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I’m running a special promotion to help me raise funds for traveling to a conference in New Zealand this summer. There are the conference fees and the plane tickets, and it’s not only a lot of money, but I also have to buy that ticket as soon as possible to ensure that the Economy seats won’t be sold out before I can snag one.

What would I like you to do (if you want to help)?

You could buy a copy of my ebook Instant Stress Relief Strategies.

Of course, you could also just send a donation

But really, why not get the book? It comes with bonuses (one fast action bonus is described in the next entry), and you’ll get in fact the old book Feel Better Quickly Plus the reworked new version Instant Stress Relief Strategies as soon as it’s out (within the next few days).

Please read the next post for more details.

I will add more info later to this post as well.

Thanks for your help.

Elisabeth

Instant Stress Relief Strategies

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What does the Law of Attraction have to do with stress management?

A lot! Stress is among the many feelings that basically push the incoming good away and attract bad stuff.

While we may not always exactly attract what we worry about, we are likely to attract something similar, and, as one of my favorite spiritual teachers once said, “Believe me, it will be adequate.”

So there is much to be gained from getting a handle on stress. But how? All the things that people tell you about, good nutrition, planning ahead and deep breathing just feel like Band-aids when the going gets really rough.

And retail therapy can get you into even bigger trouble when your finances are at the root of your stress.

Here’s what I’m going to do about it:

I’m going to create a special edition of my ebook that is focused specifically on stress and how to relieve it. It’s called “Instant Stress Relief Strategies” and you can get it at www.InstantStressReliefStrategies.com

At the moment what will happen when you go there is this:

You’ll see the new “sales page” but the book that will appear for download is the old version.

Not to worry. For a very limited time, i.e., until I have the new version finished and uploaded, you will get BOTH the old version “Feel Better Quickly” AND the new version “Instant Stress Relief Strategies” for the price of one. I’m even working on a special bonus that I will sell separately, but IF YOU BUY THIS WEEKEND, I will send it to you for free when it is ready. Seriously.

What is it? Well… I told you I’ve been there when it comes to stress, and at one point, I was literally on the verge of a heart attack with a blood pressure of 220/110 and killer triglycerides of 551. I was scared out of my socks of taking blood pressure meds, so I researched alternative blood pressure lowering information and took concerted action…

In my special report, I will share all the things I did and that worked and maybe even a few new ones I’ve discovered more recently.

So get it soon if you want that report. Everyone who buys my ebook THIS WEEKEND will met my special blood pressure lowering report FREE as soon as it’s ready.

Why the hurry? Because I’m trying to raise some money fast for my upcoming trip to New Zealand (to participate in a conference). More about that in a new post above…

But whether you buy my book or not, do remember that lowering your stress levels will go a long way towards making the Law of Attraction work for you so much better.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Elisabeth

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If you want to have a blog, or you want your blog to perform better, you owe it to yourself to at least check out Mike Paetzold’s WordPress Lessons.

They rock.  Really.  Check out my review below or at ezinearticles.com (just click on the expert author thingie to the right and scroll down to my WordPress Review article).

Or go straight to Mike’s Info Page on his lessons.

And stay tuned on more personal growth info which will forthcome within days if not hours

 Elisabeth

Is your life too stressful? If the answer is yes, you probably won’t need any help with figuring out if you need a break. You KNOW.

But sometimes we’re in denial. We think, oh, it’s just a temporary thing and I’ll make it through this one too, but then there’s the next one and the next one, and our bodies, designed to fight or flee, which worked just fine way back in the early days, just can’t cope.

We were definitely not designed for long-term non-stop stress. Some of us have learned the hard way where this can lead. If you haven’t, do yourself a favor and don’t keep going till you find out for yourself. It’s not pretty.

So here are a few signs that should tell you to slow down — fast:

1: Racing heart and shaky hands, especially if that happens frequently.

2: Trouble sleeping. Thoughts racing through your head. Waking up in the middle of the night making to-do lists.

3. Neck pain, upper back pain, any back pain for that matter. My chiropractor tells me that out-of-whack vertebrae or, like he likes to call it, subluxations, are caused by the three T’s: trauma (we knew about that one), toxins, and thoughts.

Yes, thoughts. Thoughts of the variety that cause us stress. Have you ever been in the middle of being all stressed out about something and suddenly your back goes out? Or your neck hurts, Or your head?

4. Numbness and tingling in arms and/or hands (and legs too, I suppose). Another one I wasn’t aware of. I was a bit worried about it but figured I just pinched a nerve. Guess what. It’s all part of the body’s reaction to too much stress.

5. You feel sick to your stomach, or have any other gastro-intestinal irregularities. All of these can be caused by stress as well. Remember the tummy ache you had as a kid when you were afraid to go to school on test day or because the schoolyard bully had it in for you?

6. And if your weight has been moving up and up and up, that too may well be due to stress. Cortisol, the ultimate stress hormone, causes the body to store fat (remember, it’s an emergency — you may need it someday, or so the body thinks).

And that’s just for starters. If you find yourself plagued by any or all of the above, take a break.

