In case you missed all the clues I’ve been dropping on Twitter, FaceBook, LinkedIn and other places, I am going to be spending my birthday month of APRIL IN PARIS, baby! Paris! (pictoral tour of the ‘hood is down below) Yep, I’m leaving the hubby and kitties at home and going on an all-inclusive American Woman’s Dream Vacation of a Lifetime to celebrate that once in a lifetime marker for a woman:

TURNING 50 YEARS OLD
(made it…whew!)

And…stay tuned because I’m going to make it possible for YOU TO COME WITH ME. Yep, you read it right,

YOU CAN COME TO PARIS WITH ME!

While not everyone can jump a jet and come on over, you CAN  check it out live and won’t have to leave the comfort of your armchair. Promise. I wouldn’t go without taking everyone interested in evolution, transformation, a LIVE ETHOS workshop, new friends, gourmet food, sexy accents and having a good time!

Hold onto your hats: there’s more juice in this baby than a whole orchard full of fresh peaches!

You probably already know that 25 years ago I was hit by a drunk driver and paralyzed, gaining over 150lbs. And how it took me nine years to walk, even though the doctors said I would never walk again.

I’ll be teaching some super-secrets of how I taught myself how to do “the impossible” and reverse paralysis, PLUS how I’ve lost 70+ pounds in the last year and a bit. Add to that my own “energy facelift” exercises and how YOU too can learn to:

“ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE”

• Everybody’s been asking me why my pants are falling off! You’ll have a ringside seat as I CONTINUE TO LOSE WEIGHT in Paris, scarfing down all that lovely  gluten-free super-fresh French market food. I’ll teach you how to make some of my favorite yummy dishes too, so you get “Gourmet Paris” and “GlutenFree” too.
• Yes, I’m down four sizes and counting. You’ll learn some of my extra cool weightloss secrets, too
• Plus you’ll visit Parisian restaurants, get to meet neighbors and friends and get the scoop on famous landmarks and not-famous-but-cool Parisian places, people and things.
• You’ll even get to help PLAN MY DAY by telling me where YOU want to go in Paris. I’ll  take you with me – it’ll be the next best thing to being there!
• And of course, you’ll also learn how to Achieve The Impossible in your own life through THIRTY WHOLE DAYS OF LIFE-SHIFTING LESSONS, learning how to get yourself to Possible and Do-able. That’s the Whole Point. 
• You also really need to be here if you’ve always wanted to have a super jumbo deluxe vacation for yourself and you never got to take one.
• Oh yes, there will be massage and spa stuff. And coffee. And sidewalk cafe action. And girlfriends. And a live ETHOS Workshop. And lots and LOTS of energy.

I’ll be getting back to you a little later on the specifics, but if you’re interested in becoming an Early Adopter (we reward Early Adopters very heavily around here)  you can join the  “Achieve The Impossible” Experience in Paris  by filling in this handy form. I’ll be holding some very special calls and giving you previews of what’s going to happen and also what isn’t. Only those on this list will get notification of these juicy free calls, so do sign up now – I’ll even send you a free gift!

If you haven’t yet encountered Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT, you’re in for a treat. If you’re an old hand, you’ll still enjoy this “spiritual documentary” (a la “The Secret”) style introduction to what EFT can do, and features some of my most esteemed colleagues. Really beautiful work – pass this one along to your friends and families. And, as Gary is retiring March 1st and has said he will be taking his website down, if the link at the end no longer works, you can download a free “EFT Quickstart” from me, here (will open in a new window)

http://maryamwebster.com/eftbasics/

EFT Works Great for Pain

I know. I used it to help me end years of chronic pain from a broken back, and to heal those tissues and  even grow new bone. Oh yes, you really can. EFT is a really great introduction to energy magic for people of all ages, cultures and belief systems. Pass this one on too. You can use a sophisticated Energy Coaching technique called “Borrowing Benefits” to tap along with Gary here as the pain is tapped out. Just think of your own pain for a moment, then let it go and use the lady’s set-up phrasing and reminder phrases. Tap right along. Get over it.

GREAT back pain release video

This one is from Robert Smith. He’s a wonderfully intuitive EFT practitioner and teacher. Beautiful NLP related interventions and submodality shifting for you NLPers in the community. Enjoy this video and especially if you had back pain like I did, this will be a welcome relief. Again Borrow Benefits, as you tap along with Robert and the lady with horse related issues…and a big pain in her back that goes away in a really interesting process:

Can KIDS do EFT? You bet’cha! (they’re a lot smarter than we are, y’know?)

