I received a comment from Charles in which he asks what the value would be to him if he attends the workshop Genpo Roshi and I are having in Los Angeles in February. But he asks something else more fundamental in his post. He wants to attend, he says, but money is an issue, as it is for many people. He has been using Holosync for a while, and has been through two of my three online courses, mostly with the goal of finding out how to solve his money problem.
Charles says that a lot of change has happened on the inside, but so far not much on the outside. He still procrastinates, drinks too much, helps others with their goals when he should be helping himself, and overall feels depressed about his life. Why, he says, should he go to this workshop?
This post is to help Charles with his money problem. And, if you have this problem, it might help you, too.
I also received a question about how to combine Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind process with Holosync, so after answering Charles’ question, I’ll also answer that one, too…
Charles, I can feel your frustration. You probably should not go to this workshop (there will be others), since my intention isn’t to have people spend their last dime to attend. I’m sure it would be very helpful to you, even though it will not focus on how to make money and get that part of your life in order, but this probably isn’t the right time to do it. I will say, though, that your situation is a common one, so I’m going to address it in this post. Perhaps you will be able to attend another workshop at another time.
My goal would be to help everyone who is having trouble getting the functional part of life going so that you can all have enough money to do whatever you want to or need to do. And, I think that’s possible for every person who reads this.
First, when you say that a lot is changing inside but not that much outside, you’re in effect saying that you’re not translating the internal changes you’ve experienced into external actions and outcomes. You are not yet embodying the changes. My first intuition, or educated guess, is that you are waiting for something different to “happen.”
I would ask you to consider shifting that perspective.
These instances of procrastination, or drinking, or deciding to help someone else rather than work on your own projects, don’t “just happen” to you. Each one is a decision, something you DO. I get the impression that you are a bit split off from the part of you that might take action toward what you want, and some other part of you is waiting for the action part to do something, and you have the idea that the internal changes (not you, but the changes) will somehow cause you to do something different.
In a way, this strikes me as a variety of magical thinking, where instead of you doing something, instead of DECIDING to act with a certain outcome in mind, you’re waiting for yourself to somehow automatically act with purpose, but without making a personal decision to do so, or engaging some sort of agentic impulse.
Can you see why I see two different parts of you–one that procrastinates, and another that watches and hopes the other part will somehow change his ways? It’s as if you’re saying to someone, some part of yourself (I’m not sure who, but someone other than plain old you), “Motivate me. Make me do something. Make me act.” You’re split off from yourself, or at least you think you are.
The outcome you want, in which you make more money, feel better about yourself, and live a more fulfilling life, is going to be the result of something you do, of actions you take, of decisions you make. There’s no one else to do it.
In each moment, you make decisions about what to think, what to focus on, what to pay attention to, and how to act. For most people, these decisions about thinking, focusing, and acting happen largely unconsciously and without clear intention. This is what I mean in the online courses (especially the first and third courses) when I talk about the difference between running on autopilot and living consciously and intentionally. When you watch this stuff operate unconsciously it does seem like some other part of you is acting while the “real you” watches (and feels bad).
This is very common. I see it all the time, and I used to do it, too. Quite a lot of people are living on autopilot, and feel split off from themselves. When I speak in front of groups, I often ask the group what they want or need from me, what problems they are having, what isn’t working. The most common answer is a version of what you said in your post: they know what to do, but somehow can’t get themselves to do it. Or, they just don’t really believe that ”doing it” is going to work anyway, so why bother.
So, what can you do? Well, there are a number of things you can do. The most fundamental is to learn to be in charge of your mind (what I call your Internal Map of Reality). This is what we covered, in detail, in the first online course you took. Many people, unfortunately, the first time they go through this course, learn ABOUT the material I cover. They learn about how their mind works and how it creates their moment-by-moment reality.
What I’m really asking you to do in this first course, though, is to go inside and watch your internal processes so you can very clearly see how YOU are running YOUR mind, so you can find out exactly what YOU do inside and how it creates each feeling or other internal state, how it generates each behavior, how it leads to each meaning you place on a thing or event, and how it creates or leads to each person or situation you attract or become attracted to.
Once you see the direct connection between what you do inside and what you feel, how you behave, and what you attract or are attracted to, and also see that you have been doing all of this AUTOMATICALLY, without conscious intention, you are in a position to run this internal creative process consciously and intentionally. Once you can do that, you can create, attract, or do ANYTHING.
