Hello everyone
If you would like to print or read this newsletter offline, please click here. To read the newsletter in it’s entirety on one online webpage, click here.
This month we have four new articles on the Self Healing Portal:
The difference between visualisation and imagery
This article details the difference between visualisation and imagery and discusses why it’s important not to assume that you can’t utilise imagery with your healing just because you believe you can’t visualise. Imagery is such a powerful resource with our healing so it is good if we can all feel comfortable using it.
Cartoon EFT
I’ve recently been experimenting with a way of EFT that seems to work very well for all sorts of issues. This article introduces the idea of “Cartoon EFT” and gives several suggestions for when you can use it and gives tips on how to use it.
Domain Focusing
This article explores what Domain Focusing is all about and discusses some of the benefits of using this style of Focusing.
Book Review: Embracing Your Inner Critic
This short review of Hal and Sidra Stones’ book details how useful it can be for anyone doing any sort of healing, and links to one chapter of the book that you can read on the net free of charge.
Best wishes everyone,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
Wednesday, 1 July 2009
Monday, 1 June 2009
Newsletter June 2009
Hello everyone
If you would like to print or read this newsletter offline, please click here. Alternately if you’d like to read through all the articles on one page online, you can click here.
This month we have four new articles on the Self Healing Portal:
A Healing Team
This article takes a look at the benefits of involving others in our healing. It is based on my own experience of discovering that I have built a healing team around me, and offers insight into how powerful this can be.
Trusting Ourselves
This article by guest writer Noreen Barron looks at some of the factors that might be contributing to our difficulty involving others in our healing. Many thanks to Noreen for sharing this excellent article with us – trusting ourselves is the foundation of our ability to trust others and something that most of us can benefit from spending time on.
The Truth Is…
This is a phrase that I recently learnt and have used extensively to great benefit in my EFT tapping. This article is also a good example of the power of doing healing with our inner child/younger selves.
Healing Your Relationship with Time
I recently had the opportunity to listen to a fabulous free teleclass by Betty Moore-Hafter and it had so much impact on me I wanted to share this resource with others. Betty will be running this free class again this month so check out the article and consider signing up for her class if you have any challenges with time. Don’t make the mistake I originally did and think you don’t have enough time to attend the class!!!
Very best wishes everyone,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
If you would like to print or read this newsletter offline, please click here. Alternately if you’d like to read through all the articles on one page online, you can click here.
This month we have four new articles on the Self Healing Portal:
A Healing Team
This article takes a look at the benefits of involving others in our healing. It is based on my own experience of discovering that I have built a healing team around me, and offers insight into how powerful this can be.
Trusting Ourselves
This article by guest writer Noreen Barron looks at some of the factors that might be contributing to our difficulty involving others in our healing. Many thanks to Noreen for sharing this excellent article with us – trusting ourselves is the foundation of our ability to trust others and something that most of us can benefit from spending time on.
The Truth Is…
This is a phrase that I recently learnt and have used extensively to great benefit in my EFT tapping. This article is also a good example of the power of doing healing with our inner child/younger selves.
Healing Your Relationship with Time
I recently had the opportunity to listen to a fabulous free teleclass by Betty Moore-Hafter and it had so much impact on me I wanted to share this resource with others. Betty will be running this free class again this month so check out the article and consider signing up for her class if you have any challenges with time. Don’t make the mistake I originally did and think you don’t have enough time to attend the class!!!
Very best wishes everyone,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
Friday, 1 May 2009
Newsletter May 2009
Hello everyone
Note that this month we have changed the layout of this newsletter to make it easier to read. You now have three options for reading it:
1. To read the newsletter offline or print it click here. Note that the print version is for printing or offline reading only and does not have active links in it.
2. To see the whole newsletter on one webpage, where you can scroll down to read through all the articles sequentially, or click on the heading of the article to jump to a specific one click here.
3. As in the past you can simply click on the headings of the newsletter articles in this email to go directly to each article.
This month’s newsletter has a real focus on inner child healing. I know that there are many people who feel uncomfortable with the idea of talking with the voice of an inner child in our head, but as I and many others have found, it’s an incredibly powerful way of healing. Here’s something Jef Shockley recently wrote on the EFT Forums about how effective inner child healing has been for him:
There was a link posted in one of the other forums that lead to inner child work and it has proven to be a gold mine for me. Things that I've carried around my whole life, and never understood why, are coming into focus and resolving faster now than at any other time since I've been using EFT. My poor inner child was a basket case when I first started, but I'm happy to report that he's coming along and healing quite nicely :O)
Jef wrote to me that he has never resolved so many things in such a short time and that it absolutely blows him away. He believes that everyone should start with the child first and watch as behaviours and traits vanish before their eyes.