I’ve taught children young as four how to tap with EFT and though I don’t have one, I highly recommend a Tappy Bear.  (I turned my childhood bear into such a happy tapping guide a few years ago) They’re the BOMB for teaching EFT to kids! Enjoy this wonderful video from Karin Gustafson teaching a little boy how to tap with a homemade tapping bear. The giggles alone are worth listening – and Borrowing Benefits – through the whole video. For those who don’t resonate to “I’m a good boy” – “I’m okay and feel grrrrreat!” is a good substitute.

Come claim your FREE “The EFT Way To Market Your Services: More Clients, Money & Fun in 2010″ intro class at http://eftmarketingschool.com You’ll learn more in this FREE CLASS than you will in any other, AND GET COACHED ON YOUR BUSINESS. More genuine “take-action takeaways” than you’ll experience any other place.

Why You Need To Take This Class Now

Gary Craig, the founder of Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT, is retiring after many years, and taking his massive, resource-crammed website down. Latest reports say he has put off his retirement from January 15th to March 1st due to the overwhelming amount of requests for a little more time to copy website materials and shut down the business. I for one have benefitted tremendously from Gary’s work and want to tender a personal “thank you and well done – rest well deserved”. Without EFT, there would be no Energy Coach Institute and I would not have been able to create the profession of Energy Coaching!

In this week’s tribute to Gary’s work, my colleague Pat Carrington brought up that people were upset over the fact that Gary’s fantastic marketing skills that would no longer be available to the community. “Who will teach us how to market our businesses when Gary is gone?” she cites one client as saying.

Just as I took up the challenge to help Gary market EFT along with several other top tappers and EFT Masters five years ago, I’m taking up the challenge today to offer this kind of training to you, the EFT Practitioner.

Gary and I both trained in the same neurolinguistic programming business marketing methods, and I have additional experience as a professional industrial psychologist researching what makes products & services sell, plus training in Guerrilla Marketing, in how to Get Clients Now and Book Yourself Solid. These are only three of the over thirty service business marketing programs I’ve taken in the last ten years.

I’ve spent probably fifty to seventy-five thousand dollars to learn these secrets and now, I am going to share them with you in a unique program created especially for EFT Practitioners, Coaches & Therapists – a unique blend of time-tested techniques you simply CAN’T learn elsewhere.

If you’re ready to stop practicing at it and get really good at your business – good enough to take lots of time off, be there when you want to for your family, take liberal vacations, buy whatever you need without worry and all the other things you may have been putting off, go over to:

http://eftmarketingschool.com

and GRAB YOUR SEAT FAST. We have two FREE classes that begin next week, so hop to it!

“You are Love, You are Loved and You are Loving”
- d. deLarm, the Missouri sweet medicine man

At this point in time, many people aren’t having that great an experience of life.

The economy sucks, jobs are lost, relationships are suffering and affordable healthcare seems like a dream. And everyone dislikes some aspect of their life. Thighs and hips are still top the list, followed by jobs, spouses, the economy, personal problems and concerns about our kids.

People are really focusing on the negative, even meditators and therapists I’ve known for years to be the voice of good cheer.

And we wonder why there’s fighting in the world!

LOVE YOUR LIFE TIP #1:

I’ve been teaching this for years but never has it been more important for us to really GET:

“What you give A.I.R. – Your Attention, Your Intention and Repetition – LIVES. And what you give your attention, and intention to repetitively, will manifest more and more in your life.”

Like the flab on your thighs, the dwindling balance in your bank account, how horrible your relationship is, etc. It’s really just that simple. But people don’t get it, and keep paying attention to the bad, not the good in their lives.

(it was a “duh!” moment when I realized this)

One way you can realize when you’re doing this is an old trick from behavioral psychology. Loop a rubber bandaround your wrist and snap it every time you catch yourself thinking negatively. It will soon insert a “pause” in your process where you can choose. A choice you could make given the previous example might be: “Do I want to dwell on how horrible it is to be fat, or will I take a walk and think about how wonderful my thighs will feel when they NO LONGER rub together?”

This simple process inserts Choice, and gives the monkey-mind that tends to fix on negative things, a pleasant and positive alternative. Just keep feeling the air between your thighs, or seeing that gold gleaming in your bank account, or whatever it is that really turns you on when you think about it.

People need those kind of alternatives.

That’s why I want your help to Spread Love to End War as a grass-roots people’s movement.

Let me explain:

Doesn’t it stand to reason, that if we stop fighting ourselves internally, and learn to love ourselves really well, and spend more of our time in a state of supreme bliss, that we’ll be less warlike as a planet?