Mastering yourself, though, takes a bit of work because it involves really looking at what you do inside, and most people have never opened the lid and looked at what’s going on inside. And, it involves taking charge, taking the reins of your mind, and doing something different in order to get a different result.
And, by the way, this is one of the biggest benefits of Holosync: it increasingly gives you more and more and more awareness, which makes it increasingly easy to watch your mind in order to discover exactly how you ARE creating your reality, your life. A person using Holosync can master this process many times faster than someone who isn’t.
But I digress. One of the main things I SUSPECT (again, an educated intuitive guess here) is that, like most people, you are wanting a different result but without actually changing what you are doing. For instance, to get a different result financially…
***You have to believe something different than what you believe now…
***You also have to focus your mind in a different way, on something different that what you’re focusing on now…
***You have to think different thoughts…
***You might have to adopt different values (in other words, what is important to you may have to change), or at least learn to focus on what you want regarding your values, rather than focusing on what you want to avoid regarding each value…
***You have to make different decisions…
***You have to take different actions, in other words, behave in a different way…
And, as I said, you have to stop waiting for change in these areas to “happen,” and instead decide to make it happen–to “be the change.”
In one sense all of this is easy. At any rate, after you’ve done it, you wonder why it seemed so hard before you did it. On the other hand, there is a lot of inertia to stay the same. Believe me, I’ve been there.
So here’s what I would do.
First, stop waiting for the “you” that drinks too much, procrastinates, and doesn’t act to do something. Come from the part that has been waiting and stop waiting. Have THAT part, the part that’s been waiting, take over and ACT.
Second, recognize, in your bones, something that I have found to be THE KEY to getting anything done in the world, including making money:
“For any outcome you want, there is a certain way of THINKING and ACTING that will get it for you. You have to find that way of thinking and acting, and then ADOPT IT.”
Burn this into your brain. There is no other way to accomplish something in the world. No other way. Right now, you are getting the results you’re experiencing because they are the direct result of the way you are currently thinking and acting. To get different results, that way of thinking and acting is going to have to change. There is no other way.
And, I promise, you CAN do this.
How? How do you find the way of thinking and acting that will make you more money? There are two ways, one long (but sure), and the other faster (and also sure). The first is to figure out EXACTLY what you want, very specifically. Once you do that, the next thing you do is take stock of where you are, what your situation is, what your assets are, and what your liablilities are, both external/tangible and internal/intangible. It’s hard to go somewhere else unless you know where you are now.
Then, based on where you are and what you want, TAKE THE BEST ACTION YOU CAN THINK OF. It might not be a brilliant instant-hit sort of action (I know mine wasn’t when I first did this–the action I took was actually pretty pathetic). Then, once you’ve acted, notice what happened. What progress did you make, if any? What worked? What didn’t? What did you learn? Then take another action, but this time tweaking it (or hugely changing it) based on whatever you learned. Do more of what worked, and change what didn’t. Again, you might not tweak your action very well at first, but that’s okay. Whatever you do, once you’ve acted again, evaluate again, and then take MORE action, and keep doing this until you get what you want.
Every time you act, even if by common definition you FAIL, you become increasingly wise. Eventually, after you’ve acted enough times, you will be HUGELY wise, and hugely wise people are unstoppable.
This method always works, but you have to keep going, and you have to keep evaluating every action and doing your best to improve it every time. The way to keep yourself going, by the way, is to be clear about what you want, focus your attention on how to get it and what the rewards will be once you do. Feel as much positive emotion and passion as you can about those rewards. Again, at first you might not be good at feeling all this positive emotion, but as you practice doing it, you will eventually become really good at it. Anything you keep practicing, you will eventually become really good at.
The second method is a shortcut. You find at least one, put preferably several, people who have done what you want to do. In your case, there are MILLIONS of people who have made a lot of money and who figured out how to have their finances work pretty well (or even very well). Lots of them have written books or created trainings about this subject. Many are happy to mentor people (as I am doing for you right now). Find out 1) how they think regarding making money, and 2) how they act.
Then, begin by copying them. If you think like they do and act like they do, you will very likely get very similar results. Yes, their beginning situation might be different than yours (they might be smarter, have more money or other assets to start with, have a better personality, have more education, live in a better situation, have better friends, be better looking, or whatever).
