Recovery

Imagine such a disease... 

(reprinted from the November, 2003 Grapevine magazine, which was reprinted from the October 1968 issue.)

If some new and terrible disease were suddenly to strike us here in America - a disease of unknown cause, possibly due to noxious gas or poison in our soil, air, or water - it would be treated as a national emergency, with our whole citizenry uniting as a man to fight it.

Let us suppose the disease to have so harmful an effect on the nervous system that five million people in our country would go insane for periods lasting from a few hours to weeks or months and recurring repetitively over periods of from fifteen to thirty years.

Let us further suppose that during these spells of insanity, acts of so destructive a nature would be committed that the material and spiritual lives of whole families would be in jeopardy with a resultant twenty-five million persons cruelly affected.  Work in business, industry, professions, and factories would be crippled, sabotaged, or left undone.  And each year more than one and one-quarter billion dollars would need to be spent merely to patch up in some small way the effects of the disease on families whose breadwinners have been stricken.

Finally, let us imagine this poison or disease to have the peculiar property of so altering a person's judgment, so brainwashing him, that he would be unable to see that he had become ill at all; actually so perverting and so distorting his view of life that he would wish with all his might to go on being ill.

The dread disease envisioned above as actually here.  It is alcoholism

Dr. Ruth Fox, Medical Adviser, National Council on Alcoholism.

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The Sedona Method is a technique for holistic releasing of unwanted negative feelings, emotions, beliefs, and ideas so that you may more effectively live each day of your life.  Does it belong on this page?  You decide.  The Sedona Training Associates themselves say that this method is not a replacement or substitute for medically supervised withdrawal from addictions, nor is it a replacement for any 12 Step Fellowship one may join as a means of remaining sober.  It can, however, enhance any long-term recovery program, once a person is so situated within that fellowship or support group.

I've attended a Sedona Method seminar.  My experience tells me that it can be a powerful tool if used regularly, in conjunction with a 12 Step program of recovery.  We're often told "Let Go and Let God", but nobody ever told me how to let go.  The Sedona Method provided that "how-to" in a simple, easy to use, and easy to learn manner.  For those already fairly well situated in their recovery program, I can't recommend it enough.  There is a book which contains all the material learned in the seminar, minus the hands-on practice singly or in a group.  We offer that book for sale on this site.  We also offer deep discounts for multiple purchases if you would like to purchase The Sedona Method as gifts for friends or family members.  You can find the online coupon here.  If you live in Alaska, and you purchase 8 or more copies with the e-coupon, for mailing to an Alaska Address, we will pay the shipping.    If you come into the store and purchase 8 or more copies with the coupon, we will pay the sales tax.  That's how much I believe in this method of holistic release.  Contact the store for details.