Releasing 101: Mastering The Basics

Filed Under Uncategorized | In the Abundance Course, Larry teaches three distinct ways to release. Have you been using only one, or perhaps only two of these approaches? Or, have you been using all three? You dont need to use them all, but I have found that using all of them at different times really helps one to move forward faster. It seems that some graduates forget they have these three powerful tools at their disposal. This newsletter will cover all three approaches to letting go, allowing you get the most from your releasing. It will be sort of a Releasing 101 class, covering some of the important basics and perhaps answering some questions you may have had about one or several of the releasing approaches. This newsletter will be helpful to both new and advanced releasers as a review of these basics. Something I learned in gymnastics, which I practiced for twelve years and in which I eventually became a state champ, was that IT IS ALL ABOUT MASTERING THE BASICS. Forget the so-called advanced stuff. Get the basics mastere d and youll be unstoppable. The basics are everything, particularly with Releasing. Before we begin, let us be clear that this is NOT a substitute for taking the Abundance Course. If a graduate forwarded this article to you (which would be out of integrity for a graduate to do), and you think you can learn releasing by reading this article and/or from other graduate newsletters, then please let me dispel this myth for you. You will only end up frustrated, not released.

To really learn releasing and master it, it takes an experienced guide, such as Larry Crane, walking us through the process over and over until we know it in our bones. I can tell you how to fly a plane, but unless you practice it over and over under expert guidance to really get the feel for it, you will only end up crashing badly. With all that being said. Lets explore the Three Methods of Releasing.

Method One: Releasing The Core Desires

The first approach is what Larry calls the Three Wants approach. Here we pull up a feeling and then trace it back to the underlying want and let it go. Whatever feeling or answer we get, we ask ourselves, Is this coming from a wanting approval, wanting control or wanting to be safe? And then, we ask the three releasing questions:

1. Could I let it go? 2. Would I let it go? 3. When? This is the most effective approach to releasing. Why? Because it addresses the underlying desire that created all the other lacking feelings. A single want can create hundreds of lacking feelings and thousands of thoughts of limitation. Can you see why youd want to knock out the underlying desire? When you strike the rootthe underlying wantit is like taking an ax to an entire thought-feeling structure based on that desire. Ive mentioned this sort of thing in previous newsletters, but lets explore it a little deeper The three questions, Could I? Would I? When? are invitations to let go.

They are not commands or demands. They are inviting and allowing instead of pushing and controlling. They also bring you up into courageousness and acceptance. We cannot release from below courageousness. It is impossible. Finally, the three questions open up discrimination, which is the most important factor. The question Could I let it go? is asking us to discriminate Is it possible to let it go? The answer is always YES. It is always possible. YOU are the owner of the feeling, arent you? These feelings are programs in YOUR computer, right? So, if you cant hit the delete button, who can? The question Would I let it go? is asking if you are willing to let it go. It takes a willingness to let go and undo the suppression. If you do not wish to let it go, you wontunless you suppress so much that you eventually explode. And, then you only let off a little steam. But, that does nothing to the boiler building up more of the pressurized feelings inside. The first of Lesters Six Steps to Releasing is most important. It states, You must want imperturbablity/freedom more than you want approval, control or security. This is where most people are off. If thats not in place, it is going to be difficult, if not impossible, to release. Youll just be spinning your wheels. You must get to the place where you decide, Okay, Ive had enough of this. I want freedom more than I want to hold on this lacking feeling and I choose to be free of this instead of hold onto it. You will then let go of any thought, feeling or desire that is not in alignment with complete freedom and imperturbability. Lester said there are only two reasons why a person does not release:

1. They dont believe they can. 2. They dont want to. The first two releasing questions address these issues. With the first question, you realize Yes, you CAN let it go. With the second question, you are given a chance to decide that Yes, you ARE WILLING to let it go. The third releasing question, When? is an invitation to let it go NOW as opposed to working on it or putting it off to some future date that seems more convenient. Putting it off is always your ego trying to hold onto your self-sabotage programs. If you wish to release, the answer to When? is always, Now. I choose to let it go, right now. This third question is more important than most people realize. It is a significant part of what makes releasing the most effective method of self-growth on the planet. Instead of messing around with your programs and knocking out a single program or negative tendency every few months like other selfhelp styles and mind-body therapies, you can knock out a limiting tendency every second. In four seconds you can knock out four tendencies, and thus accomplish an entire years worth of growth. And you can keep this going every moment of your day. Can you see why Lesters Method is so powerful? Another great thing about those first two releasing questions is that they help pull you out of your NOs which are ego resistance, and into YES which is Acceptance and Beingness. Yes, is Beingness. No, is ego digging in its heels, keeping you stuck in limitation. Just answering Yes to the first two releasing questions can get the ball rolling for you.

