Lesterizing Explained

Lesterizing

I'm sorry, but I wasn't able to record Larry's teleconference last night that absolutely changed how I will be Releasing from now on and I'll explain in detailed.

1. Get into CAP and begin feeling as if you have your goal. This is the place where most of us mess up. It's only when we're in the CAP state can we BEGIN our releasing work. (Get high to Release): STEP 1. Be imperturbable (or make sure it's okay if we have our goal and it's okay if we don't - we can't be perturbed with anything or any situation) Ask: "Am I really okay with having this money/or whatever" and because we're in CAP if we think and wait a moment stuff start to come up - stuff we otherwise would never admit to or even know because now we're accessing the subconscious mind. You can only access the subconscious mind while we're in CAP. When that's clear then we're to ask ourselves: "Am I really okay with NOT having this

money/or whatever" and again, being in that CAP state if we wait a moment feelings will start coming up. Recognize all these feeling with w/c, w/a or w/s. We should now firmly have STEP 1 in place and have no Attractions or

Aversions and be imperturbable. We must want this state more than our goals.

STEP 2. (I forget the language for this) But this is the part where we are to visualize our goals to the point of us feeling that it’s a reality - Bringing it into the now. And that's it - but this seems to be a critical part which he stressed.

Also about getting "imperturbable" expect to spend some time releasing a/a in CAP because lifetimes of attractions and aversions (a/a) will keep coming up until we're clear. This is the ONLY way we can ever hope to get any of our goals, again: Get into CAP by saying "I'm the boss, I'm in charge. Then say "Get lost ego, get outta here...." Let go of figuring it out. Let Go of

disapproving of yourself. Give yourself some approval...more, more, etc. - Now that you're in CAP think about your goal and release all your

Attachments and Aversion by using the above questions. This is a whole new way of releasing for me and you'll see you get into a very secure place doing this.

That said, Larry started off the call by letting everyone know that he was one who thought of this and taught Rich F. who had trouble with it in the

beginning? That's not what I heard Rich say, not that it matters, but these are the people we're taking these instructions from. Yeah, yeah I'll release. I just thought it was strange. What I'll also release on is my feeling that if he id113952131 pdfMachine by Broadgun Software - a great PDF writer! - a great PDF creator! - http://www.pdfmachine.com http://www.broadgun.com

had of just explained in this way before I purchased $900 worth of what I now feel are defective CDs and instructions I would have had my goal and more long ago! It's like they're making it up as they go - only this time they found the right key. I really believe this can take us over the top - but this was not what was taught before Rich F. introduced it to us all. Last thing, in the February issue of the Release magazine there's an article on Resistance - again, the explanation of what Resistance is and how we should use is is COMPLETELY different from what was taught at the 3 day seminars, in the book and in his CDs. I'm wondering where all the new light is coming from. Okay, okay, I'll release. The call was amazing since we all finally knew what and how to properly release and Larry was a short and nasty as ever - so all's right in the world. Hope this helps. I'll keep you posted about tonight's call.

by Rocky on February 27, 2010 at 5:13pm

Triple Welcoming

1) welcoming the emotion and any sounds, pictures or sensations associated with it

2) welcoming wanting to _do_ anything with any of that, like change it, make it go away, etc., etc.;

3) welcoming any sense that it's about you, who you are or that it's personal in any way.

Applied to the goals process, here's one possibility...(It might be called Holistic Triple Welcoming)...

Focus on achieving the goal...Then,

1) welcome the emotion and any sounds, pictures or sensations associated with achieving the goal

2) welcome wanting to _do_ anything with achieving the goal, like change it, make it go away, etc., etc.;

3) welcome any sense that achieving the goal is about you, who you are or that it's personal in any way.

Focus on not achieving the goal...Then

1) welcome the emotion and any sounds, pictures or sensations associated with not achieving the goal

2) welcome wanting to _do_ anything with not achieving the goal like change it, make it go away, etc., etc.;

3) welcome any sense that not achieving the goal is about you, who you are or that it's personal in any way.

Keep doing the above, switching repeatedly between the perspective of achieving the goal and not achieving the goal...

http://de.scribd.com/doc/250408114/Hootless-is-the-Only-Goal

Hootless Is the Only Goal

Freedom equals, you are free from everything.

There is only one goal really, the goal of Hootlessness itself.

A common place where people get stuck when attempting to realize a goal is the habit we all have of placing an inordinate amount of attention on the results. Most significantly, they use the results as a means of judging their success at releasing.

They think "If I haven’t received my goal then I must not have released".

When you truly let go you will not be concerned at all as to whether you get the goal or not. In other words you will not need to go back and check up on the results for confirmation. The impulse to do the check up thing is a very subtle attachment to the thing you want to manifest. Lester’s famous statement is quoted often "Even the most impossible becomes possible when you are completely released on it" and here comes the kicker. "You will know you are

completely released when you just don’t give a hoot". Notice he didn’t say you will know when you have gotten your goal. He said you will know when you just don’t give a hoot. That is, when it ceases to be important to you whether you get it or not. You have achieved something much greater; emotional balance and equanimity. You have achieved freedom.

Be forewarned, the habit of relying on the evidence of results for confirmation of

your releasing is a subtle and tenacious trap. It takes an equal amount of tenacity and constant diligence to remind yourself that any looking to results for confirmation of your freedom is itself a denial of that very freedom that you already have.

Once you do you will notice that the goals that have remained unrealized not because you don’t know how to release them but because you didn’t trust your releasing and needed outside confirmation.

So now simply release that, and then release it again, and then again and again, as many times as it takes to break the habit and finally arrive at the realization that freedom lies in you, not in the results. Give yourself mountains of love and acceptance while you are releasing.

Being Hootless Now, Imagining/feeling Having the goal now

This experience of ’having the goal now’ is not so much a thing you imagine but rather a feeling, mood, mental state- along with all the shifts in physiology that come with it. One way to get there is to "imagine having it now" and entering into this imagined experienced vividly. There is no need to be good at imagining things or making mental pictures in the mind.

Another perfectly effective way to achieve this is simply by asking a few specific questions: First, you simply imagine having it- as best you can- and do this with all five senses...imagine seeing what you would see... feeling what you would feel... hearing what you would hear... and then "step into the picture" and see, hear, and feel all these things through your own eyes

(as opposed to seeing a picture of yourself experiencing all that). Look out through your own eyes, and see what you would see if you had your goal now...

And now imagine that you've had your goal for an entire 24 hours,

and again notice what you would notice if you were IN the picture. See, hear, and feel what you would after having experienced having the goal for a whole day...

N o w t ha t yo u ha ve t he go a l - a n d yo u 'v e ha d it f o r a who le 24 ho ur s no w-what is new and different?

N o w t ha t yo u ha ve t he go a l - a n d yo u 'v e ha d it f o r a who le 24 ho ur s no w-what do you see?

