EFT TAPshop Session focuses on Clarity!
Many people have seen the video or read “The Secret” in the past few years. The information about how to manifest using the Law of Attraction is definitely a key to creating the life we each wish to have. Now there are many teachings about the Law of Attraction (LOA) and books on how to manifest are very popular. Still, there are many of us who feel frustrated at times because our main desires do not show up immediately in our lives.
In our first weekly TAPshop session my friend and colleague, Sue Bridgeford, and I focused on the issue of CLARITY as we explained its importance in the manifestation process. Without clear focus or clarity about exactly what we desire, the fogginess confuses our own subconscious and all outside powers that are attempting to aid us in our manifesting process. And, in looking at the concept of clarity, many other issues are also involved.
We created a set-up phrase of “Even though I am unsure of how to be clear, and I’d really like to be clear all of the time, I deeply and completely love and accept myself.” It evolved, as all set-up phrases do, and we noticed that the following issues came up from participants that were related:
- fear of commitment
- unworthiness
- fear of getting what we want
- fear for our safety if we get what we want
- fear of success – in various areas of our life
- fear of failure
- fear of others’ reactions to us being clear about what we want – and getting it!
- fear of the change in our life or lifestyle that might occur if we get what we want
- fear that if we get what we want we might lose it
- fear of the hassle involved with getting what we want (lots of money = taxes to pay, etc.)
So, if you would like to know more about how we utilized Emotional Freedom Technique in the workshop, there is a very good audio recording made of our TAPshop session and all who register for the on-going weekly EFT workshops will have access to this and all of the other recordings. It was a very good session! And, if you wish to use EFT on your own clarity, I would suggest that you gauge and work on any personal charge you might have on the bulleted items above as part of the process.
For more information, or to register you may go to: http://arielagroup.com/pages/tapshopreg0309.html, or to read more about the EFT programs that I offer you may go to: http://www.planetteleclass.com or http://www.eftpronetwork.com/content/anne-i-merkel-phd .
Peace Within
When I was a little girl, whenever I was given the opportunity to make a wish I would wish for Peace on Earth. Yes, I was a bit different back then too! It took many years for me to realize that the best way to create peace on the exterior is to first create peace within.
I have a warrior nature even though I tend toward being an introvert. My Saggitarian moon is very good at throwing thunderbolts when called for, and I used to think that the way to creating the best life for myself was through fighting for it. The warrior nature is a noble one – especially when used appropriately. It has taken many years to learn how to use this inner strong YANG (masculine) energy to create things with love, compassion, tenderness. I am finally glad to be in a female body and am getting better at balancing the YIN with YANG.
When I experienced the end of my old life and encountered the Dark Night of my Soul, I spent several years in emotional turmoil. I found it very hard to let go of my old life, my relationships, my habits, my community, my dream house, my clients, my artificial reality. When I finally woke up and realized that the old “story” and my nostalgia for it were holding me back I made a daily routine of focusing on the feelings of PEACE of mind, LOVE, JOY. It didn’t take too long until my life became a totally different and more authentic reflection of my true SELF, and it is now FULL of peace, love, joy,… and abundance!!
I enjoy helping others to take less time than I did in the process of finding inner peace through balance and conscious living. In fact, I am rolling out a program on March 18 entitled Abundant Living and Loving: Conscious Life Transformation Through Achieving Freedom from Blocked Emotions and Detrimental Self-Talk. It will be FUN to help others to rise to a higher level in their lives and careers!! This is where my passion is now and I KNOW that by creating the peace within we can also achieve it on the outside!! 
Read more at http://www.ConsciousLivingEzine.com .
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
Law of Attraction – Riding the River of Abundance
In one of the latest Abraham-Hicks publications, with the accompanying audio and video formats, there is a focus on staying in the flow of abundance. The analogy of paddling up-river against the current versus flowing down-stream WITH the current is made. We have all heard this comparison before. And yet, we all have at least one aspect of life where we may still be paddling up-stream and stressing against the natural flow.
I often urge my clients, and I remind myself, that if something feels difficult, or if there is stress in performing an action, then maybe it needs to be analyzed for its appropriateness. When we are really in the flow of Universal energy, life is easy. The flow allows us to easily move in the direction we wish to travel and achieve what we want. It makes our tasks painless and we are able to accomplish more than when we are struggling.
