First of all, I want to apologize for the long time between posts. I’ve been incredibly busy with various deadlines, traveling in and out of town speaking and presenting in various places, and so forth. Finally I’ve come up for air, so here are my latest thoughts.
Before I get to one of the most fascinating topics I’ve written about so far–how (and why) resources automatically flow to those who already have them, and away from those who do not, and how you can get on the receiving side of this equation–I want to make a few brief introductory remarks about Holosync.
I find it interesting when I consider the different reasons why people use Holosync. Some are drawn to Holosync because it creates a remarkable acceleration in meditation and spiritual growth. Holosync meditators, I’ve noticed, seem to progress somewhere from four to ten times faster than traditional meditators in terms of experiencing improvements in well-being, inner peace, a surrendering to what is, a lessening of self-created suffering, an ability to experience life from the transcendent, and an ability to become incredibly aware (more about this below).
One huge change I see in long-time Holosync users is a growing desire and ability to drop what I call the Game of Black and White. This is the game we unwittingly teach all new humans because we learned it when we were small, and it’s all that we know. In this game we artificially and arbitrarily divide the world into separate things and events (a dividing that happens in the mind, but not in reality, though we forget that and live as if these divisions were real rather than mental). We then place these supposedly separate things and events into two piles, the Appropriate Pile and the Inappropriate Pile. The main rule of the game is that White Must Win. In other words, we try to make whatever we’ve placed in the appropriate pile ”win” over whatever we’ve assigned to the inappropriate pile. Good must win over bad. Life must win over death. Having must win over not having. I must win over the environment. And so forth.
The problem with this game is that good and bad, life and death, having and not having, and all the other pairs of opposites, go together. Each side of the polarity is defined in terms of the other, and in fact only makes sense in relation to the other. We know good only because there is bad. We know life only because there is death. We know having only because there is not having. And, because all these supposedly separate things are actually one thing, and go together, one side can’t really win over the other.
This makes the Game of Black and White an unwinnable game, yet nearly all people spend their entire life playing it as hard as they can.
The unwinnability of this game makes it the main source of human suffering, and dropping it leads to freedom, inner peace, and happiness. Dropping the Game of Black and White also makes it easier to experience who you really are–the entire going on of it all. One of the most amazing things about Holosync is that it seems to relax our need to play this ridiculous game, or at least to allow us to play a lighter version (you have to play at least a little bit to be here).
Other people use Holosync because they’ve been traumatized and are suffering from various emotional dysfunctions. They’ve heard that Holosync dramatically shifts one’s relationship to fear, anger, anxiety, depression, addiction, and other types of emotional suffering. Many people on medication for anxiety or depression, for instance, are able to stop the medication after 10-12 months of Holosync use (never do this, of course, without consulting your doctor).
Such emotional problems are, of course, symptoms of the Game of Black and White, and since Holosync allows you to see the futility of this game and helps you to stop playing such a hard version of it, the related symptoms calm down and, for the most part, disappear. My friend John Dupuy, in conjunction with Ken Wilber’s Integral Institute, has pioneered an approach to drug and alcohol addiction recovery called Integral Recovery. He has used Holosync with tremendous success in addiction recovery, in getting people to stop using addictive behavior to try to hold off the intensely negative feelings created by a super-hard version of the Game of Black and White (if you’re interested in knowing more, you can read a paper John has written about Integral Recovery at www.integralrecovery.com/library.)
Other Holosync users are mind and consciousness explorers. They find that Holosync expands their mental capacity and their ability to be aware, since Holosync increases connections between the left and right brain hemispheres, leading to what scientists call whole-brain functioning), and increases the level of awareness-enhancing brain chemicals.
Holosync also seems to accelerate the development of an increasingly larger and more expanded perspective–what we use to navigate through life and make sense of what it means to be human (part of what I mean when I use the word awareness). This ongoing expansion of perspective-making is in large part what I was describing in my series about human development earlier on this blog (check the archives if you haven’t read these posts).
Ken Wilber, one of the world’s top experts on human development, has said that Holosync seems to accelerate our ability to move through these different developmental stages more quickly and easily–in other words, to adopt increasingly expanded perspectives about what it means to be a human being. I agree, as I clearly see this happening with anyone who has used Holosync for any reasonable length of time.
There are also tremendous health benefits to Holosync use. Considerable research has been done on the health benefits of traditional meditation. Significant positive effects on cardivascular health, brain health and functioning, immune function, hormone regulation, and many other positive health benefits, have been demonstrated. In addition, Holosync has huge stress-relief benefits, and since many mental, emotional, and physical health problems are either created by stress or made worse by it, Holosync use can dramatically improve quality of life.
And though this is anecdotal (no studies have been done–yet), for years we’ve heard from parents of children with ADD or ADHD about the huge positive effect Holosync has had on that condition. Many parents with autistic children (and a few people who work with autistic children) have told us that Holosync has a positive effect on their ability to more easily make contact with these kids.
In general, those who use Holosync are looking for ways to improve the quality of their lives, and Holosync seems to do that in quite dramatic ways–mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
In this post I want to examine one nuance of this yearning for a better quality of life, something that has fascinated me for a number of years. You could call this, “Why the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Poorer,” or “Learned Helplessness.” Let me explain what I mean.
A significant amount of research has come to light lately about what most people would see as a grim fact of life (all life, not just human life): the fact that resources flow more easily to those who are already successful, and away from those who are unsuccessful. “To he who hath it shall be given; from he who hath not even what he hath shall be taken away.”
This law applies to bacterial colonies, human beings, and everything in between. Though this law of nature seems cruel in terms of the individual, it is a powerful and positive survival mechanism when looked at from the point of view of the whole. So let’s look at this more closely, as it has a significant bearing on your ability to create a happy, fulfilling life. And, if you happen to be stuck on the wrong side of this law of nature, understanding it just might help you to reverse that trend (yes, there is a way to reverse it).
One of the simplest examples of this law is the workings of a bacterial colony. Amazingly, bacteria have sophisticated ways of communicating. One of these is through chemical attraction and repulsion cues, which are very useful to the colony.
As long as bacteria are in an area rich in food, they chow down and multiply like, well, like bacteria. Once the available food is gone, however, the colony sends out bands of scouts to look for new sources of groceries. Not all of them succeed, however. Some bands end up in the bacterial equivalent of a desert, while others may find a new bacterial food court. Those who end up stranded in the desert send out chemical messages that say, in effect, “avoid me.” In this way, resources aren’t wasted on expeditions to the same desert area.
If a band ends up in food heaven, however, it sends out chemical messages equivalent to those ten-foot signs on the roofs of diners saying “EAT!” As a result, the other bacteria come running (or oozing, or whatever bacteria do to get around.)
In other words, resources are withdrawn from the failures, and made available to the successful.
This same mechanism happens in all living systems. Those who are successful attract resources, and those who fail actually repel them. The obvious message is that you want to be in the successful group. If you are, more of whatever you want and need comes to you. A great deal of what I teach at Centerpointe is my attempt to show you how to be in this group. For reasons I’ll explain in a moment, I also believe–quite strongly–that Holosync use increases your ability to be in this resource-attracting group. Let’s look at a few more examples so you can more clearly see how this principle works.
All living systems have a built-in self-destruct mechanism that, as I said above, withdraws resources from the unsuccessful and diverts them to the successful. Robert Sapoloski discovered how wild baboons at the lower end of the baboon pecking order actually create large amounts of hormonal poisons that kill brain cells, causing their hair to fall out, wiping out their immune function, and leading to chronic illness. This, of course, further decreases their power and status with their baboon peers.
On the other hand, those at the top of the pecking order make more of the hormones and brain chemicals that cause well-being, self-confidence, and better health. And, in addition to better chemistry, these winners also end up with better food, the best living areas, and the most desirable sexual partners.
Researcher Marvin Zuckerman found that depressed hospital patients–those who actually needed the most care–were least likely to attract the compassionate attention of their caregivers. Their complaints, anger, body language, facial expressions, and other negative behaviors actually drive away those who might give them the care and nurturing they need.
On the other hand, those patients who are cheerful in the face of terrible illness or even impending death attract better care, more nurturing, and many friends. The nurses and doctors flock to them with sympathy.
It has long been known that individual cells have a self-destruct mechanism called apoptosis that rids the organism of unneeded, unwanted, or otherwise malfunctioning cells. Unsuccessful organisms (including human beings) have similar self-destruct programming that kicks in when that organism is no longer useful to the larger community.
A similar mechanism, in fact, appears on every level of life. The human body, for instance, contains millions of different types of antibodies. Just as in the examples above, resources flow to those antibodies that successfully find and deal with invaders, and away from those who either cannot find invaders that match their particular weapons, or aren’t able to defeat the invaders they encounter. Those that are successful attract resources and increase their numbers at an incredible speed, while those that fail are robbed of food and the ability to multiply.
There is, then, competition for resources at all levels in all living systems, including human and animal communities. Built into each system, fairly or unfairly, is a mechanism by which the group automatically withholds or withdraws resources from individuals who “fail.” What is more, unsuccessful individuals–through internal, built-in, automatic self-destruct mechanisms–withhold resources (positive, life-giving neurochemicals and hormones, for instance, that would cause them to feel and function better) from themselves!
The resulting condition is sometimes referred to as “learned helplessness.” When humans (or animals) are able to solve a problem they not only overcome the problem, they also thrive in other ways (some internal and some external) as a result of having encountered and successfully dealt with that problem. On the other hand, those who cannot solve a problem activate their own internal self-destruct mechanisms, which can be mental, attitudinal, emotional, hormonal, or neurochemical. These then create external social cues that cause their social group to further withhold resources.
