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Almost everyone has suffered or currently is suffering from pain in their knees, hips or back. I would say the majority of my clients have a weakness in one of these areas.
Often a weakness is lurking below the surface so the only time you can see the injury is when the body is put through an exercise routine. e.g. your knees hurt when you go jogging or squatting to the floor etc.
The great thing about injuries is that you can remove almost all of them using the simple techniques outlined above. A must read if you have any aches at the moment.
Closely linked to this is the second article on static stretching. I have lost count of how many back injuries I have cleared up using just static stretching. Often stubborn 3 or 4 year injuries just disappear upon the application of some clever stretching.
Stretching is not as simple as it first appears so read the key points in the article today.
The final piece today is a link to the EFT site which details how to address chocolate cravings. This one food can be the main stumbling block to some peoples success.
I have found that you must first identify the mental connection between you and the chocolate (or any other food / behaviour) then use EFT amongst other techniques to remove it.
If you would like further support in achieving your health and fitness goals then consider some personal training in London (Clapham) or metabolic typing on line.
Hope you are well
Ben Wilson
One2one Nutrition
Personal training London - Your London personal trainer,
Metabolic typing advisor and EFT - Emotional freedom technique Therapist
Showing posts with label Emotional freedom technique (EFT). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emotional freedom technique (EFT). Show all posts
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008
Uses of emotional freedom technmique (EFT)
Uses of Emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Emotional freedom technique is a psychological form of acupuncture. It is had wide variety of uses and application. This is because your mind is involved in every aspect of your life. For an overview of emotional freedom technique (EFT), its theory and development please read my What is EFT? blog from last week.
Uses of emotional freedom technique (EFT).
Some of the main areas EFT can be used for include:
Weight loss.
EFT is used in a couple of areas when it comes to weight loss. It is a great technique to remove food cravings and control emotional eating. This can often undermine your attempts.
Through using EFT you are able to control your food cravings and reduce the need to eat comfort foods.The second area it can help with weight loss is through clearing and removing emotional barriers to success.
Though most of us are not aware of it when we have trouble achieving a goal there more often than not is an emotional objection or inner conflict within. Emotional freedom technique can resolve these barriers and conflicts to help you attain natural motivation to lose weight.
A health complaint / issue
The mind plays a huge part in the overall health of the body. An emotional origin can be found in many health complaints. Western medicine does not really support this theory despite their research saying it is true, e.g. tens of thousands of studies have shown the placebo group to make gains in medical trials.
This shows how that condition is affected by a mental/emotional aspect.When dealing with a health condition emotional freedom technique is applied to unresolved events from your past. That is any event that still evokes a negative emotion when you think about it now, e.g. can you still get angry, scared, nervous, embarrassed about events from your past now? In some people these can become a drain on the body and the source of a health complaint.
Physical pain.
EFT can work on physical pain for one of two reasons. If the injury has also brought a disruption to your electrical system then applying EFT will realign your electrical pattern which often reduces or clears the pain.
The second reason it may work is if you have unresolved emotions which are displaying themselves as a physical pain. In this case using EFT to resolve the emotions will often bring an improvement or resolution in the physical pain.
Phobias.
EFT is an awesome technique for controlling and removing phobias without ever having to get stressed, scared or worked up. By removing each individual aspect involved with your phobia you can clear the issue. For example, people who are scared of spiders may hold this fear because it is black, it moves fast, they once had one fall on them, mum said they were dangerous etc.
It would be necessary to apply EFT to each aspect to get over your phobia. Please note you do not ever have to get stressed over the fear you have to resolve it.
Negative emotions associated with an upcoming event.
EFT is fantastic at resolving negative feelings surrounding forth coming events e.g. a speech, presentation at work, meeting someone, sports match etc. It is important to look at all the possible aspects to this fear. For example, you may have used EFT to be prepared for a talk to 10 people, but when 20 turn up you become nervous again.
This is a new aspect to your phobia and would need to be addressed using EFT once more.
