How To Lose Weight With Energy Therapy
by Carol Look
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Carol Look is gifted with common sense and a clarity of presentation which make her writing highly readable and helpfully informative. In these manuals she describes Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and how it can be used for self-healing of addictions to food and cigarettes.
EFT was developed by Gary Craig, who has done more than anyone else to popularize these Meridian Based Therapies (also known as Energy Psychology). They are potent, rapidly effective interventions for dealing with anxieties, phobias, current and residual emotional traumas, physical pains, allergies and more.
Where many approaches to addictions and self-defeating habits focus on dieting and restraint, Look suggests ways in which we can identify underlying contributing causes that keep us locked into these negative patterns.
The beauty of EFT is that it provides a tool for transforming such patterns rapidly and permanently. It also provides relief for cravings and withdrawal symptoms.
These manuals are intended for caregivers who want to hone their therapeutic tools. They also provide guidance for careseekers who might want some general maps for ways to deal with their issues, and might be introductions to self-healing. The aid of a therapist is still advisable, as it is often difficult to identify our limiting beliefs when we are caught up in them.
Here is a sample of the helpful approaches Look provides:
When the anticipated pain of changing exceeds the actual pain of staying the same, clients will not have sufficient motivation to change. Competing motives and inhibiting fears operate on unconscious as well as conscious levels. When one of my new clients first contacted me for weight loss, I asked her to assess her level of motivation on the SUD's scale. She reluctantly admitted it was only a 3. We tapped until it moved up to an 8 and the proceeded with treating her limiting beliefs.
It should come as no surprise that Energy Therapy techniques are incredibly effective for treating low motivation. I have successfully used some of the following statements to address a client's state of mind regarding motivation:
"'Even though I feel too lazy to start losing weight ...'
"'Even though I don't want to put in the time and effort...'
"'Even thought I resent having to work at it...'
"'Even though it will probably be a waste of time to start a diet now...'
"'Even though I feel paralyzed by the problem and don't want to start...'
"'Even though I don't really want it badly enough...'
"'Even though it doesn't seem worth the effort...'
"'Even though my head isn't in the right place...'
A clinician I supervised described these Setup phrases excuses. No matter how the clinician or client categorizes them, they will inhibit the client from making any headway whatsoever. I tap on any and all excises, judgements, or rationalizations that are blocking progress.
How to Lose Weight with Energy Therapy, p. 48
Several other approaches are also mentioned, including meditation and journaling.
The reviewer has worked with many people who struggle with various addictions, bad habits and negative beliefs about themselves. EFT and related therapies have transformed my psychotherapy practice and my personal life. Prior to my introduction to these energy therapies, lack of motivation was often a major obstacle to treatment. Look points out a variety of self-defeating statements that can be addressed through EFT, so that lack of motivation can be partialized and addressed step by step with EFT.
These refreshing applications and adaptations of EFT can be used for dealing with addictions of all sorts, in addition to eating and smoking.
The Meridian Based Therapies (MBTs) are vastly under-utilized in the field of addictions therapies. I have seen them help even with severe cravings. A 14 year-old teenager came to me after two weeks of being clean, following a year's addiction to heroin. She was crawling out of her skin with craving, having difficulty sleeping, and unable to focus her mind constructively. WHEE (a related MBT) was of enormous help to her in reducing her cravings and in dealing with painful emotions, residuals of her year's struggle to stop her addiction.
I highly recommend Look's manuals for anyone wanting to learn EFT for addictions.
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