Stuck about money or success? Here’s my advice…
by Bill HarrisDecember 15th, 2007
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.
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December 15th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Bill,
Thank you for your post.
I was discussing this exact dilemma with a friend this very afternoon ! How to “earn” a living, create value and trade my time/energy/value for DOLLARS and create wealth –financial and in all other ways, like relationships - with my self and others, peace, harmony with the world, and mostly the wealth of being able to focus my mind and make conscious decisions.
The inertia of the past way of doing being acting is strong and insidious. It “seems’ like no matter how hard I try I keep coming back to the same cycle of “thoughts actions results”. However, I know that I am watching my self more and more and being more conscious and I believe that just having the awareness that I “cycle” through a pattern of “thoughts actions results” means to me that I *AM* evolving and growing and with my still partially emerged consciousness doing “okay”.
Thank you for the confirmation that as long as I keep attending to bringing back my focus to the NOW and being aware that I make choices every moment, that I can choose to be the same as before or select something new, I know I am on the right track.
Since my custom Awakening Level 1 arrived today (much quicker than I thought it would-Thanks to your team!) I am taking that “coincidence” or quantum physics event, to reaffirm my belief that everything is OKAY!
I have a feeling that as soon as I REALLY integrate that whatever happens is okay and that nothing really matters anyway, abundance in all areas of my life - including money, will manifest in a beautiful way for me.
I know I have been resisting and trying to make it happen, which in itself is resistance I think. Plus I have been conscious enough off and on through my 50 + years to remember that whenever I try too hard to learn something new, just as soon as I “give up trying’ and relax and let it go, it happens for me easily. SO easily that I wonder why I made it so hard in the first place and why in the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks I can’t just skip the trying hard part and just let it BE. LOL (my analyzing too much to stay unconscious, maintaining status quo and some well-intentioned propaganda /messages from childhood about working hard for a living/if it comes easy it can’t be worth much, etc. Sigh… time to choose some different messages that SERVE me better!
I look forward to experiencing the BIG MIND event in the future and taking the Life Integration course. Thanks again for your contribution to the world and encouraging message. You’re the best!
December 16th, 2007 at 1:14 am
I would love if these responses were audio files.
note: please do not misunderstand, my wife and I are both extremely grateful to be able to read ‘the blog that ate mindchatter”
But, if you ever feel like pressing record as the answers come to your mind, that would be excellent. (and maybe faster than typing, though heavier on your bandwidth…who knows, can you upload stuff to youtube to carry the weight of audio and video?)
Peace
-dalen
December 16th, 2007 at 8:19 am
The fact that I read your blog postings indicates I discover gems along the path.
However, I also recognize the candy wrappers carelessly tossed to the ground.
In order to promote oneness with the infinite, you resort to finite language.
“there’s certainly no guarantee” “we’ll have no choice” ”
…a $200 early registration discount, but that’s going to END very soon.”
Plan the party. Send the invitation. Trust that those special 200 who are called to attend will be attracted to the delights of the feast you’ve prepared.
No need to resort to cultural trappings of scarcity and limitation.
December 16th, 2007 at 10:57 am
About looking inside and seeing what’s happening there:
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What I’m really asking you to do in this first course, though, is to go inside and watch your internal processes
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There are several “methods” to do that, of course, several meditation-methods etc. But I found it hard for people who had never heard about anyone.
So I would like to put here my own experiences that I learned somewhere, for practicing during meditation.
It’s about keeping aware of each leg in turn then each hand in turn, and feel where they touch (on your chair/floor.)
Keep aware of that (always in rotation). On the same time, if thoughts come, see the following scene:
It is as if you are sitting in a corner of a room. On the other side of the room there are two doors, one in front of the other. (so, you and the two doors form sort of a triangle).
Now, there are “people” coming in through one of those doors.
These people are your thoughts, your feelings.
Your task is now just to… keep sitting where you are, surely not respond to their invitation to join them. (Because some are very quick, as soon as they enter they grasp your arm and get you up, in the midst of a scene or conversation…)
Look at them, watch them, and wait, wait that they leave through the other door. Do not hurry them, do not say *anything* to them.
Look at them, watch them. Look and you’ll see that these are *not* you.
Doing this, you can return to your feet/hands. Seeing them through your mind, not with the eyes.
This, especially watching thoughts and feelings, tell lots about oneself, and bit by bit without you really realize in daily life, you will be able to step back in situations, see you in your body but not victim of the situation.
Just another thought, I think that thoughts are what clouds our awareness. We focus on our thoughts rather then focusing on being, living. When we let thoughts go - not only during meditation, but this can be the starting point, it’s a good starting point- but in everyday-life, and let them in only if of good use (of course, we must think in everyday life, but most of the time, these are unnecessary thoughts) we discover more and more where we have to go. (Rather than, where we would like to go, but cannot because….)
December 16th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Wow, this is such an awesome post! Thank you, Bill!
Regarding money, I would like to suggest a book called ‘Your Money or Your Life’ by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, web site: http://www.yourmoneyoryourlife.org/ . From my experience, and as Bill made so clear, taking charge of one’s finances is just like taking charge in any area of your life. You start by observing yourself and your actions. In the Holosync educational materials, Bill Harris refers to a “witnessing” technique in which one watches one’s thoughts as they happen, without judgment or attachment. With money you can do the same thing. Keep track of how you are spending it, how you are earning it, saving it, your feelings about it, etc. Realize that money represents your “life energy” - you exchanged your life (i.e. time) to earn it, so become more mindful of how and why you spend it, too. Figure out what money means to you and stop fearing it.
In my own life I have overcome many years of depression, lack of focus, inertia, and apathy. I am now 32 years old and am on track to retire from my day job by the age of 37 (i.e. I will have attained financial independence so that I don’t have to work anymore to survive or pay basic living expenses). It does not take millions of dollars, winning the lottery, a rich aunt, or some magic trick to do it. It requires discipline, defining what’s important to you (including what it will cost to pay for what you want - and many of the best things in life are free), setting goals, making a plan, and taking action. But it all starts with mindfulness. Watching where your money is going. Watching your own thoughts. Watching how you behave or react to others. Observe everything and learn who you really are. I highly recommend the book mentioned above. It gives a detailed blueprint of how to take control of your financial situation. It helps you have a deeper understanding of money and what it can do for your life.
I truly believe that anything is possible, that we can have anything we dream of in life. The first step is mindfulness and working towards a higher state of consciousness.
Susan
December 16th, 2007 at 3:54 pm
Hello Bill,
COINCIDENCE!!
Just some minutes before reading this post I wrote you an email about two books ( Psycho Cybernetics and Think and Grow Rich) you spoke about it in your free preview lesson of your LPIP. As I know you are used to receive “millions” of emails everyday and have a busy life and probably have no time to read and asnwer my email… I think it’s not a bad idea to rewrite it here, as my question is linked to this post, especially when you say:
“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.”
