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I have been reading a lot of things lately that are playing with the accepted definition of reality. We have an expected reality. We expect that table to really be there. We expect that chair to support our weight. We expect ourselves to have weight!

When someone steps beyond our reality we tend to get nervous and want to call the men with the white coats. Who is this person to tell me that table doesn’t really exist? Who do they think they are? Can’t they see it and feel it? They must be crazy. Those men in the white coats better have strait-jackets with them.

Let’s play with the idea that nothing really does exist. Everything is a construct. Just like Shakespeare said “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players:” Everything is ‘fake’. If it is ‘fake’ then what is the purpose for this construct? Maybe like the stage in Shakespeare’s quote, we are here to play, to entertain, to be entertained, to be someone we are not. That may be it! To be… someone we are not.

On the other side, in the spirit realm, things may be too perfect so to experience challenges and stress and to play at being someone we are not; we audition for parts and get to go on stage. What we call ourselves also implies this, think about the term human being. We are being human for a while. This elaborate setup provides opportunities for us to experience, learn and grow.

If this is a construct, who constructed it? I would venture to say that not only has a higher power had something to do with it but we all have made a contribution. We are all in on it. We have agreed to certain ‘rules’ to live by. We feel the table. We see each other. We have to eat to survive. What would happen if all of a sudden we decided that this was not true and it all vanished? There have been some people through time that have altered their reality. Some have been declared Saints, some have been killed for their abilities (but then if this is all fake, do we really die?). There are people alive today who do not play by the rules or who have created different rules to live by.
Wouldn’t it be fun to create your own rules and life by them? Tomorrow I will write about that.

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Wow! It looks like the changes in the world are occurring!

What changes you may ask? The changes the holistic community and light workers are expecting soon. These involve the ability to manifest easier, a realization that there is much more out here than the physical world and the ability to heal ourselves.

Dr. Mercola recently had a report from Wired Magazine (August 24, 2009) that stated: “From 2001 to 2006, the percentage of new products cut from development after Phase II clinical trials, when drugs are first tested against placebo, rose by 20 percent. The failure rate in more extensive Phase III trials increased by 11 percent, mainly due to surprisingly poor showings against placebo. Despite historic levels of industry investment in R&D, the US Food and Drug Administration approved only 19 first-of-their-kind remedies in 2007—the fewest since 1983—and just 24 in 2008. Half of all drugs that fail in late-stage trials drop out of the pipeline due to their inability to beat sugar pills.”

To me this is saying that we are making headway with changes in our spiritual beings.

The article continues with: “Some products that have been on the market for decades, like Prozac, are faltering in more recent follow-up tests. In many cases, these are the compounds that, in the late ’90s, made Big Pharma more profitable than Big Oil. But if these same drugs were vetted now, the FDA might not approve some of them.

Isn’t this wild! Even the older drugs when retested are not beating the sugar pills!

It’s not that the old meds are getting weaker, drug developers say. It’s as if the placebo effect is somehow getting stronger.

Maybe we are finally realizing we do have more control than we thought.

The fact that an increasing number of medications are unable to beat sugar pills has thrown the industry into crisis.”

I guess the drug companies would get pretty nervous about this report and will probably try and debunk it. I think it is great and gives me more hope for the future of mankind.

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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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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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It is starting to feel more like summer around here. The days are getting hotter in Central Texas. Even though summer doesn’t officially arrive until June 21, summer ‘officially’ arrives around here when you have to run the air conditioner all day to stay halfway comfortable. Every year I try to hold off as long as possible before turning it on. The air conditioner is the main cost of electricity and it can easily double your electric bill. We have ceiling fans in every room but the bathrooms and the kitchen, but just stirring the air does not help when the air itself is hot.

As a teen growing up in Houston, which has not only heat but humidity, there was a year when we had a major heat wave. I remember one day it got up to 114 and I had to go outside to see what 114 felt like. It felt like walking into a giant oven! It was suffocating.

I believe the South did not really become heavily populated until air-conditioning was invented. Have you ever been camping in 100 degree weather? It is not much fun. If you are from up north you may not have any idea what I am talking about.

