Body Vitality, Safety, & Self-Image
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When Your Emotions Keep Dropping: Return Without Forcing Positivity
You may understand emotional regulation, do your tapping, and genuinely feel better—then suddenly find yourself afraid, angry, discouraged, or caught in a thought you believed you had cleared. The drop can feel like proof that the progress was false. We see it differently. Emotional movement is not a straight climb and your state is not…
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Body YES and Body NO: Learning to Listen to Your Body’s Guidance
My road back to health started many years ago with a simple directive from my coach: Go within. Listen. Follow. On September 7, 2008 we had a 97-minute teleclass on Body YES and Body NO: Learning to Listen to the Body’s Intuitive, Intelligent Guidance. It was the first topic in our Body Vitality Workshop that…
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Trusting Your Body’s Guidance After Years of Overriding It
Listening to your body can sound simple until its guidance conflicts with what other people want, what you were taught, or what once kept you connected to your family. Then a quiet inner NO may be followed immediately by guilt, doubt, fear, or the urge to do the opposite of whatever anyone suggests. We teach…
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Soften Your Eyes to Soften Your Body
Stress changes the way we look. Our visual attention narrows. We stare at the threat, mistake, screen, instrument, expression, or object that seems most important. The muscles around the eyes tighten, and the rest of the body often joins them. Sometimes we need precise focus. Reading small print, threading a needle, driving, or handling a…
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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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Oh NO! No Excuses Anymore!
Can an illness make us feel safe? Growing up, when I wasn’t prepared for a test at school, I would get a stomach ache. It would buy me some time. It would give me another day home. It was an “excused absence.” No one questioned. No one poked or prodded. No thermometer had to read…
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Raising Your Vibration with EFT
Rick Wilkes of Thriving Now discusses Raising Your Vibration with EFT on VoiceAmerica Radio with Carol Look.