My question is: Are these books enough(for a person stuck about money and success ) for a good change in this way of life?
December 16th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Bill, it may be helpful to some if you went into what i call, ‘running for rescue’.
When i stopped running to rescue from everything outside of me, to food, thoughts, material things, attachments to so many things, people, healers.etc. a big shift came. A biggie for me to get and was a long process, getting it as i do now, was how my trying to rescue others was me trying to rescue myself. I think this is a big one for most. very hard to get in the beginning esp., if you have a big heart. i have had a big need for a healthy house, but I know more often than not, when i think of having one, it includes a rescue of more of my life than it would rescue. I see this now and observe it as it happens. It is a different energy.
i am far from living in a place of harmony, but when i stopped running for rescue, the inner work took a huge turn. It was a form of surrender. I was no longer anxious, or stressed as i had been. I became even less attached. I was in a lot less pain. It was a place of more trust and faith in me/the universe, so that i could be more in a place of ‘being’. It took me years and years to get more on me versus others. I am now more self responsible. Programs that work with frequencies are the only ones that have helped with any significance.
i learned years ago energetically, not through words,, working with an energetic healer, how to be with what is, to feel it on a physical level, what texture does it have, what shape, etc., to help with the witness. i was not very good at it then, however, once I settled in more in life,was more present to certain aspects, i’ve been able to better apply it. what also helps, when I am not fully present, it to find out where i am. Often when i need to do this i am in my upper body and more often than not, also, ‘out’. just touching in often transforms it and brings me back in.
Holosync is shaking this all up……..but i’m hanging in.
Best, Lynn
December 16th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
WOW - this is awesome! I just read the posts and am struck by the synchronicity and the wonderful community on “The Blog That Ate Mind Chatter.”
Just this afternoon I was discussing the money or your life concept and recommending the book to a friend. I totally agree with Susan, who puts it so eloquently,
“It does not take millions of dollars, winning the lottery, a rich aunt, or some magic trick to do it. It requires discipline, defining what’s important to you (including what it will cost to pay for what you want - and many of the best things in life are free), setting goals, making a plan, and taking action. But it all starts with mindfulness.”
My daughter took my advice some years ago and read “Your Money or your Life” and applied the techniques. She is now a great money manager and uses money as a tool. She manages her money, her money doesn’t manage her. She is much happier now and so empowered.
I believe that since we learned almost ALL of our behaviors, we can learn other behaviors that serve us better. It just takes willingness to learn and take action. As Bill so often states “there is a price to pay”, but I think most would agree that the price is SO worth it. (talk about FREEDOM!)
For me I found critical keys to changing my behavior at T Harv Eker’s Millionaire Mind Intensive Weekend. Prior to the weekend I knew (in my analytical brain) that I was connecting money to my emotional needs, but at the weekend through the various exercises I found out precisely how I had wired (cross-wired?) these things together with significant people in my formative years. I am now in the process of undoing the destructive/not useful behaviors about money and replacing them with those behaviors that serve me better.
Of course, none of that would have happened without the Holosynch Solution. Previous to Holosynch, I was so overwhelmed by life and had such a LOW threshold, that I easily shutdown over one bad day at work! ouch.
Oh and by the way at an introductory event of Eker’s, I sat next to a lady who started Holosynch about the same time her husband decided to get divorced after many years of seemingly happy marriage. When I met her I was toying with the idea of doing Holosynch, but was a little skeptical if it could really work. She was emphatic that it absolutely DOES work and that she will continue with the meditation until the end. She credits Holosynch with helping her get through a painful divorce. She attended the Millionaire Mind Intensive Weekend a few months after starting Holosynch and told me that she has doubled her income every six months since that time.
For anyone who is reading the BLOG and is still considering doing the Holosynch Solution, I would say to you, that if you have read this far….what are you waiting for? (resistance is futile and gets you more of the same.)
I am continually amazed by how perfect our universe really is. And am beginning to *really* appreciate my self and who I really am. I have a feeling that this is only the beginning as I move through the levels of Holosynch and discover a whole new universe. This is a truly exciting change for me.
And lastly, I would like to say that my shameless plug for Holosynch Solution and Millionaire Mind, is exactly that - with out shame. Because in my opinion, that without your health (physical AND mental) you got nothing. Money doesn’t buy health and you can’t put a price on health.
And I am sure glad that Bill Harris doesn’t charge what Holosynch is REALLY worth! LOL
Thanks again Bill — you deserve every penny!
December 17th, 2007 at 2:26 am
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December 17th, 2007 at 4:28 am
Thanks Bill. Its funny how these ‘things’ happen, when you become more ‘aware’ of what its all about.
Like Charles I am a Holosync student and just starting course 2 of your on-line program, which I have to say is brilliant. I have read 80+ books over the last 2 years, on all things spiritual/personel growth etc and have developed this ‘passion’ to try and understand this whole subject.
I started my own business 5 years ago, after 20 years working for the corporates and things have been moving forward nicely (although a tad slow at times). But, and this is the reason for the comment, the last 2/3 months have been really difficult to get my backside in gear. From all I have read and listen to, I understand what I need to do, but can’t muster the motivation to do it! It has driven me crazy. I guess subconsciously I have been waiting for things to just happen. Waiting for something inside to ‘fire’ the ambition. Its one thing to understand the theory but another to put it into practise.
Your post has come two days after a pulled a daily wisdom card entitled ‘ACTION’, you can guess what else it said. I only just bought this card set last week as a way to ‘get me motivated’. I guess the universe is providing enough clues as to what I need to do now, in order that I can change my current reality.
Thanks again Bill, your an inspiritation.
December 17th, 2007 at 4:33 am
I just wanted to add something to this post that might be helpful to Charles. What scares you the most in your daily financial life? For me, it was my large tax bill, and the fact that I hadn’t talked with the IRS yet. I just kept letting it eat at me, which made me not want to do anything about it even more. Imagine yourself fixing whatever financial problem bothers you most, and deal with that first. You will, and it will snowball. Dismantle your fears, one by one.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:58 am
Bill, as I’ve read these blogs (and seen you on the defense) it has become very clear how much anger some people have and how difficult it can be for some (of us) to break ingrained learned belief/behavioral patterns. (I used to be one of the most angry people on earth by the way.) The way you have handled each topic and each criticism shows the incredible depth of your perceptions and compassion and patience. This recent post is exactly what I was hoping to see.
I have completed the online courses (twice) and am well on my way into Holosync. But I also took your advise and studied the references and materials that you cited. All that has added tremendous depth and clarity to my life. It also serves to further ingrain the material into my mind firmly. These methods REALLY DO work! And there REALLY is a price to pay…the price of taking conscious control of my mind and causing MOVEMENT. The pay-off is priceless! In fact, life gets a bit freaky at times because now that things are in motion and I’m in conscious control, my ability to create what I want almost spooks me! And just like you said, now that I know how to do this, paying the price to get what I want is FUN.
