"To the mind that is still the whole universe surrenders" " Lao Tzu" "The unexamined life is not worth living" " Socrates" "You can not solve a problem from the same level of consciousness that created it" " Albert Einstein" "There is more to life than increasing its speed" " Mahatma Gandhi" "For thousands of years mankind has searched the world for meaning, happiness and contentment." "We've looked at the stars." "We've dug into the past." "We've turned to science." "We've looked for it in each other, and we've looked for it in our toys." "but still for most of us the search has been unfulfilled." "The key to happiness has remained elusive." "No matter who we are or what we do, most of us feel we're held back by something." "Whether it's stress or self doubt, anxiety, depression or addiction." "Financial worries or health concerns." "Negative feelings about our bodies, our relationships, our past experiences." "This all is based on belief that we are separate." "Which creates a feeling that we're not enough as we are." "We need something more to feel whole." "We need more money, more power, more drama, more drugs, more food." "We believe that we need to consume the world in order to be." "And that feeling that I'm not enough as I am is incredibly detrimental to our lives, and this Earth we share." "But what if we could actually stop the madness." "Live in this moment." "And let go of our limitations." "What if you had a tool that could simply, quickly, easily and effectively transform your life." "It's not about changing who you are." "It's about letting go of the things that appear to be in the way." "Letting Go." "Right now the world is at critical turning point." "If we continue to do what we've done up until this point." "We'll continue to get results, that none of us are happy with." "But it doesn't have to be this way." "All over the world people like you, and me, are waking up to the truth of who we are." "And this film is one of those ways." "It's a way for you to have love and peace and joy in your life." "And it's a way for us all to work together to bring about a better world." "When I found this method I said:" "This is amazing, because anybody can experience, what I now know people try to achieve over their whole lifetime." "It didn't take me hours of meditation, relaxation, sitting somewhere to get in a state of peace." "It allowed me to finally come to some peace." "I'm so fortunate .... to be free, to be free." "It just feels great to not worry anymore." "That's what SEDONA method gives you." "The freedom to let life be as it is." "It changed my life." "Are you feeling overburdened by your life?" "Do you feel like you have a little excess baggage?" "Are you ready to let go?" "I think it's time." "The SEDONA method is made up of a group of very simple and powerful tools." "And one of this tools is called welcoming." "Welcome - to greet or receive in a polite or friendly way." "To let go of the need to control or possess something." "In other words, what welcoming is, is simply allowing whatever your feeling to be in this moment." "But that's not what we usually do." "What we usually do is we usually push life away." "We hold our feelings back." "And when we do that they bow us over." "But if we do what's counter intuitive." "If we just simply open and allow our feelings to flow." "They pass right through us, and there's no place for them to stick." "And we'll be exploring a very specific 3 part process we call Triple Welcoming." "So let's explore it together." "Step one is welcoming the issue: the thoughts, the feelings, the beliefs, the memories," "Anything that's holding you back." "Step 2 is welcoming all your wanting to do something with it." "your wanting to fix it, you wanting to change it, you wanting to control it, wanting to hold it close, or push it away," "Any attachment or aversion." "And step 3 is welcoming any sense that it's personal." "That it's about you, or who you are." "When you welcome any sense that it's personal, you find that whole thing naturally dissolves." "I welcomed all the feelings, all the sensations that comes with it." "I bring it all out." "I feel like I trick it." "I trick all those into a little boat, that I have visioned." "And all of a sudden, all of the feeling are in there," "I just said Bye, Bye, and they're gone." "Now lets explore triple welcoming together." "As you do releasing, know that you can do it with eyes open or eyes closed." "Both are effective." "And as you do releasing, as you let go as you welcome what is," "Allow yourself to lead with your heart," "As opposed to your head." "Now allow yourself to think of a situation in your life, that you've been wanting to change or improve." "Something with your relationships, something with your health," "Something with your money." "Or something with the world." "And as you focus on this situation, could you allow yourself to simply welcome, whatever thoughts, whatever feelings," "Whatever beliefs, anything at all associated with that particular issue." "Could you just simply open, and welcome, as best you can." "And could you also allow yourself to welcome any wanting to fix it," "Any wanting to change it, any wanting to improve it," "Any wanting to do anything at all with it." "any wanting to push it away, or hold it close." "any sense of attachment or aversion." "And remember, just simply do this inside." "Just simply open and relax, and welcome." "And could you also allow yourself to welcome, any sense, that it's