Comments on: It’s all about awareness… http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/ Musings from the mind of Bill Harris. Creator of Holosync, founder & director of Centerpointe Research Institute, and a featured teacher in The Secret, Bill has taught hundreds of thousands of people how to harness The Law of Attraction to make lasting improvements in their lives. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:05:34 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Harold http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-2/#comment-7188 Harold Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:32:20 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-7188 With all these comments, what is the chance that Bill, or anyone at centerpointe, will read this, let alone another listener of this audio? In any case I hope someone gets this, because it is so valuable. I must have told this to everyone on the planet by now, but in case I missed anyone, here goes again. It's easy to say that you should love your neighbor or not be judgmental, but to do it seems impossible sometimes. I stumbled on a technique that, along with other spiritual practices, is so powerful. Well, here it is. I used 'not being judgmental' as my entry into all that you all are talking about, and dare I say more? Trying to not be judgmental didn't work at all, until I found that judgmental words and phrases were sabotaging my efforts. For example, I would say that someone yelled at me, when it would have been more accurate to say that they raised their voice. I hadn't realized that yelling is a judgment word, because how many decibels is yelling as opposed to raising ones voice? That's just one example, but when I switched to 'no hyperbole' or exaggeration to use accurate descriptive words, it wasn't about me anymore or them yelling at me, but about them and their raising their voice, their frustration or pain. Well that may sound all innocuous and to you guys, but to a lot of us ordinary folks out here, that can make all the difference in the world. And what other powers can we get by dropping other words. Just think if we dropped negative words, for instance. For some of us, that would get rid of half our vocabulary and all negative images, forcing a whole new mindset. A positive decisive action, instead of talk. The beauty of it all is that it is sustainable and easily doable. I noticed an immediate change and a progression to higher and higher levels and greater and greater insights. With all the successes I've been having with this technique for three years now, I hope someone else will try it. It could use some developing also. I think you can see the implications of using non biased words, for instance. It gives you a really objective scientific view. I know it's not commonly thought, but I find the subconscious to be supremely objective. It basically just compares images impartially for mismatches. Dropping judgmental words and phrases seems to connect up with a map of reality that is far and away past our immediate subconscious and all our programming. Some programming takes a little more effort, so I am so thankful for you explanation of the shadow self. I finally got it and had immediate success from Bill's explanation of Tolle's pain body. It is powerful. As to using only accurate descriptive words and dropping judgmental one, there is more to it, which you see as you go along. After all, if you don't judge people, it is easier to have compassion on them, seeing they don't know the way out since they usually have personal emotional/mental/perception problems, and compassion is love. If it doesn't seem reasonable to you that this should work, just think that scientists find that the subconscious is literally a million times faster and has a million the capacity of the conscious mind, 50 million cycles per second as opposed to our 50 cycles per second, for instance. It really is a tiger within us and we really are a monkey on its back, as stated in the NY Times science article of a few years ago, "Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don't." With all these comments, what is the chance that Bill, or anyone at centerpointe, will read this, let alone another listener of this audio? In any case I hope someone gets this, because it is so valuable. I must have told this to everyone on the planet by now, but in case I missed anyone, here goes again.
It’s easy to say that you should love your neighbor or not be judgmental, but to do it seems impossible sometimes. I stumbled on a technique that, along with other spiritual practices, is so powerful. Well, here it is. I used ‘not being judgmental’ as my entry into all that you all are talking about, and dare I say more? Trying to not be judgmental didn’t work at all, until I found that judgmental words and phrases were sabotaging my efforts. For example, I would say that someone yelled at me, when it would have been more accurate to say that they raised their voice. I hadn’t realized that yelling is a judgment word, because how many decibels is yelling as opposed to raising ones voice? That’s just one example, but when I switched to ‘no hyperbole’ or exaggeration to use accurate descriptive words, it wasn’t about me anymore or them yelling at me, but about them and their raising their voice, their frustration or pain. Well that may sound all innocuous and to you guys, but to a lot of us ordinary folks out here, that can make all the difference in the world.
And what other powers can we get by dropping other words. Just think if we dropped negative words, for instance. For some of us, that would get rid of half our vocabulary and all negative images, forcing a whole new mindset. A positive decisive action, instead of talk. The beauty of it all is that it is sustainable and easily doable. I noticed an immediate change and a progression to higher and higher levels and greater and greater insights.
With all the successes I’ve been having with this technique for three years now, I hope someone else will try it.
It could use some developing also. I think you can see the implications of using non biased words, for instance. It gives you a really objective scientific view. I know it’s not commonly thought, but I find the subconscious to be supremely objective. It basically just compares images impartially for mismatches. Dropping judgmental words and phrases seems to connect up with a map of reality that is far and away past our immediate subconscious and all our programming. Some programming takes a little more effort, so I am so thankful for you explanation of the shadow self. I finally got it and had immediate success from Bill’s explanation of Tolle’s pain body. It is powerful.
As to using only accurate descriptive words and dropping judgmental one, there is more to it, which you see as you go along. After all, if you don’t judge people, it is easier to have compassion on them, seeing they don’t know the way out since they usually have personal emotional/mental/perception problems, and compassion is love.
If it doesn’t seem reasonable to you that this should work, just think that scientists find that the subconscious is literally a million times faster and has a million the capacity of the conscious mind, 50 million cycles per second as opposed to our 50 cycles per second, for instance. It really is a tiger within us and we really are a monkey on its back, as stated in the NY Times science article of a few years ago, “Free Will: Now You Have It, Now You Don’t.”

