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Ann on Sunday, February 28th, 2010 |
No CommentsThis Sunday’s book review is a classic: Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking
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The idea of positive thinking is not new. It was not new when Norman Peale wrote his book in 1952. I may mention some of the earlier books at some point. But this book put the whole notion that you can control your life by your attitude into the limelight. Mr. and Mrs. Peale both realized that you had to be positive in whatever situation you were in or you ran the risk of never rising above that situation.
Can you think of anyone who seems to be stuck in their life? Are they positive people? You may counter that they were positive until they ran into a string of ‘bad luck’. But how long did they hold on to that positive attitude when the ‘bad luck’ hit? I bet they soon let it go and became disillusioned, disappointed, humiliated, frustrated, and angry and started showing any number of negative traits. Mr. Peale addresses what to do when you are in personal problems and how to overcome the negative thoughts that abound at such times. We all have runs of hard times but that doesn’t mean you throw out the positive.
I must warn you that Mr. Peale does have a strong faith and talks much about the use of prayer. I have used prayer myself and had great results.
Even though this book was written almost 60 years ago (all of a sudden I feel old) it still contains great advice. This is the forerunner to the Law of Attraction craze and I highly recommend it for its down to earth methods of dealing with attracting happiness and abundance into your life.
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Ann on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 |
No CommentsI have heard so many connections between rivers, the spirit and energy lately that I wanted to write something about it.
In dream symbology, flowing water symbolizes the spirit moving.
In the Bible Jesus spoke of living water several times and in John 7:39 it says “When he said ‘living water,’ he was speaking of the Spirit, who would be given to everyone believing in him…” (New Living Translation). (I am not going to get into what ‘believing in him’ means that is a whole different theological treatise.)
My Feb. 18, 2010 blog speaks of the energy in all things that ‘flows’ through all things connecting all things.
All of these are talking about the same thing: the energy of life, the life force.
To be in your true spirit, your true self, the energy of life must be flowing through you.
You may think you have the energy of life in you but most of us are only living partial lives. We are stagnate ponds not fresh flowing rivers. As a stagnate pond we have no outlet and little inlet. We have the possibility of drying up or as I like to say “having been dead before you die”.
When the river of life flows through you, your energy level is high and you are free to be all you can be. With all that energy behind you nothing can hold you back and you can manifest abundance.
I have been practicing feeling the flow and I found that I am usually constricted or stagnant. But I am working on it and I know that the more open state will eventually become my normal state. Let the energy come!
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Ann on Friday, February 26th, 2010 |
No CommentsI have heard the idea that each of us has created our reality. Everything and everyone around us is here because we have “manifested” it. This idea is one of the main premises in Busting Loose From the Money Game: Mind-Blowing Strategies for Changing the Rules of a Game You Can’t Win
by Robert Scheinfeld. Last year I took this at its word and acted this out. This was not good. I ended up neglecting some people in my life to the point that they were feeling abandoned. I had left out an important addition to that idea.
Let’s say you are creating all that shows up in your life but let’s carry this idea farther. If everything around you is your creation it is a part of you. How do you want to be treated, with honor and kindness? You must treat all people the way you want to be treated. If you want to be neglected then treat others with neglect but if you want to be treated with attention and honor, treat those around you with attention and honor. In short, if you neglect something or someone you are neglecting yourself.
This train of thought leads me deeper. If I give someone something am I giving to myself? If I am giving to myself, I have not really lost anything, have I? What if I buy something from some one, am I really buying from myself? If I am doing that to myself, will it come back to me? How far can you carry this? But if this is true, there should not be any debt, but there is.
I guess I have not jumped on this bandwagon yet. Maybe I have not evolved far enough for this.
I do believe we are all connected but I also believe we are individuals trying to live together.
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Ann on Thursday, February 25th, 2010 |
No CommentsI am working on a report titled “Does Surrogate Tapping Work?” This report is about my two month surrogate tapping study using EFT on volunteers from all over the world.
Surrogate tapping involves tapping on yourself to benefit another person who may or may not be in the same room. In this case the volunteers were not in the same room and they were often not in the same State or maybe not in the same country.
In this study I performed two types of tapping sessions. Some people received the standard one hour session for a problem and others received 5 mini sessions. The mini sessions varied from 10 to 15 minutes in length for 5 consecutive days.
I was surprised about the different results between the standard hour session and the 5 mini sessions. To read the full report when it comes out, sign up for my free monthly tapping routine at www.naturallyresilient.com.
