Is all the financial turmoil — not to mention the already-existing political/election and terrorist/war stress — getting to you? We’re all connected to the financial system, and though many people have become complacent again after the bailouts, and because no huge institutions have failed in the last couple of weeks, many experts say the worst is yet to come. So what can you do? Are we facing a depression like the 1930s? How bad will it get? The real question, though, is how can you prepare yourself, financially and emotionally, for what might happen. I’d like to offer my advice, for whatever it’s worth.
First, though I think things could get very bad, the world isn’t going to come to an end. As things get worse, some people WILL say that it’s coming to an end, but when and if you begin to hear that, it will be a signal that things are about to get better. Such comments invariably come when things have gotten as bad as they’re going to get.Second, though it’s tempting to do so, I would avoid finger-pointing and trying to figure out who to blame. Though there are some people who ARE to blame, in other ways this debacle is a universal cultural event, not something caused by mean and greedy people in some smoke-filled back room.
For the entire lifetimes of most people reading this, buying whatever you want, but before you have the money, has been the accepted thing to do. Everyone else seemed to be doing it, and the idea that it might not be the smart thing to do (spend money before you actually have it) just hasn’t occurred to a lot of people.This has resulted in many people ending up in debt, which means you spent tomorrow’s money yesterday. When tomorrow comes, you either have to live on less money, or add MORE debt, which just forestalls the inevitable payback.
To keep the game going, credit markets become more and more leveraged. The bankers did just what they always do, and what the public wanted them to do — they figured out better and better ways to allow people, corporations, and other institutions to buy things before they actually had the money to pay for them. The criteria for who actually had the ability to repay became less and less realistic.
Anyone in the financial industry who didn’t provide this sort of easy credit to people was at a disadvantage, so the game continued until people who had no money were buying houses they couldn’t afford to pay for. No one, though, can live on credit forever, and the chickens are now coming home to roost.
I don’t have a crystal ball, but I think we’re facing a massive and fundamental change in the way money works in this society, and it’s going to involve a period of tough times. So, what can you do?
First, I would suggest focusing on what you can do to improve your own situation, rather than finding someone to blame, as tempting as it might be. People who feel helpless blame others. Don’t be helpless. If you focus on what you can do, you’ll save yourself a lot of frustration and aggravation. If you like to feel angry and frustrated, then by all means blame everyone in sight.
Next, realize that as things become more uncertain — financially, politically, and in other ways — people will begin to feel helpless. They will feel more isolated and separate. When this happens it’s easier to become more self-involved. Instead of thinking only of yourself, become more aware of other people and their needs. Yes, look for your own opportunities, and then help other people see their opportunities — the positives in their own lives. Become a source of inspiration to others.
Crises feed on fear. Help others to look for the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit that exists even in the worst situations. If you do this, others will look to you for leadership, and your own fortunes will improve in ways you can’t even imagine.
In terms of your finances, search for solutions for your customers or your employer. See the other person’s point of view and figure out a way to solve the problems they face. If you do this, your business will thrive while others are failing. If you are an employee, you’ll have a job when others are being laid off.
My next suggestion is to let go of your attachments to things. Instead, emphasize the value of your relationships. Material things are nice, but life is really about love and friendship. If you have these things, and cultivate them, your life will be more meaningful, no matter what the economic conditions.
From a business perspective, focusing on your relationships will strengthen your ability to survive no matter how bad things get. Sincerely think of the other person and his or her needs. In good times it’s easy to succeed and even the worst-run business can at least make some money. In tough times, those who really care about their customers or their employer, and do their best to discover and meet their needs, succeed while others are failing.
If you’ve lost money, or customers, or a job, instead of focusing on what you’ve lost, focus on potential opportunities and what you can do now. Leave the past in the past, whatever it was, and look to what’s next. And, be willing to be flexible enough to change, to do something different.
Who knows? Perhaps your losses are the doorway to some amazing new endeavor or adventure that will change your life for the better — and which might never have happened if those losses you’ve experienced hadn’t happened. Forget about who you were and begin to dream about who you can be.
I’d also encourage you to get rid of “what if?” thinking. Focus on what you want, and what you can do to get it. There’s no value or benefit in worrying about the future. Yes, think of the potential challenges, but only to help you generate plans and solutions that you can take action on now. If there’s something you can’t do anything about, surrender to it, and then move on.
When something dreadful happens — and it might — move immediately to, “Okay, that has happened. What are my options? What can I do now?” Focusing on what has gone wrong has no value. Focusing on what to do next has great value.
You say you don’t have the tools, resources, or help you need to move ahead? Resolve to do the best with whatever is available. Take action anyway. This will give you confidence, and this additional confidence will allow you to find and utilize additional resources — even when it initially seemed like there are none.
Spend time every day — before falling asleep and when you first wake up is an excellent time — thinking about what you have to be grateful for. Gratitude can make you happy, and happy people seem to attract what they need.
