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Nearly everyone wants to get rich, to have abundance, to enjoy prosperity in their lives.

There are only a few basic steps you have to take in order to get whatever riches you want in your life:

1. Learn, study, apply.

There are a few classics like Napoleon Hill’s and Wallace Wattles’ books which tell you everything you need to know about getting rich. While there are a few modern details to updates on such as Robert Kiyosaki’s texts, most of the learning you need to do are in the basics of getting rich.

It’s not just reading these books once, but reviewing and studying them over and over so you have these principles known cold and intuitively available. Collect new books and tapes as you need them, so that you are constantly involved in learning your craft. Surround yourself with experts.

Work out how to apply all these data in your life with every new day. See what works for you and what doesn’t, what needs to be adapted to your situation. Always study life itself to see what lessons you can learn from the opportunities which present themselves to you.

2. We are all connected. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way.

This principle comes from one of the oldest surviving philosophies on this planet: “There are no limits.” Which not only means that you can’t be limited in anything you want to accomplish, attain or acquire, but also that all you do affects someone else. This is the basis for the Golden Rule, in fact. Whatever you do comes back to you. You can’t get without giving. So give your best to everyone at all times. Help others become rich in their own lives in order to become rich in yours.

There is much to gain by following someone else and learning by their example. If you don’t know everything, then give value by backing someone else up who is also going your way. Millionaires make more millionaires as they make their own path. Leaders train leaders – at least those open to learning.

But also be willing to learn from those in seemingly disrelated fields. Study their actions and see if they can be applied in your own life-path. Do what you can to help everyone around you become successful, even if it might not have anything to do with you directly.

3. Know what a scam is.

You need to know how a scam is constructed in order to avoid being a victim of one and so you don’t inadvertently create one. It’s not just because it’s on the Internet that makes a scam. Three authors to study: Abraham Maslow, Robert Cialdini, Lester Levenson. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs shows what you and your clients want most in life. Cialdini’s 6 principles tell the key buttons which are pushed in our subsconscious to get us to act or buy. Levenson’s methods to handle our 3 underlying desires defuse those buttons permanently.

Through this, you can evaluate your product or service for the inherent value that it contains. You can see whether what you are doing is going to help others around you to improve their own lives. In doing this, you will see what the real riches in life are and how to get them.

While this is a very short-handed account of the actions you will need to take to acquire what you want, the references and authors listed will also help you develop the necessary character to live a rich, prosperous, and abundant life.

Good Hunting!

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And video of this for your easy viewing:

My studies for this upcoming book (working title: “Freedom Is -”) has continued my research and uncovered some new material.

I was looking for simple evidence for the historical basis of the release technique Lester Levenson utilized in his Sedona Method. And of course, this evidence abounds in the works of various Masters, as well as prophets and scholars.

Today, I was checking out the oldest surviving active philosophy on this planet, the Hawaiian Huna. It’s seven principles I thought to be static, but instead they are actually quite fluid. The Hawaiian language as spoken depends on its meaning by how it is said.

Looking for more understanding about their 7 principles brought me a webpage by Vern at his “Aim for Awesome”. According to this post, the Huna philosophy is over 30,000 years old. And still in use today.

Vern gave me even more understanding of these points than I had gotten from Serge Kahili King. Simply because he was giving a more fluid translation.

Now in comparing this with the basics Levenson points out, here is another set, which I believe stays true to the underlying native concepts:

IKE
Our ideas create Reality.

KALA
We are all interconnected.

MAKIA
Energy flows to the focus.

MANAWA
Now is the moment of power.

ALOHA
Happiness is sharing your love.

MANA
All power comes from the Universal within.

PONO
Truths are as useful as proven.

You’ll see some stay the same. And some are reworded in American English just slightly without changing King’s version.

My point in doing this was to cross-check Levenson’s original work and especially some early tapes I just discovered in Larry Crane’s Abundance Course.

My idea is that any true principle would be timeless and found in all philosophies across the historical landscape. This has tended to prove out for all basic “laws” mentioned by popular self-help authors.

Out of this, I finally have a test-case “recipe” for Freedom:

Focus on sharing your love in the Now, and have all the energy and power of the Universal you can use.

A bit wordy, but I think it serves. When you are dealing with truly timeless qualities of such a broad subject, we’ve been needing something that fits beyond any political or governmental definition. Because true Freedom implies personal ability to have, do, or be anything and everything you set your sights on. Of course, this is best and only really accomplished by sharing the most creative substance in this Universe – Love.

