The Abundance Course

The abundance course was originally developed by Lester Levenson during 1950s based on his experience during an amazing recovery from a terminal illness. In this article, we will discuss the philosophy and concepts of the abundance course.

What is abundance? Abundance means plenty. Everyone wants to have happiness, peace, health, money, great relationships and other good things in their lives. Having abundance means having everything good easily flow into one's life, have them in plenty for consumption by self as well as to help others.

Abundance, our natural ability

During his illness and his struggle to come out it, Lester Levenson observed that his illnesses are a result of accumulated negativity in his mind. Our attitudes and reactions are formed by these past accumulations because of which, the outcome of our actions also mostly turns out to be negative. We gather ill-health, failures and more negativity. Lester observed the problem is not about how to achieve success or abundance because they are already within us, but to be able to remove the filters that are covering the abundance.

Abundance is our natural characteristic and ability and we only need to remove obstacles in order to express abundance in our lives. This is the basis of the law of abundance and Lester devised the abundance course to teach how to do this.

The typical fight or flight response has been inherited by us through evolution. Our typical responses can be categorized into three ways as follows, taking the example of anger:

Suppress: We get angry with some one but we don't find it appropriate to express it. So it remains with in us and each time another anger comes, it gets accumulated.
Express: We get angry and we express it. This is more healthier than the above, but we may spoil our relations and feel guilty because of our behavior.
Escape: We divert our attention by watching a movie or tv or reading a book, have a drink etc. It temporarily pushes the anger inside, but it is still there.

Lester realized that there is a fourth way which is release. Releasing means we just drop the anger then and there and forget about it. It has been natural for us when we were children but we forgot our natural way and made our lives complicated. We just need to get back to the habit of naturally releasing our feelings and emotions without storing them inside.

This is the basic concept behind the release technique or the abundance course.

Negative feelings and emotions are clear obstacles for our success, however even positive feelings also can be a hindrance. We all know that it requires great concentration, steady work and emotional balance in order to succeed in any area. Lester taught that as we release all the positive as well as negative feelings towards a goal, it becomes easier for us to achieve it. Because of this aspect of releasing, it is also called the abundance course. As we release more and more, the inner obstacles to fulfil our intention disappear gradually and we will be in a better position to achieve our goals, some times, just attracting the right circumstances naturally. This works the same in any area of our life - whether finance or relationships or money or career.

Many times we talk about creating abundance or manifesting abundance in our lives. Actually when we practice the law of abundance, we are just removing filters that stop abundance flow into our lives. Abundance already exists, we don't have to create it but we just need to allow it to happen in our lives.

The Abundance Course teaches the easy method of dealing with life, releasing. The benefits of releasing are:

1) Physical health: As we release, the tension and energy blocks in the body reduce, body becomes more flexible, more healthy and we feel more energetic.
2) Behavior changes: Our inner compulsions and obsessions get reduced. The increase in positive behavior improves our relationships with others. We find it easy to get rid of addictions. Infact additions may drop naturally as the inner compulsions reduce.
3) Emotional balance: We naturally attain better emotional balance as we release our accumulated emotions.
4) Decision making and problem solving abilities increase as we calm down through release.
5) We achieve our goals easily and naturally and attract better circumstances

The Abundance Course/Release technique is more of a philosophy or way of life than just a short term method. The goal of releasing is to achieve abundance in life and get to a natural imperturbability state in which we are in perfect balance.

Lester Levenson's release method is available in two variants now The abundance course/release technique and The Sedona method. You can explore more about the abundance course in the link provided below.