Welcome to the free releasing guide, an exploration of the basics of releasing.

If you’re here, you’ve either heard me talk about this wonderful approach to transformation or you’re curious to get a preview of what the coaching library is all about.

You’re likely curious to learn what this is all about, if it works, and if so, how it can help you in your life and work — and if so, you’re in the right place. This guide will cover all of this and more.

We’ll explore the fundamentals of a simple, profound, unconventional yet proven approach to radical transformation, progress and growth. This will also assist as an incredibly effective tool for transitioning from the force-based paradigm (which is what you’re likely used to) to the flow-based paradigm (which you may like to explore).

As a result, this will probably fly in the face of everything you’ve learned about progress and self-improvement.

And that’s why it’s so effective.

If you want life to be different, it will take approaching life differently.

If you want conventional results, do conventional things.

If you want unconventional results, do those unconventional things.

But if you’re someone who’s interested in exploring life, creation and advancement from a much more effective and enjoyable approach…

You are exactly who I put this together for.

This is a comprehensive, value-packed guide for those who want to get started with exploring this, but don’t know where to start.

It’s everything I wish I knew or had on day 1 when I began this a year ago.

We’ll be exploring a step-by-step breakdown on how to release and the relevant nuances and distinctions that helped me on this journey.

Even more importantly, this is also exactly what I wish I had when I began my self-improvement journey 13 years ago — it would’ve saved me so much time and so many headaches.

Now, I recognize that this won’t be for everyone, and that’s okay.

If this isn’t for you, that’s alright.

You don’t need to agree, believe in it, or accept it.

But as you’re exploring it, just do your best to stay open, give it a fair shot by putting it into practice, and let go of trying to figure it all out because understanding doesn’t make things work any better.

This isn’t going to be the end-all, either.

This is an introductory guide, after all, just designed to get you started with releasing.

I am intentionally leaving out so much so that we can focus on the absolute basics and fundamentals to just begin.

And while the basics are extremely useful, in my experience, the best releases come from integrating intermediate and advanced elements.

I’ll ever so subtly touch on and allude to these throughout the guide, but at the end, I may or may not share a bonus that involves these not so subtly…

So be sure to stick around until the end.

This material is also a free preview of the coaching library. It’s taken directly from the ever-expanding, ever-evolving library included in my coaching program, where we explore this paradigm even deeper to help people get unstuck, achieve more and tap into unprecedented flow.

If you resonate with this and feel called to do so, consider investing in yourself with that. But we’ll talk about that more after.

For now, I’m just very excited to share this guide with you as it’s something I’ve wanted to share for a minute now.

I hope it’s as valuable for you as it’s been for me.

Time for 10,000+ words of value.

Enjoy.

How to best approach this

Welcome to the basics of how to release.

Everyone will consume these materials slightly differently, but as a roadmap enjoyer, I wanted to provide you with some paths you could take.

The basics could be categorized into 3 sections:

Part 1: The paradigm switch. This introduces you to the force vs. flow paradigm, my origins with this, an overview of the method and how it can benefit you.

Part 2: How the technique works. Then, we’ll get technical and dive into the specifics and how-to around the technique, preparing you for its use.

Part 3: Application. Once enough foundation is laid, we’ll jump into using the technique. We’ll apply it to real-life situations so you can get the first-hand experience and benefit with the basic releasing questions.

Then once we’ve covered the basics, I’ll share a bonus that you can re-use over and over to receive benefit (just like everything in these materials).

So, you can approach this in 3 main ways:

1. Follow it exactly as it’s laid out. I’d recommend you take this path, as it helps onboard you the best. I did my best to address the key questions and objections you’re likely going to have, so by the time we’re ready to apply the technique, we can focus on releasing with more ease and simplicity.

2. Skip the paradigm switch and jump right into how the technique works. This starts at the “core releasing questions”. Then afterwards, we’ll jump into application.

3. Skip the paradigm switch + how the technique works, completely discard all the prep work and get immediately into application. This begins with “How to select what to work on.”

As I mentioned, I’d recommend reading this guide in the order it was written, as it’s explained in an intentional order to help facilitate the best results. We first lay a strong foundation and prepare you with the essentials, but the truth is, you don’t need to know how it works for it to work, so you can get into application if that’s what you’re called to.

That said, if you feel called to skip the prep work and jump right into the application phase, do it. But, if you end up feeling lost, confused, second-guessing, doubting, trying to figure everything out — consider resisting what you skipped out on, as it was there for a reason lol.

Hope these materials are extremely useful. Enjoy.

Why I’m uniquely qualified to help you with this

(And, more about my origins with releasing)

I discovered this approach in April 2024, and it fundamentally changed my life and the way life is experienced through this mind and body.

Prior to discovering releasing, I had 12 years of self-improvement under my belt. I was on a mission to maximize my potential and help others do the same.

I studied the best of the best, searched for metas, and scoured all the best sources of knowledge in the world to search for ways to unlock human potential.

And what I learned (and unlearned) in the year that followed caused 95% of the amazing lessons, teachings and approaches from the best in the world that previously appeared true… it caused them to be rendered either obsolete or false.

Though I was skeptical about all this at first, shortly after learning about it, experimenting and exploring it deeper, I had no choice but to completely redo my entire coaching program because of how effective, quick, simple and powerful this approach was.

Because this was the meta of metas. This was the type of thing that I searched for for over a decade. It finally arrived.

So, I went all in on applying releasing with myself and others.

I studied. I experimented. I applied.

I became a hardcore practitioner of the craft, constantly putting things into practice and exploring this completely overlooked realm. I was extremely diligent about getting the necessary firsthand experience with the flow dimension so I could help anyone transition from force to flow, if they so choose.

And now, I have tens of thousands, possibly even hundreds of thousands, of releases under my belt with myself and others. And although I’m not a “certified Sedona Method instructor” yet (yes, that’s the technique we’ll be exploring shortly), I’ve been deeply immersed in the facilitator training program and many other Sedona Method programs since April 2024, studying and applying like a madman.

At this point, with how far I’ve travelled on this path in such a short period of time, I’m confident in saying that I know exactly how to best guide you with releasing and the transition from force to flow. You’re in good hands.

“Some might even say, some of the greatest hands.” —Trump, probably (air accordion intensifies)

I must add as well: in the quest to maximize my potential and help others do the same, I already had years of experience with studying, self-experimentation and practitionership in the area of root cause work, with different methods.