Look for ways to help others, especially those who don’t seem to be able to help themselves. Do it without expecting anything in return. Do it just because we’re all in this together. Go the extra mile for your friends, your customers, your employer, and even for total strangers. People so want someone to really care about them. If you do this, you’ll never be alone — and your life will be fulfilling no matter what is happening.
Finally, use your Holosync every day. If you’ve stopped, start again. If you haven’t started yet, get the initial level and get started. With a one-year money-back guarantee you have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Holosync is one of the most powerful antidotes for stress I’ve ever seen. My years of Holosync use seem to have made me almost completely immune to stress, and it can do the same for you. Those who can more easily handle stressful times move through them more easily, and end up finding the hidden opportunities in them and germinating them into successes.
I also invite you, if you’re a Centerpointe customer, to take advantage of our amazing support staff by calling 503-672-7117 or emailing support@centerpointe.com. I want to know how I — and my staff — can help.
And thanks for being a part of Centerpointe. I appreciate it more than I could ever say. And though we may have never met face to face, I do care about you and what happens to you.
One more thing — a short recommendation. My good friend Reverend Michael Beckwith, founder of Agape International Spiritual Center in Los Angeles, one of the largest churches of it’s kind in the world, has a new book, Spirtual Liberation — Fulfilling Your Soul’s Potential. Reverend Michael was one of the stars of The Secret, and is recognized world-wide as one of the true leaders of the new spirituality movement. I urge you to get a copy of his new book. Here is a short blurb from amazon.com:
“Michael Beckwith teaches that inner spiritual work, not religiosity or dogma, liberates us. He draws on a wide spectrum of ancient wisdom teachers such as Jesus the Christ and Gautama the Buddha; contemporary spiritual luminaries Thich Nhat Hanh, Sri Aurobindo, and the Dalai Lama; and Western contributors to the New Thought tradition of spirituality such as Emanuel Swedenborg, Walter Russell, and Dr. Howard Thurman to create a profound new belief synthesis.”
Just go to www.amazon.com and search for “Spiritual Liberation”.
Be well.
Bill
Bill, that was very helpful, thank you! I have been doing remarkably well mentally and emotionally throughout this economic slowdown; I’ve been relatively stress free and very optimistic etc. Today, for the first time in a long time, I was feeling a bit down. My “down” nowadays is FAR better then it used to be a few years ago, but it still is a state of mind I do not prefer. I read your posting and immediately felt uplifted. Then about 15 minutes later I spoke with my business partner and received some very good news regarding our business. It was quite remarkable the way it unfolded and I am more optimistic than ever. I also realize how truly miraculous Holysync is and what a profound effect it has had on my mental well being. I’ve been meditating for 8 years now, the first 6 and a half without Holysync. The benefits I received from Meditating without Holysync were great. However, as advertised, Holysync has absolutely accelerated an increase in my awareness far quicker then meditating without it. I still meditate without Holysync. But I now equate Holysync with lifting weights at the gym. If one does push-ups and sit-ups without weights, consistently, they will see great improvements in strength and stamina. But adding weights to the routine accelerates the results dramatically. Good stuff Bill….thanks again!
Hi Bill
Thank you for your helpful comments. Here in the UK we are experiencing much the same as fear grips the majority of people with the current economic uncertanties.
Job insecurity is the hot topic as firms are now shedding jobs all over the country.
Using Holosync however has helped me focus more on what you write about and I find myself helping more and more people, and although I dont expect anything in return, people are grateful and give back thanks and sincerity to me and much more.
Thank you for your life changing programme I do not know how you coped with your chaos in the early days of Holosync, learning as you went on. It is hard enough dealing with chaos when there is help from centerpointe.
However you were on your own and I admire your courage in seeing everything through to the end and producing this fantastic programme.
It would be great to see you in the UK some time.
Many Thanks
Mark Wilmore
Funny how things are… today in church, Pastor Jack Hayford was supposed to talk but was substituted for. The message was hope instead of helplessness.
key points: Those who spend most of their time talkng about the past are not moving forward. Stay present (gratefulness), focus on the future and what you want.
Just because a door is closed, don’t assume that its not capable of being opened. Persevere.
Hi Bill,
Thank you for the post.
I agree that when we give with a true desire to help solve people’s problems, rewards are instantly in motion, both seen and unseen.
In every hardship we have the opportunity to recognize in ourself a power of giving beyond what we normally identify with as we work only to pay the next round of bills.
I have a book recommendation too.
Recently I began reading a wonderfully inspiring book;
You, Inc. ‘The Art of Selling Yourself’ By Harry Beckwith
I have no idea if he is related in any way to, Michael Beckwith.
The book could be described as;
‘How we give or sell ourselves with everything we do and say.’
Your message is very timely Bill. Simple and yet essential for everyone out there to realise to move on and make a positive impact in the world that is full of negativity and fear at this moment.
You touched on Gratitude, which I believe that we need more of this in our lives. In recent times, I have realised that Contentment and Gratitude brings about the Happiness we seek.
Thank you Bill and continue your wonderful work.
