Core Issues

Excellent article about resolving core issues... the heart of EFT. Symptoms abound in various forms and flavors, it's always finding the core issue that resolves the inner storms.

By Annie O’Grady

Some people are haunted by a repressed memory, and this is a constant drain on their energy that can go on over decades.  They feel that something bad happened to them around a particular age, but they can’t find out what it was.  Here are two cases (names changed) where EFT not only uncovered the ‘secrets’ but neutralized their lifelong impact, each in one session.
Bill, a truck driver in his sixties, had come for an EFT session because his girlfriend had experienced a big breakthrough from a session, and he was curious.  Initially, he thought he didn’t have any stress to work on.  But soon he mentioned that he was sad about his dead son - and had been sad every day for twenty-five years.
This involved a hospital memory that was still vivid for him.  We tapped away stress from the trauma he described.  He had held his newborn son in his arms for two hours, waiting for the baby to die from a congenital physical defect.  Finally a nurse told him it had happened. Read more here.

 Might we help you explore some core issues that have weighed down your life and sapped your energy?

PTSD?

Really great quick article about releasing PTSD. If you, or someone you know is suffering from this, we invite you to check out EFT as an option for your emotional wellness "tool chest".

Three times over a period of about 25 years, I experienced shortness of breath, blood draining from my face and heart palpitations and had to pull over while driving. Even though this occurred so seldom, these are typical symptoms of PTSD. Years later, I started putting things together that at each occurrence, I was passing an accident just at the moment that a person on a gurney was being put into an ambulance. By this time I was experienced in EFT and started looking for an explanation.  Read more here.

EFT Is As Effective As EMDR!

Via Dawson Church ~~~

EFT Is As Effective As EMDR!: EFT reached a milestone this month. Several years in the making, a new study was published in a peer-reviewed publication, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, with the results of a study that compared EFT to EMDR. The study was performed within Britain's National Health Service. Theresa McGoldrick, a therapist at Forth Valley, Scotland NHS hospital, and one of the study investigators, put an enormous amount of work over a long period of time to see the study to a successful completion. It showed that EFT is just as effective for people with a PTSD diagnosis as EMDR. In both the EMDR and EFT groups, the 46 participants recovered in an average of 4 sessions. Not only did their PTSD symptoms improve; they also experienced significant reductions in their anxiety and depression symptoms. This study is important for several reasons. One is that it was done "in the system." The primary investigators were not advocates for either therapy, ensuring impartiality. Another important aspect of the study is that it compared EFT to what many clinicians believe is the most effective "evidence-based" emotional trauma treatment, EMDR, and found similar results.  See more here.

Anyone in the BC area?

Finding the Freedom to Heal

Lorna Wilson often told her close friends, “I am just killing time until I die.”

She had had too much stuff in her head. Overwhelmed by sadness and shame from years of abuse, she sunk into depression and tried to block out the misery by turning to alcohol.....  Things changed after one of her sisters, who had endured the same abuse, recommended Emotional Freedom Technique. After only one session, the change in Wilson was remarkable. It was as though a heavy shroud of depressing fog had lifted. The urge to drink ceased.

“I don’t want to drink,” she said. “I haven’t even thought about it.

Seminar May 18 with Sheryl Stanton

The seminar runs from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Renaissance Retirement Resort, 6676 - 203 St.

The cost is $20 for those who pre-register online or $30 at the door.

If you haven't heard of EFT or would like to explore it and get more information and demonstration, please consider attending the seminar if you live in the area. It's a pleasure to showcase fellow EFT Practitioners.

Lawrence and I are available for consultation in person in the Austin/San Marcos area or over the phone or via chat. If you would like a 15 minute free consultation feel free to sign up here!

18 Points Used to Diagnose Fibromyalgia

Thank you Happy Feet Reflexology for sharing this story!

People suffering from fibromyalgia may experience a lot of conflicting emotions and pain drags us all down. Now there are some simple steps to help identify this issue that can be used by medical professionals. If you suspect you are dealing with this issue, bring it up with your medical professional and see if this tool helps you to narrow diagnosis down so you can begin a path to wellness. Article

Another technique you can add in your kit o' wellness is EFT. Fibromyalgia and EFT.

