Glad you made it to day 1.

This is an EFT course, so you must be familiar with EFT. If you’re not please click this link and read that information first. Print the diagram, it will be very useful for you. Then come back here. Please don’t read on unless you’ve been to that page, or already know how to do EFT.

What You Need

You’ll need about 20 minutes or so for this part, and something to write on and write with. If you have a spare notebook use that, if not just grab a piece of paper. If you don’t have a piece of paper open your wordprocessing program and type into it. Whatever you do though, don’t wait until you have the perfect notebook or writing instrument before you begin.

What To Do

If you can, go into your bedroom or somewhere else where you have a full-length mirror. I know this will be challenging for you, and it’s also what you need to do. If you’re not able to go to a mirror right now, you can imagine that you’re doing it – the mind doesn’t really know the difference between what we do, and what we vividly imagine we do.

So – here you are in front of your mirror, or thinking that you are.

Strip off. All the way if you can, as much as you can if you really can’t (or don’t want to) get completely naked.

For this next step, imagine that a part of yourself is standing just behind you and that part’s job is to notice your thoughts and feelings. So allow that part to do its job.

Now, look at your body. Look at your shoulders, your chest, your breasts, your stomach, your waist, your pelvis, your hips, your thighs, your knees, your calves, your ankles, your feet.

Notice any and all thoughts and feelings that come up, and write them down. Write exactly what you think and what you feel. Use the exact words and phrases that pop into your head. Remember to allow that observing part of you to be doing the writing.

Well done. Take a deep breath, let it out. And go back to the mirror.

Turn sideways and look at your arms, your breasts, your back, your stomach, your hips, your bottom, your thighs, your lower legs.

Notice any and all thoughts and feelings that come up, and write them down. Write exactly what you think and what you feel. Use the exact words and phrases that pop into your head. Remember to allow that observing part of you to be doing the writing.

Well done. Take a deep breath, let it out. And go back to the mirror.

Turn again so your back faces the mirror and look over your shoulder. Look at your upper back, your arms, your middle back, your lower back, your hips, your bottom, your thighs, your calves, your ankles.

Notice any and all thoughts and feelings that come up, and write them down. Write exactly what you think and what you feel. Use the exact words and phrases that pop into your head. Remember to allow that observing part of you to be doing the writing.

Well done. That part is now done.

You can get dressed again, physically or mentally.

What To Do Next

Now, go have a big drink of water, do whatever else you need to do to be comfortable for the next 15 minutes, and then go sit in a quiet comfortable spot. You’ll need more water and your notebook and pen with you.

Look at everything you wrote. Do a quick scan through the list. See what items jump out at you as being the most difficult or painful or uncomfortable to read. Put a star beside those.

Make This Work For You

It hasn’t been much fun until now has it? I didn’t promise you fun though, did I? I said I’d teach you a process that would move you along the path of learning to love your body.

So let’s get down to it.

Here’s the EFT diagram again, though I know you printed it out, right? I’m assuming you feel overwhelmed about the exercise you just went though – I know I certainly did when I did it. It was painful and confronting and just plain uncomfortable. So we’ll work on that first. First, on a scale of 1-10, rate how overwhelmed or uncomfortable you feel right now. Write that number on your piece of paper.

Tapping the Karate Chop point, say:

Even though I feel a bit overwhelmed about this process, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

Even though I feel overwhelmed and unhappy right now, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

Even though I feel overwhelmed about all my body image issues, there seems to be so many of them, how will I ever clear all of them, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

1. Overwhelmed

2. It’s all too much

3. How will I cope?

4. Overwhelmed

5. It’s all too much

6. I can’t cope, it’s too uncomfortable

7. Overwhelmed

8. Overwhelmed

9. It’s all too much

10. There’s too much to do

11. Overwhelmed.

Take a deep breath. Have a drink of water. Now check in with that feeling of being overwhelmed again. What number is it? If it’s gone down but is still present, tap through on points 1 – 11 again, saying "this remaining overwhelm".

If the number has NOT gone down, check in with yourself – what were you thinking about instead? That thought is what you need to tap on.

Keep tapping on feeling overwhelmed until you get that feeling down to a 1 or a 0.

Is There Any Hope?

Hope is the single-most important ingredient in any change. If you have no hope, change will be very difficult. So ask yourself this:

On a scale of 1 – 10, how hopeful are you that you will be able to change the way you feel about your body? Write it down.

On a scale of 1 – 10, how hopeful are you that you will be able to finally lose the weight you want to lose? Write it down.

On a scale of 1 – 10, how hopeful are you that you will be able to finally be the shape and size you want to be? Write it down.

Here we go again:

Tapping the Karate Chop point, say:

Even though I feel hopeless that I’ll ever be happy about my body, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

Even though I feel hopeless that I’ll ever be happy about my body, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

Even though I feel hopeless that I’ll ever be happy about my body and about all my body image issues, there seems to be so many of them, how will I ever clear all of them, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

1. Hopeless

2. There’s too much to do

3. Hopeless

4. Hopeless

5. It’s all too much

6. Hopeless

7. Hopeless

8. Hopeless

9. Hopeless

10. Hopeless

11. Hopeless

Take a deep breath. Have a drink of water. Now check in with that feeling of having no hope about being happy with your body again. What number is it? If it’s gone down but is still present, tap through on points 1 – 11 again, saying "this remaining no hope feeling".

If the number has NOT gone down, check in with yourself – what were you thinking about instead? That thought is what you need to tap on.

Keep tapping on feeling hopeless until you get that feeling down to a 1 or a 0.

Checking In

So to check that your hope is really up, notice your 1-10 score when you ask yourself:

How hopeful am I that I’ll be able to feel happy about my body one day? Write that down. If it’s less than say, 8, you need to tap on it.

This tap would go something like:

Tapping the Karate Chop point, say:

Even though I still feel hopeless that I’ll ever be happy about my body, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

Even though I still feel hopeless that I’ll ever be happy about my body, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

Even though I still feel hopeless that I’ll ever be happy about my body and about all my body image issues, there seems to be so many of them, how will I ever clear all of them, I’m open to the possibility I could love and accept myself anyway.

1. Hopeless

2. There’s too much to do

3. Hopeless

4. Hopeless

5. It’s all too much

6. Hopeless

7. Hopeless

8. Hopeless

9. Hopeless

10. Hopeless

11. Hopeless

Take a deep breath. Have a drink of water. Now check in with that feeling of having no hope about being happy with your body again. What number is it? If it’s gone down but is still present, tap through on points 1 – 11 again, saying "this remaining no hope feeling".

If the number has NOT gone down, check in with yourself – what were you thinking about instead? That thought is what you need to tap on.

Keep tapping on feeling hopeless until you get that feeling down to a 1 or a 0. Then ask yourself the question again:

How hopeful am I that I’ll be able to feel happy about my body one day?

Keep tapping until you get that number up there! If you can’t get it up there, ask yourself – what’s stopping me from feeling hopeful>?

For me, it was years of failing. Nothing had ever worked for very long so why would this? Yes, I tapped for it.

Even though nothing’s ever worked before, why would this work, I love and accept myself anyway….

Find your ‘no hope’ reasons, and tap them away.

Hope is the number 1 tool in your kitbag here girl, keep working it till you get there!

Okay I’m a bit worn out by my own journey down hate-by-body Memory Lane, and it’s time I did some paid work! I’d love to know how you went with today’s scripts, please comment below. If you’d like my site to tell you when day two’s script is up, please click here to subscribe to my feed.

With warm wishes for your success!!! ~Sandy.