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Carol Look and Carol Robin talk about abundance…

August 8, 2010 by Carol 1 Comment

Everyone’s talking about abundance these days, tapping on it, saying affirmations, sucking up to the Law of Attraction, and generally beating themselves up because they’re not rolling in dough yet! I had a fascinating talk about it with my friend and colleague Carol Look last fall, on my teleseminar series, “Profound Paths to Health, Healing and Happiness.” Carol is an EFT Master, and a world renowned expert on abundance and to her, it’s not just about money!

I invited Carol on to my series to talk about the true meaning of abundance. What does it really mean? How do you know when you have it? What do you do when you can’t find it? And what does gratitude have to do with it? Carol is an EFT master, and Law of Attraction expert, and she brings these two energy modalities together in a very unique way. She also does a very cool kind of tapping she calls Gratitude tapping, which you can tap along with on the call.

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safe space…

August 1, 2010 by Carol Leave a Comment

And what I find particularly interesting, is how do we create safe space for our bodies?

Lately I’ve been involved in a very interesting conversation about creating safe space. It came up in talking about working with clients, but it really applies to our lives as a whole. How do we create safe space for ourselves?

I don’t mean wearing a seatbelt, and picking up broken glass before you step in it! I mean how do we give our bodies the opportunity to relax, to feel the sense of safety that allows us to let go of the stress response that keeps us vigilant, ready for danger, ready for confrontation, or ready to run. How do we allow our bodies to be at peace?

So many of us walk around in a perpetual state of fight or flight readiness, with stress hormones coursing through our veins, muscles tense, sympathetic nervous system on alert. If your mother was severely tense or anxious when she was pregnant with you, you were bathed in her stress hormones, and born accustomed to a high level in your bloodstream.

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short attention span theatre…

July 17, 2010 by Carol 1 Comment

Twenty years ago, I loved the comedy show called Short Attention Span Theatre. Lately, I keep being reminded of it… what has happened to us? Our culture cultivates and rewards having the attention span of a gerbil (I never lived with one, but I am told they are very fickle with their focus!) We have to be in constant contact with our 183 closest friends, but we want to keep it to 140 characters or less. We text instead of talking, message instead of writing, tweet because the world as we know it will cease to exist if everyone doesn’t know what we’re doing at least 5 times a day!

I must confess, I am dipping my toes in the murky waters of facebook these days, and trying to understand the draw, and the meaning of it all. A few times, I have gotten involved in a very interesting conversation thread with some pretty cool folks. But so much of the chatter seems to be just that! Chatting for the sake of keeping up some strange, fragmented sense of contact and connection. I find myself yelling at the names on my computer screen “Don’t you have anything better to do? Just pick up the damn phone and have an actual conversation with an actual person!”

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Enlightenment and flossing…

July 4, 2010 by Carol 1 Comment

A friend just sent me this zen proverb “After enlightenment, the laundry.” And I thought, “and after every cool, cosmic, transformative experience, you still have to floss…”

We search for the peak experience, for the magic bullet, the Answer, the Way… Even if it existed, there’s still the regular Stuff of life; laundry, flossing, and no matter how many times you cut your toenails, you still have to do it again!

If only we could be content with the Yin and Yang of life, the excitement and the mundane, the epiphany and the falling back into our old unconscious habits, inhaling and exhaling, transformation and cleaning up dog poop. Our eternal search for transcendence makes us glorious – our stubborn denial of the mundane stuff of life makes us like ostriches.

What’s your favorite contradiction? And is it really contradiction, or is there really Yin and Yang, in-breath and out-breath, light and dark for a reason…

~Carol

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humor and healing…

June 28, 2010 by Carol 3 Comments

I’ve been talking with my friend Lynne Morrell (LynneMorrell.com) about doing a class together on humor and healing. Lynne’s one of the funniest people I know, (and also one of the best EFT practitioners) and her irreverent and sometimes zany sense of humor can be the catalyst for some profound shifts in tapping or coaching sessions.

So what is it about laughter that shifts our energy so quickly? That instant of surprise that suddenly turns our perspective upside down…

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Sunlight and Vitamin D

June 21, 2010 by Carol 1 Comment

It’s the first day of summer, and today was a gorgeous sunny day in the Northeast. Time to look at the benefits of sunlight and the dispel some of the fear that has been generated about sun exposure in recent years. Human beings evolved in a warm, sunny climate, and our bodies rely on sunlight, not food sources to produce Vitamin D.So much fear has been generated about skin cancers that many people never allow their skin to reap the benefits of healing sunlight (without Vitamin D-blocking sunscreens.)

