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Fat, Tired, Diabetic, Legs Cramping, Lack of Sleep, Bad Dreams?

chubs2I used to suffer terribly from leg cramps at night. I’d also have to get up to go to the bathroom anywhere from 3 to 6 times. I tossed and turned, and had terrible dreams.

Do you have the same things happening to you? Isn’t it just a night-ruiner when those leg cramps hit?

Here are some tips I’ve learned…

These will help you right away if you follow them closely. Your results will vary according to how long you have been using them, and how closely you adhere to them.

They are not hard, but your habits may try to force you back into them – don’t allow your old habits to sabotage you.

Your job will be to keep watch on yourself and asking WHY you keep going back. When there is no good reason to go back, say NO! Then get back on track with your intention to create more health, comfort and ease in your life by controlling what you put in your mouth. You’re the captain of your body-ship – don’t allow old habits to control you!

1. LESS SUGAR, MORE ENERGY

Here’s the secret to less getting up at night to go to the bathroom: stop eating all white sugar products after 4pm. No candy, cake, cookies, sweeties, pastries, desserts. Period. None. (You can have half an apple if you balance it out with some cheese, meat or some other protein.)

Why? Because sugar short circuits your body’s energy system. You’ll notice that right after eating it, you get an inflated sense of well-being, increased energy and ability to power forward. But in a very short time, suddenly you feel more tired, more irritable, more unable to think straight or get things done. Then you go for more sugar, and off the cycle goes again.

This is called eat and crash!

Down the line, it messes up your kidneys and your ability to even want or to metabolize “good” foods. You get up more at night, you have bad dreams, you can’t sleep, tossing and turning and drifting off, only to jolt awake again. Leg cramps get you after a couple of hours in bad, or if you have it bad, the second you lie down and try to relax.

LEG CRAMPS

Leg cramps will go right away if you drink a glass of water – even a few sips will do it. You’re just dehydrated.

If you get foot cramps, walking on a cold floor for a minute will draw energy back down to your feet from your upper legs and helps the foot cramps go away. And again, drink water!

If you can’t stop eating sugar-laden food at 4 right now, start at an hour earlier than you usually stop eating at night. You can gradually ease back an hour at a time until you get to 4:00 pm. You’ll be so glad you did you’ll never want to go back.

If you really miss sugar, have 5 to 10 raisins after a meal, or you can have tea with a little Agave or Xylitol (natural plant-based sugar substitutes that has no Insulin Glycemic raising factors).

[WARNING – do not let your dog eat anything with Xylitol in it – it’s super toxic for doggies!]

The more you cut sugar completely out of your diet, the better for you it will be. So once you stop eating it after 4pm, continue until you simply don’t eat it at all.

You’ll find your weight balancing out, your dreams will improve, your strength will come back, and your body temperature stability will improve dramatically.

GO SLOWLY – AS FAST AS YOU CAN!

When I stopped eating sugar, it took me a month of eating 5 to 10 raisins after each of the main three meals of the day before I felt comfortable with cutting even those out, one meal at a time.

We eat sugar for more reasons than taste – they amp up our energy temporarily, it makes us feel excited and enthusiastic, it reminds us of good things we grew up with, and (for a short time) it takes hunger away.

Unfortunately, the energy rise is temporary, and we crash after a very short time, becoming irritable and anxious. You’ll notice that the quality of your thinking deteriorates. You want, but you don’t know what you want. So you eat more, crash more….

If you can stop the cycle by bearing just one hard week of no sugars after 4pm, your temper will even out, the “wanting-for-something” will ease off, you’ll actually start wanting “real” foods again, and your anxiety and irritability will decrease as well. You’ll even start to lose weight if needed, and your physical strength will increase – especially if you start walking for five to thirty minutes a day!

2. EAT MORE, WEIGH LESS

The secret: When you eat your evening meal, be sure to balance your carbohydrates and proteins. Eat them in very small amounts. Eat more often – like every two hours!

This works! In two months last year (starting out in November and over the holidays!), I dropped 10 pounds. I ate more than I ever have, walking every other day for 30 minutes, and the weight eased off me faster than I’d ever experienced before. I liked the regimen so much I still do it. It’s not at all a “diet” – it’s a way of consciously giving your body just what it needs, taking care of yourself to bring your health into high swing.

