| Too many times in the world of personal relationships, | | | | and effective solutions to healing and managing |
| career and daily living we are challenged with | | | | emotional states that trap my clients in destructive |
| emotional and psychological issues that dictate | | | | patterns of behavior. In the past my work consisted of |
| decisions and determine how we feel. Have you ever | | | | therapies that either took many months or years to do |
| noticed that two people with the same education, | | | | or brief interventions that only lasted a short duration. |
| opportunity and brilliance may have very different | | | | My goal for my clients is to have efficient, effective, |
| levels of personal and professional success? | | | | and permanent change in their lives. Most of them do |
| Because our emotions and thoughts actually create | | | | not come to me for short term fixes! So my favorite |
| our reality, we are either launched into a successful life | | | | tools of the trade include things that can actually shift |
| with them or held back by them. Remember the | | | | out the old beliefs, feelings and thoughts and result in |
| saying "if you believe you can achieve or you don't | | | | changing behaviors for good. In other words. I like to |
| either way you are right". Deeply held beliefs about | | | | work from the inside out in order to effect real change. |
| ourselves and our world are our biggest obstacle in life. | | | | One such method is The Sedona Method developed in |
| Let me use an example to explain (names are | | | | the early 1970's by Lester Levenson. Lester's story is |
| changed for privacy): | | | | an incredible one proving that it is only the limited beliefs |
| Chase came to me as a young man for help several | | | | of our mind that block us from experiencing the |
| years ago. He is brilliant, capable, and talented beyond | | | | unlimited talent we possess. |
| what most of us only imagine. Among his talents he is | | | | Here is a brief description of how The Sedona Method |
| an impeccable artist, musician and lyric writer. But along | | | | helps you to release painful emotions and beliefs: |
| with his talent he is smart, scoring in the brilliant range | | | | - Allowing yourself to release unwanted emotions |
| on the Stanford Benet Intelligence test. Yet with all this | | | | instantly much like dropping an object. |
| in his favor he was living on government assistance | | | | - Welcoming the feeling, embracing it as part of you |
| and sleeping on friends' couches. What is wrong with | | | | rather than trying to deny or ignore it |
| this picture? | | | | - Diving into the emotion to the core of it. It is only |
| In exploring Chase's history it became evident to me | | | | under the painful feeling that peace exists |
| that Chase saw his world through a cloud of useless | | | | - Noticing that painful emotions are defined by their |
| lies about himself he had been living by since childhood. | | | | opposite, the positive one such as happy and sad. |
| He felt worthless. | | | | Welcoming both sides will help to diffuse the painful |
| As a mental health specialist I have searched for quick | | | | one. |