Here are the articles for the month:
Self help Inner Child healing tips by Chim
Chim is a very dedicated self helper who has been using EFT for a while now. Like many people when she initially heard about the concept of talking to inner children or inner parts, she was a little put off. In this article Chim writes about what happened when she started to use inner child healing, and she gives some great tips on how to get started and some of the really important guidelines to bear in mind. Many thanks to Chim for generously sharing her experience and what she has learnt along the way.
Inner Child Healing with EFT - Taking Care of Your Young Self by Betty Moore-Hafter
In this article long time EFT practitioner Betty Moore-Hafter shares insight into how healing it can be to be in touch with the hurting younger parts inside us. Betty writes about the key things she has found make a big difference to inner child healing. Many thanks to Betty for taking the time to share her thoughts on inner child healing with us.
Holding a healing space
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the methods and different approaches to healing and lose sight of the power of the most simple concepts. This short article gives idea on how we can let go of needing to fix everything and simply discover the power from truly listening to the hurting parts inside us.
Dialoguing with your Inner Child
Some people hear about the concept of talking with their inner child but feel it just won’t be possible for them. This article shows an example of how this sort of healing can unfold and gives some simple tips on how you can access those hurting younger selves inside you that need to be heard.
When we don’t have time for healing (“Not now, I’m too busy!”)
This article discusses a recent experience I had that really taught me the power of taking the time to stop and acknowledge how a hurting part inside is feeling. This experience taught me that thinking that I’m too busy to address issues when they arise is seriously damaging my relationship with the hurting parts inside, and how it only takes a few moments to acknowledge what is hurting inside.
Who inside got triggered?
This article is a write up of a recent session that I did, designed to give some insight into how powerful this sort of approach to our healing can be. I know that some people are quite uncomfortable with the idea of inner child healing, so this article has also been written with the intention of demonstrating how this work is a simple and powerful way to uncover specific events to tap on.
Best wishes everyone,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
Note that this month we have changed the layout of this newsletter to make it easier to read. You now have three options for reading it:
1. To read the newsletter offline or print it click here. Note that the print version is for printing or offline reading only and does not have active links in it.
2. To see the whole newsletter on one webpage, where you can scroll down to read through all the articles sequentially, or click on the heading of the article to jump to a specific one click here.
3. As in the past you can simply click on the headings of the newsletter articles in this email to go directly to each article.
This month’s newsletter has a real focus on inner child healing. I know that there are many people who feel uncomfortable with the idea of talking with the voice of an inner child in our head, but as I and many others have found, it’s an incredibly powerful way of healing. Here’s something Jef Shockley recently wrote on the EFT Forums about how effective inner child healing has been for him:
There was a link posted in one of the other forums that lead to inner child work and it has proven to be a gold mine for me. Things that I've carried around my whole life, and never understood why, are coming into focus and resolving faster now than at any other time since I've been using EFT. My poor inner child was a basket case when I first started, but I'm happy to report that he's coming along and healing quite nicely :O)
Jef wrote to me that he has never resolved so many things in such a short time and that it absolutely blows him away. He believes that everyone should start with the child first and watch as behaviours and traits vanish before their eyes.
Here are the articles for the month:
Self help Inner Child healing tips by Chim
Chim is a very dedicated self helper who has been using EFT for a while now. Like many people when she initially heard about the concept of talking to inner children or inner parts, she was a little put off. In this article Chim writes about what happened when she started to use inner child healing, and she gives some great tips on how to get started and some of the really important guidelines to bear in mind. Many thanks to Chim for generously sharing her experience and what she has learnt along the way.
Inner Child Healing with EFT - Taking Care of Your Young Self by Betty Moore-Hafter
In this article long time EFT practitioner Betty Moore-Hafter shares insight into how healing it can be to be in touch with the hurting younger parts inside us. Betty writes about the key things she has found make a big difference to inner child healing. Many thanks to Betty for taking the time to share her thoughts on inner child healing with us.
Holding a healing space
It’s easy to get overwhelmed with all the methods and different approaches to healing and lose sight of the power of the most simple concepts. This short article gives idea on how we can let go of needing to fix everything and simply discover the power from truly listening to the hurting parts inside us.
