Sedona method

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The Sedona Method is a self-help technique developed by the late engineer/physicist/businessman Lester Levenson after a serious heart attack nearly ended his life. Lester regained his health and attributed his renewed positive outlook to a process of self-inquiry of one's beliefs and related emotions.

The process is designed to examine any emotion that one is experiencing and then "let it go" or release it in the moment. The basic premise is that all emotions naturally come and go out of experience unless one resists them. The idea is supported in the writings of Carl Jung who noted, "What we resist persists."

Hale Dwoskin, President of Sedona Training Associates, has appeared in The Secret and is the primary teacher and facilitator of the Sedona Method. Hale learned the Sedona Method from Lester Levenson beginning in 1976 and worked closely with Lester until Lester's death in 1994.

The process is taught as a practical technique that is related to a similar process called the Release Technique, which is taught by another former student of Lester Levenson's, Larry Crane.

[edit] Criticism

There are some who feel that Dwoskin is profiteering from Buddhist and Zen principles.^{[citation needed]} Furthermore, he has been criticized for not crediting Buddhism and Eastern philosophy as an influence on his book.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Official Sedona Method website
• Free Sedona Method Releasing Forum
• Releasing Forum for Sedona Method graduates
• Site by one of Lester Levenson's original students
• Sedona Method Information and Resources
• Self Dev Radio interview with Hale Dwoskin
• "Sedona Method" book review 1
• "Sedona Method" book review 2
• "Research evidence on the Sedona Method"

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