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What I really think of the Release Technique!

Well friends, it’s been waaaayyyyy  too long since I’ve written. I apologize, I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve learned, practiced and experience the past few years. 

I've been meaning to update my blog in regards to the Release Technique in particular. The gains I experienced were all from the Release Technique and feng shui. Because I had such terrific gains, I decided to delve deep. I set aside months to "dig in the dirt" so to speak because this is what Larry Crane of the Release Technique teaches. WHAT A MISTAKE! My dad and I both discovered that if you keep digging in the dirt, then you will not only find dirt but start manifesting negative situations in your life. Plus, I felt depressed and lethargic. The Release Technique (RT) is absolutely wonderful if you are feeling resistance or negativity, however, I would not use RT to go digging around for emotions and feelings that aren't easily coming to the surface. In my opinion, Larry really missed the mark on Lester's teachings here. My longtime spiritual teacher (who I have the utmost respect for and who has a very high level of integrity) confirmed that one should not be dwelling on negative things.

I think the biggest thing missing from the Release Technique is the focus on love and appreciation. Those big gains I experienced were a result of something I was doing intuitively. I would release on a specific thought, and then send a strong feeling of love out into the universe. Most people who have had extraordinary gains were focusing on feelings of love.  One of the RT teachers received a $45 million dollar gain simply by releasing and sending love to everyone in her life starting from childhood.

I would recommend using the RT if you have any negativity or resistance present. Otherwise, I would completely focus on feelings of love and appreciation. It feels much better too! After I started practicing this again, I've started to experience big gains again. Shakti Gawain's book "Creative Visualization" has many of the exercises that I was doing intuitively that brought BIG results.

I wish you well on your journey!

Jessica

 

Tales from the land of “Blissonia”: Episode 3 — “This is MY show, damnit!”

So there I was watching my computer hard drive die a slow and painful death before my eyes. I listened in horror to that familiar “click of death” that many of us Mac users understand. Just a few hours before I was thinking I needed to back up, it had been awhile and this computer contained the only copy of my new book, a few new art pieces, my entire wedding planning folder and ALL of my Feng Shui & Beyond website data.

Damn, I should have listened to my intuition and responded immediately! I was totally screwed.

Of course I did what any ‘normal’ person might do… I completely lost it! I oscillated between “why-me-god?” ranting and blubbering sobs.

Thankfully, my hysteria only lasted a few minutes. I decided to go for a walk and do a little releasing.

I released on wanting to control my computer, my life, and my financial situation. I surrendered to the Divine, which was actually quite easy since I had no choice but to accept the fact that there was no amount of reasoning, bargaining, bribing, or threatening that would bring my poor little Mac back to life. “Oh, well,” I said to myself.

And then suddenly, I got a huge burst of Divine wisdom. Why was I playing the victim? This is my reality, my show and I created this. It was time to get off the “poor me” bandwagon and take control now!

I made a decision—I am in charge. I am powerful. I can get whatever I want. I stood up and walked back to the house with my head held high and my shoulders thrown back with a renewed stride of self-confidence.

When I got back to the house, I hooked my dead computer up to another in an attempt to retrieve any data (I just knew that it was gonna work). Of course it did. Beyond all reason, I was able to retrieve only the data that wasn’t backed up (including my iTunes playlists!) before it died completely.

Thank you universe!

Shortly after, my incredibly generous mother offered to buy me a new computer—she had some money that she inherited from her father and was saving it for such an occasion!

Double thank you!!!

This was the same day I pulled the “Pele” card that teaches that seeming disasters or destruction are actually gateways to renewal, rebirth, and change. I not only got a much need computer upgrade, but I also received a much need self-confidence upgrade as well.

 

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Tales from the land of “Blissonia”: Episode 2 — No longer psycho!

My good friend and neighbor is an older Hopi Indian who has had what we may call a “slightly checkered past.”

When he was younger, he watched his entire crew burn alive in the engine room of a military ship. This traumatic event caused him to retreat from the world to the rural mountains of Colorado. During this phase of his life (lasting over 20 years), he was a self-absorbed raging alcoholic and a womanizing creep. He was the kind of guy who would threaten to shoot you if you walked onto his property without permission. He was a real jerk!

His alcohol and drug-fueled lifestyle helped him put behind that horrible day in the engine room. In actuality, he forgot the event. It was as if his memory had been erased.