That’s my goal, because I know that if you love yourself well, you become a beacon to spread that love out to others who don’t have as many happy resources inside themselves.

And what happens when one center of love spreads the love outward? Other people start loving themselves! And outward it spreads, as a movement.

Like a virus, exuding love is infectious. People get happy just being around you!

Isn’t that COOL?

That’s why I’m bringing it back home with these tips, and in sharing more deeply on in our Love Your Life Again Class.

When you learn to love all of you, 100%, even your thighs, and your boss and your bank balance, those things CHANGE. Did you know that? Extra coolness.

Here’s another important tip on how to feel good. I think you’ll find it easy and even enjoyable to implement, to help you, and everyone around you to spread the Love virus:

LOVE YOUR LIFE TIP #2:

If we know the right questions to ask, we open up even more possibilities for happiness, in.come, relationship goodness, and other things you may be seeking. Here’s an absolute barn-burner of a question to ask – and not be attached to any answer or outcome of:

“What generative energy, space and consciousness can I be to manifest ______________?”

Fill in the blank with the SOLUTION you’re wanting – NOT the problem.

Then say: “Anything that wouldn’t allow that to happen, I uncreate, dissolve and release it completely”. Take in a big breath, blow it out, and let it all go.

Then, super-power this affirmation, with the ETHOS Method cues and step aside into your Unlimited Self where these problems don’t exist. You also might wish to use the One-Point acuhold if you respond best to meridian energy work.

If you have difficulty letting things go, want to join a Master Class in The ETHOS Method, or just want more support, love & joy in your life, please join us for the “Love Your Life Again” class. I promise, you’ll come out of this month-long class changed in ways that will delight you!

Is Now the right time to turn YOUR life around? If so, join us:

http://www.maryamwebster.com/love-your-life-again/

This material is literally changing people’s lives. I taught a large chunk of it last year in my three month 12 Keys To Bliss program, and am committed to EVERYONE having the same result as Sandy did in that class. She says:

“I want to give this class and Maryam a resounding testimonial!
I thought I was happy. I had a great life, good marriage, great
kids. But was I really blissful? When I thought about it I had to
admit no I wasn’t. I signed up more out of curiosity to improve
my life and got SO much more than I expected! It changed my life
for the better in many, many ways. I learned great techniques and
tools to set us on our path that I can use for the rest of my
life, that I can help my kids, teach my clients. They were easy &
simple to learn yet lifechanging and profound. I’m very very
grateful and happy that I’ve taken this class. Every day I enjoy
my life more and don’t feel life is passing me by.  I’m living my
life to the fullest!”

- Sandy Lenz
Hypnotherapist & EFT Practitioner
Bourne, Massachussets

Until next time, I wish you that same happiness and bliss – each and every day. Spread it around!

Come join us for “Loving Your Life Again: The Tools, Techniques and Coaching To Get and Keep You Conscious, In Joy and Aligned With Your Highest Purpose Every Day”

This is a Four Week Teleclass with online eCampus, Forums, Community Center & Resources with me, Maryam Webster, creator of the Energy Transformation and Healing Open Source Method and expert in how to be happy every day, all the time.

Yep, YOU CAN do it! It’s even going to be fun… 

And, there’s a special bonus: When you get happy and stay that way every day like you’re going to learn in this class, it rubs off onto other people and THEY get happy.

As a result, YOU become the center of a peaceful wave that ripples outward.

Guess what that does? It creates peace around the planet. Or at the very least, it creates a whole lot of other happy people. And happy people are rarely violent, and don’t start or participate in wars.

Result: A Great Opportunity To Create World Peace.

We make ourselves happy and the world gets happy as a result. (is that cool or what?)

Don’t knock it, it really does work.  Join us and spread the love:

Details Of This Extraordinary Opportunity:

DATES: WEDNESDAYS THROUGH SEPTEMBER: 9th, 16th, 21st & 30th

PLUS: (My accountant says I’m crazy, but -) Register now, and I’ll give you a BONUS WEEK of Everyday Bliss Coaching & Resources on Oct 7th

TIME: 10:00am PT/1:00pm ET / 6:00pm UK in 75 minute sessions

WHERE: On the phone (number sent with registration) and The Energy Coach Institute’s exclusive online university ecampus

Join us even if you can’t make the time – it will all be recorded and available in our private eCampus, and you’ll have access to all the resources (see below for the perks) for an entire year.