And when you are looking for absolute Freedom, you are also looking right at absolute Happiness, as well as absolute Peace.

But go ahead, prove it for yourself…

While you can and should be willing to help everyone around you – and the Golden Rule says that you almost have to – don’t expect that the world is going to immediately turn right around and give back.

There are people, sad as it seems, who are bound and determined to simply continue destroying everyting and everyone around them in theialong their personal path to self destruction. These are the truly insane among us.

It’s not that they can’t be helped. Or that they can’t get better. Or that they can’t actually resolve to improve their lives and eventually find their own route and way to personal enlightenment. They are simply right now hell-bent on wrecking their own lives, which also then affects how they see and treat people around them.

So you have to be willing to “cut your losses” at some point and move these people off your lines. Actually, they will move off yours if you simply let them. I think I’ve gone over this point before of realizing when you’re fighting something and simply quit that action. Like finding out that you’re beating your head against a wall – the pain is remarkably lessened when you stop.

When I finally saw their view of life, I could understand why they weren’t listening – their view of life was that everyone was out to scam them, so no one was able to be trusted.

They are actually in a state of constant denial of the world around them. They are actually fighting everything that they encounter – ripping people off is their only defense, since the world is out to get them. If there’s a brick wall anywhere near them, they can’t wait to butt their head up against it.

But this is just to tell you that you can get these guys off your lines more easily than you think possible.

Again, the Sedona Method comes to view as a tool. The simple steps I use to continually apply this in my life are

1. Look over and confront what is in your life – all thoughts and feelings
2. Accept any part of this (or all of it) that you can.
3. Simply let it go.

Of course, life gets easier and more delightful as you do this. You enjoy life more and your feelings become more intense. You appreciate things around you much better. Abundance, good health, great relationships – all these become common place when you use the releasing technique.

You want to use Levenson’s Sedona Method continually in your life. And in doing so, you can achieve incredible states of calmness – beyond any meditation – that will take you through anything life has to offer. Ultimately, it can take you into realms most humankind doesn’t get a chance to visit often and where few are able to remain.

But that’s a story for another time.

Right now, simply help everyone you can, even those who don’t want your help. But quit fighting anything and everything. Simply let go of all your “wanting to sort it out” and stuff like that. Invest in everyone around you, but particularly those who want to invest in themselves.

People have to make (or find, actually) their own Peace. Some, sadly, aren’t actually headed anywhere near that direction.

So simply let them go – right out of your life. They aren’t looking for you – they’re looking for people just like them.

But realize that you did make an impression on them, if only slightly.

And be thankful for the true friends you are finding in greater and greater number around you. Because that is what you are attracting with your releasing.

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Here’s an interesting tip: That old datum of “the mind doesn’t recognize a negative” gives a new look to things. Read the above (or any speech or article) and remove all the “not’s” – and you’ll see the real world in a different light…

The trick to elminating worry, anxiety and stress is actually simpler than it looks.

But it’s taken me some months of practice on top of years of study in order to figure it out. And I didn’t need any expensive life coaching to help me.

The simplicity is using the Sedona Method releasing technique to get rid of those continuing thoughts that seem to rattle around your mind and distract you so much.

You simply follow these simple steps:

1. Accept that nagging thought – let it be. Don’t resist or fight it any more.
2. Then simply be willing to let it go and then just let it go.

Sure, Larry Crane and Hale Dwoskin have more steps you can use to do this – and you should check them out if you’re interested.

But keep it as simple as possible.

The only refinement I have to contribute is that you don’t want to be figuring out why or how come or what it all means. You simply want to get to the point that you can simply accept the thought for what it is and then let it go. Hale was telling me that months ago, but until I actually got down to the simplicity of it, I was still looking for symbolic or metaphysical reasons – or considering that something was happening somewhere that I was connected to.

Sure, there might be reasons or explanations or connections to others. But you won’t hear about those through thinking about it. In “Go Thunk Yourself, S’more!” I  came upon the idea of “Intuitive Analysis” – where you simply let your intuition start answering the questions you come up with. It’s a much faster and easier way of studying things than most people use. And your intuition, like any muscle or skill you use, gets better and stronger with practice.

Your thinking speeds up incredibly. And your stress drops away remarkably.