Dialoguing with your Inner Child
Some people hear about the concept of talking with their inner child but feel it just won’t be possible for them. This article shows an example of how this sort of healing can unfold and gives some simple tips on how you can access those hurting younger selves inside you that need to be heard.
When we don’t have time for healing (“Not now, I’m too busy!”)
This article discusses a recent experience I had that really taught me the power of taking the time to stop and acknowledge how a hurting part inside is feeling. This experience taught me that thinking that I’m too busy to address issues when they arise is seriously damaging my relationship with the hurting parts inside, and how it only takes a few moments to acknowledge what is hurting inside.
Who inside got triggered?
This article is a write up of a recent session that I did, designed to give some insight into how powerful this sort of approach to our healing can be. I know that some people are quite uncomfortable with the idea of inner child healing, so this article has also been written with the intention of demonstrating how this work is a simple and powerful way to uncover specific events to tap on.
Best wishes everyone,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
Tuesday, 14 April 2009
More free EFT resources
Hello everyone
I have recently come across an excellent free EFT resource which I highly recommend anyone serious about healing take a look at. EFT practitioner Marian Mills has written a fabulous book which is available free of charge from her home page. “Feeling Bad About Yourself… And What You Can Do About It” is absolutely packed with great information, tapping sequences and links to lots more resources to inspire you on your healing journey. If you have any challenges in your life around feeling bad about yourself, battling with an inner critical voice, or you are just plain feeling stuck and not sure what to do about it, I highly recommend downloading, printing and binding this book to use as an ongoing reference. With all the information and ideas for tapping it is a great resource for anyone working on their own – sometimes it’s just too difficult to decide what to work on next and this book is an ideal resource to help you to get started and do some tapping and start feeling better. It also provides a brilliant resource for anyone who is working with a practitioner who wants to tap in between sessions and really get the most benefit out of their EFT time.
For more thoughts about self esteem and how we can use EFT to help improve our self esteem, there is also an interesting 17 minute video on Youtube by Robert Smith that you might like to check out.
Until next time,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
I have recently come across an excellent free EFT resource which I highly recommend anyone serious about healing take a look at. EFT practitioner Marian Mills has written a fabulous book which is available free of charge from her home page. “Feeling Bad About Yourself… And What You Can Do About It” is absolutely packed with great information, tapping sequences and links to lots more resources to inspire you on your healing journey. If you have any challenges in your life around feeling bad about yourself, battling with an inner critical voice, or you are just plain feeling stuck and not sure what to do about it, I highly recommend downloading, printing and binding this book to use as an ongoing reference. With all the information and ideas for tapping it is a great resource for anyone working on their own – sometimes it’s just too difficult to decide what to work on next and this book is an ideal resource to help you to get started and do some tapping and start feeling better. It also provides a brilliant resource for anyone who is working with a practitioner who wants to tap in between sessions and really get the most benefit out of their EFT time.
For more thoughts about self esteem and how we can use EFT to help improve our self esteem, there is also an interesting 17 minute video on Youtube by Robert Smith that you might like to check out.
Until next time,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
Newsletter April 2009
Hello everyone
This month we have four new articles on the Self Healing Portal – an example of the Focusing Method in action, an example of the power of using imagery with our healing, a link to a great new article with lots of tapping statement ideas, and a brief article introducing yet another great free resource available on the internet.
Example Focusing Session
The method of Focusing is difficult to describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it, because it’s very much an experience rather than a process. This article is a write up of a Focusing experience I had to give an insight into how a Focusing session can unfold.
Accessing the Subconscious with EFT and Imagery
This article shows how powerful using imagery to get in touch with the subconscious is. The old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” holds just as true for the healing process as anything else. When we are able to listen to our subconscious through it’s language of imagery, things are really able to open up in our lives.
36 EFT Affirmations - Improve Your Tapping Results with these ‘Best Ever’ EFT Statements!
EFT practitioner Karen Nauman has posted a great new page on her website that I highly recommend you bookmark so you can go back to it time and time again. Karen has brought together 36 great phrases that you can use in the place of the standard setup statement, and she has grouped them into three different categories which can really help when we are feeling stuck on an issue and just not knowing which is the most effective way to proceed. The page is going to be updated regularly with new phrases that Karen discovers and learns, so it will prove to be a fabulous resource for any of use using EFT to heal.