N o w t ha t yo u ha ve t he go a l - a n d yo u 'v e ha d it f o r a who le 24 ho ur s no w-how do you feel?

N o w t ha t yo u ha ve t he go a l - a n d yo u 'v e ha d it f o r a who le 24 ho ur s no w - who else is there? What are they saying? What are you saying back to them?

How do you sit, stand, and walk - now that you've reached your goal? How do these things look different - even if only slightly?

How has your posture shifted?

How does it feel to be in your body? What are the emotions?

What changes can you notice in your breathing?

In terms of peace, bliss, and confidence- how have your levels of these changed? Have they gone up, down, or stayed the same? Dive in or Triple Welcome whatever comes up.

Releasing on positive emotions

It is very useful to release on positive emotions also, not just the negative ones. I suggest you do the releasing right when you feel the excitement.

So, could you welcome the excitement?

Could you also welcome any wanting to change it, increase it, decrease it, own it, disown it, or, do anything about it?

What want would it be satisfying? Could you welcome that? Could you also welcome any sense of this being personal? And, could you, just for now, let go of all that?

One of the fastest ways to reach any goal is to become hootless about the goal itself. Most people are driven purely by emotions (chasing after good feelings and avoiding

uncomfortable ones)- so they’re often afraid of becoming hootless. They actually resist it. The fear is "once I become hootless, this means that I no longer care about the goal!" and therefore will drop any desire for it and thus stop pursuing it. They equate it to giving up on the goal. And they do have a point. If the whole reason for chasing after a goal is to get good

feelings in your body, or to avoid bad ones- then yes- already HAVING GOOD FEELINGS NOW - would indeed beg the question "why bother with all the work of chasing this goal?" Here’s my answer from a practical standpoint. There is a massive amount of healing

and/or personal power to be "gained" whenever you focus and move towards a goal. There is a sense of yourself as capable, confident, and powerful which begins to build up inside you -as you begin to achieve one goal after another. And this often requires facing fears and overcoming limiting beliefs about yourself in the process. Old feelings, pain, and doubts will often surface to be cleared away as you move closer and closer to the goal. This is the "work" of becoming hootless. At the end, you may indeed change your mind about the goal - now that you feel more whole and complete within yourself. The goal is often very easy to achieve at this point, but your worth and happiness no longer dependent upon any external factor at this point. You are fine if you have it, and fine if you don’t.

A few questions to help make the process more potent:

What feelings would achieving this goal help you to feel more fully? What is stopping you from allowing yourself to feel these feelings right now? How would you feel RIGHT NOW - if you had already achieved this goal?

What feelings would achieving this goal help you to avoid experiencing? Could you - just for this moment - allow yourself to feel some of those feelings right now?

And just for now - could you allow yourself to let those feelings go?

In short, examining any goal often reveals two things: one, certain emotions or experiences of ourselves that we only allow ourselves to have at some future date - once we have attained the goal:

"I’ll be happy when I win the lotto, get the man, lose the weight, etc." (the good feeling is futurized, and made conditional, I will deserve to feel good only when I meet these conditions) And two, one can examine the goal for what it helps me avoid. When I date the handsome man, then I finally allow myself to feel worthy and can stop beating myself up, feeling unworthy, not good enough, etc. In short, the goal becomes a way of "giving myself permission to end the self-hate." The self-hate is often pushed out of awareness (suppressed) and the stopping of this punishment is conditional upon reaching the goal.

Here is the newsflash. You can allow yourself to FEEL GOOD NOW. And you can also "because you decided to" - you can stop the self-hate. They are just old tapes. They are other people’s conditions that we have bought into. And we can simply "notice the voices" and let them go. And please be clear. There is no need to do anything with the voices in your head. No need to change them or make them stop.

All you need to do is notice them.. Notice and choose to unplug.

Just don’t believe them anymore. That’s it. That’s all that’s necessary to unplug yourself from the matrix. Stop believing the voices outside your head (TV, radio, internet, friends, family) and also stop believing the ones INSIDE your head. Don Miguel Ruiz said it very eloquently. "Just because you thought it, is no reason to believe it’s true."

The funny thing is that our brains are equally capable of producing pleasure and pain in the body. The whole reason people take drugs is to activate the brains natural ability to create certain states of being. The drug is just a way to access what your brain already knows how to do. It’s a cheat. Normally, most people let their internal voices push and pull them around. They feel good when the voices are being gentle, and they feel lousy when the voices are beating them up. They allow thought- to direct their neurochemistry. Then they take drugs to numb the mind, and beef up certain feeling states. Seems a bit like hiring a bandit to destroy your house, then hiring a maid to clean it up. A lot of extra work if you ask me. You wouldn’t need a fix to clean up your feelings if you simply learned to question your thoughts in the first

place. When we follow what is true, become discerning, and skillful in dropping what is untrue, then good feelings are the natural result. The mind becomes balanced and productive. Thoughts about self - about your worth as a person - these too become sorted - more gentle and balanced.

Goals tend to fall easily into place when you no longer have to drag a thousand pound weight up the side of a mountain. This is a little of what it’s like when you believe that you are basically no good and undeserving, and then try to get that person- the crappy image of yourself - you have to drag that up the mountain. The real you climbs the mountain with ease. The real you is already on top of the mountain. The real you IS the mountain. Of course, these are all just metaphors. The more you release, the more things begin to fall into place for you... "Happiness is what we all want more than the goals we set."

I would suggest that we are unconsciously using the image of the "goal achieved" as a placeholder for our happiness. It’s as if we have a filing cabinet in the mind and that’s where we are keeping our happiness - stored away for later - if and when we achieve that particular goal. So, yes we DO want the goal, but we often chase it out of the mistaken belief that our happiness depends on achieving it - or that it will magically deliver an internal experience called satisfaction. We are clearly seeking happiness or to add to the self in some way - and using the goal as the means to get there. The irony is that allowing in the

happiness now - often brings in the goal a lot faster. Getting to hootlessness on that goal allows us a lot of power, freedom, and "emotional space" so we can think MUCH more clearly as it relates to the goal. The most common fear I find is that:

If I allow myself to be happy now without having the goal first then: * I will/might lose my motivation to pursue the goal

* I would just be this smaller (less important/unsuccessful/cool) person who has deluded himself into being happy "as is" with a less than optimal life.

With happiness/hootlessness in place FIRST the goal usually comes in a thousand times faster. Yet the risk is real for many people.

**Some people really DO only motivate themselves from a sense of lack (feeling not good enough) or allow themselves to propelled into action through primarily negative emotions. The "real goal" in my opinion is to learn (and to practice) being led/drawn/propelled by what we love.

It’s a little like switching your energy system from "demon power" to angel power- or perhaps changing the kind of fuel your car operates on. It may be a little strange at first, as you begin to get used to operating in this new way. Sometimes it helps to take baby steps at first and just do one or two things each day that you really enjoy- just because you can.