Bill,
Thank you for your constant encouragment and kind words. Know that they are very useful and help in many ways. I’ve read many of the books you recommend I’m different because of those recommendations and more importantly have shared. Look forward to much more. Be well,
I just returned from John & Jan Price’s Mystery School in Boerne TX. Two suggestions from it are to focus on the creative energy that generates the physical form rather than the lower energy physical form of your desire itself, & the more you love, the fewer limitations you’ll have.
Bill,
Great article. I will add some of yours to my list. Here is my list.
a. Strenuous exercise – You will find that this will make you feel better and transform your life. Consider joining a class.
b. Meditate (with Holosync), pray or contemplate.
c. Read good spiritual books that you like.
d. Take a walk in nature or go camping.
e. Be grateful for everything and everyone in your life.
f. Volunteer and get involved in your community.
g. Help a friend for no reason at all.
h. Turn off the TV.
i. Adopt a healthier diet.
j. Forgive someone.
Thank you for everything
Marty
Thank you Bill for this really thoughtful and sensible post. It’s one of the best I’ve read in terms of helping people to quickly see ways to handle the doom and gloom. I also think another positive at this time is that people are really being encouraged to stand back and reassess what is really important to them – and what’s not, and that can only lead to good things for them. I’d also add that it helps to realise it’s not who or what we know, but how we think that will make the difference to people, and in this way, people might not be able to control what’s going on around them, but they have total control over how they react to it.
All the best
Tamsin/nudgeme
Hello, Bill
I read your blog on surviving tough times with great interest and felt very moved and inspired by your words. As a therapist, I have been also looking for inspiring messages to empower people, here in my country, Greece.
Thank you for the inspiration and the empowerment, too.
Ismini
Thanks Bill, I really needed that today. it has re energised me and given me some new impetus.
Mary
Thank you, Bill, for this timely post.
Holosync has helped me greatly the last few weeks. I fell at work and tore the ligament between my shoulder and collarbone, and had to give up the best Travel Nurse contract I ever had. It has been rough living on one third of what I had been making, but at least I do have Worker’s Comp.
But I am taking it all in stride, and have been able to apply myself full time to my Masters’ program. As I am not resisting the pain involved, my injury has been less debilitating than it could have been.
Receiving unexpected funds in the mail this weekend, I ordered Awakening Level One before I was tempted to spend it on other necessities. With my work on Integral Nursing, I needed the ‘elevation’ to ‘see’ the territory I am exploring, as I begin practicing and teaching nursing from the teal/yellow and turquoise (SD) levels in which Florence Nightingale intended.
In our enthrallment with the scientific, orange and green levels, we seem to have lost our way, as a profession. Nursing had been about “creating a sacred space” within which our patients could heal themselves, but with our “Perfect Storm” of decreasing supply of nursing students and teachers, increasing acuity and numbers of patients, ballooning amounts of ‘green’ science we seem to have to teach/learn/apply, and decreasing levels of funding, we have less time to teach/learn/apply our arts, our turquoise level skills.
Like our need for transformation in financial systems, we need to transcend the expensive ‘green’ level of providing healthcare, and focus more on addressing and using the subtle and causal bodies through the medical and nursing arts, and refocus on healing people rather than just handling the symptoms of our physical bodies.
Until later, be well.
Nurse Timothy
http://www.myspace.com/nursetimothy
Bill,
Thank you for the loving blog post. It is always nice to know that even though you are in the business of helping people, that we are more to you than just customers.
The Holosync must be working as I’m actually not worried, scared, stressed out or anything else negative. Life is just as good and promising as it was 6 months ago, in fact it just gets better every day.
I’m actually finding it a bit ironic that I’m getting quite a few emails from my “masters” about how to “cope” during this crisis. Since I’ve changed my life through following the teachings of these masters (and Holosync), my world is just different and better and permanately as such and the external world does not have the effect it used to.
So I guess in the end this is another endorsement for Holosync and living the good life. It’s grand!
I’m off to have the 435th good day in a row!
Thanks Bill! Bless you!
This blog is a great reminder that enlarging one’s generosity, kindness and self in hard times serves EVERYONE better. Thanks for a very thoughtful piece.
Thanks for your insights, Bill. Your posts always lift the spirit, and boy do we need that now!
Incidentally, the most recent post on my blog deals with my own take on this same topic. I’d love to get people’s thoughts on it.
http://weamone.wordpress.com
Thank you for your sound advice and great courses and products. We’re all truly growing up during this age.
Blessings,
Carlito.
Hi Bill, Just wanted to tell you how much I enjoyed reading “Bill’s heartfelt advice about surviving tough times…”
I hope everyone who reads this takes the time to act on it (as I intend too…) and becomes more ‘tuned in’ to the people around them – focusing more on being positive, and trying to help other people, and not letting all the doom and gloom take over their lives. Here’s hoping!!
Bill,
I must admit that for the first time in a long while your BLOG has inspired me. For once you are not trying to sell something or someone else’s product particular in times of emotional vulunability, but rather focusing on genuine unplifting and positive advice that is so badly needed in these times. Focusing on the positive in terms of what we can contribute as an individual to the greater good and inded ourself at the same time is the way to go. I am an inner circle member of some 5 years and could not have got through the last few months with my sanity in tact without the support of Holosync.
