Off to See the Wizard

Though I will only be in the British Isles for 10 days, I'll be traveling for a month 7/16 - 8/16 and probably won't be able to post blogs. I'm sure I will have magical tales to tell on my return. I will be spending some time in the Glastonbury-Salsbury area of England where I hope to see at least one crop circle, and of course Stonehenge, Glastonbury Tor, and Chalice Hill. I don't know why, but it's almost like I HAVE to go there at this point in my life journey - as if to retrieve secrets stored in stone and soil, or to connect with a particular Earth energy. I'll know more when I return... though usually knowing more means I'll also have a lot more questions!

Comparing EFT to CTP (Choice Transmutation Process)

Ah life! (As my friend Tim always used to say when things got a bit overwhelming... yet were still inexplicably wonderful.) As I prepare to take a whirlwind tour of Brittan and Ireland, it seems like there is so much to do to get ready and so much to learn about where I'm going! Never the less, I have been trying out my new emotional healing modality with several clients over the past few weeks and the results have been fascinating.

What I now call CTP (Choice Transmutation Process) has been very effective for some people, even more so than EFT, but with others, the EFT process was needed to clear residual feelings. I found that they actually work very well in tandem - actually better than either of them work alone.

By using CTP to help clients really get in touch with their issue and the way it looks, sounds, smells, tastes, and feels, and perhaps most importantly CHOOSING to feel the feeling, the stage is set for using EFT most effectively. After applying CTP for all aspects of an issue that we can uncover (which was sometimes enough to clear the issue in itself) I would apply EFT to remove any lingering energetic disturbance related to the issue.

As with EFT alone, this process works best when the client comes with one particular issue to work on. I had several clients with multiple physical and emotional issues, which made it harder for them to see rapid improvement (since they would immediately start focusing on another problem each time one issue was resolved). Not surprisingly, the people who responded most quickly were also involved in some type of alternative health care modality. They were immediately able to get into the process and identify some of their underlying issues.

Here is a very clear example of a client with a single issue that was quickly resolved (in about an hour): I'll call her Jane - a lovely young woman with a fear of getting sick, but otherwise healthy and balanced.

Jane's complaint was that it really made her anxious whenever people at work started talking about illness or "what's going around." She could trace it back to an early childhood experience of getting sick and being afraid she was going to die. When I asked her what it looked like, she said it looked and sounded like a Tasmanian Devil cartoon character whirling out of control, felt heavy, but had no smell or taste.

I had her ask the character if it had a message for her and why it was there. It said it wanted to devour her and that the heavy feeling was necessary to keep her grounded and healthy. I asked if she could choose to let it be there and appreciate that it was trying to keep her healthy. She agreed, but wished it didn't feel so out of control.

I asked her to tell the character what she wanted it to do and see if it would agree. She told it that she appreciated its help, but that anxiety was actually counter productive, and she would prefer that it take the form of a powerful woman warrior with a sword who kept away the anxious thoughts. The character agreed and transformed into her chosen image.

At this point Jane felt much better, but still had a residual feeling of anxiety about getting sick when she thought of people at work talking about it. We could have gone further with CTP, but it seemed that EFT might speed up the process at this point because it now seemed to be a purely energetic issue. We did a couple rounds of EFT on "Even though I still have some anxiety about getting sick, I deeply and completely love and accept myself," and she reported that the anxiety had vanished.

Other clients had similar results, though most had more issues than we could address in an hour session. Sometimes, simply getting deeply in touch with their feelings brought the deepest relief.

New Form of Emotional Healing Therapy

I've been practicing Emotional Healing work for many years, including EFT and Bach Flower Remedies, and I have found that it has been very helpful for most people. Even so, I always had the feeling that there was an even more efficient way to clear emotional blocks and deep seated pain. Thanks to a recent altercation with someone in my own life, I was able to get in touch with a deep-seated personal pain. It was a blessing in disguise.

Apart from the confusion resulting from miscommunication... and with Mercury retrograde, I probably should never have tried to communicate with this person in the first place... I experienced a sense of having been kicked in the stomach and later a burning in my heart center. This was a perfect opportunity to use my emotional clearing skills on myself!

One of my favorite metaphysical teachers, P'taah, says that in order to transmute pain we have to "Take responsibility - Align the judgement - and Feel the feeling." It has always been a difficult process for me, but I thought I'd give it another shot when my recurring heart pain came up. This is not a pain in my physical heart. It is a burning sensation in the center of my chest that is purely emotionally based... though it could eventually cause physical damage to my heart if not cleared.

Somehow, as I lay awake in the middle of the night wondering how and why I had attracted the angst I was experiencing, I had a flash of insight about how to apply the wisdom of P'taah to my situation. I have coined the term "Choice Transmutation" to describe the process that came to me. It works amazingly well and I cleared many layers of deep-seated pain through the night.

Here's how it works in a nutshell. (I plan to write a book about it to go into all the details, but for now I'll share the short version so you can try it yourself.)
It's very simple.

Start by identifying WHAT you feel (whether physical or emotional) and state:
In this moment I CHOOSE to feel _____________ (describe your feeling).
In my ____________ (describe WHERE you feel it in your body.)
At this point you may also want to say WHY you feel it if you know the reason - because: _________________________

Then use your imagination to give it sensory qualities in this order.
It LOOKS like __________________
It SOUNDS like ___________________
It SMELLS like __________________
It TASTES like __________________
It FEELS like ___________________

Then state: My BELIEF about the cause of this pain is ________________
What other beliefs could I substitute that would allow me to come to a deeper understanding? ____________________________
(A belief is simply a frequently held thought.)

