LISTENING TO INNER WISDOM
Judith Orloff’s website ( A series of articles on intuition and energy helps you tap into your intuitive capacity) Click here for Judith Orloff's website
Laura Day's website on how to harness the power of your own intuitive wisdom. She has established a wonderful forum on this website aimed at helping people network as they work on developing their intuitive abilities.
Click here for Laura Day's website
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT) AND OTHER ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY SITES
Gary Craig’s emofree.com website is filled with practical information on EFT. It includes a free EFT manual and numerous case histories. You can send away for his training videos or CD’s. This is the best and most comprehensive site for anyone—from the beginner interested in learning EFT to the advanced practitioner. Gary Craig was the originator of EFT, and he has made it a life mission to teach the world about the benefits of this approach. He offers everything on his site for free or at low cost. His list of certified EFT practitioners is categorized by state and city. Click here for Gary Craig's Emofree.com website
The Association for Meridian Therapies – A wealth of information about many Energy Psychology approaches, especially EFT. The home page directs you to an online demonstration of EFT with detailed illustrations. There are numerous free downloads, including an EFT tutorial (available only if your computer has Microsoft PowerPoint installed). Also in the downloads section, under the heading International are a number of EFT protocol sheets in various languages, including Spanish. There are also dozens of articles on all aspects of Energy Psychology, including some basic introductions. Click here for the Association For Meridian Therapies website
Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology(ACEP) has been referred to as the “cousins club” for all the energy psychology methods. They list a number of trainings and workshops at various locations in the country. Membership is open to all who are interested in energy psychology, the newsletter is free online. Anyone interested in keeping up with the research in the field of energy psychology would want to bookmark this website and check it frequently. Click here for the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology website
For a look at how EMDR can be combined with EFT, check out this article at Daniel Benor’s website. It was Dr. Benor’s dynamic demonstration of the EFT techniques using an audience of over 200 people (including myself) that sparked my interest in energy psychology. Click here for Daniel Benor’s article on his Healing Research Website.
Dr. Joseph Mercola has put together one of the most popular alternative health websites on the internet. While I don’t completely agree with his characterization of grains and sugars as addictive substances, I do recommend his site (not only for the wealth of information of new research in alternative health) but for his emphasis on using EFT for optimum mental, physical and spiritual health. Under the heading of emotional health (located in the left-hand column), he presents a basic tutorial on EFT.
Click here for Joseph Mercola's website
Dr. Carol Look's website is filled with information on using EFT to deal with eating and weight issues. While we differ in our views of the nature of compulsive eating and the eating disorders, (she takes an addiction model approach to eating problems), her manual, "How To Lose Weight With Energy Therapy," offers a wealth of practical information on how the EFT techniques can be used to eliminate the underlying emotional issues that keep us from eating in touch with our body wisdom. Click here for Carol Look's website
This website by Jane and Phillip Mountrose has a listing of their EFT training workshops in California and Sedona. Click here for the Jane & Phillip Mountrose's website
The Spirit Coach: Changing Lives from the Inside Out Aside from liking the title of the website, I like Andy Bryce's tone. Emotional Freedom Technique Specialist - Coaching and Breakthrough Bodywork with the Spiritcoach.
Carol Tuttle's website is filled with resources about energy psychology. She lists upcoming training workshops and speaking appearances and maintains a free newsletter archive. You can purchase her books or CD's. Click here for the Carol Tuttle website
NON-DIET APPROACHES
Carol Munter and Jane Hirschmann have put together a website based on their "Overcoming Overeating" Program. Carol was one of the pioneers of the non-diet movement 30 years ago. They maintain a schedule of workshops held in various cities throughout the United States and a national "Overcoming Overeating-Friendly" therapist referral list. You can sign up for their free newsletter, or view back issues. They also hold real-time internet chats. Click here for the Overcoming Overeating website
The Beyond Hunger Website is dedicated to helping men and women overcome their obsessions with food and weight. Relying heavily on the concepts of “intuitive eating,” body acceptance and emotional wisdom, this website can be a good resource for those who struggle with emotional overeating. Their section for teenagers presents a wide variety of resources. Click here for the Beyond Hunger website.