FROM BILL: NEver forget that I am running a business. It is a business that exists to help people with their growth, but it is, nonetheless, a business, and businesses do sell things. In this (free) blog, however, I would say that less than 1% of the space is devolted to talking about any kind of product. And, if I knew of something I thought might benefit you and I didn’t tell you about it, what would you think of me then?
Brilliant Post Bill.
I just re-read it in the email you sent out.
In the toughest of times, great possibilities for unity and interdependance with others tend to surface. However, is it not true that many laws have been passed to prevent individuals from expressing their creative efforts to survive economically?
Many may now need to help others in ways that increase the flow of appreciation which we have restricted to reward in cash.
Most have probably forgotten or never learned to exchange value for value in ways that sustain life. love, friendship, and family without resorting to a greenback.
I think it may become important to re-evaluate exactly what is being rewarded in this industrial economy.
Like we have heard; change is needed.
But will the change applied express a deep heart felt and soul filled inspiration from each individual to serve by expressing their highest vision of love and appreciation?
Or will we remain stuck in the mold of being taught to fit into the positions currently presented by industrial giants?
Don’t we need the harmony of human heart felt expression, along with personal insight that reaches beyond habitual, and mechanical thinking, into which we have all been trained and mesmerized?
I think the molds into which many have been cast, fit about as comfortably as the small shoes Chinese women of old were forced to wear in order to cripple any attempt on their part to run from the conditions into which they were forced to serve.
The world itself and its people and creatures, including nature, needs a change!
I am hopefully anticipating seeing the gates of inspiration and creativity burst open with an outpouring of generosity beyond anything ever experienced on this planet during its known history thus far.
This experience is very much like the all for one and one for all call to service of the musketeers, but the service is to the heart of life flowing within each and every being now alive on this planet.
That life, like air itself is never divided against itself, no matter what, air is air, and life is life. Each individual is a part of life and no one lives in a space filled with death. Unless you claim to be one of the living dead, LOL!
Good afternoon Bill,
I do not know if you will ever read this or if it just goes to some auto responder email….. But If you are reading this then THANK YOU….
All the letters all the support and all the information that you provide is of great benefit, even if those reading it do not use it right away.. I am immensely grateful for all that you send it keeps me centered and focused and no we have never met face to face, ( I would like that someday)
You have a gift and you share it that is a rare thing in this life ( that is unfortunate but true) I am a centerpoint(holosync) user and I believe in what you have to offer and the great good it can do for anyone willing to take the time to use it.
I really just wanted to thank you for the uplifting information It is a great help to me and to my family. It always seems to be just what I need to hear, to just keep moving forward, and not stagnating in the uncertainty of it all. It make me want to take more action and to want to do a little better even if I feel desperately helpless it seems to take that way and make me focus on what there is that can be done, and that is what I do. It keeps me moving.
SO Thank You and best of luck in these uncertain times. PLEASE keep sending your comments and your blog updated with information, I know it is a lot of work for you with your schedule and travel and your other commitments but I am not sure you realize what it is doing for the rest of us who have not yet reached our goals and dreams, and who truly want to. It really does a world of good for all of us.
Have a great week and I Iook forward to your next post.
Sincerely
Theresa Stuart
Dear Bill,
in my opinion this is all excellent advice but you are MISSING SOMETHING IMPORTANT… in this part of your statement…
“Though there are some people who ARE to blame, in other ways this debacle is a universal cultural event, not something caused by mean and greedy people in some smoke-filled back room.”
i think this dissuades people from digging into how this situation was caused… you make it sound like a conspiracy theory… we are living in an amazing time in history where the facts about the machinations of a powerful few that influence the many can be seen and understood by the average person for a change.
as a leader you are missing the chance to enlighten people (isn’t that what holosync is about… making people more aware) on the mechanism used to create these economic problems and how it can be used to solve them… control of the money supply is a tool for economic control… like any tool it is not inherently good or bad. it depends on how it’s used.
maybe not focusing on blaming the people at the pinnacle of this chaos is good in that it stops people from falling into victim consciousness and focuses people on what they can do… but ignoring the small groups who have been working hard for a long time to create this environment for their exclusive benefit and the ways they have actually accomplished this will halt us from getting at the root cause and turning it around.
there is plenty on places on the internet that give the detail of what i am talking about… this is one documentary … it’s long but thorough and simply stated.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-515319560256183936
i can provide others if you are interested.
thanks for all these great blog post… i’ve read every one and gotten a lot from them.
kurt
FROM BILL: I am well aware of why this crisis is happening. I have been reading very high-level information about all of this since 1977, and I spend over an hour each day following the financial markets. I am as aware as someone can be of all of this without doing it for a living.
This, however, is not a political or financial blog. Whatever this or that person may have done to contribute to the crisis, and whatever the Federal Reserve has done (in my opinion they are an illegal and unconstitutional organization that has been messing things up since 1913), the broad truth is that there has been a culture of “buy now pay later” since WW2.
