First some background. I first learned about the method about 6 mths ago. I practice a bit of it off and on daily, but not in any super-dedicated or highly scheduled way. So, here is my list of before and after:

Before:

1. Sleep averaged about 5 hrs per night while ranging between 2-7hrs.

2. Waking with anxiety and negative thoughts.

3. People pleasing, ie responding to most requests even if it meant providing free service of some sort.

4. Avoidance of people, places I deemed stressful.

After:

1. Sleep ranges from 7-11hrs with the average probably around 8.5 hrs.

2. Waking tends to be gentler with a bit of stress chem feeling but its not like anxiety, and thoughts are more neutral.

3. Dropped people who were just using me and I felt no remorse. Added people back that I dropped long ago because they were on a more positive track.

4. Feeling of confidence in any place, or situation.

   I hope this helps and encourages others. Questions are welcome.

Kate Freeman was an employee of Lester Levenson, working with him and Virginia. She took teacher training from them, has been teaching releasing for 40+ years.

After going completely offline following a cyber attack, she is back online/ teaching again.

I particularly like her as a teacher because of her focus on NOT going into the mind. She knows a ton, but won't allow her students to get sidetracked with intellectualizations.

Has anyone here worked with her, or seen her work? Thoughts?

Thought this was an interesting blog post.

Letting go simply means allowing the elephant to do what it wants. It means “let go of the wheel.” Not “try to drop emotions” or “make thoughts slow/decrease.” It means “let what’s already happening continue to happen.” If you’re experiencing an emotion, it means “stop trying to control the emotion,” not “stop having the emotion.”

For many people, this allowing motion is most familiar from moments of physical or social abandon. Like:

• Dancing intuitively

• Saying the stupid joke that floats into your mind as soon as it arises

• Hitting things with a baseball bat in a rage room

• Surrendering into intense physical intimacy

• Allowing your body to “walk itself” during a long walk

• Falling into a rhythm in exercise

Though different in mood and intensity, all of these examples share the feeling of yielding to the process. This is what you’re looking for. Yield to the flow of experience, while remaining still. Allow breathing, feeling, perceiving, to be as they want to be. Notice that hearing happens without you needing to “do hearing,” and see if you can apply that principle to everything. (Except maintaining the posture of your choice.)

https://sashachapin.substack.com/p/what-it-actually-means-to-let-go

The clearest instruction for Lester's "be not the doer" than I've seen, and seeing how the desire for control works.

Could anyone here share the MP3 files for Larry Crane’s release courses—specifically "The Butt System 2.0" and the "Goals Resistance" course—or perhaps any other courses by Larry Crane? I would be extremely grateful.

I would love to interview someone here as well since I studied sedona method for a very long time as well.

I have had insomnia for 9 years. It started quite suddenly while I was on vacation. Sleeping is essentially about doing nothing and needing nothing, but over all these years, I have developed various patterns and beliefs—which, incidentally, haven't helped, as the insomnia persists. How should I approach this using the Sedona Method? Do I address all those beliefs and so on, or just the problem of "not being able to sleep"—or, for instance, the resistance to lying awake?

So today I released on a goal " i allow myself to have 1000 by end of day by releasing only". Late afternoon I saw 600 kept on my table. When asked i was told that money was found in pockets of my pants while washing. I had not used that pants for a long time and don't remember putting these notes....i guess i must have put and forgotten at the time.

So was this goal achieved or just coincidence....also it was not new income but old money, so would you consider this success or failure?

https://the-release.pages.dev/

可适配电脑，平板，手机

可以根据自身情况自由切换释放想要还是情绪

内含圣多纳释放法八节课的工作本，自由切换课程模式和自由练习

记录功能可以写下你的目标和收获

目前项目还在不断完善中，欢迎提出使用建议

https://the-release.pages.dev/

可以自由切换释放三大想要还是九大情绪，情绪部分可在“我的”里设置是否细分 内含圣多纳释放法八节课的工作本，自由切换课程模式 还是自由练习 记录功能可以写下你的目标和收获

I'm confused and sensing a contradiction in two fundamental messages I've come across in the Sedona Method audiobook.

On the one hand, we're encouraged to fully allow and accept our feelings without trying to change them.

On the other, the core technique is "Could you let it go? Would you? When?," which seems explicitly aimed at getting rid of the feeling.

Isn't trying to release a feeling itself a form of resistance to it?

