Fear - draft notes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Va9WCttgKU&feature=related

The Island (English subtitles). Part 8 of 12.

... "I feared death because I had little faith." ... "I was afraid to face death unrepented. There's little virtue in me but much sin."

is better than

Yamamoto Tsunetomo - Hagakure

death

Administrator, Scottish Gymnastics

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Administrator, Scottish Gymnastics

Salary: £13K - £15K
Location: located in Falkirk however re-locating throughout August 2008 to Stirling University Campus
Type of contract: Full Time, Permanent

Job Description
We are seeking to appoint a full-time Administrator. The successful candidate will need to have excellent organisational skills as they will be responsible for the effective co-ordination of a vast range of administrative duties.

In addition the post holder should be able to demonstrate their knowledge of various Microsoft Office applications and data management systems. An excellent telephone manner is essential as is the ability to work on their own initiative as well as part of a team. Gymnastics experience is not essential however would be useful.

Scottish Gymnastics is an equal opportunities employer and aims to provide a working environment free from any form of

harassment,

intimidation, victimisation or unjustifiable discrimination. We aim to ensure that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, marital status, race, colour, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age or disability. All appointments are made purely on the basis of merit and ability.

Contact:
Letters of application including CV should be sent to Jackie Lawrie, Administration Manager, Scottish Gymnastics Association, 2 Lint Riggs, Falkirk, FK1 1DG , telephone 01324 886504
or e-mail jackie@scottishgym.co.uk
jackie@scottishgymnastics.org

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London Regional Development Manager, National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure

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London Regional Development Manager, National Skills Academy for Sport and Active Leisure, Crystal Palace, UK

Salary: £35,000
Closing date: 21/07/2008
Interview dates: Week Commencing 28th July 2008
Type of contract: Permanent

Job Description
Shape the Future of Sport and Active Leisure
A high profile career opportunity in London

The National Skills Academy in Sport and Active Leisure is the most exciting and high profile project yet to be launched in the sector. It will provide a single approach to the highest standards of skills training. The Academy is an initiative of SkillsActive, the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure and Learning.

One of the biggest challenges facing sport and active leisure employers – public, private or voluntary – is the ability to access publicly funded, industry-recognised, quality assured training. This is at a time when the Government’s ongoing initiatives to promote healthy living, together with the build-up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, are generating substantially increased focus on sport and active leisure.

The NSA is a network of employer-led, world-class centres of excellence delivering the skills required by employers in the sector, on a local level via leading edge training centres, quality assured courses and distance learning.

The sport and active leisure sector will benefit from the NSA as it will revolutionise education and training. This role will continue the significant growth of this start up organisation and support the development of the NSA to ensure delivery of recognised professional skills training in sport and active leisure.

We are seeking an exceptional Business Development Manager to support the Academy’s development at a regional level.

You will undertake the core role of operational business management for the respective regional hubs; engaging, lobbying and co-ordinating partners, employers and stakeholders to ensure delivery, quality and value for money. You will be instrumental in communicating effectively with employers and training providers.

Management level operational, sales and marketing experience, an excellent track record in securing contracts and sales, delivering products and services with high customer satisfaction, together with experience of engaging and working with partners and stakeholders in a similar environment are essential.

You will demonstrate a dynamic and proactive approach to work to join us in making the vision of the Academy a reality.
The roles involves travel within the UK.

Contact:
For a recruitment pack go to www.skillsactive.com/aboutus/jobs or
telephone 020 7632 2000
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ADICA model

• Activitate mentala (left brain = daydreaming ?, Abraham Hicks)
• Decisions (CMs + DIGs = jin)
• Interior "power"
• Centrul doi: relatiile
• Awa from phisical body (right brain, kinestezic, sistemul vegetativ autonom, gandirea lumii materiale)

The good side of fear and anxiety

http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/12/smallbusiness/fear_and_entrepreneurship.fsb/index2.htm
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By Alexander Stein

Last Updated: December 2, 2008: 10:14 PM ET

Let's take a closer look at fear and anxiety. They get a lot of bad press, but both serve important functions. They're also different. Fear is normal and useful. It's what you experience when you smell smoke, see a bear in the woods or spot a bus bearing down on you while crossing the street. It comes with a menu of physical signals: sweaty palms, racing pulse, trembling. Fear in this context is a life-preserving reaction to a recognizable danger. Optimally, it will help you get out of a jam.

At its worst, anxiety makes you feel straitjacketed by the idea of the bear or that oncoming bus. You experience an astringent emotional state in anticipation of possible danger, not as the result of an immediate threat. Then maybe you focus on everything but where you're going - or you never even leave the house. But transient or episodic anxiety (such as those nerves you might notice before the big pitch meeting with a prospective client) can also be harnessed for creative productivity.

Some entrepreneurs freeze up in those situations, like the proverbial deer in the headlights; others develop more productive reflexes. Consider Mark Robin, owner of the Hungry Moose Market & Deli in Big Sky, Mont.

"I make hundreds of quick decisions all day," Robin told me. "There's no time for fear and anxiety in the daily running of a grocery store. If I stood there debating or floundering, everything would come to a standstill."

I asked Robin how the current economic downturn was affecting him. "Luckily for us, people always need to eat," he replied. "Business is definitely down, and the upcoming winter season looks a bit iffy, but Christmas week should be crazy-busy as always. It's probably time to do some belt-tightening, but in the end we should be fine. I really take it day by day."

Robin's grocery store and Sherman's advertising agency have little in common from a business perspective, but it's not about comparing apples and ad campaigns. The real issue is that they display different emotional responses to similar types of stress. Why is that?

Sherman tends to project difficult childhood memories onto his business relationships. Robin's formative memories involve working in his parents' retail business, where he often watched his mom and dad take crises in stride. Those experiences helped him develop effective strategies to cope with stress.

Even so, he is hardly a nerveless robo-grocer. "Anxiety comes into play with bigger decisions," he admitted.

Still, his childhood prepared him to manage his natural anxieties without letting them get in the way of his decision-making. That's harder for Sherman. Despite his outward composure, I've learned to recognize (mostly from his voice) how little confidence or optimism he feels. Today's economic crisis is his worst nightmare come to life. The world is objectively threatening for him in ways that match his most dreaded anxieties: doing well, then teetering on the edge of ruin and feeling unable to step away from the brink. Disaster. Cut to black.

Incessant scrutiny

Sherman and I looked to his childhood for the origins and composition of his internal strife. Sherman's family lived comfortably, but to his father, a senior executive with a national mortgage lender, nothing was more important than financial security. Deeply pessimistic by nature, his father saved because he was always worried about losing everything. Although the family never ran short of cash, money was doled out sparingly and ungenerously, except toward his mother's home-decorating projects.

His mother was a merciless perfectionist. "I was always scrutinized and under surveillance," Sherman recalled in one of our sessions. He remembered working constantly as a child. Chores weren't done until every shred of lint or speck of dust was gone. A bed wasn't made unless it could pass a Marine sergeant's muster. And his hard work earned him no praise, only escape from punishment.

Although he now runs a successful business, Sherman unconsciously relives these painful early experiences in his client relationships. He feels incessantly scrutinized and imagines that punishment is just around the corner. And he's unable to enjoy his success because he fundamentally believes that good things don't last.

He told me that, as a boy, he concocted "schemes." Under his compliant façade lived a little rebel. He'd postpone chores until just before his mother's inspection, clocking how fast - and flawlessly, of course - he could get everything done. He'd deliberately break rules and then fastidiously cover the evidence, trying to get away with more and more without getting caught. While the tasks were mundane, the emotional risks were great.