Here’s how:

Eat ONLY 4 ounces of meat (or if you are a vegetarian, use nuts, tofu, tempe, or other non-meat protein), and ONLY 4 ounces of starch – like potato, sweet potato, yam, kumera, rice, oatmeal, etc. You can have a cup or more of vegetables with the proteins and carbs.

Why? Because:

* The protein will help you feel full because of the natural fats within them
* The carb also help you feel full and comforted
* The natural sugars in the carbs that release over time feed your brain.

Here are a couple of examples:

Meal:
4 oz roast or broiled chicken
4 oz sweet potato or yam
1 cup vegetables

Afternoon snack:
4 oz hard cheese
half a big apple

The small portions of proteins and carbs seem small at first, but you’ll be surprised how full and satisfied you feel after this type of meal.

3. WHAT KIND OF WATER?

Contrary to what you might think, drink plenty of water all day right up to bedtime. We are all typically dehydrated, and don’t replenish the water we burn every day in our activities. Imagine driving your car with no water in its batteries – it won’t go! We are the same!

Even though you might think that to drink water before bedtime might make you want to get up to go to the bathroom, if you do not eat sugar after 4pm, you won’t. It may take as much as a week to get used to this, but you’ll swear by it from then on.

You may not like the taste of water. If you are a blood type O, this is more than likely. Here’s what I do: I mix half and half regular drinking water with a sparkling, bubbly water. The bubbly alone is too much for me, but I like the sharper taste of the mix. Sometimes I do one-third regular to two-thirds bubbly when I’ve eaten more fat than usual.

Stay away from juiced fruits, sodas (whether diet or not), and alcoholic beverages completely. They are way too processed and will drive your insulin levels way up and way back down again – crash! Sodas have so much sugar in them you might as well sit down with the sugar bowl and suck it up. Avoid most diet sodas since the majority of them have artificial sweeteners in them that are worse for you than sugar.

4. EAT FATS!

Cut out excess fats, but don’t cut them out completely. We do need fats for brain function. Use real butter rather than margarine; olive and flax seed oil work well. Eat avocados, too.

If you don’t get enough fats, your mind will tell you it wants bread or sugar.

If you don’t get enough water, your mind will tell you that you are hungry.

Secret: If you think you feel hungry and it’s only been an hour or an hour and a half since you ate, go for the water first, and you’ll be surprised how that “hunger” goes away! You’ll also get more mental clarity.

5. DEFUSING DIABETES

Eating the protein/carb way will help you fight your body’s tendency to diabetes. We actually do need a certain amount of sugars to feed the brain. BUT we do NOT need white sugars! We need sugars that release slowly into the body in the form of complex carbohydrates.

Avoid all white sugars. Period. Do it as soon as you can. You’ll want, eventually, to cut out white flour as well. Why? Because it makes your insulin levels rise and thus, increases your body’s tendency to gain weight because any sugar your body can’t metabolize right off goes into fat storage!

Once you start using the balanced protein/carb evening meals, do the same for your other meals. You’ll find your body responding well: you will lose weight if you are overweight, you will get stronger if you are underweight, your blood sugar levels will come back to normal, your sleep will improve and—no more nightmares. And no more getting up at night to pee!

For really massive help in eliminating old, limiting habits and emotions, get the freebies and check out the powerful books and audios by the top EFT Experts at: EFTBooks.com.

aloha –
Angela Treat Lyon

PLEASE NOTE: I’m not a dietitian, physician, doctor or nutritionist. I am an EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) Practitioner, Instructor and Success Trainer, and have had years of experience guiding people back to health from physical, mental and emotional problems.

These notes are a combo of a miniscule part of what I have learned from what I have learned over the years from working with folks, from having a human body, myself – what has worked for me, and why.

I watch carefully what I eat and how food affects my body, mind and emotions, and my ability to function in the world—do you?

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Angela’s Art, Happiness and SpiritCardCenter.com!

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I’m so happy to be able to tell you that my images have been added to a wonderful freebie greeting card site!

You can see (and use) them for FREE right HERE at SpiritCardCenter.com.