I endorse conscious living. Daily meditation of some form is one potent tool that we can utilize to stay conscious. In meditation, when the right brain takes over and dominates the analytical left brain, the subtleties of energy flow are more apparent. For us to consciously utilize the Law of Attraction for our own benefit we need to be able to get out of the way and FLOW! When we are conscious we can better follow our instincts and consciously perform the steps that logically lead to fulfillment of our dreams, instead of struggling or thrashing about, resisting the practical steps toward manifesting our desires. We constantly sabotage ourselves when we struggle with trying to manipulate outside evidences rather than taking care of the inside blockages and struggles.
Life sure will be easier when we stay conscious and flow with the forces of the Universe to allow the “right things” to happen!!
Emotional Freedom Flowing Forward!!
What a fun day I had today!!
Yesterday afternoon was the first tele-class call for EMOTIONAL FREEDOM for the Holidays, and it went well, was well-attended, and we had FUN!! I referred to several techniques mentioned in my book, Flowing Forward: A Guide to Transforming Your Life from the Inside Out, and then instructed people in the first steps of Emotional Freedom Technique. Next call (12-9-08) we will discuss personal life qualities and how to use them for prioritizing and delegating. I’ll also lead everyone through a full Emotional Freedom Technique process with some laser coaching. It should be FUN, and life-changing!! If you want to join us it is not too late… you can go to: http://is.gd/9cwa to register.
Today flowed because I allowed myself to take a beautiful morning walk along the mountain ridges in my neighborhood. Then I cooked a nice lunch for myself. I participated in two powerful conference calls, and then watched several hours of EFT videos tonight. Good stuff!! The day just seemed to FLOW… and I flowed with it!! (That is why it is so LATE now that I’m writing this blog!! 
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I feel Grateful!!
The weekend is winding down. I have connected with friends and family, eaten many wonderful feasts, utilized my mind, body, spirit in various ways. I have become re-charged for a new month beginning tomorrow, and I am excited about December and all that it will bring.
I am looking forward to starting my EMOTIONAL FREEDOM for the HOLIDAYS series of tele-calls on Tuesday, (learn more at: http://is.gd/9cwa) and I feel excited that I will share with some wonderful people on these calls, where we will co-mingle our energies to create the right tone to inspire our little call community and then let that heightened energy vibration spread through us to everyone we meet during the Holiday Season!! WOW – the power of collective intentionality!! I am grateful for such wonder, and I am grateful to YOU, my reader, for sharing your interest by reading this Alchemist Anne blog. Have a wonderful last month of 2008!!
We Attract What We Perceive as Real
Recently I attended a local chamber of commerce business after hours event. I listened to a conversation of several people about the economic situation in the US now. One person was going on and on about how it is like a depression. Another reported that the media is calling it a recession. A third person said that the problems now are all because of the media reporting so much negativity that everybody started believing it and stopped spending money.
To each of these people their perception was reality. I enjoyed observing the different degrees of “buy-in” to the negativity that each of these three individuals reflected.
It didn’t surprise me that the most negative advocate of “gloom and doom” was a woman who had briefly been a coaching client of mine. She stopped coming when the coaching brought her to a point where she had to make some changes in her life and in her perception of being a victim. It also didn’t surprise me that the person who was most optimistic and blamed the media for economic problems, said she had stopped watching the negativity on television. She also reported that she had changed jobs recently in a proactive way, and was very happy with her new company. She was NOT a victim, and seemed much happier and more grounded than the first woman.
Unfortunately our society supports the concept of victimhood, so most people perceive themselves as being subject to the conditions around them. Others of us see how we actually create our own surroundings by attracting what we focus on. We contradict what the media and society are trying to get us to believe. We take back and claim our personal power, and so we attract a more positive and powerful reality around ourselves.
Aha – you just can’t avoid the Law of Attraction… any more than you can avoid gravity on this planet!!
My Creative Day
Today I promised myself that I would focus on my art and do only things that were creative. Well, in this mind mode I ended up creating in all different areas.
