Simplify Your Releasing

Lester Levenson used to encourage people to "keep it simple sweetheart" - KISS! However the mind likes complexity so it will resist a simple but proven formula. We are all likely to get caught up in unnecessary releasing processes that add nothing. There is a better way...

Find a releasing process that works for you, one that suits your nature and push it to the limit. See if there is a limit and then explore to see if you can go beyond that apparent limit. When you do this you can attain true mastery of a deceptively simple but highly effective process. As Bruce Lee put it - "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."

For example, let's say you want to achieve a goal. All you need is the Goal Chart. There is nothing complicated about it. You set a goal, identify the now feeling and let go of the wanting approval/control/security driving that feeling. And then repeat the process. The key is to keep going until you check for the now feeling and there are no more feelings to let go of. That takes persistence and the determination to release to completion.

Because the Goal Chart is simple the mind may reject it. Your mind can easily conclude that such a simple process can't get you what you want. The mind will tell you this because the ego resists change. The only solution to this drama is to establish proof. Run the Goal Chart to completion and let evidence in your personal reality show you whether the process works or not.

If you don't let proof be your guide, you'll go on the hunt for a more complicated goal process. You may find one but complexity doesn't equate to effectiveness. Complexity also demands more effort of you - that may stop you using the process when you most need it.

The beautiful elegance and power of releasing is available to everyone. Yet few will realise this potential. Choose simplicity, persistence and dedication. Do that and you'll discover the promise of releasing is true.

Jump Up the AGFLAP Chart to Solve Problems

Imagine this scenario. You have a problem you need to deal with but you feel unresourceful and unsure of how to proceed. Then, you think to yourself, why not release on it? But it seems too difficult to even begin releasing on the problem. This can happen when you're at the bottom end of the AGFLAP chart.

The best way forward is to change your emotional state so you feel capable of releasing. Is there a simple way to jump up the AGFLAP chart? Yes, there is. Choose to generate a feeling of gratitude for the problem! I know that sounds odd when you want to be rid of the problem. With this approach we are using gratitude as a resource we'll leverage to handle the problem. This is very different to dropping your intention to solve the problem because you feel comfortable.

You can choose how you feel. Don't let the problem dictate your emotional state. If you decide to feel grateful you'll be operating from Acceptance at the top end of the AGFLAP chart. Acceptance means seeing the situation as it is, facing the problem and deciding what to do from a highly energetic state. You'll have a clarity of mind and an ability to take action that is unavailable to you when you're stuck lower down the AGFLAP chart.

How to Jump Up the AGFLAP Chart

1 Notice you have a problem 

Accept that you feel unable to handle it. And know that you can shift your emotional state even if the problem persists. You're going to decide how you feel not the problem!

2 Decide to be grateful for the problem. 

Ask yourself: could you decide to be grateful for the problem?

Keep asking this question until you feel happier, lighter, more relaxed and a greater sense of possibility. When you truly feel grateful you will be in a state of Acceptance. That's a big shift - a jump from the bottom to the top of the AGFLAP chart.

3 Release on the problem

Use whichever releasing process works best for you. Now that you're in the highly energetic Acceptance state you'll find releasing far easier and faster. Decide to release until you feel PEACE, the top of the AGFLAP chart, whether you solve the problem or not. When you feel at peace regardless of the outcome you'll enjoy a clarity of mind that can produce new and unexpected solutions you would never have thought of when you were lower down the AGFLAP chart.

Go high to release, don't release to go high as Lester Levenson taught.

The Difference Between the Having State and Being Hootless

When you release on a goal, as you move up the chart of emotions you'll have greater clarity and more profound insights. Put another way, you're dropping more and more self imposed limitations as you go progressively higher up the chart, so your perception of reality more closely matches reality itself. You drop the clouded judgement produced by incorrect thinking and unresourceful feelings.

In a state of Wanting you'll get ideas that are of little value or practical use. Move up the chart to a state of Having and you'll see options and opportunities you never thought of before, you'll see possibilities where previously you could only see difficult problems.

If you persist and clear out every single piece of AGFLAP you'll become Hootless about the goal. This of course is the whole point of releasing - to become imperturbable about the goal. This is Step 1 of The 6 Steps.

In this high state of peace and freedom, your insights and new ideas will be far superior to what the Mind produced when you were in Wanting and in Having.

So when you make it to the Having state - don't stop! Keep digging, root out all of the thoughts and feelings in the way of becoming Hootless. It's what you must do to become Hootless and to experience your true nature. And this is when you'll tend to easily and effortlessly make your goal become real.

Prove It Doesn't Work

When you first discover the Sedona Method/Release Technique you hear about the big promise of releasing. Testimonials speak of the great health, wealth and happiness generated by successful application of the releasing techniques. Your curiosity is stimulated, your desire for personal change becomes elevated and you wonder how soon you'll have your own big success story.

But it might take time and effort before you stack up a series of small wins. Then it might take even more dedication until you achieve a huge success. And that's why a lot of people get discouraged. They decide that unless they quickly and easily generate an enormous shift in their life that releasing just doesn't deliver on the promise.

This is a big mistake. Would you take a few singing lessons and expect to perform in a musical? Would you expect to take driving lessons for 6 weeks and then be ready to compete in a Formula One event? Of course not!

