Matrix Reimprinting, EFT for Overcoming Addiction

Addiction is a complexed series of behavioural patterns developed over many years, with various triggers and aspects. During childhood and throughout our lives , many people will have moved from love to fear. New born babies have no fear, no shame, they love every part of their bodies and laugh and cry without any inhibition.

The addict becomes conditioned to react to feed their addiction, stimuli can come from elements of our past from which we are still suffering. These often stem from our relationships with our parents, siblings, peers, teachers and mentors, that were not always positive in how we perceived them.

The addict starts to develop small habits or cravings, just to take the edge off things, cosy feeling... all that pressure.

If things are really bad/unbearable or indeed good, the addict moves into a dream world of fantasy, where it is more comfortable to feed the addiction than feel emotions or deal with events in reality.

My experience of gamblers... live much of their lives in fantasy world and escapism (not quite same thing). Over time these patterns of behaviour become absorbed in the addicts lives, however these can be challenged using the Emotional Freedom Technique. Focusing on one specific issue at a time, and with a genuine desire from the client, I have proven results in practising the principles of EFT and matrix reimprinting to overcome addictions.

My Personal Viewpoint on ADHD and Addiction

Many persons with ADHD have tendencies towards addictive behaviours, these developed as coping mechanisms when young, always being told off, lazy, disruptive or not good enough. Children and adults with ADHD tend to only pay attention when something is of interest to them when they can hyper focus and really get into the subject.

It is the thrill of the addiction which seems to be a sort of self medication for ADHD, since most addictions alter the chemistry of the brain. Often there are underlying problems of depression and low self esteem, a lot of ADDers are also addicted to visual stimulation and would make great hunter gatherers. More recently it has been recognised that a core cognitive defect of ADHD is in fact the inability to inhibit behaviour, in other words they are thinking stop, or are being given a signal to stop, but find it hard to do so, particularly when an activity is of interest and enjoyable.