But with this new approach of releasing — holy fuck. While the other methods I utilized were powerful, this is by far and away the simplest, easiest, fastest, most achievable, doable, practical, and readily available approach I’ve ever discovered for transformation. Especially the speed and effectiveness. It’s honestly fucking cracked. And for me, this put everything on an entirely different stratosphere for growth and speed of change.

And as a result, 28 was the most transformative year of my life, by a massive margin.

If you’re curious about how it has helped me most:

Through applying this, it helped me get out of my own way and make meaningful progress where it mattered most. It helped me stop pumping the brakes while driving uphill, to dissolve these crippling fears and self doubt that were destroying me from the inside. It helped me drop workaholism, to stop stressing so much about performance… and yet achieve productivity, effectiveness and creativity I used to dream of, using the time and energy in a day better than I ever have. It helped me achieve an otherworldly level of clarity, flow, and peace, which I am so fortunate to say has become the new default. It helped me drop countless illusions of the mind and ego, and perceive reality more clearly and accurately. Previously a serial over-complicater, an expert self-saboteur and addicted to making things hard, I now find things to be simple, easy and effortless, as if life’s hand was guiding and powering the direction, the effort, all of it.

And most importantly, the meta example. Coaching. Helping people at the deepest possible level is something I’ve wanted to lean into for such a long time. I was terrified and paralyzed before. I was so crippled by these fears, doubts, blocks and resistance. I wanted it so bad, but I struggled with consistency, with seeing clearly. I struggled so much with embracing and stepping into my purpose, the mission that mattered most to me. I just kept getting in my own way over and over again in new ways. It was a nightmare. But now, by applying releasing and the system within my coaching program, here we are. I’ve unfucked myself. And now, I’m flowing. Embracing. Allowing the mission to unfold. Showing up consistently. Taking action where it matters most. Naturally living and breathing the system. Being a walking and talking example of this. And then, of course, when new points of resistance arise on the journey, I use the system to dissolve that illusion, that apparent resistance, and return to that rich, wonderful paradigm of flow.

Does that last example sound familiar to any aspect of your life? Any wanting something so bad, but then finding yourself constantly getting in your way, struggling to be consistent and limiting your own potential? Good news, explore this deep enough, and it can completely change everything for you, too.

I’m not special by any means, and neither is anyone else who explores this and taps into its potential. I’m just someone who was given the option and chose to walk the path, and received the benefits of doing so.

While the transformation has been incredible so far, and the way this body and mind experience life is so profoundly different, this is also only the beginning for me. There’s still much to achieve and much to release.

I’m still walking the path and will never stop until this body decides to pass on. It’s just that I’m far enough ahead that I am qualified to help guide others like you on this journey.

Everything I am teaching and coaching you with or about are things I’m doing myself on a day-to-day basis. I walk the walk, which is how I’m able to speak to any of these things.

And the farther I walk on this journey, the deeper and deeper I go, the more I can share to help you with your transformation on your own journey.

For some, this might sound too good to be true, and that’s okay. I totally understand. If I were in your shoes and viewing life through the filters of your mind, I’m sure I’d think and feel exactly how you do right now.

In my experience, this is by far the most valuable approach I’ve ever found for progress, growth and enjoyment that anyone can use.

But like I’ll continue to remind you, this is not for everyone, and it may not be for you.

You don’t need to agree with this or trust me

I’m not asking you to trust me or even agree with me or this approach. Neither are required.

Don’t blindly trust me or agree with me. But also don’t blindly mistrust or disagree with me either, as that too is a very subtle trap that many skeptics fall into.

Just keep an open mind and an open heart.

Explore and experiment. Test things out for yourself. Notice for yourself.

Some of the concepts and insights described here will throw you for a loop. But that’s the case when you’re exploring something unconventional.

You’ve probably spent almost your whole life in a paradigm of force, so much of what I describe here when discussing the flow paradigm may seem foreign, or even delusional or insane at times.

I understand where you’re coming from, though, as force was once my come-from and paradigm too, and this stuff threw me for a loop too. It was confusing. It seemed illogical at times. Somewhat insane. Some what crazy.

Sometimes this mind still doesn’t understand things lol. And that’s okay. Because the mind was built to understand a paradigm where logic reigned supreme, not a paradigm that goes beyond logic as we know it.

If you want to stay the same and either want to experience the same things or experience things in the same way, you have my full permission to go back to comfort and follow the way everyone else is doing things.

That will get you what you’ve always gotten and what everyone else has gotten. And for some, that’s more than alright.

But if you’ve had enough and you’re ready to experiment with something different, stay open to the possibility of what I’m talking about and let’s explore this approach and paradigm together.

An introduction to releasing, the paradigms and what this is all about

Consider the following.

If I were to categorize life into 2 main paradigms, here’s what they’d be:

1. The force paradigm. This is all about forcing life, controlling life, holding on to things. It’s uphill, hard, and challenging. It’s filled with stress, fear and doubt. Nothing is enough, there’s always an underlying wanting of things to be different than they are. The list goes on. But it feels like a never-ending fight with life that you can’t escape. It’s virtually hell on earth.
2. The flow paradigm. This paradigm is all about effortlessness, simplicity and ease. There’s a sense of freedom, protection and guidance. Life is intuitive and clear. It’s peaceful and calm. It’s whole, abundant and rich beyond words could communicate. Achievement and action naturally unfold, without effort in the way you’ve come to know it, without that struggle. There’s a natural unfoldment of life, an allowing of life to just flow as it does, and in wonderful ways.

See, while you’re in it, force feels like it’s the default of life. But that’s just how it feels. That’s just part of the illusion.

In reality, flow is the real default of life, and releasing is just a tool to help you tap into it. To look beyond the illusion and snap back into reality.

And all you have to do to experience that flow again, is to let go, release or dissolve anything to the contrary. To drop anything that appears to be getting in the way or stopping you.

Because on the other side of that apparent resistance, is always the universal flow of life and all its amazing, rich & wonderful benefits.

So when you release, it’s automatic.

Releasing focuses on the root cause of life. It gives you a toolkit for working with the mind, perception, beliefs, emotions, behaviours, energy and beyond — to address whatever’s running the show and causing it to appear as it does.

With it, you can release, let go and dissolve unresolved emotions, fears, doubts, stories, illusions, blocks, resistance and anything that appears to be holding you back, getting in the way or stopping you from achieving what you want.