Thriving in crisis

As a group, entrepreneurs are more likely than not to feel comfortable in crisis situations. So Sherman's youthful machinations may have contributed to his career choice. That's fine, as long as being an adrenaline junkie works for you. Problems arise, however, when you become disabled by panic, fixated on the idea of cataclysm or stuck in dangerous behavior patterns because you need that adrenaline high.

What's not working for Sherman is his unconscious confusion of the past and the present. Emotionally, he's convinced that his business isn't temporarily faltering in a recession environment but failing altogether because he didn't heed his father's dire warnings about financial overextension. He identifies late-paying clients with his domineering, unappreciative mother. Frustrating business transactions become recurrences of traumatic rejection. No wonder he's anxious.

So would the anxiety go away if Sherman's balance sheet improved? Not necessarily. It's certainly true that a cash infusion would reduce his situational panic. But it wouldn't change the underlying risk-anxiety paradigm, which needs only the next incident to become activated.

Sherman's work with me continues, so I can't say how the story ends. On the bright side, he has developed a better understanding of his anxieties - where they come from, what triggers them and how they affect his life and business. Recently he's been picking up the phone and calling some of those deadbeat clients. He was pleasantly surprised when nothing bad happened. On the contrary, money started to come in.

Dr. Alexander Stein is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City and a principal in the Boswell Group, a consulting firm.

First Published: November 18, 2008: 10:51 AM ET

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FBI reports that sexual assault is the #1 crime committed on cruise ships!

Taking a cruise on the high seas is a wonderful vacation but you still need to take precautions.
The FBI reports that approximately 10 million Americans are expected to travel abroad this year on vessels that navigate international waters. As a matter of course, some of them will become victims of a crime. Sexual and physical assaults on cruise ships were the leading crimes reported to and investigated by the FBI on the high seas over the last five years, at 45 percent and 22 percent respectively.


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LEFT Brain Training

LEFT Brain Training: the mindset and techniques

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NLP Wealth Mindset Technique 4: PHYSIOLOGY

You can use your physiology (or body posture) to change your state instantly. Maintaining positive states of mind is essential to creating a wealth mindset.

Benefits: You can change your state at will.

The Physiology Techniques

• Changing Your State
  
• Dressing the Part

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http://www.hidden-wealth-keys.com/physiology.html

NLP Physiology Strategies

Physiology is the science that deals with the functions and vital processes of living organisms, including human beings. NLP uses the term primarily to refer to body posture and movement.

Most people are familiar with the idea of changing your state of mind through manipulating your body (in other words, changing your physiology):

• You can change how you feel by ingesting food, especially comfort foods like chocolate or ice cream
  
• You can change how you feel with alcohol or drugs
  
• You can relax with a warm shower or a long bath
  
• You can discharge tension through walking, running or hitting a punching bag
  
• You can energize yourself by listening to fast music
  
• You can slow yourself down with deep breathing
  

Any change in your biochemistry affects your state of mind.

But are you also aware that changing the way you move your body can have a subtle but important influence on the way you feel ?

Here's a quick experiment to illustrate this point:

1. Try to feel depressed as you jump up and down and shake your hands in the air.
   
   
2. Try to feel confident as you slump your shoulders and look down.
   
   
3. Try to feel tired and listless as you march around the room.
   

Changing your physiology is probably the simplest way to change your frame of mind in an instant.


Preliminary Physiology Exercise

1. Stand in front of a full-length mirror.
2. Watch yourself in the mirror as you stand, sit, walk, breathe and gesture.
3. If you were a detached observer watching this person (you) go through these motions, what first impressions would you form of him or her ?
4. Take a few minutes and make a note of them.
5. Is there anything you'd like to change?
   How would you prefer to be perceived?
6. Make a note of these desirable changes.

The Basic Physiology Strategy

1. Still standing in front of the mirror, experiment with deliberately changing your physiology, using 'self confidence' as an example of a desired state.
   
   
2. Ask yourself these questions, then perform the appropriate movements:
   
   
   • How would you move if you were extremely confident?
     Do it.
     
   • How would you sit if you were extremely confident?
     Do it.
     
   • How would you breathe if you were extremely confident?
     Do it.
     
   • How would you look if you were extremely confident?
     Do it.
     
   • What gestures would you make if you were extremely confident?
     Do them.
     
   
   
3. Turn away from the mirror and practice these movements one at a time for few minutes.
   
   
4. Notice how if feels to move your body self-confidently.
   
   
5. Notice your frame of mind as you move this way.
   

Which of these behaviors would you like to install as a habit?


Your Next Step:

1. Read the list you made earlier of desirable states.
   
   
2. Choose a state you consider to be extremely important for your ongoing success (e.g., self-confidence).
   
   
3. Use your body to discover how you'd stand, sit, move, breathe and gesture if you felt that way.
   
   
4. Write it on a small piece of paper. Place this on your notice board or in your wallet or purse.
   
   
5. For one week, whenever you walk anywhere, adopt the walk that elicits this state.
   
   
6. If it makes sense, train yourself to always walk this way.
   
   
7. Practice when you're out in the world.
   
   
8. Don't beat yourself up for not remembering to do this. Instead, just do it whenever you DO remember.
   
   
9. When you've mastered this process, return to the Wealth Mindset page.

You'll soon come to realize that change doesn't have to be difficult.

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WHAT IS ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY?

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WHAT IS ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY ?

Energy Psychology combines modern knowledge of mind and body with the ancient understandings of the human body’s energy fields and flow.

Much of the ancient world knew that energy was central to life. Nearly a hundred years ago Einstein showed the modern scientific world that energy is all there is. While many Eastern approaches to health and healing include the body’s energy as fundamental, Western medicine and psychology generally have not taken that reality into account, missing basic aspects of how the body-mind-consciousness functions and heals. Quantum physics is demonstrating the reality that everything is energy, just vibrating in different frequencies: higher or lower; more subtle or more dense; visible to the eye or not.

In the West, Energy Psychology and energy therapies are now rapidly gaining ground. Energy healers can be found in hospitals in Complementary or Integrative Medicine departments. The National Center of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) within the National Institutes of Health has named Mind-Body Medicine and Energy Medicine as two of its top priorities for the five year Strategic Plan 2005-2009. Energy Psychology is highlighting energy’s central role in emotional health and wellbeing. The Association of Comprehensive Energy Psychology (ACEP) is supporting research into and practice of Energy Psychology techniques that are being used effectively to heal a range of emotional challenges, as well as enhance overall wellbeing.

While Energy Psychology techniques differ in their specifics, they all address the human body’s energy matrix, which include two inter-related systems:

• Biofields of the human body; the energy matrices that surround and interpenetrate the body
• Energy meridians or pathways through the body, including acu-points and the primary and secondary chakras (energy centers or “wheels”)

Energy Psychology techniques work with the body’s energy to relieve and heal emotional wounds and tensions, symptoms and stress. EP techniques can be effective with psychological and emotional difficulties, often helping heal physical distress and illness in the process. EP approaches can also be used to increase overall wellness, develop creativity, and reach relaxed, centered peak performance in areas including academics, business, sports, and the performing arts.

