Question about "get everything by releasing"

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Permalink Reply by Warren [Hootless Crew] on June 5, 2011 at 10:20am

Hi Taras,

 

Don't worry about being sure about the feeling being wanting approval or control etc, that's just you mind analysing it. When you hear the releasing question, just notice the feeling and notice where it arises in the body, welcome it and then release it. sS long as you release and you feel lighter, it doesn't really matter if you can identify it to a particular want, you've still released.

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Permalink Reply by Mário [Hootless Crew] on June 5, 2011 at 3:50pm

Hi, Taras

 

It is exactly as it is written, anything you want, even a parking spot, release on it until you are hootless. This is a way to keep Step 4 (Release Continuously) in place. Examples:

"I wanted to fly with nobody on the seat next to me to have both armrests to do my 90-days homework. There was someone next to me. I released until I didn't care. Right after the plane began to move, he ran to the rear side of the plane and stayed there."

 

"Parking spot. I always release on them when I go to the mall, I always get them."

 

"Daily release on have a day that just flows"

 

Etc...

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Permalink Reply by Taras on June 6, 2011 at 12:18am

Oh I see. Thank you guys for quick replies, I really appreciated and those example really help.

 

Thanks again. 

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Permalink Reply by John [Hootless Crew] on June 8, 2011 at 11:39pm

I always understood this to mean 'get everything by releasing only, without the need for action (which may also be combined with releasing but does not need to be)' So one could make a distinction between 'releasing to get rich, along with suitable action' or 'releasing to get rich without even the need for for acting to make it happen.'  Is that right? If it is not right, I cannot see why Lester would have made a point of adding the word 'only.'

 

Thus you could lose weight by releasing, in support of a diet and exercise. Or one could lose weight only by releasing without other steps. And though it sounds surprising, Lester apparently claimed to have done exactly that: lose weight while standing on scales, without the usual actions which would also be required. I quipped in a recent post that the butt method probably does not work for keeping fit, but it is hard to avoid that impression that Lester would have said it could. A tough one, and an interesting question!

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Taras on June 9, 2011 at 3:22am

The way I understand it now is that before you take any action, release on it first until the outcome doesn't matter what happens. So you wouldnt be attached to that feeling if the outcome is positive or negative, I hope this makes sense.

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Permalink Reply by John [Hootless Crew] on June 9, 2011 at 8:40am

It makes sense but he said that the whole time did he not. Adding the word 'only' (which he did with emphasis on the voice, as I remember the recording) was there for a reason, he was saying something additional to his usual teaching when he said that.

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Permalink Reply by Zannie Rose on June 9, 2011 at 4:32pm

I think Larry has claimed to lose 8lbs of bodyweight in one day as well

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Permalink Reply by Omer Gilad on June 10, 2011 at 3:43am

When you know that there's no "you" to take action, it doesn't matter.

Things just move. The earth rotates, trees grow, planes fly and human bodies take action. Who cares how do you get the goal as long as you release until you get it?

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Permalink Reply by releasemaster on June 10, 2011 at 5:55pm

He means it literally, like pretty much all his stuff. "Get EVERYTHING by releasing ONLY" is a great way to identify what you're wanting in the moment. Just sit down and don't move, and whatever you're wanting to do or get, take that want to the 3 wants and release it. eg. I want to get up and do something --> wanting to control.

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Permalink Reply by JasonC on June 14, 2011 at 8:05am

Lester mentions in 'the way' that action does happen, but that you are not the 'doer'.  It's like you're watching your body move.  So it's not that you sit in a room and do nothing (since releasing is still action). it's just that the body does things and it feels effortless.  Or, sometimes the body doesn't even have to do anything either.  Either way around, its feel effortless.  Hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by Lisa [Hootless Crew] on June 14, 2011 at 10:33pm

Releasing is a very high form of action is it not? :)

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Permalink Reply by Eliana Gilad on June 19, 2011 at 7:48am

As one of Lester's students, when I would ask him this question, he would respond that goals are here to help us release by. So, make the goal your means of releasing, though make freedom your true goal. 

If you are releasing to "get" something, or "achieve" something, it is easy to get stuck . If you use your goal with the intention of allowing all that is in opposition to come up so that you can release it and go free, then it will free you no matter what.

When you get to the point where you don't care one way or the other, whether you achieve the goal or not, then it is free to come in... and it doesn't really matter at that point.

As for the weight issue, I lost eighteen kilo (approx. 40 lbs) by releasing. The process was one of listening to the body - releasing all feelings which would come up which were in contrast to loving the body unconditionally. Lester would also say to us, not to take the body too seriously. Love it, give it it's basic needs, but don't get caught up by it.
After releasing enough, the body said "start eating this way... that way...do this, do that..." This lead to signing up for a weight watchers program, an action step to take.... and the weight just came off effortlessly and joyfully...


Hope this makes sense.

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