Something I did as a visual cue in order to help me maintain the motivation to actually take and stay in charge of my mind, is that I bought a horse’s bridle and hung it in my meditation space. Yes. A bridle. In fact, it’s a racing bridle. I had the opportunity to ride a race horse several years ago and trust me, if you don’t stay in control and keep your seat, that horse is going to go where it wants! So it has served as a beautiful reminder for me to take the reigns, steer my mind and use that power to take me where I want to go.
You said early on in your course that many people want life to be different without having to change. This is so true. It’s really about (self) acceptance, and letting go. Let go, let go, let go. At first it can be frightening. Taking responsibility requires great courage. But I think sometimes it’s easy to forget that courage is impossible to have unless fear is present. If we can recognize fear as a gift and an arrow pointing us to ourselves, then the gems can begin to sparkle right in front of us as they’re uncovered.
Thank you for your patience, for your wisdom, your incredible compassion…and for helping me, and so MANY people find our true Selves. Blessings!
December 17th, 2007 at 6:24 am
I think what Bill writes about money and about changing behaviour is absolutely right.
Another thing to bear in mind is entitlement - do you feel entitled to a bigger income, do you feel you deserve it?
I’d been doing fairly well juggling a freelance career with parenting for a few years. Last January I had a revelation about the worth of my work. It was that there is no ‘real’ upper limit on what I can charge, but that the amount I ask (and therefore what I get) is based on how I value it.
As Bill says, taking action is absolutely necessary. I put up my rates and let some lesser-paid work fall away or handed it on to others who needed it. Within ten days of this Value realisation, two new clients had called me out of the blue offering me more lucrative work, and both agreed to the much higher new rates I set. I also initially felt I needed to choose between these clients, but took the decision to try to balance both and see which one to drop once I had figured out what was most enjoyable. Further lucrative jobs also came my way.
12 Months later I have earned double what I did last year, still have both clients and have further offers of work rolling in. My next challenge is to see what further changes I might make to double my income again next year (or perhaps just earn the same and double my time with my kids - another kind of wealth).
It will probably come as no surprise that this is also the first year that I have used Holosync, and that it is one of the factors behind the biggest step forward in personal and spiritual growth I think I’ve experienced in this lifetime. Not just money but also my relationships with my family and partner have changed beyond belief. I’ve let go of more old beliefs and belief systems than I can count, and not necessarily replaced them with new ones. For me this is down to developing the ability to ‘witness’ and see my career and other situations as outside events, and possibly as fun games to play rather than a minefield to negotiate.
There’s a lot more work to do, but I find the further I go aong this path the more fun it gets.
Wishing you every success
December 17th, 2007 at 7:48 am
thanks bill harris….
my financial state is scarey and it is as though i am watching something happen to me that is unbelieveable..i would have never thought this would be in my life. so it is as if i am watching it happen to a different tami.
these words of yours are very valuable to me and they are just what i needed….bright smiles and beautifuldays…tami rush
December 17th, 2007 at 8:03 am
I know it was difficult for Bill Harris to make a specific suggestion to Charles to put drinking out of his life but it’s not difficult for me. Charles give it up! There is nothing that drains your energy and wallet faster than alcohol. One drink always leads to the next, one dollar to twenty.
I am telling you this from experience, my own and several friends that I have helped out of this worthless quagmire.
It’s not an easy thing to do since your social life is probably wrapped up in it as well. I found that physical exercise was a great diversion. When you begin to enjoy jogging or just walking, you’ll find that a clear head in the morning really adds the frosting on the cake.
All at once Holosync will come clearly in focus, you previous 3 Bill Harris classes will mean more.
Charles, many of us have difficulty with alcohol. If you’re looking for a mentor, you’ll probably not find a focused, successful person who is very involved in alcohol!
Why not give up drinking for a couple of months and see if what Bill Harris is telling you doesn’t make more sense. My life changes dramatically when I did.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Bill,
That was a great post and cleared up some of my problems with money, even though I wasn’t the one it was directed at
I have a question for you though (hopefully you can answer it but don’t worry about it if you can’t)
I’m trying to create a career online, and I’ve been trying to do it for about 1.5 years and have NOTHING to show for it.
I used to do things “just to make money” but now I made a website that I believe is what I’m meant to do with my life. I try to create as much value for my visitors as humanely possible and take action literally everyday (besides Sunday,which is my day off)
Anyway, I just started Holosync about 10 days ago and LOVE it tremendously already. I’ve already had the experience of losing sensation of my body, but only for a split second - although it was incredibly surreal just in that 1/2 second or so.
I want to get your Life Principles course but don’t have the money for it. In fact, I stretched my wallet to get Holosync.
I’m in the process now of writing an e-book that should be done around New Years, because I’m trying to help people actually STICK with New Years Resolutions instead of just going to the gym for a week and quitting - but I keep getting self-doubts about it.
I try to replace those thoughts ASAP as soon as I recognize them by the way and reaffirm to myself that the book will be a success.
Anyway, do you have any comments on my situation? I’m doing pretty much everything you mentioned but have nothing to show for it, so something must be wrong
Thanks Bill,
Jeremy
December 17th, 2007 at 9:52 am
Excellent post, Bill. This contains all the essential elements for the process of change in a very easy to understand language.
It seems that often those who are seeking change look to the expertise of others to tell them something or show them something that will somehow make them, as you say, magically different inside so they can continue on autopilot as before. They don’t get the “work” part of the equation. That wiley character, the ego, is hard at work keeping them stuck.
You have likely intuited that I identify with this because I was sooo there. Now that I “get it” I see it happening around me daily. This is why I became a health and lifestyle coach.
This physical world our spiritual self habits is pretty incredible as it is. It’s hard to imagine what it would be like if even 50% of the population understood that we are the architects of our reality and that we are blessed with abundance. It’s only our thinking that imposes limitations on how much of that abundance we welcome into our lives.
I will be continuing with the next level of Holosync soon and can’t wait to see and work with the results. Everyone should practice Holosync.
Thank you, Bill!
December 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am
Thanks for all your hard work, Bill. Your products and services are helping me in so many ways. I am very curious about Big Mind and just can’t wait to try it. Everyone is talking about it, it seems. I read on genpo.org they have a certification program. Will you become a Big Mind Facilitator?
I come from a religious background. I was raised in a conservative Protestant denomination with lots of rules and strict expectations on behavior during service (no musical instruments, no hand-clapping, be very quiet during the sermon, etc.). When I was about 15, my parents moved us to the opposite end of the spectrum, in terms of types of church service, to what some might call a mystical Protestant sect, known collectively as the “Pentecostals”. They used lots of instruments (drums, trumpets, electric guitars) in their services. They clapped their hands during songs. They shouted “Amen!” at the preacher. That was a big shock given our past experiences in church, but it was also the first time I had ever really felt The Presence. The Pentecostals called that presence the Holy Spirit, and the effect it had on the people was called the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. A reference to this experience can be found in the Book of Acts, as I am sure you know.
