Blog: My Assisting the Birth Process.
Posted by David Ellzey on July 24th, 2010
Did I actually help give birth with my hands? Not exactly. Did I contribute to many women giving birth without pain and medicine? I hope so … Read on for how. It’s fairly inspiring.
For thousands of years the female human body has been a vessel for the mystery of creating and birthing an entire human baby. I am awed by this mystery 
and miracle. Since the dawn of medicine, however, there has been movement away from natural childbirth toward using medicine and hospitalization for birth. (Thankfully, in 1957, my mother went against the norm, fought off the doctors, and had me naturally).
Recently I had the joy of sharing the stage at a Hypnobirthing Conference in London with my dear friend, Jenny Mullan, (far right in picture). She is a prominent teacher of Hypnobirthing in the UK. This program assists women to relax and allow the natural ability of their body to give birth with less pain and often no medication, resulting in a more harmonious experience for them AND the baby. Relaxing is the key to allowing the blood, hormones, and chemicals of the body to direct the whole event. When fear enters the scene, blood is sent elsewhere than needed, chemicals can’t help as much to create the looseness of the joints or relaxation of the muscles ~ and the whole process becomes about tension, pain, and control by medicine, rather than fluidity and the beautiful cosmic event that it’s meant to be. The national U.S. average of women giving birth with cesarean section surgery is now 31%, or one in three woman, compared to 4% in 1965.
Marie Mongan (far left in the picture) is the contemporary proponent of hypnobirthing through her book, Hypnobirthing - The Mongan Method and through teaching. She was the honoree at the conference and is a pioneer in reminding us that who we are already has the wisdom to give birth not only to a baby, but to each moment of life itself.
Where does the Sedona Method(R) come in? Jenny is a Sedona Method coach and uses it’s techniques for releasing the fears of her parents-to-be. This helps in preparation for being at peace and open to a marvelous birth. She also shares it with the practitioners she trains to assist parents in the birthing process. She invited me to share the benefits of The Sedona Method with practitioners at this international conference. I was very pleased to do so.
What does birthing have to do with you? Birthing a baby is a metaphor for how you approach each moment of your life - either tight and contracted or loose and open. The truth of who you are - beyond the body - is unlimited in its ability to harmoniously handle each unfolding moment with ease. But just like in the birth process, if you are contracted inside emotionally and physically, each unfolding moment of life will have more pain than beauty. Resistance, fear, and contraction, guarantee suffering. Letting go is the greatest key.
If it’s hard for you to believe that life can be beautiful or fulfilling, just notice where these doubts come from. Were they there when you came out of the womb or did you pick them up along the way? If you don’t go into memory, are those doubts actually here in this moment ~ or is there perhaps more space here for new possibilities - if you don’t hold onto the past?
To let go of fear is to live life in a new way. Thousands across this globe are able to do that because of The Sedona Method. Click on the Calendar link above for when and where you can learn to let go of your fear, anxiety, and any feeling that hinders you living life to its fullest birth every moment.
I look forward to personally meeting you or seeing you again soon and helping you give birth to a tremendous life.
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Blog: Freedom Tip #3. Emotional Freedom by Diving In
Posted by David Ellzey on June 28th, 2010
Are you stressed right now? Want to feel better in the next five minutes or faster? Listen below. The Sedona Method helps dissolve stress, anxiety, fear, depression, and many more emotions through four basic easy-to-learn techniques. Get a free taste of one of the ways below: Diving In. It’s easy, quick, and something you can use the rest of your life. Enjoy! (Listen to the full five minutes for full benefit) Are your speakers on?
See the Calendar link above and read about the next Sedona Method course, September 25-26. Register and finally move beyond the feelings that have hindered your happiness. For you graduates of this Method, the advanced "Acceleration" Course is July 17-18. Accelerate your ability to feel free!
See you there!
With wishes for your freedom,
Video Blog: How do you “Let emotions go?”
Posted by David Ellzey on June 1st, 2010
Do you ever feel like your emotions negatively drive your experience of life?
Do you feel powerless over them at times ~ or often?
Watch this video for a way to live free of anxiety …
(Please turn on your speakers and join me in Tuscany, Italy)
When Lester Levenson, the creator of The Sedona Method, was given a few weeks to live from a second heart attack, he found a lifetime of suppressed emotions stored inside himself. Medical research now shows emotions can drastically impact our health. Lester released the emotions, his body healed, and he lived another forty two years with a deep unlimited sense of being.
FIND OUT HOW. Click on the Calendar link above for the next Sedona Method Course where you, too, can learn to easily release emotions that hinder your health, well being, success, and happiness.
See you there!
Video Blog: Peace Beyond Stress and Beyond the Busy Mind.
Posted by David Ellzey on April 1st, 2010
Thanks! Over five thousand of you have watched this short humorous video on youtube ~ about living beyond limitation. Because of its popularity, I thought I’d share it here as well. (Are your speakers on? For full screen, click on the second symbol from the bottom right corner of the video) For more videos, scroll down.
