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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Creating My New Website is Exciting!!

I have had a very large website since 2002 at https://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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Energetic De-toxing with EFT – can seem like a cold or flu

Today is SUCH a wonderful day, and I feel better than I've felt all week. In the last several weeks I have been facilitating lots of energy work with others using Emotional Freedom Technique EFT. When I facilitate this I tap...
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My Alchemy Shifts My World – EFT and Reiki make a big difference!

When I worked full-time as a top level Director of Training & Development within a large manufacturing conglomerate I didn't often talk about the energy tools that I used on myself, my friends and family, private clients, and my pets. I am a...
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Distance Emotional Freedom Technique and Neuro Emotional Technique

Wow! Today I had a fun time with a phone coaching client. She attended my EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)  January tele-class series and learned and applied EFT with other participants. In our one-on-one session she had the option of bringing in...
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The Corporate Alchemist recommends Emotional Freedom Technique

For many years I have been known as the Corporate Alchemist. I guess I noticed that I was a change agent even when I was a young girl in primary school, so it makes sense that after twenty-five years working...
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Emotional Freedom Technique sets you FREE!!

After many years of training, consulting, counseling, utilizing many healing modalities with clients in over seventy-five countries and all over the US and Canada, I am so excited about sharing Emotional Freedom Technique with my clients, community, friends!! Why do...
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Emotional Freedom Technique Provides Side Benefits in Groups

Recently I have worked with two separate groups in multiple-week tele-class series. In both classes we utilized Emotional Freedom Technique. EFT is a wonderful tapping technique that accesses the body's electro-magnetic field by tapping points on the body that correspond...
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Expanding our Breathing/Living Capacity with Emotional Freedom Technique

This afternoon I facilitated an international tele-class where we utilized Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for expanding breathing capacity. One participant requested that issue because she was having problems taking in a full breath of air. Another person mentioned that she had...