personal." "That it's about you or who you are." "Any sense of identity." "Again remember, just do this inside." "And then could you just simply, Let Go." "you discover the treasure of who you are." "It's like you open the box and the treasure is here." "It has always been here, and it's an endless treasure." "there's no limit to the richness of it." "And you feel like, wow, you know, that's such a gift." "One of the best ways to learn releasing or letting go, is by sharing the experience with others." "As you watch others going through this process." "It invites you gently, but powerfully, into your own experience." "Into your own understanding." "So the best way to view this film" "Is as though you're one of participants." "View this as an invitation to get actively involved." "Now of course, you can simply watch this film for entertainment." "And you'll be entertained, but there's a deeper promise here." "there's something that if you allow yourself, to at least keep an open mind and an open heart," "This whole process can engage you at a level that can make a huge difference in your life," "I'm an author of text books," "I write, just finished 8th edition of textbook in critical thinking." "And I'm a mother, grand mother, and grand grandmother." "I followed many paths, had many forms of therapy." "When one is releasing it's moving out of the mind and the thought," "Often the folly of thinking into direct perceptual experience." "It's given me this excitement about finding stuck places in myself." "That I hadn't realized were stuck." "And having tools for a way through." "Through releasing." "We filmed an advanced course in San Francisco, and then we decided there were so much goodness there that we just had to share it with the world" "Everyone in this film, including myself, are ordinary people, just like you who had found real lasting happiness, and are living their dreams and they did this by simply using this simple, powerful and easy to learn technique." "That we're about to explore together" "This film is an invitation for you to discover the truth of who you are" "To let go of everything inside you, that's holding you back" "And the key to all of this in my experience is letting go and allowing yourself to be, that what you already are." "I'm a Vietnam veteran, and I was in Vietnam 40 years ago" "This last year I was diagnosed with PTSD (Post Traumatic Syndrome Disorder) and it made perfect sense that I've been angry for the last 40 years irritable about what happened in that situation." "and I've suppressed it with alcohol, antidepressants and going to therapy." "nothing has worked to eliminate this irritability and anger that I've had inside me about a month ago I stopped drinking I stopped taking anti-depressants and I went to a Vet-Center and I said "I've stopped drinking and...."" "the counsellor at the Vet Center said "Oh that's good, now you can let the PTSD come up"" "The good news is that you now recognize that you have the PTSD." "He said that the bad news is that it will take another 40 years to heal" "I don't wanna spend another 40 years having this PTSD or this anger heal" "I've already spend 40 years with it." "About a month ago I started listening to Hale talk about releasing and the different releasing methods, and that's what I've been doing for the last month." "is releasing some of this anger, using some of the method to do that." "For me the Sedona Method has been helpful," "And what I'd like to say to other Veterans, it's a possibility, it could help, it could help release some of the pain, and anger, that's inside." "Those of you watching or listening at home do this with us," "Those of you here if you would pick up a pen or a pencil" "So for the sake of this analogy, this object represents our unwanted emotions it also represents our unwanted thoughts, our unwanted feelings, our beliefs about ourselves." "and also all the roles, all identities that we've taken on for ourselves" "And your hand represents your gut if you like, or simply awareness" "So now take your hand, grip it tightly around the object, now if we did this long enough it will start to feel really uncomfortable and then really familiar, because this is what we do all the time with our emotions" "now roll the object around in your hand." "Now is this object attached to your hand?" "No, obviously not, but if you think about your relationship to your identities and your emotions, we actually talk as though we are them." "When we're angry, what do we usually say?" "I'm angry, exactly." "When we're sad what we usually say: "I'm sad"" "We actually believe that we are the emotion, that's actually what we believe." "Now when we take on this roles, and we take on this feelings as though they are us, we forget that it's something that we're choosing." "We're holding on to it ourselves, so we can make a new choice and we can get stuck, even in positive roles, positive identities." "but especially I think you can relate to the fact, that we all have all this negative identities about ourselves, and negative beliefs, negative feelings, that we've been doing this for so long, they feel like part of us" "we can hardly move, and it's kinda, we go through life like this, we don't loose anything, you know, we're protecting them too." "if we have a particular role that we've identify with we're like this:" "don't get anywhere nearer, especially if it hurts." "Did you notice what we do when something hurts:" "we collapse around it, we go ughhhh, and then