Michael Jackson: 3 Healing Lessons

Reviewing this video from February 24, 1993, reinforces what I intuitively believe are the 3 lessons Michael J's life teaches us:

1. Heal your Inner Child and "Heal The World" Michael says: "My childhood was completely taken away from me - no Christmas, birthdays - from the age of five..."
Lesson #1: find the "frozen little child within" and set him or her free. Why? Because if you DON'T you risk that child running - or eventually ruining - your life now. Unconscious programs and beliefs set up before we are 5/6 can hijack our lives NOW...keeping us frustrated, in pain. Michael was clearly in perpetual pain (emotional and physical) by the time he died -

2. Michael said: "What we need to learn from children isn't childish" His own playfulness, creative brilliance as reinforced in this review of his work in the '90s - was a staggering tribute to a soul born with breath-taking talent and gifts he showered on the world like his love of pageantry/dramatic visuals/dance etc.

Lesson#2 - Heal the Damaged Child - but Cultivate, Love and Nurture your Creative Spiritual Child - he or she is a source of endless inspiration, beauty and love.

3. Heal the Inner Shadow Black vs White conflict within you - failure to own your "dark side" can result in illness, depression, low self worth, failure.
LESSON #3: Only when you dig deep and re-claim the gold in the dark mine of your shadow will you release your power and passion to shine in the world an alchemy of gold, rich in inner PEACE, SPIRITUAL CONNECTION AND LOVE FOR SELF AND OTHERS.

RIP Michael

MICHAEL JACKSON'S SHADOW SELF

Michael Jackson's death can teach us something to help and heal. What can we learn from the seeming excesses, addictions and sadness of a life of gifted potential ending in misery - not unlike Elvis Presley?

What does Jackson represent in each one of us? How does his grotesque saga of trying to escape his essential looks (and self?) with plastic surgery and skin lightening reflect in me and you?

His addictions – including overspending – are legendary. Only a month ago in May 2009 his former lawyer Raymone Bain went public to sue Jackson for millions, revealing how he splurged recklessly on statues of Peter and Pan and kids while laden with debt.

According to papers filed at the District Court for the US District of Columbia, the Thriller hit-maker filled his Neverland ranch with life-size bronze statues of kids playing on slides or dancing while holding hands.

His death reminds me to look within at my own addictions with money, food etc.– in fact the “shadow self” for which addictions are merely a symptom.

Debbie Ford in her book: "The Dark Side of the Light Chasers" explains how, consciously or unconsciously, we hide and deny our “dark” sides, rejecting these aspects of our true natures rather than giving ourselves the freedom – and gift – to live authentic lives with all parts of us, dark and light, integrated into a more powerful truthful persona.

When we recognize and reconcile with our rejected parts we find they have rich treasures and gifts to reveal to us. For instance perhaps the Lazy Lout part of you is just thirsting for the Workaholic Warrior you present to the world – to take a much needed break. Perhaps Selfish Susan – the person in your family or group of friends you most judge as despicable because she seems to neglect her kids or family in favor of her passions – is actually reflecting the part of you that needs time out to replenish the dry well within.

STOP SELF-JUDGING
So stop judging yourself…reclaim all parts of you for new wholeness and freedom.

Although he was talented and black, Michael Jackson ended up fake “white” and addicted to spending and possibly pain killers – but no spending sprees, drugs or medical face-lifts could ever fulfill the deep hole in him.

FIND THE GIFT IN YOUR PAIN
I am going deeper inside to find the disowned parts of me – trusting that each aspect I hate or deny in me can lead to my ruin – or hold a gift of golden wisdom and insight that, once owned, can integrate and propel me forward in happiness, love and true wealth.

What you resist persists.

Or as Neal Donald Walsh says in Conversations with God – If you don’t go within, you go without.

RIP MICHAEL
Michael may you rest in peace - and teach us by your split "black-white" phobia to integrate - not segregate - our own selves.

You Can Break-Free Fast

Get free chapters of my book at www.breakfreefast.com

Emotional Freedom...One Step at a Time

My diamond insight for today is... ONE STEP AT A TIME... gets you to the finish line!

Keen to hear feedback from anyone who downloads free chapters of my book at www.breakfreefast.com

This time last year I was writing my book - now I am joyously, proudly, showing it to everyone as I now have the first printed copies and awaiting the USA printing to put on Amazon - watch out world for the Amazon best-seller launch! I will also be launching my E-Coaching programme at the same time.

