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Happiness & Freedom through conscious living
A life map I follow to create my life and use with coaching is the   Native American Sacred Medicine Wheel.
The wheel shows us the blueprint of life and our lives.  It shows us we are conneted to all things including our mind-body-spirit-emotions.  
One
principal of the wheel, "All things are related", reminds us that  there are no isolated problems.  If part of us has a problem, our whole system has a problem, and things outside us are affected, too.
This gift of wisdom from the wheel shows us that your success with coaching, hypnosis, NLP, etc. is much higher when restoring balance and harmony in all parts of your life.
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? What Is...
NLP or Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Neuro:  The nervous system (the mind), through which our experience is processed via five senses:
Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic, Olfactory, Gustatory
Linguistic:  Language and other nonverbal communication systems through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning. Includes:
Pictures, Sounds, Feelings, Tastes, Smells, Words (Self Talk)
Programming: The ability to discover and utilize the programs that we run (our communication to ourselves and others) in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes.

In other words, NLP is how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve our specific and desired outcomes.

When was NLP created? NLP was initially created in the 1970’s by Richard Bandler a student of mathmatics and gestalt therapy and John Grinder a Professor of Liguistics at The University of California Santa Cruz. They began modeling and duplicating the "magical results" of a few top communicators and therapists, including  Hypnotherapist Milton Erickson, gestalt therapist Fritz Perls and family therapist Virginia Satir. Since then, many others have contributed to the growth and development of the field.

Can anyone study NLP? Yes , Today, NLP is widely used in business to improve management, sales and achievement/performance, inter-personal skills; in education to better understand learning styles, develop rapport with students and parents and to aid in motivation; and of course, NLP is a profound set of tools for personal development.
These include Salespeople, Business Executives, Managers, Business Owners, Lawyers, Teachers, Trainers, Counselors, Educators, Doctors, Chiropractors, Massage Therapists, Consultants, Hypnotherapists, Psychologists, Athletes, Entertainers and Performers. Regardless of profession, the majority of NLP participants are searching, and finding, better and more effective ways to increase their performance and improve their effectiveness.

What are some beliefs of NLP?   (This is a short list summarizing some of the thinking behind NLP)

  • People are not their behaviors. Accept the person; change the behavior
  • People have all the resources they need to succeed and achieve their desired outcomes
  • The meaning of the communication is the response you get
  • Everyone is doing the best they can with the resources they have available
  • We are in charge of our minds and therefore our results
  • There is no failure, only feedback
Time Line Therapy™ 
is a highly regenerative process that allows us to gain control over our lives quickly and painlessly.
Limiting decisions like "I am not good enough" or "I'll never make it" creates false limitations that hinder our ability to obtain reachable goals.
A branch of NLP, Time Line Therapy™ techniques enable us to clear all these unresourceful emotions quickly and effectively. As the name implies, Time Line Therapy™ works with the process our minds use to maintain the concept of time. NLP refers to this process as our neurological time line. Recognizing and knowing how to work effectively with our timelines allows us to clear up current perceived limitations that originated in our past and manifest our desired present and literally create our futures.

Reiki 
is the Japanese phrase for "Universal life energy" or, in Takata Sensei's words, "God-power."
The word "Reiki" is sometimes used to refer to the Usui System of Reiki Healing. The word "Reiki" is often used interchangeably for the energy and in speaking of the System without distinction. This causes confusion for students and public alike." - Phyllis Lei Furumoto
Usui Reiki (RAY Kee) is a hands-on healing art. It is the transference of the universal life energy (Ki or light energy) through an attuned Reiki practitioner to a person needing to regain health or well being. Reiki brings balance to the human system, clears un-healthful emotions, and restores the natural flow of energy that is essential to health and healing. A practitioner attuned to the Reiki becomes a vessel through which this energy flows.
There are many uses for this energy. The Universal Energy is by nature generic, and is awaiting us to give it direction and purpose. While this divine source is plentiful and all around us, a Reiki Practitioner once attuned is more open to its presence, its influences, and its use.

Reiki Master - I offer training, attunements, and treatments in Reiki. I received my Reiki Master "attunement" in Sedona, AZ in a personally sacred place to me: the the Airport Mesa Vortex.
To reach the Master Level, you must learn Reiki and pass through Level I and II attunements, and then Master Level education and attunement.