I stopped attending church after I graduated high school, but I will never forget the experience of that feeling. The only reason I bring it up now is because when I first listened to Holosync, I had that same experience. It was as if an old friend was visiting me, and I recognized it immediately. When I read about Big Mind and the experience felt by those who use it, my first thought was that maybe this, too, was similar to my Pentecostal experience. I speculated that, if one could wipe away all the dogma, all the labels and presuppositions connected with religion, and focus primarily on the experience, perhaps one might concede that the Pentecostals had in their own way accessed the same source energy we seek when we meditate. Do you have any insight into this similarity? I suppose I could answer my own curiosities by just trying Big Mind for myself, which I plan to do. My intuition tells me there will be a striking similarity, which for me would mean that I, quite unintentionally, stumbled across a glimpse all those years ago.
Again, thanks for your time and attention, Bill. If we are somehow rewarded for the good we do in this life, for helping others along the way, then I am sure your recompense would be great.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Thanks, Bill. Great post, and also something very much on my mind, too. I just (finally!) finished listening to your interview with James Ray in your Masters of the Secret series. While I found most of it really wonderful and inspiring, there is one issue raised there that still gnaws at me, that this post doesn’t really seem to touch upon, and that’s the idea of “taking action as if what you want (or choose) has already happened.” Both you and James Ray, as well as most other spiritual/self growth teachers I’ve heard seem to say this same thing: decide what you want, really feel it and intensely focus on it, and take action as if what you want has already happened. Mostly I get this concept as it applies to most things. I can totally see how this applies in the areas of emotions, relationships, careers, education, etc., and I have done so with great success. But the one area I can’t seem to reconcile is money and finances.
See, what I don’t get is how you can “act as if what you want has already happened” when your bank account clearly indicates otherwise. How does one, as James Ray suggests, take action as if it’s already happened, when actual reality dictates that you cannot. For instance, if what I choose/want is to be a multi-millionaire, and then try to take action as if I already were one, one of the first things I would go out and do might be to buy a new BMW or a great new home. However, the reality of what’s ACTUALLY in my bank account would preclude me from doing so (without getting into tremendous debt, assuming I could even qualify for such a loan at this point). So how do you rectify this situation? I know that I don’t want to focus on what I DON’T want, so in this case I would not want to focus on lack and scarcity. At the same time, I find it difficult to responsibly budget and plan without being faced with the reality that my funds are finite — incredibly MORE finite, that is, that what I would prefer.
Does this make sense? I hope so, because it’s always where I seem to stumble and I have yet to hear any self-help teacher address this specific issue of holding onto one’s “faith”, if you will, in the face of a reality that clearly tells you otherwise. And with money, that’s pretty measurable and clear. I have gotten pretty good about manifesting abundance in many ways in my life, and financially, I’m in ok shape — definitely improving, but certainly not where I want or choose to be.
Some insight on this specific issue would be sincerely welcomed and appreciated. In the past, I have fallen into magical thinking regarding this issue and have chosen denial (by not even looking at my finances) as a way to cope with this conundrum. But, after getting deeply into debt and having to declare bankruptcy due my own denial of my fiscal reality, I have learned the hard way that that really doesn’t work! I have learned that I must take full responsibility for all my life choices and where they have led me, and know that I can make different choices to create a different and better future, particularly as I continue to become more concious through Holosync. I feel like I’m well on my way, and my life is already pretty good, but money is definitely an area that keeps me a bit stuck and where I would really like to improve.
Don’t get me wrong…I’m ok with planning, budgeting, learning more about finance and investing, creating value, and taking appropriate action–I’m doing all of it the best I can, and getting better. But when I hear things like “take action as if it’s already happened,” I have to wonder whether there’s something I’m still missing or whether I’m just interpreting that statement incorrectly. Either way, I think it’s potentially a pretty dangerous thing to say without more explanation, as I imagine there are many others out there who would also interpret that as advocating a denial of reality in order to maintain the faith that what we want is already here.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Hi Bill,
First of all thankyou for the info, although i’ve heard this many times i know from my own experience it takes a long time to get over the procrastination and actually implement these things…..and im not fully there yet, although i realise my inaction and beliefs about the outcomes are holding me back.
You say that any outcome in life can be achieved by correct thought and action, however surely this only applies to the realm of the mind??
I have become aware that my most important value is sabotaging eveything else i would like to achieve in life.
This value, or goal, is to see reality past mind conditioning…call it enlightenment, awakening, no-self, whatever, although all these terms are heavily loaded and may suggest i have some fluffy and spiritual fantasy about reality though im pretty sure i dont, it being fairly obvious by now that this state is a purely natural evolutionary outcome. As such i have read, heard and intuited from my own self-inquiry that the dissolution of self requires the surrender of thought and action being directed towards reinforcement of this false ‘I’.
Maybe you would prefer not to answer this, and i am not being critical of you in any way because i am aware of the huge benefit you are providing to people on this Earth, myself included, however i believe you are in a better position to clarify this for me.
If i focused the same energy i direct towards this goal then i could achieve significant material benefits, however, no matter how hard i try this just does not interest me. So what i am asking is, if all this useful information is related to material and internal benefits-namely achieving a happier and more resourceful ‘I’, how can i use it towards the dissolution of ‘I’???
December 17th, 2007 at 11:21 am
Someone mentioned running from rescue, or would it be best to say saving the part of you that was in harms way at one point. To a certain extent I can relate, however it all depends on how one chooses to view this. I am a healer and at the present time I haven’t fully embodied this as a profession. Trying to figure out the why nots is not working. Its like running backwards.
I appreciate your input Bill, thank you. Especially for catching my drift regarding Charles as well as the rest of us who struggle with money issues.
Now getting back to the healer thing. I am just about finished reading Joe Vitales book the atractor factor. Even he uses healers, along with many other methods of getting clear as possible prior to taking action, or even getting clear while in progress. Its funny how I asked the universe about defining inspired action and a month later my answer came in Joes book. He keeps what some have made, including myself, a complex issue simple.
Concerning Genpo’s approch. It reminds me of something funny I heard on the radio this morning. There was a dj talking about how all of a sudden he starts to find faults in the women he dates. What that said to me is quite simple. The mind creates illusions of fear lack etc, where as the heart comes from a place of purity and love. It knows exactly what to do, once the mind is out of the way.
December 17th, 2007 at 11:39 am
re: Charles (and lots of other folks, including me) and waiting for the other “self” to do something or be something different. This is all very true but I think you may be pulling your punches a little here. It’s not just hoping or wishing that something will happen or that this lazy, apathetic “self” will suddenly wake up and be all better. It is having a real contempt, a real disgust, and a real hatred for this other “self”. In my case, it’s why I have always had so much trouble with Vipissana, or mindfulness or Insight Meditation. I hate this stuff (probably like Charles and lots of others) precisely because looking at or thinking about or being mindful of this “self” brings me nothing but anger and “self”-hatred.
