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Yesterday I talked about the placebo affect and how the placebo often gets better results than the actual medication. This just shows how powerful our minds really are.

You have seen people with the same disease or same circumstances. One will wilt and get worse and worse while the other will be upbeat with a positive attitude. The more upbeat person will be the one with the best chance of overcoming the problem. I think we all know this at some level. But if we know it, how come we don’t practice it. We know we will be better off and may even improve our lot in life but we stay in the depressed, down, woe-is-me syndrome.

What is required is a shift in attitude, but that is often easier said than done.

Years ago I had panic attacks. I did not like them. It limited what I could do. Even going grocery shopping was very difficult for me.  But how do you shift your mind?

I read that wearing a rubber band on your wrist and snapping it when ever you started to feel the anxiety would bring you back to the present. The premise is that the panic occurs because you are trying to live in the future. Well the rubber band helped … for about 3 seconds then the panic would be back. I flicked that rubber band so much I did not feel it any more.

I went to a workshop a couple years ago where they had us all put rubber bands on our wrist and then pull them back and snap them on our wrist. I don’t remember what the reason was for doing this at the workshop, but here we all were with rubber bands. The group I was standing with fidgeted and no one could get up enough nerve to snap their band. So right in front of them I pulled mine back a foot and let go. It made a big snap and every one was impressed. But the years of doing this for my anxiety had toughened me to that rubber band snap.

So how do you make changes to your attitude? How do you get past the fear and the anger? What did I finally do to get over my panic attacks? I used EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques). If you want help with your issue go to www.naturallyresilient.com.

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I believe in the symbolism of life, everything around us including our aches and pains are there to represent something in our life. Often it is there to mirror how we feel about ourselves, or it maybe to reflect some other emotional state. With this in mind, I have an interesting idea. What does your bank account symbolize? Could it be a symbol of your perceived value of yourself? The numbers on your bank statement are just numbers, you give them meaning. These numbers are reflecting back to you your perceived value.

If this is true, you could change you bank account by changing your self value! If you struggle with money, you may be undervaluing yourself. But you may say, “This doesn’t apply to me. I think I am a great or at least good person with value to offer.” Let me counter that. Often symbolism shows up when we will not acknowledge an emotion, or a problem that we are having. Our ego tries to protect us by hiding our true emotions from ourselves, it doesn’t help that our culture has tried to teach us to smother our emotions. The physical manifestation appears to try and show us what is going on in our emotional life.

Our emotions drive so much of our life. It is our strong emotions that manifest things in our life. The law of attraction relies on emotions. The more intense the emotion the faster it will manifest.

So now that you realize that you have a low bank account and want more in it, what do you do? One method that can help change your emotional outlook is EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) or one of the other meridian tapping techniques. If you would like help uncovering the emotions behind what is going on in your life, go to www.naturallyresilient.com and sign up for a session. We can get to the bottom of it and make a change for the better.

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There has been an idea coming to me over the last two years. I have always heard that if something comes to you three times you better take notice. Well this has been coming at me multiple times! The last one was Sunday when we were reviewing Ecclesiastes. This is a book in the Bible that is rather cynical as one of my classmates put it. We all agreed that it sounded like a teenager blogging their deep thoughts and questions, trying to make sense out of life. There was a kernel that jumped out at me. Ecclesiastes 3:22 states “So I saw that there is nothing better for people than to be happy in their work. That is why they are here!…”  This was just another version of what I have been confronted with over the last 2 years.

“Have fun”, “Play with it”, “Enjoy life” this is what I have been hearing over and over again. Am I that dull of a person that I have to keep being told to enjoy being here? My life has had some hard and rough patches or stretches over the last 18 years so maybe some one is trying to wake me up and tell me that it is ok to have fun again. It is hard to stop stressing about life when you have done it for so long. I am working with the various energy techniques I know such as EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), Meridian flushing and tracing, other meridian tapping techniques and of course “Law of Attraction” work.

