Writing a blog is great. At least, that's what I've discovered. However, the part that has had to unfold for me is "What's the purpose of the blog?"
When I first started blogging, I wasn't quite sure about what to write about. So, I thought, "what the heck, I'll just write about whatever I'm thinking about." Well, that worked for a little bit, but frankly, I began to feel I needed more focus.
As I began to get more and more clear about how I am moving forward in my work, I decided that the blog also needed to get clearer and clearer about it's intention.
Thus, I am announcing today that my blogs, from now on, are going to be focused more and more on how to use EFT (the Emotional Freedom Technique) in your life.
I've been using this technique for almost 7 years now. After I went through that awful trauma in 2000, I sought healing from just about every place I could find it. While lots of things helped, nothing seemed to be lasting. I still got triggered by things, and would find myself in grief and angry about what had happened.
In 2002, I was introduced to EFT. It took me a while to actually believe that EFT could make a difference, but finally I decided to train in it.
In one day - let me repeat that, ONE DAY - the emotional stuff I had been carrying for 2 1/2 years was gone. GONE. I was so astonished that feelings like anger, hurt, betrayal, frustration, guilt, shame, yes, even rage, could be dissipated like that. Yet it happened.
From that point on, I learned everything I could about EFT. (You can learn more @ the main EFT website, www.emofree.com, if you like.) I began to use it with my clients, and witnessed some amazing emotional shifts with them, as well. All sorts of traumas were soothed and healed.
I completely changed and recreated my life, using this wonderful tool. And life is 160 degrees different from what it was in 2000, when the trauma occurred.
I am so incredibly grateful to Gary Craig, the creator of EFT, for making this tool available to everyone.
Thank you, Gary, from the bottom of my heart!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Have You Tapped Today?
I had the opportunity to tap today on some issues I'm having with feeling overwhelmed with the new way I am setting up my business/practice. Basically, I began by simply acknowledging what's so. "Even tho I'm feeling overwhelmed and I have no idea what to do next, I deeply & completely love & accept myself."
Just tapping helped shift the feelings. Then, as the feelings began to subside, new ways of organizing what needs to be done next began to show up in my mind, and I was able to re-focus on what's next.
This will work for anyone on any issue. If you just tap a little bit on what's happening for you right here, right now, you'll find that it will begin to shift the stuff that is gripping you, and new thoughts can then take the place of the overwhelm.
(It's sort of like cleaning your closet, if you will.)
So, have you tapped today?
Just tapping helped shift the feelings. Then, as the feelings began to subside, new ways of organizing what needs to be done next began to show up in my mind, and I was able to re-focus on what's next.
This will work for anyone on any issue. If you just tap a little bit on what's happening for you right here, right now, you'll find that it will begin to shift the stuff that is gripping you, and new thoughts can then take the place of the overwhelm.
(It's sort of like cleaning your closet, if you will.)
So, have you tapped today?
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Trusting Your Intuition, Part 3
My daughter, Christina, and I headed to Miami in May, 2001. We drove down, and met up with a family friend close to Miami. Christina was going to stay with her friends on the West Coast while I attended the workshop. What a gift that was!
I got settled into my hotel room that Sunday afternoon. The course began the next morning, and I was so excited I could attend!
That week, Doreen taught us about our connection to Spirit, and how to clear our energy fields so that we could be more aware of our connections. Mid-week we began to give readings to one another using Doreen's angel cards, which we had cleared and dedicated to Spirit's use. Then came, for me, the biggest intuitive hit, which led me to really "get" what this intuition thing was all about.
On Thursday morning, Doreen had us do readings for one another without knowing who the other person was. We were to write a question on a piece of paper, fold it up and hand it in. Before we handed it in, we had to write our row (A, B, C...) and our seat number on that paper (and remember where we were sitting). Then we switched seats. The questions were mixed up and handed out to the class. We were to get quiet, ask the question for the other person, and then write down the answers on the same piece of paper, then turn them back in.
For some reason, this seemed harder to me than having someone sit across from me. We were not to use the angel cards, but rather to trust what information we got for the other person. (I now know that one of my strengths is to read someone's energy, which I had been doing with the person across from me, but this was different, more removed. Now it is just as easy to read someone's energy this way, but then, not so much.)
I received the other person's paper. The question was something like "What is next for me to do? This, or this?" I got quiet and then began to write what came to me. It was easier than I thought. I wrote what came to me and it flowed. Then I received the instructions to write "And you will know, my son, ..."
What? Wait. No. Uh-uh. I began to argue with the angels. "I'm NOT writing 'my son,'" I said. The urging came back stronger. "NO!" I shouted in my head. "There are 10 men here out of 125 total attendees. Are you kidding? What if I'm wrong?!" The urging came back stronger.
Oh, jeez, what to do?
After debating for a few minutes, I acquiesced and wrote "my son." Then I finished it up and handed the paper back in.
We all got back into our regular seats and got the answers back. Then went to lunch.