So, keep it going Practice saying Yes to every feeling that arises and watch what happens. Youll be pulling yourself up into Acceptance and Peace, which will start evaporating all your AGFLAP instantly.

Method Two: Letting Go Of Figuring Things Out

The second distinct approach to releasing that Larry teaches is what he calls the Figuring it Out Method. This series of questions, also known as the Ticket To Abundanc e and Bliss Exercise in your workbook, is designed to undo the biggest problem we all haveWe want to figure everything out! And, all this does is hold in mind our problems and spin us round and round as we fall deeper and deeper into turmoil over it. We pour more energy into it and actually make things worse! This tendency to figure things out guarantees our frustration and unhappinessas well as our holding onto an ever-worsening problem. The only way to solve a problem, according to Lester, is to let it go to drop it completely. That is what this second approach is about dropping the problem entirely. Have you ever lost your house keys and searched and searched for them, but to no avail? Then, exhausted and frustrated, you finally let it go, and shortly thereafter you knew exactly where they were? Thats just a hint towards what this approach is about. It actually goes far beyond merely accessing your memory to solve a problem. It brings us into the realm of All-knowingness, where where we can get answers to all questions instantly Answers which were never even programmed into our mental computer. All of the greatest minds throughout history have drawn their answers and inspirations from this realm that sits right behind the mind. So, what is this realm from which these answers come and from which all of mankinds greatest leaps have been born? I call it the realm of Intuition. It is like a universe-wide Internet.

From our own mental computer, we have the ability to access every other computer/mind and every space-time event in the history of the universe. We have access to all information at every point and in every momentpast, present and futurewhen we open ourselves up to this. Some have called their ability to access this realm of All knowingness clairvoyance, clairsentience, telepathy, remote viewing, sixth sense, etc. I just call it Intuition. No need to mystify it. We all have it and we all use it to varying degrees. The most successful of us use it the most. And, all we have to do to access this infinite storehouse of Universal Wisdom and Knowledge is let go of trying to figure things out. Thats it. Wanting to figure things out is literally holding in mind no answers and instructing our subconscious mind to withhold information from us. Have you ever felt confused? Thats a sure sign you were into trying to figure something out. Let go of trying to figure things out! As we let go, the answer comes to us from a deeper place often instantly, yet always in time for the situation to be addressed perfectly. When we trust Beingness/Intuition to bring us the answer, it will never let us down, and it will never be too late. But, it cannot help us until we stop struggling with the problem on our own. We need to let go of our own mental effort. Simply ask the question or set the intention, then let it go. When it is truly our intuition speaking to us, and not our ego pretending to be this innate Wisdom, the answer will always be 100% accurate. So, in this approach, we start with a problem or a goal in mind and ask

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Could you let go of trying to figure things out? Could you let go of wanting to know what the answers are? Could you let go of wanting to know what to do about it? Etc, etc, continuing with the remaining steps in the Ticket To Abundance and Bliss exercise in your Abundance Course workbook, until you are fully released.

If its not completely cleared, go through all the questions again until you are nice and quiet inside. You will notice a HUGE sense of relief when you let go of wanting to figure things out, which is very painful, frustrating and unnatural. Also, be careful. The mind constantly tries to give us lousy answers based on our past programming. It might give us an answer that we think is the answer, but, it almost always isnt otherwise we would have solved the problem already. What you need is an answer that comes from the deeper part of yourselfthat place of greater knowingness and wisdom. Answers from our intuition take all information into account. They are based on access to all knowledge, rather than just to whats available to your limited local mind in that moment. So, it always gives you the best answer. Again, your intuition is accessed as you let go of trying to figure things out. And, what often happens, is that the problem dissolves instantly, without your even needing an answer. When we let go of a problem, we generally dont need a solution for it, do we? Everything just starts working perfectly.

Method Three: The Kinesthetic Approach

The third releasing method is a more body-centered approach that Larry calls the Tube method. This is a very effective method for getting out of your head and out of thinking and into your body to release the suppressed feelings. It is a more kinesthetic approach that has made a big difference in my own releasing.