In my Integrative Psychotherapy practice, I offer clients Energy Psychology perspectives and techniques as part of an integrated, holistic approach to emotional healing and wellness. I have found EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) to be one effective and easy-to-use EP method. With each client, we tailor our approach depending on each person’s wishes and goals, using the techniques that could be most helpful for each individual situation. Energy Psychology and Integrative Psychotherapy can make change and healing more effective and efficient, allowing people to move forward in their lives more freely in positive, creative ways.

Other EP Research

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LINKS AND RESOURCES

Below are selected links for those interested in Energy Therapies, Energy Psychology, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).

American Holistic Health Association http://www.ahha.org/ Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology http://energypsych.org/ Emotional Freedom Techniques: Gary Craig’s site http://www.emofree.com/ EFT for Recovery from Addictions (12 Step Model) http://tappingintogod.org/ Enery Therapies Research: A broad overview http://www.innersource.net/energy_psych/epi_research.htm International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) http://www.issseem.org/ National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) http://nccam.nih.gov/ Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health (Prince Charles has been a supporter of integrated health for decades.) http://www.fihealth.org.uk/ Medical Research on Reiki Therapy http://www.reikimedresearch.com/ Reiki research reviewed: http://www.reiki.org/reikinews/reikin24.html

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EFT Other EP

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH

Selected Research on Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine.

Here you can find selected research in the areas of Energy Psychology and Energy Medicine, including human bio-fields. At the bottom of the page are additional resources if you would like to continue exploring existing research. You can also visit Links for additional resources. Research specifically on EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), is found at the EFT Research link. In the selection below, several published studies pertaining to TFT (Thought Field Therapy), the predecessor to EFT, are included. ... Goldrosen, M.H., & Straus, S.E. (2004). Complementary and alternative medicine: assessing the evidence for immunological benefits. Nature Reviews Immunology. 4(11), 912-921. ... Hui, K.K.S, Liu, J., Makris, N., Gollub, R.W., Chen, A..J.W., Moore, C.I., Kennedy, D.N., Rosen, B.R., & Kwong, K.K. (2000). Acupuncture modulates the limbic system and subcortical gray structures of the human brain: Evidence from fMRI studies in normal subjects. Human Brain Mapping. 9(1), 13-25. Irwin, M.R., Olmstead R., Oxman, (2007).Augmenting immune responses to varicella zoster virus in older adults: A randomized, controlled trial of Tai Chi. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. April, 2007. A summary of this study of Tai Chi's effects on shingles may be found on the NCCAM website:

http://nccam.nih.gov/research/results/spotlight/040607.htm

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http://www.feelingfree.net/awareness/hygiene.htm

Energy Hygiene

To know people is wisdom
but to know yourself is enlightenment.

-Lao Tzu

If you're interested in learning specific exercises to correct common energy-flow problems and to balance and maintain your energy, go to "Battery Problems." Meanwhile, here are a few common-sense guidelines for looking after your body's energy systems.

1. Drink water ! ...
2. ... THE THREE THUMPS ...
3. ... energy (overcharge)
4. ... "alergy-like" energy-toxic reactions ...
5. ... electro-magnetic fields ...
6. ... natural polarity of the body ...



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Energy Overcharge

HYPER? OVER-EXCITED? BATTERIES OVER-CHARGED ?

When your energy is scrambled,

you speak with a scrambled tongue.

- Donna Eden

Over-Energization or Hyper-Arousal
It's wonderful to feel high on life, but if you're so super-charged that you feel disorganized, scattered or out of control, you'll probably function better if you "get it together !"

Try "Cook's Hook-up." as illustrated below and taught in my book, Feeling Free ! It feels great ! For frequent hyper-arousal, do it many times a day !"

OVER-ENERGY CORRECTION a.k.a. "Cook's Hook-up"
1. Cross left ankle over right.
2. Extend both arms in front of you, hands back to back.
3. Cross right hand over left at wrist and clasp fingers together, interlocked.
4. Tuck clasped hands under and up, and rest them comfortably on your chest.
5. Inhale slowly by nose, tongue up in mouth. Exhale by mouth, tongue down.
6. Hold this pose, gently, and continue slow, deep breathing for 1 to 2 minutes.

If an over-energy condition is chronic for you, repeat 10 times daily for 2 months to retrain.
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(3 photos)

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Cook's Hook-up with Energy Imagery
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http://meditation-techniques.suite101.com/article.cfm/writing_as_meditation

Writing as Meditation

Write, Journal, Novel, Create or Compose Your Way to Inner Peace

Victoria Anisman-Reiner
Jan 16, 2008

Many writers find peace, self-awareness, and clarity through writing:

Advice from Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way) and

Henriette Klauser (Write It Down, Make It Happen).

There are many forms of meditation, ranging from the esoteric to the

most ordinary of daily activities. One of the most profound forms of

"unconventional" meditation is writing. From published writers, to

amateurs, to those who "don't write" but keep a diary or journal,

putting thoughts on the page can be an important way of clearing the

mind and connecting with spirituality and inner peace.

Julia Cameron: The Right to Write and The Artist's Way

Julia Cameron is a film director, author, and the creator of the inspirational writer's workshop, The Artist's Way. She often discusses writing as a spiritual pursuit, and believes that everyone has an artistic side; most people just don't know how "to let themselves be creative."

Cameron sees art and creativity as part of our destiny and purpose as human beings: "Our creativity is our gift from God. Our use of it is our gift to God. Accepting this bargain is the beginning of true self-acceptance."

Julia Cameron encourages not only writers but anyone interested in exploring their creativity to write daily "morning pages" – three pages of free, spontaneous writing done early in the morning to open the mental pathways and clear up anything floating around in the subconscious or conscious mind.

Writing down our thoughts, in whatever form, is a profound way to discover exactly what we think, feel and believe. Julia Cameron teaches that by allowing ourselves to be genuine on the page, we open doorways to being more real in the rest of our lives.

Henriette Klauser: Write It Down, Make It Happen

In Write It Down, Make It Happen, Henriette Klauser discusses another facet of writing – its ability to help a person express what they truly want and to manifest it.

Typical meditations help to clear the mind and create harmonious, congruent patterns of thought and energy. Like any meditation, writing can be helpful in creating clarity of purpose and manifesting those intentions, dreams and desires.

Henriette Klauser teaches people that there is no right or wrong way to do writing! Keeping a journal, writing a novel, or jotting stray thoughts on scraps of paper are equally valuable in helping us find our center, developing our thoughts and beliefs, and learning how to resolve problems and create the lives we want to live.

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Meditation

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More Than One Type of Meditation

Meditative State & Benefits Possible in Writing, Crafts, Movement

Victoria Anisman-Reiner
Dec 29, 2007

Meditation doesn't have to mean yoga or breath exercises.

Writing can be a powerful meditative practice; so can

knitting, painting and even washing the dishes.

(kokyu = dynamic meditation ?)

We often think of meditation as visualization or relaxation exercises. Most novices fear there is some enlightened standard to live up to, imagining rooms filled with yogis sitting silently in lotus position. Yet a meditative state can be achieved through writing, crafts, needlework, and even household chores if the right kind of focus is present.

What is Meditation ?

In the most practical sense, meditation includes anything that helps put the body and mind into a different state of awareness and enables relaxation and/or personal growth. Anything done with intent and focus that is capable of stilling the mind and providing mental clarity and connection with the inner (true) self can be considered meditation. Meditation often helps with emotional balance and grounding.

Ideally, a meditation practice is something that is done daily.

