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Stop Smoking with EFT

Saturday, February 21st, 2009

You probably know someone who has successfully quit smoking with hypnotherapy or hypnosis. But how about EFT? As a hypnotherapist with 5 years’ experience helping others quit, I can see a future when EFT will be the mothod of choice. So why EFT and what is so special about it?
EFT is short for Emotional Freedom Techniques. It involves gently massaging certain acupressure points whilst repeating phrases designed to free you from a bad feeling. In this case, the bad feeling would be the smoking craving. Hence the “Freedom” part of the name.

Whether smoking cravings are purely emotional or not is subject to debate. I have certainly pushed the boundaries of this method for many physical conditions, and as a trained biochemist, I would seriously challenge anyone to define the dividing line between the emotional and the physical. As a matter of fact, many acupuncturists recommend acupuncture to allow the body to rebalance itself after quitting smoking. And the acupressure points that we use in EFT are the endpoints of the main acupuncture meridians. Only instead of using needles, we stimulate these points by a tapping sort of massage. We tap, usually with two fingers, on the area, thereby stimulating these meridians.

So what is different about the effect of having EFT from the effect of having acupuncture? Well, with EFT, your mind is asked to bring up a bad emotional state so that the acupressure will release you from that bad emotion. It is like the mind is the office cleaner, who goes into the office unobtrusively and takes out the rubbish/garbage for the council/municipality cleaners to take away. These workers in turn come and remove the refuse and it is no longer in your office. Your office is then clean.

And why use EFT instead of hypnotherapy? Because the effect of helping your physical body as well as your mind makes for a very strong combination. Although you can have EFT in hypnosis, this entails the practitioner speaking at a slower rate than using standalone EFT. With standalone EFT, because the practitioner can carry out the treatment at a much faster pace, they can get more done in the same amount of time. In other words, the treatment with EFT reaches further and goes deeper.
I estimate that within the next five years, EFT will have replaced hypnotherapy as the method of choice for quitting smoking. And when ex-smokers-to-be ask for a recommendation to help them stop, they will be asking for a good EFT Practitioner. I look forward to that day.

My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is. A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, along with medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and this is the 10th year I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis.
I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer specialising in “energy” therapy. My company is called New Age London, more details via the links below.

http://www.NewAgeLondon.com

http://www.EFTLondon.co.uk

http://www.EFTCourse.co.uk

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Stop Smoking Advice If You Have Back Pain

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

One day a client walked into my clinic and had a hypnotherapy treatment for smoking. It was a challenge, because it transpired that this client was in constant agony with back and shoulder pain; the cigarettes were used as a drug to help with this pain. Then I learned a new fun and simple technique for effective pain relief and the rest is history.

EFT is a new and exciting method that you can be taught to use effectively for your back, neck, shoulder, arm, leg, or any pain that you are experiencing anywhere in your body. Your EFT practitioner can find the best way for you to apply a simple formula whenever needed. All it takes is a few minutes a day and the pain is reduced or even gone altogether. This takes less time than is wasted smoking each day, and it also makes you feel relaxed and calm.

For some people, the pain is very much linked to painful memories, and that’s even better news. Yes, that’s right, that’s good news.

EFT is a method that uses acupressure on special acupuncture points to free you from unwanted feelings like pain. In the case of pain with a large physical element, applying the simple acupressure technique every now and then keeps you more comfortable all day long. Sometimes, we store our negative emotions in weak areas of our body that although weak are still in reasonably good condition. It is then that EFT, or Emotional Freedom Techniques, really shines. This exciting new method has the power to gently give complete and lasting relief to survivors of the worst events imaginable. And so the pain, which used to be felt as agony, can completely disappear.

Now whenever someone comes to see me to stop smoking, I ask them if they are in pain. If they are, I explain that to quit, they will have to let me relieve their pain first. It takes relatively little time and they can still successfully quit in the same session once the pain has been taken care of. They usually ask to give up smoking using EFT as well, once they see what it has done for their physical pain.

If you are a smoker in pain and wish to be free from smoking, first of all please consult with your doctor to make sure that everything is being medically done for the source of the pain as is appropriate. Then you can consult with an EFT Practitioner that specializes in smoking cessation. Once the pain is out of the way, you can enjoy your freedom from nicotine!

My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is.

A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and this is the 10th year I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis.

I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer specialising in “energy” therapy. My company is called New Age London, more details via the links below.

http://www.NewAgeLondon.com

http://www.EFTLondon.co.uk

http://www.EFTCourse.co.uk

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Stop Smoking Advice For Nicotine Addicts

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008

Some would say all smoking is an addiction, while others would argue that it is a habit. I have found in my experience that there is a good proportion of smokers who somehow or other got sucked into smoking, got hooked and then have to smoke to feel normal. I define this type of smoker as a Smoking Addict and recognize the physical part of this addiction for what it is.

So how do you know if you are a Smoking Addict?

Do you need a cigarette first thing in the morning or upon waking?

Do you try to smoke at regular intervals throughout your waking hours?

Do you smoke about 20 or more cigarettes a day?

If you have tried to stop, did you lose your concentration and feel ravenously hungry?

If the answers to at least the first three questions is yes, then the way I see it, you are physically addicted. And not necessarily for much longer.

Whilst there is an emotional element in all addiction, many Smoking Addicts have either largely dealt with these or are finding ways to cope. Chances are, if you are addicted, you are so fed up with the addiction that you have a very strong will to succeed. You would also be most likely starting to experience the effects of smoking as a cough, chest infections, or maybe your circulation is not as good as it used to be. This adds to the motivation factor.

There are some smokers who are not only physically addicted as defined above but also have more extensive emotional issues. Should there be other addictions, such as bulimia or hard drugs, it is best to take it step by step, learn coping strategies, take care of the physical side, and heal the underlying emotional issues. A good EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Practitioner with the relevant experience and skills should be able to help. They may advise you to also seek medical help and may offer to support you with that.

Other than the above, if you are not suffering from depression or anxiety and do not feel that you are using cigarettes as an emotional crutch, then the good news is that quitting smoking is likely to be very quick and easy for you. EFT is based on the acupuncture meridians. It helps to re-balance your body’s “energy” system, release the cravings, improve your concentration, and all the minor emotional issues around smoking. Your EFT Practitioner should be able to help you become a non-smoker within one to two hours. Or you can learn EFT for yourself and help yourself. It takes literally less than one and a half minutes to do a full EFT procedure called the Basic Recipe. This is a robust formula designed to work under many conditions. If treating yourself, all you have to do is repeat this simple procedure every time you would have otherwise lit up, until the desire for a cigarette is completely gone.

One really nice thing about EFT is that when you have a treatment, you are proactive rather than reactive. You participate in your own special experience and walk away empowered with an easy way to gain control over many conditions, as diverse as backache and the common cold and everything in-between. A nice bonus for anyone who only a short while ago was being controlled by nicotine.

My name is Suzanne Zacharia and I am committed to spreading the word about health options. I believe that the more and better options one has, the more choice there is.

A virus caught along with 5 other students at university at the end of 1986, plus medical negligence, meant that I got smokers lung at a relatively young age. In desperation for help with my symptoms and quality of life, I turned to complementary therapy, and this is the 10th year I have outlived one doctor’s prognosis.

I am now a complementary therapist, author and trainer specialising in “energy” therapy. My company is called New Age London, more details via the links below.
http://www.NewAgeLondon.com
http://www.EFTLondon.co.uk
http://www.EFTCourse.co.uk

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