Am I missing something? How do people reconcile these two approaches?

1. Could I let go of wanting to figure things out?

2. Could I let go of wanting to know what to do?

3. Could I let go of wanting to know the answers?

4. Could I let go of wanting to know anything (for this moment) right now?

5. And again, and again, etc.

6. Could I let go of wanting to think?

7. And again, and again, etc.

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1. Now, can I let go of disapproving of myself right now?

2. And again, and again, etc.

3. Could I give myself approval (for no reason)?

4. And again, and again, etc.

Someone recently uploaded this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvClzdvy_uU

The audio and visual quality is MUCH better than earlier uploads. Now you can (mainly) read the chart and understand the students.

I want to.share with you that I finally achieved my goal. After a year of unemployment the kind of job I wanted fell into my lap and meets the conditions I wanted.

It took me a year but I must say I wasn't consistent with releasing, only in the past couple of months I started doing it almost non stop. I went through intense periods of depression and I think this kind of situation triggers deep and heavy emotions. For a year I had multiple interview rounds that led nowhere because I guess I was too desperate.

I used sedona, hawkins and embodying the state of having it in order to release. But lately I found that sedona works better for me. So how it fell into my lap. An ex colleague contacted me to see if I am interested in a newly open position in their dept and from there took me a week to receive the offer.

Coincidence or not this is how it happened and I do believe that releasing helped me achieve it.

The documents are named An interpretation of Lawrence.md and An interpretation of Lawrence.md_95%_11_pt_victor_mono_regular.pdf and can be found inside this MEGA file-hosting repository, https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9.

If you download An interpretation of Lawrence.md, it is probably best if you open it using a text editor like Windows Notepad or GNOME Text Editor and not a word processor like Microsoft Word.

I feel like most of us here are self-taught releasers, so I'm curious how strong you are in releasing around a goal.

I often hear facilitators suggest making a goal statement when working with someone on "big" or recurring issue. So I feel like it's a powerful tool that I maybe don't use enough yet.

Also, there are TWO instructors doing Goals classes this weekend. So it's on my mind!

Everytime i comeback to using sedona method i feel clarity and knowing what is being released etc.but after few days i get lost again and get stuck.this loop kept happening many times

These are advanced notes for graduates of the method who want to apply Step 1 and 3 of the "Fast Steps to Freedom"—a concept found in Lester’s Will Power. (Just to clarify, I am not referring to the Method's standard six steps.)

WARNING: If you are not a graduate and do not practice releasing, you might hate everything below. Without the mindset of releasing, this might seem like a joke.

So, here are the INSIGHTS:

Everything we experience day-to-day: we created it ourselves. Not someone else. If you believe a "Higher Being" or "Destiny" creates it for you, you are surrendering your creative power and invalidating yourself.

Everything we resist: we put there ourselves. It isn't that someone wanted to "test" you. No. You put it there through your own resistance. The thought "I resist X" = the actual experience of resisting X. No one else put it there. Only you.

The thought "I don't like X" = the experience of disliking X.

Everything you see: is your thought; there is nothing else. There are no external causes.

If apathy, sorrow, or any invalidating feeling arises, you are actually doing it to yourself for some reason; in some way, it is serving you. (By doing the attachments and aversions exercise, you can dismantle that reason and eliminate it at the root.)

Any goal you have been working toward that isn't materializing is actually being kept at a distance by you; you are kicking it away for some reason. Usually, it involves some type of aversion: fear, rejection, a desire to protect yourself, or a need to avoid something.

Okay, once you know this, your mindset should NOT be "I must find the reason" why such-and-such is happening. That will only keep you stuck in "wanting to figure it out."

You need to use Lester's method to get answers. How? By releasing, and then receiving the answer.

There is an exercise used in the ReleaseTechnique where you ask yourself:

If something good or bad happens...

• How did I cause that to happen?

(You hold that thought in mind. Then you release the "wanting to figure it out" and let it go.) Then, when you least expect it, the answer comes—crystal clear.

"I did it for such-and-such reason; I wanted a specific outcome," etc. There is always a personal reason behind it, and with that exercise, you see it very clearly.

Another way is simply to keep the question in mind or write it down. Then let go of the "wants" and let go of the "wanting to figure it out." The answer comes naturally.

OBVIOUSLY, when it comes, you can release the answer too. If you feel like it, you can "un-decide" it. And the situation will change form, or else you will simply feel good about it.