]]> By: Helen Kaye http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-7150 Helen Kaye Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:15:19 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-7150 Hi Bill, I have been trying to follow your advice about witnessing my behavior, mind, emotions, beliefs, especially in times of stress or turmoil. I find that interactions with certain people, and certain relationships are a challenge for me. How do you witness at the same time that you are actually communicating and reacting? it seems that I don't have enough attention to both handle the communication, and witness at the same time. Then I just end up going back and analyzing the event, which I know is not the same thing (in fact it's the same self-blame, self-loathing, etc that I have always done so nothing really new). Any advice about this? I hope I've made myself clear. Thanks for all your advice and help - am 3 months into the program and feel that it is helping. Helen K FROM BILL: The main thing you want to witness is the internal pictures you make and your internal dialog. You want to see (or hear) these things, AND notice what feelings they create. Those feelings lead to behaviors, cause you to give off certain cues that cause certain people to be attracted to you (some of whom you don't want to be attracted to you, like abusers and others who want to take advantage of you), and what people and situations you become attracted to. But it all starts with watching your own internal representations, the most important of which are usually your internal pictures and internal dialog. The most important thing to look for is whether those internal representations are of what you want (which will help you create more resourceful outcomes) or of what you don't want (which will create less-than-resourceful outcomes). You're right, it is more difficult to observe these things in the heat of battle, so to speak. For that reason you need to practice watching, until it's easier, when you aren't in the middle of something emotional--just as you might practice the piano a lot so that when you'e up in front of a big audience, and you're nervous, that you can still play well. You have to understand, though, that the reason these situations are emotional for you--the entire reason--is that you are making internal representations in those times, unconsciously and automatically, that create those strong emotions. The people and situations you're in trigger the internal representations, but the fact that you make the internal representations you currently make is because of your past. Certain automatic ways of responding to certain triggers (things you see, hear, touch, smell, taste) were set up in your mind when you were growing up, and now they happen automatically. The way out of this is to watch yourself do these things--see yourself encounter the trigger, see the internal representations you make, and see the result (the feeling, behavior, etc.). You can't do these non-resourceful internal representations (ie, those of what you don't want, what you're afraid of, what you're worried about, what you want to avoid) AND do them with awareness. When you do something that isn't good for you WITH AWARENESS (you see the whole thing happening, seeing that something in YOU creates it), it falls away. So, as I said, you have to practice this, and you should begin by doing it at a low-stress time. You could, for instance, practice for 5-10 minues when you get in bed at night. Think of something you don't like or don't want. "Thinking of it" means making some sort of internal representation of it--a picture, or internal dialog most likely. As you do this, notice the internal representation, and notice the feeling that happens as a result. The point is for you to see the direct connection between the internal representations you make and the feelings created. The outside trigger is NOT the cause of the feeling. Your response (the internal representations you make) is the cause, and you have a choice about your internal representations IF YOU ARE AWARE OF THEM. You can review something that happened during the day, notice the internal representations you make in order to review it, and notice the feeling states that are created. Practice this every night before you go to bed, and also for a few minutes when you first wake up. Then, if you can, take a moment during the day and close your eyes and practice for a few minutes. If you do this, you'll begin to notice these things more as they happen during the rest of the day. Let it be okay that at first you aren't good at it. Forget about being good at it, and just put in the practice time. ANYTHING you practice regularly will get better. Anything. The only difference between me and you is that I have spent a lot of time practicing this. It was just as hard for me in the beginning as it is for you now. I just kept at it, and little by little it got easier. At some point something will shift and you'll see that you CAN do this, and that when you do this something remarkable happens. And, after the fact, instead of analyzing, watch. If you want to go over what happened, go over what you said to yourself, what you felt in your body, what pictures you made--and what results followed (feelings, behaviors, etc). If you aren't taking my Life Principles Integration Process online courses, you should be. They will teach you about all of this in much more detail. www.centerpointe.com/life/preview. There are three levels of involvement--with unlimited email access to me, with unlimited email access to Kate Michels, who I have personally trained, and with no email access. All choices have access to ALL the questions and answers (well over 10,000) over the last 6+ years. Hi Bill,

