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		<title>The problem with attempting to &#8220;prove&#8221; tapping or EFT with science</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, there has been a lot of hoopla in the tapping community about the possibility that EFT/tapping could be officially recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) as being &#8220;evidence-based&#8221; or whatever other terminology they like to throw around &#8230; You know you can count on me to be radically honest. And look, I&#8217;m not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/problem-with-science/istock_000003520859xsmall" rel="attachment wp-att-3467"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/iStock_000003520859XSmall-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="iStock_000003520859XSmall" width="200" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3467" /></a>Recently, there has been a lot of hoopla in the tapping community about the possibility that EFT/tapping could be officially recognized by the American Psychological Association (APA) as being &#8220;evidence-based&#8221; or whatever other terminology they like to throw around &#8230; </p>
<p><strong>You know you can count on me to be radically honest.</strong>  And look, I&#8217;m not going to say there is no benefit to this pursuit of scientific acceptance.  Perhaps the EFT/tapping people will get some scientific approval and thereby be able to reach a new audience of otherwise skeptical folks.  If so, great.  I&#8217;m in favor of any way of reaching new people with these miraculous techniques.</p>
<p>I am not in favor, however, of having a lack of clarity about this.  And let&#8217;s be very clear:  scientific approval of EFT/tapping is meaningless.</p>
<p>For anyone who has paid attention over the course of their lifetime, you may have noticed that science changes its mind about the &#8220;truth&#8221; of the world on a regular basis.  One study says eating butter will kill you, another study says eating butter is good for you.  One study says no alcohol is best, another study says drink red wine.  One study says eat lots of whole grains, another study says avoid grains.  There are new supposed &#8220;superfoods&#8221; every five minutes, and just as often something that was once held out as a panacea gets debunked.  One day you MUST use sunscreen.  Five years later, you&#8217;re told that sunscreen causes cancer.  And so on and on and on.  As far as I can tell, &#8220;science&#8221; can&#8217;t make up its mind about anything.  </p>
<p>It was only so many years that I put up with this constantly changing &#8220;scientific&#8221; advice before I concluded that it&#8217;s all a bunch of unreliable hogwash, and that was well before I created <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/about-hbr" target="_blank">Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR)</a>.  Now I don&#8217;t just think it&#8217;s hogwash.  I KNOW it&#8217;s hogwash, and I have clarity about why none of it is &#8220;true&#8221; and is not a reliable guide for your life.  </p>
<p>Around here, we talk about miracles a lot, and I want to make something abundantly clear:  If you want to make miracles a way of life, you must let go of science.  Yes, you heard me right.  The purpose of science in HBR is as a target of tapping, to let go of ego-based limiting beliefs.  Because that&#8217;s what science is &#8211; a system of ego-based limiting beliefs that block miracles from happening.  </p>
<p>I would also like to share some other problems with the whole search for scientific approval:</p>
<p><strong>1.  For me, telling me to run scientific trials to &#8220;prove&#8221; that tapping works would be a little like telling me to go back to law school (which I would never do).</strong> &#8220;Prove to us that you are an effective lawyer by excelling at law school.&#8221; Well, I may have been smart when I decided to accept that challenge, but I was not wise. I accepted the challenge, but I forgot to question the frame. Did I excel? You bet. I got mostly As and even a handful of A+s and I graduated very nearly at the top of the Harvard Law class. Great, right? You won! No, I lost. I won something that was meaningless, the approval of an external authority that I didn&#8217;t bother to question. And I lost my soul. It didn&#8217;t take long to realize that I had learned and deeply ingrained in my brain a belief system that was deleterious to my spiritual and physical health (as I then began manifesting one physical problem after another). I used tapping to remove my legal belief system, and I continue to use tapping to remove &#8220;scientific&#8221; beliefs (as they are all limiting beliefs). I will not bow down to any external authority. I learned, and I learned well, from my experience in the legal world. <strong>Just because somebody else tells you &#8220;this is the standard to meet&#8221; doesn&#8217;t make it true and doesn&#8217;t make it a good idea.</strong></p>
<p>And oh the aching irony that I opted to go to law school because I had so little faith in myself, I didn&#8217;t believe I could make a good living doing what I love.  Well, that has changed.  I have faith in myself now to receive a miracle to solve any seeming &#8220;problem.&#8221;  </p>
<p>So, it&#8217;ll be a cold day in hell before I will go seeking for the APA&#8217;s or any other &#8220;scientific&#8221; body&#8217;s approval.  This may offend some people, but read on &#8211; because I think seeking for APA approval limits the ability of tapping practitioners to get miracles for themselves and their clients.  Seeking for that approval is a symptom of the fact that most tapping practitioners don&#8217;t realize the answers are not &#8220;out there.&#8221;  All the answers are within.  </p>
<p><strong>2.  Here&#8217;s another reason that I am not interested in running scientific &#8220;trials&#8221; on tapping &#8230; &#8220;Double blind&#8221; is an illusion of the ego.</strong> Minds are joined, that is why miracles are possible. &#8220;Double blind&#8221; is an illusion of separation, and illusions of separation are not compatible with miracles. Same problem btw with jury trials. We &#8220;pretend&#8221; the jury goes into a &#8220;separate&#8221; room to deliberate, but their minds are not separate from ours and therefore there is nothing &#8220;objective&#8221; about the outcome of a trial. Because jury trials are all about judgment (a symbol of separation), and &#8220;double blind&#8221; is all about pretending to be an objective observer (another symbol of separation) instead of acknowledging the Oneness of all creation, it is not possible to take ego out of the equation, which makes it incompatible with the miracle mindset. It&#8217;s what a Course in Miracles would call a confusion of levels. Miracles happen at a level where science and jury trials cannot exist.</p>