But if your thinking is filled with negative, critical, stressful, worrisome, or other useless thoughts – then it’s not all that comfortable. The trick is to get rid of those type of thoughts and simply start appreciating the intuitive and inspirational glimpses you have – and these are always accompanied by happiness, joy, acceptance, courage, and peace.

This is “being in the zone”, or better – living in the zone.

You simply have to get the contra-survival thoughts out of your system. Look at them for what they are and then let them go. Don’t think more thoughts about them, just let them go.

If it’s peaceful, accepting, courageous – then you aren’t really having your best thoughts. And those other thoughts simply need to be let go. Like you are constantly working to help everyone around you, even those who have really “ticked you off” at some time in the past. Anyone you are working against, trying to control, or inhibit their success in some way – all this simply works against you. Golden Rule again. You are really just helping everyone around you to become more perfect – or to let their native perfection shine more brightly through.

Just get over those thoughts. Accept them as existing and then let them go. Too easy.

It works for everything. Every time you get some stress on your lines, if you practice just letting stuff go, then it gets easier and easier to live an incredibly peaceful and calm life. Everything goes well for you.

Too easy. And that’s why people don’t do it. They want something complicated and difficult.

But you can use this today and start getting all worry, stress, and negative emotions right out of your personal life. Right now. Try it and see. And start wecoming your native abundance and prosperity into your life as this “stress management” takes root.

And check out those other authors if you want to know more about how to apply it in your own life.

Here’s a disclaimer right off the bat: All I know is what I know. I haven’t attended any seminars or special training in the Sedona Methods. And I give great credit to Larry Crane, Hale Dwoskin, and others for forwarding this subject and making more workable.

All I say here is what I’ve learned for myself.

My own training was being given a bootleg CD (a few, actually) and being impressed with this material. And then I went out on the Internet and found everything I could about Lester Levenson and the Sedona Method. Through this, I found digital copies of out of print books, and other recordings of various quality.

But the truth of this as a very simple subject shone through.

There are two steps to the Sedona Method:

1. Accept what is.
2. Let it go.

And it’s no more complicated than that.

I and others occasionally have problems with letting something go, and in many cases it’s just being stuck – so you let go of the stuckness.

Other than that, I don’t see a big problem with anyone applying it to any and every area of their life. It does nothing but improve things.

Sure, I’ve been studying self-help  books for years and was some 20+ years in Scientology and before that had spent several years in Bible Study as well as being an agnostic and all sorts of other studies as well as a few post-graduate degrees. Now, after 50-some years on this planet, Sedona Method comes my way and explains what I’ve been rejecting out of all these other studies – and actually made them all start working again.

But don’t think I am going to tell you how this is any sort of abundance course, or how you can make be making money working from home, or use the law of attraction to create all sorts of prosperity, health, and incredibly loving relationships – because that’s simply not where I’m at on this. Sure, releasing will help you with your business, with your love-life, with the abundance of wealth, with your quality of health – and help you get it all effortlessly – but: so what?

Once you get everything you want in your life, what then?

You see, what works for you is just that – it’s what works for you. There are many paths up the mountain (as I often say) but no two are identical. Each and everyone of us have to make their own path, or find it. And that path isn’t the same as the one the person on either side of you is using.

For me, Sedona releasing technique is a key point to use in combination with other material in order to make my own progress toward personal Freedom – or enlightenment (since Freedom is already within us…)

And this is why I also write about this stuff at length. Because I consider a few things to be vital truths:

1. I am only here to help others.
2. Whatever I want to attain or have is best attained or acquired by helping others attain or get whatever it is that they want.
3. Finally, that the whole universe runs on these two statements above. Period.

Now you can and should disagree with me on any or all of the above. Because it’s not true until it’s true for you.

But I’ve had incredible gains after learning (teaching myself) the Sedona Method. And so I recommend it to others – as many as will listen to what I have to say.

Since I hadn’t ever told you how simple it is to release, I thought to tell you.

Cheers! – and Good Hunting!

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Bonus: view this as a slideshow.

Like the old adage: “Smile — it will make them wonder what you’ve been up to.”

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But if you like a video: here’s a YouTube version:

Enjoy!

(You’ll have to forgive the pun, humor is something Levenson appreciated, as does Larry. Plus, it’s a great photo…)

This page is simply a review of Larry Crane’s Abundance Course and the Releasing Technique.

