A Midwest Journal

One last point.

Your path is entirely your own. There is only one Way for you – and that is the one you pick out and resolve for yourself.

This idea of using the releasing technique, my little joke of using “KISS BUTT” to get everything you really want in life – that doesn’t work for everyone.

There are exactly as “many paths up the mountain” as their are individuals in this Universe.  There can be no “one way and only one way” – because we are all connected, but completely different.

While all spiritual paths are correct in their basic data, many religions (and governments) go astray because they inherit the same problems their followers have. They think they are separate from everyone else and so they are right and everyone else is wrong.

Needless to say, this doesn’t work. Thinking someone else is wrong just comes back to you, doesn’t it?  Accepting people for what they are, giving them unconditional love – these actions will bring you acceptance and love in return, won’t they?

That old Golden Rule scene we’ve talked about over and over.

The other phrase I’m fond of quoting goes: “No one school has all the teachers.” That’s from the older Polynesian sayings, which are probably the oldest surviving philosophic system that this planet has. And those islands are amazingly peaceful these days.

While I tell people that releasing is probably the greatest discovery since Fire and the Wheel (right up there with sliced bread and spreadable margarine) – I also have to say that it’s not for everyone.

I tell you to throw away all that you’ve read here and prove it for yourself. That is really, really the only way to find Truth. Because truth is completely personal to you. No two people share the same exact truth.

Of course that explains why no government really works and dictators seldom end their career alive and in power.

The best approach is and always has been to let people work things out for themselves. Let communities solve situations as best they can, groups of communities decide what’s best on a broader basis, states to solve solutions based on a broad consensus (if at all) and the national government to simply keep its nose out – excepting only national concerns like defense and safeguarding trade lines.

And I’d love every single government employee at all levels to apply less kiss-butt and more KISS BUTT – they could release on having to control and approve anything for the rest of us, as well as only doing those things which would benefit others as they would like to be benefited.

But regardless of politics, just work out the optimal solution for yourself.

Whatever your path is – go at it until you achieve your own personal freedom and everlasting happiness. We all share one other, common thing – inside, we are all Masters. And we just need to let is shine out through all that we’ve stacked up on top of it. Do just that for yourself and we all win.

Thanks for listening to all I’ve said here. Now I’m done.

You can safely throw it all away and write your own blog now.

I wish you a great eternity.

Going through some of the old Levenson Sedona Method materials brings to mind to explain what this series of lessons is about and who it is for.

I’m not here to explain how the Sedona System release technique works or to sell you on any particular kind or type. You’ll find on this site many links to stuff about Levenson and all the teachers who have picked up his method and run with it.

You won’t find a lot of Levenson or the others repeated much here. Reason being is that you need to find out for yourself. And the other point is that it really doesn’t matter that much. When you understand the core material of how to release, then it’s really simple after that. The hardest point is keeping going right on out.

This world we live in is filled with every reason not to continue and not to regain your Freedom. That Freedom, your own perpetual and personal peace and happiness – they all lie within as they always have. There are far too, too many stories where (like Acres of Diamonds) the person went off searching for something when he already had it right at home to begin with.

And all these teachers are taking the risk of all sorts of alienation and being compared to a scam and so on. Practically, they are just there to help you.

The way each of these various teachers help you is to educate you on the basics of releasing and then simply get out of your way to let you do it. They each have their systems, but it’s no different in its basics.

All the problems, the pains, even the illnesses you have currently can be traced back to something you are holding on to for dear life. Problems are something you had in the past, and those solutions are being forwarded onto your current livingness. That is what all those collected thoughts are for – to simply prompt you with solutions.

However, the solution is the problem. And the only reason what you are facing still exists. Just face it, and let it go. That easy. That simple. Sure, you might have to get rid of an untold number of feelings and what-not thoughts which crop up just so you can then look at the basic scene – but the more you release, the easier it gets.

And that is why you need to develop the new habit of releasing constantly. Plus meanwhile, getting the TV, radio, newspapers, and anything else irritating out of your life. These just hold you back by giving you more to release.

