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Emotional Freedom Techniques

Based on impressive new discoveries involving the body's subtle energies,Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) has been clinically effective in thousands of cases for
            Trauma & Abuse
            Stress and Anxiety          

          Fears & Phobias
            Depression
            Addictive Cravings
            Children's Issues
            hundreds of  Physical Symptoms including headaches,
            body pains and breathing difficulties.
            

Properly applied, over 80% achieve either noticeable improvement or complete cessation of the problem. 

              ...Often works where  nothing else will.
              ...Usually rapid, long lasting and gentle.
              ...No drugs or equipment involved.
              ...Easily learned by anyone.
              ...Can be self applied

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Exercise: Defining The Dream

On a blank sheet of paper, or in a notebook, have a go at answering the questions below. This will help you clarify where your real priorities and strengths lie.
1     When you were a child, how did you see yourself as an adult? Is that how you see yourself now?
2    Have you achieved what you wanted to achieve by this age? If not, in what areas are you lacking - in career, in your personal life, in financial terms?
3    Where does your greatest source of happiness come from: your career? your major relationship? your hobbies? your social life? Place these in order of priority. Then ask yourself: does your life reflect your priorities? If not, what do you need to change and how can you do that? Be honest, do not put that your family comes first if actually you are desperate to get back to the office by Monday morning.
4    What did you most enjoy at school? What were you best at? And what part of your job gives you most fulfilment now?
5 What did you least like and enjoy at school? And now?
6 What are your skills?
7 What are you weak at?
8 How do you see yourself in five years' time ... and in ten?
9 How would you like to be in five years' time ... and in ten?
10 How do your two versions differ?

From: ThInk Yourself Rich by Sharon Maxwell Magus

Never Too Late

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

-- George Eliot

Forgiveness Offers a Host of Benefits

In the area of mind-body healing, research on forgiveness is catching on. The victims of traumas perpetrated by others heal faster when they are able to forgive the perpetrator, according to pioneering research by Robert Enright, professor of educational psychology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and now director of the university's International Forgiveness Research. Studies are now venturing further to explore the beneficial effects of forgiveness in other contexts, according to a recent investigative report by Jane Lampman which was published in the Christian Science Monitor. For example, in a study of sixth-graders who had problems with anger, whose behavioral problems would normally be addressed via medication, those taking a 12-week forgiveness course became less angry and more cooperative in class than those who did not receive the training.

In another study , conducted at the Mendota Mental Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, mentally ill criminally violent offenders who could not have empathy for their victims developed both empathy and remorse at the end of a forgiveness training program.

The Institute has just completed a study demonstrating that forgiveness training improved heart functioning in hospitalized cardiac patients, thus moving the research into the physical effects of forgiveness.
The benefits of forgiveness may extend beyond what was previously conceived. Dr. Frederic Luskin, who heads the Stanford University Forgiveness Project, has concluded that the practice of forgiveness may be essential for physical health.

The Dalai Lama Recommends Meditation

Many of the world's woes arise from how humans respond to unsettling emotions. Is there any hope for humanity or is its natural emotional responsiveness  such a handicap?

Writing an Op-Ed piece for the New York Times, Tenzin Gyatso (aka the Dalai Lama) explained his reasons for being optimistic that human emotions may be amenable to calming influences and restraint. His main argument is that Buddhist meditation practices, taught for centuries as a means to quiet the mind, have received empirical support by Western scientists who have conducted laboratory research on the effect of meditation upon the brain, mind, and emotions.

The Dalai Lama cites the research of Dr. Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin. This researcher uses real-time brain scans to visually demonstrate how the brain responds to emotional stimuli.

Conducting these experiments on experienced Buddhist monks shows that when the monks meditate, areas of the brain that dampen emotional responsiveness become strengthened. He also cites the work of Paul Eckman, at the University of California, San Francisco, who has found that when these monks meditate, they become less responsive to stimuli (such as a shotgun blast) that would cause emotional upset to the average person.