Inner Child Healing and the Five Stages of Grief
This brief article introduces a series of short videos that EFT practitioner Cathryn Taylor has posted on Youtube. These videos bring together Cathryn’s approach with Inner Child Healing, Addictions work, and EFT, together with Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ Five Stages of Grief Model to give us a powerful framework for our healing.
Very best wishes all,
Jo
Self Healing Portal
This month we have four new articles on the Self Healing Portal – an example of the Focusing Method in action, an example of the power of using imagery with our healing, a link to a great new article with lots of tapping statement ideas, and a brief article introducing yet another great free resource available on the internet.
Example Focusing Session
The method of Focusing is difficult to describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it, because it’s very much an experience rather than a process. This article is a write up of a Focusing experience I had to give an insight into how a Focusing session can unfold.
Accessing the Subconscious with EFT and Imagery
This article shows how powerful using imagery to get in touch with the subconscious is. The old saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” holds just as true for the healing process as anything else. When we are able to listen to our subconscious through it’s language of imagery, things are really able to open up in our lives.
36 EFT Affirmations - Improve Your Tapping Results with these ‘Best Ever’ EFT Statements!
EFT practitioner Karen Nauman has posted a great new page on her website that I highly recommend you bookmark so you can go back to it time and time again. Karen has brought together 36 great phrases that you can use in the place of the standard setup statement, and she has grouped them into three different categories which can really help when we are feeling stuck on an issue and just not knowing which is the most effective way to proceed. The page is going to be updated regularly with new phrases that Karen discovers and learns, so it will prove to be a fabulous resource for any of use using EFT to heal.
Inner Child Healing and the Five Stages of Grief
This brief article introduces a series of short videos that EFT practitioner Cathryn Taylor has posted on Youtube. These videos bring together Cathryn’s approach with Inner Child Healing, Addictions work, and EFT, together with Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ Five Stages of Grief Model to give us a powerful framework for our healing.
Very best wishes all,
Jo
Self Healing Portal
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Some resources to check out
Hello everyone
There are just so many wonderful free resources on the web that it’s difficult to keep up with them all. Here are three resources that might be of interest to you:
Focusing into Sleep
Sleep is a really big issue for many people and many are looking for solutions that don’t come in a bottle. Susan Rudnick and Robin Kappy are Focusing Partners and Focusing Oriented psychotherapists so when they teamed up to create resources to help people with sleeping difficulties, they brought with them a lot of experience and different methods. In this article in a past issue of the Focusing Connection (from on their website) they give ideas on how we can use simple focusing approaches to drift into sleep when it seems to be eluding us.
Integrating EFT into your daily routine
Gene Monterastelli has started doing some podcast sessions and the first one is packed with ideas to help you to integrate EFT into your daily routine. The podcast starts with a 6 step method to using EFT more regularly in your life and then Gene interviews Rick Wilkes. Rick is a great practitioner and speaker and in this interview he shares some wonderful ideas on how to go about our healing. For anyone wanting to integrate EFT into their lives, listening to this podcast will be time well spent.
The Science Behind Matrix Reimprinting
In this article, Matrix Reimprinting founder Karl Dawson lays out the science and concepts behind Matrix Reimprinting. For anyone using Matrix Reimprinting or contemplating using it, this article gives a lot of food for thought. (This link comes with thanks to Karen Nauman who so generously shares lots of resources with us all on the EFT Forums. :0) )
Until next time,
Jo
Self Healing Portal
There are just so many wonderful free resources on the web that it’s difficult to keep up with them all. Here are three resources that might be of interest to you:
Focusing into Sleep
Sleep is a really big issue for many people and many are looking for solutions that don’t come in a bottle. Susan Rudnick and Robin Kappy are Focusing Partners and Focusing Oriented psychotherapists so when they teamed up to create resources to help people with sleeping difficulties, they brought with them a lot of experience and different methods. In this article in a past issue of the Focusing Connection (from on their website) they give ideas on how we can use simple focusing approaches to drift into sleep when it seems to be eluding us.
Integrating EFT into your daily routine
Gene Monterastelli has started doing some podcast sessions and the first one is packed with ideas to help you to integrate EFT into your daily routine. The podcast starts with a 6 step method to using EFT more regularly in your life and then Gene interviews Rick Wilkes. Rick is a great practitioner and speaker and in this interview he shares some wonderful ideas on how to go about our healing. For anyone wanting to integrate EFT into their lives, listening to this podcast will be time well spent.