<p><strong>3.  To the extent God gives miracles within those ego-based systems of science and law, from my perspective He does so in order to have us relinquish those systems, not promote them.</strong> Those systems must be relinquished if we wish to have more miracles, because both our system of &#8220;justice&#8221; and our system of &#8220;science&#8221; are blocks to miracles. <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/clearing-scientific-mindset" target="_blank">http://tapsmarter.com/clearing-scientific-mindset</a></p>
<p><strong>4.  All of these systems are based on the ego&#8217;s belief that the answers are outside of us.</strong>  That we can &#8220;observe evidence&#8221; and reach conclusions from it, forgetting that it is our minds that are creating the so-called evidence from our beliefs (which is why &#8220;evidence&#8221; is so changeable and why science can&#8217;t make up its mind about anything).  Miracles come from the deep understanding that the world we see is nothing but a projection of our beliefs.  <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/the-universe-as-hologram" target="_blank" class="broken_link">It is a hologram</a> that morphs and changes in appearance as our belief systems change.  For this reason, we do not need to look to any &#8220;external authority&#8221; for approval.  Our job is to find the source of infinite power and knowledge within ourselves, which lies in <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/intuition" target="_blank">our direct, unmediated connection to God (which can be accessed by anyone who commits to removing ego-based beliefs and honing their intuition)</a>.  </p>
<p><strong>5.  Waiting for scientific &#8220;approval&#8221; gives our power away.</strong>  Don&#8217;t accept the frame that you need that approval, because you don&#8217;t.  Rather, <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/power" target="_blank">we have the power</a> to throw off scientific limitations on what is &#8220;possible,&#8221; and heal every person and situation on this entire planet.  But not while we are buying in to systems like law and science that are built on the illusion of separation.  </p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT REMINDERS:</strong></p>
<p>** The investment for my currently very affordably priced mini-products for <strong>Balancing and Healing Masculine and Feminine Energies</strong> and <strong>Ending Co-dependency</strong> is going up on Monday so be sure to get them before Sunday here:  <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/mini-products" target="_blank">http://tapsmarter.com/mini-products</a>.</p>
<p>** I&#8217;m giving a few extra days to get the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/million" target="_blank">Tap for $1 Million 30-Day Challenge</a> at the introductory price.  This one is going up on Saturday, May 26, so be sure to <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/million" target="_blank">get it now here</a>.  This product definitely appears to be working by the way, I&#8217;m on track for my first ever $100K+ month in this business, and my customers are giving the product rave reviews <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/million" target="_blank">http://tapsmarter.com/million</a></p>
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		<title>Erika&#8217;s new requirement for suitors</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritualseduction.com/daily-hbr-or-no-romance</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 19:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As of today, I have made a commitment to a new requirement for any man in my life. He must be using my Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR) system daily. No, this is not so that I can make more money, you cynical ridiculous asshole. I&#8217;m making plenty of money (see latest report on my journey [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/daily-hbr-or-no-romance/istock_000010164590xsmall" rel="attachment wp-att-3463"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/iStock_000010164590XSmall-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="iStock_000010164590XSmall" width="200" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3463" /></a>As of today, I have made a commitment to a new requirement for any man in my life.</p>
<p>He must be using <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/about-hbr" target="_blank">my Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR) system</a> daily.</p>
<p>No, this is not so that I can make more money, you cynical ridiculous asshole.  I&#8217;m making plenty of money (<a href="http://tapsmarter.com/onlinebizsuccess" target="_blank">see latest report on my journey here</a>).  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s because those of you who are not using HBR on a daily basis bring way too much BULLSHIT to relationships.  You are full of fear and limiting beliefs, and you waste my time with bullshit and excuses.  After recording these past few 30-Day Challenges, my bullshit tolerance is so low that I&#8217;m just not willing to put up with this anymore.  Especially when the answer is so simple &#8211; start using HBR daily &#8211; NOW.</p>
<p>Whatever your excuses are, they are bullshit.  With HBR, you are going to make more money and have a lot more fun.  Without HBR, no matter how successful you already are, you are only living a tiny fraction of your true potential.</p>
<p>So &#8230; there it is.  Daily HBR practice or GTFO.  As one of my customers so eloquently said the other day, &#8220;Get powerful or get going.&#8221;  </p>
<p><a href="http://tapsmarter.com/store" target="_blank">You can start today by CLICKING HERE</a>.  </p>
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		<title>From heavy to hunk &#8230; another Miracle Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2012 17:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know, I talk about miracles all the time here &#8211; because with my clients and customers and I, miracles are happening ALL THE TIME. They happen so often that I only report a few of them here. Sometimes, to really understand how dramatic a miracle is, you need to see it for yourself. So [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/hbr-for-weight-loss/aniltransformed" rel="attachment wp-att-3457"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/AnilTransformed-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="AnilTransformed" width="300" height="300" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3457" /></a>You know, I talk about miracles all the time here &#8211; because with my clients and customers and I, miracles are happening ALL THE TIME.  They happen so often that I only report a few of them here.  </p>
