The Mysterious Shifting Ledger Numbers
Welcome to Miracle Monday… and my blog post #101!! Hooray!! It has been fun sharing my Alchemist musings with you for 100 previous posts… now on to a mind-boggling “miracle” that happened to me in my past.
Many years ago I went through a period of financial stress when my ex-husband was in graduate school. We had gone heavily into debt to pay for his four years of schooling, and then we moved across country for the second time in just a few years. Neither one of us had income for awhile and it was my job to balance the budget and pay the bills.
Many people now know what it feels like to get behind on payments, to see more out-flow than in-flow, to feel a sense of desperation and panic when bills come due. I am familiar with those feelings, and they are totally stressful, frustrating, and humiliating at times.
There was a time when one big bill loomed before me. I had it marked on my monthly bill ledger for when a balloon payment was due. Each month as the due date came nearer I looked at the ledger and wondered how I would collect all of the money I needed to make that payment. It was etched in my mind – the date it was due, the amount that was due. My photographic memory saw it clearly even when I was not looking at the ledger, and it was reinforced every month when I paid the other bills and marked them into the accounting columns.
The time finally arrived when the balloon payment was due. I was desperate. The money was not available to me yet to pay the bill. I could only imagine the consequences of not paying that bill. I didn’t know what to do.
A spiritual philosophy had taught me that if I went ahead and wrote a check for a bill – in faith, even without having the money present in the account to pay for it, that the money would show up soon and that I would then be able to mail the check. I decided that this would be a good opportunity to put this philosophy to a test.
I opened the ledger to begin writing out the check for the appropriate amount. Much to my surprise the due date had shifted. The payment amount was still written in my own handwriting, but had shifted to the following month. Here I was, after all of these months looking at the due date, memorizing it, seeing it in my mind’s eye, and now the date had changed. This was truly a miracle! I rubbed my eyes several times and looked at it over and over, wondering if I was going crazy.
Well, the following month the money was available and I thankfully paid off that bill. What a gift I had received in being granted one more month! And, I will never know how that date changed, but it did, and it saved me much hassle and hardship! I am truly grateful for that mysterious shifting ledger number!
I would love to share your similar miracles on Miracle Monday – with or without your name. Please comment to this AlchemistAnne blog with your stories, or feel free to contact Alchemist Anne at: http://www.arielagroup.com/contact .
Quickly Handling the Emotions of Traumatic Stress
Recently I met with a client who was facing a number of traumatic issues in life all at once and the stress had brought her to her knees. She had talked with therapists and friends to no avail. She could no longer function in her life or safely drive, she suffered from panic attacks, and she constantly broke into uncontrollable tears. She may have had other symptoms too, but I did not ask for more detail. She was new to meridian tapping techniques and EFT.
In our first consultation she was crying uncontrollably and I wanted to get the most from our hour-long session, so I cut right to the symptoms. I realized that the priority issue for this first call was her feeling of loss. In this case I did not ask for details at first. She acknowledged that loss was a major factor in her distress and we went with that. I surmised some details on my own about her present issues, and as we progressed asked her for related issues from earlier in her life about which she could better talk without emotion.
At the beginning of this first session I taught her two major tapping points (see #1 & 2 below), and soothed her through coaching as we tapped on these two points. When her crying subsided I led her through a standard short form of EFT focused on specific losses she had experienced at several times in her life. At the end of this first session she was able to laugh again. I urged her to utilize the two-point tapping procedure whenever she felt emotional until our next session. She reported later that just in using those points she managed to get through the next month with only a couple of emotional break-downs.
Often in a case like this when deep sadness, trauma, or anger are in the forefront of our emotions and start to bleed through uncontrollably it may be because our left brain is in a frenzy. That “chatty” analytical side of our brain can cause trouble if we listen to it, and can tangle details, confuse an issue, send negative messages to our subconscious, put blame on ourselves or others, and generally cause us to react emotionally as we get stressed. By tapping certain meridian points the negative mind frenzy and emotional waves can be put in check.
1. The “third eye” point between our two eyebrow points is a potent tapping location, I instruct anyone overwrought with emotion to tap this point first, as it will usually quiet the left brain by breaking up its thought patterns. In many cases I’ll have a client alternate between this point and the next point until they can better control their emotions.
2. The karate chop point on the side of the hand (between the base of the little finger and beginning of the wrist) relates to the small intestine meridian. This particular meridian often relates to issues involving feeling lost, vulnerable, abandoned, insecure, feeling deep unrequited love, among other symptoms. It is also a wonderful point through which to access the right mind subconscious and electro-magnetic field. Whether one taps here until emotional pain subsides, taps with specific intentions, or utilizes specific set-up statements while tapping this point, it is still a good diffuser of emotions.
