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You basically have to know where you’re going and where you are at.

A friend sent me this cute story which basically tells off all these people with their drive to “make money online” and “become a millionaire overnight”.

An older blog post I wrote asked the question “What if their is no mountain?”

And as well, you may have noticed my continuing posts on the Sedona Method release technique.

The point of all this is coming out in my new book, “Freedom Is — (period).” All the Happiness, Peace, and Freedom you could ever want is already in you. You just have to let it out.

And while you are releasing all these negative thoughts to just be yourself, you also meanwhile learn how to get all the wealth, success, and loving relationships you could ever want as well. But the trick is to get beyond the “get rich quick” mindset (which Sedona helps you to do) and really concentrate on that peace of mind which money can’t buy.

All religions and philosophies (even those the money-hungry Wall Street bankers use) – all these point to the same thing: you only get peace of mind from yourself. And how you get it is to start getting really accepting and grateful for what you already have.

This is what I’ve learned over the past year, in all my various escapades. People aren’t really working against you, unless you are working against them. But the joke is that since we are all connected, you are just working against yourself.

Here’s where the Golden Rule really points out the humor in our lives. All this work with politicians and lawyers in order to “make money” when you already have all the abundance in your life you could ever ask for… You just have to treat others as you want to be treated. And then they will. Because you are “they”.

Or, look at it this way: there are a great deal of people out there who want to help you – if you will only let them.

Cheers!

PS. This also works for the “Law of Attraction”. Same ‘diff…

If you’ve ever had a problem trying to “stay positive” or “control your negative thoughts”, you know what a hassle trying to apply Positive Thinking in your life.

Because they don’t tell you why it doesn’t always work.

It’s really quite simple to explain. You can take a jelly sandwich and make it into a peanut butter and jelly sandwich by putting some peanut butter. However, you can’t take it back to a peanut butter sandwich without some serious jelly removal, if not total bread replacement.

Too graphic? But that’s the way this works – seriously.

Look, most people have a lot of bad habits in thinking negatively about things all the time. Now they pick up a book or see an inspirational video saying all they have to do is “think positive” and everything will work out. Or just start repeating positive affirmations like a mantra.

Doesn’t really work that way. What do they then do with all these negative thoughts they’ve been practicing day in and day out for most of their lifetime to date? Just thinking positive doesn’t make them go away. You don’t change negative attitudes into positive attitudes overnight.

These self improvement guru’s tell you to add positive thoughts or affirmations – and now you have both positive AND negative thinking going on. Great. You want to use your mind power effectively.

Obviously, you have to start eliminating or defusing the negative thinking to make positive thinking actually work. It’s not just a question of piling on more mental habits to try to “crowd out” the ones you don’t want.

But here’s the secret: You normally think positive. That’s right. When you release the negative thinking, the positive starts showing up more and more.

How do you release that negative, habitual thinking? Sedona Method.

Like a dark room, you don’t start shoveling out the darkness. The solution is to turn on a light. Sedona releasing starts letting your natural brilliance shine. And the dark starts disappearing as you do. Your natural positive attitudes start taking over.

You can use the Hale Dwoskin or Larry Crane courses or books to do this. Or you can also get the original Lester Levenson data off the Internet.

But the secret to applying the Power of Positive Thinking is to simply get rid of the negative as you do. Sure, practice at being positive all day long. It really does wonders. But quit batting bat negative thoughts when they occur, or trying to cover them over with more positive ones. Simply let the negative ones go. Accept them and release them. Too easy.

And now, all you’ve read about using the Law of Attraction and other methods built on positive feelings and thinking can actually start working for you.

Cheers!

It looks like using the best of all the release techniques will get the fastest results. Now, this varies according to what you think is the best – which makes a lot of sense.

Larry Crane has free downloads on his site of various MP3’s and in these tells about how to simply put your attention on your gut or chest to physiological reactions there. These tell you you’re holding on to something. He gives the idea of figuratively opening a “door” in that area and just bringing stuff up and letting it release. Just almost shovel the stuff out wholesale.

