Blog: WHAT CAN BE NEW IN THE NEW YEAR?
Posted by David Ellzey on December 31st, 2010
NOTE: Free Introductory Evenings in New York City, Jan. 18, 25, Feb. 8, 2011
“Tons lifted off my shoulders”
Edward Grossman, Monroe, NY
“…Years of stories and hang-ups gone in seconds!”
Helen Wingate, UK
“I’ve been given an experience of who I am behind all the stories, roles, history…Thank you, David, from the bottom of my heart.”
Dhiresha Marshall, Durham, NC
“I have so much gratitude for you, David, for your gentle and loving approach to making the Sedona Method a natural part of life. Releasing is happening almost automatically. The only way I can think of to thank you enough is to tell everyone I meet, just how close within their reach freedom really is.”
Annie Smutko, New York, NY
These are quotes after attending a Sedona Method basic or advanced weekend. If any of the words above resonate with you, please honor your own happiness for this coming year and read more or reserve your spot in the next seminar nearest you. Who you truly are, beneath your fear requires no changing, but rather uncovering. Your self-defeating beliefs about money, your body, intimacy, and love, don’t require changing, but rather letting go.
So for this New Year, I invite you to learn to, or increase your ability to, let go of what covers your greater sense of life and the loving Truth of who you are. The Sedona Method is unparalled in its speed of letting go of the old and revealing the deepest you. Both the Foundational and Advanced courses are open doorways to a more fulfilling experience of your life.
Freedom is possible. Freedom from anxiety, confusion, lack of clarity. Freedom is yours to have now, during the challenges of the coming year, and for the rest of your life.
Happy New Year!
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PS. Click on Calendar for basic and advanced seminar dates and The Sedona Method for more about what this technique really is.
Audio Blog: FREEDOM TIP #4. Finding inner peace even in the holidays.
Posted by David Ellzey on December 17th, 2010
I’ve recorded this special short audio as my holiday gift to you. It’s designed to help you experience relief and inner peace right now amidst this busy holiday time. Where is your attention focused, on problems or on peace? Can we live addressing life’s concerns and yet with a background of calm and peace? Listen and find out.
(Are your speakers on?)
Wishing you all the best for this holiday season and a very happy New Year.
Here’s to your greatest freedom,
PS. If you are moved by this audio and the peace you may experience, please check your calendar for Feb. 4-6 for the Coach Level One Course and Feb 12-13 for the Sedona Method Foundations Course. Both are in New York. And in Holland, I’ll offer a 5-Day Intensive, June 2-6, 2011 for the first time. It is possible to live with this greater peace as a new background for your life.
Blog: Show Me the Love. How to Stop Self-Judgment.
Posted by David Ellzey on December 7th, 2010
As I look out at the cold wintery woods from inside my friend’s warm home here in North Carolina, I catch my breath after teaching The 
Sedona Method and advanced course "What’s Love Got to Do With it?" around the world, from New York City, to Holland, London, and North Carolina.
Certainly, the topic of love is a universal one, but the issue of self-judgment and non-love of ourselves is just as universal, yet less addressed.
Do you judge or criticize yourself? Does it sabotage your happiness, success, or well-being? Self-judgment is a learned habit. Thus, luckily it can be unlearned. We picked it up at some early point of our lives. It can be a family or cultural lineage carried on sometimes for generations. And What’s Love Got to Do With it? Everything. However, it’s not enough to simply say, we should be more loving to ourselves. Letting go of our non-love is the key, but how is that done?
While teaching around the world I saw face after face go from heaviness and suffering to lightness, openness, and peace as people recognized the freedom and love found in letting go of self-judgment and self-punishment. This happened as they discovered the lie of being "bad", imperfect, always wrong, or unloveable.
Imagine, I mean in this very moment, seriously, this very moment, what it would be like to have your eyes rest on this page without a mental background of "you should be, in any way, different than who you are in this moment." You should be more productive, better looking, more responsible, and the million additional thoughts of, "I should…" If these thoughts didn’t exist for this moment, can you get a sense of the relief and how the mind quiets a bit?
When we let go of our non-love and negative self-thoughts, our true nature is revealed: a quiet presence, love, a peace beyond description. From this place we deal more patiently with our teenagers, eat more healthy, have no fear to tell those we care about that we love them, or drive in traffic with more calm. In short, life changes in all ways when we love ourselves and when we accept that the source of love we have been seeking is right here within ~ waiting for our attention.
But you know all this. Self-love has been preached for ages. So what am I saying that’s new? I’m saying you can actually let go of the non-love, then the self-love is natural, organic, and forever.
Lester Levenson, founder of The Sedona Method, said, as did many-a-wise-sage, "Love is the foundation of our existence". Consider, right now, letting go of your self-judgment. If this seems hard or impossible, please take what you’re reading seriously. Click here for more about this technique of inner freedom, The Sedona Method.
Read what Norbert Martin, from Switzerland, said after the Love Course and the Sedona Method,
"At the outset of this course, I experienced a shift in consciousness, a great broadening of courageousness. It was a real surprise to discover a new strength … just springing from within. Not only has this shift persisted until now, a month after the course, but it is still expanding."
