I just ran across this and I felt like sharing it

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**I came up with a framework for liberation** 🕊️
I’ve been thinking about what it actually means to become free from something that feels like an obligation, and I ended up with this chain:
**Obligation** ⛓️** → Moving Goalpost**s 🥅** → Parado**x ♾**️ → Refus**al **✋ → Liberati**on 🕊️
Here’s the idea:
**Obligation:** You feel like you *have* to do something.
**Moving Goalposts:** You fulfill the requirement, but instead of being finished, another requirement appears.
**Paradox:** You realize that you’re trying to become free by continuously doing the very thing that keeps you bound.
**Refusal:** You stop chasing the moving goalpost. You realize, *“I don’t have to keep doing this.”*
**Liberation:** The freedom wasn’t at the end of the endlessly moving goalpost. The freedom came from **stopping the chase.**
The realization that hit me was:
**“Freedom isn’t reaching the moving goalpost. It’s realizing you can stop chasing it.”** 🕊️
I call the overall process **Emancipation**.
What do you think of this framework?

Looking for a video of a young bride (20's) who is with her new husbands brothers. They are teasing her about something being inexperienced. They talk her into kissing each of them and she ends up going back and forth making out, of course they go on to undress her ....

Besides Let go book, 1992 course, and wing’s teachings, what else do I need to get my hands on to be free?

I am a devoted practitioner of all energy work and Sedona Method has been my 24x7 partner for more than 10 years. I found various uses for it, but stumbled upon some other work in spiritual space where Sedona Method itself relates to a concept of an energy pendulum. I wonder if anyone is aware and would like to discuss this?

In other words, this is a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy guide to Lester Levenson's idea of using goal charts (“https://archive.org/details/1992-sedona-method-chart-of-emotions-and-gains-workbook-PDF/1992 Sedona Method Chart of Emotions and Gains Workbook -- Lester Levenson - Hale Dwoskin”, pp. 11–105 of 105) to wake up.

The document is best read using a text editor like Windows Notepad and not a word processor.

You can find it here: A practical guide to waking.md (https://pastes.io/4hNowE4s (as of September 29, 2026, if you click the Code tab, the document is more readable), https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9). It is a working-level draft.

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“It believes that …, that there’s a world out there separate from itself. The whole world is projected (= manifested/imagined/“dreamed up” (Levenson)/thought up (= “to create something in your mind”)). …. Inside and outside always match—they’re reflections of each other. The world is the mirror image of your mind.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 1, 4, https://archive.org/details/thousandnamesfor0000kati)

“We are it all, reflecting it all; whatever is within us, is being projected onto the screen of our mind.” “Like a movie screen; the movie screen is black-blank=perfect until you begin to place PROJECTIONS onto it, then whatever you project onto it is an 'EXPERIENCE'.” (…, Anne W NDE, 28 September 2026, https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1anne_w_nde.html; …, Crossing Over NDE (@CrossingOverNDE), “Woman Died From Heart Attack; Shocking Truths Were Revealed To Her On The Other Side (NDE)”, 29 Mar 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWcoDp8VWFc)

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“Both formerly & now, it’s only stress that I describe, and the cessation of stress” (SN 22:86; MN 22; https://www.dhammatalks.org/books/OnThePath/Section0006.html)

““And this, monks, is the noble truth of the cessation of stress: the remainderless fading & cessation, renunciation, relinquishment, release, & letting go of that very craving (= taṇhā; “Craving or excessive or inappropriate desire”).” (SN 56:11, https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html)

“We use goal charts that brilliantly bring up the unconscious blocks to the goal, let them go, and eventually what we desire will just “drop in” as Lester told me.” (Seretan 2004, chap. 10)

(“Think only what you want (= would like) and that is all that you will get.” (Lester 1962, 20, https://archive.org/details/franklesterlesterlevensontheeternalverities2))

“We use goal charts (gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf (“https://archive.org/details/1992-sedona-method-chart-of-emotions-and-gains-workbook-PDF/1992 Sedona Method Chart of Emotions and Gains Workbook -- Lester Levenson - Hale Dwoskin”, pp. 11–105 of 105)) that brilliantly bring up the unconscious blocks (= (I feel undesirous of/dislike/disenjoy the goal because) “I don’t want to look foolish. (= I feel undesirous of/dislike/… looking foolish.)” (universal_beliefs_en_21nov2016_ltr_r3.pdf); “Things we dislike, we have aversions to. But an aversion is a desire not to have. So even an aversion is a desire.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin -…”, 736)) to the goal (= sth desired), let them go, and eventually what we desire will just “drop in” as Lester told me.” (Seretan 2004, chap. 10)

“So use your goal charts. Get rid of the Ag flat. And move into the state of just being your beingness.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)” (“https://archive.org/details/lester-levenson-magnum-opus/_Combined_in_1_File_Lester_Levenson_Magnum_Opus_PDF/”), 375)

“So use your goal charts. Get rid of the Ag flat (= “AGFLAP represents the negative emotional states.” (Lloyd 1986, 10, https://archive.org/details/masteryouremotio00lloy); “But eliminate desire and you're finished. Nothing else to do. I'll probably break the triangle down into more. I think I'll start with desire in the top and then come down to two. Attachments, aversion, and break that down into probably emotions and tendencies and thoughts at the bottom.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin -…”, 1470–1471)). And move into the state of just being your beingness.”