Is Reiki Right for Christians?  Many Christians ask about Reiki, and fear it because it originated in Japan and seems to involve symbols and words in Japanese related to Zen Budhists - although Christianity's most sacred days are symbolized with a Christmas Tree and Easter Egg - which were adopted from paganism and Roman religeons.
For me personally, there is only one God - who is the maker and Source of all things: who others call Elohim, Allah, Great Spirit, Father, Great Grandfather, Sky God, Star God, I AM WHO AM.   The Great Source loves us all no more or no less enough to give all people equally the gifts of life and healing.   I judge no one, nor do I refuse a heavenly gift that heals with the laying on of hands so wonderfully.   I have met Reiki practioners who say thay have had heavenly angels appear to assist during Reiki sessions. May I be so blessed to see this with my own eyes someday, but in the meantime, I know they are there.
More information to help Christians decide can be found here: http://www.christianreiki.org/ .
May God, Allah, Great Spirit bless us and keep us all well and good!

EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique
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The surprising natural healing aid you can use for almost everything when nothing else will.
Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is an emotional, needle free version of acupuncture  that is based on new discoveries regarding the connection between your body's subtle energies, your emotions, and your health. EFT has been reported successful in thousands of cases covering a huge range of emotional, health and performance issues. It often works where nothing else will. 
EFT is effective for many concerns - both physical and emotional.
Below is an example of just how powerful our thoughts can change our body's condition in just moments:
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EFT Research
The following is a letter sent to EFT Founder Gary Craig  (original source: http://www.emofree.com/Research/Research-other/Emotions-Blood.htm

Clear evidence that our emotions affect our body--in this case, dramatic changes in the blood
Rebecca Marina provides us with obvious evidence that changes in our emotional states generate instant and dramatic changes in our physical bodies.   As you will see, she purposely shifts from one intense emotion to another (using EFT to enhance the emotions) and then, after each emotion, a photo is taken of her blood using darkfield microscopy.   The photos are contained in this article for your perusal.
Please note that these are static photos and thus do not show the dramatic change in movement and speed that accompany the various emotional changes.   However, Rebecca describes this movement in her narrative below.

Dear Gary,

Here are the results of the latest research I have done with live blood cells and EFT.

I was inspired to do this by the work of the Japanese researcher, Masaru Emoto, who photographed pictures of frozen water crystals imbued with different emotions. His work is quite astonishing and wonderful and I recommend you read his book, The Hidden Messages in Water.

Anyway, I tried to duplicate Mr. Emotos experiments but found the water crystals melted under the hot light of the darkfield microscope before we (Dr Felici and I) could get a look at them.

OK-I am the first to admit I am no scientist. However, I sure am a pioneer and I love to try new experiments with everything. If you never try for fear of failure, you dont get anything!

So, I had a backup plan.

While the water crystals experiment did not work , Dr Felici and I had previously done some experiments with live blood and EFT. We were certain we could get good pictures of my blood.

So, the plan was to use EFT to invite one emotion at a time into my energy field and thus into my body and into my blood. Dr Felici would take a blood sample after each different emotion and we would take a look at the sample under the darkfield microscope.

I had never purposely invited negative energies into myself; however, I really allowed the emotions to be very powerful within me. I used EFT with the INTENT that whatever emotion I was inviting in would be very powerful indeed.

Before we began with the emotions, I asked Dr Felici to take a look at my blood as it looked normally. Well, folks, I had eaten 2 things for lunch that caused lectins to form in my blood and clumped my red blood cells together horribly! I am B POSITIVE blood type and am not supposed to eat chicken or avocados (should have cleared those allergens beforehand with EFT). Anyway, I had to do EFT to fix my blood so I could get good readings for the emotions. Since I had done this twice before, it was a piece of cake! Here are darkfield microscopy pictures of my blood cells before and after EFT. Please note the astonishing and immediate change from being clumped to being free and mobile.


After I used EFT to clear my blood, we were ready to begin.

The first emotion I invited in was the energy of sadness. I did EFT and thought of many sad things. I got into it so deeply that I was even crying. I did not wait any time at all but allowed Dr Felici to take a blood sample that very moment. EFT works really fast you know! Here is the picture.

