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Yesterday’s post told a little about relieving pain with a tapping technique I use.
Why does tapping work?
The way I see it is that we are born into this world with the “fruits of the spirit” – Love, Joy, Hope, Peace. But as soon as we are born we start tacking on the baggage, the negative emotions. Sometimes these emotions can lead to physical pain or disease.
Think about the word disease. It is when the body is not at ease or is at dis-ease.
A negative event that is constantly in the foreground of your mind causes you discomfort (you are not at ease). This is like the thorn in the finger that irritates and finally causes an infection. It needs to be dealt with and extracted. The longer you try to ignore it the more your body will try and tell you it is there in even louder ways until you finally take notice. Sometimes this louder voice the body uses is pain or even a serious disease like cancer.
Tomorrow I will tell you my version of why the tapping relieves the negative emotions.
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Last week I attended a Live Out Loud Alumni meeting in Phoenix AZ. While there I meet a man who was hobbling around with back pain. He could not walk more than 20 feet before his back started hurting. He told me that it had started when he was 13 and his little brother had jumped on him while he was laying on an inner tube. I thought “Ah-Ha” a definite emotional event leading to a physical pain.
I told him I believed I could help him. He was skeptical as most people are, but was willing to give it a try. He had this pain for 40 years, but length of time is of no concern for what I do.
The meridian tapping technique I use is based on EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). We sat down and talked about the events that lead to the back pain while I tapped on various acupressure points. We discussed forgiving his little brother and himself in this matter. Before we started this pain was an 8 on a scale of 0 to 10 where 0 is no pain and 10 is the worst it could be, After a few rounds I asked how he felt and he said it always felt worst when he stood, so I had him stand. As he stood up his face had a very surprised look on it. Then he said he had been sitting for a while and his back always felt better after he sat but walking always aggravated it. (People usually try to make excuses as to why they feel better.) I asked him to walk around. His wife watched him as he walked and told me that much walking always made his back hurt. When he returned he agreed with surprise, that his back felt much better.
I checked with him the next day and he said he had some initial pain when getting out of bed but was fine now. His wife was very grateful and gave me a big hug and thank you.
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“I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.” —- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt, 1767-1835, German Statesman
I have always been interested in the way people view their lives. Two people in the same situation will react totally differently. One shrugs it off and moves on with their life while the other seems to dwell on the incident to the point that it affects their health. The 1st person found the silver lining while the 2nd only sees the dark cloud. I am fairly sure the 1st person is happier.
To Practice This Thought: Let God shoulder your problems. He is much larger than any problem you may have.
I am the Now
Posted by: Ann
November 11th, 2009 >> Life, Manifesting, Physical/Material, Uncategorized
We flew to Phoenix last week. While flying over New Mexico I had an insight.
I have been reading “The Power of Now” by Eckhart Tolle. I realized that I am who I am and will remain so, time does not figure in. In fact time has no relationship to who I am. Things that are time related, such as the future, creates worry, but I do not need to worry or consider time because I am who I am and will always be who I am until I decide to change who I am. That change will be an energetic change and does not have anything to do with time.
Let me clarify. There seems to be a narrow level of abundance that I live at. I don’t seem to go below that but have not risen much above it either. That is because that is who I am right now. So I have no need to fear going below that level, it just will not happen because that is not who I am. The future (Time) does not have anything to do with it. What does have to do with it is who I see myself as in my core being.
My abundance is tied to who I am, not the future. Who I am is a present and always consistent thing. I am the Now.
The trick is how to change who I am to who I want to be as the change must be deep and not superficial.
Returning Energy
Posted by: Ann
November 8th, 2009 >> Life, Physical/Material, Spirituality, Vibration
In February I was at a meeting in a large room with about 100 people in attendance. During break, I was walking down the aisle when a woman with long, grey streaked hair came hurrying to me. She said she had felt her energy go out of her and attach to me as I walked by and she thought I needed this. She then put something in my hand. It was a crystal of some sort. I thanked her and told her I would return her energy later.
On the drive home, I remembered my promise and sent her energy back. I felt a lot of energy go out of me. How did I miss that! I was surprised that I had not felt it come in.
The next day I asked a friend who knew about crystals what the stone was and she told me it was a citrine. I looked up the crystal and found it is also called the Merchant Stone as it protects against money worries and helps to ensure the accumulation of wealth. At the time I was in the middle of money worries, not knowing how we would pay the next months bills so this seemed appropriate. It is now November and we are doing better money wise than we were in February.
