Sedona: Treasure of the Southwest
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A visual tour of Sedona’s many attractions.
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The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being
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Foreword by Jack Canfield: I have been hearing wonderful things about the Sedona Method® from clients and friends for about 20 years. Recently, I finally took the course with my wife and my 12-year-old son. I’ve been amazed at the simplicity of the Method and the powerful impact it has had on my life. Through my work with Chicken Soup for the Soul and through Self-Esteem Seminars, I have been exposed to many self-improvement techniques and processes. This one stands head and shoulders above t
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A. Jones "Mrs. G." says:
Absolutely Gorgeous,
This book is a great “coffee table book.” It’s a nice gift to someone who has been to Sedona and misses it, as well it gives the pre-visitor to Sedona a decent idea of what to expect from Sedona visually. I only say “decent” because, well, Sedona is THAT beautiful. The book is done superbly and effeciently.
While my husband and I honeymooned in Sedona for 5 days in October, the weather changed dramatically from sunny, windy, rainy, dry, wet, humid, crisp and refreshing and back to sunny again. Nothing was ever ugly, or less than jaw-dropping, about it. Additionally, it is simply an interesting place to be because constantly, all day long, Sedona offers 360 degree views of something curious to look at. Even the buildings, shops, architecture, private homes are all somehow tickling to the senses. What keeps you focused is where the mountains are placed. It helps you to remember you’re feet are still on earth.
This book, purchased while in Sedona, we felt was a good summary of that feeling. We hope you like it. ~~ Mr. & Mrs. G.
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|S. Andrews says:
The best deal out there,
This book is a must-have for every visitor to the Red Rock Country, resident, or lover of the majesty of this area. For $$$$$ this book is definitely the best deal out there! The full page, color photos are spectacular and the writing is intriguing. This is a memento of Sedona that will take you back to the beauty of this magical place no matter how far away you are.
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|Dari B. Wayne says:
One of America’s great natural wonders.,
Sedona is one of those places on earth that when you visit, you are touched by its ever changing beauty forever. This lovely offering is filled with spectacular photographs and natural history, recreation and historical information. Having visited Sedona many times, this book truly captures the essence of this unique piece of landscape that attracts so many people for its beauty, its mystical power and its outdoor activities. Northland Publishing has produced a “coffee table type book” without the often lofty investment expense. If you have ever made a pilgrimage to Sedona or long to visit, this is the book that you must have in your home library. Truly, a beautiful book.
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|30307 "30307" says:
This book SUPPORTS going into feeling, not denial,
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.
We all have that resistance in common. The nice thing about the Sedona Method is that it will help you even with your resistance to letting go. It can help you on so much levels. But first you must ask yourself if you really want to let go of the pain.
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|Professor Donald Mitchell "Jesus Loves You!" says:
Exceptionally Good Book for Relieving Emotional Stress,
Although I have read dozens of self-help books and attended weeks of self-help seminars, none of those books and seminars helped me in the profound way that The Sedona Method has.
The book’s core observation is that we allow emotions based on old memories to block our minds and bodies from experiencing what is possible now. Many self-help authors make the same point.
What makes The Sedona Method different from the others is the proposed method for eliminating those emotions. I have learned many other techniques for changing memories (such as the Tony Robbins Swish pattern) and use meditation to withdraw from emotions. I have found that meditation has worked best for me in the past. While meditating, my head is pleasantly vibrating and I feel at mental peace. With The Sedona Method teachings, I find that my whole body shudders pleasantly into relaxation and peace. In other words, this process causes me to enjoy a greater release from old memories and emotions than I had thought possible. It’s a wonderful gift.
So what do you have to do to enjoy this peace? You just need to ask yourself a series of questions (and the book is full of exercises to help you do that). I soon found that I did not need to ask all of the questions. With practice, I could just release negative emotions whenever I wanted to.
This book came to me at a very stressful time . . . just after my Father died. I find that the grieving process has been greatly eased by the emotional releases I can stimulate any time I want.
To get the most benefit from this book, you should practice every day to establish new habits. I read the book over two weeks to help make that transition. In retrospect, I would have done better to have read it over more weeks and practiced more each day. I plan to reread the book now to deepen my benefit.
What was most impressive to me was that I could get so much benefit without going to a class or listening to an audio version. I suspect the teachings would be much more powerful in those forms. But you certainly can experience great things from just reading the book, doing the exercises, practicing and remembering to use the teachings when those emotions well up.
May your days be filled with tranquility and a greater sense of what is possible!
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|Peter Messerschmidt "denmarkguy" says:
One of the Better PRACTICAL Self-Help Tools Available,
Over the past couple of decades, I have read a LOT of books that address the issue of creating a better life and ending “personal suffering.” The “problem” with most of these teachings– although certainly worthy– is that they either require extensive learning, or following the ways of a Teacher (to the exclusion of ALL others) for *years*, before some level of self-awareness is reached.
The Sedona Method has certain aspects of “New-Age Mumbo Jumbo” it is also the antithesis of most “wishful thinking” programs. while basically offering very similar tools and skills to many of history’s great Teachers in the tradition of nonduality. Here’s a tool for everyday living, that you simply just take home and apply right away. I say this not only from the perspective of having read the book, but also from having attended seminars with the author, Hale Dwoskin.
Many teachers and “systems” explain how we are held back in life by old memories and patterns. Essentially, we will recoil from, or even fear, certain situations… and when we do so, we’re not actually responding to the PRESENT situation, we are responding to a MEMORY. What makes The Sedona Method stand out is its simple, easy to apply steps to moving on. No need to sit at some guru’s feet for 10 years, no need to spend $5000 on seminars. The Sedona Method is a systematic “distillation” of the insights of a man named Lester Levenson who underwent a profound life change after being told he had only three weeks to live. Levenson defied the odds offered him by doctors, and lived another 40+ years.
The core of the Sedona Method is extemely simple: “Letting go” or “releasing” the feelngs and emotions that arise around whatever issue is facing you, and are causing you to feel stuck. In some ways, it is not dissimilar from the teachings of Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), in that it follows a basic “release your attachment to the outcome” premise. Perhaps that sounds overly simplistic as a life-altering tool, but it isn’t. And the benefits are immediate.
The book offers up a number of steps (basically in the form of questions you ask yourself) which will allow you to let go of pretty much any kind of “stuck” feeling you might have. A variety of scenarios are offered, so the method can be applied broadly to everything from setting life goals (overcoming negative “it’ll never work” self-talk) to overcoming fears of specific events. It does require a little practice to get used to the idea of “releasing” everytime you encounter one of life’s obstacles… I personally found that it took me about a couple of months before the system became “second nature.”
About the book itself, it is a mixture of description, exercises and “real life examples” of how people have put variations of the method to use. Whereas it is easy to read, it does get incredibly repetitive, after a while, and some readers might find this a tad frustrating. The book also leans towards pointing the finger at “feelings” as the culprits behind most of our personal suffering, and I found this a bit offputting, at times– but it’s a very minor niggle.
Having read the book AND been exposed to the material in seminar settings, the best I can offer is this: The book DOES stand alone, and most people can easily learn and apply the method without taking a seminar. The workshops (which can be pretty expensive) offer the benefit of the “full immersion” experience, and might be helpful for those who don’t believe they are the best “self-starters” in the world. However, taking a class is NOT necessary to get the benefits.
Final thoughts: Highly recommended (9 out of 10 possible bookmarks) for anyone looking for a practical way to address and move beyond old patterns. On the other hand if you’re attached to the idea that self-awareness is complicated and “must” happen as a result of studying with a guru for 10 years, then this book is probably not for you!
Thanks for reading!
–Peter
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