In one study, rats were wired to receive painful electric shocks. Some of the rats had access to a button that, when pushed, would stop the shock, not only for the button-pusher, but also for other rats subjected to the same shock. Once the control buttons were discovered by certain of the rats, these luckier rodents would instantly lunge for the button whenever the experimenters turned on the juice, ending their own pain and that of their fellow rats.
The rats who never discovered the “off” button had no means of controlling their situation, and eventually gave up and passively resigned themselves to the painful shocks that came out of nowhere. These rats, even though they received the same number of shocks, and for the same duration, as the button-pushing rats, became physical wrecks. Their hair fell out. They developed ulcers. They lost weight.
The rat button-pushers, on the other hand, remained reasonably plump and fit. The rats without control buttons were sabotaged by their own built-in self-destruct mechanisms. They were poisoned by their own stress hormones. Their immune systems failed. Their reflexes atrophied. If given a way to escape, they were too confused to notice it or too infirm to take advantage of it. (This reminds me of some people who attend very expertly-taught self-help seminars, but somehow are unable to take advantage of what has been tremendously helpful to most other people.)
Similar experiments have been repeated in many different animal populations, including humans. In each case, individuals who fail tend to develop this same sort of learned helplessness which causes external resources to stop flowing to them and also causes their own body to shut down internal resources. As a result, they give up.
On the other hand, those who succeed–and particularly those who find a way to exert a certain amount of control over the situations in which they find themselves–end up with greater dominance within their group, more and better food, better lodgings or living situations, and more sexual privileges. Their internal chemical factories churn out what they need in order to be healthy, clear-minded, and vital. Truly, the rich do get richer while the poor get poorer.
Is this a no-win situation? Once you’re on the downward spiral, are you screwed? This would be the case–if you had no power to consciously and intentionally do things in a different way. The new and growing field of neuroplasticity indicates that you can change your internal processes and learn new ways of living and dealing with the world.
When you practice doing anything, including thinking about yourself in a new way, your brain devotes more brain real estate to that function, and you get better at it. The existence of brain plasticity means that it is not inevitable that if you are moving in an unsuccessful direction you have to continue moving in the same groove until you circle the drain. You do have the power to step out of a negative, self-destructive spiral.
Once resources begin flowing either to you or away from you they tend to keep flowing in that same direction. Usually, in fact, the flow increases as time goes on. Your job, then, is to get on the right side of this flow of resources. It’s true that if resources tend to flow away from you, there will be a momentum to overcome if you’re going to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and move to the resource-attracting side of the equation.
It can, however, be done. I’ve done it. Up until the mid-1980s, I was depressed, anxious, difficult to get along with, had few friends, and was scraping by on a very small income. I was definitely on the wrong side of the flow of resources, internally and externally.
Two things, I believe, shifted me from the self-destruct mode to the success mode, and I’ve found that these two methods work for anyone who uses them (though I will admit that the deeper you are in the self-destructive, learned-helplessness mode, the tougher it is, at least in the beginning).
You probably won’t be surprised to hear that the first method is Holosync. Holosync increases awareness, which is one of the keys to this process. Why? Because increased awareness allows you to see HOW you’ve been unconsciously sabotaging yourself. Even more important, Holosync stimulates the production of the very same neurochemicals and hormones made in abundance by those who are successful. These feel-good neurochemicals and hormones are a large part of what makes life easy for the successful top-of-the-pecking-order types. Holosync’s ability to stimulate the production of these ”success neurochemicals” makes it easier to overcome the negative, self-destructive, learned helplessness momentum.
The second method is to use the resulting awareness to look inside your own mind and observe the internal processes that directly generate how you feel in each moment, how you behave, what and whom you attract or become attracted to, and what meanings you place on the events of your life.
Winners–those to whom resources flow–feel different than losers. Their unconscious internal processes more often generate pleasurable and resourceful emotions, along with their characteristic neurochemicals. Because behavior is generated to a great extent by your internal state (which, in addition to feelings also includes such things as courage, persistence, confidence, enthusiasm, and so forth), winners also behave in a different way.
Again, the internal processes of winners motivate them to act in more resourceful ways. And, the resulting successful outcomes generated by these internal states and external behaviors tend to build on each other because they generate more feel-good brain chemistry, more self-confidence, and more positive beliefs, more possibility thinking, more resourceful meanings, and so on, making each success easier than the last.
Such people also begin to attract resources and the help of other people–as, for instance, with the hospital patients described above who received more care and nurturing. These winners also find themselves almost magnetically attracted to better, more resourceful situations, and to kinder, more loving, more helpful people–whereas those on the other side of the equation (including me, twenty years ago) tend to attract or be attracted to people who actually help them fail in various ways and help them feel worse about themselves. And, finally, the winners’ interpretations of what is happening around them–in other words, what the events of their life seem to mean (including what failure and setbacks “mean”)–is different.
Understanding how this mechanism of learned helplessness (or learned success) works led me to formulate what, if I do say so myself, is one of the most profound statement you’ll ever hear about how to get what you want from life:
For any outcome you want, there is a certain way of thinking and acting that will get it for you. You just have to find that way of thinking and acting, and then be willing to adopt it.
When I say “a certain way of thinking” I’m referring in large part to those internal processes. If you adopt the particular internal processes that will generate a certain outcome (which you can discover from those who have already done what you want to achieve), certain actions will follow, and from those actions the desired result will follow. If random events beyond your control interfere (which they will), these same internal processes will help you discover the opportunity in what has happened, and though success might be delayed, it will eventually come. In fact, as I noted above, encountering a challenge and overcoming it actually increases your ability to be successful–another example of the rich becoming richer.
All of this means that in addition to jump-starting your internal “success chemicals” you must: 1) find out how your internal processes generate different feelings, meanings, and behaviors, and how they cause you to attract certain people and situations into your life (while avoiding, overlooking, or repelling others), and 2) find out how to intentionally operate those internal processes so as to create the outcomes you want.
The key to all of this is awareness. What you are unaware of controls you. What you are aware of, you gain control of and have choice over. As long as your internal processes are unconscious, they will continue to create the same outcomes, and the downward spiral (if that is what is happening) will continue. The two keys, then, to stepping out of learned helplessness are 1) making more of the body’s success chemicals (a process beautifully jump-started by Holosync), and 2) learning to operate your internal processes consciously, rather than allowing them to operate automatically.
Interestingly, even the internal processes of most successful people are running on automatic. It’s just that their automatic functioning is set up in a more resourceful way. They very likely grew up with supportive parents, good mentoring, perhaps even good genetics, which gave them an advantage (though sometimes a negative childhood causes such people to vow that come hell or high water they WILL succeed, and this motivation turns them toward the positive side of things). But whether your internal processes are driving you toward success or failure, if you can learn to operate them consciously and intentionally, your ability to be a successful, resource-attractor increases exponentially–even beyond that of the ”automatically” successful person.
In an ironic way, starting in the self-destruct mode, if it motivates you to learn to operate your internal processes consciously and intentionally, ultimately makes you more powerful, more successful, and more able to create what you want in life. Without the inspirational dissatisfaction that leads you to do something about your sorry state you might never delve into and master the internal processes that create your life.
I believe this is what happened for me. The situation in my childhood led me toward the self-destructive mode, and a lack of success. I dealt with my unhappiness by taking drugs (not recommended). As I approached the age of forty I thought, “What the hell happened? Is this my life?”
But through a series of events I won’t go into here I ended up experimenting with what became Holosync, and over a few years my emotional problems miraculously began to clear up. Later I became interested in cognitive psychology and the investigation of the internal processes that were generating my experience of life. Throw in some wisdom from Eastern philosophy, and my life began to shift to the more successful side of the equation.
Holosync use, I’m convinced, is a powerful tool in making this sort of change. Why? Successful resource-attractors make lots of feel-good chemicals. This is a built-in biological system that rewards us when we succeed by pumping out serotonin, endorphins, and other positive neurochemicals. In many ways this is what keeps winners going through good and bad times.
Since Holosync helps you make more of these same hormones and neurochemicals without your necessarily having to actually do something successful, and because it begins to change the brain so that it “learns” to make more of these positive brain chemicals, more easily, you can use Holosync to jump-start yourself into the success camp.
Then, because Holosync also greatly increases your ability to be aware, you can then begin the second step, where you begin to notice your internal processes and learn to operate them more consciously and intentionally. I explain these internal processes and how they work to some degree in the support material, and go very deeply into them in the first of my Life Principles Integration Process online courses (www.centerpointe.com/life).
Though it’s certainly possible to master your internal processes without Holosync, the increased awareness created by Holosync makes it MUCH easier. This is because you cannot continue to do something that does not serve you (i.e., do those things that continue the self-destructive spiral) if you do them with awareness. If you do something that is not resourceful with full awareness, you just can’t keep doing it, and it falls away of its own accord.
When I say watch with awareness I do not mean that you merely know you’re doing something. Most people already know that they’re experiencing the same undesirable outcomes over and over (becoming involved with the wrong romantic partner, investing in losing business propositions, becoming excited about something and then quitting before finishing it, procrastinating, addictive behaviors, etc.). Yet they continue to create the same negative outcomes, over and over, often for an entire lifetime. I certainly did this, well into my 40s. Knowing on a cognitive level is the booby prize in this process, and isn’t the same as actually watching your internal processes generate the different outcomes in your life.