I looked a long time before I found this site – I wanted to be proud to be a part of it, and finally found it last month. I’m delighted to be a part of the Spirit Card Center Collection – I invite you to bookmark it!

Fun trivia

Did you know that the kingdom of Bhutan has a policy of supporting its people’s Gross National Happiness. Much cooler than Gross National Products, eh?

What if we all decided we’d care for, build and support our Gross Individual Happiness?

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How One Tomato Saved My Life When I Thought I was A-Goner

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I knew I was dying. 

It had been five days since I had eaten, and in that time, I’d only been able to keep the tiniest of licks of water down. Fasting wasn’t a problem. No water, however, was.

It was mid-August, 1984, and a week before, as a representative for the Kauai yachting association that held a certain trans-pacific race every two years, I had welcomed a father – son team who had come in second in the double-handed (only two people on the boat) race.

I helped them unboard, carry gear, trash, dirty laundry and empty supply containers up to the docking station where everyone was busily meeting, greeting and celebrating. They still had wobbly sea legs after two weeks on the water, so we went slowly on up to the club house. As soon as they were set, I went on down to the next boat that was just now pulling into the marina, never dreaming I’d be on that boat again soon….

“I’ll go!”

On the muggy tropical awards night a couple days later, by chance I was placed next to Jerry, the father I had welcomed. His son had flown back to the mainland already. Jerry told me he was looking for a crew to sail his boat back to California with him.

Before I could stop my mouth, I said, “I’ll go!”

Huh? I had a sales job in a gallery 6 days a week, and my kids were about to come back from visiting their dad to get ready for school – hello, Angela? My inner critic screamed, “how can you even think about going?”

“I’ll go!” I said again.

I over-rode my inner critic. She was always trying to put a damper on everything! I decided right then and there that this was a trip of a lifetime and I wasn’t about to pass it up. So, since the sail would take 25 to 27 days, I got a month lay-off from my boss, handled the logistics for my kids and house. Two days later, Jerry and I set off.

I was excited and terrified.

I was a good sailor – I’d been sailing since before I was born, and was utterly comfortable on boats, on the water and in it. But I’d never sailed across an ocean!

I’d never experienced a minute of seasickness. But the second we left Nawiliwili Harbor, I almost passed out when waves of extreme nausea took over my entire world.

Jerry suggested I go below decks and rest a bit, but I wanted to see the ocean and the way the sun climbed the sky over my rapidly shrinking island home. I was OK if I stood up, but if I sat down, I was a mess. If only I’d had EFT!

Eventually I did lie down, because over the next three days the nausea got worse and worse. I could stand up and I could lie down, but sitting made my world a dizzy hell. I got tired really fast and couldn’t hold a thing down. On that first day, I lost every last fragment of anything in my belly in the most unpleasant ways.

By the morning of the fifth day…

I knew that I’d die of hypothermia if something didn’t change. I was lying in my bunk, fully dressed, with my down jacket on inside my down sleeping bag. I felt one minute like I was submerged in Arctic ice, the next in the fires of hell.

I kept wondering why me? What have I ever done to deserve this? How did an experienced sailor get seasick all of a sudden? How my brothers would tease me if they ever found out! Thoughts and feelings of anger, guilt, sadness, shame and grief swirled through my water-deprived and nutritionally unbalanced brain.

Jerry came below and said something that made no sense to me, and left shaking his head. I realized somehow that I must be delirious. I suddenly had a feeling that if I died out there in the middle of the ocean, now five days out from Kauai, he wouldn’t turn around and return my body to shore.

I decide!

It was at that moment that I really got it that I had to make a sharply defined decision.

It was no longer about how stupid I was for going of lickety-split with a perfect stranger, no matter how good his credentials were. It was no longer about why I was seasick. It was no longer about whether I could make it through or what people might think or even what Jerry might do.

It was all about “WOULD I make it through?”

Would I make the decision, then and there, to do what it took, no matter what?

I decided that a tomato would be my savior.

I had done a lot of multiple-day fasting in my 20s, and each time I had had stewed tomatoes to break the fast. (I’ve been told that probably wasn’t the greatest ida, but since I no longer fast it’s not a problem anymore, is it?)

I pulled out the ripest tomato in our meager fresh veggie stores. It looked like life itself, embodied. It was plump and red, and smelled really good, but one thought of eating it and my poor wrecked stomach flipped over a few times.

