EFT Program
Peta has trained as an EFT Practitioner and provides training workshops for clients and professionals who wish to learn the practice of EFT to benefit themselves and others. Peta co-facilitates EFT workshops with her colleagues Terri Sheldon and Brett Porter.
What is EFT? EFT stands for Emotional Freedom Techniques and is commonly referred to as “Tapping”. The developers of EFT see it as being similar to acupuncture without the use of needles.
To us, EFT is a technique of awareness and insight without judgement. EFT helps you to privately and safely discover the personal truths about your discomforts or about the changes you want in your life. As if it were aligning all the aspects of the mind and physical body, EFT forges a singular awareness and a powerful purpose to get the personal differences people want. EFT can be used on Every Feeling Thing; emotional or physical, specific or general, past present or future.
Further Reading: About EFT | EFT Basic Recipe | EFT Tapping Points
FoodCraving.com.au EFT Workshops Information Website
We have launched FoodCraving.com.au as a new website for information regarding upcoming EFT training workshops. Through the website you can find more general information, booking information, upcoming dates, extra links and more. To check the latest from the FoodCraving.com.au website please click here.
EFT and Food Cravings Research
In 2008 Dr Peta Stapleton and Terri Sheldon conducted a research study in conjunction with, Griffith University School of Medicine Logan Campus in Queensland Australia. The research was based on a grant received from the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology (USA). It was conducted to investigate whether food cravings play a role in the field of weight loss and if willpower over food cravings is important in weight loss. A Randomised Clinical Trial investigating the effectiveness of The Emotional Freedom Technique versus a waitlist was conducted for food cravings. Participants attended a 4 week group based program run by EFT practitioner Mr Brett Porter. The Program taught participants how to use EFT and how to apply it to their food cravings.
Summary of the results as follows:
A Randomised Clinical Trial of a Meridian-Based Intervention for Food Cravings: Twelve Month Follow-up of Treatment versus Waitlist
A study conducted at Griffith University in Australia by a team led by Psychologists Peta Stapleton, PhD and Terri Sheldon, examined the effectiveness of EFT for food cravings. Food craving was hypothesised to be an important intervening causal variable in the development of obesity. This randomised, single-blind, clinical trial tested whether The Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) reduced food cravings in participants under laboratory-controlled conditions.
Method: Study involved ninety-six overweight or obese adults who were allocated to the EFT treatment or 4-week waitlist condition. The waitlist condition received treatment after completion of the test period. Degree of food craving, perceived power of food, restraint capabilities and psychological symptoms were assessed pre- and post- a four week EFT treatment program (mixed method ANOVA comparative analysis), and at 12-month follow-up (repeated measure ANOVA with group data collapsed). Paired comparisons between time-points were undertaken using post hoc tests. The Bonferroni correction was applied for multiple comparisons.
Results: EFT was associated with a significantly greater improvement in food cravings, the subjective power of food and craving restraint than waitlist from pre- to immediately post-test (p<0.05). Across collapsed groups, an improvement in food cravings and the subjective power of food after treatment was maintained at 6-months and a delayed effect was seen for restraint. Although there was a significant reduction in measures of psychological distress immediately after treatment (p<0.05), there was no between group difference. Across collapsed groups, an improvement in food cravings and the subjective power of food after treatment was maintained at 12-months, and a significant reduction in Body Mass Index (BMI) occurred from pre- to 12-months.
Conclusion: EFT can have an immediate effect on reducing food cravings, result in maintaining reduced cravings over time and impact upon BMI in overweight and obese individuals. This addition to weight loss/dietary programs may result in assisting people to achieve and maintain reduced food cravings and lose weight.
To see some of the media reports please click on links below:
http://blogs.smh.com.au/lifestyle/chewonthis/archives/2009/07/first_aid_for_food_cravings.html
http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/article/5035228/lifestyle/weight-loss-t
Further Reading: Sunday Times Story | Australian Healthy Food Guide Story | Western Australian Story