To watch these processes (and therefore gain a degree of control over them) you need 1) awareness, which is created by Holosync (there are other ways, but none I have found that are as easy, fast, or reliable), 2) motivation, created by the feel-good brain chemicals Holosync stimulates, 3) an understanding of your internal processes and how they work, and 4) practice in watching them.
Awareness and intentional control of your internal processes is the modern version of “yogic powers” or the attentional abilities Tibetan monks have demonstrated to modern researchers in recent years. This isn’t magic, but rather the result of a level of awareness few attain. Getting there takes work, and persistence. But because you are discovering exactly how YOU are creating your experience of life, playing with your internal processes can be fascinating. And, the result–getting on the success side of life–is worth the time you spend playing with it.
Once you see–experientially–the plasticity of reality, that you really are creating the reality you live in, you begin to realize that what you always assumed was “reality” isn’t THE reality. What is reality, you begin to wonder? This wondering, and the investigation that follows, is the beginning of true spiritual awakening. It leads to the discovery that you are IT, the entire going on of it all, “the Which of which there is no Whicher,” as I have described in previous posts.
The dirty little secret is that you are already creating (in relationship with everything else) your reality. It isn’t so much that you learn to create your reality as it is that you learn to intentionally create it. Many people say they aren’t good at “manifesting.” This just isn’t true, though. You’re already expertly manifesting everything. You’re just doing it unconsciously. You can, however, learn to do it intentionally. To do so, however, you have to see exactly how the creative process works, which involves awareness, and then learn to exercise control over the aspects of the process over which you actually do have some choice.
So, here’s what we know. There is a built-in mechanism in humans that causes resources–the goodies of life–to flow to those who already have them, and to be withdrawn from those who already have less. It’s really true that the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. The way I see it, my job is to show you how to change the direction of that flow, or how to enhance it if it’s already flowing in the desired direction.
Resources–including your own internal resources–can flow away from you only if you live without awareness.
What, then, is awareness? It’s the ability to observe what you previously were caught in, and therefore could not see. It’s the enlarging of your perspective in order to see what you previously were immersed in and therefore could not see. Once you see how you’ve been unconsciously creating a certain outcome–unpleasant relationships, low motivation, bad decisions, or whatever–that awareness allows you to intentionally do something different, something more resourceful.
What’s so amazing about awareness–about the ability to observe in this way, about what we sometimes call witnessing–is that when you watch in this way you don’t even need to know what is or isn’t resourceful. All you need to do is be aware and what is or isn’t resourceful sorts itself out, all by itself. There is some intuitive part of us that knows what is resourceful, and sorting that out doesn’t involve thinking about it or analyzing it. When you watch with awareness, what is resourceful floats to the top every time. This makes everything easier. Life flows when you are aware.
I hasten to add, however, that awareness doesn’t mean that everything will always be the way you want it to be. The world is full of random events, including other people who have an agenda different from yours, so sometimes things don’t turn out the way you hoped. Two things happen when you are aware that help you deal with this problem, however. The first is that aware people learn how to deal with each new and unexpected bend in the road by remaining aware, which allows them to work with whatever happens and turn it to their advantage, whether it is what they wanted or what they didn’t want.
Second, aware people, instead of fighting what they cannot control, surrender to it. They do what they can, and then they let go of needing the outcome to be a certain way. And, just as you don’t have to figure out what is resourceful and what isn’t, the aware person doesn’t have to decide to surrender. If you are aware, surrender happens. Why? Because not surrendering–in other words, resisting what is–isn’t resourceful, and awareness allows you to automatically act in a resourceful manner.
Holosync can play a powerful role in helping people make this shift–this shift to greater awareness, a wider and more inclusive perspective. I suspect that this is partly because Holosync changes one’s brain chemistry and hormonal make-up to one more like that of a winner, and partly because Holosync, for some wonderful reason, allows one’s perspective to grow, to expand, to include more. It allows you to see what you previously had been immersed in, unconscious of, blind to. (Then, of course, you become immersed in something new, about which you eventually also become aware, followed by something else, and then something else. The journey of increasing awareness never ends.)
Once the momentum change happens, once you begin to move in the direction of increased awareness (and begin creating the winner’s brain chemistry) the chances of continuing in this new and more resourceful direction are very high. If you use the awareness Holosync creates to find out who you really are and how you are creating your reality, you become unstoppable. Even more important, you attain a freedom that allows you to truly be a human being, by choice.
I hope you’ll join me in this journey down the winner path.
Be well.
Bill,
This post is very exciting to me. Scientific descriptions of the Law of Attraction provide food for thought to combat a healthy skepticism.
It is my intention to increase my awareness to combat my black and white thinking by purchasing and implementing the Holothink process.
Thank you ever so much for your efforts to bring others to a greater understanding of the human spirit.
Yes, Bill, I get it, as far as I get it. And that is enough. It is always enough! There is All, right here, right now, so why would I ever ‘want’ more? Loving it, just as it is, is my perfect freedom. When I ‘forget’ this and start thinking there is something ‘out there’ that I need, then I’ve become lost. The answer is always Love. My awareness lets me ’see’ this. Experiencing it is the most awesome thing. When I first ordered the freebie Holosync tape, way back when, I experienced it – the space which is All. I knew then that Holosync is one way to Be where I am, all the time.
Love and gratitude,
Pam
Interesting that you would divide people into “winners” and “losers” [kind of like balck and white] instead of seeing it as a whole: those who lose win and those who win lose. It’s all just a cycle leading towards an ever evolving enlightenment.
FROM BILL: It’s you who are making one side of this polarity wrong, not me. I’m just describing a law of nature–that resources flow to some and away from others. Then I’m telling you how to get resources to flow to you, in case they aren’t already. If you don’t care whether your immune system works well, whether you’re making an optimum amount of certain hormones and neurochemicals, whether you have enough friends and emotional strokes, or whether your material needs are met, then you’re already set! For those who do care, hopefully what I’ve shared is helpful.
You don’t have to be playing a hard version of the Game of Black and White to want to have these things. I know quite a few awakened people, and I know they prefer to have them. Being awakened doesn’t mean not caring about anything. It means being aware enough to consciously choose how you live and how you make sense of being a human being.
Bill. I really enjoyed this post. You explained the “certain” recipe for positive, fulfilling change like only someone who has experienced it can! I loved the research you shared along with the powerful insights of how we can see these patterns in our own lives.
I’ve used Holosync now daily for going on two years and combined with other practices, it has been an integral part of my growth. I recommend it often!
Thank you for your continued guidance!
Hey Bill,
I’ve been a Holosync practitioner for almost a year now and this morning was the first time I listened to CD 2 of Awakening level 1. The previous two weeks were ones of much anger and rage. (I had the same experiences when I first started listening to Awakening Prologue) I didn’t end up having the major “feeling” breakthrough I have read so much about before changing CDs. However, listening to CD 2 for the first time was relaxing whereas just yesterday listening to CD 1 had me wanting to punch holes in the wall. Does me being calm this morning while listening to CD 2 actually mean that I DID have a major breakthrough and I’m unaware or not noticing/acknowledging it?
Ever since using Holosync I’ve wanted to commence your online courses but listening to the feedback from other participants holds me back. In THIS post and especially the one you wrote “Stuck about Money and Success? Here’s my advice…” has me thinking that they really haven’t learned much if they are still talking of being on a budget and you suggesting to the guy Charles(?) to take them all again? Are these courses designed to be taken numerous times or are these people just not getting it. Or perhaps I’m not not being empathetic/sympathetic enough?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Robert
FROM BILL: I can’t say for sure why you were angry when you listened and then the next time you weren’t. Everything finds its most resourceful level with awareness, so watching the anger, when it happens, is very valuable. You might try doing some voice dialog, ala Genpo Roshi’s Big Mind process, where you ask (yourself) to speak to the voice of anger. Then you say, “I am the voice of anger in Robert,” and say whatever you, as that voice, have to say. When you do this, it’s important to “stay in voice,” which means that you are not Robert, but rather this one aspect of Robert–his anger. As that voice you might speak about Robert, but when you say “me” you are referring to the voice of anger. Speaking from this voice, and seeing what it has to say, is another way of gaining awareness, especially of that aspect.
Everyone has anger. It’s a natural human emotion. When it is repressed, however (usually because it wasn’t safe to express it when you were growing up), it comes out in covert ways. It becomes a shadow. You project it onto other people and events that are “out there.” Speaking from that voice helps you to reown it, and reowning it eliminates the covert and dysfunctional expression. When you feel angry after a Holosync session (something that used to happen to me a lot, too) it is because something about Holosync makes it more difficult to disown the anger and it comes out.
The online courses are designed to be taken multiple times. There are layers upon layers of awareness you can get from them. I’m still going over this material in these courses and seeing new things. The problem with these courses, for most people, is that they involve watching aspects of yourself that are not easy to watch, at first. Because of that, many people in taking the courses learn ABOUT the material, which is a first step, but not enough to create the kind of change that we’re looking for. Most people don’t really do the necessary observing of their own internal processes because it’s not easy at first, and some people just quit. Learning to watch these previously unconscious processes is kind of like learning to play the piano. It takes practice, and you get better at it a little at a time. And, there are always deeper levels of awareness to achieve, just as you could always get better at playing the piano. (One of the things I so love about Genpo Roshi is that though he is definitely enlightenened, he’s still working on deeper levels of awareness–a great role model for me.)
