| - THANK HEAVENS FOR EFT! |
| I am a poster girl for EFT – and arnica. I have a little strips on my forehead and nothing more to show for a fall just over a week ago that left me looking so awful people failed to hide their shock when they saw me. To go back to the beginning. I was on my way to teach an EFT practitioner course on a sunny Saturday morning nine days ago, paying no attention to where I was walking. I think what happened was that I did not notice the kerb that needed a step up of a couple of inches because I was so busy working out the implications for drivers (which I was not ) of the roadwords I was passing. I do know what happened next. I went forward, fast, flat on my face. It was so fast I did not even put a hand out to save me (or break a wrist, as the A and E doctor pointed out.) I hit the ground on my face. My forehead had a very nasty wound (five stitches and bled for days), my nose was bruised and cut in two places, I was bruised around my eyes. My neck felt pushed out of its proper alignment and my knee hurt. Thanks to the extraordinary kindness of passing strangers, someone took the student manuals on his bike to my teaching colleague, Richard Mark, at Regent’s college while I got an ambulance ride to a morning in casualty. When I left (awful – long wait, air-conditioning too cold and building work too noisy. It is much better on TV) I bought arnica at the first pharmacy I saw and, clutching my head injury instruction sheet telling me to go home and rest for a day or two and avoid alcohol, I went down the underground and went back to the college. I admit I did so want just to go home to bed at that point. But I had rather thrown Richard in at the deep end. I knew he could do it. But I also figured that if I went in he would do a trauma memory demo on me that would be useful learning for the students and really helpful for me. It was. My osteopath, when I saw her a few days later, was amazed how quickly my neck had felt normal again. The bruising went in a fraction of the time I would have predicted. And I was over the shock in no time. I know I heal fast but this was super-fast. Thank heavens for EFT – and arnica. |
| - Posted by: Judy Byrne - Date: Tue 20 Jul 2010, 14:54pm |
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| - TOO MANY CONNECTIONS? |
| I find myself wondering if the universe is trying to tell me something. I cannot connect to my blog to read where I left off. It just says, enigmatically: “Too many connections” when I try. is just one of those blips to which I would have paid scant attention had it not happened ten minutes after I went on the website http://www.eftmastersworldwide.com (owned jointly by me and most of the rest of the world’s 29 EFT Masters) and found that its home page had been turned (metaphorically) into a pumpkin. I was checking it out because in the three newsletters I spent my bank holiday weekend writing, I had recommended that people missing Gary Craig’s bi-weekly newsletter might like to get their fix from its bi-monthly one instead. It is full of good reading and if, like me, you are a little time-challenged less can be more.. I did feel the a little picked on, for a bit. Then I heard on the news that volcanic ash had closed some airports yet again today, and that some people due back from Australia ten days ago were still waiting for flights. That reminded me that the universe must be on my side. I just had a trip to Australia that was 14 days end to end including the three plus I was travelling, and straddled, without a hiccup either way, the six days the air over most of Europe was closed. I think that beats getting a parking space just where you want it even in London because you expect to get one. One reason it was such a flying visit was that I am still somewhat engrossed in the EFT International Masterclass and felt I could not take too long off. We have, besides 14 EFT Masters presenting, Rupert Sheldrake, David Hamilton and Dawson Church. It is going to be a quite amazing weekend (October 2/3.) If you want to learn more or to book (early booking rate is still on offer as I write) go to http://www.eftmasterclass.com I am off now to do more tech stuff. I am trying to work out if it is better to record an MP3 file in Audacity, or Audio Acrobat or... And then I have to try to master some new newsletter software which is not as user-friendly as I would have hoped. I am not sure how I started off to become a therapist and ended up needing so many skills that are nothing to do with working with people. What was that about too many connections? |
| - Posted by: Judy Byrne - Date: Fri 7 May 2010, 9:37am |
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| - RESOLUTIONS |
| I have made two new year’s resolutions. The first is to keep up-to-date with blogging, writing newsletters, twittering and… And the second is not to feel guilty when I fail to. It would be easy spending so much time writing about that there is none left for doing and living. To my surprise, I am EFT International Masterclass-organising again. Having said I would need a long holiday before I even considered doing it again the prospect of a job share with EFT Masters Sue Beer and Emma Roberts was altogether different. The Masters have a deal that it goes North and South alternate years. It was the South’s turn. Emma and Sue were the pioneers who did the first in 2006. I did it in 2008. Three people who have learned what we all learned from our first attempt sharing the load will be an altogether different experience. Or that’s the theory. Dates are October 2/3. Location London. We have a fantastic venue and will announce it soon. We have a Facebook page that is open to anyone interested in joining. It is a good way to know when the website goes live (shortly) and bookings open. The early booking price will be for a limited number only. The whole venture also takes on a difference perspective in the light of EFT Founder Gary Craig’s shock announcement that he is stepping back and leaving us to carry on putting EFT out to the world. The Masterclass seems a good way to do it. I was invited to be on a live tribute to Gary broadcast with Pat Carrington and Carol Look last Sunday. Unfortunately it was so popular I could not get on! Blogspot radio uses the same number for presenters and callers. Now I know that, with hindsight I was naïve not to log on early. Pat and Carol obviously did. Still there is more to come Thursday and again Sunday. So might be second or third time lucky. |
| - Posted by: Judy Byrne - Date: Wed 13 Jan 2010, 18:44pm |
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| - MY WAR TRAUMA DREAM |
