EFT Tapping for Stress Eating
WHAT’S THE ISSUE: Is your stress eating habit no longer serving you? Try this self-help Borrowing Benefits EFT Tapping exercise for stress eating! Keep track of your progress on a piece of paper or on your computer, noting any new thoughts, emotions, or physical sensations you experience and any shifts.
In this article you’ll learn how a single, guided EFT Tapping session helped to:
Overcome procrastination caused by stress eating
Focus more effectively on her Masters degree assignment
Break the cycle of constant, mindless snacking
Whether you’re curious about EFT Tapping or looking for a complementary approach to help you deal with your stress eating habits, this article offers valuable insights and practical guidance.
As always, I received informed consent from the adult I was working with for this EFT session audio recording to be published in this format here on my website. We hope you find it helpful and educational.
PART I: EFT Tapping for stress eating
One effective EFT technique is called Borrowing Benefits. Below, you will find guided videos where you can tap along to this one-to-one EFT session to work on a stress eating habit that is no longer serving you.
Simply press play, tap along, and make a note of any shifts and insights you observe inside yourself. Enjoy!
PART II: EFT Tapping for stress eating
Part III: EFT TApping for STress eating
Soon after the session, the teacher emailed me with the following outcomes:
“Woot woot!! I just submitted my Masters, over 24 hours before the deadline, and feel great. Thank you for your guidance, and for really inspiring me to look into tapping more.”
When One EFT Session Isn’t Enough: Recognizing Complex Stress eating habits
Before beginning EFT sessions for stress eating habits, it’s crucial to honestly assess the complexity of your stress eating habits. This helps set realistic expectations about whether one or two sessions will suffice or if a longer commitment is needed.
If your weight is above the healthy range and you are in overweight or obese categories of weight, it’s unlikely that just one EFT session will be enough to achieve a particular weight loss goal or stress eating habit changing goal. This is because we now know, via fMRI brain scans, that people who have a habit of stress eating and overeating that goes back years or decades have biological changes that have occured in in their brain. We also know that biologically rewiring these regions of the brain takes a series of targetted EFT sessions.
Recently, Peta Stapleton et al. conducted a study on obese adults who wanted to lose weight and were emotional eating, using fMRI brain scans. In this research, participants underwent am eight hour Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) tapping program spanning four weeks. The brain scans were taken at the beginning and end of this four-week period while participants viewed food images, showing significant reductions in brain areas associated with food cravings after the intervention. Thus, the study involved a total of four weeks of EFT sessions, two sessions a week.
REFERENCE: “An Initial Investigation of Neural Changes in Overweight Adults with Food Cravings after Emotional Freedom Techniques” (2019) OBM Integrative and Complementary Medicine
If this article has sparked your curiosity and you’re ready to invest in a series of personalized EFT sessions for your health goals and health habits transformations, learn more about my services below or schedule an initial consultation.
Would you rather do it yourself?
Don’t want to or not ready to invest in professional EFT sessions with a certified tapping expert? Here is an easy DIY tapping exercise you can do if you want to try addressing your processed sugar craving on your own.
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About ELENI VARDAKI
Eleni offers online and in-person services supporting children, adolescent, and adult well-being. She is a Therapeutic Coach specialized in body based tapping techniques for stress, anxiety, and achieving goals. You can go to her EFT Practitioner services page if you would like to book an intitial consultation to discuss your food craving problem, habits, and health goals.
