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

Often, when we’re trying to release and it’s not happening, we know we’re hitting a wall of resistance. If this happens to you, giving yourself permission to hold on to your stubborn resistance is another effective way to approach it.

You may do this process on your own by reading the following questions silently to yourself, or do it with the assistance of a partner. Step 1: Focus on your issue and allow yourself to welcome whatever you are feeling in the NOW moment. Step 2: Dig a little deeper to discover whether the NOW feeling comes from a sense of wanting. Ask one of the fo

(Pause) Could you allow it to release? Take one more look inside and allow yourself to become aware of your NOW want. Whichever want it is: Could you allow yourself to let it go? Gradually bring your awareness to a more external focus, and, whenever you are ready, if you haven’t already, allow your eyelids to open.

It can also be helpful to schedule short releasing breaks throughout the day to remind yourself to release.

As Lester used to say, “Even the impossible becomes completely possible when you are fully released on it. And you know when you are fully released on it when you don’t give a hoot.”

Now, see if there is anything about this issue that you’d like to change. Could you let go of wanting to change it? Find something else about the issue, or the way you feel about it, that you’d like to change. Could you let go of wanting to change it? Is there anything about the issue that seems stuck in any way? Do you want to change that sense of

Repetitive tasks that we do not fully enjoy doing often need to be done on a daily basis. Simply ask: Could I let go of resisting doing this particular task? Could I let go of resisting not doing it? If you go back and forth with these questions a few times on any occasion that you feel resistance rising in your awareness, you’ll find yourself lett

Here is another way to approach the dilemma when you’re interested in having a dessert. Rather than saying, “I’m never going to do it again,” make a pact, “Look. You can have it if you want it, but release first.” The reason to release first is that all habit patterns are locked in by patterns of feeling.

You can recognize wanting approval, because it feels soft and exposed and also like: “Gimme,” or, “Do-it-for-me.” When we want approval, we feel like we don’t have love and that we need to do something to get it back. Synonyms for wanting approval include wanting love, acceptance, admiration, caring, to be noticed, to be understood, to be stroked,