we're like this:" "you not gonna get anywhere near my suffering," "How dare you even think of taking this away from me." "And that's all unnecessary." "That suffering that we go through, in order to protect our suffering is craziness." "So getting back to this analogy, because this isn't attached to us" "We have this amazing opportunity to just simply do this:" "close your hand lightly around this object, by the way please do this at home, and just drop it." "Was that hard to do?" "NO." "Some of you are giggling because it was so easy." "Well that's how easy it could be to let go of even beliefs, identities, feelings that we've absolutely with certainty believed we've always been." "Beliefs about ourselves, or feelings that we've thought we never ever could let go of." "Could be let go of that easily by simply deciding to let it go." "The person we're about to see is dealing with issues that we all face." "We're all playing roles that no longer serve us." "they are holding us back." "And this is a way to be free of all roles." "And to choose to be your authentic self." "I always felt this incredible responsibility to do well, be excellent, just to do my very best, to represent (in quotes) "my race"." "Yes." "And then of course being a black male in this country." "I've always felt this awesome responsibility to kinda brake this stereotype and I had this moment in November, where I thought to myself" "Oh, this is great." "And then I had this other moment that went:" "Oh what's my race on....... now." "I don't have to do this anymore." "Right." "But I've always felt this responsibility, you know that I had to be The Representative." "or a representative of my race, and be a good one of that." "Yes." "So ahm, everything I did in my life that revolved around that, you know." "And it just feels like really heavy load that I'd like to let down." "but at the same time ammm, have some benefit to others." "Sure." "......." "I mean I feel very fortunate I have a wonderful, wonderful wife." "I decided to get married for the first time in my life" "And she tolerates me." "Yes, most wives tolerate us." "So I fell a little bit more tolerable." "Yes, yes, great." "So in this moment could you just welcome that memory and all the burden that comes with it." "And all the memories," "And all the beliefs" "And all that pressure" "And all the desire to fix it or change it, or control it or be free of it" "Good." "And then all the sense that's who you are, that's personal" "And then notice what's beyond all that." "So what's actually here now?" "Does it....." "Nothing." "It worked, again, it's working now." "So in this moment, do you need to play any role in order to be?" "No." "No." "Isn't that a relief?" "Thank you, thank you." "So I think you can see we all have one or two issues, that we need to deal with" "But you may be wondering, how did we lose our way" "If we're already whole and complete and perfect within ourselves how did we get so confused?" "Well it's actually quite simple" "If you allow yourself to simply be open to what we're gonna explore next" "I think it may ring some bells and open some doors, and help reveal to you how we got ourselves into this mess." "What I'm talking about is just another concept," "I'm not saying this is the truth, right." "But, in my experience, what happens in the first couple of years of life, the thinking mind is in development and it's a learned behavior to even think that you are your name" "It looks kinda like this, if that was Laura and this was daddy it would be:" "Daddy" "Laura" "Daddy" "Laura" "And if you hear that for about long enough, maybe two years or so, you start to believe you are Laura, or a Paula or a Tony or whatever your particular body mind is called it's a learned behaviour, and it's actually" "we started describing the body in the third person" "but in around two or two and a half it goes from" "Laura's toy, Hale's toy, or Josephine's toy or again whoever we're call." "to My toy." "and as soon as it becomes my toy, we're willing to defend our toys with our lives, it becomes like, we think it's all about me, and then we spend the rest of our lives until we get tired of it," "what arises with that belief that I'm this is that everything besides this is a threat then one of the words that we use a lot is" "NO, No no , no , no , no, no" "and as adults we've just gotten perfected our No's and we try to make them very subtle, as you let go and discover the truth of who you are," "you don't loose the wisdom gained from experience, but what happens is you loose all that excess baggage that's accumulated around believing that you are just that that separate me, that separate I" "That can fall away" "And it falls away through all different forms of releasing" "And it falls away very rapidly as you discover it's just a learned behaviour" "It isn't the truth, it isn't who you are" "I was going through difficult times in my life, am in terms of my marriage, and ................" "I suddenly realized that the love that I've had been seeking outside of myself was actually coming from inside." "And it was quiet a revelation." "And it was very much of relief." "And at that point I had gotten to knowing the marriage was in a lot of trouble." "And I was very concerned how my children are going to respond." "And I still remember what he said to me, I didn't even tell him much of a story." "He just looked at me and he said you know:" "Could you let go of wanting to control your family's experience." "And that