While this may appear unconventional on the surface, and I often lead with that to give people a heads up, it’s actually a completely tried and tested approach with a proven track record.

Releasing comes from The Sedona Method, a 50+ year practice that I began studying a year ago, very intensely. It’s an extremely simple, fast, effective and accessible approach to dissolving unwanted emotions, resistance, patterns, behaviours, and so much more.

It’s honestly fucking insane lol. It still blows me away on a day-to-day basis how useful it is.

I’d like to take a moment and thank everyone involved in the creation of The Sedona Method, including the late Lester Levenson (the founder/OG), Hale Dawson (the man who has lead its development for a few decades now, who I just recently got to meet for the first time in March 2025), as well as everyone along the way who helped play a role in its evolution. This has had such an immense positive impact on my life — I can’t thank them enough.

If you feel pulled to explore books or courses offered directly by The Sedona Method, you can find more materials and programs there. The book is great, and the course materials they offer are absolutely wonderful.

One of the most beautiful aspects of this is that while The Sedona Method is an incredibly effective and powerful approach for facilitating releases (🐐), the act of releasing itself is not specific to this method.

Instead, this technique is completely optimized to maximize and leverage a natural occurrence within life, nature and humans:

Releasing. Letting go. And allowing life to flow.

Let’s explore that more.

P.S. From here on in, I’ll almost always refer to the technique and approach as releasing. But I had to pay tribute to the origins here,

You’re already releasing

What I just described may have felt or sounded foreign.

But you are already releasing, whether you realize it yet or not.

Think of a time when you took a deep breath, and you could perceive more clearly again.

Or something occurred, and it felt like a weight was lifted off your shoulders.

Or a time you learned something/had an insight, and it snapped you out of an illusion and into reality.

All of those are examples of releases. But the difference is that they were more left to chance.

The average mind has a funny way of avoiding and postponing letting go of things until something happens circumstantially.

But it’s not something you need to wait for any longer.

See, releasing and flowing with life is available at any time, in any situation.

The option is always there to just let go, to release.

It’s just a choice.

And thankfully, with this approach, it provides an easy-to-follow framework that you can use anytime and anywhere, so that you don’t have to wait for chance or external circumstances anymore to enter that place of calm, clarity & flow.

It gives you the power back to let go of whatever appears to be holding you back, no matter what’s apparently happening.

There’s no upside to holding on

You’ll notice that in each of those real-life examples we just covered, you were always better off releasing something instead of holding onto it. There was always an automatic benefit on the other side that you didn’t need to do anything to claim or receive.

It just happened because that’s the default of life. How life actually is when you stop holding on.

As you explore this deeper, you’ll notice that letting go is always more beneficial than holding on.

Because that, too, is the default of life. Releasing. It’s the natural flow of things.

It’s almost as if life wants you to let go of things. To stop holding on. To allow life to handle things. To allow things to unfold as it does. And to flow with life rather than against it.

Why? Because if you don’t flow with life — if you try to fight against life, resist the way life unfolds or appears, there’s a cost.

The resistance, emotional turbulence, fears, doubts, insecurities, hold backs, confusion, hardship, struggle, uphill, efforting — it all comes from rejecting life. Wanting things to be different. Trying to fight life. Trying to force life. To resist the natural unfoldment of life, how things are.

That resisting the flow, trying to swim upstream — it’s not actually helping the way it seems like it is. And all it does is cause unnecessary suffering, make you ineffective, and ironically, keeps things stuck lol.

Progress can still be had within this paradigm, obviously, but it’s limited to what it could be. It’s very efforting, uphill and inefficient. What’s worse? The journey sucks, and the destination is a letdown.

When all along, you could’ve gotten exactly what you authentically want by flowing with life, and achieved it in a much more effective and enjoyable manner.

But with releasing, you can allow that resistance to dissolve. You can allow the force paradigm and all its downsides to drop, bit by bit, and progressively transition into the flow paradigm.

And there, on the other side of that dissolved resistance, is a sense of flow, peace, calm, clarity, effortless solutions, ease, simplicity and progress beyond your wildest imagination.

How do you actually let go of something?

A common question I get when teaching people this about all this:

“All this sounds very interesting, but how do you actually let go of something?”

And the real answer is to just let go. To allow things to drop. To allow things to dissolve.

To stop holding on.

You already know how to let go of something. You’ve been releasing your whole life.

Releasing is as easy as if you were to hold a pen out in front of you in a clenched fist, then relax the fist and allow it to drop.

Yes, it really is that simple and that easy.

The mind might counter, “But it’s not that easy! It can’t be!”

But it is.

With tens and tens of thousands of releases under my belt as of writing, I assure you, the pen example is exactly how it is. It just might not always seem or feel like that, especially at first.

The more experience you get with this and the more you release, the more apparent and clear this availability, ease and simplicity become.

This awareness occurs not only through getting experience with releasing and seeing things dissolve through the choice, but even more importantly, as more and more is released, it’ll allow you to see clearer than you ever have before, and will allow you to see how easy and simple it always was — there was just a filter distorting perception before.

Releasing is always an option, in any given moment. Even right now, as you’re reading this. With whatever that thing that pops into your mind that feels like you can’t release. Yes. That too, can be released.

You don’t have to start here, though, so don’t worry. You can address this when you’re ready.

But the mind can overcomplicate this and make it feel like it’s a reach. But that’s just an illusion. It’s actually the most reachable, most available thing, most releasable thing.

The resistance, the doubt, the fear — anything contrary to flow — is always available to just dissolve, be let go of.

All that keeps it in place is holding onto it, wanting to make it real.

And if you can just allow yourself to stop holding onto it, life takes care of the letting of, the dissolving, the melting of it.

To go to the extremes, everything could be released and “enlightenment” could be achieved in an instant. The mind is the only thing that’s stopping and overcomplicating it.

The good news is, the technique itself (which we’ll get to soon) helps you make big jumps by making smaller jumps, so releasing can feel more doable. You don’t need to release everything all at once.

Just like I did, we’ll go release by release, and things will get easier each time.

And then one day, you’ll see as I now do, that everything is just energy that can be released on.

What happens if I let something go?

As I’m sure you’ve noticed in your multiple decades on earth, the mind tends to want to hold on to things instead of letting them go.

It resists the idea of releasing resistance — fears, doubts, holdback, second-guessing, etc. — because it thinks that if it lets go of these things, negative things will occur.