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Ann on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 |
No CommentsCallie was from outer space. That is the only explanation. She was the most unusual cat that has ever owned me. Last Wednesday I told how she would get on the roof and back down. I did not tell you about her jump.
You see other cats jump. They make this nice arc in the air and land on a surface. Callie did not arc. She went straight up then over and down with her legs hanging loose under her. It was like she levitated. When she walked, she marched, left, right, left, right, lifting her left side in unison and then the right legs. I always wondered how she managed not to fall over (she probably thought the same about us).
At one point while Callie was with us, we moved out on to 68 acres with a mobile home. About 50 feet behind this house was a barbed wire fence and a lot of scrub and thorny vine growing close to it. One day as I watched, Callie headed toward the brush and disappeared into it. I paced her through the brush although I could not see her. I was wondering where she would come out. Soon she came out about 100 feet down from where she had gone in and I was staring straight at her. I had paced her correctly however now she had a shrew in her mouth! We always joked that she had a refrigerator of shrews back there.
While living in this mobile home we installed a cat door with a small 1foot x 1foot platform outside just large enough for a cat to jump up on and then come in the cat door. One night we awoke to a “thump, thump, thump” coming from the living room. Paul got up to see what was going on. There hopping around the living room was a full grown rabbit and Callie looking smug.
We could not figure out how she had managed to jump (excuse me, levitate) on to the small platform three feet off the ground with a full grown rabbit. I know she had to let go of it to push it through the cat door and that was why it was hopping around the living room. We put the uninjured rabbit back outside past the fenced in yard. Maybe Callie had decided to move her refrigerator into the house.
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Ann on Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 |
No CommentsI have been thinking about the spiritual growth of humanity. Are we really growing and improving? After watching the evening news I am inclined to say not.
However the news shows what is unusual so if something shows up on the news that means it is out of the ordinary or does not normally happen. In other words, since the news always seems to show the bad of humanity that implies that the good is normal and commonplace. This gives me hope, maybe we are truly growing and improving.
I also have another way of looking at humanity through the ages. I believe in reincarnation. Each of us has lived multiple lives. There are certain experiences we all have gone through or will go through. These experiences lead to the growth of the soul and ultimately the growth of humanity. Such experiences are:
• We have all died in war
• We all are attacked
• We have all been attackers
• We have starved to death
• We have abused power
• We have all been abused
If we had no conflict or hardships we would be comfortable where we are and would have no reason to change or grow. Comfort means the status quo and there is no change. When we are challenged we have to develop new reasons, new beliefs and new ideologies so we can once more be comfortable in mind and then comfortable in body. Sometimes we have to go through a traumatic event in a series of lives. Each life is trying to work it out, or come to terms with what is happening. When we finally decide how to deal with it and can incorporate it into our soul we can move on to something else.
Each of these major events in our lives has left an imprint on our soul. We have changed, we have grown. This can only lead to a change in humanity as a whole. We can even look back through recorded history and see how our ideas and beliefs have changed and how we have grown. I have hope that soon we all will have experienced war enough to decide we don’t need it any more.
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Ann on Monday, February 22nd, 2010 |
No CommentsI was raised Southern Baptist and never knew much about Lent. To me it was something weird the Catholics down the street did. Then when I was on my own, I joined the Methodist Church: it seemed to fit my beliefs better. All of a sudden I was confronted with all of these terms that I had always associated with Catholics, one of which was Lent.
Every year I would hear discussions of what some one was giving up for Lent. I always thought it was strange. Why would I give something up? I was struggling as it was, trying to believe that God wanted us to live in abundance!
Here is my train of thought. God is all powerful (check, I have always believed that). God is all knowing (check again). God is abundance (not as strong of a check, but hey I’ll go with it). God wants us to live in abundance (ok, this is where the struggle begins).
I have come a long way from when I thought that God wanted us to give everything away and live under a bridge but it was still a struggle. I knew that giving anything up for Lent would just set me back in my struggle. To me giving anything up was more of a slap in the face of God than a honoring of God. How do you feel when you try to give something to someone and they won’t take it? Think about the last time you gave someone a compliment and instead of saying ‘thank you’ they negated it by not accepting it or by making light of it. How did that make you feel? Did you want to give them another compliment any time soon? I am not saying that God has human emotions and motives but that is what I have to work with.
