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Meet Your Goals Be a Success
Lester
Levenson's Amazing Story
"I
was born July 19, 1909 in Elizabeth, New Jersey into a middle class family as a
very shy person. I tried to do things the way they were supposed to be done --
doing the right thing, getting a good education, and being the best in my field.
My natural inclination was towards science. Especially the science of the world,
and of man himself. I graduated from Rutgers University in 1931 as a physicist,
after which I worked 20 some years in physics and engineering.
"I also went into various businesses,
including restaurants, lumber, building and oil, intertwined with engineering,
wanting to make money-- wanting to make it in the world. At that time, I did not
know what I now know -- that what I was seeking was actually the answers to life
itself. And nothing that I had worked at would give me that answer. As the years
went by, I became heavy with depression and with sickness. By 1952, I had been
through constant illness -- I even had jaundice three or so times a year. I had
an enlarged liver, kidney stones, spleen trouble, hyper and hypos acidity,
ulcers that perforated and formed lesions, and to top it off, I had at least 10
years of migraine headaches.
"This all culminated in 1952 when I had
my second coronary thrombosis."
"After the second coronary, I was told I
would not live much longer -- that I might die any day and shouldn't make the
effort to take so much as a step unless I necessarily had to. I was extremely
fearful of dying, but I said to myself, "You're still breathing, Lester --
there is still a chance." So I sat down and began thinking on an
"around the clock" basis. I had been considered a very smart boy. I
always made the honor roll. I had been the recipient of a four-year scholarship
to Rutgers back in the days when not many scholarships were handed out. But then
being told after my second heart attack that I wouldn't live, I said to myself,
"Lester, you are stupid, stupid,
stupid."
"Having lived 42 or so years, and having
reached the end of the line without happiness, without health -- therefore all
this knowledge you have accumulated is of no avail. I had studied Watson's
behavior in the 30's and Freud's in the late 30's and early 40's. I had studied
the philosophies. I had studied logic. I studied economics. I studied all the
major fields of man, and with all that knowledge there; I was at the end of the
line. This made me realize that...
"The Accumulated Knowledge of Man Was of
No Use."
"So I decided to start from scratch.
Forget all that knowledge. Begin from point 0 and see what you can pick up. So,
I posed some pretty basic questions and asking myself what I really wanted out
of life.
"I began to get some answers.
Investigating further, I made some startling discoveries. And I started getting
better.
"I began correcting all my thoughts and
feelings in that direction. And in that process, I discovered I was getting
happier, freer, lighter, and feeling better in general. I continued until all
the ailments I had in my physical body corrected. All my miseries dropped away.
And I ended up in a place in which I was happy all the time, without sorrow.
"Not that the world stopped pushing
against me -- it continued -- but I was at a place where I could resolve things
almost immediately. Having cleared out the negative fears, all the negative 'I
can not's,' I would focus right on the answer to every problem, and get it very
quickly.
And so,
My whole life turned around from being
depressed and sick, to being happy and in perfect health all the time!
"One of the things that happened in this
process was my identification with others. I saw that we are all related we are
all inter-connected -- each mind is like a radio broadcasting and receiving
station. That we are all tuned into each other unconsciously -- that we are just
not aware of it. That life was meant to be beautiful... meant to be happy all
the time with no sorrow. And to be with perfect health. And so after reaching
that high point of understanding in 1952, I have wanted to help others to
discover what I had discovered."
"I Believe If I Can Do It, Anyone Can Do
It."
Over the remaining 42 years of Lester's life,
he attracted thousands of students to his work - not because he spent time and
money marketing his discovery, but because he was a living example of the
possibility you and I possess when we learn to set our ego aside.
The reason so many of us fail to reach our
goals is not due to a lack of effort. It
is because we produce in our outer world what we hold in our inner world. If I desire more money, I reaffirm in my mind that I don't not "have
enough", and it is lack that I create.
Positive thinking alone does not change this.
You must learn to release the associated feelings. And when you do, you also learn to let go of the thousands of thoughts
you have associated with the feeling. This
frees you to see more opportunity, to experience greater happiness regardless of
outcomes and literally attract into your life what you want.
It is our desires, our wants, that prevent not
only happiness, but our producing the results we seek in our life.
The results include:
* Less stress
Happiness and success in life have nothing to
do with hard work, education or what you "have" to begin with. Happiness and success are equally available to everyone when
you learn how to "release" the blocks, the thoughts and feelings, of
limitation you hold. It is
literally as effortless as holding a pen and letting it fall to the floor!
The Power of Positive Feelings You feel powerful and strong. You feel an energy inside you that says "I am here to do something great!" You feel yourself walk into any situation, confident and at peace. You feel successful. Ah, how good it feels! Have you ever noticed that we ask each other, "How are you feeling today?" I have never met anyone who asked me, "How are you thinking today John?" Why is this? Perhaps it is because how we feel is how we live. If I feel miserable, my life reflects that misery. If I feel confident, then I act confident and I attract into my life that which I desire because I feel I deserve it. In every moment, you and I feel something. And these feelings we have shape our destiny. Notice I write "these feelings we have". Feelings do not have us; we have feelings. Most personal development focuses on thinking. Change your thinking and you change your life. I agree, but thinking arises from feeling. If I am holding tension in my body, if I feel tense, then my thinking is shaped by tension. And I react accordingly. That tension is the result of accumulated thoughts and feelings. And the more thoughts that accumulate, the greater the tension (also known as stress) until ultimately I make myself ill; both physically and mentally. Positive thinking is a great idea, but it has limitations, does it not? Can you tell me what your next thought will be? Not without thinking about it! And by the time you have come up with an answer your mind has already moved on to something else. Plus all thoughts are found in the past. One cannot think in this moment. One can only experience this moment and it is this moment and the succession of this moment that make your life. Right now, plus right now, plus right now, equal your life and the results you create. To make a change in how you experience and what you do with "right now" you must act on the feeling level to make true changes. And by changing how you feel right now, you change your destiny. We all know of this power. It is a power we are born with that becomes discarded when we are told to stop feeling and start thinking. All limitations exist only in our thinking, yet that is exactly what everyone is telling us to do! Get an education and learn your limits! If you have ever watched a young child develop, you will notice how they do not accept "no" for an answer. Failure does not stop us until we learn that failure means something bad. We then spend the rest of our life trying to reprogram our mind with clichés about how failure is the foundation of success, but do we really believe it? As children we fall, we hurt, we let the feeling go and we take off running again. As adults we fall, we hurt, and we tell stories about it for the rest of our life to anyone who will listen! If you want to achieve a breakthrough in any area of your life, stop trying to reprogram your mind and notice how you feel. When you set a goal, notice the feelings that arise for you. Fear? Anxiety? Doubt? They are nothing more than feelings; electro-chemical impulses. The good news? You can learn to let these feelings go and when you do, your potential has new life and it expands beyond the limits of thought. You feel a new energy when you realize all that prevents you from having all that you desire are these feelings which you have chosen to hold on to because you think, yes you think, they serve you in some way. No analyzing is necessary, nor programming or re-programming, nor words; just feelings. Powerful feelings. To re-learn how to access your natural ability to let go of any unwanted feeling discover the Sedona Method Course. Click here to order your free tape and subscription.
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