<p>Sometimes, to really understand how dramatic a miracle is, you need to see it for yourself.</p>
<p>So here is the story of my customer and client Anil.  He started off as a <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/memberships" target="_blank">Gold member</a> of my new TAPsmarter website.  </p>
<p>When I released the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/tap-for-50000" target="_blank">Original 30-Day Abundance Challenge product</a>, he emailed me and asked if it could help with his goals of weight loss and becoming a body builder.  I told him that, Yes, it could help him, because the same emotional baggage we were unloading in the program to manifest more financial abundance is often the same emotional baggage that is blocking people from achieving their fitness goals.  </p>
<p>Anil got the <strong>Abundance Challenge</strong>, and mid-transformation, he wrote a testimonial for the product, which <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/tap-for-50000" target="_blank">you can read here on the product page</a>.  </p>
<p>He then signed up for <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/erika-awakening-snow-retreat" target="_blank">my winter Snow Retreat</a>.  We spent several days together in January at my lovely home in Truckee, California, again tapping away emotional baggage (which everyone has, by the way, most people just don&#8217;t realize how deep their baggage goes until they start <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/about-hbr" target="_blank">practicing Holistic Belief Reprogramming</a>).  </p>
<p>After our retreat was over and Anil went home, he reported back to me (very surprised) that despite eating wonderful food while he was here and doing very little working out, he had lost several pounds during his short stay with me.  I was not surprised by this, because we had released a lot of anger and guilt, and anger and guilt are very &#8220;heavy&#8221; so they manifest on the body as excess weight.  </p>
<p>Since January, Anil continued to practice HBR.  He has done several more of my 30-Day Challenges, including <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/power" target="_blank">the 30-Day Personal Power Challenge</a>. </p>
<p>Well, as you can see from the photo above, this investment and commitment paid off.  Anil has gone from heavy to HUNK, and the transformation is so dramatic that you gotta see it to believe it.  He recently participated in a body building competition, almost unbelievable considering where he started (as you can see in the photo).  </p>
<p>You could be getting results like this, too.  And HBR can make it sooooo much easier.  But you do need to make the investment and commitment, like Anil did.  </p>
<p>Imagine how much better you are going to feel when your body looks and feels like his!!</p>
<p><strong>IMPORTANT REMINDERS:</strong> </p>
<p>1.  My amazingly powerful <strong>30-Day Powerful Intuition Challenge</strong> &#8211; price is going up tomorrow &#8211; today is the LAST day to get introductory pricing &#8211; <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/intuition" target="_blank">PURCHASE HERE NOW</a>.  </p>
<p>2.  My life-changing <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/miracles" target="_blank">15-Week Miracle coaching program</a> is going up in price on May 15.  If you commit now and make at least a $10,000 deposit and work out a payment arrangement with me, I will give you <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/store" target="_blank">three of my 30-Day Challenges</a> as a gift.  This is going to jump start the total transformation of your life much faster than you can imagine right now.  But you must get in touch with me quickly because everything needs to be agreed upon before May 15 to take advantage of the current intuition.  <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/miracles" target="_blank">Learn more and contact me here.</a> </p>
<p>Love,<br />
Erika Awakening </p>
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		<title>My cup runneth over &#8230; :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 19:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow, wow, wow &#8230; Do you wonder whether my 30-Day Challenges &#8220;really work&#8221;? Lol. Well, I&#8217;ve published so many testimonials from my clients and customers. This is what the Challenges are doing in my life: 1. My business is THRIVING. While other people are making excuses and bullshit about the &#8220;economy&#8221; and other factors that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://tapsmarter.com/30-days-to-sexual-power"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/VegasCute-300x224.jpg" alt="" title="VegasCute" width="300" height="224" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-3450" /></a>Wow, wow, wow &#8230;</p>
<p>Do you wonder whether <a href="https://erikaawakening.com/tapsmarter/forum/showthread.php?tid=46" target="_blank">my 30-Day Challenges</a> &#8220;really work&#8221;?  Lol.  Well, I&#8217;ve published so many testimonials from my clients and customers.  </p>
<p><strong>This is what the Challenges are doing in my life:</strong></p>
<p><strong>1.  My business is THRIVING.</strong>  While other people are making excuses and bullshit about the &#8220;economy&#8221; and other factors that they think are &#8220;beyond their control,&#8221; I took full responsibility for my life and radically changed my business vibe with products like the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/tap-for-50000" target="_blank">Original 30-Day Abundance Challenge (Tap for $50,000)</a>, <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/magnify-business-magnetism" target="_blank">Magnify Your Business Magnetism</a>, the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/power" target="_blank">Personal Power Challenge</a>, and <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/million" target="_blank">Tap for $1 Million</a>.  As a result, I have already received nearly $200,000 this year, <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/pajama-party" target="_blank">mostly in my pajamas</a>, and without making a single sales call.  <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />   </p>
<p><strong>2.  On Monday, I am starting a year-long advanced mentoring program with my amazing client, Elaine Enlightening</strong> (you can read <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/become-hbr-coach" target="_blank">more about advanced mentoring HERE</a>, and you can <a href="http://tapdance2freedom.com" target="_blank">see Elaine&#8217;s blog HERE</a>).  In July, we will have a rejuvenating retreat on the California coast, and the speed with which she is learning Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR) is absolutely inspiring to me.  Elaine is my ideal client, and I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a coincidence that she was attracted to my website soon after I recorded <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/magnify-business-magnetism" target="_blank">Magnify Your Business Magnetism (which includes many videos for attracting your ideal clients)</a>.  </p>
