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Welcome to Mind Chatter #119, the August 1, 2003 Interim Report.
On August 16, you'll receive a full issue of Mind Chatter.
You may know that for the last two months I have been offering the
first of three telecourses, in which over 900 people call in every
two weeks as I teach some very interesting information about how
anyone can learn to create the exact inner and outer results they
want.
This first telecourse investigates what I call your internal map of
reality in considerable detail, taking each part of it (beliefs,
values, internal strategies, ways you have of filtering information
as it comes in, along with ways you have of sorting it, storing it,
remembering, and retrieving it, as well as internal strategies for
making decisions, and the decisions themselves, plus a few other
things) and figuring out exactly how it operates to create your
experience of life.
As we do this, people become conscious of what was previously
operating unconsciously. As they do this, they find it more and more
difficult to continue creating dysfunctional results in their lives,
and begin to create what they want.
We're almost ready to offer an on-line version of this telecourse, in
which you can listen to the same calls, either by audio streaming or
by downloading the file and listening to it on your computer. You can
even burn each call onto a CD and listen in your car. We're going to
offer people who take the online version of the course the same
ability to email me with their questions as they use each lesson.
I'll let you know when this course is ready, which should be very
soon. Based on the response we're getting, I strongly suggest you
take this course--unless, of course, you're already creating the
exact inner experiences and outer results you want in life. It will
be very reasonably priced, and I've really gone the extra mile to
make sure people really get all the benefits the course provides.
There are three different courses in this series:
1) The Map of Reality Expander (investigating your internal map of
reality and how it creates your life, and how to change it so you
create what you want)
2) The Accelerated Change Maximizer (how positive change happens, how
to deal with the kind of accelerated change created by Holosync, and
how to keep from sabotaging yourself when you want to make changes)
3) The Success Solution (about how to create results in the world and
achieve anything you want in life).
Each course consists of 12 calls, plus notes in outline form of each
call and homework to make sure you really internalize the principles.
Finally, each person has the ability to email me with questions as
they go through the course. If you get confused, I'm there to help
you out.
We're about a third of the way through the first course. We've just
finished discovering our life values, putting them in order of
importance, finding any conflicts, and then finding out which values
actually represented things we were moving away from rather than
toward. (See the last Mind Chatter where I discuss this in much more
detail.) Then, we did some pretty amazing things to resolve the
conflicts and get rid of what causes us to move AWAY from what we
don't want instead of moving toward what we do want.
Why is moving away from what you don't want an issue? Because to move
away from what you don't want, you have to focus on it, and your
brain can't tell that you want to avoid it. It just takes whatever
you focus on as an instruction to create it or draw it to you.
We move away from what we don't want because we have had significant
negative emotional experiences that have led us to think: "There's
danger out there, and I have to watch out for it and avoid it." Then,
in order to watch out for this danger (whether it's physical or
emotional), we have to focus on it, and, that causes the brain to
actually create more of it--especially if there is a lot of emotion
involved.
So, in the last call I led people through a process in which they
identified the root cause that started the whole problem, and then
traveled back to the root cause, on their time line of memories, and
got rid of all the negative emotional charge from that root cause.
Once this emotional charge is gone, there is no reason to move away
From it anymore, which means we stop focusing on it, which means we
stop creating more of it.
You might be interested to know that this takes all of ten to fifteen
minutes in most cases.
In this way, people can stop creating failure, bad relationships,
self-sabotage of all kinds, and get rid of a whole range of
dysfunctional feelings and behaviors. This process of dealing with
values and healing the problems we found in them has created some
very profound change for the people listening to these calls.
I don't mean for this to be a commercial for these courses (I really
do have something else in mind to share with you in this issue), but
here are a few of the comments I've received from people who are
currently taking the course:
Again, Bill, I cannot overstate how impressed I am with your
commitment to all of us getting this material. Everything is so well
organized...from the actual call to the notes and the download
information. I really want to get my life in order and I'm most
appreciative of your generosity and assistance. The programs that you
create are unbelievably effective. I've just started the third level
of awakening and am finding it to be wonderful. If I can resolve
these value conflicts and remove the source of some of these other
value issues, I'll really start to fly.
Thank you again.
Maggie C.