As evidenced in the story, our emotions play a huge and integral role in our overall wellness. However, we are taught to ignore them for the most part. We are encouraged to "get over it" to "settle down" to " let it go". But how can we do that successfully if our emotional body was seriously traumatized and the energy surrounding that event or a buildup of events is stuck? EFT gently yet powerfully accesses those blocks and allows them to release. Your pain is real and if you have been ignoring it, stuffing it or avoiding it your body often works out a way to help you focus on it. OUCH! A free 15 minute consultation is available, click on the link in the sidebar and we'll discuss if EFT is right for you.

 Reiki is also highly effective in helping alleviate the symptoms of fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia and Reiki.

For those suffering from the symptoms of pain associated with fibromyalgia, you know that there isn't one specific answer or drug that works 100%, consider adding a few of these suggestions to your kit o' wellness. 

Pain, of mind, body or spirit is not our natural state of being and no one, no matter what situations they have lived through in their lives, deserves to hold on to it as a penance. Give yourself permission today to find a path to your authentic self. You are a being of light, well loved and respectable. We would be honored to be  partners on  your path. Whatever path you choose though,  if you look, you will see us cheering you on with claps and whistles, dance and song.

Being merciful to yourself

During a health crisis with pneumonia years ago I struggled with a long recovery period. I had been ill often as a child. My memories are of an almost endless round of sickness and recovery to sickness again. Looking back as an adult I realize that there was healthy time between those, but the feeling of being ill was one I was very familiar with.

Into my adulthood I started to work with my body more actively, using herbs and nutrition to help support my body and actually stopped being sick for several years.

During this bought with pneumonia I got I came to realize three things the illness meant as I recovered my initial strength within weeks, but feeling actually well took many months. Here are a few thoughts for those who may be struggling with their own frustrations with a slower recovery than they'd like.

1. Purely on the physical side, your body just needs time to recover. You need to nourish your body with things that support it's work in healing from the inside out. 2. It's possible that you are being "told" to slow down and refocus on priorities. You may be pulling yourself in too many directions and you are being reminded to streamline and let go of actions, ideas, people, events, things and habits that are no longer serving you. Who or what in your life is stealing your breath? Do you have toxic people or situations in your life that are draining your vitality? It may be time to lovingly move on from those situations or people so you can heal. 3. This may be an opportunity to examine your feelings of pride in asking for the support you need. It's easy for us to fall into the "supermom/superdad/superperson" mode and feel like we can and should be doing it all with little to no help from anyone else. Are there any areas of your life that you need some support and is there anyone in your community that might be able to lend a hand? Have you asked? If not, why? The definition of charity isn't merely to give to those in need, it's original definition was the love that God/Spirit has for us. That love is a two way love, love in giving and love in receiving.

4. Many of these are small changes in mindset you can make. Reading books that help to elevate your inner state of thought can be a huge help. Listening to some motivational speakers or reading some inspirational quotes will help you move out of the energy of frustration.  5. List some things that cause you stress and think, objectively, do I really need this in my life? What would happen if I let it go? See what happens if you let a few small stressors go. Reiki can benefit as well by helping you become balanced in your energy, helping to find a lift in vitality and giving yourself a moment of pure love. Treat yourself to free Reiki every Wednesday. EFT can benefit by addressing toxic situations you may feel at a loss to work through. Gently using this meridian tapping can release energy blocks and stuck habits, freeing you to move forward and able to accept the state of health and wellness that is your birthright.

Is poverty a sin?

Excellent question and blog post from Randy Gage. You can read it here.

Much of this subject is really about, deserving and worthiness issues within ourselves. We hold so many patterns of these lack thoughts, behaviors and habits and often, we aren't even aware of them. They are simply a part of the daily noise in our life. We flip on the TV and hear the negative jibberish of that tragedy and listen to the radio and catch more tragic jabber and then we elevate ourselves with external recognitions in "how much we know" about the current events of the day. And what exactly can we do about these events as we tread the water of "overwhelm"? Not very much when we start thinking of how global the problems are and how big our own problems are and, and, and, and. We get caught in an endless loop of stuck, lack and overwhelm.

Maybe we have read some books or attended a seminar or really thought about moving ourselves into a more prosperous mindset, then find ourselves dragged back into our old habits because, well they are comfortable, they are known and they are commiserated with. It's uncomfortable and scary to try to move out of lack thinking. It's uncharted territory for many.

Today isn't the day to go into our own journey in specifics, but our feet are on the journey and we constantly, consistently, persistently continue to course correct when we wander off the path of this journey. We've hit brambles, snags, fallen into dips, stubbed our toes, wrenched our ankles and limped or rested for various times. We've face-planted in the mud, been stung by wasps and had to change and grow and stretch.

