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...to a different website.

In order to maintain a continuity with my website, I am moving everything to my main webpage at www.QueenAnneProductions.com. In order to continue to receive notice of any new blogs or updates, please click on this link and sign up there.

Thank you SO much for being a part of this journey thus far. I'm thrilled for our connection and look forward to deepening it as we move forward together.

Hugs, Anne

Rev. Anne Presuel
The Empowerment Queen

What are you thinking into being?

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When Was the Last Time You Were Moved to Tears?

Today I saw one of the most incredible things I've seen in a long time. Susan Boyle, a woman in Britain, auditioned for the British version of American Idol in "Britains Got Talent."

Susan is a 47 year old woman, who has never even been kissed. She lives in a village in Britain and she sings. She's frankly plain, with some extra weight, and bushy eyebrows. Before she went on stage, she told the camera crew: "I've always wanted to perform in front of a large audience. I'm going to make that audience rock!" At this point, I'm sure people were thinking "Yeah, right! Good luck, sweetie!"

When she walked out onto the stage, the audience laughed at her, and laughed at her answers to Simon Cowell's questions. Even Simon rolled his eyes. Still, she seemed unfazed. He asked her what her dream was. She said to be a professional singer. The audience groaned.

But then she opened her mouth to sing. The audience and the judges went from disbelief to fan in less than 3 seconds! It was the most incredible transformation I have ever seen in my life.

From freak to goddess in 3 seconds.

Her choice of song: "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miserables.

The audience rose to their feet midway through the song and stayed there the rest of the song, clapping and cheering. A standing ovation.

I was sobbing at the beauty of it all. Susan Boyle glowed when she sang. She held the audience in her hand. This woman, who was really very plain, and rather awkward, was amazing.

She was sharing her gift with the world, without fear, without any of the inner conversation of "I can't" or "I'm too old" or "I'm not pretty enough." None of that. She came. She sang. She conquered.

Truly one of the most stunning things I've seen in my life. Susan Boyle is my heroine. May I have the courage to share my own magnificence with the world, even when the world laughs at me.

Thank you, Susan, for your courage, for your integrity, and for your incredible beauty!

To see this video for yourself please go to: http://www.popeater.com/television/article/susan-boyles-britains-got-talent/426649?icid=mainmaindl2link3http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popeater.com%2Ftelevision%2Farticle%2Fsusan-boyles-britains-got-talent%2F426649

Lightening the Load

Yesterday, I spent the entire day working online - not an unusual experience recently, but a good bit of it was frustrating to me as I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong while working on my new webpage, http://www.thinkitbeitseeit.com/. While the links were working, they were also disappearing from the page any time I tried to insert a paragraph. Since I don't think in html code, I couldn't figure out what was wrong.



So, for several hours, I got it to work, then it didn't. Then it did, then it didn't. I even called in the Magnificent Mande (well, that's what I call her; she says it makes her sound like a magician - works for me!), and she got it to work. (See! Her name is appropriate.) Then when I went to format the text, half of it diappeared AGAIN!



I finally let it drop, and decided I needed to go take care of myself. I went to the pool (my favorite method of exercise and relaxation), and just immersed myself in the quiet of the water, the blue of the sky, the glory of the setting sun, the call of the birds, the rustling of the wind through the palm trees, and the rhythmic movement of my body and breath. Afterward, I sat in the hot tub (yeah, I know, tough life!), and melted into the warmth. I could feel the tension leaving my body as I moved myself into a meditative state.



On the way home, I surreptitiously did a little tapping on the frustration of working on something I feel so challenged with. As I felt more peaceful, I thought "Well, maybe I can figure this stuff out." (That's the beginning of the reframe that occurs when ya tap, by the way.)



I wondered why I hadn't done this tapping thing earlier.



Those of you who tap regularly (EFT, the Emotional Freedom Technique) probably know what I am talking about. You know it works. You know it is easy to do. You know it is powerful. And EFT has been in my life - significantly - for seven years. Yet...



So what is that?