You can only buy things before you have the money to pay for them for so long before it catches up with you. Quite frankly, I’m amazed that the government and the bankers have kept it going this long. But everyone has participated in what has happened. It has been an overriding cultural event. Many who participated did not know the long range consequences (including the bankers), but everyone certainly liked the short-term consequences.
People wanted more “stuff,” and banks figured out increasingly more highly leveraged ways to allow them to pay for it on credit until the amount of credit just could not be sustained or repaid. All debts are eventually paid, either by the borrower or the lender. If paid by the lender (through the default of the borrower), the money supply contracts and we end up with a crisis and a depression. Eventually, the piper must be paid. This situation was co-created by the banks who gave the credit, the givernement who allowed it in contravention of the constitution, and the public who greedily sopped it up so they could buy more and more.
I have seen the video you mention, and agree with what it says.
The purpose of my blog post, however, was to focus you on what you can do now to deal with what is happening. Making money always means finding a way to benefit others (including sometimes giving them a benefit they only think they want, such as more credit). I think that those who look around, think of other, and focus on how to serve today’s needs, now, will survive these times and prosper. And, focusing on others always creates more good will and more happiness.
Well one thing ‘you’ did was make the obvious and resourceful choice on Tuesday. Thank you America. This was a not only a great day for your country, but a wonderful day for the world.
Great comments, Bill. I think Americans have been a slave to their mortgage interest. We were able to get a mortgage that allows us to pay more on our principle each month. It is a structured mortgage similar to those used in Australia where they pay their mortgages off in 10 years. Since the government is funding many of the mortgages now why not offer a more fair payment structure. Why should we be slaves to mortgage interest????
As always, Bill,
your comments are such a gift! As is your Holosync. I was just checking on the next levels, and see that you are offering a great deal until the end of the month. Thank you for that at a great time.
You also mentioned Byron Katie, a great teacher who I have recently discovered: Calm, poised and cuts through the clutter with a scalpel. A video on money by Byron can be found at http://www.mindbridge-loa.com/Eckhart-Tolle.html. She adds to what you have said, the idea that in the present we don’t “need” anything.
Thanks for everything. Right after I pay for my car repairs (so the old car will take me another 150,000 miles), I’m ordering the next levels of Holosync!
- Nancy
Hi, Bill,
It’s amazing how much clearer and more understandable your blog posts are now that I’ve been doing holosync for four years!!
I don’t think you need to post this comment, but I would really like to read your comments on the “numinous” and “Mysterium Tremendum.”
Love,
Kay
Sir,
I am interested to know more about it. I need the CD for demo.
Thanks,
john
FROM BILL: You can get a Holosync demo CD and a free special report at http://www.centerpointe.com
Bill:
Thank you, I am reminded by your words that I am responsible for my outcomes, whether I can directly make the connection or not.
One perception I am holding is that the more I practice effective modes of managing my life, the better I am able to manage my life.
As I move through the levels of Holosync, years have passed AND so have my perceptions of what I am experiencing have also. Your online courses: Life Principles Integration Process have and continue to facilitate my personal change as I go through again and again witnessing how I do the dance. Each time possibly seeing something more clearly for the first time.
Like you have said numerous times, if you can do it…I know I can too. I have joy in seeing you live your purpose, as I am open to receiving the gifts that you share with those around you! Yes, I can do that too!
Many Blessings!
Terry
Bill
Thank you! We could not continue the way we were. Althoiugh we have experienced upsets like 1929, 1987, etc. each has had a profound effect on th eway we managed as will 2008. Strangley thro’ every one of the financial upsets we have come trhough stronger, more knowledgeable and better able to cope.
Yesw e have a tough time ahead but the toughest will be the shattering of our fantasies that we could have it all and not have any downside. I am looking forward to more self growth and understanding and more strength.
Ken
FROM BILL: As I’ve tried to get across to all of you many times in this blog, you can’t have up without down, or black without white. Resisting one side of these polarities, being attached to “White Must Win” is a recipe for suffering. Life has both sides of the coin built into it, and the most conscious and awakened people are those who have surrendered to that fact. “Surrender,” though, doesn’t mean you don’t take steps to make things come out as well as possible, but it does mean that emotionally you are not attached to WhIte Always Winning.
Bill,
One question about holocync. Unfortunately for me I am great at resisting. I have being my whole life. I am currently doing awakening level 4 disc 4 and thanks to holocync I am resisting the “black” in my life WAY less than I used to. However during the times that holocync is “pushing my threshold” I resist A LOT. It is really hard for me to let things be OK or be the witness during those times.
In answer to somebody’s question you said that the difference between Awakening 4 and purif 1 was that most people start to let things be OK in purif 1 .
Does that mean that in purif 1 most people stop resisting or reduce their resistance?
You said that you used to resist a lot yourself . There was a level at which you reduce your resistance or did you resist all the way through the whole program??
