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(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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There’s (at least) two different approaches to making a living.

You can have fun at what you’re doing, or you can do something else.

Usually, that something else is “making money”. People who work for someone else for “a living” are just exchanging their time for someone else’s money. There are a very few people at the top calling the shots and everyone else dances to their tune.

This is what’s called a wage slave. You “get” some time off to enjoy some of your own time doing whatever you want to do. And the bulk of your week is doing whatever someone else wants you to do and sleeping and eating.

And under the guise of “making money”, you are able to work some overtime where the employer has to legally pay you more for working over and above some arbitrary amount – usually 40 hours.

Under the guise of “saving money”, some employers (like Wal-Mart and others) don’t employ you for a full 40 hour week and so you don’t have to get paid benefits. And you aren’t being paid enough to pay your own benefits.

But entrepreneurs have their cake and eat it. They are doing whatever they feel like doing and have figured out how to “make money” at it. And self-employed persons who are incorporated as a business get the best tax breaks. So the government (bless their soul – if there is such a thing) is really telling people to quit working for anyone else and start your own business.

The bulk of humanity has been trained to and accepts simply working for someone else – trading their time on this planet for enough money to live on, which is the same thing as saying they are being paid to come to work the next scheduled day. That old saying, “I only work as much as I get paid, and I only get paid as much as I won’t quit.” That’s a wage slave.

If you want a raise at work, you have to be doing 150% to 200% or more of what your job description is. The guys who get laid off can be afforded by the company. Not invaluable to keep.

Entrepreneurs have it better – they only get paid as much as they work, also. But there’s no cap on how much they can get rewarded. I’ve heard of some salespeople who only do one sale a year – but that sale is a really big one.

And there is also the approach that you cut down your expenses and debts so that you can work for hire to someone else minimally – and do whatever you want the rest of the time.

One story I was told goes down this line: A lady wanted to get a high paying job, so she got trained as a dental hygienist. After she had graduated and worked full time for awhile, she found out that her (California) taxes were such that if she worked half as much she’d have the same take-home pay. So she started skiing and swimming at the beach the rest of the time.

If she had been contract labor with her own corporation, she would be able to take all that money and invest in her own benefits and retirement savings, plus cover her work-related travel and living expenses and only get taxed on what was left over = profit.

So it’s no surprise that some analysts report that 40% of Americans pay no income tax at all. It’s just another penalty for “making money”.

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But that whole diatribe above is a little off-beat.

The only people who actually “make money” work at the government printers where the stuff comes off the press. (And credit card companies make money by charging interest – think about it.)

Earning money is where everyone else lives. Earning money is giving something valuable as an exchange for something else valuable.

That’s the real basis of economics (which originally meant “managing the household.”)

On the Internet, this is much more well understood. All those people rabidly pitching their wares are mostly ignored. And I saw some statistic lately that advertisements are being ignored more than twice as much as they are read. (That’s not “clicked on”, that’s being noticed at all.)

But there is a lot of money being earned on the Internet by people who are providing great service first and then people want to know how they can support them. And this is how they then end up buying something after they’ve been well serviced and well treated.

This, then, finally comes back to the two ways of making a living I was telling you about.

You can “make money” working for someone else. Or you can “earn money” giving away valuable stuff to other people – and earn a living doing just this. (Preferably through your own private corporation.)

Who’s the winner on this? You are, and all the people you help. Essentially, any community you want to contribute to.

Who’s the loser? Anyone who depends on requiring an exact exchange of money for time – handouts, basically. Meaning: all government, “Big Business”, centralized power structures.

Think it over. Decide for yourself. See if it makes sense.

Either way, agree or not, let me know what you think…

Erica Preuss gives this great four-step plan to convert your/any business over to social media:

Increasing You

r ROI Through Social Media Ecology And The Engagement Lifecycle by Social Networking Information for Business: “If you are working way too hard on your social networking campaigns, and seeing few results, it’s time to step back and look at things from the ecological point of view and take the following actions:

1. Zoom out to the big picture: Approach your global social network as a living ecology, a Social Media Ecology made up of many living cultures and social networks.

2. Examine each culture closely and look at your interactions within that culture: Has it been effective? If not, how can you better fit the cultural community? Before you start a new community, make sure you know what you are getting into.

3. Within each social network: Engage, Listen, Interact

4. Measure: Measure each social network’s effectiveness in your marketing strategy, and measure your global effectiveness as well. This will help you identify where your engagement is having the most impact.

5. Repeat the lifecycle: The interaction lifecycle is continuous, see it as a circle of life that cycles continuously in your Social Media Ecology.

In summary, your ROI can be improved in your social media marketing campaigns by seeing the big picture. Just as the Earth’s global ecology is a balance of life”