Life goals
The majority of our goals are totally under our control and easily within our abilities to achieve. However very often we do achieve our goals and this is due to the mind set and thought patterns we hold.Emotional freedom technique works by removing the negative consequences and concerns associated with trying to achieve your goal.
This allows the mind to be free and head towards your goals with renewed focus. For best results EFT should be combined with certain other techniques to build the positives of success. Overall peace of mind and happinessThrough picking out and resolving any previous unresolved emotional events and memories you can increase your peace of mind and overall happiness about you as a person
Addictions
Most addictions are a need to quell a degree of anxiety inside. If you can resolve this need then the addiction can be removed. Emotional freedom technique looks to resolve the underlying emotional issue causing the addiction.
EFT is also very helpful in reducing an addictive craving. Though this process usually acts simply as a stop gap measure it is still effective for any given situation. Only when the unresolved emotions are addressed will the need for the craving disappear.
Sport performance.
For ultimate sports performance you need the mind to allow you to achieve your full physical potential. Using EFT you are able to expand your comfort zones, control negative emotions on the day and increase your performance. To read more articles please visit my web site and sign up to my weekly newsletter.
Ben Wilson BSc (Hons) CSCS NSCA-CPT CMTA EFT Dip
On line metabolic typing, fitness training and emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Your Clapham (London) personal trainer, EFT therapist and metabolic typing advisor
Rugby fitness training information and coaching
Emotional freedom technique is a psychological form of acupuncture. It is had wide variety of uses and application. This is because your mind is involved in every aspect of your life. For an overview of emotional freedom technique (EFT), its theory and development please read my What is EFT? blog from last week.
Uses of emotional freedom technique (EFT).
Some of the main areas EFT can be used for include:
Weight loss.
EFT is used in a couple of areas when it comes to weight loss. It is a great technique to remove food cravings and control emotional eating. This can often undermine your attempts.
Through using EFT you are able to control your food cravings and reduce the need to eat comfort foods.The second area it can help with weight loss is through clearing and removing emotional barriers to success.
Though most of us are not aware of it when we have trouble achieving a goal there more often than not is an emotional objection or inner conflict within. Emotional freedom technique can resolve these barriers and conflicts to help you attain natural motivation to lose weight.
A health complaint / issue
The mind plays a huge part in the overall health of the body. An emotional origin can be found in many health complaints. Western medicine does not really support this theory despite their research saying it is true, e.g. tens of thousands of studies have shown the placebo group to make gains in medical trials.
This shows how that condition is affected by a mental/emotional aspect.When dealing with a health condition emotional freedom technique is applied to unresolved events from your past. That is any event that still evokes a negative emotion when you think about it now, e.g. can you still get angry, scared, nervous, embarrassed about events from your past now? In some people these can become a drain on the body and the source of a health complaint.
Physical pain.
EFT can work on physical pain for one of two reasons. If the injury has also brought a disruption to your electrical system then applying EFT will realign your electrical pattern which often reduces or clears the pain.
The second reason it may work is if you have unresolved emotions which are displaying themselves as a physical pain. In this case using EFT to resolve the emotions will often bring an improvement or resolution in the physical pain.
Phobias.
EFT is an awesome technique for controlling and removing phobias without ever having to get stressed, scared or worked up. By removing each individual aspect involved with your phobia you can clear the issue. For example, people who are scared of spiders may hold this fear because it is black, it moves fast, they once had one fall on them, mum said they were dangerous etc.
It would be necessary to apply EFT to each aspect to get over your phobia. Please note you do not ever have to get stressed over the fear you have to resolve it.
Negative emotions associated with an upcoming event.
EFT is fantastic at resolving negative feelings surrounding forth coming events e.g. a speech, presentation at work, meeting someone, sports match etc. It is important to look at all the possible aspects to this fear. For example, you may have used EFT to be prepared for a talk to 10 people, but when 20 turn up you become nervous again.
This is a new aspect to your phobia and would need to be addressed using EFT once more.
Life goals
The majority of our goals are totally under our control and easily within our abilities to achieve. However very often we do achieve our goals and this is due to the mind set and thought patterns we hold.Emotional freedom technique works by removing the negative consequences and concerns associated with trying to achieve your goal.
