She’s Back! During the last month we thought we were losing our beloved Golden Retriever, Dharma, who turns 13 today! Disc issues, parasites, pancreatitis, a thyroid issue, high bacteria counts, and a lump were all diagnosed. It just seemed to get worse and worse. The meds the vet prescribed caused her to lose her appetite, […]
Read MoreCategory: Affirmations
Making Your Intentions Count
“I love to use this concept of ‘allowing the possibility that I can be delighted,’ or ‘pleasantly surprised’ by a certain event we’re currently dreading. It’s light-hearted enough to avoid most ‘yeah-but’ reactions, and to lift our spirits as we set our intentions.
Read MoreThe Dark Side of Willpower
“We usually think of willpower as a muscle. But the dark secret of willpower is, it’s actually like fuel in a car. As in, it runs out after a while. Why is this? And more importantly, where’s the willpower station where you can get a fill-up?”
Read MoreAre Emotions the Problem?
“The beauty of tapping is its ability to allow us to stay with our emotions, even the painful ones, until the noise subsides and the information reveals itself. When this happens, it’s a breathtaking moment for both practitioner and tapper.”
Read MoreConnecting With Your Divine Parents
“I’ve found that there are specific positive phrases and sayings that, if repeated while using EFT tapping, accelerate the process of shedding old pain, receiving new awareness and the ability to love.”
Read MoreHow Big Is Your Beach Ball?
“When we are trying to deny or repress our negative thoughts, experiences and emotions, it’s like holding a beach ball under water. It takes effort and energy. That energy can be better spent enjoying our life and work, but first we have to let that beach ball come to the surface—and let the air out.”
Read MoreWhat To Do When Affirmations Don’t Work
Affirmations are not only critical to success with goals, but I would argue are the reason we achieve anything at all. You see, everything we think or feel is affirming something. It is just that usually we are affirming something negative instead of positive on a daily basis and feeling pretty un-motivated by this.
Read MoreRemoving Blocks To Abundance: The Value of Group Work, Part 2
“The middle section of the process was devoted to ‘seeing’ the change, conversations and exercises devoted to recognizing the many ways in the process was helping us be more abundant: not always through increased goods or income…”
Read More“We All Are Free To Change Universes”
“As my client and I tapped through her beliefs, a thought that we all are free to change Universes bubbled up. Seriously, it wasn’t MY thought.”
Read MoreTapping On The Inner Light: A Meditation For Depression
“As EFT practitioners, we can encourage our clients to raise their own inner light level, energy level and therefore change their feeling state through tapping…”
Read MoreThe Beauty Wars and One Way to Find Peace
“We judge ourselves against our peers but we often retain the wounds of those beliefs into adulthood even though our adult minds know better. Our hearts and subconscious minds don’t. That is why all the intellectual reasons we give ourselves why we should ‘know better’ don’t work. We have to pull out those thorns that still make us hurt deep down.”
Read MoreWhats Love Got To Do With It? How Body Image, Weight and Self Love Connect
“I think so often when we are ‘stuck’ with a negative belief process or trauma, what keeps it so locked in place is our lack of acceptance and love. When we shine the light of love and kindness through acceptance on an issue, it is like the sun burning off the clouds…”
Read More“The Bottle Story” Part 2 – Follow-Up Six Weeks Later
“What is amazing is how long this has lasted. I’ve had chocolate on occasion, for instance I had some chocolate milk… but that’s all I wanted. I haven’t even wanted a chocolate bar. It’s great…”
Read More“The Bottle Story” – Healing a Core Issue
“We talked and tapped with regard to what the little girl needed: someone to pay attention to her feelings, to validate what she felt, to take her seriously, and to understand her. It wasn’t even so much that the little girl needed the bottle — she needed empathy and understanding for her feelings.”
Read More“What’s the Kindest Thing You Could Say to Yourself?”
“So then I asked, ‘What’s the kindest thing you could say to yourself about this whole experience?’ He answered, ‘Actually, I’m pretty impressed with myself. It’s been hard but I haven’t given up. I can’t believe how much I’ve learned. And I’m halfway through, it’s going to go really fast. I can do this.'”
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