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As we’ve covered before, the mind and the ego are mostly composed of fiction. You’ve set up various thoughts as solutions to problems and hold them in place so you have a ready answer to anything that comes in front of you.

Unfortunately, these all have limits on your actual ability.

Thoughts are always, dependably, second to action. Action occurs without thinking. Like your blood circulating and your breathing. Sure, if you work at controlling your breathing, you can lower your heart rate.

To do this you have to concentrate.

To concentrate, you have to shut out other thoughts than the single one you are working on.

The problem is that most people can’t do this. The vast majority of people just let those 50-60,000 thoughts a minute just race through their head, willy-nilly. And they try to get them to shut up by watching TV, listening to loud music, drinking alcohol, or taking other drugs – or some combination of the above.

If you want personal Freedom, you are going to have to quiet the mind.

Releasing technique allows you to just let go of the thoughts you’ve been holding onto and then the mind quiets. It’s that simple.

And as you quiet the mind, your ego also tends to start to vanish. You start to look at the world for what it is, which needs very little thought. You can cease to be required to act, but just start watching this fantastic world around us go through its paces.

Sure, you are going to want to help out and do things – but you don’t have to anymore. The difference is extraordinary.

You can now live your life exactly the way you’ve always wanted to – free from others’ control, approval, or any need for security. You’ll have few, if any, fears – including dying itself. When something does come up, you simply look at it for what it is and then let it go.

Your ego simply becomes a mirror of the world around you – like Teflon, nothing sticks to it. So you can simply start helping out wherever you are needed – or following the intuitive glimpses you receive to fulfill whatever passion you find you now have (which you’ve had all along, but were too busy thinking about it…)

There is no chance that you will lose your mind or your ego. You’ll still be you. But you’ll be more you, and your mind will be your own – not cluttered with others opinions of you or fears of what they might think or what might happen to you.

Try it and see.

Just be still for a moment – right now. Take whatever thought or feeling that comes in and accept it, then let it go. And then keep doing it. Funny enough, even if you think it’s the same thought – it will be a lesser shadow of that thought, or a slightly different version. And as you keep confronting it and letting it go, it will get less and less.

Once you get releasing down to a consistent tool in your life, your mind will markedly quiet. You’ll have more peace in your life, more happiness. You’ll appreciate the world around you and have a lot more to give in return for all you’ve been given.

But you won’t get there by just reading this.

Try it for yourself. See what results you can get.

See you tomorrow…

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Of course it was inconvenient. I’d left a pallet of paper-sacked seed out in the bed of the truck, with just a tarp laid over them to keep out the dew.

Here it was, sun wasn’t up. Wind was blowing through my open windows as I struggled to cozey down under my blankets. Weather shift, it came to me. Echoes of weather forecasters telling me a cold front was moving in. Meant rain.

And then I started hearing drops. Big ones. Far apart right now, but that could change at any time. So I threw the covers aside and shrugged on some chilled jeans and slightly warmer socks.

Strugging into a sweatshirt, I paused, I wondered if I should start up the computer to check the online radar. But wisely, I thought better as the drops increased their tempo on our barn roof nearby.

Slapped on a ball-cap and stomped into my gum boots as I went out through the porch into the still-dark morning.

Fumbling for light switches, I got a few on while the rain started an irregular cadence of sorts on that tin roof. The tarp couldn’t have blown far, I reasoned, but the bungey cords hung on the dark wall refused to come loose easily, wanting more daylight to loosen their grip.

Finally, I got some free and in the scant light out of the open barn door, I pulled the tarp back over the pallet of seed bags – which towered over my head and out of reach – then got each corner tied into the pickup bed in some sort or fashion, with the whole thing barely snugged tight just as the wind started whipping down the rain in earnest.

After a quick double-check of the tarp against further wind, I pushed back up to the house, stripped off the wet sweatshirt, then pulled on another dry and warmer one.

Only then did I pour my first cup of hot coffee that morning.

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And this is intuitional living? Well, yes. I knew without thinking that I better get up right now and get that tarp tied down. Sure, this was from experience of not doing so dozens of times in the past and successfully doing so many times less. I knew all about wind and rain and bags of seed gone to mold after they were wet.

