Why is clearing trauma so important and so beneficial in this day and age?

It can fundamentally change how we look at the world and how much possibility we can create!

Think about a time 10,000 years ago. If you broke your leg back then, you might have fashioned a split out of a couple of tree limbs and some leather. But from that point on, didn’t you just have to cope? There were no X-rays or surgeons, no plaster casts or titanium pins. Your leg might hurt, it might heal badly and make it hard to move, but you didn’t have much choice…

Your choice was either to cope or be leopard food. And so, the humans that survived to procreate developed coping mechanisms. We CAN just “get by.”

Unless you actively choose to see things from a new perspective, you will be subconsciously stuck in that survival mode… even if there IS a healing option available right at your fingertips!

Let’s say we lived in a world where—if you got a rock in your shoe—that was it, you could NOT get it out. It’s hopeless. The rock was something you’d have to live with forever. What would friends and family say to you about this new pain of yours?

“Well, you just gotta do what you gotta do.”

“You just gotta learn to make the best of it.”

“Stop whining and tough it out!”

And so you’d cope, right?

You’d start by trying to keep the weight off of it, trying to walk in a way that caused the least pain. Your body and mind would do everything they could to adapt to that rock. Ouch. After a month or two, you’d have disconnected from your foot, wouldn’t you? And hate that part of you…

“Well, I’ve got one foot still. I can just kind of hobble around…”

Your gait would change to minimize the pain. Now what’s going to happen to your hip? It’s going to cope, right? It’s going to start adapting. Your back’s going to change. Your whole spinal adjustment may change. And pretty soon, you’re still making it… despite that rock in your foot. And if there was nothing else that we could do…well, that’s the best that you could do, right?

Luckily, we live in a world where you CAN take rocks out of your shoes. And we have marvelous technologies that let us do much more than cope with even serious issues.

We live in a day now where someone who loses their lower leg on one side, but is an athlete, a sprinter, a runner… they may seriously looks at whether they should have their other leg amputated so that they can use amazing new technologies that allow them to sprint even faster than most humans.

We’ve entered a period of medical technology where if you have broken your leg and it was set wrong and is now three inches shorter, they would look at re-breaking the leg in order for you to be set right.

Old, Unhealed Trauma Can Be Set Right Now, Too

And now, we’re looking at trauma as something that can be dealt with in the same way… that can be INTERNALLY SET RIGHT even decades later. But culturally, when I grew up, if something bad happened… the spiritual answer, the most divine answer about what to do if someone did you wrong was…

Forgive and forget. With a heavy emphasis on the forget part! If you can’t forgive, at least forget. And stop whining about it! (That was the best they had to offer.)

Suppressing unhealed traumas is a great coping mechanism… but ONLY if you can’t do anything better about it.

There’s still something actively going on inside of you around undischarged trauma… they are like rocks in your shoes. 

Now, with tapping and our understanding of trauma, we can clear out the “old rocks from our shoes.” Or, we can live in denial and wonder why we limp through life.

We’ve seen amazing changes in people’s lives once they start releasing old traumas. The freedom and choice they discover is beautiful to see. This is why we’ve put so much time and love into creating our Trauma Relief products.

Trauma Relief Workshop
If you use EFT with others, and you’d like to deeply understand how tapping plays a key role in gently and quickly supporting the trauma healing process, we HIGHLY recommend this pre-recorded workshop with a helpful transcript and handbook. If you have trauma of your own, this can help you clear and release in profound ways. http://www.thrivingnow.com/tn-trworkshop

Childhood Trauma Relief Starter Set
For those who want an in-depth but shorter overview of childhood trauma, how it effects the body and mind, and effective ways to transform those old “rocks”, this package will guide you through the process and give you examples. http://www.thrivingnow.com/pkg-cctrauma1/

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EFT Tapping is one of the most powerful tools you can have at your fingertips. It can help your primitive brain release old beliefs… so you finally see a path you can follow to getting what you’ve always wanted… with less painful limping and a lot more grace.

Thanking the parts of you that coped for all that time can help the release go easier, as well. It’s easy to blame the parts of us that didn’t take the rocks out our shoes earlier… yet they were doing the best they knew how with what they knew then.

Karate Chop: Even though things were tough, I did learn to cope, and I’m grateful I had that skill. I thank the parts of me that did their best, and I let them know they can relax now.

Even though coping was the best I could do back then, I have new options now. I invite my system to see these new possibilities… and to help me pull the rocks out of my shoes.

Even though there is trauma stuck inside, I’m learning new ways of releasing, and I look forward to moving forward easily and with freedom!

Top of the Head: I learned to cope.
Eyebrow: I tuned out and ignored the parts of me that hurt.
Side of the Eye: I had to… in order to get by.
Under the Eye: It was the best I could do.
Under the Nose: And now I’m not even sure where all the rocks are.
Chin: I’m so used to these coping mechanisms.
Collarbone: I think it’s how life is.
Under the Arm: It’s been this way for so long.