That something bad will happen. That you’ll be threatened. That you’ll be sabotaged. That you won’t win.

The list goes on, and it sells you on the whole script, masterfully.

“I’ll hold onto the negative, so I don’t expect the negative.”

Lol.

But it sounds so good to the mind that you end up choosing to hold onto it to attempt to protect yourself from these apparent threats.

For example, the mind might say something like:

“I can’t let go of this fear of failure! I have to hold onto it because, without this fear of failure, I will fail. I won’t do anything and I won’t achieve my goal!”

But everything it just described for that person was what was already being experienced.

Holding onto that fear was actually the thing causing them to be stuck, inconsistent, and stopping them from achieving the goal altogether. It was quite literally making them want to run in the opposite direction of achieving the goal.

If this person just released their fear of failure (assuming other things weren’t required to work on too), the false storylines would drop, they would stop avoiding the work, they get unstuck and in motion. They would be consistently and they’d flow towards their goal without having to coerce or force themselves to pursue it — it would just happen.

But the mind doesn’t see it like that. It rationalizes holding on in a masterful manner to keep itself stuck, limited and safe. Ironically, in the least safe way.

This is an example of how the mind and the emotions lie to you.

How they can, and do, deceive you, way more than you might realize.

For a moment, think about something you feel resistant to letting go of.

Just observe it.

Now, just listen to the story, let it play out. Let all the reasons and stories why you apparently shouldn’t release it just be verbalized.

And if you notice, whatever reason pops up for why you shouldn’t release — is actually what you’re already experiencing by trying to hold onto it.

It’s one of the best psyops of all time, and virtually everyone falls for it because of how convincing it is. It feels so real. But it isn’t.

So just be aware of this.

In reality, what actually happens when you let something go? What’s on the other side of a release?

The opposite of what’s been apparently happening.

Force becomes flow.
Inaction becomes automatic action.
Stuckness becomes freedom.
Confusion becomes clarity.
Complexities become simple.
Fear becomes courage.
Doubt becomes certainty.
Anxiety becomes calm.
Stress becomes peace.
Lack becomes wholeness.
Limitation becomes boundlessness.

It’s a richness beyond your wildest expectations.

You’ll see for yourself, soon enough.

Answering some questions that you might have

In the rest of the library, these questions are addressed more in depth, but before we go any further, I just wanted to address some questions that may be floating around in your mind.

If you don’t have any of these questions, you can skip to the next section.

If I flow with life, won’t I lose out on getting what I want?

Life wants what’s best for you. Life wants you to win. That life force, the all that is, the source of infinite potential — it wants you to succeed and achieve your authentic goals.

The only goals I’ve dropped as a result of releasing are false goals that I thought I wanted, but I thought

Won’t I lose my power with this if I stop channelling the dark side?

I have extensive experience with both the dark side and the light side (what I’m teaching here). I once thought the dark side was effective as hell, and I was extremely resistant to letting go of it, for fear of losing that power to channel all that dark energy into productive action.

But I risked it for you. I released almost all of the dark side to test out if it would work. And the results shocked me.

Not only did it feel way better — you know, that whole peace thing? But also, it’s infinitely more effective than the dark side.

The flow state beats the force state in effectiveness, enjoyment and every other notable metric.

And, even with being more released, calm and peaceful than I’ve ever been — I am taking more action than I ever have because I’m out of my way and this paradigm has become my default.

Action is the default. Achievement is the default. It’s just that in the force paradigm, it feels stuck like it’s stuck in place, so everything feels like it needs to be forced — which is uphill, resistant and exhausting.

So, no. You’re not going to lose out on power.

The only thing you have to fear losing out on is all the untapped potential you’re missing out on by not exploring this.

If this is so effective, why am I only hearing about it now?

This is a little-explored paradigm.

It’s proven, tried and tested.

But at the same time, few on this planet will experience it.

Even fewer will be able to teach you it.

Even fewer yet, will give you a practical system and roadmap for transitioning from force to flow.

The thing about the cutting edge…

If you wait for the masses to all do something before you, you’ve given away your power like an NPC and completely any leg up you would’ve had.

Don’t wait. Be a self-experimentor, test it out for yourself and get first-hand experience with transformations.

Experience with it will beat what someone could tell you about it, including me.

Maybe because you’re only now hearing it, because you’re finally ready to make a monumental shift.

Or maybe it’s just what’s apparently happening, without any story behind it.

Either way, it’s time to get into the technique.

The core releasing questions

Alright. We’ve talked enough about the paradigm switch and addressing common concerns and questions you may have had.

It’s time to explore how the technique works now.

The basic releasing questions are made up of the following questions:

Could you welcome it?
Could you let it go?
Would you?
When?

These 4 questions are at the core of the release process. They’re used in more basic releases (which we will do together shortly), as well as more advanced releases. Though the questions may differ, the framework is still very similar.

While they might seem simple, don’t overlook them. They are profoundly powerful.

These 12 words have the highest impact-per-word ratio I’ve experienced in my 29 years on this planet. No other lesson, quote, or advice comes close. The only thing that does come close is another releasing question you’ll see me use obsessively in more advanced guided releases hahaha. Releasing absolutely bodies everything else (pray for no nerfs).

This sequence and phraseology of these questions are masterful in nature. As I mentioned, full credit to the Sedona Method here.

See, if I told you that you had to release something and you had to do it now, you would probably tell me to fuck off and you’d likely hold onto it instead lol.

Now, even if I softly encouraged you to release something, even if you wanted to, it may feel out of reach. As if you’re on the ground floor, trying to get up to the next level with no pathway up in sight.

Alone, it often feels like too much of a gap, a stretch or a jump. Especially at first.

But these questions act like a staircase to get to that next level. That alone, the jump to the next level would be too big of a stretch, but by using a staircase, step by step, it can be done.

It’s broken down into simple, easily digestible and achievable steps so that wherever you’re at, you can “walk up” to that next level, step by step.

Not only that, but the releasing questions and phrases used are worded in such a beautiful and elegant way that allows the mind to be more receptive to their guidance.

It’s quite genius, honestly. I’m extremely grateful to everyone who helped facilitate the creation of this process. Especially life itself, the ultimate designer.

How to respond to these questions

Everything except “when?” is a yes or no question, so replying with a simple yes or a no is all that’s needed. This is not story time or therapy, so you don’t need to share anything more than that.

