My Favorite Self-Help Stuff

The EFT World Summit 2 has truly been an experience (and continues to be). I listened to almost all the audios as they happened, and tapped along. I feel cleansed and renewed already. And it’s not quite over yet. There are a few more freebies available each day for another few days, so go check it out:

EFT World Summit 2

And you can get the whole thing on downloadable MP3s for less than 5 bucks a program if you so choose, along with some great bonuses!

Among my favorites was Patricia Carrington’s Choices method and well, there were so many wonderful other sessions, I will have to just write about them over time, one at a time.

The reason why Patricia Carrington’s stood out for me personally was because she really expanded my view of how to use EFT.

Traditionally, EFT was developed to reduce or remove negative feelings etc. Carrington uses it to increase good feelings.

I already knew about tapping on the positive, which I learned from Carol Look and Brad Yates, but Carrington took it some important steps further.

If you’re familiar with the Law of Attraction, you can immediately see the benefits of such an approach. We attract what we feel, and the better we feel, the better the things we attract.

This is all very nice, but what if we don’t feel so hot? What if life is rough and we feel very justified in wallowing in self pity, thank you very much.

It’s that old Leslie Gore song all over again– “It’s my party and I cry if I want to!”

And in a parallel vein: “I’m feeling miserable and I’m well within my rights to wallow in my misery.”

Well… we may be within our rights, but how is it serving us? Not so well, right?

The problem with that attitude is that we stay stuck in those feelings of misery. Bill Burns says that we do that because it feels familiar, and getting away from it makes us very uncomfortable.

I say, let’s get over it. I much prefer to feel good, and since Patricia Carrington’s method can get me to snap out of it when I need a bit of help in that area, she’s now my new best friend, or at least, my new favorite EFT teacher.

In addition to Carol Look, and Brad Yates, that is. Oh, and Jessica Ortner, who has created a very cool tapping sequence that she made available as a download. It’s about overcoming Fear of Failure, Fear of Criticism, and Impatience. Great stuff.

You can get it here if you act fast: EFT World Summit 2

All I can add is this: Happy Tapping!

And thanks, Nick and Jessica Ortner for putting this Summit together. It rocks!

Elisabeth

EFT World Summit 2

P.S.: For another way to snap out of it, check back here in the next day or two for my new post on Alan Cohen’s new book!

Wow! The EFT Word Summit is getting better and better each night.

Today, we have two new amazing programs. Right now, I’m listening to Patricia Carrington talk about tapping in positive memories and feelings to make the Law of Attraction work a LOT better.

This is especially useful during times of stress and distress about the issue at hand.

She says, it’s important to take snapshots of when good things are happening and you have positive feelings about the issue, i.e., money, and then tap it in, saying “I want more of this positive feeling”

Makes sense to me. I’m tapping

And then there’s Rick Wilkes who will talk about Childhood trauma.

Those will be up till 8 p.m. tonight, Thursday, EST, and after that…

Woohoo. Brad Yates, whose work I love, and someone else whose work I will probably love by the time I’m done listening to her program!

Don’t miss this.

This summit totally rocks:

EFT World Summit 2

And yes, these audios are all FREE to o listen to, like I said before.

But what if you want to listen to them again? Well.. you can, but then you’ll have to pay, though considering the value it’s really worth it.

You’ve got the choice between a downloadable version, whcih comes to about 5 bucks per expert and a physical version, which will be 10 bucks per.

Go there now and listen in… You’ll like it.

Tap tap tap

Elisabeth

P.S.:

In accordance to the new FTC rules, I have to tell you that I will get a commission if you get those if you go there through my link…

EFT World Summit 2

The second EFT World Summit is happening right now.

And you can attend for FREE! No catch, other than that you have to be there and make sure you catch the audios within the 24 hours they are up. Where? Click here for EFT

What if you can’t make it or want to listen to them again?

They DO make a package available where you can get access to the audios (or even hard copies) of all the 20 programs that are part of this.

And believe me, these audios rock! I’ve listened to every one so far (6 in all).

I thought I knew a ton about EFT (and I DO), but I learned a LOT of new stuff just in those last 3 days. So you can bet I’ll be listening to the other 14 audios too (2 a day).