I really think was the beginning of what helped me start to release." "In our fast pace world, we're all so busy, we're all so plugged in," "That we become human doings instead of human beings" "And that beingness is always right behind all this doingness." "And if you allow yourself to discover that you don't need to be so caught up" "In all the actions in life there's a sense of flow, sense of ease there's a sense of openness, and there's a sense of certainty that reveals itself in action and you can have this right here, right now," "and throughout your day" "I can't believe I'm doing this what's that?" "Most of the people can't believe when there up there" "It's like, my hand went up and I'm on the stage" "Oh my god, what did I do?" "Yeah, I'm in enough pain that I would like to be out" "So Pain is a great motivator" "Yeah, I guess" "Yeah, one of the things that keeps coming up is my career, and what I do for a living" "I've devoted a lot of my life to and then on the very first day, when we did the pen" "when I was grasping on to the pen it was my career it was what I do for a living," "but it was really tight" "Yes I can see even in your hand you're a white knuckling it brrrraaaa" "Don't you take that away from me, don't you even try kind of thing and what's happening is, my body, there's been for the last year, or year and a half my body is not, I don't know what is going on with it." "but it's not letting me have as much energy, to do as much as I have so I'm not able to meet all the demands of my worklife and my way of dealing with that is to push through this" "Yes, to push right through this, and that's not working and I feel like, I'm really trapped there and here I am in this really expensive space and I can expand it to so many other" "but this area I hit I am just holding on" "I would really like to be released from that Please If you could help me" "Sure" "By the way, I just wanna remind you and everyone else that" "It may appear I'm doing something, but I'm not the releases that happen, the recognitions that happens all that unfolds here has nothing to do with me" "So before we even go there, could you just welcome all the energy that's arising in this moment" "there's a lot of emotion arising so could you just simply welcome it" "good and could you just do this inside" "so in this moment can you actually find the one who thinks they need to work in order to be no right" "but what is here?" "It's a very beautiful space right, now check, are you separate from that space?" "no right do you rent that space out at your job?" "I am not getting any money for it." "No." "We rent bodies not the space." "One of the things that happens, as you do this exploration as you recognize that what you are is that what is changelessly present that starts to become a little more interesting than that what changes" "the only reason we miss it is because we're more interested we think the juice is in the suffering" "We think the juice is in the changing and we believe in it we believe in the changeful and ignore that what is changeless" "Yes, there's definitely element of that the glamour, the drama, it feels very compelling right exactly, and plus what else you're gonna talk about?" "Mind also likes to have something to talk about" "And there's not much to say about what you are" "It is, beginning, middle, and end of the story and even that's too many words" "Cause that what you are is worthless, is conceptless." "Thank you very much Hale, Thank you!" "As you allow yourself to open to welcoming, what happens is you get a sense of flow you get a sense of how life simply is happening it's like a river, and it's always flowing through the now" "and as you allow yourself to open to the river of life it carries you where you need to go and all those obstacles that you've been creating in your life when you allow yourself to welcome the river it simply flows through, carrying away whatever it is you don't need" "most of us have a long list of beliefs of what we think we are, what we believe we are what other people told us about ourselves all these things that you believe about yourself are not actually who you are" "as you discover that all this things that you learned about yourself all these things that you believe about yourself aren't actually real it's actually a relief now I know that you already invested a lot of time and energy" "in that particular identity that you think you are so some of you at first may hesitate seeing through all that work you invested but what you find as you do this work whatever time and energy and intent you invested" "in that particular separate identity, as you see through it, as you discover that isn't who you are you'll get it back a million fold because when you confine yourself to any particular identity when you confine yourself to any particular point of view" "what you discover is that you're murdering or eliminating or cutting of from all other possibilities" "But what you are right now is unlimited there's nothing you need to do and Nowhere you need to go in order to be that what you already are" "I found a way to survive what was very challenging:" "Depression" "I found a way to overcome some sabotaging thought patterns and behaviours" "And I've had a good grace to be introduced to the nature of my mind and that's something that is priceless" "Most of us are carrying deep burdens from the past it could be old losses, old traumas, even abuse and it's such a heavy burden to carry and the problem