Traditional Moving Meditations

• In certain Sufi traditions, dervishes (or “whirling dervishes”) dance or spin to reach a meditative or ecstatic state.
• Native American medicine traditions speak of a spiral or frenzied energy associated with the animal guide, Quail, and meditative practices achieved through movement and dance.

In these and other traditions, movement and dance are used as repetitive practices to bring the mind and body into alignment and connect meditatively with something outside – or deep inside – of the human body and spirit.

(= ritual)

‘Unknown’ Meditation

Most of the Western world is out of touch with the concept of daily meditation, but it would be a mistake to assume that the only route to meditation is through Eastern religion.

In any culture or any country, there are hundreds of examples of daily events and rituals that can be meditative if the right kind of focus and attention is paid to them. From household chores, to creative work, to self care, life presents hundreds of ways to enhance our awareness and relationship with the inner self, if we learn to be present.

Common Types of ‘Unknown’ Meditation

Writing. Whether you write professionally, keep a journal to record your thoughts and impressions, or simply jot notes or lines of poetry onto scraps of paper, writing is a profound way to connect with the subconscious and give voice to things that might otherwise not be expressed or processed. People who write daily may find they are calmer, clearer, and react with less stress to situations that may arise during the course of the day.

Movement. Exercise helps put aside the pressing needs and demands of the mind and forces the body’s needs and voice to take precedence. Dance, jogging, yoga, or anything that gets you out of your head and into your body can be a valuable meditative practice.

Washing the dishes and other household chores. Do you find dish-washing – or any other household chore – just a little bit soothing? Anything that provides a moment of calm in a sea of hectic daily duties can be a kind of meditation.

Crafts, needlepoint, painting and other creative work. Do you knit, crochet, crosstitch, paint, draw, sew, collage, cut and paste, or color ? Any creative endeavor can be meditation.

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http://naturalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/sedate_the_triple_warmer_meridian

Sedate the Triple Warmer Meridian

Energy Medicine Tool for Calm and Grounding

Victoria Anisman-Reiner
Apr 3, 2007

How to calm the Triple Warmer meridian to ease

trauma, calm stress and shakiness, bounce back from

chronic insomnia or fatigue, and help ADD and ADHD kids focus.

Of the many Energy Medicine tools to balance the body and mental energies, sedating the triple warmer meridian may be the most practical and the simplest for addressing panic, stress, trauma, energy drain and helping hyperactive children. This is the Brain Gym exercise to use if the day has been stressful and you can’t take the time to relax or meditate, but you desperately want to quiet your spinning thoughts. It’s also an easy, quick technique that you can use on yourself, your friends, kids, and even on upset animals to calm them down.

What is the Triple Warmer meridian ?

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The triple warmer meridian corresponds to the most important glands in the body, including the thyroid and the adrenal glands. It regulates the metabolism and is related to aspects of the immune system - but in energy work, the triple warmer is most well known for its connection to the stress response.

What can throw the Triple Warmer out of balance ?

The triple warmer meridian is activated whenever your body or your emotions are stressed. In tandem with the adrenaline response, it wakes up when your heart is racing, your blood pumping, and your nerves jangling. The stress response is ingrained in our bodies for physical survival. Unfortunately, it kicks in too quickly for our needs in the modern world and it can be difficult to shut it down once the time for urgency has passed.

Does this sound familiar?

• An executive needs to stay calm and collected in front of a tough room of potential clients, but can’t keep his hands from shaking
• A high school student with an exam the next morning is so nervous she can’t close her eyes to sleep
• Kids who haven’t eaten sugar or watched tv in weeks still go tearing around the house making noise and won’t calm down
• A mother who crashes in any free moment because she is so accustomed to multi-tasking and being continuously busy

All of these are examples of an over-energized triple warmer that won’t turn off. Many children with diagnosed or suspected ADD, as well as most insomniacs, are chronically over-energized - which means that their triple warmer is too strong. An over-energized triple warmer is one of the most common energy imbalances, as one might imagine, since the “fight or flight response” is in our DNA. Thankfully, there is a simple exercise you can do to help calm this energy down.

Triple warmer over-energy is often connected to conditions involving a hyperactive thyroid, but it can also be related to energy depletion, chronic fatigue and the weight gain and sluggishness of hypothyroid conditions.

How to relax and calm stressful energy by sedating the Triple Warmer meridian

"Running" a meridian in its usual direction strengthens its energy, and running a meridian backwards weakens, sedates, or calms it. When the triple warmer is over-energized, the goal is to calm it.

To run a meridian backward, touch the end point, then glide your hand over the area through which the meridian passes, finishing by touching the beginning point. The exact path of the meridian is not important: only that you touch the exact start and end points.

Sedating the Triple Warmer: Use the opposite hand to touch the outside edge of the eyebrow, furthest from your nose. Then pass your hand back (away from your face), over and around your ear, down the back of your neck, across the back of your shoulder, and down the outside of your arm and the back of your hand. Touch the fourth finger (the “ring finger”) at the base of the nail.

Now repeat this motion, gently, at least three times on each side of your body.

That’s it!

Long-term impact

Like most chronic challenges that are related to the body's energy field, the triple warmer meridian does not “like” being sedated and will take any stressful opportunity as a chance to flip back into over-energy. This correction may need to be done frequently for a while until the body’s balance is restored.

Long-term sedation of the triple warmer can have a positive impact on groundedness, self-esteem, and may assist in weight loss thanks to the thyroid’s role in regulating metabolism.

Related articles: What are Meridians? and the Watch Batteries and the Heart Meridian

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Manifesting Your Desires

Secret to Success is Being Clear, Committed, Grateful and Detached

Victoria Anisman-Reiner

Jan 15, 2008

Manifest what you want in a relationship (or other aspects of your life)

by describing your wishes clearly, committing to success,

feeling gratitude, and letting go.

Since The Secret, people have flocked to personal development teachings which explain how to improve the results in your life by working on your thoughts and feelings. Yet even with a positive, optimistic attitude, it can be a challenge to “attract” the right person for a relationship. The following tips describe one process for manifesting a relationship – or anything else – that you want in your life.

Manifesting What You Want: A Process Guide

In this approach, there are four steps to manifesting your dream:

1. Clarity
2. Commitment
3. Gratitude
4. Letting go

1. Clarity

Many people wish for a partner without the foggiest idea of what the right relationship will look like when it's arrived.

The first step in manifesting something in your life is to get clear on what you really want. Any emotions you have about a thing, whether positive or negative, will affect your vibration and what you attract.

Know what your conscious and subconscious desires are and, if possible, bring them into agreement. It may be helpful to write down your desire. Whether a point form list or an essay, writing or drawing about your goal is a powerful way to get clear on what you want.

Don’t say what you don’t want: If there is a negative you want to avoid, reframe it and describe its opposite. Focus only on what you want to attract into your life.

2. Commitment

Energy is continuous. Every thought, belief, or reaction you participate in creates results in your energy field that may, sooner or later, have an impact in your life.

If you are wishy-washy or unsure of your desire, your energy vibrations will fluctuate with your feelings of uncertainty and your dream may never manifest.

If you believe in something, heart and soul, your energy vibration is continuous and sends a clear message: this is what I want. This, and only this. The universe responds to certainty.

Consider the quote from W.H. Murray’s The Scottish Himalaya Expedition: “Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth… that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too.”

3. Gratitude

Gratitude is one of the most powerful positive energies. Envisioning a life in which you already have the relationship you want and feeling grateful for the gift of that relationship is an important step in manifesting.