So what IS EFT and why do I like it so much?

EFT is short for Emotional Freedom TEchnique. And it’s exactly what the name says. By basically tapping on certain parts of your body (mostly face and hands, collar bone, and, well, under your arm pit) you can tame and release emotional trauma and distressing feelings.

It’s absolutely incredible. When I first read about it, I immediately wanted access to it, but I thought I had to find a high-priced practitioner to benefit from it. Still, Emotional Freedom technique sounded really good to me.

Imagine my happy surprise when I discovered I could learn to do this myself. It has literally changed my life. In my stress relief manual, EFT is taking up more pages than any of the other techniques. It’s this important.

The key is to remember to do it. Sometimes I get stressed about something and it takes me a few hours until I remember that, hey, wait a minute, why not tap on it. And so I do, and I feel calmer within minutes.

So for anyone who isn’t familiar with it yet, just go to the EFT World Summit site and check it out. Or get my FREE stress tips report and send me an email, and I’ll send you the link to my free ebook on EFT later tonight

Meanwhile, run, don’t walk to the World Summit so you won’t miss the two programs that are still running until 8 EST (one on business success and one on public speaking!).

I’ll write another post tonight, about EFT, how I use it and how it has helped me and my students and friends.

See you at the summit!

tap tap tap

Elisabeth Kuhn

Inspiration from a blog post on being broke? You bet.

If you don’t know Ed Dale, he’s the guy who brought us the 30-Day challenge — an outstanding program that helps people make their first money online.

He just posted a very cool blog post here:

Ed Dale “On being broke”

It’s about what to do if you’re too broke to afford a seminar you think would help you. He’s sharing his own story on when that happened to him — and what he did to turn things around.

And there are tons of comments (I just added my own), and they are highly inspirational as well (as is Ed Dale’s blog post, of course).

So what’s the solution? Action! Consistent action in the right direction.

Ed says, even if you just put in 30 minutes or maybe 2 hours, day after day, you’ll get somewhere.

I mean, you could set up a website or a blog where you promote something, then write an article a day, comment on relevant blogs, go to forums and comment, and you’ll start getting traffic.

(For FREE tips on how to set up a blog, go FREE Blogging Tips)

Then get that traffic to sign up for your list and send them useful information and great offers, and you’re off to the races.

Overnight? Nope.

But there are actually ways to make that income happen a whole lot faster, by offering your services for example.

Way back, when I was a student in Frankfurt, this piece of graffiti was sprayed all over the student center building: “Nur die Action bring Satisfaction” (spelling was a bit Germanified, but I don’t want to attempt to reconstruct that).

It means that only action brings satisfaction. And that’s the key. Sure, prayer and meditation help, but ultimately, there’s usually some action involved. Prayer and meditation are particularly helpful with guiding us to the right action, to inspired action…

My favorite spiritual joke is about that guy during a big flood, who was so counting on God to help him that he didn’t accept help from any earthly source. So at first, he was offered a ride by boat, twice, and he said, “No thanks. God will save me!”

As he was sitting on the roof of his house, surrounded by ever rising flood water, a helicopter came by to rescue him, and again, he said, “No thanks. God will save me!”

And soon after that, he was washed away in the flood…

When he met his maker after drowning, he said, “Why didn’t you rescue me? I was counting on you.”

And God said, “I sent you two boats AND a helicopter!”

With apologies to anyone who might find this a bit sacrilegious, I really love the message in this joke. You’ve got to DO something, and use the tools you’re given to help yourself.

And that’s Ed Dale’s message too.

Here’s a free book I’m offering that gives you some pointers for how to make money — legitimately — from home, by using the internet. The techniques I mention in there are almost all ones I’m using myself.

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This book is for real. I know several of the authors personally, and I know lots of others who have used techniques explained in that very book to make part of their living. Of course, there are no guarantees, and it will not work unless you actually — take action!

And yes, if you buy that book, I will get an affiliate commission. That’s one of the legitimate income streams mentioned in it (and in my FREE book too), and if you buy it, you too will have access to that (it’s practically a business in a box, for the price of a few lattes). Read my Free book to find out a bit more about how it works.