I closed my eyes and said to my deepst self…

“You’re going to do this, and you’re going to live, so shut up about nausea anymore. Thank you.” And bit a tiny little hole in the skin.

Over the next couple of hours, I had to fight for each little drop of juice to stay down. At the end of three hours I could take a bite.

Finally, I had eaten the whole thing, and I knew – I KNEW – I’d be OK. I feel alseep and woke up in time to relieve Jerry for the midnight watch. From then on, I didn’t experience even a fraction of nausea or dizziness, and even took over the cooking.

Creating realities

In quantum physics, it is said that multiple realities exist simultaneously. I know you’ve heard that before. But until I was thinking lately about my experience sailing across to California so long ago, I couldn’t quite get what they meant when they talked about how the universe collapses into a reality.

Why use the word “collapse”?

I had a sudden vision of the scenes in the movie, “What the Bleep,” where all those bubbles of realities were floating around, each one with a choice of reality in it. I saw that once I made my choice to live, to keep that tomato at my mouth, to refuse to let my body vomit each succeeding drop of juice, all the other bubbles of reality had collapsed into the one I had chosen to experience.

It was a real leap of faith to choose to live – especially since over the next 22 days spent tacking across the wide Pacific, without seeing one other human being or boat anywhere, not even one single contrail above us, we got becalmed in the Doldrums, the engine broke down when we tried to motor out of them, a storm blew out our mainsail and I almost fell overboard retrieving it. And by the time we got to Santa Cruz, we were virtually on our last cup of water. I could have died in multiple other ways, but I was appalled to think I might die of nausea and hypothermia!

What saved me?

First, I’m a survivor. I want to LIVE.

Secondly and right on top of that, it was my sharply defined decision.

How I felt was this: not only do I want to live, I want to do it NOW, no holds barred, get out of my way, I will do what I know is best for me, I will do what it takes.

My question to you

At a time when the world seems like it has fallen apart, it’s a US election year, the economy is blitzed, real estate is about to blow up, people are terrified about their finances and livelihoods, and no one is sure about a damn thing:

What sharply defined decision are you going to make right now that will allow you to not just stay alive, but thrive, to your soul’s deepest satisfaction and fulfillment?

We all know how to survive. We’ve been doing it on one level or the other for our entire lives.

This moment is a choice moment at the beginning of our calendar year – are you going to do same-old, same-old?

Or are you going to allow yourself to release your humor, brilliance, intelligence, beauty, uniqueness and vitality full-tilt and non-stop?

It ain’t about goals, folks. It’s about how you feel.

Work on your goals, and the list of to-dos you want to complete – but – that will be there even if you never think of it again.

How you feel is critical

Because how you feel is how you vibrate, and how you vibrate is how you attract!

This is my feel-list:

  • I am calm
  • I am relaxed
  • I am inspired
  • I am inspiring
  • I am delighted
  • I feel like am doing my life Right
  • I am grateful and fulfilled.

Maybe if I had felt like that on that fifth day out of Kauai, I might have been happy enough just to let go and die. But I doubt it! Too much fun to be had!

What’s your feels-list?

How do you want to feel about yourself, what you do, who you play and work with, your family, your body, your work, your finances, your fun?

How do you want to feel at the end of the day as you fall asleep?

Those are the only important choices.

Because when you go for those choices to the preference over other, less-fulfilling ones, people who feel the same way will align with you and sing the same song, paint the same reality picture, create the same feeling along with you. And it will expand and grow and become resplendent.

This is the power of alignment in the attraction game. But you have to BE attractive before you can attract. And you can’t be attractive until you feel good!

List a few feelings you’d like to feel. Right now.

Then do one small thing that will help you feel that way.

Then do more – and more and more and more.

I dare you to live your magnificent brilliance!

Live it as much as you can every single moment – even when that means being silent and in the background, or resting, or simply receiving – it’s not always about being out there and assertive.

And remember – the rest of us love it when you live your life feeling great! It gives us hope, inspiration, and real, live permission to do the same, ourselves.

Thank you for being part of my life. My best, deepest and warmest blessings for a fabulous, unhindered, open and completely delightful new year!

p.s. I still love tomatoes!

