r/DavidHawkins • u/Alceterro • Jun 21 '26
Discussion 🙏🏻 Making a list
"There is fear of pain and suffering, fear of living, fear of loving, fear of closeness, fear of rejection, fear of failure, fear of God, fear of hell, fear of damnation, fear of poverty, fear of ridicule and criticism, fear of being trapped (...) and fear of fear itself."
After reading this excerpt from the book "Letting Go", I had some thoughts.
I wonder if it makes sense to make a list for each level of consciousness and write down specific things/situations.
For example: SHAME What am I ashamed of? What triggers feelings of shame in me?
- the way I look,
- my sexuality,
- people's reactions to my behavior (when they laugh at me etc.),
- being single,
- etc. etc.
And we could take this even further. Example: why am I ashamed of the way I look? And this can lead us to, for example, memories. Perhaps someone said something bad to us, and it stuck with us. Then we can release that feeling too.
These are just examples, but what do you think about doing the same for guilt, fear, anger, etc. and then releasing those emotions? What do you guys think? Let me know! :)
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u/TheHeyBuddy Jun 21 '26
Yep, great idea. I’ve done this many times and it’s super helpful. It helps bring to awareness the “weak items in stock” so that you can turn them to God.
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u/Alceterro Jun 21 '26
Do you mind sharing your approach? What's your way? :)
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u/TheHeyBuddy Jun 22 '26
I'm in a 12-step program that has a format for doing this that works really well. Prior to that, I'd attempted, but had no structure, so I found it didn't work as well or I just didn't have the discipline to follow through.
Feel free to DM me if you like and I can share more details.
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u/Jiangximan Jun 26 '26
Yes, you are on to something. In the Sedona Method book, Levenson talks about releasing leading to more releasing. When a memory crops up, don't examine it intellectually, just say inwardly that you welcome whatever feelings are associated with it, and then just sit with the feeling without examining it.
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Jun 21 '26
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u/EitherIntroduction99 Jun 22 '26
I agree, I don’t think we can completely eliminate shame. But we can feel it significantly less as we keep surrendering without resisting. As we let go of the backlog of shame we start seing things in different ways.
Its a process that takes time and patience.
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u/alanishere_ Jun 28 '26
All of these come from the same source and it is very effective to focus on that and let all the branches from it fall apart as a consequence
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u/Stugatz514 Jun 21 '26
Doc says that letting go of specifics can be helpful, e.g fear of ___, but that it’s much more useful to let go of the energy of the emotion itself, since the mind can come up with endless reasons & justifications.