1. Broken Toys Broken Dreams

2. The Sedona Method

3. Aura Healing

4. Newsletter Info

Broken Toys Broken Dreams

a book by Terry Kellogg

A Customer came into the store a while back and looked around for a while, and then asked me if I either had or knew where she could find a book called "Broken Toys Broken Dreams."  My customer didn't know the title exactly or the author's name exactly, but there was enough for me to start looking.  I said that if they wanted to, they could do the search themselves.  I was told, "I'm not exactly computer literate, and I'd rather you just find out where it is and how much if you don't mind," or words to that effect.  I was told that a friend had recommended it.  The book explained a lot of things that helped the friend get through some tough times.  So I said I'd look for it and call with what I found out.

The next day I sat down to do my search in all the usual places.  E-bay, Amazon.com, among others.  It really seemed like this book was out of print.  It wasn't in the Hazelden catalog, and that surprised me, considering the topic it covered.  All I could find were used copies, or new copies that cost an arm and a leg.  I finally found one that looked to be in good used condition, so I figured I'd order a copy for myself, and then resell it when I was done.

I ordered the book and it came the following week.  It was in really used condition, but it wasn't torn up or anything.  It looked like it was just thoroughly used.  I took it home and began to read it.  At first it seemed like it was a bit too in depth to interest the average person dealing with these kind of problems -- a spouse's addiction and their own co-dependant behaviors that they didn't understand.  For about the first paragraph.

I began to see why this one book was so important to that particular customer at that particular time.  Actually, I began to see why this book could be so important to anyone at any time.  If you, or anyone you know, has been affected by your own or anyone else's drinking, taking drugs, obsessive behaviors including food and relationship problems, or over-indulgence in activities such as sports (as a spectator or participant), or anything related to that including co-dependence and/or enabling behaviors, get this book.  But only if you want to understand what's going on.  

If you don't want to understand it, but only want recovery from it, that's okay too.  You can obtain a certain amount of recovery and become a functioning adult in society without knowing all the details of the problem.  But often, as Terry suggests and explains in his book, recovery from one addiction or behavior can lead to problems in others.  

And if you think that it would be too complicated to understand, I disagree.  I've read some pretty dry stuff, and this is anything but dry.  For the retail price of $10.95 (pre-tax in Washington State), it's a pretty easy read.  Terry's style is personable and not condescending at all.  He doesn't mince words but he's not cruel either.

The Sedona Method

If money was not an object, I would send all of my friends and relatives through a minimum of the two-day Accelerated Sedona Method Seminar at the Sedona Training Associates' headquarters in Sedona, Arizona.  Maybe someday money will not be an object, but then people wouldn't need the Sedona Method.

On September 6 and 7 of this year I attended a two-day Accelerated Sedona Method Seminar.  I was skeptical when I walked in.  I was more than a believer when I walked out.  I was a promoter.  And not just because I might make a buck or two if you buy the book from our store.  I discovered what I had been looking for throughout my life.  And I discovered it was with me all the time.

I'm really struggling with a way to describe this experiences without rambling on forever.  The reason is that words are so inadequate to express reality and truth.  At best they are just fairly accurate pointers to truth.  Words are made up of letters which stand for sounds which, when combined in certain ways, represent certain concepts.  In fact, words themselves are concepts.  So when you combine words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs and so on, you are already three or four conceptual levels away from Truth.  But even all that's just a bunch of gobbledygook if there's no practical application.

Just what is the Sedona Method?  What are the practical applications?  Very simply, it's a way to let go of negative or unwanted feelings, emotions, thoughts, desires, and more.  This allows you to experience lasting peace, happiness, success, and emotional well-being (Directly off the cover of the book - but it's true!)  You're able to think more clearly and more effectively.  You become more and more effective with the Sedona Method as you practice it regularly.  It has helped people let go of emotional pain they never thought possible.  People have quit smoking and obtained their ideal body weight using the Sedona Method.  