See CALENDAR for the next event and learn to walk through the illusions of the mind and be free of emotions that hinder your happiness and success at work and at home.
With my greatest wishes for your well being,
Blog: Lester Meets Deepak. Part 2. The Infinite You.
Posted by David Ellzey on February 21st, 2010
Read on for how timeless truths can improve your daily life starting
right now as you read this.
I just finished Journey into Healing here in Phoenix, AZ, at the Biltmore Hotel, beautifully designed by Frank 
Lloyd Wright. The live program was given by The Chopra Center for Well-Being. Studying with Dr. Deepak Chopra and his co-founder, Dr. David Simon, confirmed for me that the timeless truth of our unlimited nature that Lester Levenson, the creator of The Sedona Method, pointed us toward has been known for thousands of years.
In this program we learned of how it was eloquently and poetically spoken of in the ancient Indian Vedic scriptures (eastern scriptures exploring how the human soul is an individual expression of the Infinite - and how to awaken to that inner truth).
As dear Lester counseled us, there is no separation between us and the cosmos or God, only an appearance of it. We are all expressions of what can be called in quantum physics - an infinite field of possibilities, as are the waves of the ocean. The waves remain an expression of the one ocean with an appearance of individuality. Lester was so clear in helping us let go of this egoic sense of separation. I believe this technique of The Sedona Method - used for letting go of the ego and all its suffering - is unparalleled in its simplicity.
Studying mime with a Kaballah Master (the mystic tradition of Judaism) at age seventeen, I was introduced to the idea that in space, both inner and outer, there exists an invisible and infinite potential of possibilities. We know in physics that there is no final ending or beginning to anything in existence. Life is better explained as an unending river of events appearing in time and space, yet originating from that which is timeless and infinite. In fact, let’s apply this to your emotional well being. If you want to feel free of your emotional turmoil easily and quickly, let’s try something …
Decide on a feeling that has hindered your happiness. Right now, I recommend you think of it now. Next, do me a favor and see if you can find where the absolute boundaries of the feeling are. Usually we can say its in the gut, or chest or neck, but really - check. Can you find the actual boundaries or does it seem that its energy bleeds into the area around it? Is it possible that your mind or memory is keeping it in place or appearing real by perceiving a fixed location? Let’s experiment. Quiet your mind for a nanosecond and open yourself to the possiblity that without the boundaries the feeling has the freedom to disappate or transform. What happens? Take your time. Try it….Open to this possibility. Go slow. Pause and breathe. Is there a shift, disappearance, or at least a bit of hope?
The Sedona Method brilliantly helps guide your attention to see that all feelings and thoughts are simply energy that can be allowed to dissolve, leaving inner peace, courage, and the deepest love. If you have ANY place in your life that is not as joyful or loving as you wish, whether in your relationships, at work, regarding the body, or money, you can dissolve your anxiety and other feelings and reveal the inherent stillness and wisdom which is your essential nature underlying all feelings. Stillness and wisdom are attributes of your boundless nature, the infinite you.
I can’t stress enough how essential a skill like this can be in daily life, especially in these times. With my heart, I highly suggest you check your calendar and move whatever you have to, to be able to attend the upcoming Sedona Method course here in NYC, April 10-11. If you are overseas, go to the Calendar link above and look at the upcoming dates in Scotland, England, and Holland in April and May. As a graduate, I recommend you rearrange your calendar to be sure to get to the advanced course, Effortless Relationships, to transform all your relationships and the one most importantly to yourself. Could you love yourself more? If so, do all you can to be at this course in New York on March 6-7 or in Holland, May 7-9.
So, my friends around this spinning planet, I send you my greatest care and good wishes. I very much hope to have the opportunity to support you in finding how a magnificent life is yours for the having.
For your freedom,
Blog: Lester Meets Deepak.Two Masters. Same Message.
Posted by David Ellzey on February 17th, 2010
Written at 24,000 feet in the air on my way to Phoenix, for Journey Into Healing.
Since I was first introduced to The Sedona Method in 1987 I have been moved by Lester Levenson’s (The creator of this Method) message: We are unlimited beings, limited only by the concepts of limitation that we hold in mind. As I now teach this message and this technique for swiftly quieting the noisy mind around the world I’ve had the pleasure of seeing its transformative power.
As I have gotten to know more about Dr. Deepak Chopra, co-contributing to an upcoming book with him, (Stepping Stones to Success) and reading his teachings on consciousness, I see the perfect symmetry of his message with Lester’s.
In fact, it is the same message: We are a local expression of infinite existence. Our happiness and health is impacted by either focusing on our mind’s endless thoughts of limitations ~ or focusing on the unlimited background upon which all thoughts rise. This background is our essential nature, unlimited and pristine.
I am so inspired by this truth and by Dr. Chopra’s way of integrating science, medicine, and spirituality , that I will study with him and his co-founder of the Chopra Wellness Center, Dr. David Simon, for the next five days in Phoenix. The program is called Journey Into Healing and is a foundation for understanding the 5,000 year old healing approach of Ayerveda, the way to health and wellness in body, mind, and spirit. The week will include training in Ayerveda, as well as yoga and meditation. Not to mention exploring the realization that we are infinite in our essential nature.