| I have a dream. I am being haunted by a pull to run a project for traumatized service men and women who have returned from war zones and are suffering the effects of their experiences. My first concern is for the men and women themselves. Last year, after a course on website optimization, I was doing a bit of checking into who links in to my website. I strayed into a chat room for men and women who had been in war zones discussing their Post Traumatic Stress, the difficulty of getting treatment, and their skepticism about EFT because it has no formal research. (It does have some, but not enough.) On it I read a posting by someone (and I have no idea who) naming me and saying that I was the only person who had helped him or her. Whoever it was gave my website with the disclaimer that they had no vested interest in directing people to it. Reading that was not the start of my concern. It just focused my attention on what I was going to do about it. I had already learned from my therapy practice that not only are there secondary victims – families and friends - but that it can go on down the generations. I have worked with people traumatized by their traumatized fathers who came to realize that their fathers’ problems were caused or exacerbated by their own war-traumatized fathers. Without intervention it just goes on and on. So I do not yet know when or where or how I am going to finance it. I would like it to be research as well as therapy because it is true that EFT doesn’t have enough and is limited in who it can reach by that lack. I am setting the intention that what I need will fall into place over the next few months. NO COMMENT Sadly, this blog can no longer accept comments. When it got to the point where I was getting several hundred notifications a day in my email inbox that a comment had been posted and had several hundred comments a day to delete from the blog I had to shut the comments facility down. When it was spam selling pharmaceuticals I was unhappy. It got worse. I was sad that it had to go. I would love this to be able to be a conversation. But please use the contact form on the website if you would like to throw your ideas into the pot. THE COMEBACK KID I know I have been blogless for quite some time. But I was a little shocked to discover it has been six months! For those who did not attend the Masterclass I organized it was a great success. Not perfect. But then I am constantly preaching that perfect isn’t possible for humans so I have to know that applies to me, too. It took longer than I thought it would to wind the whole operation down. I postponed starting to present at an Awaken Women conference outside Zurich the following weekend. Then doing accounts, collating feedback, putting the whole operation to bed took all my spare time until early December when I took off for Australia and a holiday. January has been planning ahead time. I have scheduled my EFT training workshops for the first half of the year. I do Levels 1, 2 and 3 in London and Levels 1 and 2 in Brighton. I have arranged with another EFT Master and friend, Jaqui Crooks, to pioneer a course in Advanced EFT Techniques for experienced EFT practitioners. That is at the end of February at Leicester University. Then in April (24 – 26) I am arranging to bring to the UK one of the most brilliant therapists I have come across in a long time to do three days of training in his trauma resolution technique. His name is Brent Baum. His method is Holographic Memory Resolution. Details of all these course are on the Workshops button of this website. |
| - Posted by: Judy Byrne - Date: Sat 7 Feb 2009, 10:02am |
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| - COUNTDOWN |
| A few days ago I was sitting on a wonderfully crisp sunny day in a Coffee Club in Brisbane, people-watching through glass walls on two sides, flicking through pages of The Australian newspaper, drinking very good coffee and trying not to think of the “to do” list that was not getting done. Including updating the conference blog. However, the universe was not letting me forget. There in the travel section was a feature on the most affordable cool hotels in London. I could not, it seemed, get away from thinking, eating, sleeping and working on the EFT International Masterclass 2008. Incidentally, for anyone who is interested, I did copy a few to the Masterclass blog which is on www.eftmasterslive.com I have gone a few hundred miles further North now and am seriously working on the Masterclass. I am actually right back where my planning began, with the Pacific Ocean so blue over my laptop lid that it almost looks like a movie set. It is too blue to be believable. And the islands on the horizon look like cut-outs. so sharply are they outlined. It has been a cold winter for this part of the world but with the most beautiful clear air and so sunny. Thanks to the Internet I can access the online booking system for the conference and the conference bank, and with email can be in touch with presenters, the conference centre and so on. And, of course, I can carry documents I need to work on on a stick. But the most valuable thing about being here has probably been just having some thinking and writing time. I have started jotting down a few ideas about my own presentation – I tend to be a last minuter but like to get my unconscious working on it – and have done one book review for the masters’ selections for the conference, and written newsletters and blogs... -------------------------------------------------------------- BEFORE AND AFTER The pre and post conference workshops are really shaping up, I am delighted to say. To me it is a mark of a conference coming of age when it has exciting options either side of it. I have just sent out a newsletter about them so not going to repeat the details here. But if you are not on that newsletter list and would like to be then please email me and I will send you the last one as an attachment and put you on the list so you do not miss anything more. (It is a different list from the one you may have signed up to on this website.). ___________________________________________________________________ COMING FULL CIRCLE I am back where I started planning the Masterclass. I came here after the 2007 Masterclass in Ilkley and the Masters Showcase in Sydney to take some time out from everyday distractions so I could think how I wanted to shape the Masterclass 2008. It was a bit uncanny to find a few chores I left unfinished in December and can just pick up and finish off now. For instance, my first thoughts about a detailed timetable I discovered were still here. That was before I knew we could not get quite as many rooms as we wanted. So have to do some loaves and fishes juggling to get everything and everyone in in the next few days. The view when I look up from my laptop screen is almost the same except that it is now the middle of winter here and the doors are mostly closed. The sunsets are quite stunning and the sunrises have to be seen to be believed. London seems a long way away. But not for long. AND THEN THERE IS SWITZERLAND The weekend after the Masterclass could have been something of an anticlimax. But it will not be. I have been invited to do the opening session and a workshop in Bern, Switzerland at the second international Awaken Women Conference, and the first to be in both German and English. I am doing the opening address Saturday morning and a workshop Saturday afternoon. There are some fascinating speakers and a good booking deal. If you book with a friend you can save CHF 600 (Swiss francs = about £295). You can see the details on the website which is http://www.conference.awakenwomen.com. If you register let me know. I would love to meet you there. |
| - Posted by: Judy Byrne - Date: Wed 20 Aug 2008, 6:27am |
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