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Some notes on the  Sedona Release Technique/Lester Levenson

You want to get rid of bad mental habits by replacing them with good ones. Means keeping up a line of action for 30 days or so – or until you don’t have to work at keeping these steps in, because they become naturally part of your life.

The first new habit to acquire is full-time, constant releasing. Every time an unwanted feeling or attitude or thought comes in, you have to start first accepting it and then letting it go. The bad habit you have is in resisting it or trying to figure it out.

No thought is actually native to you – a person doesn’t think all the time. This is an acquired habit.

Intuition is native and natural. But thinking simply gets in the way of this. As you release, intuitive inspiration won’t. Random thoughts, attitudes, and feelings will.

Joy is also your native state.

People are naturally happy and find good in things all around them. So this is another thing that won’t release. Euphoria will, as will excitement. You are looking for a very calm optimism. Unflappable ease at anything that occurs around you.

So you are going to be releasing constantly, anytime you fall away from this inner peace, this unflapplable calm, joyous, optimistic state. And you are going to find that your inspirations come more and more frequently. As will your success at everything you do.

A second habit you want to start up is always giving better than expected in terms of what you create and produce.

You want to produce abundantly and give better value with all that you do than the recieving person ever would have expected.  All your products and services have to be of the utmost quality. If you were building cars, every single one would be a Rolls Royce – the emphasis is on the utmost quality you can produce with every piece of every action you take.

A third habit is openhanded giving.

Always finding and giving away stuff which other people can use. You never expect anything in return – you just give and give and give. This is the road to peace within yourself; it helps the persons you deal with to attain their own peace; and all that – paid forward in advance – creates a widening sphere of peace which ultimately takes over this planet and envelopes it. Your internal peace is first, the peace of all you know is next, and then all the people they know, and so on. That’s the simple recipe for world peace.

These three habits will change your life markedly and all those around you. You aren’t trying to understand the world around you – that involves considerable thinking. You’ll get the answers you need as you rely more and more on your intuition. There will be fewer and fewer irrational outbursts, or vindictive attacks, or even critical comments. Because you simply won’t need to. You’ll be at peace and your main goal is to help others around you attain their own peace. Meaning you won’t be fueling any fires around you, but be quietly putting them out through your own calm, joyous giving.

And you will be in demand like nothing you ever saw before. Anything you produce people can trust that you are going to give them far more value than they expected, and that product or service will be the highest quality – like going to buy a piece of coal and getting a diamond (plus a new heater to replace that old one.)

People will trust your advice be cause it is comes from the heart.

You give incredibly insightful solutions to any problem someone comes to you with. And when you talk, people will listen because you tend to spend far more time listening to others. Your little corner of this planet becomes calm and prosperous for everyone in it.

If people ask, you simply tell them the three habits you adopted. If they take them up, fine. If not, they’ll still live calmer lives as long as you’re around.

Sounds like fun, doesn’t it?

Start today. Do these three steps each and every waking second of the day.

Your questions:

1. Can I welcome this and let it go?
2. Can I improve on what I am doing right now and make it still better?
3. Is there anything I can give to that person in front of me that they would value and improve their life?

Have fun with this. And leave your comments below so others can learn and be helped.

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Lester Levenson purported that there were Six Steps involved in attaining the goal of the Sedona Method – freedom and impeturbability. And the below is extracted from his basic materials.

By following the guideline of these six steps, the achievement of goals generally using the Sedona Method becomes easier and more effortless because the correct order of the steps to the Method are in place.

Step 1: You’ve got to want freedom more than you want the three basic wants.

The three basic wants are what are learned in training on how to use the Method. These are Security, Approval, Control. They are the root of all problems. And they in turn depend on the Fear of Death – or wanting to be separate or one with the world around you or some part of it.

They are the “master programs” that have been installed as pro-survival but are in fact anti-survival.

The awareness of this can be understood intellectually (or else the Method could not be taught) however, it’s usefulness comes from it’s application and understanding through experience (“taking it for checking” and proving it out for oneself).

Step 2: Decide that you can release and have the goal

In other words, decide you can let go in this moment and have what you want.

You know from releasing that by releasing you can have your goal drop in to your awareness effortlessly – you don’t have to “do” anything – you just need to release and let go in order for it to come in. This is a way to explain the “BUTT” method that Larry Crane teaches. You don’t “do” anything – you release and let it come to you.

Seemingly contradictingly, that doesn’t mean you don’t take action – but it means that the action, if you need to take any – flows effortlessly – it comes naturally and intuitively from your knowingness – or you simply just “be”.