December 17th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Hello Bill,
I just wanted to share my experience about what happened after I applied some of the things you write on this post in my life. I bought the online course where you share all this info with my almost last money before I quit my job because I knew in time it would pay. Since course takes about 1,5 years (in my case it took about 2), I finished the success solution only this Spring. Along with the huge changes about how I feel inside, in financial terms, I’m now making about 10 times the money when I quit my job, I have my own place where I am my own boss, and I can do pottery which I love doing. I bought a car, and a house which I’m still paying. This spring I had a financial crisis where I couldn’t get the usual jobs from my client. At first I foucused on what I didn’t want, felt depressed, feared, etc. Then I reminded myself that every drawback holds an equivalent or greater benefit, and started to ask myself what the benefit may be. Then I asked the “how can I” question. And this made me focus on solutions rather than all the bad feelings I had. And the answers came, I applied more companies, I acquired more clients and I increased my rates in time. This quadrupled my income this year. The only thing I had written as a goal and didn’t appear in my external life is a relationship, which requires more internal work than these material things and I know and believe that I’ll have it soon. Above all, when I look back and see the point when I started Holosync, where I was unhappy, hopeless, this is a huge difference. Thank you for all the guidance and positive effects you had in my life. And I also thank to myself for applying all these:)
Best wishes,
Arzu
December 17th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Thanks!
You really do have all the answers, don’t you? These are the answers I’d expect out of a counselor/psychologist, but never seem to extract.
I do wonder if I should draw a line somewhere when fine tuning my internal map of reality? Part of me feels like I’m jumping off a cliff (with no net) when making decisions for myself that go against the status quo. I am very sensitive, and do not like to be questioned or mocked. I have a lot of guilt based around “being selfish.” If I change my internal map and go against the grain (even of family members), I worry it’s too “me, me, me.” Then again, if I just give myself permission to EXIST without anymore demands or requirements (of the “other people’s thoughts” in my head), wouldn’t I be happier?
Here’s one very basic example of this abstract idea above: Why do I send holiday cards to people who never write or call, just so they will not feel “left out?” Even though I was tiring of filling out all these cards, I kept doing it to spare their “perceived” feelings. And to keep my connections - just in case. (”I might need to call upon these people one day” - when the world is ending, right?)
LAstly, why do I feel I need to ask permission to create my own reality? And from who really? How do I know I won’t be struck down by God, and how do I give up this notion that I might be struck down by God? (I certainly don’t intend to do anything that might make God angry enough to do so.) But, basically, if we can believe anything we want, and all (religious) beliefs are pretty much unproven, how do we know what we are supposed to be teaching our children?
My brain is on fire.
December 17th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
As a recovering person, I didn’t get better physically, financially, mentally or spiritually until I went to AA. If Charles drinks too much he might consider this a first action.
December 17th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Hi Bill-
Yet another insightful blog entry that I will be chewing on for a while. This is a great topic. I have struggled too with putting the internal and external gears in sync to manifest some real changes in my life. It becomes very important after the initial familiarity with the Witnessing concept. Otherwise, it just seems like so much navel-gazing, and one is more apt to quit.
Really just wanted to say that I really appreciate, after reading self-help book after self-help book at a bad time in my life (many of which said absolutely nothing of value at that point), your straightforward language and your absolute commitment to The Cause. Many people at the few Holosync-related forums that I sometimes go to seem to enjoy criticizing you for the money you make, or charge, or whatever–and seem to conveniently forget that you spend a lot of your time without charge on this blog and the Mind Chatter newsletter, helping people who are having trouble with the concepts. I have tried several of the other “brainwave entrainment” programs, and there is simply no other substitute that goes quite as deep. Thanks for your work and your program, and especially this blog which is so refreshingly honest and straightforward (after reading all the foo-foo self-help stuff that is out there).
=tc
December 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
tell charles there is nothing wrong with him,,,funny thing about truth,, if you tell a guy the truyht he,ll look at you funny and if you hit him you are an asshole ,,,period,,,Alex
December 17th, 2007 at 5:47 pm
It has been said (can’t recall who) that the two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. The reason anyone is happy, peaceful and successful is because they have found their purpose in life. It’s not because they are making heaps of money, have a fantastic wife and are best friends with every well publicised self-help guru on the planet - it’s because they have found what they are here for and are pursuing it with all the passion that such insight bestows.
Bill, I love Holosynch and thank you from the bottom of my heart for the product but as a teacher you have one major fault - you tell people what to DO rather than encourage them to find out what they REALLY, deep down, truly for THEMSELVES, want. All the behaviourial modification techniques in the world will not work (permanantly) if what the person THINKS they want is in conflict what their heart’s desire really is. When you are aligned with your soul’s true purpose, everything else falls into place, including having enough money to fulfill that purpose.
Bill, you also give mixed messages at times. Your approach is very yang/masculine dominant - action, doing, problem solving, advice giving , aligning with mostly male teachers etc., and yet you yourself say many times in your talks, that you can’t have on without off. There has to be a time for the feminine - a time of being, contemplation, inward rather than outward focus.
My final point is that balance is achieved not only over a single lifetime but over many lifetimes. It may simply be that someone doesn’t achieve the financial success they desire in this lifetime because it is not their lifetime to do so. Sure, anyone who reaches the highest levels of conscious creation can undoubetdly create whatever life they want, but that’s not likely to apply to anyone who is going through the Centerpointe programme or attending BigMind workshops.
Timing is everything. When a person is ready to do whatever it is they are attempting, it will happen no matter what appears to be the agent of change, and even without any apparent agent.
Bill, your best advice ever is still ‘Let whatever happens be O.K.’ Or, in the words of A course in Miracles Lesson 268 ‘Let all things be exactly as they are.’ When life can be accepted for what it is in the moment, the perfection of every experience can be seen in its fullness.
December 17th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
The odd thing about wanting something really bad is that you don’t really get it because that’s all your mind ever thinks about. This is something that I did because all I thought about all the time was getting money because I never had enough. So in order for me to have it I had to change my way of thinking and this is one of the things I did to draw it to me. I thought of the word “increase” constantly never saying it out loud only thinking it until money came to me. I didn’t win the lottery but my ordinary life started to change more ideas came to me about how to improve my life. I started to work more hours and people accepted me more. One should never sit around thinking about what they should have done you have to go after what you want and this is a wonderful technique that everyone should use. It really works!!!