Top of the Head: What if I could get help?
Eyebrow: What if I could tap along and get reminded of my “rocks”?
Side of the Eye: I can learn what effects other people…
Under the Eye: And get ideas for me and my tribe.
Under the Nose: I can learn new techniques for removing rocks.
Chin: I can regain my freedom and my clarity.
Collarbone: I am tired of limping.
Under the Arm: I want all of my power back!

Top of the Head: I was stuck for a long time.
Eyebrow: I love how resilient I am becoming.
Side of the Eye: I can take the best from everything I learn…
Under the Eye: And create a toolbox…
Under the Nose: Custom fit for me.
Chin: I’m glad I have the ability to cope.
Collarbone: And I’m ready for some new techniques and approaches.
Under the Arm: I remove the rocks from my shoes…
Top of the Head: And step forward with new confidence and ease!

Take a deep breath.

When you clear old traumas from your body-mind, you are literally transforming your emotional world. When you do, you’re not only taking the rocks out of your shoes, you are changing your emotional weather, smoothing out the bumps, and activating energies within you that were shut down as part of coping. This absolutely helps you live, laugh, and love with confidence.

A group of us meet through the telephone and internet to do just this. If you’d like to have a circle of support in your life (especially THIS season), we invite you to join us as part of the Thriving Now Team.

http://www.thrivingnow.com/team

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It’s 3 am. You are awake, and you HURT. Alone in the dark, trying to rest, exhausted from the pain… where can you turn at this hour? All these negative emotions flare up and start rambling around inside your head… “I’ll never get better … Why me?! … What did I do to deserve this? … What if it never gets better?”

I’ve been there… too many times.

Hi, my name is Rick Wilkes, and I co-created the program Pain Relief with EFT with Carol Look because I know what it is like to have maxed out the pain meds and still desperately need relief. I know what it is like to be stuck in a vicious cycle and not see a way out.

It is so easy to be distressed, depressed, and full of despair. Pain gets to us. Once pain overwhelms our coping skills, we cross over from “having pain” into SUFFERING. And that’s where the situation gets really bad.

You want to reach for help. But who? Or what? I mean, late night infomercials just ain’t gonna cut it when the suffering gets intense.

What if relief is right at your finger tips… if only someone would show you how?

When I found Energy Tapping (EFT) for myself back in 2003, it worked so well for my pain that I was initially INCENSED that it had been around for a decade, tens of thousands of people like me were using it daily, and I had suffered needlessly through way too many long nights… when a few minutes of guided tapping could have brought me such relief!

If you’re in pain now (or love someone who is), what I can tell to you from personal experience is that this “tapping thing” is a potent form of self-healing. Isn’t it worth a try?

Here’s how it works at 3 am…

The Pain Relief with EFT program is like a special kind of medicine chest… a Vibrational Medicine Chest. Perhaps you remember the song Good Vibrations? Well, when we’re suffering, our vibration is far, far from good. So, at 3 am you take a deep breath, pick the vibration that matches how you feel, and follow along as Carol and I gently walk you through the simple tapping exercise. It takes only a few minutes.

I found tapping to be so incredibly useful that I studied it extensively. I traveled and learned from masters like Carol Look. Over the past seven years I’ve introduced tens of thousands of people to the power of tapping through my coaching work and websites. In my professional experience, those who learn tapping also learn how to self-manage their pain at a level they never imagined possible.

It’s 2 pm on a Saturday. You are home alone (again) while everyone else is out enjoying life. You don’t have the energy to fight through the pain and pretend to enjoy the social chit-chat. You are in that awful state of boredom combined with intense suffering. You are tired of making excuses, and you’re worried that your friends and family are going to give up on you. That fear makes you tense… which only makes the pain worse.

Instead of being frustrated and stuck where you are, what if you used this time to clear some of the chronic negative emotions and fears? What if 5-20 minutes of your time could shift how you feel about yourself, your situation, and your future… or at the least allow you to rest more deeply?

“Rick Wilkes and Carol Look’s new program Pain Relief with EFT allows you to tap into the experience and insight of two of the best pain relief specialists. They take you through the process of releasing the emotional blocks that keep you stuck and hinder the body’s ability to move toward well-being. Listening to the audio recordings or reading the e-book brings you into a world where the problems are much clearer. Subconscious beliefs are shown with clarity and compassion as they are released. New, healthier beliefs take their place, and you find resilience and relief.” -Cathy Vartuli, PhD

It’s 1 pm on Thursday. You are at work. Your pain is making it hard to focus, and you really need to finish this project. You take a deep breath. What do you do?

