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Recently I saw a great movie called “Try It On Everything”. It is about EFT- Emotional Freedom Technique, for some it may seem a mysterious technique because it works on energy points that were discovered by ancient Chinese but in fact EFT is fairly new. The movie is worth spreading to the public since EFT is quick and simple and it gives astonishing results. I think EFT should be taught in preschool worldwide but it has to “tip” to become so popular.

The movie “Try It On Everything” can be seen as an instructional video to learn EFT, but there is also a story about each of the participants. Ten people were invited for a long four day weekend workshop. They had awfully deep issues and the movie starts with their descriptions. Some of those issues were: years of sickness, chemotherapy, back pain, insomnia, lack of belief to be healthy, unworthiness, reoccurring nightmares, depression, fear of speaking in public, food cravings and overweight, spinal injury, being stuck between the pain caused by smoking and the pain caused by non smoking, phobias, traumas… All of them were supposedly permanent. Participants were told to try a little technique called EFT. It was meant to release stuck energy, sooth energetic disruptions. EFT works simply by bringing a problem to mind and tap on special points. Most of the issues were healed completely after the first or second day. It was staggering to see all participants’ faces at the end, completely relaxed, healed and happier.

I’ve been using EFT for over a year now and I still learned a lot from the movie. I’ve estimated that if I was about to pay a $1000 for knowing or not knowing EFT I would pay it, for me EFT was already worth more.

EFT can be used for healing, boosting confidence, accelerating the Law of Attraction, unleashing your potential. You can use it anywhere even on short breaks. Thomas Edison once said: “If we did all the things we were capable of doing, we could literally astound ourselves.” Some more quotation from the movie:
“Joy doesn’t cause blockages, it is anger, guilt etc.”
“Each of us has potential to be brilliant.”
“We are profoundly powerful people.”
“Accepting yourself doesn’t make you stuck. “
“Life was meant to be enjoyed.”

“Try It On Everything” features famous stars from “The Secret” like Bob Proctor, Jack Canfield, Joe Vitale and many other great teachers that are still not known so widely. Jack Canfield said: ”If on a scale from 1 to 10 your life is 3 then why so high? Why isn’t it 2 or 1?” that helps people to focus that there is always something nice already in everybody’s life. The next question is: ”What could move it to level 4 for you?”. Bob Proctor said something like this: “It is time not for a slow incremental growth but for a quantum leap to become the best of who you are. Everybody has that capacity.”

The workshop was lead by 5 practitioners: Helena Johnson, Rick Wilkes, Steve Munn, Nicolas Ortner, and Carol Look. Nicolas Ortner presented a little explanation: Imagine that everyday you get 100 units of power or $100. If something has happened to you in the past that cost $2, you don’t pay it just once, you pay it everyday whenever you replay the emotion. Energy goes where your focus is. If you focus daily on what’s bad that’s where your energy is draining out of your body. Traumas create blocks on energy pathways but Energy is supposed to flow thru you. You are spending your $100 on bad emotions and additionally traumas are blocking new income. EFT brings that power back. Tap and take it back. What can you do with your full energy dose? What would your life look like if your pain was gone? Tapping on energy points excites electrical system in the body. Chinese applied pressure = acupressure or needles = acupuncture on those energy points. Those points are on the head, collar bone, under arm and on hands. It is shown precisely in the movie where and how to tap. While taping repeat the statement “Even thou [your problem here] I deeply and completely accept myself.” If you get emotional just keep tapping. Check the level of intensity after each cycle. From 0 - no feeling to 10 – highest level of distress.

What was surprising to me was that tapping on someone else’s issues can help yourself. We have a lot in common so you can tap on someone else’s issues. If you beat yourself up, or someone else does it then tap and say “Even thou I am a total mess I deeply and profoundly accept myself” and “I am perfectly right to feel this way” acknowledge that, admit it. Freud said that this is therapeutic “The way to heal is to have no secrets”. 70% of our thoughts are negative and limiting our power. When you were a child you downloaded behaviors from your parents and they became your behaviors. We often make decisions based on beliefs we took at a young age. Only two fears are inborn: fear of falling and fear of loud noises, the rest is taken from the environment, mostly from our parents.

After watching that movie twice I must say that it was done professionally and received a lot of care. The movie has a fantastic music background, when I realized it I rewound back and said “wow!”. Compositions on the screen are pleasant, important info is explained in captions. The workshop took place in a quiet location, rooms were furnitured and arranged nicely. It is worth watching multiple times not just to awe but to acquire and implement all the tips that were presented.

Do you want to learn more about that mysterious technique, to learn the remaining part of the secret? Get the movie here: “Try It On Everything” and start using this fascinating tool called EFT.