Gratitude can also be used to transform feelings of anger or frustration at life situations. If you can feel grateful for the learning opportunity or some other aspect of the situation, you improve your health, outlook, and the results you will achieve.

4. Letting Go

The final step in manifesting is to patiently and lovingly release your attachment to results. Put aside the papers on which you have described your ideal relationship and take steps to love yourself as you are and enjoy the life you have.

In other words, choose to “Let go and let God.”

Learning the secret to being committed while maintaining detachment about the result is a fine balancing act – perhaps the hardest part of creating your desires. You’ll find, however, that it is only when the desire is out of your mind that the universe can work or play with it – and surprise you by bringing about exactly what you wished for - or something better.

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The recent film "The Secret" is sweeping new age circles

by popularizing the Law of Attraction. What is The Secret ?

What is the Secret ? Last year’s internet viral ad campaign has thousands of people wondering. Trailers and teasers enticed with visual design similar to those of the Da Vinci Code while proclaiming, “The Secret was buried. The Secret was coveted. The Secret was supressed,” with nary a hint to the nature of the big secret. As the film began to make an appearance, word crept out that it was about manifestation and the principles of the law of attraction. Word of the movie continues to grow. Can the film live up to all the hype?

Unlike What the Bleep ?, the 2004 movie created by part of the same team that made The Secret, it does. At heart, this movie carries the same message as What the Bleep ? and its sequel, Down the Rabbit Hole: that we all have the ability to transform our lives and attract to us whatever we wish using the power of conscious thought.

These are hardly new ideas, and they are not presented as such. In fact, the movie lists dozens of famous historical figures whose success can be attributed to the principles of secret – from the Buddha to American entrepreneurs.

• “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” – Buddha
• “You create your own universe as you go along.” – Winston Churchill
• “Whether you think you can or you can’t, either way you are right.” – Henry Ford

The biggest revolution in thinking proposed by the makers of The Secret is to accept that our thoughts send out an energy or vibration - characterized in the film as a ring of light which ripples out from the actors in simulated scenes, as they think or express empowering, happy, creative thoughts or disempowering, negative, self-defeating thoughts. The energy that we put out with our thinking affects not only our own well-being and the internal environment of our bodies and minds. Through quantum physical principles which are only glanced upon in the film, our energy also contributes to creating our lives and the world around us.

To illustrate this principle, there is a sequence of scenes which begins with a woman getting up in the morning. When your alarm goes off, is your first thought to whine and complain about having to go to work for another day? Do you curse if you stub your toe? Or do you rise with anticipation to perform your morning rituals, grateful for the life you have, and to see what the day offers you? Even the intention of rising with positive words on your lips (heartfelt or not) can change the way your day - and your health - is going to go.

The ripple effect of our thoughts and feelings is so significant because, The Secret contends, “most people offer the majority of their thoughts in response to what they are observing.” If our thoughts are reactionary, we are observing what already is - namely, the effect of things that we have thought in the past. Observing and reacting will only recreate what we have already created - and if that’s something you don’t like (unfulfilling relationships, debt, poor health) then it’s certainly not something you want to be creating more of by focusing your attention on it. Instead, in order to change things, The Secret suggests we put our conscious attention on what we do want by expressing gratitude for the blessings we have in our lives and for blessings we hope to receive, as though we already have them. "Whatever it is you are feeling is a perfect reflection of what is in the process of becoming."

The Secret features entrepreneur Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield of Chicken Soup for the Soul fame, Esther Hicks (co-author of The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham), Reverend Dr. Michael Beckwith, Dr. John Demartini, Dr. Fred Alan Wolf and others. Each presents in brief, simple terms the ways in which our thoughts and feelings create our lives.

The movie certainly features more men than women, although Da Vinci’s universal man has been transformed in the background visuals to a “universal woman” - another nice touch.

The Secret takes a different approach from What the Bleep? and Down the Rabbit Hole, with its emphasis on the material impact of the law of attraction in our lives, as opposed to the spiritual and healing implications. The film has been criticized by some for ignoring the spiritual implications of the law of attraction in favour of a materialistic approach - although that’s not necessarily a bad thing, since it makes the ideas in the film both more succinct and more intriguing to those who may not have explored this kind of concept before. It’s a great introduction to the law of attraction for those who are new to self-affirmation and the idea that our thoughts create our lives. People more experienced with these ideas may find The Secret doesn’t have as much of intellectual value to offer; though it’s equally good as a refresher and a reminder of our infinite potential.

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Manual Muscle Testing

MMT or Energy Testing used in Touch for Health, Healing Arts & more

Victoria Anisman-Reiner
Jun 9, 2007

Muscle testing is used in various practices as a means to

assess allergies, health strengths and weaknesses prior to

treatment or, like dowsing, to ask yes/ no questions

Manual muscle testing, sometimes called MMT, is a non-invasive way to receive information from the body’s intelligence about what is happening internally. Some practitioners prefer to call it “energy testing,” because the kind of feedback received during muscle testing has nothing to do with the strength of the muscles used for testing, and everything to do with the energy of the body. Muscle testing can be used to identify allergies, physical weaknesses, sensitivities, nutritional deficiencies, and to assess which herbs, supplements or other treatments are indicated as remedies.

What is Muscle Testing ?

The usual form of muscle testing requires one person to act as the practitioner or tester, and one as the patient. The patient extends their arm (or leg, depending on the muscle being tested) in the proper position and attempts to hold firmly in place without “locking” the muscle or forcing their arm upward, while the practitioner applies gentle pressure to move the limb in a prescribed range of motion. “Two fingers, two pounds of pressure” is a general guideline for muscle testing.

If a muscle holds firm, in Touch for Health, the related organ or system is strong. If the patient is unable to hold firm and their arm moves under gentle pressure, the muscle is considered weak and the related organ or system requires strengthening via energy work. In energy work paradigms other than Touch for Health, a strong response is often considered a “yes” and a weak response means “no.”

Every person will demonstrate a slightly different way of showing strong and weak responses, which is why it is important to calibrate before testing.

The most common muscle used for testing is the anterior deltoid, the primary muscle related to the gall bladder meridian.

How Can That Possibly Work ?

Muscle testing is a concept people often have to experience to understand.

In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the body’s energy field is concentrated in 14 meridians, energy channels that relate to each of the major organs and systems. If an organ is weak or stressed, the corresponding meridian will show a sluggish or blocked energy flow.

Each of these meridians runs through and governs several muscles. The corresponding muscles may be used as a gauge of the strength of the meridian and organ.

Anyone can employ muscle testing, even if the person being tested has greater physical strength than the practitioner, because MMT has very little to do with the muscle’s gross strength. The intent is to test the energy of the meridian feeding the muscle.

Techniques That Employ Muscle Testing for Diagnosis Include:

• Touch for Health Applied Kinesiology
• Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine
• some forms of Energy Psychology, including EDxTM (Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods)
• several chakra techniques and types of hands-on energy healing

In each of these cases, dowsing answers with a pendulum or other tool can be just as effective – though less dramatically apparent to a patient.

Surrogate Testing

In cases where the person being tested is ill or physically unable to extend their arm or other muscles for testing, a surrogate tester may be used. The surrogate patient stands or sits near the person being tested and must keep in physical contact with them at all times during testing to achieve accurate results.

Surrogate testing can be used to test pets and animals.

Other Forms of Muscle Testing

Dowsing, an ancient method of divination with a pendulum or other tool, is basically a form of self-muscle testing using a tool to exaggerate the body’s response and make it more noticeable.

