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Listening to a rare Levenson video yesterday and it hit me tonight that this was a key to many things for many people.

Now this may not seem all that practical, but it’s the underlying idea which you should consider:

It’s spirit, mind, body – the being created the mind, and then used the mind to create the World and body.

Most of science (and religion) gets this completely different – and you are free to believe whichever you want.

Levenson holds that we are far more powerful and capable than we let on. That we can do much more than we let ourselves demonstrate.

Practically, this is true. Test it out for yourself by just applying some releasing and you’ll see all sorts of “miracles” show up in your life. The more imperturbable you get, the less effort is in your life and the more of these “miraculous” events show up.

But actually, it’s all the effort we work with that keeps them from showing up. Your natural state is one where things just show up around you. Think the thought, then let it go. Like Jack Canfield’s piece in “The Secret” DVD. (Canfield is a Sedona graduate.)

Get the idea of what you want and then simply let it go for the world to manifest. If you read Wattles’ “Science of Getting Rich” closely, you’ll see this in there. Also Haanel’s “Master Key System”. And the release technique puts Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich” on steroids – his idea of a burning desire really takes off when you release on it and take the effort out of it.

But the key is that you are not in the world, the world is in you. You are much greater than the universe that surrounds you. And when you finally tap into this idea, all sorts of stuff starts working out for you. The more imperturbable you get, the easier life runs for you.

The more you start simply releasing as a way of life, the more miraculous your life becomes. Because releasing is simply getting the resistance out of everything you do and encounter.

And what you don’t resist can’t run over you. If you think it’s good for you, you’ll get more of it. If you don’t like it, it’s bad for you, then it disappears.

But of course, this is all radical metaphysics. So don’t believe a word I said here. Check it out for yourself.

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Here’s the video for this blog post…

Almost overlooked sharing this video with you all. I’ve been busy posting all my Scam-Free media and found this simple and short presentation. It’s all about how easy the Sedona releasing method is. Did it some time ago, but decided to add a personal soundtrack and post it so people could make use of it.

Enjoy!

Of course, this sounds a bit drastic. But you have to figure that:

• if you already have all the Freedom, Happiness, and Peace you could ever want, and
• all your thinking and considering and affirming is just limiting your native talent and abilities,
• then you need to simply throw things over wholesale in order to make any personal gain in your life.

Too simple. Maybe harder to do than it looks.

But the point is that you really, really, really have to look at what you are holding onto as sensible and why is it sensible. Then take those items which consistently make sense to you and rebuild your world-view with these.

Now this doesn’t mean that you are going to be able to hold onto these stable data for long either. But you can use those key and sensible data to help you find even better ones.

I advocate (because it’s been successful for me) using Sedona release techniques in order to let go of the limiting thoughts, wants, desires, and emotions in your life. And just keep this up. But you can also get results with just about every single philosophy out there – particularly if you are only consulting the basic texts of this subject. (Many religions have been led down a very narrow and prejudiced, non-inclusive path. Radical Islam is one, some extremist “Christian” sects can easily be found, as well as Buddhist teachings – any and every religion has these.)

But in my experience, where you adopt a “big tent” approach and see how you can figure out how to help the maximal number of people you can, this is a road to a better and better personal lifestyle for yourself.

Of course, your mileage is going to vary. No two people are going to exactly agree on anything. And that is the exact point. What fits the person next to you won’t necessarily fit you. What any preacher, priest, or mullah says might or might not be completely applicable to your own life and goals.

So you have to have the ability to kick over your own traces and decide what works for you personally.

Try it. Throw out what doesn’t work today. And keep doing it. Eventually, you’ll get down to just a few key principles you can base your life on. Figure, though, that you’ll also maybe be throwing these out at some point, too.

Cheers!

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…

Out of years of research, I’ve been able to boil down the basics of scams and how you can make yourself scam free.

This is the first in a series of lessons on this area.

You probably have heard about all these scams: Nigerian Scams, Phishing, Network Marketing, MLM, Ponzi schemes, 419, internet business opportunities, etc. While we aren’t going to cover the specific tactics about each individual category, we will show you how you have been set up to be scammed by these people and what you can do about it.

What this semi-retired Boomer has uncovered is not all that earth-shattering, but these simple truths aren’t taught in any school or university – or even any bestseller texts on the subject. You can only find them out through the School of Hard Knocks.

It is actually very simple to make yourself scam free – but you are going to have to work at this. And your main hurdle to cross is the fact that all of your training and schooling and social contacts have set you up to be scammed all your life. So that can be substantial training you have to rework. Not impossible to fix, though.

Lets go over a few basics so we can later build on these.

A scam can be anything you don’t get the expected result from. Now technically (and scammers hide behind this) there has to be an intention to defraud someone for anything to legally be a scam. However, when someone is offering overpriced goods and setting up their customer service to mishandle complaints and simply stonewall, this is also a scam.

Now, there are also scammy customers who try to get something for nothing. In that case, it is the customer who is the scammer. This is a great source of those frivolous lawsuits: “Caution, Contents May Be Hot.” You can see that both sides have scammers, regardless of whether they are “operating within their legal rights” or not. And neither of these will actually think they are scamming. It’s the way they are wired. To any outside observer, it’s obvious.

The trick to determining what is or isn’t a scam is your own attitude. And theirs. And the whole method of getting yourself impervious to being scammed is about examining and handling those attitudes which can set you up to get scammed.

While this series of posts will cover various secrets, let’s cover one which is painfully obvious to everyone.

There are four things every living creature on this planet needs:

1. Air
2. Water
3. Food
4. Mental Stimulation

And of course, people can say that shelter and half a dozen other things should be on this list. But as far as basics, this is it. That fourth one? Animals in zoo’s can literally be bored to death, as well as humans in prisons.

While many scams are run on the first three, it’s the last one which brings all manner of trouble to us. But if you can figure out how to remain mentally active without buying into scams, then you’ll be a live a very simple life which is full of Happiness and Peace. You are going to learn how to get rid of the strife and problems which scams bring you.

What we’ll cover in our next lesson is how that Mental Stimulation you need is used by scammers to take every cent they can lay their hands on…

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.

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.