<p><strong>3.  My beautiful lover is coming to visit and play with me</strong> in San Francisco and Tahoe for 23 days this summer.  How did this happen?  In January, I finished up recording the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/30-days-to-sexual-power" target="_blank">Sexual Abundance Challenge</a> and <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/power" target="_blank">the Personal Power Challenge</a>.  A few days later in Vegas, I met Bron, a really amazing man, and <a href="http://spiritualseduction.com/vegas-seduction" target="_blank">I wrote about our connection here</a>.  After Vegas, I did more heart opening with the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/soulmate" target="_blank">30-Day Soulmate Challenge</a> and a &#8220;secret&#8221; project that I have not yet revealed.  Today, Bron confirmed that he got his ticket to visit me for 23 days this summer.  I am so looking forward to our visit <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://tapsmarter.com/erika-awakening-snow-retreat"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/LakeTahoe-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="LakeTahoe" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3451" /></a></p>
<p>If you have not started tapping my videos yet, what exactly are you waiting for?  <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><strong>All this could be yours &#8230; </strong></p>
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<p>And don&#8217;t miss the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/intuition" target="_blank">30-Day Powerful Intuition Challenge</a>, which I just released (introductory price until Sunday, after that it&#8217;s going up) &#8230; I give intuition credit for all of it &#8230; <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/intuition" target="_blank">LEARN MORE HERE</a> <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Five types of thinking &#8230; and why HBR is a quantum leap beyond everything else on the market</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please note: This article may be perceived as provocative and may offend some people. Please do not read this article unless you are willing to take full responsibility for your emotional reactions to it. To the extent that negative feelings are triggered in you, you can use this article for healing Recent events have got [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/quantum-leap/istock_000019895755xsmall" rel="attachment wp-att-3443"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/iStock_000019895755XSmall-300x199.jpg" alt="" title="iStock_000019895755XSmall" width="300" height="199" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3443" /></a><strong>Please note:</strong>  This article may be perceived as provocative and may offend some people.  Please do not read this article unless you are willing to take full responsibility for your emotional reactions to it.  To the extent that negative feelings are triggered in you, you can use this article for healing</p>
<p>Recent events have got me thinking about how to explain to the world why my coaching method, Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR), is unlike any other transformational technology currently available on the planet, and why it is a quantum leap beyond anything else on the market.  Today while I was skiing, the idea for this article came to me through my intuition.  Like any explanation of the world, the model presented in this article is overly simplistic and is intended only as a rough guide to furthering understanding of the differences among various &#8220;self-empowerment&#8221; models.</p>
<p>Here are the five types of thinking that I identified today.  Of the five, most coaches will fall into one of categories two through four.  </p>
<p><strong>1.  Complainers, skeptics, and haters.</strong>  This category still makes up a very large portion of the population.  There are very few coaches in this category because these folks are at a very low level of consciousness (i.e., deep in ego consciousness).  These are the people who post on Facebook about being victims of others, about how the &#8220;economy&#8221; has destroyed their finances, and who don&#8217;t see any way out.  They do not take responsibility for the outcomes in their life, and when told that there is in fact a way out of their problems, they will often attack the person presenting the solution.  They love to accuse other people of being greedy, selfish, manipulative, and a variety of other judgments, and they love making excuses for why they are not willing to try anything new.  The irony of this group is that they do nothing but take value in the world, draining other people&#8217;s energy, while they point the finger and claim they are victims.  When I had less experience as a coach, I used to try to &#8220;show the light&#8221; to these folks.  At this point, my time is so valuable that the effort expended versus value given back is so unbalanced that I simply ignore them.  These are the people I remove from my Facebook page.  From my perspective, God (who unlike me has no time/space restrictions) is much better equipped to wake these folks up, and He does a very good job of it, usually through &#8220;wake up calls&#8221; such as near-death experiences and other &#8220;rock bottom&#8221; episodes. </p>
<p><strong>2.  The &#8220;fake positive thinking&#8221; approach.</strong>  In some ways, these folks are the polar opposite of group #1.  Made popular by the misguided &#8220;Law of Attraction&#8221; and &#8220;The Secret&#8221; movement, this crowd thinks they can positive think their way into a better life.  Rather than complain all the time, they are posting pithy inspirational quotations about love from the Dalai Lama and Mother Theresa and various unquestioned but lovely sounding cliches on Facebook and doing their best to &#8220;avoid&#8221; negativity.  Problem is, they very frequently are not dealing with the Shadow aspects of their life.  They usually don&#8217;t want to have any straight talk about God, sex, money, and other huge areas of un-healing on this planet.  They are often broke (unconsciously believing despite the pithy quotations that money is &#8220;un-spiritual&#8221;) and with many other problems, and when challenged directly, will often show their true colors &#8211; huge amounts of anger and blame and victimhood &#8211; because that&#8217;s what is hiding out under the fake positive thinking.  I would include in this category the &#8220;inspirational&#8221; type of coaching where people go to a weekend seminar and get really pumped up about how great their life is going to be, and then two days after they get home, they are back to all their old crappy habits.  No real transformation occurred.  </p>