that we carry this burdens is that we reexperience these past traumas over and over and over again" "and the invitation here is as you let go you keep the wisdom that you gain from experience but you get rid of all the pain, all the suffering all the stuff that's preventing you from fully living life and really moving on" "I realized I had a lot of very difficult memories am that I needed to let go, and I didn't know how to" "I was experiencing very strong emotions like panic attacks" "I found the way to be able to accept my feelings rather than reject them and when you allow yourself to let go of what was you discover the exquisite beauty of what is" "When that one person dies slowly" "And if that one person leaves behind a husband and maybe two daughters that, I become wracked with pain" "Sure, so is it here now?" "It seems to be" "Ok, so lets just start with the memory there's all this memories about that whole time period" "Yes." "And there's also a lot of pain attached to all the memories" "Yes" "But there's also a lot of sweetness" "Yes, and sometimes when we have a mixture like that we think we have to hold on to the whole package because if we let go of the pain we're afraid we will lose the sweetness" "I've seen this so often, where we get caught when we're grieving is we believe that the grieve, the suffering and the pain actually connect us to the one that we've lost this is true when relationship brakes down, or someone dies" "someone just simply goes out of our life we are afraid to let go of the pain and the suffering attached to us to the memories, because we're afraid we will lose the person or we lose our love for them," "but in my experience the opposite is true to the degree we're holding on to the pain or the suffering we're cutting off from the love that we are so in this moment, let yourself remember your wife" "and can you feel just a little bit that love that you have for her" "Yes and could you just let it shine, and then let it shine into all those memories it's actually coming from here out and through and if you let it it will start to dissolve all these things that" "you've been carrying around and you notice that it just gets stronger as It does it as it consumes it at the flame of that love" "try just one memory that's painful" "Okay, done and could you just welcome the memory" "Aha and then could you also welcome all your wanting to change it all your wanting it to be different to the way that it was" "and could you also welcome the feeling that it is personal" "Yes, you came up here wanting to let go something that you've been struggling for 20 Years so now check in this moment, did you loose love or is there a little more love available to you in this moment" "a little, Yes" "Yes, OK, so could you just welcome the love" "Yes and then could you welcome the remaining pain and suffering and memory yes" "the love itself if you allow it to will simply wash away all the rest of the memories you don't have to sort through them, you don't have to remember each one make sure you get every detail, it's not required" "in this moment, there is this awareness now the awareness itself is that personal or it just is it is right, and does it have any boundaries no right, and does it have even a beginning or an end?" "no right, now was she separate from that?" "no is what you are separate from that?" "no right, so there's no personal center there, was there one in her" "that I started to realize just a second" "We live in a highly addicted society most of us have addictions that we don't even realize we have we can be addicted to food, we can be addicted to drugs, we can be addicted to alcohol but we also get addicted to our stories, to our suffering" "to whatever it is that's holding us back but there's an invitation to allow yourself to let go of whatever you run on automatic wherever you become addicted to something besides the truth of who you are and when you let go of addictions," "it doesn't mean that you can't enjoy the same things that you were enjoying before but you can do it in a new way free of addiction, free to do it or not do it and free to discover what's beyond all addiction" "So do you have a particular habit in mind?" "Yes," "Okay" "I habit of using food for comfort, for energy, to calm things down, to excite things up, pretty much for many reason right, most of us have all purpose relationship with food no limitation right no limitation, well it's extreme limitation but... yes that's great." "well in this moment could you just welcome that memory, see right now are you using food for anything" "no right so could you just welcome that whole memory of how you used food for many things besides just simply supporting the body" "yes and could you just welcome the whole memory?" "yes okay, and could you also welcome any feeling of wanting to be controlled by food" "yes" "OK, good, and could you welcome too any wanting to get rid of the memory, your wanting to change it yes" "good, and then could you welcome any sense that that's about you or who you are." "Yes" "Absolutely, yes when we have a lot of memories associated with particular tendency there is the sense of "all those memories must belong to somebody right and I think because there is a sensation that arises in you know ..." "I'll be sitting here and I feel tired and sensation comes up like "Eat something"" "right everyone's related to this very well" "and going through my day working on the computer and get stressed out it's actually sensation "eat something", well that's a thought but it kinda arises as bodily sensation absolutely and so everytime that happens it reinforces the memory" "right, but non of that is happening now, right?" "right ok so, that, all those memories could you simply welcome them" "yes and then could you welcome the rest of the sense that those memories are who you are" "Yes right, could you welcome that sense of having constructed whole identity" "around your relationship to food yes" "now check, do you need that identity to be?" "no so If this arises again just simply notice it and welcome it" "notice the sensations notice the sounds in your head" ""Oh, time to eat, what can I eat?" "what should I eat now?" "we all have our favourite right there." ""CHIPS"" "and the body goes "OK"" ""Whatever you say"" "so, when that comes up, or as that comes up you just let it be there and you may a few more times eat the chips but if you fight eating the chips you'll just eat more everyone in this room has experienced that too" ""Ohh!" "I am not gonna eat this!"" ""Ohh I'm really gonna stop"" "but if you simply welcome that phenomena, you let it be there what happens is very quickly it starts to dissolve and you may go through the pattern few more times and then it just start to drop away and be open to the possibility that it will never come up again" "ok, great, thank you" "all of us tend to have this self imposed limitations we've put on ourselves and this work helps you let go of this limitations and when you put another one on yourself you could recognize that it's just a story" "and, and learn to let it go once you learn these tools it helps you to become liberated this really given me some basis stand on that I am here and only here and that the story is gonna play itself out," "I don't have to play it out in my mind" "Tried it and did it with my kids 9 year old and 11 year old" "Enerke and Maria, and seeing the results on my kids was just overwhelming" "I started crying I said this is powerful stuff" "Anyone can do it and it's really something that has been transformational to me as you been experiencing what we've been exploring so far you may be wondering whether or not you can do this you also may be experiencing some push or pull inside" "that too is completely part of the process even though it's simple we don't always make it easy we highly complicate everything that we do including this process so here's a humorous look at what we all do when we're not letting go" "we all have this coping mechanism or compensations for emotions but this what we're doing" "I'm gonna stand up to do this so everyone can see" "yeah" "and you know.... that takes a little effort so could you just do this inside" "just open" "ok" "Yeah it feels better right, exactly, that's a little key the mind lies to us, it tells us that if we let the emotion up we're gonna be a basket case" "but most of us are walking around with one foot in the basket all the time and we wonder why we trip and fall a lot" "because we're so busy juggling the emotion believing that if we just let it up and let it go" "it's gonna be worse that's what the mind tells us, and sometimes that's even what society tells us" "but it's never true" "As you let go one of the things you'll notice is that you laugh a lot more and a lot more easily" "you'll also notice that when you release it's accompanied by laughter" "cause laughter is already one of the natural ways that all of us let go" "I think the main thing that I have learned is that the truth is that you don't have to understand or comprehend, that the most perfect and the most grater things is the emptiness that we have that's like perfect, there's nothing more to it" "and that the trick of life is accepting that is nothing more in life than that is now" "what you'll find that as you let go as you discover the truth of who you are you'll find that you naturally and effortlessly think more positively and so what happens is as you let go and allow yourself to be what you already are" "the mind gets quieter but you also discover that there is this wonderful quiet with the mind" "you let the mind think whatever it does and by allowing the mind to simply do it's own thing and not taking it personally it seems to write itself it seems to naturally create more and more positive and the less you effort at this" "the more you allow it to be natural the simpler it is" "and if you allow yourself to be open to what is you find that it's very friendly, it's very compassionate it's very loving, and there's enough for everyone" "most of us live in a sea of "If only"s" "If only we had more money, better relationships, more toys, then we would be happy but if you haven't already notice when you postpone your happiness when you want something instead of having it you never seem to get it" "what you discover as you let go is that most of us have the way we live with life backwards we think we don't have what we want because we haven't wanted it enough but the exact opposite is true" "the more you let go of wanting the more you feel like you have and the more you manifest in life because want does not equal having want is a feeling of I can't have it or I don't have it" "and when you can see that and let go of wanting the more you discover you can have it all" "I've been doing the Sedona Method for 2 years now and prior to the Sedona Method everything in my life was all about wanting" "I wanted control, I wanted more money I wanted more success" "I wanted, everything