Liberate - Lester Levenson Releasing Method

Step 1 of 4 • Identification

What are you feeling right now?

Focus on a specific issue, emotion, or tension in your body. Give it a name or allow it to be felt.

Issue or Emotion Description

Intensity Level (1 to 10) 7

1 (Mild disturbance) 5 (Moderate) 10 (Overwhelming)

Step 2 of 4 • Step 3 of 6-Steps

Trace to the Core Want

Lester Levenson taught that all feelings stem from 3 underlying programs. Which want is driving this emotion?

Want Approval

Desire to be liked, loved, accepted, validated, or fear of rejection & judgment.

Select Approval

Want Control

Desire to change things/people, manage outcomes, force results, or fear of powerlessness.

Select Control

Want Security

Desire for safety, survival, protection, certainty, or fear of loss & vulnerability.

Select Security

Step 3 of 4 • Releasing Atmosphere

"Could you welcome this feeling and the wanting Control?"

Allow it to be here completely without judgment.

Note: Either answer works! It is an invitation to release, not a test.

Step 4 of 4 • Evaluation

Check Your State Now

Take a deep breath. Re-examine the original issue.

Original Issue

"Anxiety about presentation"

Initial Intensity: 7 / 10

Current Intensity Level (1 to 10) 2

0 (Complete Freedom / Hootless) 5 (Halfway) 10 (Unchanged)

Breakthrough / Realization Notes (Optional)

The Original Blueprint

Lester Levenson's Six Steps to Freedom

Lester stated that these 6 steps are the key to ultimate freedom and imperturbability. Master these, and continuous peace is inevitable.

Desire Freedom Above All

You must desire freedom (imperturbability) more than you desire approval, control, security, or the problem itself.

💡 Lester's Insight: "When your desire for freedom becomes stronger than your attachment to the world, releasing becomes effortless."

Decide You Can Do It

Make a firm decision that you can do the method, release feelings, and achieve complete imperturbability.

💡 Lester's Insight: "Releasing is your natural innate ability. You don't learn how to let go—you just stop holding on."

See All Feelings as 3 Wants

Realize that every single feeling culminates in the wanting of Approval, Control, or Security. See it immediately and let it go.

💡 Lester's Insight: "Don't get lost in the story. Cut directly to the root: Wanting Approval, Wanting Control, or Wanting Security."

Make Releasing Continuous

Make releasing a 24/7 habit. Release when alone, release when talking to people, release in all circumstances.

💡 Lester's Insight: "Releasing isn't just a 10-minute meditation. It is a moment-to-moment way of living in total freedom."

Let Go of Stuckness

If you ever feel stuck, simply let go of wanting to control or change the feeling of being stuck.

💡 Lester's Insight: "Stuckness is only the desire to force change. Drop the wanting to change it, and it dissolves instantly."

Enjoy Lighter & Happier State

Each time you release, you are lighter and happier. Releasing continually builds momentum toward total awakening.

💡 Lester's Insight: "You gain momentum with every single release. Soon, happiness becomes your default natural state."

Understanding the 3 Wants

Lester Levenson discovered that human suffering is governed by three subconscious desires. When you release the Want, all related feelings collapse.

Want Approval

Love • Acceptance • Recognition

Triggers: Seeking praise, fear of offending people, loneliness, shame, pride, wanting validation.

Underlying Illusion: "I need love from outside of myself to be complete."

Lester's Remedy: Realize you ARE love itself. Release the wanting of approval, and you uncover infinite self-love.

Want Control

Power • Manipulation • Fixing

Triggers: Anger, frustration, trying to change someone, worry, micro-managing, resistance to reality.

Underlying Illusion: "If I don't force or control everything, things will fall apart."

Lester's Remedy: Let go of trying to hold the universe together. True power comes when you release control.

Want Security

Survival • Safety • Protection

Triggers: Fear, anxiety about money/health, defensiveness, hoarding, fear of death or vulnerability.

Underlying Illusion: "I am a fragile body that can be destroyed."

Lester's Remedy: Your true Being is immortal, untouched, and infinitely safe. Release wanting safety to know true peace.

How Surface Emotions Map to the 3 Wants

Apathy / Grief Want Security / Control

Fear / Anxiety Want Security

Lust / Craving Want Approval / Security

Anger / Resentment Want Control

Pride / Egotism Want Approval

Peace / Freedom Hootless / Released

Step 5 Helper

Stuckness Breaker

Feeling like you can't release? Blocked or confused? Step 5 states: "If you are stuck, let go of wanting to control or change the stuckness."

Step 5 Core Question

"Could I let go of wanting to change the feeling of being stuck?"

✨ Released! Welcome the simplicity of right now.

Release Log & Insights

Track your journey to imperturbability

Total Releases

Avg Intensity Shift

0.0 pts

Top Want Released

Hootless States