Register, here:

Using my Everyday Bliss Process coupled with the powerful tools of energy therapy and The ETHOS Method in particular, you will learn these power tools:

• Grace Under Fire: Drop stress like a hot potato, the second it starts
• FightFear.fm: Keep the fear off your “radio station” to avoid attracting bad things
• Comfy & Clear: Get Conscious and Stay that way – be comfy inside your own skin!
• Trap Mapper: Avoid the 3 common traps that suck us back into unconscious misery
• Outsmart Your Own Brain: Short-circuit your primitive biology to stay Conscious
• FastChange: Hate your thighs? Your job? Your relationship? We’ll deal with it!
• Bring On Abundance: Wade out of financial muck using your body
• Fire Your Inner Executioner: Free yourself from those inner voices that torture you
• Painbody Pulverizer: gain immunity from the hateful situations it attracts
• Calm Children: Use ETHOS with your Children to deal with their issues & aid school success
• Goal Magnetizer: Use ETHOS in a startling new way to realize goals you never have been able to before

JUICY BONUSES that make up an entire SECOND CLASS in how to improve your life & success rate in every way:

• My 9-Day Spiritual Self-Improvement Program:
  “Just For Today”
• The bombshell “Unquenchable Ethusiasm” Lesson 7
  from “The Laws of Success” by Napoleon Hill that is
  the foundation of “The Secret” book, and material of
  other teachers like Abraham-Hicks, Wayne Dyer,
  Louise Hay and Eckhart Tolle.

Is today the day you’ll join us and improve your life? Register, here:

An Open Letter from Maryam

In case you read the blog but are not on my email list, this is to let you know that effective immediately, all of my public offerings, including classes at The Energy Coach Institute, are on indefinite hiatus.

Thank you, for the beautiful memories, and invaluable experience.

I’m taking my own advice, following my Bliss, and honoring that I need to take a break from teaching to rest, renew and research new possibilities.

This is something I am doing mindfully and with great joy. It feels light in body, mind and soul, and I’m full of gratitude to have the full support of my family and those close to me.

If you’re worried about me – please don’t be – I’m just fine, am moving onward and upward, and looking forward to the infinite possibilities. What grand and glorious adventures are around the corner? It’s going to be so much fun finding out!

Until then…you can follow me on Twitter if you’d like a running stream of consciousness:

http://twitter.com/maryamwebster

Or connect on Facebook:

http://maryamwebster.com/facebook.html

And please take my invitation to get started benefitting yourself and the world around you with  The ETHOS Method. Bonus points if you join our community and start sharing in the forums!

Live Your  Bliss…

Warm Blessings,
Maryam

What a rockin’ class this past Monday! We talked about what The Energy Transformation and Healing Open Source Method (ETHOS) is, who can use it, how, for what and did a great ETHOS for “Radiant Resolve” in the new year. Thanks folks for showing up, especially those who posted questions, you’ll see them here in the next few days.

Now for a few answers to those questions…

Terry Eichmann from Brisbane, Australia says:
Hi Maryam, I truly appreciate your generousity in sharing this information at no cost. As you know most others are charging somtimes exorbitant amounts of money for their techniques, and participants usually must attend a workshop to learn the strategy. More difficult for us in Australia when the workshop is in the US. I am impressed with the way you have combined NLP with your own ideas to create this great technique.

Many thanks,
Terry

Hi Terry,
Thank you for your kind words and you’re very welcome. Lots of people: Dan, Jennifer, Paulie, Claire, Ishak, Don, Esteban, William, Alejandro, Buddy, Irina and Miranda to name a few, observed similar things and asked why ETHOS is free and why I of all people was making it so.

The simple answer is, because someone had to. Our available resources are shrinking dramatically. The rift between the haves and have-nots is widening precipitously. Those in emergency situations who need resources increasingly are not able to pay for them. And this is just wrong, in my opinion.

Several years ago when this all began, colleagues said “there’s got to be a good completely open source method out there that we can teach without fear of going beyond the bounds of a license.” Then, fingers started pointing at me.

I consider developmental work a sacred calling as I am constantly developing new processes for my clients and students benefit. And I have been blessed with many resources and trainings in change work. So I was a natural fit as primary developer of ETHOS. But it didn’t happen in a vacuum, I had help. You can read more about this here:

http://ethosmethod.com

The other reason is that I got peeved that little kids are being denied healthcare because some families can’t afford it. And that all people are at some risk without workable wellness maintenance and stress elimination methods such as are very familiar to myself and my colleagues, but otherwise, are not generally well known.

I’ve witnessed firsthand what shoddy or no healthcare can do to an individual, family, community and country. While ETHOS may not be for all people for all things, it is nonetheless, a powerful agent of change, health and personal empowerment. And we need that far too much in the world today to worry about whether a license is paid up or police whether people are stringently following whatever the rules of use of a therapy might be.