But as I return from Cape Town to our home on the Isle of Wight I remember how this time last year I was painstakingly writing the book and putting my coaching insights into a three-step system.

It reminded me of times I have had to proceed with "baby steps".

Like when I literally crawled like a crab up the biggest sand dune in Namibia. Or more recently up a strenuous mountain in Cape Town to a place called the Elephant's Eye cave in Tokai.

Similarly, despite the many book coaches who tell you to write your book in 72 hours and such like - my book took seven years of practical "walking my talk" and then one year of painstakingly drafting it into a system - book and coaching programme - to pass it forward in an easy-to-grasp formula. The Break-Free Fast Formula.

I use at least 6 different ways to help people break-free fast. But for simplicity, in this book, I focused on explaining the key tool I use: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - Tapping with the fingers to release inner blocks or constraints.

This results in freedom from pain, turmoil, confusion or an inner block - often in under 60 minutes!

My goal was to make it easy for both beginners - and coaches and therapists - to use the system. It contains practical case studies so they get my THREE EASY STEPS TO BREAK FREE with a "break-free aha" about how and why they've been stuck.

DO YOU HAVE "TOXIC MUSHROOMS" IN YOUR LIFE?


In the rainy season in Newlands forest near where I lived in Cape Town, it was "mushroom time" after the rains. Dedicated gourmands and day trippers indulged in the gentle sport of… mushroom hunting, going into the moist leafy places under the trees, ferreting for the fungus that tickles the fancy and fuels the tastebuds.

One day I heard an obvious novice who had just picked up a huge white saucer of a mushroom, stop a passerby for advice. “Oh don’t ask me, “ he said, “ask my wife – she’s an expert in mycology (the study of fungi)”
“Is this an edible one?” he asked her.
“Well…” she said, giving it an expert twirl, “it’s only poisonous if you don’t cook it properly!”

I couldn’t help chuckling to myself as I continued my brisk perambulations that day. As I came across a few interesting specimens myself, I wondered: “When in my life have I eaten potentially “toxic mushroom?” A situation, a person – “potentially poisonous” and all the warning bells go off – but my thinking mind disregards the reality and plunges in for a toxic taste…potentially lethal!

How often do we put off making a change – because we have built up a tolerance for the toxicity of the situation? Like the frog that jumps into the cold pot of water that starts to warm up to a boil – we don’t notice the damage until it’s – almost – too late! We tell ourselves that the pain is only “slight” and we can manage it. After all, there’s some safety and protection in the pot – while jumping out means facing the cold and unknown.

I remember a time – only a few years ago – when I felt I had no choice… and stayed in what became clear to me was an increasingly toxic marriage. It took a fire (which symbolically started in the 20-year marriage bed and destroyed the whole top floor of our home) and physical and emotional breakdown on both sides, before we could stop ingesting the “uncooked” mushroom of our marriage.

After many years of deeply challenging emotional de-toxing to find my authentic self – and my soul – again, I have been given a second chance at life and seven years later remarried to live my perfect life. Day to day, I check out options, knowing instinctively what will serve my well-being and what is poisonous – cooked or uncooked! So ask yourself today: “where in my life am I eating potentially poisonous mushroom? And what action can I choose to do right now to change for my own well-being and peace of mind?

LAUGH YOURSELF WELL

A chapter from my upcoming book reminds us to laugh, chortle and chuckle through today! Doctor's orders!

LAUGH YOUR TROUBLES AWAY

Did you know you can laugh for no reason, feel upbeat fast and save a fortune on medical bills? You might feel a bit silly at first but the benefits are proven and worth it. For instance,did you know that 20 minutes of hearty laughter is equivalent to 10 minutes on an exercise bike? It's also a wonderful way to erase lines and look younger.

No joking, you can laugh your way to fitness and health of mind, body and heart, like thousands of people worldwide who take the “laugh-a-day” prescription of medical doctor Madan Kataria, famous for pioneering his Laughter Yoga therapy world-wide.

I trained with him as a Laughter Yoga Leader and for two days we belly-laughed till I ached. What a tonic!

I interviewed Dr Kataria and he told me:

"Laughter yoga is a perfect way to laugh and get exercise at the same time. It treats laughter as a body exercise so it’s easy to laugh even if you’re depressed or in a bad mood," he says.