Several forms of self-muscle testing, including finger testing, are discussed in Unusual Dowsing Techniques.

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Energy Testing Yourself

Energy Testing. There's no better way to really get to know your energy field, inside and out, than a reliable energy self-test. If you wish to find out what your energy field responds best to, what compromises your energy and functioning, and what subconscious thoughts/ beliefs/memories sabotage your ability to grow and change, energy self-testing is the key.

Muscle Testing. In Energy Psychology, "muscle testing" is a frequent type of energy test, used to assess or dowse energy flow through a muscle group. The muscle testing used by Energy Psychology clinicians is a simple form of Kinesiology.

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Energy Testing Without Muscle. Also popular and exceedingly useful are energy-check methods that do not test muscle energy. These methods are ideal for self-use, and are the methods I offer my clients and use myself: (1) ideomotor test, (2) "sticky-smooth" test, (3) pendulum dowsing. I'll introduce you to these energy self-tests and then suggest practice activities. [If you're new to this type of activity, I suggest you do The Three Thumps and/or Belly-Button Correction first just to boost your energy, reinforce correct polarity, and defuse your excitement!]

1. IDEOMOTOR TEST. The term "ideomotor" suggests that an idea or thought connects with a motor response. An ideomotor energy test demonstrates exactly that, even if the idea/thought is subconscious rather than conscious. An easy, useful ideomotor test is the "SWAY TEST" using your whole standing body. Just as a tree leans to face the sun, the human body inclines naturally toward what agrees with it. That's why the Sway Test is a great guide for healthy supermarket shopping!

Think YES, with a strong positive feeling. Wait, and notice your body's subtle response to YES. It will naturally sway slightly forward. Repeat this a few times for practice. Now think NO, with a yucky negative feeling. Notice your body's response to NO. It will lean slightly back or to the side, and do so readily and reliably with practice. That's the ideomotor response.

A subtle and handy variation of the Sway Test is the "Head Nod." Try it right now if you like.

Relax, breathe, and then invite your head to indicate YES. Notice your head's natural response to YES. It will naturally tip slightly forward as though beginning to nod, "Yes." Repeat for practice.

Then relax, breathe, and invite your head to indicate NO. Notice your head's natural response to NO. It will naturally turn slightly to the side as though beginning a head-shake, "No," or it will draw back a little. We'll do some "practical practice" a little further on.

2. STICKY-SMOOTH TESTS. Place the palms of your hands together and rub them against each other a few times. Then, ask your body to use a smooth feeling to mean "Yes." Just be in "allow" mode, letting your body relax and respond. Now, rub your hands together gently and notice how they feel for Yes. Take your time. Practice a few times until Yes and smooth are reliably connected. Next, ask your body to use a sticky feeling to mean "No." Let your body respond. Rub your hands together gently and notice how they feel for No. Take your time, and practice a few times until No and sticky are reliably connected. Now that your body has the idea, try it with "Yum!" and "Yuck!" Your body will know to respond with smooth for Yum and sticky for Yuck.

A useful one-handed variation on the smooth-sticky test is a finger test. Rub the pads of your index finger and thumb lightly together to get the feel. Then, ask your body to use a smooth feeling to mean "Yes" or "Agree" or "That's healthy/ okay for me." Let your body respond. Rub your finger and thumb together gently and notice how they feel for Yes. Take your time, and practice a few times until "Yes" or "agree" or "okay for me" are reliably connected to smooth. Then, ask your body to use a sticky feeling to mean "No" or "disagree" or "That's not okay for me." Proceed as before. Practice a few times until "No" or "disagree" or "not okay" and sticky are reliably connected. Now try the finger/ thumb test with "Yum!" and "Yuck!" Your fingers will respond with smooth for Yum and sticky for Yuck.

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"Belly Button Correction"

Remedy: For confused or switched polarity, the "Belly Button Correction" (BBC) is the fast and effective remedy. This exercise really turns things around, polarity-wise. It turns the body's energies toward healing and positive functioning. Here is my own tidy version of the Belly Button Correction, as illustrated and further discussed in my book Feeling Free!

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1. Press the fingers of one hand firmly on your navel and keep them there.

2. Rub under your nose with the index finger of the other hand for 6 to 8 seconds.

3. (Fingers on navel -) Rub under your lower lip for 6 to 8 seconds.

4. Extend fingers and thumb to massage both collarbone points for 6 to 8 seconds.

5. (Fingers on navel -) Massage your tailbone for 6 to 8 seconds.

6. Reverse hands and repeat the procedure (optional, but recommended !).

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THE THREE THUMPS:

With clustered fingers of one or both hands (I use fists), thump firmly, 15 - 20 seconds, in these 3 areas:

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Collarbone Points

Thump on kidney meridianto stimulate meridian system

Thymus Area

Think of Tarzan and wake up your immune system

Spleen Lymphatic Area

Thump below & one inch to side of breast.Get energy flowing !

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Masunaga

jutsu - ki - kyo

Energy Psychology V

neuropath
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SEEMORG MATRIX WORK™

My office has become a miracle room.

- Nahoma Asha Clinton, PhD

SEEMORG MATRIX WORK- THE THEORY IN BRIEF. According to Nahoma Asha Clinton, LCSW, Ph.D., trauma is the fertile ground out of which most psychological pathology grows. Whenever a person thinks of a past trauma, or even when some present event triggers him/her to remember the trauma subconsciously, then difficult emotions and/or physical symptoms can arise. When unbearable emotions related to past traumas remain unresolved, the person is at risk to develop negative beliefs, desires, fantasies, obsessions, compulsions, and/or addictions. The personality may even become distorted in a characteristic way. In some cases, it's fractured by dissociation.

The psychological disturbance caused by unhealed trauma is complex. Traumas from childhood are reinforced by similar traumas in adulthood (e.g., "hurt again," "abandoned again"). The client's trauma-based core beliefs create a distorted thought and energy grid, or character structure, through which the world is experienced. This traumatic complex can block the development of positive qualities, damage the personality's divine potential for wholeness, and prevent any true sense of spiritual connection. Clinically identified clusters of distorted core beliefs form the "matrices" which are the therapeutic focus.

The Seemorg Matrix approach is a complete transpersonal energy psychotherapy synthesizing the best clinical features of many traditional and complementary treatment modalities. It quickly eliminates psychological disorders and emotionally-related physical disorders, providing profound and lasting relief. Remarkably, it does all this with minimal emotional distress. [If this piques your interest, click on Nahoma Asha Clinton's new website

SEEMORG MATRIX TREATMENT. As the client talks with the therapist about his/her problem, energy (muscle) testing serves as a guide to subconscious information about underlying belief structures and indicates related energy blocks. Once maladaptive subconscious belief complexes are identified, they are treated energetically.

The client keeps an aspect of the belief matrix in mind by repeating a representative phrase or sentence aloud while (self-)touching each of the Seemorg Matrix energy treatment points in turn. The treatment points include all of the body's major chakras (primary energy centers), as well as several minor chakras, and may include one or two meridian points.

Treatment is thorough, resolving resistance quickly and easily. With the therapist's guidance, the client tracks and clears all possible threads or leads from the belief matrix that appear to have a negative influence on healthy functioning - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Seemorg Matrix psychotherapy works well not only for deep, trauma-based clinical issues. The basic Seemorg Matrix treatment protocol is also simple to apply and user-friendly. Once learned, clients frequently find it helpful beyond the clinician's office to clear their own situational emotional distress when it arises.

