I am very sorry if my remarks pushed your buttons a bit, and I rest assured that, since your blog is called the Discomfort Zone, you appreciate the value of having our buttons pushed as much as I do!

Peace and blessings,
Andrea

P.S. I would have loved to comment on your post mentioning my comment, but I think you closed the comments? Kudos to you for publicizing your income, by the way! I wish more people talked frankly about money.

You did and that’s a big difference.

Nicely slipped in about your multi-six figure income btw, I’m in awe ;-)

Sorry, I hadn’t subscribed to your comments, so I didn’t read your reply until a Google alert for my name led me back to your blog!

You are completely correct – I did not read your book or your explanation of what you mean by “rich”. I’m a casual, very occasional reader of your blog and I took your book title literally. But you know what? Plenty of people stop by and casually peruse a site, without reading anything in great detail.

I certainly didn’t know you expected visitors to read your book and know your personal meaning of “rich” before commenting (and that you’d give me a hard time over it, too!). My mistake.

I understand and appreciate your resistance to the book title. I waited until my business was in multiple six figures before I claimed to know anything about manifesting money, and even then I only did so with great trepidation.

Blessings,
Andrea

1) You missed the part where I said:
“But I don’t want you to take my word for it. In a moment, I’ll give you a way to discover and experience that for yourself today.”

2) You stopped reading before you understood the context of the statement you quoted. The article you linked to says that a study has found certain people are genetically predisposed to anxiety disorders. Anxiety disorders are EMOTIONAL states. You are NOT your emotions. You are NOT thoughts, and you are NOT feelings. All of those things ARISE WITHIN what you are.

What you are (your default state) is BEYOND thoughts, feelings and emotions. When you let go of thoughts, feelings and emotions that temporarily cover that over, you find that at the core you are happy and peaceful. Since launching BloomVerse in June, I’ve personally corresponded with well over 150 people, several of them are clients, and I have yet to find an exception. That is far beyond what is required in order to be considered statistically significant.

So in all actuality, the fact that certain people are genetically predisposed to certain emotional states has no bearing on what I speak about in this article or in my eBook (which I highly recommend reading for more clarification). Because the Sedona Method is about letting go of emotions and getting beyond mental tendencies.

I hope you reconsider and choose to finish reading. Thanks for the comment.

The article you link to says that genes MAY lead to a PREDISPOSITION. It then goes on to suggest that environmental circumstances can then trigger that predisposition.

What about people that don’t have that gene, do they never get depressed? If they do, then isn’t it worth investigating other avenues for them that doesn’t involve medication.

What about Craigs own story, isn’t that worth consideration?

The results aren’t conclusive or even close to conclusive. It is a study done with a small amount of people in a very new field of expertise.

I have no idea if it’s right and it’s sure worth further investigation, but it’s a long way off from taking us to the point of believing nothing else if worth looking at.

Just my opinion and I appreciate you going to the trouble of linking to the article. Thanks.

I stopped reading right there. This is false. Some people may be that way, but others are naturally anxious at their core, instead. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080827100818.htm

Other people might be angry at their core, and yes others still might be happy. We need more studies to confirm that. What is clear, however, is that genetics can play a large role in what we’re predisposed towards feeling, at our core.

Nicely put though and I very much agree in principle.

Although we were all born happy it seems like to come out of the womb with boxing gloves on. All people are impressed with images of people fighting off their thoughts and feelings, and this resistance develops into the holding syndrome that you speak of.

I have heard of the Sedona Method and do agree with its core ideals of embracing and letting go. Let go and grow ;)

@ Beth- Good to see you comment and I’m glad Craigs stuff has helped. Thanks a lot for the feedback!

Craig, thanks for the detailed explanation and the personal story. I appreciate the effort and the openness.

I realize up to a point how the Sedona method can help. Putting it in my terms, it means you don’t feed your negative emotions with negative thoughts and more negative emotions, but instead just let them flow. It makes sense. Being a skeptic, I’m just not sure this is enough for people in general to make a lasting change in emotional reactions. I believe in consciously putting something in their place.

Got me curious though. So I’ll look into it.

Eduard