Everyday Bliss For Women In Leadership

I love the Everything Yoga blog. Diane had a great quotation for the Winter Solstice:

Take time to do yoga and meditation on the Winter Solstice,

A moment of time in the midst of your busy holiday schedule,

To acknowledge healing and the possibility of a miracle in every moment.

I’ve revamped my Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Tutorial "EFT In A Nutshell: The Quickstart" to make it even easier to understand. For the "knowledge of healing and possibility of a miracle" using only your hands and mind check it out here:

http://maryamwebster.com/eftbasics

Happy Solstice!! 

Warmest Love & Blessings,
Maryam

We all decided that it would be a sumptuous holiday gift to offer the audio of our last Everyday Bliss Party as a Holiday Gift to bring Joy To the World. I am so pleased that the Breathing Peace Process has been so well received. You can see just a few of the comments that have come in from people here on how this went for them. Feel free to post your own comments, too!

And here’s the Press Release on this from: http://www.prleap.com/pr/109477/

Feel free to copy this WHOLE thing as free content for your blog and a nice giveaway to your readers!

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Free MP3 To END Holiday Stress FOR GOOD

SUMMARY:

Hate the thought of visiting family at the holidays? Does the idea of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa or New Year’s leave you stressed and in a tizzy? Well, worry no more, stress management help is here and uncharacteristically at this time of year, that help is absolutely free. In a holiday gift to the world, The Maryam Webster Group and Energy Coach Institute offer a complimentary MP3 audio to help YOU completely END holiday stress - for good.

For quick access: http://www.maryamwebster.com/holidayblissparty/

FULL PRESS RELEASE:

(PRLEAP.COM) December 21, 2007. San Francisco, CA - In a free holiday gift to the world, Maryam Webster, CEO of The Maryam Webster Group and Director of The Energy Coach Institute, offers an MP3 audio of her master class to help END holiday stress, in one hour - for good.

For the investment of a mere hour of your time with no prior knowledge needed, this gentle mental exercise brings uplifting change that will leave you feeling energized and refreshed, and even help you cultivate daily Bliss as a lifelong state of being.

Maryam, an accomplished therapist, trainer and author of the upcoming New Harbinger book "Everyday Bliss For Busy Women" (May, 2008) says of this free class:

"I become dismayed at hearing both clients and friends saying they dreaded going home for the holidays…or for whom the holiday season meant a month or more of depression and unhappiness. With the quick and simple techniques we have today, this is just so unnecessary. I hope everyone who reads this will take the time to give a listen to the audio and work this "Breathing Peace" method to their benefit. It’s wonderfully relaxing and changes relationships, perspective and events like magic!"

The "Breathing Peace" process is additionally good all year ‘round to take care of stress at its source. Though topically framed around the holidays or whenever families and significant others can make everyday living stressful, you’ll be able to transpose the process to many different situations and environments to achieve personal Peace.

No special skills are needed, just sit back, relax and follow the instructions along with Maryam’s able guidance and plucky volunteer client Sabrina, an intern at The Energy Coach Institute. Written instructions on how to perform the method again, plus invitations to monthly telegatherings where similar information is shared, are also included in this powerful gift.

For instant access, catch YOUR audio break for the holidays here:

http://www.maryamwebster.com/holidayblissparty/

The work you’ll experience on this audio is a powerful component of Maryam’s Everyday Bliss Coaching process and her Certified Energy Coach Program’s GAP coaching model - known for its lightspeed transformative power and ease of usability.

Beginning in February, The Energy Coach Institute will be offering Maryam’s personal development program:

"The 12 Keys To Blissful Living"

Taught by Maryam and a a stellar cast of Everyday Bliss Experts, participants will uses methods like you’ll learn in this free audio, to clear the 12 common Bliss Blockers and use the 12 Bliss Keys to generate Peace in everyday life. Plus you’ll learn simple, uncomplicated ways to transform relationships, living conditions, job situations and begin to live a life free of limitation.

You can learn more and register for this unique program (be sure to catch the Earlybird Rate through December 24th!) here:

http://maryamwebster.com/12keys

We at The Maryam Webster Group and Energy Coach Institute hope you enjoy this free peace-bringing method, and wish the world the Happiest and Most Peaceful of Holiday Seasons.

Reference URL’s:

maryamwebster.com
energycoachinstitute.com
everydaybliss.org

Join Us for a Festive and Transformative Holiday Party!

Date:
Monday, December 10, 2007

Call Time:
9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern / 5pm UK

(To translate correct time for your area, check the Meeting Planner link at: www.timeanddate.com)

You’ll learn a technique never seen before…

You’re going to learn a special part of The Everyday Bliss Process -  how to make situations, memories, even objectionable family members bearable and even blissful for the holidays…and onward. This technique is a blend you’ve never experienced before - no one has. And it will be yours from now on.