It was a magical moment when that woman sought me out.
College was a fruitful time in my spiritual life. Some young people wander away from God during that time but I was drawn closer. Nature, whether sitting outside watching the birds, looking at the sky sometimes a solid blue other times with majestic clouds or even just riding my bike to class under the ancient oak trees, always brought me closer to God. My bike was my first major purchase with my own money as a teenager in high school. It was my main mode of transportation at college where parking spaces for cars were scarce and classes widely spaced. During my freshman year, I left my bike chained to a bike rack with many other bikes over a long weekend break. When I got back to campus on Monday I could not find my bike. I walked around the bike racks where over a hundred had been parked Thursday afternoon. Most of the other bikes were still there but not my blue thoroughbred (I liked to think of my bikes as horses, my first bicycle was a Morgan then I had a show horse before my latest acquisition). I walked around the dorms thinking some one had “borrowed” it and I would soon find it. I finally gave in and went to the campus police station and reported it missing.
They did not give me any reason to hold out hope of finding my thoroughbred. I thought why this might have happened. Was I becoming too dependent on material things? I talked to God about it. I told Him “I maybe relying on material things when I need to focus on you. This has jarred me awake on that. But I still need a bicycle to get to my classes on time. I would prefer to have my old bike because I’m use to it and I am sentimental about it, but if you want me to get a different one ok I will. If my old bike is not found by Friday I will go shopping for another one on Saturday”
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday passed with out a word about my bike. By Friday afternoon I had resigned myself to the idea of getting a new bike. I started looking at my money situation trying to figure out how to pay for one on a poor college student’s income. Friday evening at about 8 pm a roommate pokes her head in my room to tell me I had a call. On the phone was the campus police who said, “I believe we have your bike”.
The next morning I headed to the police station and they showed me a bike I did not recognize at first because the black handlebars had been retaped with white tape. But then I saw the blue fingernail polish I had used to cover the scratches spotting the frame and I knew my thoroughbred had come home.
I have felt at least 3 energy shifts this year (2009).
One occurred in February. This may sound like an odd thing for a 50 year old to think but here goes. I shifted from a lifetime of feeling I was a child pretending to be an adult in an adult world and being afraid I would be found out, to feeling I was an adult and just as important and competent as the next person. That was a major shift and it came suddenly, but it also came with a lot of anguish, like giving birth.
A second one occurred in early October. All of a sudden I started feeling I could talk to people about what I did without feeling apologetic. A week later I even initiated conversations with 6 people at a networking meeting. This was something that use to be agonizing for me as people would look at me weird and I would feel like they were trying to get away from me. But now it was easy and felt normal and the people sounded interested and interesting. May be the feeling that they were trying to get away was just my projection on to them of my wanting to get away.
The third shift was about 10 days after the second one. That night I asked my guides to take me, help me and calm me as I had had many weeks of poor sleep because I would wake in the middle of the night in panic about money, bills etc. I woke the next morning after a restful night. I felt different. I felt that what was now important was my work, my actions, not my bank account. Money is not that important, it should not have such a control on me and I relinquished that control.
It is our society that places such a meaning on money. That will never do. We are not to be controlled by such a superficial idea. We are meant to live our lives and do what we came to this world to do. I am who I am not because of money but because of what I do, how I act, where I am lead and I must do what I am born to do and not be corrupted by the system.
Live a life of greater meaning and purpose.
Everything is about spiritual expansion. We resist; fight and that causes dis-ease. We are not at ease when we are at war with ourselves.
Everything; paying bills, feeding the dog, ignoring the beggar is about spiritual growth.
We resist the lesson. We resist the spiritual growth.
We think we really want stagnation. We act like we want everything to remain constant and comfortable.
What we need is to take opportunities and the chances as they come to us.
One morning while meditating I asked why does life have to be so difficult?
I heard back confusion on the word difficult, so I tried it another way. I asked about how things were so hard and then I heard an “Oh, you mean learning opportunities”
Then it was my turn to show confusion with a little exasperation.
I am here to do a job, to accomplish something and worrying just gets in the way – more than that – it actively prevents me from doing what I need to do.
God is my partner and my partner is very competent and a self-motivator, He can handle the whole business without me. I know in His hands, my business will only prosper – it can’t do otherwise.
But there is a portion up to me, and that is to act on the ideas and inspirations as they come to me. God can act but He wants us to take an active part in our lives also. We are often His hands and feet, especially in our own lives. So I EFT the worry out of the way and just do it.
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