was wanting wanting wanting and things I wanted my whole life I've been never able to accomplish even though I had quite a few accomplishments but no the big ones that I really really wanted and am so just to share with everybody else" "by releasing all of that wanting, Constantly" "I am now manifesting things that were beyond my imagination two years ago so it's just profound" "and I've made a lot of money because I'm very driven guy and totally goal oriented and all that but now I'm making more in a month than I would in a year just a few years ago" "and yet it doesn't matter to me because I'm released on it anyway you're a living example of how when you let go you gain more with less effort you've been suggesting less and less over the time we've known each other" "and gaining more and more with less and less effort and that's normal we don't realize it's normal because we're so busy doing something else and then the other thing is that We do support people on working on goals" "what you're doing is you're setting a clear intention and then you are consciously inviting up all the thoughts and feelings to the contrary and you're letting them go and what you notice very quickly is all of the sudden you can see and feel and hear" "the goal already being accomplished and so all that unlimited energy that you are is flowing in that particular direction" "It's ironic I think I've had actually more success since I started letting go of wanting the success" "I used to take a lot of action steps, and there was a lot of doing and pushing and forcing and try to make things happen and this second I just let that all fall away was when things just started miraclessly showing up" "Life just flows to me now, life just happens a lot of people refer to me and say ?" "you're so damn lucky" "I say you know luck has nothing to do with this, luck is when opportunity and preparation collides, they meet each other as you let go and open to the truth of who you are you get all this little tickles inside that are really fun" "but you may get confused, you may think that you have to live life differently and that may or may not be true what you discover, as you let go is that life goes on but it goes on from a very different perspective" "you have greater ease, greater Joy, greater happiness and you know no matter what's happening around you that all is well" "So I feel fabulous, and" "I'm having these questions now yes the only things that are on the agenda are getting in a car and driving back to where I live and" "then what?" "I really like the way I feel" "9 of 10 things that were on my to do list before I left home" "I've already mentally crossed of the list coz I don't care any more" "Okay" "you just wonder around like this?" "Does that question doesn't even make any sense?" "Of course, it actually does." "This is something that I'd like to point out to all of you this is what the mind does as you start to discover what you are the mind wants to turn that into something special, meaningful and important to" "and it thinks that the externals need to change nothing needs to change in order for you to be what you already are and the Joy, The Bliss, The Relaxation, The Knowingness all those things that most of you are experiencing in this moment are what's natural" "It's what's always been here and life doesn't stop, life continues what stops is creating suffering" "that works for me good" "Okay" "I had the privilege that I have been born in a country where I was very much exposed from a very young age to Sufis and poets like Rumi and Huffet we talked about all of the stuff that we talk about here at Sedona" "suddenly it just became very clear without really any effort, that you really don't need to go outside of yourself to look for the answers finally I got myself a tool to be able to stay in the now" "and it's lovely" "I'm a different person, I know I am, I mean I feel it internally" "I have had 4/5 of my dearest closest friends have actually told me in the last 3 or 4 months it's just profound the changes that have taken place in my life" "I'm a completely different person that I was 3 or 4 years ago things don't seem like work any more things are just like a project, there just fun and I like that" "I never imagine that I'll could be making the kinds of radical once would have been terrifying changes in my life, and there's no fear any more" "as you let go one of the things you'll notice is that your heart opens and you're filled with compassion you're filled with love, you're filled with caring both for yourself, your friends, your relatives" "and the whole planet, and this will naturally move you into action you'll do more to help your fellow man you'll do more to help the world, and you'll do more to help yourself there is this Hope for myself personally" "and for the Planet, and what help I can give to the other people" "I work as a hospice chapel so I was looking for some more tools to work with people with different belief systems and also that it's gentle," "because I work with some people in some really fragile states so I started reading about Sedona Method" "I went to a seminar and I found it really transformational in myself and so I started using it with patients" "I ask people: "So you have this fear in your body?"" "Do you wanna keep that fear or would you like to get rid of it?" "I'd like to get rid of it" "So will you just sit with me and answer some questions so where do you find that fear in your body?" "How would you describe