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variety of substances, foods, ideas, or behaviors. These include but are not limited
to: tobacco, cocaine, caffeine, sugar, chocolate, popcorn, potato chips, pornography,
gambling, solitaire, television, romance novels, weight lifting, etc.
Addictions typically suppress emotions. How far removed these emotions are from
the act of partaking in the addiction varies. A person may drink to relax after work.
But the anxiety they are suppressing may stem from anger held against one of their
parents. The act of drinking may be an act of rebellion.
A person may over eat, be addicted to sugar or chocolate, because they feel
empty. But the emptiness may the result of the trauma and grief that stems from when
the person's father left. Fear that someone might leave a relationship again may
result in the person fearing involvement. Weight gain from over eating might be a
protection against becoming involved.
Although one can often eliminate the cravings of the addiction using EFT, the
job of the EFT practitioner is to ferret out the emotional causes of the addiction.
Otherwise, the person may simply trade one addiction for another.
© 2006 Chip Engelmann
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