At lunch, I went to the large round table and a number of people joined me. We all talked about the reading we had just given using automatic writing. A guy was there with his wife and he began to talk about what he had gotten.
"I was thinking yeah, yeah, as I read it," he said. "I wasn't taking it that seriously, until I came to 'my son' and it stopped me cold. I knew that this had been written by Spirit because I always heard that in my meditations. I then re-read the reading and really heard what it was saying. It was so accurate!"
"Oh, my gosh," I stammered, after having dropped my fork in my salad. "I wrote that!" I shared with the group how it kept coming to me to write "my son" and how I had argued with the angels about writing it, but finally had written it.
They looked at me like I had just levitated! Not only had I written this - and trusted my intuitive hit - I had also had that hit confirmed almost immediately. Of all the places this guy and his wife could have sat, he sat directly across from me at our lunch table. We had never met before, and hadn't sat together at any meals in this class. Only Spirit could have orchestrated such a perfect "coincidence!"
This experience was the solid "Aha!" experience I had in that class. It was amazing and it anchored for me what it felt like to receive information from Spirit and what fear felt like in the face of that information. It was an incredibly useful experience that has served me so well in continuing to develop my intuitive abilities. Well worth the expense of the class, by the way!
How have you connected to Spirit today? Are you listening to the gentle, yet firm, inner urges to do something? Are you paying attention?
Begin today by saying "I trust my intution." Doreen taught me that affirmation. Believe me when I say that when I first started saying it I didn't believe it at all. I felt like I was lying. Now, 8 years later, it is congruent with who I am.
This is the process of affirmations, by the way, which we will begin to cover in some upcoming blogs.
For now, though, create a wonderful day, and TRUST your intuition! It will never guide you astray!
I got settled into my hotel room that Sunday afternoon. The course began the next morning, and I was so excited I could attend!
That week, Doreen taught us about our connection to Spirit, and how to clear our energy fields so that we could be more aware of our connections. Mid-week we began to give readings to one another using Doreen's angel cards, which we had cleared and dedicated to Spirit's use. Then came, for me, the biggest intuitive hit, which led me to really "get" what this intuition thing was all about.
On Thursday morning, Doreen had us do readings for one another without knowing who the other person was. We were to write a question on a piece of paper, fold it up and hand it in. Before we handed it in, we had to write our row (A, B, C...) and our seat number on that paper (and remember where we were sitting). Then we switched seats. The questions were mixed up and handed out to the class. We were to get quiet, ask the question for the other person, and then write down the answers on the same piece of paper, then turn them back in.
For some reason, this seemed harder to me than having someone sit across from me. We were not to use the angel cards, but rather to trust what information we got for the other person. (I now know that one of my strengths is to read someone's energy, which I had been doing with the person across from me, but this was different, more removed. Now it is just as easy to read someone's energy this way, but then, not so much.)
I received the other person's paper. The question was something like "What is next for me to do? This, or this?" I got quiet and then began to write what came to me. It was easier than I thought. I wrote what came to me and it flowed. Then I received the instructions to write "And you will know, my son, ..."
What? Wait. No. Uh-uh. I began to argue with the angels. "I'm NOT writing 'my son,'" I said. The urging came back stronger. "NO!" I shouted in my head. "There are 10 men here out of 125 total attendees. Are you kidding? What if I'm wrong?!" The urging came back stronger.
Oh, jeez, what to do?
After debating for a few minutes, I acquiesced and wrote "my son." Then I finished it up and handed the paper back in.
We all got back into our regular seats and got the answers back. Then went to lunch.
At lunch, I went to the large round table and a number of people joined me. We all talked about the reading we had just given using automatic writing. A guy was there with his wife and he began to talk about what he had gotten.
"I was thinking yeah, yeah, as I read it," he said. "I wasn't taking it that seriously, until I came to 'my son' and it stopped me cold. I knew that this had been written by Spirit because I always heard that in my meditations. I then re-read the reading and really heard what it was saying. It was so accurate!"
"Oh, my gosh," I stammered, after having dropped my fork in my salad. "I wrote that!" I shared with the group how it kept coming to me to write "my son" and how I had argued with the angels about writing it, but finally had written it.
They looked at me like I had just levitated! Not only had I written this - and trusted my intuitive hit - I had also had that hit confirmed almost immediately. Of all the places this guy and his wife could have sat, he sat directly across from me at our lunch table. We had never met before, and hadn't sat together at any meals in this class. Only Spirit could have orchestrated such a perfect "coincidence!"
This experience was the solid "Aha!" experience I had in that class. It was amazing and it anchored for me what it felt like to receive information from Spirit and what fear felt like in the face of that information. It was an incredibly useful experience that has served me so well in continuing to develop my intuitive abilities. Well worth the expense of the class, by the way!
How have you connected to Spirit today? Are you listening to the gentle, yet firm, inner urges to do something? Are you paying attention?
Begin today by saying "I trust my intution." Doreen taught me that affirmation. Believe me when I say that when I first started saying it I didn't believe it at all. I felt like I was lying. Now, 8 years later, it is congruent with who I am.
