[One_EFT Healing Highrise] Re: Eliminate Cravings

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> I eliminate longstanding cravings in less than one

> hour every day in my

> practice with EFT!!

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> CAROL HENDERSON

I completely agree with Carol. It is not only

possible, it would be the normal experience of a

competent EFT practitioner to eliminate the average

craving quickly and easily, with one session being

more than enough time, no matter how long the person

has had the craving.

The key is not only to get rid of the feeling of the

craving itself, which is typically tapped away in a

few minutes, but then to find and eliminate the

suppressed feeling that was keeping the craving alive.

If you don't get rid of the underlying feeling that

the addiction was hiding, the craving will spring up

again the next time the underlying feeling is

triggered, as the craving is the coping mechanism for

the suppressed feeling.

However, if you have gotten rid of the underlying

feeling, the craving will not return, because there is

no need for a coping mechanism anymore, because the

feeling is not there to be coped with.

Now there are two caveats in my experience, and this

may be the source of the confusion here, why it seems

that sometimes EFT cures the addiction in one session,

whereas other times it dies not.

the first one is that, when you're working with a

complex addiction, like a hard drug or alcohol, an

eating disorder, or the thought patterns leading to

gross obesity, it can take more than one session to

get the whole job done, as you're not just dealing

with a simple feeling of craving, there are so many

other threads to be untangled, and it would be

unrealistic to guarantee one-session results in those

instances.

However, for a simple addiction like cigarettes and

non-complex weight loss, cravings for potato chips,

chocolate, etc, one-session is easy, I've been doing

it for years

For example, it's extremely rare for somebody not to

quit smoking after one session with me. And I've had

such good luck with that that I presented my method at

last summer's NGH conference under the title " One

Session Habit Control " , concentrating on smoking as

the example.

Dr. Carol Look has an excellent interview with a

substance abuse counselor in the archives for her

radio program. He is talking about the dynamics

underlying cravings. In his context, he is telling

how EFT is used in the substance abuse recovery

program, where a client has crashed and burned,

destroyed his life, health, finances, marriage, and

job, so he is talking about a situation where multiple

sessions are definitely required, as we're talking

about the personal equivalent of rebuilding New

Orleans, it's a daunting task, you're not only dealing

with the feeling of craving, but 100 other things as

well.

However, the principles he is describing, of

neutralizing the various threads, can easily be

transported to the simple craving single-session

situation.

The key to success is neutralizing ALL the threads.

If you miss even one, the craving will still be there

to some degree. So for example, in our stop smoking

program we have found it necessary to teach our

clients how to handle stress, construct an identity as

a non-smoker, find new rituals to replace the smoking

rituals, find new ways to handle peer group social

situations, change lousy lifestyle habits like poor

nutrition, and deal with recurrent family and job

stresses. If we do that, they quit smoking.

So we have them tap on their feelings about all those

issues, and we've learned how to easily do that in one

session. the craving itself typically disappears in

one or two rounds of tapping. With the method we use,

it takes about 15 minutes of session time to tap on

their problem thoughts about these other issues. we

spend the rest of the session helping them reconstruct

a new identity as a non-smoker and doing some trance

work to embed this new self-image in place. so they

quit smoking in one session virtually every time, and

getting rid of the feeling of craving is the easiest

and quickest part!

I say " virtually every time " because there are no

absolute guarantees in this business. And we don't

guarantee that our clients will quit smoking, we

guarantee, if they ask for a guarantee, that we'll

give their money back if they don't achieve

satisfactory results within 30 days of using our

method.

So my opinion is that the EFT therapist who handles

all of these psychological aspects in one session,

like we do for our stop-smoking clients, will get a

one-session result for the simple cravings, and that

is a realistic expectation in that context, and

relatively easily achievable by anybody who has

developed their EFT skills to the point where they're

working intuitively with their clients.

Because the key to succeess with EFT for eliminating

cravings, like eliminating anything else with EFT, is

to be methodical, and eliminate ALL the thoughts

holding the habit in place.

So if a newbie EFT practitioner, for example, was just

getting his/her sea legs in terms of how to track down

all the threads in the client's psyche holding the

habit in place, it might be unrealistic for that

newbie to be confident that a simple craving would

disappear in one session. Yet once that newbie was

experienced enough to no longer be considered a

newbie, it would be routine for that EFT practitioner

to eliminate simple cravings in one session from that

point forward.

So the bottom line here is that one-session results

are definitely possible for simple cravings, and an

experienced EFT practitioner should be able to do it

most of the time, but that it would be unrealistic to

absolutely guarantee it, because there's always that

one client who walks in with what at first seems to be

a simple problem, but that ends up being wired into

some nasty awful stuff from childhood that just

doesn't clean up easily in one session, even if for no

other reason than that you simply ran out of time.

And it's definitely true that an inexperienced EFT

practitioner might need more than one session to get

the job done that an experienced practitioner could

easily do in one session.

And when it comes to complex cravings, such as hard

drug addiction, especially in a rehab setting, even an

experienced practitioner would think it unrealistic to

guarantee one-session results with the overall

problem, because of the massive amount of damage that

has been done, much of the damage not the craving

itself, but the havoc wrought by years of giving into

the craving, necessitating extensive digging and

reconstruction to get things back under control, much

more than you could accomplish in a single session.

