The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being by Hale Dwoskin Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being
Book Review: Good tool to have for the "worried well"
Summary: 3 Stars
The Sedona Method is simple and effective but over-promises a bit. For individuals that are the worried well, the easy to use questions for clearing anxieties and other troublesome emotions do work. My concern is that this book over-emphasizes the power of the intellect in healing people who are suffering from anxiety disorders. It can't not help but again, for people with deeply-seated emotional issues, this conscious cognitive style may not get at the root. Emotional concerns are to be healed emotionally. Like most self-help books, The Sedona Method, over emphasizes the mind. The intellect and emotions are separate parts of a person and getting something intellectually doesn't work if head and heart are not connected. Too much mind work can sometimes cause more conflict if the emotions are only stuffed down and ignored. How often do we meet highly functional and successful people who are an emotional wreck. Just my two cents on the matter.
There are tremendous benefits from using the Sedona Method in daily life on a regular basis. The techniques are valuable and work as well as they can work. For a wonderful book on emotional healing, try "The Hoffman Process" by Tim Laurence and "Getting divorced from Mom and Dad" by Bob Hoffman. Another gem is "Healing the Body, Mending the Mind" by Joan Boryshenko, co-founder of the Harvard Mind-Body Clinic.
Book Review: Good, but maybe over rated.
Summary: 3 Stars
Very interesting book. However, is a little too much "the power of positive thinking" for me. I was not able to "release" effectively.Book Review: Great way to rid painful thinking and experience more peace.
Summary: 4 Stars
To get the best understanding of this material, start with it's source... Lester Levenson's books "No Attachments, No Aversions" and "The Ultimate Truth About Love & Happiness." The Sedona Method is based on Lester's profound midlife, near-death experience and his resulting realization of his true nature... one of unlimited freedom and beingness. He shared these life changing insights freely for the rest of his life... 42 years after being told he would die within three weeks.
What the Sedona Method is good at, is creating a step-by-step process out of Lester's profound but sometimes disjointed teachings. But in doing so, the book can seem very redundant because of the simplicity of the teaching. It's probably best experienced in person at one of their seminars, since it requries a lot of reflection, writing and introspection. (Something most people would skip over and therefore miss the benefit of the exercises.) I have not been to their seminars, so this is not a plug, just an observation.
Lester's books are a quick read and really set the stage for understanding the Sedona Method or Release Technique as it's sometimes called. These techniques are really not meant as an end in themselves, but more as a way to clear out the mental clutter so we can begin, like Lester did, to experience our true nature of timeless, limitless beingness. It's very freeing.
Releasing will improve your life, decrease your anxiety, improve your health, decrease your stress and blood pressure and make life easier. If that's all you want. Lester said only one in a million wanted what he could really give, the knowledge of who we really are beyond name and form, beyond a body and a brain. He must have been a remarkable person from what I've read and the lives he touched.
I recommend the Sedona Method, but more importantly, I recommend going beyond just improving your life, with the ultimate goal of discovering who you truly are. That was Lester's greatest wish.
Book Review: Hale Dwoskin does a brilliant job!
Summary: 5 Stars
The Sedona Method is an incredibly powerful technique that Hale lays out beautifully in practical steps and explanations that anyone can use right away for achieving peace of mind and releasing negative emotions in order to shift one's consciousness.
I use the Sedona Method frequently in my own life as well as in helping my clients release emotional patterns that have been holding them back from happiness and success. The results are quite amazing.
I highly recommend not only the book but the CDs as well. Worth every penny!
Book Review: Here's a way to save $15
Summary: 1 Stars
Apparently, I am in the minority here, but don't waste a dime on this book, or god forbid, the $400 Sedona Method Course on CD. This review is based on my completion of the TWENTY CD course, in which this book is included.
The message of the "Method" is simple: bring up postive and negative emotions/thoughts, experience the "feelings" and simply "Release" them. THAT'S IT. Except it gets repeated probably 200 times focusing on different thoughts - extaordinarily tedious. Releasing on your grudges and obsessions is valid enough, in that it clears the mind to view them objectively, but how many times do you need to repeat this exercise? Get the idea, try to use it and that's that.
Additionally, in the CD version, which is simply a taping of a weekend seminar, whenever anyone asked why or how this works, they were told to simply "release" on that thought/question. Had I paid $1,800 for that weekend course, "just release on that" wouldn't have cut it!
The Course is another of those "Nervana In a Box" concepts that promises everything from weight loss, quitting smoking and general happiness just by completing a quick course or book. True personal growth and enlightenment take arduous work, TIME, research of ideas and sole searching - not a quick fix by any means. These "Box" approaches dispense with knowlege and replace it with "Just do what we tell you and all will be rosey". Not only do I find these ineffectual, but they are really rather mindless.
Mind you, there are some that swear by Sedona - as evidenced by the ratings here, so obviously it has value. But, seeking the quick, mindless fix seems a sorry state of affairs.
Finally, simply go to sedona.com and order the demo DVD. You DO have to pay the shipping (rather odd...), but not only will this give you a very good idea what it is about, but in fact, it's all you need to "get" what the course offers.
Fortunately, I was able to resell the program on an auction site, so it cost me little. If you can do that, as they say, "Couldn't hurt".