The Sedona Method For Letting Go Of Negative Feelings

The Sedona Method is a simple but powerful technique for letting go of negative feelings. The technique is founded on the work of Lester Levenson, a physicist and engineer, who was able to cure himself after being given only a few weeks to live in 1952.

Lester wanted to live. He wanted to survive.

Like many people facing adversity, Lester believed that he had done wrong. He wanted find the cause of his illness, make it right and possibly have another chance. What Levenson found was startling:

Lester reflected on his life and the absence of "loving" emotions. He realized that he had allowed anger, negativity and resentment to cloud his relationships. And that he had held onto those negative feelings.

He worked on himself  until he was able to release all his negative feelings. Quite dramatically his life changed. All the symptoms of his illness disappeared and he achieved perfect health, living forty years beyond his doctor's expectations.

Levenson spent over twenty years refining The Sedona Method.

The Sedona Method,  also called "the Release Technique", asks you a series of questions designed to help you identify and remove the subconscious blocks that keep you holding onto your emotional pain.

While there are many aspects of the Sedona Method not included here, the steps to forgiveness can be very simple and easy, and it often works  within a few minutes.

The Sedona Method In Practice

There are three simple questions that you repeat, in sequence, over and over again, until you are able to let the feeling go, and you then let it go. The questions are:

• Could I let this feeling go?
• Would I?
• When?

As you can probably see, the steps to forgiveness work by releasing thinking blocks. So you might ask, how does that free you of emotional pain?

You can change your feelings by changing WHAT you think about and HOW you think about something. If you are thinking worrisome thoughts, you can change what you are thinking about by recalling a time when you felt a different way - happy, joyful, in love for example.

Just reliving that experience and remembering HOW you felt will create a shift in your thinking.

Sometimes you THINK that you WANT to forgive someone, but when you ask yourself "COULD I let this feeling go?"

you resist.

Sometimes your answer will be yes, but often it is more like: "I don't know if I can."

Then you can ask yourself" If I could, WOULD I?

When you are ready, obviously the answer will be yes but if you are doing the technique for the first time, it is likely to be "No.", and that is okay, just stay with it.

Perhaps you may come up with something like "No, I don't want condone his/her behavior." Even though you KNOW rationally that forgiving the person does not necessarily mean condoning their behavior.

Your logic, in this case, reveals thoughts and emotions stuck in an outmoded theory. It may seem "logical" but it simply makes no sense for you - especially if you want a happy, fulfilled life.

I recommend that you combine mindful meditation practice with the simple questions asked in the Sedona Method, until you feel a shift. You will come to a point when you are ready to let the feeling go -- and you do. When that happens you simply won't be able to access the feeling.

It may take just a few minutes to get to that point. And it can take longer depending on how ready you are to let the negative feelings go.

• Quiet your mind and concentrate on your breathing for a few minutes
• Bring the incident or person to mind that you want to forgive.
• Gently put your attention onto the incident or the person -BUT, DO NOT GET INTO THE STORY, just stay with the feeling itself.
• Notice where the feeling is located and how it feels.

Focus on the feeling. And now ask yourself?

• Could I let this feeling go?
• Would I?
• When?

Repeat the sequence, answering the questions each time until you feel a shift and can no longer access the feeling. It may takea few rounds but you will get there. .

More on Forgiveness

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• The Seven Most Effective Forgiveness Techniques
• Let Go Of Resentment with Tonglen, An Ancient Tibetan Practice
• How to Forgive with N.L.P. (Neuro Linguistic Programming Technique)
• Ho'oponopono (Ancient Hawaiian Practice For Forgiveness and Reconciliation) 
  
• How to Forgive Someone and Why You Should

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