Enlightenment Revealed – Conscious Living Using Intuition
Do you live consciously? Do you think you know yourself? Are you really aware, or just guessing? Do you consciously use your own intuition? How do you know?
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Emotional Freedom Technique for Performance Anxiety Follow-up
In my last blog on Thursday I mentioned that I was using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) on myself for old deep-seated performance anxiety based on being a very good musician in a very competitive environment thirty-five years ago. Because I am playing flute in a local musical performance which very much highlights my solo playing abilities without anybody to “hide” behind, 
I decided that it was time to rid myself of the extra stress caused by this old anxiety.
On Thursday I did a few rounds of the typical EFT tapping protocol using various affirmations. Last week was a very busy week with nightly rehearsals, daily business deadlines, and multiple meetings during the week, so there were definite signs of stress cracks for many reasons. Thursday’s dress rehearsal went well. I was relaxed and enjoyed the performance. On Friday I had a very busy day in the office with multiple deadlines. I felt so stressed that I thought I might burst. Just too much… and, the tapping from the day before just didn’t seem to be working very well. As the opening night performance got closer I got more nervous. Hmm. What was going on here?
Friday night all three musicians and both of the actors were on edge. (The play I Do! I Do! is a fun musical about the changing stages of a marriage, and it calls for just the husband and wife as actors. The musical score calls for two pianos and orchestra, so I played multiple orchestra parts on flute with the two pianists.) Was it the long nightly rehearsals that just caused us all to be exhausted and at the same time wanting to do our best? Or, was it the fact that the entire performance depended on so few of us to perform non-stop for over two and a half hours? Opening night came and went. We all could have done a better job, and still the audience loved us! I fell asleep as soon as I got home and had a good night’s sleep.
On Saturday I refused to go near my office. I took a long walk in the woods and just “chilled out”. I ate good food and thought about how easily I could play the music if the nervous emotional “static” were removed. My intention was to really ENJOY the process without stress or worry. I did run through a few parts of the music for a few minutes before I left for the theater. On the hour-long drive I listened to a radio talk show instead of the musical CD.
The Saturday and Sunday performances were totally different from Friday night. The clearing had kicked in. I was relaxed. The music and camaradarie with the actors and other musicians was fun. The audience loved us, and we all loved the process. The music seemed much easier for me, and I truly believe it was because I had finally cleared the old emotional baggage I had been carrying about being judged when I played solos. I really didn’t feel criticized or judged, and didn’t feel the audience out there – I just played to hear how beautifully I could play as I followed the actors’ voices. This is how it is supposed to feel!!
As a practitioner, teacher, and facilitator of Emotional Freedom Technique I know the merits of modeling its use in my own life. As I clear myself of all old baggage and issues I will be able to help others clear theirs more effectively!
If you have interest in learning about Emotional Freedom Technique I am offering a Free Introductory Call next Wednesday, March 3, at 4:00 p.m. EST. To register for the free call and receive the call-in information you can go to this link: http://www.arielagroup.com/TAPshopintroreg/html . And for additional information about EFT you may go to: http://www.emofree.com or http://www.eftpronetwork.com/content/anne-i-merkel-phd .
Emotional Freedom Technique for Performance Anxiety
I’ve always been a natural at playing the flute. I am so blessed because I’ve been trained classically so I read music well and I also play by ear. Usually if I’ve heard a piece of music, I can play it. My mind works in very interesting ways because often I won’t be able to tell you the name of what a song is, or who wrote it, but I’ll be able to play it. I think that comes with a strong, artistic right brain and lazy left brain when it comes to memorizing names of musical pieces.
I started performing and doing solos when I was very young. In high school I played first chair flute in a youth symphony and as a senior I presented a full-length recital of my own – just me with a piano accompanyist. I wasn’t very concerned or scared – even though I had memorized all of the pieces that I played. It just seemed like the thing to do.
I entered Indiana University School of Music the summer before my senior year in high school. I auditioned and placed first chair out of about twenty in the summer concert band. They didn’t let me play all of the first chair solos because some of the seniors had never had the opportunity and they were graduating. I understood the situation and still yearned to play my own first chair solos.
