* Glowing Testimonial of the Month (scroll to #8)

* BOOK REVIEW (scroll to #9)
Happiness is Free...And it's Easier than you think
by Hale Dwoskin and Lester Levenson
review by Katie Sparks

* Important Announcements (scroll to #10)

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4. MIND CHATTER contains articles about:

*How you create your life--and how you can stop unconsciously creating experiences and outcomes you do not want, and instead begin to create exactly what you do want

*Personal and spiritual growth in general

*Meditation (high- and low-tech)

*Recovery from emotional trauma

*Pretty much any other subject I get excited about and want to write about. After all, it's my company and my newsletter, and I can do whatever I want with it. So there.

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5. Mind Quotes

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
- Ralph Nader

Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
-unknown

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
- J.Richard Clarke

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6. I want to show you how to create the exact life you want--inside and out!

I know that many people may have promised that they can teach you how to create the life you want.

I promise you that I really can--and have for thousands of people.

I've also arranged for you to be able to experience a sample of how I do it, FREE.

So, here's a very special opportunity for you...something that can totally turn your life around. And, it could be worth a considerable amount of money to you, as well.

Just for a moment, imagine:

WHAT IF you could be IN CHARGE of what happens to you--including your feelings and emotions and other internal states, as well as your external results?...

Wouldn't that be a lot better than waiting for life to "just happen," where you sometimes get what you want, and sometimes you get what you don't want?

Are you willing to learn exactly HOW you can do this?

For the last year and a half, I've been teaching three 12-lesson online courses called the Life Principles Integration Process, or LPIP, that teach you all of this, and more. I've received thousands of emails and letters from the people in these courses telling me how what they've learned has transformed their lives, even saved their lives. (You can see some of the comments people have made below.)

So more people could afford the LPIP courses, and as an introductory offer, I'm offering them for an incredibly low $249 per course.

And, if you sign up for all three, I'll give you the third course for FREE.

This actually made each course $166 each, about $13.83 per lesson.

If I taught the LPIP material in seminar form, it would probably take at least ten long intense days to teach each course. And with all the personal follow-up I include I'd have to charge several thousand dollars per course for you to attend.

And even at that lofty price, it would be worth it, I promise you.

Not only that, there is an iron-clad money back guarantee on these courses.Take the course and do the homework, and if you don't think this is the most transformational experience you've ever had, I'll immediately refund your entire tuition.

In other words, you have nothing to lose but whatever ways you have been automatically creating what you don't want in life.

I will warn you, though. These LPIP courses are not your typical pablum-filled feel-good seminars where you feel high at the end but realize three weeks later that little if anything really changed.

If you take these three courses, EVERYTHING will change--and, for the better. Your life will be transformed. You will have all the tools you need to be in direct control of your life--your feelings, your internal state, your external results, your behavior.

And, you will gain a huge insight into who you really are, why you're here, and what life is all about.

Plus you'll learn, step-by-step, the exact strategies, internal and external, used by the most successful people in the world to get anything they want. And, I'll show you how to make sure you use them and make them work for you.

And, as I said, if you don't get what you want from these courses, for any reason, you can get a refund. I'm taking all the risk, other than your time investment in actually doing the lessons.

If you're not serious about changing your life, if you aren't willing to do what it takes to operate at the highest level and really be happy, peaceful, and successful ALL THE TIME, this isn't for you.

But if you're serious, if you're sincere, these three courses will utterly and completely change your life.

Here's a huge and very unique benefit you'll get from these LPIP online courses:

In addition to everything else, all LPIP course participants get unlimited email access to me for any questions they have about course content. I answer every one of these emails personally--no staff members are involved--and some of my answers, when necessary, are sometimes three, five, even seven pages long.

I put everything into this course, because I really, sincerely want you to get everything I'm promising.

You though, have a part in the success of these courses--in fact, a big part. I don't wave a magic want over you and change you into a happy, peaceful, successful person in complete control of his or her life.

If just tell you how to do it, and give you an easy way to make the change.

Because I have such a huge personal time investment in answering all your questions, I want to make one thing very clear, though. Please DO NOT take these courses unless you're willing to do your part. I do not have the time to waste on those who aren't sincere and aren't willing to pay the price to create the internal changes they want.

But if you ARE sincere, and you really do want to change your life, I want to show you how to do it, and I will take you, step by step, through everything you need to know.

You CAN create an entirely new life for yourself, regardless of your past or present circumstances.

You can read more about each course and what it includes, and even listen to a free preview lesson, just by clicking below:

http://www.centerpointe.com/life/preview

So please, go listen to the free preview lesson, and if you really are ready to change your life, enroll in this amazing courses risk-free.

