But that was not the scary part at all. The scary part was how crazy I drove myself, for a very long time, forcing myself to think positively. I missed the boat many times on what I should have done so I do not want any of you to do the same. Here is my advice for those of you who want a better life today:

1. Do not beat up on yourself! Maybe you are way into your sixties and just found out about the Law of Attraction and you think it is too late – it is not too late! Most people discover this information in their 50′s and 60′s anyway!
2. Do not force yourself to think more positively! That is the wrong way of going about it because it is like trying to jump from the ground to get on the mountain top. It’s impossible! What I mean by that is – there are reasons why you feel negative emotion so you have to deal with those reasons.
3. Which leads me to my next suggestion – admit to your problems! This is actually the hard one and has been the hardest for me because it is not that I do not want to admit to my problems – sometimes I do not know what they are and I know I am not the only one. So maybe a better thing to do is to create a list of what it is that you have that you do not want, even if the list makes you cringe, write it down.
4. Find a really experienced EFT practitioner and have them help you tap on your list. Start with EFT! In fact, email Carol Look (I hope she does not mind that I am telling everyone to do this) . Carol Look is one of the most famous and best EFT practitioners out there and she knows all the great ones near you! Even if you are the most experienced person in the stress reduction world, I have learned we all are here to help each and sometimes someone else can see your problems better than you can. And many times someone else can help you better than you can help yourself!

It is a good thing to get help with this Law of Attraction “stuff” because your patterns of thinking – whether they are positive or negative – are far stronger than you could ever imagine. You have no idea how strong they are and how you, and only you, have been attracting everything into your life. When I first learned about the law of attraction I did not know anything about mental programming. It was only years after that I understood it and wished I knew then because I would have taken up tapping then – I did not and boy would it have made my life easier!

So that is why I am telling you all to do it now. Do the things that I have suggested and please come back here and leave comments on the great things that have come into your life because of it!

Sounds confusing right? Let me explain. I have heard Abraham say over and over and over again that it is not about what you do that will make you lose weight but what you believe in. During high school I was told that fat will make you fat. By college time it was meat will make you fat and then after I graduated it was carbohydrates will make you fat. We live in a time where we are bombarded with information everywhere we go. What is true and what is not true? How do you decide? How do you know what is right to do?

In 2006 I came across Kevin Trudeau’s book “Natural Cures”. The chapter in his book that discussed weight loss really resonated with me. He said in this chapter that the reason why it is so hard for people to lose weight is because of the amount of toxins in the food. He said that if the food was organic then the body would know what to do with it and would not store it because with less toxins the body would function properly. I completely believed in what he said and I went to the health food store the next day and bought all organic food including organic soda, cookies, cakes etc. And i regularly did many different cleanses just like he said and do you know what happened – it worked! But it worked not because of the techniques but because I believed in it – it was my belief in it that made it work.

It has been almost five years and I have not been on a diet since. Although, I have to say that I believed so much in the “organic way” that I had to tap my way out of being afraid of eating anything that was not organic. Now I am free to eat anything and in whatever quantity that I choose.

I am not writing this to make anyone jealous or hate me. Instead, I want to give you a better and quicker way of being “diet free” for good. Change the source of your problem – your beliefs about food and use EFT to do it! EFT is the best suggestion. If you have negative emotion about eating candy or eating anything then that is what you tap on! You want to get to a point where you can pick up a hamburger and feel only good about eating it! Also, tap on your “stories”. You know those “terrible things that happened to me stories”? Yes, I really believe that is also what causes people to keep excess weight on – it is the fact that they hold onto so many things that bother them.

Has anyone else tried this and had success with it?

Yes, they are all good and it really is not about finding one. It is about knowing about many and knowing which one would work best for you depending on what issue you are trying to resolve. It is just not reasonable to apply the same method to every issue – we are growing and expanding beings! Furthermore, we live in a “time of awakening” and things are moving so rapidly and we do not know who we really are and we have no idea who we will become. I, myself, am looking forward to the change. It will not be like the movie 2012. I think we are going to experience an incredible upgrade that we cannot imagine because we are not up to speed with it yet. It will be so great that Hollywood cannot depict what will happen. I can’t wait!

So, in the meantime, relax and don’t worry about it. Tap on it if it bothers you! If you really want to take your mind off of it then I suggest that you read some of my old posts where I exclaim “this is it” in not those words post after post after post….. LOL.

