Lately,
I seem to be doing a lot of travelling in the car, when I have weeks like that,
I like to make maximum use of the time and so rather than listening to the
radio/iPod I tend to catch up on self development audio CDs and downloads that
I don’t really get time to listen to in a normal day.
Yesterday,
I was listening to something that I downloaded probably a couple of years ago
but never got around to listening to. It
was an interview with Michael Neill (whom I’ve mentioned numerous times in
other blog posts) and an entrepreneur who after making millions, decided that
he had no meaning in his life and had a life changing moment when he stood on
the balcony of his NY apartment and for 2 hours considered ending it all. He didn’t!
This person is Larry Crane.
When
he realised that he really didn’t want to die, he set about finding what was
missing in his life (although at that point, he didn’t know what it was) – he thought
about trying Transcendental Meditation and Yoga, but they didn’t appeal along
with a whole load of other alternative therapies. After months of searching and by complete
fluke, he came across a process called ‘Release Technique’.
I
was quite fascinated by his story so when I got home, I looked up ‘Release
Technique’ which is a programme that was developed by Lester Levenson. He has an extraordinary story of his
own. He was told by doctors that he only
had 2 weeks to live. Lester wasn’t about
to let that happen so went about finding ways to beat his illness. Cutting a long story short, he came up with the
‘Release Technique’ and went on to live happily and healthily for another 40
years.
Now,
I haven’t done the programme (obviously, I only listened to the CD and learned
about it yesterday), but I did download one of Larry Crane’s books, ‘Love
yourself and let the other person have it your way’ and despite only having
read 50% so far, I have already got a couple of excellent insights which I’d
like to share with you:
‘Resistance in your mind is like a virus in
your computer. Your mind works like a computer. Your mental computer malfunctions when you
put negative programmes in it.” “Once
you start deleting the mental viruses, your life starts to work better and
better.”
He
maintains that the mind is actually just a video recorder that captures events
and continues to replay them. These are
often negative ‘programmes’ which over time create negativity in your mind
which manifest not only through mental illnesses such as stress or depression
but also physical illnesses. He says
that in order to be mentally and physically healthy, we need to remove those
negative programmes.
Now
that in itself is not unique. Training
as a Neuro Linguistic Practitioner, we learn exactly that through our education,
but what I did like is the process he described for removing those negative
programmes:
Exercise
Read
through the whole exercise at least once before you try it – so that you’ll
know what to do and it will flow more easily.
1.
Think
about one thing that you are struggling with at the moment (eg a relationship,
money, work etc).
2.
Put
your head down toward your chest or stomach and see if there is a contraction
there, when you think about the problem, you are likely to feel a contraction
either in your stomach, chest or head, it may feel like a clutching, an uncomfortable
or tight feeling.
3.
If
there is, get in touch with that feeling, visualise where it is and open an
imaginary door right over that contraction and just allow the negative energy
to pass through that door. Then let it
pass through the door some more. And
again. And again. When you feel it’s all
gone, close the door.
4.
Check
and see how you feel now. Check the
contraction. I’ll bet that it’s all
gone! If after completing the exercise you
find that there is still a bit there ... do it again until it’s all gone.
You
can do this exercise again and again working on each of your problems until all
of those negative feelings which have manifested in your body have been released.
When
I tried it, I couldn’t believe how much better I felt. When I think of the issue I used, I no longer
have a negative association with it. All
the angst I was having seems to have been removed. After a few weeks of carrying my issue round
(it’s not yet resolved by the way), but I don’t have the same negative feelings
I had when I think about it now.
Give
it a go for yourself ... it may just be the thing you’ve been looking for. If you’re interested in learning more about
the ‘Release Technique’, here are the web addresses I looked at:
Until
next time ... have a wonderful weekend.
Jo
