The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being (Paperback)

~ Hale Dwoskin (Author), Jack Canfield (Foreword) "The rapid and positive changes that took place in Joe's life as soon as he began using the Sedona Method are an ideal model of..." (more)
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"...a great resource for coaches, therapists, healers, managers, and anyone who desires deep, gentle change at a rapid pace." -- Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., author of Conscious Loving and The Conscious Heart

"...a practical, wise and proven formula for emotional and mental freedom..." -- John Gray, Ph.D., Author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus

"...allow yourself to do the exercises in this book, you'll be shocked by how quickly your life changes!" -- Cheryl Richardson, New York Times best-selling author of Stand Up for Your Life and Take Time for Your Life

"The Sedona Method is an extremely powerful tool for emotional freedom and wellness. I highly recommend it!" -- Mark Victor Hansen, co-creator of the #1 New York Times best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul and co-author of The One-Minute Millionaire

"an extremely powerful tool that will support you in finding inner balance and emotional freedom...I highly recommend it." -- Debbie Ford, best-selling author of The Right Questions and The Secret of the Shadow

Product Description

Foreword by Jack Canfield: I have been hearing wonderful things about the Sedona Method® from clients and friends for about 20 years. Recently, I finally took the course with my wife and my 12-year-old son. I’ve been amazed at the simplicity of the Method and the powerful impact it has had on my life. Through my work with Chicken Soup for the Soul and through Self-Esteem Seminars, I have been exposed to many self-improvement techniques and processes. This one stands head and shoulders above the rest for the ease of its use, its profound impact and the speed it produces results. The Sedona Method is a vastly accelerated way of letting go of feelings like anger, frustration, jealousy, anxiety, stress and fear as well as many other problems—even physical pain—with which almost everybody struggles at one time or another.

One of the wonderful byproducts of taking the seminar is that I have become friends with Hale Dwoskin. He is one of the calmest, clearest, most joy-filled people I have ever met, living proof that the Sedona Method works wonders. I am ecstatic about our friendship. During the seminar, I found myself constantly in awe of Hale’s brilliant teaching style. I experienced one breakthrough after another. As a result, I’ve already referred many family members, friends, and business associates to the Sedona Method seminars, and I’ve also had the entire staff at Chicken Soup for the Soul Enterprises learn the Method through the audio programs that Hale put together.

Now I am thoroughly delighted to be able to recommend The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace, and Well-being. Reading this book is the equivalent of taking the Sedona Method Basic Course and several Advanced Courses rolled together. Filled with practical techniques and enlightening true stories, Hale clearly and generously explains everything we need to know to master the releasing process and to continue using the Method day by day, moment by moment in real life situations, such as having more fulfilling and harmonious relationships, building financial security, developing satisfying careers, breaking nasty habits, losing weight, and enjoying good health. He reveals the Sedona Method’s powerful secret for manifesting what you want in your life, while showing you how to be at ease and comfortable with what you already have. The Method also enables you how to have greater ease, enjoyment and peace of mind with all that you experience on a daily basis.

So I highly encourage you to read The Sedona Method with an open mind and heart. Please allow the simplicity of its message and the power of this process to open you to all the wonders that life has to offer. It is one of those rare things in today’s world that delivers more than it promises... way more. I urge you to pay close attention to Hale’s message in this book. If you do, it will change your life.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Sedona Press; First Printing. edition (August 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971933413
• ISBN-13: 978-0971933415
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (85 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #17,667 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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137 of 137 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book SUPPORTS going into feeling, not denial, March 8, 2005

By	30307 "30307" (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

Our society has turned "feelings" into sacred cows, perhaps in response to the repression and denial of feeling in past generations. Some now suggest that cognitive therapies, such as the Sedona Method, can encourage the suppression of feeling. Not in my experience! The Sedona Method actually takes emotions quite seriously and encourages participants to go deeply into their emotions before releasing.

Here's what I've learned through the Sedona Method:

My holding onto a feeling is actually a RESISTANCE to investigating and experiencing the feeling deeply. I notice I'd rather go on and on about my story about "my" feeling, thus creating more even drama, rather than pausing to examine the feeling itself. In a perverse way, I often resist letting go of feelings simply because I identify them as being "MY" feeling. Through cognitive approaches, I've learned that it's my own worshipful attachment to "MY" feeling that causes the suffering, not the feeling itself.

That's where the Sedona Method is so helpful. The Sedona Method contradicts much of traditional therapy in that it understands that one does not need endless analysis and manufacturing of "story" about emotion in order to release it. Indeed, our endless analysis and masturbatory fondling of "our" feelings is often subtle ego ploy to KEEP the suffering firmly in place. As in: "This is MY story about MY suffering. And, look! Here is MY depression .... I am a very sensitive, emotional person who has suffered terrible things at the hands of others (which people with fancy initials after their names agree with me on ....), and I thus need years of understanding and exploration before I can let this feeling go." Perhaps it's true for some of us. I don't know. In my case, it was a lie. I discovered that this was just a clever form of ego resistance which, unfortunately, finds much (unhelpful) support in our culture.

There definitely is a body-mind connection. The Sedona Method demonstrates that once the thinking is addressed directly THROUGH the feeling, the feeling will drop. This is true for everyone. It doesn't matter how big or small your I.Q. is, or how much money you make. The Buddhists have been saying this for centuries. In Alcoholics Anonymous, old-timers routinely say to people who feel like drinking out of anger or depression, "Feelings aren't facts." The Sedona Method invites us to look more deeply at feelings rather than repress them.

