The Sedona MethodHere is a great introduction to the Sedona method Many people perceive meditation as, by definition, an introspective activity that has little to do with the ‘real world’. As a result, meditators can become frustrated that although they are making great efforts in their meditation practice, their lives and their results in that ‘real world’ do not seem commensurate, and are certainly unsatisfying. At the same time we learn many things through meditation that are not common knowledge amongst other people. We know, for example that we are not really our thoughts and feelings and that there is an awareness, inside. There is a knowingness, inside, that gets covered by layers of thoughts and feelings so often and so much that we get lost. Meditation helps to slow all that down and gives us a safe space with which to cultivate our attention away from the thoughts and feelings and back to the awareness. Of course we still have thoughts and feelings. The word that describes not having any thoughts or feelings is, ‘dead’! It is more a case of learning to live from our awareness directly without getting lost in the commentary and the advertisements… The Sedona Method shows us, and it showed me, how to release or make peace with the habitual conditioned thoughts and feelings, even when we don’t always have time to sit and meditate. I learned the method from the free dvd (Click here to receive your Free DVD and CD In the days since The Secret movie became widely known, the top experts in the field have emphasised that visualising what we want is not enough. We also have to let go of the thoughts and feelings that have been working against us. We know they have been working against us because we have not been creating the life of our dreams! This is the area that the Sedona method excells in. The only question is, to be honest, are you ready to stop? Are you ready to stop holding yourself back by replaying the same old same old? Meditation is an ongoing practice. I hope there will never be a time in my life when I don’t meditate regularly. The Sedona Method is a complement to my meditation and one of the tools that I use for bridging the gap between my inner world and my actual results in the external world. Sometimes you have to let go of stuff you didn’t even know you had. For example I had to let go of the idea that it was not ok for spiritual people to be rich! It feels quite amazing to think I once believed this, yet my main examples of spiritual people were monastics; so in one way it makes sense. Of course I know better now, just as I understand better that the monastic renunciation of money has nothing to do with wealth being ‘wrong’, it is just part of their context, that they hone their practice by being dependent on the lay community. This also encourages the monastic community to interact and serve the spiritual needs of the laity. So it was never about wealth being a ‘sin’. It was just a belief and a thought that did not serve me and wasn’t actually based on any truth. As Hale Dwoskin, the principle teacher of the Sedona Method says, The primary method of working with the inner landscape is through asking yourself three questions. The questions themselves are quite simple and this makes the method more easily applied in daily life. The first question is, Could I let this feeling go? This question directs us to feel whatever we are feeling without holding an opinion about it or trying to make it go away. From the position of witness, ‘could I let this go? The second question is, ‘Would I let this go? Seemingly a strange question! However, sometimes we do not want to let go of our hurt. Perhaps we are not yet ready to allow a space and any feeling even a painful one is preferable. So we ask ourselves, ‘would I be willing to let go of this feeling? The third question is simply, ‘when? This is an invitation to release and happens in varying degrees. We keep repeating the process until there is some shift in the feelings. This is a very simplistic account of the Sedona method. There are other techniques as well, and Hale Dwoskin’s presentation of the above technique is very comprehensive. I suggest you follow the links on this page to access a fuller account. Take control of your life today with The Sedona Method - Click here to receive your Free DVD and CD One of the interesting comments that Hale makes, especially from a meditation point of view is to recognise that the solution to our problems is beyond our beliefs. It is often our attempts to solve the problem that keep it in place because we become involved in fighting and resisting…ourselves. Someone has to lose and it’s going to be, us! The Sedona Method bypasses this problem by cultivating a willingness to accept into awareness, any feeling, without attempting to ‘get rid’ of it. This helps us to be at cause, and with practice we can learn to let go. As is increasingly understood, the letting go of counter productive feelings is essential to successful manifestation of wholesome results in the world. We simply cannot go in two directions at the same time. The only thing that results from doing that is, a life that does not achieve any results beyond frustration and confusion. The Sedona method helps us to get clear, then we can really focus on what we want without being held back. I really do recommend the free dvd. You just pay for postage. I found it very helpful, if a bit over the top and gushy at times, (but then I am English, so you will have to forgive me!). Check out the links. The method can be used as a general releasing tool. It can be used as part of a specific goal, such as increasing wealth or health, dealing with stress. The Sedona method is simple and practical, try it today!
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