Since its creation in the early 1970s, The Sedona Method has been taught to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. This simple yet elegant Method continues to spread happiness, peace and well-being on all continents, fostering a growing sense of oneness and peace. Nearing the end of a recent Sedona Method Retreat held in Sedona, AZ, one of the attendees spoke about her experience:
“I’m struck by how many of us are from different countries and different cultures, yet we came together this week. There were no cultural boundaries, no race boundaries, no religious boundaries – we all just came together as One World.”
Kagan Bayraktaroglu, Istanbul, Turkey exclaimed, “As a therapist, I am familiar with methods around the world. When you do therapy with someone, you try to fit their problems in a box and you are mostly looking for a reason. All methods I’ve worked with have done this. The Sedona Method clarifies that we don’t need to try to solve a problem. Going with the flow is what really matters.”
This retreat was a sell out with around 180 participants from 12 different countries expressed gratitude for The Secret teacher and co-founder of The Sedona Method, Hale Dwoskin’s teaching style and presence, like Gisela Echeverria of Venezuela:
“Thank you, Hale, for your loving nature and your openness to share this releasing process with the world.”
The happiness and benefits gained from this retreat were pronounced and varied like this report from Norma Cuellar, Miami, FL:
“When I came here I had a lot of wants. As the days passed, the only want was to find and accept my own nature. Now, I feel like I found myself in a quiet happiness. I have stopped “the storyteller” and it’s enough to be quiet right now. In addition, I overcame a profound depression that was with me for a long time. Thanks!!”
Dwoskin has been sharing The Sedona Method with the world since 1976. Several hundred-thousand people worldwide have learned The Sedona Method since it began being taught in the U.S. in 1974. Dwoskin’s New York Times bestseller, The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being, has been sold in over 15 countries and translated into many languages including Spanish, German, Japanese, Dutch, Slavic, Turkish and Russian. People from almost every country and every continent on the globe are participating in the simplicity of The Sedona Method and transforming their lives as a result.
Release What is Holding You Back
The Method teaches you to release the limiting emotions that are holding you back by asking some simple questions. “Acknowledging your feelings is the first step in releasing them,” says Dwoskin. “Once you recognize that the feeling is just a feeling, it is not a fact and it is not you, it becomes easy to let it go. As you naturally let go and disengage with your stories you’ll feel like you are free to allow them to dissolve. Many people in the retreats get to a point where they can’t even remember what it was they were so concerned about. They end up laughing about their supposed problems.”
Dwoskin continues, “At your core you already are the happiness you are seeking in all the wrong places. All you need to do is uncover this natural happiness by letting go of the unhappiness or limitation that appears to be covering it. Or by simply discovering that which is within you which is already free.”
Sedona Method Graduate and Secret Teacher Marci Shimoff in the release of her new best-selling book Happy For No Reason lauds the ability of The Sedona Method to help people be happy and successful. This new book features Mariel Hemingway’s story of how she used The Sedona Method to conquer her family’s propensity towards depression and become much happier.
People’s tendency to hold on and be attached to unhappy thoughts and feelings can appear very strong. Most of us have been suppressing or expressing our emotions for as long as we can remember. By identifying with our stories and emotions we constantly reinforce being attached to, adverse to, or victimized by, our thoughts and feelings. The Sedona Method helps us realize that we are not our thoughts, feelings or stories. As a result, we break this attachment and aversion and settle in as the peace of simply being.
Susan Ortolano, Woodland Hills, CA reported: “I was finally able to see that after almost 20 years of major health challenges, I could just focus on and be with what is actually present in the now and drop the upset around the long saga of illness that I have been carrying as part of my identity. Realizing those years and that big, dramatic story are just memories and don’t mean anything about now or the future feels very peaceful. What a blessing!
I am grateful to see how gentle, loving and easy releasing is through the Sedona Method. I had believed the releasing process was harsh, heavy and just another part of my daily to do list. I now feel how graceful and natural it is and that it’s already part of me.”
“As we begin to feel peace and happiness internally, our external world shifts to match accordingly,” says Dwoskin. This is evidenced by gains like this one from Duke Warren of Folly Beach, SC:
“During the 7 Day Retreat, I worked with Hale around my son who has migraine headaches and is addicted to drugs. He has been living with his mother for the past three years with her basically taking care of him. He has not been able to hold a job during this time. I’ve been trying to fix him for 30 years with no results. When I released with Hale, I let go of trying to figure out what to do about him.
This morning I checked my cell phone and there was a message from my son. He has gotten a job in Florida and made arrangements to move to a halfway house. His well-being has been one of my last issues to deal with. I can now allow him his own experience and love him unconditionally whether or not he stays off drugs.”
A Unique Approach for You
The Sedona Method is unique in that it doesn’t ask us to cover over our negative thoughts with positive ones. “Positive thinking alone can’t bring happiness, peace or success,” says Dwoskin. “It’s my experience that our negative thoughts and feelings just surface elsewhere if we try to force ourselves to think or feel positively. Acknowledging them and seeing through the illusion that they are about a separate person brings an end to suffering.”
Athena Andriakos, Flagstaff, AZ discovered: “Along with many, many wonderful insights and gains, the growing awareness that there is no “me” and there is no separation anywhere is a gift beyond price. I am forever (even though I realize there is no time too) grateful for Hale’s loving presence helping all of us to see what is always here now.
On a more material level, I rediscovered the love I had for relationships with some loved one who I am no longer in contact with. When I released the pain of our apparent separation, I found that I feel I am always with them in my heart. A truly wonderful gift.”
“I have been very angry at a person for the last two years. I came to Sedona to release on that in particular. A few days into the retreat, I couldn’t seem to remember which situations upset me so much. They now seem meaningless. I felt more and more powerful during the retreat.”
The more people work with the Method, the more success they have with less effort as witnessed by Michelle Boone of Toronto, Canada:
“As a third time retreat participant, I can honestly say that I am a happier person with each visit. It takes less and less time to be present and let the routines and stresses of daily living dissolve. I am only what appears in my awareness at this moment, now, and I don’t have to believe or be attached to anything else. In 2008, I’m welcoming life as it unfolds with the awareness that everything is happening as it should.”
Many people who use the Sedona Method report they no longer feel wants and needs; just a deep, internal sense of peace and happiness like John Fults of Campbell, CA:
“I have gained a great sense of peace and an awareness of that which I am. All my life I have served feelings, emotions and memories thinking they were me. I am longer required to do that. I came to Sedona with an impressive list of wants. I left with a few nice to haves.”
What happened in Sedona is part of a worldwide wave of people waking up to their true nature and leaving their suffering and limitation behind. The Sedona Method is at the leading edge of this wave. Many people including over one third of the teachers in The Secret have embraced The Sedona Method as positive tool for personal and global change. You will discover that it’s the key to unlocking your unlimited potential to have, be or do whatever you desire.