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This isn't a question and I will make it brief. THANK YOU, THANK YOU,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!! The first lesson was worth
the price of this course, and more. I have heard and read similar
material before, but somehow you manage to present it so that it gets
through in a powerful way. Still much work to do, but I have had a
couple of insights that I believe will be life changing. My pressing
issue is one of health and I can now see how my core beliefs
contribute to the results I am getting. Not yet convinced it is the
ENTIRE answer, but working on that. Anything you can add
about dealing with physical issues is appreciated. I simply can't
tell you how grateful I am to you -- and you're plenty funny!
Jean M.
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Hi Bill,
Thank you for the course. I am really enjoying it. I got the time
line and have listened to it twice more online. It is a profound way
to shift stuff. I am looking forward to next weeks call.
blessed be
Debbie J.
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Hi Bill, just to let you know that chunking up the beliefs worked a treat!
Thank you. Your values talks have been tremendous for me. Thought I'd
let you know, to counter-balance the people contacting you who are
having difficulty.
Suddenly after putting my values into a hierarchy, I hit a day of
feeling profoundly miserable, I tried your advice of just
interestingly watching it rather than "trying" to do something about
it, I hoped it was a harbinger of a quantum leap. That night I did
the timeline process.
My main moving away from was away from being controlled. The timeline
process blew so much for me! And I found a surprising aspect to the
incident which I had never spotted before.
I think you have significantly improved my life! I'm eagerly waiting
for the next time someone tries to impose control on me and I'm
interested to see how I react!
I wonder if people having difficulty have omitted doing the holosync
soundtracks, regularly? It helps me.
After the timeline process, I did the usual Holosync and afterwards
had an exciting night's dreams. Much more random and wild than usual.
Control seemed to be a theme of a lot of them!
Keep up the good work!
Richard
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Bill;
That was a great class on lesson 4. I was floating around for days.
After a week or so I went back to trying to assemble a new Values
list and saw a similar pattern in them and then that released and so
on. I'm still working on Values and every time it releases and I feel
like that Zen state of "Who Cares", although that's probably not the
right meaning. I feel like I care a lot but so what, I don't care.
Who needs a Value anyway?
In one process you helped me clear up a internal battle I have tried
to solve for over 30 years, I thought they were conflicting values
but they were really the same thing. Uh Huh. Well thanks for the
wonderful program, I think I'll sit back and do my best to enjoy the
rest of it. How good can it get?
Aloha
Jeff
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Bill,
I want to let you that your series of calls have "empowered" me, yes, I
feel empowered because I discovered so much of myself which I have
never known and now know where the root causes are.
After doing the value homework, to my horror, I discovered that at
the top of my list is "approval"--moving away from fear for
rejection. I had spent most of life running around at other people's
beck and call just to win their approval and I am exhausted and feel
that I have no time for myself. While doing the time line process, I
had this distinct image of when I was about 5 or 6 years (30 years
ago) and this relative (she had passed away for quite few years) kept
comparing me with my cousins and telling everybody that I was not as
smart, as pretty etc and I felt so hurt and inadequate then. I have
yet to do the re-evaluation of my values again but I am sure
"approval" will not be at the top this time. I just want to say thank
you.
Poh
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Bill,
I really appreciate your taking the time to answer my questions, and
so promptly! More importantly, I also appreciate your making the
conference calls and the Holosync technology possible! You've given
me new insights on things, and I'm already seeing changes in my life!
Dave
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Bill
Thanks so much for your help and your quick response to my questions.
I think this course in fascinating and I'm getting a lot of insight
out of it. These are exactly the kinds of things I have been studying
all of my life and this is such an eye opener and kind of bringing
everything together for me.
Many thanks
Sandie
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Hello Sir,
I want to once again express my gratitude for what you are doing.
This process is illuminating and lifting burdens I didn't realize I
had. The root cause of many of my "moving away froms" was fear of
being hurt physically and emotionally. I felt the fear (from the
distance) and once the exercise was over, I could not bring it back.
It is amazing to me to perceive that I have been bringing this fear
into my life so many times, feeling the fear in this life time. The
sensation within my brain seemed to be a major linking or something
and the 3rd eye area thing felt like several twitches. I know that
may sound totally weird, but it is true.
Geeze! If this is only the beginning, I am totally excited to find
out what else so revealing and liberating I will find in this journey
of unfolding and discovery.
