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What if there was a way to improve your vision and get rid of your glasses without surgery and without resorting to wearing contact lenses? Well there is, with a cutting edge energy therapy known as Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT. A few years ago, Master EFT Practitioner Carol Look conducted an experiment to see if vision could be improved using this remarkable therapy. What she found was that for many of the participants in the study, emotional upset was causing their vision problems. And, of the 120 participants who completed the experiment, 75 percent reported a significant improvement in their vision, with many no longer needing to use reading glasses.

Traumatic Memories Affect Vision

Believe it or not, memories of traumatic events can affect our eyesight. On a subconscious level, there is something that we don't want to see and so our vision is affected. By addressing the traumatic event and neutralizing the negative emotions, we can improve vision with EFT.

Secondary Benefits

Sometimes, there is a benefit to having a physical disability of some kind. The client is unwilling to let go of the physical problem because of the fear that they will lose something such as disability payments, attention from others or a part of their personal identity. These types of issues can be successfully addressed with EFT provided that the desire to improve vision outweighs the loss of the benefit.

Limiting Belief in One's Ability to Improve Eyesight

Oftentimes, people don't believe that they can improve their vision with EFT and so are reluctant to try it. They believe that their failing eyesight is due to other factors such as age or heredity and therefore unavoidable. The good news is that limiting beliefs can successfully be addressed with EFT and in this case resulting in improved vision.

Unfortunately, we are not perfect. We have billions of people we can blame for our own shortcomings and failures. We do not get endless good times. When disappointment, failure or hopelessness attacks, we need to fight back. Here are some weapons:

How big is this problem, really? Don't sweat it if it is small.
Life is too short. The universe will continue to evolve. In the whole scheme of things in the entire universe, we are almost insignificant, yet we make big deals out of petty stuff.

Be humble.
Remember that if, some day, they discover the center of the universe you will probably not be in it. Even you have to experience failure or loss maybe for a long time but things will eventually change!! You just don't know when. Don't get so low and down that when things start going up again you won't be able to get up. You are not alone though. We will all secretly feel for you.

Discuss with somebody and get it out of your system. Purge.
Hearing yourself talk about difficulties sometimes throws new light on the problem. As well, if you talk about it long enough, you will find you get so bored of hearing yourself saying the same things over and over again that the problem becomes just a silly thing - at times.

Good and bad surprises are natural occurrences!
You will always have some form of life coming at you - good and bad. When you get lemons, learn to make lemonade! Both sunshine and rain helps flowers grow.

If you ask yourself: "Why me?", your honest response should be: "Why not me?"
It's your turn to use the gifts of talents, skills and abilities given to you to confront and solve your problem or issue. Would you wish your situation on anybody else? No. Then you deal with what you get and do it with your head high. Be dignified in doing your best.

Don't take a lot of things personally. View most things from a spectator point of view.
It helps you keep your cool when you distance yourself. It also helps you see things from a different perspective. It might not be as bad as you think. It's not your fault sometimes. Don't accept it and instead leave it with the other person to stew about. It's not being emotionless. It's accepting life the way it is.

Explore your feelings and hurts openly and honestly with yourself. Learn from them.
This is tough. Don't deny your feelings but go with them. Wallow through the misery and come out to the other shore. Next time is easier. Drive to a secluded spot in a large parking lot. Close the windows in your car, turn up the music, and then yell and scream anything and everything until you purge the hurt and other related feelings.

Take responsibility for being the cause and/or effect of disappointments in your life.
Admit your behaviour to yourself honestly. Temper? Bubbling rage? Ready to blow? Looking for a fight? Can you say: "I got jealous, angry, greedy, vindictive, enraged or whatever and caused something to happen to me."

Change anger into feeling sorry for who/what disappointed you.
Feeling compassion is easier on the system. Forgiveness is for the giver, not the receiver. Letting go is healthy. It stops the formation of acids and toxins that ruin health. Forgiveness gets the person or event out of your head where he/she/it is preventing you from thinking effectively. Why waste your time being angry when the person isn't even there in front of you to receive it?

