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Summary: One of the better self-help books out there
Review: I first bought this book last year during some tough trials. I can safely say that it has made a tremendous difference in my life so far. It talks about a method that some of use to release our tension and let go of our problems. Some of us use the method without even being aware of it, but once you do, it can accelerate your healing. It has a great simplicity about it, but don't let that downplay its impact and importance. My life has been changed for the better, in leaving a job that wasn't bringing me fulfillment. I've heard that Sedona is a beautiful town in Arizona, where Sedona Method retreats are planned. I plan on going and learning all I can about the Sedona Method in the future.
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Summary: Learn to Let Go
Review: I have been searching for the perfect self help solution for many years. I have purchased well over 100 self help category books and programs and have spent thousands of dollars. Some of these programs have provided limited relief, but rarely the positive improvement promised. I can honestly say that the Sedona Method Program and book have provided me with the permanent relief I have been searching for, so many years. I urge you to try it. You will not be disappointed. The Sedona Method will not compromise any of your beliefs nor require you to use complicated steps to achieve a rapid reduction/elimination of stress, anxiety, fears, and Phobias.
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Summary: Attitude adjustment
Review: I tend to shun away from self-help books and all that positive thinking material. They always want to tell you how the world works and how you should work. "The Sedona Method" however is refreshing in the sense that it just asks you to try it and decide for yourself.Reading the book and occasionally stopping to try the suggestions I found it to be a mixture of what I see as Buddhist philosophy with a little Celestine tossed in. However it is meant to be much more and actually has practical exercises. Like other methods the book assumes that you have issues or just want to improve the quality of life. Unlike others there is something for everyone even if you do not have specific issues. You can even combine this method with other similar courses. I am not going to go into detail as the book does it so much better. I will say I am a tough cookie to crack when it comes to letting go books. This one is however is "Your key to Lasting Happiness, success, Peace and Emotional Well-being."
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Summary: Mastering your emotions and your life
Review: I used to be a victim of my emotions but the Sedona Method has changed the direction of my life by 180 degrees. Although I first learnt the Method a while ago, this book has multiplied my gains. Hale Dwoskin has managed to write a book which teaches the Sedona Method right from the beginning, and also offers many immensely practical applications and powerful advanced distinctions. I felt myself letting go just reading the book. It triggered some amazing insights and experiences of profound peace. I have never felt so relaxed yet excited about my life. This book teaches a method which is priceless - and can produce results in so many areas. It has improved my health, wealth and relationships. And it has opened me to immense love, joy and freedom. It's like uncovering the organizing principle of life itself - and once you got that you have EVERYTHING.
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Summary: A must read!
Review: I was first skeptical about this book when a friend recommended it to me but I found out that this is the real thing! If you truly want to be happy, this book is an absolute must read! It might just be the best thing you can do for yourself! It gives us practical advice on how to get rid of all of those unnecessary fears and desires that keep us trapped in cycle of needing to do and achieve things that we think will free us from our dissatisfaction with our present state, even though it never does. This book helps us get rid of that junk, and explains how this works. This book is perhaps the best in giving this kind of practical advice but a better book to explain how this all works is "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato. When you read this other fantastic book, you will feel like, "Oh my God, why didn't I see this? If I could see this early in my life, I would have save myself a lot of agony and pain!". It's better late than never though! These books are better than anything else a "doctor can order". Enjoy!
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Summary: A Great Companion To The Course
Review: I've got the Sedona Method course on CD and find it to be a very simple yet effective method for reducing stress (and much more). The concept of letting go of thoughts and emotions is a basic yet powerful one. I just got through reading this book and was delighted to see that it is not merely a transcript of the Sedona Method course. It provides a lot of insights and good solid written material and examples which serve as an excellent compliment to the basic course. It has been very helpful to have some written material to backup that which is in the taped sessions. While listening to the tapes I just didn't have enough time to be doing the exercises and also taking notes. This book serves perfectly as my notes on the course. It is a great companion and refresher on the concepts of the Sedona Method. Also, if you have been considering attending or buying the Sedona Method course - you should really check out this book as it gives complete and in-depth information about the course. This is not just a teaser book that constantly admonishes you to get to the course to learn more. This gives the actual material that is in the course which costs a couple hundred dollars at least. This has been an exceptionally useful concept to me which I rate as somewhere between meditation and self-help. Well worth a look for anybody seeking to improve their thoughts and actions.
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Summary: A great book when you are stuck
Review: If you are stuck and want to release a painful emotion, this book is great. The method is simple and the process works. If you want to understand your emotions, each one specifically, learn how they were created and how to make the most of your feelings and thinking, then read Optimal Thinking: How to Be Your Best Self as well. If you want to understand the neuroscience of emotions and understand neurologically why people are hijacked by emotions, add Emotional Intelligence to your shopping cart. This is the ultimate combo. You will have have all the information you need to master your feelings.
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Summary: Feelings are very powerful tools..
Review: It has been years since I first time heard of Sedona Method. I found the price for their tape/cd package too expensive. So when the book version came out, I seized the opportunity and purchased it right way.
The reason I am giving this book only 4 stars, not five, is the fact that it makes the method somewhat complicated to chew on. I believe the things the book explains, could have been introduced with less than 100 pages. Now the book runs for hundreds of pages, and it gets little bit annoying if you are looking for simple and down-to-earth instructions on creating success. However, if you prefer very throughly written and documented case works and explanations, then you will enjoy immensely this one as the book explains the method in great details and repeats the main points over and over again.
What is very helpful about the Sedona Method is that it teaches you how to release unwanted feelings. This is very important as I have proven time again that our feelings are very powerful. Habitual feelings mold our self-image which in turns molds world and experiences we encounter in the life. However, the Sedona Method fails (in my humble opinion) to stress the importance of positive emotions and self-image; and the importance of use of creative imagination. Were it to incorporate these aspects into the method, it would become an ultimate success tool.
In spite of this minor disagreement with the method, I strongly recommend the book -- as the method will most certainly benefit you on the journey to better quality of life by releasing all those unwanted feelings; and by so doing you will gain more happiness, greater freedom and health...even wealth and other things as a direct result.
However, I would suggest reading Darel Rutherford's Being The Solution along this method. They would support each other and create a powerful package for your success and all good things. I feel compelled to say that these two books are guaranteed to advance you on the next level, and so forth. Godspeed!
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Summary: Old wine - new bottle
Review: Much of the information contained in the Sedona Method we've all read before. It's valuable stuff but feels like it's cut and pasted from the books of Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, and Jack Canfield's earlier Chicken Soup for the Soul. More profound, cutting edge, and life-changing thought is contained in Tolle's The Power of Now and Chopra's new book Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire. These books walk you through the new phases of your life and explain very clearly how to change and how to live your life's dreams NOW. Given the choice, I'd sink my soul into one of these two books.
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Summary: This book SUPPORTS going into feeling, not denial
Review: 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.
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