Dubbed the “giggling guru” by The Times of London and featured in Time Magazine, CNN and National Geographic, Dr Kataria, with his wife Madhuna, founded Laughter Yoga more than 12 years ago and they've since seen it spreading like a tonic to more than 50 countries where people practise it in more than 5000 Laughter Clubs, Yoga studios, corporate boardrooms, as well as schools, hospitals and prisons.

“The Singapore police have introduced it for their staff,” said Dr Kataria who believes that learning to laugh "for no reason" is the modern day cure-all for both stress - and crime - reduction.

Scientific studies prove the benefits of regular uninhibited laughter for your immune system, heart, energy and vitality. People who are sick or who get sick often should laugh more as medical research shows that laughter strengthens our immune system and helps us to fight off disease, colds, flu and even cancer. Hearty laughter provides an aerobic workout that exercises the heart, diaphragm, abdominal, respiratory and facial muscles.

Laughter yoga workouts include flexing and exercise of the arm, leg, and back muscles. The exercises strengthen facial muscles and reduce wrinkles. Laughter yoga sessions stimulate the lymphatic system and boost our immune system, and can reduce levels of stress poisons in our bodies by 50% or more within an hour. Benefits include improved cardiovascular health and reduced blood pressure. Laughter is used in old age homes and in hospitals around the world to speed healing and improve patients’ mental outlook. It can be especially beneficial to cancer patients.

Growing up one of eight children in a small rural community in India, Kataria says people laughed spontaneously and often, but when he went to Bombay to study medicine, he found that city people need a reason to laugh… a mental understanding of why something is funny.

“I call it the difference between happiness and joy,” he says.

“Happiness has adult conditions attached and lies in the past or future. By contrast, joyfulness is childlike and present moment." Children laugh 300-400 times a day during their important formative years, but adult laughter has reduced to just 5-10 times a day," says Dr Kataria.

“Laughter really is the best medicine because it reduces stress and conflict, within and without, and it is important for ourselves and our modern society that we find ways to laugh more to cope with stress,” he says.

DR JOE VITALE AND ME

Miracles do happen - dreams do come true. I not only met, hugged, and spent a wonderful two days with Joe Vitale and his co-speakers and a wonderful audience at his Miracles Awakening weekend - I also got to be in his Mastermind Group for a memorable evening and ask him to write the foreward to my book, which is currently being edited for its upcoming launch.

For five years I have followed Dr Joe Vitale from across continents, admiring his writing, ideas and spiritual marketing I always visualised how wonderful it would be to sit with him in a mastermind group - real or virtual. To meet and network with him.
But I was in South Africa all this time and he was in the USA.
DREAMS DO COME TRUE - and to prove it: here's the picture on the balcony at the fabulous Catamarin Spa in San Diego taken in September.
I also loved his presentation which I got some of on my Flip and thought his co-presenters on this Miracles Weekend were great...
Generous - talk about giving more than we paid for!! It was like an early Christmas as Joe lavished us participants with gifts of his CDs, courses and books. What a great visionary and wonderful icon in the self-help field. Thanks Joe I love you

ST PAUL INSPIRES

MY TRIP TO EPHESEUS IN TURKEY RECENTLY CAME TO MY MIND WHEN I HEARD THIS STORY about ST PAUL, THE "13TH APOSTLE" read out at Mass today.

It reminds me of the truly life-changing miracles that can happen in anyone's life - when our Life Purpose kicks in. Writing my book on how the past eight years have transformed me from broke and broken-hearted to fulfilled and inspired to help others with emotional-energy healing...tells me that an Angel can break our chains (of hopelessness) and set us free just as happened to St Paul. And then when I reflect on his conversion on the road to Damascus ...I am inspired never to judge a situation on face value or give up the Divine calling for good.

Acts 12:1-11
On the very night before Herod was to bring him to trial, Peter, secured by double chains, was sleeping between two soldiers,while outside the door guards kept watch on the prison.Suddenly the angel of the Lord stood by him and a light shone in the cell. He tapped Peter on the side and awakened him, saying,“Get up quickly.” The chains fell from his wrists. The angel said to him, “Put on your belt and your sandals.” He did so.