After over 20 years of living an excessive life that would put Iggy Pop to shame, he began a spiritual journey. And as it often happens, when he began looking within himself all of the demons popped to the surface as readily as a cork in water. He couldn’t handle it—he went “nuts.” He ended up locked down in the psych ward of a VA hospital.

Fortunately, with the help of anti-psychotic drugs he was released back to the reclusive Colorado mountains.

I met him during this heavily medicated phase of his life. He told me what he was diagnosed with—he was a schizophrenic, bipolar, manic-depressive, psychotic. I didn’t know whether to laugh or run out of his house fearing for my life.

He eventually stopped taking medication, switched over to naturopathic remedies, and used meditation and prayer to deal with his affliction. All I can say is that his psychiatrist was less then enthusiastic about his choice! He was instructed to install a special phone line in his house, which required him to call a hotline every day and answer a series of questions. If he answered these questions incorrectly, he had to go back to the VA hospital. He also had to engage in weekly visits with his psychiatrist to keep his “crazy” under control. He probably did this for over 2 years.

My dad and I took him to the weekend Release Technique class. Although it was labeled as an “Abundance Course,” it turned out to be much more than that. My dear Hopi friend finally found the tools to release and let go of all his past traumas. He learned from the Release Technique that life is a decision, so he decided that he wasn’t going to be “crazy” anymore. The three of us continued to release weekly. His psychiatrist noticed the results immediately. And after a few months of releasing, she told him that he was no longer a schizophrenic, bipolar, manic-depressive, psychotic. He was just fine and didn’t need to come back anymore!!

Wow! No longer psycho!! And we just thought it was a weekend class aimed at becoming a millionaire.

I have seen and heard of some amazing results from that weekend “Abundance” Course. I ended up finding my divine partner and am now engaged to be married. An acquaintance cured a debilitating neurological disease. My friend finally escaped the confines of caring for her elderly parents. Her daughter cured rheumatoid arthritis. My Hopi friend shed his psychotic behavior and found himself a wonderful woman (at the class!). An acquaintance saved her house from the Katrina disaster by simply releasing—all her neighbors’ houses were destroyed, yet hers remained untouched aside from a tree that had blown over which she was planning to pay to have it removed anyway.

The gains go on and on. To read more success stories from the Release Technique check out:

Tales from the land of “Blissonia”: Episode 1 — $54 in a nanosecond…

Life is a decision.

That’s what the Release Technique and Lester Levenson teach us. At some point in life, you just have to decide to be happy, successful, loving, abundant, or whatever other secret desire floats your celestial boat.

Today, I made a decision that I was going to have the most awesome day of my life. I decided that I would be free, limitless, and irrefutably happy. And in alignment with “The Method,” I always questioned, “Can it get any better, can I let go and find out?”

I went to a natural hot spring and discovered I was the only one there — I had the place to myself! I was able to release for hours in pure sulphur-pool bliss. I released on money, health, freedom, wanting, and desire. I surrendered completely to a state of beingness.

I also made a decision that I would win the lottery — no problem. **

I walked into the grocery store and won $54 from the lottery… no surprise. *wink* I also experienced the most divine state of peace I’ve had in years.

Like the wonderful workbook “A Course in Miracles” asserts — if miracles aren’t happening in your life, something is wrong.

**Note: Lester encourages us to go for the material things, because when you have abundance, health, love, etc. it is much easier to go free.**

Many, many thanks to the Universe. Go for the gold!

Be well, Jessica

The IRS and tax season… no big whoop when you’ve got the Release Technique.

Most people break into a cold sweat (and maybe even a bottle of vodka and some Vicodin) when they think about taxes and the IRS.

Thankfully, Larry Crane and the wonderful teachers at the Release Technique know the knee-buckling, migraine-inducing, potato-chip-binging terror that most people have when it comes to tax season. As a result they offer some pretty wonderful release sessions in their workshops and classes.

At the class that my dad and I took in Lake Tahoe, Larry had us release our fears about taxes and in turn had us practice showering the IRS with love. Larry explained that we are all One. And if that is true, then we are the IRS and vice versa. “They got it wrong!” he explained in his characteristically corny sense of humor, “It shouldn’t be spelled IRS, it should be IRU.” Larry and the teachers cunningly convinced our overactive egos that the IRS is a service — they are here to serve us — and that if we are all One, then the IRS certainly isn’t going to tax themselves… hehehe.