It takes trial and error, ongoing learning and determination to master any skill. And it's only mastery that can lead to an impressive performance of those refined skills. This applies to all skill acquisition even when you have a relevant aptitude. And yes, it applies to releasing too.

If you're frustrated because releasing isn't delivering huge successes I have a suggestion for you...

See if you can prove releasing doesn't work. How? By following the releasing training materials to the letter. Go over the processes and absorb all of the details. Then, apply the techniques to a small goal and push the releasing technology to the limits to see if you can skillfully apply releasing to a small goal and still not produce a successful outcome.

Be like a scientist with a formula to be verified. Use the formula exactly as taught and give it your full commitment to see if a thorough application of the formula can fail. This means if you're releasing on a small goal that you go deeper and further into your releasing than maybe you ever have before. Until there is no emotional charge, positive or negative about the goal or issue. This is hard work.

And then if you can't prove the releasing formula doesn't work you'll have demonstrated to yourself that you can use releasing to produce small results. Now your belief in the formula is grounded in proof you'll have the self belief you need to us the formula again and again on progressively larger problems or goals.

Be Happy Now With Sedona Method Releasing

Many of us get into the Sedona Method/Release Technique so we can become more effective at getting what we want and along the way we become happier, have more peace of mind and develop a greater sense of being connected to all of life.

However we can also get caught up in the busyness of getting what we want out there in the world and lose sight of the source of our happiness. In fact, we might even develop habits of thinking that guarantee unhappiness.

Here are some ways we typically make ourselves unhappy...

1. We make a decision we will only be happy when we achieve a goal

2. We decide that we will only be happy when we have the perfect relationship

3. We expect to be happy one day when there are no more problems to deal with.

4. We wait until we look and feel fabulous before we will be happy.

If you`ll look more closely at these erroneous decisions and choices you`ll see there is a fear behind them all. And that`s the fear that being happy will stop us from having what we want.

It goes like this, "if I`m happy why would I do anything about getting into shape? If I was completely happy I`d have no reason to go to work and be successful!"

In other words we think we`d live in a state of apathy. Not so. Happiness is right at the top of the scale of emotions, its above AGFLAP and belongs in CAP. When you feel happy and energetic you`ll want to be active, you`ll want to create and you`ll be very effective at whatever you set your mind to.

What can you do now to be happy today?

1. Release on happiness, let go of wanting happiness by using Attachments/Aversions, Advantages/Disadvantages or Likes/Dislikes.

2. See that all your goals have the same underlying goal - the desire for happiness

3. Release on your goals with an emphasis on having step one in place - decide you want happiness more than you want the goal.

4. Moment to moment during the day, when people or situations provoke AGFLAP, ask yourself: could you decide you want happiness more than you want to hold onto this feeling? Do that constantly and you`ll be lighter, freer and happier.

5. Decide to choose happiness over lacking approval, control and security. The following questions are useful to play with to encourage deep releasing.

- Could you decide that you want happiness more than you want to hold onto lacking approval?

- Could you decide that you want happiness more than you want to hold onto lacking control?

- Could you decide that you want happiness more than you want to hold onto lacking security?


Happiness is not a state of mind we can postpone and get one day, that itself is a decision to keep it in the future. If you want to be happier right now then use releasing firstly as a tool to become happy and secondly as a tool to get what you want in the world. Ironically, that`s when you`ll be much more care free and much more successful at getting what you want.

The Getting of Happiness

Quick post. I got tricked again by the lure of achieving goals to get happiness.

Yes, it was another case of getting an "important" goal and then afterwards thinking "is this it?"

The brief goal attainment high quickly gave rise to dissatisfaction.

This is of course is a great reminder to keep step 1 in place - decide you want happiness more than you want the goal itself. I`ve been doing this more honestly, really making that decision, and ironically I`m on a roll and getting more and more of what I want - I`ve got the happiness first and the goal getting is happening.

Be happy first!

Avoiding What You Don`t Want

While its clear that wanting approval, wanting control and wanting security are running in the background its not always so clear the ways we deny this.

Take wanting approval. If you want to avoid the pain of not getting your want of approval satisfied you might decide to avoid disapproval. What would that look like? You could avoid situations and people that are likely to present you with the disapproval you fear.

You might also convince yourself that you don`t need or want the approval of anyone - you decide to live with a lack of approval and never seek to get approval to ensure you never get rejected.

The same applies to wanting control and wanting security. You might decide to adjust to living with little control over you destiny and in a state of ongoing insecurity while all the time telling yourself that happiness, success, money, control, security and self-determination are not important to you.

This avoidance achieves nothing. Those unsatisfied desires are still driving you and taking from your peace of mind. But you deny this and so you get stuck.

What can you do about this?

Be honest. What do you really want? If you want something, release and get it. Whether that be a kiss, new friends, greater harmony at home, more success at work or some toys you really want.

So many people avoid going after their dreams because they fear failure and for many they fear success even more! Be brave, face your fears and let it all go.

If you can handle success you can handle anything! With releasing you can drop the AGFLAP that pops up when you become more in control, more secure and more approving of yourself and the world. You`ll be okay!