With when, the best answer is of course “now”. To not put off holding onto any longer.

But suppose that it doesn’t feel like you can release it “now”, you can respond with whatever time you’d like. It’s completely okay lol. Just do the best you can.

By the way — a quick note on humour. It’s okay to laugh about how ridiculous some of these answers might be. For me, in my very first releases, I resisted the idea of “now” so heavily. I said “later” and “tomorrow” to put it off like everything else I did as a former serial procrastinator lol. And then laughed a fuck ton at how hilarious and absurd it sounded. And then I released both with the acceptance of what arose (honesty) and the laughing. So it really doesn’t matter.

As for the yes and no questions, just remember, releasing is always an option. It’s not as solid or as permanent as it sometimes feels. It’s all just energy, appearing as it does, which you can always just let flow.

In situations where it feels somewhere between a yes and no, here’s what I’d recommend.

Sometimes, saying is easy. Other times, courage feels like it’s needed to take the leap. Because even with the awareness that everything can be released, sometimes it still feels like it’s not. And that’s totally fine. Even when it feels or appears like that, you can still release it anyway. That’s the beauty of this.

You’ll often hear me adding follow-up phrases after releasing questions, such as, “…just as best you can, just for now,” because that’s all it is. You’re just doing the best you can. You don’t need to release everything. Just what you can. Even just a little. And even just a little bit can go a long way. Especially when added up, consistently.

By the way, a quick bonus point: Even if you’re not talking to anyone, I’ve found that it can be useful to respond to these releases out loud to help with that courage, to help make that jump to “yes” when it’s appropriate. Even if it’s just a whisper, it seems to help. The majority of my solo releases are verbalized. Both the questions and the answers. (So yes, I look like an absolute lunatic sometimes if I’m in public lol)

Other times, I’ll say no.

And this might surprise you, but it still releases anyway. Lol.

Firstly, answering honestly is a form of welcoming, allowance or acceptance.

Secondly, if you are resisting or rejecting or holding on, allowing yourself to resist, reject or hold on without trying to change it, fix it, control it, judge it, etc. — is ironically, also acceptance and allowance of what is.

Saying “no” is not wrong or less than. It’s okay and it’s allowed (and, you can feel free to laugh at it too).

And through these various manifestations of allowance and acceptance, you get, you guessed it — it releases.

Because welcoming and letting go are both releases, just applied slightly differently.

And so here and there, I like to respond with “no” to remind myself how powerful the release can be, even when I say no. It’s wild lol.

I understand this can be a little confusing at first. This “no is yes” thing took me a while to understand lmao.

But if those explanations didn’t land, it’ll make more sense as you put this into practice more. That’s what allowed it to click for me.

The good news is — you won’t be playing in the dark here. If you’re sensitive to energy, you’ll get a full masterclass and sense everything that’s going on.

But even if you can’t, the emotional and thought level will also be impacted, so if you’re aware of those, you’ll get a wonderful feedback loop there too.

How long does it take to release something?

I wish I could give you an exact ETA here, but I honestly can’t.

The real answer is always: as long as it takes.

What I can say is that this is the fastest technique I’ve discovered to date, which is big part of why I’ve embraced it as much as I have. Speed matters to me, and I know it matters to you too. So you are in the right place, regarding that.

There are so many different variables that will speed up or slow things down, so the timeline will be different for every topic, situation, and state you appear to be experiencing.

Ironically, the fastest way to release is to let go of any stories, expectations, beliefs, and wants around it releasing fast and releasing slow. To be released on all aspects, and allow it to take as little or as long as it does. Nothing more, nothing less.

The good news is, this isn’t a treadmill that you never stop running on. With every release, you get closer to its eventual release. An analogy I like within creation is building a wall, brick by brick. With releasing, it’s like taking down the wall brick by brick. To dissolve the wall brick by brick. Release by release.

Thankfully, this isn’t something you’re doing in the dark either — you can see and feel the progress. There’s immediate and instant feedback. With every question, with every round, you can feel things unlock and free up more and more, you can perceive clearer and clearer. For this reason, it’s sort of gamified in a way, though don’t get wrapped in the game because this too will slow things down hahaha.

The process itself is also very interesting, fascinating and enjoyable, which makes everything easier too. I used to resist doing other root cause processes similar to this because they felt boring and slow. But I find releasing to be honestly fun and engaging, so it makes it easy to allocate the necessary time to it, since it’s something I actually enjoy doing and actively seek out.

Getting back to the feedback — imagine you’re hypothetically 100% blocked, and you do a few releases and get to only 30% blocked, 70% flowing. You will feel a significant difference even though it isn’t fully released yet. At that point, you could take 3 different approaches, all of which are fine: You could say this is good for now and just get back to things. You could continue releasing at a later time. Or, you could keep going and go deeper. There is no one way to do things.

I will say this, though. When you’re first beginning, don’t expect yourself to release everything on the first round of releasing questions, or the first releasing session as a whole. If there’s any intent, let it be to progressively dissolve things, release by release. However many releases it takes is however many it takes. And through that, things will free up just more each time, and much faster than if you were trying to force it to speed it up.

Sometimes things can release extremely fast, other times it takes additional support. It varies based on so many different variables and factors. As you release more, it does become faster and easier to release, and boy is it ever worth it. So if it’s feeling like a lot, know it will get easier. Just stay the course and stick with it.

Things also work so much faster when advanced elements are integrated into releases, which is why once we’re done covering the basics here, pretty much everything else explored in the library will be intermediate and advanced.

For example, adding in the 5 wants & sense of identification into my day-to-day releases, created a monumental jump in speed, power and efficiency (which, you’ll get a taste of both very soon).

At the macro level, if things feel like they’re taking longer than they should, just stay with it, and also release on that too.

What’s the alternative? Holding on to all this stuff? Keeping it?

With each release, remember that you get closer to being fully released. Stay with it.

How to select what to work on

In time, the answer is easy for what to work on: whatever’s arising. It doesn’t matter if it’s a super small thing or your apparent biggest life pattern.

But since this is new and you’re just beginning with this, there are 2 main paths here. First, I’ll tell you what I’d recommend you do, then I’ll tell you what I actually did when I started lol.

What I did: I jumped in with very challenging things right away, I did not give a fuck lmao. The reason why this worked is that I already had experience with other root cause work, so even the idea of letting go of things was still so fucking hard, I already had a degree of buy-in, knew of its potential, and was more comfortable starting with bigger things as a result. I’m also the type to stick with things longer and self-experiment as long as appropriate, so if it didn’t work right away, I wouldn’t have just quit on it.