The Sedona Method is not a replacement for properly educated and trained psychologists, psychiatrists, and doctors.  Those with severe mental/emotional problems are advised to see the appropriate professional for medical and/or mental/emotional diagnosis and treatment.  In addition, if there are problem with drug or alcohol addictions, one should seek competent help from the medical, mental health, and chemical treatment professionals as well as become involved in a 12 Step recovery program (the 12 Step recommendation is mine).  The Method is, however, strongly endorsed by many professionals as an adjunct to medical regimens, and ties in perfectly with any 12 Step recovery program one is involved in.  (A separate article will discuss how the Sedona Method works with a 12 Step program)

Before I go further, I want to give you a link to the Sedona Training Associates website where you will learn more about it.

Now I'll tell you about my experience at the seminar.  Remember, this is only MY experience and will likely not be the same for everyone who attended with me.  

A woman discovered a very painful emotional memory and using the Sedona Method discovered that behind that pain was nothing there but love and peace.  A man used the method to unravel a "knot of pain"-ful feelings he'd been carrying for 50 years.  

My experience was not so dramatic.  At least it wasn't visibly so.  I've been a seeker all of my life.  And I did have some fear that this would just be another one of those fads like EST was in the 70's.  Sometime during the first day of the seminar I realized that this was the easiest thing in the world to do.  It was almost like a revelation, but there was no bright light or lightning bolts.  No transcendental experience and no Voice of God booming down from the sky.  I just happened to notice that I knew that this thing was the easiest thing in the world to do, and that I'd been doing it all my life.  Then there was nothing but joy and peace.  I mean, the people didn't go away or anything like that, it's just that I was at rest.  I didn't have to do anything or know anything or prove anything.  I was able to just BE.  That may not sound like much, but if you could talk to my wife she would say that was a profound change for me.  There were moments when I would just touch complete bliss and know that all was well with the world.  No, I was not taking any drugs - I'm in a 12 Step program myself.  I also know now why I was there at that particular time in that particular place.

One of the really neat things we discovered is that we didn't need to delve into the drama or tell "my story of why I'm so screwed up" or get wrapped up in trying to understand "why" we feel a certain way.  Hale Dwoskin, the author of the book The Sedona Method, said at the seminar "The only reason you need to understand why or how you got into a problem is if you're intending to have that same problem again."  Regardless of what psychiatrists and people who study the psyche say, Hale is right.  I've experienced it directly.  Feelings are not repressed, to be regurgitated later.  They are not expressed, to embarrass or potentially harm one's self or others in the process.  Instead, they are noticed, welcomed, felt, and then let go of just like letting the wind blow by.  Or the same way a cloud blows across the sky.  The sky doesn't make any judgment about the cloud.  It just lets it be.  And the clouds don't stick to the sky either.

Feelings are like the clouds and we are like the sky.  We are not our feelings.  We can let them go as easily as dropping a pencil (in fact we did that at the seminar).  It's as simple as asking yourself if you would let it go and then inviting yourself to do so.  But don't take my word for it.  Get the book and try it.  If you even do it half-heartedly you will get benefit.

What is it, anyway?

Aura healing isn't about healing cuts and scrapes, or curing other physical disease or injury.  It is about releasing the energy we collect as we go through our day being cut off in traffic, having a disagreement with a co-worker and things like that.  

We all have an energy field that extends outward from our body in all directions.  Sometimes negative energy becomes attached and sometimes there are energy blockages around our chakras.  Aura healing is the practice of clearing blockages and attachments so that we're grounded and centered, giving us stronger energy, more clarity of thought and serenity of spirit.

We begin our aura healing by sitting on a chair comfortably with our feet flat on the floor, our hands separated, palms up, on our lap, and our eyes closed.  The aura healer helps us ground and center ourselves.

Now that we are grounded and centered, the aura healer helps us begin to release.  We don't actually do anything other than answer the healer when we feel like talking, or answering questions we're asked.  We are releasing the tensions from the day when our aura has been invaded by other people and situations.  The original intent earlier in the day may not have been to harm, but our aura was affected, and we want to be clear again.  Sometimes we get "into someone else's space" and our aura is still carrying that around.  Sometimes it's the other way around.  Aura Healing is all about cleansing, releasing, returning to center, anchoring to ground.  It's like coming home.

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