I think it has to do with the fact that we don't always do what we know is good for us. For example, how many days do I drink all the water my body needs? (Sometimes, not all.) And how often do I brush my teeth after every meal? (Uh... never!) So, why would I tap every time I'm frustrated or tired, or annoyed, or triggered? Why would I expect myself to?

Still, I do. I expect myself to do it because I teach this stuff. I use it all the time. It has changed my life. And I've seen what it does in other people's lives. And, I'm human. I get caught up in the moment and in the emotion of the moment, and I forget to tap. But when I remember ... ahhh, well, then I feel the release of the energy and the relief from the situation. Sooooo nice.

So. Have you tapped today? What are you waiting for?

Hugs...

A New Direction

Writing a blog is great. At least, that's what I've discovered. However, the part that has had to unfold for me is "What's the purpose of the blog?"

When I first started blogging, I wasn't quite sure about what to write about. So, I thought, "what the heck, I'll just write about whatever I'm thinking about." Well, that worked for a little bit, but frankly, I began to feel I needed more focus.

As I began to get more and more clear about how I am moving forward in my work, I decided that the blog also needed to get clearer and clearer about it's intention.

Thus, I am announcing today that my blogs, from now on, are going to be focused more and more on how to use EFT (the Emotional Freedom Technique) in your life.

I've been using this technique for almost 7 years now. After I went through that awful trauma in 2000, I sought healing from just about every place I could find it. While lots of things helped, nothing seemed to be lasting. I still got triggered by things, and would find myself in grief and angry about what had happened.

In 2002, I was introduced to EFT. It took me a while to actually believe that EFT could make a difference, but finally I decided to train in it.

In one day - let me repeat that, ONE DAY - the emotional stuff I had been carrying for 2 1/2 years was gone. GONE. I was so astonished that feelings like anger, hurt, betrayal, frustration, guilt, shame, yes, even rage, could be dissipated like that. Yet it happened.

From that point on, I learned everything I could about EFT. (You can learn more @ the main EFT website, www.emofree.com, if you like.) I began to use it with my clients, and witnessed some amazing emotional shifts with them, as well. All sorts of traumas were soothed and healed.

I completely changed and recreated my life, using this wonderful tool. And life is 160 degrees different from what it was in 2000, when the trauma occurred.

I am so incredibly grateful to Gary Craig, the creator of EFT, for making this tool available to everyone.

Thank you, Gary, from the bottom of my heart!

Have You Tapped Today?

I had the opportunity to tap today on some issues I'm having with feeling overwhelmed with the new way I am setting up my business/practice. Basically, I began by simply acknowledging what's so. "Even tho I'm feeling overwhelmed and I have no idea what to do next, I deeply & completely love & accept myself."



Just tapping helped shift the feelings. Then, as the feelings began to subside, new ways of organizing what needs to be done next began to show up in my mind, and I was able to re-focus on what's next.



This will work for anyone on any issue. If you just tap a little bit on what's happening for you right here, right now, you'll find that it will begin to shift the stuff that is gripping you, and new thoughts can then take the place of the overwhelm.



(It's sort of like cleaning your closet, if you will.)



So, have you tapped today?

Trusting Your Intuition, Part 3

My daughter, Christina, and I headed to Miami in May, 2001. We drove down, and met up with a family friend close to Miami. Christina was going to stay with her friends on the West Coast while I attended the workshop. What a gift that was!

I got settled into my hotel room that Sunday afternoon. The course began the next morning, and I was so excited I could attend!

That week, Doreen taught us about our connection to Spirit, and how to clear our energy fields so that we could be more aware of our connections. Mid-week we began to give readings to one another using Doreen's angel cards, which we had cleared and dedicated to Spirit's use. Then came, for me, the biggest intuitive hit, which led me to really "get" what this intuition thing was all about.

