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Tapping Therapy" By: Joe Green, CPFT, CES, CNC I came across this last year. It came on TV and it intrigued me so of course I researched it. I even tried it for myself, with significant success. It almost escapes my mind when I think of how something like this could possibly work. But fortunately I separated myself from skepticism just enough to give it a chance and now I'm sharing this information with you. Learn how to tap! No, it's not going to involve dancing so you're safe. Instead this new therapeutic paradigm is growing and it has everyone who finds out about it, talking up a storm! Tapping is also known as EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). It’s a powerful tool based on the principles of ancient acupressure and modern psychology, where you tap with your fingertips on specific meridian points of your body (such as your hands, forehead and temples) while focusing on negative emotions or physical sensations. When you combine this technique with speaking affirmations and positive spoken words. Tapping can calm the nervous system, restore the balance of energy in your body and improve your life on so many levels. Nick Ortner, a noted tapping expert and author of the New York Times Bestseller, "The Tapping Solution" talks about how to use the incredible power of the Tapping technique.
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The Series of Empowered Women: Freya Stark This chronicle begins with the legend of Freya Stark: In charting Stark's public life, Jane Fletcher Geniesse's ''Passionate Nomad'' supplies a fascinating individual thread in the tapestry of 20th-century Middle Eastern history. Stark’s legacy covers a lifetime of 100 years, from 1893 to 1993, as traveler, explorer, Arabist, and woman of letters – She was born in Paris, France, where her parents were studying art. The unstable, bohemian childhood that Stark endured reflected a reclusive father, Robert, an English painter from Devon; and a handsome, formidable mother, Flora, an Italian of Polish and German descent. At the time her parents separated, her mother settled in Asolo, an Italian hill town near Venice, so Freya spent much of her childhood in northern Italy. Her maternal grand- mother lived in Genoa. When she was 13, she had an accident in a factory in Italy. Her hair got caught in a machine and she spent four months in the hospital getting skin grafts. The accident left her face slightly disfigured. Perhaps her turbulent childhood forged the personality of the woman she became, an elusive mixture of energy and intimacy, a woman whose ambition and selfenhancement were generated from a profound emotional insecurity. Through intelligence and a formidable will, she transformed herself from a shy young woman anchored in domestic duties to a figure of eminence rich in imagination and vision. Her unorthodox journeys were often an embarrassment to the British authorities stationed throughout the Middle East and resulted in her becoming both the scandal and the darling of diplomatic communities. Even her failures added to her luster. Besides Italian, she learned Arabic and Persian, and studied history at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. She began her adventures with a British Red Cross ambulance unit during World War I, while her mother and sister remained in Italy. In November, 1927, she visited Asolo for the first time in years. Later that month she boarded a ship for Beirut, where her travels in the East began. For the next 12 years, the lands she had only read about in books—Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Persia, Arabia—became the arena for journeys recorded in highly original travelogues.
These included remapping a remote region of Persia’s Elburz mountains, on a perilous journey recorded in the 1934 ''Valley of the Assassins''; her journey as the first European into Luristan; her spectacular but thwarted bid to reach the ruins of Shabwa, the lodestar of south Arabian explorers, and her rediscovery of the ancient Arabian port of Cana. She stayed first in Lebanon, then in Baghdad, Iraq, which was then a British protectorate. By 1931 she had completed three dangerous treks into the wilderness of western Iran, parts of which no Westerner had ever visited, and had located the long -fabled Valleys of the Assassins. In 1935 she travelled to the Hadhramaut, hinterland of southern Arabia, where a handful of Western explorers had previously ventured, though none as far or widely as she. Her life was something of a work of art. A complex woman, she became a combination of nomad and social lioness, public servant, private essayist, and emotional victim. The many sides of her multifaceted character—vulnerable, imaginative, manipulative, charming, sensuous and domineering—grow larger with each page of Stark’s success. She left behind one of the finest autobiographies in the language, together with several classics of travel writing and eight volumes of remarkable letters, which she regarded as her lasting monument: the record of a long era lived in the flood of its crises. According to her biography, Passionate Nomad, written by Jane Fletcher Geniesse, it was rare to leave her company without feeling that the world was somehow larger, warmer, and more accessible. By the time she was elderly, whatever disappointments she had suffered had long been folded away into a persona of alluring grandeur, charm and erudition. The small, fragile woman became celebrated as an intrepid explorer. She had a gift and a need for friend- ship and levitated into powerful London social circles. In fact, her achievements as an explorer, however brave, were not spectacular. She was not the first European to reach Alamut, the chief fortress of the Assassins; she only mapped it more fully. Her search to reach Shabwa was forestalled by illness, and she was airlifted out of the region by the British in 1935. On her second sortie into Luristan, she was turned back ignominiously by the Persian police. Yet the books in which she recorded these journeys were seductively fascinating and unique. Her lectures for educated audiences enhanced her public success, and her personality was a journalist's dream. Gradually Geniesse's empathy with Stark's troubled childhood and adolescence turns to criticism due to Stark's professional ruthlessness and, above all, her part in the destruction
of her marriage. The loss of some humility was the price paid for the growth of selfconfidence and self-seeking. Like other strong people, Stark was more sympathetic, one feels, when weak. ''Her earlier insecurities and shyness,'' Geniesse writes, ''were being fast buried under a solid sense of her own importance—an exhilarating feeling that even she recognized might be a little dangerous.'' Stark joined the newly formed Ministry of Information with the outbreak of World War II, and she was soon engaged in Arabic news broadcasts from Aden, countering Axis propaganda over the Horn of Africa. She entered Yemen with no more equipment than a projector and a few cans of film, to conduct a one-woman propaganda campaign in its ministerial harems. Her effect in preserving Yemen's neutrality is undeniable. The wives and husbands, and finally the Imam himself, were fascinated by these film shows, and became enthralled. As Axis forces were moving eastward across North Africa soon afterward, Stark founded the Ikwan al-Hurriyah, the Brotherhood of Freedom. It consisted of a network, eventually numbering 40,000, of British sympathizers that helped sustain Egyptian and Arab loyalty behind the Allied lines. By the end of 1943 Stark was touring the United States in a bid to enlist sympathy for a British white paper that advocated limits on Jewish immigration into Palestine. Occupying the borderland between literature, politics and exploration, Stark’s importance is difficult to determine. The complex events which occurred during her career are portrayed with concision and clarity by Geniesse. They are counter-pointed by a life burdened with self-delusion, during which Stark entertained a sad procession of unrequited affections and imaginary loves. Geniesse, too, locates Stark's distress in her physical plainness and in her mother's withheld love, both of which add to her emotional vulnerability. ''Freya,'' Geniesse writes, ''would cheerfully have had her body completely reconstructed if she could have done so, because, being acutely appreciative of beauty in others, felt its absence keenly in herself.” Her defense was flight into the imagination, in which she became the star of her own adventures. It was kind of a dream safety that had sustained her as a girl in books, romantic poetry and tales of heroic deeds. In her postwar life, she returned to Asolo. In spite of the fact that her mother and her only sister were dead, as well as her father who had emigrated to Canada, her last 40 years started out full of literary endeavor during which she continued to write letters, and a quartet of travel books about Turkey. Regardless of her unresolved contradictions, her search for esteem and emotional naiveté, she is still regarded as an important literary figure, and her distinction as a latterday woman of letters survives.
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