Carlos
FROM BILL: Resistance is something you DO, not something that happens. Resistance is, quite simply, focus on what you don’t want (in other words, making internal representations (internal pictures, internal dialog, etc) of what you don’t want). Your threshold is just the point at what you begin to do that. The solution to this is awareness–observing your internal representations and seeing how they directly lead to how you feel, how you behave, and what and whom you attract into your life. Instead of looking for Holosync to magically end your resistance, why not actively take a role in this? You are, after all, DOING your resistance. Watch your internal representations and see how. The reason people stop most of their resisting by Purification Level 1 is that they gain the awareness that allows them to see how they’re doing it, which make it hard to keep doing it. If you actively participate in watching how you do it, the whole thing happens a lot faster.
The doom and gloom panic in the media is definitely making hard for average people to deal with stocks and worrying about their jobs. The stock market moves on perception and as long as people keep up the panic, the more we will have shaky days ahead. But there is also much opportunity out there…Also Michael Beckwith is an amaing teacher and speaker. I hope he sells 1 milion plus copies of his book.
Hello Guys,
Thanks for sharing Interesting article..
I read somewhere teachers get paid six figures to teach. The article is at http://payteachersmore.com/?p=29
Do you think education will improve if teachers are paid more? I think so. This is much interesting and informative…
Well keep on Posting..
Visit you again.
Mukesh
Mukesh,
I think education will improve if teachers are paid more. But also if the system demand more from teachers . And also if they allow teachers more freedom dealing with students and holding them more accountable for their results . I think also the evaluation system here in the US has to change. I think that multiple choice thing is total BS . Think about it . Here you can pass any test with a very superficial knowledge about the subject if you just follow your instints in the test.
In my country and many other countries you have to come up with the right answer NOT JUST CHOOSE the right answer and then you have to writte a paragragh or two explaining why YOU think so.
Carlos
Another thoughtful and eloquent article, thanks to you Bill.
best wishes,
Richard
http://www.lifechoicemeditation.com
Bill,
Lately I have been aware that I am “resisting” but I do not know what or how to stop or what will happen if I do.
I have heard you say several times that you resisted for years.
1. What did you resist?
2. What did you do to stop resisting?
3. What happened when you stopped resisting?
I do not know if this is a large enough subject for a blog entry but perhaps you will say something about it.
Thank you,
Dave Woods
FROM BILL: Resisting is something you DO. You do it by focusing on what you don’t want; that is, by making internal representations (mostly internal pictures and internal dialog) of what you don’t want, what you are worried about, what you are afraid of, what you want to avoid. There is one cure: awareness. If you learn to observe your internal representations–notice when they’re of what you don’t want, and also notice the DIRECT connection between your making these internal representations and the unpleasant feelings and bad outcomes that are created–then it becomes difficult to keep making them. Only if you continue to “resist” unconsciously can you keep doing it, over and over. Observing yourself do it, with awareness, makes it extremely difficult to keep doing it because that puts you in the position of purposely creating bad feelings and bad outcomes.
Hi All,
How about giving up TV? Why not take the position of observer of our own lives, our own feelings, and not observer of what the media chooses for us?
I don’t know whether I can post this video, but it’s very interesting and I think we should consider it …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec-DekKhGHQ
- Hope I don’t offend, Bill….
FROM BILL: Personally, I think people should do whatever they enjoy doing with their time, as long as it isn’t hurting someone else. There’s lots of great stuff on TV, and watching TV is not what keeps a person from observing his or her own life. And, the media doesn’t choose what I watch. I do.
Hello Bill!
Thats really good advice you gave there! Thank you!
I just ordered the awekening prologue last week and i cant wait to start off! It took me quite some time…..but finally i did attract it! And now I am eagerly waiting for the FedEx Team to come knock on ym door!
And I must say I am addicted to the masters of the secret series. I listen to your conversation with the various stars of the secret every single day!
All the best!
Farida
I love all of it. I am so happy to have found you and your podcasts. You have taught me so much in only a couple of months that I have been listening to you. The masters of the secret, the Tolle series, those were also very helpful. I also would like to attend the Big Mind retreat in Los Angeles in March 09, along with a friend. Do you have a payment plan in place? I am not able to come up with the $1000 up front.
Hi Bill,
Congratulations on your business success. You deserve all of it. I am now on Purification Level 2 and enjoying it. I did the LPIP and it was instrumental in me launching my consulting business.
You’ve written about this topic in your old newsletter a few years ago as well. Are you familiar with Robert Prechter’s work?
Rich
FROM BILL: I have been reading Robert Prechter for at least 20 years.
I love this program! Thank you so much. I get something new out of it everyday. Deb Ley
Hello Bill,
I’m new to the CenterPointe family and pleased to be. Thanks to the internet, I was able to take the time to read a good deal of the different opinions about Holosync and CenterPointe and what negative I read could be summed up to a few folks who need to do a bit more work. Of all the aggressive marketing that hits my email box daily, I look forward to yours.
Now I liked this particular blog because it addresses an issue that is foremost in all our minds. I have been an avid meditator since I was a teenager and though I accomplished much via meditation I didn’t understand enough about the mind and ego to effectively use meditation to better the world I live in.
