I am very happy to present a guest post by Jennifer Abbott fromPrinciples for Peace. I met Jennifer via one of my favorite blogs, Tim Brownson's, "A Daring Adventure". After corresponding a few times she told me about SFT Awareness and I asked her to write a post for my readers to share this amazing program. I believeeveryonehas the capacity to change habits, adopt new positive behaviors and to grow and heal. I also believe hearing of a technique thatYOUfeel a strong connection to is theBESTway toensure lasting success. Jennifer teaches SFT Awareness which I had not heard of before but will resonate with many people. This wonderful program will surely help many MORE people get over depression, addiction, health issues, traumas and whatever else they were beforehand unable to conquer. When you conquer emotional issues you empower yourself, can live up to your full potential and help others as well. Thank you Jennifer for spreading the power of SFT Awareness.
Why Would Anyone Want to Learn about SFT Awareness?
The program with which I am involved is a thriving nonprofit program called
SFT Awareness.
I bet you’re wondering what that stands for?....
It stands for Search for Truth.
That may or may not mean much to you, so let me tell you a little more about it…
When I learned about SFT Awareness my life was nothing short of a mess.
Negative thinking was prevalent in my life, I was carrying around a lot of baggage and I found myself hitting some very low points.
SFT has made such a huge difference in my life that I am determined to spread this program throughout
theworld.
The first thing we like to tell people is that SFT Awareness is
not counseling.
It is training.
We equip people with attitudes and skills that
they use for
therest of
their lives.
If you were to ask SFT students about
thefocus of SFT you would likely get varying answers.
Some would say it’s about removing depression.
O
thers would say it’s about stopping addictions.
SFT does address
these issues and successfully, but what SFT Awareness does is teach people how to process and remove emotional pain.
The reason it works for addictions and most depression is because
theroot cause of
these issues is addressed –
theemotional pain.
We do not teach students to not have pain events.
That’s not realistic.
We simply teach
them
theright attitudes and skills needed to recognize, process and remove emotional pain from
their lives when things do happen that
they do not like.
We call
these attitudes and skills that we teach
Masterattitudes and skills because
they are
theattitudes and skills that
theMaster teacher Jesus used and taught.
They work
every timewhen applied correctly.
I like to use this illustration from one of my trainers (and
thefounder of SFT Awareness):
Suppose
thetires on your car wear down.
You go and get
them replaced.
However, in a few months
they wear down again.
The reason
they wore down
thefirst time – and
thesecond time - is because your car had an alignment problem.
Now you could go and just have
thetires replaced again, but without fixing
thealignment problem guess what will happen?
That’s right.
The tires will wear down again.
That’s why people go through depression cycles and why people keep going back to
their addictions –
they have not processed
their emotional pain.
If you remove
theemotional pain
then you remove
thedepression and
theneed for addictions.
As students learn to change
their thinking, many who were previously on anti-depressants find that
they no longer need
these medications (Although we never tell students to stop
their medication.
That’s up to
them and
their doctor).
Medications may be necessary for some depression, but medicating depression that is caused by unprocessed emotional pain will only put a band-aid™ on a wound.
To learn more about SFT Awareness you may visit
theSFT website at
www.sftawareness.org.
Currently, sessions are available in
theNashville,
TNarea,
theTri-cities (East TN) areaand by workshop (if you wish that one be held in your area).
Contact information is available on
theSFT Awareness website.
You may also enjoy my blog
www.principlesforpeace.comwhere I blog about many of
thethings taught in SFT.
Hope you found this informative.
Jennifer Abbott
Posted by Jenny M.