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If you have tried a zillion diets, sooner or later you are going to hit a wall!

Sometimes you just need some one-on-one hypnosis to keep you out of the cookie jar, or stopping at Starbucks.

It is really fun to be hypnotized  to not want to eat cookies, or chocolate, or candy.

However, the associations are usually so strong from years of repetitive experience that an upset like grief, a big change, or even a disturbing conversation, can sometimes send you back to your old comforting stand-by.

This is where EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is really helpful.

It is an effective way to PLAY with your thinking.

It is as though you have an entrenched stream of thought.

It can go like this: When I need a break, want to treat myself, I grab my favorite>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.

With EFT, you can state the truth as you are tapping on your body, “Even though I say I want to be healthy, and not have this annoying fat on my body, I still want to eat this Snickers Bar, and have a Diet Coke. Even though I know I can’t keep doing this and feel great in my body, I TOTALLY love and accept myself.”

The power is in acknowledging the truth instead of staying in the fight. (Please read that sentence again!)

You have battling parts. One part wants to feel healthy and proud, and the other part wants what she wants, and to be left alone.

This is exhausting!

With hypnosis, you can be powerfully veered from this battle, but in my experience, EFT gives you another very useful tool. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE good tools!

This is my favorite example in my own life, and forgive me if you have heard this story before.

I did not want to pick up my high-school daughter from volleyball practice. She had been gnarly before school that morning and I had had a very busy day and I wanted to go home and not make ONE MORE STOP!

The owner of Husky’s Deli in West Seattle was on the radio, being interviewed about his family’s tradition of making ice cream.   When my girls were little, and we didn’t have a hectic schedule, we would wander in, order an ice cream cone and sit outside and enjoy it. It was fun, and I can see them trying to manage the cones and the ice cream in their little hands.

Well, suddenly all I could think of was ice cream. I could go to QFC and they had Dove bars on a stick and I could be late, and I started laughing.

What I really wanted was the leisure of NO SCHEDULE, thank you very much. The ice cream wasn’t going to change that!

At the next stop light, I did some EFT on myself. I drove right to the high school,  picked up my daughter, and made her a wonderful dinner.  I totally forgot about the ice cream until the following week when I was teaching, and I used it as an example.

Out minds are really interesting,and knowing yours is very useful.

In my practice and in my own life, I have found the combination of hypnosis and EFT to be an absolutely phenomenal combination for change.

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Most of us have a few eating personalities.

Do you have an Inner Cereal Monster?

In my next Make Peace with Food and You class we will have a great time calling out our personalities, naming them, and the laughing very hard as we decide how to handle them.

We meet one Friday night a month.   Email Lisa   @ Lisa Crunick .com if you would like to join us.

Although everyone was excited to see all of the candy I brought to class, I couldn’t give any of it away.

The “Let’s get this party started” feeling quickly faded in the Make Peace with Food and You group.

One woman said,”If I am overweight, I shouldn’t eat those M&M’s , so I certainly don’t want to eat them in front of everyone.”

Someone else said, “I feel ashamed.”

The archaic meaning of shame is covering oneself.

A few weeks later, in the same group, what I heard was, “This is who I am.  Accepting me, and not coming from a place where I have to change me, kind of freed me to be nicer me. My obsession with food just isn’t there.”

I wish that for each and every person.

 

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A blogger whose name I will not mention, wrote that she would find it offensive to watch the sitcom actors, Molly and Mike who met at Overeaters Anonymous kissing on TV.

Her comments were offensive and when I read it, I thought, this woman has her own body issues. And sure enough, in her apology, she admitted that she was a former anorexic.

I tell my clients to practice looking at people without commenting on their bodies. We are spiritual beings.

Every one of us is going to pass on and not one of us will take our bodies with us. It is a trap to over identify with something  impermanent, and designed to age.

Have fun in your body? Yes. Enjoy it? Yes. Appreciate it?  Yes.  Take care of it?  Yes Yes.  Be a star athlete, sex goddess whatever,  just remember, you are having an experience in it.  It is not who you are.

I have heard clients say that they feel that thin people assume they are some how superior.

We are bombarded with before and after images of people who have made it. Whether they are starving, living on drinking shakes, or taking drugs is secondary. They are not fat.

On Tweet Deck, you can search a word, and when anyone  uses that word, it will come up in your feed. After following the word obese for a few months, there are two kinds of tweets. People make rude remarks about strangers they see in public places, and young girls talk about how much they ate, and how they are going to be obese. (That is a whole other subject for another article.)

Interestingly, when the blog with the offensive comments surfaced, this tweet stream totally changed. The author was called pricelessly insensitive, a body  Nazi, insane, and she should be fired immediately. Wow!

The tweets may go back to the former trend.

You, however, CAN CHANGE YOUR MIND!

Practice seeing people for who they really are.

You will find that they are kinder to you and you will feel more peaceful thoughts about yourself.

If you waste your precious thoughts on feeling bad about your body, please stop that!

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