Most people are used to taking seminars and courses that are, unfortunately, mostly fluff. You feel good at the end, and you learn something ABOUT the subject. I’m looking for deep transformation, and that comes from awareness. To gain that awareness, you have to practice being aware, in this case of the internal processes that create your life. What you are aware of, you have choice about. What you are unaware of controls you, operates automatically. Because these courses go right to the nub of how you create your life, there is no fluff, and they can be a little bit challenging, at first. Once you get how to observe these processes, though, it is a fascinating journey. MANY people who have taken these courses will tell you that they have had giant changes as a result–but they are the ones who really apply themselves to learning to observe their mind and how it creates their life.
I use Holosync daily and very much appreciate its benefits, and there is much in Bill’s post that merits consideration, but I can do without the conservative politics masquerading as spiritual and biological laws. Bill needs to come up with explanations that are politically neutral.
Dividing humanity into “winners” and “losers” is an age-old pastime, but it’s terribly subjective and rarely good at determining what’s truly valuable in life; as for myself, I’ll take Mahatma Gandhi over Donald Trump any day, nevermind Sarah Palin’s poor view of community organizers. And it’s just plain silly to say human biology decrees financial inequities; there are scientific studies that say that the human brain is just as hardwired for altruism as for competition — whenever someone trots out spiritual and scientific justifications for social darwinism, they’re just trying to stave off feelings of guilt over their successful manipulation of the current socioeconomic order when others can’t — or won’t — play the game.
Ken Wilber himself says over and over again that liberals and conservatives alike only see half the picture and we need a new politics that integrates the two sides into an expanded whole if we want to get really serious about solving problems like poverty. Sociopolitical problems cannot be reduced to EITHER individual irresponsibility OR systemic inequities; BOTH are part of the equation and both must be addressed in order for progress to occur. Saying things like “I only have control over myself therefore I need only work on myself” does not make sense when you become aware that you are actively participating in and support larger systems that affect both your lives and other lives; such a statement becomes absolutely nonsensical when you become aware of the simple but profound mystical truth that “we are all one.” Indeed, once one is fully aware of this truth, one cannot allow oneself to use personal responsibility/”self-interest” as an excuse to shirk one’s responsibilities to the communities in which one lives. Much better to be aware not only of how your actions get you/don’t get you what you want, but also how they affect your family, your neighbors, your city, your nation, other nations and the world itself. A good place to start is how your actions affect the environment.
I don’t mind Bill promoting Holosync at all; it’s precisely what he should be doing. But he needs to take a look at his deep attachment to capitalism and its shadow, which has resulted in his lashing out at the more progressive posters on this list.
This is clearly no time for capitalists to be crowing about the glories of free markets: the government has just announced it’s taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Lehman Brothers is on the verge of tanking; and rising superpower China controls a huge portion of US debt. It’s clear that capitalism is just another part of human evolution that will pass away once a better system to distribute wealth is devised — and no, the current system is not good enough: how many CEOs on the “right side of the flow” got rich off the subprime mortgage mess that is now foreclosing people’s homes, driving down home prices, and causing banks to fail? Do we really want more people thinking and acting like them? Or do we want more people acting and thinking like they care about communities, systems, even the whole world?
And don’t dare call me “bitter,” Bill — next you’ll be saying I’m too busy clinging to guns and religion to use Holosync.
Anthony
FROM BILL: Sadly, you totally missed what my post was about. You have overlaid your own views about the world onto what I said, putting all kinds of opinions and words into my mouth, and then argued against what you’ve imagined I have said. I don’t need to call you bitter. I’ll let the other people who read your post make up their own mind.
Thanks Bill. I appreciate holosync and am much more aware about myself and some of my self limiting behaviors. I have come recently to the awareness that I am always selling myself short and risk taking action and making decisions afraid of the outcomes and potential negative consequences and not being able to use as information and learning. I don’t know what I want and don’t trust my intuition / feelings yet but in looking back on the strides I have made and am making and being aware much more of the choices I do have is liberating. I haven’t yet made that huge breakthrough though but am making many many smaller ones all the time. Why I can’t act though and accept and be all that I can be puzzles me and why I recently settled and risk taking action at a crossroads settling for the safe and secure over an adventure and unknown as I don’t know whether its the universe offering these opportunities to me and to follow it when it feels right and offers excitement or whether its my wild imaginings which would lead me yearning for the safe and secure down the road. Thanks for holosync and your support materials and I do enjoy reading / listening. Thanks. Bill
FROM BILL: When a person can’t trust his or her mind or feelings, it is often called a “mindless script.” This sort of script happens because primary caregivers, often in a well-intentioned way, don’t allow us to think or feel or act and then experience the consequences. They say things such as, “No, you don’t want to do it that way. Do it this way.” Or, “No, your stomach doesn’t hurt. You’re fine.” Or, “You’ll never be able to do that for yourself. I’ll do it for you.” Without the experience of trying things and seeing what works or what doesn’t work–without feedback that allows us to learn to trust ourselves–we feel paralyzed and unable to develop the internal criteria that give us confidence that we can navigate the world successfully.
If a person had such a childhood, and doesn’t trust his or her own ideas, motivations, impulses, and feelings, the only thing they can do is to gain that experience now, which means to take action and learn from it. The problem is that the actions we take when we are small have, in most cases, minor consequences, so we can learn and gain confidence when the risks are low. As an adult, the consequences can be more serious, as when we decide what to invest in, or what to do for a living. When you take these small risks you develop criteria about life–what works, what doesn’t, and a variety of general principles. So I would suggest working with a counselor who understands this issue, first of all, and I would also work on developing criteria (knowledge about what works and what doesn’t) in the areas of life that aren’t working so well. You can get a lot of this from books and seminars, and from being mentored by someone who already has good criteria.
I am a regular subscriber to your blog and constantly amazed at your depth of understanding and clarity in how you explain the complex ideas. Not sure why i start off thinking how is this going to be any different Bill will plug his Holosync, but the value i have gotten so far has been amazing. I have a copy of Holosync which i listen to on and off i was regular in the beginning about 5 months ago, but its gotten better and i am able to observe my reactions starting when the buttons get pushed. It has helped me to aware and hence i have more control of the outcome i can choose not to escalate or react to make a situation worse. Thanks for your great article and mind expanding knowledge that you so freely share.
This article summed up something i have been wrestling for a long time on why the sucessful get more of it while the losers get nothing now it all makes sense.
Thanks, Bill, for posting on an interesting and eye-opening topic once again. Your blog, the LPIP Course (and its recent live event in Portland), and Holosync have helped me & dear ones to grow immensely over the last year, since I began with Prologue. I am immeasurably more aware, content, and especially ABLE to quite gracefully (and sometimes enjoyably) handle lots of situations that before were a hassle and avoided.
I have included a link to this blog to my new blog, and it very likely will be permanent, as I want my friends & readers to learn from your work as much as from mine. Now that I think of it, were it not for the services I’ve used from Centerpointe, my blog would not be launching this week and would have waited for who-knows-how-long.
Many blessings to you, Centerpointe, and our ever-expanding, awakening community. We are the ones that are building the next generation of Earth.
Thank you, Bill! The longer I use Holosync and the more ways you find to express how all of this life-stuff works together as an experiential reality beyond words, the more I am so deeply grateful! Thank you for continuing to explain again and again fresh descriptions–each one hits my mind differently and alters my perception from a new angle. Thank you for the Tolle series, truly wonderful, and for all the resources you have created for us. What an exciting adventure this really is! Thank you so much for alerting me to the shadow/pain body stuff over and over again–in the LPIP course and the Awakening letters and here–because I am able to see this happening right now in my life and now understand how to deal with it. It is impossible to say thank you enough! I have often found that your material seems to speak to my experience of the moment exactly, as if you knew what I’ve been going through. The expanding sense of gratitude and relief result, always fresh, always a freedom from the hidden tensions I’ve been carrying around in my sense of self. Thank you!
I haven’t started my program yet, just ordered it. I read through some of the posts and the issue that I struggle with is attachment. Bill, it really made me feel validated that attachment is a necessary thing in order to enjoy life. I have practiced alot of detachment out of necessity lately, but then I get to this place of what’s the point. I don’t know.. maybe the key here is the belief system of holding on really really tight versus a lesser degree of attachment. Anybody have any ideas about this whole issue of holding on, letting go, or somewhere inbetween? Maybe this isn’t a black or white issue, and maybe I could change my belief about this so it isn’t so either/or.
hi, another good post, enjoyable reading. The online courses are well worth the money, money thats my problem at the moment, everything else in my universe is absolutley sweet great wife cracking kids and lots of love, one thing about money that has been raised for me in the online courses is “money causes arguments” alas money arguments are drawn to me like flies round you know what (and there not even about not having enough)
Now this is concious to me i need to turn it round. Any affirmations you could suggest that might help me in this would be appreciated, i havent got email support because im in the cheap seats!! lol so yes im trying to cheat a lil. I dont want to say to myself that money creates happiness as i know that happiness comes from inside, and really, i am already happy hmmm i just want to pay my bills on time and have a cushier lifestyle. Again the online courses are work but well worth the agro! And ive still a mountain to climb.
good luck for the future all
and take care Bill
lots of love
Bob
WOW..
Nice, good to see/read a post from Carli, my good friend from the LPIP weekend. Bill; we DEFINITELY need an online interactive group. I have Carli on facebook; but it’s not the same. Speaking of though, what do you think of creating a “Centerpointe/Holosync/LPIP Group” on facebook?