On the other hand, it’s very likely that YOU might have more of these things than some of the people who have made it financially. There are lots of people who came from NOTHING and made lots of money. They weren’t particularly smart, had no money to start with, were hard to get along with, had various disabilities (mentally or emotionally or physically), had no education, no friends, no confidence, nothing. Stories of such people are legion. If they can do it, so can you.
Find out what these people believed about making money. Find out what was important to them about making money. Find out what they thought about, what they focused their attention on, what their internal strategies were for making decisions, and so forth. This is what I mean by finding out and adopting ”how they think.”
Then, find out what actions they took, which will give you a better starting point than the “educated guess” method I described above.
Then, act your ass off. Anthony Robbins, says “Take massive action,” and he’s right. Focus on what you want and act, and keep acting, and don’t let anything stop you. And, make what you want IMPORTANT. If you’re procrastinating you aren’t making what you want important. And, you’re probably focusing on what you’re afraid of rather than what you want.
Never forget that the one thing you have total and complete control over is what you focus your attention on. Luckily, that’s the first and most important part of achieving anything.
As I said before, all of this involves DOING SOMETHING DIFFERENT. You will not change your results by continuing to do the same thing you’re doing now.
And, you have to take charge of your thinking and your acting, regardless of how you feel. Most successful people feel bad quite often, at least physically, and often emotionally, too. Though it’s possible to get yourself to the point where you rarely ever feel bad emotionally (again, there’s a certain way of thinking and acting that will get you any particular thing you want, including feeling good all the time), even those who feel bad can and often do become financially successful.
I wish there was some easy or magic way to do all of this. I sure looked for such a way for long enough, and I’ll tell you that I never found it. I will say that once you get the above going, it WILL seem easy–just as easy as it now seems to be to procrastinate, drink too much, and whatever else you’re doing now. The only difference is that doing what I’ve outlined above feels FULFILLING, and what you’re doing now doesn’t.
Also, don’t expect results in two weeks, or two months. That might happen, but quite often it doesn’t.
Another thing to keep in mind–and this is VERY important: people give money to other people (this is what you want, right?–you want other people to give you money) because the receiver of the money has something (a product, a service, knowledge, something) that the giver of the money wants more than the money. In other words, money changes hands–into your hands–when you have something that the other person wants and values. This could be a product, a service, your ideas, your labor, your willingness to take a risk, or something else.
If you don’t have anything that’s very valuable, you have to do something about that. If more education would make you more valuable, get more education. If more skills would do it, get more skills. Or, create a product. Create a service. Look around and see if you can figure out something people want that you can provide, or can find a better way to provide. Be of value in some way. To the degree you are of value to others, you can make money.
Charles, I would read this post several times, because there is a lot to absorb here, and everything I’ve said is important. And, there’s much more detail about all of this in the third online course, which is about how to achieve things in the world. I think it would be a good idea, though, to go back to the first course and take it again, and this time REALLY take it.
I know you can do this, because I did it, and if I could do it, anyone can. I was a miserable failure in pretty much every way, and somehow I pulled myself out of it. And, by the way, Holosync was a huge part of it, because it helped me on the inside, just as you’ve said it’s been doing for you. Ultimately, you have to 1) focus on what you want, 2) act, and 3) provide value for others (value that you charge for, though helping others, as you are doing, without asking for anything in return, is also good karma–though you may already be doing enough of that).
You can do this, I promise. Not, however, by continuing to do what you’re doing now. If you continue to do what you’re doing now, you will continue to get the same results, because (once again) “there is a certain way of thinking and acting that will get you any particular outcome you want, but you have to find it and be willing to adopt it.” You’re now getting what your current way of thinking and acting creates. Decide to find and adopt the way of thinking and acting that will make you all the money you want.
So go do it, and let me know how it goes. Then, you’ll be able to go to any event that looks good to you. And, you’ll feel good about yourself.
Let me know how I can help.
Now, as to Big Mind and Holosync, and how to use them together…
First, let’s define Big Mind, so we all know what we’re talking about. In one sense, it isn’t definable, because it is transcendent awareness beyond the thinking mind, and anything you say about such things is, as they say in Buddhism, “a finger pointing at the moon” (but not the moon itself), but I’ll take a shot at it anyway.