Sometimes, simply asking Could I let it go? etc, throws me into wanting to figure it out. This body -centered tube approach very rarely does that. It immediately brings me into the NOW, as that is the only place the body exists. In this approach you take notice of any unwanted feelings in your feeling center. The feeling center is generally your stomach or chest area. If you close your eyes and put your head down toward your stomach or chest, it can help disengage your thinking and help you feel more. Once you get used to disengaging your head, you can either put your hand on your feeling center, keeping your eyes open and head up, or you can just keep some awareness on your feeling center, as you release. The unwanted feeling is generally felt as a tightness, clenching or clutching in our chest or solar plexus area. Sometimes it is felt as a burning, a weight, a pressure or simply as an uncomfortable or unwanted energy. Note: Drugs, tobacco and alcohol tend to inhibit our ability to feel our feelings, as they are suppressants. Releasing and suppressants dont mix well. However, if you are on medications, dont get off them without checking with your doctor first. In the Tube approach, we recognize that the feelings are JUST ENERGY. Feelings are not dangerous, painful, or something to be feared, hated, suppressed or resisted. They are simply an impersonal energy that got pushed down and stored up in our body. And, we have the power to release this suppressed energy. In fact, this energy is pushing up to leave. However, 24 hours a day, every day, we wont let it. We expend much of our energy unconsciously pushing this unwanted energy deeper into our subconscious mind, away from our awareness, which would dissolve it. Its like were driving a splinter deeper into our finger instead of taking a pair of tweezers and pulling it out.

Even a splinter gets pushed up to the surface naturally. Our body spontaneously starts pushing it up and out. It does this with our feelings too, but we fight very hard to counteract this and end up with all sorts of problems from suppressing. To release using the Tube approach, we simply welcome up the feelings as best we can. We notice the clutching or unwanted feeling in our stomach or our chest when we think of a certain situation or person that bothers us. Then, we put a magical tube into this unwanted energy and watch or feel this energy simply passing through and leaving. And, as it does, we begin feeling lighter and lighter. Our mind doesnt know the difference between a fairly decent visualization and what is real, so visualizations can help us let go. When we see and/or feel in our minds eye that the energy is passing through and leaving, we will begin letting go of the unconscious clutching, resistance and holding on thats been keeping the feeling stuck in our body. Then it leaves without effort, pain or struggle. Remember, Every feeling is coming up to leave. So, let it leave! Thats all there is to it. Its an allowing. BE the allowing. It is NOT a pushing, efforting or forcing. Any push or effort would simply be our resistance locking it in place. Allowing, accepting, and welcoming the energy or sensation of the feeling will let it come up and pass through nice and easily. Some other visualizations that may be useful include a fire hydrant over the area, with the feeling/energy flushing out through the hydrant; a chimney over the area, with the feeling floating out as smoke; or a door or window over the area letting the energy pass through. Perhaps you have your own visualization. Whatever works for you is the right approach. This Tube approach is also very effective for staying in release throughout your day so that you are constantly clearing yourself more and more without effort.

To stay in release, just keep a little awareness in your stomach or chest area (emotional feeling center) throughout your day and imagine keeping it open as you go about your business. A good check on how effective this is and on whether or not you are actually in release is to consciously STOP RELEASING by closing it off, and notice the difference. It wont feel good. Once you note the difference, open it up again. If you were standing in a canoe holding a converstaion with someone, you would keep some of your awareness on your balance so as to not tip over. In the same way, you could keep a little bit of your awareness in your feeling center to keep yourself in release as you go about your day. As feelings get stirred up, if you keep a little awareness on your feeling center, you will notice this immediately and let it go on-the-spot, instead of letting it build up.

Getting The Most From the Three Releasing Approaches

So, there you go. Three tools for your releasing toolbox. Pull out which one feels most appropriate for you in the moment. Trust your Intuition. If you can attend a live class, it will help you apply these releasing tools at an even deeper level. During the live class, Larry often switches back and forth between the three approaches, training you to apply them easily and naturally in your daily life. The approach you use is not as important as your feeling lighter, happier and freer. Those are the tell -tale signs that you are letting go. If you have questions about any of the three approaches, please call Larry or consider attending a live class or retreat.

Are You Just Thinking You are Releasing?

One of the best ways to tell if you are really letting go, and not simply thinking you are, is to get an iCAP Release Meter.

Soon, I will be sharing with you more about this amazing device. To keep this newsletter relatively short, I need to hold back for now. But, Ive had one of these units for a couple of weeks andquite franklyI am blown away by it. Let me just say for now that it is not a toy. It is an unique and highly sophisticated biofeedback device tuned specifically to the state of release. There are other biofeedback devices on the market, but nothing like this. I believe the technology built into the iCAP will revolutionize the biofeedback industry and transform the entire self-improvement movement. Its patent-pending design is so cutting-edge in terms of functionality, usability, accuracy and convenience that similar home EEG (brainwave reading) units costing several thousand dollars are made irrelevent, if not obsolete. Right now there are only about twenty iCAP Release Meters available, if that. Blast your releasing to the next echelon. Call Larry today to learn more or to order an iCAP. Or, read your latest printed graduate newsletter for more information. Larry can be reached at 888-3339666. Talk with you again soon. Keep Releasing and keep sharing your gains! To start practicing the Release Technique visit: www.releasetechnique.com
Article by Peter Michel