Getting to the root of ANY compulsion (+Eating Peace Masterclass Recording)

For the many people who have emailed asking for the replay link for the Eating Peace Masterclass, here it is: Watch here.

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Someone had a wonderful and fascinating question: Can I take the Eating Peace Process and apply it to my break-up in a love relationship?

How fascinating, because what this person can tell by knowing about self-inquiry, is that the feeling of addiction, craving, reaching, and agony around your target of choice….can vary widely.

Her “target” (the thing desired) was LOVE. Keeping it. Getting it. Upset about love gone wrong.

Somehow, a deep inner target or desire we have, no matter what the things, seems to reach for attention, appreciation, approval, acceptance, pleasure.

Now, I’m not sure the Eating Peace program specifically would work for the sense of being addicted to stressful stories about love relationships and worry about loss in that department….

….but this inquirer was onto something as she noticed that wanting a relationship to be a certain way felt like an addiction or compulsion. 

Whew.

Most of us have probably noticed from time to time (or a whole lot) that you’re THINKING about something AGAIN, and you wish you weren’t.

It feels like you can’t stop thinking about it.

(When can I get some cookies, how can I get him/her, I need to keep consuming this, I need to keep texting him/her, I need to get rid of what I ate, I need to get him/her out of my life, I need to fix myself so I stop craving, I need to fix myself so I stop liking him/her).

Here’s something you can do as you notice your thoughts arise.

It’s kind of simple: Write Them Down.

Allow your thoughts to be petty, ridiculous, desperate, needy. Write down what you want that person or the food to do, be like, offer, give you.

What would it feel like, if you got what you wanted? What would you have, if you had it?

If you NEVER got it, what would be terrible about it? If you never received, acquired, consumed this thing you want, how painful would it be? Would you go mad with frustration?

What else would come to the surface, if you did NOT get what you believe you want to relieve the craving? (Don’t just jump to thinking “That would be GREAT!”)

Study yourself and your compulsive moments. You are the One you’ve been waiting for. You’re the one with the best answers for yourself.

You question your own thoughts, the ones YOU notice in your mind….you answer the questions with YOUR answers, which also appear in your brilliant willing mind.

Welcome to The Work.