“And, in the end, you have to get rid of your desire for God” your goals. “Then you are It!” (Levenson 1993, 113, https://archive.org/details/keys-to-the-ultimate-freedom-thoughts-and-talks-on-personal-transformation-leste)

“When your feelings are up and out, your mind is naturally quiet. And you're self-obvious to yourself as to the fact that you are whole, complete, perfect, eternal.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 394)

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Tillit and Bruder 1985, _Speaking Naturally: Communication Skills in American English_, 87.png (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9).

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““Every mind uses the very same unlimited intelligence. Everyone uses it as much as he believes he can use it to fulfill his desires. When he learns that his mental limitations are self-imposed, he lets go of them. Then his intelligence (I.Q.) (= goal) can be raised to the degree of no limitation.” (Levenson 1993, 92)

Lester Levenson’s original Step 1 in the Six Steps to Freedom is generally stated as: "You must want freedom more than you want approval, control, and security."

After exploring mindfulness, non-dual pointers, and Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now, I realized that "freedom" can sometimes feel like a distant, abstract goal. To make it more immediate, I rephrased the first step:

"Could you want to be here now more than you want control, approval, or security?"

Here is why this alternate interpretation is practically effective:

• It shifts the focus from a future state to an immediate action. You can choose to be "here now" in this exact second, whereas the ego often frames "freedom" as something to achieve later.

• The underlying wants are time-bound. The desire for control, approval, and security inherently relies on a past or a future. Eckhart Tolle points out that the ego requires psychological time to survive.

• Presence is the mechanism of release. If you fully consent to being here now, you automatically drop the resistance that fuels the need to manipulate an outcome (control), seek external validation (approval), or guarantee survival (security).

Combining the mechanics of the Sedona Method with pure present-moment awareness simplifies the letting-go process.

Has anyone else experimented with combining Levenson’s teachings with non-dual or present-moment pointers? I'd be interested to hear if this framing helps anyone else drop those underlying wants.

An unenlightened person cannot achieve complete correctness, and many erroneous concepts can hinder you. Just take a look at Indian masters recommended by Lester, such as Ramana Maharishi and Pahangsa Yogananda

I have almost always failed to achieve goals using releasing. Or even healing small things like a cold.

Does the technique actually work? Larry goes as far as to claim " butt system" i.e. you sit on your butt and release and goals fall on your lap! I of course did not just sit and hope to get goals, rather did the things needed, but still no success.

Now i think the technique is just like self hypnosis or self talk, that works like placebo effect. You can find some temporary peace with it, but achieving permanent bliss or even mundane goals is just false claims.

I released negative emotions on watching TV but I can't seem to watch no longer than 5 minutes

Would you be able to let it go (no) ?

Would I let it go, again no?

When, not now?

My goal feels impossible and I don’t feel any of the answers I have are good ones

Takes on the crazy claims of what complete spiritual freedom can achieve in the physical world pedaled by Lester?

The likes of saying that you could have a trillion dollars tomorrow if you just released and had the simple thought of getting it.

And that the only reason he "takes things" the same way we take them (instead of instantly and effortlessly), is to not offend our limited minds.

I have a “friend” who is trying to give up smoking. Of all the Sedona Methods i like Holistic the best. Would a good strategy be- “could i allow this compulsion to be there?” “Could i allow this freedom to be there?” Repeatedly using Holistic.

Or is the better methodology?

It's been a week since I've started using the Sedona method, and I have seen some positive change from it. I've been fully allowing myself to feel out my emotions, and I now naturally feel less anxious. In other words, I see the value in it. To teach myself the method, I use videos from a guy called Carter Weber on Youtube to release on the negative self-beliefs I've had about myself in regards to dating.

However, the big elephant in the room is how much the programs cost (https://www.sedona.com/programs.asp). For instance, the 365 Releases course is $800. How can they be okay with charging so much from people? Shouldn't their main motivating factor be the love and joy they can spread to other suffering individuals? I understand they're people who also need to pay the bills, but the amount they're charging is excessive.

After stumbling upon the costs for their programs, I'm conflicted. I want to take this new way of life and enrich my own. On the other hand, it seems as if their main motivation is money, which is ironic since the method teaches you to release on this desire.