Demanding perfection in all areas of your life, from work to home and everywhere in between, may seem like a noble deed -- even one that perhaps we should all strive for. But perfectionism is actually responsible for making many people miserable.

“The best way to release worry is to allow yourself to welcome the feeling (remembering it's just a feeling) and then as best you can choose to let go. No matter how justified any worry is it is just a feeling and you can let it go if you choose,” says Hale Dwoskin. Though it may sound simplistic, letting go is very powerful.

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. 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.

It is your natural state to be calm, cool and collected. This may sound hard to believe, particularly if you face high-pressure situations (being questioned by your boss, backed into a corner by your mother-in-law, or sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic on your way home from work) on a regular basis. Still, you are meant to be in control, smooth and, dare we say it – serene.

Meditation has proven benefits that range from increased well-being to pain relief. For instance: * People who meditated for eight weeks produced more antibodies to a flu vaccine, which indicates it changed immune function in a positive way. * Meditation may help you maintain your ability to remember and focus on details as you age, according to research by Sara Lazar of Harvard Medical School. * Meditation lowers anxiety, depression, anger, and fatigue.

One of the topics we explore in The Sedona Method Audio Course is that anything that we are afraid of happening, we actually have a subconscious desire for or expectation of happening.

By Bill Harris, Centerpointe Research Institute. Hale Dwoskin talks about his mentor, Lester Levenson, and the origins of the Sedona Method.

What this universal law tells you about your own life is that the thoughts you think, feelings you feel, words you say, and actions you take all consist of energy that attracts to it more of its own kind.

“Most of us live behind masks all the time based on the false assumption that we are somehow safer behind them. It is like a little child hiding behind his own hand and actually believing that his whole body has disappeared."