I’ve found that you can leave this door open overnight and just let anything and everything that needs to leave do so. Otherwise, keep it open during the day so you can quickly just let anything that you find during the day out.

Of course, once you get down to how simple this is, you don’t need to consult your stomach or chest for a reaction, and you can simply accept it and let it go.

And any stuckness, you use Hale Dwoskin’s technique of letting go of the stuckness. Then right back to releasing as normal.

Now, once you’ve been doing this for awhile, you get pretty stable about life in general. And the attitude you’ll notice is one that Earl Nightingale describes as “calm, cheerful expectancy”, and Levenson referred to as “courageousness, acceptance, peace”, as well as “imperturbability”. You’ll find that while maybe not everything is great around you, you can easily deal with what comes up.

Once you’ve got this stable scene going, you can then go for anything you’re still holding onto as regards physical death or survival as a body, or even surviving as a personality. A fast approach to this is to consider or meditate on answers to the question, “What Am I?”

The idea is to get into a state of constant hootlessness, where you don’t give a hoot what goes on around you.

That’s where you make your best progress toward letting your own inner light shine out. Somewhere along that line, you’ll actually resolve any goals questions you have and settle down into whatever you have been intending to get done in this life. And it’s all easy street from there on out.

Not that more stuff won’t necessarily come up to let go or release – but it comes and goes faster and then you’re just back to simply being hootless and listening for those inspirations which come in and guide your actions. You just know what to do and how to do it, and everything is Easy Street.

Oh, and everything you need comes to you, but that’s really secondary. If you keep stuck on “getting stuff” to measure your progress, Levenson points out that this just will bring you to a crash later. Major disaster, is how he phrased it. And we’ve seen this recently with a few of these self-help “guru’s”.

You’ve got to get beyond money, success, great health, incredible relationships. When you get hootless, all of these show up and stay there – as long as you need them. Because their presence all depends on how much you are helping others find their own personal Freedom, Happiness, and Peace. You’ll more than likely get involved constantly in just helping others to let their own light shine. You really don’t give a hoot about your private scene – it’s been under control for a long time and just goes along fine.

Your attention goes outside of you to help others with their scenes. And that helps you stay hootless and on top of things. It’s not how much you’re loved, its how much you love others and help spread that love around. Like Wallace Wattles tells, you are spreading the idea of abundance to others on a constant basis, helping them get rid of any idea they have of lack.

And when you get your attention off your own Self, then it really speeds everything up.

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.

What are dreams? How are they different from thoughts?

Levenson covered dreams with a rather Eastern approach, that perhaps our dreams are a different Universe than the one we are in during the waking hours.

I don’t know this to be true or not.

All I know right now is that I’m left thinking when I wake – meaning that I have more releasing to do to achieve that state of a truly calm mind.

My line of reasoning is that a person is trying to achieve a calm mind will should be able to determine between true intuitional inspiration and general, run-of-the-mill thinking.

Thinking will be rather uncontrolled and more than a bit non-sequitur and random. As well, any feeling besides a calm, deep peace with a simple happiness or joy – these would then be non-intuitional, but rather habitual.

(Or the AGFLAP vs. CAP – as Levenson would describe it.)*

So the utter lack of negative feeling, a completely calm knowing should accompany real intuitional inspiration. And would lead to true intuitional living.

I have a few dependable lines of intuition, being that I’ve always been blessed with a very imaginative and creative life. Working in these lines has shown me where the writing or artwork is forced, or requires too much effort – I might as well quit it, or take a break at least.

When I’ve taken up writing, this has opened up an new line – it’s one approach that the simplest line works. Just ask, the next sentence is there – or a phrase that needs to be applied.

One learns not to force or rush it. It’s always there, unless you try to force or rush it.

So that, I suppose, answers the question.

And now, extend that to all living – and your completely calm mind will then finally allow you to answer the question, “What Am I?”

* AGFLAP – CAP is a shorthand emotional scale one comes up through releasing

Apathy
Grief
Fear
Lust
Anger
Pride
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Courageousness
Acceptance
Peace

The CAP are top-end states which aren’t really emotions at all – these more describe a state of being which becomes more or less persistent as you work at releasing in general.

