energy psychology and emotional freedom techniques are not substitutes for medical care always consult with your physician and healthcare provider regarding any health care questions individual results will vary hi everyone welcome to tapping with my name is jim kaylor i'm a licensed professional counsellor and i'm going to help you with food cravings today i thought it would be a really good idea to do a show on how to reduce or eliminate junk food cravings sugar cravings saw cravings caffeine cravings cravings for all that stuff especially as we're coming into the holidays now so what i'm going to do first is i'm going to explain how this is done using emotional freedom techniques and i know they ran my disclaimer but individual results will vary so we're going to go through this i'm going to explain how to do it and then we're going to have three volunteer students so i can teach you how to do this so feel free to watch the show as many times as you can or go to youtube to watch it so you can really see how this is done because when it works it's very effective case motional freedom techniques is a part of acupuncture without needles and the basic philosophy is that all negative emotions are a disturbance of the body's energy system so whether it's a negative emotion or a food craving or anything else it can be reduced or eliminated through a series of tapping on acupressure points so i'm sure many of you may have already heard about this but i am very fortunate in that i am certified in energy psychology and am in process of being certified in emotional freedom techniques so what we're going to do first is get to my chart and i know that the crew is going to put the graphic up right now of this chart so you can see it at the same time but i'm going to go through the basic recipe with you so you can see how this is done before we take a break and have the students the basic recipe for motional freedom technique starts here which is to identify the issue that you want to work on you want to give it a name and you want to rate it on an intensity scale of zero to ten zero being on at all and ten being absolutely the highest that it can be so today giving it a name it will be this craving ok then we follow the flow chart down and we do this set up phrase which is even though i have this issue or in today's case even though i have craving i completely love and accept myself and you repeat this three times while you tap on the karate chop point so the karate chop point is on the side of the hand the fleshy part below the little finger right here and this is called a set up phrase and what this is is letting your brain know that yes i want to work on this issue right now so for today it's going to be even though i have this craving i completely accept myself even though i have this craving i completely love and accept myself even though i have this craving i completely love and accept myself so you say that three times while you tap on your karate chop point below the little finger ok then the brain says ok this is what we're working on and you fly down here now we can see that we're going to use the ship no i think i'll take you through the long way today we'll see how things go there's a short cut way or there is the full basic recipe and this is used there's a reminder phrase that we use so for instance when we're tapping we start tapping on the top of the head after we do our set up phrase we start tapping at the top of the head this craving and the students today have a variety of cravings whether through chocolate caffeine salt whatever it might be so for them they're going to tap on the craving of their choice start the top of the head about seven taps beginning of the eyebrow seven taps end of the seven taps thinking about what you're craving under the seven taps actually i'll quit saying seven taps you because you're going to say this craving so top of head this craving this craving side of this craving under this craving under knows this craving middle of  this craving below the collarbone find the endpoints in your collarbone below your throat ok so here are my the corners of my collarbone right here and i just drop down maybe an inch three inches down from the armpit on the side of the body ok no that's the short version but i'm going to take everybody through the long version today and that will include the fingers the side of the thumb on the outside of the thumb by the nail ok the side of the index finger closest to the thumb again on the side of the finger by the nail the side of the middle finger closest to the thumb by the nail we're going to skip the third finger although the third finger definitely has energy or electricity through it but for the third in the little finger so the shorter short cut is to say the set up phrase even though i have this craving i completely love and accept myself and then tap inside tip of the little finger and also because cravings are about the stomach tap under the eye which is where the stomach meridian is and then sometimes i might have the students tap on the side of their mal's because the stomach already and goes underneath the down the side of the mouth and then oddly enough curls up the jaw line to underneath the ear so we're going to kind of see how things go today then we're going to do this funny thing called brain balancing or you tap on the back of the hand the knuckles between the little finger in the ring finger it's called the nine gamut ok and then there is a series of i movements and humming counting and humming and that balances the brain and then repeat this whole tapping thing again and