So, the next time you feel emotion that seems out of your control, you may wish to try tapping on your third eye area or the side of your hand until you feel relieved.
To learn more feel free to contact me at: http://www.arielagroup.com/contact or sign up to learn more about meridian tapping and EFT at: http://www.EFT-TAPshops.com .
Procrastination has Many Faces
Yesterday was TAPshop Tuesday, and our session was a good one focusing on the many aspects of procrastination.
As I introduced the topic and started going over the many aspects the discussion took an interesting turn.
One participant said that he had a major problem clarifying what he wanted, so, in turn put off doing anything because he had no sense of direction.
Another member shared that her brother was on a life-long search for the “perfect” partner, so at age 70 he was still a bachelor, and she sensed that in setting his standards so high he was actually protecting himself from committing to a relationship.
At this point we discussed how lack of clarity or insisting on perfectionism might both be related to a reluctance or inability to commit, with a surface symptom of procrastination. The real issue to clear here might be that of an inability to commit, and in doing that the procrastination might disappear.
We also included a detailed analysis of Law of Attraction at this point in the call, and discussed how imperative it is to hold the feeling of what we want to accomplish, even when we do not have the specific details yet.
I believe that usually when a client presents to me saying he or she has an issue with procrastination, that this is merely the symptom and that there is usually a deeper underlying cause for putting off the decision or action in question. When we clear the blockage around the underlying issue then the resistance to take action usually disappears also and the person is able to flow forward with intentional movement.
Some underlying issues of procrastination, in addition to those mentioned before include:
- fear / fear of the unknown / fear of success / fear of failure
- perfectionism / want to do it right / need ALL of the info before starting
- just don’t WANT to do it / not aligned with the action or decision
- might get into trouble
- too much to do / overwhelm / burnout
- shifting priorities / confusion / paralysis analysis
- etc.
In your own life you may wish to identify where you tend to procrastinate, and then look deeper to see if you can discover an underlying issue creating that symptom. Is there a deeper reason that causes you to hold back on making a decision or taking an action? Sometimes this is rather obvious, while at other times it takes some insight, thought, or even an outside support person to help you to identify what the deeper issues might be. Good luck in your own investigation!
On our next TAPshop call we will continue to discuss procrastination and will hold an EFT tapping session around clearing the root causes of each participant’s procrastination issues. This will occur on October 6th, so there is still time to sign up and receive yesterday’s recording in preparation for the second procrastination call. Go to: http://www.EFT-TAPshops.com . Hope to hear you there!
The Invisible Voice of Reason!
Well, it is Miracle Monday and I want to get out and take a walk in the rain, so this will be short… and still rather profound, as the experience itself was amazing!
While living in the San Francisco Bay area years ago I was having a stressful day. I had taken a business extention for finishing my yearly federal tax filing and intended to wrap up the process on the day before the extention was due. At the last minute I realized that I needed something that would take more time. Aaarggghhh! I hated doing taxes, especially for my business and for my husband’s too! And, the minutia was driving me crazy!
I was totally stressed and as the anxiety point reached a climax I heard a voice literally YELL at me… “Look at the due date!”
“Well,” I thought, “why would I need to look at the date when I know perfectly well it is tomorrow… and, who in the heck just yelled at me??!”
I was home alone, so this was pretty weird. Anyway I did look up the extention due date and, much to my surprise, I realized that it was not the 15th of the month, but was actually the end of the month, so I had an extra two weeks to finish the paperwork! I was so thankful! And, still amazed and awed, that “somebody” on the “other side” would have the kindness and interest to save me from an emotional meltdown.
I still look back on that occurrence as an amazing gift – and miracle!
If you’d like to share your miracles with me you can comment here or contact me at: http://www.arielagroup.com/contact .
Supporting Health & Well-being
I traveled through India with four other Americans for over a month in 1998. I was the only person who didn’t get sick. They thought I was lucky. I feel that there were several reasons that I didn’t succumb to major intestinal distresses. These include:
- I daily massaged certain neuro-lymphatic points to help my body’s lymph system drain any and all toxins that I injested.
- I had built up a natural resistance to various intestinal bacteria after drinking from a natural well at my home that probably had more bacteria than the average city drinking water that the others used.
- I was injesting a natural mineral complex that supported my immune system so that I did not suffer respiratory issues from the air pollution, and it probably supported my intestinal fortitude also.
