My Favorite Self-Help Stuff

I just have to tell you about Jim Katsoulis and his very cool program for weightloss, excess weight release, addictive slimness or whatever you want to call it. He calls it the Thin Formula, and it’s a comprehensive program that changes one’s entire mindset and is also fun, entertaining and attitude changing beyond just the thin thing. Also great for “simply” maintaining one’s goal weight without that constant struggle. Highly recommended.

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Well, actually, the thin formula, while excellent, is just the short version of his program. There’s also a bigger version, which involves mini talks, teleconference lessons and interactive Q & A, some hypnosis, mediations, visualizations, daily motivational emails, and lot more. The program is HUGE, and anyone who has a medical condition that could be helped by weightloss (diabetes, high blood pressure, etc.) can even get their flexible spending plan to pay for it, maybe even their insurance).

Have I lost a lot of weight on this program? Not a huge amount yet, I have to admit, but I have lost a few pounds, and without much of an effort. Even better, my attitudes towards food and exercise etc. have changed a lot, so I look forward to losing a lot more as time goes on. Especially over the holidays, where every pound lost actually counts double because normally I’d put on weight over the holidays, and so now…

I basically feel much more optimistic about the future state/shape of my physical self. Of course, it would also help if I listened to the mp3’s a lot more often. Which isn’t exactly a chore because…

…the man has a VERY nice voice. He’s kind of cute too

So do yourself and/or someone you love a favor and check it out and/or pass it on to someone who would benefit. You can sign up for a free e-zine (and I promise you — Jim’s e-zines are very cool) plus a free hypnosis session, so you get to check it out and actually benefit from Jim’s program before there’s any need to buy anything. I think that’s how I ended up getting mine.

Enjoy the free hypnosis session which you can get here.

For me, the answer is a definite “Yes, please!”

And if you’d rather not, you can skip right to the Happier Life section…

…while I stay on the wealthy track: In fact, I plan to write several upcoming entries about my favorite wealth consciousness mentors.

Here’s the first one:

Sandy Forster, from Australia, the author of the first book that really got me hopeful and excited about the possibility of turning my finances around in a big way.

Hers is a book with a title so corny that I can hardly believe I suspended embarrassment long enough to actually order it on Amazon.com.

Good thing I did, though, because once I got the book, I didn’t care about the title anymore. It’s been one of my favorites ever since.

So what’s the title? “How To Be Wildly Wealthy Fast”

Yeah, right, I thought, but then I read it, and whoa! This is one terrific book.

You know how we sometimes seem to get mixed messages. On the one hand, we need to think “rich” and “prosperous” in order to manifest it. On the other hand, there are the bills. Ooops. Spending one’s way to prosperity is a little more tricky than I would like it to be.

So what did Sandy do? She wrote this amazing book, with nice short chapters, each of which presenting a step in a process, complete with homework assignments. Those, too, are nice and short and manageable.

Some of those steps have to do with creating a prosperity consciousness. Others deal with more down-to-earth aspects of the process. I might write about some of them in more detail in my newsletter Feel free to sign up to learn more. For a limited time, you’ll even get a great big eboook when you sign up as my thank-you gift.

Back to Sandy though…

Her book takes all those conflicting approaches and combines them into a coherent strategy that has just one inevitable outcome: way more money than before. You don’t even have to do all of the steps, but the more you do, your sooner the wildly wealthy life will appear.

(small print: no guarantees — I’m not a certified financial advisor)

If this sounds a bit like Abraham-Hicks, then your intuition is right on the money (pun intended). In fact, it was Sandy who first introduced me to the work of Abraham in that very book. She also sent me emails about “The Secret” months before anyone else around here (the U.S.) knew about it.

In her book, Sandy shares her own personal story as well. She started out as a single mother on welfare. And now? You guessed it. She lives what she preaches. And makes her living by teaching others how to do the same.

And yes, she sells some very high-priced products too. She also offers lots of freebies, including cool teleconferences and prosperity visualizations during live phone calls. One of her most recent ones happened during the blue moon. I kid you not. She said it would give the visualizations extra manifesting power. How could I pass THAT up?

By now, you’re probably wondering: “How can I get in on this?”

Easy. Just go to Sandy’s website and sign up for her mailing list so she’ll be able to tell you about her free teleseminars and everything else she’s offering.

