Coaching with the Sedona Method
Written on February 13, 2008 by Tom Stine
Live a Life Free from Limitation
The Sedona Method is a unique, simple, powerful, easy-to-learn technique that shows you how to uncover your natural ability to let go of any painful or unwanted feeling in the moment. As you let go of painful and unwanted feelings, you will experience a clearer mind, more positive thoughts and greater creativity. The Sedona Method thus becomes the key that unlocks a life of greater ease, greater success, and overall happiness and joy.
What Makes Coaching with the Sedona Method Special?
If you look at most of the coaching world, you will find a wide variety of approaches. Most coaching has, at its very core, an attitude of action. There is a fundamental attitude that pervades our world that says if only we would DO something different then our lives would improve. But what if action wasn’t the answer? What if action is simply the natural result of our feelings and our thoughts? What if the place to experience true, lasting change was inside of us, not outside?
That’s what makes Coaching with the Sedona Method special. It turns the attention where the attention belongs: the person inside. Working with The Sedona Method is an inside-out process, because for lasting change to occur, the inside must change first. We start with the cause, and the actions that lead to changes in the external world follow naturally.
Using a Coach
Whether you are new to The Sedona Method or a long-time user, a coach can give you the assistance you need to go further than you ever thought possible. For long-time users, you will work with someone who speaks your language, who knows your process, who understands why you use The Sedona Method: because it works! Unlike a releasing partner, a coach will focus exclusively on you, putting all his energy into assisting you with releasing whatever issues are arising for you and with achieving all the goals you have chosen to get.
For the relative newcomer to The Sedona Method, a coach will help you to understand how The Method works and how to apply it to your life. A coach learns early on from working with The Sedona Method that everyone can release, and much more easily than they would have believed. And, as everyone who has used The Method has discovered, the benefits of releasing are virtually limitless. Everyone can enjoy:
- Freedom from financial difficulties.
- Better relationships with partners, children, friends and co-workers.
- Greater joy, peace and ease of living.
- Easing of health issues.
- Freedom from stress and fear.
- Freedom from negative habits.
- Emotional well-being and happiness.
- Deep fulfillment in living every day.
These are just a few of the benefits that can be yours from working with a a coach who works with the Sedona Method.
If you want to experience the benefits of Coaching for the Sedona Method, contact Tom to discuss how you can benefit personally.
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on March 17th, 2008 at 7:32 am
I notice that the Sedona Method, in its sidebar ad, promises that you will “have all that you desire” if you follow it.
I’d like to call your attention to a posting I got this morning from Tricycle’s Daily Dharma: “When we contemplate suffering, we find we are contemplating desire, because suffering and desire are the same thing.” So, in Buddhist teaching, this “coaching” will increase suffering.
Any remarks?
on March 17th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Ted, that’s a very interesting question. I know it’s not directed to me, but I’d love to get into a discussion on this.
When the Buddhists say contemplating desire leads to suffering, does that mean all desire leads to suffering? or only certain types? Should all desires be removed? What about the bodhisattva vows? Where they desire to be enlightened for the liberation of all sentient beings? When the Dalai Lama sees a crying child, does he not desire to end its tears?
And how about suffering? Perhaps the way we do it is paramount, that cannot be conveyed in a simple quote. Another Buddhist teaching is also to stop running away from our emotional wounds, to love and nurture those wounds. That requires a form of contemplation of our suffering too, does it not?
I have some experience with the Sedona Method, and also was lucky enough to have a coaching session with Tom. The Sedona Method allows us to face our negative emotions and release them - therefore taking responsibility for our inner space and for our actions.
Actions taken in anger, even though they might have good intentions, are almost always corrupted, however subtly. Desiring to be free of suffering, and taking steps - like healing your wounds - can only benefit yourself and everyone you come into contact with.
Would love to hear what you have to contribute on this.
on March 17th, 2008 at 10:23 am
Well, the Sedona ad mentions getting us more more money and better relationships, and attachment to those things, among others, is directly related to increased suffering in Buddhist teaching.
Obviously to dismiss all desire is a) impossible and b) stupid. The desireless being is clearly as spiritually advanced as a rock. (Who knows? Maybe rocks are the real crown of creation, in ways we cannot conceive of. They look insensate to us, but perhaps that is a measure of our own limitations. Was it Tom Robbins who imagined that humans exist for the purpose of moving water around, according to its desires?)
Whatever the relative karmic merit of igneous schist, our limitations impose on us the necessity of dealing with desire and the suffering it can cause. It is clearly essential to one’s spiritual advancement, as well as financial, erotic, automotive, sartorial etc. The trick it would seem is to accept the limits to those things as we find them and recognize that detachment from them will fulfill what we really desire but can’t perceive because the sensate mind thinks it runs the show. Nearly everything around us promotes that view, after all. It is common sense.
I would look upon this coaching with more favor if it acknowledged these truths expressly, instead of making glib promises which make it appear no better than New Age hooey. A visit to Sedona several years ago made it clear that is the New Age Vatican, Las Vegas for seekers. The ad is consistent with that perception.
on March 17th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Great points Ted
You’ve mentioned yourself that attachment is the cause of suffering. Money, sex, and health in and of themselves are not necessarily bad. Money, especially, seems to have gotten a bad rep - and yet it is easy to see that a rich man can do more good with his resources than a poor man, plus he could devote more time to his spiritual search.
The Sedona Method gives powerful methods for overcoming limitations. The promises are quite real, in my experience. For instance, my old relationships are held back for fear of being lied to, abused, etc. These naturally led to defensive behaviours that perpetuated exactly what I feared. My career suffered as well due to other limitations. Overcoming these fears have allowed me more freedom, in terms of money and time. Happier relationships mean a happier me and the people around me are happier as a result - a cycle that keeps going up. Better health speaks for itself.
Additionally, if we don’t get attached all these things, we could fully reap the benefits for both ourselves and those we come into contact with. “Love yourself, and watch” said the Buddha. That has to be the first step in any journey, I believe. How can we give what we don’t have? If our inner world is filled with anxiety and fear, how can we give love? By removing all these negative emotions and limitations from our being as the Method teaches, we can find a measure of peace and happiness - and perhaps that is when we are better equipped to make a positive difference.
You mentioned the limits of things as we find them, perhaps we could recognise that many (not all) limits are self-imposed. Much of the positive psychology movement is based on the concept of learned helplessness - we imagine we can’t, therefore we don’t even try. Perhaps we could be better served by a clearer perception - one where our limits do not play such a big role.
on March 17th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Ted & Albert,
Fantastic comments. I think I’m going to have to write an article to address this question. There definitely is an appearance of conflict between Buddhist teachings on desire and suffering and The Sedona Method. Or, rather, the marketing of the Sedona Method. More later.