Since ancient times to the modern era, there is no human being who wants static life. All human beings crave the future course of his life is getting better and better, either it in the form of physical aspect such as wealth, position, and so on. And also in the psyche aspect such as experience, knowledge, wisdom, religiosity, and so on.
Most people know what he should to do for his life towards more advanced. However, the others are not able to even negligent that what he does now is contribution for future, either in the adversity or in the happiness. Therefore, people need to do self improvement before coming remorse. In, Islam itself has been teaching his followers about the importance of self-improvement with muḥa>sabah. Efforts to do self-improvement is also developed in the western, one of them is Sedona method. This method was discovered and developed by Levonson Lester, a physicist in United States. This method is increasly changing people's lives for the better.
This research is a comparative study, in which two methods of self-improvement will be researched about the similarities and differences aspect. The primary data is books that discuss about muḥa>sabah and Sedona method. The secondary data is scholary books or datas that talking about Sufism and psychology. Then, the datas will be analyzed using the content analysis method.
Both of self-improvement method has similarities and differences. Some of these similarities are in the aspect of the goal that is to improve the physical and spiritual aspects, both use the questions in the improvement method aspect, their process must go through several steps, at the time aspect, they can be done anytime and anywhere, as well as continuing its lifetime.
The differences of both method are muḥa>sabah always based on the consideration of religion, while the Sedona Method tends to psychology or humanitarian considerations. Another difference is in the implementation step, steps of muḥa>sabah are implementation step and improvement step. While the steps in Sedona method are diagnosis step, the release process, and evaluation. Both of these methods also have differences in terms of execution time. Muḥa>sabah implemented without waiting for self trouble, while the Sedona method only implemented when self trouble come.
After finding out the similarities and differences of the both methods, the writer expect the readers to be more wise to choose a method of self-improvement which appropriate and useful for him, especially for a Muslim. Because, all human deeds not only will be counted, but also they will be responsibility in this world and until in the hereafter.