Why Positive Thinking Actually Fails
 
Dear Hale,
 
I have spent many years doing positive thinking with mixed results. How does The Sedona Method compare with positive thinking? Is there an easier way to change my life?
 
Answer:
 
I'm sure you've all heard of 'positive thinking' and perhaps you've somehow tried it. Probably you also found it challenging to implement in your life from moment to moment.

 

Maybe you've even asked the important question above like so many others who have also wondered if The Sedona Method is about 'positive thinking' and, if not, how it can help them.
 
When I was in my early 20s, I was extremely shy. I couldn't approach women, I had no idea how to properly introduce myself to strangers, let alone make small talk. I'd heard that positive affirmations and 'happy thoughts' could bury my fears and help me build the confidence I needed. I was certain that if I told myself I was great in a crowd, then I would be great in a crowd. So, for months on end I walked around all day long repeating over and over in my head, 'I am highly pleasing to myself in the presence of other people.' In the meantime, I forgot to stop repeating and start living.
 
Instead of propelling my social life into the next dimension, my record-player thoughts played again and again in my head and I felt completely ridiculous! My quiet self-talk actually reminded me that I was SHY instead of helping me to overcome it.
 
I didn't need a positive self-talk mantra to overcome shyness. I didn't need to pile more thoughts on top of the limiting thoughts I already had. I needed to LET GO of my shy thoughts.
 
It was then in my life that I learned The Sedona Method.
 
I learned The Sedona Method quickly and easily and finally learned how to release the limiting thoughts and emotions that actually made me shy. I learned to LET GO of my shyness, permanently, and now I speak before large groups as part of my job!
 
Positive thinking takes an immense amount of effort and, for most people, it doesn't even work! It only covers the negative thoughts with positive ones and can still leave you crying on the inside.
 
You've probably been around someone who smiles on the outside while screaming on the inside. It's hard to be around those people because they send a real mixed message to others.
 
Imagine that your subconscious mind is a barrel. This barrel has a golden lining representing our unlimited potential. This golden lining is covered by a bunch of rotten apples that represent our limiting emotions: apathy, grief, fear, lust, anger, and pride.
 
Even if you covered the golden lining over with good apples (happy thoughts and happy feelings), what would eventually happen to the apples? They would ROT.
 
I recommend emptying the barrel of the rotten apples (limiting thoughts) first, so you can discover the golden lining that is already present and available in your life at this very moment. You can't see it because your apples, bad and good, have buried you under.
 
Remove them by letting go of your limiting thoughts, feelings, and beliefs and then your thinking, feeling, and life experience will be a thousand times more positive, with not a rotten apple in sight. 

 

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