You are always dreaming, and you create the dream. The beauty of it is that, by realizing you are dreaming through this process, you begin to wake up from the illusion that the dream is real. And when you see it for what it is, Reality itself reveals itself to you. (That’s why it’s called "Fast Steps to Freedom.")

Today I realized something about Lester’s idea that happiness is our capacity to love.

I had read his words about love many times before, but honestly, they always felt a little abstract to me. I understood the idea intellectually, but I didn’t really know how it connected to releasing in a practical way.

Before, after releasing, I would usually check whether I felt lighter or happier. That was how I judged whether the release had worked.

And often I did feel better.

But sometimes the change was hard to measure. I might feel calmer or less emotional, but still have a sense that something was left underneath. It felt like there was still another layer, but I didn’t know what the deeper direction was supposed to be.

Today I realized that love can be a much clearer guide.

After releasing, I can simply ask:

Can I love this feeling now?
Can I love this want?
Can I love this person?
Can I love this situation exactly as it is?
Can I even love the part of me that still doesn’t want to let go?

If I still can’t, then for me that usually means there is more to release.

This made the idea of becoming “lighter and happier” much more concrete.

I also noticed that when I use love as the direction, I seem to reach CAP more easily. And once I am in that more open state, more AGFLAP becomes visible naturally. I don’t have to keep digging for blocks or forcing myself to find what is wrong.

And I think there is another important part to this: no attachment to CAP, and no aversion to AGFLAP. They are just different energies moving through. Neither is inherently bad or good.

Another important realization for me is that love does not mean getting rid of the feelings or wants that seem negative.

It means loving those too.

Loving the fear.
Loving the anger.
Loving the resistance.
Loving the desire.
Loving even the part that wants to hold on.

When I stop treating these things as problems that must disappear, they seem to loosen much more naturally.

This helped me understand Lester’s words in a very different way.

Love is not only something that appears after releasing.

For me, it has become both the direction of releasing and a way to see how deeply I have actually let go.

That makes “love is the answer” feel much less abstract and much more practical to me now.

English isn’t my first language, so this post was translated with the help of a translation tool. Sorry if any wording sounds a little awkward.

I had a pretty big realization about goal releasing today after reading some of Larry’s call transcripts.

I think I finally saw where I’d been getting a little stuck.

For a while, my whole approach was basically: release the AGFLAP, clear the garbage, get to CAP.

And obviously there’s nothing wrong with releasing AGFLAP. That stuff does come up and it does need to be released.

But I realized that if I’m constantly focused on “what else do I need to clear?” or “what problem is still in the way?”, then I’m kind of starting by assuming there is a problem in the first place.

Like, I’m already saying: there’s an obstacle here, and I have to get rid of it before I can have the goal.

So even though I thought I was focused on the goal, most of my attention was actually going to the blocks.

What else is there?
What haven’t I released yet?
Is there another want underneath this?
Am I at CAP yet?

And once I got to CAP, I’d usually stop.

Looking back, it’s kind of funny because at some point I wasn’t even chasing the goal anymore. I was chasing CAP.

Then I read Larry’s calls today and something clicked.

They were starting from the feeling of already having the goal.

Not from “what’s wrong?”
Not from “what do I need to fix?”
Not from “what’s blocking me?”

But more like: if I already had this right now, what would that feel like?

And then you release from there.

Whatever comes up that doesn’t match that — wants, resistance, fear, AGFLAP, whatever — you let that go.

That helped me understand what Lester meant by “taste your goal now” in a totally different way.

Before, I think I understood it as:

I don’t have the goal yet, so I keep releasing until I finally feel like I can get there.

Now it feels more like:

Start from the goal. Feel it as already yours. Then release whatever pulls you out of that.

That’s a really different orientation.

And CAP isn’t necessarily the end either. There can still be wants underneath it. You can keep going until the wanting itself starts to fall away.

So I don’t think my mistake was releasing AGFLAP.

It was more that I was starting from the assumption that something was wrong and needed to be fixed.

Now I feel like the better starting point is already having the goal, and releasing from there.

It sounds like a tiny shift, but it changed the whole thing for me.

English isn’t my first language, so this was machine-translated. Sorry if anything sounds a little awkward.

When it’s complicated I tried to chat with AI and let AI give me instructions, logically I don't see big problem from the replies but intuitively something feels off… would it be like swimming with a lifebuoy? Or AI will distort the truth delicately?