Comments on: Sedona Method Retreat Day 2

By: Tom Stine

Tom Stine — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:19:38 +0000

@Dan Glad to have you here! I’m glad you are discovering some good stuff from the Method. It is a wonderful way to go. Enjoy! Thanks for the comments.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:55:00 +0000

Hi Tom, Just stumbled across your site while searching for a forum to learn about and share my experiences with the Sedona Method. I bought _The Sedona Method_ just under 2 weeks ago and have experienced some profoundly stupendous just awesomely cool stuff as I began to release. I’m glad I found you. I’m looking forward to reading about your experiences in Sedona.

By: Tom Stine

Tom Stine — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:30:05 +0000

@Davidya There were elephants stampeding out the door. Especially on Day 4. I will report on that one later.

By: Davidya

Davidya — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 04:49:23 +0000

Thanks for the honesty, Tom. In meditation circles I’ve been in, they speak of your experience as purification. When you clear enough stuff or get enough rest, some deep resistance can come loose. It often comes with emotional content or a sense of restlessness. Because the mind doesn’t like moods without reason, it usually associates them with available thoughts.

Your approach was perfect, as you well know. Resisting it or acting on the thoughts the feelings get associated with is the wrong approach.

In India, they use the analogy of sleeping elephants. Turn up the light and you might wake some elephants that make some noise on the way out. Sounds like you shooed an elephant or 2.

If you find the feelings getting especially intense, just sit with them and allow the awareness to be on the body. You will probably find the attention is drawn or moves to a specific location. Allow the attention there and it will likely be accompanied by physical sensations as the deep rooted stress is released. You may want to rest afterwards to help complete the healing. The intense stuff is not too typical unless getting very deep rest on a long retreat but it can happen, especially if there has been some big openings.

I agree with the points abouts thoughts and just did a couple of posts about memory. Memory is deeper and more significant than we might think.

Davidya’s last blog post..Choose Love, really