I have been trying to follow your advice about witnessing my behavior, mind, emotions, beliefs, especially in times of stress or turmoil. I find that interactions with certain people, and certain relationships are a challenge for me. How do you witness at the same time that you are actually communicating and reacting? it seems that I don’t have enough attention to both handle the communication, and witness at the same time. Then I just end up going back and analyzing the event, which I know is not the same thing (in fact it’s the same self-blame, self-loathing, etc that I have always done so nothing really new). Any advice about this? I hope I’ve made myself clear. Thanks for all your advice and help – am 3 months into the program and feel that it is helping.

Helen K

FROM BILL: The main thing you want to witness is the internal pictures you make and your internal dialog. You want to see (or hear) these things, AND notice what feelings they create. Those feelings lead to behaviors, cause you to give off certain cues that cause certain people to be attracted to you (some of whom you don’t want to be attracted to you, like abusers and others who want to take advantage of you), and what people and situations you become attracted to. But it all starts with watching your own internal representations, the most important of which are usually your internal pictures and internal dialog.

The most important thing to look for is whether those internal representations are of what you want (which will help you create more resourceful outcomes) or of what you don’t want (which will create less-than-resourceful outcomes).

You’re right, it is more difficult to observe these things in the heat of battle, so to speak. For that reason you need to practice watching, until it’s easier, when you aren’t in the middle of something emotional–just as you might practice the piano a lot so that when you’e up in front of a big audience, and you’re nervous, that you can still play well.

You have to understand, though, that the reason these situations are emotional for you–the entire reason–is that you are making internal representations in those times, unconsciously and automatically, that create those strong emotions. The people and situations you’re in trigger the internal representations, but the fact that you make the internal representations you currently make is because of your past. Certain automatic ways of responding to certain triggers (things you see, hear, touch, smell, taste) were set up in your mind when you were growing up, and now they happen automatically.