- I performed daily energy processes on myself to clear issues, emotions, old baggage inside of me. My reward in this area was some very illuminating experiences while I traveled throughout north central India, and the creation of a new life when I returned home.
Do I believe in supporting my own health and well-being? You bet! Whether I am using conventional and practical prevention methods or alternative holistic techniques to keep myself well, I feel that it is well worth the time and energy that I have put into learning how to do it. And, I highly endorse this to others. The healthy pay-back is definitely worthwhile!
Discovering Subtle Underlying Issues
Many years ago while I was married I used to have a re-occurring nightmare. It was always about my husband flaunting other women in front of me. I knew this was really not about my dear husband because he was a very faithful and loyal partner, but it baffled me as I continued having these nasty dreams. Finally one day I proclaimed that I wanted to know what the dreams were about and who that person really was. That night I had another bad dream, and this time the guy turned around. I was amazed to see that the deceiving perpetrator was actually a man I had dated in graduate school who really did deceive me. I had forgotten about how devastated I was so many years before, and now it had come back up to be healed.
Years later I was divorced and went through a very difficult time in my life where I missed my old life and also suffered from a failed love affair. I used many energy tools on myself, worked with coaches and a therapist to get me through the pain I was feeling in this “dark night of the soul”. After awhile I felt better and believed that I had cleared all of the old residue around my trauma. I moved forward with creating a new, happier life. I attracted a wonderful and loving partner.
Recently I’ve been doing lots of energy tapping as I facilitate EFT TAPshops and other one-on-one sessions with my clients. I enjoy this because as I help others to clear their issues I am actually getting benefits myself.
It amazed me recently when an aspect of the old hurt of abandonment and loss came up to be cleared. When this happened I went back to the more recent major event to see if it was the source of the emotion I was feeling. That was clear, but to my surprise the original old issue from graduate school showed up. And, at this point I realized that in all of my clearing during the “dark night of my soul” I had neglected to go back and clear the earlier trauma from the man who had deceived me earlier. At this point I went back through my life and thought of all occurrences where I had felt abandoned, deceived, led on, cheated on, etc.
I’m still surprised that I had totally forgotten the most traumatic event of my earlier life when the later trauma occurred. And now I understand that once a certain vibration is in one’s frequency field it can stay there and attract more of that, ending in increased trauma each time until the issue is cleared. Now I specifically search for the very subtle and under-lying issues that – even though they may not seem related – sometimes hide and cause major blockages in moving forward in everyday life.
For more on this subject I invite you to join us today on our EFT TAPshop call at 4:00 p.m. EDT. Go to http://www.eft-tapshops.com to register now!
Miracle Watching – ESP at Music Camp
When I was a sophomore in high school I attended a summer music camp. It was a fun time staying in college dormitories with my peers at Eastern KY State University. Some other musicians from my high school were there with me and we not only shared lots of wonderful symphonic and band music, but we also spent many hours in nightly discussions of interesting topics.
Among topics about boys and relationships we also examined the paranormal of psychic experiences, ET’s, and extra sensory perception. We had fun talking about these esoteric topics.
While I was at camp my family had gone to Florida for a vacation. This was back before cellphones and in a time when I was only allowed to make a long distance phone call in case of emergency. I wrote letters if I wanted to connect with my friends and family, and that was the rule.
One day in orchestra rehearsal I started getting a strange feeling. I felt like I really needed to call my family in Florida. I had no reason for this, but the feeling would not go away. It pestered me to such an extent that I decided that I would cross the line and place a long distance call to Florida to make sure that everything was OK.
When I called the motel to talk with my parents the operator informed me that they had checked out. This was strange because it was at least a week before they were to go home. It didn’t make sense to me.
At this point I knew that my inner feeling had picked up on something important going on, so I made a second long distance phone call to my maternal grandmother. She informed me that my family had left Florida to drive home because my father’s mother was in the hospital dying.
The rest of the story is that I had to temporarily leave music camp to attend my paternal grandmother’s funeral, and from that day on I began to rely more heavily on listening to that little inner voice. It had screamed at me to pay attention then, and now it only needs to whisper and I will hear it speaking.
At the time I thought it was a miracle. It also fell into that category of ESP that I had been discussing with my friends. Since then I have consciously developed my psychic and inner listening abilities so that I can use them in my energy therapy work.
Maybe you can relate to this “miracle” from an occurrence in your own life? Care to share? If so, you can leave a comment here at this blog site or contact me at: http://www.arielagroup.com/contact .
