What are you doing to stay afloat in such choppy financial waters? Is your mind trying to help by conjuring up fearful images? Are you wanting to figure out what to do? Why is it that some people are holding it together just fine while others are freaking out and talking about leaving the country? The difference, as our recent Sedona Method Retreat attendees will tell you, is Letting Go. It is the “vaccine for emotional turmoil” that allows you to uncover and live from the calm center of Beingness that is your true essence.

There are many factors in our recent economy that may cause people to worry and become anxious: rises in gasoline and home heating prices, the recent drop in the stock market, the worldwide turmoil in the banking industry, more companies announcing layoffs and still others outsourcing jobs overseas. The financial picture can begin to look rather dim. Letting Go has been helping people remain imperturbable in all types of crises for over three decades. No matter what is going on around you, Letting Go can help you reclaim your center.

Remember, anxiety, panic, stress and worry do nothing to support you in making the right decisions. Instead, the more you can make decisions from a place of inner calmness and mental clarity the more likely your decisions will be supportive of your overall financial goals and well-being and the safety and well-being of those around you and the planet as a whole.

The very best thing to do when you find yourself panicking is to allow yourself to welcome whatever you're feeling about the current world situation and about your current financial situation. Also allow yourself to welcome any wanting to change or control how you feel. As you do this you will find that the stress and tension of the moment will dissolve into a calm pool of certainty and inner strength.

• 'I released truckloads of fear and wanting survival because of the possible meltdown of the world's financial system.' -Norm Hall, West Des Moines, IA, September 2008 Retreat Attendee

Welcoming the feelings may seem counterintuitive, but it's a necessary step in the process of letting go. As you'll learn when you delve deeper into letting go with Letting Go, the more you resist a feeling, the stronger its hold on you becomes. When you welcome a feeling, however, the resistance fades away while your ability to let the feeling go gets stronger. Simply welcoming a feeling fully can often allow it to dissolve completely.

• 'The company I work for has announced plans for a layoff that we expect next week. No one really knows where the cuts will be and all are worried. I have never been good at being cut, so I used Letting Go to release on the fear and anxiety that I am experiencing and I got a whole lot more than I thought I would.
  First, I released victim mentality, also, it's a job, it's not me. In the past I felt I was the job. Letting Go has changed the outcome and outlook of my entire life. I feel so validated and free. I know that I am, and nothing can take that away without me willing it so.' — Mike Gallemore, Hackettstown, NJ

After welcoming the feeling, ask yourself in this moment if you could simply let go. By allowing yourself to welcome what you feel and then letting it go, you will immediately feel relief. This will also bring you more access to your intuitive knowing-ness and the clarity of clear reason required for you to weather the storm.

• 'I came to The Sedona Method Retreat to find tools for living my life with greater freedom, ease and joy. My realization through releasing all week was that the freedom, ease and joy were already present. I only needed to remove the thoughts, feelings and emotions that were covering them up all this time.' – -Paul Hathaway, Middleton, WI

The next step is to also welcome any feelings of wanting to understand or figure out what to do. The more you want to figure out what you should or shouldn't be doing the more confused you will be. When we want to understand or figure out what to do we are looking in the wrong place for the answer. We are looking away from our clear reason and intuitive knowing into the memory banks of what was which may have nothing to do with what is currently true. As you let go of wanting to figure it out you will naturally and easily know exactly what to do.

• 'What a wonderful week! I had so many great insights this week. The most important thing for me was to get out of my head. I'm logical and have had to understand and think through things. Once I let go of the need to understand how this works, I just let go and was thrilled to see how simple this all is. It really is easy and brings greater freedom.' — Susan Marx, Laguna Beach, CA

Again, one of the keys to unlocking your ability to make the right financial decisions lies in first welcoming your fears and then letting them go. By doing this you take a step back, reconnect with your inner knowingness and then will move forward with a sound mind. At the same time, letting go helps you remember that, ultimately, you are much more than your finances, and you can exist and be happy no matter what is going on around you including uncertainty in the economy or stock market.

• 'I came here to release fears, but I don't identify with fears anymore. I gained the stillness I've always been looking for through meditation, and that grace is here and always available.' – Pauper Agnes, Rowen, France

Remember that no matter how your financial situation feels you are not your bank book or your possessions. The less you identify with any of the problems that you're experiencing the more likely you are to find the right solution

• 'In April this year I lost my job. I had my accountant fill out my taxes and I owed the state of Maryland $142.00, so I sent in the check. I also owed the federal government from 2006.
  In June the State of MD sent my check back and said there was an error in the calculations. I also received my full Federal refund this year and my stimulus check from the Federal Government even though I still owe them from 2006.
  I found a better job for $25,000 more a year than the one I lost.' — Timothy Martin, MD

Here are some questions you can ask to help find your center if you are feeling anxious:

Could you allow yourself to welcome in this feeling of _____ as best you can?
Check to see if you have any sense of wanting to change/be rid of the feeling.
If so, could you allow yourself to have this feeling?
Would you?
When?
Check to see how you feel now. Do you feel less________? Less anxious? Either way is there more wanting to change/be rid of it?
If so could you let go of wanting to change it?
Would you if you could?
When?

Repeat this process as many times as it takes for you to feel lighter and at peace. There may be many layers to what you have to release, but once you release something, it’s gone for good.

Remember to allow yourself to let go of wanting to figure out what to do and to let go of wanting to get the answer from the past. As you follow your heart as opposed to your head, you will find that right now you have everything that you need right within you. Abundance and financial security are always available right here right now.

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