Understanding Sugar Addiction and Chocolate Cravings
This post has so many fantastic resources for sugar addiction and chocolate cravings, so I’m sharing again for those who have not yet read it!
And here is a great post on easing the pain of going sugar-free, as well as a guest post with sugar busting tips and recipes.
After doing these sessions, see how you feel about sugar or chocolate over the next few days. And be alert for anywhere else the desire for sweets shows up, then go ahead and tap on it!
You can also join me for a FREE SESSION using my Lazer Tapping technique; where we combine tapping, along with accessing the tissues and cells in the body.
I created this Lazer Tapping course because for years I looked for a course or workshop to refer my friends and readers to… a way to access this super powerful mind/body healing technique for themselves.
Without having to pay a therapist $150 every single time they needed help. And I never could find that course. So I created it!
Anyway, I hope this series of tapping videos (below) sets you free the same way it worked for me!
My family and I have now been cavity-free for 5 years. Click here for all the details of my updated Tooth Decay Healing Protocol.
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My Experience with Dental Surgery and Healing Techniques
2015: I recently had some dental surgery done – to remove an infected tooth, clean out the bone around it, and then insert an implant.
Believe it or not, because the dentist is an artist (in the true meaning of ‘artist’) who brought his whole self to the procedure, and because I had prepared emotionally and spiritually and used energy healing techniques throughout the surgery, it was about as positive an experience as 2 hours of dental work could possibly be! I had almost no swelling after the procedure, or in the days that followed.
What I did experience, 3 days post-op was a lot of pain. Now here’s where things get even more interesting.
I have a different approach to pain than most. I am not afraid of it, I see it as a messaging system between my body and my mind. So whenever pain shows up, I don’t seek to suppress it, mask it, or get it to go away. I seek to move into the pain and discern the message.
Well, there were a number of messages this post-implant dental pain had for me, but the one I want to focus on now is a message my body has been giving me for years; but which I’ve been unwilling to heed.
The Wake-Up Call: Listening to My Body
“We need you to stop eating sugar. We cannot go through this continual wounding and trauma anymore. Yes, the procedure went very well, as well as it could have gone. But it is still trauma and wounding to our cells, tissue, bone, that we then have to heal. You need to stop. Or you will lose most of your teeth.”
I have quit sugar (and I mean ALL sugar) many times in my life – for up to a year at a time. I do know that sugar (even very small amounts) affects my teeth instantly.
With this surgery, I guess my body decided to ramp up the call to healing by giving me 24/7 pain until I listened!
Tapping (EFT) for Breaking Free from Sugar and Chocolate Addiction
Although I began a protocol to address infection (one of the usual causes of pain after dental implant) I also did an intensive Tapping (EFT) session to get to the roots of my sugar addiction!
Here some of the videos I used (unfortunately 2 of the videos I used have since been deleted from YouTube) to tap on the different facets of this problem and finally break free of the hold sugar/chocolate had on me. If this is a problem for you, or something you struggle with, get tapping!
Start with this one from master tapper, Brad Yates for the aspects of sugar addiction and sugar craving he’s identified:
And then, here’s where I fill in the missing pieces of the biological drivers behind sugar cravings.
The Power of Tapping
If you’re not familiar with EFT or Lazer Tapping, you need to know that part of the process involves venting, and voicing out loud all the negative crap that may be carried in your subconscious, or past experiences, or beliefs absorbed from your parents without conscious awareness (often before the age of 6).
So even though it may feel like we are focusing on the negative and you probably don’t want to dwell on that, it is an important part of the process for unlocking these limiting concepts and moving them into flow; so they can be transformed into life affirming, positive beliefs and feelings that make your world bigger.
So if you’re feeling uncomfortable at certain points in the video, just stay with me, keep tapping, and know that we have to go down into the depths to bring these things up into the light, where we can then shift and transform them. Stick with the video and know that the positive affirmations and life-enhancing re-frames are coming!
Embark on a Sugar-Free Journey
Follow along with me; tap on the acupuncture points I’m tapping on and say (out loud or in your head) the words I’m saying:
See how you feel about sugar or chocolate over the next few days and be alert for anywhere else the desire for sweets shows up, then go ahead and tap on it.
How did you like that? If you’d like to explore this technique further, please join me for a FREE SESSION using my Lazer Tapping technique; where we combine tapping, along with accessing the tissues and cells in the body. It’s a powerful self-healing technique that everyone can learn to do!
I hope this series of tapping videos sets you free the same way it worked for me!
The Sugar-Free Chocolate Alternatives
I cannot believe the difference… I look at chocolate and I feel, “Meh” I am not having to deny myself. When I feel the need for that “something, something…” I feel into my body and usually have some fruit, or some nut butter with fruit-only jam.
Occasionally I will want a hot chocolate – made with straight cocoa powder, coconut cream powder, hot water, stevia, and a touch of xylitol. Previously, this would not have satisfied me! But now, it’s a real treat.
The big difference between quitting sugar all my previous times and this time, is the disappearance of the strong desire for chocolate or desserts.
Will power has never been an issue for me – my self-discipline is a well-exercised muscle. But before the acupressure tapping, it was only that self-discipline that kept me from eating chocolate. Now, amazingly enough, there are many times that I just don’t want chocolate – I can hardly believe I’m even saying that!! But there it is.
Living a Sugar-Free Life!
