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New Treatment for Emotional Eating Provides Answer for Unsuccessful
Dieters -- Cravings Subside in 80% of Cases
San Francisco
,
CA
(PRWEB) -- Stanford Engineer Gary Craig introduces a new do-it-yourself
approach to Acupuncture that helps overweight Americans combat emotional
eating. Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) addresses emotional eating at
the level of the energy meridian system (or Chi in Chinese Medicine).
There is no talk therapy involved, no drugs, no special diets, and it
often works when willpower fails.
EFT is modeled after acupuncture but doesn’t use needles. Instead, one
simply stimulates certain meridian points by tapping on them with their
fingertips. In 80% of the cases immediate food cravings subside in
moments. Craig acknowledges, “while this is not yet mainstream
thinking, hundreds of doctors, psychiatrists and psychotherapist are
using EFT to help their patients change their relationships with
food.”
Craig reports, “I see repeatedly that emotional issues like fear,
anger, boredom, shame, and resentment are the very centerpiece of
someone’s weight gain. But their emotional issues have remained
unresolved despite willpower and conventional therapies. This is because
their energy meridian system (or Chi in Chinese Medicine) has been
disrupted by the emotional issues. Until the energy system is balanced,
the emotional eating will continue.”
In his book The Ultimate Weight Solution, Dr. Phil McGraw’s top two
“Keys to Permanent Weight Loss” are 1) “Right Thinking” --
change your thinking; and 2) “Healing Feelings.” McGraw offers
extensive information and advice for readers to analyze themselves as
well as exercises intended to help readers take emotional control of
their lives.
Craig agrees that negative thoughts, feelings and emotions are at the
core of people’s weight problems. But he maintains, “the energy
disruption caused by the unresolved emotional difficulties is the
missing link to actually changing your thinking and healing your
feelings permanently. When the emotional issues are addressed at the
energetic level, the negative thoughts and obsessive behavior regarding
food disappears. There is no willpower involved because the trigger
emotions have been resolved and the urge to overeat simply disappears
... usually permanently.”
“Unsuccessful dieters fail because they are relying on their willpower
to quell the emotional turmoil that is actually lodged in their energy
systems”, says Craig. “Exercises like journaling, and meditation are
great to help people connect to their emotional pain, but EFT will help
people to gently extract their emotional pain from their system.”
Psychotherapists and EFT Practitioners can specialize in using EFT for
weight loss. One client, Ann, reported being overweight her whole life
and knew that her weight was contributing to her back pain. Ann
recognized that she was using food to fill the emotional emptiness of
her childhood, to tranquilize the pain from her back, and to fill the
void of living with an inattentive husband.
After EFT treatment, her emotional drivers were gone and Ann’s natural
ability to lose weight surfaced. She lost 25 pounds and reported that
her relationship with food changed significantly. Her back pain improved
as well. Ann said, “food isn’t as central in my life anymore…I eat
moderately and am more conscious of when I’m full and what I need.”
She said that using EFT for her pent-up frustrations and emptiness made
all the difference in her life to help her stop overeating and care
about her body and health.
Over 225,000 people have downloaded Craig’s free EFT training manual
from the official EFT website. It provides all the basics so anyone can
begin using it immediately.
The
EFT Manual can be freely downloaded here.
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