Yes, you can use tapping to keep calm while dipping your toe in the sea of emotion, gradually acclimating to it. With Havening you can pull the plug to empty out old emotions, changing how you feel and respond to memories and beliefs from the past. These techniques are used with people suffering severe PTSD, and they really work (Tapping is now recommended as a possible therapy for PTSD, second only to EMDR, which has many commonalities with Havening).. So much of our emotion now is based on things we experienced in the past. If you don’t want to go there, that’s fine. You can work with what is present now. And if you are willing to dive into the past to release it, there are meditations to guide you through the process so you can come out the other side, reborn.

That’s a complicated question. Your age is a factor there, as well as your weight expectations. I can’t make you ten years younger, but these tools can help you shed excess weight and achieve your ideal, healthy weight for your age (or better). If you have unrealistic expectations about your weight, this will not help you starve your body into submission. This is about getting in touch with real hunger and feeding it natural, healthy food. For most people with some excess weight, that will lead to shedding weight in a way that feels easy: it’s a side-effect rather than the intent of the programme.

Yes, it is very easy. You don’t need to learn how to do any of these meditative practices, you just press ‘Play’. What you will need to do is be open to gaining insight into yourself and how you are being triggered, and you will need to actually follow the path that is laid out for you. Still, with the great variety of meditations using different images and techniques, most people find it a fun and interesting experience.

So often, we as women are taught to put others first, to be people-pleasers. It is okay to put yourself first sometimes. It is okay to do things because they feel good. It is okay to release guilt around doing things for yourself and enjoying them. And it is okay to love your body, even if it isn’t ‘perfect’. You can enjoy your body and what it can do for you.

The quick answer is: ‘No’. In the meditations, I sometimes suggest what you might ‘see’. However, it’s just as effective to imagine the words as a story that you are listening to and taking in the meaning of. For example, if you ‘picture a lighthouse’, then as a story you understand it represents something that shines a light to act as a guide. It doesn’t matter if you ‘see’ a tall building painted white with stripes, or just feel what it means to act as a beacon, or to be guided to safety. Your mind will interpret the story for you, either into pictures, a bodily felt sense, an emotion, a concept, or even, for some, into a sound or music. How you perceive it is unrelated to how effective the meditation will be. The mind is an amazing thing!