Larry’s Own Story

“My name is Larry Crane. I am a self-made millionaire businessman, author and teacher. I have been featured in hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines (including Time and TV Guide), and on T.V. throughout the world. I’ve had the limousines, the planes… with businesses all over the world… raking in MULTI-MILLIONS of dollars. I have lived a life most people only dream about, including being friends and business associates with some of the most important and influential people in the world. I could go on and tell you all about my successes and the money I have made but, I’m not going to bother. You see, I’ve got a disturbing secret to share with you:

“Around 9 p.m. on a Friday night, back in 1976… with a successful business… millions in the bank… a beautiful wife… and an article written about me in Time magazine… I took the elevator to my ten-room duplex penthouse suite in Manhatten… walked over to my terrace… scanned the beautiful view below… and for about 2 hours I seriously contemplated suicide!

“It was very confusing to me. I had everything any one could want… and yet… I truly was one miserable creature!

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“I had become determined to find the answer to my personal miseries. And although I was a very “closed” person at the time… and… not receptive to any kind of therapy or self-help stuff, my wife did talk me into some New Age courses. I took a bunch of these… but…Misery Was Still My Motto!

“Nothing was helping. I just became more and more depressed and frustrated.

“Then one day, in 1976, a young man came into my office to sell me a mail order item. I had some interesting spiritual or self-discipline quotations on my wall, and this opened up a conversation as to what I was “into”. That’s when I first heard about something called the Release® Technique.

It really resonated with me. So I decided to take the course that very weekend. That weekend was the first time I met the most fascinating man I’ve ever met – Lester Levenson.”

Larry goes on to explain that Levenson had everything he wanted, but was completely at ease and happy all the time. And he never seemed to work – but had an abundance of money, his health was good, he had tons of friends – solid relationships, and just effortlessly went through life.

And since Larry learned what Levenson was teaching, he’s adopted these into his own life and now spends it entirely to get these breakthroughs out to you and those you know.

What’s the Pitch?

Sure, it’s a lot of hype that surrounds this system. And I’m not telling you to believe anything that I or Larry has said on the subject. What you do with your own life is your business. Just because I’m totally set on this stuff as true breakthrough in all these fields – well, that doesn’t mean that you have to believe one word of it. I’m actually telling you not to.

Look, the big items people want to solve in their lives are all here: Health, Wealth, Relationships, Stress – anything and everything people can get sold on are here. I’ve even included the videos below so you can experience the pitches for yourself.

Now, let me tell you a secret: If you get the free stuff Larry offers on his site, that’s all you really need to get going. Sure, there’s a bunch of other books and tapes to buy – but not unless you think it’s right for you.

I’ve been working with helping people get out from under scams for over two years now – so I’ve got more than a bit of experience in this area. And something is a scam if you say it is. If you didn’t get out what you wanted, then you got scammed. In all cases, you only really get out what you put in.

So my advice on this stuff is:

1. Don’t believe anything that Larry or I say on this subject.

2. Get the free stuff first and try it out – don’t buy anything unless you’ve tried it out first.

3. But if you do have some bucks to plunk down for his basic course – you can do that. It’s guaranteed return if you don’t like it. And you’ll have it all on CD’s (plus some bonuses) and you can check it out for yourself.

Release Technique Promotional Videos

First, lets listen to Larry Crane get interviewed. About 9 minutes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQIykgMTrM

And here’s Larry giving a personal introduction:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQxnWqwuRIA

Now, at this point, if you feel this is the answer to what you’ve been looking for, go to the site with this link. What you’re looking on is on the front page – probably either “Learn More or “Buy Now” buttons.

Now, here’s some much shorter videos on the key topics:

Money and Wealth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysx5mRSdmVI

If you’re tired of being broke or want to find out how to manifest abundance in your life, use those links. You’re looking for the button on the extreme lower left .

Health:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyVZsUDac-M

If you want to know more about how to optimize your health and vitality with the release technique, use that link. You’ll want to go to the section on Mental and Physical Health – second from the left.

Relationships:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxzFxL0OOWc

You can learn how to discover the true power of Love by using that link. This will be the button on the top labeled “Relationships”, or the bottom button labeled “Improve Your Life.”

Life Changes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZ31aaSQTo

For finding how to transform your life – use that link. This is the bottom row, 2nd to right button.

What do I get out of this?