But there’s also a higher purpose to this telegathering.

"The opportunity for us to grow exponentially as individuals  and community is already present."

Many people are feeling the pull towards a new dimension of being, thought, and freedom from limitation. 

How will you leverage this  opportunity as an individual? As a member of a community?  

And how can you maximize your growth while remaining relaxed, present and in bliss?

Let’s discover how together, using what we’ll learn on this call.

We will be discussing precepts rooted in the teachings of Abraham-Hicks, Eckhart Tolle, Wayne Dyer and The Dalai Lama on how to remain Present when all around you dissolves in chaos. And further, on how to use that chaos as a personal  path to Bliss.

Note:  If you’ve never registered for one of our calls before, you’ll receive an opt-in email which you MUST click through to get call details, downloads and extras.  

Simply enter your name and primary email below and I’ll whisk the details right to your inbox

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I’ve been privileged to live most of my life in a richly multi-cultural environment, and to have friends from many areas of the world living both in Europe and here in America. We have shared Thanksgiving with all of them - Vietnamese, Arab,  German, Chinese, Malaysian, French, British, Italian, Iranian, Greek, Norwegian and people of many other nations.

As I like to say, Thanksgiving isn’t really an American holiday, it’s a holiday for all people to give thanks for what we have, for the richness of our lives. It is a time to give thanks not only for surviving to see another day, but to do so richly, in beauty, and in a state of surpassing grace.

Grace is what comes when we are thankful, when we live in a state of constant gratitude. And grace is accessible to each and every one of us, just by the virtue of our giving thanks for what we have.

No matter how money or possession deficient we may be at the present, we are all rich beyond measure. We have our health, we have wonderful energy therapy techniques to keep us well and happy, and we have each other in community. We have breath in our bodies, and purpose in each and every one of our lives. No matter how much we may perceive that we "don’t have", we are truly rolling in abundance.

Most of those reading this have clothes on our backs and a place to live. The lucky have someone, or many people to love them. The very, very lucky love others in abundance and are aware of how very rich this makes them.

What a treasure trove is ours!!

I give thanks for each and every single person in my life who has helped me, who has challenged me, who has championed me, and who has told me I couldn’t, shouldn’t or better not.

It is because of all of them that I have tried, failed, succeeded and kept on going. It is because of all those who love me and whom I love that I continue, and because I was given the gift of gratitude, that I do so in bliss and beauty. How very, very lucky I am.

We are all very, very blessed. When storm clouds gather and the wolf may seem to be at your door, remember this, and remember that the wolf is really a blessing in disguise, that the clouds always part to let the sun shine through. All we need do is return our thoughts to the present moment and reflect that in the now, all is well. And in the next moment and in the next.

And if, temporarily, all is not well and survival is threatened, that this too shall pass, and we have that to be so very thankful for. There is never a cloud without a silver lining, nor a storm that does not bring nourishment to our fields and forests, with sunshine to follow.

May the sun always shine in your life, and may you always know how rich you truly are -

Love and Blessings to you and yours,
Maryam

Okay, so the Autumnal Equinox was a week ago, but you can still have yourself a merry litle spa break at this time of the year when the energies are changing like mad, crazy swirls of leaves caught up in a merry dance with the North Wind. Blow some clean air through your hair - open all the windows even if it’s cold  and let your home and office air out completely from morning to night. And…

Try this five minute complete System Recharge to jump up your energy a bit at a time when the earth’s energies are winding down, going deeper, pulsing slower. This practice, which invokes the basic elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water, purifies the subtle energy system and invigorates all of your sensate organs. Spend but a minute or two on each of the four areas:

Earth: Facing North, look down at the ground and feel gravity, pulling your body downward. Palms facing the ground, breathe both in and out through your nose while feeling the soles of your feet as they touch the earth. Breathe in through your soles of your feet and the palms of your hands.

Water: Turning to face the West, lean your neck backward looking upward and allow your lips to part. Breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth. Imagine that you are standing in a shallow mountain stream with water raining down upon you. Water rolls off of your body, drips down into the stream and flows away, taking all that doesn’t belong in or on you, with it.

Fire: Facing South, stand erect with your elbows bent and hands raised to shoulder level, facing the front of your body. Breathe in through your mouth and out through your nose. As you breathe in, feel the breath stoking your internal fire or "dan tien" in your solar plexus. As you breathe out imagine you are sending the light of that fire outward, into a protective and energizing sphere which surrounds you.