Big Mind is your true nature. It’s who you really are. It’s what happens when all ideas and internal maps about who you are and what reality is are set aside. It’s what happens when the mind is seen for what it really is: a map of reality, but not reality; ideas about what is, but not the thing itself. Your idea, your concept of who you are (often called the ego, or the self) isn’t who you are. Most humans confuse the two; the enlightened person does not. He or she may use thoughts, ideas, maps, concepts, and so on, but there is no confusion about the difference between an idea representing reality, and reality itself.
You have an idea of who you are. It contains all your roles, achievements, history, memories, concepts and ideas, beliefs, symbolic representations of yourself, and so forth. But who you really are, if you really investigate, includes all the interrelationships that make up you, and if we traced those interrelationships (which I’m not going to do here) we would find that they include the entire universe and everything in it–which is why the enlightened are said to experience themselves as being one with everything.
Your idea 0f who you are, on the other hand, is very limited–even if you have created a hugely complex and expansive idea of who you are. Because that idea is created by the mind, it just cannot contain all the relationships involved (which are infinite). You are a happening that is infinite and multidimensional, and you are happening all at once, shifting and changing in every moment–way to much for any mental construct to catch hold of. You are, literally, infinite. (Yes, I know, you don’t feel that way.)
Big Mind is experienced when you get all of that out of the way. You don’t have to achieve it, though–it’s already there. It’s the background that underlies everything (in other words, YOU are the background that underlies everything), so it’s always there. You aren’t usually aware of it, though, because all the mind bullshit gets in the way. When you get the mind out of the way, though, it’s there. It’s infinitely BIG, including and holding everything. In this place, everything is perfect, just as it is. Good and evil, here and there, subject and object, and all other opposites and problems disappear. You realize that everything is you, everything is perfect–and, that it (you) were never born, and can never die. (The organism was born and will die, but that isn’t the real you–the real you is Big Mind, and it is always.)
Many people experience this while listening to Holosync, or, if they are very advanced, while doing traditional meditation. Genpo’s Big Mind process is just a very effective way to get yourself into that awareness. It does this by asking you to speak from many of the main “voices” of the self. As you become these parts of yourself and speak from them, you are no longer immersed in them (if you’ll remember my discussion of the developmental process where you are immersed in something, and then, in becoming aware of it, you move from being it to having it). Speaking from these voices gives you distance from them.
When at a certain point you are asked to speak from voices of the transcendent (one of which is Big Mind) because you have this distance from the self, you are able to momentarily set it aside, and when you do that, poof!, Big Mind is there. In this way you can have the Big Mind experience, which is really amazing. There you are, without a sense of being a separate self. Instead, you are IT, the whole thing, without boundaries, without beginning, without end.
Now, to the question. Genpo Roshi really is a genius in creating this process, since people have meditated for decades to have a glimpse of this experience, much less to be firmly established in it all the time. He cautions people who have this experience, however, that without a daily practice, without doing something to help stabilize it, it will just end up being an amazing experience you “had.” He mentions a few ways to stabilize the experience. One would be traditional meditation, another would be more Big Mind.
I believe that those who use Holosync (which might be likened to meditation on steroids, or accelerated meditation) find it much easier to integrate the Big Mind experience and become stabilized in it. Full integration of Big Mind requires an ongoing practice, and my opinion (as you might imagine) is that Holosync is a hugely powerful practice. (If you aren’t already using Holosync, you can get a free demo CD and a free special report at www.centerpointe.com)
There are other benefits of Big Mind, because in speaking to the voices of the self you have many incredible insights, and clear up a lot of shadow material (which really changes your life for the better), but I’m not going to go into that here. You might want to see another post I did about Genpo and Big Mind a few days ago for more details.
I also find that those who fully participate in my first online course, where we go inside and experience each aspect of the mind and how it creates our individual reality, also gain a similar distance from the self and the mind. Plus, in doing so you also gain tremendous power to direct your mind so as to create whatever you want in the relative world. (You can experience a free preview lesson of this course by going to www.centerpointe.com/life/preview and you can learn more about Big Mind by going to www.BigMind.org, or by going to Wikipedia and searching for Big Mind.)