When I went back to IU the next summer I bought my new professional flute and things started to change. My flute teacher made me learn to play all over again – starting so that I couldn’t even make a sound. I went from being #1 to being a total beginner again. And then I was stacked up in competition against 59 other flute majors. Ouch!! I never did like competition, and this was brutal!! There were psychological games played among the students and so much judgement coming from the faculty. I couldn’t stand the pressure so after another year I changed majors out of the Music School so that I could continue playing and enjoying my music without the pressure. Even though I made the decision to change majors and I continued to play in the pit orchestra of the big school glee club, I still felt like a failure. I had lost my confidence and when a solo was presented to me to play I was always afraid that I would botch it.
For the next twenty-five years after graduating I only played flute for church gigs or weddings or for fun. I missed the symphony so deeply that I wouldn’t even let myself go hear others play the music that I so loved to play. I also had developed serious performance anxiety.
During the last five years I have started playing again – often. I have even been featured as a soloist several times with local groups. Currently I am playing in a local musical. I still have felt anxiety around the solos, my reading and playing abilities, my own self questions about whether I will do it right in rehearsal and then blow it during the performance.
The performance anxiety is still present. This time, however, I am neutralizing it using Emotional Freedom Technique – EFT. I am consciously utilizing a wonderful tool that helped me return from my own Dark Night of the Soul to create this fun life that I live now. And, now I’m applying it to remove something that has been in my life – bothering me for a number of years. Since it has reared its nasty head again recently, I’m going to ZAP it forever this time!! Hooray for such wonderful tools as EFT!!
I’ll let you know how my solos go after the first weekend of performances!! 
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Proven Ways to Unlock Your Intuition Now
When I was little girl I was sick a lot. In the delerium of high fever I would often notice things around me that weren’t exactly “normal”. My first official “vision” happened at six when I had surgery on my tonsils and they put me to sleep with ether. After that I was always aware of more than I could see and I had some very interesting psychic experiences growing up. Now I am blessed to be able to actually scan people’s bodies and auric fields in order to remove energetics that are unbeneficial. This is a gift, and I see it as one. And, I truly believe that we ALL can develop our intuitive abilities with very little struggle.
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A Valentine’s Day Love Story
Valentine’s Day, 1998 – somewhere in Utra Pradesh, India, I lay in bed wondering about my future. I had faxed a valentine message to my husband and knew that I might not get a response. A palm reader had prophesized that we would get a divorce. I knew things would be different when I returned from my five week tour of India. Had he been angry when I was chosen for the Rotary executive exchange instead of him? Had he been doing his “inner work” while I was doing so much of my own on this extended trip?
As I was feeling very alone and sad, a face appeared to me in the dark. It was male and somebody I did not recognize. I looked carefully at the features so I would remember this stranger if we should meet in the future. He seemed kind, and he appeared to recognize me as he stated very clearly that I didn’t need to worry – that I should have courage, be me, and I would not be alone in the future. I accepted this encouraging message as truth and soon fell asleep. In the morning a fax arrived from my husband just before we departed on our forty-two hour trip home to the US.
Valentine’s Day has always been special to me. My mother and sisters and I used to create wonderful Valentine’s cards and decorations with doilies and red hearts. I was invited out on my first date on Valentine’s when I was sweet sixteen. My car was stolen one year on Valentine’s Day when I was in Ohio and my fiance’ lived in California. That was not such a fun day.
I didn’t think much about it when a friend urged me to join him for a Valentine’s contra weekend in Knoxville, Tennessee, 2003. We had fun. I met some nice people. One man in particular seemed very enticing, and was very friendly. I enjoyed dancing with him. I really liked his long braid and beard, and his warm smile. Hmmm.
Fast forward nineteen months beyond that Valentine’s Day dance to another dance in South Carolina. I was camping with an old friend. The mysterious man that I had met in Knoxville showed up – alone – interested. My friend kidded me that it seemed that I was being “wooed” because this man with the exotic braid and wonderful smile kept showing up at our campfire. We spent LOTS of time together during that weekend. We have rarely been apart since then.
When Martin and I first met in 2003 – on Valentine’s Day – I didn’t recognize him. He says he DID recognize me. I know that I just was not finished clearing out my inner “emotional baggage” yet before getting into a life-long relationship commitment. I received another “vision” of him after the India “introduction” and after our first physical meeting, and with the information from that second psychic introduction I DID recognize him soon after we connected again at the SC dance. As we celebrated our anniversary this past weekend we both discussed how wonderful it is that we both took the time to clear out old emotional debris before we started our relationship so that it would never come between us. In our time together, even though we are very different in many ways, we truly love each other and respect our differences as we enjoy our time together. It is the best relationship either of us have ever experienced, and we know it is because we were ready for it and did our inner work!!