Cognitive approaches such as The Sedona Method also gently challenge our resistances to releasing the feelings. After years of getting absolutely nowhere with traditional feeling-based therapy, I found liberation * only * through cognitive approaches. But I had to give up wanting to suffer first. I was completely unconscious of my attraction to the very pain I claimed to want to release ... but there it was. The Sedona Method points this out to you ... And that's the tricky part of this process. Our mind clutches at so many "reasons" to hold on and "be right" about our feelings. Our mind tells us we need lots of "time" to get over our feelings. Not so. The Sedona Method proves that.

We all have that resistance in common. The nice thing about the Sedona Method is that it will help you even with your resistance to letting go. It can help you on so much levels. But first you must ask yourself if you really want to let go of the pain.

210 of 214 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptionally Good Book for Relieving Emotional Stress, October 31, 2003

By	Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Makes Me a P... (Thanks for Providing My Reviews over 93,000 Helpful Votes Globally) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)

Although I have read dozens of self-help books and attended weeks of self-help seminars, none of those books and seminars helped me in the profound way that The Sedona Method has.

The book's core observation is that we allow emotions based on old memories to block our minds and bodies from experiencing what is possible now. Many self-help authors make the same point.

What makes The Sedona Method different from the others is the proposed method for eliminating those emotions. I have learned many other techniques for changing memories (such as the Tony Robbins Swish pattern) and use meditation to withdraw from emotions. I have found that meditation has worked best for me in the past. While meditating, my head is pleasantly vibrating and I feel at mental peace. With The Sedona Method teachings, I find that my whole body shudders pleasantly into relaxation and peace. In other words, this process causes me to enjoy a greater release from old memories and emotions than I had thought possible. It's a wonderful gift.

So what do you have to do to enjoy this peace? You just need to ask yourself a series of questions (and the book is full of exercises to help you do that). I soon found that I did not need to ask all of the questions. With practice, I could just release negative emotions whenever I wanted to.

This book came to me at a very stressful time . . . just after my Father died. I find that the grieving process has been greatly eased by the emotional releases I can stimulate any time I want.

To get the most benefit from this book, you should practice every day to establish new habits. I read the book over two weeks to help make that transition. In retrospect, I would have done better to have read it over more weeks and practiced more each day. I plan to reread the book now to deepen my benefit.

What was most impressive to me was that I could get so much benefit without going to a class or listening to an audio version. I suspect the teachings would be much more powerful in those forms. But you certainly can experience great things from just reading the book, doing the exercises, practicing and remembering to use the teachings when those emotions well up.

May your days be filled with tranquility and a greater sense of what is possible!

108 of 108 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Better PRACTICAL Self-Help Tools Available, March 13, 2006

By	Peter Messerschmidt "denmarkguy" (Port Townsend, WA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)    (VINE VOICE)

Over the past couple of decades, I have read a LOT of books that address the issue of creating a better life and ending "personal suffering." The "problem" with most of these teachings-- although certainly worthy-- is that they either require extensive learning, or following the ways of a Teacher (to the exclusion of ALL others) for *years*, before some level of self-awareness is reached.

The Sedona Method has certain aspects of "New-Age Mumbo Jumbo" it is also the antithesis of most "wishful thinking" programs. while basically offering very similar tools and skills to many of history's great Teachers in the tradition of nonduality. Here's a tool for everyday living, that you simply just take home and apply right away. I say this not only from the perspective of having read the book, but also from having attended seminars with the author, Hale Dwoskin.

Many teachers and "systems" explain how we are held back in life by old memories and patterns. Essentially, we will recoil from, or even fear, certain situations... and when we do so, we're not actually responding to the PRESENT situation, we are responding to a MEMORY. What makes The Sedona Method stand out is its simple, easy to apply steps to moving on. No need to sit at some guru's feet for 10 years, no need to spend $5000 on seminars. The Sedona Method is a systematic "distillation" of the insights of a man named Lester Levenson who underwent a profound life change after being told he had only three weeks to live. Levenson defied the odds offered him by doctors, and lived another 40+ years.

The core of the Sedona Method is extemely simple: "Letting go" or "releasing" the feelngs and emotions that arise around whatever issue is facing you, and are causing you to feel stuck. In some ways, it is not dissimilar from the teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), in that it follows a basic "release your attachment to the outcome" premise. Perhaps that sounds overly simplistic as a life-altering tool, but it isn't. And the benefits are immediate.

The book offers up a number of steps (basically in the form of questions you ask yourself) which will allow you to let go of pretty much any kind of "stuck" feeling you might have. A variety of scenarios are offered, so the method can be applied broadly to everything from setting life goals (overcoming negative "it'll never work" self-talk) to overcoming fears of specific events. It does require a little practice to get used to the idea of "releasing" everytime you encounter one of life's obstacles... I personally found that it took me about a couple of months before the system became "second nature."

About the book itself, it is a mixture of description, exercises and "real life examples" of how people have put variations of the method to use. Whereas it is easy to read, it does get incredibly repetitive, after a while, and some readers might find this a tad frustrating. The book also leans towards pointing the finger at "feelings" as the culprits behind most of our personal suffering, and I found this a bit offputting, at times-- but it's a very minor niggle.

Having read the book AND been exposed to the material in seminar settings, the best I can offer is this: The book DOES stand alone, and most people can easily learn and apply the method without taking a seminar. The workshops (which can be pretty expensive) offer the benefit of the "full immersion" experience, and might be helpful for those who don't believe they are the best "self-starters" in the world. However, taking a class is NOT necessary to get the benefits.

Final thoughts: Highly recommended (9 out of 10 possible bookmarks) for anyone looking for a practical way to address and move beyond old patterns. On the other hand if you're attached to the idea that self-awareness is complicated and "must" happen as a result of studying with a guru for 10 years, then this book is probably not for you!

Thanks for reading!
--Peter