<p><strong>3.  The &#8220;scientific&#8221; and &#8220;how to&#8221; way of thinking.</strong>  These are the people who still think that the world is physical, and that therefore the secret to a happy life is to figure out the &#8220;rules of the game&#8221; and apply them.  This way of thinking is pervasive throughout the &#8220;self-improvement&#8221; world and unawakened students flock to this community.  The students think the &#8220;how to&#8221; guru can give them rules to solve their problems.  What these students do not understand is that the &#8220;how to&#8221; guru is merely teaching a system of limiting beliefs.  And while the &#8220;how to&#8221; guru him- or herself may be having some success applying those &#8220;rules&#8221; (just as I had success applying the &#8220;rules&#8221; of the legal world while I was still a lawyer), there are two huge problems:  </p>
<p><strong>(a) The &#8220;rules&#8221; are too limiting.</strong>  Here you have the dating coaches who tell men and women &#8220;what to say&#8221; and &#8220;what to do.&#8221;  Here you also have the &#8220;wealth mentors&#8221; who tell people how to invest in stocks, how to make sales calls, how to get more web traffic, etc. etc. etc.  But a lot of people don&#8217;t want to make sales calls, don&#8217;t want to &#8220;dress for success,&#8221; don&#8217;t want to say cheesy pickup lines that feel totally unnatural, and don&#8217;t understand that the &#8220;how to&#8221; guru&#8217;s system is not the TRUTH.  It is just a system of limiting beliefs and is not necessary to follow all these rules to succeed.  <strong>In fact, I&#8217;ll get to this in a minute, it&#8217;s much easier to have success WITHOUT all these rules.</strong></p>
<p><strong>(b) The &#8220;rules&#8221; conflict with the student&#8217;s existing belief system.</strong>  So if the wealth guru says you HAVE TO make sales calls to be successful, and your own belief system abhors sales calls, guess what?  You have a problem.  Because the wealth guru may be congruent making sales calls, but you won&#8217;t be.  Which is why &#8220;how to&#8221; methods usually produce chaotic or poor results, and even can make your situation much WORSE than it was before.  (When I was following &#8220;how to&#8221; dating methods some years ago, my results got SUBSTANTIALLY WORSE).</p>
<p><strong>4.  Transformational and spiritual methods with no holistic foundation.</strong>  In this category, we include pretty much every non-HBR transformational method on the market today.  I would include EFT, tapping and its variants, Reiki and other forms of energy healing, Landmark and its imitators, meditation, Sedona method, Theta healing, and a wide variety of other modalities.  All of these technologies have their usefulness, and people do get some results.  But most practitioners of these technologies have no &#8220;holistic framework&#8221; in which to tie all the technologies together and create real healing.  Further, because there is no holistic guiding framework, most practitioners of these technologies are applying the technologies only within the limitations of their system of limiting beliefs.  For example, they may be able to help you get a better job, but they won&#8217;t realize that the way of the future is self-employment and non-hierarchical arrangements.  They might be able to help you negotiate a conflict in one relationship, but they will tell you that death and sickness are inevitable aspects of life and the best you can do is &#8220;accept&#8221; this.  Perhaps they can help you release some old trauma from your system, but they can&#8217;t help you make more money because they believe making more money is &#8220;greedy.&#8221;  I could give many more examples, but hopefully you get the idea.    </p>
<p>In all of the above ways of thinking, moreover, there tends to be a belief in &#8220;specialization.&#8221;  So people think they need to have a money coach, a dating coach, a life coach, a career coach, an image consultant, etc. etc. etc.  Problems are treated in a fragmented way instead of seeing that all problems are exactly the SAME PROBLEM and can be solved together and using the exact same method.  This leads to the astonishingly bizarre phenomenon that a man, for example, can be an expert with connecting with women and be flat broke (not seeing that the success he is having with women is exactly the same belief system patterning he could use to turn his entire financial situation around, FAST).  </p>
<p>All right, now that I&#8217;ve outlined these four ways of thinking, I want to help my audience understand why <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/about-hbr" target="_blank">Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR)</a> is totally different from &#8211; and a quantum leap beyond &#8211; any of the thought systems that I have described above.  But right now I feel done with writing for the moment, so that&#8217;s going to wait for Part 2 of this article &#8230; Stay Tuned <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>&#8230;..</p>
<p>Btw, in case you missed it, we have a brand new forum &#8230; one of my customers, Ann, is sharing her journey through the the <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/tap-for-50000" target="_blank">30-Day Abundance Challenge (learn more about the product here</a>) &#8230; <a href="https://erikaawakening.com/tapsmarter/forum/showthread.php?tid=43&#038;page=2" target="_blank">CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT ANN&#8217;S JOURNEY ON THE FORUM</a>.</p>
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		<title>Dianne&#8217;s HBR Miracle of Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want you to meet Dianne. This is a photograph she took of her most recent money miracle from Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR). You can read the rest of her story on our new (free) forum here: YES, TAKE ME TO THE FORUM]]></description>
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<p>I want you to meet Dianne.  This is a photograph she took of her most recent money miracle from <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/about-hbr " target="_blank">Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR)</a>.  </p>
<p>You can read the rest of her story on our new (free) forum here:<br />
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:18:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone else been feeling annoyed lately by some of the changes on Facebook, and bored with what&#8217;s being posted there? Those of us who participate in my members-only HBR coaching group are a bit &#8230; shall we say &#8230; SPOILED. Lol :-p We are accustomed to a very high quality of discussion, and a parade [...]]]></description>