This is the point where you are probably thinking “bullsh*t” right? Maybe you think there is no way the Release Technique can be some sort of super accountant capable of refund miracles. Well, you’re wrong.

Two gentlemen in our class (not 1… 2!) owed the IRS over $1 million. After releasing, the IRS admitted that they had made a mistake and as a result both men owed absolutely nothing.

My dad sold a huge chunk of his investments last year with significant capital gains. He assumed he would owe about $50,000 to the IRS. After releasing, he got his tax return from his accountant and he only owed $1000!

I also had about $10,000 in capital gains last year. Guess what? I owed absolutely nothing this year.

The Divine Wow strikes again!

The Release Technique is the perfect wedding coordinator.

This may seem like a small gain to many of you, but I find it to be extraordinary.

To make a long story short, I wanted to hire a musician named Vance for my wedding ceremony. Although he was available, he required a 3-hour minimum and his rate was quite high. There was no way I needed Vance for 3 hours, so I was feeling a bit discouraged.

My wedding planner suggested another musician, Cambria, who was much cheaper and was willing to play for only an hour. My wedding planner was kind enough to book her for me, although she didn’t really play the kind of music I was looking for based on the audio samples I received. I sent her an email inquiring if she could play other types of music.

I didn’t hear back from Cambria for a while, so I did some releasing after which I emailed Vance asking if he wouldn’t mind playing for less than 3 hours—I had nothing to lose, right?

Lo and behold, Vance replied back saying that he would play for a shorter period!

I sat at my computer contemplating how to write an email to my wedding planner and Cambria that 1) didn’t make me appear “high maintenance”; and 2) didn’t offend Cambria.

As I was sitting there, I got an email from Cambria saying she had booked Vance for me, had secured a reduced hourly rate so that I wouldn’t be paying any more, AND that my wedding planner was taking care of everything!

I was absolutely stunned. Since when does a musician book another musician, negotiate performance rates, and coordinate with the wedding planner?

I love releasing.

The Divine Wow delights again. I asked for $5000 and got it… in a very unexpected way.

Before I could take "The Seven Day Final Step Retreat" offered by the Release Technique, I had to complete the “Goals and Resistance Course” at home as a pre-requisite.

No surprise, I had to set some goals. I set a goal to receive $5000 from an unexpected source by the end of February (less than two months away at the time).

I used the Release Technique diligently to release all my attachments and aversions to my goal. And then I forgot about it.

My brother called up at the end of February and invited me to join him and his two daughters on a trip to the Caribbean—an all expenses paid holiday including food, drinks and accommodations. He had already paid for four people, but the fourth person couldn’t go so he wanted me to come. Guess what the cost per person was?

Yep... $5000

You’re good, universe, real good.

The Release Technique is my knight in shining armor—when it comes to abundance and prosperity anyway.

After learning the Release Technique at the weekend “Abundance Course,” I had stripped away a lot of my fear about the economy, my financial situation, and my future.

After taking two weekend abundance courses about 3 months apart, it came time for me to really get a job—I needed to start bringing in some income. As I searched through the job classifieds reviewing the 7 available jobs in the County (like I said, I moved to a County that had suffered the worst of any in Colorado) I started to get a bit worried, but started applying for jobs anyway.

This is where it gets weird.

For the life of me, I couldn’t get a job — not even a menial gig for $9/hour tuning skis or shoveling snow! I felt like I was in Bizarro World. What the hell was I going to do? I thought those were my fallbacks if I couldn’t manifest money.

Good thing I didn’t get a job, because out of the blue came an opportunity to attend the “Seven Day Final Step Retreat” in Lake Tahoe.  And since I didn’t have a job, I had free time to go.

The retreat was amazing. I had a major breakthrough that encouraged my commitment to go free in a BIG WAY!

I came back from that retreat with an unyielding promise to myself to go free no matter what. It was just a decision.

Good think too, because when I got back I didn’t know how I was going to pay my credit card bills or my student loans that were due in a few weeks and my checking account had gone into overdraft. If I hadn’t made a firm commitment, I would have immediately started looking for a job.

Instead, I locked myself up in my house and released for a week straight (12-14 hours a day) on money. By the time I was finished I was as carefree as daisy in a meadow.

I had no fear. None. Zilch.

A few days later I got an unexpected check for $8000.

All I can say is “wow!” This stuff works! Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Release Technique.