Negativity will always be there in life. Get used to it. Rise above it.
Sometimes not getting what we want is a stroke of luck! Toxic people can depress us and alter mood but we also have the choice of staying away from them or immunizing ourselves from their harmful effects.

Find something good that can possibly come from what may be the worst of situations or happenstances.
From great loss can come great strength. There is a saying that God doesn't give you more than you can handle. I beg to differ. Sometimes we get more than we can handle. That's the time to get others to help carry the load. About 7 billion people were provided to you, from which the right one to help you is just waiting for the two of you to meet.

Do a reality check.
Are you just looking for trouble? Do you make silly, stupid, risky, dangerous decisions knowingly? If so, you take chances and not the potential loss. Too bad. That happens to the rest of us too!!

Have a positive attitude.
A little story emphasizes this point. For their birthday, twins were put in an empty room except for a big bucket of manure in the middle. One looked in, gave a scowl and walked away disgusted and mad. The other put on a big smile, started sneaking around, bending and bobbing to peek out of the windows, checking and listening at doors. When their parents entered, the one with the smile said gleefully, "Okay, I know there's a pony around here somewhere!!"

By : Otto Schimdt

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I came across a cute little cartoon that said, "If there's no chocolate in heaven, I'm not going." Can you relate to this or is chocolate no big deal for you and your soul?

How likely do you think it would be for you to go into your kitchen to get a piece of chocolate and find yourself back at your computer munching on a carrot? Seems pretty incongruent and unlikely, doesn't it? Well, that's exactly what happened to my friend Colin, and to this day he loves telling the story of how it happened.

During a teleclass called "Eliminate Cravings With EFT In 4 Minutes Or Less", the topic of chocolate came up, as it often does. It turned out that chocolate was the #1 craving many people on the call were having. While I was having fun guiding the group through the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) with the appropriate scripts, Colin was also on the call as my audio technician and he was consciously listening to everything being said.

In EFT there's something called Borrowing Benefits. This is how it works. While one person is focused on what they want to eliminate, the rest of the group can set their own individual intention. For example, they might choose to eliminate a craving for red licorice, cinnamon buns, ice cream, or M&Ms. Even though the words they use will be different, their unconscious mind is paying close attention to their specific goal and therefore, they benefit by receiving the welcomed side effects of the EFT process. Borrowing benefits is great and everyone wins.

Apparently Colin's unconscious mind had been listening very intently, because the next day he went into his kitchen to get some chocolate and you guessed it...he and the carrot ended up being a perfect match. The chocolate was left behind in its wrapper. He was extremely amused.

Over the next few months, Colin made several conscious attempts to eat chocolate and each time, he felt extremely neutral about it. His body literally didn't want any. Choice gives all of us a sense of freedom-we become the complete opposite of being the obedient slave to a craving. Having the freedom to choose is an amazing gift we can give ourselves.

Of course there's really nothing wrong with chocolate or ice cream; there are even some healthy brands on the market to choose from. It does, however, get troublesome when in the middle of the night you find yourself putting your coat on over your jammies to make a quick trip to the corner store to get your fix. That's when you know it's time to eliminate the craving, get back in the driver's seat, and rejoice with the sense of freedom and self-control. From that place you can have anything you want...it's all a delicious choice.

Using EFT has many other benefits besides eliminating cravings. When coaching I use it with women entrepreneurs who want to:

• release business stress and anxiety

• increase their confidence

• release resistance to marketing

• speak in public with ease and grace

• tap into their soul's purpose and let their creative spirit soar

• attract more clients and get paid what they're worth...amen sister, let's tap to that!

You can use EFT to enhance any area of your life. Use it on anything, and everything! I highly recommend it.

