New EFT ideas and working with animals

Patricia and I have recently spent a weekend in Ilkley with Gwyneth Moss (EFT Master) doing new stuff and keeping up to date with developments in the EFT world. I love going to Yorkshire anyway as the area is just so beautiful.

One of the topics we covered was working with animals and I have always know that some practitioners do this but just never had the belief that I could. So it was a revelation that this works so well and so quickly.

I am now sending leaflets to my pet services pal Emma in the hopes that I can try out my new techniques with some of her more wayward customers, the dogs that is, though I do think working with the owners as well would be a great help. The energy between owner and pet is the link to many behavioral issues and stress in the animal may be the cause of illness just as it for us.

We also did some remarkable stuff with humans which I have been putting into practice with my clients so far this week, they were amazed and I have to say so was I. In fact even after all this time working with EFT I have to say that I am constantly awe struck at what it can do.

It can't be next year yet?

Last week I was sent forms to complete from one of the Holistic Centers where I run workshops. The dates were for the early spring brochure, January to April 2010 and it kind of threw me for a while. With the weather being so kind that week, the clocks not gone back and my November birthday still weeks off, it's hard to start thinking about next year.

I am aware that I should have started my planning when I told everyone else to, but being me I was just too busy, so I had to get a real move on and decide what I wanted to teach and how best I could deliver that teaching.

My weekend therefore was spent trying out concepts, thinking about workshop content and visualizing the delegates. The forms went off this morning by email all filled in and now all I do is wait until the dates I requested are sanctioned, the brochure printed and distributed and people express an interest in my offerings...or not!!

This year, though I had several workshops and courses planned, many were cancelled due to lack of interest. Like many of my friends who are therapists, we have all had a lean time during the recession, so lets hope that now things are more positive, people will feel more comfortable spending a little on their personal development and health. After all, that is the most important thing in life.....but that's only my opinion of course!

The knowledge of age

I am loving this getting older business...!! I sometimes wish I had had some of this wisdom and stuff many years ago but hey ho...not to be... but I am getting it now!

There may be creases in my face, laughter lines Mum used to call them and my body maybe showing signs of traveling south without asking me first, but life is good. I do have to remind myself sometimes as I am not always in the right place but wow, how good it is when I am.

This a wonderful, sepia tint of my mother when she was about 18, no creases at that time!

There are times when I get down and fed up but I try to accept that it is just how I feel then and that I am OK really...and I do love and accept myself... and I tap. EFT is a calmer, a tool for every day not just for when we think we need it or even remember. The time you most need EFT is when you are stressed and most likely to forget. Tap as a part of life and see what it can do for you.

The closeness of friendship when it's needed most

I have just had a long conversation with an old friend Margaret, who was bereaved last November. This very close family lost a husband, a father and a grandfather and she lost her best friend.

It happens, death and taxes as they say... the only certainty in life. It makes it no less traumatic when it is expected; in this instance John died after fighting cancer for over two years, now my caring friend is left without a person to care for, or one to share her life, so the empty space looms large and a little daunting.

She has her family for support and has been to see cousins in Australia, traveling alone for the first time in her life. She learned to swim, snorkeled on the Great Barrier Reef and drove herself around city's and towns she did not know. She is justifiably very proud of herself.

She called to tell me all about her new life and ask about mine. We shared notes as old friends do, I have not seen her for many years nor do I plan to. Friendship that relies on constant feeding can be tiring and not always a two way trade. This one rests on the knowledge that we are just there; we can just pick up the phone and we as as we were, friends with a shared past, a spiritual connection and hopefully a long future .....so good to know.

We will be there for each other and all our friends providing the best support we can when needed. Just reminded me to be thankful for my wonderful support system of family and friends; thank you all for just being there.

Changes and more changes!

I am sure that all my readers are aware that change is the only certainty in life!

Well I have just had to change the date for the Carers of Loved ones with Dementia workshop. Had so much interest "Wow what a great idea!" but just not enough people booked in. So instead of this Sunday 4th October it's now Sunday 8th November.

This workshop is designed to help take away the uncertainty, pain and grief that carers experience when a family member or close friend slides remorselessly into dementia of any kind.

Tomorrow the 2nd October is my wedding anniversary and I will celebrate with my husband, knowing that it means nothing to him as he fixates on the tissue in his hands, folding it ever smaller, unfolding and refolding it.

I will choose to remember the best of the 25 years we have shared and tell him stories about the good times; the children, grandchildren, sailing and narrow boating that he loved so much.

By remaining busy, seeing two clients, lunching with a girl friend (always good for a giggle) as well as spending an hour or so with Peter, will mark the day for me in a very positive way....as I flow with my ever changing life.

Embrace the changes, roll with punches and laugh as much as you can.