The Science Behind Matrix Reimprinting
In this article, Matrix Reimprinting founder Karl Dawson lays out the science and concepts behind Matrix Reimprinting. For anyone using Matrix Reimprinting or contemplating using it, this article gives a lot of food for thought. (This link comes with thanks to Karen Nauman who so generously shares lots of resources with us all on the EFT Forums. :0) )
Until next time,
Jo
Self Healing Portal
Sunday, 1 March 2009
Newsletter March 2009
Hello everyone
This month we have four new articles on the Self Healing Portal:
Tips on using EFT to heal chronic anxiety (or other stubborn issues)
This article was written as a summary to help the many people coming to the EFT forums looking for answers as to why EFT doesn’t seem to be effective for them. While the article talks specifically to those with chronic anxiety, many of the concepts in the article are just as applicable to any chronic issue that doesn’t seem to be responding to EFT.
When Listening is not Enough
I’ve written a lot about the need to build our listening skills and truly listen to the hurting parts inside of ourselves. Recently I had an experience which taught me that sometimes just listening isn’t enough, because the part of us we are listening to doesn’t feel ready to talk until they’ve heard the words they need to hear for them to know that we really do care. This article shows how powerful some phrases are to unlock the hurting parts inside us.
Our inner committee
It might seem crazy to some readers that we could consider ourselves to be like a committee, but I’ve found this to be a really interesting metaphor with my healing. This article explores this metaphor to help us better understanding this aspect of our healing process.
If you are serious about DIY EFT
Anyone who has been a Self Healing Portal reader for some time, or has read the free e-book “You CAN Heal with EFT”, will know that I am a big advocate of self healing. Just like with any type of DIY, the more we want to do, the more skills and knowledge we need to have, so here I introduce some resources I have recently come across that really help take self healing to a new level.
For any readers who are interested in the Focusing method:
I have discovered a great article on Focusing without a Focusing Partner on the internet. While I love having a Focusing Partnership and very much benefit from it, I am always looking for ways to more effectively focus on my own in between sessions with my Partner. This article by Kay Hoffmann looks at this subject in depth. You can read the article at http://www.focusing.org.uk/solo_focusing.html
Please also note that if there is anyone who has done a training course in Focusing who wants a Focusing Partner but currently doesn’t have one, I know of a woman in the UK looking for a Focusing Partner. If you would like to connect with her, please drop me an email at selfheal4me@gmail.com Thanks.
Very best wishes all,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
This month we have four new articles on the Self Healing Portal:
Tips on using EFT to heal chronic anxiety (or other stubborn issues)
This article was written as a summary to help the many people coming to the EFT forums looking for answers as to why EFT doesn’t seem to be effective for them. While the article talks specifically to those with chronic anxiety, many of the concepts in the article are just as applicable to any chronic issue that doesn’t seem to be responding to EFT.
When Listening is not Enough
I’ve written a lot about the need to build our listening skills and truly listen to the hurting parts inside of ourselves. Recently I had an experience which taught me that sometimes just listening isn’t enough, because the part of us we are listening to doesn’t feel ready to talk until they’ve heard the words they need to hear for them to know that we really do care. This article shows how powerful some phrases are to unlock the hurting parts inside us.
Our inner committee
It might seem crazy to some readers that we could consider ourselves to be like a committee, but I’ve found this to be a really interesting metaphor with my healing. This article explores this metaphor to help us better understanding this aspect of our healing process.
If you are serious about DIY EFT
Anyone who has been a Self Healing Portal reader for some time, or has read the free e-book “You CAN Heal with EFT”, will know that I am a big advocate of self healing. Just like with any type of DIY, the more we want to do, the more skills and knowledge we need to have, so here I introduce some resources I have recently come across that really help take self healing to a new level.
For any readers who are interested in the Focusing method:
I have discovered a great article on Focusing without a Focusing Partner on the internet. While I love having a Focusing Partnership and very much benefit from it, I am always looking for ways to more effectively focus on my own in between sessions with my Partner. This article by Kay Hoffmann looks at this subject in depth. You can read the article at http://www.focusing.org.uk/solo_focusing.html
Please also note that if there is anyone who has done a training course in Focusing who wants a Focusing Partner but currently doesn’t have one, I know of a woman in the UK looking for a Focusing Partner. If you would like to connect with her, please drop me an email at selfheal4me@gmail.com Thanks.
Very best wishes all,
Jo
www.selfheal4me.com
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