The way out of this is to watch yourself do these things–see yourself encounter the trigger, see the internal representations you make, and see the result (the feeling, behavior, etc.). You can’t do these non-resourceful internal representations (ie, those of what you don’t want, what you’re afraid of, what you’re worried about, what you want to avoid) AND do them with awareness. When you do something that isn’t good for you WITH AWARENESS (you see the whole thing happening, seeing that something in YOU creates it), it falls away.

So, as I said, you have to practice this, and you should begin by doing it at a low-stress time. You could, for instance, practice for 5-10 minues when you get in bed at night. Think of something you don’t like or don’t want. “Thinking of it” means making some sort of internal representation of it–a picture, or internal dialog most likely. As you do this, notice the internal representation, and notice the feeling that happens as a result. The point is for you to see the direct connection between the internal representations you make and the feelings created. The outside trigger is NOT the cause of the feeling. Your response (the internal representations you make) is the cause, and you have a choice about your internal representations IF YOU ARE AWARE OF THEM.

You can review something that happened during the day, notice the internal representations you make in order to review it, and notice the feeling states that are created. Practice this every night before you go to bed, and also for a few minutes when you first wake up. Then, if you can, take a moment during the day and close your eyes and practice for a few minutes.

If you do this, you’ll begin to notice these things more as they happen during the rest of the day. Let it be okay that at first you aren’t good at it. Forget about being good at it, and just put in the practice time. ANYTHING you practice regularly will get better. Anything. The only difference between me and you is that I have spent a lot of time practicing this. It was just as hard for me in the beginning as it is for you now. I just kept at it, and little by little it got easier. At some point something will shift and you’ll see that you CAN do this, and that when you do this something remarkable happens.

And, after the fact, instead of analyzing, watch. If you want to go over what happened, go over what you said to yourself, what you felt in your body, what pictures you made–and what results followed (feelings, behaviors, etc).

If you aren’t taking my Life Principles Integration Process online courses, you should be. They will teach you about all of this in much more detail. http://www.centerpointe.com/life/preview. There are three levels of involvement–with unlimited email access to me, with unlimited email access to Kate Michels, who I have personally trained, and with no email access. All choices have access to ALL the questions and answers (well over 10,000) over the last 6+ years.

]]> By: Adam http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6664 Adam Wed, 13 May 2009 22:39:26 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6664 Wow, this is a very powerful article. Thank you. I will be ordering the demo CD. Wow, this is a very powerful article. Thank you. I will be ordering the demo CD.

]]> By: Mercedes http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6506 Mercedes Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:14:22 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6506 I have used Holosync for three years now and am also doing your online courses which are excellent. All this has increased my mental awareness greatly and yet I am still experiencing depression on a regular basis every week which is mixed with procrastination and fear of moving forward. They are all one and the same thing of course. Unfortunately I still am getting many negative thoughts probably as a result of a lot of trauma which I have worked on over the years. I am yearning to live my life as a happy person free from worry, but as yet this holy grail is still elusive most of the time. Probably due to using Holosync my intuition is increasing and I am getting more " Psychic messages" for the want of a better word, as my receptivity builds. I always had this ability and found it difficult to cope with, but when I get these "messages" things seems to happen all be it not always in exactly the way as I receive it in the "messages". I am dearly hoping to come to one of your workshop, when you go to NY with Genpo Roshi and hopefully have found a way to make all the money by then. Right now money is a big issue for me and I am also at a point in my life where I am thinking of discarding everything I worked on in the last few years and go back to the thing I love, trading. Trading is a great teacher and started my journey of self discovery many years ago when I manged to lose a fortune. I had to stop and wrote self help books and while they are good, and have helped quite a few people who have used the techniques I have been unable to make a living from this while also working harder then I ever worked in my entire life during this time. Lack of confidence is still a problem; if you were to meet me you would not believe it. Yet this self doubt is stopping me from trusting that I find the solutions to create the life I want and allows self pitty over my situation get the better of me at times. ANd finally I have to say I very much appreciate what you are doing. Your lessons, Holosync, painful as it often has been, at least for me, are excellent and have given me a lot. To me you, Genpo Roshi, Ken Wilber are the best out there today. Thank you for the great work you are doing. Mercedes FROM BILL: You aren't "getting" negative thoughts. They are being generated by you. You're just doing it automatically and unconsciously. You just aren't aware, yet, of the part of you that generates them. Become aware of how you "do" depression, or negative thoughts, and watch yourself do it (I don't mean watch the result, but what you actually do inside that generates the result), and it will fall away. I have used Holosync for three years now and am also doing your online courses which are excellent. All this has increased my mental awareness greatly and yet I am still experiencing depression on a regular basis every week which is mixed with procrastination and fear of moving forward. They are all one and the same thing of course.