I also invite you to come to the workshop Genpo and I will be giving in Los Angeles on February 9-10. You can learn more by going to www.centerpointe.com/bigmind. I will warn you that even though the workshop is nearly two months away, we’re getting VERY close to full capacity, so if you’re interested, don’t wait to check it out. What’s more, for a few more days there’s a $200 early registration discount, but that’s going to end very soon.
Part two of my discussion of cognitive development will be posted in just a few days…
Be well.
Bill, I too am trying to change my financial situation and appreciate this post, any change does require you to first change within then take action before it can manifest on outside.
I have my first comment, of many of which has been published since of Bill Starting it. I feel with, Charles story who suffers same degrees to alot of people including myself and my family.
I understand when a situation comes up and you really want to do it, but the money pressure puts you off in contuining to go along with anything you feel is worth doing.
I know of many sites, carries big fees to do just online courses or anything if you want to do them.I feel when it comes to problems, the support isn’t all there at time when you need it most.
Well first of all, if I was in Charles place, I would reconsider not attempting to do anything until that he knows exactly that is what he REALLY wants to do, and go with your intuition. Secondly, workout your budgets, if say a course is worth $500 (for example), save $10 away each week and put in somewhere you cant access to it, it can be either a bank, money box that you can’t open!!! that would be good to use in saving debts of charges from the bank.
when you have the money. As you progress in doing this and be positive and see yourself doing things and act if it happening to you, feeling good, doing them, achieving them etc.
When you have the money, then you can work out then if you really still want to do the online course, then after that, you may consider thinking maybe it not what you need anymore because you feel good about yourself and you achieved something through summary of positive approach successively in something.
I know I struggle, with three boys, A husband, extended family makes it unreal to think you can ever achieve anything in life.
What makes it possible, is when you are happy and positive about your life. Negativity isn’t going to get you there, what ever you do.
Cheers
I have never heard anyone articulate better the internal debat/stuggle/dialogue/ regarding being stuck in one place and not being able to move to action. I have felt exactly this same way…thinking there was going to be some big bang, big boom, big moment when things clicked and changed. And, thinking that “how can one part of me be totally aware that the other part of me is not acting the way that benefits me” Self awarness to the point that you can see your issue, problems, blocks and still not do anything about them, yet wanting to.
I recently got past one blockage of mine and my life is overflowing with good things right now. Like some real world enima can through and unplugged everything. I have one major issue left and this post give me the courage to take that first step.
No post. I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed Emma’s post of 18th Dec. Nicely put, Emma.
David, I empathize, as I am also an adult child of an alcoholic.
While I believe it is important to know where we come from, we also don’t want to get stuck in the story of it.
i was not stuck in the mental story, however, how it affected me was and is still huge. For me, the deepest issue is that of on a very base level, not feeling safe in the world. It took a lot of work to realize this as i do now.
I had to come more into body, so to speak and then get much more present.
I still have a long way to go.
I’m definitly the neurotic type Bill talks about in his discussion on personalities and disconnected from my body very early on as a coping mechanism.
I don’t know how to tell you how to do this. I well understand chaos, not being clear. I got clearer in some ways, much less attached, with the help of vibrational frequencies, many of which are about belief busting as Holosync does, after years of doing so many other things. I still have a long way to go, and must work, sometimes daily, but i can now at times feel deep joy on a body level now………and also, live in flow, feeling a protective soothing river around me Also times of such lightness of being, with totally quiet mind, with no attachment, not even of being part of that ‘river’, just a happy place of simple being………….I have many physical things going on that ‘they’ say can cause anxiety, stressful feelings, depression and I still have these, but what i’m saying, is that anything is possible!!!!!!!!.
My husband is once again looking for a job. the day we found out, i began it in chaos, foggy, was able to ‘clear’(and they say so many of the physical things i have going on can cause brain fog). later i found out about his employment change and was not doing as well as i had been all the other times as i wasn’t as present as i’d been the past ……I’b been listening to the Master’s of the Secret Series that day……I did the Sedona sample (Bill, Thank you SO much for this series!!!!!!!!!!!!!)…………..to help with the stress on a body level (I know it is all fear based)……….and I actually was happier than i’d ever been that night, in a way I’d never experienced!!!!!!!!!……………even with my special needs for a physical condition not being met for a very long time………..so, what i’m trying to say, is anything is possible!!! And I had the best Xmas ever, as I was okay with everything as it was, no longer attached to dreams or the past.
