How the Sedona Method Helps You
in Challenging Financial Times
What to Do If You’ve Been Laid Off or Fired:
The Right Emotional Steps
by www.Sedona.com
In January 2009, 598,000 Americans working in the private sector lost their jobs. This latest round of lay offs brought the unemployment rate to 7.6 percent, up from 7.2 percent in December.
In all, nearly 12 million Americans are now unemployed, a statistic that paints a bleak picture for those who have been recently laid off. With so many in the job market pool, competition is steep, and emotions are often shaky.
Fear, anxiety, depression, anger, shame and guilt are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the emotional impact of being laid off. Unfortunately, all of these natural emotions are also the very ones that will hinder your ability to regroup and move on. So what, emotionally, should you do, if you are laid off?
“The thing to do if you've been laid off is to remember that in any economy there are always jobs,” says Hale Dwoskin, CEO and director of training of Sedona Training Associates. “So rather than giving up allow yourself to get into action to find the right new position for you.”
In order to do this, you’ve got to first get into the right emotional mindset, and here are the steps to get you there:
Don’t panic. It’s natural to have a million worries after being laid off, but if you panic, you are essentially giving in to all of them. Instead of letting fear and panic get the better of you, stay calm and take things one day at a time.
Get in control of your emotions by letting go. Your emotions create your thoughts, and your thoughts either put you into action or prevent you from acting. Your emotions actually determine your own blueprint for prosperity. And if you want your blueprint to be a successful one, you need to first develop the right attitude by letting go with The Sedona Method.
“The best way to keep yourself on track and to feel good about yourself as you're doing it is to let go using the Sedona Method,” Dwoskin says. “This will help you to accept what has happened and find the courage to move on to greener pastures.”
There are several great ways to release on both being laid off and on your next steps to take.
“Allow yourself to review the job you just lost and release on both the things you liked and disliked about that position,” Dwoskin says. “This way you won't be carrying any excess baggage from your last job. Also, set up a clear goal for what would be your ideal next position. Then allow yourself to release all the feelings inside of you that may be saying you can't or are holding you back.”
Avoid feeling like a victim. If you have a victim mentality, you may feel like you’re always the unlucky one and there’s nothing you can do about it. This sets you up for nothing but continued failure because it shrouds you in negativity. The Sedona Method can help you to release the self-limiting beliefs that are causing you to be stuck in a victim mentality, and help you see that you can land the job you’ve always wanted.
Make a list of action steps. These are the immediate actions you can take to help you find a new position.
“Allow yourself to release on each action step until you feel courageous about taking the action,” Dwoskin says. “Releasing on the actions will also help you to discern which actions are correct for you and which are not.”
Realize that you are not your job. Many people center their whole identities on what they do for a living. But you are much more than that. If you’ve been laid off or fired, take the time to remind yourself of the things that are most important to you, and which truly define who you are. This could be your spirituality, your family, your drive to help those around you, and so on.
Invest in yourself. Being laid off can do some damage to your self-esteem and self-image, but it need not. Once you are unemployed, and even if you simply feel uncertain about your job security, begin to look at yourself as a small business, one in which you need to invest in to be successful. On a practical level, this means networking, re-educating yourself if necessary, revamping your resume, and so on.
But you must also invest in yourself emotionally in order to be successful, and the best way to do that is by letting go using The Sedona Method. This is the most effective emotional process to uncover your positive emotions and propel you toward success. The more you let go, the more you will find that investing in yourself is easy. You will clearly see the next steps you need to take to gain financial security and achieve the lifestyle you want.
Those who use The Sedona Method agree that it is not a luxury in the current economy; it is a basic survival and thrival tool. This is why, if you have any friends or loved ones who have recently been laid off, or fear they might be, passing on this article to them is so important for their financial future.
Letting go is very powerful, and the more you use it, the easier it will be for you to turn an unfortunate situation such as a lay off into something positive … that often will leave you even better off than you were when you started.
Sources
Bureau of Labor Statistics January 2009
Forbes.com February 6, 2009 | 
