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Dispelling the Energetic “Ash” After an Energy Therapy Session

I have learned over the years that after a major energy clearing process has been performed, there is often some energetic residue or what I call “ash” left in the area surrounding wherever the energy process was performed. I recognize...
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Video & Computer in an Off-the-grid Cabin

Tonight I'm proofing some website pages so we can launch the new Ariela Group website tomorrow. And, we're watching a video... all in an off-the-grid alternative power cabin sitting in the north central mountains of Georgia. Martin has been building his...
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EFT Coaching Case – Extra Added Benefits

There are often cases when using Energy Therapies, where a person is focusing on one issue and then other added benefits show up later. You just don't know how the  issues and emotional aspects are layered in your energy system. So...
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Coaching and Energy Work

Over twenty years ago I was not yet involved with energy therapies in the way that I am now, however I had been introduced to energy healing, color therapy, aura-reading, energy management, and other rather esoteric practices. I was facilitating a...
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EFT Coaching Case – PTSD and the Dark Night of the Soul

At a time in the past I suffered some deep emotional trauma that left me in a deep dark pit of emotional turmoil. I felt so fragile that for weeks I could not leave my house without bursting into tears....
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EFT Coaching Case – Working with PTSD

Victims of trauma are very sensitive, fragile, and fearful of getting too close to remembering the pain of their trauma. When the perceived choices are avoidance or death by emotional upheaval, most trauma victims choose avoidance. Even though these people...
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EFT Coaching Case – Issues about Tardiness

Awhile back I had a client who needed some energy therapy around her issues of often being late. What seemed like a simple case of habit soon showed itself to be much deeper, and this brought up many related issues....
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Letting Go of the OLD story!!

Years ago I felt very attached to several old stories in my life. The more I focused on these old memories of people, relationships, past events, situations that didn't seem to want to change,  other melancholy and nostalgic kinds of thinking...
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EFT for Coaches Intro call today

This afternoon I facilitated a special EFT for Coaches Introduction call that was attended by a good group of coach colleagues. On the call we discussed some of the issues around coaching, running a successful six or seven-figure coaching practice,...
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The Eighteenth Camel – An Ancient Arab Parable

This article used to appear on my old website. It was placed there by a friend, past student in my MBA class at University of South Carolina, and first web designer, Ekaterina Solovieva. She now resides back in her home country of...
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Maintaining Health in a PanicDemic

My dear friend Sukoshi Rice has written the following article this week, and I would like to share it with you here. "We are in the midst of a panic-demic of unusual proportions.  As my brother in NYC wrote, in...
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EFT World Summit Summary…

What a week it has been for EFT enthusiasts world-wide! Most of the people on my EFT TAPshop call this week had been participating, and they reported multiple break-through's as they listened to the various presenters and topics during the...
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EFT or Tapping World Summit – Report on Days 5, 6, 7

As the EFT Tapping World Summit comes close to an end I am still scrambling to make time for all of the calls. This has been a full and energetic week of quality presentations, and I found speakers on Days...
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EFT or Tapping World Summit – Report on Days 5 & 6

Wow - it seems that the EFT World Summit was just getting warmed up last week. Days 5 and 6 were great! The topics were dynamic and speakers were excellent. I was especially excited about the presentations by Carol Look...
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EFT or Tapping World Summit – Report on Day 4

I was excited by Day 4 of the EFT World Summit session on clearing pain. It provided multiple ways to address pain using EFT. These different approaches are all included in the way that I address a client with pain because...