About this episode
HALE DWOSKIN, New York Times Best-Selling author of The Sedona Method who is featured in the Letting Go movie, is the CEO and Director of Training of Sedona Training Associates, an organization that teaches courses based on the emotional releasing techniques inspired by his mentor, Lester Levenson. Hale is an international speaker and featured faculty member at Esalen and the Omega Institute. He is also one of the 24 featured teachers of the book and movie phenomenon, “The Secret,” as well as a founding member of The Transformational Leadership Council. For over three decades, he has regularly been teaching The Sedona Method to individuals and corporations throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, and leading coach trainings and advanced retreats since the early 1990s. He is also the co-author with Lester Levenson of Happiness Is Free: And It’s Easier than You Think (a five-book series). Sedona Training Associates is an educational training organization that was created to continue fulfilling Lester Levenson’s wish to share the practical and powerful methods he discovered for removing an individual’s personal blocks to abundance, health, happiness, and success. Many thousands of people from all walks of life worldwide have benefited from this work during the thirty-plus year history of The Sedona Method Course. Sedona Training Associates currently offers seminars throughout the US, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Eastern and Western Europe, and Japan. It also publishes audio programs that are distributed worldwide. Sedona Training Associates is dedicated to bringing lasting positive change to the planet through education and supporting the transformation of the world consciousness to bring about lasting inner and outer peace, environmental sustainability and social justice for all. Books & DVDs: The Sedona Method: Your Key to Lasting Happiness, Success, Peace and Emotional Well-Being Letting Go: Transform Your Life - Transform the World Happiness Is Free, and It's Easier Than You Think! The Sedona Method Compilation Album Letting Go! The Truth About The Sedona Method: How To Rise To The Top Of Any Situation - The Hale Dwoskin Interview For more information please visit: www.Sedona.com Summary and transcript of this interview Interview recorded 6/8/2013 YouTube Video Chapters: 00:00:00 - Introduction to Hale Dwoskin and the Sedona Method 00:05:55 - Letting go of Inertia and Compulsive Doingness 00:10:09 - Pretending to be in Acceptance and Peace 00:14:05 - The Illusion of Differences in Spiritual Realization 00:18:09 - Cooking the Seeds: Maintaining the Non-Dual State 00:22:22 - Letting go and living life open 00:26:00 - Living in a Soap Bubble 00:29:17 - Letting Go and Nonduality 00:32:43 - Balancing Nonduality and Life 00:37:27 - The Full Catastrophe of Life 00:42:36 - The Difficulty of Non-Duality 00:47:28 - The Natural Process of Dissolution 00:51:25 - The movie analogy and the limitations of analogies 00:55:09 - Dealing with Samskaras and Vasanas 00:57:53 - The Grieving Process and Allowing for Experience 01:01:30 - Healing Trauma and Letting Go 01:05:15 - The Importance of True Teachers 01:08:59 - Meeting Lester Webinson 01:13:38 - Finding Peace in Non-Duality 01:17:37 - The Analogy of Accumulating Vasanas and Impressions 01:21:46 - The School of Thought on Reincarnation 01:25:40 - Turning Rocks into Sand 01:29:07 - Recognizing Our Limitations and Embracing What We Are 01:31:54 - Beginnings in New York City 01:35:39 - Receiving the Teachings of Sedona Method 01:39:49 - Growth through Challenging Experiences 01:43:43 - Integration of Energetic Systems 01:47:12 - Exploring a New Modality 01:52:01 - Teaching from the Heart 01:56:14 - Following Your Heart to Achieve Freedom from Suffering 02:00:11 - Conclusion and Farewell