You could struggle through (like you’ve always done in the past), but you know you don’t do your best work when you feel this way. Instead, you decide to use the new techniques you’re learning in Pain Relief with EFT. You tune into your body for relief guidance (we show you how). Then you quickly skim the list of limiting beliefs from the program, and one pops out at you.

Even though you didn’t realize it consciously until now, part of you felt worried that you weren’t good enough to be successful with this project. You listen and tap along for less than 5 minutes as Carol guides you through tapping on Limiting Belief #15: I Can’t Do Anything Right.

You notice that the urge to procrastinate is gone. The positive tapping at the end of the recording helps you feel more upbeat. Your energy is now vibrating in a way that gives you an improved ability to focus on your project.

You start feeling calmer. Your pain isn’t nearly as bad. You take a deep breath, maybe get a drink of water, and decide you can do the project one small step at a time. Perhaps you take breaks to tap a few more times when you feel a bit overwhelmed or impatient or anxious (the program has recordings for all of these emotional states… and more), and after the tapping you are able to complete more than you expected. (Some parts of the work are even enjoyable… for a change!)

You finish your work for the day and go home, knowing that you were productive, that you will have a lot more energy and love for your family (rather than bringing home an exhausted, frustrated, and grumpy self), and most importantly, that you took another step along the road to well-being!

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Pain Relief with EFT is an empowering, comprehensive coaching program designed to bring you relief in your body and mind by: raising your vibration, showing you how to master your focus, and exercising your self-healing systems using EFT, a cutting edge Energy Tapping technique.

In this coaching program you will have access to dozens of tapping scripts and audio recordings from EFT experts Carol Look and Rick Wilkes. These resources are designed to help you raise your vibration and feel better no matter what your physical challenge is.

Imagine your relief when you learn the right tools to feel better right now…

You will have access to audio recordings and articles on limiting beliefs, emotional states, and numerous educational topics about pain and what to do about it.

Pain Relief with EFT gives you:

• Instant access to 31 audio files to help you feel relief from painful emotional states
• Instant access to dozens of guided EFT tapping rounds to clear limiting beliefs and free up more of your energy for self-healing
• Instant access to audio coaching sessions with Carol Look and Rick Wilkes so you know how to benefit every day from this surprisingly effective approach to physical and emotional pain relief
• Instant access to detailed EFT tapping scripts

Reducing stress is key to the physiological journey back to well-being. Regardless of your diagnosis, this program teaches you and your body how to once again find relief and relaxation so you will have the energy to live well and laugh more often.

Pain Relief with EFT puts all the materials you need for relief at your fingertips:

• Learn how to feel relief from your pain…
  
• Start feeling better and better in your body today…
  
• Discover tools that can change your perspective and your vibration on a daily basis…
  
• Let us guide you to use the Law of Attraction and EFT to feel better TODAY.

We think our new Pain Relief with EFT program is what you’ve been waiting for… and we offer a 30-Day Unconditional Money Back Guarantee so you can find out for yourself, risk-free.

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Would you ask a 3-year-old what house to buy? Do you ask a 5-year-old who to date? If you have unresolved traumas from when you were 3- or 5-years-old, these frozen memories may have more impact on these adult decisions than you might think. You can find out what might be blocking you by watching this 14-minute video…

Most people think of “trauma” as nasty car accidents, muggings, child abuse, and war. But to a 3-year-old, Mommy suddenly “disappearing” because of a new job can be traumatic if the child feels rejected or abandoned.

Being ridiculed at Show-and-Tell can affect how we hold ourselves in public, sometimes for the rest of our lives… if we don’t release the frozen pain of that experience.

“Small” traumas can affect our self-worth, our sense of safety, how much love we allow in, and how abundant we feel.

Traumas change our vibration… often below the level of consciousness (and thus, by the Law of Attraction, they affect what we draw into our life.)

Why is that? What is going on and how do we change this?

We have put together a video sharing how big and little traumas are held in the body and mind, and how we can release them.

If you cannot watch the video due to a slow internet connection, here is a PDF Document of the presentation and a MP3 Audio File.

Next, let’s talk about how to use Inner Tapping to help. (Click link for the companion video.)

Links in the presentation:
- Introduction to Energy Tapping (EFT)
- Grounding Exercises
- Inner Tapping (companion video)
- Thriving Now Team – Group Coaching Program

If you suffer from any type of physical pain you’ll want to register NOW for a free online event that can have dramatic results in helping you eliminate your pain. Back pain, neck pain, fibromyalgia, joint pain, knee pain, muscle pain, whatever it is… what you will learn at this event can help. To learn more about the event and see a video preview, visit:

http://www.thrivingnow.com/pain-relief-summit

Rick will be presenting on Back Pain Relief… one of the most challenging pains to address because it almost always has physical, emotional, AND energetic aspects.

