Why The Sedona Method ®
Improves Lives so Dramatically:

Science and The Sedona Method

By Hale Dwoskin,
CEO and Director of Training for Sedona Training Associates

To understand why nothing will help you overcome the hurdles to achieving your greatest goals more than The Sedona Method, some essential facts you need to know first:

Do you identity with any of these? Several of these?

Clearly, many Americans are not living the American "dream." Not even close.

Yet as you will read below, there are scientifically validated steps you can take to eliminate these emotional issues cited above – and make no mistake, they are emotional – so that you can truly achieve happiness and success in all the essential areas of your life. And as you will also discover, no tool is more effective – or quicker and easier -- at helping you overcome these emotional hurdles than The Sedona Method.

The Science of Your Emotions

It’s tough to describe it literally, yet happiness and a full range of emotions are clearly felt by all of us. Even 3-year-old children are able to identify and label emotions like happy, sad and angry just by hearing a voice or seeing a face.

Your emotions are a perfect example of something that you can’t physically see, yet you know without a doubt that they exist.

You also intrinsically feel the immense power that your emotions hold over your life.

Because you feel your emotions so strongly, many of you would shake your heads in disbelief if I told you that you were in complete control of your feelings, and their impact on your life.

I do.

And I’m going to share it with you right now.

If You Can’t See it, Does it Mean That it Isn’t There?

In a word, freedom.

The Method is a tool that shows you how to uncover your natural ability to let go of any painful or unwanted feeling in the moment. This alone is the key to achieving your goals and the life you want.

THE key to achieving anything you desire is to free yourself from the emotional and mental barriers preventing you from success. Researchers concluded The Sedona Method is an outstanding technique “for its simplicity, efficiency, absence of questionable concepts and rapidity of observable results,” as you will read below.

So, I’m going to give it to you.

This is because every emotion that comes into your awareness that you do not let go of is stored in your mind’s subconscious. You send your feelings to this area of your brain when you pretend they’re not there or ignore them until they “go away.” You also do so by attempting to escape your feelings with distractions (going to the movies, exercising, drinking, eating, and so on).

Ironically, most adults attempt to suppress their feelings because they believe it will make them feel better. In reality, this actually will make you feel worse.

“I have an incredible feeling of peace that stays with me, a great powerful reminder that everything I want is already inside me. I am at peace with the goals I'm working to manifest, no longer struggling and am feeling unattached to outcomes. I am no longer resisting what is in my life now.” -- Nancy McKay

The report then reveals a way to regulate your emotions without harming your cognitive function. As written in the abstract:

“Recent research suggests that reappraisal, which entails changing how we think about an event to neutralize its emotional impact, leaves cognitive functioning intact.”

If holding your emotions in via suppression is not emotionally healthy, you may be thinking, “Then I need to express my emotions.”

Not so. Letting it all out -- crying your heart out, yelling at the top of your lungs, sharing your problems with anyone who will listen -- is not the secret to feeling at peace either.

To put it simply, expressing your emotions does have a place (and for that matter, so do

“I am noticing that it gets easier and easier to release. The power in the method for me lately has been letting go of all wanting as often as possible. I'm starting to turn the corner now with my releasing and lot's of things I've been wanting are falling into my lap. What a blessing!” -- Timothy McConnachie

es suppression, such as holding in your anger in a discussion with your boss). It’s essential, for example, to express how you feel in order for most relationships to work.

Yet, this practice only blows off a little steam from your inner emotional pressure cooker -- it has not put out the fire.

You may even feel better after you’ve expressed your emotions, and this is because you have blown some steam. However, the person to whom you’ve just vented may end up feeling worse, which in turn can often lead to greater disagreement, conflict and a mutual escalation of emotion that can get out of control.

Case in point, a study published in the journal Developmental Psychology found that teenage girls who often complain to each other about their problems end up worse off emotionally.

In fact, the girls who talked excessively about their problems, particularly when they re-lived hurtful events and dwelled on the negative feelings they brought up, were more likely to have symptoms of anxiety and depression.

This prompted a downward spiral, with the negative feelings leading to more complaining, and hence more negative feelings.

This makes perfect sense, as the more you focus on negative things, the more you will attract them into your life. In this case, the opposite does hold true …

The more you’re able to let go of negativity, and instead focus on positive, the happier you’ll be and the more positive things you’ll attract into your experience.

If you truly have over 50,000 thoughts a day, that’s a lot of thoughts to try to control and make positive. Yet if you “wake up on the wrong side of the bed,” you can have the same feeling the whole day coloring every thought. So it is much more effective to master your emotions with The Sedona Method than trying to “control” your myriad thoughts.

