Overview
This video provides an overview of the Sedona Method, its origins, core principles, and specific practical techniques for emotional release and self-inquiry. Davida LZ also guides viewers through an entry-level experience and shares resources for further learning.
Origins and Foundations of the Sedona Method
- The Sedona Method was developed by Lester Levinson after a period of self-reflection and emotional release that led to significant personal healing.
- Lester identified that a sense of separation and perceived lack underlies emotional pain and suffering.
- The method is rooted in releasing the sense of lack and misunderstanding about one's true nature.
- After Lesterās death, Hale Dwoskin continued developing and teaching the Sedona Method.
Core Principles and Philosophy
- Core belief: Our true nature is unlimited beingness, but the mind maintains a fixed, limited identity due to misunderstanding.
- Emotional pain is perpetuated by wanting control, safety, or loveāforms of perceived lack.
- Letting go even briefly can reveal the underlying presence and freedom available in every moment.
- The practice is grounded in self-inquiry, particularly the question, "Who am I?"
Key Techniques within the Sedona Method
- Letting Go: Releasing the fundamental misunderstanding of lack or wanting.
- Welcoming: Allowing and accepting emotions as they arise, reconnecting with unbounded presence.
- Holistic Releasing: Recognizing and releasing emotional opposites (e.g., up/down, hot/cold) for deeper balance.
- Diving In: Moving beneath thoughts and emotions to experience the empty presence at the core of being.
- Fifth Way: Triple welcomingāwelcoming experience, the desire to change it, and the sense of personal narrative.
- Freeway: Relating to challenges from the perspective of unbounded consciousness/God/spirit.
Guided Entrance Point Experience
- Participants are asked to focus on an issue and consider: Could you let it go, would you consider being free from it, and when would you choose to let go?
- The process involves contemplating oneās capacity for release from the perspective of infinite potential.
- Breathing is used as a supportiveābut not essentialāpractice for relaxation and presence.
Resources and Further Learning
- Additional videos on the Sedona Method and related topics are available on Davida LZ's YouTube channel.
- SedonaMethod.com offers products and courses by Hale Dwoskin.
- An upcoming course, Awakened Life 2.0, will include the Sedona Method, self-inquiry, breathing practices, and silence.
Recommendations / Advice
- Consider using the entry questions (āCould you, would you, when would you let go?ā) as an accessible starting point for release.
- Explore supplementary resources for deepening practice and understanding.
- Cultivate compassion, presence, and self-kindness as foundational elements of ongoing emotional release.
Questions / Follow-Ups
- Explore self-inquiry further: What is your true nature beyond thoughts and emotions?
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