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The Enchanted Cottage and Miracles for Homeless Women

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Imagine this: you are a shy but very talented interior designer who doesn’t just make houses pretty, but who brings out the Heart of the House.

You have been asked to visit a battered women’s shelter to see if you can give them some ideas to cheer the place up.

Miracles for battered women!

Here’s the amazing part: you turned it into a major miracle – for the residents, the house itself, and yourself.

Join the amazing Terry Grahl and me as we pick through the amazing details. Do check out her site at TerrysEnchantedCottage.com –

The shelter is now one of the most delightful houses I have yet to see – it’s really hard to believe what she did with a beat-up, scruffy, sad, dark and depressing house!

Find out how she got the huge wall-to-wall mural upstairs (which would have ordinarily have cost her 3 arms and 4 legs if she had hired an artist to do it), how she raised over $200K for the project, and the unique way she uses her intuition!

Who’s your hero?

Are you one of the few people who actually say your mother was an inspirational force in your life? Join us to hear why Terry’s is. And how she’s going to duplicate her efforts all over the nation in the future….

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“ME? Do Podcasts?” Top Ten Things You Need to KNow

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I didn’t think I’d ever be interested in podcasting. This is what went through my mind: “Ugh! Too much work over what I’m doing already, I don’t have time, I don’t know how, who’d want to listen to me anyway, bandwidth, where to host – ugh.”

But then I asked myself, if I were truly as committed to serving the lifting of our vibrational field as I thought I was, what more could I do to assist? And guess what I heard my inner voice say? You’re right – podcasting. Otherwise known as Internet Radio.

How does it help me serve?

Ever heard of a little thing called iTunes? How many people go there every day to find music, interviews, messages and other audible material to enjoy and get inspiration? Literally millions.

Did you know you can get your podcast served up by iTunes – for no charge? Nots to mention the other freebie or low-cost podcast directories.

So imagine you have an important message.

You’re a coach, or a preacher, or a healer, or a business leader, or an inspirational speaker. You know as well as I do the value of being able to get in front of people. Why would you deprive yourself of this one incredible way to get the word out – your word?

What you need to know if you want to do podcasting

  1. How to create and launch your show
  2. How being a talk show host can be a great platform for you and your business
  3. What type of format is best for you
  4. How long your show should be
  5. How to record, post and edit your show with ease
  6. The easiest way to create content for your show that will keep your listeners coming back for more
  7. How to get the guest of your dreams
  8. The fastest, easiest and simplest way to attract and build a worldwide audience
  9. When you should do a free vs. paid internet radio show or podcast
  10. How to make a profit from your show even when you’re first beginning

So imagine yourself able to speak with the people you love and respect, from whom you have gotten inspiration and motivation. Who are they? Start making lists now!

And who do you want to reach with your message? Write it down!

And what are some topics you like to expound upon? Write them down!

Now, you’ve already started on your podcast journey – what’s stopping you from going full-tilt?

Go for it!

Imagine yourself five years from now having NOT gone for it – how does that feel? Ugh!, right? You don’t need that! Start living and expanding your most outrageous, fun, daring and beautiful Dream right now!

Why? Because when you do, you inspire the rest of us to keep going. You give us permission, simply by being who you are at your core best, to do the same. We want you! We want your gift – stop hiding it in the closet! All it’s doing there is gathering dust and moths! It’ll die in there! Bring it out and give it life!

You never know how you affect people.

Everywhere you go, even if you don’t say one word to anyone, you affect others. Just by how you walk, dress, eat, speak, move, drive, interact. You could inspire some shy person today to stand tall just by holding your head high as you walk into the grocery store.

Imagine how it would be if your podcasts got out to not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of hungry listeners who crave your words and message!

aloha –
Angela

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Am I Grateful? You Bet!

jeanie-wardThis is a note I got from Jeanie Ward, who I interviewed a couple weeks ago.

I am posting it because it pretty much sums up what most people say about these interviews I’m doing, and because I’m so grateful anyone would say these things. I enjoy it, why not share it?

Hi Angela,

I wanted to say a big THANK YOU for the wonderful time I had with our conversation and interview.