Action, in that early morning darkness, was what was needed.

Surely I could have figured that out earlier – even though I basically saved the day that time (we had another inch of rain before that squall was through, by the end of that morning). Yes, I had listened to an idea to get a tarp over it, but resisted another light idea to secure that tarp so it wouldn’t blow off.

When I did listen, it was intuitional living. When I didn’t listen, it was my own thinking tripping me up.

And so my intuition got me to get out of bed, while my thinking almost fired up the computer to make me too late.

Thinking tops action, it doesn’t speed it or guide it. Thinking just screws things up.

That might be condemnatory, because there are a lot of good uses for thinking. But like a calculator, you turn it off when you are done. You don’t point that calculator or punch its buttons in the general direction of every single thing you are trying to accomplish during the day – do you?

Making a cup of coffee – your mind often winds around to other subjects. Making a cup of coffee is only action, requires little thought. Same for cooking a bowl of oatmeal in the microwave. Turn on the timer and think while you wait. Take it out, stir, cook once more (this keeps it from boiling over and having a mess to clean up, doesn’t it?) More thinking, and then you can eat breakfast – which is almost automatic as well.

But if you think too much during the first cooking, you “forget” that you didn’t cook it all the way – and your bananas and milk now are inseparably mixed with undercooked mush. Yuck.

Thinking just gets in the way.

So the obvious solution is to quiet the mind and get the thinking down to a minimum. Turn it on when you do need it and keep it quiet the rest of the time.

Intuitional Living.

Try it.

Use the Sedona Method to quiet your mind and make living more comfortable and efficient.

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Now, right off the bat I have to remind you to not believe anything I say – always, always test everything for yourself.

There is more stuff from Levenson I’ve been working with (although I need to make more time to study him carefully and at length). And a friend pointed this out to me yesterday.

Some background is needed before I get into today’s excitement: Levenson wound up in a very interesting state when he was about 42. While a complete material success, his body was literally dying around him. And Hale Dwoskin talks about this in his intro lectures (free on his site) briefly.

What Lester had to do at that point was to solve this so he could keep on living. And the way he did that brought him in just three months to a form of personal enlightenment so intense that he couldn’t understand it – even as a trained physicist – so he spent several more years studying all the great religions and spiritual philosophies so that he could get his wits around what just happened to him.

And so there is a great deal of Eastern studies (as well as Western) in his references – where you listen to tapes  he recorded directly.

OK, now about this mental fiction we carry around -  well, at least our version of it is fiction.

Lester said that essentially, there is only one Mind and we are all just keeping ourselves separate from it by our individual and collected thoughts.

No, it’s not easy for me to get at this point, either – because it raises a whole lot more questions. But the main point is not to try to figure out how that could be, but just to first test to see if it works as described.

How this lines up is these quantum physicists which we encountered in “The Secret” and “What the (Bleep) do we know?” Fred Alan Wolfe was one (and I really need to look up the other guys) and they mentioned that the next real final frontier to explore is Mind – this is what they found in their studies, that Mind was present in all their experiments and would actually affect the outcome regardless.

And these guys had to also go back to Eastern studies to understand what they had discovered.

So the basic, in American English, is that there is one Mind and we have elected to separate ourselves from it for various reasons. That crazy mind you know isn’t the Mind that is all around us, just your personal little version of it. All those thoughts you have streaming around is what you think are your mind, but actually, they are just a tangled ball of yarn in a whole bag of yarn balls.

The great thing is that any ball of yarn can be unrolled (no matter how badly a playful kitten has snarled it up…)

The best way to do this that I’ve found is the Sedona Method of releasing. This quiets your mind like nothing else.

And allows you to do that “Intuitional Living” I’ve been talking about. Once you get your own individual thinking calmed down, then all manner of solutions start coming to you.

Just the way it works.

(Of course this explains insanity, and provides a method to help those who are “losing it”.)

Let me know what you think on this one. It seems to be a real doosey.

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Our latest upcoming release, “Freedom Is — (period.)”