Step 3: Let go of the wants that underlie your feelings.

Releasing the aforementioned three wants means you are getting rid of the root causes of limitation and problems.

You therefore become freer, lighter and happier. You become free enough to “have” without having to “do” and your goal comes in for you. No problem.

Step 4: Release continuously – with others and without others

Make releasing contstant – let go in the morning, in the evening, whatever you’re doing.

It can be helpful to set aside time to release so that there is dedicated releasing time and you can focus on the goal and releasing the feelings that have been stopping you from having the goal.

You can join groups, or get releasing partners who can help you get this into your schedule. But you really want to make this a new mental habit – of accepting and letting go, as instantly as possible, any thought or feeling that comes into your awareness just as it does.

Step 5: When encountering stuckness or resistance, let go of wanting to control or change it so that you naturally let go of it.

By letting go of wanting to change the stuckness that may come about you can cut through that resistance. This is very freeing because the next feeling can come up and you can let go of the underlying want.

Step 6: Each time that you release and let go, you will feel lighter, happier and freer.

These steps are “The Method” that Lester Levenson taught his students. By letting go using the steps, the Method tends to make a lot more sense. Again, it is not about intellectual getting, it’s about putting it in to practise and proving it out for yourself. Kind of like a very pleasant and positive personal experiment with your own life.

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Being “lucky” is something no one has really ever been able to define. Mostly because the don’t know how it happens or how to create it.

Some people “feel” lucky and won’t buy a lottery ticket unless they have that feeling. But they can’t tell anyone else how to feel that way. It runs in some families, particularly among females, but again – there’s no particular DNA strand or link or coding that really says what makes lucky people that way. (And if they did, I suppose they think we’re going to have some sort of re-coding surgery to “correct” it? Painful.)

What I’ve known about luck up to this point (and before I tell you about a recent breakthrough) – was two things:

1. You can only “make” your own luck – by positive thinking and pro-active living.
2. The old quote, “Luck is opportunity met with preparation.”

And while you can see that these are related, and both quite sensible, they still fall quite short.

• While you can be as pro-active as you want, this means luck is dependent on working hard – and you can work yourself to death thinking as positive as you want and still have horrible luck – even “dying in the traces.”
• If you don’t know how to prepare for the luck which is supposed to fall into your lap, you might as well stay in school for the rest of your life – because how are you supposed to know what luck to prepare for?

The way I’ve stumbled on lately seems the most direct route.

Use Levenson’s Sedona Method releasing technique.

Of course, this is “Law of Attraction” on steroids. You simply see what you really want out of life and release all the reasons you can’t have it, or aren’t worthy, or how having it “gets back at” people, or whatever feeling that comes in when you get that concept. You don’t push the other feelings away, you just let them go.

Of course, Larry Crane and Hale Dwoskin have their own ways and approaches to get this done. But they are both based on the original Lester Levenson research.

And this really boils down to simply getting the effort out of your life – which is really just improving your “luck-ability” score. Anyone you’ve ever heard about or met wasn’t working hard or studying their butts off when that lucky event showed up in their life. They were taking it easy and the luck wasn’t even expected.

That’s what releasing does. You get all the effort out of your life, and definitely, certainly quit thinking about it.

In earlier posts, I’ve covered this as “intuitional living” – and now we could actually call it effortless living.

The person who is luckiest in life simply considers something, releases every thought or feeling they have about it and then lets the Universe bring it to them on it’s terms. Like Wallace Wattles said about using the normal lines of industry and commerce.

Sure, there’s a few other details to it, like always picturing it in the Now – so you always see yourself as having this already in your life – but it’s really simple and easy once you study the basics.

So I invite you to check out the links above and put these into your life as continuing habits.

And get incredibly lucky all the time at everything.

Cheers!

The simplicity of any human-type ill condition is working to keep the illusion of separateness in place. Just look around at any who are really having a “rough” time of it, and you’ll see that they are holding thoughts in place that they alone have this problems, they they have enemies working against them.

But that’s just the fictional load they are carrying.

Look for those who are successful, healthy, happy – and you’ll find they are actively working with others toward a common goal, helping others probably even more than they help themselves.

You’ll find this to be true no matter where you look – because it’s the way this universe is set up. The way we all set it up.

The funny thing is that you almost need to get away from people and go into seclusion in order to shake off these bad mental habits you’ve been keeping for so long which merely hold you back and limit you.