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Anyone else been feeling annoyed lately by some of the changes on Facebook, and bored with what&#8217;s being posted there?</p>
<p>Those of us who participate in my members-only HBR coaching group are a bit &#8230; shall we say &#8230; SPOILED.  Lol :-p  We are accustomed to a very high quality of discussion, and a parade of MIRACLES that is absent from other public discussion forums.  </p>
<p>To make it easier for newbies to join our discussions, we have now created a beautiful BRAND NEW FORUM, which has both open public discussion areas, and also &#8220;members-only&#8221; areas for those who are in my coaching groups (including <a href="http://goo.gl/M6Udz" target="_blank">the awesome Pajama Party</a>!!).  </p>
<p>It&#8217;s a good place for you to ask questions about <a href="http://goo.gl/QyG1i" target="_blank">Holistic Belief Reprogramming (HBR)</a> and tapping and other important issues as you are making the decision to commit to our membership (<a href="http://goo.gl/1960Y" target="_blank">details on membership and products are here</a>).</p>
<p>So &#8230; without further ado &#8230; <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/forum" target="_blank">here is the link to our awesome new FORUM &#8211; please join us!!</a>  <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Is love a trap?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Phew &#8230; sometimes when I&#8217;ve spent too many weeks reading a bunch of cliches about love and the world in my Facebook newsfeed and in a lot of the newsletters that land in my in box, I just need to engage in some radical honesty so that I can breathe again &#8230; this is one [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/love-trap/snapping-bear-trap" rel="attachment wp-att-3423"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/iStock_000014148194XSmall-300x225.jpg" alt="" title="Snapping bear trap" width="300" height="225" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3423" /></a>Phew &#8230; sometimes when I&#8217;ve spent too many weeks reading a bunch of cliches about love and the world in my Facebook newsfeed and in a lot of the newsletters that land in my in box, I just need to engage in some radical honesty so that I can breathe again &#8230; this is one of those days.  Aren&#8217;t you tired of all the bullshit that is written out there about sex and relationships?  I am.  If you are as exhausted by it (or numbed by it) as I am, this article is for you.</p>
<p>Yesterday, in my newsfeed, there was a really graphic and disturbing image posted by an animal rights activist &#8211; a fox caught in a snare, with leg trapped and bleeding.  A terrified look on its beautiful face.  I&#8217;ve been growing weary of the hysteria and blaming that I&#8217;ve been seeing on that page, so I removed the item from my newsfeed, yet mysteriously it appeared several more times.  You would think I would have learned by now that trying to &#8220;get away&#8221; from disturbing feelings doesn&#8217;t really solve anything, lol &#8230; I received several angel cards yesterday shortly before falling asleep advising me to pay attention to my dreams.  </p>
<p><strong>I always pay attention to my dreams, because they give me clues as to what is going on in my subconscious mind that needs to be healed for me to receive my next big miracle <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </strong></p>
<p>So I went to sleep after deleting the image, and very early this morning I awoke to the same image of the fox in the snare, except this time it was in my mind, not on Facebook.  It was very disturbing for a moment until I realized &#8230;</p>
<p>I am the fox.  We are the fox.  And the snare &#8230; that&#8217;s the &#8220;special relationship,&#8221; a &#8220;love&#8221; relationship that is totally tortured and constricted by limiting beliefs.</p>
<p><strong>The fox is a symbol.</strong></p>
<p>Something I have realized before, when I saw images in this same woman&#8217;s feed, of cattle tagged and caged waiting for slaughter.  When I saw the cows, I immediately saw our society.  A society of people being treated as commodities, imprisoned in jobs they hate and relationships that don&#8217;t satisfy, waiting for death to &#8220;release&#8221; them.  (A reality that you probably are still &#8220;forced&#8221; to live in, unless you have reclaimed creative control of your life and have become an abundant entrepreneur, which I have, thank God.)</p>
<p>Well, I&#8217;ve been recording a lot of relationship tapping videos lately.  These are not &#8220;old hat&#8221; videos, they are opening new frontiers where, as far as I know, nobody has gone before.  My guiding light, as always, is A Course in Miracles, which has this to say about the &#8220;special&#8221; relationship:<br />
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The special relationship has the most imposing and deceptive frame of all the defenses the ego uses. Its thought system is offered here, surrounded by a frame so heavy and so elaborate that the picture is almost obliterated by its imposing structure. Into the frame are woven all sorts of fanciful and fragmented illusions of love, set with dreams of sacrifice and self-aggrandizement, and interlaced with gilded threads of self-destruction. The glitter of blood shines like rubies, and the tears are faceted like diamonds and gleam in the dim light in which the offering is made.</p>
<p>Look at the picture. Do not let the frame distract you. This gift is given you for your damnation, and if you take it you will believe that you are damned. You cannot have the frame without the picture. What you value is the frame, for there you see no conflict. Yet the frame is only the wrapping for the gift of conflict. The frame is not the gift. Be not deceived by the most superficial aspects of this thought system, for these aspects enclose the whole, complete in every aspect. Death lies in this glittering gift. <strong>Let not your gaze dwell on the hypnotic gleaming of the frame. Look at the picture, and realize that death is offered you.</strong></em></p>
<p>- A Course in Miracles</p>
<p>How many people seek the special relationship endlessly and never find happiness?  An entire dating and relationship industry is built around this obsession.  One gigantic hamster wheel.</p>
<p>Most people seeking the special relationship are trying to escape from the &#8220;hell&#8221; of the rest of their life.  A job they hate.  A low sense of self-esteem.  A feeling of powerlessness.  And they think somehow this Prince or Princess Charming is going to solve that internal problem, which of course it does not.  The Course speaks very explicitly of this:</p>