On Saturday morning, after my bath, I grabbed some olive oil, rubbed it all over my body (and when the water drained) I turned on the cool water. It did not feel so bad so I gradually made it colder. It was hard to take at first. I started rubbing my skin briskly and then I finally turned the water to the coldest it would go. Now it was unbearable but as soon as I was going to reach to turn the water off I realized that my skin was hot and a bit numb – I could stand the cold shower and didn’t mind hanging out a little bit longer in there. When I got out of the shower I did not feel cold at all. The color of my skin varied on my body – I had a pink chest and tomato red feet. But the one thing that really surprised me was how I felt – I felt absolutely great! I had a one hour and a half massage during the holidays and I did not leave the spa feeling this good – I felt 20 times better than I did on that day and I did not have to pay $150!

I got on the phone and told my friend that I took the shower and it did not really bother me. I even looked forward to taking the next one. I was actually surprised that I was not bothered by it because I remember how much I hated drinking apple cider vinegar, drinking the juice of almost 100 lemons to cleanse my bladder and kidneys and I dreaded coffee enemas. For some reason, taking a cold shower really resonated with me in a way that these other methods did not.

So what else did I experience? Well besides feeling absolutely fantastic I noticed that my head was clearer, I felt much more positive, I was not easily angered, my skin was softer and clearer and I noticed that after doing it twice a day for only three days that my veins on my hands protruded far less. I have read that there are incredible health benefits that go along with taking cold showers but there are also some precautions to doing them. As I am not a doctor, I encourage you to go online as well and read about all the well-being benefits and precautions that you should be aware of before you take a cold shower. You should, of course, consult with your doctor as well.

Tonight I took another cold shower and noticed that I became more immune to the feeling from the cold water and I noticed I could stay in the cold water longer than I could the past four other times that I tired it. I left the shower feeling great and really wishing the cold shower was not over. I’m not kidding about that! The feeling during the shower is a rush too! For those of you who are on the path of enlightenment, I have to say that cold showers are the way to go – they not only put you in a positive mood but I read that they cleanse the aura and the chakras. I read that the cold water makes the chakras spin in their proper direction. This is what I read – I am not sure if it is true but I do know that there a many Eastern cultures that practice this method as a way to spiritual awakening.

I love cold showers now and will continue to do them twice a day. I would like to know if any of you have taken a cold shower? Did you get positive results from them?

It has been a long journey. I have spent a LOT of money on many things that have not worked and many things that have worked but not as quickly as I would have liked them to.

The Yuen Method is by far the fastest and relatively cheapest technique that I have tried to this day. This summer I tried Faster EFT and, even though I think it is a great technique, I realize now that it is not necessary to tap on the past to let negativity go. I also realized that I spent a lot of money with Faster EFT and I was able to let go of many negatives beliefs and so many more issues for FAR LESS money with the Yuen Method.

So what is the Yuen Method? It is a non-touch stress reduction modality created by a 35th generation Chinese monk and Kung Fu expert. The broad definition of the technique would be that the Yuen Method practitioner goes into a neutral state of mind and does “corrections”. If any of you have had an interest in stress reduction and the law of attraction and have had this constant desire to improve your life (like I have) then you know just how difficult it can sometimes be to get rid of things that bother you that you don’t know why they bother you. I expereince this often. In the beginning of learning the law of attraction it was ever so easy for me to master the laws but applying them was a different matter. I found it easy to help others and difficult to help myself so I always felt that it is absolutely necessary to find other practitioners who can help me resolve the things that I have no idea why they bother me. Let me give you an example of what I mean. I have a great job – most people would kill for the kind of freedom that I have at work and the kind of work that I do (along with stress reduction I also work at a small ad agency and I create social media campaigns for clients – how cool is that?). And I also live in a nice apartment in Manhattan. I have a lot to be happy about but rather than being happy I get worried often as I am constantly sweating the small stuff wherever I go.
For someone who is so determined to be happy – this is not the way to be but how can I change this? There are those who would say just focus on what makes you happy – if that was easy I would be doing that! There is something to be said about our pattern of thinking – our internal programming. Dr. Yuen believes that it is a multi-dimensional issue and by that I mean – it has many roots that are not apparent and that is why it is so hard to ban your own negative thinking – it is truly a part of your DNA.