And then pick something and take action (if you want to increase your cash flow, that is), and leave a comment below to let us all know what you did and how’s it going, or if you’ve had similar experiences, or have also been inspired by Ed’s blog, etc.

Remember too that the 1,000 mile journey begins with the first step, as the famous Chinese proverb points out. (or was it Confucius?).

Elisabeth

Self help blogs need helpful stuff, I think. And so, after writing an article on goal setting worksheets, which has gotten a tremendous number of views, I’ve decided to do the logical thing and actually make a goal setting worksheet available to you.

First, here’s the article that started it all:

http://www.ezinearticles.com/?id=3541167

It has lots of information about what to do with the worksheet once you get it.

And you can get my Goal Setting Worksheet by signing up for my e-course on overcoming bad habits:

http://www.turboselfgrowth.com

I know, it’s February already, but isn’t that the time that we’re reflecting on how we’ve been doing with those New Year’s resolutions, if we’ve made any. And even if we haven’t, it’s still a time where we wonder whether maybe we should have.

Well, between the e-course and the worksheet, you may find that the year is looking better already, in spite of any snow storms that might be going on outside (as they are here as I type this).

So please get your FREE download here:

http://www.turboselfgrowth.com

And make 2010 your best year yet!

Elisabeth

P.S.: And if you’re looking for a job (or a better job) or are thinking of supplementing your income by starting a legitimate online business, stay tuned for one of my next entries on my self help blog. It could be there as early as later this afternoon

Meanwhile, feel free to get my FREE report on legitimate online businesses at http://www.MakeMoneyInYourJammies.com

How to have more energy. That’s a good question.

The thing is there’s probably no one-size fits all answer. However, there are clearly ways to increase energy… And food is at the heart of it.

For me at least, here are some of the guidelines.

1) Low carb food

My body reacts to carbs (and especially grains) with serious fatigue. Maybe I have latent gluten insensitivity. In any case, if I want stable energy, I have to avoid carbs, and especially sugar.

2) Plenty of protein

Protein gives me energy. Especially fish, meat, and eggs. Not so much soy and dairy. So if I want to feel good, I eat a lot of eggs and meat;/fish. Apologies to the vegetarians among my readers.

3) Plenty of green stuff

Salads, with lots of hearty greens. My newest (old) favorite is Mache. It’s that bright green salad stuff that has small leaves. Sometimes it’s sold in little bushels, and sometimes, the leaves have been separated. The second variety yields quite a lot of salad. And it’s very tasty.

Why old favorite? My Mom grew it in our garden when I was a child, and it was my favorite salad. We called it mouse ear salad because, well, the shape of the leaves is pretty darn close to mouse ears…

Oh yeah, and those green foods I can buy at the health food store also are quite energizing. Then there’s Maca though I haven’t quite figured out how to incorporate it into my diet. I don’t really like its taste.

4) Other fresh veggies

Colorful veggies galore. Basically, I feel great if I get lots of meat and lots of veggies, especially fresh ones, and can resist the rest of the stuff.

5) Some berries and nuts

Meat and salad can get a bit boring, so I add in berries and nuts. One of my favorite new “fast food” is one of Green Giant’s veggie mixes that you can nuke — the one with the cauliflower and the cranberries. Yum. Berries are great, but too much fruit doesn’t seem to agree with me either.

6) Goji berries and vitamin B

Okay, that stands for supplements. I have a friend who sells goji berries and he sells them to me at cost. And I found that they’re quite energizing. And I also feel better when I get my regular dose of vitamin B, along with my multi, and other stuff.

Of course that’s hardly revolutionary. We all know that good nutritional supplements can be very helpful.

7) Green tea and not too much coffee

Okay, this goes into the subject of beverages … but it’s really important. I don’t really enjoy drinking water too much, so I tend to drink lots and lots of tea. Green tea, herb tea, roibos tea, and so on. In all different flavors. It keeps me well hydrated. And it keeps me from overdosing on some medicinal tea or other.

Oysters etc.