I am happily surprised. I’ve just received “the most improved speaker award 2008″ from my local Toastmasters club. Toastmasters International is a worldwide network of clubs for developing public speaking skills. Below you will read about how meetings look like, what will happen if you join and at the end you will be able to do a search for a nearby club.
The first step in improving your public speaking skills is breaking the fear of standing in front of an audience. Most people fear it more than death. You can overcome this fear with Toastmasters quite easily in a safe and supportive environment. It doesn’t have to be a speech straight away, there are plenty various roles like introducing a word of the day, saying a short poem or just saying few words in a proper time.

Meetings are very organized and the program is almost identical in all clubs globally. Most clubs meet fortnightly or weekly and duration is usually two hours with a break in the middle. The first part is informal and is mostly filled with impromptu speaking, that means that one specified person - a Topicsmaster - asks a question to someone in the audience or waits for a volunteer which has to give a quick answer off the cuff. For beginners it’s hard, the first few times I was selected I stood up and couldn’t breathe, the heart was pumping loudly, I just kept thinking “Why me? I have nothing to say on that. Couldn’t they ask me another question?”. Now I volunteer on every meeting and I like to say something even if afterwards I have back thoughts like “I forgot to say about the most important thing”, “I could say it without tension” etc. I like it because I know that it’s normal and I see some progress. Usually there are plenty of interesting questions during the first part of the meeting.

The second part is more rigid and timed, those are the prepared speeches and evaluations. That is really cool because in Toastmasters we do evaluation internally - one member to another like a friend to a friend. In some clubs like in mine there are even paper slips that anyone from the audience can fill in with a feedback and comments about what could be improved and what are the strengths of the speech.

Any interested guests are always welcome and it feels good to all members if there are guests. First three meeting a free, then if you decide to join there is a yearly fee of something about $90 and on each meeting about $5 for renting the room, prices vary. You will receive helpful manuals at the beginning and then a not so helpful monthly magazine sent to your address. When you join Toastmasters and decide to give speeches you will get an assigned mentor - advanced member who can guide you or at least give some clues. I have a privilege to have a mentor who was a president of the Toastmasters International several years ago.

Now you should know how to break the fear of public speaking. Do it with small roles, volunteer to answer impromptu especially if the question fits you. When you join you get manuals, a mentor and warm support of other members. I definitely recommend Toastmasters. You can search for clubs right here: www.toastmasters.org/websiteApps
Remember, the first three meetings are free but you will know straight away how much it can help you.

In Dublin there is a motorway around the city which used to be clogged. The entire motorway is now under great modernization and the traffic is getting better. However there is a toll bridge which is causing many delays. Even thou I am rarely going there I wrote an email to the administration of this motorway. That’s what I wrote:

Hello

I know that you are thinking about a new system for the toll bridge on the M50.
My idea is to do the following experiment: remove the toll bridge and introduce a donation system instead. People then could do a donation online or by post once or few times a year. Additionally to the online donation you could introduce donation by text message from a phone. Donation: Fair not Fare system. I know that sounds ridiculous … but only today, in the future it will be common.

Benefits of the donation system:

drivers save time because of the smooth traffic

you save on keeping the toll bridge, employees, accountancy.

Those people collecting cash in booths can go home and spend time with their families in the park instead of blocking the motorway and inhaling smoke or they can find a constructive job.

Many people can donate not only those who go thru the toll. You can even get a surge of money from companies supporting that idea.

it is good for the environment because of fuel saving: stopping and accelerating consumes enormous amount of energy, with millions of cars going thru toll yearly that’s a lot of fuel.

Satisfaction. Donation feels good, paying fees feels bad. How about that! Millions of souls feeling good not bad, even if it is for a moment.

Everyone wins, only you risk a downside, but you can also have unlimited upside if you do it properly. It is possible that you could get more money from donations and saving on the toll bridge than form the fees.

How to convince people to donate? Use media, use billboards, refer to trust, solidarity, fair play. This is an experiment, if it succeeds others can take example and it can spread thru the world. You could be the first!
Put billboards on the side saying:

DONATE Let Dublin shine example in the world !

keep M50 open, go to m50.ie and DONATE !

I’ve donated (picture of a man standing from the crowd)

Donated by now xxxxx €. Needed yyyyyy €

Without a toll bridge we are saving Your time. Donate!

Hope this idea went to someone who thinks. If it is not you then forward it to someone who can.

Regards

Feel free to use the text above, modify and send it to your local toll bridge administration.

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Update: a month after writing this article I was going thru that toll bridge and as I was preparing to give coins they opened the gate and said that motorbikes go free (I was on a motorbike), what a shock, what is going on? Did I manifest it somehow or what? Surely it wasn’t my email. I don’t know if it is permanent or temporary but such a nice coincident gave me a lot of weird happiness for a whole day.