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the case of the
disappearing

cravings


I am looking out at a blur of hands and mouths. The hands are all holding irresistible morsels of chocolate: chocolate truffles, fudge brownies, chocolate doughnuts, M&Ms ... you name it!

The mouths are all laughing.  :>) 

You might imagine that I am doing standup comedy, and not leading an Overcoming Chcolate Cravings workshop.  So ... what's so funny?

Those gigglers, members of my "Overcoming Chocolate Cravings" workshop, have each brought an item of chocolate that they are powerless to resist.  

           

Earlier, we started our work together by handling, ogling and sniffing our pieces of chocolate in order to intensify our cravings.  But, now, after participating in a powerful energy process that disconnects the desire from the food, my chocoholics and I have suddenly completely lost interest in the chocolate which we're holding.

We are finding disappearance of our chocolate craving startling ... unbelievable ... and weirdly funny.

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         So ... where did the
          chocolate cravings GO?
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From an energy perspective, your intense emotions and cravings - like cravings for food, substances, people and behaviors - stem from a disruption in your energy system.

By doing a bit of energy transformation - tapping or holding specific energy points or centers, using a cue word, moving eyes from right to left - my chocoholic students rebalanced their energy systems, and removed the craving.

Their feelings calmed down, their cravings went poof, and the chocolate lost its power over them. It was startling to see a room full of formerly chocoholic clients staring at their favorite kinds of chocolate and wondering where the craving went.

When we talk about food cravings we're not talking about food preferences  ...  or about the natural hunger of an empty stomach.  
An intense food craving is a strong emotional reaction: an overwhelming or inappropriate desire. It is difficult, sometimes impossible to control because it is connected to a disruption in your body and in your energy system. Unless you correct it bodily and energetically, you have to depend on won't-power which, sooner or later will inevitably defeated by your want-power.

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I speak about this
as a WOUNDED HEALER! 
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A former chocoholic - I can now keep a large bag of high quality chocolate in the pantry
knowing that I won't be tempted!  It used to be that if there was any chocolate on the premises, be it a piece or a pound, I had to eat it all immediately. (That was only the tip of the iceberg of my old eating disorder, and it was one of the last aspects to go!) Now, I can keep chocolate in my pantry, and choose to either ignore it, or to have a piece as a treat.  (Miracles do happen!!!)

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         Mend Your Mojotivity:
        put the KIBOSH
         on chocolate cravings
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It took persistence.   I needed to quell the cravings, and also to deal with other related emotions and beliefs.

Using a variety of mojotivity practices, I calmed and rebalanced my energy system, I released feelings, and I transformed old, negative beliefs.



Now I relate to chocolate (and to other temptations like bread and bagels) in a newly detached way.   With the cravings gone, and with self-therapy techniques to deal with troubling feelings and attitudes, I have a choices: I can choose to eat the chocolate, choose to put it aside for later, choose to give it away, choose to put it in the garbage, or choose to flush it down the toilet.   (Flushing it down the toilet is a good way to get it permanently out of the environment!)

I also needed to do
some important mojotivity work
on the separate issue
of feeling guilty about
tossing out food!
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Your problems with chocolate - and with other cravings (like cigarettes, alcohol, computer games, and even love) - are not just about present longing.  Past-trauma, low self-esteem, outworn beliefs, and anxiety producing situations often need to be specifically addressed.

Trauma stays in the body if all you do is talk about it. But, by using the powerful techniques in our Mojo Bag you can address these triggers one step at a time. Situations and emotions which formerly triggered bingeing attacks, or worse, attacks of self-hatred can be dealt with on the spot.

The safe and gentle practices in our Mojo Bag are easy to learn, and you can use them at home, on the spot, when you really feel cravings rising up.



There's hidden sweetness
in the stomach's emptiness.
We are lutes,
no more, no less.

If the soundbox
is stuffed full of anything,
no music.

Rumi

Like my laughing students who were looking at the melting chocolate in their hands and wondering where the cravings went ... you too can take your mojol back -- back from the chocolate, from other problem foods, and from other unwanted cravings.

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