Monday, August 25, 2008

Limiting self-talk

I have had the recent opportunity to work with a couple of new clients using EFT. I do work with a number of folks on a regular basis using Bioenergy Balancing as the modality. I have been working on and off with some of these folk for years, and they prefer this modality. They are familiar with it, they like how it works, and so they have no desire to switch.

I am passionate about the ease and simplicity of EFT though, and want to do more with this modality. I was honored recently when a woman from Second Life chose to work with me. We worked on the phone for an hour on being stuck career-wise. We got through a number of issues in that hour, and a lot of her negative self-talk seemed to loosen. I have followed up, and it seems to be holding.

EFT is great for loosening negative self-talk. So many times we stop our selves by our inner dialogue. The reasons for this limiting self-talk are many, from trauma, to the way we were brought up, to what we were taught, to observing what happened to those we care about, to…the list goes on. EFT is very good at loosening any emotional attachments and reasons we have for hanging on to this self-talk. It allows us to be more free to move forward with our desires. Getting the self-limiting dialogue out of the way can even help us find what we truly want.

Just to be redundant, there is a wealth of information and resources here.

Monday, August 4, 2008

One step further on my goal

I just passed the test presented by Dr. Patricia Harrington certifying that I have Advanced knowledge of EFT! I can now put the initials EFT-ADV on a business card or such.

This does not certify I know what I am doing in practice, but that I do understand it theoretically. If you think about it, even getting licensed in Psychology (an eventual goal) does not mean I am any good, just that I worked for X number of hours and that I passed a test. Guess this is as good as anything.

I had the URL I wanted, and have registered for a web site. I am slowly building it. My usual issue is coming up. I want to do such a good job, that it is taking me forever to do it. Perhaps I should just get a quick "hello" site done, and work on perfection later. Perhaps I should tap on it too! You will be hearing that a lot from me as time goes on. EFT is a technique that uses tapping on end points of select energy meridians, combined with carefully constructed statements, to loosen stuck stuff.

I will probably talk occasionally about Ms. Harrington's methods as time goes by. She is one of 29 "EFT Masters", a group of 29 people who were the first to undergo Gary Craig's rather extensive and grueling master's program. He ended that program, which sets these 29 people aside as some of the first pioneers. There are also many other methods, some of which I may mention here too. There is a lot of good stuff out there!

Sunday, June 22, 2008

Why this blog, why here, why now?

I am seeking certification in EFT. I am required to have practiced for at least a year (have done that) and practice the modality for 100 hours (this is what I need to collect).

Sessions work just fine over the phone. I wish to solicit persons who are interested in experimenting with EFT with a practitioner. I am offering sessions for free for the next, oh, while. I am offering them over skype or in Second Life using voice. If you are interested in sessions, please contact me via this blog. If you just want to talk about it, I am open to that too.

Why work with me? I have my MACP, I have been a professional practitioner of Bioenergy Balancing for 8 years, working with my ability to track issues, be present with my client, developing a deep intuitive listening, and be able to handle pretty much anything a client brings to the table. Most of my work is over the phone, and has been very successful.

I am still in process with my own work. I started this journey from what felt like a very stuck and broken place. I am doing much better, thank you, and beginning to want to help others toward their own freedom.

Why here, using my alias? Well, I had already set up Blogspot under my SL avatar's identity, and I hope to get some work referred from SL. Once I figure out how to have two IDs here, I will change it.

I would love to hear from you.

Angelina aka Katie

Setting up my little experiment

I have been consistently entranced with a few modalities for a while. I suppose I should give this some sort of preface.

I have not been "easy in my own skin" for as long as I remember. I have been a seeker, which to me has meant that my internal environment has been sufficiently uncomfortable to keep me searching for ways to wear it with ease. I have a highly sensitive nervous system so I have been unable to just ignore the dis-ease.

I have cast about trying a huge number of things, from being a charismatic Christian from age 13 to 25, to shaman-ism, to assorted forms of meditation (which would have probably been great if I could have kept at it), to many other things, most of which I highly respect still. I am a practitioner of Reike, Bioenergy Balancing, TFT, EFT, I have a Masters in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, I am ordained, and I am starting to come to a place where it all feels like it is beginning to congeal.

My spiritual life is the most important thing in my life. The frame I hold around my spiritual life continually shifts and evolves. I am in agreement with Baba Harihar Ramji when he says that as you come to wholeness then the service naturally comes forth from that. My journey is my coming to wholeness, learning to sit easy in my own skin, and from there I can expand and help in the way that I dream of helping.

I have found two amazing tools in this journey that I have stuck with now for years. I am seeking certification in one of them, which is one of the purposes of this blog. EFT, or Emotional Freedom Technique, and the teachings of Abraham/Hicks.

This combination feels very powerful to me. One is to help you consciously create, the other is to help you release the subconscious and conscious blocks to that creating. I see many luminaries use this combination, or a similar combination (there are variations, all that work).