Conscious Alignment
For many years I have worked in Corporate America using and developing innovative tools to support Spirit in Business. Conscious Alignment is definitely something that benefits everyone within a business – at all levels.
Conscious Alignment is a part of the Aligned Management Program that I have developed for conscious businesses, and you may read an article about this at: http://www.arielagroup.com/spirit_in_business/articles/conscious_alignment.html to learn some basics.
This Conscious Alignment model is wonderful in its ability to support individuals in their own conscious transformation as well as their teams, departments, divisions, and the entire organization. It is appropriate for organizations and their leaders who truly wish for conscious transformation and the creation of resonance within their organizations. There are a variety of “training” or “organizational & team development” tools that I incorporate into this process, and I support these with energetic tools such as Emotional Freedom Technique/ EFT. I find that this simple-to-use tool greatly supports individuals to clear all resistance and blocks to teammates, their environment, projects, tasks, direction from superiors, just among many other business issues.
For this concept to work the bottom line is that the leaders must really want to change so that the entire organization comes into alignment and all involved share a co-creative resonant field. These leaders must be strong, committed, ready & willing to change, able to allow those not aligned to leave the organization (including some vendors & customers at times). If they truly want conscious alignment, then they will be rewarded beyond what can be imagined, however there must be a strong commitment.
Letting go of the Old to Make Room for the New
After thirty years I sold a bicycle that I bought as an undergraduate in college. That bike had been my freedom, my mode of transportation, my vehicle away from the pressures of my studies, and my way to fly through the air at great speeds. It had been stolen once and I had flipped over the handlebars at least twice into traffic. I loved that bike.
But, after not using it for several years it was not doing me any good, and the disuse was hard on the tires and brakes. I posted it for sale and got a prospective buyer who was coming to see it. I decided to take the bike out for a last spin around the neighborhood. Oh my. The memories, the speed, the wind in my face, the feeling of freedom. Did I really wish to give up this wonderful flying machine? Well, yes. It was dangerous. The brakes didn’t work well and I wasn’t quite as limber as when I used to ride it everywhere on that big campus. I supposed that the young man who was buying it would fix it up and enjoy it. I let it go.
That day it really impacted me what a strong hold an item like that had on me. It was full of thirty years of happy, sad, frustrated, tired, confused, inspired, feelings and memories. As I let it go I felt that I was letting go of a great load of emotions with it. I was glad that I sold it and soon found a newer bike that would serve me.
Yesterday I sold my favorite car. It was a top of the line cadillac – my old executive car. It had memories, status, great meaning to me. It was in very good condition and the only reason I let it go was that I just bought a car from my father with less mileage. My car was prettier, cleaner, easier to drive, faster, more deluxe. My new vehicle is four-wheel drive, which I need in the mountains, and will serve me well with its low mileage and good maintenance record. I’m liking it more and more each day.
That didn’t make it any easier to let go of that car of my dreams, however. It took awhile of talking to myself and to the car, and then we manifested just the right buyer. The younger woman who bought it will be very happy with it, and my car will serve her well. She will feel good driving that luxury vehicle, and it will keep her and her family safe. This time I prepared and was glad to let go of my sweet car and allow it to take care of this new family. And still, I did feel a few pangs of nostalgia in letting it go.
I know one thing. Every time I let go of something a vacuum is created and something better comes to me in its place. And, in letting go of the older vehicle – full of memories of who I used to be, Director of Training & Development, consultant, trainer, chamber of commerce president, economic development commission chair, etc., now I can be more of who I am now – without looking back or replaying the old stories. This feels good. I can be in better alignment now. I am grateful!
Using EFT & Energy Therapy Tools to De-brief My Mate After Accident Trauma
All of you who know me well realize my passion for the Energy Psychology work that I am doing with clients now. I utilized it last night with my sweetie, Martin.