For a good ten years I lived like a homeless person with a roof over my head, in constant fear I would lose my house and all that I owned. I worked like a dog… then went home to meditate so I could go to sleep. To make a long and painful story short, I watched, “The Secret,” which I honestly didn’t care that much for but I learned of all these other authors and teachers so I began reading and learning new methods. Then I read, “New Earth,” by Eckhart Tolle and it just turned everything around for me and now I’m here to take it even further.
Oddly enough, soon as I redirected my focus, I did lose my home, most of what I owned and my job and ended up sleeping on the living room floor of a friend’s house, for four months. Now I’m nearly 60 and a few years ago this would have terrified me and I probably would have had a breakdown. However, after learning what I have, I was glad it was over and I could start over.
I found a job that I enjoy, an apartment that I just love and in a part of town where I’ve always wanted to live. I have everything I need and more and don’t miss the hoards of junk I had clung too so desperately. I have no idea where my life is going and due to choices I made I have no retirement and in need of medical and dental assistance but for the first time in my life, I’m not worried. It will all come together, peacefully and in time. Over the next few months I will be interviewing and testing for a much better paying City job, but I’m not going for it in fear or desperation. If it happens it just happens and if not then I’ll try again another time.
My point in all of this is that hard times can happen even in the best of times and if my life can get better in the midst of hard times then maybe it’s all in our minds. Our fear of hard times is greater than the actuality. What we are seeing is a world based on greed collapsing around us and for that we should be celebrating. If a company’s intention is not meant to improve the quality of everyone’s life, then it will no longer survive. That goes for governments as well. Governments have survived knowing that all they needed to do was take a bit more from the people who support them and I think we’re getting ready to say, “No,” and put our government on a well needed diet.
I decided to start with Holosync and the online courses to improve my life by making sure my choices have a positive impact on the world around me. I want to show people how the spirit in each of us can embrace the ego and work together creating, whatever we want, pain free and full of joy.
Merry Christmas,
Cherie
You hit the nail on the head Bill… Great points in this article, and one that a lot of people needed to read. Too many people are panicking and really shouldn’t be. Like you said, we’re in this together – and though there may be tough times – it’s best to focus on relationships w/ people and being grateful for what we already have!
Love the blog,
-Drew
I just wanted to write a quick note to thank you for this post. It really came as a wake-up call to me, as it dealt with some very practical issues in the world and down to earth advice as to how to deal with what’s going on, and it seemed as if we were having a heart to heart talk about what to do when the chips are down and it seems that there are no options. You pointed out to me that there is always something to do, which means to me that no matter what we can take action to improve our situation;whether or not we are entering a new erra of change, by our individual nature we are given the power to influence our world for the better, and if we so choose we can make this world a better place for all of us to live. I feel that we are entering some sort of upward momentom of change, and it is people like you who are a major part in helping to catolize this change and spark the fire within all of us who otherwise wouldn’t have the initiative.
Hi Bill,
I have been a member for a long time. As a person who believes that we can exchange goods, skills, land, tools, materials and space without money based on our innate ability to move these in a fair, natural and harmonious way, I am asking if you would consider contributing some of your cds this way. My website explains my concepts and I feel your cds (I have done Awakening Prologue) would been invaluable tool for a huge number of people. Sometimes it just takes baby steps towards a new way but if it is something that resonates with you on any level let me know. Thank-you for your amazing work,
Warmly,
Joan
FROM BILL: Thank you for thinking of others who are in need. I actually give hundreds of thousands of dollars each year to charities that help kids. At Centerpointe, however, it costs about ten MILLION dollars each year to keep the company going. I have to pay my employees, plus rent, telephone, internet, medical, social security, medicare, marketing costs, materials costs, research and development costs, travel costs, taxes, and a lot more. If I don’t charge for what we do, it wouldn’t be long before we wouldn’t be able to do it, and then no one would benefit. As I said, The only reason I can give huge amounts to several wonderful charities is because people like you pay for what we provide–which I appreciate.
Bill,
As much as I would love to go to the next level I find my financial situation impossible at this time. I tired to borrow money from a close relative but she is having a hard time also and because of all the other things happening right now it’s just too much of a burden to spend the money. I am a single mother of two teenage sons who have needs. I give up my own to make sure that their needs are satisfied first. When I was growing up I know that my parents did not not give up their desires for their children and I did without a lot of things. Because of that I did suffer a lot not having what others had. I developed a very low self esteem from not having my needs met. When I was finally on my own and working did I finally discover the importance of a self esteem. I see that my children are not in the same boat as I was in they at least have something to look forward to in their lives. I will just have to wait until I can afford my next level. What else can I do.
FROM BILL: Keep using the Holosync you have, and keep taking care of those kids.
This article has reminded me of the very things I was taught as a little child. I am now in my 70’s. I NEEDED to be reminded. I am grateful that there are people, such as yourself and others such as those featured in “The Secret”, who are coming forward to share and teach these eternal spiritual principles without the restrictive and judgemental trappings of religiousosity. I now am beginning to feel that I can find other like-minded friends more than I ever have before in my life. As a child, teenager, and young adult I felt I was not able to share what I had been taught because when I tried to, I felt ridiculed and laughed at. I was wrong. It CAN be shared … when rightly shared as you are doing. Thank you.
