EFT is most effective when it is specific.  Each person has their own emotional eating patterns and triggers.

Emotional eating is just a symptom of the real problem.  The main issue is that we use food to tranquilize unresolved emotions that reside in our system.

If you are beating yourself up for your emotional eating, I want to tell you to go easy on yourself.  EFT is a way to make peace with it.

Our goal is to reduce or eliminate that sense of ongoing emotional unrest that leads to emotional eating.  The process is quite simple and has two parts to it.

When I work with a client, our work is to identify the emotion filled specific events in their life that contribute to their current feeling of unrest that causes them to emotionally overeat and then we collapse their impact through EFT.

This is a general script for emotional eating and it can get you off to a good start.

For those who are do not know how to tap please go to my instruction page to help you get started.

Emotional Eating Tapping Script

Before beginning, calculate what is the emotion that is associated with your wanting to eat right now.  What is the emotion?  Examples are frustrated, lonely, neglected, or ashamed.  Or what is the thought?  Examples are I deserve it; it’s make me feel good: I shouldn’t or I have worked hard all day.  What was the environment?  Examples are When my friend didn’t call me, After disappointing date or I didn’t do well at work today.

Let’s take that you feel frustrated from a long day.  What level is it from a scale of 1 to 10? 10 being the highest.  Write it down.  If High, then tap on it. Try to be as specific as possible.

While tapping on your KC (karate chop) point, say, the following set up phrase at least 1 time up to 3 times.  Even though I feel frustrated or ___________ which is a level of 8 or _______, I deeply and completely accept myself, or I would like to think I completely accept myself.

TH – I feel frustrated

EB- I feel frustrated on a level of 8 or put in your number

OE – this 8 frustration

UE – this frustration

UN – this frustration

UL – this 8 frustration

CB – this frustration

UA – this 8 frustration

TH – this frustration

Take a deep breath and check in on your level of frustration or whatever the feeling was.   Repeat as often as necessary.   

I would love for you to let me know how this goes for you!

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