December 17th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
Bill after reading what you had to say about Charles I wanted to add another thing about Charles’ problems and why he has them. There is a very good book out called “seat of the Soul” for Charles it has so many of his answers in it. I read it and I had great success with following some of the suggestions that the author suggested. He advised his readers to get rid of all Addictions because they hold a person back. Especially alcohol that addiction seems to be the worse that anyone can ever have and probably is because it destroys the body. After you have read that book then go on to “The power of Now” and “The New Earth” both very good and enlightening books about how to change your way of thinking. From then on your problems with disappear because the things that you thought were so important won’t matter to you anymore.
December 17th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
Great article…
Faith, Action, Perseverance and living your greatness in each moment.
With these I have achieved much!
And the benefits of the Holosync Program have had profound effects on my resilience, and ability to remain focused and positive. Not to mention continually digging up and releasing all the limiting ’stuff’ that has been picked up over a life time….clearing it and making room for all the good, all that just is and being ok with it!!
Thanks Bill!
December 17th, 2007 at 9:28 pm
Wow Bill! You really put your heart and soul into passing on what you’ve learnt! I love the integrity that characterises whatever you put your heart into. My sincere thanks for this article, which comes along at just the right time for me. Have a great Christmas and New Years celebration.
December 18th, 2007 at 5:11 am
I was very fortunate to be able to get what I really wanted since I was a kid. The one that makes the most different is visual and feeling.
If I wanted to have something I’m thinking about how good will I feel to have it, then I will get that object. It’s simple. I just don’t think about any other things fear, shame, losing face etc.
In order to attract money, one must ask oneself “how do I feel about money”. Everyone wants to have money. However, not everyone “love money”.
If you love money and really desire money, you will get it.
However, you must admit that it is CRAZY to keep doing the same thing and expect a different result!
Your mind can attract money and success but YOU, Yourself, and nobody else must act on opportunity that come your way!
Even you’re given the WINNING number for Lotto, you still have to actually buy the Lotto to win the Jackpot! You just can’t expect it to drop on your lap!!!
December 18th, 2007 at 6:23 am
Regarding your advice to Charles to look to people who have made a lot of money as role models, I would like to recommend Bob Proctor. In his book “You Were Born Rich,” Bob provides a step-by-step approach to creating prosperity in your mind and in your life. Another excellent book on the topic is “The Energy of Money” by Maria Nemeth.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:29 am
No comment. Only to say a big thank you for your resourcefulness to me and to many.Thank you Bill!
Celestine.
December 18th, 2007 at 8:30 am
Bill thank you for this post….again your thought process is prestine. Every time I read your perspective on something I get it at a different level, you have an amazing ability to put complex subjects in clear everyday language that is understandable by all. Thanks
December 18th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Bill I wish to thank you for the reminders embedded in this post. Change can be hard to sustain if we do not remain in concious awareness of what we want to be and make choices that lead us there. I am still in the prologue of holosync and achieving incredible opening. I know that I am shifting becuase my daughter said…”mom, you seem so happy all the time”…WOW, now that is rewarding feedback. Thanks for all you do Bill. I am ready for the next leve. Just need to finish my affirmations. I am loving this journey and feel truly “awake” and participating in my life after being asleep for the last 25 or so years. Incredible!!
December 18th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Hi Bill, et al,
Great posts. I still have a question about how to balance study and action. I started reading about the process of those who have achieved, before I discovered The Secret or the Law of Attraction, or all of you teachers. I was failing at my new business. I have added more self discovery, believeing and understanding that it was I who was doing the failing, but not understanding what went wrong. (First failure in my life by the way.) Reading this post makes me feel guilty for reading this post because I should be in action…. When one reads about successful leaders, they don’t seem to need study once they are moving forward. THerefore, if I simply get going again, and stay going, will I be writing the blogs rather than reading them? Is that the difference?
December 18th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Yes, in reference to what Gloria said Bill said, “let whatever happens be okay”.
For me, that is the beginning. To really allow what is. to really sink in and be with what is with no judgment. This allows you to feel and know where you are. Otherwise, we can be in a constant state of avoidance and running and trying to change more external things, often not in a way we’d prefer, when it is the internal things that really need to shift (and this is what Holosync address’). However, this does not mean a constant state of sitting, being with things in a state of inaction or depression. When you are really being with things, really being more present to what is, the depression and inactivity clear and you are being more in the present and are not drowning in the past or future projections…you do not get so overwhelmed but do things more in flow, in trust, one thing at a time. If by being really present, you feel an emotion like lots of fear, or anger, etc., for me the best thing is to feel it, it always passes, sometimes immediately, sometimes longer. real important and it takes practice to feel ‘outside’ of the story as the story gets us stuck and is destructive. This was a process of learning for me as I was someone who had all kinds of coping mechanisms to keep me from feeling. And when my big ole buttons are pushed, it is very challenging to feel outside the story, but when you can, it is an expansive feeling, not one of contraction. if i don’t allow it, it is going to affect everything anyway and just really cloud my field. I ‘get’ things through my own experience of them, from more a place of ‘being’. I got much of what Bill said in Thresholds of the Mind because I’d already experienced it on my own. However, there were times in my past people said things to me, taught me things, that did not click as they do now and if not brought up then , perhaps they would have not gotten as clear as they did years later. And ‘getting’ clear on these things about myself has been helpful.
Learning to be more present for me was a process, as i’d imagine it is for most.
I learned it through the use of frequencies and energy, the last was through words. To connect with the best within me, i do it by making the connection within myself on a body level. It is rare that words can bring me there. Intention can, however.
be real clear on intention. being really clear was a huge challenge for me. And I thought my biggest intention was to heal on every level, to be in an integrated state. i didn’t realize until I shifted out of it to the degree i’d been doing it, that my biggest intention was to fill myself. And the only way i knew how to do this was from without. that intention, that i was not clear on affected my entire life. it was also fear based as i did not know how to fill myself with me in a more positive connection. I was terrified of being with me deeply. But in doing so, with support of frequencies that helped me make more positive connections, i began filling me more up with me and coming more present. This journey takes a lot of courage. i’d imagine it must be a real priority or people don’t do it. It is well worth it. For some, it is both better and harder, but the better is well worth it.
We ‘run for rescue’ until we no longer do. No judgment, we have all done it. We do the best we can, especially for those of us really in need of something like holosync which works more deeply. i still can run for rescue, , but not at all as I did.
Responsibility… To always remember to take responsibility without guilt. It took me a long time for me to get this on my own. Before, I heard I needed to take responsibility, through many things i heard over the years. However, when i did that, it felt horrible as i was feeling even more guilt than i already felt and for things not of my making. it made me bash myself down. So i stopped. Then, i got it……..how it takes you out of victim and how you can do it in a way that does not include guilt. It helps you be more present in your life.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Excellent input from Bill on money issues. I’ve learned to manifest so quickly in almost every department EXCEPT MONEY. It’s gone on so long that it’s gotten to the level of weird. I’ve read lots of the masculine/yang approach to acquiring because the money world is still dominant with yang energy from women and men alike. I want easier money flow asap and here we are, so guys are great to learn from regarding acquiring cash flow.