Then perhaps allowing yourself to BE HAPPY NOW (gasp!) will not seem so strange. In essence, it’s about developing courage. More specifically, it’s a matter of learning to

"steer your life" intentionally as an act of will - making conscious choices towards what one really wants - as opposed to "away from what I don’t want." It may seem like a small distinction, but it’s really about taking back your power. Being happy now, choosing peace. Right now, instead of allowing myself to be happy in some projected future.

The "happiness now" actually acts as a cleaner fuel that is much more self-motivating towards ANY goal.

The "beating myself up" as a fuel source to move toward an imagined better future DOES in fact work in many short-run scenarios. The part that "they don’t tell you" is that after a good session of self-flagellation you usually feel so beat up that you reach for some addictive way to numb yourself at the end of the day - and then avoid/procrastinate the next "get up and go" session because every cell in your body knows it’s inherently unpleasant. So lots of stop and go, have a beer, wait a week, mentally punish yourself for the beer & the week off, then when the self-hate gets big enough you finally get yourself moving again. Or the alarms, the

deadlines, the fear of getting fired, fear of upsetting people... all these push you out of bed and pull you around all day.

Now, forgive me for stating the obvious, but none of this sounds particularly fun. Being happy now and moving towards what you DO want seems a lot more healthy and empowering.

You could also choose to see it as moving from ‘slave consciousness’ to ‘master-of-my-own-destiny’...

Regardless of the external level of material success. Dollars in the bank, or shiny toys in the garage.

Regardless of all that, freedom is here, right now. Choosing it now allows us to move the pieces around in the material game much more easily. Allowing yourself to feel good later once you (maybe) achieve some goal- this seems like a setup for keeping suffering/hate/hopelessness circulating in the mind-body system.

Again to state the obvious, we all become a hell of a lot more attractive to people and opportunities when we have joy-ease-confidence circulating through our biology and nervous system. And we can always spot the salesmen who learn to "project" these things, but are still angry or unhappy on the inside. There’s a mismatch. We can sense it and feel inherently

uncomfortable. When a person is congruent we tend to relax and feel a lot more comfortable around them. By "congruent" I mean the person is sad when they are sad, and happy when they are happy - as opposed to someone who is angry and pretending to be calm and peaceful. The mismatch can be sensed, and the congruency can also be sensed. Children and animals tend to notice this stuff right away...

So the short answer is to get hootless about your goal - getting it - not getting it - and learn to radiate the joy of freedom in all the things you do. Start with the small annoyances, and buildup from there. You can get hootless first on the tiny things. Often a

goal will drop in-not after releasing for weeks on that particular goal - but rather when you finally face and clean up some OTHER part of your life that you have been avoiding. If we all made a Top Five list of major sources of grief/suffering/resentment in our lives - if we made a fresh, new top five list each month - and committed to cleaning up at least the top two as soon as possible. Getting hootless on them (as well as taking appropriate action) - then all our other goals would come in a thousand times faster.

One of the best ways to really get a handle on releasing, how it works, the fine points, the in’s and out’s - is to first do a little examining of what releasing actually is. This can be tricky at times since most of the marketing seems (to me) to be geared directly to all the things the ego wants in life. Better body, better health, more money - as if the whole technique is some kind of magic button - that you can press any time you like - and make all the good things you crave

suddenly appear - and all the things you label as bad suddenly go ’POOF!’ and evaporate into thin air. It’s a magic lamp!

But damn, my lamp must be broken... or maybe the genie inside has gone on a bender...maybe I got one of those evil genie’s... the bastard!

In all seriousness ,I’m poking a little fun at this idea, because that’s exactly what it is: an idea. Nothing more, nothing less. You can have as many definitions of releasing as there are

people on the planet. The key thing is to find something that works for you. It’s also important to become a student of the truth - both inside yourself and out there in the world. If there is someone whose physical fitness you admire, then definitely ask them for tips. Pay them to coach you! But just because they are in great shape, doesn’t mean they have mastered any OTHER part of life. In short, get money advice from Donald Trump, but avoid his advice on hairstyles...(learn to be discerning)

Separate what releasing IS from the image of how it’s marketed. This is the first hurdle. The ego hurdle. The ego is both desperate to resolve its problems and is simultaneously desperate to hold onto those same problems. And you’re not allowed to say this. The untamed ego hates the truth. Tell the truth to someone who is stuck - and you are almost guaranteed to piss them off. So that’s the first thing. The method is marketed to the ego. The marketing version of "what it is" is the hook. And it’s a good thing too. Without this hook, no one would even bother.

My own experience of what it is: Releasing is a potent means of transcending ego. It softens, and possibly dissolves the perception of a "separate me" that is experiencing these

problems. And as this is accomplished, sometimes the problem goes away and sometimes it doesn’t. That’s the raw truth. The good news is that without a "separate me" for the problem to bump into (and grind against)- all the suffering drops away. There may still be pain, but little to no suffering. What I mean here is that you may still have a broken leg, which may still have swelling and achiness- but without a "you" to hate yourself, the leg, the swelling, the achiness, and whoever you’re blaming- big difference. Now your brain is no longer flooding your system with stress chemicals. You tend to go into a meditative

state. Endorphins are released. New ideas come into the picture.

Now that may or may not be enough to move you out of the problem and into a new situation that is more to your liking. The danger is to just hang out in the meditative state and soak up the

endorphins. Of course, this is fine. No judgment here. It’s simply one of life’s laws that one of the main determinants of your outcomes in life are the actions that you take-particularly the ones that you habitually take. So if your habit, in those areas that you feel stuck, is simply to ’zone out’ on endorphins and then take no action (or all the same actions that got you stuck in the first place) - then chances are that releasing will make you FEELBETTER and not much else. The real trick is to train yourself to do something different in those areas of life that aren’t working as well as you’d like. And ideally to take these actions WHILE in a released state. Every once in a while you can release the temptation to simply hang out in those good feelings.

Allow yourself to daydream a bit while feeling good. And then move forward on one of those good ideas while you’re still feeling good!

Bottom line:

"If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what you’ve always gotten." And again, the trick is to take action in the released state. When you are relaxed, calm, and clear minded. This way you are more likely to see what needs to be done, less resistant to doing it, and in a brain state that is more highly conducive to learning. Absorbing new patterns. Understanding the results of those patterns.

(Otherwise the ego is likely to hijack the whole process. It waits until you’re in a foul mood to try anything new, and you end up performing the new action without any positive awareness or clarity. The looks on your face, and the message you send out is one of: get the hell out of my way or "this tank is gonna run you over!"