To me Dr Yuen has unlocked the code to correcting this programming – no matter where it comes from. I was in the worst mood the other day. I decided to go on his millionairehealer website and, with a freind, I listened to one of his prerecorded teleseminar (these recordings have his corrections in them) and the following day I had a much better day. I can revert back to “the way I was” and I have in the past but, like with everything else, it takes practice to improve – so I will keep listening to these recordings. Along with the recordings on millionairehealer.com, I listen to Dr Yuen’s other live teleseminars that he has every week or so.
Have any of you had incredible improvements with the Yuen Method? What were your transformations like?

I am pretty excited to learn this technique. I have tried so many things over the years and I just think this technique is the most advanced and quickest technique I have come across to date. It is also not cheap so I have to save my money for these seminars lol!

Anyway, I am interested in knowing if any of you have tried the Yuen Method? What is it that you like about it? Are you a practitioner? Do you think this is the best technique as far as stress reduction is concerned?

The end of this month will mark the fifth year that I have known about the Law of Attraction and have been trying to move in a more positive direction.

I first learned about the Law of Attraction from a friend in Toronto, Canada who introduced me to the Abraham-Hicks audios. In the beginning, I was not that interested in the idea of being “happy”. I was rather more focused on getting the manifestations. I would roll my eyes when I would listen to Abraham say that it is important to feel good. I would think to myself that it is important to leave my job because I was so miserable there. I did not know how to feel better at my job or look at other things that were not that good in my life and try to feel good about them too.

What I was good at though was retaining the knowledge of Abraham and remembering the answers to so many questions. In the first year and a half of understanding the Law of Attraction I was able to release a lot of very negative beliefs and move in a better direction. I began to apply the techniques on a less than regular basis though. I did not understand the connection between applying the techniques and feeling better. I still did not understand that feeling better is really the goal and the relief that we are all seeking.

So I was still about 49 percent negative for a while. I would see the things that I did not like and I would either ignore them or complain about them but I would rarely do anything to change my feelings about them.

In May a very unexpected thing happened. I had a family member who was in good health suddenly die and it really brought me down and then by the end of June my dog Dottie died and I was really feeling very down. Right after my Aunt died I realized that I had too much anxiety and stress and that I needed to do a lot of stress reduction so I decided to do something called Faster EFT.

Faster EFT helped me a lot. I was able to go back to different parts of my life and change my negative memories. I worked on a lot of things that had been bothering me and I believe a lot of problems cleared for me as a result. Somehow it just became easier to focus in a more positive direction because of Faster EFT.

What was very interesting though was I discovered that the feeling a little better technique by Abraham-Hicks and Faster EFT or even regular EFT are basically the same thing. I think the feeling better technique by Abraham-Hicks is actually easier because you do not need someone else to figure out how you are creating the problem and/or you do not need to learn a technique either. All you have to do is just try to feel a little better than what you are feeling now. All you have to do is just reach for something you KNOW to be true that feels good. Then you put yourself in a more powerful state of allowing and then it is easier for you to let in what you have been asking for.

Also, two other things that really helped me are meditation and my new blackberry (if you can believe that). For five years I would meditate on and off. I did not really get what meditation was about because I felt like I understood what Abraham was talking about and; therefore, I thought meditation really is a waste of time. I have come to learn that meditation is very important because it really helps to put you in a very relaxed state and; therefore, in the receiving mode. Now I meditate twice a day at least just because I love to feel good and relaxed always.

My blackberry, as I mentioned, has been very instrumental in helping me become more allowing. I have wordpad on my blackberry and I use it to practice feeling good. I have documents saved in there such as: try to feel better, positive aspects about so-and-so, I remember the good feeling of… etc. I type in these documents all the time and I just practice good feeling thoughts. Abraham has a technique called touchstones where I write all really good memories that I have had throughout my life down and whenever I really want to raise my vibration and feel good I go into that document on my phone and read them and feel great.

I have been doing this often enough that in less than two months I have really acclimated to feeling good. Now my biggest priority is feeling good and because of that I am letting in so much of that which I perceive to be good into my life. Life has gotten a lot easier because I have come to realize just how important feeling good is and when I do not feel good I constantly try to feel better. I feel much more able to help others to move in this direction because I have done it in such a powerful way for myself. I really feel blessed that I am so young and have figured this out because I know I have a beautiful life ahead of me.