Air: Facing East, allow your entire body to relax and soften. Feel yourself becoming less solid and more permeable. Your arms hang loosely with the palms facing to the front of you. As you breathe in and out through your mouth, feel the air flowing into and out of your body through the very pores in your skin.

Old circle-junkies among the reading audience might notice this goes in a counter-clockwise (or counter-sunwise if you will) circle. Yes. At this time of the year, the energies of the natural environment that surround us are moving more in these counter-sunwise spirals as the light of the sun itself grows less intense and weaker. This is one way to make a counter-sunwise spiral work for you, to energize and purify. Enjoy!

I have a friend whom I dearly love - Kim George, author of Coaching Into Greatness and Director of the AQ Institute. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out in Kim’s home for a week, and being her guest at a concert by acknowledged "young guitar god", Derek Trucks.

Kim wanted to introduce me to Derek’s work because he is, quite honestly, probably the greatest guitarist now living. Or at least one of the mega-greats. You look at what he does with his fingers and listen to the virtuosity, and  your mouth simply falls to the ground. It’s the kind of good that spins your heart, stomach and head all in different directions and leaves you wanting much, much more. Emotions you didn’t know you had bloom suddenly and make you ache, but in a good way. You don’t want the set to end. But I digress…

Some might know Derek as an Eric Clapton protege, or from his work with the Allman Brothers. But on May 17th in Torrington, Connecticut at the palatial Warner Theater, it was solely the Derek Trucks Band, resplendent in its own celebratory glory. 

We got there from deep in the wilderness of Massachussets through the backwoods express route into what seemed like nowhere. Thanks, Google Maps. After miles of beautiful trees, lakes, herds of man-sized mosquitoes, cud-munching Guernseys and a medieval fortress dam or two (one wondered if we hadn’t taken a turn into the Twilight Zone) we arrived in Torrington and had the time of our lives.

Kim has been a fan for ages, and I was a virgin conquest, brought to be sacrificed upon the altar of good music. My heart thumped, thighs quivered and as many before me, I became thoroughly infected with the DTB virus. We all had the DTB’s pretty bad, to be honest. But if you haven’t seen and heard Mr. Trucks and his quirky, amazing fellow musicians, you are missing one heck of a treat. They not only roll out good rock, soul, jazz, r&b and blues, but the personalities of each musician are as engaging as their repertoire. Holy hit parade Batman, but the dude can rock SOLID! If you’re into fancy fretwork, Derek Trucks is your man.

I snuck in my Casio Exilim and managed a few short  and shaky vidcaps between security-guard strafings, the light flashing from an adjacent teenager playing games on his cellphone, and bobbing and weaving of the extra-large-headed fellow right in front of my lens. There was by way of compensation, a nice fellow sitting next to me named John, who interestingly is moving to nearby Walnut Creek within the month. (Dude! Meet you at the Fillmore!)  He and Kim exchanged emails and furtive plans to move items of fandom across state lines…which I am assured is all quite legal…. 

Not my best, but here for Kim and the rest of the excessively *rabid* Derek Trucks fans, (and they’re all rabid) is this five minute-sumpin’ Video.  Be mindful of your speakers, download at will, and Enjoy…

By the time you read this, I’ll be on a jet plane and flown off to Massachussets to visit NLP and Coaching friends, do a little teaching, a smattering of processes and have a lot of fun. When I get back in a week, I’m sure I’ll have plenty of stories to tell and new processes to share as I’m meeting with, among other colleagues, good buddy and NLP legend, Harvard Business School’s own Stever Robbins. It’s bound to be fun and there will be declaiming on Cambridge Common to be listened to. Come join me for a picnic lunch if you’re on Cambridge Common by the Whitefield Elm at noon, this Friday, May 18th. I’ll be speaking on Energy Therapies and I’d love to meet you!

Until next time, don’t forget the fabulous giveaway going on ONLY until the END OF MAY at:

http://maryamrecommends.com/selfimprovement.html

TONS of self improvement gifts, freebies, software, memberships and so on.

And just wait for tomorrow, when you’ll see quite a DIFFERENT face on the "improve thyself" ticket.

Wait for it!

Love & Blessings,
Maryam

I’ve had several emails asking "What the heck is Morris Dancing?" and thought no words better capture the thing than those of Ric Goldman from his FAQ at: 

http://rgoldman.org/morris/mayday.htm

Ric’s entire website should be perused for best understanding and knowledge of Morris and Molly sides where you live, but here is his rundown on an explanation of the art form:

What IS Morris Dancing?