To be blunt, it’s a little off-putting to your friends, neighbours and loved ones. All you’re likely to accomplish is to prove to yourself "See! This doesn’t work! Now I really

HAVE tried everything, and it’s official- nothing works!" This is the pattern of "I’m fed up, and I can’t take it anymore!" When you mainly follow a routine in life, and only take new action from this state, then it’s more like a temporary fit or a tantrum, isn’t it? Be honest. Just look and see what going on here. And the backlash from others (and guilt?) all make you regret the outburst- which leads right back to good old "business as usual." Basically, the ego is invested in you taking "new action" in a special way - designed to backfire - which only proves that taking new action is a "bad idea." Real positive change flows from courage and a calm mind. There is usually some fear at first. After all, you ARE taking a risk, but with a little practice these new actions begin to come from a place of exploration, play, adventure...) In short, you begin to have fun doing new stuff, because you are practicing having fun while doing new stuff.

Being pissed off is great for things like cleaning the house, washing the car, going for a run, lifting weights, etc. It’s not so good for learning new skills or breaking out of stuckness. In fact, the very same actions which could set you free - could very well ruin everything if you do them in AGFLAP. And that’s the clincher...

When you’re stuck, it can be SO painful. And the egoic mindset is to notice the moments of greatest pain and dwell on them, and ignore (go unconscious) when things are even s lightly better. This way an entire identity can be built around: it’s always been this way, I’ve always been this way, it will never change as long as I’m at this job, with this partner, in this situation, etc. To be blunt, it’s what you might call I’m-fucked-and-this-sucks" identity. And the ego learns to hate it and cling to it simultaneously. The identity is

painful, but it also acts as a shield against further disappointment. It protects from the pain of "getting your hopes up...

So the method comes along and messes up all those patterns- if you choose to allow any new and different changes to the old pattern. It’s an act of courage. It’s a bit of convincing the ego to suffer a bit- like with exercise- knowing that it will lead to strong muscles in the future. That’s how it is with all positive change (which is nothing more than training yourself to do a few new patterns on a regular basis). The key is in what you do regularly, not once in a while or whenever you feel like it. Tiny habits, built up over time. And this is how releasing can change your life. The ego hates this though. It’s like the skinny guy who wants to go to

the gym and work out for 10 hours and expects to wake up looking like an athlete the very next day...

That’s the ego. It either wants to do nothing at all (nothing new that is)- or it wants to dive in head first and magically change your life overnight with tons of effort.

And whether you overdo it at the gym, the bar, or the local restaurant, you always wake up feeling a bit like you just got mugged. Not the best plan for easy and effortless movement towards a goal.

So my summary of how it works it as follows:

* it dissolves your sense of ego/personal identity/attachment to the problem * it dissolves your attachment to the goal or solution

* together this is a movement towards being hootless

* and FROM this hootless state it allows you to move gracefully towards the goal There are a few primary misunderstandings here:

First, it only does the above four things if you allow it. No one is going to force your ego

to drink the Koolaid. It’s a choice for the ego to willingly dissolve itself, trusting that it won’t die, but rather come out more sane on the other end. In short, it’s an act of faith, and the more stuck you feel, the harder it feels to make that leap. It’s not actually harder though. Just feels that way

Second, there is a common idea that giving up "wanting the goal" will lead to doing nothing. The goal and

all hope of its attainment will be lost. Yeah. Maybe. That’s the chance you’re taking. And if you like to hang out in endorphins and do nothing then you’re right. You probably won’t ever walk up to that girl, and ask her for a date (or insert your own goal, dream, or desire). But you might also ask yourself how feeling stuck is advancing you towards your goal. If all you’ve got now is a fantasy and no forward movement- maybe doing something new WILL move you closer to the goal. And this reveals another layer of fear ("holy shit, I asked her out and she said "yes!"- so now what?) So the ego will often prefer hanging on to lack and living in fantasy land- because that involves very little perceived risk. The actual risk in remaining stuck is tremendous. Just staying stuck all your life. Your whole life. Lived at

half-speed. Afraid to take any real action towards your dreams. Kinda dead already. Just going through the motions. Allow yourself to do an honest comparison of the two kinds of risk. And Third, there is some self-training involved:

It’s a little bit like how some teenagers teach themselves to drive drunk. Not the best example, but it points to exactly that which is needed to make life work. Being in an altered state. Being released, you feel high. It can be mild, or a major endorphin rush. It may simply feel like relaxation, but this is the place where you must train yourself to generate ideas, make decisions,

and take action.

All three. And think about it. If most of your ideas, decisions, or actions are coming from numbness, autopilot, or AGFLAP- then how the heck is releasing (or anything else) going to make your life better. Just be honest. No need to over-analyze. Just think about that a bit, and do your best to tell the truth...

And to be fully honest, it may feel really weird at first. That first time you take one of those daydreams and "cash it in at the bank." You suddenly get inspired, and decide to take a new route home from work... you ask for a date... you write down some goals. Whatever it is. Doesn’t matter. And let’s get practical. You’re risking something here. There you are feeling really good, or at least relaxed, and now you are "playing with fire" a bit. You are risking

losing that good feeling, and potentially making an ass of yourself. You may get rejected, make mistakes, get lost. You are leaving that happy-little-nest-of-security and risking

something new. You’re breaking the trance. You’re risking WAKING UP. And that bed was so comfy...

And that’s the bottom line. Releasing is marketed as a way to transform your moderately comfortable bed into a REALLY comfortable bed... wow... the ego loves that! And then there’s what it actually is. It’s you. On the edge of the diving board. Bouncing up and down. Thinking about it... getting really honest... and then jumping or not jumping.

And when you’re ready to jump, you don’t die! You might get a little wet, but you don’t die. The first time, you might do a belly flop. People might laugh and point. And with a little practice, eventually you become more and more fearless. More courageous. You become a person of action, and people start to become jealous. How come everything comes so easily for her? She doesn’t do anything special... why does she get all the breaks? How come everyone seems to like her?

The work is yours to do. Get everything by releasing only, but that doesn’t mean put on a

straight jacket and lock yourself in a closet. I don’t think Lester was afraid to leave his house, and trying to avoid all actions. By releasing only. To me this means, don’t use force

or excessive action or doesn’t mean avoid all action. It means grace. It means action while released. Practising this. Inspired Actions so relaxed and fine-tuned in that it feels good. Smooth. Graceful. Effortless.

Hootless is beyond that "havingness". Hootless means having freedom about the goal- you are completely happy whether or not you have the goal. That‘s freedom. The BEST WAY TO GET A HIGH...everyday give yourself approval for minutes/hours. Set daily competitions. How much approval can you give yourself today? Let’s say you do 15 minutes today…

Let’s beat that and give self-approval for 30 minutes tomorrow. Give approval to everyone... including the ones you hate...

giving approval is giving love. Love is what is divine. When you are in love you cannot have professional or monetary chaos... so be in the wavelength of love... Best way is giving approval to

everyone daily...