I look forward to having you in these courses and showing you that the possibilities for what your life can be really are limitless...regardless of your present or past circumstances.

Just click here to listen to the free preview lesson and to take advantage of the old low price before we're forced to raise it on March 1st:

http://www.centerpointe.com/life/preview

Be well.

Bill

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Spiritual Cinema Circle

What if you could see the best of the spiritually-oriented, uplifting, and heart-filled movies and short-subjects made each year, in the privacy of your own home--personally chosen for you by noted Hollywood film producer Steven Simon from the top movies, shown at top film festivals?

Steven Simon knows movies. Some of his work as a Hollywood producer includes Somewhere in Time starring Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve, and What Dreams May Come starring Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding.

Steven, though, left Hollywood a couple of years ago to pursue his dream of spreading uplifting, spiritual entertainment--movies that rarely make it to theaters, and often don't even make it to the rental market--yet are uplifting, thought-provoking, heart-opening movies. To bring these movies to people who will really appreciate them, such as you and me, Steven has started The Spiritual Cinema Circle.

Here's what Steven told me: "Before now, hardly anybody got to see the best movies made each year. Now, with The Circle, you can enjoy heartful, soulful movies ... without leaving home."

Here's how the Spiritual Cinema Circle works:

* Each month you receive 3-5 features and shorts on DVD. The movies are personally selected by Steven Simon and his team. These movies represent the best of spiritual cinema and art.

* The movies are new films you're unlikely to see anywhere else.

* The DVDs are yours to keep. You don't have to return them. In fact, you're encouraged to share them with friends and family, in order to broaden the worldwide Spiritual Cinema community.

* The cost of the service is kept deliberately low, so the maximum number of people can participate. If you join now, you become a Charter Member of The CIRCLE. Charter members pay only $24 per month instead of the regular $29 fee (plus $1.95 shipping and handling; outside USA $5.95).

* There's no risk - you may cancel your membership at any time. And remember, you never have to return any of your DVDs, even if you decide to cancel your membership.

I'm sending this email because I've enjoyed these movies so much I just new I had to share this resource with all of you. Go check out their web page for descriptions of the movies you'll see, comments from other members, and other details. I know you'll be inspired to join, and if you don't like it for some reason (which I doubt), you can always un-join at any time.

http://www.spiritualcinemacircle.com/?af=20

Be well.

Bill

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7. Feature Article
When Meditation is Boring
by Bill Harris, Director

I want to begin by thanking Jennifer K., who wrote this in response to my article about Holosync in the last issue:

"I'd like to see articles about the meditation itself, like what to do when you're getting bored with meditations and feel like giving it up, what to do when it seems like nothing's happening, whether it matters if you meditate lying down, explanations for various weird experiences you can have while meditating, etc."

So, for Jennifer, and for everyone else with similar questions, let's talk about meditation, high and low-tech, and answer some of these questions.

All meditation begins with the premise that you are not the individual ego you think you are. Rather, you are the entire complex process that makes up the whole universe. The entire process is irrevocably connected, and any divisions into separate things or separate events is an illusion. Certain things you do inside your mind cause you to have the illusion that you are a separate entity--"a separate ego in a bag of skin" as Alan Watts was fond of saying.

Meditation, then, is a way to get the mind and the illusion of separateness out of the way. Whenever an individual has done this, in all cultures and in all times, they report the same thing: they contact reality directly, without the filter of the mind. When this happens the person instantly knows who he or she really is--the going on of it all, and the nothingness out of which it all arises, moment by moment, endlessly.

Knowing who you really are, a number of remarkable things happen. First, you stop being afraid because you realize that there is nothing outside of you to be afraid of. You stop striving to get certain things or to avoid certain things. Why? Because you are all of it already. You now can see that there is nowhere to go and nothing to get. Only being in the world created by the mind can make you think that there is somewhere to go, something to get, or something to be afraid of.

For this reason those who do realize who they really are experience incredible peace--"the peace that passes all understanding".

So what? you say. What you describe isn't my experience, and I have no way to know if what you say is really true. I don't want more philosophy. I want you to answer those questions Jennifer asked. Fair enough. I begin with this bit of philosophy, the description of reality, because it is useful in understanding the answers I will give.

Many people, not knowing what I have just said, are meditating for other reasons. They want to end their unhappiness. They want relief from anxiety, depression, anger, unease, a lack of fulfillment, and other similar problems. My contention is that all of these are symptoms of falling for the illusion of separateness, that meditation is the cure, and that Holosync meditation is a much faster cure.