He regularly attends a local car auction – it’s his hobby. Last night a tragedy happened where a car went out of control and mowed down 20-30 people as it crashed through a building where they were standing. Luckily Martin was out of harm’s way – just 15-20 feet away, watching the whole thing happen.
As a retired EMT he realized that the extent of injuries & numbers of injured were way beyond his ability to support these people, and he had no emergency kit with him, so he used his skills to direct traffic and to show emergency vehicles where to park. The first responders needed to keep their vehicles out of the way of the many ambulances who followed, so he managed to direct the flow of everyone coming and going for almost two hours, including helping the ambulances come and go between the helicopter runs taking wounded to the hospital. He was still high on adrenaline when he returned home late last night.
As I helped him to de-brief I simply let him tell me about it. He doesn’t usually get too involved in the energy therapy work that I do – he’s a strong he-man. We sat at the dining room table and as he talked I touched his foot or leg with my foot or leg under the table. He couldn’t see that I was tapping my karate chop point (side of my hand) as he spoke. I was acting as a surrogate to support his energy clearing as well as keeping my own sensitivities from picking up the trauma in my own electro-magnetic field.
He shared with me that after seventeen years working fire and mountain rescue as an EMT, this was the worst trauma he had personally experienced. He had a number of different emotions ignited when he got home, and needed to talk it out before eating dinner or relaxing in any way. He had felt helpless, guilty for not doing more, agitated at a few self-important emergency responders who wanted to park right in the middle of the entrance way where ambulances needed to pass, traumatized by seeing so many people mowed down by the run-away car, among other feelings. By talking them out he felt better. My tapping helped the process, and his dream state also supported his subconscious to let go of some of the inner emotional stress, as during the night Martin woke up several times with his heart racing as his subconscious was working out the trauma that he had witnessed.
This morning I reminded him of the 3rd eye point that he can tap if the pictures of the trauma become too bothersome, and also told him to use the karate chop point if he found his heart racing and felt stressed. (The 3rd eye point is not included in EFT, and the karate chop is an important point used to set-up most EFT protocol sequences.)
Now Martin has the tools to help his system to let go of what he witnessed, and since it is not beneficial for him to carry any of that emotion around with him, I expect that he will use them!
I am so Grateful that I could serve!
Yesterday I met a milestone goal that I had set - to serve at least one hundred people with complimentary one-on-one coaching and energy therapy sessions.
I met that goal yesterday and was happy to have been able to share my abilities and tools with so many people – without charging or asking for their business! This is a way I’ve always tithed back to my community and to the Universe for all of my blessings, and I am grateful that I could do it!
Because energy therapy tools like EFT, NET, applied kinesiology, and distance Reiki are so powerful, it often takes only one session to clear a major life-long emotional block that had previously caused chronic illness, physical pain, self-sabotage, failed relationships, blocked financial income, cycles of “bad luck”, among so many other life symptoms. It is always a gift for me when people report back later that our session literally changed their life. I am grateful for the good news!
So, today, in celebration, I’m going to take some time out of my busy day and go for a walk in the woods while it is still lightly snowing. It is so beautiful here and I am grateful that I am rewarded for my good work by being able to live in such a wonderful part of the planet. We’re not in the big blizzard of the NE USA… just the bottom edge, and it is fun having the beauty of the snow without the hassle that others are having right now elsewhere. This is another reason that I am grateful!
So, think of me out walking in nature, thinking about the many people who trusted me to help them when they needed it! I am so grateful that I could serve them!
Use EFT to Clear Emotional Molehills Before they Become Mountains
Often my coaching clients mention that they forget to use their Energy Therapy and EFT tools on their own to clear emotions when they come up, and then are frustrated later that they could have cleared an issue before it grew into a bigger obstacle.
Remember the old phrase “making a mountain out of a molehill”?
When you have a fear or doubt or pang of overwhelm or anger, there is no better time than right then in the present to tap away the feeling. If you pass over the feeling, expecting that it will go away on its own, then you are incorrect in your presumption.