But even in these complex situations, the craving

itself can often be eliminated in a few minutes of

tapping. In my experience, it's not how long it takes

to get rid of the momentary feeling of craving, it's

how long it takes to get rid of all the other factors

holding the craving in place, and which must be

eliminated to keep the craving from coming back, that

determines how much session time it takes to clean up

the entire situation.

I got rid of my own M & M's craving in 3 minutes of EFT,

and I didn't touch another M & M for a year after that.

that's because there were no deep underlying emotional

dynamics holding the craving in place, it was just a

bad habit I had gotten into to help me cope with long

late night drives coming back from a counseling course

training program.

Now I occasionally have a few M & Ms, but it's not an

issue, I don't find them that interesting. That kind

of result is definitely possible with clients, as

well, and especially if there's one particular food

they're focused in on, like chips, chocolate cake,

etc, if you know what you're doing, it's easy to bust

the pattern very quickly so it doesn't work anymore.

on the other hand, I did a stop-smoking session for a

man and wife once, and he quit and she didn't, and I

had her come back, and it turned out she was using

cigarettes to push down deeply suppressed anger, anger

that she had not told me about in the first sesion.

and that when that anger squirted out that she was

physically abusive to her children, and furthermore

she had a job in the school system, where her anger

had the potential to affect other children as well.

so what I thought would be a " 30-minute reinforcement

session " turned out to be 2 hours of some rather

intense digging to help her neutralize her anger,

which went back to childhood when she was abused

herself, as I couldn't take away the smoking without

handling the suppressed anger that smoking was helping

her cope with, and that turned out to require dealing

with her current active abuse, and her history of

being abused, and that turned out to be a tangled up

mess, as abuse cases often are.

so her real issue, which came disguised as a

stop-smoking session, turned out to be childhood abuse

and deeply suppressed anger. because she had not told

me about her anger in our first session, we hadn't

dealt with it, so even though we momentarily

eliminated her craving, her smoking did not disappear

in that first session.

I never heard from them again, so I don't know if she

quit smoking, because I don't know for sure if I

neutralized all the threads in that 2 hours, but I do

know I saved some children from the consequences of

that intense anger pattern.

And since that, for her, was the real issue, I don't

feel ike I " failed " because I didn't neutralize her

smoking in one sesssion, I'm just glad that they came

back because it didn't work for her the first time, so

I got a chance to dig deeper and find out what was

really going on, and do some good work with that, and

help give one more person their life back.

charlie

--- Carol <Carol@...> wrote:

> I eliminate longstanding cravings in less than one

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> CAROL HENDERSON

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> Certified Hypnotherapist

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> EFT Practitioner

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> New Day Hypnotherapy, LLC

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> Kansas City Area

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> From: hovipups [mailto:hovawart_dogs@...]

> Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 2:15 PM

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> This makes the hair on my back stand up. I think

> advertisings like

> these gives EFT a bad rap. All the research I've

> done points to the

> reality that especially longstanding

> cravings/addictions are not

> eliminated within one hour.

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> There are a few exceptions, but they are

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" World Peace Through Inner Peace "

Charlie Curtis, BCH

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Christa, Carol, Charlie and ALL,

This is a great discussion. When I started out with Energy Psychology I

used to offer a MBG as it was a new field, as far as I remember I never

had to give one back. I guess it can from years of doing HPE where the

clients didn't pay until they got their change. (They paid a lot more

than anyone is charging for Energy Psychology right now.) They also had

to make arrangements to get to my location. It wasn't done over the

phone.

We dealt with fears, phobias, compulsions, carvings, etc.many of the same

problems that can be dealt with EP's.

It has been my experience (this doesn't make it right or true, just my

experience), that when the client does exactly what is asked them to do

or I can work with them to get to the point where they can do the drill

that is recommended there is no need for a guarantee as the Energy

Psychology processes does not depend on personalities but on being human

and everything being made out of energy. (And I have seen EP's work

wonders on animals also.) EP's seem to work so well " because "

they work in that area before and after thinking where all the

" magic and mystery " takes place.

Since I work with many in the medical field not only would they not

guarantee but their biggest complaint is patient compliance (acting doing

or taking all the medication that the Dr. recommends.) Carol I appreciate

your stance and understanding of the roles of healer and healie.

To Your Best,

Doc Houston

To read about 10 Major Stumbling Blocks to Achieving Your Potential

http://achieve-your-potential.com/10-major-stumbling-blocks.html

At 12:37 AM 3/7/2006, you wrote:

Christa,

I do do phone sessions and would be glad to try to help you, but, no I

don’t guarantee that I can rid anyone of cravings in one session. The

reason is this: whether or not you release your cravings is up to you,

either consciously or subconsciously. I am only the guide. If you don’t

get better, I still am working, and I believe my time is worth being paid

for. Would you ask your MD. For a refund if you didn’t get well? I see it

the same way.

Maybe Charlie will do it with a guarantee.

Carol

CAROL

HENDERSON

Certified

Hypnotherapist

EFT Practitioner

New Day Hypnotherapy, LLC

Kansas City Area

913-908-6907

Carol@...

www.newdayhypno.com

From: hovipups

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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 10:15 AM

One_EmotionalFreedomTechniques

Subject: [One_EFT Healing Highrise] Re: Eliminate Cravings

Hi

Carol,

great! Do you do phone sessions? And if so, will

you garantie that

you can get rid of my cravings in a one hour

session?

I would love to try it, but I'm not willing to

pay if it doesn't

work.

christa

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> I eliminate longstanding cravings in less than one hour

every day in

my

> practice with

EFT!!

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