Hale Dwoskin - The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being

Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and EmotionalWell-being

By HALE DWOSKIN

Sedona

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Dedicated to Lester Levenson

This book could not have been published without the assistance and encouragement of many individuals to whom I would like to extend my most sincere gratitude.

First and foremost, many thanks to my wife Amy for all her love and support.

I offer my deep appreciation to Jack Canfield for his friendship and generosity. My thanks to Stephanie Gunning, my brilliant editor, for her integrity, skill, intelligence, and humor.

Thanks to the book designers, Shannon Bodie and Bob Swingle at Lightbourne, LLC, for their creativity, diligence and professionalism.

I would like to thank our staff for their dedication and hard work.

Heartfelt thanks to the numerous people who so kindly and willingly shared their personal stories so that readers could glimpse what is possible from the Sedona Method.

Finally, to all Sedona Method graduates everywhere for their courageousness of spirit in using this glorious technique and sharing it with the world: Thank you!

The rapid and positive changes that took place in Joes life as soon as he began using the Sedona Method are an ideal model of what can happen for us all. Persistent difficulties clear up, exciting new possibilities emerge, and serendipity smoothes the flow of events. When Joe learned the Method, he was at a low point both personally and professionally. A year and half earlier, hed been in a plane crash that had left him wheelchair bound for seven months, his company was forcing him out of his job, and his estranged wife and he had been tied up in legal knots for three years hammering out their divorce agreement. Within a few weeks, everything turned around 180 degrees. First, Joes ex-wife agreed to go to mediation where they reached an amicable settlement. Then, he happened to run into the chairman of the company he was suing for wrongful termination at a charity ball. The chairman hadnt known about Joes severance until then, and the next Monday Joes lawyer called with news of a favorable settlement that was more than the original offer.

Even better, Joe decided to take a long weekend trip to a warm island paradise to celebrate his good fortune. Sitting and reading a book on the beach in Nassau, he pursued an idle conversation with a woman who turned out to be the love of his life. He wasnt looking for a date because he had to catch the plane home in a couple of hours. But Jean seemed familiar, and after she told him that she also lived in Toronto, he asked, Look, this isnt a line, but do you live at such and such a corner?

Yes, I do, she answered.

Thats funny, said Joe. I go to physiotherapy there. I must have seen you on the subway. Do you also go to the theater downtown?

Yes, once or twice a week, Jean replied.

I work in downtown Toronto, Joe then mentioned, in Scotia Plaza on the 53 rd floor.

Thats strange ... I work on the 30 th floor!

An hour went by. When Joe got up to leave, they traded phone numbers, and he didnt give her another thought for a couple of weeks until that same slip of paper fell out of his notebook and reminded him. When he called, they connected amazingly well. They soon fell in love, and Joe asked Jean to marry him.

The more Joe applied the Sedona Method, the faster his career as an executive in the investment banking industry took off, and the higher it flew. His income grew at an exponential rate. In terms of wealth and money, the Method has been absolutely incredible for him. In addition, Joe continued using the Method to let go of his worries about his physical condition. In the plane crash, he was crippled from breaking 32 bones, including bones in his left leg, his right kneecap, his hand, and his skull. Although his doctors told him he would never walk well again, today he walks perfectly with virtually no pain. Joe uses the same Sedona Method techniques that youll be learning in this bookmorning and night and all through the day. As a result, he is happy and successful, life is fun, and he is peacefully flowing from event to event. In his words: I feel blessed. The Sedona Method turns big issues into small issues.

Life as We Know It

Harmony and unqualified happiness are natural to each and every one of us, yet heres how a typical workday looks and feels for too many people. We wake up, drag ourselves out of bed, and, even before we get to the bathroom, we begin worrying or planning what will happen during the day ahead. We are already spending what little energy we have stored up from our nights sleepif we were lucky enough to have had one. Many of us then commute to our jobs, which puts additional stress on us due to traffic, or mass transit crowds, or just the frustration of wasted time. Once we arrive, were not excited to be there and we are dreading the things we must get done. As we push ourselves through the day, we look ahead to lunch or the end of business. We have various interactions with coworkerssome satisfactory, many not. Since we believe there is nothing much we can do about anything that happens or how we feel about it, usually we simply stuff down our emotions and barrel on forward.

By the time were done for the day, were exhausted from bottling up our feelings. Maybe we drag ourselves to the local bar to hang out with some friends and eat, drink, and watch the news on TVwhich adds its own layer of stresshoping our feelings will just disappear. Even though we may feel a little better afterwards, in truth, the feelings have only gone underground. We are now like human pressure cookers with plugged stopcocks, and it takes us tremendous energy to keep the lid on. When we finally get home to our husbands or wives and children, and they want to talk about their days with us, we have no energy left to listen. We might try to put on a happy face only to lose our tempers over the smallest things. The family eventually zones out in front of the TV until it is time to go to bed. And the next morning we get up and start the whole scenario over again.