Or is that out of the question? I’ve seen and am part of the Big Mind and Wilber groups there; but I’m not even sure if they’re officially endorsed or just ‘groupies’ =).
There’s so much I could write about; but I’ll try my best to keep it short, I’ve been wanting to reply to your comment awhile back; but just haven’t gotten around to it. It’s interesting, because the moment you responded to me about the online community; I had this feeling of release; and realized that I didn’t ‘need’ one.. and paradoxically, a few days later, I get an e-mail from integral life; and yeah, I signed up. Hopefully the centerpointe community will be somehow compatable/partnered with integral life?
I love wilber, but, if it wasn’t for you and centerpointe, I wouldn’t have even heard of him =).
Anyways.. I should probably get back to work.
Cheers and best of luck.
- Julius
I realize that going Holosync until Purification level 1 helped me a great deal in overcoming those thoughts that produce the negative chemicals – and now, since the purification level 2 still has not arrived and I – waiting for it – stopped listening the CD’s I am slipping back in the old ways more than I realized until now. Thank you very much. QUESTION: when is my purification level 2 coming?
FROM BILL: I’m the wrong one to ask. Call or email support.
Hello Bill,
I noticed you have been talking a lot about intention and choice in this post and the responses to the post. I have read that there are studies that show that there is a burst of unconscious or subconscious brain activity before there is a conscious brain activity response of choice, thereby showing that we are always acting from our programing, or at least something outside of the conscious mind. There’s a short bit about it in the book Zero Limits by Joe Vitale. They suggested that you can either come from your programing or from a clear space, but either way, its not really you. Its your programs or the divine acting through you. I am curious about your take on this idea, since the Holosync product directly affects brainwave activity.
Thanks so much for Holosync,
Much love,
Mel
FROM BILL: In an ultimate sense, there is no you. “You” is an idea. And, yes, a fair amount of what happens to “you” is unconsciously driven. Do you grow your hair, intentionally? Or beat your heart, or divide your cells? No. Much of “you” is an automatic process. And, what is taken to be individual decision making is determined by a whole constellation of things from your environment, not to mention by the unconscious process I just mentioned. All of this makes it seem as if there is a you that is an independent agent. This is, however, an illusion. The universe is the doer, not you. A thought to do something is not generated independely of the rest of the environment, but is the activity of that enviroment, centered on you.
This is a very deep pholosophical question. Is there free will? Is everything determined already? I have touched in this many times in this blog, but it is a difficult one to discuss because language, by its nature, presupposes separate things and events, which is really just a way of thinking, not a reality. Buddhists look at this in a unique way. They say that there is neither free will or separate agency. What’s more, it isn’t neither, nor is it both. What do you make of that? This seeminingly illogical statement I agree with, but to “get” it, you have to do a lot of sitting (meditation) and other spiritual practices. (This statement, by the way, comes from a 2nd-Century Zen master, Nagarjuna, whose philosophy is the core of both Zen and Tibetan Buddhism.
Bill,
Ever hear about Isha? Her teachings are similar to Tolle’s; she’s located in Uruguay; so in South America.. http://www.isha.com , I believe she’s coming to Portland:
Portland, OR
• Conference with Isha: Why Walk When You Can Fly?
November 17th, 2008 7pm
Venue: New Renaissance Bookshop – http://www.newrenbooks.com (Portland)
Phone: 646-688-5232
E-mail: usa@isha.com
…
It’s interesting.. she’s going to Vancouver, LA as well. But; there seems like there’s no big stars heading to Toronto, no Bill, no Wilber, no Genpo, no Andrew Cohen, no Tolle, no Isha =).
Only Tony Robbins and T. Harv Eker =).
Cheers.
- Julius
Hi,
I’ve ordered your demo version of holosync last week and I’m quite qurious as to how this CD will enhance my meditation practice. In your aritcles you’ve extensively talked about how Holosync can benifit and enhance your proctice of meditation but don’t really explain what “it” really is and how it works and the mechanism behind it.
when I go through all these mind development, self-help related sites or organizations claiming that they have something that works and should be purcheas, the rule of thumb I use to differenciate the ones who are truly devoted to helping people, verses some ones who are trying to monitize in this market, is by seeing how transparent they are bing about what who they are, the products they are selling, and about how it works. You may already have explained this some where and may have just I missed it. In that case if you can let me know where I can get that information it would be greatly appreciated.
If not, I would appreciate if you can explain to me the mechanism behind how Holosync and how it works.
Sincerely,
Blake
FROM BILL: The Centerpointe website explains Holosync in great depth.
I am new to Holosync and just want to say thank you for not just creating it but for generously making it affordably available to everyone. Also, thanks for your incredible generosity with all the free gifts! I began listening to the CDs from the retreat and was going to get on the site to buy your book when it just showed up in the mail today.
I am about to go listen to Dive for my fifth night. I know I’ve already had some breakthroughs after target shooting with my husband this past Sunday. Usually I try so hard that my hits are all over the target. Intuitively I’m a very good shooter, but all my “stuff” gets in the way. This Sunday however, I seemed to unknowingly but in a very naturally feeling way left all my “stuff” out of the session and WOW I kept all my shots in the black, had several bulls eye shots and several shots within shots. The only difference in my life is Holosync.
I’m one of those persons who as a result of severe trauma in my childhood is looking to get rid of all the remaining excess baggage I’m still carrying around. I’ve always walked toward the sunlight vs. the dark and have grown by leaps and bounds during my adult life by forcing myself to do things that made me feel uncomfortable. This year, however, I realized that I still have behavior that is very stifling and I’m in a place in my life where I am ready and eager to once and for all get rid of the rest of my baggage.
I drive a lot in my work and have been listening to your CDs from the retreat and so much is making sense of everything from my resistance to my leg feeling creepy the last ten minutes of my meditation last night. I just keep saying, Wow…wow…wow, as I’m driving. I’ve even encouraged my sister to order the demo CD.
I just feel so fortunate that (1) I’m such an open minded and adventurous risk taker, and (2) that you had the wisdom and generosity to create Holosync and offer it to the world. I just know that I am on my way to becoming the person I’ve always wanted to become. My gut always told me I was destined for more than the ordinary; and, I always felt I was destined for an incredible spiritual experience. I know in my heart, mind and soul I’m finally on my way to that experience. Who knows what I will be doing in a year or more. I know I will be a much different person than I am today as I am a much different person today than the day I moved away from my parents’ house. I’ve always loved the core of who I am; now, however, I not only will continue loving who I am, but I will begin to like who I am more and more because I will finally throw off the chains that have bound me to my fears.
Thank you, Bill for being so special!
PS I am following your instructions to a T. Now understand that’s very different for me. First, and ask my husband of 38 years, I hate reading directions; and, second I’ve always believed that rules were made to be broken. This…my life…is so important to me that I will do exactly as you suggest. I want to get everything possible out of Holosyn with as little suffering as possible. I’ve suffered enough.
FROM BILL: I would call them “pointing out instructions”==the best way to get the benefits–rather than “rules.”
Okay, everyone resists change and growth for one reason or another. Since this is my one and only life I have dedicated myself to becoming whatever it is I am supposed to be doing here. I am totally open to this except for one HUGE FEAR. I agree with Bill that we all can develop and were meant to develop on various levels. However, this takes commitment and perserverance and practice . I think most people just wantt life to be solved with a magic something and are not willing to put in the time. So here is my fear.. that if I do grow, which I am sure I will, then I may and probably will (and probably already have) outgrow my mate. I am not trying to be arrogant here or judgemental, because he is who he is and chooses his life. OK good, except I can see the handwriting on the wall. My question I have for anyone out there is, is this a major block for anyone else? It’s huge for me.
FROM BILL: This is something I hear from people all the time. If you are growing and changing, and your mate doesn’t, one of three things will happen. You will grow apart because whatever you had in common won’t be the same any more. Or, your mate will be pulled along by your influence, and will also grow, to one extent or another.
The third possibility is that you will grow so much that you won’t care where he is. When people first begin to become more aware–when their perspective on the self, other, and the world expands–at first they feel alienated from others with whom they now have less in common (or so it feels). At a certain point, however, your perspective becomes large enough that you see the whole thing from a greater height. You see that everyone is where they need to be at any particular moment, and you don’t need them to agree with your point of view in order to feel connected to them.
Pluralists (Greens, left-wingers) see conventionalists (Republicans, etc.) with distaste, for instance, even hatred. Mention them in a group of New Agers, and these supposedly loving and caring people who claim to believe that everyone’s voice is equally valid are suddenly hissing and name-calling. The anger–even hatred–is obvious. Yet to get to the Pluralist developmental level, you MUST go through a conventional level. The conventional types, not to be outdone, condemn and demonize the level before theirs, what in Spiral Dynamics is called Red, represented in our society by the more lawless, law of the jungle, “I’ll take what I need and damn the rest of you,” types (criminals, prison populations, bikers–as well as terrorist types). Law and order is all about doing something about the Red level.
At a certain point a person evolves to the point where they see the contributions of each level, and though such a person might be critical of the darker side of each level (which does exist) they also see the contributions of each level. Once you get to that place you don’t need others to agree with you or necessarily have the same values. Everyone is making sense of being human in the best way they can, and as long as their way works, they stick with it. Once it stops working, they are prodded to develop to the next level, which is a new and broader way of making sense of things.