Many of the ways we have been able to work through these issues is with the use of EFT or Meridian Tapping. This process takes your stuckness and releases it, so you can move forward out of lack and into prosperity.

Look forward to a new EFT call on this subject to explore and re-define your relationship with the idea of wealth, poverty and sin. It'll rock your socks off, it has ours!

Thank you Randy Gage, Napolean Hill, T. Harv Eker, Bob Doyle, Wallace Wattles, Jeffery Gitomer, Christine Comaford, Dan Millman, Gary Craig, Carol Look and many, many, many, many others for being partners on our continuing journey.

".... encumbered with your old nonsense."

"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 How many of us carry yesterday with us today? How many yesterdays? Is it really so surprising that we are tired, stressed and sick? 

What yesterday trauma are you carrying around in your energy that is kicking your butt today? What reasonable fear you had as a child regarding a barking dog, falling, insects or talking to a stranger is still affecting you today, but in a non-serving and negative way? Are you afraid of approaching your boss for a better work environment? Are you avoiding taking on that class or skill to further yourself from fear of failure or rejection or a fear of being around new people? Has your phobia become something that actually inhibits your daily routine? Are you dealing with a chronic illness that may be made better if you had some tools to help alleviate stress and pain? 

Let's partner together to create a new day, begun well, so you are no longer "cumbered with your old nonsense." 

Contact us today for a free 15 minute consultation, the form is on the sidebar.

Have a terrific day!

Sunday quotes

A man's doubts and fears are his worst enemies.”
– William Wrigley Jr.

How very true this quote is!

William Wrigley Jr. was the Wrigley in Wrigley gum. Did you know that he started out selling soap? His father started selling soap and his son became interested in the business. It was one of the first inroads to the idea of buying 'regular' soap for the public. Until then, most families made their own, aside from the specialized French soaps that is.

What this man did though was to transform the excitement of the idea of something humble and simple, like gum, into a huge dynasty that is still going strong. He took this dream, moved forward in spite of any doubts or fears and created a legacy.

What  fabulous legacy do you have in your soul yearning to be let free?What would your life be if your doubts and fears could be gently collapsed with EFT? Only you can know! I know that our lives have changed in major and significant ways since we have been using EFT. In fact, just last night we were discussing a recurring and non-serving habit we keep falling into. After discussing the origins of the behavior, we found a radically intense memory and ingrained "truth" we have owned for years to tap on and collapse. It is sure to be another life changing event for us as we let this "truth" go and move on to a more positive stance.

What non-serving habit are you struggling with lately?

Look forward to some free quickie EFT mp3's:

Money ~ this recession is kicking my butt!
Fears ~ it's stopping me from _________
Stress ~ we all have it
Confidence ~ if only I could ____
Test Anxiety ~ it's that time of year!!

What is EFT?

Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT was coined by Gary Craig during his journey and path towards personal development. For the time being you can still find the bulk of his work and download his manual here.

For our own journey, EFT has been an enormous agent of change and benefit in our lives.

The journey began for us through Bob Doyle and an abundance block EFT mp3 we listened to. We were intrigued with the process and went over to Gary's website and downloaded the free manual. Over 5 years, many re-reads and watching of the DVD's that we invested in, with hours of seminar work and one-on-one sessions, our lives are completely transformed.

Even with using EFT almost daily for ourselves, family members and clients, it never ceases to amaze us just how profoundly this simple system can work. Clients with issues that are so huge and present in their lives, like a serious phobia that controls their everyday actions ***poof*** can be reduced tremendously in a matter of minutes and often times completely eliminated in one session. It is terrific what the body/mind/spirit can do to heal itself given the opportunity and tools. Often an issue is reduced and eliminated to the point that many times during a follow up visit, the client has even forgotten they had that issue or phobia. That is always a smile-maker chat!

How does it work? It works by using acupressure meridian points to release energy blocks that are at the root of many of our emotional and physical dis/eases. Find out if this is right for you by signing up for a free 15 minute consultation.

Gary Craig says, "Try it on everything!" And so we have!!! Phobias, pregnancy issues, grief, anger, pain, sickness, helping with children, abundance, chakras, with Don Miguel Ruiz's The Four Agreements, chronic illness, abuse, trauma, nightmares, PTSD and more and more and more. We do, try it on everything!