Because our popular culture is constantly reinforcing all those things which simply keep people separate. Look at the “news” and you’ll see all these reports about how bad things are, strife, warfare, violence – all stories about where people are being individual, separate, self-destructive.

Politics and government is just that exactly – group pitted against group. Failed promises to be “bi-partisan” (which itself is composed of two words which mean separateness.)

And you have to look to individuals to get anything done – but these successful individuals do nothing without working with others all the time. They are outstanding only as they are connected really to the Universal and are letting their own light shine through, because they have gotten rid of limits which keep them an individual.

Now, I’m not going to prove any of this to you. You’ll have to do some study of this on your own and prove it to yourself. That’s the only way it works. Follow Sedona Method, Haanel’s books, Napoleon Hill’s Law of Success, Wattle’s “Science of Getting Rich” or even older stuff like Thomas Troward or any of the books about Huna.

Or just sit in a field and meditate in some relaxed pose on what I’ve covered above.

Rock Structure near The Chapel in Sedona at Sunset

This page is just a discussion of the various methods of releasing techniques that are out there today.

Sedona Method was developed by a guy called Lester Levenson in 1952. At 42, he had a second heart attack along with chronic migraines, a perforated intestine from ulcers, and an enlarged liver (among other things.) The doctor simply told him to go home and not get out of bed, as any effort could kill him off. And he was simply expected to die.

But instead, Levenson set his mind to work at this problem, and in three months not only regained his health, but also attained a high spiritual release level – which then took him around 18 years of study to understand what he had just done and how to communicate it effectively to others.

Levenson went on to live another 42 years and trained people to carry on his work.

And there are tapes which have survived, but I’ve only seen them on BitTorrent sites – but I’d buy them in a heartbeat if I could get them on CD. (Update: I found that Larry Crane offers Levenson tapes over at his site – click on “Shop” button at top.)

Another rare book, out of print for years, is his “Keys to the Ultimate Freedom”, which you can find at pretty high prices on Amazon. Now, you can find a scanned copy of this via BitTorrent, but it’s all in images, so it’s not an easy read. (Wish someone would just bring it back again.)

Is Sedona Method/Release Technique a scam?

Well, I’ve covered how people can make anything into a scam, and how if you are just looking for a Get Rich Quick fix for your addiction, it will look like a scam to you. Since I’ve been working with scammer victims for a couple years now, I should be able to tell you something about the subject.

The short answer – just don’t bite off more than you can chew. Try their free stuff first – particularly the online videos, as well as the other materials on their sites. If it seems to make sense, then get some more – maybe their fairly low-priced CD sets or books. Try it some more for yourself. All have money-back guarantees.

If you really consider that it’s right for you, then go to some of their seminars, if one is close by you. See for yourself. I wouldn’t personally shell out thousands until you can produce these results in your own life. As many of these below teachers say, don’t believe anything – prove it for yourself.

But I can tell you that the old Japanese adage is true, that “there are many ways up the mountain,” and also the more ancient Huna, “no one school has all the teachers.”

I’m not sold on any one of the principal routes I bring to you below, but I am sold on the idea Levenson came up with originally – that you can simply accept and let go of those emotional thinking habits you’ve been carrying around for quite some time. It’s worked for me in the simplest ways, and I can see how this opens a lot of doors for other self-help and personal development practices.

You’re mileage may vary. But you won’t find out unless you try it.

The three principal Levenson Release pupils-turned-teachers.

Interestingly, of the three main proponents of Levenson’s system, they all sound like they came from New York, or at least that neighborhood of the East Coast. If you listen to Levenson’s tapes, you can sometimes hear one of these three introducing a tape and sometimes mentioned by Levenson as directing workshops, etc.

So all of them have their bona fides from working directly with Levenson as he developed this into a working structure. In each case, they have developed their own approach to train others on what they learned personally and hands on.

Below are videos which represent their offers, in no particular order. Each are also linked to their sites so you can check these out for yourself. They each offer email courses or newsletters as well.

Larry Crane – Release Technique
http://releasetechnique.org

Hale Dwoskin – Sedona Method
http://sedona.com

Stephen Seretan – Kiss Releasing
http://goingfree.org

And what should you do now?

Simply – do your due diligence and figure out if this is a right step for you. You can, as promised above, get all the personal health, abundance, success, and improved relationships you want. Each of the three say they can help you with this. Some are far more polished than the others. Or you can simply get Levenson’s original materials, which are not your usual beginners’ fare.

But, as usual, it is your choice.

My advice: take freedom over the world – any day and every day.

And you can contact me via this blog if you want more information.