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Why “Positive Thinking” Actually Fails… and What to Do Instead

By Sedona Training Associates staff and Hale Dwoskin

You’ve certainly heard of “positive thinking” … and perhaps you’ve also been challenged with it, and asked the important question below like so many others (who have also wondered if The Sedona Method is about “positive thinking” and, if not, how it can help them.)

This Q&A exchange is designed to give you immediate benefit just by reading and following along.

With further exploration, you will learn how to consistently access your natural ability to let go of any unwanted feeling in the moment and free yourself to have all that your heart desires.

If you would like to enjoy all the benefits of this powerful tool, I recommend you get your own copy of The Sedona Method Audio Course.

Dear Hale,

I have spent many years doing positive thinking with mixed results. How does The Sedona Method compare with positive thinking? Is there an easier way to change my life?

Answer:

When I was in my early 20s, I was extremely shy. I couldn’t approach women, I had no idea how to properly introduce myself to strangers, let alone make small talk.

I’d heard that positive affirmations and “happy thoughts” could bury my fears and help me build the confidence I needed. I was certain that if I told myself I was great in a crowd, I would be great in a crowd.

So, for months on end, I walked around all day long repeating over and over in my head, “I am highly pleasing to myself in the presence of other people.”

In the meantime, I forgot to stop repeating and start living.

Instead of propelling my social life into the next dimension, my record-player thoughts played again and again in my head and I felt completely ridiculous!

My quiet self-talk actually reminded me that I was SHY instead of helping me to overcome it. I didn’t need a positive self-talk mantra to overcome shyness. I didn’t need to pile more thoughts on top of the limiting thoughts I already had.

I needed to LET GO of my shy thoughts. It was then that I learned The Sedona Method.

I learned The Sedona Method quickly and easily and finally learned how to release the limiting thoughts and emotions that actually made me shy.

I learned to LET GO of my shyness, permanently, and now I speak before large groups as part of my job!

Positive thinking takes an immense amount of effort and, for most people, it doesn’t even work!

It only covers the negative thoughts with positive ones and can still leave you crying on the inside. You’ve probably been around someone who smiles on the outside while screaming on the inside.

It’s hard to be around those people; they send a real mixed message to others.

Imagine that your subconscious mind is a barrel. This barrel has a golden lining representing our unlimited potential.

This golden lining is covered by a bunch of rotten apples that represent our limiting emotions: apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, and pride.

Even if you covered the golden lining over with good apples (happy thoughts and happy feelings), what would eventually happen to the apples? They would ROT.

I recommend emptying the barrel so you can discover the golden lining that is already present and available in your life at this very moment. You can’t see it because your apples, bad and good, have buried you under.

Remove them by letting go of your limiting thoughts, feelings and beliefs and your thinking, feeling and life experience will be a thousand times more positive, with not a rotten apple in sight.

As you work with this simple process in your life, you will find that with less effort you will have a more positive mental attitude and your life will reflect this. You will finally start to have, be or do what you have always desired.

Visit the site to review a simple tool based on The Sedona Method that will help you to start letting go.

“Hale Dwoskin has succeeded in presenting a masterful healing system with a treasure of practical examples for bringing it to life. The Sedona Method contains many jewels of illumination that can take your life to the next level. Practicing these principles can bring you home. Here is a rare and useful manual for awakening.”

Alan Cohen, author of A Deep Breath of Life
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From the Sedona Training site.

Hale Dwoskin is the author of the New York Times Best Seller, The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-being.

Hale is one of the 24 Teachers from the movie The Secret and a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council.

He is the CEO and Director of Training of Sedona Training Associates.
 

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"Through my work with Chicken Soup for the Soul and through my Self-Esteem Seminars, I have been exposed to many self-improvement techniques and processes. This one stands head and shoulders above the rest for the ease of its use, its profound impact, and the speed with which it produces results.

"The Sedona Method is a vastly accelerated way of letting go of feelings like anger, frustration, jealousy, anxiety, stress, and fear, as well as many other problems even physical pain with which almost everybody struggles at one time or another."

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"The Sedona Method is by far the most powerful way to make big changes in all aspects of your life through the simple act of 'letting go.'

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