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By Carol, on June 20th, 2011 I believe our most important job right now, is to learn how to live in our bodies. How to manage all the distracting input of our physical senses – our unruly, roller coaster emotions, our busy drunken monkey minds, the stresses and strains of living on a wobbly planet with it’s own agenda and weather patterns, and still remember that we are more than all of it.
How do we deal with gravity and digestion and inflammation and enlightenment? It’s a full time job. Fortunately, we have lots of tools. We have healing foods and medicines, we have energy systems and meridians, we have our amazing capacity for imagery and metaphor and meditation and laughter. And we are not alone…
I named my blog “Living In Your Body” because we are here, on Earth, in these amazing and frustrating physical forms with no owner’s manual, no training wheels and no reset button. My intent is to address different aspects of our experience that randomly catch my fancy and share with you my experience, knowledge, intuition and the wisdom of both ancient and modern teachings to be of service to you on your journey.
By Carol, on July 11th, 2018 EFT Master Jaqui Crooks teaches some brilliant work on clearing ancestral energies – you know, the stuff we took on from our parents and their parents before them and on and on and on… I was privileged to study this work with her some years ago and have been using it more recently. We learned a very simple and elegant tapping technique to clear these energies, and restore ourselves to our original field. Sometimes these pre-verbal experiences are like computer viruses, contaminating our energy field and we need to clear them out. I am planning a workshop on clearing ancestral patterns for the fall, I look forward to sharing her powerful work with you.
Being in your mother’s womb, floating, marinating in the emotions she was experiencing (more…)
By Carol, on July 9th, 2018 Dr. Bernie Siegel said “A diagnosis is just an opinion.” But it is so easy to take on a label; my Irritable Bowel Syndrome, my arthritic knees, my breast cancer… When is a diagnosis helpful information, and when does it take over our identity?
When I first began working with people preparing for breast cancer surgery many years ago, I realized that it is all about re-framing. How we take a potentially traumatic, invasive process and re-frame it into a healing ritual. So how can we take a diagnosis, a label that defines one aspect of our current or past reality and re-frame it into something that empowers us, that opens us to new possibilities? (more…)
By Carol, on June 6th, 2018 The milkweed plant is celebrated as the favorite food of the monarch butterfly caterpillar. It’s also quite toxic, and in munching its way through many leaves, the caterpillar stores enough toxins in its body to render it and the resulting butterfly unattractive and dangerous to predators. We all absorb toxic experiences, relationships, patterns in her early life. How much do we hold onto as protection? As we transformed from children to adults and through the many stages of our lives, what do we hold on to? What do we let go of?
In EFT tapping, we start with tapping on the side of the hand, known as the karate chop point, a part of the small intestine meridian. The small intestine in our bodies is what controls what we absorb into our body as nutrition and what we eliminate. What do we take in, what do we release… And that becomes a lifelong process, with the experiences of our lives, and the memories, traumas, issues of our childhood… What do we keep, what do we let go of? What nourishes us, what needs to be eliminated? (more…)
By Carol, on May 25th, 2018 We have experiences in our lives, and then we tell ourselves stories about what they mean, and then we live our life around the stories. So often the stories are not so happy, not so inspiring, and tend to leave us disempowered and upset. But if it’s my story, why can’t I just change it? The past shifts and changes anyway as our memories change or fade and come to resemble the story we’ve been telling more than what actually happened… So if you don’t like the story write a better one! I have been experimenting lately with changing some of my stories – re-framing and re-writing the stories I have been telling myself (and my friends!)
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By Carol, on May 6th, 2018 We talk about letting go in a lot of different contexts, but what does it really mean? We take stress and trauma into our body and energy field, and that’s fine, it is how we function as physical beings. Where it becomes a problem is when we keep it and carry it with us for the rest of our lives. Our traumas and experiences and beliefs – whether they are conscious, or buried deep in our unconscious – continually impact how we function in the present.
Tapping and imagery work give us simple and elegant tools to bring this stuff into our awareness and truly let it go. Not just mentally, by talking about and analyzing it, but by actually physically releasing it from our body and most importantly, from our energy field. (more…)
By Carol, on April 23rd, 2018 We humans tend to focus on what’s wrong, and like a dog licking a sore paw, we go over and over our stuff. The Energy Psychology technique EFT is one of my favorite techniques for clearing stuff and finding balance. It provides a unique way to expand your focus, to broaden your view and create some welcome space for healing.
In EFT, we use words to bring the issue, problem, trauma, whatever to our consciousness, and then tap on acupuncture meridian points (known as Meridian Tapping) to clear the energetic connection to the problem. We also expand our focus to find a place of balance. Even though I have this problem, I am also something greater than this problem; there is a larger reality, a bigger picture, a place of balance and peace. (more…)
By Carol, on April 11th, 2018 When someone leaves your life, there is a space left behind, which we often perceive as absence. But is it really absence? My experience of that space is that it has a very palpable presence to it, it is something in it’s own right. When someone close close to me died recently, it left that kind of presence, that sense that this is not nothing, it is something. Something very new, very unknown, very mysterious, very profound…
How am I present to this new reality? How is someone who left present in my life, not just in memories. What is the presence of absence? (more…)
By Carol, on March 6th, 2018 Trying to find the time to implement stress relief techniques can be stressful itself, so I wanted to share with you some quick stress releasing ideas. It really doesn’t take long to shift your energy and calm your nervous system and access a sense of relaxation and peacefulness. Here are a few of my favorite, very quick stress releasing tricks. (more…)
By Carol, on February 16th, 2018 People have asked me how I came up with the Four Steps to Center™ process that I use in many of my guided imagery meditation CDs and mp3s. It evolved out of my understanding of who we really are; not just physical beings, but beings of multiple levels, of heart and mind and spirit as well as body. I try to incorporate this understanding into all aspects of my life and my work, though of course, like everyone else, I frequently forget!
I call my blog and my newsletter “Living in Your Body” because I think that’s what we are really here to do; (more…)
By Carol, on December 14th, 2017 My beloved companion dog Satika died of a very aggressive cancer. We had 5 bittersweet weeks to enjoy together after he was diagnosed. I woke up each morning grateful for another chance to gaze into his dark soulful eyes and bask in the the calm joy and deep love that radiated from his whole being.
Dogs, like all animals, have a far more comfortable relationship to their bodies than we humans do.They appreciate them when they work, and they accept them when they fail. They know that they are not their bodies, that they only wear them. (more…)
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