The event is hosted by the same folks who run the Tapping World Summit. This time, though, all the sessions will be focused on different aspects of pain relief. And you can listen each day at no charge to you. Learn more here:

http://www.thrivingnow.com/pain-relief-summit

Also, be sure to visit our Pain Relief resources here on Thrivingnow.com!

I have appreciated  your recent e-mails with scripts to help with anxiety, etc. I’m VERY grateful, they are helping SO much.

I have a question about what do to when your body is in physical pain… I notice that people who are in intense pain or have been in physical pain a long time often start to express anger at their body. They are consciously trying to heal and do the right thing… but subconsciously they are angry at their body for hurting in the first place.

They feel like their body has let it them down and not been there to support them, not been strong enough, and isn’t healing like it should. It’s as if the body is saying “Hey! You are sending me mixed messages! In one breath you’re telling me not to feel pain, and in  the next you’re telling me you are mad at me for expressing the energy to get the pain out and do the healing.”

Do you have any scripts that addresses the frustration people may have against their body for being hurt or sick? Many thanks! -Annie

Karate Chop: Even though my body hurts, and I am angry at it for hurting, I’d like to find a new way of looking at this.

Even though I’m in pain, and I blame my body… after all it MUST be my body’s fault… what if my body is holding old emotions and energies for me, and that’s what is causing the pain?

Even though I am really hurting and that makes me mad at my body, and I am so angry at my body for causing me pain… I bet my body doesn’t want to hurt either. What if I could work with my body instead of against it?

Top of the Head: I HATE my body.
Eyebrow: It hurts me so much.
Side of the Eye: I’m so angry at it.
Under the Eye: That’s the truth.
Under the Nose: And my body really hurts…
Chin: No matter how much I tell it to stop.
Collarbone: I am pissed at my body…
Under the Arm: And I blame it for all this hurt.

Top of the Head: What if my body needs my help?
Eyebrow: What if asked for help over and over…
Side of the Eye: And I didn’t know the language?
Under the Eye: I am really tired of it hurting,
Under the Nose: And blaming it doesn’t seem to help at all.
Chin: In fact, it just made me hurt more.
Collarbone: I’m ready to resolve this conflict.
Under the Arm: I ask for peace and clarity.

Top of the Head: My body does really hurt.
Eyebrow: That’s a fact.
Side of the Eye: I feel angry at my body…
Under the Eye: That’s true, too.
Under the Nose: It’s okay if I’m angry.
Chin: I can tap on that and learn to listen.
Collarbone: In fact, I’m tapping on it right now!
Under the Arm: I’ve been blaming my body for the pain…
Top of the Head: But what if we want the same thing… health, love, and well-being?

Take a deep breath.

You have dreams and experiences you want to create. But when you hurt... your energy is low, your focus is off, and your vibration is not as high as you would like. Still, a lot of us were taught to tough it out and push through… to grit our teeth and do it anyway.

But isn’t that rather like trying to weed the garden holding a large cinder block in one arm? Painful, exhausting, frustrating, and not efficient!

Doesn’t it make sense to let go of the cinder block of pain first?

We have a free pain relief mini course here:
http://www.thrivingnow.com/painreliefmini

Reducing your level of frustration, stress, worry, and anxiety around the pain helps! These emotions are the cement that hold the pain in place. Let them go to give your body room to do its thing. Tap on all your negative emotions to feel more free.

Your body naturally wants to heal. When you’re run down, your body has to work harder to repair the damage. As you release tensions (including those in your breathing with an exercise like this: http://www.thrivingnow.com/breathing ) and discharge old traumas (http://www.thrivingnow.com/trauma ) you let your body use more energy for healing and less for the flight, fight, and freeze signals.

Traumas freeze your energy and make your body hurt. Even small traumas can add to the stress on your body. Think of them like the pebbles and small rocks in the cement. If there are BIG rocks in the cement, get help shifting them if you need it.

You can help yourself feel better. Tapping with EFT puts a measure of relief right at your fingertips. Even if the pain doesn’t go away immediately (sometimes it takes time for the cells to heal), tapping can let you feel more empowered and calm… no matter what!

Karate Chop: Even though I am so frustrated with this pain, and it feels like it will NEVER get better, I am open to releasing these feelings and finding a calm, grounded place.

Even though I HATE feeling this way, and I just wish the pain would go away, I ask for clarity and help with this process.

Even though I hurt and that makes me feel overwhelmed and down, I am taking steps to help myself… and I’m open to a new way of looking at this.

Top of the Head: I am hurting.
Eyebrow: That’s the truth!
Side of the Eye: I really want relief.
Under the Eye: I am scared.
Under the Nose: And I’m really frustrated.
Chin: This pain is overwhelming.
Collarbone: I just want to feel better.
Under the Arm: I’ve tried denying the pain.