By this point in the process, the feeling will probably have already shifted to another feeling or another place in the body, in which case the whole procedure can be repeated with the new feeling until a sense of peace returns.

The cool thing about this process is that it automatically takes you through the steps that P'taah outlines. In choosing to feel the feeling in this way, you "take responsibility" for it as well as "aligning your judgment" with it, because you are choosing to stop resisting. At the same time you are staying focused on "feeling the feeling" by identifying all the sensory aspects of it.

I found that I was quickly letting go of pain and taking deep releasing breaths after each round of the process. A nice side effect was that my senses were also enhanced. I was aware of hearing things clearly that I hadn't even noticed before - like the buzz of my refrigerator. Well, that isn't always welcome in the middle of the night, but it's a sign of the clearing and healing process at work.

If you want to give this process a try, I would love to hear your feedback on how it works for you. I may even add it to my book with your permission.

What's Wrong with "The Secret"

By now, millions of people have seen the hit film "The Secret." A lot of people found it inspiring, and I was one of them, but others have a very valid criticism. The film mainly focuses on material abundance, without addressing the issue of inner peace and fulfillment, which is what everybody is really looking for.

As a life coach, I hear all sorts of ideas from people about what they think will make them happy, but sometimes they don't have a clue. They imagine that it is the outward circumstances of their lives - the partner, the job, the financial security, the education, or any number of other things.

In actual fact, according to Law of Attraction, we have to find the happiness first, and THEN all the outer stuff naturally flows to us. The "stuff" is a natural consequence of living joyfully in the moment. So why not start right now?

Can you find something to appreciate? Can you feel the wonder of life flowing through your body? Are you aware of simply being - right here - right now? If so, you have found the real Secret. Everything else is just frosting on the cake!

When Law of Attraction Seems Not to Work

Sometimes it seems like you are doing all the "right" things - focusing on what makes you happy, looking for things to appreciate, getting clear about what you want, finding ways to relax and enjoy life, but still things don't seem to be improving in your life. You start to think, "This LOA stuff is a bunch of hooey," and you start sliding back into your old negative habits. But all the while, the Universe was lining things up just the way you wanted them. They were on their way, but you lost faith.

That's when things start shifting back to the way you DIDN'T want them to be. We live in a dimension of time, so we have to be patient. We have to believe in possibilities that have not yet manifested in our experience. We have to wait and hold the positive energy until things begin to shift, and KEEP holding the positive energy for the rest of our lives, until it becomes a habit. THEN Law of Attraction really kicks into high gear. Synchronicity happens right and left. Life just seems to get better and better.

So I always tell my coaching clients, "Keep focusing on what you can admire, appreciate, and enjoy. At first it may seem like nothing is happening, so you have to hang in there for a couple of weeks at least, maybe even a couple of months. Things WILL change for the better, but you have to shift your focus to stay as positive as possible over and over again each day. Right now you are still living what you attracted in the past. That will change the more you change the way you think and feel, but it sometimes takes a little while for the universe to line things up the way you want them. Trust. Believe. Relax. Enjoy."
And I would add "Appreciate, Appreciate, Appreciate."

Faery Healing

I haven't told many people about this, because - well, I don't like to appear too "out there." I mean, I have a professional image to uphold. Still, it did happen, and I think I owe it to the faeries to thank them publicly.

This happened several years ago. I had a bladder infection that kept me in bed with a fever for a couple of days. If you've never had one, pray that you don't. It was very uncomfortable! At the time I was living in the country and outside my window there was a beautiful, big oak tree where owls would often sit, hooting in the night. But this isn't about the owls.

It was twilight, that magical time of day when everything seems to hush. I was lying in bed resting and wondering how much longer it would take for my bladder infection to clear. All of a sudden, out of nowhere, a flurry of faeries flew in through my open window. Maybe a dozen. It all happened so fast that I couldn't count them. They swirled across my body, right over my bladder, and then circled back out the window.

Now, I have always believed in faeries. After all, there are stories about them in just about every culture on the planet. But I had never actually seen them before. They looked like small flying beings made of white light, though I've heard that they can appear in various ways. I wished that they would have stayed longer, but they had done their work.

I went to sleep soon after that and woke up completely healed the next morning! I have no doubt that the faeries played a part in my healing. Why they chose to come flying in through my window at that particular time, I cannot say, but I'm glad they did! It is a gift I will never forget.

In return, it seems that the least I can do is add my testimonial to the thousands of others out there. Faeries are real. I've seen them with my own eyes - and no, I wasn't hallucinating. Since that time, I have often been aware of the faeries and nature spirits all around us, though I haven't seen them quite so distinctly as then. Usually they appear as part of nature - faces peering out of bushes, stones, mountains, or as dancers in a stream.

Faeries are part of the natural world, but they are often unseen because they exist in a higher vibration than we do. Our linear, left-brain consciousness usually deletes them before we are even aware of what we have seen. If we shift to right-brain consciousness, however, we can experience a much wider view of reality that includes faeries, angels, and telepathic communication, among other things.

The faeries are always at work helping plants, animals, and humans. We can call on them for help with healing, gardening, and even finding lost pets. They appreciate our respect, but we have to earn their trust. They are much more likely to help those who love them. Aren't we all?

In order to foster more love and understanding between humans and the faerie realm, I have created a website just for the faeries and nature spirits. Visit FairySource.com for more faerie magic!

George Green on Surviving Economic Collapse

Watch this video for an interesting perspective on economic health and law of attraction.

George Green is a retired investment banker, finance adviser to Jimmy Carter's campaign, and a business man with many contacts in high places. He gives sage advice on gold, silver, the dollar and Euro, and the current economic crisis. Looks like it's time to get serious about barter!

http://www.consciousmedia.tv/news.htm