If I could, I would give you a loving hug. I would saying "God Bless
you!", but really you are the instrument of Blessing for me and so
many people. I think I have had many friends in my many lives, but
none have had such a profound effect on freeing me from my self made
hell. (Hell being all the pain and suffering I have created for
myself in ignorance.)
As Picard of Star Trek might say, "Let's see what's out there. Engage!"
Jerry
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Hi, Bill,
My experience of the Time Line Process was that it's life-changing.
I've been looking for ways for years to help myself become more
consistent, more congruent and harmonious.
Warm Regards,
Sandy
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Wow, you are not kidding when you say you really want to help. I
knew that already though. Thank you so much. You, your program, and
your teachings have changed my life completely-much needed.
Lee
At any rate, when we get this online version ready--which will be
soon--I encourage those of you not currently participating to take
the online version.
Okay, enough of that. I got kind of carried away there when I looked
at all the emails from people who have been blown away by their
results in this course.
Anyway, onward.
The great thing about teaching this course is that it challenges me
to further clarify my own thinking, and it gives me feedback about
what keeps people stuck. Then I can figure out ways to help people
get past whatever it is they've been inadvertently doing to stay
stuck.
So, I want to try to describe something I've noticed in a lot of the
people who are taking the telecourse, and who are having difficulty
doing the homework I assign. I also see these things in people who
have trouble using Holosync. Perhaps you do some of the same things
in your life, without knowing it.
In giving the homework for the telecourse, I am, first of all,
dealing with material I have been teaching for years, and have been
thinking about for decades. Most of it came from my own attempts to
figure out my own problems and to figure out why I was having trouble
getting better, despite all the personal growth approaches I was
using with such discipline. At the time I was going through my own
healing process, I did everything possible to screw things up, and
was quite miserable, but I can see now that it was a blessing in
disguise. Why ? Because it gave me tremendous insight into the many
ways people sabotage themselves from actually creating positive
change (I tried most of them, believe me, and they work).
So when I give the homework in the telecourse, I'm pretty clear about
how to phrase things so people have less confusion and less of an
ability to misinterpret what to do. But some people are very
creative, and also very invested in NOT changing (unconsciously, of
course), even though on a conscious level they really want to change.
Why do people do this? Because we create an internal map of reality
as we grow up, and we create it in such a way as to create the
maximum amount of safety in our family situation. The greater the
lack of safety (physical or emotional), the more safety becomes
important in shaping this internal map.
When we grow up, even though we are not in the same situation, and
now don't need all the strategies we used in order to be safe while
growing up, we still cling to this same map of reality. When it
causes us problems (for instance, when we move away from what we
don't want), we may seek out personal growth programs or therapy in
an attempt to change. If these things are at all effective, we get
right to the brink of change, and that unconscious part of us (the
part that thinks it isn't safe) says "What? Change this? Are you
kidding? This is what has kept me safe all these years, and I don't
want to change it." For this reason, we unconsciously resist the very
changes that, on a conscious level, we desperately want.
This safety part of us, then, comes up with the most creative ways to
keep things the same. It thinks it needs to do this in order to be
safe. So, here I am, giving directions and instructions to people who
are on these calls, and some people are finding the most creative
ways to not get it. One way people do this is to add steps to any
instruction in such a way that they end up in confusion.
In this course I am often asking people to allow their unconscious
mind to help them (your unconscious mind is a faithful helper, if you
will let it). For instance, I asked people "If there was a root cause
to _____, that if we disconnect it will cause the whole problem to
disappear from your life, would that root cause have been before,
during, or after your birth? Just let your unconscious mind pop the
answer into your head and trust what comes."
Then, instead of just taking whatever pops into their head (before,
during, or after their birth), they begin to analyze things. They
think, "Gee, I don't remember much about my childhood. And how would
I know if it was really the root cause?" Then they write to me and
say the process doesn't work.
Now my response is that I began by telling them that they didn't need
to consciously know any of this stuff, but that their unconscious
mind knows, and that's all that matters. All they need to know is to
trust what pops into their head as I ask them the questions. Instead,
they try to do, with their conscious mind, what I want them to do
with their unconscious mind. They try to think themselves through it,
when I want them to just follow the simple instructions, without
thinking about them. I never asked them to analyze the questions or
the answers, but something in them thinks they have to do this.