I’m just here to give you the data to help you improve your life. Sure, the above are all affiliate links. And you can just go to his site directly if you want. Or search for Google for any of several dozen people who have put up sites that promote his courses, books, materials, and whatnot.

All I’m here for is to help you. Period. And that’s why I’ve written this page and how I wrote it this way.

Because your future is up to you – completely. People who stay poor, sick, upset, worried – these people aren’t really looking for a way to improve their conditions. And I’m not saying that Crane’s Release Technique is the way to solve everyone’s problems, either.

I’m just here to give you that additional choice.

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One might think so. Look how they are treating the people who elected them.

The conspiracists are having a hay-day – it seems to get worse with every new administration. I’ve even begun to think that the end of the Mayan calendar coinciding with 2012 was perhaps intended that way – it is an election year and all that…

If there is a self-esteem problem with the government, it is reflecting on the people it is supposed to serve. Look at these town hall meetings where the representatives are nominally supposed to sample their constituents’ collective pulse. Unfortunately, they were apparently sent out with talking points about how to “sell” the government health care reform package. And got widely booed. But then they booed back with Pelosi making references to brown-shirts and “astro-turf” (meaning Nazi’s and fake grass-roots). Unfortunately, the problem is within the government officials we elected to represent us.

So, by extension, their lack of self image is our own lack of self confidence and esteem.

But lets look over government closely. Government exists on a reverse Golden Rule basis. While you are treated only as well as you treat others, and so you get only as good as you give – our elected politicians can only give after they receive. That’s called taxes and pork-barrel spending.

Lobbyist seem to be an exception to this, since they have to deliver a service first in order to get sufficient fund so that they can donate them to re-election campaigns and get the favor of various officials so they can continue to give good service. Company’s with bad service, lobbyists or not, won’t stay in business long – people vote with their pocketbooks.

But government officials (not career employees) and lobbyists have that in common: government exists only to the degree that we put up with them. We give, and expect a return to the degree that we give.

The trick in this, if you study Wallace Wattles’ “Science of Getting Rich” – is that we’ve not actually “taken care with every single bit” of the job we expect them to do. We don’t ask to get a copy of the bills they are voting on in order that we can tell them our opinion of how they should cast our represented vote. We probably aren’t sending them a letter, email, or fax, or phone call about the issues of the day.

To the exact degree we don’t pay attention to them, they won’t then pay attention to us. And so they run on auto-pilot – and listen to lobbyists who see them on a regular basis to pay attention to them.

Now, just ignoring government might or might not make it go away. If people home-schooled their kids, or set up cooperatives to do this on local levels, then concern about public funding of schools would be negligible. If states didn’t accept federal “match this or else” grants, then we wouldn’t have to listen to government mandates for how states should do this or that.

There is a whole course in whether government is even necessary over at TOLFA.us – a fascinatingly logical approach to this.

With no (or severely limited) government, we’d be able to take advantage of more business opportunities – as well as home-based businesses. Simply because there wouldn’t be excessive taxation just to keep all those government employees and programs running.

And you’d be able to simply contract with your doctor for regular primary care without insurance companies and lawyers making your fees go out the roof.

To paraphrase Pogo: We’ve met the government esteem problem – and they is us.

Whatever we want to do for ourselves, it’s usually done more efficiently and effectively if it’s done on a individual or corporate basis than waiting for or expecting the government to get involved. (Katrina aid got worse after the government arrived.) Check this out for yourself and see if it isn’t true for you as well.

And we’d be able to get away from a very small, select group of people putting through some inane mandate that affects people who they don’t even know. Like the HSUS shutting down animal shelters and then killing all the animals in it – while they try to tell us all to be vegans. Or ACORN – what a mess. Not to mention what they are trying with Health Care instead of allowing more competition between state insurance companies and restricting lawyers from frivolous lawsuits (but you probably can’t expect elected lawyers do anything about that…)

My favorite approach would be to really pay attention to the elections and always vote the incumbent out. Public-enforced term limits.

But your own mileage on this may vary widely.

This doesn’t mean you should drop all your Sedona Method release technique approaches and quit releasing on the approval, control, and security that having a government might give you. Practically, we should just work at releasing on having a government at all. And then look what shows up. Allow ourselves to have an orderly, sensible, self-managed planet which lives at peace and constantly works to improve everyone’s abundance.

By working at this, making it a goal, we can all use our personal improvement skills to create this new age for humankind.

That is my hope and wish for this world. I am confident it succeeds.