Calm and confident all day

I got up at 6:10 am this morning so I could do an EFT tapping video. I decided that one way I was going to treat myself differently was by getting up 10 minutes earlier than I usually do to do at least one tapping video.
I did the Love Your Body (weight-loss ?) again as I liked it a lot and decided I could use a boost.

I felt great afterward and went off to work as usual.

I wasn't filled with my usual anxieties about not fitting in, and feeling stupid amongst the technical analysts, my usual state of being there. Then, I had an interaction with a colleague and I could see she got upset about something I said, which wasn't negative but she took it as such, and she got all twisted and I stayed neutral because I knew as soon as I asked my question that she took it in the usual negative way that she takes all questions. The interesting thing is that because I knew my question was just a question and she took it as a judgment, I let her be who she is and I was able to not get sucked into her stuff.
The next time I interacted with her again, I could tell she was still red in the face about it, but I kept being neutral with her and she soon changed her tune.

Another interesting thing when I sat at my desk to do other work and was replaying the situation back over, I had no emotional attachment to it.

That floored me!!! Normally I would have replayed it over and over and defended this or that, but there was nothing. No emotional anything, it was as though I had thought of a paper bag and what it meant to me. Nothing. Neutral.

I was able to maintain a sense of calm and serenity all day. And then when I went to my doctors appointment, I was able to interact with this doctor who I had never been to as thought I knew him. Again, I felt calm, confident and serene.

How cool is that?!

Truths become evident

Ever hear something that clicks within as a truth that you knew about yourself but didn't know you knew it until you heard it?

And then the chain of knowledge unravels and you realize that the truth goes back years if not decades?

Well, when I tapped along with Brad Yates and his tapping video Love Your Body (weight-loss ?), as I repeated the words he spoke, I became intimately aware that what I was saying was true and I had been saying these things to myself for years and believed them without even knowing I knew them or were saying them to myself.

That is what being on auto-pilot is all about. The truths we believe about ourselves
runs in the background like white noise and we don't even notice it anymore until someone points it out to us.

I've been following a trail of breadcrumbs and it lead me to EFT. What an amazing gift to myself and others.

Here's an example of calmness manifesting itself in my life today. I went to the grocery store and as I was leaving a woman walked out in front of me and my cart, stopped and turned around. Then walked and then stopped and turned around again. Inside my head I'm saying to her Jeez lady, make up your freaken' mind. Then she turns to me and asks me which way to the pharmacy, she looked a little sheepish. I told her it was straight ahead and we exchanged smiles (and eye contact). And I felt calm and centered. In the past, someone like her would have caused great anxiety with me probably pushing passed her with my cart and probably brushing her with it, just to make my point. Point being that I am so important that she is irritating me, the be all and end all, the nerve! And then I would have driven home irritated and sped all the way and then grumbled as I carried in my purchase and eaten more than I needed to and then felt even worse.

Calmness manifested itself in my life today. What will you allow to manifest in your life today?

Using EFT to manifest what you want

I came across EFT (emotional freedom techniques) a few days ago in the internet and YouTube. There are many really good videos on it and there is an entire movement building up strength in using EFT for just about everything.
EFT was first used successfully to address PTSD issues, rape, war and other traumatic events in peoples lives.

Why couldn't it be used on other issues like anxieties, stress and issues that keep us blocked or locked in to what makes us miserable.

Basically, EFT taps on meridian points on the body, much like acupuncture (but there are no needles involved) and it helps to release the blocking energy.

There's alot on the internet about EFT gurus, Gary Craig, Bruce Lipton, Dr Mercola, Bob Proctor, and the list goes on and on. There's a lot on good info out there. There are free e-books and online seminars, etc.

But I learn best watching and doing it. I can read about it but I am a visual learner, that's just how I'm built.

On YouTube there are some great practitioners of EFT and they offer free videos. There's Margaret Lynch, there's EFTMagic, Robert Smith, Valerie (search eft valerie) and she has a 30 day challenge and so on. All good so far, but I just discovered  Brad Yates (channel EFTWizard) and I had such a visceral reaction to the video Love Your Body (weight-loss ?) that I had to share it.



My issues aren't about being overweight, my issues are about self acceptance and self love and giving myself permission to be OK just as I am and not putting it off until some magic number in the future. But right now.

Today I manifested truth in my life, what will it manifest in you?

Update to post of December 4th 2010 titled Project M

I had decided since the original post dated December 4th 2010 that the M would stand for mental health as that was my focus, but have now decided that it will stand for Manifestation.
That is what I am wanting to focus on now, manifesting the life I want and deserve to live. Manifesting the life I want will, by default, bring about mental health and take me farther away from mental illness. Just like any other illness, the longer we do the right things in recovery, the farther away we get from the illness and its possible  relapses.
One day at a time, one manifestation at a time, we get closer to health one day at a time, one manifestation at a time.

Me, Myself and Manifestation.  Project Manifestation Now.

Does something exist if we don't beleive in it?

Here's some interesting questions to ponder.

Does God exist if people don't believe in him?

Does he not exist even if people believe he does?

Will prayer work on someone who doesn't believe in its power?

Will the power of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) work even if you don't believe in it?

Does our mind hold enough power to block manifestations of "happiness" just because we have a deep seated belief that we really don't believe we deserve to be "happy" (Happiness being whatever we feel would make us happy ie: money, career, relationships, weight-loss, etc...)

I watched a video yesterday by Bruce Lipton and he explains the power of the mind like no one else (http://www.2011tappingworldsummit.com/VideoSeries/?page_id=60 and click the Bruce Lipton tab if it doesn't open on his page) (and let me say as well that I am not advocating this site as the interview he gives here is also available on YouTube but it's all chopped up and not complete).
He talks about the programming that runs our lives at a subconscious level and how the subconscious is a million times stronger than the conscious mind which is usually not in the present as it thinks of future times when we will be happy or doing something that will make us happy. We run on auto pilot with old and outdated programming, (it's an eye opener!) and we wonder why we aren't happy.
But we can change the programming and live better lives.

I've been researching EFT these past few days and I've tried some of the tapping sessions and I've hit some emotional points and was quite surprised at what I discovered.

So, even though I am still skeptical that EFT works, does it work in spite of a persons belief?