What I recommend you do: Start with something small or medium. Something doable and achievable. Something you think you think you might be able to release. Then, build up from there, with that positive association and momentum.

Why I recommend this: Every topic has a different level of perceived difficulty. Honestly, they’re all just one energy, but some feel harder than others.

In the beginning, when you’re new to this, I want you to get a positive first-hand experience with this. Not through my words, but seeing for yourself how it works, experiencing the benefits. Looking beyond.

With a super challenging topic, something that feels overwhelming and too much, you may not see the noticeable changes as fast as you would with a smaller topic, and as a result, if it feels like no progress was made, you’re not likely to stick with it and continue to get benefit.

While you don’t need belief to make this work, if you throw yourself into the deep end and it’s too much, why would you come back to swim? Lol.

Additionally, remember, we’re only exploring the basic questions right now. Even now, with certain topics that feel way more challenging to release than others, it can sometimes feel like I have to pull out all the stops, all the variations, all the hacks within this approach to release something.

But here, I’m just giving you the day 1 stuff, and then we’ll build upon it after.

So as a beginner, I want you to choose something more doable so you can see faster results, then work on more challenging things later.

If you decide to ignore this and want to jump into more challenging topics (lol), just know it may take more releases, and you may have to be more patient with it.

Though it’s possible to, instead of expecting yourself to release everything all at once, remember to focus on going step by step. And even in just a release or a few releases, you can start to notice a shift, an opening, a loosening, a relaxation, a clarifying.

By the way, if you haven’t selected something yet, some quick ideas that might help something arise:

• A situation, person or thing that you feel some slight stress, angst or irritation about
• An unwanted emotion or thought pattern
• A small goal, sub-project, or action step that you’re fearing, doubting, second-guessing, or experiencing insecurity around

If you’re having trouble choosing only one topic, just pick one. Besides what I said before, it doesn’t matter. This isn’t going anywhere — you can release on the other options after, or another time.

Let’s practice releasing with the basic method

So far, we’ve covered the essentials of releasing, covering how it all works and how you can benefit. But for now, that’s enough knowledge.

It’s time to shift in application, and I’ll share some useful insights that may help as we put this into practice.

And remember, it’s just that. Practice. Have fun with this.

Before we get started…

Could you just pause?
Could you just stop?
Just as best you can, just for now.
And allow all to just be as it is.
Just for a moment.
Just for now.

This, right here, now…
What if this is wholeness?
What if this is enough?
What if this is boundless freedom?
And as best you can, just for now, could you allow that to be recognized or noticed?
All is well.

When you’re ready to continue, think about what you’d like to work on.

Could you welcome it in? (Yes/no)
Could you let it go? (Yes/no)
Would you? (Yes/no)
When? (Time, ie. now)

W. You’ve just successfully completed your first ever round of releasing.

Now, let’s check in. Think about what you’re releasing on, what you’re working on.

When you think about it now, do you notice anything different?

Is there a different association? Is there any more relief, calm or clarity around the topic? Has anything shifted inside the mind, emotions, body or energy field?

If not, that’s okay. Each time you follow this sequence, you move closer to that. Even if it’s just a little sometimes. Even that, added up consistently over time, can create wonderful transformations.

Let’s do that again. But this time, don’t rush it or force it. Just allow each question to take as long as it does, and let the answer be whatever it is, whatever arises.

Think about what you’d like to work on.

Could you welcome it in? Just as best you can, just for now.
And could you let that go? Just could you, just for now.
Would you?
When?

A slight change in the questioning in that round.

Let’s check in again. Is anything opening up, freeing up, loosening or shifting? Any difference in association? Are any thoughts or emotions changing, even if just slightly?

Again, if things don’t appear to be shifting yet, that’s okay. Genuinely. We’re still moving closer to those shifts with every release, and they’ll happen when they do.

Remember — you’re just starting. You’re practicing right now. Be patient.

You don’t need to force any of it to allow it to work, to allow things to release.

As a reminder, you are not the one releasing. Releasing just happens as the default, which occurs when you surrender enough to allow it to happen.

Just do your best to surrender and let go. Instead of you doing the process, open to the process doing you.

“Another round 🗣️!” he exclaimed.

Think about what you’d like to work on.

Could you welcome it in? Just could you?
And could you just let that go?
Would you?
When?

Check in. Notice any shifts that may have occurred so far.

Bonus release: if you’re noticing yourself caring about the end result of this process, could you let go of how this is going so far? Would you? When? And could you allow this to unfold as it does? Could you open to these releases being simple, easy & effortless?

Awesome.

Now, some quick reminders of the technique, if you’re finding yourself caught up in the words, nuances, trying to figure things out, wondering what some of this means…

Welcoming = allowing, noticing, letting it be as it is, surrendering to the way it appears, accepting it, opening, etc.

Letting it go = letting or allowing it be released, dissolved, dropped, let go, etc.

Welcoming and letting go are variations of releasing. They’re very similar, and you can even let things go purely through welcoming without any questions related to letting go. It’s powerful.

Within this process, welcoming acts as a softener to make it easier to let go of something. It’s like that staircase we talked about earlier.

Within releases, I use a whole host of words that are all synonymous. It’s just about finding what works best for you and what resonates with your mind most. So as we release, feel free to substitute the words in your mind: ie. if you read “letting go” → you can say “dissolving” in the mind. Someday, this won’t matter, but in the beginning, it’s clutch.

This time, let’s do the basic release, but I’ll change the words to show some variations that might work better with your mind. Then afterwards, you can switch things up in the releases if you’ve found a synonym that resonates.

Back to releasing practice.

Think about what you’re working on.

Could you just allow this to be as it is? As it appears? As it feels?
Could you allow this to just dissolve, on its own? Could you allow it to be released? Just as best you can. Just for now. Just could you?
Would you let it dissolve?
When?

Now, before we do another round of the basic release, let me introduce you to a very unconventional yet insanely effective concept:

Wanting to change things doesn’t change them. It actually keeps things stuck in place.

Now, I can already sense how insane this sounds.

And this is of many reasons why I call this program unconventional lol. But hear me out for a second and stay open.

Lol. But hear me out.

What would you rather:

Want to change something?

Or have it actually change?