I feel very blessed to have had the opportunity to be on your radio show and share a part of my life with your audience. I truly honor and appreciate all that you do and how you continue to encourage, inspire, educate and energize your listeners to dare to live the life of their dreams and desires.

I enjoyed listening to the interview and want to load it a CD…to share with friends and clients,etc., as well as market your website and other ventures that you are involved with.

Thanks again…and I will keep up with you through your website and take much pleasure and delight in sending folks to your site. I will let you know how things are progressing with me and my adventures. If there is ever anything I can do for you, please let me know.

I am SO EXCITED for you to be in the book about radio show hosts…well deserved and absolutely DIVINE. I still feel so honored to have been a guest on your show…it was sooo much fun and has made me smile, inside and out.

I listened to the interview again today…in a more relaxed manner, and kept appreciating your magical, wonderful way of not only “interviewing” your guests with specific and pointed questions, but most especially your easy, engaging, and delightful energy and presence with your guests…you are a great listener offering valuable feedback, asking insightful questions while effortlessly and easily doing what you enjoy…and it shows.

Peace & Blessings,
Jeanie

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Jeanie Ward: Breast Cancer and Body Wealth

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Jeanie Ward, Whole Body, Whole Life Coach thinks most people live from the neck up. She’s a breast cancer thriver who has helped others through their own cancer journeys, her mission is to help people to learn how to listen how to become your body’s best friend and have fun!

Here are some things to listen for:

Why did her body scream at her? How did she stop being a physical hypocrite?

Can you decide that you have nothing to lose and everything to gain AND eat what you love?? Will you stay stuck in fear of food and constant stress?

Can you define your own Body Wealth? What amazing daring thing did Jeanie do when she decided to be a basketball coach – just right out of the blue?

Find out how she set herself up to win!

Why did she give up trying to make others happy, and what did it do for her – and why she learned to be goofy and silly!

Get all four (shortie) parts of our interview here:

Part 1  •  Part 2
Part 3  •  Part 4

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Dr. Anne Marie Evers, The Affirmations Doc Tells Us How

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What do you do when you discover how much money your spouse is spending on alcohol?

When you realize s/he’s an alcoholic? When you don’t like how you’re being treated? Do you put up with it? Sit down and get drunk, too? Or…what?

The Affirmations Doctor, Dr. Anne Marie Evers

Dr. Anne Marie Evers tells us how she managed to not just deal with that very situation, but how she actually made it work for her in a big way.

CLICK HERE for PART ONE:
What do you do when you realize your spouse is an alcoholic? When you don’t like how you’re being treated? Do you put up with it? Sit down and get drunk, too? Or…what?

CLICK HERE for PART TWO:
How do the works of Louise Hay and Dale Carnegie fit in here?

CLICK HERE for PART THREE:
Why does Dr. Anne Marie say you can’t hook up a U-Haul behind a hearse?

evers-chemo-bk evers-affsCLICK HERE for PART FOUR:
How do you write Affirmations contracts for money and relationships

Get Dr. Evers AFFIRMATIONS book here: Affirmations Your Passport to Happiness 8th edition

And her important deal with CHEMO book here: Affirmation Life Tools: 70 ways to cope with chemo and other medical treatments

 

NOTE – The Hawaiian music behind the Hawaiian Wedding ad in Segment 1 is from the song, Kalele Swinging on the Magic of Steel Guitar album performed by Master Artist, Musician, Composer, Producer, and Music Educator Henry Kaleialoha Allen. You can find more of his amazing music at CDBaby.com and HenryKAllen.com. I am most honored to be able to share his music with you!

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Transform Your Negative Feelings to Positive Creative Power

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A couple of weeks ago, I was amazed that about 80% of the people I worked with were dealing with various shades of “I can’t.”

Here are some of the beliefs people had:
I can’t because if I do I’ll lose my family.
I can’t because I don’t have the money.
I can’t because I might succeed.
If I do I’ll be ridiculed within the scientific community.
I can’t because I’ll make so much money the government or someone will take it way.

Thing, is, once you get at the underlying messages all these fears carry, you’ll have the courage, skill and knowledge to laugh and do what you choose.

Here’s an example….

“Joe” said, “My family wants me to stay in my job as a house-painter because it has a steady salary. I hate it, and I know I can be successful running a landscaping business.

