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Apr25
Mindfulness May Help to Regulate and Maintain Weight
Filed under: EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, Stess Relief, Well-Being, weight loss; Tagged as: EFT Emotional Freedom Technique, emotional eating, lose weight, maintain weight, mindfulness, weight lossNo Comments
- Mindfulness May Help to Reduce and Maintain Weight
There are many reasons that people want to lose weight. Most commonly, at least one reason is to look or feel better. I have suggested in the past that it is always good to start with your “why” – your reason for losing weight. American Chronicle has has a good post on the your why of losing weight.
Releasing excess weight gain is not an easy task for many people. Maintaining one’s ideal weight is often just as challenging. Often however, the challenge is not the amount of calories one eats, the correct diet, or the perfect exercise to “burn off” the fat. Often the issue is why the excessive or emotionally reactive eating is happening in the first place. I had a client who told me that she has always felt a “void” in her life, and she wondered if her emotional eating was a symptom of this.
Eating is a common attempt used to fill the void that many people can experience. Unfortunately the attempt to fill the void with food never works. The void can’t be filled with food, because the void is not physical. It is emotional and/or spiritual. The key then is to become more aware of the emotional triggers of eating, eating excessively and feeling out of control about one’s eating.Mindfulness based meditation is being researched for its effectiveness at helping to increase self-awareness, regulate mood and increase the ability to have an internal source of control. The Duke Center for Integrative Medicine conducts research on using mindfulness based meditation to help individuals maintain weight.To help soothe stress and anxious moods as a part of your effort to release excess weight you can utilized techniques such as the Emotional Freedom Technique used by Dr. Deb in her weight loss video.Deborah Barnett, P.h.D.www.Deborah Barnett.com -
Oct3
Quieting the Internal Struggle for Weight Loss Support
Filed under: EFT Emotional Freedom Technique; Tagged as: Deborah Barnett, EFT, EFT Emotional Freedom TechniqueNo CommentsOne of the benefits of EFT is that it is beneficial for healing and soothing a vast array of conditions and symptoms. This is what one woman had to say after tapping on concerns about her weight:
“You are amazing, your facilitation of tapping is amazing, and I get it. . . .After our session I made a phone call to a friend to share how wonderful you are AND [to share] some of the experience of tapping . . . Two hours after our session I felt the full weight of my body like I never felt it before BUT there was no debasing dialogue going on, no critical self ranting about ‘I really should be blah, blah, blah.’ AMAZING.”
-K.L. New Hampshire.
Often what keeps us “stuck” and prevents us from being clear is our own internal dialogue that we have going on inside our head. It is as if the there is an inner critic or judge that comments on everything we say, think or do. This just compounds whatever physical or emotional challenge we are facing, makes us feel worse, and pulls us down. By using EFT, that internal struggle or chatter is often quieted. The internal fight ceases as we come into alignment energetically and become clear. This is the place in which healing occurs and new possibilities are available that were previously out of reach.
Please post your comments on some of the techniques that you have used for quieting the internal struggle. Do you have a particular affirmation or phrase that you have used?
Deborah Barnett, Ph.D.