You want to be releasing your basic feelings and thoughts – the ones which are holding you back all the time.

These basic negative-thought-habits can be worked backwards from a couple of ways:

Is your current thought or feeling the way you’d like to be treated?
-or-
Does this thought or feeling give me greater peace or happiness?

If you answer no to either of the above, then just let it go. (But practically, as Hale points out, you want to release all thoughts anyway – since any thought just holds you back. So release anything and everything that comes up.)

Then, once you get your mind quiet (at least enough so you can hear yourself think), then focus on something which would help you help others if it showed up in your life.

When that appears, get the idea of it showing up. And then release any negative feeling or thought that comes in. Like how it’s impossible, or how people won’t approve of you, or anything like that (as the taxes you are going to have to pay, for example). Just keep releasing about whatever it is that you’d like to show up until you can hold that idea of it showing up right in front of you easily.

Then simply let it go – and let the Universe figure out how to manifest.

That’s the KISS part – simply look at it, accept it, then let it go.

The BUTT part is to do nothing but sit on your butt and release about it in order to help it show up.

Do that at least once a day. Some do it several times a day.

The rest of your day, you are working to help others – in any way you can. What makes the stuff you need and want show up faster is to help others with whatever it is that they are trying to get into their own lives. The more you help others, the faster your own life is filled with everything you need and want.

And that includes Personal Freedom.

Because the bottom line is that we aren’t in this Universe to accumulate toys or other great stuff. You can only take the Love you feel within. So concentrate on going Free and helping others regain their personal Freedom.

See you tomorrow…

I imagine by now I’ve offended so many Sedona Method purists that it’s not funny any more.

If you can’t see the humor around you, then you really need to release some more.

Like that joke I use: “You can get anything and everything you want in life if you only KISS BUTT.” Now, this is probably taken seriously by some career government officials who use that particular strategy to get re-elected term after term.

But the code in it is very simple:

• Keep It Simple, Sweetheart. Always apply the simplest release technique possible for any situation.
• Don’t move off your Butt to get what you need/want. Use only releasing to get it to show up in your life.

KISS BUTT – see? Funny, no? Well, at least you’ll remember it – which is the point.

The Universe can be seen to be one huge joke. And the people still here never got the punchline. Far from being the butt of the joke, they actually started the joke themselves.

For the Universe is built out of limits. We agreed to have limits and so we have them.

I do a lot of volunteer work for an outdoor education center called Scattering Fork. We take small groups out in the woods on what is callled a low-ropes course, and have them do team challenges – which make them think and act outside any particular box they are in. I’ve started telling them that there are the 1) rules for that particular challenge, the safety rules for that challenge, and anything else they want to make up for themselves. The first two sets you have to follow – but you can do whatever you want with the third set.

And it takes awhile before they figure out that they set far more limits than the challenge requires.

That is really a microcosm of this Universe we are in. None of this that surrounds you is serious. Start releasing all the time, consistently, and you’ll see this to be true. You’ll find yourself calmly cheerful, optimistically expectant for the next thing that the Universe is bringing you.

People who are serious about the world around them haven’t figured out what the joke is. And might not for a very long time.

But those who have will just smile quietly and ask you if you need any help with that…

Because that is actually how easy it all is. This world around us is a piece of cake, a cake-walk.

So remember, always:

All you have to do in life to get whatever you want is KISS BUTT.

Here’s some Levenson quotes:

Let go of all your attachments and you’ll be so light, it will be hard to stay on the ground.

Let go of all your desires and you reach the ultimate level of happiness. And when you put a thought out, it shows up.

Let go of all desires, all attachments and all these other things – and be free.

The more you let go of attachments, the happier you get – and the easier it is to get things.

We started out playing a game and wound up thinking happiness was outside of ourselves.

Do you see how this works? Of course, the usual disclaimer: reject all of this unless and until you can make it your own, deciding and proving for yourself that it has use or applicability in your own life. That you can get something out of it.

Now, the world is full of ego-traps. And the physical things you see around you are just the symbols of these. Money, houses, clothes, cars, planes, video games – all these things aren’t real. Most of them would disappear in a fire or other catastrophe.