I like to be ENTHUSIASTIC in my Writing!!!!! ;-))
I’m doing lots of writing these days, and people are reading it. Recently I received the following comment:
“I always feel like when I see multiple punctuation marks, the person is annoyed. It reads as either yelling or ‘what are you, stupid??’”
Just because you, reader, are one of my favorite people, I just want to clarify.
I would NEVER want you to think I’m either annoyed at you or that I think you are stupid. I LOVE using bold letters, all caps, and multiple !!!’s and ???’s because I feel enthusiastic, and I really want to share that enthusiasm with you!! ) (Also the smiley faces.)
Also, I worked long and hard for a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Cross Cultural Communication. My Candidacy project included a document that I researched and really believed in all about the importance of using “correct standard American English” when getting ahead in this culture. I taught many courses of freshman composition, advanced reading and writing, MBA-level business communication. I KNOW how to do it “right”. And, as a Doctor of Philosophy in English and Spanish linguistics – with an emphasis in application – I feel that I can and WILL play with the language in my own way when it tickles my fancy!! ))
So there!! )))))))))
Creating My New Website is Exciting!!
I have had a very large website since 2002 at http://www.arielagroup.com . I have done major revisions four times over the years. Recently I decided to really make a big change and create a whole new website. I found a good web designer and started creating the site in my mind. Then I envisioning a new logo. Next new promo photos were shot and the web page lay-out was determined. Now it is my turn to write the content for the new site. It is exciting!!
On the days when the writing muse is available to me the ideas and content streams flow – just like this blog, which I REALLY enjoy writing!! Other days it is quite a stretch to squeeze out the right words. There is SO MUCH that I want to say, and so little space in which to say it!! I am also aware of how the search engines would like the wording to be categorized, so that tends to limit my flow a bit.
I feel excitement about this new website because it represents a NEW ME with NEW PURPOSE and NEW FOCUS. I haven’t changed too much about what I am really offering my clients. What has changed is my CLARITY about CLAIMING what I offer. I have so much passion around my focus areas, and I KNOW that there are many people out there looking for me right now.
On my old website it was nowhere apparent that I utilize energy techniques or that I am intuitive enough to be able to scan people’s bodies and energy fields while talking to them on the phone. On the old site I was more focused on business people and offered management consulting, corporate training, large meeting facilitation, executive success coaching, among other things which I had done for over twenty years. I’ve always been a “professional generalist” – and a VERY GOOD one at that!! Now I want something different.
I realize that I want to target a specific audience that is looking for specific tools. This is the “already awakened and on a Spiritual path” audience of people who are looking for tools to help them travel farther along that path toward conscious life transformation. Some of these are business people who wish to consciously put more Spirit into their business. There are also many people who have been thrust upon a Spiritual path or a path of searching by encountering life trauma along the way. This “dark night of the soul” is a very difficult place to be. I know because I have been there and now have a passion for helping people to release the emotional pain, learn the lessons quickly, and re-create a more authentic and conscious life after their “return” from the dark night.
I use many energy tools to help facilitate quick change, energy clearing, and conscious transformation, and one that many people have heard about is Emotional Freedom Technique. This tool is simple to learn and use, and is profound in its effects. I totally enjoy sharing it with my clients, and am claiming this on my new website as part of my “Alchemy”.
So, the new website is much like the “new me” that I created after my own experience of the “dark night of the soul”. We are both more authentic and exude passion about doing specific work that will serve many people. Let them start to come forward, because I am ready!! J
Balancing My Priorities!! EFT Helps too!! :)
Recently I decided to create a new website after seven years. This comes at the same time I am enrolled in two major study programs (like graduate school all over again!!) And, I’ve also just recently gotten involved with social networking and blogging. So, I’ve been a busy gal… oh, did I forget the art classes that I am taking weekly, and the fact that Martin DOES enjoy seeing me occasionally?? And, did I mention that we’ve scheduled three major contra dance weekends in February and March??… and that I have rehearsals every night next week for a musical that plays for two weekends?? J I’m still smiling!!
There are so many aspects of ME that are blossoming out all at the same time!! It is so much fun!! This week is the first week in eleven that I haven’t offered a free tele-workshop working with Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT). It is nice to clear the calendar a bit occasionally. In fact, instead of the tele-class I went outside and tilled my garden on the same afternoon that I had previously offered classes for ten weeks and the timing was perfect because the rains came right after that.
