The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being

328 Pages·2003·2.14 MB·English

by  Hale Dwoskin

THE
SEDONA METHOD®
Your Key to Lasting Happiness,
Success, Peace and EmotionalWell-
being By HALE DWOSKIN
Sedona PRESS
The publisher and author of this material make no medical claims for its use.
This material is not intended to treat, diagnose, advise about, or cure any illness.
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Copyright © 2003 by Hale Dwoskin. All rights reserved. No part of this book
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FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Control Number: 2003102949
ISBN 0-9719334-1-3
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Dedicated to Lester Levenson
Acknowledgments
This book could not have been published without the assistance and
encouragement of many individuals to whom I would like to extend my most
sincere gratitude.
First and foremost, many thanks to my wife Amy for all her love and support.
I offer my deep appreciation to Jack Canfield for his friendship and generosity.
My thanks to Stephanie Gunning, my brilliant editor, for her integrity,
skill, intelligence, and humor.
Thanks to the book designers, Shannon Bodie and Bob Swingle at Lightbourne,
LLC, for their creativity, diligence and professionalism.
I would like to thank our staff for their dedication and hard work.
Heartfelt thanks to the numerous people who so kindly and willingly shared their
personal stories so that readers could glimpse what is possible from the Sedona
Method.
Finally, to all Sedona Method graduates everywhere for their courageousness of
spirit in using this glorious technique and sharing it with the world: Thank you!
Foreword By Jack Canfield
I have been hearing wonderful things about the Sedona Method® from clients
and friends for about 20 years. Recently, I finally took the course with my wife
and my 12-year-old son. I’ve been amazed at the simplicity of the Method and
the powerful impact it has had on my life. Through my work with Chicken Soup
for the Soul and through my Self-Esteem Seminars, I have been exposed to many
self-improvement techniques and processes. This one stands head and shoulders
above the rest for the ease of its use, its profound impact, and the speed with
which it produces results. The Sedona Method is a vastly accelerated way of
letting go of feelings like anger, frustration, jealousy, anxiety, stress, and fear, as
well as many other problems—even physical pain—with which almost
everybody struggles at one time or another.
One of the wonderful byproducts of taking the seminar is that I have become
friends with Hale Dwoskin. He is one of the calmest, clearest, most joy-filled
people I have ever met, living proof that the Sedona Method works wonders. I
am ecstatic about our friendship. During the seminar, I found myself constantly
in awe of Hale’s brilliant teaching style. I experienced one breakthrough after
another. As a result, I’ve already referred many family members, friends, and
business associates to the Sedona Method seminars, and I’ve also had the entire
staff at Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises learn the Method through the
audio programs that Hale put together.
Now I am thoroughly delighted to be able to recommend The Sedona Method:
Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Well-being. Reading this
book is the equivalent of taking the Sedona Method Basic Course and several
Advanced Courses rolled together. Filled with practical techniques and
enlightening true stories, Hale clearly and generously explains everything we
need to know to master the releasing process and to continue using the Method
day by day, moment by moment in real life situations, such as having more
fulfilling and harmonious relationships, building financial security, developing
satisfying careers, breaking nasty habits, losing weight, and enjoying good
health. He reveals the Sedona Method’s powerful secret for manifesting what
you want in your life, while showing you how to be at ease and comfortable with
what you already have. The Method also enables you to have greater ease,
enjoyment, and peace of mind with all that you experience on a daily basis.
So I highly encourage you to read The Sedona Method with an open mind and
heart. Please allow the simplicity of its message and the power of this process to
open you to all the wonders that life has to offer. It is one of those rare things in
today’s world that delivers more than it promises ... way more. I urge you to pay
close attention to Hale’s message in this book. If you do, it will change your life.
Author’s Note
The stories in this book are true. However, in an effort to safeguard the privacy
of certain individuals who have been Sedona Method students or whose lives
have touched mine, some of the names and identifying details of the people
mentioned in this book have been changed.
Introduction
What Is the Sedona Method?
You feel like your heart is warm and open, your spine is pleasantly tingling, and
your body is floating on air. As you look around the room, the colors seem
brighter and the sounds clearer, like you are truly experiencing your
surroundings for the first time. Your mind feels profoundly quieter, yet there are
many new and wonderful possibilities floating into your awareness about how
you can improve your life and live happily now. You feel relaxed and at ease,
knowing that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should be.
Your eyes are a little teary, because it is hard for you to believe that such simple
exercises could make such a profound and immediate difference in how you feel.
You are excited about the future, knowing that you can face whatever happens
with a new feeling of inner strength, ease, and confidence, no matter what curves
life throws your way.
Best of all, you know this is just the beginning.
You can easily have this type of experience for yourself, just like the tens of
thousands of others who have been living and using the simple, yet powerful
