Surrender · “Let Go to Receive”
The Process
To meet an uncomfortable feeling by feeling it fully, owning it as your own creation, and reclaiming the consciousness/energy you poured into it — rather than fixing, fleeing, or affirming it away.
The Process in 4 moves: When discomfort hits, stop avoiding and turn toward it.
(1) Feel it fully in the body, no resisting, no fixing.
(2) Own it — in Scheinfeld’s frame, “I created this.”
(3) Reclaim the power you poured into it, with a clear declaration.
(4) Use the mini-Process — feel, reclaim — on the fly for small stuff. Honest read: the payoff you can count on is internal calm and agency, not magic money.
What it is
“The Process” is Robert Scheinfeld’s central practical tool from Busting Loose from the Money Game (2006). When an uncomfortable feeling or circumstance arises — anxiety about money, a sting of lack, fear, anger — most of us try to fix it, flee it, or paper over it (including with positive affirmations).
Scheinfeld teaches the opposite: turn toward the discomfort and feel it as fully as you possibly can, then own it as something you (as infinite Consciousness) created, and consciously reclaim the power/energy you poured into that “creation.” In his model the discomfort is a place where you have invested your own consciousness to make a limitation feel real (he uses a “Field” / holographic metaphor); de-creating it means withdrawing that investment.
Stripped of the cosmology, the operative moves are acceptance (feel it, don’t resist — The Inner Creates the Outer/The Inner Creates the Outer) and an agency reframe (this is mine to meet, not something happening to me — Life Is a Dream).
The Method
Scheinfeld presents a “main Process” (for stronger discomfort) and a shorter “mini-Process” (for small flickers). The shape, faithfully described:
- Notice the discomfort and stop avoiding it. The trigger is any uncomfortable feeling — money fear, lack, irritation, contraction. Instead of distracting or fixing, you turn toward it. Scheinfeld’s posture is to welcome it: “bring it on.”
- Feel the feeling as fully as you possibly can. This is the load-bearing step. Drop the story and let the raw sensation/emotion be felt completely in the body, without resisting, judging, or trying to make it go away. (Allowing first — you cannot reclaim from what you won’t let yourself feel.)
- Own it as your own creation. Acknowledge — in Scheinfeld’s frame — that you, as infinite Consciousness, created this experience and poured your own power into making the limitation feel real. The point is to shift from “this is happening to me” to “this is mine.”
- Consciously reclaim the power/consciousness you put into it. Deliberately withdraw the energy you invested in the “creation,” often with a declaration or tool (e.g., a stated intention to reclaim your power, gratitude, or “powerful language”). Scheinfeld frames this as de-creating the limitation by taking your power back from it.
- Use the mini-Process for small stuff, in real time. For minor flickers, a brief version — notice, feel it, reclaim — done on the spot, repeatedly, throughout the day. (Sourcing note: the “feel it fully,” “own it as your creation,” and “reclaim your power” structure, plus the main/mini distinction and the four tools — gratitude, the Process, the mini-Process, and “powerful language” — are Scheinfeld’s published teaching, faithfully summarized, not reproduced.)
Source & Lineage
The Process is the engine of Robert Scheinfeld’s Busting Loose from the Money Game (2006) and recurs in Busting Loose from the Business Game and his “Human Game” programs.
Its lineage is twofold: a nondual / idealist manifestation strand (you are Consciousness creating all of it — close to Seth and A Course in Miracles) and a feel-and-release strand methodologically close to Lester Levenson’s lineage and the Sedona Method.
Where the Sedona Method asks “could I / would I let it go?”, Scheinfeld instead asks you to feel it fully and reclaim the power inside it — a different metaphor for a related allowing move.
The Traditions' versions
The Sedona Method (releasing) — welcome the feeling fully, then let it go.
- Feeling the feeling fully (Jayem / The Way of Mastery) — meet the raw feeling completely as the path through it.
- The Welcoming Prayer (Keating) — feel, then “let go” / consent, releasing the grip.
- Radical acceptance (Brach) — the two wings of recognizing and allowing what is.
- Acceptance & defusion (ACT) — making room for a feeling instead of suppressing it.
Common refinements
Skipping the “feel it fully” step. Rushing to “reclaim my power” while still avoiding the feeling turns the Process into spiritual bypassing. The feeling must actually be felt first.
- Using “I created this” as self-blame. The ownership step is meant to dissolve victimhood, not load on guilt — especially around money or hardship. If it produces shame, you’ve misapplied it (see safety).
- Affirming over the feeling. This is not “replace the bad feeling with a good thought.” Scheinfeld is explicit that you go into the discomfort, not around it.
- Expecting external results on cue. The reliable payoff is internal (less charge, more agency). Treating it as a money-summoning ritual sets you up for disappointment.
- Forcing it. Reclaiming is a release, not a clench; strain re-grips the feeling.