Unfortunately I still am getting many negative thoughts probably as a result of a lot of trauma which I have worked on over the years. I am yearning to live my life as a happy person free from worry, but as yet this holy grail is still elusive most of the time.
Probably due to using Holosync my intuition is increasing and I am getting more ” Psychic messages” for the want of a better word, as my receptivity builds. I always had this ability and found it difficult to cope with, but when I get these “messages” things seems to happen all be it not always in exactly the way as I receive it in the “messages”.

I am dearly hoping to come to one of your workshop, when you go to NY with Genpo Roshi and hopefully have found a way to make all the money by then. Right now money is a big issue for me and I am also at a point in my life where I am thinking of discarding everything I worked on in the last few years and go back to the thing I love, trading. Trading is a great teacher and started my journey of self discovery many years ago when I manged to lose a fortune. I had to stop and wrote self help books and while they are good, and have helped quite a few people who have used the techniques I have been unable to make a living from this while also working harder then I ever worked in my entire life during this time.

Lack of confidence is still a problem; if you were to meet me you would not believe it. Yet this self doubt is stopping me from trusting that I find the solutions to create the life I want and allows self pitty over my situation get the better of me at times.

ANd finally I have to say I very much appreciate what you are doing. Your lessons, Holosync, painful as it often has been, at least for me, are excellent and have given me a lot. To me you, Genpo Roshi, Ken Wilber are the best out there today.

Thank you for the great work you are doing.

Mercedes

FROM BILL: You aren’t “getting” negative thoughts. They are being generated by you. You’re just doing it automatically and unconsciously. You just aren’t aware, yet, of the part of you that generates them. Become aware of how you “do” depression, or negative thoughts, and watch yourself do it (I don’t mean watch the result, but what you actually do inside that generates the result), and it will fall away.

]]> By: mukesh http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6303 mukesh Mon, 19 Jan 2009 13:11:05 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6303 Hi Bill, i have visited this blog of yours and found it very intresting. i have a question, whenever i do meditation that is i put my mind to my nostrials i become aware but after some time i get sleep again after some time i become aware again i get slee, this process goes on my question is : in mediation what i am experiencing is correct or not ? what should be the procedure to go deepen. pls send me the solution or the process thanks Mukesh india FROM BILL: When you meditate in a traditional way you can, sometimes, get sleepy, or have lots of thoughts, or experience other distractions. As long as you go back to your point of focus as soon as you realize you have wandered off, you are meditating just fine. Of course, the easy and super-fast way to progress in meditation is to use Holosync audio technology. Get a free demo CD and try it for yourself at www.centerpointe.com. Hi Bill,
i have visited this blog of yours and found it very intresting.

i have a question, whenever i do meditation that is i put my mind to my nostrials i become aware but after some time i get sleep again after some time i become aware again i get slee, this process goes on
my question is : in mediation what i am experiencing is correct or not ?

what should be the procedure to go deepen.

pls send me the solution or the process
thanks
Mukesh
india

FROM BILL: When you meditate in a traditional way you can, sometimes, get sleepy, or have lots of thoughts, or experience other distractions. As long as you go back to your point of focus as soon as you realize you have wandered off, you are meditating just fine.