And ironically, it is nutritional deficiencies of Vitamin D and antioxidants that can make us more prone to skin cancers. It is estimated that for every case of skin cancer eliminated by avoiding sun exposure or sunscreen use, there are 20 or more cases of breast or prostate cancer caused by the ensuing lack of Vitamin D!

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Breathe in Peace…

June 20, 2010 by Carol Leave a Comment

I offered my guided imagery meditation “Breathe in Peace” as a free download on the Self-Help Giveaway that Dr. Joe Rubino is running, and got some interesting feedback on it.

In the meditation I say, “…This is your time, now, to take care of yourself, to be gentle with yourself, to give yourself patience and compassion, to give yourself the peace and safety that lies deep within your heart…”

One woman wrote to me, that she found herself in tears listening to that – trying to remember that last time that she put aside all her responsibilities and taking care of everyone around her and took time to be gentle and patient and compassionate with herself.

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New Age Marcus Welby…

June 16, 2010 by Carol Leave a Comment

One of my patients called me a “new age Marcus Welby” today! I was quite flattered. Do you remember the old TV show Marcus Welby, M.D.? He was the quintessential family doctor; he could take care of anything from a broken bone, to a baby being born, to relationship advice.

Whatever happened to that kind of GP? Whatever happened to taking care of the whole person? These days, our healthcare practitioners keep becoming more and more specialized. This can be very helpful at times, but we lose the perspective of the whole person and we no longer can trust that our doctors have a wide range of knowledge and are looking at the big picture. Specialization – on the positive side – means a comprehensive understanding of an aspect of the body. On the negative side, it can mean tunnel vision, a focus so narrow that you can’t see the forest for your microscopic analysis of one tree.

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Self-Help Giveaway!

June 12, 2010 by Carol Leave a Comment

Empowerment, and helping you find the skills, tools and philosophies that allow you to help yourself is fundamental to the work that I do. I was recently invited to contribute to Dr. Joe Rubino’s new Self-Help Giveaway. You may remember Dr. Rubino from my interview with him last fall on my “Profound Paths to Health, Healing and Happiness” teleseminar series, when we talked about his brilliant work with self-esteem. I think his book, The Self-Esteem Book: The Ultimate Guide to Boost the Most Underrated Ingredient for Success and Happiness in Life is a remarkable piece of work. Well, toward that end Joe has created an impressive event that just opened, and features hundreds of free ebooks and audio and video courses in the self-help and self improvement fields.

Free gifts include my guided imagery meditation mp3 “Breathe in Peace,” and a recording of a fantastic conversation I had when I opened the Fall 2009 series with Marci Shimoff, author of the bestseller “Happy for No Reason.” Hundreds of other cool gifts are available.

I invite you to check out huge array of tools for health and well-being. There is no catch, you will be offered some products for sale, just say no thanks, and proceed to the gift giveaway. The gifts cost nothing simply because this event is run with the aim of introducing you to products and vendors in the self-improvement field who you might never otherwise know about (like me!) I have already downloaded some very cool ebooks and invite you to check this out and of course, please download and enjoy my interview with Marci Shimoff and “Breathe in Peace”!

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Tapping at Sunrise…

June 4, 2010 by Carol Leave a Comment

I recently recorded a great interview with EFT Masters Rue Hass, Gwyneth Moss and Ann Ross. They are presenting a very exciting training this August at Sunrise Ranch in the Rocky mountains of Colorado, one of my favorite retreat centers. I attended the first “Tapping at Sunrise” last summer (see my blog entry from last August) and it was an incredible experience. I can’t wait to go back this summer and immerse myself in this North American community of innovative and creative tapping practitioners.

I was thrilled to be asked to interview them about this year’s program, and got to join in a fascinating four way, trans-continental conversation. We talked about the use of humor in EFT, and Rue shared some great insights about how we can creatively work with the second half of the EFT equation: “I deeply and completely love and accept myself”. To listen to our call, and find out more about “Tapping at Sunrise,” and also download a delightful interview with the ever creative Gwyneth Moss on Releasing your Anxiety Gremlins go to:Tapping at Sunrise

If you are a serious EFT or meridian practitioner, or just share a fascination with this powerful technique, I invite you to listen to our interview.

Yours in Peace, Carol