You are creating the sum total of your thinking and feeling about any particular topic all the time -- but most thinking and feeling is below your conscious awareness, in your subconscious. In fact, 94-96% of your actions are motivated by the thoughts and feelings that are outside of your conscious awareness and control. When you let go of your conscious feelings using The Sedona Method, you empty your subconscious and you take back your control.

Letting go of the negative is much more effective than trying to think or feel positively on top of, or despite having negative thoughts and feelings. When you let go you will find that you naturally and easily have more positive thoughts, feelings and attitudes in life.

Your Ability to Think Positively Will Directly Impact Your Life

Many of you “left-brainers” out there may find it hard to believe that your positive frame of mind causes real, physical changes in your mind and body.

But it’s true. 

For example, elderly people who are “dispositional optimists” -- in other words they expect good things to happen, as opposed to expecting bad things to happen -- live longer than pessimists, according to a study in the Archives of General Psychiatry.

After following a group of seniors around for over nine years, and assessing their level of optimistic thinking, the researchers found that, compared to the most pessimistic people, the most optimistic people had a:

Separate studies have also linked a positive mental attitude to:

Even some of the “side effects” of a positive attitude -- things like uncontrollable laughter and smiles -- help your physical and mental health.

The Healing Power of Laughter

It’s no joke that laughter is some of the best medicine.

It may even help protect you from a heart attack. 

Releasing negative thoughts with The Sedona Method produces the same beneficial effects as laughter -- without even needing to smile.

According to a study presented at the American Heart Association's 73rd Scientific Session in New Orleans, people with heart disease were 40 percent less likely to laugh in a variety of situations compared to people without heart disease.

Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore also found that laughing impacts how well your blood vessels are able to expand (the better they expand, the lower your chances of heart attack and stroke). After volunteers watched a funny movie, blood flow significantly increased (by 22 percent) in 19 of the 20 volunteers.

Further, laughing, the researchers said, improved volunteers’ blood flow the equivalent of what would be seen after a 15- or 30-minute workout!

And would you believe that even thinking about laughter is good for you? Well, it is!

Anticipating laughter raises your endorphin levels, which contribute to a feeling of well-being, and human growth hormone levels, which some say may slow the aging process. According to research by Lee S. Berk of Loma Linda University in a paper presented at an American Physiological Society session at Experimental Biology 2006, participants experienced these benefits just by thinking about watching a funny movie.

Beta-endorphins were 27 percent higher and human growth hormone 87 percent higher among those who were expecting to see a comedy.

Other studies have found laughter may boost your immune system and reduce potentially damaging inflammation in your body.

Now laughing, as often and as hard as you can, is highly recommended. But I know that you can’t possibly laugh all the time, which is why it’s worth mentioning that releasing your negative thoughts with The Sedona Method produces the same beneficial effects as laughter -- without even needing to smile.

Consider a pilot research study conducted by Dr. Richard J. Davidson of the State University of New York in collaboration with Dr. David C. McClelland of the department of social relations at Harvard University.

The study involved three groups of 20 people, each of which was taught The Sedona Method, Progressive Relaxation (PR, a stress reduction technique that involves tensing and relaxing your muscles), or no stress reduction technique at all.

All of the volunteers were then shown a film of gory industrial accidents before the training, two weeks after the training, and 3.5 months post-training. After monitoring various physiologic measurements, the researchers found:

These researchers concluded The Sedona Method is an outstanding technique “for its simplicity, efficiency, absence of questionable concepts and rapidity of observable results.”

The Benefits of Meditation in a Fraction of the Time.

There is no question that meditation is good for your health. It not only offers benefits to your mind in the form of stress relief, it also causes physical changes, similar to those of a positive mental attitude and laughter. For example:

Meditation works similarly to The Sedona Method -- by directing your thoughts away from your anxieties and “mind chatter,” and toward a more neutral or positive focus. However, meditation can easily take years to truly master, and you must practice it daily in order to achieve the benefits.

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The Sedona Method, however, can be learned in a matter of days, and it takes only an instant to release your negative thoughts and anxieties. Best of all, you can use The Method anywhere, on the spot, to let go of any thought that troubles you -- unlike mediation, which requires a quiet spot free from distraction ( some-thing that’s an increasing rarity for many of us!).

If so, I encourage you to give The Sedona Method a try. You won’t physically see it working anymore than you will see a closed bud open into a flower -- but you will feel the changes and soon see them materializing in your life, that I guarantee. (In fact, I literally guarantee it… read about the full 180-day money back guarantee.)

This is the tool that will change your life for the better in ways you never dreamed possible, as gaining emotional freedom puts you in the driver’s seat. Anytime an emotion threatens to drag you down, you’ll know what to do: release it. Only then will you experience the pure joy of life that you’ve been missing.

Many of us have spent years of our life driving down a road filled with potholes and stop signs when a smooth route existed all along.