Today I ordered my CD’s. Two years ago I donated a kidney to my sister. I realized how tired I was. Because of this I found out about DHEA – my adrenal glands were affected as they sit on top of a kidney. I know my body. I would like to utilize my brain functions to help me get back to where I was. My meditation abilities are terrible. I look forward to watching my results.
I am a runner – I have run a marathon. I like the runners high. I have put on over 10 pounds since the operation. I am still running. Now with the combination of these tapes – I hope to embark on a new journey.
I have added some yoga classes. The mind is a terrible thing to waste. I do not want medications to solve my issues. My body and mind are intelligent and we will get my hormones and my body in sinc.
Will keep you posted.
My comment about dealing with hard times. Is get busy. start a small home garden volenteer at your local community food bank. In order for me to let what ever happens be ok sometimes I just have to get away from the thinking patten. I go to my local market and streighten the shelves. I get up and clean somthing. I call someone. The whole trick to this is to get out of your own mind. so the paradine can shift. Wake your spouse and make love with intent. Write it down as it happens. See how long you can sit just with yourself, no tv,radio,no talk on food on nothing just sit with yourself. See how long you can look at yourself in the mirrow without looking away. Give your self a manacure,pedicure. Take a long bubble bath just sit with your self. Get up earily watch the sun come up watch it go down. Take off all your clothes stand in front of a full lenght mirrow get to know you. these are just a few things that work for me. I have always wanted to be my own boss own a Ice cream truck or a laundry mat, but for some reason it just never worked out to the end. My grandson ask me how he could get $800 for a set of drums and I showed him how to do it. (sometimes you need help) Later that month he was at a birthday party and saw a Ice Cream truck for sale and the rest is history. Sometimes others can manifest for you better than you can for yourself. but If you don’t tell others what you want how will they know what your dreams and desires are. Not being happy with what is (was a hard one for me), until one day stuck in traffic complaining about the possibility of being late some twoor three minutes into the jam I was able to see what the hold up was a rollover a small child and mother ejected from the car child still in unrestrained car seat. I pulled over to and offered aid until the ambulance could get through the traffic. The child had a large gash on her face. The mother was being helped my a retired ambulance driver. When all was said and done I have not been the same. If I had been four minutes earilier. That could have possiblly been me. There may not have been a nurse or retired ambulance driver to save me. You may get tired of reading this,but I sure hope not.
I have a comment about financial instability. When I first heard about Holosync and what it had to offer me. I said my God how can I afford this I don’t want to be left out of the posibility of fixing myself and situation. I got me a part time job just to pay the first 180 dollors and then the 39 or 40 dollors each month. BIll Harris is willing to work with you he offers specials all the time. for the next level. and free stuff and downloads all the time. If you feel like your worth it, you can move mountains. or somtimes a little grain of sand it all it takes. Alemenia
I think the trick here is to get away from your self long enough to miss you. You may be asking yourself how can I do that I live with me? I work about 60 hours a week and even when I am off I am helping my family or others. Just ask me I tell you. I have 4 children and 14 grandchildren and everyone wants to spend time with the most fun and intresting person in there life, and all (and I have witnesses) I mean all of the think I am the most fun and intresting person they know and most of the time it’s true. I found out that most people don’t care what you think unless they think you care. Well I got home exasused as usual and I was getting ready for bed when I look up in the mirrow and saw myself. I actually that the thought “I have missed you, where you been?” oh I said, ” I’ve been busy do you need me for somthing? Yes could you spend just a little time with me, maybe tomorrow? “IT’S A DATE. about 5:30 I took a good shower curled my hair put on make up and a pretty blue dress (sky blue) I went to the flower shop just as it was closing and bought me a rose. I drove to the outback steak house and ordered a steak steamed brocolli. and a tall Jack Daniels and coke. I then walked to the steakhouse to a walkin movie (Harry Potter and the half blood prince) I was able to sit through the three hours. Then I drove me home and went to bed. I learned this from Bill Harris another person reached out to me when I wanted and needed it the most. You can’t not afford to take this trip with Bill.
The thing about all the comments,they are all distractions for the ego, it just needs somthing to do because it see’s its self as real, while it is only our imagination desiring somthing that will never be satisfied,but distraction is what works for the (I) In me.
FROM BILL: There’s nothing wrong with having an ego, as long as you are aware and clear about what is the ego (your idea of yourself) and what isn’t–in other words, what is the map and what is the territory.
I was ripe for an understanding and the experience of the connectedness of all things,back in 1978. I was introduced to Jane Roberts-The Nature of Personal Reality. It was like meeting someone you felt you had known forever. Obviously I have a lot to learn because I am grieving right now because I’ve lost someone who wasn’t good for me anyway! AAAARGH! I’m feeling better though,and I hope to be a part of your Holosync experience very soon. Thank you.