Understand that when you look at blood on a darkfield microscope, the sample is alive and still moving. Dr Felici has seen this movement many, many times. However, she had never seen the movement like the sample moved with the energy of sadness!

You would think the blood cells would be all slow and plodding but NO! The cells were moving very rapidly (that why they look so far apart) and a lot of white blood cells were predominant, much more so than when we just did a normal blood sample. Another thing that is quite unusual is that many of the red blood cells took on a teardrop formation! Perhaps there is some scientific reason this happened, I do not know. I just know what I saw on the computer screen attached to the microscope.

Next, using EFT, I invited the energy of LOVE to come into my body and blood. When we placed the sample under the microscope, the cells were moving all placidly and beautifully. The shape of the cells was normal but you can notice there is a bit of some sparkly substance in the fluid of the blood.

On an interesting note, we had left the sadness sample on the screen as I was doing EFT to invite LOVE in to my blood. The sample on the screen started to change as well. Even when our blood is out of our body, we are still connected to it.

Next, I invited the energy of FEAR into my blood. (see above photo) I allowed myself to remember a time when I was very frightened and really got into the emotional state, using EFT to assist me. I placed the sample pictures of LOVE and FEAR close together so you could see how the LOVE sample cuddles together and how the FEAR sample seems to spread a lot further apart.

Remember it was my INTENT to allow myself to feel all these emotions.

When we placed the energy of FEAR under the microscope, the cells were just going crazy! They were moving much faster even that with the energy of sadness! There were also a whole lot more of the white blood cells showing than in any of the other samples. I took it to mean that when your body feels a threat it sends out the soldiers to fight any perceived danger. Interestingly enough, the cells were really going crazy but came to a standstill very quickly. Perhaps, it was an adrenaline response and it ran out of gas quickly.

(Before you read this next paragraph, please know that I am not of a certain religion and I am not espousing any certain religion this is simply my personal experience.)

I felt I needed something heavy duty to calm my poor blood cells down so I brought out the big gun of my own belief system- The energy of Divine Mother! Now when I say Divine Mother, I am speaking from my personal belief system that there is a Divine Feminine energy that is the nurturing, mothering part of God. It is my belief that Her energy comes through many of the Deities in many religions and indeed in the nurturing part of all of us. I am not asking anyone to believe as I do, I am simply stating my views for clarification on the experiment. I could have (and have done since) asked Jesus, Holy Spirit, and even Buddha to assist me. The point I am making is that I asked an energy I perceived to be Divine to come into my body and blood.

I must share with you that when I asked the energy of Divine Mother to come into me I had great waves of energy all over my body. It was such a very tender and precious feeling that I was crying tears of pure joy.

When we placed the sample under the microscope and the image came up on the screen there was dead silence in the laboratory.

You could have heard a pin drop!

The sample was so different from any of the others. The fluid part of the blood was very clear, the movement of the cells was so placid, and the cells were just gliding along in peace. There was a great deal of white, yet beyond white, sparkly substance interspersed with the cells. The white blood cells that showed each had a white, glowing center and a pulsation in that center almost like a little heartbeat!

It was like looking into a parallel universe.

Myself, Dr Felici, the technician, and my daughter (who was filming) just could not stop looking at that sample. As long as we left the sample on the screen, it had life. All the other samples started to slow down after a short period of time but the Divine Mother sample did not. Another interesting thing that happened and it shows up in the photograph, was that some of the red blood cells began to take on a heart shape. This is not 2 cells overlapping but single cells taking on this shape. I have included 2 of these pictures taken at different positions on the sample slide.


So what have I proved by this experiment?

  • That EFT can enhance any emotion and bring it about quickly with all the physical ramifications as well.
  • That you can INTEND and use EFT to enhance even a negative emotion.
  • That different emotions affect the blood in profound ways.
  • That you can fix many emotions with INTENT and EFT.
  • For me, the most astonishing thing this experiment proves is that the Divine can come into your blood and this could be used for all kinds of reasons. Perhaps, using EFT in this manner simply stimulates the Divine that is already inherent in all of us.

I do not know the answers to many questions. I will keep doing experiments in the hopes of helping and inspiring us all.

With much love,

Rebecca Marina
 
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