<p><em>The special love relationship is an attempt to limit the destructive effects of hate by finding a haven in the storm of guilt. It makes no attempt to rise above the storm, into the sunlight. On the contrary, it emphasizes the guilt outside the haven by attempting to build barricades against it, and keep within them. The special love relationship is not perceived as a value in itself, but as a place of safety from which hatred is split off and kept apart. The special love partner is acceptable only as long as he serves this purpose. Hatred can enter, and indeed is welcome in some aspects of the relationship, but it is still held together by the illusion of love. If the illusion goes, the relationship is broken or becomes unsatisfying on the grounds of disillusionment.</p>
<p>Love is not an illusion. It is a fact. Where disillusionment is possible, there was not love but hate. For hate is an illusion, and what can change was never love. <strong>It is sure that those who select certain ones as partners in any aspect of living, and use them for any purpose which they would not share with others, are trying to live with guilt rather than die of it.</strong> This is the choice they see. And love, to them, is only an escape from death. They seek it desperately, but not in the peace in which it would gladly come quietly to them. And when they find the fear of death is still upon them, the love relationship loses the illusion that it is what it is not. When the barricades against it are broken, fear rushes in and hatred triumphs.</em></p>
<p>- A Course in Miracles</p>
<p>As I have written about many times here, that last paragraph is totally irreconcilable with monogamy.  Monogamy is a trap, and although my writings have been perceived as controversial, I do not back away from this position now.  Only a &#8220;special&#8221; relationship could possibly value exclusivity in any form, and a special relationship will always end in pain.  Sometimes sooner, sometimes later, but always that will be the end result.  </p>
<p>The real meaning of love is freedom, and this is one of my favorite quotations from the Course:</p>
<p><em>Love is freedom. To look for it by placing yourself in bondage is to separate yourself from it. For the Love of God, no longer seek for union in separation, nor for freedom in bondage! As you release, so will you be released. Forget this not, or Love will be unable to find you and comfort you.</em></p>
<p>- A Course in Miracles </p>
<p>So the fox in the snare &#8230; that&#8217;s us.  That&#8217;s us trapped by our limiting beliefs, by the guilt with which we have imbued the special relationship, the bindings of monogamy and obligation &#8230; trapped by our ego&#8217;s fear of freedom.  </p>
<p><strong>What is needed is a totally new paradigm for relationships.</strong>  Glimmers of this paradigm already exist, but quite honestly I am not sure I see a totally pure role model anywhere yet. </p>
<p>Where are the seeds of truth?  I see a lot of glimmers of the holy relationship in the paradigm that is taught by my friend Johnny Soporno.  Non-exclusive relationships with all women seen as true friends.  </p>
<p>My ex and I also were on the right track, though our beliefs were not purified enough at that time.  That also was a model of non-exclusive freedom to love and connect with everyone.   </p>
<p>(Btw, the mores of society as to bearing and raising children are similarly problematic, and to me the whole idea that a child is subject to his or her parents&#8217; rules until the age of 18 is patently absurd.  But that&#8217;s beyond the scope of this article, it&#8217;s an area where I&#8217;ve been recording a lot of videos and doing a lot of deep thinking, because few things in our society are conceived in a way that is more imprisoning than parenthood, and IMO the entire paradigm must change.)</p>
<p>At the same time, we don&#8217;t want an atomistic world of people who never commit to each other, either.  And that&#8217;s the rub in current society&#8217;s limiting beliefs.  People generally believe that you can have freedom OR commitment, but you can&#8217;t have both.  One of the brilliant things about my coaching system, Holistic Belief Reprogramming, is that it allows us to reconcile such false dilemmas.  With HBR, you can always have BOTH, and you never have to sacrifice anything.</p>
<p>This article is just a beginning of my rethinking of the entire area of love and relationships.  It is very clear I will never have a &#8220;special&#8221; relationship again.</p>
<p>As the Course says,</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Find hope and comfort, rather than despair, in this: You could not long find even the illusion of love in any special relationship here. For you are no longer wholly insane, and you would soon recognize the guilt of self-betrayal for what it is.&#8221;</em></p>
<p>Right now, my videos are focused on releasing myself and my audience from the traps and snares of the false &#8220;love&#8221; of the ego.  I stand in the faith that the holy relationship that will inevitably result from this process will bring only joy and no more fear or imprisonment.  The relationship will be fully shared, and that of course, means non-exclusive sexuality.  Sex also conceived without its egoic trappings, not as physical pleasure (which is of the ego) but as Divine Union with God.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s all for now <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Just wanted to share something fun &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 03:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all you cat lovers out there &#8230; I am just finishing up the 30-Day Fun &#038; Happiness Challenge and wanted to share something fun &#8230; Am also starting to record the upcoming 30-Day Internet Marketing Challenge (we have mobilized in my Facebook coaching group and have a wonderful crew for our official Pajama Party [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>For all you cat lovers out there &#8230;</p>
<p>I am just finishing up the 30-Day Fun &#038; Happiness Challenge and wanted to share something fun &#8230;</p>
<p>Am also starting to record the upcoming 30-Day Internet Marketing Challenge (we have mobilized in my Facebook coaching group and have a wonderful crew for our official Pajama Party &#8211; ready to make at least $1 Million in our pajamas &#8211; <a href="http://tapsmarter.com/pajama-party" target="_blank">read more here</a>).</p>
<p>Well, my cat Fritz has always loved to be the center of attention.  But I never would have predicted when I began doing videos how much he would want to be in the videos.  He really is a natural.</p>
