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I’ve been scammed several times, but it took years to get to the point where I’m now pretty-much scam proof. I only get into scams if I want to, now. And I can get out of them any time I want to.

My story goes back to being part of a corporate culture which was suppressing the daylights out of me, or at least I thought so. For all the progress I thought I was making, there would always be a set back, usually a personnel transfer, and I was starting over again. It didn’t matter what my goals were, it was all about the company. People were operating out of fear, not the policies in writing that were supposed to be followed.

And this was a corporation which sold counseling and self-improvement books, classes, and coaching.

After 20+ years, I left to sort out my own head.

I did some research, wrote some books, and started to learn how to promote them.

Then I fell into “Internet Marketing”, and into a scam of paying a lot of money for something that didn’t work. After a year of researching this, I then was able to get my money back.

But this put me into touch with many other people in similar situations. I only told them what I knew and they were able to get their money back.

There was never anything in it for me. And how this is done is pretty easily found on the Internet – but it was just a handful of companies who were doing this. And their relatively small number of people who were “scammed”.

I got more curious as I researched, however, since I found more and more basic premises that these and any scammers used to do their “dirty work”.

The bottom line on this was attitude. The scam victims “knew” they were victims, but the scammers “knew” they weren’t scamming. In both cases they were right – and wrong at the same time.

I found that when scam victims changed their minds, they suddenly figured out how to use what they knew to get their money back. (I was never able to change the scammers’ minds and get them to quit.)

The reason scamming is a mental condition is because scamming is a scale with a high and low end. Plus and minus. Negative and positive.

Like other scales that operate in life, there are ways to deal with this. But the key point is finding the middle path. Equanimity is what you are looking for. Fair dealing and so on.

You are always going to have people who are victims and people who are going to help them give up their money. Governments are good at this, as well as “charity” organizations like HSUS – both take in a lot of money and give little in return, despite their promises. Most of Internet Marketing scams are this way. A few online marketers are ethical and give great value. A rare few.

You have to get to a point of equanimity about the whole subject – to be able to watch the game go on without getting upset, happy, elated, despondent, worried… Without any of those things.

Once you do, it’s simple to get your money back, to get justice, or to do nothing and just learn from your lessons that life just handed you.

While I earlier published a scam-free checklist to help identify scammers in your life, I thought to now tell you the self-help method to get yourself free from these.

It’s a combination of various techniques, each of which will work in and of themselves. Together, they take you to a nice Zen level of existence – at least in this area.

The techniques are Silva Method, Levenson Release Technique, and your own faith in yourself.

While I’ve linked some materials above, you’ll also be able to find the key data as free MP3’s online by looking around.

The simple technique:

1. Go to “Level” using the Silva Method. This is simply a meditative state of concentration.
2. Release the thoughts and emotional feelings you have about whatever scam you found yourself involved in.
3. Find and release the desires you have below that – you’ll find that control, approval, and/or security played a part in getting scammed. Or some combination. Trying to get more ____ , or trying to get away from ____ or trying to change ____ are some ways to look at these desires to release them.
4. Keep doing this until you can’t find anything else to release.
5. Now adopt a positive affirmation about how you want to live your life from now on.
6. Realize this has now occurred and end off your meditation.

You can repeat this whenever you start getting any negative feelings toward the scammers or the ideas coming into your awareness about how you were scammed. You want to get to the point of complete equanimity about this area. You want to get to the point where you “don’t give a hoot” any more. Sometimes, like peeling an onion, you have to take off multiple layers as it’s tied into you in various ways.

Of course, this technique is great for other things as well. And use it however you want.

But you’ll get to the point of real Freedom in your life, and lots of calming peace of mind to go with it. All on top of never being scammed again – unless you want to be.

Cheers!

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Of course, any Master would say probably that it was a waste of time even making this blog post.

Because it is really that obvious.

It’s just that I’ve been studying right along with the early Lester Levenson material – not that anything is missing from Larry Crane’s or Hale Dwoskin’s versions of this – I’m just a bit hard-core in my research. Always wanting to dive straight into the deep end before I am in anyway certified in dog-paddling.