It takes courage, courage, courage and faith…………..for me, the beginning was, as I stated in the above email, to be with what is, the feeling, not the story.
I’d lived in a chronic state of anxiety and it started turning around when i finally surrendered to what was, within me and outside of me. I had to stop running for rescue to things, people, etc. outside of me to help me.
I don’t know if this is something you do.
My father was the alcoholic. My two brothers responded very differently from each other and myself and my sister. My sister and I, though 11 years apart, responded much more similarly, in anxiety, fear, depression.
Make sure things are okay with you physically, including neurotransmitters.
ACOA’s may have inherited chemistry of alcoholic parent. It is sometimes not possible to see what came first, and I believe in doing deep work, along with supplemental help from natural sources if needed.
Joy did not come from without for me, it came from deep within. The frequencies, helped me make that connection, it is, i beleive, connection to source, within.
Something that may help is the ‘meditation’ to help with guilt, forgiveness and self realization at http://www.sahajayoga.com………..i had to ‘tweek’ it a bit to make it resonate for me…….one of the things was that i believe we must accept responsibilty, but without guilt………I also needed to change it so that she is the facilitator, but……..she does not have the ‘power’ of giving me what she does(even though she is full of love), that comes from me and my connection to source. .
Genpo Roshi may really help you, along with the Ken Wilbur package Bill recommends, in helping you see differently, make different connections, etc….
Hang in there, and best of luck.
Best,
Lynn
Dear Bill and Hi to All,
I finally printed your post and I read it over and over and I want to thank you for the very detailed answer to Charles’ questions and for making it all coherent. I also appreciate that you are realistic in the time frame for creating change. I love the input from everyone in these blogs.
I would like to share my view point on the generation of income as I see them in my clients. It has a lot to do with what they believe they can have or should have and so the first thing that one has to be aware of is their limiting belief about money, no matter what it is. Sometimes it is a small thing, sometimes it is buried so deep within, one is not even aware it exists in them.
One of the hardest things for us to do is to have sustained focus. I find this true of myself as well. One minute, I would like to travel the world with only a purse to carry as a reason for creating wealth, one week later I would realize that I no longer enjoy going to the airports and waiting for the flights. One minute I would desire to own a home on the coast in La Jolla, and then the next moment, I would think, golly, that is a lot of money to spend on a home, why not just rent instead? My desires, I am aware of, cancel each other by being in conflict with each other.
Some people are able to carry this sustained focus on every waking and dreaming time they have. It is so ingrained in them that the events, circumstances and people just converge to fulfill what they desire. They are making it happen.
I make my clients write their dollar goals in the beginning of the year, if that happens to be their issue. I tell them not to tell me the exact figures and we just follow up during the year where they are with respect to their goal. One client obtained the dollar amount within 6 months (double what she made the year before in one half the time). She got clients even when she went on vacations!
Others just went on in their ways and the rule that follows is without a change in thought followed by actions to sustain that thought, nothing will change.
Handling change is another issue in the sense that, while it is easy to implement change, unless one is ready for it, there is a tendency to go back to one’s comfort level. This is what you would call resistance in the Holosync program.
I am used to sitting for long periods of time. When I incorporated listening to “The Drive” and “Immersion” in my sitting, I now have an impulse to look at the iPod to see when the tape will be done, but you have addressed this beautifully in the Awakening Prologue and so I regard it as just that. Resistance. I think that this is true of change in all areas of our lives: money, relationships, career. Once we have achieved some kind of change, there is, and always will be a tendency to go back to what is familiar and comfortable, unless we realize that that desire is the resistance to the change we are currently experiencing.
I had suggested to your support team that the Awakening Prologue and Making Change Easy be available as a free download for promoting Holosync.
Again, here is wishing that you will reach a lot more people with Holosync.
with best wishes,
Melinda M. Sorensson
I think Melinda has made really good points. Well written, Melinda!
After having read all the comments and in light of what Bill said, I feel that the issue of lack of money as a reason for not being able to attend a workshop is just like a child wanting the next fancy toy. If anybody wants to know something about Genpo’s teaching, there are books available on Amazon or other internet seller for less than $20. They will not be the same as attending the workshop, but they will help anybody, who is willing to put the time and dedication into reading and applying the teachings contained in any of his books, to reach a better emotional and spiritual conditions than he/she is now. I am sure Genpo and Bill will offer more workshops in the future. Maybe this is not the right time for a person who wants to attend, but is unable to because of financial limitations.