Training as a Seemorg Matrix therapist involves a multi-level program of instruction and supervised practice. For more complete information about Seemorg Matrix Work and its innovator, Dr. Nahoma Asha Clinton, go to http://www.seemorgmatrix.org/. Training workshops are listed and you will find a directory of practitioners who use Seemorg Matrix Work clinically.

Energy Psychology IV

http://www.feelingfree.net/energy_psychology/bsff.htm

Be Set Free Fast - BSFF

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Be Set Free Fast, popularly known as BSFF, was developed by Dr. Larry Nims, Clinical Psychologist. BSFF is a complete energy therapy approach to treating psychological problems. It is a fluid, elegant system of dynamic interaction between energy clinician and client. If you're already eager to learn more about BSFF, you can read along here with me for my appreciative overview or check out this site . I love using BSFF !
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"BE SET FREE FAST"

Behavioral and Emotional Symptom Elimination Training For
Resolving Excess Emotion: Fear, Anger, Sadness and Trauma.

BSFF THEORY. According to Dr. Nims, the subconscious mind (SCM) is a good and faithful servant, just doing its job, running programs. The SCM runs the programs that govern most of our thoughts, feelings and actions when we function on automatic. Fortunately, most of those programs are helpful. They remind us how to use a telephone, use the toaster and fry an egg, how to drive the car and where to find our car keys (well, most of the time, anyway), without taking up the conscious mind's time and attention. In this way, the SCM allows us to multitask for efficiency.

THE PROBLEM IS THIS: the SCM is easily cued to run old, outdated programs. Though they may be dysfunctional now, our most consistent (and insistent) emotional programs were installed in early years. It's those programs that tell us certain situations are likely to be HURTFUL, making us FEARFUL or ANGRY, so that we JUDGE AND CRITICIZE others, ourselves and the situations, because that's what we've been taught. This happens even in present-day situations that we know are not likely to be hurtful or scary like before.
If old, dysfunctional programs are running, any attempt at forgiveness of self or another will likely be ineffective. That's because the SCM is still running programs based on (1) hurtful root experiences and (2) subconscious beliefs we've constructed from them.

BSFF TREATMENT. The therapist first establishes an energy feedback system so that the client can communicate with the his/her subconscious mind. This may be called a "muscle test" or, more correctly, an "energy check." (Click on Energy Testing to learn how!)

An energy check ... helps you explore your thoughts and feelings about your problem, using the energy check to see if your subconscious mind (SCM) and your conscious mind agree.

HERE'S A 'FOR INSTANCE'. From your conscious mind you state with conviction, "I'm completely over that old hurt/ trauma that happened way back then. I've let it all go." However, careful energy checking might reveal that your SCM says something like this: "I'm still deeply hurt about that … and I don't ever want to get over it … because then I won't be safe … and I could get hurt some more … so it's not okay for me to get over this problem … and I want to keep it."

Well … if that's the program that's automatically running in your SCM, you're not going to get over your irrational hurt, or fear and anxiety, or unwarranted frustration, resentment and anger, or whatever the problem is. Fortunately, there's good news from Dr. Nims and BSFF !

BSFF is a way to systematically eliminate such emotional problems

quickly, deeply and painlessly, using healing verbal triggers or cues

… and the help of your subconscious mind !

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Energy Psychology III

http://www.feelingfree.net/energy_psychology/tat.htm

TAPAS ACUPRESSURE TECHNIQUES SM - TAT

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THE TAPAS ACUPRESSURE TECHNIQUE SM (TAT) is a simple, structured, and highly respectful treatment technique which was originated by Tapas Fleming, Licensed Acupuncturist and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

PROBLEMS TREATED. TAT is exquisitely designed to treat and eliminate the negative influence of past events, including trauma and related unresolved issues that compromise both emotional and physical well-being. Since there is often a trauma-based origin to allergies and toxic reactions, it's not surprising that TAT is effective in treating chemical sensitivities.

TAT TREATMENT. To apply TAT, you hold gentle hand positions at the front and back of your head adjacent to the areas where your brain receives and projects visual information. While in this special pose, the TAT protocol guides you to focus your mind on specific components of the problem. At the same time, the energy directed between your hands frees energy that has been stuck in thoughts, feelings and past experience related to your problem. This way, at an energetic level, you gently desensitize, heal and reclaim parts of your Self which have been cut off and denied lest you re-experience the traumatic feelings of the bad thing(s) that happened in your past.

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"According to TCM, many acupuncture meridians merge and

enter the brain at specific facial points: these points are activated

during the TAT treatment as the individual accesses the

disturbance and/ or energy stagnation. The combination of the

client's attention and the activation of the acupressure points

opens up the flow of held information and

allows the brain to process the material adaptively."

An underlying concept in energy psychology is this: ENERGY FOLLOWS INTENTION. When your hands are in the TAT treatment "pose," energy flows between them. Why? Because your hands naturally radiate energy, and energy naturally follows your intention to resolve your problem and effect positive change.

From my own reading, I know that between the front- and back-of-head hand positions used in TAT lie the brain structures where memory of traumatic fear is stored. Even if a person has no conscious memory of the original traumatic event, fear may yet be stored deep in the brain, most likely in the "amygdala" in the wall of the third ventricle. Until the stored fear is cleared or desensitized, it is ever ready to be triggered by cues in our physical or social environment. (Reference: Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain, 1996).

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Energy Psychology II

http://www.feelingfree.net/energy_psychology/eft.htm

The Emotional Freedom Techniques™ - EFT

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THE EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES ™ (EFT) is a fast, powerful self-treatment for emotional and physical distress. EFT uses rubbing and tapping on specific spots on the body to jump-start and encourage the flow of energy through disturbed or blocked energy channels. If this sounds appealing, go to this EFT site for a wealth of wonderful information related to EFT and its applications.

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"The cause of all negative emotions is a

disruption in the body's energy system."

THE MERIDIAN SYSTEM . When we do EFT, we stimulate a system of energy channels called the "meridian system." The meridian system is a network of channels that transports energy or ch'i. It has been known, studied and successfully treated in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for over 5000 years. The meridian energy system has been imaged in the west by infrared photography and other specialized technology. It is meridian energy flow and balance that is treated by our local acupuncture and acupressure practitioners. Now, we can treat energy disturbances in the meridian system ourselves using EFT.

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THE FOUR BASIC STEPS IN EFT

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The Setup: Massage a tender area of lymph nodes in your upper chest and repeat a specially-worded statement of your problem. - 10 sec

Tapping Sequence: Tap with the pads of your fingers on a series of acupressure points to stimulate energy flow through the meridian system. - 20 sec

9-Gamut Procedure: Tap one acupressure point on the back of your hand; do 9 brain-connecting actions with eye movements, humming and words. - 10 sec

Tapping Sequence: Again, tap with pads of your fingers on the same acupressure points to stimulate energy flow through the meridian system. - 20 sec

Total EFT Treatment Time = about 60 seconds
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Energy Psychology

http://www.feelingfree.net/energy_psychology/introduction.htm

Holistic Approaches to Emotional Health

"Energy patterns in the body impact emotional states"
-David Feinstein, Ph.D. (2001)

Energy -

The New Frontier in Psychology

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What's so different about an ENERGY PSYCHOLOGY approach to emotional problems ?

