So today I feel inspired. Reading everybody else’s blogs, I feel inspired to REALLY do this. I sure hope it won’t be another LAME attempt. We all have had LAME attempts, lets be real. I have had several. Really, I have never been bothered for longer than a week or two to get healthy, altho it is a constant struggle with my mind. I think half of it has to do with the mind. Once you conquer your own mind and the willingness to finally DO something about it, the rest is really easy. I watch what I eat, I watch it disappear off my plate and into my stomach….which then leads to a pang of guilt that is then overcome with something sweet. It’s cyclic really.
So like my blog title suggests, it’s about F’n time. It’s about F’n time that I get inspired and overcome this really negative feedback loop cycle. I guess I am going in the right direction, but I am really excited about the support that is available out there.
So I am going to share something that I find has been working out really well for me in the last little bit. I went to a naturopathic doctor who said that this has worked miracles on people because it unblocks their energy and helps the patient accept himself. I have seen sessions where a person is completely cured of allergies, or fears in one or two sessions. It is called EFT. I spoke about it in my first post, and how it has helped. The principle of EFT is that your body has energy flowing through it constantly. In most cases the body has a blockage of the energy transfer. What does that mean? It means that the energy is not flowing through all the meridians in the body or that it is partially blocked. So you may be wondering how you can unblock it? Well it is fairly simple, however getting to the root causes is a little more work.
So how it works! There are 12 main points. (Taken from ancient acupuncture pressure points).
- The top of your head (also your first Chakra, known as your crown Chakra)
- The inside of your eyebrow (also the second Chakra)
- The outside of your eyebrow (your temple)
- Under your nose (on top of your upper lip)
- Your chin
- Your collarbone
- The side of your breast (kind of inside your armpit)
- Your wrist
- Your thumb (right beside your thumbnail on the outside part of your hand, this goes for all the finger points)
- Your index finger
- Your middle finger
- Your pinky
You have to find your sore spot. (or some can use their Karate Chop Point on their hand…if you imagine doing Karate, it is the part that you would use when you say Hai YA and hit something, on the fleshy part of your hand under your pinky finger) To find your sore spot (I find this more effective for myself) you make a line down the inside of your eye down to just below your collarbone. When you rub it gently, it will feel slightly sore. On this point and your Karate Chop point is where there is the abundance of energy in your body.
Ok, so now we know the anatomy of energy. How does it work? It works similar to going to a doctor and telling him that your throat hurts, or that you have a back ache. You have to find the negative blockage. So we find an affirming statement. This affirming statement is followed by accepting yourself and embracing yourself. Even though I have this headache, I deeply and completely accept myself. While you are saying your affirming statement, you will rub your Karate Chop Point or your Sore Spot. Do this three of four times until you are comfortable saying it out loud. The next part is easy, you tap all of the points that were mentioned above. Start at your crown chakra and say it out loud, This Headache…continue this through all the energy points mentioned above. What this does is opens up your meridians so that the energy will flow freely. With your forefinger and your middle finger tap about seven times on each of these spots, repeating what ails you. Say that there was an energy block at your temple, and you tapped it to make the energy flow from there to the rest of your energy points, by tapping it and affirming that you have a headache, and that the possibility of having it stored in anyone of your energy spots, you are essentially letting the energy in your body flow as it should. After you are done tapping all of the spots, clear your mind by closing your eyes and rolling them once, and humming the first verse of happy birthday, or the alphabet or any song really. Now access your headache on a scale of 1-10. You will notice that the headache would have decreased if not completely disappeared. If it hasen’t try it again, until it is gone.
So we now know how to get rid of a headache by doing EFT. How does this relate on a greater level. Well though our lives we carry about guilt, or burden our bodies with all kinds of things. This leads to ailments such as obesity, migraines, allergies (ect). So with the doctor, we worked on a few things. He asked me very leading questions as to why I am obese. These questions are perhaps questions that you can ask yourself? When did you start being obese? How did you feel when you felt fat? What happened when you would turn to food? Why did you turn to food? From there it was evident that I had been living with this all my life, so he started asking me questions as to why?
For the first time, I am not afraid to put this out to the world, because it is not shameful, rather theraputic. This has been through EFT, and I can’t wait to reap the benefits. And even tho I am ashamed of my weight, I have a million other attributes to be proud of, and once I sort out the reasons as to my weight problems, everything will fall into its own place.
So here are my reasons
- As a child, I never had the attention I sought, so I replaced that with food
- My father wanted a boy when I was born and I dealt with a great deal of emotional abuse (as well as physical) and I turned to food to make it better. A full stomach took away the emotional or physical pain.
- I always lived with being not good enough, so I ate my way to be good enough for myself.
- I eat when I am feeling down, or when I am feeling rejected.
- I have convinced myself that bieng a little overweight is not a problem, so long as I am not the fattest kid on the block.
So this is a good start. And I will be conscious of these reasons, and I will tap for them. Here are my affirmative phrases.
Even though as a child I was never good enough for my parents I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though as a child I never got the attention I deserved, I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though I have never been the boy my parents wanted, I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though I eat when I am upset, I deeply and completely accept myself.
What did that do for me? Well in the two weeks that I have been exploring myself with EFT, I have dropped 10 lbs. Really, I haven’t changed anything, so imagine that I do change my eating and excersising habits what amazing results will come out of it!!!! I can’t wait, and this is what my friends, has prompted me to finally get a blog and start sharing my journey.
If you read this blog post, I have one ask from you. Try EFT once, maybe on a headache, or a stomach ache…Try it once. You don’t have to find CORE issues like I have just put out there for you. You can try it on something as simple as a headache. Please don’t knock it until you have tried it. If you find the core issues….I hope to be able to say with a certain level of certainty that with the support available here, and WW points, the lbs will just shed themselves. I have started to see results, and I am excited about where this is going to take me!