Whenever you feel an emotion there is a chemical reaction that is set off in your body. The reaction creates energy that is stored in your organs and meridian system. This emotion will stay stored where it is until something allows it to be cleared. And, it can be added onto by similar emotional experiences that add more to the charge that is already located in your body’s electromagnetic field. (Creating the mountain out of what started out as a small molehill.)
If there is already a charge of a certain kind, then it will attract similar charge. In my studies of kinesiology and NET I learned that specific organs hold specific emotions, and that the way to most completely clear these emotions and their charge is to stimulate the meridian attached to that organ and intentionally clear it from that meridian and organ.
So, if you are driving down the road and approach a scary intersection like I did today on the way to my office, the best thing to do is to tap away all fear that is in you about that intersection – right then. This morning I did this. As I did it I realized that I had accepted some fears and suggested behaviors from my mate about his reaction to the intersection. This morning it occurred to me that most of the fear I had taken on was his rather than my own. I am always careful on blind hills when I pull out onto a country mountain road, and I don’t know the history of the many accidents that may or may not have happened there. So, my question to myself this morning was: “Do I really want to carry this fear with me anymore?” I answered “No!”, so I did one quick round of tapping and let it go.
I created an EFT set-up statement of: Even though I feel fear when I pull out onto this road with it’s blind hill, I deeply & completely accept myself and trust my driving and choose to clear this fear.
Then I followed by tapping all of the points using some the following statements as I felt the fear:
- This fear of pulling out on this road
- This fear of pulling out on blind hills
- This fear based on Martin’s comments to me about this intersection
- This fear about pulling out at the wrong time
- This fear of other drivers coming over the blind hill
- This fear of what might be coming
- This fear that I might hurt my wonderful new vehicle
- This fear that I might do something stupid and careless
- Etc.
I felt totally at peace and cleared of the old fear a few minutes later. I will be interested in going through that intersection again in a few days to ensure that all of the charge is gone.
So, before any of your emotional molehills become mountains, I highly advise that you use your wonderful tapping tools to clear the emotional issues. And, if you don’t know how, you can learn by downloading a free Introduction to EFT from my website at: http://www.arielagroup.com/products/free_products.html.
Speeding Forward, Aligned with My Values!
I love to use the phrase “flowing forward”, and even entitled an e-book using these terms, however, I feel that the time since the Holidays have ended and the New Year has taken off has definitely been “speeding” as well as “flowing” for me!
Wow! I’ve done so much already, and there is so much more awaiting my attention in January, 2010!
- I had plans to blog regularly during the Holiday, and instead I allowed myself to have time off from work.
- I wanted to start off the New Year with regular blogs & bi-weekly e-zine broadcasts, and I’ve been designing my new 2010 programs and creating systems with my new VA team instead, in order to provide more time for me to do what I want in the future.
- Where I used to work every night in 2009, now I’m spending time with my sweetie, with my self, with my writing in the evenings now. (And that may start including my blog soon, too – if I want!)
I have realized that 2009 was a “busy” year of getting things ready to flow – and soar! And, 2010 is going to be a wonderful “harvest” year for me – and for many others too, it seems!
I realize that this is life – not school with homework every night. It is a time to stand by my values of doing what makes me smile – not just keep myself busy doing what needs to get done. I know I can better control these “needs” and “shoulds” so that I will allow myself regular daily play-time, and enjoy it!
If you are wondering what you really feel is important in your life now - on a very deep level – so that you can start to live a life more aligned with your values, then you may want to listen to the EFT TAPshops recording related to aligning values. You may find that at: http://is.gd/6pBBn .
In the meantime, I DO want to wish all readers the best for 2010! I personally expect it will be a very good year for me in so many ways, and I am creating the inner and outer processes now to make it so!
Winter Solstice Thoughts…
Today is the Winter Solstice – the shortest daylight of the year here in the northern hemisphere, and tonight will be the longest night of the year on our half of the planet. This is a wonderful time of year to go within – into the darkness – and determine what the next year will bring with its light.