Sense of Connection Helps PK Flow

The ability to use the mind to create an effect on matter (psychokinesis) seems to require a sense of connection between the person and that which the person wishes to affect by powers of the mind. That is the conclusion of Pamela Rae Heath, M.D., Psy.D., in her new book The PK Zone (iUniverse), in which she summarizes the research on this particular psychic ability.

A would-be spoon bender, for example, asking the spoon if it is willing to bend, is a method for creating such a connection. Sometimes this connection is experienced as rapport, and sometimes in cases of spiritual healing, as merger. The sense of unity can be experienced as transcendent, as if both agent and target are taken up into a higher realm.

Heath notes that the sense of connection can create a loss of ego identity. There can be a playfulness in the experience, or an emotional peak. Often there is an energetic quality to the connection, either the connection happening in an energy-charged environment or a feeling of energy flowing. With the sense of connection there is a narrowing of focus of attention. The sense of connection helps to trust in the process, which can be fulfilling on its own.

Heath summarizes her findings by pointing out that whether or not a person can use PK to affect a particular target - human, living, or otherwise - seems to depend less upon the target itself than upon whether the person feels comfortable forming an intimate connection with it.

Accepting Your Mistakes for Profit

Sometimes when we make a mistake, it may be that a creative part of ourselves has sneaked out. More than simply a "Freudian slip," mistakes can be a way our soul can express itself, free of the constraints of our conscious intentions. Try accepting a mistake, whether on the job, while cooking, or writing a letter, as a clue to a more creative, soulful approach to the situation.

That's the advice of Lane Arye, a voice instructor, in his book, Unintentional Music (Hampton Roads). He argues that if we pay attention to what is trying to happen rather than what we think should happen; we can open the door to self-discovery.
Try looking at your next mistake with curiosity and see what happens.

Meditation is Good for Your Health

Workers practicing mindfulness meditation showed important biological changes with important implications for health, according to a study recently reported in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

In this controlled and randomized study, conducted by Dr. Richard Davidson, a psychologist at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wisconsin, workers at a small biotech company had their blood tested and brains wired and measured before and after an eight-week period of meditation. Once a week for eight weeks those workers volunteering for the study, including scientists, marketing people, lab techs, and managers, would practice meditation for three hours.

Researchers found significant effects on activity in the front left portion of the brain, increases that lasted at least four months after the experiment. Those workers who showed the greatest brain effect also showed a greater ability to increase antibodies in response to getting a flu shot.

Self-hypnosis Used to Calm Asthma Attacks

An asthma attack has both physical and psychological components. The anxiety that often accompanies an attack reinforces the physiological processes underlying the asthmatic response. Teaching the asthmatic patient how to use self-hypnosis to control the anxiety can be effective and may also reduce the need for medication.

A 12-year-old asthmatic patient learned self-hypnosis by following instructions that she imagine walking on a beach and lying down near the ocean to relax. She received, according to the report published in BMC Pediatrics by Ran D. Anbar, M.D., of the Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York Upstate Medical University, a post-hypnotic suggestion that when she touched her finger to her nose, she would enter a state of profound relaxation.

After two 45 minute sessions, she was able to use the finger relaxation technique to calm herself. She had been using nebulized levalbuterol at least four times a day, but within two weeks of her training, she was using hypnosis instead half the time, and by three months she had completely discontinued use of the medication.

Juggling Improves Mind-Body Link

Some people have too much on their plate, but if your problem is only having too many balls in the air, you might try juggling. According to Michael Gelb, author of More Balls than Hands: Juggling Your Way to Success by Learning to Love Your Mistakes (Prentice Hall Press), practicing juggling calms your mind as it balances your body. He claims that visualizing success while juggling takes advantage of the special mind-body connection created by this particular form of relaxed concentration. While other approaches to success may get tangled up in too much thinking, juggling requires letting go of thinking.
It naturally creates what they call in Zen, "beginner's mind," which is totally present in the moment of "now," where visualizations can make their mark.