September 11 Thoughts
My first husband grew up in New York City. When we were married we went monthly to “play” in the city. When he proposed to me we visited NYC to buy my engagement diamond and ring from the diamond district there. When we went back to pick up my finished beautiful engagement ring we took my favorite grandmother along and we celebrated by having lunch at Windows on the World at the top of one of the World Trade Center towers.
The view from there was breathtaking. We looked down onto the convergence of the rivers, onto the Statue of Liberty, the Varisano Narrows Bridge, Manhattan, Staten Island, and on toward the open water. It was magestic, magical, powerful, exciting, beautiful, memorable.
During that celebratory lunch I found a small pearl in my oyster, and I still have that momento somewhere even though the husband and ring have long since left my life and my grandmother has died. Even the tower is gone now.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was alone in my home in SC. The phone rang several times with nobody there. Then it rang again. A girlfriend was calling to tell me the horrible news of what was happening. It was shocking to me. She was watching it unfold on television. I was watching it inside of my own head while she described the atrocities. When she hung up the phone rang again. It was my boyfriend calling from California with the same news. He had tried to call earlier but the phone lines across the country were tangled and filled to capacity. We were talking when the second plane hit and then when the first tower collapsed.
When we ended our call I decided not to turn on the television. I could well imagine what the scene looked like, and I felt that I did not need to carry that trauma within me nor add my energy to the global focus of terror and dread. Instead I went into meditation and started doing distance energy work for those involved in the horrendous happenings in New York City.
For anybody not familiar with astral travel or distance healing or psychic energy work in general, it is really a normal-feeling process – at least to me. I’ve been doing this most of my life. An “alchemist” shifts or transmutes energy, and that is what I do.
I already knew what that area of New York City looked like. I had spent time in Manhattan. I imagined myself going to ground zero. I felt fear – my own as well as that of others. My role, as I saw it, was to bring a sense of peace to those scared souls – the ones who had died, were dying, were still alive and not sure what would happen next. I started energetically “smudging” or cleansing the area to clear the negative energies of fear, dread, terror, hopelessness, anger, etc. I connected with “lost souls” who were not sure where to go. I connected with other energy workers who were doing the same as I was – trying to hold the energetic form so that there could be some semblance of balance rather than adding myself to the legions of people world-wide who were focusing on the negativity of the event while watching it unfold on television. I felt it was my duty to hold that polarity of peace rather than chaos. There were many of us doing this.
I consciously worked with transmuting energy in NYC for over an hour that morning, then throughout the next few days. Each time I focused there I would evaluate what I felt and go about “cleansing” the energetics. There was a huge global focus on ground zero via all kinds of media throughout the ordeal and its aftermath and cleanup. Many people from all over the world sent prayers, positive wishes, notes of encouragement and love, messages of support, flowers - to that single point on the planet. We were all there holding a positive energetic polarity in a place where strong negativity had dealt such a blow. We had to create a balance.
Just last week I spoke with a young person who lives now in New York City. She had never seen the twin towers – they fell before she was born. She will only know them through legend, stories, and an occasional view in an un-cut movie shot in NYC.
Give Healing a Chance!
When many individuals present to physicians with pain or ailments they want an immediate cure and instantaneous healing. They feel that they “got sick” quickly, so they want to get well immediately. I know that when I’ve suffered from food poisoning in the past I’ve felt this way.
I believe that what people don’t understand or remember is that they didn’t really “get sick overnight”, but their lifestyle, environment, emotional burden and stress level probably created the scenario for illness over time. When the body could not stand any more, it shouted for help by showing symptoms, purging itself, alerting the person that the body had turned into a toxic waste dump that needed attention.
My parents still don’t believe in alternative health modalities. Even though I was married to a chiropractor for seventeen years they don’t recognize that as a viable occupation or health practice. But, I am a strong proponent for supporting health and wellness – in conventional AMA-related ways as well as in using alternative holistic techniques.
I offer the following points to anybody who wants to stay well or get well:
- Realize the ramifications of your lifestyle. If you are living in the “fast lane”, then you may have to pay for it in some way.
- Be reasonable about your health and face the facts about how much you nurture yourself to stay or get well.
- Realize that meds can mask the pain or feelings associated with a condition, but they may not heal you or cure the root cause of the illness or dis-ease.
- Know that unless you remove the cause of your illness through some change, that you will not be able to really return to full health.
- Cutting out the disease will not cure a lifestyle that may have caused the disease.
- You have the power to heal yourself – from the inside out. Don’t wait until it is too late!
- Keeping yourself well costs much less than getting well after an illness.