Lester spent many, many years reading and studying all he could to understand this state he wound up in after 3 months of self-inspection. So his lectures and talks are full of references to yogi’s and swami’s and so on. He even quotes Jesus and and Hebrew prophets with the same abandon.

Of course, anyone who is simply using releasing to get all the mess out of their lives, to get more stuff, to live a calmer life – you can just skip this particular post and continue with your successes. And anyone who simply follows any particular brand or kind of Sedona releasing method has success, almost regardless.

Except those, of course, who think it’s a scam. And for them – it is. They’ll get no results out of it. They’re right, of course.

But the rest of us can move right along with our practice and our studies and creating better lives for ourselves.

Back to my studies: this really starts to explain my recent seeming divergence into taking up Alan Watts, Zen, and the Tao.  Of course, I can get away with this as I work in Comparative Religions all the time. Even got a sheepskin that says I can.

Alan Watts starts to explain Levenson pretty well. I’ve been listening to Watts’ “Out of Your Mind” series. Quite entertaining. No-holds-barred and all that.

Where these two meet is in the Eastern studies, principally Hindu. Levenson hasn’t mentioned the Tao in any way, but what he describes as a top state undoubtedly contains what the Taoists and Zen devotees attain.

I see only that all the religions – in their basics, not in their interpretations – all are heading to a very similar if not identical goal. Buddhists are expected to become a Buddha in their own right. Christians are expected to emulate Jesus and attain a state of  the Christ (“…better things than these shall you do…”) All religions and philosophies have their various high states, but each of these compared show a similar end value.

The key point to take up here is that from an intellectual viewpoint, Watts sheds some light on Levenson’s idea of getting over the resistance you put up toward death. Levenson held that fear of Death was basic to all desires. Having to survive as an individual entity on this earth in this particular time seems of vital importance – or so it’s been called.

The study of Watts’ lectures tend to free up the intellectual points on this – how we’ve been trained through our life – and so we are then able to release these views more rapidly and let that internal peace of mind out, as well as all the happiness and freedom that’s in there as well.

And a friend pointed out recently that factually, you actually release releasing itself after a time. Which then tells that a person will essentially get to a point that releasing is just another factor in living life. No different than breathing or other organic rhythms we perform on a daily basis.

To this degree, we then let our own Zen master out. By simply releasing all the extraneous additives we’ve piled on for so long.

Worth some discovery if you aren’t already there.

And if you are, you can see that this really was an unnecessary post…

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All life revolves around order, prediction, simplicity.

And while I’ve started revolving my own life around the Sedona Method – amalgamating this into the earlier studies I started so long ago with “Go Thunk Yourself” – there are always so many lessons to find just in living.

The most recent one is that you really want to rid your life of things you are wanting to control, needing to approve, or that require your security. It isn’t enough just to release on how these are affecting you – there’s also where you are still working to do these on/for others.

These type of scenes are just holding you back.

Of course, this goes back to that 7th step of releasing - living your life as a Master would (which just brings out your own native Master abilities, doesn’t it?)

So you can take any of the historical Masters who have lived among us (and some say still do) – or just look within yourself to see how you would like to be treated.

It’s that simple. If you are involved in some sort of continuing mess where you feel you have to control someone else’s actions or activities, then maybe it’s time to let that go. It might mean you don’t have to deal with those people any more.

But it will mean that your life gets simpler.

And, like cleaning your room, if you start doing this on a regular basis (as I advise getting your releasing going on a continuous basis), then your life becomes simpler and simpler. You live with far less effort. Which then means that magic and miracles become more and more commonplace.

There’s far more about what Lester wrote that needs study and reflection. And I’m sure I’ll be continuing this as I simplify my blogging to comics and grass-fed beef. For me, those are easy subjects to talk about, much more rewarding than other areas.

But try this out for yourself and see if these make sense. See if you can’t work at getting your own life simpler by seeing what complicated subjects you can simply drop out of your active life.

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