Then he said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.” So he followed him out, not realizing what was happening: though the angel was real he thought he was seeing a vision.They passed the first guard, then the second, and came to the iron gate leading out to the city,which opened for them by itself. They emerged and made their way down an alley, and suddenly the angel left him. Then Peter recovered his senses and said,“Now I know for certain that the Lord sent his angel and rescued me from the hand of Herodand from all that the Jewish people had been expecting.”

BACK TRACK TO HIS CONVERSION

If you remember, this was not the first time St Paul was released from his "chains." The story of his conversion on the road to Damascus really can be described in that almost modern day cliche as LIFE-CHANGING.
Paul set out for Damascus a most aggressive persecutor of the disciples of Jesus, but suddenly became a champion of their cause. "The young man Saul was exceedingly mad against the pilgrims of the Way. He made havoc of them, and the word [used in Scripture to describe him] is that which would be used of wild boars uprooting tender vines. He devastated them with the fury of an invading army.”

Yet on the road to Damascus, in the company of many witnesses, Saul met and spoke with the risen Jesus - and went on to become totally devoted to being an apostle - the 13th apostle he was called - for Christianity.

Amazing huh? I have recently visited Epheseus in Turkey where St Paul made efforts to speak to and convert the Romans living there as part of his travels on behalf of Christ. In my next post I will share the story of our visit to the Mother Mary house up in the hills above Epheseus where both Muslim and Christian pilgrims go to pray at the spot where it is believed St John came to live out the last years of her life with Mary, the Mother of Jesus.

I wonder if any of you, like me, have had a "Damascus experience' - or had an Angel-like experience freeing you of your "chains?"

ROCK SOLID COUPLE

NICK AND CARYL WESTMORE on our wedding day December 16, 2007

For anyone curious to see a pic of Nick and I ... I just posted one of my favourites...Rock solid marriage built to last and built on a shared spirituality, sense of love and giving and so much more. We were married in Cape Town at Noordhoek and went down to the beach at sunset for this pic. It was one of the happiest days of my life.

VEGES GALORE

Abundant blessings. Abundant vegetables. Giving thanks for the bounty I just gathered this morning from our garden here at Sweet Echoes on the Isle of Wight. All thanks to my dearest husband Nick who spent three weeks while I was away in May moving huge stones and preparing the soil and then planting from SEED... carrots, spinach, lettuce and beetroot. I enjoyed the baby leaves of the beetroot, spinach and lettuce in salads and now the spinach is flourishing I will steam it for my meals. On the white plate are the baby coriander and parsley I put in my salads.

Do you want to know a secret? Why I haven't actually photographed the garden patch?

Well let me confess... a battalion of weeds have also flourished while I was writing. Look we writers have to prioritise our focus or we never get to put down OUR seed words and grow a book, okay? I've told Nick who is in hot Saudi Arabia I'm sorry... please forgive me... thank you... I love you. And he is okay with that.

But let's focus on the positive - a picture tells a thousand words. Mmmm and those carrots are sweet!

Best-selling writer Bryce Courtney from Australia once told us in a writing workshop.

"You want to be writer? Well you need three things:

1. A deadline

2. Bum glue (put your bum on the chair in front of the computer and STAY)

3. Say every day; 'I AM A WRITER"

You get the point!

NEW MOON...NEW BEGINNING

New moon soon... and a new beginning. So making a commitment to writing up my blog at least three times a week. Promise, commitment and a sense of right timing.

I've had my one-year sabbatical and am now deep in the throes of writing my book, alone at home on the Isle of Wight. My sweetheart and new husband Nick is away on a 6-month project in Saudi Arabia (he is a project manager in the oil and gas industry).

Summer Solstice, last weekend, I painted my second watercolour ever - the Druid-like landmark on the IOW Motterson Rock. Whether writing or painting, the creative process is challenging and delightful to me. But what helps is an encouraging mentor or teacher. I have lucked on Paul Hewson on the IOW for my painting and am excited with entering a coaching relationship with a new "writing/info product" coach in the USA, James Roche.
As the first weeks of the first draft of my book unfold, I am IN PROCESS with myself - or should I say all my Selves - The Creative, The Critic, The Perfectionist/Procrastinator and even the part of me I recognise as the Da Vinci multi-creative. All I can do is show up at the page and give it my focus.
My highest intention is to write authentically, from the heart, allowing the flow of Grace for freedom and joy to bless those who read the book. Aligned with my Source and Higher Purpose, may my passion and wisdom (and the amazing stories of my clients) shimmer through the words like healing gold-dust. For as the inspiring Victor Frankl wrote:
"Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue. And it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself."

