Sedona Method

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I'm continuing to explore the Sedona Method and want to post some info and links to it.

The clincher is it's free. There are "Releasing sessions" pretty frequently. They are announced on a distribution list on WhatsApp (link below).

I waited to talk or suggest this to anyone because I'm still not 100% convinced. But that being said, I'm not stopping. It might very well be doing something, and as weird as the technique is, I've experienced ZERO negative impressions, and I've now done about six or seven "releasings". It definitely has a spiritual aspect. But it's not so straightforward and simple as might be expected. For example, depending on what I discuss as being my focus of "release" the therapist will not always approach the situation the same way. It's not always the same. I'm sure as I continue to learn about the technique I'll figure this out, but for the moment, the technique used has been very "appropriate" in a weird way.

How do I feel after the "releasing" sessions? Very often I feel nothing at all. Although I can cry profusely during the session. BUT, I've still got a strange sixth sense that this technique is "doing" something on a neuronal level. Is this my imagination? Perhaps, but the change in me is so slight and subtle I can only guess at all this. But my intuition is telling me to continue. And you can't beat free therapy, especially in the long-term realm of Cptsd...

Here's a video sample of the technique:
https://youtu.be/bT-dQ0dDgGE?si=Ulo0HJWMI2BsyBKm

Here's the WhatsApp group in order to participate in "releasings":
https://releasing.community/

One last observation. The technique is not only about "letting go". It also focuses on "holding on" and doesn't address this in a "usual" way. I find this detail very intriguing.

Would welcome any feedback, good, bad or indifferent.

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So I did three more Sedona "releases" this week. (I was NOT GOOD this week.) It helped.

Just wrote a post to StartedHealing and realized I was recounting an aspect of the Sedona technique.

Working with painful memories:
1) Imperatively accepting their presence
2) then actively letting it go, even if only a little, and if possible
3) Identifying THE place of peace (love?) that is behind the pain, and realizing, in fact, this place of peace is ALWAYS present

It's important to realize this is not just "letting go" (which I agree doesn't work and can be  akin to self-flagellation).

There is recognition of the "holding on" which is imperative to recognize. You can't let go of something you don't realize you're holding on to.

You can also choose to continue holding on. This is paradigm to the fact that "I" have the control over my own misery, which is a sneaky way to tune into the fact that the reverse must also be true.

For me, the metaphor is like digging out a splinter. I didn't choose for the splinter to be there, but it IS now my problem. The splinter hurts, I have to recognize that. Getting it out is gonna hurt even more. I may or may not be ready to do the operation. I work my way up to it. Then, when I start doing it, it does hurt and it's not fun but I go slow and am careful, and eventually I succeed in getting the tweezers on it and wow! what a relief (peace/happiness/love) when that little thing slides out clamped firmly on the end of my tweezers.

I'm still learning about the Sedona Method. My T sent me an Audible book on it. (Ungh, another thing to read...