In hearing this from quite a few people, I realized that some people
do this all the time! In nearly every situation, as they go through
the steps of any procedure, they look for all the possible variations
of what they could do, or what could go wrong, or what could happen,
and then, because they don't know which of the variations are "right"
and which are "wrong," they freeze and give up.
In one process that I recorded as part of the telecourse, designed to
resolve conflicts between their values, I ask the parts that are in
conflict to come out (in the person's imagination) and stand on each
of the person's two hands. I then ask if these parts look like anyone
they know. I have people stop the process at that point, because the
parts don't look like someone they know, and they are afraid they are
doing it wrong. By analyzing all the possibilities, especially while
thinking "Oh, no. I might make a mistake!" they sabotage themselves.
In any set of instructions, there are decisions to make in each step.
You have to do the step, and then decide if you think you actually
have done it, and it is time to go on to the next step. You do this
every time you come to an intersection to decide whether to turn or
go straight. You do it when you look in your closet every morning to
pick something to wear--and in thousands of situations each day, some
minor, and some not so minor. Most of this decision process goes on
completely out of your awareness. If, at each juncture, however, you
think of fifteen possible other ways you could have done it, picture
not doing it right and say to yourself "I don't want to make a
mistake" and then conclude that you have no way of knowing which is
right, you will either stop yourself from continuing, or, if you do
continue, do it with a lot of anxiety.
This is one way people create emotions, such as confusion and
anxiety, and then blame them on the situation, when the cause is
actually their strategy of dealing with the situation.
And, I want you to know that these strategies can be identified, and
unlearned (that's one of the things we're doing in the telecourse).
Another variation on this is to look at the results of each step,
compare them to an impossible standard--often one that you threw into
the mix and that is completely different than what you've been told
to expect--and then conclude that the whole thing is impossible. And,
then, of course, quit.
I know these sound like minor things, but I assure you they aren't.
Some people do this with everything, including every personal growth
approach they try. These people come to use saying "I've tried
everything, and nothing works for me." The implication is that they
are hopeless, when really they just have a strategy for creating
hopelessness.
We have people who begin The Holosync Solution program, and either
their mind is VERY active when they listen to Holosync, or they fall
asleep. Despite the fact that we tell them this both of these are
very likely to happen, and that they are normal and a part of the
process, they write to me and say "I keep falling asleep, so I know
it isn't working." (You can't be meditating if you fall asleep.) Or,
they say, "My mind is so busy and I can't stop thinking, so I know it
isn't working." (Your mind must be quiet or you aren't meditating).
By adding criteria that were not there, or comparing what is
happening to standards that are either impossible or irrelevant or
just plain wrong, they find a way to make what they are doing "not
work."
Here's another example. From time to time, we make mistakes at
Centerpointe (I know this is hard to believe, but it's true). At
various times, we have sent out literature that contained
typographical mistakes, misspelled words, missing words, and so on. I
actually have people, from time to time, who decide they cannot trust
the program to work because they found these typos! Now, we may not
always be A students in English (or at least, in proofreading), but
that doesn't mean the program doesn't do exactly what we say it will
do. But somehow, some people create a connection between these two
things (typos=program not working), and allow themselves to forgo
something that could change their life for a reason totally unrelated
to anything that matters. It would be as if I wouldn't drive a Ford
because the CEO wore the wrong kind of hat.
The point is that there are strategies that are resourceful and
strategies that are not. Analyzing each step of a process to make
sure you have every detail right is not resourceful, unless you're
doing brain surgery--especially if the person leading you through it
has told you to disregard everything but what he has mentioned and
not to worry about what else your mind creates. In the same way,
applying criteria to something for which there is no connection is
also unresourceful and unhelpful.
I don't know if my explanation of this is enough to help you see this
when you do it yourself. But if you find yourself confused, or unable
to do something that others are finding fairly easy to do, you might
stop and take a look at whether or not you are over-analyzing the
directions, or applying criteria that you added that may not actually
be relevant.
One of the effects of using Holosync is that, over time, you begin to
become conscious of these kinds of unresourceful strategies in
yourself, and in becoming conscious of them, they fall away. So keep
listening to Holosync, and I look forward to talking to you very soon
in the online version of the telecourse.
Be well.
Bill Harris
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