There’s something that’s coming up which I have to somehow communicate. No, it’s nothing deathly or dreary or even mildly catastrophic – so you can put down the tabloid journalism thoughts.

It’s this intuitional living stuff. A lifestyle choice, if you will.

For me, it’s been major. While I’ve spend most of my life just finding out how to find out – some 40+ years following religion, spirituality, self-help, personality/corporate cults – now I find that I simply don’t have to do that anymore.

Sure, I’ll still tell people what books and references I used as my path down this line. But laying out and writing/podcasting/videoing this path will be more intuitional than intellectual – no production demands to get it all done.

There is a trick to Levenson’s work – when you really get down to the basics of what he’s saying, it’s an approach that is only found in our oldest philosophies. But not really stated clearly anywhere. Mostly because it only appears when you are ready.

My point about everyone having the potential to become a Kahuna, or my idea that Masters already live among us – these are ideas that are rare in our society. But the come from the approach that we are all in this together, that when we recognize each others’ perfection – we’ll see more of that perfection showing up around us (and from within us.)

My approach with the Sedona Method was by getting a copy of Hale Dwoskin’s free materials and then going deep to look up Lester Levenson on the web, finding some .torrents of his older tapes (and then finding just recently that Larry Crane sells these things on his site.)

But that was due to my work in and around Scientology for 20+ years and having studied and counseled others on nearly every piece of data they have available.  (While I’ve made my peace with that corporation, it was obviously not my path – or I’d still be in there pitching.) So I dived in deep to the Sedona basics  to find out all the goodies.

Never found Levenson lacking. And there is so much more to cover, to explore – but it’s all in how to let this inner light shine more.

This is the point of living life large while living it small at the same time. Practically, living simply at the basics is the way to have it all – and more. This comes, of course, back to the point that the mountain might not be what you are looking for – but again, there I go, all metaphysical again.

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The next trick is distinguishing between the intuitional inspirations I get and thinking that goes on. Got some more research to do along this line and finding it hard to get rid of a great deal of this other activity which takes the rest of my day.

Because I simply want to pursue this idea of wanting Freedom more than the world. But it’s more like turning a high-powered jet around at top speed – takes about 4 states to do it.

So – I’ll keep you posted….

Of course, I’ve been having quite some fun applying what I laid out at the beginning of this, so I thought to give you an update.

Mostly, just working on stilling the mind has done wonders. But the 1-2 punch of releasing any thought that comes in, followed by asking, “What’s that thought coming from?” took me right back to “What am I?”

And that has produced the best results.

While I can’t say that the mind is completely stilled all the time, I am having wider and wider gaps in time where there are no thoughts and I can just simply enjoy a very peaceful existence, just “Being the Witness” as Levenson covered so often. Because when you still the mind, in my experience, there’s not much choice or reason to do anything else.

It’s just natural.

And so this is what is bringing this concept I had earlier of “Intuitional Living” or “Intuitional Life”. The explanation of this is that you really only live that type of life naturally – but your own thoughts take you out of it and make you effort at any decisions or planning you “have” to make.  These “now we’re supposed to’s” and “musts” and “have to’s” are all really fiction.

They only exist in a very busy mind. Quiet the mind, even a little bit, and their force weakens. Life becomes a calm, peaceful existence. (Or at least more calm and more peaceful.)

The intuitional and inspirational insights which start arriving (no longer relegated to pushing through as thought) are fascinatingly simple and direct. There’s no question about them, no rush. There is a great deal of certainty accompanying them – but no dire urgency for them to happen.

I’m sure that if I were in a very action-oriented situation, I’d have faster and more immediate intuitions about what to do next.

But the flow of life is fascinating, even at this fairly low level. I’m sure that as I get used to it, all of this will seem commonplace after awhile. And there will be another, higher level to attain which seems uniquely interesting at that point.

So, as usual, throw this away and forget I ever said anything down this line. If it’s useful to you, fine. Certainly, your mileage will vary. Definitely.

But I’m certainly having fun with this and thought to let you know.