To bring this down to earth again, I think you’re just going to have to influence your partner by being yourself, while doing your best to respect his (?) particular way of navigating his way through life. If you continue to be nourished by being together, stay together. If not, you might end up parting.
Wow. What a great answer to Sheryll’s poignant question. Thanks to Sheryll for asking. Thanks to Bill for answering.
Hooray for you (Sherryl) for seeing exactly what is happening.
I did experience this prior to having Holosync and all the help from Bill. My story is that we did divorce after 26 years of marriage. This felt difficult and it was huge huge change for me AND it rocked my world …the shifts and adjustments that were happening gave me an opportunity to see what would happen if I went with the experience and di not fight it…so I pushed even further by doing more bold and new things I may have never tried with my ex husband. He on the other had stayed in the same area living the same life and is happy now because i am not there pushing and shoving things to grow and change with in his face…he gets to live his life and I get to grow mine.
I am a totally different person, I moved over 5,000 miles away to where I knew no one. Volunteered and traveled the islands prior to selecting a place to settle (for the time being). I atribute my ability to do this from all the stress and confusion I had to live through. It forced me to either become more or to stay in the pain and confusion of resistance.
I am happy I went through it and now I can go through more with Holosync and other life experiences. I look at all my experiences especially the really painful ones as my chance to grow and become more of who I am here to become. And the more I become the less I am concerned about it all.
Hi Bill, I wanted to say, that i really enjoy reading your comments to people, very helpful, sometimes even more so than the post itself. Keep it up!!
In reference to partners changing…….i have been involved in this journey consciously for years now. It was a huge part of my life. My husband had no interest in it on any level. However, my marriage and he started changing as i did.
And then he became interested in Holosync. We began last year and with great, great challenges in certain aspects of our lives, we are doing remarkably well considering, and, it has been the best year of our marriage. We would not be doing nearly as well if we had not been doing Holosync.
Going onto level two soon, i have as yet to put affirmations on it.
My husband and I in many ways are oh so different and I thought that he would not be comfortable with the ones I chose. To my great surprise, he really liked them.. He said they made him feel good. this from a man who years ago would fall asleep with any kind of spiritual talk.
Other than Holosync, you help to ground me and have helped me to get my head on straighter about certain of my beliefs. I have grown up so much since i began Holosync and the influence of some of these blogs. . And my husband………he likes you and listens to you…..you are not too ‘out there’ for him, which most are.
From one who had been more in the seeking mode, ‘running for rescue’, for so long and having just begun to ‘witness’, in a different way, more as it is meant to be………..for me, forget about ‘wanting these other states’, the act of witnessing, really allowing what is, not even trying to bring love to it, as i had been taught and had to retrain myself of..(which doesn’t work because you are trying to change it), …… is the most incredible to me of all, and is really the most loving of all states……..of pure acceptance of what is, not being too distant or still a part of, that fine line.
The more present i become, the more shift comes instantly at times, without the full practice for instance of felt sense……..’finding, being with the feeling, shift can just come. Sometimes i just need to ask the right question and without any answer shift comes.i ‘watch’ pain move. i have even been able to help headaches go away withput drugs. in the past, i’d have to take drugs to just prevent it from going to migraine, not making it go away.
Being in less resistance (I’ve gone kicking and screaming), is far far better and more loving than any ‘expanded loving highs” i’ve ever experienced, many of which have really been states of seeking rescue from what is. Thank you and best, Lynn
FROM BILL: You seem to have noticed the huge benefit of several of the things I teach. You are a great example of the fact that those who actually do their best to incorporate these things into life find them to be just as amazing as I’ve said they would be. And then there are those who just want to argue and mismatch–an example of how those for whom life is working well do figure out a way continue in that negative direction. Please, people. Try on what I’m sharing with you. Apply it to your life. See what happens.
Dear Bill
Please refrain from posting such interesting and thought provoking articles, it has taken me hours to read everything, and as a result I have got nothing done. The good thing is I’ve learned lots and enjoyed it.
Have been using Awakening Prologue for the last 5 weeks and have already noticed profound improvements. I feel joyous, relaxed and happy and look forward to a fullfilling and exciting future. For this I thank you.
best Wishes to all.
Col
It appears that a few folks could gain a lot of understanding by reading “14 Lessons” & the “Advanced Course” by Atkinson (aka Yogi Ramacharaka)–free online. If you’re looking for insight in Toronto, find Melody. She’s the one who used the dog on the stairs analogy in Portland. I was going to leave early until she said that.
Thank you all so much for your comments. It feels so nice to have an unbiased connection. My turth at the moment is that I’m 53, my kids are gone and my husband and I are separated. I will spare you the soap opera. I have been working on the past year facing my aloneness and not knowing what I am living for. (All my meaning and identity were tied up with my mate). Over the years I have read GOBS of psychology, know all the theories, been to counselors, sought out religion, and have become confused with all the options. (Not to mention avoiding my shadow with all this reading and thinking!) I am to the point where I trust no one’s philosophy, because it is human. So now I am going to trust myself (Gulp). Okay, I’m going to do just as you say Bill. Let Go and let Holosync. Just knowing that I can read and post here or that there is a support line to call is the lifeline I need as i march forward into wherever? And I will be working on Ken Wilber’s shadow work… espcially that evasive fear… it hides itself in every crack!
All religions are clubs, but for now I still need some kind of group. Being without a country or a cause may be in the Now, but when I experience that kind of detachment, which I have, it’s just a little too much just yet.. So with that THANK YOU ALL so much for being here until flying solo isn’t so unfamiliar and well, just plain weird.
FROM BILL: First, I want to say that there isn’t a solution to every problem. As the Buddha said, all life involves suffering. However, if I was to offer a “solution” it would be AWARENESS. Awareness, once developed, allows you to see and evaluate all the variables, all the infinite aspects of a situation, and then to know what is most resourceful in that situation. This is the value of meditation, and especially Holosync meditation–it dramatically increases awareness. Once you are aware enough, you can choose your suffering, in the sense that you stop unconsciously stepping in shit all the time–unconsciously putting yourself in situations that involve suffering you did not choose.
All human living involves suffering. Why? Because everything is transient–everything is “in time” and eventually passes away (such as your relationship, or your youth). When we choose a certain situation, or choose to become attached (to a person, a situation, a possession, or whatever) we do so knowing that there is suffering inherent in that attachment. When we do choose to become attached, we do it (if we are aware) because the benefits of that attachment (the fun, the aliveness, the connection, etc) are worth it. Most people suffer because they unconsciously become attached (or are in aversion) to something.
So the awakened person CHOOSES to be a human being, knowing the consequences, and awakened means “aware.”
Bill, Thank you so very much for responding so quickly. Your comment helped me become AWARE of my very old habit of either/or; all or nothing thinking (i.e.attachment vs total detachment) and that becoming aware doesn’t necessarily mean detachment is where one needs to be all the time (To me, Tolle seems to profess this). Anyway this isn’t very helpful for us OCD types. Upon reading your post I felt a tremendous amount of peace just knowing that there is no “right” place to spiritually be. I also think that authentic suffering is well worth the risk. It’s just all that neurotic suffering that I am working to let go of. It is unnecessary and just plain silly. Thanks again Bill.
Everything has a price. All actions have consequences. Habits has pleasures and pains. Very often we have to choose because it is not possible to have it all. To say Yes to certain things we have to say NO to other things. Sometimes we have to let parts of us die in order to allow other parts to live and grow.
I think in every situation we need to be aware of both sides and then making a conscious decision knowing that we probably gain something and also loose something.
When I get into serious relationships I gain stability , comfort,support , love , etc . and I lose other things like freedom , part of my independence , the right to have sex with other women etc.
We always gain and lose something when we get into or out of relationships and I think we should be aware of both sides and make a conscious decision base on what we really want. Awareness is crucial because it allow us to know what we really want and also it help us to be honest with ourselves and with our partners.
Carlos
I just listened to Diane Hamilton. This whole series of talks has been so incredible. I feel like I finally found a place that validates all of my personal truths I have been finding on the long and winding road.
One of the things I appreciate most is the talking about the shadow work. It wasn’t until I began to honestly own my “negative” parts that the hard work really began. But what I found out was that I truly couldn’t bear the guilt and the shame until I had something greater than myself to hold me through the face to face honesty with my not so pretty shadow human side. I am finding that the power of forgivenss without my “Big Self” would have been impossible. And that there is nothing more beautiful than the experience of authentic humility. Diane stated this so well.
Waking up sounds like a fun thing to do, but I think it takes great courage and dedication. It is not always pleasant, but the rewards are enormous… like getting to really live. And I think Bill and the other teachers have some of the greatest tool boxes I have ever encountered.
Thank you again Bill for Holosync, the presentations of these great teachers, and the gifts I keep getting in the mail!
FROM BILL: Your shadow isn’t something to be ashamed about–it’s being ashamed of it that made it a shadow. Your shadow is something that you made wrong, but actually is a normal part of being human.
Hello Bill
Since joining Holosync since last October, I have experienced a new me(put simply). It has raised my level of awareness certainly and do not get attached as much as I used to.
I am really hoping I will recieve your Special Discount Offer towards the end of November:-) I WILL purchase Choicef 3: I ReAllY expect to go right to Awakening Level 4 before I make any decison as to whether to proceed further.
I am pleased I found Holosync exactly at the right time. No time like the present.
Best regards
Charles Keel
Hi Bill
I tried the demo version and I immidiately felt significant changes and have ordered for your full program.