it?" "Often times they say, "Oh I feel some tightness here"" "Okay, so you feel some tightness here" "Is that something that you wanna to hang on to or would you like to let it go" "I'd like to let it go" "Could you let it go?" "Some people look around and think "I guess I could"" "Would you be willing to let that go?" "Yeah, I would be" "Then I ask: "When?"" "Now?" "And then you're watching them just whhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh and they finally realize they don't have to hang on to that and then you just take them through it again" "In this moment can you feel the nothingness?" "See if you can find where nothing ends and something begins?" "or where everything ends and nothing begins?" "one of the questions that has been coming up in all of the minds in this room is now what do I do?" "first of all remember the basics feelings are just feelings, they are not facts" "and they are not you, and you can let them go and you can let them go by simply deciding to drop them and using questions like Could I let this go?" "Would I?" "and When?" "or you can say it in the third person" "Could you let this go?" "Would you?" "and When?" "remember that simple questions are incredibly powerful because they are simple it doesn't need to be hard, it doesn't need to be complex in fact it isn't and so the other thing you can do is to simply welcome what is" "which by the way is the same thing so as you welcome what is" "you can welcome simply whatever you are experiencing in the moment which is by the way great way to release in action just simply do this inside, just simply stay open to what is the more open you are the more transparent you are" "the less there is any place for anything to stick and you can also take it a little deeper by welcoming what you believe is the problem of the moment" "and then welcoming any wanting to fix it or change it and then welcome any identity with them if you've noticed, those three things combined when you welcome the appearance, the memory, the thought, the belief, the problem" "you welcome all the thoughts and feelings, and sensations and pictures and sounds that are associated with it and then you also welcome all your wanting to meddle wanting to fix, wanting to change, wanting to force it," "wanting to control it, wanting to figure it out when you welcome all of that what happens is there's an opening inside" "and then as you also welcome any sense of identity any sense that it's personal, it's about me, about who I am that unhooks it, you stop feeding that illusion and then it can spin freely and spin out of existence" "and what you notice is that you are already the field you're already the screen, you're already presence of awareness that allows for all experiencing yet is unaffected or uninvolved in any of it" "and then of course at any moment you can discover or reremember just two things" "that that presence of awareness, that beingness, that easiness, that truth, that love, that peace, that Joy" "that you are, is already here, already now already completely unencumbered and that what you often believe you were or you are in this moment doesn't bare direct examination" "what you discover is that If you try to find the separate me you'll discover it's not there you can certainly remember it" "you can certainly imagine it but it's still doesn't make it real now one of the things you'll discover as you keep letting go is what you are requires no belief to be it's beyond all belief" "so if you find that you've turn something positive into belief just dig a little deeper after all would you rather believe you have a million dollars or would you rather see it in your bank account would you rather believe that you have good health" "or would you rather be living it in every moment would you rather believe that there is no separation" "or would you like to have that be your living experience now and so don't settle for any belief, no matter who is peddling it" "settle for nothing less than what you are and also allow being what you are to be fun to be natural, to be easy" "it doesn't require effort to be so every moment allow yourself to be more interested in what's actually is here now" "nothing is required for you to be what you already are" "I love you all unconditionally thank you for sharing yourself thank you for your willingness to show up and to be seen" "and to support this planet in this wonderful change this wonderful unfolding" "every release you've done is not just for you it's for everyone" "every release you'll ever do is not just for you it's for everyone, we're all in this together" "What you've just seen is an invitation for the healing of planet Earth and invitation for you to lead a happier richer and more love filled life" "an invitation for you to share what you've learned with those that you care about starting with each and everyone of us letting go of all that is holding us back and being all we can be" "starting right here, right now the Sedona Method shows you how to uncover and live that presence of awareness that is always here" "always now, shining in plain view as you let go, as you simply allow yourself to notice what is actually here now" "you'll discover that right here, right now you're already whole you're already complete, you're already enough as you are" "and all is well" "Letting Go" "Please share this Film," "Join the conversation" "Join the Community Get support in loving memory of Lester Levenson, the inspiration behind The Sedona Method"