And feel free to browse around on her website too. There are quite a few freebies, and maybe you’d like even some of her not-so freebies.

So let me give you the link to Sandy’s website again, and maybe we’ll meet on one of her upcoming conference calls.

Meanwhile, if you just can’t wait and want her book right away, you can check it out and get it right here:

Here’s to a wildly wealthy YOU! (and me..)

Elisabeth, the self-help guru

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Here’s the promised more elaborate technique:

This technique is from the Abraham-Hicks book, “The Amazing Power of Deliberate Intent” by Jerry and Esther Hicks (see below). There, they provide several detailed examples. For the purpose of this blog, I was going to use their examples as models and make up a different series of statements to illustrate how the technique works.

The idea is that we can’t jump from misery to happiness in one fell swoop. But what we can do is move ourselves up that emotional guidance scale one or two steps at a time by creating statements that reflect the next-higher emotion, etc. We can even write several if possible, the more the better, to really let that next higher emotion sink in. And then move up to the next, etc.

Well, I changed my mind about posting the original scale I put together for posting purposes, but I will try to come up with a replacement one so you’ll have an example. Meanwhile, here’s the scale to get you started:

Abraham-Hicks emotional scale:

1. Joy/Knowledge/Empowerment/Freedom/Love/Appreciation
2. Passion
3. Enthusiasm/Eagerness/Happiness
4. Positive Expectation/Belief
5. Optimism
6. Hopefulness
7. Contentment
8. Boredom
9. Pessimism
10. Frustration/Irritation/Impatience
11. Overwhelment
12. Disappointment
13. Doubt
14. Worry
15. Blame
16. Discouragement
17. Anger
18. Revenge
19. Hatred/Rage
20. Jealousy
21. Insecurity/Guilt/Unworthiness
22. Fear/Grief/Depression/Despair/Powerlessness

As you write statements to that elicit each emotion, pay attention to how the feelings have been gradually getting better.It’s just a matter of finding a true statement about (and aspect of) the situation that match each respective feeling level and elicit that. If you can make up more than one for each feeling, that will work even better. You can just wallow in the feelings.

Good luck.

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Hello everybody.

I can’t believe it’s been this long since I have last posted something. Been swamped at work, and by some other stuff. But…

This provided me with a great opportunity to test out a series of tools I’ve assembled to raise my spirits and my vibrations…

Ever since The Secret became part of popular culture and was featured on Oprah, we all know about the importance of keeping those vibes sky high. Like Abraham (see www.abraham-hicks.com) says, “Nothing is as important as that you feel good.”

Now that can make us a bit paranoid, can’t it? We don’t always feel good. So does that mean we draw bad stuff when we feel bad? Well, yes. That’s exactly what it means.

Ever had one of those days? You get up on the wrong side of the bed, and things go downhill from there. The reverse is also true. Some days you’re just thrilled to get out of bed and on with your day, and things just fall into place. People are nice to you, parking spaces open up right where you need them, and you find $20 bills all over the place (or at least pennies or quarters).

So there is a great deal of benefit to doing what it takes to make ourselves feel good. And it’s not nearly as hard as it might seem.

I’m talking about some of that in my new mini series on Roger’s Pie Theory of Energy (see below). But there are other techniques I’m using and I’ll be writing about those in more detail right here!

Meanwhile, here’s a quick one (from Abraham): whenever I find myself wallowing in self-pity or indulge my inner worrywart (say the challenges seem a bit too daunting, again) I stop myself and ask: What DO I want? And so instead of worrying about bills and other things I don’t want, I’m rejoicing in the additional income I would like and how happy I would be at the extra dollars and checks that flow into my life. Or something like that. And maybe I do little session of appreciating everything worth appreciating, starting with the balmy air (if applicable) or my friends or the smooth flavor and soothing warmth of my coffee etc.

Now when I say, whenever I feel bad, that’s an overstatement. I don’t always remember to do that immediately.

The key to the entire arsenal of techniques is this: to remember to use them. I’m working on that, and I’m happy to report that I’m getting better. I remember much more quickly, and my bouts of wallowing or worrying are already much shorter than they used to be.

Next time, I’ll write about the long version (more detailed, much more powerful) of my favorite thought management technique that I use to get those vibes way up.

Have a wonderful day!

Elisabeth, the self-help guru

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