Of course, the easy and super-fast way to progress in meditation is to use Holosync audio technology. Get a free demo CD and try it for yourself at http://www.centerpointe.com.

]]> By: helen http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6290 helen Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:14:24 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6290 This is an 'Ah Ha moment' article. It answers so many questions and opens up new pathways and opportunities, and makes the next steps so exciting. Helen This is an ‘Ah Ha moment’ article.
It answers so many questions and opens up new pathways and opportunities, and makes the next steps so exciting.
Helen

]]> By: Cassandra Williams http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6285 Cassandra Williams Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:06:34 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6285 Hi Bill, I am an empathic sensitive. The positive side of being a sensitive is that I have experienced the beauty and awe of the spiritual realm, but the negative side is that it makes it very difficult for me to be in the world. I experience sensory overload quite easily and become uncomfortably over-stimulated. I’ve learned to handle this by making sure I give myself a lot of alone and quiet time. I am finding, however, that my sensitivity to noise is getting worse. It is so acute and extremely painful. Refocusing and changing modalities just doesn’t cut it. Do you know of anyone like me who was helped by meditating with Holosyc? Will raising my threshold help this, knowing this is my physiology? So you’ll know the full picture, I’m very sensitive to medications, fabrics, smells, light, etc, but not to the extent of noise. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am most grateful for you help and support. Cassandra FROM BILL: EVERYONE who is like you is helped by Holosync. You have what we call a low threshold. What you're describing is being pushed over that threshold by what goes on around you. When you are over your threshold, you unconsciously and automatically begin to make internal representations of what you don't want--so this IS about your focus, because focusing on something means "making internal representations" of it. It's just that your focus is, right now, not a choice for you because you aren't aware enough. Your threshold is the point at which you begin making internal representations (internal picture and internal dialog) of what you don't want. Whenever you do that, you begin to feel bad, overwhelmed, etc. Right now you are doing this automatically, without choice, when the input from your environment gets beyond a certain amount. A low threshold just means that it doesn't take much before you begin making internal representations of what you don't want (and then you feel bad). Holosync raises that threshold so that it takes more and more to put you over your threshold. Another way to say the same thing would be to say that Holosync makes you more aware, so that you find it more and more difficult to do things to yourself that aren't resourceful (like focus on what you don't want and then feel bad). Hi Bill,

I am an empathic sensitive. The positive side of being a sensitive is that I have experienced the beauty and awe of the spiritual realm, but the negative side is that it makes it very difficult for me to be in the world. I experience sensory overload quite easily and become uncomfortably over-stimulated. I’ve learned to handle this by making sure I give myself a lot of alone and quiet time. I am finding, however, that my sensitivity to noise is getting worse. It is so acute and extremely painful. Refocusing and changing modalities just doesn’t cut it. Do you know of anyone like me who was helped by meditating with Holosyc? Will raising my threshold help this, knowing this is my physiology? So you’ll know the full picture, I’m very sensitive to medications, fabrics, smells, light, etc, but not to the extent of noise. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am most grateful for you help and support.

Cassandra

FROM BILL: EVERYONE who is like you is helped by Holosync. You have what we call a low threshold. What you’re describing is being pushed over that threshold by what goes on around you. When you are over your threshold, you unconsciously and automatically begin to make internal representations of what you don’t want–so this IS about your focus, because focusing on something means “making internal representations” of it. It’s just that your focus is, right now, not a choice for you because you aren’t aware enough.

Your threshold is the point at which you begin making internal representations (internal picture and internal dialog) of what you don’t want. Whenever you do that, you begin to feel bad, overwhelmed, etc. Right now you are doing this automatically, without choice, when the input from your environment gets beyond a certain amount. A low threshold just means that it doesn’t take much before you begin making internal representations of what you don’t want (and then you feel bad). Holosync raises that threshold so that it takes more and more to put you over your threshold.