I hear the reason and logic in the action journey, it makes sense to my mind. Problem seems to be that my Heart is more important to me spiritually, emotionally and in the physical body itself. I’m having quite the tug of war between my feminine aspect of allowing and positive focus (also a very successful approach to acquiring according to many Abraham-ers) and my masculine mental aspect of do do do, action.
Frustrating.
I feel the best part for me with Bill’s approach in this money chatter is to THINK DIFFERENTLY. I feel action focus is not effective for many that are more aligned with the Yin aspect~ the thinking will create the action but it’ll happen with a graceful power which is great too. I watch my financially successful friends, men and women that are doing this in a way that is aligned with Tao, a more feminine approach. What I’m noticing now is that my old paradigm of money getting is falling away with my Holosync use and being replaced with an allowing paradigm. Here’s the temporary glitch for me, I’m attracting huge success all around me, this is fun to be around. I just haven’t EMBODIED it! It’s soooo close, in my immediate field of experience that it’s starting to rub off me. I think this is at least a little of what Bill was saying.
ie: One of these success holders has a gallery with my art, 3 pieces sold within the first week. I COPY her energy patterns, I started doing this before Bill’s blog on money, he’s so right on with the copy thing. The “copying” is fun because it’s an honor for her too, she’s a mentor without knowing it. She’s full of action and it’s aligned with me personally because she’s balanced her former corporate/yang approach with a creative/yin approach that brings just as much success.
One thing I’ve noticed with my new friends that are money successful in a Yin way is: ORGANIZATION! That is what I hear them say. I bet Bill is super organized…?
Also, the Yin success friends EXERCISE. Has anyone ever noticed that people with money issues, like me, never create the “time” or energy to do much of anything that brings forward movement? The inertia is maddening.
So, YES, Act! But for us that are Yin, ALLOW and the Action will follow gracefully, creatively, joyfully. Copy your friends energy patterns that have the money thing down and let them copy us in the areas that we have success in. ie: I have accomplished huge strides in breaking free from old illusions with biological family/religion and regional ties by travelling solo for 9 years etc. I can help others with letting go now, that feels good and I focus on how great it is to be free and and be artist that doesn’t have to live the delusion of starving artist. Holosync is helping me make even bigger strides with letting go, I can honestly say that I’m detached in the areas mentioned above. Now I’m ready to sell so much art that my head spins! Money Is Fun.
December 18th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Well, not so fast. Knowing what one wants can be profoundly difficult, a lifetime battle. This may sound ridulous to many, but even knowing how to want can be extremely tough. Knowing so is to acknowledge one’s own presence (his very existence), and do that is to begin to grasp deep emotional needs. And that can be unbearable, for me (so far) undoable.
Does anyone else know what I’m talking about here? Bill -if you read these things - do you? It brings into play long-felt issues of shame & trust (in my particular case, chidren of alcoholics stuff).
Thanks for listening,
David
December 18th, 2007 at 1:57 pm
Hi Bill - I was very happy to read your article about being stuck on money or success. I seem to be in that same spot and though I would love to attend the workshop in LA and even some on line classes of yours, I do not at this time have the money. I found myself getting up tight. Thinking the only way to enlightenment was if you had enough money to take the best classes. I am in Holosync - Awakening level 3 - CD 1 - I am in the Inner Circle so I am committed. I very definetley have felt many changes and at the moment of this writing am at a “chaos point” where everthing seems to be flying apart. There is also a part of me that knows that it is on the verge of a new order and it is good! I also realize that my feeling of getting left behind or needing to “keep up” with the best is also a trigger for past thinking patterns that have kept me from going forward in my life. Right now, I am acknowledging the feelings - doing what is realisticly possible and relaxing in the knowledge that the panic is only a resurgence of old useless patterns of thought and they too will pass. At 68, I still do not know what my passion is and am in survival mode financially. As I write this, I can feel the panic in the background and am breathing into it and letting it be. There will come a time when I will be able to take some of these classes and maybe not. I do not know for sure at this moment. But I can tell you that, considering what has happened in my life, it is amazing that I am still here. I know that if it were not for Holosync, I would probably be a babbling idiot. It does work. The only real battle ground, if there is one, is within ourselves. I want to thank you for being so straight forward even though at times it has angered me. Sometimes I agree and sometimes I don’t and that is ok! But I do appreciate honesty and telling that person not to spend money he does not have is much appreciated honesty! Sincerely Jacqueline
December 18th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Bill, I agree with Gloria that your approach is yang-dominant, heavily masculine. Which isn’t surprising, because money and the economy until relatively recently in history was the exclusive domain of men. Women are recent additions to that system and ideas traditionally associated with being “female” have changed things somewhat, but are not fully integrated as of yet.
I also sense a heavy Western culture bias here, specifically the Protestant or Calvinist work ethic - which is just another idea about the world, a belief on the Map of Reality, an illusion.
The concept of property or ownership is also an illusion. If I do not exist, I cannot own anything. Even if I do exist, all things are impermanent, so ownership as a status that stays the same over a period of time is not possible. I can say that the (illusory) object is here, close to me, today; tomorrow, it may not be.
Money is also an illusion - it’s a token, a symbol for value that humans invented.
True, all of the above may be “the only game in town”, but that’s not because it’s a fundamental aspect of truth. It’s because we are all born and educated in the system of “working-for-money”, it’s an illusion into which we are indoctrinated.
Originally, in the earliest bartering economies, there would have been the type of direct value-trade that you talk about. I trade my milk for your eggs. The value of milk or eggs is immediately obvious (provision of nutrition) and finite (you can’t make it more than it is).
Today, value has become symbolic. The pioneers would not have cared if bartering for the neighbours’ milk made them sexy or increased their chances of becoming a celebrity….they just wanted to drink the milk. Now, advertisers use psychological methods to make customers think they are in fact “purchasing” intangible and subjective qualities such as sex appeal, power, status.
What I’m trying to say is that the economic system was originally based on trading of goods and services that, for the most part had finite objective value. Now, the principle of “selling someone something” and subjective value means the value bar is wobbly, and can be more easily manipulated, slid up or down.
I’m not sure if the principle of a direct “trade of money for value” still applies as neatly and cleanly to a subjective value system as it once did to an objective one.
To elaborate: when value is based on MEANING, not SUBSTANCE, each individual’s concept of “value” is determined not strictly by “whether they want the thing more than they want their money”, but also by societal beliefs, which are influenced by parenting, the media and advertising, etc. And let’s not forget those illusory beasts, “Competition” and “Market Forces”. Funny how the strongest proponents of competition are often the ones who rise to the top of that system and then don’t actually have to compete. They are then in a position to monopolize.
I had the privilege to see John Ralston Saul (an incredibly insightful Canadian author, for those of you who don’t know) speak about a month ago. About this, he said that it costs $2 to make a pair of Nike shoes, they charge $200 for them, but in a true “free market” with full competition, you would be lucky to get $10 for the shoes! International monopolies keep prices artificially high.
