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Recent articles from Thriving Now.
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The Dream Is the Stream: Let Desire Nourish You Before the Goal Arrives
A dream can nourish us before it becomes a plan, achievement, or possession. Many of us were taught the opposite. Dreaming was foolish unless we could explain how it would happen. Desire invited disappointment. Excitement had to justify itself with results. If an adult mocked, blocked, or took over something we loved, we may have…
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#21 – What is Ultimate Abundance?
Listen Download MP3 From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete. Episode #21 – What is Ultimate Abundance? Listen to this episode to understand more about how to align your vibration with Ultimate Abundance. Companion Guide Ultimate abundance is not a sufficiently impressive house, bank balance, business, or public success.…
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Hopelessness – When Will This Ever End?
When will this ever end? — This question has within it the energy of hopelessness. And it is easy to become hopeless when we focus our attention on that which still is in our life (or in the world at large) that SHOULD NOT.
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#20 – Does the Universe hear your words or your vibration?
Listen Download MP3 From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete. Episode #20 – Does the Universe hear your words or your vibration? Companion Guide Words influence attention and emotion, but they do not erase what the body is communicating. If you say, “I am calm and confident,” while anxiety…
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When You Cannot Control the Action Journey, Choose Your State of Being
Sometimes we are not in charge of the action journey. The workplace has procedures we did not choose. A medical process has waiting and uncertainty. A family member makes their own decisions. A project depends on other people. We may influence what happens, but we cannot command the sequence or outcome. When action is constrained,…
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#19 – Go with the FLOW
Listen Download MP3 From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete. Episode #19 – Go with the FLOW Companion Guide “Go with the flow” can sound passive, as though you should stop caring, stop choosing, and let circumstances decide. That is not the useful meaning here. Flow is the felt…
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#18 – I am not using my EFT
Listen Download MP3 From the archived Rick and Carol EFT podcast series. The series is complete. Episode #18 – I am not using my EFT! Companion Guide Knowing a practice is useful does not mean you will always want to do it. Sometimes tapping, meditation, gratitude, or another form of self-care lands in the nervous…
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When Healing Becomes Another Place to Push Yourself
We can turn healing into the same performance system that helped exhaust us. We research harder, tap longer, search for deeper roots, monitor every sensation, and judge ourselves for not improving fast enough. Rest becomes another technique to perform correctly. A difficult day becomes evidence that we are failing the healing process. The original strategy…
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When Tapping Leaves You Spacey: Integration Is Part of the Process
Sometimes tapping brings real relief—and then we feel oddly spacey, tired, disoriented, or less grounded than usual. That does not automatically mean the tapping harmed us or that we did something wrong. A problem that occupied our attention morning, noon, and night may suddenly have much less emotional charge. The nervous system has been organized…