Morris dancing is a living tradition of English celebratory and ritual dance with live music, with origins shrouded in mystery and the mists of time.   Shakespeare used it in his plays and it was old then.  The dancers usually wear bells at their knees and often wave hankies (to attract and welcome benevolent spring and summer spirits) or clash sticks (symbolizing the eternal battle between winter and summer), and the dances have traditionally been performed around the time of major celebration or seasonal crosspoints in the calendar.  Indeed, dances of comparable form and dancers in similar costumes are found elsewhere in Europe and around the world, and may be thought to be part of the universal urge to influence and honor the unknowable forces which govern our lives.

One of the most colourful descriptions of morris was provided in the 15th century, by Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh, the Black Adder who said, "Morris dancing is the most fatuous, tenth-rate entertainment ever devised by man.  Fourty effeminate blacksmiths waving bits of cloth they’ve just wiped their noses on.  How it’s still going on in this day and age I’ll never know."

Modern morris includes several different types of dance, all from different regions of England; Cotswold Morris from the south, Border Morris from the west, Molly Dancing from the southeast, and Northwest Morris from the northwest.  Other dance styles such as Longsword, Rapper (sword), Clog, and Garland are often included in the term "morris".

There are lots of ways to get more detail about Morris dancing, but the absolutely best way is to find a morris dancer, take them to a pub, offer them refreshment, and ask for the real story.  It’s guaranteed good luck, too!

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So as I said to Ric when consulting him on edits to the Mayday Morris video, "first pint’s on me".  Having a heavy week with the book - stay tuned this week however, when the corrected video will be posted!!

I do enjoy marking the passages of the year-wheel with other kindred spirits. A riotous bit of good fun I have a great deal of fondness for is the annual Morris Maying at the Palo Alto, California, Baylands Nature Reserve. There’s a video below, but bear with me a second, some stage setting is in order.

We meet at 5:30am when it’s pitch dark, on the southern edge of the San Francisco Bay. Teams (called "sides") of Morris men (and women) dance up the sun and general frivolity and fun ensue. This ritual goes back at least 900 years in England, to judge from the radiocarbon dating of the reindeer horns used in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance which leads off the festivities. Alas, it is far too dark to record the dance on video, so we made do with a historical slide show segeuing into the 2007 stills.

In our family’s tradition, the women stay up through the night making rose and flower crowns (which I always wear to the event) while the men cook us a scrumptious post-midnight repast. And of course, it’s considered de riguer to make love in the out of doors in the fields if possible (though it’s generally too cold). Traditionally, the morning’s dancing capped off a night of sympathetic magic ensuring bumper crops in the fields and encouraged the sun to rise to bestow its abundance upon the people.

Here are my videos and best recollection of the dance titles and personnel from May 1st, 2007. If I have made errors, I beg your forgiveness in advance. Contact me and I will be glad to amend the titling. The song sung at intro and outro is "Hal an Tow", a traditional Maying song that echoes the poignancy of the Horn Dance in its first verse:

Take no scorn, to wear the horns
It was the crest when you were born
Your father’s father wore it then,
Your father wore it too…

Needless to say, this verse is aimed at young men who, taking up their generation’s innovations, ’scorn’ what can seem to be the quaint antiqueries of their sires. Where does such a dance come from? While none truly know and the origins have been shrouded in the mists of time, my theory is that such a dance comes from the deer cults that existed in al primitive societies. Once England was covered from coast to coast with dense, impenetrable forests where the red deer reigned. Remember the caves at Lascaux and the pictures on their walls recounting the hunt? Many pictures of deer have been found all over Europe. The stag was a revered symbol of masculinity. Deer  and elk cults existed in native America and reindeer cults in northern Europe. All three of these animals are taxonomically related and their cults are among the strongest in terms of fertility, protection of the home and as symbols of masculinity. But enough of the lecture, you want to see the video.

This day, in May, 2007, the sun came up in fine fashion, cresting the top of the Diablo mountains to much hooting and huzzah-ing. See? Without us dancing the sun up, there’d be no crops this summer. I hope you’re properly grateful…  Enjoy!

Happy Earth Day! Passing Along A Good Tip

Happy Earth Day April 21st! To celebrate, tune into a no-c.ost webcast on just how bad the environmental situation is in the United States and how we can make it better. This just in from enviornmental watchdog group, Care2:

Can you believe that the United States ranks below Armenia for environmental sustainability?

What do measurements like these really mean - and how can we use them to become empowered, active citizens?

Please join the good folks over at Care2 for a free online broadcast on what global justice and equality means for today’s diverse world.

When: April 21, 6 PM Eastern (3 PM Pacific, 18:00 GMT-5)
Where: Your home computer
How: Login details will be sent via email after you RSVP

Add your name to the RSVP list here:
 
http://go.care2.com/e/R76B/G_yD/KJNd

And whatever you’re doing this Earth Day….love each other, pick up after yourself and have a ton of fun!!