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| Let’s Try It Out |
Let’s Try It Out
Go get a cookie. So much the better if it is a soft chocolate chip cookie fresh out of the oven. One you can smell from here. Or is there something else in the house that you like even better? A Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Doritos - barbecue or sour cream flavored. Or popcorn with butter.
Or Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Ice Cream.
You get the idea. Find something you really crave, but you know is not good for you. Comfort food.
Some of you reading this will claim never to crave anything. You are perfectly happy eating a wholesome, square meal of meat, potatoes and vegetables every evening. Just so. You can sit in the corner and watch the rest of us. Just out of earshot if you please.
Now that they are gone, I can tell you that some people bottle their emotions so tight, they have trouble admitting that they even have emotions.
Where were we? Oh yes. Let’s evaluate how badly we want that cookie (or whatever yours is). On a scale of 0-10, where 0 = not at all, and 10 = you are about to suck it off the plate without touching it, how badly do you want that cookie? Don’t eat any of it, but get as close as you can so you can smell the tasty goodness.
If you said 0-3:
• you need to find something that you really crave. Or
• you snarfed down 5 already when I first started talking about it and you don’t want them any more. If this is the case, you’ll need to wait until the next time you crave it. Then, don’t eat it - try this exercise. Or,
• go sit in the corner with you-know-who.
Let’s do the set-up phrase. Tap on the karate chop point with two fingers and repeat after me:
Even though I really want this cookie [or ____], I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though I really want this cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though I really want this cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Now we do the tapping:
1. Start by tapping with two fingers on the eyebrow point about 7 times. I really want this cookie.
2. Seven times on the side of the eye. I really want this cookie.
3. Seven times under the eye. I really want this cookie.
4. Seven times under the nose. I really want this cookie.
5. Seven times on the upper chin. I really want this cookie.
6. Seven times on the collar bone (stay towards the center of your chest). I really want this cookie.
7. Seven times under the arm. I really want this cookie.
8. Seven times (with all five fingers) on top of the head. I really want this cookie.
Now repeat the 8 tapping points - again, tapping each point with two fingers 7 times. I really want this cookie.
Okay, now how do you feel about that cookie? Look good and hard at it. Sniff it. How does it smell? Take a small bite of it. Try to get a small taste of the chocolate. Now on a scale of 0-10 how badly do you want that cookie?
If you said zero, take a big bite of the cookie. How does it taste? Does it taste like it used to? How is it different?
For those of you who answered with 1-10, you have more work to do. We’ll do another round.
Let’s start again with the set-up phrase.
Even though I still really want that cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Notice that it has changed. We added the word “still.” We want to change the wording so that the subconscious mind can’t say, “We just did that.”
So, tapping on the karate chop point, say the set-up phrase 3 times: Even though I still really want that cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Now tap on the 8 points, twice around as before, saying: I still really want that cookie.
Take another assessment, 0-10. If you said zero, try tasting it and doing anything you can to raise the number up from zero. If you can’t, you’re done. If you still want the cookie a little, try: Even though I still have some remaining cookie cravings, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Go get a cookie. So much the better if it is a soft chocolate chip cookie fresh out of the oven. One you can smell from here. Or is there something else in the house that you like even better? A Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Doritos - barbecue or sour cream flavored. Or popcorn with butter.
Or Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia Ice Cream.
You get the idea. Find something you really crave, but you know is not good for you. Comfort food.
Some of you reading this will claim never to crave anything. You are perfectly happy eating a wholesome, square meal of meat, potatoes and vegetables every evening. Just so. You can sit in the corner and watch the rest of us. Just out of earshot if you please.
Now that they are gone, I can tell you that some people bottle their emotions so tight, they have trouble admitting that they even have emotions.
Where were we? Oh yes. Let’s evaluate how badly we want that cookie (or whatever yours is). On a scale of 0-10, where 0 = not at all, and 10 = you are about to suck it off the plate without touching it, how badly do you want that cookie? Don’t eat any of it, but get as close as you can so you can smell the tasty goodness.
If you said 0-3:
• you need to find something that you really crave. Or
• you snarfed down 5 already when I first started talking about it and you don’t want them any more. If this is the case, you’ll need to wait until the next time you crave it. Then, don’t eat it - try this exercise. Or,
• go sit in the corner with you-know-who.
Let’s do the set-up phrase. Tap on the karate chop point with two fingers and repeat after me:
Even though I really want this cookie [or ____], I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though I really want this cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though I really want this cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Now we do the tapping:
1. Start by tapping with two fingers on the eyebrow point about 7 times. I really want this cookie.
2. Seven times on the side of the eye. I really want this cookie.
3. Seven times under the eye. I really want this cookie.
4. Seven times under the nose. I really want this cookie.
5. Seven times on the upper chin. I really want this cookie.
6. Seven times on the collar bone (stay towards the center of your chest). I really want this cookie.
7. Seven times under the arm. I really want this cookie.
8. Seven times (with all five fingers) on top of the head. I really want this cookie.
Now repeat the 8 tapping points - again, tapping each point with two fingers 7 times. I really want this cookie.
Okay, now how do you feel about that cookie? Look good and hard at it. Sniff it. How does it smell? Take a small bite of it. Try to get a small taste of the chocolate. Now on a scale of 0-10 how badly do you want that cookie?
If you said zero, take a big bite of the cookie. How does it taste? Does it taste like it used to? How is it different?
For those of you who answered with 1-10, you have more work to do. We’ll do another round.
Let’s start again with the set-up phrase.
Even though I still really want that cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Notice that it has changed. We added the word “still.” We want to change the wording so that the subconscious mind can’t say, “We just did that.”
So, tapping on the karate chop point, say the set-up phrase 3 times: Even though I still really want that cookie, I deeply and completely accept myself.
Now tap on the 8 points, twice around as before, saying: I still really want that cookie.
Take another assessment, 0-10. If you said zero, try tasting it and doing anything you can to raise the number up from zero. If you can’t, you’re done. If you still want the cookie a little, try: Even though I still have some remaining cookie cravings, I deeply and completely accept myself.