This is the process of affirmations, by the way, which we will begin to cover in some upcoming blogs.
For now, though, create a wonderful day, and TRUST your intuition! It will never guide you astray!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Trusting Your Intution, Part 2
In Doreen Virtue's book, "The Lightworker's Way," she talked about asking the angels for help. I was comfortable talking with angels at this time, but had no idea if I was asking for too much, or whether or not I'd actually receive the help. I hoped I would, but hey, I really didn't know.
What I did know was that I wanted to attend Doreen's next Angel Therapy Practitioner course, which was going to be in a month in Miami.
So, I decided to ask for help. It went something like this, "Ok, guys, now you know I want to go to the ATP class and you know I don't have the money for it. If I am really supposed to go, then I need your help in getting that money together for it."
I had a car that I had been trying to sell for two years. Two Years. Two. Years. And I had had no luck. I decided to ask for help in selling it. I knew that if it sold, I would be able to go.
So, I politely reminded the angels that I had this car available which could be used for money to attend this class.
Within two weeks it was sold. And I had the money.
I immediately signed up for Doreen's class, and made reservations for a hotel room.
From this I learned to ask.
What I Learned In Miami - next.
To be continued...
What I did know was that I wanted to attend Doreen's next Angel Therapy Practitioner course, which was going to be in a month in Miami.
So, I decided to ask for help. It went something like this, "Ok, guys, now you know I want to go to the ATP class and you know I don't have the money for it. If I am really supposed to go, then I need your help in getting that money together for it."
I had a car that I had been trying to sell for two years. Two Years. Two. Years. And I had had no luck. I decided to ask for help in selling it. I knew that if it sold, I would be able to go.
So, I politely reminded the angels that I had this car available which could be used for money to attend this class.
Within two weeks it was sold. And I had the money.
I immediately signed up for Doreen's class, and made reservations for a hotel room.
From this I learned to ask.
What I Learned In Miami - next.
To be continued...
Trusting Your Intuition, Part 1
Since 2000, I've been on a quest to really trust my intuition. Why 2000? On July 27, 2000, my life, as I knew it, changed. I learned that the life I had so carefully built was nothing more than a house of cards, and it all came crashing down around me.
So, what does this have to do with intuition?
In my attempts to cope and process the experience, I went to a therapist. And she said something that really stuck. She said, "It's a good thing you listened to your intuition, or else this would have been much worse."
At the time, I thought, "Worse? This was awful! I don't know that it could have gotten much worse." But, of course, she was right. It could have been much, much worse. Still, it was bad enough, frankly.
And I digress.
I heard her. I really heard her. She shared with me that I had felt something was wrong, very wrong, and by my insisting that our family get into counseling at the time I did, we had prevented something far worse from happening.
Let me tell you, this was all news to me. I was not familiar with the conversation of trusting my intution; heck, I didn't even really know what that was or how it felt. And yet, that conversation was the beginning of my learning to trust myself, and it was the beginning of my learning what intuition was, how it felt, and, even more important, why it is so important to be aware of intuitive hits.
She showed me how I had listened to my intution. She connected the dot between saying that I had listened to the dot of my experience. And that was huge.
Then, in 2001, I read a book that changed my life: "The Lightworker's Way," by Doreen Virtue. When I finished her book, I knew - KNEW - that I had to learn more. I knew that I had to take her Angel Therapy Practitioner class.
The only problem was, I had no money. And it was in Miami, Fl (I lived in Virginia), and I would have to get there, stay a week at a hotel (and of course pay for it and food and travel), and also pay for the class ($1500). It didn't matter. I was determined to do it.
To be continued...
So, what does this have to do with intuition?
In my attempts to cope and process the experience, I went to a therapist. And she said something that really stuck. She said, "It's a good thing you listened to your intuition, or else this would have been much worse."
At the time, I thought, "Worse? This was awful! I don't know that it could have gotten much worse." But, of course, she was right. It could have been much, much worse. Still, it was bad enough, frankly.
And I digress.
I heard her. I really heard her. She shared with me that I had felt something was wrong, very wrong, and by my insisting that our family get into counseling at the time I did, we had prevented something far worse from happening.
Let me tell you, this was all news to me. I was not familiar with the conversation of trusting my intution; heck, I didn't even really know what that was or how it felt. And yet, that conversation was the beginning of my learning to trust myself, and it was the beginning of my learning what intuition was, how it felt, and, even more important, why it is so important to be aware of intuitive hits.
She showed me how I had listened to my intution. She connected the dot between saying that I had listened to the dot of my experience. And that was huge.
Then, in 2001, I read a book that changed my life: "The Lightworker's Way," by Doreen Virtue. When I finished her book, I knew - KNEW - that I had to learn more. I knew that I had to take her Angel Therapy Practitioner class.
The only problem was, I had no money. And it was in Miami, Fl (I lived in Virginia), and I would have to get there, stay a week at a hotel (and of course pay for it and food and travel), and also pay for the class ($1500). It didn't matter. I was determined to do it.
To be continued...
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