Sure, deadlines may loom, but think about it: What will they do when you fall over with a heart attack? They’ll figure something out. Why not take the break earlier and NOT have that heart attack first. It’ll be easier on everybody, even from a straight cost/benefit point of view.

So if you’re too stressed to think straight, take a break already. Your work will go so much better when you’re feeling more relaxed and your body is back in balance.

For ways to actually lower stress and regain some peace of mind, and maybe improve your mood too, you may want to check out my FREE ebook with seven stress-lowering and mood-boosting tips. Okay, I admit it. It’s a shameless ploy to get you to take a look at it and then hopefully liking it so much you’ll want the real deal.

But mostly, I hope you’ll enjoy my book and find it helpful. So please, do take me up on my offer and get my special trial edition of Feel Better Quickly right now.

And feel better quickly

Have a great day!

Elisabeth

P.S.: If you can’t wait to get the full version, you can get that right here. or by clicking on the teddy bear at the top right of the screen.

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Why WordPress Lessons? If you have a blog, or want a blog, you should check it out. You’ve seen how much fun I’m having with mine, after all, haven’t you?

And my blog wouldn’t exist without WordPress Lessons, a course taught a few times a year by Mike Paetzold, WordPress Guru Extraordinaire, and one of the nicest people I’ve met on the internet yet.

What’s in it for you? You can check out my post on WordPress Lessons on my OTHER blog, for starters.

I’ve also written a detailed review for Ezinearticles & Co, and will post the link for it as soon as it gets published.

Meantime, though, I suggest you just go check out the real thing at WordPress Lessons and register while there’s still space available.

What will you get?

A membership site with all the stuff you need to set up a really well-functioning WordPress Blog, one that’s ready to draw traffic and make you money.

Plus video tutorials and PDF checklists.

Plus the actual lessons, which are four weekly two-hour webinars, focusing on

1) setting up and tweaking your blog,
2) driving traffic to it,
3) making money with it, and
4) critiquing and fine-tuning the members’ blogs.

There’s also a forum for members/students to discuss their blog concerns, and a very friendly and responsive help desk, staffed by Mike himself.

The most amazing part: Once you have paid for the course, you’ll be an alumnus and will get to take it again for free whenever it’s offered. And with the pace that things are changing and progressing on the internet, that’s a benefit that’s just about priceless!

So if blogging interests you, if you want to make money, if your website is just not “performing” the way you want it to, there’s a solution: WordPress Lessons!

Seven stress tips and/or feel-better tips are yours for the downloading!

How come? As you can see below, my new ebook Feel Better Quickly: Emergency Rescue Toolbox for your Mood is ready. And I want to give people a chance to try it on for size risk-free.

So I had the sneaky idea to simply give you a shorter version of it FREE!

Get it right here:

FREE Ebook on how to feel better quickly

Read and enjoy. And try out some tips. See what you think, and let me know if you like them. Or not. And also let me know what kind of info you would like to have in the next edition of the book!

Oh, and please feel free to share it with friends, family, associates. You may give it away to anyone you like.

Meanwhile, I hope you feel fabulous and won’t have any need whatsoever for the emotional rescue tips in my book. But then again, life has its ups and downs, and so you never know when it might come in handy sometime.

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Let me tell you about my happiest discovery on the internet: article marketing.

It’s also called BUM marketing, presumably because you get to sit on your bum and yet can rake in lots of the green stuff. But this is way better than your average BUM marketing course, ecourse, or whatever.

I have them all, and yet, when Jeff Herring, article marketing expert extraordinaire, announces yet another teleseminar, I put it on my calendar immediately!

Why? Easy: Jeff delivers. He does what he says he will do. And then some. Lots of “some.”

And while his great big Internet Marketing Secrets Teleseminar has started, it’s not too late. You can still get in. You’ll just save lots of time… because you can access the audios for the first couple of weeks right away!

Jeff has changed my life. From despair to hope, from bleeding thousands every month to having the inflow increase (slowly so far, but accelerating), it’s all his doing. And especially giving me the confidence and know-how that makes me KNOW I can do it too.

He goes WAY beyond BUM marketing. Check it out right here:

http://www.turboarticles.net

And good luck

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As promised in my book Feeling Better Quickly, I’m going to share my Happy Playlist with you right here on my blog. These are songs I play when I need cheering up or just because. I also often play them when I am already feeling good.

Please note that some of my favorite songs are German — that’s where I grew up and so I have a particularly strong emotional connection to some of the songs that made me feel good when I was young(er).

Some of them might not even be particularly obvious as happy songs — must have something to do with what happened in my life when I used to listen to them that I now, consciously or subconsciously associate with them. There are other songs not yet on that list because I haven’t been able to find electronic versions of them — yet.

