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

1. Allow yourself to want freedom/imperturbability (your goal) more than you want approval, control, security, and separation. 2. Decide that you can release and be free/imperturbable (achieve your goal). 3. Allow yourself to perceive that all your feelings culminate in the four wants: the want of approval, the want to control, the want of security, a

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

Be mindful that there’s not necessarily anything wrong with your actions, even if wanting control motivates them. This process simply helps you continue to be aware of which actions come from your desire to control, which will give you a better chance to release it on the spot. Then you can take the action or not—by choice.

You can recognize the sense of wanting to love because it feels soft and vulnerable and has an overly giving, or “let me do it for you” feeling to it.

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

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.”

Yes, time is precious, but it’s only scarce if you believe it is. In most cases, when you rush or feel pressured because of a deadline, this causes your efficiency to go down, not up, and the results show it.

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,

The balancing point and natural alternative to inappropriate suppression and expression is releasing, or letting go—what