For the times I do want chocolate, I am now perfectly content with sugar-free chocolate items, like my Chocolate Cashew Butter Fudge (also dairy-free and gluten-free), my Manuka Chaga Chocolate Goddess Discs (gluten-free and vegan), or the hot chocolate I outlined above.
If you do these tapping videos and you are still craving sugary items, then check out my Lazer Tapping course so you can learn how to tap for yourself, or, book a session with a good EFT practitioner and they can help you find the missing piece and clear it.
Original post dated 2015. Most recently updated October 2023.
Yesterday, I was looking for an e.f.t. practitioner in my area. I also downloaded a free guide, and I have tried some e.f.t. tapping. I think it is a great source of healing. Insurance may not cover it, but it is an investment in my health that will only save more money in the future.
I would say I am at the beginning of my healing journey. I read not to address too many issues at a time in a tapping session because that can be counterproductive. All these layers…
While I was searching online yesterday for e.f.t. I stumbled upon some other kind of therapy also called e.f.t. I tried contacting them, but it was the wrong e.f.t. That one stood for emotionally focused therapy. I am just saying that in case someone else is looking for a good e.f.t. practitioner in their area.
Hi Susan,
Thanks for the heads up and we hope that you find EFT useful. Just in case you haven’t seen it, Jini wrote a blog post at the link below with several useful links about EFT (and a free audio download of a EFT healing meditation):
https://blog.listentoyourgut.com/synergistic-healing-meditation-prana-eft/
Kind regards,
Justin
Customer Care
I’d like to explore EFTmore…only done a litle of it but can say another emotionally freeing intervention..helped me in the past to get over a trauma.
Thank you for the references…you can find a lot on UTube.
Cecile
Hi Cecile,
We’d love to hear how it works out for you if you decide to use it more often. Make sure to check out the link I posted in comment #2 above for more free EFT resources.
Kind regards,
Justin
Customer Care
Hi! I literally went through the same experience. I just had a tooth removed but I cannot have an implant in since I am diabetic. I have been trying to minimize sugar, but I cannot remove it all together since sometimes my blood sugar goes so low I need to take some juice to bright it back up. I try not to eat desserts and pastries though. I hope I can fight sugar. I have also been doing Yoga and mediation.
Hi Marie,
Thanks for writing in. We wish you all the best and we’d love to hear how it works out for you if you decide to try anything Jini mentioned in the post above.
Kind regards,
Justin
Customer Care
Hi jini, I have read most of your posts about healing your teeth. I have one child who has ZERO cavities and one who has 6 currently. They eat the same amount of sugar which isn’t that much in my opinion. My 6-cavity daughter is a vegetarian…that is the only difference between their eating habits. Can you please tell me exactly the step by step process of brushing, rinsing and using bone support that your kids do? And do the whole process twice a day? I really appreciate your info and knowledge!!!!!!!! Thank you!
-christine
Hi Christine,
The short answer is that Jini’s kids drink raw milk and swish for 1 minute after brushing their teeth with a blend of the Bone Support product and Natural Dentist Anti-Cavity toothpaste. For a lot more details about Jini’s research and experimentation, check out the two links below:
https://blog.listentoyourgut.com/why-our-family-is-trying-fluoride-toothpaste/
https://blog.listentoyourgut.com/nanoparticle-minerals-heal-tooth-decay-and-osteoporosis/
Kind regards,
Justin
Customer Care
Hi Christine – don’t know if you’re still around… but I have just published the entire protocol:
https://blog.listentoyourgut.com/jinis-tooth-decay-healing-protocol-5-years-clear/
I would love to follow along but you don’t take a pause for that to happen. It is difficult to follow when I am repeating and you are already on to the next sentence. Wish you could do it again and this time pause for the audience to repeat
Sorry Nancy! I guess i’m really fast talker, so my judgement of how much time is needed is off. Also as I get going, I tend to speed up. BUT. You can just hear the words and tap-along and that will still have a beneficial effect. It depends on your level of focus. If you can tap along while focusing/listening intently to what I’m saying – it will have the same effect as if you said the words yourself.
T Terrific. I didn’t know that. Will do and thanks for responding. I appreciate it.
I like sweet treats because of the taste, not for any physical response. Therefore, I chew bites of something like a cookie or pie and then spit the mouthfuls out into my garbage disposal, running plenty of water from the faucet. I then rinse my mouth out. This is important. My sweet tooth is mostly satisfied and I don’t have all that sugar in my blood stream. I do have some crowns, but at age seventy seven I have excellent gums. It works for me.
Sorry Carol – for some reason I missed this comment! But that is actually a great idea and thanks for sharing.
I have been doing Brad’s video for a while without success. I even tried Gabrielle Bernstein’s End Sugar Cravings eft videos. She actually inspired me to try and get off of sugar after seeing her quit sugar for 2 years. I will keep trying until I succeed. I have had 9 months here and there off of sugar. I guess thats better than most people, but I have parasites making my life miserable.
Hi Blaze,
9 months here and there is still a win! Sugar is definitely hard to quit. Have you downloaded the free EFT Tapping instruction manual? http://www.meridiantherapytechniques.com/
Also, just in case you haven’t seen it, Jini wrote a blog post at the link below with several useful links about EFT (and a free audio download of a EFT healing meditation):
https://blog.listentoyourgut.com/synergistic-healing-meditation-prana-eft/
Best,
Savannah B
Customer Care