I see playing with life, playing with energy flow, as being positive qualities that according to the “Law of Attraction” will bring more good and positive things into my life. I want to play with life and have fun!

Last year I did an experiment where I noted how I was doing emotionally and what happened in my life soon after my emotions changed. I noted that when I was feeling up and positive good things happened and life went smoothly. When I was feeling down, depressed and scared soon my life started attracting reasons to feel that way. The feelings always came first!

This year I am trying to stay positive, trying to play with life. I never thought of myself as a negative person but it has been a struggle.  Writing positive words on me has helped; also shifting to anticipating good in the future is helping me stay positive. I can often feel the energy flowing and I will often stop and play with it, raising its vibration. I will keep you informed about how the “law of attraction” goes with the positive thinking.

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Play with me for a minute. Let us say that this universe, this world is a construct, a big hologram. Now let’s pretend that every thing in your life was put there by you in this holographic universe, how would you treat things differently?

Each piece of paper, each piece of clothing, each morsel of food was just a creation by you! What if every problem, every inconvenience, every catastrophe was put there by you for your benefit? Would you treat it differently? Would you start to look at it in a different light? Maybe you would start to see the benefit of the problem, or the inconvenience or even the catastrophe. I have had some events in my life that I would not take a million dollars to go through again but I also would not take a million dollars to give it up.

When something major happens in your life, look around, check to see if the event is actually to your benefit. You often can not see this if you are too close to the actual event, it often takes years to get enough distance from the trauma before you are able to look back and see the benefit.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) can be used to help you get past the emotion of the event so you can see the purpose, the benefit. EFT and other meridian therapies are great at getting your emotions back on even ground when you have been sliding down the cliff.

If you have been sliding down a rocky cliff, check into EFT and sign up for my monthly tapping routine at www.naturallyresilient.com

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EFT or Meridian Tapping is just one form of energy therapy. There are so many things out there. I have “run meridians”, flushing them out then smoothing them back down. Then there is Reiki which my husband knows and even my 16 year old son will run energy through his hands for people. There is also TAT that was developed by Tapas Fleming. I have used this on occasion; it is helpful when someone is stuck and not sure where to go from there.

I am constantly finding new things that people are using or have developed. I learned a new one this weekend while listening to an interview with Yvonne Oswald. I will have to try it in my workshop this Saturday. I have always noted how there is a lot of truth in many of our saying we use. Yvonne mentioned one about “keep your chin up”. I know you have heard that expression. She said it is impossible to feel a negative emotion if you point your chin up. Try it yourself right now. Think of something negative, actually feel the emotion. Note where it resides in the body. Now look up. Point your chin to the ceiling. With your chin pointed up, can you still feel the emotion? Isn’t that neat!

There are so many wonders out there and so many more to be discovered. These are exciting times to be living in. I love to be connecting with spiritual and universal power through all these techniques.

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Yesterday I was at the Belton Senior Center to demonstrate the use of EFT for pain management. I had a person who had gone through a number of different diagnoses for his stiff, pointing fingers. It had been diagnosed by different doctors as degenerative arthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and a form of gout. Doctors love to label things. If they can give it a name they can prescribe a medication. In his case the prescription was over-the-counter pain killers.

My usual mode of operation is to ask when the pain first started. In his case it was about six months before he retired. Bingo! Pain associated with getting old. I did a number of EFT rounds and the pain went from a 6 to a 4 to a 2 to a 1 and then 0. This told me that the pain was all emotionally based.

So many of our pains are caused by our emotions. We store our emotions in our bodies. Our body is shouting at us when we have pains and it shouts louder and louder until we cannot ignore it. Even medication starts to lose its effectiveness and you will find yourself taking more and stronger medications trying to smother the pain.

Doctors carry a lot of weight and authority. Often there is a lot of emotion attached to what a doctor tells you. When I see this man in two weeks and if his pain has returned we will address that and also that his dad had stiff fingers.