Regarding your own life, when you feel the confines of what your mind is creating about an issue, experiment with the possibility that your mind is not the final authority, you are. When feelings arise with that issue, consider the option of letting the feelings go and moving on with a more rewarding life. If you wonder how this is possible: The Sedona Method is the quick and easy “how to”. See the Calendar link above for upcoming events so you can transform your life with more happiness, starting now. (April 10-11 is upcoming in New York City)
Meanwhile, as the pilot announces our landing, I anticipate seeing the perfect synergy of Lester and Deepak ~ and dancing in the beauty of the one truth we are all learning to celebrate. The unlimited nature of our true being. What sweet freedom.
Don’t’ forget to check the calendar for upcoming basic and advanced events ~ if you are new to The Sedona Method or a graduate of this life-changing work.
Stay tuned. I’ll have more reports for you in the next five days.
My greatest love,
For your freedom,
Blog: Did St Francis of Assisi walk his talk?
Posted by David Ellzey on January 6th, 2010
As the valley stretched before me across central Italy, my heart calmed and my stress quieted as I 
imagined St Francis of Assisi standing next to me atop the very wall I was standing on and saying, "Be still, David and know peace." As I was there in Assisi, I gained a sense of this great teacher who once voiced my favorite quote of my life, "Teach peace wherever you go and in whatever you do. And when necessary, use words."
Back in time, in a life-defining moment, St Francis stood on the battlefield and decided to walk away, against his families hopes for his reputation as a great soldier. He felt an unwavering voice inside telling him to follow peace. He definately walked the talk ~ and with violence and danger all around him.
When Lester Levenson, the creator of the Sedona Method, invites us in his teachings, to be still and know unlimited peace no matter what is going on around us, he wants us to know the peace that St Francis knew. This peace is beyond all worldly concerns. This is the invitation of the Sedona Method. Even amidst your daily trials, learn to easily feel free of anxiety, fear, anger and more.
For more information on how to dissolve anxiety and other emotions, click on The Sedona Method link above. For specifics on when and where you can find the peace that St Francis and Lester speak of click on the Calendar link above.
For your greatest life,
Video Blog: Freedom Tip #2. What is Holistic Releasing?
Posted by David Ellzey on November 5th, 2009
As the challenges of this world and your life cause feelings of stress and anxiety, there are a few easy tools to quiet your emotional turmoil and busy mind. The Sedona Method is comprised of five essential ways to clear the inner path to clarity of mind and gentle silence of the heart. In this blog, I explain the way called, Holistic Releasing. You can benefit even from this short six minute video. Come to a full weekend and gain the ability to de-stress and dissolve all emotions that hinder your greatest experience of a fulfilled life. See the Calendar link above for our event schedule. Enjoy the video! (Are your speakers on? It may take a few seconds to start).
Life is too short. Don’t wait to discover this doorway to inner freedom. Register for a course today.
With greatest wishes for your happiness and success,
Blog: Audio excerpt from my chapter in my book with Deepak
Posted by David Ellzey on October 14th, 2009
Tonight I heard Dr. Chopra speak at Riverside Church in Manhattan. I felt the honor of co-authoring in the upcoming book, 
Stepping Stones to Success, with a man of his wisdom. I believe he is the foremost global teacher of the integration of medicine, science, and consciousness. My chapter in Stepping Stones to Success is about how, regardless of how it appears, you are fully equipped to make it through your life challenges and create a fulfilling life. Listen below to my short four minute reading of a portion of my chapter ~ and PLEASE comment on what you hear. I’d love to hear your thoughts. (They look public, but they are only seen by me). The book is slated to be out in December or January.
Here’s to your greatest fulfillment and success and I hope you enjoy the excerpt!
NOTE: Are your speakers on?
For freedom,
Blog: Two Days to Be Free of Stress
Posted by David Ellzey on September 9th, 2009
This is a beacon sent out from my little apartment in the upper east side of this city of 8 million souls ~ New York. Wherever 
you are sitting reading this, take this very moment, yes this one, and pause. Can you? Can you stop and breathe? Good. Because I want you fully present for this message. On Saturday and Sunday, September 12 and 13, I and about 30 other souls here in this metropolis gathered to ask a profound question, " Do we need to suffer as humans, in order to live on this planet?" and "How quickly can we change from suffering to contentment: 60 seconds, an hour, a lifetime?"
Well, I offer that one can know their unlimited nature in a few seconds, although it can take a while as well. The task is to have a powerful tool to unveil it. On September 12 and 13, thirty souls learned this ability. Are you ready for this lifetime to finally be yours? Come join us and learn The Sedona Method and change your life with power and with peace.
Mark your calendar for the next Sedona Method Course here in New York City on February 13-14, 2010.
Come back within this week and register to grab your spot.
See you there!
For your greatest happiness,