I tend to always have LOTS of projects going at once… just like the fact that I am always reading more than one book at the same time. I guess I get bored easily. At the same time I realize how important it is to make and stick with my priorities. After many years as an entrepreneur I am used to self-discipline and motivation. I am also used to setting my own schedules and balancing my priorities. I do this latter task now a bit differently than I used to in my prior life in corporate America.
For many years I believed that I worked better under pressure. Yes, I DID get LOTS done, however I also felt the stress, and I realize now that much of the stress was self-induced. I still pile many things into my TO DO box, however if I don’t get around to them, or I decide to go have fun instead of being a task mistress over myself I don’t panic. I realize how important PLAY and CREATIVITY and RELATIONSHIP and SELF-NURTURING and EXERCISE and GOOD EATING HABITS and (did I already say) PLAY are. These are higher priorities to me now than ANY work priorities that I set for myself, because I have finally begun to realize what is REALLY important in life!! And, if I feel any fear or stress involved I can always utilize Emotional Freedom Technique EFT, and the negative feelings clear right out so that I can focus on whatever I want to do, not what I’m feeling stressed to do!! J It’s about time that I woke up!! J
Entrepreneurial Balance
I have been an entrepreneur all of my life. When I was in grade school I mowed the lawn and gardened for my family. In high school I took the place of our regular maid for a few months and cleaned the house. I regularly offered flute lessons to younger kids whose moms would drop them off at my parent’s house. In grad school I taught classes, ran a private language school, and had a research assistantship – all while taking a full load of graduate classes. I saved my money so that I could travel as a foreign student to Mexico for a semester, and while there I taught a class at the University I attended. I was hired in 1980 to create an international training institute for a consortium of twenty-four colleges, universities, and corporations. Everything I did in that position as founding Director required entrepreneurial presence and thinking. Later in 1985 I started my own consulting and training business and it still exists today.
Over the years I have experienced varying levels of balance or lack thereof in my entrepreneurial ventures. For a number of years I was very much a Type A personality Achiever, and I could move mountains, but I wasn’t very NICE. Then I shifted into being a workaholic, losing myself in my work as my marriage lost its positive flavor. Again, I was able to create a dynasty, but I wasn’t real happy. Off and on I suffered from “Entrepreneur’s Disease” where I succumbed to the belief that only I could do something right, so I attempted to do EVERYTHING rather than delegating. Many of us take years to get over that disease!! And, it takes its toll!!
Being an entrepreneur, I was able to take a sabbatical leave from my work and my old life when that became a necessity. I focused on ME then, and the “work” was all on the inside of me – clearing out obstacles to my transformation and success in being ME. When my new life began I realized that I could still work as an entrepreneur, and this time it would be more in balance. Today, for example, I spent the morning visiting with the Love Of My Life rather than running in to my office to check e-mails and make phone calls. Even though he invited me to lunch, which at first I refused, I then decided that what was more important to ME was to be HAPPY. And, being with Martin makes me HAPPY!! So, I took another hour to make it back to the office, and guess what?? My day went fine anyway, I was very productive, and a lot got done… even though I allowed myself to have FUN in the morning… on a MONDAY MORNING!! )
Sunday is My Special Day to Re-Charge
In Jewish tradition the Sabbath day of reverence and rest was celebrated on Saturday. Christianity decided their day of worship and rest would be on Sunday. The original underlying idea was that a day should be set aside to honor one’s Creator and honor oneself by allowing time for contemplation, prayer, and respite from ordinary life and schedules.
In my life my wonderful partner, Martin, and I generally plan a weekend day together to share, play, enjoy nature together, review our week, create one-on-one time. We have elected Sunday as our special day, and generally it takes something very exceptional to pull us apart on that day. We dedicate this one day each week to conscious living, and strive to stay consciously focused on each other during the entire day.
Each weekend we do something different. Today we not only started the day with contemplating the beauty of the mountains from my balcony, before diving into our yummy brunch, but we visited with neighbors who were offering their services to fix our shared road. Later, back at Martin’s cabin we hiked all around his 28 acres and discussed our dreams for the property. We came back to the cabin as the almost-full moon rose and told stories as we made and ate a delicious dinner. It has been a wonderful day of sharing with my special man, and I am so grateful that our society allows and that we grant ourselves the opportunity to share a full day each week in bonding. We are truly blessed!!