This year I am looking at it a little different. I am going to honor God and myself by giving something up. The reason this is going to honor God and myself is because I do not need this and it is really hurting me in the long run. What I am giving up is Excedrin!
You were expecting something a little grander weren’t you?
I admit, I am addicted to Excedrin and I know that many of the daily headaches I get are Excedrin induced. I got addicted to it when I was in college (30 years ago) and came home with a bad headache and tried Excedrin and was amazed that my headache was actually gone in 20 minutes! Nothing ever took my headaches away before! Then every time I started to get a light headache I would take an Excedrin because I was afraid the headache would grow into a migraine if I did not do something.
Every once in a while I will get off the Excedrin then a migraine would occur and I couldn’t stand it and would take an Excedrin and finally get rid of it. But then I would be back on taking Excedrin everyday.
This time will be the longest stretch that I would have given Excedrin up (that is if I make it). I survived without Excedrin before I can survive without it again. I have a headache.
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Ann on Sunday, February 21st, 2010 |
No CommentsIt’s book review Sunday!
This is a book I have read several times. Every once in a while I need a pick-me-up and this book is the ticket. Neale Donald Walsch the author of Conversations with God
did a great job with Moments of Grace: When God Touches Our Lives Unexpectedly
. Actually he did very little writing in this book, he is relaying stories others sent him about their personal experiences.
In Neale’s own words “This book is about moments in our lives when God steps in and gives us a great big hug….. These are stories about real life and real people. Folks sent them to me. Because I asked them to. I wanted to know if my experience of God was really so different from everyone else’s, or if, as I suspected, we all are having pretty much the same experience, but I’m the only one who’s talking about it. Or one of the very few.”
I have read stories out of this book to people who come to me questioning the meaning of life and those who wonder if miracles happen. I also tell them a few of my own stories. Yes there is purpose to all this! Yes there is a guiding light or energy out there!
If you don’t want to buy it, at least check it out of the library. But I bet you will want to own it after you read it.
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Ann on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 |
1 CommentThursday I wrote about the energy flowing through life. I wanted to touch on that again today.
My husband often says he puts energy into things to make something happen. There may be a piece of equipment that is acting up and he will give his magic touch and ‘presto’ it will start to work! We call it the “Midas Touch”.
My son has that touch. When he was 4 we were visiting friends. Jesse and Teresa, their 4 year old were playing in her room when we heard discord. Teresa’s mom and I went to investigate. The girl had a broken tape recorder and Jesse was fiddling with it. Teresa kept telling him to leave it alone that it was broken. Becky, the mother, told me it had been broken for a while. Jesse would not leave it alone. Then he pressed a button and it started to play! Teresa and her mom were shocked.
Other times there maybe something that my husband wants to accomplish. He will set a goal and “put energy into it” and it will happen. About a year ago he decided he would make $20,000 in one month. His usual take was about $8,000 to $12,000. He made the $20,000 but it was not in the way he was expecting. When I ask him how he does these things he just says, “I put energy into it”. He then tries to get me to put energy into what I do, but I don’t have a clue as to what he is talking about.
I think I may now have a clue.
What is going on? I believe he is using the flow of life energy and like a river he is diverting the flow to where he wants it. That flow carries what he wants to him.
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Ann on Friday, February 19th, 2010 |
No CommentsI had an interesting client last Sunday. This one was suppose to be an EFT session for back pain. I often have great results using EFT for back pain. We tend to carry a lot of emotional baggage in our backs. EFT is great at getting rid of the emotional baggage. I often start with addressing the pain itself and when movement starts to slow or ceases I will delve deeper to try and uncover emotional reasons for the pain. Often addressing the pain itself is all that is required.
I did get some movement addressing the pain itself. It went from an intensity of 6 to a 4 but then it seemed to stall. I probed for emotional reasons and soon found several possibilities. But addressing each of these were not getting the results I thought we should be seeing. She then told me that the tapping on the side of her hand (the KC point, see my page on Tapping Points) was sending tingles down her body .
I started tapping on various other points and asking if she felt energy with them. I found that the points corresponding to the small intestine and the triple warmer points created sensations. I decided to clear and trace the corresponding meridians.
After finishing her right side, she said the right side was feeling good and all the pain was now on her left side. So I ran the meridians on her left side.
She was feeling pretty good after that. She could do some of her yoga positions that she could not do when she came in. I thought it was interesting that flushing and tracing the meridians cleared the pain.