Fresh out of college, I visited a friend and her family in New Hampshire in May. It was still pretty cool in New Hampshire at that time of year. Her father was planting tomatoes and I mentioned that my dad got his in early enough that he could have early summer tomatoes and then replant for early fall tomatoes. He had no idea what I was talking about. He could not get his mind around that the tomato plants would literally burn up in the heat of summer; wilt and die. I wonder if he even knew that tomatoes will not “set” (produce tomatoes) if the weather turns too hot.

I expect we still have a few more weeks before I absolutely, positively have to have the cool blowing 24 hours to live in the house.

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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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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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Some people think that when we die we have a life review and are judged. I don’t quite buy that. I think we have a life review and we judge ourselves.

After death is not the only time we judge ourselves, we also meter out judgment throughout our lives. We may not do this on a conscious level but we are constantly judging our actions, second-guessing ourselves. But what happens when we judge ourselves and find ourselves lacking? Why, we punish ourselves of course!

How do we do that you might ask? We bring in sickness, aches and pains. As we age, we accept these pains as justification for our actions in the past. We say things like; I should have taken better care of myself, If only I had quit smoking, If only I had not been so wild in my youth, I should have followed the doctors orders. We beat ourselves up.

What if we could live in the present, in the now? If we could release the past, could we also release our aches and pains and maybe even our diseases? What if we could live the life we really want without being judged in the future by ourselves or by others, would we live more fearlessly? Would we live life more abundantly? And would we live life to its fullest? I believe we would.

If you could uncover all the regrets, all the discomfort from the past that has lead to the dis-ease of the present, would you? If uncovering these regrets and past problems could lead to a release from that unconscious punishment would you make the effort? There is a way to release the past and that is with EFT or any of the other Meridian Tapping Techniques.

The “Personal Peace Process” is a great way to work through the past. Make a list of the past events in your life that upset you, made you angry or you just did not like. This includes people also. Then just tap the emotions away. Work on each emotion as it comes up as the emotion will change as you work through an event. I have done this myself and found major changes in my life. I am not the same person I was five years ago and it has all been for the better.

Take the challenge yourself. If you need more help check out www.naturallyresilient.com for tapping points or to contact me for a personal session.

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Spring is here! At least according to the calendar. The bluebonnets are starting to bloom. There is suppose to be a good crop this year because of all the rain.

We had a very cold and wet winter in Central Texas. We had several snow flurries and then a nice snow that actually stuck around for a whole day! The cats did not like the snow. Only one actually ventured out into it and he was our long haired cat – the one whose protein went to make fur instead of brains. But it was pretty to look at and play in. We did have a short show ball fight just so we could say that we played in it.

My son, who claims he likes the cold, sure did spend a lot of time indoors this winter even during the snow day. When I was a teenager living south of Houston, we had a 4 inch snow. I spent most of the day outside in it. I only came in to defrost my toes and nose. I remember that school was cancelled only because the busses would not start.

If you live in a cold climate which sees more than its fair share of snow, I guess you are not as mesmerized by the white stuff. But down here it is always out of the ordinary.

I guess I should not be too quick to say that winter is over. Three years ago we had a 5” snow fall the night before Easter! That was fun. People were building snow bunnies in their yards.

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Yesterday I talked about coincidences as being the result of your mind shoving the more pertinent info into your consciousness.

Could there be something more involved? Could coincidences be the result of a spiritual or behind the scenes work?

Just so you know, I do believe in a spiritual life. I talk to my guides and angels and yes I do hear them talk back to me. It is all in my head, I don’t hear an actual physical voice so some may say it is just another aspect of me talking and maybe it is. We are all connected and may be more intimately connected than we realize on the physical surface plane.

I suggest that you do an experiment. Think about two different problems you are having for which you would like a solution. Talk to your guides, you can do this out loud or in your head. Tell them that you appreciate them being there and willing to help you then tell them that you would like help in solving a problem. Then tell them about one of the problems you want help with. Then tell them you have a second problem but you want them to stay away from that particular problem until you specifically ask for help on it. Then note which problem is solved first. You must also note exactly how you asked for help with the first one. How you word it is important because the solution will appear and you will invariably say that wasn’t what I wanted but if you go back and look at your words the solution will fit exactly. It is almost like they are showing their sense of humor by solving it in a way that was not even remotely anticipated.

Good luck and let me know what happens.

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