Wake up... give approval to the night...

at sleep... give approval to the day.... give approval to sleep.... give approval to every person you met in your life...give approval to EVERYTHING MONEY BUYS.... money is divine really.... this laptop you’re on is bought by money.... does money create any feelings in you....release on it... Give as much approval to money to yourselves to whole world. When you release on a high feeling... You release it for a even a better blissful feeling for diving in deeper.

If you want to create anything or consciously create, hootlessness is the most powerful place from which to create - not super passion like a lot of people tell you. Passion is just lust. And lust is a feeling of “I want it, but I can‘t have it;” “I want it but I shouldn‘t have it;” “I want it but it’s not right to have.”

There‘s always a hold back in lust. There‘s a craving, but there‘s a hold back which is why just being passionate about your goal isn‘t enough. And that‘s why, often, you can be really passionate about a goal and still not attain it.

What I recommend you do with all your goals, including weight loss, is release until you‘re okay whether or not you get it. If you stay hootless about it, in my experience, one or two things will happen: you either get the goal or you simply let go of wanting it completely and move on to something else. The best way to do that is to keep releasing until you’re okay whether or not you get it.

Sometimes, when you’re hootless about something, no action is required and it just simply happens. In my experience though, getting into action is often required. If you’re simply going to release to avoid taking action, it‘s not going to work.

If you’re going to keep releasing and be open to action if it’s required, and then take action towards the goal, you’re much more likely to get it. In addition, the actions themselves are useful for releasing. If you get into action, then all the other feelings you have about getting the goal or not getting the goal also arise.

For example: if you’re working on losing weight and you want to just release and not have to exercise or eat less, then you’re probably not going to lose any weight, because you’re not dealing with the problem. That’s magical thinking.

On the other hand, if you want to lose weight and you’re releasing on the goal, you’ll also release on the action steps… so you‘ll feel okay about exercise, you’ll feel okay about modifying your eating habits. It’s a combination of releasing and action.

Action also stirs up feelings. So, the actions themselves are incredibly useful because they bring up all your remaining attachments and aversions. In fact, sometimes you‘ll take an action which has nothing to do with getting the goal. For instance, say you‘re working on making more money… if you just sit in your apartment and release on it and take no action, you‘re probably avoiding something.

However, when you combine it with action – say you go out and look for a job – in the

process of looking for a job, you may decide that instead of working for a company, you want to start your own. You don‘t know what‘s going to happen. You could go looking for a job and pass a store and be motivated to go in and buy a lottery ticket, then win the lottery. It’s not necessarily a straight line.

I highly recommend avoiding magical thinking and I also recommend that you work on the goal, release until you‘re okay whether or not you get it, and then follow through with action and release on the actions as well.

All success begins with an inner decision to make it happen. This shows up in the real world in the form of a commitment. Without a commitment to "do whatever it takes" - nothing works. The best we can hope for is sporadic short-term gains and then "back to the drawingboard."

To clarify my above comment: it is more accurate to say that we are ALL highly committed already. The real clarity comes when we are able to bring these inner decisions and

commitments into conscious awareness. Many people feel highly frustrated, highly motivated, and really "fed up" with their blocks and problems. This does in fact create a very

Game A:

1. Frustrated, desperate search for "the solution"

2.Trying every product or technique you find that seems real, but with no results.

3. Hoping to find some REAL testimonials from real people, so you know you have a method that is effective for everyone - maybe even me!

4. Trying out the method - it doesn’t work - and therefore become jaded about most testimonials.

5. Deciding that nothing works and everything is a scam. 6. Getting really worn out with this game.

7. Getting so desperate that you are willing to try ANYTHING! 8. Return to step one and repeat the whole sequence.

This is the treadmill of failure- and it all begins with a desperate desire for resolution combined with a secret expectation of "nothing changes." These two inner forces often join forces to combine lots of effort with little to no result. The game is "seek but do not

find." Lots of seeking. Very little finding. When you do find relief, it often seems "lucky" and the results are short-lived.

On the other hand, the secrets to real and lasting change are in plain sight. They aren’t really a secret. They are simply basic strategies for making life work. They don’t offer the same glamorous claims. They don’t appeal to the ego.

The reason that the ego seems to support "Game A"- is because that is its job!

It seeks to keep you feeling safe and comfortable by maintaining the status quo. Even if you come across real and valid techniques that will indeed work for you, the ego’s job is to sabotage it - often by getting you to apply the method only when you feel like it. It’s also great at getting you to alternate between frantic (almost spastic)enthusiasm - trying REALLY hard - and then giving up when all the problems you have ever had aren’t magically solved in 48 hours. Frantic action combined with secret scepticism and hopelessness. This is its game. Then you go on Youtube and listen to testimonials about how this or that person’s life changed in

30 seconds - hoping to gather some enthusiasm - and all it does is convince you that either: 1. you must be doing it wrong,

2. there is something wrong with you (it works for everyone but me) – or - 3. the whole thing is a scam.

I invite you instead to play a new game - one that works. Allow yourself to look at people who succeed in life. Perhaps you can read their biographies. In truth, you don’t have to look that far. We all have the truth inside of us. Deep down we know what does in fact work to create positive results.

Game B:

1. Look at any gymnast, professional musician, or business leader. 2. Look at the hours they put in.

3. Look at the level of personal discipline. 4. Look at the support system they have. 5. Look at their daily schedule.

6. Look at how they eat, sleep, exercise and take care of their bodies. 7. Look at how they view problems

8. Look at their level of focus and concentration (one-mindedness) 9. Look at their ability to relax.

In a sense, I could refer to "Game B" as being a grownup, being mature, being healthy, or being successful. There is a magical potency we develop when we make a solid choice to "get our act together." Growing up is a bit like recovery from an addiction. We all have all these bad habits backed by all these justifications of "future better behavior" once I get this mess fixed. In other words:

I’ll quit drinking when the stress of my job goes back down. I’ll get more sleep once I graduate college.

I’ll begin exercising this spring when the weather gets warmer.

When my kids are off to college, I’ll spend more time with my spouse.

When we make a firm inner commitment, we are choosing now. We are choosing to begin gathering our inner resources. We make a plan, write it down, and get into action

immediately. We also smarten up. No more frantic, spastic action plans where we "go overboard." This is popular with people getting back in shape. They begin exercising with such a frenzy that they are sore all over the next day. Then they give up. This was the ego’s game all along. To get you OUT of change - while pointing to how hard you are working to "fixit." It is precisely this "going overboard" that sinks the ship.

A helpful perspective is to look at this as a game of intensity and arousal. You must learn to control and tolerate high arousal as well as low arousal. You must be willing to experience the thrill of EXTREMELY high arousal- and still hold back and create a daily plan of moderate effort. Don’t let the ego run you so ragged that you get burned out and hopeless. Slow and steady wins the race. The ego wants all the flash and glamour of fantastic displays of effort. You may only be in good enough shape to do 5 pushups a day, but the ego wants to see if you can do 20. So it does 20 sloppy pushups and now you are too sore to get any benefit unless you take a week off. Essentially, you have to keep starting over.

