Lester Levenson and the release technique

Here is a man, Lester Levenson, at the age of 42, highly successful in business and money but burnt his health and happiness while achieving success. His health became worse with innumerable problems and finally heart problem. That was year 1952 and the present advanced treatements did not exist at that time. So doctors gave him few weeks time to live and sent him home so that he can peacefully live at home during his final days. Lester Levenson realized that he had been pursuing wrong things in life and started analyzing his life in a fresh way, starting from zero. He discovered that he was more happy when he loved others. He tried to release his negative feelings and emotions and as he did so, he started feeling more happy. As he repeated this process, he gained better health, higher energy and deep understanding of life. The deadline given by doctors went off and he was living happily with better health and happiness. Lester Levenson realized that he discovered a deep practical truth during this process - by releasing negative feelings and emotions and embracing love, you get better physically and mentally and closer to the divine. He called this method of releasing 'The Sedona Method'. He started teaching this method to others and lived up to the age of 82 years.

As we grow in life and gain experiences, we develop feelings, strong opinions, emotions towards people, things and everything around us. These feelings and emotions mask our real self. For example, when we want to earn our living, on one side we have a desire to earn more money and on the other hand, we also might have fears about handling more money. Both of them act in the opposite directions and we fail to achieve our goal about money. The same story goes on in every area of our lives - health, relations, career etc. Even if there are no negatives in a particular area, our strong desire to achieve something may actually become an obstruction. Lester realized that by releasing all these stumbling blocks like negative feelings, emotions, even desires, we actually become better achievers. Infact it is not just negative feelings, even the positive feelings keep us too much attached to a goal and keep us away from achiveing our goal. So by releasing both positive and negative association with people, things, goals and everything we become better achievers. When we release all associated feelings, we come to a stage of equilibrium, which helps in achieving our goals and lead a better life. In other words, release can help us in achieving abundance.

After Lester Levenson, his release method was made available commercially by two people, who were working closely with him during his life time. One is The Sedona Method by Hale Dwoskin and another is Release Technique or Abundance Course by Larry Crane. You can read Lester Levenson's story in his own words and also about his technique at the external link provided below.