techniques that Sedona Training Associates have taught for years in our live
seminars and audio programs. Now these techniques are available to you in this
book!
Are you open to being truly happy? Are you willing to achieve everything that
you have been wanting in your life? Are you ready to find what your heart has
always been seeking? If you answered “no” to all three of these questions, then
please don’t bother reading this book. If you answered “yes,” to any of them,
The Sedona Method will show you a practical way to tap an inner source of
boundless happiness, to achieve your wildest dreams and highest potential, and
to become a spiritual “finder” instead of a seeker.
We live in a world that’s in a state of rapid change—and not all of it is positive.
Most of us crave a certainty, security, and solidity that we cannot find outside of
ourselves no matter how hard we try. But these qualities already exist within
each of us, waiting to be revealed. It is as though we possess an inner wishing
well or a fountain of joy and vitality that’s disconnected from the water supply.
Yet, secretly, everyone has a tool to reconnect.
Intrigued? I hope so. Because I would love to share a simple process with you
that can deliver on this promise: the Sedona Method. The technique has already
helped many thousands of people to tap their natural ability to let go of
uncomfortable or unwanted emotions on the spot. It is our limiting emotions that
prevent us from creating and maintaining the lives that we choose. We abdicate
our decision-making ability to them. We even imagine that our emotions can
dictate to us who we are supposed to be. This is made apparent in our use of
language. Have you ever said to someone, “I am angry,” or, “I am sad”? When
we speak like this, we are saying to those around us and to ourselves, without
realizing it, that we are our anger, or we are our grief. We relate to others and
ourselves as though we are our feelings. In fact, we even invent whole stories of
why we feel the way we feel in order to justify or explain this misperception of
our identity.
It is not that feelings don’t occasionally appear to be justified. It’s just that
feelings are only feelings, feelings are not who we are—and we can easily let
them go. Choosing to let them go frees us to perceive what is actually here, and
to act, or refrain from acting, accordingly. This translates into an ability to
handle life—to make stronger, clearer choices. It allows you and me to act in
ways that support us in achieving our goals and aspirations as opposed to
sabotaging them. I have seen the process of letting go of the emotions grow into
an ability to have more money, better relationships, more radiant health and
physical well-being, and an ability to be happy, calm, and focused, no matter
what is going on around us.
Sounds good, doesn’t it? I thought it did back in 1976 when I met Lester
Levenson, the man who inspired the creation of the Sedona Method and would
also become my mentor. Back then, I was an ardent, although confused, seeker
who had gone to numerous seminars led by teachers from both the East and the
West. I had studied various body-centered disciplines, including yoga, tai chi,
and shiatsu. I had actively participated in numerous personal growth courses,
including EST, Actualism, Theta Seminars, and Rebirthing. At these seminars, I
had many nice experiences and heard and understood— at least intellectually—
many useful concepts. Still, I felt incomplete. I longed for a simple and powerful
answer to some important yet vexing questions like: “What is my life’s
purpose?” “What is truth?” “Who am I?” and “How can I feel at home and at
peace with my life?” Much of what I heard and experienced only added to my
questioning. No one seemed to have truly satisfying answers or to have truly
satisfied themselves about their true nature. There was also a strong, almost
universal belief that growing was hard work that required baring your soul and
reliving painful, unresolved issues. That all changed during my very fortunate
encounter with this remarkable man.
Meeting Lester Levenson
I met Lester at a seminar led by a well-known speaker that Lester was attending
as the leader’s guest. That day, a group of us went out to lunch together. Lester’s
presence immediately struck me as unique. He was in total peace and equal-
minded-ness, very comfortable with himself. He was unassuming and easy to
talk to and treated everyone as his friend—even me, a complete stranger. It was
obvious that he’d ended his search by discovering the answers I’d been seeking.
I knew I had to find out more.
When I asked Lester what he did, he invited me to a seminar that was being held
the next weekend. All he would tell me was that “a group of people is going to
sit around a table and release.” I wasn’t sure what releasing meant, but I knew if
it could even point me in the direction of the qualities of which Lester was the
living embodiment, I definitely wanted it. I took a leap of faith and signed up on
the spot.
That weekend I was in essentially the same position you’re in right now. I was
about to embark on a journey for which I felt a little bit of trepidation. I wasn’t
sure exactly with what I was getting involved, and, since I had done so many
seminars, I also had a healthy degree of skepticism. I found myself wondering,
“Oh my God, is this going to be another one of those disappointments along the
way?” As the course unfolded, however, I watched myself and other people in
the class shedding long-held beliefs and limitations with amazing ease and
speed, yet without having to relive or explain their life stories.
Almost overnight, I knew that I’d found what I was looking for. In fact, deep
inside, I knew that this process of releasing was what I had been born to do and
share with the world—and to this day I have never wavered. In the past 26 years,
I’ve watched thousands of other people change their lives, radically yet gently,
for the better just by learning one elegantly simple, yet powerful technique.
Origins of the Sedona Method