One of the things I like about Phillip’s approach is how he gets out and spreads the word at a grass roots level speaking in many small towns all over the world so that you get the message clearly not blurred by distorted media representation.

Phillip is kicking off an Australia tour entitled:
Look Great, Feel Better, Worry Less, Live Longer

His presentation will cover topics such as:

• Government departments say organic food is an expensive waste of time. Should we believe them?
• Moles, warts and skin tags – how to get rid of them naturally
• How to give a baby the best start in life and avoid life endangering pitfalls
• One portion of this food a week is more dangerous to your child than using a mobile phone every day
• Overweight, lethargic, and listless? You won’t be!
• Depression – the one cause no-one dares talk about
• Cancer, heart, disease and stoke – scientists’ hot tips for the serious stuff
• What startling new evidence is changing everything in science?
• How to make friends with exercise
• How not to get Alzheimer’s, senile dementia or vision loss in old age
• The latest on Candida, thrush and ringworm
• Diabetes, eyesight and high blood pressure
• Chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and ME

The tour kicks off from the 21st of February. Check out the locations and buy your tickets online here.Related Posts:

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Gaining awareness of and knowledge of mental health conditions can make things worse. Like someone researching disease symptoms on the internet, you might find you have some of the indicators of a condition. So suddenly, your understandable anxiety about the economy, becomes full blown General Anxiety Disorder (GAD). Now, you’re not only anxious about the economy but even more anxious because you think you have GAD.

And, once you have this awareness, then what? I looked through a lot of the events for Mental Health Week and found that only a small number were about fixing the problem. What’s the point of educating you about something but not empowering you to do something about it? If you can’t do anything about it then you feel helpless and abdicate any responsibility for your part in healing yourself. This creates a victim mentality. “I’m a victim of this condition so there’s nothing I can do.” Top psychologists have admitted that this a significant flaw in the current mental health system.

I’ve written before about 6 Human Needs Psychology and why some people don’t tap even when they know EFT can help them. The six human needs are: Certainty, Variety, Significance, Love/Connection, Growth, and Contribution. We all find ways to meet these needs but some ways are empowering and improve our life while others are disempowering and hurt us or make things worse.

Let’s take someone who is labeled as having General Anxiety Disorder:

So being made aware of this condition without being able to do something about it actually reinforces the victim mentality.

By the way, if this article is pressing any of your buttons and bringing up issues for you, wouldn’t that be some great tapping material?

I’m not suggesting that these conditions don’t exist and that they don’t have severe consequences in a person’s life. I am saying that giving people an awareness of a condition without giving them tools to help themselves is a problem.

At least some of the Mental Health week events talk about coping strategies. Something is better than nothing, but most of these are band-aid treatments which don’t address the underlying cause of the problem and create lasting change in a person’s life.

Thankfully, many people who come into the practice have had enough of being told there’s nothing they can do and they just have to accept their condition. They’re not accepting the verdict that their only option is to take drugs or just cope with the condition for the rest of their lives. These clients don’t accept that they are a victim of their condition. They question “the experts” and do their own research, and make up their own minds about what is and isn’t possible for them. Chances are if you’re reading this, I’m preaching to the converted.

When you accept responsibility for helping yourself you continue to educate yourself about the many alternatives, such as EFT, but also diet, exercise, hypnotherapy, meditation, and so on. Accepting responsibility for your part in the healing process, rather than the learned helplessness of a victim, is the first step to true healing.Related Posts:

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