Jennifer begins by asking what to do when you are getting bored with your meditation. Let's look at this question more carefully. If you are doing something designed to help you realize who you really are, something that is supposed to eliminate the root cause of your suffering, does it really matter if you get bored? With any goal there may be times when you become bored or discouraged. Those who remain focused on the goal--whatever it is--during these times continue to move forward. Those who lose their focus, or focus on aspects of the process that may be unpleasant, become sidetracked.

Both boredom or interest are side-effects of the way you focus your mind. They do not happen to you--you do something inside to create them. When you become bored, you are in some way focusing on what you do not want--you want a certain experience, but it isn't happening. Your body is uncomfortable and you don't like it. In some way, you are focusing on something about the process that you don't want.

A common mistake in meditation is wanting a certain experience, or wanting to avoid certain experiences. You want some fireworks, you want a sign that "it's working," you want some sizzle. But it's not sizzling, and you want it to be something it isn't in that moment. This is an example of focusing on what you do not want.

When you do this, you instantly feel bad. In this case, the bad feeling is boredom, though it could be one of many other negative feelings. Most people blame the bad feeling on their current activity, in this case, meditation. Actually, though, it isn't the meditation, but rather your wanting your meditation to be something it isn't. This is why I so strongly urge everyone to let whatever happens be okay--in or out of meditation. Resisting what is (in other words, focusing on what you do not want) always creates some kind of unpleaseant feeling.

Resistance to what is (or isn't) happening in meditation is often based on an erroneous idea of what is supposed to happen. Many people think they are meditating to get a certain effect or experience. Though many wonderful experiences can happen during meditation, this is not the reason to meditate--or at least it shouldn't be.

If you don't want to seek certain experiences and you don't want to try to avoid certain experiences, then what should your attitude be as you meditate? You should seek to find out what will happen as you meditate. Your approach should be one of curiosity. As you meditate, you are watching your mind do whatever it does to create your moment-by-moment reality. As it relaxes and becomes quieter, you will begin to see the spaces between the reality your mind creates. As this happens, you will begin to glimpse who and what you are, beyond the mind.

Look at it this way. Your mind is creating your reality. There are things about this reality that you don't like. Sometimes it creates anxiety, confusion, anger, feelings of separation, despair, fear, and all the consequences of these and other feelings. Wouldn't it be a good idea to become very clear about how this creation happens? To do that, you must watch your mind with great curiosity. If it does something you don't like, including any of the feelings I just mentioned--or, boredom--watch closely and find out how your mind is creating these feelings and their consequences. Become very curious.

Most people have such a knee-jerk reaction to negative feelings that instead of watching intently they instantly go into resistance. As you must know by now, resistance creates more of what is being resisted, and it instantly creates bad feelings. Whatever happens in meditation--or in life--watch it with curiosity. When you do this, something quite amazing happens. If what you are watching is resourceful, it will continue. If it is not resourceful, it will dissolve--to the degree that you are able to watch yourself, with awareness, create it.

Whatever meditation technique you're using, you're doing something to your mind. The idea is that over time the mind will become quieter. As this happens, it will create less confusion in you. In a huge crowd at a wild party, there may be a lot of confusion and a lot of chaos. As the crowd thins out in the wee hours, things begin to calm down and it is easier to see what is going on. The same thing happens with the mind. As you still your mind through Holosync meditation, it becomes more and more easy to see what it is doing and how what it is doing creates your reality.

Eventually, there will be intervals where you won't be looking at everything through the filter of the mind, and you'll be able to see past the mind. At these times you will have glimpses of who you really are. As you provide this stimulus--the stimulus of meditation--to the mind, a whole variety of things could happen, some dramatic, and some not. Whatever happens, let it be okay.

Yes, it's more fun if something dramatic happens. As long as we are tied to the mind and what it creates, it seems as if we need some sort of action in order to feel alive. But the real aliveness comes from finding out who you are beyond the mind.

Yes, we like it better if we end a meditation feeling relaxed and happy. But as I said, you're meditating not to have a certain thing happen, but to see what happens. This is part of the process of finding out who you are, which begins with seeing how your mind creates your current illusion of who you are. Sometimes that means boredom. Sometimes it means upheaval. Sometimes it means bliss. It doesn't matter. Approach your meditations with curiosity. And, if you are bored or agitated or something else happens that you don't like, realize that your mind has shown you a part of your "small self"--the self created by the mind. As you continue to meditate this small self becomes less and less prominent and the real self begins to shine through. Be willing to go through this process.