“I’m good at it, but I just don’t have the credit to ask for a loan, and I can’t afford to buy the equipment I need. I’m afraid my family will think I’m nuts, that I’m endangering them, and I’ll never hear the end of it from my father-in-law if I fail.”

I asked him how big his fear of failure was on a scale of 1 to 10. “20!” he said. “It makes my knees weak to think of my wife screaming at me and my kids being disappointed in me.”

And how big was his fear of asking the bank or someone in his family for a loan. Off the charts. “I know they don’t think my ideas are worth anything.”

And his fear that he couldn’t provide for his kids?
Another 20.

I had him imagine this picture: a giant wheelbarrow full of all his fear. Two 20s and an off-the-charts overflow of all this I-CAN’T energy. Not to mention the weak-in-the-knees feeling, the queasy belly, the sweat down his back.

“I hate it!” he said, as he described it to me. “I don’t want to feel this way! I want to do what my heart loves, and what I know how to do really well! I’m furious!”

We added that to the wheel-barrow, too. He then made it into a dump truck to be able to hold it all.

I knew he expected me to take him through some tapping with EFT (the Emotional Freedom Techniques – info at EFTBooks.com ).

But I waited a bit, and had him really feel the energy inside all those fears, anger and frustrations. This is a bit different from most EFT sessions where you are ordinarily coached to not suffer through the intensity.

Instead, I wanted to point out to him the enormity of the energy he was carrying around.

I asked him, “What if all that energy you’re feeling, plus the energy it takes to resist and hate feeling that way, was available to you for creativity, confidence and power?”

What a concept, no? He’d never thought of it that way.

“It’d be huge!” he said. “Man, what a waste it is that I’ve used it like this!”

So now we tapped, starting with the Karate Chop Point. Here are a couple diagrams of the face and torso tapping points if you’re unfamiliar with EFT.

We said as we tapped: even though:
I’m afraid of failure
my wife will scream at me and call me a dummy
and a no-good
I’ll feel small and useless and
I’m afraid I’ll start drinking again
my father-in-law thinks I’m just a jerk
I’ll never have his approval
I’ve never had it anyway
I hate feeling this way
I hate how stupid I feel
I feel so unsupported
and angry at them all
especially myself
I’m so afraid to let go and trust that my heart is right
I feel like such a chicken
no one appreciates me
I’m afraid to start stepping out of my job

Pretty real feelings. Hard to carry around for so long.

It turned out, after we got through all that, that he did have occasional invitations from people to do some landscaping for them, but he’d been too afraid to take them.

So we went though fear of calling them back, fear of rejection, fear of them laughing at him – until he finally started laughing and said, “I get it! All I need to do is take one fear at a time and turn it around into usable energy. I can do that!”

At the end of our session, I had him look at the Fear Dump Truck again.

“It’s gone! It’s a huge mountain of energy now!” he exclaimed. “It looks like new snow, clean and sparkling, and I can use it any time I want!”

He saw himself running and jumping right into the heart of the mountain, surrounding himself with energy and power and confidence, and allowing his heart to fill with clarity and enthusiasm for his dream.

Joe called me last night. He had me laughing as he told me he’d realized that he’d been so closed down that he had ignored his wife saying she wished he would “just get out of that stupid painting job.” Fear makes us blind!

He said, “I never even heard her say it! She told me she’s been wanting me to do something else because I’ve been so unhappy I’ve been a jerk. No wonder my father-in-law has hated me!”

Take your fear, anger, grief, blame, shame, self-pity, resentment, and self-hatred energy, pile it up where you can “see” it, do some tapping and clean it off, polish it up, and use it for your dreams. It works.

Don’t tell me you don’t have any of that! WE ALL do. It’s a gift! Think of the power in it! Hunt for every inch of it and turn it inside out.

If you don’t know how to use EFT, I invite you to get the freebie book at EFTBooks.com – you’ll get a complementary audio to introduce you to how to use it.

You’ll be glad you learned EFT – it’s a tool you can use for yourself,your friends, family and loved ones, co-workers, dogs, cats…anywhere anytime for the rest of your life. Transform your backwards energy into power, confidence and pure creativity. Please.

aloha,
Angela Treat Lyon

 

 

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