I have a question which to ask you about other similar programs such as “Life Flow”, where they claim that they have a suprior technology because they not only incorporate “binural” beat but “monaural” and “isochronic” tones. By incorporating such additional tones, they say that users have option to use or not use stereo headphones.
My question is, does this additional tone make the entrainment experience greater? Having the option to listen with headphone or no headphone make a difference in the quality of entrainment experience? Or are is it just marketing gimmick?
Understandablely so, even with such great products such as these, people still have to do marketing and compete against other competitors…
I would greatly appreicate it if you can have some answers about this.
Thank you
Blake
FROM BILL: I’ve answered this question before in response to a post, but don’t remember which of my posts it is attached to. Isochronic tones are BS. They are a gimmick. The pioneers in this area abandoned them long ago because they are so limited in what they can do. These messages are put out by people who are searching for some way to compete with Centerpointe–which is very difficult, since I’ve built 23 years of experience with 700,000+ people, huge experience in spiritual awakening, and the best support and education, into the program. You might scan the comments on other posts for the other time I answered this question, which included more specifics. I would work back from the previous post, going backward in time.
Dear Bill,
I am about to begin awakening prologue1.5. I feel great, much more peaceful than I’ve ever felt. I teach elementary school children who because of life’s ups and down are extremely challenging. I find myself sympathizing more and treating situations differently. Removing my personal stress from the situation and treating the troubled child with compassion and love makes an amazing difference. At times nothing helps but I no longer blame myself or take things as personally when a child just doesnt respond. Teaching music and drama makes most kids smile and have fun and that is my goal . To make them feel safe and happy when they are in my class.
Another isssue that I”d like to address is the book I just finished by Brian Weiss: Many Lives, Many Masters. The stories coincide, we are all one energy, one needs to rest the mind to renew (meditation) and so much more., I loved the book and ordered more. My therapist has begun to listen to Holosync and also read the book. She too sees the paralells. I can go on forever. I love meditation , I love holosync and will continue to make it a part of my life forever. Thank you Bill
I do not know where to start this posting, but maybe I should start where I am, and work backward.
For the last five hours, I have been reading and reflecting on this blog post and the responses to it. Throughout this period of time I have had “Quietude” playing in my headphones. I now have “Oasis” playing.
Also throughout this time, I have had tears flowing down my face. I cannot say I have been sad all of this time, as the grief I have been releasing has made room for the almost unbounded joy which has been repressed with it over the last 50+ years.
Similarly, I had this experience when singing praise in church, yesterday morning. I definitely see, and experience, how joy and grief can be considered as two sides of the same coin.
I also appreciate your statement that Holosync contributes to releasing and accepting my shadow. My early life was strife with grief and anger which was not “safe” to express; and the relief and release of these emotions and my acceptance of them, is an experience for which I will always be in your debt.
I first began using Holosync eight or nine weeks ago, and recently discovered this blog. I have read and appreciated all of the support materials you have sent, frequently quoting from and referencing your book “Thresholds of the Mind” in my Nursing Masters’ program which is nearing completion. (More on blog later)
Whether it was having three near-death experiences in the first three years of this life, or some other contributing factors, I have been one of those persons (labled under-achievers in my youth) who are now labled ADD or ADHD…one of those who have coped with having at least a 12-track mind is a world of teachers, parents, and contemporaries who only had a one or two track mind. What it looks like is that I was stuck in my right brain while they were stuck in their left brain cognitively. (?)
The “shifts” many have described and attributed to Holosync, which you described as developmental crises in earlier blogs, have been a frequent occurance for me for the last 2+ years, while earning my masters degree in nursing with the University of Phoenix…at least one shift in awareness with each course, sometimes three or four, mostly horizontal at a “Strategist” level, and several more recently on a “Magician” level, especially since I began daily meditation with Holosync…
Your blog series, describing Piaget’s developmental levels and beyond, has added greatly to my understanding of the difficulties I have had in sharing my insights with classmates and coworkers, as well as the difficulties I had with contemporaries in earlier years, dealing with others who were passing through or stuck in “lower” levels of development.
One of my major projects right now, taking precedence over all others, is a concept analysis of, and designing a teaching/learning method for accelerating development of, Nursing Presence, something which currently takes years if achieved at all. With your help I am discovering that what I have been attempting to learn and teach is more of a developmental growth process.
I am discovering that what I have been struggling to develop is a method for bringing nurses and nursing students from lower levels of cognition and awareness up to Strategist and Magician levels, where most of our Post Modern Era nursing theories can be understood and implemented. I have been trying to discover ways to bring others stuck in the scientific method and left-brained critical thinking into whole-brain, post-formal operations required for learning and appreciating the holistic nursing arts.
What started as a Practicum project (thesis) requiring at least 60 hours of work, has taken over a year and hundreds of hours of work, only to discover that even with Holosync meditation to help, what I have trying to find a way to “teach” may take years to facilitate, and then only if the instructor has personally achieved a high Unitive developmental level.
I find myself at the end of my masters program without achieving my (impossible?) goal. I do have a 5.5MB word.doc of over 150,000 words, composed of my writings over the last two years, documenting the evolution of one student and his understandings as they have evolved through the developmental process.
FROM BILL: As long as a person’s developmental perspective works in terms of helping them make sense of their life, they will stay there–which is perfect. Perhaps you should target those who are not satisfied where they are and see if you can become an expert on how to help them see the next perspective.
Bill,
What a wonderful, insightful and inspiring post. I have read the post twice now and have printed 7 copies that I plan on passing out to friends and family. Your ability to explain a deep subject is both appreciated and admired.
As a Holosync participant for three years now I can personally attest to the fact that Holosync has definitely changed my life, of course with my approval. The benefits you mention from Holosync are 1,000% on track for me and I am appreciative for my discovery of Centerpointe.com. I waffled back and forth three years ago and finally pulled the plug and ordered Awakening Prologue, am I glad I did? Absolutely
It is amazing that in order to change our outcome we simply need to change our thoughts and what we focus on. I was a very successful businessman that ran into several problems and eventually went bankrupt; my wife and mother passed away within three weeks of one another in late 2004 yet my Present (now) and Future are rosier than ever; that is because you have taught me to focus on what I want and manifest it accordingly; thank you.
On a final note thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to write your blog and keep all of us that enjoy your material in the know. I wish you a great week and extend safe travels to all that partake in your blog.
Chris Felix
Bill
This is all new information to me. I am fascinated and eager to soak it all in. I have to comment not only am I greatly impressed by the content but in scanning through the copious number of posts, some of which are quite lengthy, I see that you take the time not only to read them but to personally respond. That alone speaks volumes. Thanks!!
Michael
WOW
This has been one of the best explanations for the reasons behind failure and sickness I have read!
The examples of bacteria and animals repelling or attracting success is a big eye opener. Certainly something to keep in mind. I have not tried Holosync yet so I can’t comment on how effective it is, but I can see the science behind it makes sense!
Thank you for that.
Just curious…why would a supreme being create such a dysfunctional world? And dysfunctional human beings? I understand the concept of opposites, but still don’t you think there is a better way? Why wouldn’t life want everyone to succeed? The more the merrier? Look around you – world poverty, wars, extremism, criminal acts, politicians, etc. etc.
If i was a supreme being wouldn’t it be more fun if everybody was happy?
FROM BILL: And what makes you think a supreme being created any of this?
According to Paramahansa Yogananda (Man’s Eternal Quest), we’re responsible for this mess ourselves. including the natural disasters.
FROM BILL: We ARE the natural disasters. The distinction between you and your environment is only in your mind. There is not separate you and a separate outside world. It’s all one system.
Bill
I am a 3 year holosync particapant. I’m dissapointed to hear you get a point across with a story about what stupid unenlighened people do to innocent creatures performing animal cruely to rats. Can’t you find a more intelligent way to get your point across without supporting this kind of cruelty. I’m sorry but that is a sure lack of compassion and intelligence on your part and you can run away from it all you want and say your not going to play the game of black and white somehow using that to make yourself feel better about supporting animal cruelty with your stupid story but how about if we send electric volts through your body to see if you can figure out where the pain is coming from and find out if thats still a good way to do science.
Leslie Paradis
FROM BILL: Leslie, Leslie, Leslie. I am just reporting some information that will help you figure out your life and how to better navigate it. I didn’t shock the rats, nor did I advocate doing it. If we learned something from World War II and I reported it to you, would you think I was in favor of war?
Hi Bill,
Three weeks now using holosync. I feel like the proverbial catepillar changing into the butterfly. I can see why change too fast could be a problem. It takes a while getting used to the new me and sometimes I feel like two defferent people. In fact my daughter called me bipolar the other day. I’m thinking that I’ve always been crititcized for being too moody, and that this time I will let my extremes be okay like you suggest. I’m also finding that I can contol the intensity of my moods by just observing them without judgement and that really helps. Thank you so much Bill for reminding me over and over to observe with interest and not judge. It is a huge key. Hopefully practice will turn into habit. I am becoming a different “me”. It’s about time to start manifestation work. For me the hard part is clarity before I dive into this. Values, visions, priorities. That is what I am asking for now, so I guess I have started. The old me doesn’t like this too much, but that’s because of my old belief system about the word “work” (Remember Maynard on Dobie Gillis
Hi, Bill,
Very nicely explained. I was always curious about why this happens and your blog clears a lot of facts. Although not 100% of your post makes sense to me but I am certainly understanding it better than before.
I was reading your blogs for some time , but this one really struck a chord. Looking forward to something similarly interesting in next post.