MARRIED LIFE AFTER 50

I DID IT. And so can you! My life was stagnant... I dreamed a dream of travelling... meeting and marrying my soul mate and writing my book. And it all came true... well the book is still being completed...But considering how busy I've been having a MARVELLOUS LIFE... you will understand if I shelved it for a sabbatical.

I married my soul mate Nicolas Westmore on Dec 16 2007 in beautiful Noordhoek in Cape Town. I then sold, gave away and packed up my life thinking I was gone for good.
I had worked in the UK for six months before that...
But as Mrs Caryl Westmore... life is a new adventure. Nick and I first travelled on an extended honeymoon to Spain and Turkey. I now am based with him on the dreamy Isle of Wight and we will spend the UK winters in ... Cape Town.
We're part of the new -young over-50s on the go-go.

All I teach has come home to roost... and my book will describe I went from broke, divorced and alone at 50 to living this exciting life... and show you can fulfill your dreams too...step by step.

Dancing and Committed

I'm dancing on my toes - swinging from the chandelier as I pack a tiny suitcase - travelling light is my motto - for my mid-life Adventures in the UK.
Saturday June 9. Just a few more hours before I am happily settled - imagine this - with an angel sitting in the empty seat next to me - and the comfy seat with plenty of leg-room- on my British Airways flight to London. Yay!
Thanks to all my friends who have supported me in so many wonderful ways so far. Especially I am thinking of Dilana Howell, my Going4Gold champion and mirror in Outrageously, Courageously, Tenaciously encouraging each other to Take Action on the Vision within. It is time...Dilana...it is time. We are winners darling - crack open the champagne, NOW.
As I go for gold in the UK, you keep the torch alight in SA - have a wonderful time with Mike Dooley from The Secret as you tour the country in sell-out workshops and talks, darling!

Thanks Magda for your good wishes; Rose my dear Jin Shin Jyutsu Angel; and Birgit - my fellow Laughter/EFT Angel. Your good luck and loving phone calls are the wind beneath my wings.

Leila was bubbling over with news when we said our fond farewells. She is my wonderful Breakfree protege of a few weeks ago, shimmering with delight and joy about how her life has changed since she met me - thanks for the going away present of the CDs of our EFT and Laughter Yoga radio shows we did this past month on Voice of The Cape.
Thanks a million Carolyn Hoffman - you me a most amazing deep tissue massage as a gift to shift this cold that developed the past few days... Sorted! Thanks Sha my sister for showing her support in a meaningful way. And Hilton who has been a special friend for years now, has confirmed in a Tarot reading that All is Well as I set off as The Fool to love, money and success!

Sylvia, who was the first friend to "pre-buy" my book - has lent me a cell phone for the UK and her suitcase - wow! Thank you. Corrie who walked the Camino last year, gave me a coaching session with her "on credit" and a beautiful saying to repeat in any challenge - and we know there will be!
LET IT GO...
LET HAPPEN...
LET YOUR HEART NOT BE TROUBLED

Okay, because of my training in NLP and the power of words... Corrie - I'm changing that last line... to

LET YOUR HEART BE STILL

Lorian my darling daughter who is taking me to the airport tomorrow, has been kind, caring and supportive. If ever Grace has been good to me it's blessing me with a daughter like her. She is the one through all my ups and downs who believes in me... "You mum are the outsider Sea Biscuit (from the movie about the horse) I'm betting on..." Lorian has been an animal lover and besotted about horses all her life - so that is a perfect way of me knowing that she sees my gold. It makes me want to cry with love to have the connection.

Marc, my final Breakfree client who I had the privilege of working with - twice recently - has ended up backing up my computer and championing me and my trip as well.

A part of me believed I was going "on sabbatical" from my EFT/Journey coaching work but suprise suprise... I already have a request to do my work in London - starting the first day of my arrival with someone who still treasures the results she got during her Journey process with me - seven years ago! And then a second person asked last night. Hey Universe - I hear you - I am always ready to serve with love in my heart!

Finally I want to acknowledge myself for taking MASSIVE ACTION in the direction of my dreams. All I can say is all the thinking and dreaming and visualizing and journalling has to reach the point where you MAKE A DECISION and then take ACTION.
Just like Anthony Robbins says:“Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.”