- When you are convalescing you must give your body time to heal. Be realistic about how long it took to break down, and allow plenty of time for the healing process!
- Seek different kinds of assistance as you are in the healing process. Don’t just give your personal power away to one or two health providers and expect them to make you well. Take on the responsibility yourself and you will experience the difference!
- Use the holistic tools that you have studied. Apply them to see good results in your health and wellness!
If you have any questions about the points above, feel free to contact me via this blog, or by going to: http://www.arielagroup.com/contact .
Tuesday’s TAPshop Talk – Clearing Re-occurring Patterns
Have I mentioned before that I really enjoy writing? Well, I do! I guess that is a Mercurial Gemini trait! 
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After all of my summer travel I’ve come back raring to go forward and do more fun things in my life and my business. And, one thing I really want to do more of is to WRITE! So, I’m going to commit more energy to my blog… in fact I want to focus on specific topics on certain days of each week.
I’ve already introduced Miracle Mondays… and now we’ll dedicate Tuesdays to “TAPshop talk“. What is this? Well, most of you know by now that every Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. ET (or at least the first 4 Tuesdays of each month) I offer a live group coaching with EFT session that I call an EFT “TAPshop” rather than “workshop”… because we focus on applying EFT and other meridian tapping techniques to specific issues in our lives, and using EFT and other MTT’s means that we all “tap” together on the call!
So far the group is loyal and small, and each individual is getting LOTS of individual support and personal coaching in these calls… for a mere monthly pittance! Anyway, I’d like to share some of the topics from our calls here in my blog on Tuesdays, so if you can’t join along you can at least focus on a universal issue, in your own way, on your own!
Last week’s call incorporated many tips of advanced EFT around how to really make EFT work for you. As I coach new people each week I can truthfully report that in the last month most of the people I’ve worked with report that they see EFT work for others and they are not getting those same results in their own lives. Last week’s call focused on all of the reasons why this might be occurring. We went very deeply into the concept of energy therapies, meridians, finding the underlying issues, choosing the priority issues that would make the biggest difference when applying EFT or another MTT’s, etc. It was a potent call and I received some very good feedback afterwards.
Today’s call will focus on clearing re-occurring negative patterns. So, here is something for you to ponder:
Think about your life and identify whether you have any old re-occurring pattern in your life that you would like to let go of. Many people that I work with have been able to clear the following issues, and this list might trigger a recognition in your own mind. Have you been:
- Participating in relationships that follow the same patterns over & over… and fizzle out for the same reasons?
- Sustaining injuries in the same general areas of your body – re-occurring head injuries / same side of the body injuries / etc.?
- Experiencing accidents over & over – one client experienced 25 fender-benders before he broke the energetic cycle, and hasn’t had a single accident since/ one client had others running into her car regularly until she broke the cycle?
- Losing money or spending all of your money in various ways, where each time you get ahead the money just seems to disappear?
- Experiencing re-occurring nightmares, over & over?
- Attracting experiences with the same kinds of people posing as your bosses, employees, business associates, and you’d like to clear the slate and start over with a different type of person in those roles?
- Creating co-dependent relationships where you feel that you can’t exist without the other person providing X for you?
- Experiencing losses of different kinds that all seem to be coming one after another and creating great emotional pain?
- Attracting what seems like ”bad luck”, “jinxes”, etc. while others around you are doing well?
- Losing jobs, contracts, clients, your sense of stability?
- Failing to close your sales with customers, clients, patients?
- Coming down with all kinds of strange physical symptoms that nobody can explain, but that cause you discomfort?
- Experiencing any other cycles or re-occurring patterns in any aspect of your life, that you would like to clear?
These are just a few of the cases that I’ve seen with people who get stuck in an energetic pattern that can easily be shifted and cleared using the direct connection with the subconscious and your electro-magnetic field. This is the kind of clearing that we will be doing later today in our EFT TAPshop session.
Since September is a wonderful time for new beginnings and changes, I’d like to offer a special to everybody who joins our TAPshop this month. In addition to the weekly live calls with recordings that you will receive, for all who join now you may also receive recordings for two very popular past calls.
- Clearing old issues around MONEY, abundance, earning, spending – complete with a set of suggested set-up statements from which you can create your own that focuses on your specific issue around $$.
- Subtle reasons why EFT may not seem to be working, and how to shift your practice so that it definitely works for you!
Just go to http://www.EFT-TAPshops.com and sign up to join us today and on the first four Tuesdays of each month at 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Try the TAPshops for one month and you’ll experience beneficial changes in your life!