This allows the mind to be free and head towards your goals with renewed focus. For best results EFT should be combined with certain other techniques to build the positives of success. Overall peace of mind and happinessThrough picking out and resolving any previous unresolved emotional events and memories you can increase your peace of mind and overall happiness about you as a person
Addictions
Most addictions are a need to quell a degree of anxiety inside. If you can resolve this need then the addiction can be removed. Emotional freedom technique looks to resolve the underlying emotional issue causing the addiction.
EFT is also very helpful in reducing an addictive craving. Though this process usually acts simply as a stop gap measure it is still effective for any given situation. Only when the unresolved emotions are addressed will the need for the craving disappear.
Sport performance.
For ultimate sports performance you need the mind to allow you to achieve your full physical potential. Using EFT you are able to expand your comfort zones, control negative emotions on the day and increase your performance. To read more articles please visit my web site and sign up to my weekly newsletter.
Ben Wilson BSc (Hons) CSCS NSCA-CPT CMTA EFT Dip
On line metabolic typing, fitness training and emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Your Clapham (London) personal trainer, EFT therapist and metabolic typing advisor
Rugby fitness training information and coaching
Friday, 8 February 2008
EFT - Emotional freedom technique theory
Emotional freedom technique (EFT)
Emotional freedom technique is a psychological form of acupuncture. It is used to neutralize negative emotions associated around a thought. This is done by tapping certain acupuncture points with your fingers while tuning into a specific thought.
This simple process removes negative emotions around a thought. This process has been shown to help with behaviour change, phobias, physical pain and emotional issues. Often EFT produces results in just minutes which is one of the reasons it is the fastest growing branch of psychology today.
History of emotional freedom technique(EFT)
It was discovered in 1980 when Dr Roger Callaghan was treating his patient for an intense water phobia. She complained in that session of stomach pain so he told her to tap under her eye as knew the energy meridian of the stomach ended here (from acupuncture theory) and to his surprise the ladies fear of water disappeared.
From that point on he began studying this phenomenon and went on to create a new branch of therapy called energy psychology. A student of Dr Callaghan, Gary Craig, a Stamford engineer trained under him and then advanced the theory and made it accessible to all by creating emotional freedom technique (EFT).
What is the theory behind it?
The premise of the theory is summed up by its discovery statement:
“The cause of all negative or unwanted emotion is a disruption to the body’s electrical energy system”
This is inherently different to the way traditional psychology would view emotions, they would see it as:
Distressing memory ................... Negative emotion
Emotional freedom technique would say there is an intermediate step:
Distressing ........ Disrupted electrical ........ Negative emotion
memory pattern
To dissolve the negative emotion associated with the memory you do not need to treat your memory, but instead re-align the energy pattern associated with that memory.
How do you re-align the energy around a distressing memory?
To realign the disrupted energy you need to simply tap (with your fingers) on some of the key acupuncture points. The key to success is discovering what exact thoughts and different aspects to these thoughts to tap on. Even with this element almost anyone can harness some benefits EFT has to offer.
Emotional freedom technique is a psychological form of acupuncture. It is used to neutralize negative emotions associated around a thought. This is done by tapping certain acupuncture points with your fingers while tuning into a specific thought.
This simple process removes negative emotions around a thought. This process has been shown to help with behaviour change, phobias, physical pain and emotional issues. Often EFT produces results in just minutes which is one of the reasons it is the fastest growing branch of psychology today.
History of emotional freedom technique(EFT)
It was discovered in 1980 when Dr Roger Callaghan was treating his patient for an intense water phobia. She complained in that session of stomach pain so he told her to tap under her eye as knew the energy meridian of the stomach ended here (from acupuncture theory) and to his surprise the ladies fear of water disappeared.
From that point on he began studying this phenomenon and went on to create a new branch of therapy called energy psychology. A student of Dr Callaghan, Gary Craig, a Stamford engineer trained under him and then advanced the theory and made it accessible to all by creating emotional freedom technique (EFT).