Another way to say the same thing would be to say that Holosync makes you more aware, so that you find it more and more difficult to do things to yourself that aren’t resourceful (like focus on what you don’t want and then feel bad).

]]> By: karyn Sivyer http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6266 karyn Sivyer Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:51:09 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6266 I just wanted to say thank you ...I will soon be ordering awakening level 5 and just have loved the ride and cant wait to reach the summit its amazing!!!! I just wanted to say thank you …I will soon be ordering awakening level 5 and just have loved the ride and cant wait to reach the summit its amazing!!!!

]]> By: Matej Luptak http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6233 Matej Luptak Thu, 01 Jan 2009 07:43:32 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6233 I don't understand how it constantly starts making sense after I read your explanation ON ANYTHING. Here's another example, I am so happy I finally understand this clearly. I think if you wanna use anything to your advantage you have to understand how it works first. Thank you so much. I don’t understand how it constantly starts making sense after I read your explanation ON ANYTHING. Here’s another example, I am so happy I finally understand this clearly.

I think if you wanna use anything to your advantage you have to understand how it works first.

Thank you so much.

]]> By: Robert Woodring http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/comment-page-1/#comment-6230 Robert Woodring Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:41:05 +0000 http://www.centerpointe.com/blog/2008/11/24/its-all-about-awareness/#comment-6230 Bill I do like the way you present things, however; I do have certain questions that this post brings to mind. First, is the question of awareness and oneness that most spiritual teachers push. It seems from what you say they are mutually exclusive...at least to a certain point. Second it would seem that a person that is described as a physchopath can become aware and feel good about mass murder. Third is about the right and left brain being connected or so called "whole brain thinking" as becoming aware. As you well know Women naturally have a thicker connection which serves well in certain areas and not so well in others. For instance women are more easily influenced by words whereas men look to acts. Both can have their drawbacks. My points are you have said a lot...and nothing when it's all broken down and taken to the extreme. But that can be said about most things. Which of course again proves nothing. This doesn't mean I don't appreciate your thoughtful and reasoned blogs its just that I look at things a little differently and I question everything... well almost everything. -Robert FROM BILL: I don't know where you got the idea that I am saying that oneness and awareness are somehow mutually exclusive. What people describe as oneness is the awareness that everything is connected, that nothing exists in isolation. It's all one interconnected thing, flowing along like water. When you are aware this is obvious. A psychopath who became aware would be more likely to see the negative consequences of psychopathological behavior, and how it is not resourceful (ie, it does not serve the psychopath, much less anyone else). Bill I do like the way you present things, however; I do have certain questions that this post brings to mind.
First, is the question of awareness and oneness that most spiritual teachers push. It seems from what you say they are mutually exclusive…at least to a certain point.
Second it would seem that a person that is described as a physchopath can become aware and feel good about mass murder.
Third is about the right and left brain being connected or so called “whole brain thinking” as becoming aware. As you well know Women naturally have a thicker connection which serves well in certain areas and not so well in others. For instance women are more easily influenced by words whereas men look to acts. Both can have their drawbacks.
My points are you have said a lot…and nothing when it’s all broken down and taken to the extreme. But that can be said about most things. Which of course again proves nothing.
This doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate your thoughtful and reasoned blogs its just that I look at things a little differently and I question everything… well almost everything.
-Robert

FROM BILL: I don’t know where you got the idea that I am saying that oneness and awareness are somehow mutually exclusive. What people describe as oneness is the awareness that everything is connected, that nothing exists in isolation. It’s all one interconnected thing, flowing along like water. When you are aware this is obvious.

A psychopath who became aware would be more likely to see the negative consequences of psychopathological behavior, and how it is not resourceful (ie, it does not serve the psychopath, much less anyone else).

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