It’s time to lighten our load in this regard.

I challenge EVERY THERAPY DEVELOPER out there to create and defend as public property, an easily learned and practiced version of your method.

All the healing techniques out there work in some regard. ETHOS that not only works, but is completely free to use, blow up and take just what works for you PLUS even make money with if that’s your thing. And, “No salesman will ever call” Though we will ask you to share your experience at our community site and ask questions. That’s how we all learn and make the thing even better! Community is here:

http://ethosmethod.com

Jo from Los Angeles asks:
can the relaxation (in the Kinesthetic or feeling ETHOS cue – Ed.) be a ‘hug’? can we visualize a ‘hug’ from a trusted source? a future husband, even if you don’t have a boyfriend currently? or is that harmful in any way?

Hi Jo,

I wouldn’t do this. Not that it would be harmful to you in any way, just ineffective. Why? Because it places the responsibility for your feelings outside yourself – that’s not where it belongs. I get that wanting to have someone in your life may be huge for you right now, and that’s a pretty strong feeling. But when we place responsibility for our feelings outside ourself, we’re copping out on our own life and denying love to the one person who really deserves it: you. The only person who is and will always be there for you, 24/7 when others leave, die or are asleep and you don’t want to wake them: YOU. And the only person you can truly depend on: You.

Want some good advice? You need to FIRST cultivate the love affair with yourself. That is and should always be your first and most important relationship in life, no matter how many other people you might love, in the many ways humans love each other. YOU come first though.

Remember that old saw on the airplane? “Put your oxygen mask on first before you put one on your child”? That’s because if you don’t tend to your own needs first, you may not be there to care for the child. Do this first, then that one special person, when the time is right, will come along. Cultivate your own love for self, and you’ll be able to recognize him when he does come along, and he you.

Looking outside yourself for fulfillment can come across as needy, which is unattractive. There is nothing more attractive and worthy of someone deciding to invest their time and energy in a relationship than someone who loves themself first, and unreservedly. This is advice for both men and women, children and elders. Fill your own cup first before you serve the rest of the world.

And if you haven’t had a massage in a long time – or ever – consider this a perfect excuse to get one. It will be an act of supreme love for your one precious body, and will also give you an excellent idea of what we mean in ETHOS by the kinesthetic or “feeling” cue.

A tip to replay the benefits of massage over and over again: create an anchor to the experience in the first few moments after the massage therapist leaves the room – or all the way through a massage – by allowing yourself to sink as deep as possible into that luxurious feeling of relaxation, then press your thumb and index finger tips together – one, two, three times gently. Allow yourself to relax even more and again press fingers together. Do the same thing a third time. When you’re trying to remember what that feeling is like using ETHOS, just press those fingers together again to bring it back up. Easy, simple, and you can even use it w/relaxation of a hot shower or sleepy before bedtime as we discussed.

Enjoy!

Love,
Maryam

BadEconomy > fix > gosub=WordOfMouth.  (geeks in the audience can laugh at will) There’s nothing like a personal recommendation. After all, you’d take your BFF’s recommendation over an impersonal ad, wouldn’t you?

If your business is running a tight marketing ship this year and your team is scrambling for marketshare, you’ll want to pay attention to “The Buzz Canuck” – a canny word of mouth supporter, I met on SWOM – Society for Word Of Mouth. Especially if you, like many of my clients, are a solo entrepreneur, or your larger company is downsizing its marketing budget (as many are) – you can still leverage the Law of Attraction by Word Of Mouth to build your outreach, visibility an market share. What do you want others to be saying about you? As Buzz explains below, know WHY moreover, WOM is important as a marketing, relationship and just plain good business strategy:

Hi folks, in case you’re not getting my newsletter*, here’s an important update:

I’m giving a FREE ETHOS Method teleclass this coming Tuesday at 6pm Pacific. The theme of this class is “ETHOS for Radiant Resolve” and will focus on teaching how ETHOS can be used for a variety of issues, and also addressing those New Year’s resolutions that never seem to go further than the end of February. Find out about this great new way to transform your life, heal yourself and even make money if you want to. Plus, heal the world and yourself, while you’re at it. Many more details plus:

Register free here

* What? you don’t have your Blisskit yet? Pop your details into the form at left of this page and you’ll get that, plus all the upcoming news on The Energy Coach Institute, Everyday Bliss and ETHOS Communities and happy thoughts and articles on energy coaching, positive psychology & world transformation.