On this website, apart from the Holosync meditation which comes at a cost (Bill needs to make a living out of something… and this is fair enough… all of us need money to live), there are literally tons and tons of good material to make anybody make good progress until he/she can reach a better financial condition to be able to afford course registrations. Although the LPIP is a nice package of knowledge put across in a very practical way, lots of Bill’s ideas contained in LPIP are disseminated in his old Mindchatter newsletters.
The path to a higher level of awareness is very personal and unique to all of us. Bill offers us a smorgasboard of options through the endorsement . I have taken up some of them (like Paraliminals, Sedona method, etc), but left many out. There is a core of common background in any course on personal development, ie you need to find the motivation and discipline to set obtainable goals and pursue a logical strategy to achieve them. As you evolve, new and unpredictable opportunities will arise. Bill is perfectly correct when he says that we are continuously exposed to an endless number of opportunities. Most pass by unrecognised and discarded for whatever reason. There is a mine of information on the net, and lots of it is free. Use it!
Hi Bill,
I’m coming to LA and I have exactly the same issue as Charles (and I am taking your advice to heart, thank you). I am writing to request that Genpo Roshi address this issue in a Big Mind session in LA.
Thank you,
Bill’s first intuition is correct, Charles is waiting for something to happen – he is waiting for the program to change his subconscious beliefs. And the reason for it not working isn’t because Charles has failed, it is not because he isn’t doing the work and it certainly isn’t because he lacks self-discipline to implement the program into his life.
I really take offense to Bill’s suggestion that the reason Charles isn’t experiencing more money or success is because of Charles’ “magical thinking, where instead of you doing something, instead of DECIDING to act with a certain outcome in mind, you’re waiting for yourself to somehow automatically act with purpose, but without making a personal decision to do so, or engaging some sort of agentic impulse.. “ I’m so disappointed in Bill’s belief in assuming that Charles is conscious of all his actions. The challenges we have in life are the result of our subconscious beliefs, and can only be changed by changing these subconscious beliefs. This has been scientifically proven through Quantum physics, as contained in Bill Lipton’s book “The Biology of Belief”.
We are the bi-product of our subconscious, and the conscious mind has no power if the action is in direct opposition or contrary to the subconscious. Our very cells are influenced by our environment, which includes the actual physical environment but more importantly, it also includes our emotional environment.
Our conscious mind processes .40 environmental stimuli per second, while the subconscious interprets 20,000,000 environmental stimuli per second. The subconscious mind, one of the most powerful information processors known, specifically observes both the surrounding world and the body’s internal awareness, reads the environmental cues and immediately engages previously acquired (learned) behaviours – all without the help, supervision or even awareness of the conscious mind.
If Charles has a belief that makes it challenging for him to have money, how can anyone tell him it’s because he’s not deciding to act with purpose? He is HARD-WIRED with a belief about money and therefore reacts from that belief, all on a subconscious level. Until we can change what we subconsciously believe, our reality becomes the bi-product of the subconscious, and no amount of willpower or decided action by the conscious mind can change that if we don’t BELIEVE it can.
Until Charles changes his subconscious beliefs, he cannot change his life (again, read Bill Lipton’s book “The Biology of Belief”). “Faking it until you make it” dogma only works because those it worked for successfully changed their subconscious programming or beliefs WHILE they were faking it – not BECAUSE they faked it!
I would suggest that Charles STOP trying to change his financial situation and choose another area of his life that is almost where he wants it. I would advise continue using the Holosync program and focus on improving this one area only. My experience is that when you begin to change one area of your life that is almost working, the other areas that so stubbornly refuse to change, softly begin to change as well, as if “magical thinking” had taken place! We are holistic beings and positive change in one area of our lives HAS to improve all the others, even if the change is ever so small. Once that area is working, choose another area until it is working and by repeating this formula, I bet Charles will find that his finances improve without his ever focusing on it.