But it is this quote that I most remember as I write reflect on this stage of my journey:

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way.”
W.H. Murray from The Scottish Himalayan Expedition

So I return to my packing with renewed gratitude swirling in my heart and a sparkling sense of my committment. And a song in my heart for two special people who are welcoming me on Sunday to their home Bruce and Adele Muzik. My heart is overflowing - go check out Bruce's most amazing work at www.designer-life.com His stunning one-day Designer Life workshop is the catalyst of my trip and I am going to give him a glowing testimonial on the site. Soon. In London...

I Believed in You - Will you Believe in Me?

A great teacher reminded me this morning to “get out of my mind” and into my soul through my heart and feelings to find my answers…which led to this email to you and others of my network and clients.

With my last funds last week I booked a one-way ticket Cape Town to London flying June 9 on British Air. I am excited and feel on track with my Life Purpose and Dream Destiny of sharing my healing work with millions of people worldwide through talks and workshops… but especially through publishing my book entitled

Breakfree from the Past to Feel Good Fast

9 Proven Ways to Tap, Cry, Laugh, Sigh your way

To a life of Health, Joy and Well Being

By Caryl Rose Morgan

It is the natural outflow of my thousands of hours over the past seven years applying various emotional-energy healing self help tools with clients one-to-one and in workshops. These were shown to me thanks to studying, interviewing and training with the most amazing self-help teachers or Earth Angels in the world today.

As I have healed myself from my toxic childhood and later the stormy hopeless years of my marriage, so I have by the Grace of God been shown how to PAY IT FORWARD and EARN MY LIVING helping others change their lives! Fast and effectively… healing feelings in minutes.

From this gift, watered in between by my tears of loneliness, frustration and financial insecurity, has come a powerful, truthful book growing like me from embryo to seed to fledgling seedling.

Now with total clarity I know IT IS TIME to show my belief in myself and re-plant my life and work in international soil to GROW BIG.

So I am reaching out to you to ask if you will be one of the first people in the world to pre-buy my book for R200? This will include postage to an address you specify. Please email me marvella.rose@gmail.com confirmation and your postal address details as follows:

I believe in you Caryl Rose and wish to pre-buy 1/2/3/4 or more book/s @ R200 each

Name:

Postal Address:

Phone number:

Total R

I expect to receive your book by Christmas 2007 if not earlier!

BANKING DETAILS

Bank Nedbank,

Branch Rondebosch Code: 104809

Account name C S Morgan

Account number 104 804 7075 Account type: cheque/current

My intention is for the book to be beautifully self-published and in your hands by Christmas 2007. Meanwhile I have set the intent to secure a Literary Agent and a contract with a UK/USA Publisher like Hay House in which case the book will then be re-published by Christmas 2008.

Very clear and very simple.

Ultimately what’s in it for you? And anyone you choose to buy it for? You will get …a simple, practical, well written self-help book using easy to learn tools to boost you and your family and loved ones through stress, anxiety, anger, pain. As well as ways to step into an amazing flowing joyous life filled with love, confidence and true success. Main topics will deal with the Monster issues I myself have had to overcome and helped others have life-changing break-throughs.

* self-confidence & self-worth;

*overcoming overeating and addictions;

*love and relationships;

*money;

*fear of heights, public speaking

*writer's/artist's block

The book will be sprinkled with many heart warming, funny and true stories – my own – plus those of you who give me permission to use them – with or without your names. Believe me, my only challenge is which ones to leave out from the hundreds of testimonies you have sent from as far afield as Canada, Dubai, Zimbabwe, Namibia and of course SA.

Before I even finished writing this email, I got a call and my first pledge of R200 from Sylvia Muzzel, my dear friend and partner in The Journey who believed in me when bringing Brandon Bays to SA way back in 2000 was a similar dream in my heart.

I know I can count on your support,especially in holding the vision of the book in print and a number one seller on Amazon, changing a million lives... one person at a time.

With all my love,

Caryl Rose Morgan

What two sentences changed Jack Canfield's Life?

Long before he lucked into the 100-million Chicken Soup for the Soul book and series, Jack Canfield read two sentences that changed his life. They seared his mind and heart, he says.

Writing in YOU GOTTA READ THIS BOOK, Canfield says he was reading Raymond Moodie's Life after Life book on near-death experiences. In most cases the people who died for a short time and then returned to life reported over and over again the following sequence:
1. leave the body
2. Look down on it
3. Go through a dark tunnel. Met by being of light. Feeling of unconditional love and a Life Review.
And here are the two questions each person had to answer...

