Well I'll be darned! So EFT is magic - who would-a thunk it. Here in the states, EFT is being used by a number of different clinics and programs treating vets with PTSD.
________________________________ From: "s3raph...@yahoo.com" <s3raph...@yahoo.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 10:53 PM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Beast and the unborn Re "I also used EFT tapping to deal with cookie cravings" : Share, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) IS PRECISELY MAGICK in Crowley's sense! Look, you want to achieve some result (say, to stop gorging on cookies). You decide on some ritual (it's arbitrary what you choose - you could have decided to recite backwards the first paragraph of George W. Bush's memoir while standing on your head, but let's say you choose the EFT technique) and you say to yourself: "Performing *this* ritual IS EQUIVALENT TO stopping my craving for cookies." You do the ritual (in your case the EFT routine) and your subconscious (which ignores surface, conscious rationalisation which is thinking: "what the fuck am I doing this idiotic rigmarole for?") automatically follows through. The ritual means: "I don't want cookies"; and afterwards abracadabra you don't want cookies! It is so simple that people naturally dismiss it out of hand as worthless. Those who have actually tried it (like you!) found that it is effective. ---In fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com, <sharelong60@...> wrote: Seraphita, 5 yrs ago the doc told me I was headed for Type 2 diabetes. So the first week of my new diet, I ate no sugar or carbs or dairy. Right away my body looked better and that motivated me to continue dieting, not as strictly as I had, but I return to that strategy when I need to. I also used EFT tapping to deal with cookie cravings. When I stopped smoking about 40 yrs ago, I NEVER wanted another cigarette which I think was just grace. ________________________________ From: "s3raphita@..." <s3raphita@...> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 11:46 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: The Beast and the unborn Re Steve Sundur's "Hey Judy, sorry for any nastiness. Seraphita's analysis of the book touched on some of the reasons I did like the book. Addiction issues have always been of interest to me . . . when the discussion of this book came up before, many years ago, I was more confident that the modality put forth in the book could be effective.": If we are still talking about Crowley's Diary of a Drug Fiend, I mentioned above that he himself never lost his heroin habit. The drug was prescribed for his asthma so maybe he never had a fighting chance to stay clean. Curiously, I used the Beast's ideas when I quit smoking. The gist of Crowley's thinking here is that when a man (say) decides to stop a drug habit (let's say smoking) his surface consciousness comes up with lots of reasons - my clothes stink/it's an expensive habit/I'm coughing up phlegm/ . . . - but his deeper nature (his True Will) is actually rather keen on puffing away. The man has set up an uneven contest that he's destined to lose. When I stopped smoking I did two things. First I decided to only stop for a week. That way it couldn't be any worse than having a dose of flu and there wouldn't be that nagging, horrid thought "I will never again know the pleasure of inhaling on a cigarette". Secondly, as I've always been inordinately curious about whatever takes my fancy doesn't that suggest inordinate curiosity is part of my True Will? So I thought, I'll treat the experience of going cold turkey as if I'd just ingested a novel, experimental drug and I had to keep track and report back on what the effects were. In other words, I made the quitting into a game - and a game that would just be a short, sharp shock. At the end of the week I'd (more-or-less) sailed through the adventure and I knew I'd never smoke a cigarette again. Hey, maybe I should set up shop as an addiction counsellor!