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Charles’ symptoms are classic symptoms listed in almost all codependency literature. Yes, becoming aware of codependent behaviors is the first step in changing them. Holosynch may help with the awareness but many people can’t change their own behavior without the support of others (because it is a process of letting go of maladaptive behaviors and replacing them with more healthy choices). Al-a-non and other groups addressing codependency have been providing a forum for people like Charles to work out their codependency problems and have been highly successful. Listening to how others have overcome limitations is quite uplifting. Giving generic advice about what to do about behaviors that are highly idiosyncratic rarely helps. Piaget (and Viagotsky) suggests that it is group interaction with peers that sets the stage for change. That may be why such groups help.
Money Money Money, it’s so funny!
A lot of people on this site and students of “The Secret” want a lot more green stuff.
Now lets get some things straight. The more money you want the harder it is to get or you need to be very lucky. I am going to ask a question in a minute but befor that. It has been mentioned to the point of exhaustion that people have started from nothing and gained a great deal. This is not disputed but for every person who has suceeded, there are countless thousands who have tried just as hard and just as smart and failed miserably. For most people getting just a bit more money is not too difficult. Simply work longer or upgrade your “marketable” abilities.
Money is split like this and where in this percentile you wish to be, essentially indicates your chance of getting there.
1% have 96% of the wealth.
Another 1% have 2% of the wealth
The remaining 98% have just 2% between them and even that is a feeding chain. That is the cause of poverty.
Now if 10 people have a dollar each, how does anyone of the 10 get more than 1 dollar without making anyone else poorer?
Get this straight, when you gain, someone somewhere is losing. Great Wealth creates Great poverty. There is only so much money. So think about what you are going to do with the massive wads of hard cash when you get it.
However, IF you have the gift or luck to become wealthy, then you should do something worthwhile with it. If you just use it for massive mansions, expensive cars, yachts etc then you have wasted your time and life on this world and are essentially a worthless human being. (According to every major religious/mystical tradition on Earth).
There are some truly great wealthy human beings and some truely great poor ones as well. It’s not the money that makes you, it’s your self. Some super rich persons have done great things for others with their wealth…….but these folk would probably have done great things in other ways if they had no cash.
Personally the aims of bettering oneself in personal/spiritual ways is far superior than the pursuit of excessive hard cash and is likely to result in greater happiness and self satisfaction and make you better to be around.
I assume that all members have received the CD about “the Secret ” with Michael Beckwith .
To all those who have “Money Problems ” ( And most have them) .
Use visualization combined with one’s expertise to be able to accomplish a goal .
Among the recommendation would be : Go there where the money is . Listen carefully to the talk on the CD and the result will be what you envision to the last detail !.
Wishful thinking will never materialise .
The larger picture would be to think about the final achievement of society to establish social and economical justice. And that is a political issue , also a function of a well defined plan ( Platform )excerized by the people . .
I have just ordered the first package after listening to the fee trial CD and I cannot wait to receive it.
Hi Bill,
This is a very interesting subject and one I have been long interested in. I have seen many many people over the years get involved in self improvement programs, religions even cults with the one idea of changing their financial situation.
Fundamental to a persons survival is the idea that they can meet their basic needs, something to eat, a place to shelter their body, sleep and keep some possessions.
It expands out from there to encompass other beings, first a mate, then children and so on.
Now as I said I have seen many people following one method, route, guru or whatever and not actually realizing any real material gains and in my observation it is always the same reason causing this phenomena.
“Failure to APPLY”
Like you said money is an exchange medium and people will part with it when given something they value more. So someone does a course, gets insights into their life, realizes this or that feels more prepared to take on the world but actually “does nothing about it.” Usually they look for the next or another course that will really help them this time.
This is the big question “Why” and how can you help someone overcome this inertia?
Its because as you stated they are waiting for something to change so they can act and that is the fundamental error. What they should be looking for is the “new opportunity” that presents itself.
This is true 100% of the time when a person has a realization or insight about themselves or life within seconds, minutes, hours or, rarely even days a new opportunity to advance materially ALWAYS presents itself.
Try it yourself you will see what I mean, once you consciously look it appears like magic, generally subtle but my guess its in proportion to the amount of “unawareness” the person just lost. Its probably mathematically related somehow.
My explanation for this phenomena is the balance between the persons material and “spiritual or mental” universes must maintain – if the opportunity is rejected or not acted upon the person generally slumps and consequently continues the quest for something to help him or her change their life.
When you spot the situation that occurs and recognize it as an opportunity things can just “start to happen” and you find people and situations just working like magic to assist you.
Maybe this is the real secret