Release Your Problems

The following is from lectures that Lester Levenson gave in the 1960s in New York.

“It is necessary and good to discover that everything happening is caused by our thinking. Everything that happens to us is created in our thought. It’s a stepping stone toward realizing and recognizing that we are the creators.

First you discover that you created your trouble. Then you discover that you can create anything you desire. After you discover that there is nothing you cannot create, you’re still unhappy. The reason is that you have separated yourself from  the infinity. Only on recognizing your infinity are you perfectly satisfied.

So if there are any problems that remain, they only remain because you are holding on to them in thought. The moment you let go of them, they’re gone! If you tell me that isn’t so for you, that isn’t true. The truth is you’re still holding onto them, telling me that it doesn’t work.

Now ‘trying to get rid of a problem’ is holding onto it. Anything we try to get rid of, we are holding in mind and thereby sustaining that problem. So the only way to correct a problem is to let go of it. See not the problem. See only what you want, that is all you would get i.e. what you want. But you hold in mind the things you do not want, thereby sustaining them.”

We are reminded constantly by all the philosophers that ‘we get what we consistently think about.’

It’s very easy to say “don’t think about your problems”. But it’s not so easy to do. Our minds make this very difficult since one of the major functions of ego is to help us avoid pain. This means it is going to supply us with feelings of anxiety, doubt, fear etc so as to “protect us” from the reality it sees of the situation causing our problem. It is therefore clearly working against us in this way.

The antidote that Lester proposes is that we take charge of our mind and focus on what we want.

Easier said than done!

Some years ago I came across a little (tiny) book intriguingly called “It Works”. Written by RHJ in 1926, the author was purportedly a wealthy individual who wished to remain anonymous.  In his little book, he outlines a ‘surefire’ way of delivering to the reader who follows the instructions, whatever he most wants.

Long after I had forgotten about this little book, I came across a printed work by someone who had very much taken the instructions to heart and had spent a lifetime proving again and again that these  principles work (for those who follow the instructions).

I corresponded with this man, Brad Jensen, and he agreed to allow me to distribute his work entitled “The Ten Most Wanted List”.

All those on my list, i.e. those who have signed up to receive the Lester Levenson Story called “No Attachments, No Aversions” will have access to “The Ten Most Wanted List”. Just email me with your name and email address to:

gerrydr at (@)gmail.com

and put ‘TenMostWanted’ in the subject line.

For anyone else, it is available when you enter your name and email in the form on this page.

By the way. I’ll expect to receive comments and questions from those who take up the challenge and use the method outlined in “The Ten Most Wanted List”.

Keep chipping away!

Gerry D-R