Top of the Head: That didn’t work very well.
Eyebrow: I tried blaming my body.
Side of the Eye: That seemed to make it worse.
Under the Eye: What if I could try something different?
Under the Nose: What if I tried tapping on what I’m honestly feeling?
Chin: My stress and anger…
Collarbone: My doubts and fears…
Under the Arm: I would like to feel better about myself.

Top of the Head: And yelling at myself isn’t working.
Eyebrow: I want to release this!
Side of the Eye: All these old energies.
Under the Eye: I’m ready to do something different.
Under the Nose: I want to feel different!
Chin: If I feel more calm and relaxed…
Collarbone: That could help my body heal.
Under the Arm: I ask for clarity…
Top of the Head: And RELIEF.

Take a deep breath and notice how you feel. How does your body react when you consider working towards relaxation and calm? Are you more relaxed? If not, what thoughts and fears are coming up for you? Tapping on the “yeah-buts” can help shift your trend and bring you relief.

Pain Relief with EFT package is a vibrational medicine chest designed to ease your pain and release your resistance to life. Tap into the experience and compassion of Carol Look and Rick Wilkes as they guide you to well-being!

http://www.thrivingnow.com/painreliefeft

5 Day E-mail Mini-Course by Cathy Vartuli and Rick Wilkes

We invite you to sign-up for our free Tapping To Accelerate Pain Relief 5-day mini-course. We cover key topics to help you get relief from your pain and suffering. Once you sign up, we will send you the mini-course by e-mail, one each day for the next 5 days. (If you don’t see it – check your spam folder!) Here’s a brief overview of the course:

Day 1: Let’s Use Tapping for Pain Relief NOW — That’s today!

Day 2: Trauma and Pain — How old traumas (big and small) can contribute to your pain today, and what you can do to permanently free yourself.

Day 3: Three Subconscious Beliefs That Could Be Hurting Your Life
– We’ll explore ways to identify destructive beliefs and show you how tapping can clear them so you feel better.

Day 4: Help Your Body Feel Better By Shifting Your Emotional State — When you’re in stuck in overwhelm, suffering, or despair, your body becomes depleted. By tapping to reduce the intensity of the emotions, you shift your body into a state of self-healing.

Day 5: What Does Your Pain Have to Say? — We’ll show you how to tune into your body and get the best and most accurate guidance available… that which flows from your own inner truth… your own Inner Healer.

To start your free Tapping To Accelerate Pain Relief 5-day mini-course, complete the form below and click GO. Then check your email in 5-10 minutes. If you don’t see our email for Day 1, be sure to check your spam folder!

We treat the information you provide us with deep respect for your privacy.

If you’ve ever been in an accident, and are still suffering from pain in those areas of your body long after it “should” have healed, you may want to ask your body:

Are you still bracing for impact?

You’ll hear us talk about the primitive brain and how a trauma can get FROZEN there until it is released. What most people don’t realize is that the tissues of our body ALSO stores trauma. And they can maintain painful, restrictive, inflexible holding patterns long, long after the physical tissues have healed.

For example, back in 1999 I injured my spine in a skiing accident. The following year I regularly had intense, off the chart pain from disc damage. My body helped me out by splinting… it protected me from further damage and pain by holding all the muscles of my back and pelvis in a state of tight vigilance.

Many years later, as I sought to take my body to new levels of flexibility and expression, guess what… parts of my body still remembered aspects of the injury. They were still on some level “bracing for impact.”

If you want to shift this kind of bracing, you can FORCE IT. While that may work for awhile, it often comes back to literally bite you in the butt down the road. Instead, you could try doing some tapping in dialogue with that part of your body.

“Even though my body is still bracing for impact, I deeply and completely accept all of me.”
“Even though the tissues that were injured are trying to protect me, I accept all of me.”
“Even though I don’t like being restricted, I do like to protect myself, and I’m open to exploring a new balance and expanded limits.”

I did that and then tapped through the points using “this bracing for impact in my back.” In fact, I did this once again just moments ago as I felt into the tissues of my back and could feel an “expectation of re-injury.” I tapped on that, too.

What was the result? As I’ve seen so often with my clients who have suffered accidents and do have structural changes in their body caused by the injury, what I notice is a subtle shift. My spine feels more open, relaxed, and receptive. My unhelpful level of caution has subsided. I feel myself more willing to dream of new adventures.

If your body is still bracing for impact, tap on those feelings. Work WITH your body. Know that these reflexive responses — while no longer as necessary as they once were — are still here to help. When you tap, acknowledge and appreciate the subtle changes that do occur. With old injuries and holding patterns, you’ll likely notice that the emotional suffering is the first to go. The body will then start playing with new postures and increasing flexibility… bit by bit… baby step by baby step.

The difference will be that you will no longer be STUCK in the old holding pattern. You’ll be healing more deeply and completely than ever before.

Tip: Our Pain Relief with EFT coaching program can also be used to bring you relief from the emotions that are stuck in your body. It has hours of tapping audios and scripts that can help you.

