I'm thrilled to spotlight Margaret Miller's fine paintings in June's Artist's Way column. Check out her other lovely artworks on her new website.

With summer upon us, there's an abundance of fun to be had: trips to the beach, late night movies, vacations; and not to mention keeping up with work and the demands of daily life. All this fun and work takes energy. In this issue we offer several ways to boost your energy naturally.

I'm also teaching my very first teleclass next week. My friend Lee Buderas moved off to Florida and became a massage therapist. He called a few months back to ask me the secrets to my success. This teleclass is my response: "Your Fabulous Success System--Self, Service, and Success." The teleclass is free, other than the long distance charges for the call. Once you've registered for the class you simply call in to the conference center, enter your participant # and listen to the class as you like. I'd love to have you join us.

Have a FAB summer!  

Love your way,
Alan Davidson

• The Artist's Way--Margaret Miller
• Deepak Chopra Interview: Ruminating on Rumi, Love and the Ego
• Seven Secrets of High-Energy People
• Recharge your life
• 5 Energy Foods to Enhance Your Energy Now
• Combining Modern Meditation with EFT
• Emotional Freedom Techniques
• Your Fabulous Success
• Integral WET
• Your Monthly Astrocast by Michael Lutin

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Dr. Deepok Chopra is an endocrinologist-turned- spiritual-teacher. His best selling books explore the synthesis of ancient spiritual traditions, quantum physics, and cutting-edge medical theories and technologies. His latest work is A Gift of Love— Deepak & Friends Present Music Inspired by the Love Poems of Rumi. Deepak’s friends include Madonna, Demi Moore, Martin Sheen, Rosa Parks, Robert A. F. Thurman, Coleman Barks, Goldie Hawn, and Blythe Danner. The CD combines the celebrities reading the ecstatic Love poems of the 13th century Persian poet Jalal-ud-Din Rumi coupled with modern world music grooves. It’s an interesting combination. Dr. Chopra elaborates. “Rumi is the foremost poet of ecstatic love. Our unfulfilled longings result in addiction which, I believe, is the #1 problem in our culture today. And addiction is just a second-class substitute for the experience of ecstasy.”

In his book The Way of Passion Andrew Harvey says of Rumi. “He is the greatest of all mystic poets, and Easterners worship his work second in grandeur, depth, mystery, and holiness only to the Koran. Through all the centuries since his death and all the vicissitudes and tragedies of Moslem history, his odes have been chanted by crowds on pilgrimages and sung with the highest reverence in religious assemblies.”

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By Mira Kirshenbaum

Do they sleep 12 hours a day or run marathons? No. The most powerful energy sources are in your soul, not your body. Learn how to create more joy and meaning in your life.

"The single biggest difference between people who get what they want and people who don't is energy," says Mira Kirshenbaum, psychotherapist and clinical director of the Chestnut Hill Institute in Boston. In this excerpt from her new book, The Emotional Energy Factor, she explains how to harness it so you can live the life of your dreams. The best news? Unlike physical energy, which is finite and diminishes with age, emotional energy is unlimited and has nothing to do with genes or upbringing. So how do you get it? You can't simply tell yourself to be positive. You must take action. Here are seven practical strategies that work.

Simple Strategies

1. Do something genuinely new.

Very little that's new occurs in our lives. The impact of this sameness on our emotional energy is gradual, but huge: It's like a tire with a slow leak. You don't notice it at first, but eventually you'll get a flat. It's up to you to plug the leak -- even though there are always a dozen reasons to stay stuck in your rut. That's where Maura, 36, a waitress and would-be caterer, found herself a year ago.

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Energy expert Jon Gordon says give yourself a boost with water, exercise, attitude

By CLAUDIA FELDMAN, The Houston Chronicle

Tired?

Silly question.

Americans, as a group, are exhausted and maybe most exhausted in January, when all that's left of the holidays are bills, stale cookies and overwhelming urges to nap.

Enter Jon Gordon, a self-described energy coach from Florida who has been bounding around town the past few days. It would be easy enough to dismiss Gordon, who in past lives ran restaurants, dropped in and out of law school, worked in a wireless- technology biz and lost a city council race in Atlanta.

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by Jon Gordon

Eating for energy means eating more whole organic foods that come from nature and less processed foods. Below are just a few quick ideas to get you started. These are taken from new my book The 10-Minute Energy Solution which contains a large section on High-Energy Foods!

1. Avocados - They are high in fat, but it's the good monounsaturated fat. Your brain and body need great sources of fat and research shows that we actually need to eat the good fat to burn the bad fat. Avocados are also a great source of folate, potassium, and fiber. Add a few slices to a sandwich or make guacamole.

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by Patricia Carrington, Ph.D.

Some of you may know that before I became involved with EFT, I worked extensively with the modern forms of meditation. I researched them, taught them, wrote about them, and developed new methods for applying them. Clinical meditation was the basis for my therapeutic work and that of my late husband, Harmon S. Ephron, M.D., throughout the 1970’s and ‘80’s. They laid the groundwork for my later involvement with energy psychology methods, which of course are its cousins.

Recently, however, I met up with someone who was familiar with my training methods and writing on meditation, and who asked me, naively, “Why did you leave meditation for EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique)? Do you think EFT is that much better?”

I was taken aback by this question, I have never stopped meditating myself nor ceased to recommend it to others whom I think would benefit from it. It remains a major part of my practice as a clinical psychologist. Although EFT has now become the center of my therapeutic work, the two methods combine so naturally that I had scarcely noticed how much until I was asked this question.

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Where emotional relief brings physical health. Self help method often works where nothing else will
By Gary Craig

EFT is a new discovery that has provided thousands with relief from pain, diseases and emotional issues. Simply stated, it is a unique version of acupuncture except you don't use needles. Instead, you stimulate well established energy meridian points on your body by tapping on them with your fingertips. The process is easy to memorize and is portable so you can do it anywhere. It launches off the EFT Discovery Statement which says...

"The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body's energy system."

And because our physical pains and diseases are so obviously connected with our emotions the following statement has also proven to be true... "Our unresolved negative emotions are major contributors to most physical pains and diseases."

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A free teleclass led by Alan Davidson

The "Your Fabulous Success System:"

Self, Service, and Success

Is your key to create a bustling and profitable practice or small business.

Guests for the Tele Class are:

Jan Stringer, Co- Author of: Attracting Perfect Customers: The Power of Strategic Synchronicity

Nancy Winters-- Founder/Owner The Winters School of Massage Houston, Texas 1984-2000

Kathi Austin-- Founder of Resource Marketing

Choose from two different days and times:

Monday June 5th @ 1 PM CST Thursday June 8th @ 7:30 PM CST

To Learn More About this Teleclass

Weekend Experiential Training in Austin
Led By Diane Hamilton

Integral WET is a weekend immersion into Integral Institute’s highly acclaimed Integral Life Practice. The premise of ILP is simple: by carefully integrating physical, psychological and spiritual practices, you accelerate your growth in each of them. At Integral WET you'll get a direct experience of integrating four key practice modules:

• the big mind process, developed by Zen master Genpo Roshi, will give you a genuine satori in three hours of facilitated interplay • the 3 body practice is a daily routine which integrates strength training (physical body), energy work (subtle body), and open awareness (causal body) • the 3-2-1 shadow process is an elegant way of revealing hidden aspects of yourself • Ken Wilber’s AQAL Framework, the most comprehensive map of reality available, will guide your ongoing exploration into the territory of You.

JUNE 09 – 11, 06 The Crossings Austin, TX

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