The Sedona Method by Hale Dwoskin

The Sedona Method by Hale Dwoskin

The Sedona Method by Hale Dwoskin

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

Our society has turned "feelings" into sacred cows, perhaps in response to the repression and denial of feeling in past generations. Some now suggest that cognitive therapies, such as the Sedona Method, can encourage the suppression of feeling. Not in my experience! The Sedona Method actually takes emotions quite seriously and encourages participants to go deeply into their emotions before releasing.

Here's what I've learned through the Sedona Method:

My holding onto a feeling is actually a RESISTANCE to investigating and experiencing the feeling deeply. I notice I'd rather go on and on about my story about "my" feeling, thus creating more even drama, rather than pausing to examine the feeling itself. In a perverse way, I often resist letting go of feelings simply because I identify them as being "MY" feeling. Through cognitive approaches, I've learned that it's my own worshipful attachment to "MY" feeling that causes the suffering, not the feeling itself.

That's where the Sedona Method is so helpful. The Sedona Method contradicts much of traditional therapy in that it understands that one does not need endless analysis and manufacturing of "story" about emotion in order to release it. Indeed, our endless analysis and masturbatory fondling of "our" feelings is often subtle ego ploy to KEEP the suffering firmly in place. As in: "This is MY story about MY suffering. And, look! Here is MY depression .... I am a very sensitive, emotional person who has suffered terrible things at the hands of others (which people with fancy initials after their names agree with me on ....), and I thus need years of understanding and exploration before I can let this feeling go." Perhaps it's true for some of us. I don't know. In my case, it was a lie. I discovered that this was just a clever form of ego resistance which, unfortunately, finds much (unhelpful) support in our culture.

There definitely is a body-mind connection. The Sedona Method demonstrates that once the thinking is addressed directly THROUGH the feeling, the feeling will drop. This is true for everyone. It doesn't matter how big or small your I.Q. is, or how much money you make. The Buddhists have been saying this for centuries. In Alcoholics Anonymous, old-timers routinely say to people who feel like drinking out of anger or depression, "Feelings aren't facts." The Sedona Method invites us to look more deeply at feelings rather than repress them.

Cognitive approaches such as The Sedona Method also gently challenge our resistances to releasing the feelings. After years of getting absolutely nowhere with traditional feeling-based therapy, I found liberation * only * through cognitive approaches. But I had to give up wanting to suffer first. I was completely unconscious of my attraction to the very pain I claimed to want to release ... but there it was. The Sedona Method points this out to you ... And that's the tricky part of this process. Our mind clutches at so many "reasons" to hold on and "be right" about our feelings. Our mind tells us we need lots of "time" to get over our feelings. Not so. The Sedona Method proves that.

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