I would just like to recap what I think you should do if you want to achieve the results I have. If you are not familiar with the Law of Attraction or are really new at it I would do the following:
1. Watch the movie “The Secret”. I think it is a great idea to watch this movie because this movie really showcases the Law of Attraction in a great light and it entices people.
2. Purchase the book “Ask and It is Given” by Abraham-Hicks. In this book Abraham really explains techniques on how to become more positive. You can purchase a used book for relatively very little money on Amazon.com and the shipping and handling fee there is always less than four dollars.
3. Meditate. You must meditate. It is a must. It will take you longer to allow if you do not meditate.
4. You must put the techniques from “Ask and It Is Given” into practice. There is no way around this. If you do not do something different then you will not get anything better. The best way to put it into practice is by using wordpad, as I suggested earlier, on your phone.
5. Watch what comes. Pay attention to how you are changing. The more you put this stuff into practice the more money you will allow into your life, the more optimistic you will be, you will sweat the small stuff less and less, feeling good will become a priority to you, having fun will be a very big priority to you. Within sixty days you will see your life dramatically change. So have fun and let me know if you have questions!

Great spiritual teachers, throughout the ages, have always said that our true power comes from within. And not just our power, everything comes from within. Everything that is going on within us is reflected in the world around us. I always forget that. I always forget that my true comfort comes from no one else but me. When I was able to comfort myself in this way then I realized and remembered just how this all works.

A lot of the times I write on this blog for my readers but today I write this for myself too. I hope I never forget this. Sometimes I forget to forgive myself, to love myself and to give myself the benefit of the doubt. I hope you all are able to do this too. Learn to be good to yourself and you will be surprised by the way you will be treated. The more you love yourself, the more you will be loved by others.

I have been studying the law of attraction for four years now and certain bad habits are hard to break with me. I hope I will never forget this because this gave me so much relief so quickly. I hope you all will try this when things get stressful in your life too. Try to remember how many times you have been through stressful situations and how you have gotten through them in the best way you can and give yourself a break and a well deserved pat on the back and remind yourself that if you can get through that you can get through this too.

I think sometimes we take life too seriously and when we find ourselves making the same mistakes and constantly feeling terrible and beating ourselves up for it, that is when we need to regroup and refocus. I really do not know how to end this article but I will say this… I am so happy that I feel this issue is resolved within me. I feel calm about it and I feel happy that I feel relief about it so quickly. I hope you all try this too.

I really felt anger after it had happened and then I kind of went into a bit of a daze… you know the kind where you hear someone talking to you but all you can think about is something else that bothered you and nothing can keep you from thinking about it. That is how I felt for about two hours and then I tried very hard to release what I was feeling by tapping and using a Abraham-Hicks technique.

On my way home, I took a piece of paper and I tried to make myself feel better about the situation that happened. It took about twenty minutes but I was able to move from feeling angry and guilty to feeling frustrated and pessimistic about it. Abraham says that we have to put the way we feel first because the way we feel is our point of attraction. Below is the scale of human emotions. Abraham says if you can move up the emotional scale and make yourself feel better, on all subjects, you will allow well-being in a powerful way.

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.

When I got home I realized that I needed to cut myself some slack and stop being so self-critical. I reminded myself that it is okay to stumble sometimes. I think the hardest thing about this Law of Attraction stuff is changing these old thought patterns because they do not go away right away. Sometimes I forget that because I make such an effort to get rid of them, that is why they still exist in my life.

Anyway, I was glad that I made what happened today a non-issue by the end of the day. Even though I do not feel ecstatic, I can say that I am happier than I was earlier. What’s great about situations like this is that it teaches you, each time it happens, that you can pull yourself right out of it in less time each time.

EFT can change our negative core beliefs. For instance, if you are upset that you do not have enough money that means that you have a negative core belief about money. What’s great about this is that you can change it! How do you change it? You just start tapping. Start tapping on all your feelings about money and then go out and see what happens. If things don’t change then you need to keep doing it until it does.

Today I was traveling and I barely did any tapping which was a surprise to me because it has become a ritual for me to tap in my mind while in transit. But I didn’t because nothing was really bothering me. I have been using Robert Smith’s technique daily for less than a month and I feel that I really have reversed most of my negative core beliefs. I know that I always end my posts trying to encourage everyone to try EFT but I really cannot say it enough. You have no idea what prison you are living in until you use a simple technique to let it go! You do not need to be afraid of your money problems or your well-being issues or anything else. You can change the way that you feel about anything and, when you do, the thing that was causing you to feel bad will change too. We are not here to have our feelings be on autopilot. We are here to direct our thoughts and to allow the well-being that we want.

I have been searching for this freedom for many years. I cannot tell you how grateful I am for EFT. It has really helped me gain the control that I have always wanted. I hope you all try it. Happy Tapping!