But a person who knows how to get them can replace them at any time.

A person who is dependent on them is devastated when they lose them – and even when they think of losing them. This person often doesn’t have them and is simply stuck in the desire for them. But even if they get what they want, they can’t keep it.

Because they don’t simply see them as symbols for other ideas. Money is a humankind thing. Doesn’t exist naturally. You can’t eat it, but you can use it to get others to give you food. Won’t buy love, but you can get someone to have sex with you, or even marry and live with you for the rest of your life. Can’t make you happy, but it can get stuff which will distract you from your unhappiness for a little while.

So the stuff around you isn’t the real you. That real you is only what you find out it is. You have to start letting the Universe within you shine out.

Simply start the habit of releasing all the time – any feeling or thought about anything – just let it go. Use the release technique constantly. Then you can easily get anything and everything that you need or want. Precisely because you get off the artificial needs and invented wants.

Just remember that joke: KISS-BUTT your way through life -

1. Keep it simple, sweetheart, and
2. Sit on your butt and just release to get anything you want.

Make releasing so simple that you don’t think about it, it’s just second nature.

And quit efforting to get, or acquire, or achieve, or attain anything. Everything you really need/want will come to you if you just let the Universe within and around you bring it to you.

All this effort people put into getting stuff, that’s just making it harder. That’s a real game. Level playing field and all that nonsense. If you want to really win the game, quit playing it. Just let the game play itself. Be the witness up in the stands.

OK?

More tomorrow…

This isn’t some sort of Alice in Wonderland scene where you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place. (Although many of us may have had jobs which were like that at times.)

The Levenson phrase is “Don’t release to get high. Go high to release.”

As you reach higher levels by releasing, learning more and more to seek more freedom at every turn instead of more world, as you learn to quit doing and witness more – you reach a very high internal energy level where things will simply start disapearing on their own.

The release technique is too simple. A lot of people have worked to make it reachable by others – since if it were complicated, everyone would know it. But when you grasp the basics, then it can and should become second nature.

The whole point is to get the habit of releasing to replace the bulk of the mental habits you have. If you have any emotion coming in, then release it. If you aren’t at peace constantly, release whatever it is that you have your attention on (or are trying to keep from having your attention on.) You want to find your own internal peace (which actually comes from the Universe) and let it flow out from you into the world you live in. Anything that blocks this flow – just let it go.

You want to get to these high levels as fast as you can, since this will make that flow a torrent. Of course, any bliss that shows up, release that as well. It’s not a state of ecstasy you want to achieve. It’s a calm, sedate, simple way of living where there is no rush, there is no excitement, everything is just fine, everything is just perfect.

And it’s that way all the time.

So get releasing down to just a two-step process – see something, let it go. Eventually, things just start cascading, as your internal flow just rolls things out of your system faster than you can even consider what it was that you had your attention on a few moments ago – but that’s OK, it doesn’t matter: the Universe is perfect.

Probably won’t happen overnight. But you may wind up woken up in the night with some inspiration, something you have to do right now. As you let go and let the Universe, this will happen more and more. But it’s always for the better – you’re just going to get rid of some old “hold-me-back” habit and replace it with something better.

Yes, this changes your life radically. As you are able to let these old things go, then your life will improve to that degree. The stuff you hold onto is holding you back. While we can’t all necessarily just move off into remote caves or monasteries to live lives of quiet contemplation, most of us won’t be called to do that. Just not the way this Universe operates – at this level, anyway.

The point is to be as responsible as you can for your own earlier mental habits and release these as fast as you can find them. Release being stuck if you find yourself stuck (just another mental habit). Release everything and get everything by releasing.

This becomes the KISS-BUTT system (borrowing from two Sedona Method schools):

1. KeepIt Simple, Sweetheart. (Stephen Seretan)

2. Sit on your butt and get everything you want or need by releasing. (Larry Crane)

With that unsanctified levity, let’s wrap it up for today. Another lesson tomorrow.