Tonight and tomorrow I’m signed up for a fiber and paper painting workshop at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. Although I visit the FS at least once per week or more, and I participate as MC for Fall Festivals, flautist in the Morris Dance band, regular contra dance gypsy, and past Garland dancer, this will be my first official class at the school. In preparation for the class I dedicated today to getting my art materials out of storage and getting in the mood to paint and create.
I started my day out checking e-mails, then I took a walk for inspiration. On the walk I re-designed my website… something that takes lots of creative energy and that I’d been working on for awhile. With the fresh inspiration of a crisp autumn day – complete with brisk wind to keep me flowing, I created the grid that my new site designer will be able to use as she creates a new logo and new over-all look for the site. I’m excited and ready to clarify the Ariela Group of Wholistic Services so that I can attract just the people who will really benefit from my special “alchemy”. My old site is a cumbersome 150+ page maze, so this new site will be so much easier to navigate!! )
Then, with all kinds of creativity oozing out of my pores, I took photographs of my most recent mandala paintings with my new digital camera. Wow – so much fun!! ) And, finally I got to my art and textile art supplies and ended up finding all kinds of treasures that I had forgotten about. Watch out world – the creative juices are flowing – and Alchemist Annie is having FUNNNNNNNNN!!! )
The Art of Allowing The Law of Attraction to Work
I love the power of Allowing!
I remember when I was a little girl I’d ride my tricycle around the paths of my fenced-in back yard and imagine that it was my palomino horse Trigger. I’d dress up in my red cowgirl outfit, strap on my six-shooter, and off I’d ride into the sunset… or at least around the bend to the big apple tree. I imagined myself on a large blonde horse, riding gracefully across the fields with the wind blowing my own blonde hair. Several years later when my grandmother bought herself a horse at age 65 my parents decided that we would buy a couple of horses to keep on the family farm so we could ride with Grandma. We ended up buying a Tennessee walking horse who had been a parade horse in a previous life. He was a gorgeous palomino, and of course, his name was Trigger. For several years in high school this wonderful animal and I had fun adventures galloping across the farm fields and hills, parading for the cows and other horses. I marveled at how a little girl’s dream had manifested – even down to the horse’s name!!
Life got more detailed complicated. School, jobs, marriages, entrepreneurial contracts, several moves across the country, clients, schedules, pets, … I bought a house and meanwhile wrote my criteria for a dream house. Two years later a friend told us about a special house – under forclosure – for a price we could afford. WOW! I found the paper where I had written my “wish list” and all of the criteria were there. All I had done was to clarify what I wanted, write down the details, and move on with my life… and the rest came to me.
Next it was time to manifest a new car. I did my research and created a “wish list” using a business management decision-making formula which I was teaching in my Director of Training & Development capacity. The conglomerate corporation for which I worked had six locations in five states. Using my own wish list as an example I trained twenty-four different audiences on the process. Before the series was finished I had found the perfect car that met all of my criteria. I bought it in PA and said I would pick it up the next month when I was there on business and drive it home then. I’ve loved my wonderful car ever since that time, and all I did was to clarify, remind myself what I was manifesting, and let it happen!!
The Law of Attraction is so potent – and Allowing is an integral part of that. If we can all just trust the process and get out of the way, miracles WILL and DO happen!! )
The New World Order – of hope and unity and inspiration to grow.
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.-Nelson Mandela
Since the election results were announced and Barack Obama became our nation’s new President-Elect I have read numerous articles and e-mails expressing a world-wide sense of hope for the future. In watching Mr. Obama’s acceptance speech it seemed to me that his approach will be in-clusive rather than ex-clusive. In other words, during his years in office I believe that he will be open to all kinds of ideas from all kinds of people and will strive to treat all as equals with respect rather than favor just a few to the exclusion of others.
It is time for a unifying force to lead our great nation, and Barack Obama may be able to do this better than anybody since our founding fathers (and mothers). Our new President-elect exudes a sense of inner power and self-confidence. He is a wonderful model to so many people who have felt like victims for so long. Just as the quote above from Nelson Mandela says, as President Obama lets his light shine he will model that so that others will feel the confidence needed to grow and shine their own lights. I’m excited that I will be here to watch and participate in this process!
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