The InnerSolutions Website offers supportive services for people who do not have support in their communities. They offer e-sessions, and phone sessions and plan to add a chat room and message boards soon. Their website also offers tips and answers questions on recovery from eating disorders. Their approach is a non-diet one. Click here for the InnerSolutions website
Mary Anne Cohen, author of French Toast for Breakfast: Declaring Peace with Emotional Eating, presents a website on overcoming emotional eating. She offers tapes of her past radio shows, an "Ask Mary Anne" section, and a comprehensive list of eating disorder sites in the "links" section.
Click here for the EmotionalEating.org website
IMAGERY
Belleruth Neparstek is one of the best known practitioners of imagery in the world. Her guided imageries for various health issues are distributed to new patients at many hospitals throughout the country. Her approach is based on utilizing the body's inner wisdom for healing. The website offers a wealth of information on imagery for the beginner through the advanced practitioner. Especially useful is the description in the Resources section on “Imagery and Intuition.” Click here for the Health Journeys website
The Eupsychia Institute for Well-Being has a section of its website devoted to guided imagery. They provide tips on how to work with guided imagery and scripts for several guided visualizations. The “Summoning your Inner Healer” and “Getting a Message from Your Higher Self” scripts are especially helpful.
Click here for the Eupsychia Institute website
The Taipei Waking Dream website offers a large collection of MP3 guided visualizations for free, including one called “Master Teacher” which accesses an teacher deep within who can help you master a new skill. The website also offers a primer on how to create your own guided visualizations on MP3 or CD. Background music to be used in creating your own imagery CDs is also included.
Click here for the Taipei Waking Dream website
The Academy for Guided Imagery website offers comprehensive information on Dr. Martin Rossman's Interactive Guided Imagery techniques. Click here for the Academy for Guided Imagery website
LISTENING TO INNER WISDOM
Dr. Judith Orloff's Guide to Intuitive Healing: Five Steps to Physical, Emotional, and Sexual Wellness by Judith Orloff (Warner, 1997)
“We are the keepers of an intuitive intelligence so powerful it can tell us how to heal,” she proclaims. She teaches you to tap into and train your innate intuitive abilities.
Practical Intuition by Laura Day (Broadway Books, 1997). A practical guide to unlocking your intuitive abilities by a fascinating, down to earth woman.
Listening: How to Increase Awareness of Your Inner Guide by Lee Coit (Las Brias Publishing, 2001). This little book is a gem. The author decided to take a year to live by listening to his inner voice of wisdom. This book is the result. He gives practical advice on how to listen into you own inner wisdom and how to distinguish that voice from the ego-based voice of fear.
Awakening Intuition: Using Your Mind-Body Network for Insight and Healing by Mona Lisa Schulz (forward by Christiane Northrup) (Three Rivers Press, 1999). This book also teaches the reader how to tap into and train the inner wisdom of the body, mind and spirit.
Second Sight by Judith Orloff (Warner Books, 1997) Using examples from her own life and those of her patients this psychiatrist beautifully illustrates how learning to follow your intuition can change your life. Most poignant was the description of how she came to suppress her intuitive abilities while in medical school and the almost disastrous results that followed.
EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUE (EFT)
Getting Through to Your Emotions with EFT by Phillip Mountrose & Jane Mountrose. A self-help manual aimed at overcoming blocks to emotional freedom using EFT tapping. It teaches you how to do EFT.
Emotional Freedom Techniques for Dealing with Emotional and Physical Distress by Gary A Flint (with forward by Gary Craig) (NeoSolTerric Enterprises, 2001) Another how-to book that teaches you all about EFT techniques. Well-illustrated.
NON-DIET APPROACHES
Weight Loss From the Inside Out: Help for the Compulsive Eater by Marion Bilich. (Wellness Institute, 2000) First published in 1983, this was one of the first “how-to” books on the non-diet approach. It has recently been republished by the Wellness Institute, and contains the most comprehensive collection of guided imageries for overcoming eating and weight problems available. It focuses on both learning to give up dieting and on overcoming the emotional issues related to weight and eating.
A Starving Madness: Tales of Hunger Hope and Healing in Psychotherapy by Judith Rabinor (Gurze Books, 2002) Though not all the vignettes in this wonderful book are about women with eating problems, the stories that are demonstrate what happens in therapy when you stop dieting and explore the real feelings that lie beneath your cravings for food and your problems with weight.