It may be the seafood aspect of oysters or maybe just my imagination, but I often crave oysters when I’m tired and they do give me more energy.

9) Chocolate

Yeah! Dark choclate, the really dark kind. I generally avoid sugar, but when the chocolate has 85 or more % cocoa, there’s hardly any room left for sugar. Plus it’s so intense that I don’t eat much, so the sugar is a minor aspect and apparently doesn’t bother me much. And it really does raise my energy.

Of course high energy food and diet isn’t the only thing that’s needed. I also add naps and some time outdoors in sunlight if at all possible.

Those last two need some more work, but I find that I have lots more energy when I find time to do them.

Anyway, this is already way too long, so I’ll stop. Hope you all have tons of energy yourself. And listen to your body — keep tabs on what gives you energy and what drains it, and you’ll be on the way to YOUR personal high energy diet.

Sleep more! Doesn’t that just sound like the anti-resolution?

Not in my book. I find it incredibly difficult to “find” the time to get enough sleep. and yet, I am getting every more aware that I MUST make it a priority if I want to remain productive — and healthy.

Which makes me wonder why in the world I’m typing this at 2:30 in the morning?

So much for that one. But now, I haven’t REALLY officially resolved it, and messing with my sleeping patterns is always a bit of an ongoing struggle.

The thing is sometimes I’m more alert and awake late at night than I am at other times of the day, and it seems like such a waste to not take advantage of it.

Meanwhile, once I do go to sleep I tend to sleep like a baby (or a log), which I suppose is a good thing. It wasn’t always like that.

A few years back, I had a huge problem with insomnia. I threw all sorts of things at it, from herbs to aromatherapy to soothing music and even the occasional prescription drugs, and STILL had trouble.

One thing that finally fixed it, literally overnight, was the Mind-Body-Spirit meditation from the Quantum Touch Supercharging workshop I took. I literally fell asleep lying on the floor, in the middle of the meditation exercise we did in that course. Twice! How embarrassing.

But I figured I was on to something. when I did the meditation that night after going to bed, I never made it half-way through before I went to sleep. And when I woke up in the night, I just continued where I left off, and zzzzzzzzzz

It still works. On the rare (very rare) occasion that I make it all the way through, I just start over, and I don’t think I ever made it through twice without falling asleep.

Oddly enough, I can do the meditation with my eyes open during the day and it will NOT make me fall asleep, so I even do it sometimes while going for walks. It has a wonderfully energizing effect then.

How does it work?

You can find out the details in the Supercharging Quantum Touch book by Alain Herriot (sp?)

Basically, you visualize yourself being bathed and literally soaked in a series of 12 colors, from white to purple, indigo, copper, silver, gold, yellow, green, blue-green, blue, magenta and mother-of-pearl. There’s also a special breathing pattern, but I never mastered it and simply do slow breathing while I do the exercise.

You can get the more detailed instructions in the book or on the workshop video, which you can order form quantumtouch.com.

Meanwhile, it’s now 2:51 and defninitely time to catch some zzzzzs.

And as for my resolution… I’m working on it. Getting at least 7 hour of sleep a night, at least most nights, is the first stage of my resolution. Then work on getting to bed earlier and making my hours more regular. Update sometime in spring…

How are YOUR resolutions coming along?

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Happy New Year!!!

I can’t believe we’re already into the second week of 2010! And I haven’t even gotten started with New Year’s Resolutions.

Of course, I have my different spin on that, and I’m going to write a few posts on that over the next week or two…

First of all… the traditional approach to New Year’s Resolutions doesn’t usually work and if anything is counterproductive.

When it comes to carrot vs stick, I’m all for the carrot. The idea is to focus on what we want and not punishing ourselves for our real or imagined short-comings.

One thing I will do is go back through that program by Jason that helps tremendously with overcoming some habits I’d like to live without.

It’s what you’ll find out more about when you go to the following site:

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And especially http:;//www.turboselfgrowth.com/go

But go to the http:;//www.turboselfgrowth.com first because you’ll discover an offer where you can get it for almost half off…

And as I wrote in an article last year, I’m much more in favor of “New Year’s Projections” thank “New Year’s Resolutions.”