Anyway, here they are, in no particular order, or rather, more or less in the order in which they arrived in my iTunes and I was able to add them:

All You Need Is Love (Beatles)

I Want to Hold Your Hand (Beatles)

Staying Alive (Bee Gees)

Saturday Night Fever (Bee Gees)

Pretty Woman (Roy Orbison)

Positive Vibrations (Bob Marley)

Sunshine of Your Love (Cream)

Radar Love (Golden Earring)

Samba Pa Ti (Santana)

Black Magic Woman (Santana)

Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)

Honky Tonk Woman (Rolling Stones)

I Want You (Bob Dylan)

Pop Muzik (M)

Rebel Rebel (David Bowie)

Jean Genie (David Bowie)

Magic Man (Heart)

Something (Beatles)

Come Together (Beatles)

I’m not in Love (10 cc)

Whisky in the Jar (Thin Lizzy)

All Things Are Possible (Darlene Zschech (Gospel from Australia)

Joy Joy Joy (Francine Jarry/Abraham-Hicks)

Aber Dich gibt’s nur einmal fuer mich (Flippers)

Listen to the Music (Doobie Brothers)

Flashdance (What a Feeling) (Irene Cara)

Try (Just A Little Bit Harder) Janis Joplin

Celebration (Kool & the Gang)

Financially Free (Lauren Lane Powell)

Manifesting Money (Lauren Lane Powell)

Eyeballin’ (Lonnie Brooks)

We Are The Champions (Queen)

Es wird ein Bettler zum Koening (Ricky Shayne)

Ich sprenge alle Ketten (Ricky Shayne)

Born to be Wild (Steppenwolf)

Joy to the World (Three Dog Night)

An Old Fashioned Love Song (Three Dog Night)

The Show Must Go On (Three Dog Night)

Eye of the Tiger (Survivor)

Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)

One Step Beyond (Madness)

In the Summertime (Mungo Jerry)

School’s Out (Alice Cooper)

Schoen ist es auf der Welt zu sein (Roy Black & Anita)

Ich sing ein Lied fuer Dich (Heintje)

Ich bau dir ein Schloss (Heintje)

I Will Survive (Gloria Gaynor)

And last, but definitely not least:

The entire Tschaikowski Violin Concerto in D-Major.

Enjoy

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Oh dear! It’s been an incredibly crazy couple of weeks. Good thing I get to use all the tricks in my toolbox any time I like!

Murphy’s Law abounded. Or so it felt anyway. I should have known better — things do tend to take longer and need more double-checking than I expect.

And I’m still not finished. I’m planning to slicken up that sales page for my Get Happy Quickly Ebook. It still looks a whole lot less slick than I wish it did. But at least it’s working.

And my shiny new affiliate program (I can hardly believe I have one!) had a few snafus too. But true to form, after sorting them out, I immediately wrote it up and sent it over to ezinearticles.com

So what’s next? Advertise! I had been wondering about how I’m going to get the word out when I discovered a special offer on Avery Berman’s new book that I really wanted to buy (that kid is GOOD!) so I bought it (the book is as cool as all his stuff (MySpace video and Craigslist video is what I had before), and so is the third video that I now own: It’s on AdBrite! I felt so inspired that I immediately went there and bought a couple of ads. I can hardly wait to find out what’ll happen!

Adbrite is great because it’s way cheaper than Google Adwords. Or is it Adsense? I always get the two mixed up. Anyway, check it out if you like:

And I’ll tell you more about Avery’s cool new book once I’ve finished reading it (shouldn’t be long!)

In the meantime, if you haven’t already, please (pretty please) check out my own new book: Feel Better Quickly: Emergency Rescue Toolbox for your Mood.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Elisabeth

P.S.: My newest project: A series of articles about Aromatherapy, plus a booklet (to give away — yes, all my subscribers will get one), and probably an ebook I’ll sell.

I really like aromatherapy and use it all the time. I did manage to wean myself off the Zzzonked aromatherapy I used for several years to help me fall asleep. I still sometimes find it hard to believe that I’m sleeping just fine without it these days.

So let’s see… what aromas are the best ones to help you fall asleep: Personally, I really like Lavender. Jasmine is also very calming. Pair with an herbal relaxing tea and you may well sleep like a baby. More to follow another time…

Stressed? Depressed? Don’t put up with it. You CAN make yourself feel better fast.

How? Just get a copy of my emotional emergency rescue toolbox and start using it, and before you know it, you’ll feel MUCH better.

And all that for the price of, oh, 10 minutes of therapy perhaps. Maybe 15. Or a few pills of Taxol. Or a movie and popcorn for one.

And what do you get? A toolbox that lets you take charge of your emotions for years to come.

Not bad, is it?

Just click on this cute little teddybear and check it out:

Okay, as you can see, the sales page is there and functional, though not the flashiest one on the web. I’ll work on upgrading it some more. But I’m just so thrilled anyway that I’ve got it going.

And I’ve even set up the shopping cart system, and the automatic delivery of the ebook. And it’s working!!!

You’d have to know what a technophobe I was less then 2 years ago to really appreciate this.

Anyway. Give it a try. You can check it out right here:

Elisabeth’s Emergency Mood Rescue Kit

Take a look. Click on the the teddy bear above. Read the book. Feel better…

And if you like it, please let me know. Especially if I can use it as a testimonial

Now I’m off to make myself another mug of spiced hot chocolate. Yummm.

I hope you’ll have a wonderful evening.

Elisabeth