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More Energy With Emotional Freedom Technique |
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More Energy With Emotional Freedom Technique
Magnus
Ever feel tired or hungry even though you just ate and had plenty of sleep? Let me tell you about a little trick your body sometimes plays on you - let me introduce you to FakeTired and FakeHungry.
I recently attended a weekend of lectures here in London, it's something I'd been looking forward to for a while even though I remember it was sometimes hard to concentrate in lectures at Cambridge. I made sure I went to bed early the night before and had also read about the subject before hand.
I had a great night's sleep and a light breakfast, and bounced across London feeling great, early for the first session. It was odd then, that about ten minutes into the lecture, I started to fall asleep. My head started to feel cloudy and confused, and I experienced an overwhelming feeling of tiredness behind my eyes.
I started to doubt whether I had slept well the night before. I decided to drink some water to help me wake up, went to the toilet, grabbed some fresh air and slapped myself in the face. Leaving the seminar room to run down the stairs I felt awake. But a couple of minutes into sitting down I felt tired again.
This was odd... and it made me start to think. Having done a lot of Tapping, I tend to try and apply it to everything. So I started Tapping the tiredness! It would have been odd to tap away in the seminar room, so I did it in my head - this tends to work just as well, as long as you clearly imagine saying the words, and precisely visualise Tapping the right points.
I started to feel less tired and could easily pay attention to the presentation. I tapped again during the break and again in the evening before I went out. Despite having a drink and getting to bed later than I had intended I felt fresh and awake during the next day's presentations.
So that's how I first realised there is such a thing as FakeTired = Tiredness You Can Tap . I'll tell you about FakeHungry before I explain how they both arise.
This time it was me giving the lecture, during one of my weekend seminars. We do a lot of Tapping during these weekends, and don't shy away from intense stuff. This often brings up some bad feelings for people, so I frequently ask "how does everyone feel now? does anyone feel less than great?". Sometimes there are cloudy or foggy feelings, but this time a guy said he felt a bit hungry. It was an hour or so before lunch, and maybe he hadn't eaten that much for breakfast.
A few others said they felt hungry as well and we all laughed when I suggested using EFT on it. But we started to become curious when those people actually stopped feeling hungry. When it was lunch time the first person still didn't feel hungry and he later told me he didn't eat as much as usual as his appetite was smaller.
What's going on?
Our body gives us signals to tell us that we need sleep or food. But these are interpreted as negative feelings. This is so that we are properly forewarned to take action to remedy the situation.
Sometimes though, we associate, say, tiredness, with say, sitting in a lecture theatre. This particularly happens when we spend three years at University sitting in lecture theatres tired, hung over, bored, and confused. So as soon as I entered the seminar room EIGHT years later, my well-meaning sub-conscious mind said "aha, a lecture theatre, I know what to do here... time to get some kip!", and set about replaying all the genuine tired feelings it had learned to associate with lecture theatres all those years ago.
It's possible that you have many unconscious associations and patters that are influencing you without you being aware of them. Feeling hungry could be linked to the fact that there is still food on the table even when you are already full. Your mind is a great learning machine, but sometimes it generalizes a bit too eagerly.
When that association is triggered we feel FakeHungry or FakeTired, and the system is designed so that you can't tell the difference between that and the real thing.
Things get confusing when you can get rid FakeHungy and FakeTired by eating and sleeping. When you eat your body gets the feelings associated with digesting food and these feelings mask the FakeHungry feelings. The FakeHungry feelings might always be present, but we only notice them when the first stages of digestions are over. And this has all happened before you've really become hungry.
You can take a break from negative feelings by sleeping, which is why taking a power nap is less about resting your body and more about taking a break mentally. You don't need long to recuperate from emotional stresses yet it's quick to come back when we need to get back into action.
Because it is generated by the survival mechanism, FakeTired is fear-based. The creates a beautiful irony - have you ever felt so tired you couldn't sleep? That's because the strong fear-based FakeTired feelings are also keeping you awake to deal with possible threats.
Another way to tell the difference between FakeTired and RealTired, or FakeHungry and RealHungry, is to see if you can feel them at will. See if you can focus and make yourself feel more tired or more hungry right now, just by thinking of times when you felt very very tired or hungry.
As I like to say sometimes; that's something you might like to Tap.
Visit Tapping.com to find more http://www.tapping.com/) Emotional Freedom Technique articles and Magnus's e-book. That site also includes http://www.tapping.com/videos.html EFT Videos on all sorts of subjects.
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