remember, I have struggled with my weight and my love of sweets. I decided to try EFT on my similar issue. I used a lot of the same phrasing that Benesch did, linking it to the idea that I associate sweet and creamy foods with comfort and security that I never got as a baby because I was starving and denied that food I so desperately needed. However, it didn't seem to work. In fact, over the course of the two days after I applied EFT, I actually seemed to crave sweet and creaminess even more than I had in the recent past! I couldn't figure out what was going on, but went back to the manual and started to read about Psychological Reversal. It made sense as the reason for my stalled progress, but what could I do about it?
That's when I picked up Alexander Lees' article about the "Writings on our Walls". I suddenly realised that the sweet and creamy cravings were also connected to my ongoing body weight issue - I work out intensively at the gym 5 or 6 days a week, and have significantly increased my muscle mass, but my metabolism has remained stubbornly sluggish, and I have lost very little fat regardless of my workouts. I become conscious that many people in my life - family, teachers, friends - had written on my walls that I was smart, not athletic.
That I could never be lean, strong, and beautiful. I started to tap on that, and feelings rose to the surface, one after the other. First, I started laughing about the silly people telling me these things. Then, I started to feel really angry! What right did they have to pigeonhole me into not being the "athletic type"? To always remember me as being chubby (and comment on it when they saw me after a few years away), even when they'd seen me as thin at other times in my life? Vivid memories about my mother telling me how beautiful I could have looked in my prom dress: "if you could just lose five more pounds, it would be perfect". I started shouting as I tapped, and my eyes started to tear, thinking about all the hurt that the writing had done to me over the years. And then suddenly that started to fade, and I started to embrace the idea that I could be lean, strong, and beautiful.
That I could erase those words, and forgive all the people who'd contributed to the graffiti on my walls. I started to smile, and feel strong and confident in myself, and the best part of all was the overall sense of relief I was starting to feel. While I have already embraced that I am very strong, I could finally imagine my body being lean, and feeling beautiful because of it - an image I had never been able to tangibly visualise before.
By the time I finished, I was feeling lighter, I was smiling, and I was barely able to picture a piece of chocolate in my mind!
This is all very new, so I don't know what the long-term impacts of this will be on how I feel about myself, or how it will impact my physical self either - I may have more work to do on this issue yet. But I wanted to say a big "thanks!" for developing EFT - it's hard to describe how it's changed my life in so many ways already.
Hugs,
Emily