Quiet time to go within...
Years ago I contacted a friend on Winter Solstice just to say Hi. He and I ended up starting a romantic relationship that was a wonderful learning opportunity for me during that next year. I often host or attend parties on Winter Solstice where we write down the things we would like to clear from the old year, and the desires and intentions we are setting for the new year. A burning ceremony sometimes sends these written thoughts into the ethers as ash and fire.
This year, after much concentration, I have just completed a new website, the creation of several new training programs for 2010, as well as a new affiliate program. These took much introspection, time, teamwork, and patience. I think that today is the perfect day to send out this new energy into the cycles and networks where the right people will receive the information. I didn’t really plan it to be this way, but it really seems perfect now that the busy-work is finally finished! (If you are interested in information about this, you can look for it in tomorrow’s blog… today is about the wonderful opportunity of the Solstice!)
Tonight I think I will share a quiet dinner with Martin and talk about this last year, what we have accomplished, what we have learned, what we have had to postpone, what we want to clear to make room for new intentions. We will also talk about our dreams for the next year and will set some desires into the energy of life. The details will come later, but this will be a good time to share our individual and combined dreams as the light begins to come back to our half of the planet starting tomorrow.
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Have a Happy and Conscious Solstice – wherever you are!
Change: Endings and New Beginnings…
On this date, December 17, a number of years ago, I left my old life and ventured into the unknown. It was very difficult for me. I was being urged by my soul, and still the fear was almost unbearable. I was unhappy and alone for months after that important move, and gradually I re-created my life to eventually lead me to the now that I am living much more authentically and happily than before.
Today is the perfect day to launch a new phase in my new life, and that is what I will share with you below, but it is also a celebration of the ending of life for a friend who died last weekend. Jack was always authentic to me. He told me what made him happy, what made him mad. He shared his thoughts and his passions. He didn’t just talk about what made him smile – he lived his life fully, and died being his full active self… he was only 56. We will miss him and I’ll take my flute to his memorial because he so loved when we played music at night around the campfire.
Whenever there is change something is let go of as something new is chosen. This crossroads of leaving the comfort of the past and moving into the unknown of the future is often unnerving. Sometimes it takes us humans a bit of time to shift gears, but we are resilient critters and we soon are able to look at the benefits of the decisions we have made for ourselves.
It is my opinion that the scariest kind of change is the change that is un-planned and sudden. Like the sudden death of a loved one. If we can consciously change, then the unknown holds less fear for us.
On that note I’d like to share that it is time to launch some changes in the programs that I am offering to you. I have let go of the slower-paced series and replaced them with shorter more intensive programs for targeted audiences who want advanced-level deep shifts to happen in their lives and practices.
• Advanced Living and Loving: is a three-month program that speaks to a wide audience of those who wish to REALLY transform their lives for the better using wholistic energy therapy tools including EFT. It is starting in January 2010 and enrollment is determined via interview/coaching session. The techniques covered in this program will go way beyond traditional EFT and MTT tools, and will guide you to identify and balance your deepest values, clear self-sabotaging patterns, vision and create that life you most desire.
• Going Deeper with Your Clients: is a highly specialized three-month program just for coaches, therapists, and wellness practitioners of all kinds. It is starting in early February, 2010, and enrollment is done via interview. This program offers support and new tools so that every coach, therapist, wellness practitioner will be able to go deeper with their clients to clear blockages, pain, emotional discomfort. I will provide the “secret tools” for participants to excel beyond past levels in their practices.
Today I am also launching an affiliate program for The Ariela Group of Wholistic Services, where my friends, colleagues, readers like you, can benefit from helping me to share information about these new programs. The affiliate link can be found at the bottom of each web page.