From Abraham-Hicks -

At the heart of every condition is a vibrational pattern—a rather minor tweaking of vibrational patterning (sort of like the hub of a wheel) can affect tremendously out there on the peripheral of this big wheel… A little bit of tweaking on the emotion can make big differences in the way the physical manifestation occurs.

       —San Antonio, TX on Saturday, January 29th, 2005

Be easy about this. Be playful about it. Don’t work so hard at it. Let your dominant intent to be to feel good, and if you don’t feel good, then let your dominant intent be to feel relief. Feel your way through it. If you think your way through it, you can get off on all kinds of tangents. If you feel your way through it, you can come quickly to your Core Energy, and when you do that only good can then flow to you.

       —Rye, NY on Sunday, October 12th, 1997

Whatever you’re thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you’re worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning… What are you planning?

       —Silver Spring, MD on Saturday, April 19th, 1997

There is the potential for relief (feeling better) indefinitely. In other words, we do not know of any ending point to the amount of clarity, and adventure, and joy, and Well-Being—it is an unlimited thing.

       —Asheville, NC on Sunday, October 24th, 2004

There is no condition that you cannot modify into something more, any more than there is any painting that you can paint and not like and just paint over it again. There are many limiting thoughts in the human environment that make it feel like it is not so, as you have these incurable illnesses, or these unchangeable conditions. But we say, they are only “unchangeable” because you believe that they are.

       —San Antonio, TX on Saturday, April 21st, 2001

Do you have to think specific positive thoughts about your body in order for your body to be the way you want it to be? No. But you have to not think the specific negative thoughts. If you could never again think about your body and, instead, just think pleasant thoughts — your body would reclaim its place of Well-being.

       —Orlando, FL on Sunday, January 10th, 1999

Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they’ve been asking for. That is the key to healing.

       —Orlando, FL on Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

There isn’t anything anybody wants that is for any other reason than that they think they would feel better in having it.

       —Seattle, WA on Saturday, July 3rd, 1999

There are no choices that are really a detour that will take you far from where you’re wanting to be — because your Inner Being is always guiding you to the next, and the next, and the next. So don’t be concerned that you may make a fatal choice, because there aren’t any of those. You are always finding your balance. It’s a never ending process.

       —Albany, NY on Saturday, May 22nd, 1999

Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it’s a non-issue. San Rafael, CA — 8/3/02

       —San Rafael, CA on Saturday, August 3rd, 2002

When you talk about what you want and why you want it, there’s usually less resistance within you than when you talk about whathat you want and how you’re going to get it. When you pose questions you don’t have answers for, like how, where, when, who, it sets up a contradictory vibration that slows everything down.

       —San Antonio, TX on Saturday, January 29th, 2005

Worrying is using your imagination to create something you don’t want.

       —Asheville, NC on Saturday, September 5th, 1998

Enlightenment means literally aligning to the Energy of my Source. And genius is only about focusing. Law of Attraction takes care of everything else. Physical humans often want to make enlightenment about finding some process and moving through the process that has been pre-described. But true enlightenment is moving to the rhythm of the internal inspiration that is coming in response to the individual desire. Enlightenment is about allowing my connection to the Source that is me for the fulfillment of the things that I have individually defined here in my time/space reality. That’s as good as it gets!

       —Boulder, CO on Saturday, June 7th, 2003

Wellness that is being allowed, or the wellness that is being denied, is all about the mindset, the mood, the attitude, the practiced thoughts. There is not one exception, in any human or beast; because, you can patch them up again and again, and they will just find another way of reverting back to the natural rhythm of their mind. Treating the body really is about treating the mind.

       —Philadelphia, PA on Monday, May 13th, 2002 02

You will always, almost always, most of you, choose negative emotion over no emotion. Because emotion indicates desire. It’s exciting!

       —Silver Springs, MD on Sunday, April 11th, 1999999

When the desire is born, right away you start counting yourselves a failure, because you’ve got this desire that hasn’t been satisfied. Know that you never get it done! And since you never get it done, it’s time to stop being unhappy about what’s undone, because most of it is undone! You are an eternal being. Most of it is undone. Instead of taking score about what’s been achieved — we want you to start feeling anticipation about what is still to arrive…

       —Spokane, WA on Wednesday, July 7th, 1999 99

Forever, physical humans are saying, “give me the truth, give me the truth.” And we say, there are all kinds of truths. Choose the truths that serve you. Now, there are a lot of people that would feel great discomfort with that. But the thing that we want you to hear about it is: there is a truth of cancer, and there is a truth of wellness. Which truth serves you? You can activate either of them within you, and make it your truth. Truths are created; they aren’t static. They aren’t conditions that exist that then it is your obligation to identify and catalog. You are the creator of your truths–and what you are living is your truth.