What wisdom have you gained from this life?
How have you expanded your capacity to love?

This post is dedicated to my bookclub friend Charlotte Morkel who lost a six month battle with cancer yesterday when she died at home, aged 50-ish. Chalotte, I know one things for sure in your life review you could say you "expanded your capacity to love" all those long hours you put in at Constantiaberg Clinic as a special nurse in the leukemia and marrow transplant ward.And your dedication to your family.
Go in peace my book-loving friend. May you rest in peace, joy and love.

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Tuan Pickard, Entrepreneur, PE. Dec 2006

Golden Praise for EFT in SA

SAFM Radio Producer, Hazel Makuzeni, Now I can really speak up for myself! I had a complete empowering AHA life shift doing EFT with Caryl before going on air, freed from a memory going back to age 12.

Elretha Louw, You/Huisgenoot magazine, EFT for her chocolate craving,
“A day later I still have no desire for chocolate. And if I want to overcome my
craving again I know how to knock it on the head.”
Clinical Psychologist, “I used EFT to great effect with a client traumatised by rape.”
Medical doctor, “Using EFT a lot in my practice, had quite a breakthrough today!”
Weight Loss, “I had tried every diet under the sun and nothing helped. Then I saw EFT in You magazine and after just one session with Caryl, I lost 5kg in two weeks.

Disclaimer While many EFT Practitioners report an 80% success rate with helping shift phobias, fears, pain and disempowering beliefs and patterns, EFT is still in its experimental stages and results can never be guaranteed.

Million Dollar Habits

Brian Tracy, guru of peak performance and achievement, has some powerful things to say about the relationship of HABITS being 95% responsible for your current state of life, and finances.

In his book Million Dollar Habits, Tracy says:"You are where you are today because 95% of what you think, feel and do is determined by your habits."

And the good news is ... new positive habits can be learned.

Replacing worn-out, ineffective practices with optimal behaviours, you'll notice dramatic, immediate benefits to your business and bottom line, says Tracy. And he has proven that in his own spectacularly successful career.

Today I want to share with you his seven-step Formula for Goal Setting which I am personally putting in place and already seeing the results in just two weeks! I have highlighted no. 5 because this is a key new focus for me - namely finding the single worst "snag" or "constraint" in the chain of achievement. It's like the place where you are bleeding or haemorrhaging energy and focus.
1.Decide exactly what you want in a specific area and write it down clearly and in detail. Make it measureable and specific.
2.Set a deadline for the goal. If is it a large goal, chunk it down into smaller goals.
3.Make a list of everything you will need to achieve this goal. As you think of new items... add them to the list.
4.Organize your list of action steps into a plan. A plan is organized on the basis of two elements, priority and sequence.
5.Identify the obstacles or limitations that might hold you back from achieving your goal, both in the situation and in yourself. Ask yourself, "Why have I not achieved this goal already?" Need a specific skill? A certain amount of money?
Help from one or more people?
6.Take immediate ACTION - step out in faith, get the process moving.
7. Do something everyday that moves you towards your most important goal.

Says Tracy in words that should be shouted from a million rooftops...
"I have spoken to people all over the workd, for many years, who have told me that the habit of taking action every day on one or more of their major goals has been life-transforming. They have told me that this single habit has been more responsible for their success than any other idea they ever learned. Try it for yourself and see."

Thanks to that advice from Brian Tracy I just posted this inspired and passion-filled post; now weigh myself everyday; went to an aerobic dance class today; am going to write a thank-you card and drop off a little gift (fresh picked roses and cherries) for someone who did me a favour;
and am allowing myself to fall in love unconditionally.

Above all I am committing to Tracy's advice this year to "save 50% of everything earned over and above what I am currently living on."

EFT & Reality Radio!

Talk about REALITY TV? Yesterday was REALITY RADIO! Thanks Nancy Richards for coming up with the brilliant idea for her show Otherwise to explain to listeners how EFT works in practice.

We called it on air "psychological acupuncture," as I explained how it cleans up the body memory of past pain just like anti-virus computer software cleans up your computer. All it takes is tapping on various acupuncture or meridian points on the body, while talking and thinking of the issue, memory or glitch you want to release.