So game B is all about skill-building, daily practice, and energy management. Game A is all about flash and magic- followed by disappointment.

Game B is about continuous steady growth. It is an internal shift from impressing people to healing. There is no one to fool or impress.

The one thing that becomes clear with a daily practice is that there are cycles. Sometimes it feels like a grind, and sometimes if flows and feels easy. Think of a gymnast who only trains when he feels like it. How far will he go? Will he make it to the Olympics? And this is just a metaphor for success in our own lives. We don’t need to do back-flips to have good life. All we need to do is show up and put in the work. It’s not always glamorous. And it’s the last thing your ego wants. The upside is that it CAN be easy. When you commit to inner change. And you develop the habit of showing up in your own life.

Doing whatever it takes to resolve your problems. Then the Sedona Method is a fantastic tool to accelerate all of your efforts. When you want all of your healing to be instant, then it shows an inner unwillingness to do the work. This lands you firmly in Game A. Lots of effort - running in circles. Think of Game B as a staircase. You are literally building this staircase inside of you. Building strength upon strength. With years of steady effort, there is literally nothing you cannot be, do, or have. It all comes down to an inner decision to want it- and go after it steadily and strategically. Everyone has the ability, but few choose this road less traveled. Nothing is holding you back. And the thoughts that used to limit you, only have power when you believe them. The future is open to everyone. And no matter what emotions are present, we all have what it takes to succeed.

It is important to see the distinction between achieving goals, wanting change, and resisting life. These are all different things.

In AGFLAP, you tend to want LOTS of change- and it comes from resisting life & wishing things were different. When people pursue goals from this place, they tend to be ineffective. They could be angry and have a "flailing" kind of energy. They are highly motivated and they do LOTS of stuff, but it tends to have a random kind of feeling to it. To a fly on the wall, it kind of looks like they are just throwing things around like a crazy person. If they are at a desk, they might be slamming down objects on the desk, snapping at their co-workers, or talking frustrated to people on the phone. Lots of action, very little intelligence or organization. If they are sad, there is a hopeless feeling to it. They may do a few things to move towards a goal, but they don’t expend much energy or have a lot of hope that it will amount to anything. The energy is "I’ll try a few things, but it probably won‘t work." Again, not a lot of intelligence or organization here either. There may also be a bit of vampire energy here, as in "I’ll tell my sad story and see if I can get someone smarter or more powerful to fix it for me."

In a high place, whether you call it CAP or peace or bliss or simply confidence- the irony is that there is much less "war with the world." You tend to be much more grateful. You are able to be quite happy right here where you are. No need to fix anything or make a lot

of improvements. And THIS is the space where you are the most sane, the most responsible, the most intelligent. It’s not that you have gotten smarter. Perhaps you simply have

more access to your full brain capacity while in this space...You begin to fall in love with the world.

And the irony is that this is the place from which you are most capable of making changes easily and effortlessly. You don’t want to. You don’t need to. But you can.

It’s a bit like trying to get a loan from a bank. The more you need the loan, the less they want to give you the money. And the more money you ALREADY have, the more every bank in the world is trying to offer you money. Some people experience the same thing while dating. The moment you’re in a happy committed relationship- suddenly every beautiful person in the world wants to talk to you. The moment you become single again, where did they all go?

It’s just abundance. When you feel abundant, you’re in CAP. This is the place to achieve goals from. Otherwise, it’s a game of lots of action and no results. When you are in that space of abundance, you are a much more pleasant person to be around. You make friends easily. Companies want to hire you. Opportunities become available. And this isn’t necessarily some magical "law of attraction" phenomenon. It’s also just common sense.

If you were an employer and two equally qualified applicants came to you... except one seemed intelligent, relaxed, and pleasant to talk to... and the other seemed uptight, depressed or angry, and a chore to speak with...

The true Self

What is it? Let’s assume that it comes from "Source" or "All That Is", where we are complete, full, connected, at one and totally loving and accepting of everything. This is a theory, or a story of other people’s experience. However, to a degree, we must work with theories or other’s experiences until we have no need of them .To "want" is to pretend something is true that is not true.

To want is to pretend that we actually need something. The Self, who you really are, needs nothing. You think you need something because your mind, has identified with a body and a personality and believes in lack.

And if you ask yourself the question "who am I" and "what do I need, right now in this moment", you may find some very interesting answers- answers that are quite different than what you believe that you apparently desire.

Wanting is often synonymous with suffering. The Buddha said the source of all suffering is desire. Wanting is a lie as to who you really are and any time you live a lie, your emotions arise and you experience it as stress. Nonetheless, this seems to be the way life is often lived on the physical world.

Life is interesting to us because of desire. What would you do if you had no desire? We want to have experiences in life that will lead us home- home to ourselves. And desire is the fire that moves us in the physical world.

Wanting can also lead us to experience another lie, the lie that we are powerless. Powerlessness is a big giant universal belief. It says we cannot have, we cannot do and of course that cannot possibly be true except for all the unconscious and conscious beliefs that we hold. From the Sedona Method point of view...Apathy. And much of the world lives in apathy- a belief in powerlessness.

So at level One- "hootlessness" can take you to the perspective of self, where nothing is needed and wanting does not exist. In a state of hootless, you are simply loving what is. You are present and in the moment, happy and all is well, until the next desire arises.

At level Two- is the level where we live our lives in the physical world, we breath, we work, we take care of ourselves and our family...desire is arising and we are almost constantly living it out. Desire from the point of view of a mind identified with a body is quite powerful. We want to breath, we want to live, we want to have many, many, experiences. And it is all good. This is why I say, honor your desire. Meditate with it. Let it spring forth and hear what it has to tell you. This is the path of your life and what else is there to honor if not your self and your life?

Your desire tells you what is next.

Personally, I have found it to be great fun to pursue desire, if you are motivated to do so. The only thing that can keep you from fulfilling a desire is a thought...a belief that you can

not, or you should not fulfill it. Simply stated, its fear.

Lester Levenson used to say to me, that with freedom comes Mastery. There is value in knowing that you are the master of your personal world. That you can have what you want. So living life and pursuing what you want goes hand in hand with experiencing freedom.

What I have found is that as I achieve goals, and have what I want (and that would include abundance, health, love, creativity, self-appreciation and appreciation of others (gratitude)), that hootlessness accompanies it all. It’s a sense of well-being, where desire does not scream at me and emotions are not causing me pain and suffering. And that is not to say that feelings no longer arise. They just have a very different voice than they used to. At level two, living life in the physical world... it can be great fun to fulfill your desire. You see,

everything...everything, is here to lead you to your freedom. You simply can’t go wrong. The only question is how much do you wish to endure suffering and pain? How long will you take?