On Thursday morning, Doreen had us do readings for one another without knowing who the other person was. We were to write a question on a piece of paper, fold it up and hand it in. Before we handed it in, we had to write our row (A, B, C...) and our seat number on that paper (and remember where we were sitting). Then we switched seats. The questions were mixed up and handed out to the class. We were to get quiet, ask the question for the other person, and then write down the answers on the same piece of paper, then turn them back in.

For some reason, this seemed harder to me than having someone sit across from me. We were not to use the angel cards, but rather to trust what information we got for the other person. (I now know that one of my strengths is to read someone's energy, which I had been doing with the person across from me, but this was different, more removed. Now it is just as easy to read someone's energy this way, but then, not so much.)

I received the other person's paper. The question was something like "What is next for me to do? This, or this?" I got quiet and then began to write what came to me. It was easier than I thought. I wrote what came to me and it flowed. Then I received the instructions to write "And you will know, my son, ..."

What? Wait. No. Uh-uh. I began to argue with the angels. "I'm NOT writing 'my son,'" I said. The urging came back stronger. "NO!" I shouted in my head. "There are 10 men here out of 125 total attendees. Are you kidding? What if I'm wrong?!" The urging came back stronger.

Oh, jeez, what to do?

After debating for a few minutes, I acquiesced and wrote "my son." Then I finished it up and handed the paper back in.

We all got back into our regular seats and got the answers back. Then went to lunch.

At lunch, I went to the large round table and a number of people joined me. We all talked about the reading we had just given using automatic writing. A guy was there with his wife and he began to talk about what he had gotten.

"I was thinking yeah, yeah, as I read it," he said. "I wasn't taking it that seriously, until I came to 'my son' and it stopped me cold. I knew that this had been written by Spirit because I always heard that in my meditations. I then re-read the reading and really heard what it was saying. It was so accurate!"

"Oh, my gosh," I stammered, after having dropped my fork in my salad. "I wrote that!" I shared with the group how it kept coming to me to write "my son" and how I had argued with the angels about writing it, but finally had written it.

They looked at me like I had just levitated! Not only had I written this - and trusted my intuitive hit - I had also had that hit confirmed almost immediately. Of all the places this guy and his wife could have sat, he sat directly across from me at our lunch table. We had never met before, and hadn't sat together at any meals in this class. Only Spirit could have orchestrated such a perfect "coincidence!"

This experience was the solid "Aha!" experience I had in that class. It was amazing and it anchored for me what it felt like to receive information from Spirit and what fear felt like in the face of that information. It was an incredibly useful experience that has served me so well in continuing to develop my intuitive abilities. Well worth the expense of the class, by the way!

How have you connected to Spirit today? Are you listening to the gentle, yet firm, inner urges to do something? Are you paying attention?

Begin today by saying "I trust my intution." Doreen taught me that affirmation. Believe me when I say that when I first started saying it I didn't believe it at all. I felt like I was lying. Now, 8 years later, it is congruent with who I am.

This is the process of affirmations, by the way, which we will begin to cover in some upcoming blogs.

For now, though, create a wonderful day, and TRUST your intuition! It will never guide you astray!

Trusting Your Intution, Part 2

In Doreen Virtue's book, "The Lightworker's Way," she talked about asking the angels for help. I was comfortable talking with angels at this time, but had no idea if I was asking for too much, or whether or not I'd actually receive the help. I hoped I would, but hey, I really didn't know.

What I did know was that I wanted to attend Doreen's next Angel Therapy Practitioner course, which was going to be in a month in Miami.

So, I decided to ask for help. It went something like this, "Ok, guys, now you know I want to go to the ATP class and you know I don't have the money for it. If I am really supposed to go, then I need your help in getting that money together for it."

I had a car that I had been trying to sell for two years. Two Years. Two. Years. And I had had no luck. I decided to ask for help in selling it. I knew that if it sold, I would be able to go.

So, I politely reminded the angels that I had this car available which could be used for money to attend this class.

Within two weeks it was sold. And I had the money.

I immediately signed up for Doreen's class, and made reservations for a hotel room.

From this I learned to ask.

What I Learned In Miami - next.


To be continued...