I am convinced that the best use for releasing is simply to establish and maintain peace – in the moment. I can absolutely say for certain that I have used releasing on many occasions to release negative emotions and their underlying wants. Whenever I have done so, I have felt lighter, calmer and freer in that moment.
The Instant Effect of Releasing Encourages Momentum
Once a person experiences his or her first, significant release with this technique, their life is changed for the better from that very moment, I believe. When you know that you can release emotions and their underlying wants, you feel encouraged straightaway to apply it to as many different areas of your life as you can. In this way, you can build-up momentum as you begin to discover new and better ways of releasing and new areas to apply releasing to.
The Wants Just Keep on Coming!
But after a while it becomes apparent that the emotions and wants just seem to keep on coming, as strong as ever. It seems like the four wants are like boomerangs that seem to come flying right back at you – even when you have just let the thing go. This can feel quite tiresome and it is this persistence of the wants that causes a person to hastily reach for the more advanced courses and to experiment so they can find more effective ways of releasing.
Advanced Releasing Techniques
There are releasing forums on the internet that host some experienced releasers who are always coming-up with new and improved ways of releasing. These are often based on more advanced courses, for instance, holistic pairs (based on the Sedona Method course Practical Freedom) and the Vortex (from the Sedona Method course Inner Circle 4). The people on these forums are very knowledgeable, experienced and helpful when it comes to releasing – which is wonderful.
But it just makes my mind boggle when I read some of the elaborate releasing methods that they come-up with. For instance, you know you are no longer keeping releasing simple when you ask, “Could I let go of resisting welcoming resistance?”
Keep it Simple!
After reading scores of self-help and Christian books – I am very keen to move beyond anything which seems overly fanciful and too much like hard work. I really do just want to keep things simple. However, I am encouraged when it comes to experimenting with new ways of releasing – because you get feedback straightaway from your body, mind and emotions, as to whether the technique worked for you. Basically, either you get a release or you don’t – it is that simple; also, some methods will bring a stronger release than others. The Squeezing the Lemon technique from the Release Technique, for instance, usually brings about a strong release with most people.
Personally, I would rather investigate new ways of releasing than read a book that promises all kinds of great things – books which just give principals or ineffective formulas – both of which are a work of self-effort, which have no ability to impart power or change circumstances or transform a person.
The Sedona Method and the Release Technique give you just the right amount of teaching on the theory, the concepts that make releasing work, but just enough to get a person releasing effectively for themselves.
“Written Releasing”
The basic course will cover what could be called “Written Releasing”. Written Releasing is when you sit-down and write lists in an effort to identify wants that are deeply repressed in the subconscious mind. This can mean identifying wants in relation past or present events, preferences, habits and so on. Written releasing involves making lists about a particular subject and establishing what want each list entry is coming from. This includes the Goal Process and Attachments and Aversions. I think the Goal Process rather speaks for itself: you list your goals and then identify the wants behind each one, before releasing them.
Attachments and Aversions
Attachments and Aversions exercises come in the form of likes/dislikes and advantages/disadvantages. Likes/Dislikes involve making a list of things that you like or dislike about a particular person, place or thing. Then, you identify what want or wants is behind each of those preferences, before releasing on them.
Advantages/Disadvantages is similar to Likes/Dislikes, but is applied in a different context: it relates to what you see as being an advantage or disadvantage to a given habit, decision, preference or other subject matter.
Kinaesthetic Releasing
I am a kinaesthetic releaser which means that my muscles contract when I release, this is usually in the stomach or chest area, although, I have also released from the neck or throat. I can usually tell the strength of a release by gauging the strength of the muscular contraction. The strongest releases, I find, are in the chest area.
Although I seem to get a release, in terms of muscle contraction, when I use attachments and aversions worksheets - I cannot vouch for the effectiveness of these techniques in relation to achieving the main goal of releasing, which is lasting freedom.
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