by Caryl Westmore on June 25, 2010
Michael Jackson: 5 Lessons to Heal or Change Your Life
Today being the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, it seems an appropriate time to remember and re-focus on the benefits of healing the “inner child” of past pain and trauma with energy tools like EFT tapping with Matrix Reimprinting. When I wrote Michael Jackson: 5 Lessons to Heal of Change Your Life as an e-book (download free when you sign up now) and later recorded the audio, it was a few weeks after Michael’s passing. I was filled with compassion as replays of interviews with him, pointed to his longing and sadness about his “lost childhood”.
NEW INSIGHTS ON TRAUMA Since then, I have trained with Karl Dawson and Sasha Allenby, co-authors of the soon to be released book on Matrix Reimprinting using EFT. They refer to this childhood part of us as an ECHO (Energy Consciousness Hologram) and describe it as energy that gets stuck or “frozen” in time in terms of the fight, flight or freeze syndrome.
My clients often report feelings of shame and low self-worth when they think back to a childhood or teen memory when they did not fight back – or run away – but felt frozen on the spot, silent in the face of threat. “Why didn’t I say ‘STOP’?” they often ask me. The answer is because in the wild when an animal is being chased by a predator and losing hope of escape, they will collapse or freeze – a last resort which releases a flood of endorphins which will minimize the pain of an attack, should it occur.
A key factor here is explained in the work of trauma specialist Dr Robert Scaer, author of The Body Bears the Burden. Trauma is particularly damaging to children because it ruptures their boundaries necessary for feelings of safety – and this usually continues through into their feelings of being unsafe in the world as adults In the wild, an animal will shake, breathe quickly and perspire before running off.
But humans don’t have that releasing response. Hence the danger of long-held traumas frozen in time in our energy field…the body eventually cannot keep them at bay and they start to leak through to damage our health and well being. Today we can help release and repair the damage of traumas, big and small, to our inner child or ECHO.
For Michael Jackson, sadly this was not an option – but if we can learn something from that aspect of his life, we can contribute our bit to “save the world and make it a better place for you and me and the whole human race”.
by Caryl Westmore on February 26, 2010
EFT Tapping World Summit 2010 is delivering more than I could have dreamed. Hats off to all involved especially…Ortners. What’s wonderful is how this technique is powering global healing.
I’ve been a trainer and therapist using EFT tapping for more than eight years – and helped introduce it in South Africa – but still I am thrilled and bowled over and amazed at all that I am learning from people like Patricia Carrington on Boosting the Law of Attraction, and Rick Wilkes on healing Inner Child Trauma. These are both in line with my own work.
EFT TAPPING HEALS CHILDHOOD TRAUMA
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Michael Jackson: 5 Lessons to Heal or Change you Life is about the effect of inner child trauma that Wilkes pinpoints.
Empower your Younger You – shift old energies – ask permission first – picture yourself walking into the scene and you honor their boundary as to if they want help or not.
It’s wonderful to hear Rick describe this about transforming frozen energy into empowered energy in your life NOW.
Once cleared of inner pain and stuckness – NOW WHAT? What choices does this open up? Playfulness, re-parenting, compassion and comfort that was missing in the past. Allows your own body to flow and focus – radiate from your heart to the world in gratitude and appreciation.
ABUNDANCE
As for Carrington’s session – it reminds me to me to make a daily ritual of tapping in POSITIVE SNAPSHOTS from each day and tell the Universe: “I want MORE of that”.
Cool hey?
Here in Cape Town where I am currently based to launch my Break-Free Fast book in bookstores – I passionate about doing more to spread the healing word with workshops and talks. Plus I’m boosting my own journey of success and passion with EFT Tapping and the 2010 Tapping Summit interviews.
These cover:
Tapping into Abundance: Understanding What’s Really Going on with The Law of Attraction
-Using Meridian Tapping to Quickly Manage and Eliminate Pain fro Trauma, Injury, and Surgery
-Freedom From Food! Releasing Your Cravings and Compulsive Eating Habits to Lose Weight and Feel Great
-Breaking the Chain of Addictions with Meridian Tapping-
-Meridian Tapping for Cancer Support
-Skyrocket Your Business by Overcoming the Most Common Business Fears
Get connected now and join the more thousands of others benefitting from the EFT Tapping Summit.
by Caryl Westmore on September 25, 2009
Excited to see that medical intuitive and bestselling author Caroline Myss’ latest book on the spiritual side of healing is now out. Sometimes her work is a bit dense for me – like Sacred Contracts – but the essence of what she teaches is brilliant and authentic – you can’t argue with someone who literally SEES how and where you are blocked physically and emotionally and pulls no punches telling it like it is!
She did it to me in South Africa some years ago during a workshop. I had a front row seat as a journalist for Longevity magazine and she was discussing POWER and power struggles. From the stage she asked us to put up our hands if were in a power struggle – 10 – 90% of the time… as the percentages went higher I kept my hand up until I was one of a handful admitting to being in a power struggle 95% of the time.
At the time I was entangled in the final stages of my co-dependent 25 year marriage and we were locked in constant battles.
Carolyn took one look, scanning me and my energy body with her laser eyes and said: “You’re desperately afraid of abandonment and being alone,” – or words to that effect. I instinctively covered my solar plexus with my arms – shocked to the core that my “Warrior” Power Struggle was really a case of Frightened Inner Child fearing abandonment. And she barked again: “Don’t try and cover up the truth.”
For the rest of the day I went into shock – because I realized she was right – deep down I so feared abandonment that I stayed stuck in a co-dependent relationship past it’s sell-by date.
As I relate in my book You Can Break-Free Fast, it took a fire to shock me out of my unhealthy stuckness. Eventually I had the courage to face divorce and a new life alone, homeless and penniless. But truthfully it was the best thing that ever happened in terms of my spiritual, emotional and psychological growth.
So I can’t wait to read what Myss has to say about the mystical side of healing.
Defy Gravity by Caroline Myss
Her book Defying Gravity is inspired by ordinary people who overcame a wide array of physical and psychological ailments—from rheumatoid arthritis to cancer.Caroline dove into the works of the great mystics to gain a deeper understanding of healing’s spiritual underpinnings. Based on these studies, she demonstrates how conventional and holistic medicine often fall short in times of need. Both systems rely upon a logical approach to curing illness when there is nothing reasonable about the emotional, psychological, or spiritual influences behind any ailment.
Bottom line according to Myss: You can heal any illness. You can channel grace. And you can learn to live fearlessly. It’s all about defying gravity and breaking through the boundaries of ordinary thought.
