Weight Loss Made easier
04/23/09 Filed in: EFT | Weight Loss
Rachel details a client's struggle with weight and a helpful EFT tapping sequence.
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What’s the BIG deal about weight? Being too BIG, that’s what the big deal is! Super size my meals and super sized me gives me super sized depression and I do feel super sad about that. Sometimes we talk about it with friends and more often we hear the subtle refrain in the back of the mind; a noisy jumble of accusations and worry about the way we look and how our clothes fit and what we can or cannot eat in order to change the way we feel about ourselves. And, the next morning, after our encounter with that malicious lying scale, it starts all over again. It’s a vicious cycle that creeps up from the subconscious and it holds all of our automatic triggers and emotions associated with food, love, comfort and relationships.
Our relationships with food include all of our senses: fragrance, texture, taste, a feast for the eyes and a symphony for the ears, especially if your cereal happens to snap, crackle and pop! It boggles the mind how many associations we have with those hot, cold, sweet, crunchy, soft, warm, fragrant, comforting morsels of love that we call food! Love and comfort is hiding somewhere in those M&Ms, I just know it! Of course everyone of us is unique, fascinating and complex when we investigate our food issues and their emotional connections. Let’s take a look at some of these issues while we tap along with Lynn (not her real name).
In this Tapping sequence, the client is the youngest of twelve children. Being the youngest, she was called the baby, while everyone bossed her around, told her what to do, and shut her up with ice cream! Lynn is now in her late forties, has a demanding position with a major corporation, a large family of six children of her own, and still feels like the “baby” of the family. She is challenged by being the “boss” and feels unreal and uncomfortable being an authority figure. Being the “baby” of the family, responsibility feels alien and strange and somewhere deep inside, this “baby” is still looking for her daddy to treat her to ice cream before going to bed. Growing up and getting “bigger,” and being in a responsible role, doesn’t fit the image of the inner child part who is still, figuratively speaking, screaming for ice cream and the love, safety and security that it seemed to provide in her childhood.
Tap along if this fits for you, or borrow benefits and have some fun with it!
Love and Blessings for your perfect size and weight, effortlessly!
Rachel
WEIGHT LOSS MADE MUCH EASIER!
| KC | Even though I still feel like a chubby six year old, I completely, I totally Love and approve of me anyway. |
| KC | Even though I can’t help seeing myself as chubby and fat, I completely, I totally love and approve of me anyway! |
| KC | Even though I can’t stop thinking about the flaws in my body, I completely, I totally love and approve of me anyway! |
| EB | I can’t stop feeling like a chubby six year old. |
| SE | I feel so fat and chubby! |
| UE | I really don’t like my body. |
| UN | I’m so distressed over my body! |
| CP | I can always find something to be critical about! |
| CB | My body image says I’m OVERWEIGHT! |
| UA | There’s too much fat around my middle! |
| TH | But, I WANT my cookies, cake, and beer! |
| EB | I won’t feel loved without my ice cream. |
| SE | I’ll feel deprived without my sweet tooth fix. |
| UE | I’m insatiable for sweet things! |
| UN | I just need one last sweet thing before bed! |
| CP | I can’t go to sleep without my ice cream! |
| CB | There’s enough love even if I don’t have my ice cream! |
| UA | There is enough love to go around for everyone |
| TH | There is enough love for me, there’s enough for all of us. |
| KC | Even though I was always “bigger” than the other kids, I completely, I totally love and approve of me anyway. |
| KC | Even though I weighed so much in first grade, and I was bigger, I completely, I totally love and approve of me anyway! |
| KC | Even though I still feel like that chubby child in first grade, I completely, I totally love and approve of me anyway. |
| EB | I was always “bigger” than the other kids. |
| SE | I weighed 72 lbs in the first grade! |
| UE | I wonder who told me that was too much? |
| UN | But, I was really HEALTHY! |
| CP | But I had all that “baby fat!” |
| CB | I was the baby in the family – what if I’m not the baby anymore? What if it’s okay to just be me now! I think it is okay, I’m all grown up! I’m as grown up as anybody else in the family! Imagine that. |
| UA | What if it is okay to have some sweetening in my life? I can sweeten my life with many things if I want to. |
| TH | NO, I can’t! I’ll loose control and become a blimp! |
| KC | Even though I feel like a blimp and I keep eating too much sugar, I completely, I totally understand why I would want to sweeten my life! |
| KC | Even though there’s more belly around my middle and I keep eating too much sugar, I can sweeten my life with many things besides sugar. |
| KC | Even though sugar is sweet to my pallet it’s not so sweet on my hips! I completely, I totally love and approve of myself anyway! |
| EB | I need my ice cream every night before bed! |
| SE | Dad gave me ice cream before bed, and that was LOVE! |
| UE | I’m just trying to be good to myself! |
| UN | I’m just giving myself something sweet, because it feels like love! |
| CP | What if there’s another way to be good to myself that feels like love? |
| CB | Maybe there is a better way to be good to myself. It doesn’t feel good to have all this worry and fear about being fat! I over indulge and then I regret it! But I’ll feel deprived if I don’t have my sugar! I need my ice cream! What if there’s a better way to say I love you to myself? I think there IS! I think I can be good to myself in other ways! What if I didn’t have all this worry and fear? What if I didn’t have to feel depressed about being over weight? |
| UA | If I keep having desert, I will lose control! |
| TH | If I lose control, I’ll get overweight! |
| SE | Then I’ll feel terrible about myself! |
| UE | Then I’ll have horrible self esteem issues! |
| UN | Then I’ll be so depressed and life will be horrible! |
| CP | What if there is help close by and I could trust that help? |
| CB | What if there’s another way to feel loved and happy? I think there is another way to feel good about myself. |
| UA | I choose to nourish my beautiful body in a healthy way! |
| TH | I love feeling slim, strong and healthy! |
| EB | I recognize this craving for sweets as a craving for love and acceptance! |
| SE | I love and accept myself totally and unconditionally. |
| UE | I know what calms me and makes me feel good about myself. |
| UN | I know that ice cream isn’t really love, it just feels like it! |
| CP | Ice cream isn’t love, I just USE ice cream to feel happy! |
| CB | I feel so depressed when I eat so much sugar. Eating ice cream doesn’t really make me happy at all! I choose to picture myself slim and strong, that makes me feel happy! Feeling fit and slim makes me very happy! I like feeling happy! What if I could stop picturing myself as fat? I think I can do that! I know I CAN! I choose to easily see myself as thin and trim! I’m grateful for my healthy and strong body and mind! I can let go of this problem and I deeply and completely love and accept myself! |
| UA | It’s safe for me to be slim and trim. |
| TH | The real me has no “weight problem” at all! |
| EB | I deserve to feel good about myself! |
| UE | I feel safe now inside myself, it’s okay to be slim. |
| UN | I love feeling confident and strong and powerful. |
| CP | I have all that I need inside of myself! |
| CB | I love feeling free, I appreciate who I am. |
| UA | I completely, I totally love and approve of me! |
| TH | I accept who I am as a powerful person. I appreciate how worthy I am. |
Life's Challenges and EFT -- An excellent resource for ideas on Life's Challenges and EFT by Advanced EFT Practitioner, Rachel L. Neumann.