And let’s not mention all the governmental policies in each country: what is taxed and what isn’t, what is subsidized and what isn’t, what the minimum wage is, what kind of social assistance is provided……it’s all arbitrary. No universal meaning or truth behind it.
And yes, one DOES have to make the best of one’s own situation, but looking at all of this, how can we really say that being employed and working and providing goods and services today is actually a “trade” of any kind, let alone a fair one?
And my big question, which is going to come up again at the end of my post:
WHY, IN OUR SOCIETY, DO WE PAY PEOPLE FOR VALUE THEY PROVIDE IN A TWO-PARTY TRANSACTION, TO SOME OTHER PERSON OR COMPANY, INSTEAD OF REWARDING THEM FOR VALUE THEY PROVIDE TO HUMANITY AS A WHOLE?
We’re global now in our technology and our communication….maybe our economic system has truly got to go global, too.
Now I want to look a little closer at the “pulling oneself up by one’s own bootstraps” philosophy. In a situation where survival is at stake, like hunter-gatherer tribes or pioneers, teaching a doctrine of required participation by all makes sense: if everyone did not participate by providing their labour to the community, people would die!
Today, it’s just not like that anymore. Technology means we don’t all need to perform hard manual labour just to subsist. Yet we have somehow hung onto that work ethic, and the consequence has been that when contributing one’s labour used to promote the well-being of the entire community….
….now it often just makes the rich even richer! I wouldn’t mind so much, were it not for the stark and growing divide between the haves and the have-nots, even here in North America, let alone the Third World.
The principle of pulling oneself up by one’s own bootstraps can be used to motivate others - “if I did it, you can too”. Or, it can be used as a platform for self-righteousness and greed - “I had to do it all myself, so I’m not sharing with you!”, thus allowing the inequality to continue.
There’s always going to be SOME degree of inequality in a capitalist system, and I’m comfortable with that, I don’t think communism works either. However, I believe that the “each person must support him/herself” philosophy has been used to justify this inequality and blame those in poverty for their own situation, rather than placing the responsibility on society and levels of opportunity that are anything but equal.
Instead of “every person for themselves”, isn’t it just as valid to say that yes, we do all have to make an effort, BUT we are all interconnected, and thus are all truly better off if we share? Then each individual wouldn’t have to struggle so much.
Now, my point!! I am not one of those people who believe that “you have to be poor to be spiritual”. I want to make enough money to have a comfortable lifestyle, but I do not want to accomplish it through daring-do, strategy, aggression, and artfully bending the rules without breaking them: all qualities admired in business today and all pretty darn masculine.
I want to make money ethically and spiritually, and to me that means doing something that benefits society as a whole. I don’t want to do something that “benefits” me and the person I transact with, but has the nasty side effect of negatively impacting society or the environment.
I want to implement changes that don’t necessarily “provide value for others” when “others” is defined as people who would buy goods/services, but rather devote my efforts to changing society as a whole in a way that in the long run, benefits everyone.
Perhaps I speak for others here as well?
December 18th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Hello there Bill
I live in England so I won’t be going to the workshop in L.A. At least not this time but who knows when I will be able to afford the time and flight?
I have just turned 46yrs old and have never felt so optimistic and positive about the future and I am only 4 weeks into level 1!
I am not from a well off background but there are certainly a hell of a lot of people a hell of a lot worse off than me so I don’t complain outwardly but inside I have always wanted more.
I have felt that it is possible for anyone to make it financially with the right state of mind at least as far back as my late 20’s and always felt sure I was going to do it someday. Well its been a long wait and I have tried a lot of different ideas to find the right way for me and now I am certain that I am finally on the right track.
I have been studying and practicing in a venture that is perfect for my character for almost 2 years now but with limited success. Although the experience I have gained is invaluable I think that my new found confidence is definately due to the Holocync program(me). Things have just started to click and new ideas seem to be working so well that I can not see how I can fail! And not only in the businness, money just seems to be coming to me in other ways too!
Along with the programme I am using “Money and Success” and I am also using Paul Scheele’s “Personal Genius” and “Living the Law of Attraction” paraliminals. Which made me wonder if it would work any better if you used the paraliminal technique on a subconcious Autophonix level? (obviously with Holocync too!) Would this be more powerfull or not? Or maybe you already do this? Just a thought.
Anyway. Thanks and keep up the good work.
Cheers
Kev
December 18th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Hi Bill,
Recently I was described as a “Know it all.”
(The instruction was meant to be helpfully instructive)
I wish I really did know everything I need to know to accomplish everything want right now without fail. Unfortunately, I still have much to learn, including the actions that inspire courage and express confidence. LOL
As I read your words describing choosing what you want and then going for it, and thinking and feeling good about what you want, and correcting your actions when something does not work, and keeping this corrective action going until you find many ways that do work. . . I thought it sounded very much like behavioral modification, and reminded me of Maxwell Maltz’s “Psycho-Cybernetics.” LOL
Additionally it reminded me of “The Science of Success, By Wallace D. Wattles.” Which I recently found at a Barnes & Noble Book Store in the bargain books at a price of only $7.98 The book is actually 3 Prosperity Classics in 1. You will see if you find it. It’s worth more than its small cost.
I enjoyed your statements about ‘Value’;
“This could be a product, a service, your ideas, your labor, your willingness to take a risk, or something else” made me laugh pleasurably. There are so many possibilities. . .
And you said;
“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.”
This reminds me that money is a representation of energy, and how much people value, our use of energy. (It’s certainly no longer based upon any gold or silver standard of value in the USA.)
I would love to see our educational (schooling) systems beginning at the entry levels take an approach to instruction that develops in children an appreciation of their imagination and creativity. As we learn to appreciate our creativity and imagination, we can grow strong in self confidence and self reliance. It is then much easier to receive and learn more from others because what we appreciate in ourselves we tend to appreciate in others. Also appreciation enables us to more easily walk a path in life that is a true expression of whom we are, and who we want to be.
Failing to appreciate ourselves pushes us in the opposite direction and feelings of lack and inadequacy grow and flood our awareness with self distain and feelings of shame which create a belief in our inability to succeed. Likewise we tend to believe of others what we feel most deeply of ourselves.
To compound this, we begin to accept the control of others, and think that our only purpose in life may never be. Such thoughts and feelings sometimes grow like a rolling snowball and can become a self created prison.
Negative hostile and violent people are suffering from such feelings of unworthiness. Compounding this, the self-ashamed world tends to attack the weak and down trodden. In the world of negativity it seems most common for others to criticize and attack. And then of course there is the cornered mouse, who feeling death is about to attack, strikes back with all its wild fierceness and force. The more thinking in this realm may carry their retaliation over long distances.
I hope you begin to see how such an experience of