Join Norbert and the thousands around this spinning globe who are dissolving self-punishing thoughts and feelings and uncovering a new way of experiencing life ~ with a new love for themselves, others, and for life itself.
CLICK HERE for more about The Sedona Method and upcoming courses.
I wish you the greatest of joy, love and happiness,
PS. If you are near New York City or wish to have a great visit while you are here, the next two courses are Feb 4-6 and Feb 12-13.
CLICK HERE for more info.
Blog: “Letting go” happened ~ and then …
Posted by David Ellzey on October 1st, 2010
When participants begin a transformational weekend to face their stress, anxiety, and their life, they bring many different expectations, from doubt, to excitement, to desperately wanting to be somewhere else. But on this specific Sedona Method weekend after learning and applying the principles of letting go, the results were life-changing. Read what a few of the participants said …
"What an astounding weekend! I appreciate David’s sense of humor, knowledge and being! Yesterday I thought I was happy, but now I am more than happy … I am free! Thank you!"
Jim Ewing, Ithica, NY
"I realized that many of the feelings that I was suppressing grew lives of their own and created confusion in my life."
John Warner, Leesburg, VA
"I stopped eating sweets. I have almost no arguments with my husband anymore and I no longer shop as if it is the end of the world."
Vera Araujo, New York, NY
"I realized that there were feelings I’ve been harboring for over ten years. Without knowing how to get rid of them they were constantly suppressed. I … kept them for so long because I felt justified to keep them – but why do it? I finally saw that it even was possible to let them go. Before, my version of letting go was suppressing. I don’t need them any more!"
Catherine Warner, Valley Vintage, CA
"Clarity. Ease. Joy. Confidence. Hopefulness. Deep Gratitude. I see expansive possibilities like mountains above limiting thoughts and beliefs and emotions …"
Daniel Hoffman, Ridgewood, NJ
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It is always my heartfelt pleasure to watch souls awaken to their own freedom beyond doubt, fear, and anxiety. Won’t you join and play too in the fields of freedom? See the Calendar link above for when and where next to learn this life-changing skill. If you’re a graduate, come to the advanced courses (this weekend! Oct 9-10). I am offering courses around the world in the next two months. The next Sedona Method Foundations Course in New York is Nov. 13-14.
With love and support,
Blog: The Global Soul Want’s to laugh
Posted by David Ellzey on September 8th, 2010
I stepped back after performing in the streets of Hong Kong and applause broke out – also in the USSR 
(photo: Red Square with a famous Russian clown – when I had hair!), in India, and in many other countries. People love to laugh and be entertained. Why is this true?
First let me bring you up to speed. Before I became a global instructor of The Sedona Method, I was a mime and actor for 30 years on 5 continents for thousands of people on stage, television, and in film. I had the honor of meeting great souls, including noted author Norman Cousins, best known for healing himself from a degenerative spinal disease through laughter and massive doses of vitamin C. He generously endorsed me by saying, "David Ellzey is an accomplished court jester to humanity". Cool? I agree. An honor. But …
What does any of this have to do with you? Well, do you like to laugh or be entertained? The human soul relinquishes some of its suffering briefly when laughing. The mind quiets, pleasure chemicals are released in the body and brain and voila, our love of laughter. My discovery around this spinning earth is that all souls love to laugh, love to relax, love to forget their suffering and issues of life, love to live fully in the now. But there’s a small problem.
If we laughed all the time, we would look VERY funny and never get anything done. Hmmm On second thought, not a bad idea! But not very practical. The sad part is that other emotions like anxiety, fear, anger, all release chemicals too, but much less pleasing. In fact, they are harmful to our health if too many of these chemicals course through our veins and bodies for too long.
What’s the solution? Can you choose to stop reading this if you wish, or turn your head left or right? You have the ability to choose even when things seem more difficult. The option still exists, always, for certain things. I realize that you can’t choose different weather in your home town, for instance, but inwardly, with time, you learn you can actually choose what to do with your emotions. Anxiety, fear, and anger need not run your life. You have a choice. You can suppress them, pour them out into the world through expresssion or let the feelings go, dissolve them in this moment, and perhaps for the rest of your life. Intriqued? Would you like to speak, act, and love with calmness, strength and clarity, rather than from emotional reactivity and fear or anger?
In 1952 he was told he had two weeks to live. Lester Levenson chose instead to look inside at all his stored emotions and in letting them go, discovered the power of his own healing. He lived for forty two more happy years. He created the Sedona Method for you and I to use in our daily lives to feel the happiness and freedom that he found. Would you like to be free of the grip some emotions have on you and your life?
Click on the Calendar link above to see when and where in London, Holland, New York , and North Carolina you can learn this easy skill. As a bonus some of these upcoming courses have the extra treasure of being focused on dissolving non-love feelings you have for yourself and the world. These courses are for both new students and graduates. Could you love yourself more? It will change your life. Get out your calendar and mark the dates in September and October. Come shake my hand and say hello. Let’s laugh and enjoy life together. You up for it?
All my very best wishes for your freedom and happiness,
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 and letting go is key …
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.
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 seven 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,
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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,