Some people may believe that after almost thirty years of training, coaching, working with clients, that all of this would be second nature to me. But change of any kind takes some getting used to. In preparing the high calibre programs that I am sharing above I have walked through the layers of my own fears, and now am ready to share strategies that absolutely will support conscious change… I know, because I had to test them on myself first. And, this all started on December 17th so many years ago.
Conscious Balance in Business with Spirit!
When I focus on transformation and conscious living I can look back at my own career. When I was in my 20’s with a fresh new MS degree, working toward my Ph.D., I was hired by a consortium of twenty-four corporations and colleges/universities to create an international training institute where I reported to the CEO’s and college presidents and stayed within a set budget. That was a major undertaking for a young person like me.
Under pressure to create everything from scratch, I wore many different hats, and I didn’t wear them all very well or with conscious balance. At that time I built my “empire” where I hired and managed seventeen employees, most older than I, and I created all of the systems for the institute: marketing & PR, curriculum, faculty & staff, student affairs, etc. Recruiting was also my job, and the institute depended on my abilities to communicate to international embassies and agencies and create trust so that they would send their vulnerable students to me to train, nurture, and protect.
Some of the tasks set before me created great stress in my life, and others were more fun. I worked hard and managed with a strong hand. I yearned for more inner peace and balance, and I earned lots of money. I enjoyed my personal relations with some of the students and staff, however there was often a separation in me between my head and heart. I have learned through the years to re-connect these parts of myself so that I can live and work more consciously and take more Spirit into business.
Today I enjoy my peaceful life and I have great passion for supporting my coaching and energy therapy clients with open heart energy and a myriad of tools that I share. At the same time I am happy to hire the younger people who have more fire and passion for marketing to help me in this area. My intention is to create an even balance that will support a conscious business with Spirit, and show the greatest results.
On this note, I am currently looking for a savvy experienced VA team of like-minded “whiz kids”, who will put fire into my business marketing so that I can get the word out about my wonderful coaching and energy therapy services. This will allow me to put all of my energy into my work with clients – where I am now most comfortable and most consciously in balance in my life! If you know of a good candidate VA firm, please feel free to send me the referral. I know exactly what I want and am looking forward to taking my conscious business to its next level with the help of the “right” team around me! I can be contacted at: http://www.arielagroup.com/contact .
Doing Business as UN-usual…
What happened to the days of strong personal connections, friendly support, genuine customer service, quality, dependable follow-through, loyalty in customers and vendors? Have outside economic pressures caused greed and fear to take over, or have the symptoms above created the current economic situation?
I am lucky… or, you can say that I “created” a comfortable life and business situation for myself. I live in a gorgeous area of the planet, in the forest close to several small towns but within two hours of four major metropolitan areas. I have peace and beauty all around me that I can share with my clients and vendors. When I do my local errands I rarely encounter traffic, road rage, or the negative emotions and stress found elsewhere. I intended this in my life, and here I am living it now! Peace of mind and comfort is so important to me now!
What bothers me at this point are some of the wonderful people I am watching who are changing in ways that are placing stress on our working relationship and their relationships with others. There are many creative and talented people offering important products and services to others. As we all evolve and improve our products and services are we keeping the human-to-human aspect in sight? Or, are we focused on the time, money, final business results, and packing as many clients into a short time period as possible?
There seems to be so much pressure to succeed monetarily, grow marketing lists, and compete, that some providers are literally dropping their loyal customers or vendors and opting for the “bigger fish” who can bring them more revenue in a shorter period of time, for less work. I’m all for “working smarter – not harder”, and, at the same time I also endorse balance and the concept of living consciously.
Many of the systems being touted in our banking industry and on internet are “artificial”. Money on paper is not the same as money in one’s pocket. “Friends” and “followers” on social networking sites may not be there for you when you really need a caring human nearby. Numbers on a marketing list are not equal to loyal customers. E-mail marketing blasts do not include the same energy as intentional human-to-human marketing connections. Things have changed, and sometimes I’m not so sure they have changed for the better!