Eliminate Cravings and Food Addictions

I have worked with eating disorders for years, and have found that specific food cravings and addictions are very hard to eliminate. You know what yours are. For me it was sugars, particularly chocolate. The most common addictive substances are sugar, simple carbohydrates such as bread and snack foods, salt, and fat. Using will power to eliminate addictive substances works for awhile, but willpower seems to wear out and fade away, and the addiction is back.

For over 20 years I've studied and treated all aspects of the food-craving/addiction problem, but still, no matter how many of the considerable methods I know, could not figure out how to eliminate the types of cravings that plague a person's mind and body, the type that you are always trying to manage and resist. At long last I believe I have found a technique that works, and it's easy! A bit of background will help in understanding what this is and how it works.

One of the techniques I use in my practice is called "cord cutting." The theory behind it is that we are energetically attached, or corded, to people whom we know, and have known in the past, even though we have not seen them for years, and may never see them again. Thoughts, feelings, and messages continue to flow through these cords, and affect us in some way, although we are almost always unaware of it.*

For example, think of someone you love and who loves you. How do you feel? Now think of someone you dislike. How do you feel now? You never want to cut cords that carry loving, supportive, positive messages, but you do want to cut cords that carry negative messages. How do you know what kind of messages are contained in a cord and being communicated through it? You know by the way you feel.

So, I began to think, if you can cut cords to people, why can't you cut cords to substances, places, and events? As it turns out, you can. My clients and I have been experimenting with cord cutting to addictive foods (which also includes non-alcoholic beverages), and the results have been more than gratifying. Words they use to describe results are "amazing," "miraculous," "a huge relief," "freedom."

This is what happens. You come for a cord-cutting session of an hour to an hour and a half, you identify which substance you want to cut the cord to, and by the end of the session the cord to that substance is cut. My personal experience (Yes, I've done cord-cutting with myself), and the feedback from others, is that you simply no longer crave that particular food. You may think about it, but there simply isn't the driving need to have it. You may choose to have a little bit, but you notice that a little bit is plenty and no longer creates the "more is never enough" binge episode. You are now relaxed with that food or beverage. Again, using myself as an example, a bag of my favorite candy used to last me less than a week, but as I write this it's been over two months since I opened a new bag and there is still about a quarter of it left.

My clients and I have also found that cutting the cord to specific foods begins to generalize to create other changes in your eating, easily and naturally, with two exceptions. First, once your primary addictive substance is no longer an issue, something else may pop up to take its place. For me it was pastries, so I had to cut the cord to pastries. (I don't believe that pastries were a new addictive substance for me, simply one that was lingering in the background as long as I was eating my primary one.) This brings us to the second point. It is necessary to cut the cord to each of your existing addictive substances. It doesn't work to just say "I want to cut the cord to sweets," as each substance has it's own biochemical signature and each one has it's unique energetic attachment and meaning to you. But the good news is that there are a finite number of cords. That number depends upon how many foods you crave and are addicted to, of course, but so far six to ten sessions appear to be the maximum number needed to experience the relief and freedom you've always wanted.

I have not been able to locate anyone else who is using cord cutting in this manner, so as far as I know this is an entirely new process. Therefore, everyone who participates in this process is a pioneer and helps me in my research and data gathering. If you would like to be one of these people, and become free of your cravings and addictions, please telephone me at the number below for additional information.

*You can read more about cord cutting in Cut Cords of Attachment
by Rose Rosetree, (2007), Women's Intuition Worldwide.



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