Overcoming Overeating by Carol Munter & Jane Hirschmann Fawcett Books, 1998). Carol was one of the originators of the non-diet approach. The book focuses on learning to eat in touch with body hunger—demand feeding and on learning to feel comfortable in your body, at any weight.
Fat is a Feminist Issue by Susie Orbach (Penguin Putnam) The original bestseller that raised women’s consciousness about fat and compulsive eating. This was one of the first books to demonstrate that some women hold onto fat to meet emotional needs.
Fat is a Feminist Issue II: A Program to Conquer Compulsive Eating by Susie Orbach (Berkley Publishing, 1991). This book sets out a program for putting the ideas her first book, Fat is a Feminist Issue, to work. The guided imagery exercises in this book are worth the price of the book alone.
Breaking Free From Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth (New American Library, 1989).
Why Weight? A Guide to Ending Compulsive Eating by Geneen Roth (Plume, 1993). A comprehensive guide, filled with exercises to help you learn to eat in touch with your body.
Intuitive Eating: A Recovery Book for the Chronic Dieter: Rediscover the Pleasures of Eating and Rebuild Your Body Image by Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch (St. Martin’s Mass Market Paper, 1996). A comprehensive program for giving up dieting and learning to eat in keeping with the body’s wisdom. Readers are told to emulate the intuitive eating patterns of young children.
French Toast For Breakfast: Declaring Peace With Emotional Eating by Mary Anne Cohen (Gurze Books, 1995). An excellent book for working on the connection between emotions and overeating.
IMAGERY
Weight Loss from the Inside Out: Help for the Compulsive Eater by Marion Bilich (Wellness Institute, 2000). My book is based on a series of guided visualizations that help you uncover the unconscious meanings of fat, thin, and food. In the book, I talk about how the “Inner Guide” fantasy can help people begin to access their inner wisdom.
Creative Visualization by Shakti Gawain (New World Library, 2002). This is an excellent introduction to guided imagery work. The book includes chapters on the basics of visualization, how to connect to one’s Higher Self through visual imagery, and goal setting. There is a Spanish edition available, as well as a audio cassettes and CD’s with the guided visualizations.
New American Medicine Show Discovering the Healing Connection by Irving Oyle (Celestial Arts, 1981). This book is hard to find, but it is worth the effort. The visualization on the “Inner Guide” formed the basis of my own work with the Guide.
Staying Well with Guided Imagery: How to Harness the Power of Your Imagination for Health and Healing by Belleruth Naparstek (Warner,1995). This book by one of the best-known imagery practitioners provides a wide variety of imagery exercises aimed at improving health and optimizing emotional resiliency and well-being.
Creative Imagery: How to visualize in all Five Senses by William Fezler (Fireside, 1989). This book expands the concept of imagery to include all the senses thereby making imagery experiences all the more vivid.
Self-Healing with Guided Imagery by Andrew Weil and Martin Rossman (Sounds True, 2004). Available on CD or audio cassette, this recording contains a guided imagery by Martin Rossman that gives the listener an immediate experience of the healing effects of imagery work.
Thirty Scripts for Relaxation Imagery & Inner Healing Edited by Julie Lusk (Whole Person Associates, 1992). A compilation of scripts from many of the leaders in visual imagery work which is a valuable resource and starting point for those interested in creating their own visualizations. Of special interest are “your Inner Advisor” and “Fortune Cookies” (a visualization which taps into your inner wisdom by having you imagine you are reading messages contained in fortune cookies).
Jewish Guided Imagery: A How-to Book for Rabbis, Educators and Group Leaders by Dov Peretz Elkins (Growth Associates, 1996). Although intended for rabbis and educators, this book provides with a wide variety of guided visualizations meaningful to any Jewish reader. The scripts for “Developing our Spiritual Nature” and “Healing with Guided Imagery” are especially helpful.
Opening to God: Guided Imagery on Scripture by Carolyn Stahl Bohler, (Upper Room Books, 1996). The fifty guided meditations in this book focus on experiencing the divine through scripture from a Christian perspective.