<p>Here is a photo of Fritz and me recording Day 1 of the upcoming 30-Day Internet Marketing Challenge:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/cat-lovers-something-fun/erikafritzim1" rel="attachment wp-att-3419"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ErikaFritzIM1-300x241.jpg" alt="" title="ErikaFritzIM1" width="300" height="241" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3419" /></a> Pretty cute, huh?  Some people might think it&#8217;s &#8220;unprofessional&#8221; to let my pets be in my videos, but hey, those people need to lighten up and see the Oneness in everything.  Haha, I&#8217;ll be sharing more updates about the upcoming video products starring me with my Angel Wings and Fritz very soon.</p>
<p>Stay tuned!!  <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Need to get over your ex?  Try something totally new &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erika Awakening</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you still &#8220;hung up&#8221; on your ex? Tired of reading articles that tell you to do &#8220;no contact&#8221; and &#8220;go fuck 10 other women&#8221; (depending whether you are a woman or a man)? I know I&#8217;m tired of that BS. There&#8217;s actually nothing wrong with still loving your ex. Truly loving actually makes us [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p><a href="http://goo.gl/88HXN"><img src="http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/iStock_000005444731XSmall-240x300.jpg" alt="" title="iStock_000005444731XSmall" width="240" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3410" /></a>Are you still &#8220;hung up&#8221; on your ex?  Tired of reading articles that tell you to do &#8220;no contact&#8221; and &#8220;go fuck 10 other women&#8221; (depending whether you are a woman or a man)?  I know I&#8217;m tired of that BS.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s actually nothing wrong with still loving your ex.  Truly loving actually makes us feel good, and demands nothing from the other person.  The problem is not that you are still thinking about him or her.  There&#8217;s only a problem if it&#8217;s making you miserable.  </p>
<p>And frankly, most of the &#8220;advice&#8221; out there on the internet is only going to make you more miserable.  I should know, because I used to follow that advice.</p>
<p>But I don&#8217;t anymore.  I still love my ex.  We had an amazing relationship, and we still have an amazing connection.  The difference between now and a few years ago, is that now this love feels good.  And demands nothing of him.</p>
<p>And I want to offer to you today that whatever you have been taught on the internet about how to &#8220;get over&#8221; him or her <strong>is not helping you</strong>.  Whereas there is something that WILL help you &#8230; feel GOOD &#8230; which at the end of the day is all that matters.</p>
<p>What is that something?  It is becoming empowered.  Learning to love yourself.  And creating the life of your dreams.  Which, if that life of your dreams involves making money on the internet and having freedom to live every day as you choose, you are in the right place.</p>
<p><strong>You see, something happened for me during the last two years. </strong> I had been following all that BS advice about dating lots of other people, and it was not making me happy.  As a well-respected dating coach for men, I found myself coaching these guys on dates, and it did not feel good at all.  I was thinking, &#8220;damn if I&#8217;m going to be doing all this coaching, at least I want to get paid for it.&#8221;  So I stopped dating entirely.</p>
<p>GASP!!  Of course, every dating coach out there will tell you this is insane.  How can I ever find Mr. Right when I&#8217;m not dating at all?</p>
<p>Well, I have a different take on this.  I&#8217;m putting my faith in a different road.  I follow the maxim of A Course in Miracles that says this:</p>
<p><strong><em>&#8220;Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false. Every illusion is one of fear, whatever form it takes. And the attempt to escape from one illusion into another must fail. If you seek love outside yourself you can be certain that you perceive hatred within, and are afraid of it. Yet peace will never come from the illusion of love, but only from its reality.&#8221;</em></strong></p>
<p>It is my strong belief that God is delivering my partner to my doorstep, without any dating necessary, and that my job is simply to continue healing myself and feeling better and better about myself.<br />
<strong><br />
Which brings me to today&#8217;s suggestion &#8230; </strong></p>
<p>Instead of putting all your energy into posting on blogs and forums where you torture yourself about your ex and waste all your time and effort, I suggest you try something new:</p>
<p><strong>Learn how to become empowered in your own life.</strong>  And a great way to do this is learn how to make money on the internet.  Let me tell you, few things will make you feel more empowered than becoming the master or goddess of your own destiny &#8230;</p>
<p>This morning I woke up to unexpected cash in my in-box and a bunch of new sign-ups on my list.  I&#8217;ve already made over $100,000 this year.  Do I feel empowered in my life?  You betcha.  After I finish this article, I&#8217;m going out to the ski slopes to take advantage of a gorgeous spring storm on the mountain.  Above my computer is a picture window with majestic evergreen trees covered in snow, and there&#8217;s a glorious hot tub nestled in the trees out back.  I don&#8217;t have a boss anymore.  When I feel like going to the spa and getting a massage, I do it.  I have a beautiful relationship with God.  My days are structured by the flowing dance of life, ebbing and flowing like ocean waves.  My raft is carried by the current of life, and everything is easy and effortless.  My life is quiet and peaceful, and I love it.  I spend my days mostly helping other people to attain this level of empowerment, and it is DEEPLY satisfying.  </p>
<p>I have the feeling of being in love ALL THE TIME now, even though a physical partner is not present.  And this has taught me that the feeling of being in love didn&#8217;t come from my ex, it came from ME.  And nobody can take it away from me.  </p>
<p><strong>So back to my suggestion:  come join us.</strong>  Take all that energy that you&#8217;ve been putting into your ex, and start putting it into creating the life of your dreams.  There are still a couple of days to join the Pajama Party movement at a really low level of financial investment (after this Wednesday, there will be an extra $197 charge to join us).</p>
<p>Do you really want to spend another day lamenting in an internet forum?  Because that energy you spend on that today, you are never going to get back.  And I promise you &#8230; there IS a better way <img src='http://www.spiritualseduction.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://tapsmarter.com/pajama-party" target="_blank">CHECK THIS OUT NOW &#8211; deadline was extended until this Wednesday &#8211; JOIN US TODAY</a>.</p>
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