Excellent process for Releasing and also a summary of basics from The Letting Go Movie

In The Letting Go Movie above, at position 58:17, is a hospice chaplain using this process:

1. So you have this fear in your body?
2. You like to keep that fear or would you like to get rid of it?
3. So, would you sit with me and answer some questions?
4. Where do you find that fear in your body? How would you describe it?
5. Ok, so you feel some ... here. Is that something you want to hang on to or would you like to let it go?
6. Could you let it go?
7. Would you be willing to let that go?
8. When?

[ Then, repeat the process again... ]

Summary of Sedona Basics:

At position 1:00:15, Hale summarizes the entire Sedona method basics and also the 3 basic methods;
1. Asking could you, would you , when? (Basic method)
2. Welcoming what is (good for active releasing) (Active Releasing)
3. Triple welcoming, i.e. Welcoming the feeling, welcoming wanting to fix it, welcoming sense of identity (sense that it is who I am or about me, or that is is personal) (Triple Welcoming)

My take on this is as follows:
When going about in daily life, use general welcoming (active releasing). When sitting, or lying down in meditation, use asking questions, or, triple welcoming.

Fastest way to peace

The Buddha's 2nd noble truth states that craving is the cause of suffering. Therefore, we only need to let go of craving in order to be happy and at peace. Craving is the weakest link in the the links of dependent origination and therefore is the easiest to let go off.

Craving comes in two forms:

1. wanting (attachment, urges to do/ to achieve / to change something/ to control/ to desire )  and
2. not-wanting (resistance/aversion)

As such, in releasing, we only need to release wanting and not-wanting.

Example:

[ Release the main issue ]
Could I welcome wanting to ....
Could I let go of wanting to....
Would I?
When?

[ Release it's opposite polarity ]
Could I welcome resisting, or  not wanting to...
Could I let go of resisting or, not wanting to...
Would I?
When?

Sometimes there is both wanting and also not-wanting in a single issue. For example, you feel you should wash the dishes. There is not-wanting to wash the dish and also a wanting to wash the dish.
Whenever there is a should, there is usually a not-wanting to do something but you feel you must do it. It's like driving a car with the brakes on.

To solve this problem, we release both the wanting and also release the not-wanting.

Releasing wanting to wash the dishes does not mean you will not wash the dishes. It just removes the suffering involved in washing the dishes.

When you release the resistance, your actions become friction-less and easy-going.

Other examples of should statements:
1. I should work to earn a living
2. I should do a good job
3. I should make my boss happy
4. I should improve myself

The should indicates you are doing something you don't want to do. Therefore, just release on both sides:

Let go of wanting to earn a living, let go of resisting or not-wanting to earn a living
Let go of wanting to do a good job, let go of resisting or not-wanting to do a good job
Let go of wanting to please your boss, let go of resisting, or not-wanting to please your boss.
Let go of wanting to improve yourself, let go of resisting improving yourself.

Craving is easy to let go of, but it is very persistent, it may keep coming back, but if you keep releasing on it, eventually it goes away for good.

So, releasing on wanting and not-wanting (resistance) will lead to impertubability (hootlessness)

Releasing fear

An excellent video on Hale's latest technique incorporating a new step 3 script, i.e

Step 1:  Welcoming the stories of fear you tell yourself
Step 2: Welcoming wanting to fix it
New Step 3: Welcoming any sense that it's personal, that it's about me, that it's who I am.
Step 4: Could  I let it go.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2GdeQz5V40&t=58s

Quick and easy way to get instant joy

Hale Dwoskin's The Bliss Mini Retreat audios Track:  Beyond Attachment and Aversion is the best track so far.  It guides you to repeatedly release alternating between should' s and have to's on the one hand and something that is repulsive on the other hand.

I was able to bring up joy repeatedly each time I did it. Joy on Demand! If this is easily reproducible each time. That in itself is all I need. The confidence will bring peace of mind.

Hale has unwittingly came up with the ultimate method to release craving. According to Buddha, craving is the cause of suffering. And the way to end suffering is by eliminating craving. Craving is the weakest link in the chains of Dependent Origination. Awesome!

In Bhante Vimalaramsi's 6R Method, step 2 and 3 is also on releasing craving. But Hale's Method is much more effective. Bhante does not show you how to release craving, all he says is relax the tension in the head. But that does not work very well.