Releasing is a great tool to reduce the suffering. The ego will use releasing, to trick you into complacency. To not think deeply... To stop and rest. The ego will do everything that it can to try to get us to feel special and superior. Watch out for that trickster! No one is more special than another. No one has more answers or wisdom than you do.

Look inside your heart, see what you want, and pursue it. It will only lead you closer to your freedom, your mastery of your life and this world. And when it is mastered, you will move on to the next thing.

There seems to be a paradox between hootlessness and desire. But my experience is that they are just part of the whole. They are both experiences of living. Enjoy them both for they are both here with us.

On the issue of taking action versus "magical thinking": From Happiness is Free, Volume 1, page 65:

[Questioner]: Well, [my friend] had to go out and look for a job. She had to go to an agent, she couldn’t just sit down and wait.

Lester: I say all she had to do was to let go and let God. Then, even if she had locked herself in a chamber somewhere, the things would have come to her. You don’t sit down and wait, you don’t do anything. Just let go of the sense of doership. You just know that everything is perfect, and then the slightest thought you have will come into being quickly. There’s no limitation on God, the Self. Whatever you think will have to come into being if you let go, because you’re invoking your infinite Power-- God, your Self. Nothing can stop it!

[Questioner]: But at the same time you have to struggle to get some action.

Lester: No, I said just the opposite. I said lock yourself in a chamber and padlock it, and if you will do what I’m saying, you’ll find that what you want will be effected. It has to be. Nothing can stop it! Omnipotence is invoked!

Also, on one of the CDs, Lester *recommends* "Get everything you want by releasing ONLY." There was no talk of working or performing action. He wanted his students to release and have things fall in their laps.

However, Lester does not say that nothing happens. Releasing allows for "inspired action", wherein the person does not see himself as the doer, but his body takes action anyway. Lester describes this in some of the audio CDs, though I don’t recall which. It is like the person is observing his body going through the motions, but he, himself, is only along for the ride. So there is action, but there is neither effort nor planning on the part of the releaser.

I suspect that the mechanism is that, by releasing, the person stops feeding the old conditions and, through the sense of having, starts resonating with the new, chosen conditions. The old conditions are thus allowed to unwind and disappear, while the new conditions come into being according to what the person’s belief system will allow into his experience. Some of the transitory events leading to the new conditions will include the person’s body and mind taking specific actions.

The more released a person is, the less external action is needed to manifest a goal. And when he

is *totally* released from both feelings and beliefs, the goal manifests immediately, even if he is on his butt, locked in a basement...and it will seem completely natural, since there is no belief to say otherwise.

Lesterizing goals

"Lesterizing goals" process was created by Larry Crane- the founder of Release Technique. Larry Crane was a student of enlightened American master

Lester Levenson

. Essentially Larry Crane and his master students extracted the best gems from Lester Levenson teachings and based on their experiences of achieving goals created a simple, yet very efficient process to achieve goals. Reportedly one of the best guided presentations of this process are given by Rich Furlanic who is one of the best teachers of Release Technique. Larry Crane's dry, mundane approach seems to irritate some people.

Lesterizing goals process consists of 2 major parts:

1.Lifting up inner emotional state initially (to "pave the way" for main practice).

2.Releasing all negative or resistance feelings associated with the goal up to the point when it becomes irrelevant whether you achieve the goal or not.

Once you reach the state of "imperturbability" (inner state of peace or quiet balance regardless of whether goal is achieved or not)- the practice is accomplished and achievement of goal becomes highly probable and in many cases guaranteed! People do achieve amazing results using this process.

Here it is in more details:

1 . G e t i n t o C A P s t a t e ( p a r t 1 o f 2 ) :

CAP state (Courage, Acceptance, Peace) is essentially elevated emotional state from which person will be able to release underlying negativity and resistance that prevents person to achieve the goal. It is impossible to release resistance if the current emotional state is negative (apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, pride and their flavours). So first step is to get into positive emotional side: Courage, Acceptance, Peace (CAP).

To do that: Sit straight, shoulders back, posture straight, breath deeply. This will establish initial physical support for further progress. Make a mental decision to be in control of your thoughts and mind- just say "Yes", "I am the boss".

2 . G e t i n t o C A P s t a t e ( p a r t 2 o f 2 : .

Imagine/feel what you want now. Sit as youd sit if you already achieved the goal. This will move you to CAP state.

Think from the

Not look at car- drive the car. Not look at house- be in the house. Money- you already own the money, feel elevated sense of freedom you can afford. Feel the wish fulfilled - feel the goal completed. Do your best to play, ignite that goal accomplishment feeling. Ignore negative emotions, thoughts, feelings for now. Overpower it with images and feelings of goal already achieved now.

3.From CAP notice negativities, release them and then release underlying wanting of approval, control and security feelings.

Lester Levenson stated that releasing 3 major underlying wants (Approval, Control and Security {and Oneness}) will speed up process of spiritual growth and liberation. 4 . D o A t t a c h m e n t s a n d A v e r s i o n p r o c e s s :

- Imagine always having the goal- release feelings and emotions that are ignited.-- This is the most important step:

Hootless test: imagine never having the goal, release all associated feelings and underlying wants for approval, control, security. Become hootless toward goal. "Hootless" means- "I don’t give a hoot whether I have my goal or not". If you will be able to get into this state- you are succeeded.

5 . N o w y o u h a v e t h e p o w e r t o d o power cleaning:

From the state of CAP- consciously invite negative thoughts, memories and associated feelings and emotions. Release them.

6.Super power cleaning: consciously invite the ugliest, most negative thoughts and feelings, worst case scenarios and release on all of them.

This will flex your releasing and spiritual growth muscles like nothing else.

Growing Into Your Goals:

No matter what process you use to achieve or attract your goals there is something needed to make it all work. Releasing is a technique for realizing freedom. But that freedom does come at a price. The price is the willingness to not just to let go but to grow.

When you let go something significant happens. When the inner energy of a constricted emotional state is released that energy begins to flow. And as it moves it changes its environment, that is, it changes you. If it didn’t you couldn’t attain your goal.

What we call the objective universe is actually a reflection of us. You look around and see yourself. When you truly release something you change and as a result, the universe changes around you. It reconstructs itself to reflect your new level. To think that you can achieve your goal without having an internal shift occur is self-deceiving. The shift must occur. No shift, no goal. I work with a lot of people and there is something I have noticed. Often people need to grow into their goals. If your goal is have a million $ a year income you need to grow into a person that makes a million $ a year. If you aren’t making that now you haven’t released enough. You haven’t released the resistance to growing into your goal. You haven’t yet developed into that level of activity. You can’t become a big success while you act and think like a little success.