In Energy Psychology, the problem is assessed, diagnosed, and treated as an ENERGY-BASED PROBLEM. ... Dr. David Feinstein (2001) ...: "Like the Oriental medicine traditions to which it traces, the theoretical core of energy psychology is simply this:

"Whatever the presenting problem,

it has a counterpart in the client's energy system and

can be treated at that level."

The energy psychology practitioner will check the client's energy system for disturbance in energy flow or balance (assessment), identify the energy component of the client's problem (diagnosis), and then treat the energy disturbance with specific energy-based techniques.

Energy Psychology treatments integrate handily with other counseling and psychotherapy approaches. In effect, Energy Psychology interventions add to the power and depth of traditional treatments by correcting the energy disturbance underlying the client's emotional disturbance. As a result, the presenting problem usually resolves at a deep and complete level.

"All good psychotherapy serves to reorganize the client's energy

fieldin a manner that helps free the client of psychological disturbances."

- David Grudermeyer, PhD

- Rebecca Grudermeyer, PsyD

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Energy Psychology ... techniques. ... : The Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT), BE SET FREE FAST (BSFF), and Seemorg Matrix Work.

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The Emotional Freedom Techniques™ - EFT

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THE EMOTIONAL FREEDOM TECHNIQUES ™ (EFT) is a fast, powerful self-treatment for emotional and physical distress. EFT uses rubbing and tapping on specific spots on the body to jump-start and encourage the flow of energy through disturbed or blocked energy channels. If this sounds appealing, go to this EFT site for a wealth of wonderful information related to EFT and its applications.

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"The cause of all negative emotions is a

disruption in the body's energy system."

THE MERIDIAN SYSTEM . When we do EFT, we stimulate a system of energy channels called the "meridian system." The meridian system is a network of channels that transports energy or ch'i. It has been known, studied and successfully treated in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for over 5000 years. The meridian energy system has been imaged in the west by infrared photography and other specialized technology. It is meridian energy flow and balance that is treated by our local acupuncture and acupressure practitioners. Now, we can treat energy disturbances in the meridian system ourselves using EFT.

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THE FOUR BASIC STEPS IN EFT

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The Setup: Massage a tender area of lymph nodes in your upper chest and repeat a specially-worded statement of your problem. - 10 sec

Tapping Sequence: Tap with the pads of your fingers on a series of acupressure points to stimulate energy flow through the meridian system. - 20 sec

9-Gamut Procedure: Tap one acupressure point on the back of your hand; do 9 brain-connecting actions with eye movements, humming and words. - 10 sec

Tapping Sequence: Again, tap with pads of your fingers on the same acupressure points to stimulate energy flow through the meridian system. - 20 sec

Total EFT Treatment Time = about 60 seconds
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TAPAS ACUPRESSURE TECHNIQUES SM - TAT

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THE TAPAS ACUPRESSURE TECHNIQUE SM (TAT) is a simple, structured, and highly respectful treatment technique which was originated by Tapas Fleming, Licensed Acupuncturist and practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).

PROBLEMS TREATED. TAT is exquisitely designed to treat and eliminate the negative influence of past events, including trauma and related unresolved issues that compromise both emotional and physical well-being. Since there is often a trauma-based origin to allergies and toxic reactions, it's not surprising that TAT is effective in treating chemical sensitivities.

TAT TREATMENT. To apply TAT, you hold gentle hand positions at the front and back of your head adjacent to the areas where your brain receives and projects visual information. While in this special pose, the TAT protocol guides you to focus your mind on specific components of the problem. At the same time, the energy directed between your hands frees energy that has been stuck in thoughts, feelings and past experience related to your problem. This way, at an energetic level, you gently desensitize, heal and reclaim parts of your Self which have been cut off and denied lest you re-experience the traumatic feelings of the bad thing(s) that happened in your past.

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"According to TCM, many acupuncture meridians merge and

enter the brain at specific facial points: these points are activated

during the TAT treatment as the individual accesses the

disturbance and/ or energy stagnation. The combination of the

client's attention and the activation of the acupressure points

opens up the flow of held information and

allows the brain to process the material adaptively."

An underlying concept in energy psychology is this: ENERGY FOLLOWS INTENTION. When your hands are in the TAT treatment "pose," energy flows between them. Why? Because your hands naturally radiate energy, and energy naturally follows your intention to resolve your problem and effect positive change.

From my own reading, I know that between the front- and back-of-head hand positions used in TAT lie the brain structures where memory of traumatic fear is stored. Even if a person has no conscious memory of the original traumatic event, fear may yet be stored deep in the brain, most likely in the "amygdala" in the wall of the third ventricle. Until the stored fear is cleared or desensitized, it is ever ready to be triggered by cues in our physical or social environment. (Reference: Joseph LeDoux, The Emotional Brain, 1996).

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Be Set Free Fast - BSFF

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Be Set Free Fast, popularly known as BSFF, was developed by Dr. Larry Nims, Clinical Psychologist. BSFF is a complete energy therapy approach to treating psychological problems. It is a fluid, elegant system of dynamic interaction between energy clinician and client. If you're already eager to learn more about BSFF, you can read along here with me for my appreciative overview or check out this site . I love using BSFF !

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"BE SET FREE FAST"

Behavioral and Emotional Symptom Elimination Training For
Resolving Excess Emotion: Fear, Anger, Sadness and Trauma.

BSFF THEORY. According to Dr. Nims, the subconscious mind (SCM) is a good and faithful servant, just doing its job, running programs. The SCM runs the programs that govern most of our thoughts, feelings and actions when we function on automatic. Fortunately, most of those programs are helpful. They remind us how to use a telephone, use the toaster and fry an egg, how to drive the car and where to find our car keys (well, most of the time, anyway), without taking up the conscious mind's time and attention. In this way, the SCM allows us to multitask for efficiency.

THE PROBLEM IS THIS: the SCM is easily cued to run old, outdated programs. Though they may be dysfunctional now, our most consistent (and insistent) emotional programs were installed in early years. It's those programs that tell us certain situations are likely to be HURTFUL, making us FEARFUL or ANGRY, so that we JUDGE AND CRITICIZE others, ourselves and the situations, because that's what we've been taught. This happens even in present-day situations that we know are not likely to be hurtful or scary like before.
If old, dysfunctional programs are running, any attempt at forgiveness of self or another will likely be ineffective. That's because the SCM is still running programs based on (1) hurtful root experiences and (2) subconscious beliefs we've constructed from them.

BSFF TREATMENT. The therapist first establishes an energy feedback system so that the client can communicate with the his/her subconscious mind. This may be called a "muscle test" or, more correctly, an "energy check." (Click on Energy Testing to learn how!)

An energy check ... helps you explore your thoughts and feelings about your problem, using the energy check to see if your subconscious mind (SCM) and your conscious mind agree.

HERE'S A 'FOR INSTANCE'. From your conscious mind you state with conviction, "I'm completely over that old hurt/ trauma that happened way back then. I've let it all go." However, careful energy checking might reveal that your SCM says something like this: "I'm still deeply hurt about that … and I don't ever want to get over it … because then I won't be safe … and I could get hurt some more … so it's not okay for me to get over this problem … and I want to keep it."

Well … if that's the program that's automatically running in your SCM, you're not going to get over your irrational hurt, or fear and anxiety, or unwarranted frustration, resentment and anger, or whatever the problem is. Fortunately, there's good news from Dr. Nims and BSFF !

BSFF is a way to systematically eliminate such emotional problems

quickly, deeply and painlessly, using healing verbal triggers or cues

… and the help of your subconscious mind !

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