What is the theory behind it?
The premise of the theory is summed up by its discovery statement:
“The cause of all negative or unwanted emotion is a disruption to the body’s electrical energy system”
This is inherently different to the way traditional psychology would view emotions, they would see it as:
Distressing memory ................... Negative emotion
Emotional freedom technique would say there is an intermediate step:
Distressing ........ Disrupted electrical ........ Negative emotion
memory pattern
To dissolve the negative emotion associated with the memory you do not need to treat your memory, but instead re-align the energy pattern associated with that memory.
How do you re-align the energy around a distressing memory?
To realign the disrupted energy you need to simply tap (with your fingers) on some of the key acupuncture points. The key to success is discovering what exact thoughts and different aspects to these thoughts to tap on. Even with this element almost anyone can harness some benefits EFT has to offer.
What is the point? How does this relate to anything?
If the problem you are trying to resolve can be pictured like a table top. The many factors contributing to the problem can be thought of as the legs to this table.
The tabletop (your problem /issue), may have many table legs underneath (different emotional contributors). The idea of EFT is to collapse the table legs to the point that there are not enough to support the table top. In other words, if you collapse enough emotional issues under your problem you will resolve that problem.
What we are looking for is the specific memories from your past that can still cause a negative emotion today. These will be the table legs to one or more table tops. As you collapse each event, e.g. remove the negative emotion associated with that thought you will begin to positively influence the problem you are trying to resolve.
Different table legs can be thicker (more influential on a problem) than others. Breaking these down will accelerate collapsing an issue.
Skeptical of EFT?
It is completely natural to think; that cannot work? Surely not? The majority of issues take a little time to resolve, some cannot be resolved, others however will be what we call one minute wonders. These are when you do one or two rounds of tapping and the issue just goes!
When you see it for yourself you begin to think just maybe there is something to this. It first happened to me when I was hobbling around the house with a calf injury from rugby. I did one round of EFT and to my disbelief the pain had pretty much gone! I could even do a one leg calf raise. Each time I witnessed one of these ‘freak’ events it proved further how this works.
If you give it just a little time of day you will see some results. It is so easy to do and has no negative side effects you may as well give it a try.
How to learn more about EFT.
If you would like to discover more about EFT then consider my on line EFT course or you can work with me face to face through Personal training London (Clapham).
If the problem you are trying to resolve can be pictured like a table top. The many factors contributing to the problem can be thought of as the legs to this table.
The tabletop (your problem /issue), may have many table legs underneath (different emotional contributors). The idea of EFT is to collapse the table legs to the point that there are not enough to support the table top. In other words, if you collapse enough emotional issues under your problem you will resolve that problem.
What we are looking for is the specific memories from your past that can still cause a negative emotion today. These will be the table legs to one or more table tops. As you collapse each event, e.g. remove the negative emotion associated with that thought you will begin to positively influence the problem you are trying to resolve.
Different table legs can be thicker (more influential on a problem) than others. Breaking these down will accelerate collapsing an issue.
Skeptical of EFT?
It is completely natural to think; that cannot work? Surely not? The majority of issues take a little time to resolve, some cannot be resolved, others however will be what we call one minute wonders. These are when you do one or two rounds of tapping and the issue just goes!
When you see it for yourself you begin to think just maybe there is something to this. It first happened to me when I was hobbling around the house with a calf injury from rugby. I did one round of EFT and to my disbelief the pain had pretty much gone! I could even do a one leg calf raise. Each time I witnessed one of these ‘freak’ events it proved further how this works.
If you give it just a little time of day you will see some results. It is so easy to do and has no negative side effects you may as well give it a try.
How to learn more about EFT.
If you would like to discover more about EFT then consider my on line EFT course or you can work with me face to face through Personal training London (Clapham).
Friday, 19 October 2007
Welcome
Hello and welcome to my first post in the One2one nutrition blog. This will contain all things about health and fitness from my life and that of my business. I will also include information about Rugby fitness training and my Rugby website.
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Ben
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Ben
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