On Monday, our group (you can join us, if you’d like) spent the evening exploring the many different ways you can approach the negative aspects of weight loss – like body image, cravings, things that have been said to you, or that you overheard, at some point in your life.
I want to expand on this last one because I bet we all can relate to being told to “eat what’s on your plate because there’s starving children (wherever) who would love to be eating this!” I just checked myself and wouldn’t you know it – I have trapped emotions relating to this statement! Using the Sway Test, I found that it’s the emotion “love unreceived” which I didn’t process somewhere around the age of 5. Dr. Bradley Nelson’s definition of this emotion reads ” a feeling that love expressed is or has been rejected, feeling unwanted, not cared for, not accepted, a lack of love where it is desired.”
I released this one and discovered that I had another one – “taken for granted” – picked up around age 7. Definition of this is – “feels treated with careless indifference, not given thanks for something accomplished, similar to ignored.” Released this one and have no others so it will be interesting to see if this makes any difference to me as my current tendency is to eat everything on my plate even if I’m full before it’s clean. Oh, those trapped emotions – they can play havoc without you knowing it!
It was great fun to share our stories, to play with different ways of posing the questions, to discover someone’s trapped emotion without them saying anything – just thinking their question, and to run the magnet down their backs. Love these sessions!
Next Monday, we will be exploring Emotional Freedom Tapping (EFT) which we can all use in order to change our relationship with food and our body image in a short time. EFT involves tapping on specific acupressure points that link to the meridian system which runs everywhere in your body and talking out loud about your problem in order to reprogram your mind and nervous system to adopt an entirely different attitude towards everything related to why you can’t lose weight.
In essence, this will neutralize your negative thought patterns and emotions that are keeping you stuck – allowing you to be at peace with them – and, then, you instill what you want instead. A simple painless method that stops the self-sabotage, wild cravings, changes your self-image and cuts the emotional crap that is usually is the root cause of being over-weight.
I say usually because sometimes you also need to look at nutritional imbalances as well – any sensitivities to food substances can set up an inflammatory process that can balloon you up a size or two – and all the tapping in the world won’t help you then. That’s where the Sway Test can be used to test for anything that upsets your digestive system – use this to improve your food choices so your body can detox and absorb the nutrition offered by your new lifestyle eating pattern. Add in the EFT and you have a winning combination! The unwanted inches will just melt away!
The Emotional Freedom Tapping is forever evolving and being applied to a large number of issues we can all relate to. If you want to really dive into learning more about this fabulous technique, you might want to join the over 150,000 people who have signed up for the free 2011 Tapping World Summit that begins on Feb 21 – click here to learn everything you would like to know about EFT and the Summit!
I’m so excited to share with my group, and you, yet another fabulous method of quick and easy change that I found while doing research for this blog – it’s called “Ask and Receive”. Watch Margaret Lynch, Master EFT practitioner and presenter at the Summit, receive the benefit of this method by clicking here.
Until next time, begin or keep on tapping!
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