The energy of wanting is the opposite of having. They’re completely different.

Quite literally, the definition of wanting could be simplified down to “lack” or “absence”.

So, from an energetic standpoint, when you “want” something at an an energetic level, it’s as if you’re telling life to give you the lack of that.

In the case of wanting to change, because of the lack element, it’s as if it keeps it stuck.

And so within the force dimension, that’s why everything feels so uphill, so forceful, so efforting, so uphill. You’re quite literally fighting counterintentions with things like wanting to change, which keep things stuck. So because you hold onto this want, the only way you’ve known to overcome this is through sheer will.

But actually, there’s a far simpler, far better, far more effective method.

You can let go of wanting to change altogether.

I know you’re now wondering — doesn’t that mean it won’t change? Quite the opposite.

Letting go of wanting to change allows for change to occur if it’s appropriate. It unlocks the natural flow of life and frees things up for natural unfoldment — sometimes on its own, sometimes through you, sometimes through others, and sometimes things are already good and no change was needed at that point.

Instead of needing to force the change to compensate for the want, things just unfold with simplicity, ease and flow.

This can be a little confusing for some at first, I get it. When I explored this, it was for me, too. Especially as a former control freak who thought that if I didn’t control things, nothing would happen. But that was just a carefully, well-crafted illusion and false paradigm and kept things way more stuck, slow and limited than I could’ve imagined at the time.

But as I explored this deeper, I discovered that letting go of wanting to change is categorically the fastest, most effective way for change to occur, and occur in wonderful ways too.

If this doesn’t make sense yet, don’t worry or think too hard on it. You do not need to figure it out.

This can be explored more deeply later, but for now, test it out for yourself with this release and see what unfolds.

Think about what you’re working on for a moment.

Just notice for a second — is there any wanting to change beneath or behind that, that’s arising?

Without trying to change it or judge it, just observe:

Is there any wanting to change anything with or about it? Any wanting to fix it, improve it, or modify it? Any wanting it to be different than it is or appears to be? Any wanting to control it?

And however much or as little as that wanting appears, could you just welcome that in?
Could you allow it to be there?
Could you just notice that?
And as best you can, just for now, could you let go of wanting to change or control that? Could you allow that wanting to just drop, dissolve or release?
Would you?
When?

And could you open to that change naturally unfolding? To that change occurring on its own?

Awesome. If you need another round of that (or multiple rounds), you can repeat that if you’d like until you feel ready to move on.

What’s great is that when you release the underlying wants, the original topic releases too, because it’s connected.

So check in for a moment: is there anything that feels or seems different? Any clearer? Any lighter? Any shifts?

Do you notice any sense of wholeness around that now, any sense like things are either enough as they are already, or that things are unfolding already on their own? Do you see any clearer? Are things more calm? Lighter? Anything else shifting?

Great job with your first experience with releasing a want, and opening to change naturally occurring on its own.

We explore this far deeper in the rest of the program, especially the 5 wants. Wanting change for example is a manifestation of wanting control, which is 1 of the 5 wants. These 5 wants run your life more than you could possibly imagine right now.

But we’ll touch on that later.

For now, let’s do one last basic release.

After letting go of the wanting to change — even if it was just partially —things flow much easier, much smoother and much lighter.

Think about what you’d like to work on.

Could you welcome that in?
Could you just let that go?
Would you?
When?

Can you sense how much easier that basic release felt after we released on wanting to change?

It makes a huge difference. And that’s what the flow paradigm is all about. Unconventional approaches that unlock a new level.

And lastly, within whatever you’ve been releasing on, whatever your preferred outcome is, however you’d like it to be…

Could you open to it?
Could you welcome it?
Could you allow it to unfold?
Would you?
When?

Awesome. Now check in with what you were working on. See how it feels, how it appears, how it seems. Do you notice anything different compared to when you first began?

Ideally, things freed up at least a little, maybe even a lot, and you got a taste of the power of releasing. A profoundly impactful tool for transformation, using unconventional methods.

If things didn’t go as expected, that’s okay too. If you feel intuitively called to explore this, stay with it.

As I mentioned before, this was just practice. If you stay with it, releases will get easier, faster, and more effective.

Otherwise, if you don’t feel called to return to this, you have my permission to discard it and go back to the normal world hahaha

But remember, this is only just the beginning. These were merely the basics, the core fundamentals.

There are so many ways and paths to release, and I’ll continue to throw as many things at you as possible throughout the rest of the program, but I just wanted to start you off with the most fundamental of them all. And now, we can really get going.

Whatever the result so far, great job.

Seriously, give yourself a pat on the back.

I applaud you for getting right into application.

You could’ve decided to put off applying this, going just for the acquisition of theory and concepts, as many do to avoid taking action.

But you didn’t. You got right into it and experimented, applied and put what we learned before into practice.

This is what separates the practitioner from the professional student.

Being in the game and getting first-hand experience always beats theoretical and conceptual knowledge.

But we’re not done quite yet.

If this didn’t make sense or felt awkward

If this didn’t make sense or felt strange, awkward or uncomfortable.

Don’t worry.

You’re not supposed to get this all right away.

You’ve spent most of your entire life to date in a totally different paradigm, with totally different beliefs, rules and laws.

I don’t expect you to get or understand this or be comfortable with this on your first go. So you don’t need to expect that from yourself, either.

You’re trying to walk for the first time after crawling. It’s likely your first attempt at walking wasn’t successful. You probably stumbled and fell, just like you may have here.

But the difference is — you didn’t think, is this bullshit? Is this not for me? Maybe I’m too this or too that for walking. You didn’t judge yourself for the attempt, the practice, the repetitions. You didn’t dismiss or discard walking, either.

There was no story. Because the story isn’t needed for progress. And often, it just complicates progress.

You just kept trying to walk over and over again until eventually, you walked.

On my first releases, even with lots of experience in self-improvement and spirituality, I stumbled too. I fell too. Everyone does. You’re not that special. Lol.

It’s actually hilarious to think back on the first few releasing sessions and what they looked like.

My wonderful Mom, who introduced me to this work, was guiding me in releasing sessions. She asked me if I could welcome something in, and I remember it taking me like a full fucking 10 minutes just to say a simple “yes” hahahaha. I was in such a perfectionist, so force-based, so black and white in my thinking that I thought it had to be perfectly welcomed and accepted for me to say yes. Which, it doesn’t, as a reminder. I also resisted saying no so badly. I felt like I had to say yes. There was so much overthinking and rigidness lol.