Thank You
Navnit
indian-thoughts-navnit.blogspot.com
I just wanted to say, as someone who is just beginning with holosync (though I’ve been on and off the path of recovery since I was 19) that I am excited to start this program. I can see, to some degree, how my negative self-talk has sabotaged me, and also, how at times my “stubborness” has actually saved my life and propelled me in the right direction (leading me here) I am looking for more release of old, negative thoughts and behaviors so at the very least, I can enjoy more of my moments with my toddler and soon to be newborn. I have found too many interrupted or lost moments due to my own obsessions/fears/anger etc. And when the frustration and anger leak out onto my husband or son, I feel even worse about myself. Inside I wanted to know how to be at peace, how to let go of the old anger, how to move on so I could continue to enjoy the blessings instead of falling into the downward “everyone would be better off without me” spiral. over the past several months I was led to accupuncture… EFT and eventually to this technology. So I am starting to see the laws of attraction working in my life. PS it is also interesting how some of the negative comments (or rather, how I allowed the negative comments) to bring my excitement down. I guess it’s all about practice and forward progress, not perfection
Hi Bill,
In a Byron Katie interview I watched a little while back, she said something I found fascinating.
That since the moment she experienced her awakening in the mid 80s, she hadn’t had a single bad day. And she never does.
I think that statement bears repetition.
Byron Katie says that in the past 23 years she has not had a single bad day.
She explained that whilst she experienced a range of challenges including cancer, blindness and some illnesses that were extremely painful, she never felt ‘bad’ or unhappy about any of them.
She accepted them as learning experiences, and is continuously and always in a state of peace, totally irrespective of whatever is going on.
So two questions Bill.
1. Do you think that she is in the transcendent stage of development where she is just so completely immersed in oneness that there is a bit of a detachment from the world of cause and affect?
2. Do YOU ever have bad days?
FROM BILL: I do think she is immersed in the transcendent and detached from the world of cause and effect. She is a classic case of someone who is in the Third Rank of Tozan, as described in the two-part series I did on the 5 Ranks of Tozan a few posts ago. I know Katie, but of course any assessment I make of such things is an educated guess. She does, however, say MANY things that are classic statements of a person at that stage. It’s a nice stage to be at–though there is more.
As for me, sure, I have bad day, in the sense that things “go wrong” from time to time. I’m not immune to having my car break, or my wife get pissed off at me, or hurting myself, or any number of other things that are part of being human. However, I have surrendered to the fact that this is part of being human, and so I don’t have an idealistic goal of everything being “good” all the time. When you are more aware you do avoid a lot of things that someone who is less aware attracts or steps into. But no matter who you are your body ages, sometimes you come across assholes who do annoying things, stuff breaks, you goof and mess something up, and so on. I just don’t get too concerned about all of this anymore, and if I do, I recover pretty quickly.
Bill,
I came back to read again about the five ranks of enlightment and previous post and it seemed to me that before going to a “higher stage “people kind of fall down . Like the third rank of tozan looks to me is a better place to be than the fourth rank (in terms of inner happiness )(although I am turn off by those people) and so it seems with previous stages of development.
I noticed also how I have a shadow issue with people that are either at this 3rd rank or pretending to be.
I have been into psychology and personal growth for a while I do it with the goal of improving my life and being more happy and effective, however new agers sometimes piss me off a little bit, specially when they use to many words like compassion,kindness, oneness, enlightment etc. I have being doing holocync for over 2 years and I dont have anything against “esoteric practices” ,however I look at this practices from a practical perspective “do they work or not?”
It seems to me that the ideal of new agers is to be like people at this 3rd rank , so they pretend to be there by using all those words to sound cool and sophisticated. Now I know that some people are actually at that stage like katie(She is not pretending) but for some reason I am still turn off by people like her.
However when I hear people like you or Ken Wilber discuss this same issues you sound really down to earth to me even when you are discussing enlightment.
I have discovered that I have a shadow issue with people that I considered to be fakes or superficial. that means that either
1 – I am fake and superficial or
2 – I have disowned being superficial and fake
I have two questions
1 – How can I know which one is my case?
2 – does it matter to know which is?
Carlos
FROM BILL: They are probably both true. Everyone has a fake and superficial self, and if it is disowned it will come out in covert, immature, and dysfunctional ways. If you allow yourself to speak from the voice in you of superficiality and fake-ness, and let that part say whatever it needs to say, you will go from unconsciously expressing it to having choice about it. And, that voice will mature, which means that it will morph into something better, as when the voice of the narcissist (which, again, all of us have) matures into the voice of self-love.
Bill, Your subject about how to rid oneself of their inner conflicts in life was very enjoyable to read. I have been with holosync for 8 months and I know how aware I am. I was a little more than most aware before starting holosync and now I am even more and getting better at it. I found that I had to cut off almost all conversation with very negative thinking people in order for me to get on the right path of total awareness with my entity. Last month I became very ill with a bacterial infection and I thought that it was my bodies way of getting rid of toxic waste that had built up in my insides you don’t see these things but they are there. I was stressed out by a recent break up of a relationship that I knew was inevitable. What was so amazing was that everything around me collapsed as well. When I started to feel better it all changed my gloomy life had changed as well it was like getting into another level of consciousness. This is how life is you have moments like these and it depends on how you solve these problems. If you dwell upon them they get worse but if you ignore them its gets better and you become richer which is a metaphor.
I believe that one of the most powerful technologies in our world
to bring about real physical and chemical changes in the mind
is the technology of sonic frequencies. I am a big believer in
your Holosync Progam. I also understand the principle of goods
flowing away from the poor and towards the wealthy, because
the wealthyhave better skills and resources for acguiring wealth.
But I would not attach intrinsic value to human beings
who are wealthy -or not wealthy for that matter- because
of this. Some of the greatest thinkers, artists, and visionaries
in history have lived lives of poverty and suffering. Some
of these geniuses were not appreciated until after they
had died. Some social revolutionaries lived impoverished
lives, endured unhappiness, poor health and lack of
resources, and yet brought about huge and profound
changes generations after they were gone.
I bet there are many countless beautiful, profound, brilliant
and wise souls out there who will be known by very few. I
believe there is a great untapped resource and power in
most (all ?) of us that may never be brought into full fruition.
That’s the value in all these wholistic health courses that
are flowering, including yours, Bill.
There are many who are materialistically wealthy who
have not earned it. There are many who are wealthy
and powerful who did not achieve this state because
they are enlightened, personally powerful, compassionate
or spiritual. There are many who are wealthy who posess
all those attributes, but not because they earned their
wealth but perhaps because they were able to benefit
from the access to comforts and security that arise from
their wealthy circumstances. There is more to the flow
of wealth than science and Darwinian principles.
It wold be a better world if more individuals had the
personal/mental skills to bring material wealth to
themselves. It would be a healthier world, a place
of greater balance and wholsomeness if more could
access and share the resources; if more understood
how. It would also be a more balanced and peaceful
place if people could learn to be happy and peaceful
in a way not connected to the acquisition of wealth.
But it would be best if people could have all of the
above.
Thanks for trying to balance this equation.
FROM BILL: All resources are not monetary.
Hi Bill
as you mentioned in your post that Holosync helps the brain create more of the good chemicals like serotonin, GABA, etc., doesn’t this mean that a holosync user will have to eat more of the food that aid this process? I also have felt after using holosync for 2 weeks, that I feel more hungry and have to eat every few hours, which is good, but do you attribute this behavior to the brain creating more chemicals?
Cheers!!
Jay
FROM BILL: No.
Wow, after seeing the secret over 2 years ago then moving onto listening to your audios with people from the secret, reading your full blog, learning about how to create my own reality through reading online recourses and learning about spirituality including reading Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now and A New Earth, this post has finally made me realise how the Law of Attraction works and why gratitude is so important. Just goes to show that different explanations resonate with different people. Thankyou so much for this post! It has helped heaps!
Hi Bill,
Terrific post. Explaining “why” the rich get richer is of great value. I think it takes that negative charge off of it for most people. In my e-book, “When Money Talks, Listen!” (www.mysetermoney.com), one of the 5 lessons taught is to notice the “gift” money behind when it leaves you, i.e, you spend it. It never leaves without giving you something in return. This seems to agree with your only the strong survive, as money will be attracted to those who notice and appreciate it (just like we are).
Thanks, Rich
sorry, typo for my site in last post, should be…www.mystermoney.com.
Thanks again, Rich
Oh my God Bill,
I cannot even discribe with words how thankful I’m about finding Holosync and how much I appreciate your dedication to it. Thank you, thank you, and thank you..!
It’s been about 6 weeks since I’ve started on the program and I already feel like I’ve transform so much that I’m telling everyone about this program.
I do have a question regarding using Holosync for kids with ADHD problems. In my family there are a few kids (10 and 13) with that problem and I was wondering using Holosync on them would be ok.
Measuring my own changes and how I became more ware of everything, focused, and stress resilient.
If meditation is ok for kidsand healthy to practice it, I don’t see why it would be bad for kids to be on Holosync, which is an amazing aid to meditation. But I do remember you saying kids below 13 should be cautious about using Holosync.
I would appreciate your feed back.
Thank you
Blake
FROM BILL: We have a significant amount of feedback from parents demonstrating that kids with ADD or ADHD who use Holosync show significant improvement. I used to be more cautious about kids using Holosync, but after 20 years of parents telling me success stories and virtually no one telling me of any negatives, I have withdrawn my caution about kids using Holosync. Kids of the world, plug in!