You can schedule a session with me for your pains. Go to www.naturallyresilient.com and sign up for a session or send me a comment to find out more.

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I am off to the Senior Center again today. I was there several weeks ago and various things have kept me from getting back until now. Apparently some of them have been asking when I was coming back so at least I have not scared them with the EFT and tapping. Last time I was surprised and pleased that so many showed up for the demonstration. There were about 20. I was also glad that what I was doing was so well received. I did a group tapping session for about 30 minutes and then talked to a few of them afterwards.

There were a couple people there that seemed to be into the weird stuff as it was and they were eager to relate this new thing to what they already knew and practiced. Weird stuff for this area may include meditation, acupuncture and many things that for a larger metropolis area would be commonplace. I don’t think I will tell them I talk to my spirit guides and get answers back. There are certain limits these people have although a few of them might admit they do the same in private conversation.

This time I am taking handouts that indicate the tapping points. Even though we spent 30 minutes tapping, I doubt that this group will remember the points on their own.

Well, wish me luck.

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Yesterday I wrote about how we bring judgment onto ourselves in the form of dis-ease. I am not sure I was clear about this being on the emotional level. Our emotions affect our bodies. When our emotions are negative for a long time our bodies respond, chemicals are produced, blood pressure changes and we can literally get sick. Think of the person who gets very angry. They get red in the face, the vein on the neck may stand out, and their blood pressure goes up. Our emotions affect our bodies.

When our emotions are strong for a long period of time, such as months or maybe even years, our body changes. Chemical changes occur and we get sick.

If we could just keep our emotions from turning negative so easily or often, we would stay healthy. It makes sense to me that we should be healthy. Our bodies rejuvenate themselves so that we have a new body every 7 years. You are not in the same body as you had seven years ago. So why does it age? Why does it deteriorate with age? It is because we are affected by our negative emotions.

Look around you. Look at people in their 60’s. You will see a wide range of health. Some are very active and in great shape others are bent over and crippled. I bet it has to do with how each internalizes their emotions.

What better way to clear out old unwanted emotions but with EFT. If you would just tap on yourself every evening before going to bed for any emotions that came up during the day you would be in much better shape as you age. What a great anti-aging program!

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I am excited about my workshop on “Finding Your Soul Mate”. I have been working hard to make it a great workshop. Yesterday I put the workbook together, a total of 18 pages.

There is so much great material out there that I am having a hard time deciding what to put in. I think I will put it all in and then have some things I can cut down on or cut out if time gets too short.

This workshop is Saturday April 17 at the T.B. Harris Community Center in Belton, TX. Time is from 9:00am through 3:00pm with lunch included. The topics to be covered include
1. Where you are now
2. Where you want to be
3. Why you are not already there
4. How to get where you want.

I will be using various techniques to help you activate the ‘Law of Attraction’ to bring that special someone into your life.

Find out more at www.naturallyresilient.com/event

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I finished my EFT – Meridian Tapping Surrogate study a couple of months ago and put together my report. It was a fun and interesting experiment. If you are interested in receiving a copy of the report just leave me a comment asking for it and I will send it to you in a pdf file. It is too long to post here.

But I will give a little synopsis of the results as they startled me. I was expecting the hour long sessions to have better results than the five 10-15 minute mini sessions. But the mini sessions showed much greater results. This has prompted me to change up my offerings.

I now offer not just the one hour phone or in person sessions, but also short surrogate sessions. The surrogate sessions may be purchased in 5 minute increments and if you purchase more than one increment you have the option of spreading them out over time. This way, if you have an ongoing problem such as panic attacks or depression, you can receive daily help. The sessions will be recorded and e-mailed to you in mp3 format. I also realize that this is not for everyone so you may try it risk free and if you are not satisfied you may receive your money back and you can still keep the mp3 sessions you received. Check out www.naturallyresilient.com/Services.html to see what is available.

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