And that’s not even bringing into play how confusing and ass backwards the “wants” and other unconventional concepts were for this mind.

But despite all this, I just kept at it, and it worked anyway. And thank God.

Then, eventually, it all became natural.

And now, it’s something I don’t even need to think about. Releasing just apparently happens as part of my day-to-day as much or as little as is needed.

And even cooler, it’s become so natural that I’m now able to coach people with it, and teach them about it, like I am with you right now.

You’ve likely built great skill in trying to go against life, fighting the flow, just as I had.

All it takes is some unlearning, a willingness to drop the illusion to a degree and the courage to keep going.

Though I know not everyone will, I highly recommend you stay with this if you feel called to.

This process is the most effective action I take on a daily basis. And it can be for you too.

But wait, there’s more (bonus release)

Congratulations on completing the basic portion of this guide. Revisit it as much as you feel you need to, as the master is he who masters the basics and the fundamentals. td

Originally, this free guide was only supposed to include how to do the basic release, and touch on intermediate elements like how wanting to change blocks the natural flow of change.

But since you now have some practice under your belt with the basic release process and the fundamentals have been explained…

It’s time to throw you directly into the fire.

In the coaching program, once the basics are covered, we start immediately swinging for the fences in the releases included in the live calls, the recordings and the ever-expanding coaching library. We add intermediate and advanced elements into the releases, then let people catch up at their own pace.

And so, I felt a pull to do the same thing here.

While the library and calls often zero in on more specific topics in the releases, I recorded a generalized version to give you a chance to plug in whatever topic you’d like to work on.

This will help you experience a deeper release and give you a preview of what you’ll get access to if you choose to explore coaching.

While every release looks slightly different, the format is very similar to the releases that my clients and I use on a day-to-day basis to achieve insane unlocks, absolutely cracked levels of clarity and flow that are truly OP¹This means overpowered if you’re a boomer 🙂

You’ll notice similarities to the fundamentals you’ve learned here, but with different structure, phrases, words, questions, formats, pacing and more — all designed to facilitate even deeper, even faster, even more effective releases.

We’ll also be addressing the deeper wants, identity, remaining resistance, and opening to the wonderful energy that all is afterwards.

If you want further clarifications and explanations on what’s going on, you’re not getting that here lol. But you can access a library filled that covers with lessons on this + ask me on a call, in any of the coaching offers.

But remember, you don’t need to figure it out or understand it to release. Just follow along with the exercise, do the best you can, and things will dissolve anyway.

Also, if this is too much, if you find yourself not resonating with it yet, and you want to stay with the basic questions for now, that’s okay too. You can put this on pause, and then, if/when you’re ready, you can revisit the guided release at a later time.

This release is fucking awesome lol. I’ve already gone through it multiple times and received great benefit and transformation from it. I’m excited for you to go through it and have access to it.

I set this up so you can use it on goals, situations or challenges — whatever’s arising. It’s designed so that it can work on a wide range of topics.

No catch. All this for free. You’re welcome.

Enjoy your free preview and revisit this as much as you’d like. It’s an amazing tool.

Next steps

I hope this introductory guide and the bonus guided release were both tremendously valuable for you.

You can now revisit releasing whenever you want and apply it to goals, challenges and situations that arise for the rest of your days.

Remember, releasing is always just a choice away. It’s always an option, even when it feels like it’s not.

If this resonated with you and you want to explore this work deeper to progressively transition into living a life based in the flow paradigm, here are what I’d recommend as your next steps.

As I mentioned before, these materials were taken directly from the coaching library. It’s an ever-growing library of materials that explores this transformation through 5 main components:

1. Releasing
2. Goals
3. Actions
4. Optimization
5. Adjustment

It’s a clear-cut, step-by-step, easy-to-follow system and roadmap that helps people primarily:

1. Get unstuck
2. Achieve more
3. Unlock flow at an unprecedented level

It’s the exact self-improvement program I wish I had over a decade ago. It’s unconventional, but holy fuck does it ever work wonders.

The 3 main recommendations:

• Join group coaching. If you resonated with this and you’re looking for the most affordable option, look no further. You get 3+ group calls with me per month, with coaching and releases. You get access to a comprehensive library, filled with guided releases, lessons, and approaches to fulfill the program’s goals and benefits. Everything is laid out step-by-step to help facilitate powerful transformations and assist your journey. You also get to join a community of like-minded people, exploring this with us. All this for just $50/month ($1.61/day) and even less if you go the annual route, where you can get 3 months free (and reduced to just $37.50/month)
• Apply for 1:1 coaching. This won’t be for everyone, as its pricing is much higher than the group coaching. But if you want to go deeper and faster, and you’re willing to reinvest in yourself and your business, this is absolutely what I’d recommend. This 1:1 program is for the most serious, who want to transform and experience the benefits as fast as possible. You’ll get a custom roadmap based on your goals and challenges, 3+ 1:1 calls per month with direct accountability, releases and coaching. You also get lifetime access to the group coaching offer below, so even when you’re done with 1:1, you’ll still continue to get access to the library, community and group calls.
• Book a free 1:1 session with me — Get a free 1:1 session with me, and leave with clarity on your goals, challenges and blind spots, which you can get a recording of if you’d like. No strings attached here. This is an absolute no-brainer.

If you want to learn more about the program, you can do so here.

But a note of caution:

If this is something you feel called to explore…

Don’t wait like you’ve done so often in the past.

Act now. Take the first step.

You know how badly things usually end up when you avoid and procrastinate on the things that you know you should do.

Take your next step now. Get your foot in the door. Change things up, and be an action taker, now.

Lead with courage, not fear. And you’ll give yourself the highest chance of this becoming your new come-from.

Stop trying to do it on your own, resorting to your comfort zone, reverting to your old ways.

Let’s release what’s appearing to hold you back.

Let’s explore the flow paradigm together.

And let’s tap into the next level of you.

That next level of life is waiting.

But it’s only for those who take action.

Trust your intuition.

Lead with courage.

And I hope to work with you soon.

—Josh

P.S. Again, thank you to the Sedona Method, Lester, Hale and everyone else involved. 🐐🙌🏻

I’m not keen on recommending much these days, but if you feel called to explore books or courses offered directly by The Sedona Method, explore that. The book is great, and the courses they offer are wonderful.