I wrote a while back about how I was trying to use EFT to help me with my smoking addiction. It was working, but only when I used the techniques before smoking, each and every time. The problem was, when a craving hit and I still had the desire to be a smoker, I would, of course, not do the tapping and go ahead and smoke, telling myself that I’d really do it next time.
Which tells me that the issue goes much deeper than the smoking itself.
Since today’s my 36th birthday, I’ve been reflecting on where I am now and where I want to be this time next year. There are so many things that I want to change and/or improve in my life, and thinking about all of them at once got to be pretty overwhelming. So I asked myself “What is the most important thing to me that I change?”
The smoking came up immediately.
Which was the last thing I wanted to come up. After all of the failures in the past, including the posts here that I didn’t stick with, and now I’m going to try that again?
Yes, but I’m not going to try. I’m going to do.
Since the EFT did work on eliminating the immediate cravings, I thought that maybe there were some core issues that were there that I wasn’t resolving, and that the tapping should rely more on those.
But what could they be? There are so many possible reasons, from I’m just plain weak to my biology has a real physical need for the substance, to all sorts of psychological reasons…
Then I read this article on the EFT web site.
Duh! Why not tap on them all?!
Brilliant!
That’s one of the coolest things about EFT; you can use it on stuff that just might exist with no negative consequences.
So I’m off to practice some tapping, on everything from how I was potty trained to having my halloween artwork rejected by my first grade teacher to being terrified of going to college when I was 18. At worst, it’s a big waste of time. At best, I’ll be able to clear away some issues that have been dogging me for a while now.
So here goes!
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Update: While searching for material online that addresses using EFT to quit smoking, I ran across http://www.eft-therapy.com/, which has a comprehensive curriculum for quitting smoking using EFT at http://www.eft-therapy.com/smoking0.htm
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Hi Lyman,
You raise some good points here for newbies who want to use EFT to be free from addictive cravings. It’s great to see how you’re experimenting with choosing to eliminate cravings to smoke on the spot and also getting to some underlying reasons that drive you to smoke.
I look forward to any follow ups you post here.
with best wishes
Ananga
eft wordpress blog
Ananga,
Thanks for your comments. One of the things I find fascinating about EFT is that it does work when I choose to use it, but I haven’t really studied it enough to really use it on a consistent basis on those things which would produce long term changes.
And there it is again… it seems like something that keeps coming up is my motivation to take action on those things which I know will make me, and thus my life, better. Not just trying something new that might work, but using something with which I’ve already had success in the past, but I’ve stopped doing, or only done partially.
Thanks again for stopping by. You will see some of those follow ups you’re looking for.