Tapping Script for Module 4 Emotional Eating Step 1: Question Ask yourself what you believed the food would do for you the last time you emotionally ate Step 2: Tapping We are starting at the karate chop point. Even though I eat to fill my unmet needs. I love and accept myself. Even though I avoid giving myself what I truly want. I accept myself completely. Even though it s been a long time since I listened to my own needs. I m open to a new way. We re tapping through the points. I eat to fill my needs. I don t even know what my needs are. Part of me doesn t want to listen to my needs. Needing things is scary. Needing things makes me vulnerable. I m not a needy person. I really don t like needing anything. It s easier to give to others. It s easier to take care of them. I don t have time to listen to my needs. There s always so much to do. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed. When I m overwhelmed. I always eat when I m stressed. Eating makes me feel better. It distracts me from my stress. Why do I do that? I always hate how I feel afterward. Grab your wrist, take a nice deep breath, peace.
We re going to continue again. We re tapping on the karate chop point one more time. Even though I eat for emotional reasons. I love and accept myself. Even though I eat just to fill myself sometimes. I still love and accept myself completely. Even though I don t know why I eat. I accept the way I feel and choose to feel more in control. Keep tapping through the points. I eat for emotional reasons. I don t know why I do it. Sometimes I just want food. Food gives me a distraction. I always know what kind of food I want. But it s hard to figure out what I want emotionally. When I look for food, I know that it s doing something positive for me. It s filling a need. It gives me positive feelings. It makes me feel happy. It makes me relax. Sometimes I just need to eat. I wonder what would happen if I was curious about my own needs. I wonder how that would make me feel. I wonder what I can do for me today. How can I fill my own needs the way I fill others? I m learning that it s okay to have needs. I m attending to myself the way I would a special guest. I spoil myself with love and attention. Every day I ask myself what s the one thing I can do to take care of me? I love the answers that I receive. It s fun to take care of myself. The more I take care of me the less food I need. I choose to take care of myself. Because that s what the food was trying to do. Thank you for always being there for me. Now I m ready and willing to take care of myself. You can still nourish me with vitamins and minerals. But I will take care of my emotional needs. I m choosing to be tuned in to my desire for good feelings. I m choosing to accept my own needs. It s easy to find other ways to take care of myself. I m in control of my emotions. When I feel low, I choose to do other things to lift my mood. It feels good to step into my power. It feels good to honor my true nature. Grab your wrist, take a deep breath. Peace
This round was really about the kinds of things you think internally but don t really say out loud. Ready for another round? We re just tapping through the points and however you do your tapping and continuing on. Eating food makes me feel so good. It gives me a good buzz. It gives me that excitement. It gives me such pleasure. Mm food. What can I eat next? I wonder what I ve got in the refrigerator that will make me feel good. There s no reason to eat. I m not hungry. I just like it. Who cares about all this emotional stuff anyway? I don t want to tap. I d rather eat. I just love stuffing myself sometimes. I don t need to tap. I ll tap next time. Right now I just want to eat. Eating s more fun than tapping. I always eat because I feel I deserve it. I ve been good all week. Why shouldn t I treat myself? There s nothing wrong with a treat now and then. Sometimes I go overboard. I always do it. I eat well for a while and then I ruin it by eating too much. If only I could find another way of rewarding myself other than food. Why do I keep sabotaging my efforts? What is it that keeps me from succeeding? Surely I deserve a reward. I always eat when I feel low or depressed. It cheers me up. Even if it s just for a short while. It s just a way of covering up how bad I feel. I need to do something else when I m feeling bad. Eating always makes me feel better. Then I feel even worse afterward. Again it s that vicious cycle. I feel down so I eat. Then I feel worse for eating too much. So then I eat again to comfort myself again. I always eat more food than my body needs. I m so sick of the vicious cycle. I eat when I m angry. The food helps me suppress my real feelings. I get angry with them so I eat. I can t do anything about it so I just eat. It makes me feel in control.
I hate feeling out of control. Feeling out of control is such a horrible feeling. This food just makes me feel so in control. I just like food. None of these negative emotional reasons apply to me. I just like eating. I m quite happy with my life. Everything in my life is just great. I just like food. I know I eat too much, but it s just a habit. I m just used to associating my happy feelings with eating good food. Eating good food just makes me happy. Grab your wrist, Take a good deep breath. Peace Okay, one more round tapping through the points I might have some emotional reasons for eating. But I choose to release these habits now. It s possible to find other ways of comforting myself. When I feel emotional, I find new ways to deal with it. When I feel stressed or anxious, I choose to take control. When I feel bored, I choose to find creative things to do. When I feel lonely, I choose to remember those who love me. I choose to learn to love myself too. There are always other ways to comfort myself. Like a warm bubble bath. It s easy to find other ways to reward myself. I can rent a film. Or treat myself to something else I love to do. When I feel low, I choose to find other things to help lift my mood. Like talking to a friend. Or learning something new. I m experiencing a new sense of freedom every day. I am in control of my emotion. It feels good to step into my power. It feels good to honor my true nature. Grab your wrist, take a deep breath. Peace Use this tapping on a daily basis to eliminate the emotional connection and the habit that has formed around eating when you are not really hungry. Then couple that with the practice of checking in on a regular basis with what you can do for yourself for just you today. Remember if you have any questions about the material today please email me or call me. We are getting into more of the complexities about eating emotionally and what the proper technique is to deal with that. Certainly, you can feel free to reach out during the week if you get stuck with something. Remember that when the emotional eating comes up, what to tap on is
actually what that food will do for you, not what you think the problem is. That s the differentiator when you re tapping. If you re having an experience and feeling like you want to eat but know you re not really hungry, notice what that food is doing for you. What am I really starving for? This food will make me feel relaxed if I eat it. Let yourself feel that feeling of relaxation and tap on the need for that relaxation. I can t quite explain why it works, but it works. If you are really used to tapping for cravings, it s just like tapping for cravings. When you tap for cravings, you notice what sensations you are craving about that food. It works the exact same way with emotional eating. What is it that you re craving right now? If you re craving excitement, tap on that feeling and that craving for excitement or that craving for being in control. That s another very common one. Food will offer a way to enable us to feel in control of our emotions. You can tap on that desire for more control. Okay, that concludes Week 4, Emotional Eating. Remember to send me your questions. I am here to support you! I am here to help you walk through change!