then see what you rewrite your issue is it is zero then you can get on to the next craving or the next problem or is it still between a one and a ten then you do this again even though i still have this remaining craving i do completely love and accept myself so i wanted to at least take you through the basic recipe so you could see how this works before we actually before i invite the students up here and then we will listen well even then the show is taped this is going to be lived so it might not work for them i don't know but we're going to see what happens so we're going to take a short break right now and then we'll have the students come up and pick the craving of their choice and we'll do some tapping and we'll see what happens i'm starting to worry about my boy find one minute he's supportive the next minute everything is my fault he says a couple of beers get him in a good mood his idea of a couple of beers usually turns out to be a lot more than just one or two and that's when i start to worry after he's had too many beers he gets really angry and i become the target i hate to say it but he reminds me too much of my last boyfriend and through any good man out there and best friend is a social worker she told me to try allan on family groups so i can understand my feelings better i didn't want to go because i didn't want to get into another argument with my boyfriend but i'm glad i went i'm starting to understand that i didn't cause his anger i didn't cause his drinking it's a great relief to hear new perspective from my problems are you troubled by someone strength in you might be surprised at what you can learn in an al anon family group meeting from people just like you call one eight for alan on a visit alan on family groups dot org hi everyone welcome back to tapping with joe we are joined by three students share matthew brady and we're going to see what happens to their junk food cravings here so shannon told me before we started the show that she loves oreo cookie matthew chose potato chips and brady chose hershey kisses so the first thing i'm going to ask all of you to do let's start with shannon first shannon take a bite of that well first just smell the cookie and tell me on a scale of zero to ten how much you'd like to take a bite to just sniff it right on your nose like that your cooking f really want that to come up so if you're allowed to would you or if i offered it to you would you want to take another bite of the cookie is it still a ten yeah ok ok matthew go ahead at it go ahead and just wrap this one but don't put it in your mouth so we're all at intense well shannon and brady are the ten matthews about a nine so here we go now this is going to be your completely and completely set myself except myself hey man if you your turn to tap your karate chop point look at the potato chips and say even though i have this potato chip craving you know how this prepared i deeply and completely accept myself i deeply in completely accept that's hard to say three times i deeply completely accept and completely accept myself shortly even though i have this chocolate craving even though i have this chocolate completely accept and completely accept my so even though i have this chocolate craving even though i have this chocolate  ok whatever it is that is now pick up another pick up that same cookie shannon and tell me on a scale of zero to ten how just looking at first where's your craving not as appealing really you're not just saying don't please based on how intense is your craving for it now probably going to go for a full bore it went from a candle for  help feeling is it now to go back up to a ten again it's more like a six ok great go ahead and put that back down we're going to do another round i hope we have time ok i hope this class continues for another couple seconds  say even though i still that's the important word still have this cookie craving ok i deeply and completely accept myself even though i still have this cookie craving i can completely accept myself back here even though i still have the salt heads in your reminder phrases i still have this cookie craving i still have this cookie ok i still have this craving and we're going to change it to the rest of this chocolate craving i still have the how interesting is very much not very much where you're craving right now how intense is that it was a four when we started ten when we started for the first half and this is the second tab how tense is your craving right now on that zero to ten scale started this it was that ten ok let's see here as soon as i see my sign saying one minute will wrap it up but let's try something tap on between the knuckle of your little finger and ring finger it close your eyes open your eyes look down to the right over to the left you know the best you can just don't worry about just make a small make a circle with your eyes like you're watching a second hand going around the watch it and then make another circle two so ladies and gentlemen i've never met these students before ok this is just what i do every day to help people with food cravings this can also be helpful with a licensed addictions counselor but you have the proper medical treatment for any addictions but this can also be helpful for addictions on alcohol and chemical substances with a licensed professional thank you so much for watching today and thank you shannon matthew and brainy for helping me on the set today i have a lot of fun teaching this and if i can help you just give me a call june kaylor at hotmail dot com but thank you for joining me today i really had fun teaching this