So pay attention not just to the negative states and beliefs you are letting go of but pay

attention to who you are. Are there behaviours or attitudes you have that are inconsistent with your goal? Are you claiming that you really want freedom but are acting out of integrity with that desire? Are you living out your goal as best you can in the moment? Are you investing in yourself to

develop yourself into the person who attains the goal easily? Releasing is a great technique for achieving that but more fundamental than knowing how to release is the commitment to your goal.

Commitment is not duty, it is heart. If you really want something you are willing to sacrifice to get it. You decide what is important to you and you live that conviction. If you really want freedom and the inner power that it brings you sacrifice anything in your life that does not lead to that end. This develops the character and will grow you into the type of person who easily and consistently attracts the fruition of their goals.

Committing to something and completely letting it go at the same time. Ultimately we have to recognize that nothing can make us happy. That comes from within. At the same time there is a deep commitment to what the hearts "wants’. The wants of the heart are not the same as the 4 wants. It is simply the deep desire to be who you are. It is the desire to be free.

You never actually drop the goal. You drop the feeling of wanting or not having it. Then you discover that it is now and always have been with you within. You and the goal are actually one.

There is nothing wrong with thoughts and feelings. They are not personal to any of us. They just come and we do not even pick them. Only an arrogant ego would experience a thought and feeling and try to take credit for it. It’s a riot when you think about it. You do not pick the thoughts and feelings. They come and you either believe them or not. If you don’t believe them….they pass. If you believe them (and you do this the minute you judge them as bad, or as garbage, or think you need to get rid of them), they stick to you. So one part of mind is beating up on another part of mind and internal conflict and pain ensues. And then that experience gets interpreted by mind, for a dose of a little more suffering and you feel like you can’t do it, you’re a failure, and sad and beat upon. It is torturous! During times like these, I found it very healing to give myself a lot of love. Allow it to be ok that I could not release. Let it be ok that I may never release ever again.

You are free to do whatever you want. In your heart you know this. No one has to release, feel good or become free. When you surrender to any and all thoughts and feelings coming up and just let them be...the suffering stops. Remember, none of them are personal. They just come, uninvited and we choose to believe them.

We do not suffer if we do not believe our thoughts. We do not suffer if we don’t mind having feelings.

Be kind to yourself. This will pass.

Want To Be Happy Today?

Many of us get into the Sedona Method/Release Technique so we can become more effective at getting what we want and along the way we become happier, have more peace of mind and develop a greater sense of being connected to all of life.

However we can also get caught up in the busyness of getting what we want out there in the world and lose sight of the source of our happiness. In fact, we might even develop habits of thinking that guarantee unhappiness.

Here are some ways we typically make ourselves unhappy...

1. We make a decision we will only be happy when we achieve a goal

2. We decide that we will only be happy when we have the perfect relationship 3. We expect to be happy one day when there are no more problems to deal with.

4. We wait until we look and feel fabulous before we will be happy.

If you‘ll look more closely at these erroneous decisions and choices you‘ll see there is a fear behind them all. And that‘s the fear that being happy will stop us from having what we want.

It goes like this, "if I‘m happy why would I do anything about getting into shape? If I was completely happy I‘d have no reason to go to work and be successful!"

In other words we think we‘d live in a state of apathy. Not so. Happiness is right at the top of the scale of emotions, its above AGFLAP and belongs in CAP. When you feel happy and energetic you‘ll want to be active, you‘ll want to create and you‘ll be very effective at whatever you set your mind to.

What can you do now to be happy today?

1. Release on happiness, let go of wanting happiness by using

Attachments/Aversions, Advantages/Disadvantages or Likes/Dislikes.

2. See that all your goals have the same underlying goal- the desire for happiness

3. Release on your goals with an emphasis on having step one in place- decide you want

happiness more than you want the goal.

4. Moment to moment during the day, when people or situations provoke AGFLAP, ask

yourself:

could you decide you want happiness more than you want to hold onto this feeling? Do that constantly and you‘ll be lighter, freer and happier.

5. Decide to choose happiness over lacking approval, control and security. The following questions are useful

to play with to encourage deep releasing.

- Could you decide that you want happiness more than you want to hold onto lacking approval?

- Could you decide that you want happiness more than you want to hold onto lacking control?

- Could you decide that you want happiness more than you want to hold onto lacking security?

Happiness is not a state of mind we can postpone and get one day, that itself is a decision to keep it in the future. If you want to be happier right now then use releasing firstly as a tool to become happy and secondly as a tool to get what you want in the world. Ironically, that‘s when you‘ll be much more care free and much more successful at getting what you want.

Freedom

Simply put. Freedom is "me" not fighting the reality of the present moment. Which one? Which present moment? This one.

But what about magic powers, financial abundance, and everything coming to me easily? What about love? What about my ailments? What about that perfect body? Didn’t Lester say he healed himself totally with releasing? It happened in 90 days, didn’t it?

What about LOVE? Didn’t Lester promise me love?

No. He promised me misery if I chase after getting it, and an ever-increasing sense of ease and well-being if I learned to be a source of it.

As the SOURCE of love in your own life, your body will either heal or it

won’t. Your relationships will heal or they won’t. Your bank account will grow or it won’t. The one thing that happens right away is that your mind will heal. You will begin to see what is true and what isn’t. You will regain a sense of peace and security. You will find and begin to experience your own right place in the world.

And the irony of ironies... is that it’s right where you are this very moment...The difference is in seeing it, feeling it, and having a vivid experience of being "at home" in your body and in your life.

And from this place it IS very easy... much easier... to create money, health, and good relationships. It can happen slowly or very quickly. Sometimes instantly. It can seem magic, but it’s really just a matter of physics. When your total readiness and full participation- when these two intersect with a person or opportunity that happens by- it can happen beautifully, seamlessly, as if by magic. But really it was just perfect timing.

Releasing can heal your mind. It can deliver moments of bliss and experiences of lightness. Moments of feeling free. But as long as you are defining freedom as specific conditions in your life... conditions in your body, in your finances, in your relationships... then you will find that "releasing doesn’t work." And that’s only because you are fixating on the marketing material that goes along with the various releasing methods.

The truth is that releasing DOES work. It can deliver powerful mind-states. It can heal, fears, dissolve traumas, and help you with all manner of life conditions. What it can’t do is cancel out your own free will. Certain levels of health (for example) require certain levels

of exercise. Same with money and relationships. There are certain levels and kinds of actions you need to take in order to generate certain results...

And when you use releasing to dissolve your fear and resistance to taking these actions- and then you actually TAKE these actions- then you will get a very different result from the people who release while avoiding/fearing/resisting action. You can think of this non-action as a "hidden pocket" of fear. Pockets of resentment. Refusal. It can be as intense as terror or a kind of a mental FU to the world, your parents, the government, or whoever you perceive as authorities. Whatever the resistance means for you personally - moving through it - while releasing whatever comes up for you- is one of the simplest and fastest ways to clear it out.