When it seems as if nothing is happening, realize that something IS happening--it just isn't as dramatic as you want it to be. Also realize that you often can't tell what is happening from a subjective point of view. It seems as if little or nothing is happening, but later you find out that all the while, under the surface, quite a bit was happening. You may not feel relaxed and peaceful, but you may be releasing some of what keeps you from being relaxed and peaceful all the time. That's how the process works. Either you get a peek at who you really are behind the mind, or you are releasing something that will eventually allow these peeks to be more profound.

Many people come to us with a lot of unhappiness. They have tried many things in order to change, but often these things have not worked very well, or at all. When tehy try Holosync, in the back of their mind is the nagging idea that this, too, will fail. They think that perhaps there's something wrong with them that will prevent Holosync from working, too. They see Holosync, or other approaches, seeming to work for other people, but nothing seems to work for them.

And, on top of that, you spent good money in order to get certain results!

So if you get bored, or have some other experience you don't like--you end up feeling agitated after a meditation, or in some way it doesn't go the way you would like it to be going--you begin to think "I knew it. This isn't going to work, either."

This is a question of faith. Faith is a tricky thing, because when you have faith, your mind picks it up and puts you into the fast lane of getting what you want. It almost seems unfair: if you have faith, you get what you want easily and effortlessly, but if you don't have faith nothing seems to work. How do you get what you need when you need to have it already in order to get it?

In this case, all you need is enough faith to keep listening to Holosync every day. You don't need faith for Holosync to work, you just need faith to get yourself to use it. At first, you might have to get your faith from an outside source, which is one reason why I write these articles and send the support material and all the things I do to support you as you use the program. I am supplying faith from the outside until you get enough of it that you don't need me.

Just know that no matter what happens while you are listening, it's working. Though we of course like it better when things feel good, ultimately it doesn't matter what happens while you meditate. There is no way, if you keep using Holosync, that it can fail to work, any more than you can get in the shower without getting wet. If you stimulate your mind with Holosync, it will eventually get the mind out of the way, and as that happens you will find yourself happier, more peaceful, and more aware of your connection to everything else.

If you have an idea of how is SHOULD work, what SHOULD happen, what you SHOULD (or should not) experience, you will probably be disappointed, because the process is going to unfold in its own way, depending on your mind and how it currently creates what you take to be reality. Whatever you experience when you listen to Holosync, you are seeing yourself--or at least the small self created by your mind--in that moment.

So when you have a meditation where you are bored and feel like giving up, become very curious about the boredom. Notice exactly what it feels like. Notice where you feel it in your body. Notice what thoughts you are having. Somehow, you are creating boredom in this moment. Watch carefully and learn what you can about how your mind is creating your experience.

The times when meditation is the least pleasurable are generally the times when the most progress is being made. These are the times to become very curious, and above all, to stick with it.

Be well.

Bill

PS: If you found this article helpful, please email Mind Chatter to a friend.

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8. Glowing Testimonials and Letters

In response to your support follow up letter #10. I would like to inform you that your program is working very well for me.

I would like to mention that when I started your Program I was informed that a person with major psychological problems to participate in this Program only under the guidance of a qualified therapist. Since I could not afford to pay a qualified therapist I decided to start your program. All my life I have lived in adversity and pain so I am used to it. No pain no gain.

In these seven months on the program I have had improvements that have surprised me. There is a lots of things that have happened that I do not understand, like the upheaval and the cathartic reaction but since I have placed my trust in the program I did not concern myself to much.

The progress I have made in those seven months were very surprising. I have become more self aware, I was getting physically and mentally stronger. I started to resolve problems and becoming more disciplined and tenacious. To me this was very important. There is other progress I have made. I will keep you informed in the future. I will continue on the Prologue for four more months. I will start on [Awakening] Level 1 in November. Let's just say that up until now that I am very satisfied of my progress. It makes me feel good physically and mentally and that is very important for me. Thank you, Bill Harris, to have given me the opportunity to change my life in a great way.

Sincerely,

Claude

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Since practising the program my own personal envisionary qualities have been re-engaged. My feelings of wonder and magic and sense of personal power are growing in a sense of connectiveness and quality of heart that belonged to me in my youth. I have a sense of ecstasy that seems to exude and press forward unrelentingly from my body and I have noticed the same unrelenting force externally pressing back. For the first time I truly understand what it means to accept your fate in humbleness because what comes to you is part of you. It seems to be only when you get overwhelmed that this unrelenting force is separate to you.

Warmest regards,

Marc

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