       —Kansas City, MO on Saturday, June 1st, 2002 02

There is no state of physical decline or damage that you could not recover from–none–not any, if you knew it… If you wanted it and knew that you could. And that’s those miracles that they talk about every day. They’re not miracles at all, they are the natural order of things. But because they are rare, people think they are miraculous. They’re not. That’s the way it is supposed to be. You’re supposed to thrive.

       —San Diego, CA on Saturday, February 23rd, 2002

One who is mostly an observer thrives in good times but suffers in bad times because what he is observing is already vibrating, and as he observes it, he includes it in his vibrational countenance. As he includes it, the Universe accepts that as his point of attraction and gives him more of it. So the better it gets the better it gets. Or the worse it gets the worse it gets. While one who is a visionary thrives in all times.

       —Portland, OR on Tuesday, June 10th, 1997

You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you’re eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

       —Atlanta, GA on Saturday, November 4th, 2000

If you get a diagnosis that is not what you want to hear, the tendency is to say, “Oh, My God! How did I get so far away from something I want so much?” And we say, it isn’t big like that at all — it’s just a series of little things. It is the, “I could choose this thought which feels good, or this thought which doesn’t feel so good. But I’ve developed a pattern for what doesn’t feel good. And so, it is the daily dose of not being in the receiving mode that keeps me not in the receiving mode.” And that’s all that it is!

       —San Rafael, CA on Saturday, March 24th, 2001

You will never reach the place where you will not need to be diligent about your choice of thought. Because you live in a world that is determined to show you every pocket of despair. So you must diligently choose. But it gets easier and easier and easier to do so. Right now, it may feel to you like those moments of Connection are the rare ones. There will be a time when those moments of Connection will feel so normal that it will shock you when you get into a place of disconnection.

       —San Antonio, TX on Saturday, November 24th, 2001

A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life.

       —Sacramento, CA on Saturday, March 15th, 2003

Don’t get lost in the diagnosis, the medicine, or in the statistics about what somebody else did about it. If you don’t feel good, it’s because you’re not thinking in a way that allows the Energy to flow. You could just get really, really mad at someone you love and make every muscle in your body stiff. And you would ask, “Why does my body feel this way?” And we say, because you’ve had a Vibrational tug-of-war going on… Stop looking for anything other than your mental and emotional state of being as answers to why you feel how you feel in your body. It is all Vibrational—no exception! And when you get that, then it doesn’t matter what diagnosis has been given to you—it doesn’t matter—it’s temporary.

       —Orlando, FL on Friday, December 20th, 2002

When you, as a physician, help someone to accept Well-being enough that they allow the Well-being, whether they allow it in this physical body or whether they have to release this physical body to allow it, it’s still the same thing. In other words, they can allow the wellness into this body, or they can allow the wellness by leaving this body. But allowing the wellness is what you are assisting them in doing. Focus upon the Well-being, and see them opening and receiving it here, or opening and receiving it from Non-Physical. But focus upon the Well-being. And as you focus upon the Well-being, what we’ve noticed is, if you can get someone’s attention and you can convince them that Well-being is the order of the day–there is no illness that will not leave them in the moment that they finally get that.

       —North Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 2nd, 2002

You could stand here sick with ten illnesses today, and tomorrow have no evidence of any of them. Your body has the ability to replenish itself that fast. But most of you do not have the ability to change your thoughts that fast. So the amount of time that it takes between sickness and wellness is only the amount of time that it takes for me to figure out how to let it in — for me to figure out how to feel good, when I’m looking at something that makes me feel bad

       —Atlanta, GA on Saturday, November 4th, 2000

Start taking pleasure from your inner reality. Most people are approaching this backwards. Most people are saying, “Okay, I want that, and I am not fulfilled until I get that manifestation.” The reason for that promise of manifestation out there, to begin with, is that it gives you the reason to play the game in the inner reality. It is your imagination, it is the feeling of Energy flowing through you that is life.

       —Kansas City, KS on Sunday, September 27th, 1998 

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that’s what life is.

       —Syracuse, NY on Thursday, October 17th, 1996

Any malady in your physical body was a lot longer in coming than it takes to release it.

       —Napa, CA on Thursday, February 27th, 1997

You can be fully satisfied with where you are, understanding that you’re eternally evolving. When you get into that place of feeling appreciation of where you are and of who you are, and appreciation of what you are, and you accept that you are a never-ending, always unfolding Being, then you can stand in that delicate balance of being optimistic about what is to come, without being unhappy about where you stand.. Find a way of eagerly anticipating future changes, while at the same time you are in love and satisfied with who, what, where and how you be.

       —Atlanta, GA on Saturday, November 4th, 2000

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Stress Relief (PDF transcript of all the audio sessions)

Chronic, long term stress is very hard on the body and mind. It can lead to irritability, exhaustion, difficulty in concentrating, and physical symptoms such as headache, racing heart, fatigue, and body aches.