After an intense private EFT session prior to the show with radio producer Hazel Makuzeni, the show had us both on live describing the raw exhilirating and ultimately freeing response Hazel had to breaking free from a pattern of feeling disempowered and unable to trust or share easily.
Tears came to her eyes as she realised she had "set free" her 12-year-old self who had been somehow FROZEN in the past incident. "I now feel strong and powerful to assert myself in future. And I also realised I can trust when I choose to..."

Nancy was a bit sceptical. "Do you mean Hazel must keep tapping to keep up the feeling of power and confidence? Surely the problem is not over and gone in such a short time?"

Yes! and Yes! Unbelievable as it first sounds to sceptics, I assured Nancy that is the magic of EFT. It is 80% successful with permanent results. What more can I say? Only Hazel's feedback in the weeks and months to come will prove the point.

But at the same time is is a wonderful self-help tool to use for herself and others on an ongoing basis. The karate-chop point on the side of the hand is a perfect shorthand to tap while you think and intend to relax, speak up... or whatever is needed in the moment.

I joked that Hazel may use EFT in future to stop people feeling nervous or freezing before going on air.

Remember we did not have to divulge the exact memory that she released. Just the results of being able to breakfree in 60 minutes by tapping and talking about something traumatic that had happened to her when she was 12 years old. How awesome is that?

My phone has been ringing after the show and one thing is for sure - people are keen to get free and live amazing lives thanks to Emotional Freedom Techniques. And it is my privilege to share it with them.

Radio show re EFT workshops

I'm excited to be on a national South African radio show Otherwise at 1pm today with Nancy Richards. We have set it up that I first do a live EFT session with her producer Hazel (in private) and then we go on air and discuss how it felt for a newbie who knew nothing about it before!
Of course I have had to do some tapping on myself to prepare myself! Above all I intend to speak slowly, say three key things.

I want to share my enthusiasm about the way EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) are changing the lives of my clients in one2 one sessions and in my Breakfree,Yes workshops.
I will announce that I have a Free Talk on Friday January 19th at 7pm before my upcoming workshop in Johannesburg January 20/21 and also that I will be going to Durban January 26 (Free Talk 7pm) = Jan 27 and 28th.
I had scheduled a weekend workshop in Capetown Jan 13/14 but another radio station mentioned having me on air Saturday so I may postpone it - just run a one-day EFT Day on Sunday 14th.

Succeed with Your Goals using EFT & Positive Self-Talk

Want to ensure you succeed with your top goals for 2007? Self-help body therapy Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) is a brilliant tool, along with feeling aligned with your Life Purpose and Positive Self-Talk.

1. REWIRE YOUR BODY-MIND COMPUTER. Seek help from a therapist or coach who knows how to release and reprogramme the blocks in your emotional brain and energy field keeping you stuck or blocked. Psychiatrist Dr David Servan-Schreiber in his best selling book "Healing without Freud of Prozac" says:“Emotional disorders result from dysfunctions in the emotional brain. For many people these originated with painful past experiences that have no relation to the present yet still continue to control their behaviour.” Another way of putting it is "feelings buried alive never die."

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) address the emotional brain, often with an 80% success rate. EFT is one of the fastest growing coaching tools and meridian therapies in the world today, being used by doctors, psychologists and alternative therapists world-wide, not only to help phobias and fears, trauma and addictions, but also for peak performance training in sport and business. I've been getting great results by telephone or Skype.

2. ALIGN YOUR GOALS WITH YOUR PASSION AND PURPOSE.

When a client realises she has been stuck in a “trance” memory or belief that has misdirected her life direction and energy flow, and can let that go, her life can change almost instantly. With EFT the emotional release can be by laughing, crying or sighing, resulting in a noticeable reduction in the intensity, fear or pain. New awareness then opens the door to new thoughts and feelings. Which in turn helps re-set the inner compass to sail on course with a new empowering belief or goal.

3. POSITIVE SELF-TALK. Say “I like myself” and other affirming words like “I can do anything I put my mind to.” throughout the day. This will raise your self-esteem dramatically and thus helps you set and keep bigger goals; face greater challenges and keep promises to yourself, including your most important new habits and goals. For even more powerful effect on your subconscious, SING your affirmations, using a rhyme or tune that charges you up.

Tap into the power of EFT which some people call mental acupuncture and see your life change and your goals on track for success. I go into this in much more depth on my website www.healingfeelingsinminutes.com