179. Hale Dwoskin

Hale DwoskinHALE DWOSKIN, New York Times Best-Selling author of The Sedona Method who is featured in the Letting Go movie, is the CEO and Director of Training of Sedona Training Associates, an organization that teaches courses based on the emotional releasing techniques inspired by his mentor, Lester Levenson. Hale is an international speaker and featured faculty member at Esalen and the Omega Institute. He is also one of the 24 featured teachers of the book and movie phenomenon, The Secret,” as well as a founding member of The Transformational Leadership Council. For over three decades, he has regularly been teaching The Sedona Method to individuals and corporations throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, and leading coach trainings and advanced retreats since the early 1990s. He is also the co-author with Lester Levenson of Happiness Is Free: And It’s Easier than You Think (a five-book series).

Sedona Training Associates is an educational training organization that was created to continue fulfilling Lester Levenson’s wish to share the practical and powerful methods he discovered for removing an individual’s personal blocks to abundance, health, happiness, and success. Many thousands of people from all walks of life worldwide have benefited from this work during the thirty-plus year history of The Sedona Method Course. Sedona Training Associates currently offers seminars throughout the US, Canada, Australia, Great Britain, Eastern and Western Europe, and Japan. It also publishes audio programs that are distributed worldwide. Sedona Training Associates is dedicated to bringing lasting positive change to the planet through education and supporting the transformation of the world consciousness to bring about lasting inner and outer peace, environmental sustainability and social justice for all.

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Transcript of this interview

Interview recorded 6/8/2013

Video and audio below. Audio also available as a Podcast.

YouTube Video Chapters:

  • 00:00:00 – Introduction to Hale Dwoskin and the Sedona Method
  • 00:05:55 – Letting go of Inertia and Compulsive Doingness
  • 00:10:09 – Pretending to be in Acceptance and Peace
  • 00:14:05 – The Illusion of Differences in Spiritual Realization
  • 00:18:09 – Cooking the Seeds: Maintaining the Non-Dual State
  • 00:22:22 – Letting go and living life open
  • 00:26:00 – Living in a Soap Bubble
  • 00:29:17 – Letting Go and Nonduality
  • 00:32:43 – Balancing Nonduality and Life
  • 00:37:27 – The Full Catastrophe of Life
  • 00:42:36 – The Difficulty of Non-Duality
  • 00:47:28 – The Natural Process of Dissolution
  • 00:51:25 – The movie analogy and the limitations of analogies
  • 00:55:09 – Dealing with Samskaras and Vasanas
  • 00:57:53 – The Grieving Process and Allowing for Experience
  • 01:01:30 – Healing Trauma and Letting Go
  • 01:05:15 – The Importance of True Teachers
  • 01:08:59 – Meeting Lester Webinson
  • 01:13:38 – Finding Peace in Non-Duality
  • 01:17:37 – The Analogy of Accumulating Vasanas and Impressions
  • 01:21:46 – The School of Thought on Reincarnation
  • 01:25:40 – Turning Rocks into Sand
  • 01:29:07 – Recognizing Our Limitations and Embracing What We Are
  • 01:31:54 – Beginnings in New York City
  • 01:35:39 – Receiving the Teachings of Sedona Method
  • 01:39:49 – Growth through Challenging Experiences
  • 01:43:43 – Integration of Energetic Systems
  • 01:47:12 – Exploring a New Modality
  • 01:52:01 – Teaching from the Heart
  • 01:56:14 – Following Your Heart to Achieve Freedom from Suffering
  • 02:00:11 – Conclusion and Farewell