The Release Technique even fixes plumbing problems! I’m not kidding…

In a blinding, blissed-out crazed high, I decided to move back to my hometown in Colorado and renovate a house that had been rented for 15 years by a man (who we will call ‘Fred’) whose idea of maintenance was to put the wood-burning stove on a car jack and a log because the chimney was cut too short.

My dad tried to warn me that Fred had some “serious plumbing issues,” but in my state of positive naivety I ignored him.

I spent 6 months renovating the house by myself. When I finally moved in and took my first bath, that’s when I noticed things weren’t quite right. The bathtub water backed up into the toilet, bathroom sink and the kitchen sink. I ended up hiring someone to clean out the septic tank and I pulled the toilet and snaked the septic line myself.

I gagged, dry-heaved and cried, but at least it was over. And I had a great story to tell.

Things went pretty well and I was sure the problem had been fixed. Then my plumbing backed up again. I pulled the toilet, snaked the sewer line and cried.

A month went by.

My plumbing backed up again. Once more, I pulled the toilet, snaked the sewer line and cried. (This isn’t a typo… I really did this 3 times!) I pulled rags, T-shirts, and all sorts of unmentionable things out of the sewer line—no wonder Fred had so many plumbing problems! I felt like I was home-free.

Then my plumbing clogged up again!!! I was absolutely panic-stricken. I had stood ankle deep in sewage, almost drowned in the septic tank, spent all of my money on this renovation and I was going to have to find another place to live. I’ve never felt so stupid, helpless, and impulsive in all my life. I also felt like my usual good luck had turned for the worse and the universe was out to get me. “What a f*cking idiot!” I kept telling myself over and over.

I sat on my front stoop, bawling and blubbering like a daytime-drama queen. In between my pathetic sobs, I released on my plumbing — “Can I let go of trying to control my plumbing? Yes, I can.” “Can I let go of trying to control my plumbing? Yes, I can. Would I? Yes, I would.” etc… Against all common sense, I decided to pull the toilet and snake the sewer one more time.

What a breakthrough! (no pun intended…)

The plumbing snake took a completely different path than the other 3 times and popped up through the dirt! The snake had revealed where a pipe had become separated and a clean-out was buried in dirt. It was such an easy fix, but impossible to detect without a high-end plumbing camera (which costs a whopping $800 if you have a plumber do it!).  Another huge gain was that this all happened before the first freeze of the season. Had there been freezing weather when I had clogged plumbing, the whole septic line could have cracked. Thank you universe!!!!

I have no more plumbing problems and I have the Release Technique to thank exclusively for this freedom! I no longer have to hold my breath and pray when I take a bath.

Three cheers for releasing!

I got me a man! How the release technique helped me find my soul mate.

I didn’t actually set out to find my soul mate when I took my first Release Technique course—it just kinda happened.

Without spoiling the surprise, we had to do an exercise on Sunday afternoon of the "Breakthrough Abundance Course" that worked on improving relationships. You are supposed to choose someone that really ‘chaps your hide,’ so, naturally, I chose my ex-boyfriend who I lived with for thirteen years. (We only had a slight commitment problem *smile*).

Without any regret, we had broken up. I only chose him for the exercise because he drove me crazy and it seemed like a good situation to practice on.

I didn’t even give it a second thought.

Then, when I started dating again (after thirteen years!) I noticed a lot of garbage coming up. I hadn’t realized how dependent I had gotten on my relationship to make me feel secure, loved and whole. It was time to use the release technique.

I released on everything related to relationships.

Then something peculiar happened. I started talking to my ex-boyfriend again and it was as if he had been to the release course — I don’t know what that was about… spontaneous, involuntary releasing??? (Actually, they say in the release technique workshops that when you release, everyone around you releases too whether they are conscious of it or not. Well, it’s true!)

My ex had completely transformed. He was kind, gentle, loving and tender. What’s more, he had shed all of his “control-freak” tendencies and appeared to have sort of spiritual awakening. He had been kicked in the ass by what Rob Brezsny describes as the Divine Wow.

In short, we let go of all our past grievances; recognized the true love and connection we had with one another; and stop being so damn stubborn. Most importantly, we learned to truly love each other. The kind of love Lester Levenson talks about — loving another for exactly who they are where the ultimate goal is to see the other person completely happy.

We are getting married on 1/1/11.

Thank you Lester and Larry!

With much love,
Jessica

*Read more on “How I used feng shui and the release technique to attract love.”