Lester Levenson And The Origins Of The Sedona Method

Sedona Method creator, Lester Levenson was sent home from hospital to die in his New York home in 1952.

 

Lester Levenson had been told that he had only months to live following a heart attack which was not his first.

 

Lester Levenson was told that he shouldn’t even walk unless it was absolutely necessary and that he should get slip on shoes because tying shoelaces could kill him. He felt angry, hurt and fearful while he got his affairs in order.

 

He went three days feeling powerless and sorry for himself before deciding to commit a hopefully painless suicide by overdosing on his prescription medication.

This feeling that he had the power to end his life on his own terms inspired Lester Levenson to get back a feeling of power over his life.

Over the next three months he immersed himself in searching out the answers to life. This is what lead the creation of the Sedona Method.



During the initial four weeks Lester Levenson went over everything he already knew and searched through various books.

After realising that the answers weren’t there he turned inward. That’s when he was able to make some amazing breakthroughs which resulted in the Sedona Method.  

Lester Levenson found that he was looking for happiness. Indeed everything he’d ever done was inspired by the desire to be happy.

The seeds of the Sedona Method were planted when he considered a past relationship with a woman he’d loved. She’d left him for another man and Lester Levenson could still feel the pain of the rejection.

This was the point at which he realised that love was the key to happiness. It dawned on him that he was unhappy when he wanted to be loved by someone and happy when he felt loving towards someone.

This realisation was to give birth to the Sedona Method. Lester Levenson soon understood that all his illnesses, including his heart attacks were caused by his desire to control. Wanting to change the past was making him ill.

As he went over the relationship with the woman who had left him, he remembered that ulcers appeared in his stomach the very day she went.

He later got rid of his ulcers using Sedona Method. Lester Levenson came to the realisation that he’d been fighting with her decision for over twenty years, wishing it hadn’t happened.

He focussed on feeling only love for all his past experiences and found that that completely released their emotional charge from his mind.

Lester Levenson continued with his inner work and worked on fine tuning the Sedona Method. He asked himself what his mind was and realised that his mind and the outer world were the same thing.

His mind was what made his life what it was. Before the Sedona Method, Lester Levenson would hold his head in his hands for hours, trying to stop his thoughts because there was so much negativity there. He later perfected the Sedona Method for removing negativity.

Soon, Lester Levenson was using the Sedona Method to release all his negativity, eventually arriving at his deepest fear - the fear of death.

He had learned that all thoughts were based on feeling and he knew that this fear of dying was just the same as all the others, only a feeling. So, he used the Sedona Method to release it.

Lester Levenson went on releasing all the negativity from his mind and felt joy beyond description.

But he didn’t stop there, he kept going, realising that this joy had no end or limit if he continued to use the Sedona Method.

He asked himself what lay beyond the joy and used the Sedona Method to release his resistance to experiencing it.

When he finished he entered a state of total imperturbability that he called hootlessness which lasted until his death at the age of 84.

Lester Levenson had taken himself from a dying man to a fully realised master within three months.

 In fact, he said that his awakening really only happened during the final month following his creation of the Sedona Method because he didn’t know what he was doing prior to that.

During that time his body completely healed and six months later he’d become a millionaire thanks to using the Sedona Method, without investing his own money.

Lester Levenson committed the rest of his life to helping others in their desire for freedom.

Here's a talk by Lester Levenson entitled "The Free State":

 

With the blessing of Lester Levenson, the method is now taught by Hale Dwoskin as the Sedona Method and Larry Crane as the Release Technique.