What is stress? We feel stressed when we feel like we’re failing to cope with life’s demands. Those demands might be emotional or physical, actual or imagined.

Our primitive brain doesn’t know the difference between being stressed over a demanding boss and distress over lack of food or saber tooth tigers in the bushes. In either case, it sends chemicals to the body to deal with the threat. Of course modern threats don’t require quite the same physical response as they did 10,000 years ago. (Running away screaming or socking our boss in the face is not likely to win us points at work….)

Our bodies are equipped to deal with short term stress and resolution. It is one of the things that challenges us and makes us stronger. But being constantly flooded with stress hormones can task the body. Stress has been linked with all kinds of illness and premature aging.

There are many causes of stress. We cover three fundamental causes of stress in this package:

1) Lack of boundaries
2) Overwhelm – having more to do than we feel capable of
3) Feeling criticized by internal or external judges.

Boundaries give us the power to decide what is ours to focus on and what belongs to others. They helps us say No when that is right for us. Feeling comfortable setting boundaries can reduce the amount of stress we feel… and feel more empowered about what we do want to pay attention to.

Feeling overwhelmed is always stressful. If we can’t get everything done that we feel we need to, we feel like we’re failing. Sometimes we use the fear of “what might happen” to drive ourselves to do more than we feel capable of, and often more than is good for us. Reducing overwhelm will often help us feel calmer and more confident that we are in control of our lives.

When others are telling us what we did wrong, we certainly don’t feel like we are thriving! Sometimes the inner critics can be just as loud or louder than the external ones. Being constantly criticized is very stressful. Quieting those voices and learning to be more gentle and objective can bring more peaceful and restful energy into our lives.

Includes: 3 Coaching & Tapping audio sessions (MP3 downloads) with transcripts:

Boundaries: Yours, Mine, and Ours (MP3)

A lot of us never learned boundaries growing up. Even if we did, managing them with ease and grace is not always natural. We help you define what is yours to decide on and show you ways to stand up for that. And we delve into some of the grey areas that occur when we interact closely with someone at work or socially. Having clear boundaries can empower us and allow us to direct our energy in new ways.

I Feel Overwhelmed (MP3)

We explore the reasons people feel overwhelmed and give them direction and tapping to reduce or eliminate this feeling.
- Trying to do it all at once
- Trying to do it all by myself
- Setting boundaries
- Clutter
- Too many priorities
- Too many projects and good ideas
- Too many symptoms
- Too much holiday hype

I Feel Criticized (MP3)

Feeling criticized is very stressful and can reduce our feelings of wellbeing and enthusiasm. While we can’t change how others view us, we can change how we react to what they say, and we can change our inner dialog.
- Criticize: Find fault, judge, denounce
- Self criticism vs external
- Want to feel peaceful, powerful, forgiven, acceptable
- Tapping on Inner Critic
- Everyone must love me so they won’t hurt me
- I have to be perfect to be acceptable

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We know from personal experience how invaluable a helping hand can be when you are dealing with these kinds of issues. We have a group coaching program that is structured to provide such support.

Learn More about the Thriving Now Team Group Coaching Program

We also offer private sessions (limited availability).

With Energy Tapping we can change negative beliefs that cause stress and impact our health. This report by Bruce Lipton emphasizes how big an impact those negative beliefs can have. He calls it the “Nocebo” effect.

While most of us are aware of the healing influences of the placebo effect, few are aware of its evil twin, the nocebo effect. Just as surely as positive thoughts can heal, negative ones-including the belief we are susceptible to an illness or have been exposed to a toxic condition-can actually manifest the undesired realities of those thoughts.

Japanese children allergic to a poison ivy-like plant took part in an experiment where a leaf of the poisonous plant was rubbed onto one forearm. As a control, a nonpoisonous leaf resembling the toxic plant was rubbed on the other forearm. As expected almost all of the children broke out in a rash on the arm rubbed with the toxic leaf and had no response to the imposter leaf.

What the children did not know was that the leaves were purposefully mislabeled. The negative thought of being touched by the poisonous plant led to the rash produced by the nontoxic leaf! In the majority of cases, no rash resulted from contact with the toxic leaf that was thought to be the harmless control. The conclusion is simple: positive perceptions enhance health, and negative perceptions precipitate dis-ease. This mind-bending example of the power of belief was one of the founding experiments that led to the science of psychoneuroimmunology.

Considering that a minimum of one third of all medical healings are attributed to the placebo effect, what percentage of illness and disease might be the result of negative thought in the nocebo effect? Perhaps more than we think, especially since psychologists estimate that 70 percent of our thoughts are negative and redundant.

Bruce Lipton
http://www.brucelipton.com/book-excerpts/the-nature-of-dis-ease