So...are you ready for a breakthrough? I hope you are because you can learn how to use EFT starting this month. I'd love to have you join me in one of my upcoming teleclass series.

By the way I heard somewhere that one of the reasons planet earth is so special is because it's the only planet in the galaxy that has chocolate. Gotta love that!

Chances are you believe that happiness truly improves your life. One of the best ways to create true happiness is through laughter. In just 7 days you could find yourself laughing more often and enjoying your life more fully!

Day 1: Take the Positive from the Negative

Most people focus on the negativity and therefore create more negativity in their lives. Once you are able to take positivity from negativity, more positivity will enter your life. So, how do you do it? Start by asking yourself, "What is the opposite side to my belief?" Then ask, "Would thinking that way make me feel better?" If yes, then ask yourself, "What is preventing me from thinking that way?" Once you determine what prevents you from thinking positively, you'll be able to address it and overcome it. From that point forward, you will be able to use the same questions to take positivity from any negative situation.

By focusing on positivity you are welcoming more of it into your life. Even if you do not believe that, you are still creating a momentarily positive state of mind for yourself. You get what you want is the easiest way to understand this. The more you think about positivity, the stronger you desire it. So remember, when you focus on positivity on a regular basis it will regularly enter and improve your life.

Now that you've welcome immense positivity in your life, it's important for you to share it with others. Talk with people, laugh at the humor, and remember the positive points. Share stories that made you laugh, smile, and happy; not ones that were unpleasant. Remember the events which impacted your life in a positive way. Most importantly, be enthusiastic when you're telling a story and when you're listening to one. When you show excitement for someone else's stories, it creates even more excitement for that person, and also for yourself!

This will allow you to share positivity on levels you did not expect. When you surround yourself with good hearted people, it brings out the best in both parties. Good hearted people will further your happiness, excitement, and laughter. Having trouble finding one? Just look for the person that encourages, cares, and appreciates without reason and without fail.

You will inevitably become a good hearted person after time. This transition produces a positive attitude in you that was unseen before. It enables you to laugh when something does not go as planned; as opposed to becoming angry or upset. You begin to laugh more because an understanding is gained that the more you laugh, the happier you become.

You will find yourself laughing at the negative because you understand the principles of where to focus your attention. You understand negativity is just a test and with your laughter and positive outlook, you will pass with flying colors. The true character of an individual is shown when that person is faced with a challenge. By laughing at it, you show the positive person which defines you.

By now, you have probably figured out additional ways to laugh more and enjoy your life. A great way is to laugh as much as possible. Laugh when you feel the urge, when something goes wrong, when something funny happens. Before you realize, your life will be filled with laughter, positivity, and happiness. So, laugh more and a live a lot!

There are a number of different causes for migraine headaches and there are also a number of symptoms which may be experienced by different individuals. Although you might not have thought of it, belly fat has actually been linked to migraines.

Migraines caused by a belly fat might sound unlikely that first, but here are some scientific reasons to support this theory.

Poor posture, for example, has long been noted as one of the main causes of migraines. Poor posture is often a result of being overweight. Likewise, some people feel an overwhelming urge to eat more when they are suffering from a migraine, which can actually make the problem a lot worse.

Constipation is also another thing that can cause migraines. People have more fat around the area of the belly are generally more likely to suffer from constipation. It is very important to avoid certain types of foods, since a certain types of foods are a trigger migraines. Chocolate is one of the most commonly associated foods with the attack on migraine.

Another factor that could be causing migraines due to being overweight for women, is that there midsections may contain more estrogen and in certain woman an excess in estrogen has been shown to cause migraines.

Migraines are often quite easy to cure, but in many cases you do have to make an effort to make some simple but permanent changes to your lifestyle. A doctor should be able to give you more advice and properly diagnose the specific type of migraine that you have and what causes it. Keeping a diary of the symptoms and the times when you experience migraines is also a good idea which can help the diagnoses process.