What is it that you would like to visualize for yourself?

As for me, I’d like a steadily growing business, books, courses with lots of students in them, happy clients, and a healthy body too, preferably with less weight on it.

And so one of the things I’ll be working on next year is a special low-aggravation system of releasing some of those extra pounds.

I’m going to call it Kitchen Sink Diet — not because it involves eating over the kitchen sink or because I get to eat everything but the kitchen sink, but because I’m going to plough through everything I can find out there that might be helpful and then put it together in to an “everything but the kitchen sink” diet plan of sorts.

Though diet is a misnomer. It’s more about adding things than subtracting things, though hopefully certain detrimental food stuffs will be crowded out by the good stuff… Much like what Jon Gabriel advocates in his Gabriel method.

In fact, one of the things on my to do list is to a) start listening to his audio again regularly (I’ve been slacking off) and b) get his newly available special Smart Music audios that put you in a smart state instantly and are great for starting the day off with. Can’t wait to get them and will report back once I have startd using them.

Enough for now. More on New Year’s Resolutions and related matters very soon.

And may YOU have a fantastic 2010 as well.

Elisabeth

Hey, I just figured out how to syndicate my self-help blog on Facebook (thanks to Connie Green, one of my favorite teachers).

Now I need at least 20 followers so it will show up easily when people go looking for it.

Would you please do me a HUGE favor and follow my blog on Facebook?

It’s actually very easy. Just click on the button on the Facebook “Networked Blogs” sidebar, where it says “follow this blog” and follow instructions.

You’ll be adding “My Favorite Self-Help Blog” to your networked blogs subscriptions. You MAY have to sign up for Networked Blogs first, which is a very cool feature to have!

I want lots of little pictures to appear on that Networked Blog widget in my sidebar, not just my own mug shot with a lot of empty space (for yours) underneath.

Of course, maybe you want to syndicate your own blog! I’ll teach my students in my blogging course how to do that… Now that I learned it myself.

In the meantime, if you want my self help blog posts to show up on your Facebook timeline, (or abbreviated versions of them anyway), you can get that easily by just clicking on that link and allowing that application (which is a safe one).

And once you’ve done that, there will be an option to syndicate your own blog on Facebook Networked Blogs, and so you can just follow instructions once again, and bingo! Yours will be there too.

Then leave a comment here with this post and tell us where your blog is (with the sign-up badge) and I, along with some of my readers, will come and follow yours

Thanks so much.

Elisabeth “Now with Syndicated Self-Help Blog” Kuhn

New Year’s Resolutions anyone?

2009 was a toughie, and so a lot of us are REALLY looking forward to 2010!

And it’s time to look ahead to make the most of it right out of the gate, isn’t it?

So whether or not Santa brought what you were hoping for, here are a couple of things you may want to get for yourself:

First of all… A FREE Gift!

A 5-course e-course on how to get rid of bad habits:

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Check it out, and if you like, you can get a very special deal on the full course, which makes a fantastic gift for anyone who would like to finally overcme whatever it is that has been holding them back.

Of course, you’re welcome to check it out right here:

It’s an audio course with a transcript so you can take notes and review more easily.

And if you click on the banner right below, you’ll get the FREE e-course!

I promise you’re going to love it. In fact, I’m going to dig out my own copy and work my way back through the audios…

And if it’s time management that’s getting you down, you should see this revolutionary approach to mastering time once and for all:

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By the way… this one goes REALLY well with the course above… And, here’s a little secret:

If you get the course above AFTER you sign up for the newsletter, you can get it for 45% off (if you take advantage of the special offer you’ll get after you sign up for the newsletter) AND you’ll also be able to get the time course for 45% off… so you could get BOTH of them for only a little more than one of them would be…

So why not start here…

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These will REALLY help with achieving a very happy 2010!

And… they also make fantastic gifts! Which reminds me of my friend Stefan whose birthday is today. He was always frustrated that his parents would combine Christmas gifts and birthday gifts… but then again, he always had US come on his birthday and bring him MORE gifts too.

I’m gong to give him a call today!

Have a fantastic day and a GREAT 2010!

Elisabeth