BLAAAAAAHHHHHHH

[cookiemom6067]

I have been so "not me" for a little more than a week. I'm slipping back into being depressed and it's a REAL up-hill battle to make myself do much of anything. Even reading fanfic online, something I really LIKE doing, is not that fun. I did get out of bed today. I did take a shower. I did make something for dinner for the family. Go me. woo hoo. I know that I need to move my playing piece off "start," so to speak. I feel like I have just a TON of "have to's" and "ought to's" and "should's" weighing me down, even though some of them are thing that I ACTUALLY WANT TO DO, just the fact that there's a "should" attached has me reacting with much less than sparkly enthusiasm. How have you overcome this yourself, if you're the sort of person that "shoulds all over (your)self?" I'm also feeling down because of how I look. I really have quite a lot of weight to lose. I feel lousy and I look worse. My son is getting married in May and I would really like to "lighten my load" before then. I have been on a lot of diet and exercise programs in my life, only to gain back (and more). I have had, up until a couple of years ago, a fairly stable (if still obese) weight. I know what I need to do (and HOW do I know!!!!), I just have no enthusiasm to do it! ARGH. My son and his fiancee are talking about moving out of state ultimately, and I don't begrudge these two liberal activist types from moving out of our decidedly ruby-red state (seriously, NO ONE bothers to campaign here), I hate the thought of not having them close. ("But, Sweetheart!!! If you're going to fight injustice, you have to be where the injustice is happening!!") Little birdies gotta fly, I know. Wow - this is pretty much "word salad" - sorry about that. LAME.

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[darkemeralds]

I consider you a friend, and our association one of support and kindness, so I hope you'll feel free to "whine" to me directly if you ever feel like it!

Here is a link to a really good introductory talk, about 38 minutes long, where one of the masters of EFT tapping reviews theories about why and how tapping works, and walks through a basic session. I've got a couple dozen talks from the same summit, from all kinds of practitioners on a range of subjects (including weight loss, of course), and I'm happy to share. It's a quick matter to upload them.

The short tapping round, which is what's discussed in the audio interview above, is demonstrated here by Rod Sherwin. Nice guy--I follow him on Google+. He taps the points in a slightly different order from what's on the audio, but believe me, the sequence is unimportant, and different practitioners use different versions with excellent results.

And I just discovered this guy, who is excellent. He looks like he's about 15, but he explains and demonstrates the full, classic method with perfect clarity. That's the long round, and can be valuable for deep, intractable issues. I use it occasionally, but I use the brief method most of the time.

(Also, you'll note, you get a pan-Anglophone taste of international EFT--American, Australian and British in these samples).

I hope you'll find a private moment and give it a little try. Because the method was given away to the world by the developer (Gary Craig), you can find tons and tons of free material online. It's like the Linux of self-help. You get way more than what you pay for because it's open source!

Good luck!