Greetings, fellow OMLer!

Thanks so much for visiting my page. I’m an Accredited Advanced Clinical EFT practitioner and Master Trainer in the case of the former and an ongoing student in the case of the latter.

In terms of both, I’m always learning and I love sharing what I’m discovering. My way of doing that, in addition to the 10 minutes of Tapping I guide us through at the beginning of each meditation, is to post links and resources here on this page which I think will be of interest to you – especially if you want to know more about EFT.

Please pop in often. Your Presence is my present and I look forward to getting to know you. So that you can get to know me better, I’ve put together a little backstory. That’s a term from my former incarnation as a television writer. If you’d like to know more about me…

I’ve been on a spiritual path since discovering at age 11 that focusing on how lucky I was could made my eyes start to water and my chest feel like it was going to burst with joy. So, I used to do this a lot – sitting on a swing in the leafy green park near our house, lying on the rust-and-cream floral couch in our living room or in bed at night under the covers. God, as I then called the loving Presence I was saying thank you to, was all around me, all the time. Raised without much formal religion, however, I didn’t have much of a concept of God beyond this so, at age 15, I began my quest for more information.

Cut to me reading the New Testament, bit by bit, before bed every night. And so began a journey through books and faiths that included Catholicism, “Seth”, “A Return to Love”, Kabbalah, Edgar Cayce, psychics, past life regression to name just a sampling – a whole esoteric buffet of spiritual exploration. Though all these things offered different and sometimes very differing perspectives on Truth, I felt like my intellectual understanding was filling out as each source provided additional key pieces to this great Puzzle I was trying to put together. And then, I stopped. I wasn’t sure why at the time.

Looking back I think I was too busy pursuing the rapture of Romantic Love in an effort to feel moved by something when all the intellectualizing had turned my notion of God into a bunch of thoughts. I’d strayed far from my days of achieving a state of bliss through a child’s simple gratitude. That’s when the Universe dealt me a shattering blow. The most epic Romance of my entire addicted-to-love life vaporized within a couple of months of my moving across the planet, lock stock and barrel, to join my life with the One, the Just-In-The-Nick-Of-Time One, my Soulmate…The whole relationship turned out to be an illusion.

eeling hoodwinked, cheated, betrayed by God, I plummeted into real, major depression. It was my dark night of the soul, my Ground Zero. I wanted to crawl into the cool dark earth and stay there. I wanted to give up. I’d had it. That year and a half is a dark blur of desperately trying to rescue myself while dragging my depression around like a huge lead weight in my belly so I don’t clearly remember how I came to be reading Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” but I do remember how the words and ideas in that book shone like a dim but promising light in the distance. I recognized myself in his tale of depression and his phrase “I don’t know who I am anymore” was one I had uttered to myself in shock, word for word. I found myself trying to swim towards what he was teaching – and I recognized it was something I’d had when I was eleven and lost through trying to think about it too much. I did manage to get some relief, by practicing what he and then Byron Katie, Louise Hay, Marianne Williamson and others I eagerly read were suggesting. But the horrible, painful mental chatter  that was running rampant in my energy system, due to a double whammy of grief and anger, prevented any peace I achieved from lasting more than a day or so.

When I confessed to a close friend that I was finding I didn’t care if I lived or died, she panicked and made me promise I’d try this wacky-sounding thing called Tapping (that she’d tried to introduce me to several years earlier without success). Because I’d promised and for no other reason, I did I force myself to read the manual she sent me and I did give this strange thing a try. Six days later I my depression was gone and I felt lighter, happier and more joyful than I had felt since age 11. Now, I have to be careful when I write about or discuss Tapping that I don’t make outrageous promises about this being a cure for depression. There are lots of kinds of depression and I am sure my 18 months of journaling and spiritual questing had something to do with how fast it worked for me – but this was my experience. In the ensuing years I went on to use Tapping on myself and others, for everything from strep throat to procrastination, until I felt called to leave my career as a screenwriter and become certified in Clinical EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques – the name given to the process by Gary Craig, the man who ‘invented’ it). I can honestly say that Tapping has changed my life, from dissolving a depression that might have stayed with me forever to ridding me of that pesky and unhelpful addiction to swoony-love that was getting in the way of my being able to have a truly loving and healthy relationship. But it isn’t a substitute for spiritual practice. Nothing is. It’s just that I spend less time thinking about spirituality now and more time trying to raise my vibration like I instinctively knew to do when I was little: to a place of gratitude, and stillness and joy.   My methods are varied, from creating an app (Remindfulness, which helps me remember to do the small, easy things throughout the day that get me to those places) to pursuing my love of reading and discussing spiritual ideas, such as presented in A Course In Miracles, the Inner Ramana and Buddism, to experimenting with meditations like “Angel Contact” which took me to new places and left me with the feeling of wanting more and wanting to experience its gifts with others – the genesis of One Mind Live, the place where Tapping and Meditation meet. Tapping prepares us to get the most out of the journeys by quickly quieting any stress or internal chatter accumulated in the hours leading up to the meditation, so that we can go deeply, safely and effortlessly into opening and being lifted up by Naomi Carling’s guiding words and Stephen Fearnley’s guiding music. Recently, just after we began construction on the One Mind Live site, I found a journal entry I’d made in the mid 90’s. In it, I described a dream that made absolutely no sense to me at the time and yet was so vivid and felt so chest-burstingly joyful that I ached to climb back into it. It was thousands of people joining in Oneness all chanting an “I am” meditation. Coincidence? I don’t even think I believed in coincidence when I was eleven 🙂 Highest and best Naomi