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1. Welcome to Issue #140 (September 17, 2004) of MIND CHATTER
Mind Chatter is published once a month, on or about the 16th of each month.
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3. In This Issue
* MindQuotes (scroll to #5)
* A few recommendations that may benefit you (scroll to item #6)
* Ken Wilber update (scroll to item #7)
* Two Keys to Positive Change
by Bill Harris, Director (scroll to item #8)
* Glowing Testimonial of the Month (scroll to #9)
* BOOK REVIEW (scroll to #10)
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Julia Cameron
Reviewed by Katie Sparks
* Important Announcements (scroll to #11)
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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
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
- Margaret B. Runbeck
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
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6. Something important for everyone who wants a close, loving, conscious relationship...
You can still participate in a relationship tele-seminar by internationally known relationship experts Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks.
This telephone seminar does not cost anything.
Gay and Kathlyn and I have become very good friends over the last year, and because their new book, Lasting Love (Rodale Publishers), hit the bookstores a few months ago, I convinced Gay and Katie to do a free tele-seminar for Mind
Chatter subscribers about the new information they've discovered about how to create close, loving relationships that really work. (Yes, it is possible.)
Two kinds of people will greatly benefit from this free seminar:
1) Those who want to make their current relationship into a GREAT relationship...
2) Those who aren't in a relationship right now--or even those who may have "given up" on relationships--but really would like to find Mr. or Ms. Right and create a relationship that really does have all the love, intimacy, and
companionship you've always wanted.
This is practical, cutting edge information that the Hendricks have successfully taught to thousands of singles and couples who wanted to stop the merry-go-round of conflict, fighting, and lack of closeness, and create relationships the
way you really want them to be.
Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have appeared on Oprah twice, they've been on Good Morning America, Larry King, and many other television and radio programs, and they've published many best-selling books, including the classic,
Conscious Loving.
Gay and Kathlyn are super teachers, and in this seminar they will explain some key concepts that really will make a huge difference in your current relationship (even if you're the only one in the relationship who uses them).
Again, this seminar is 100% "no charge" to you, so there's no reason to not participate if you're even remotely interested in creating a close, loving relationship.
Here's how to participate:
1. Go to
http://www.therelationshipsolution.com/teleseminar
2. Type in your name and email address.
3. Click "submit."
You'll then receive the telephone number to call, along with the passcode to key in once you're connected to the call, by email.
Then, all you have to do is call in about 2 minutes before the seminar and enjoy listening to two of the world's top relationship experts in a private, no-cost seminar I've arranged for them to teach, especially for you.
There is a limit the number of people who can participate, so please register right away.
Here's the link again to sign up:
http://www.therelationshipsolution.com/teleseminar
Remember, this great seminar by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks is my gift to you. Enjoy! And please feel free to send the link to all your friends.
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Is it really possible to create the exact life you want--inside and out?
Yes, it is.
Unless you're new to Mind Chatter, you know that about fifteen months ago I started a series of teleconference lessons--three courses, of 12 lessons each--collectively called The Life Principles Integration Process. Now over 2,436 people
are participating in these courses, and people in these courses are experiencing huge positive changes.
These courses are now available in a very inexpensive and very easy to use on-line form.
Here's the idea: Whether you know it or not, you are creating your internal and external reality (if that doesn't seem to be true, it's because you're doing it, for the most part, unconsciously and automatically, outside your awareness).
When you live this way, part of the time you will get what you want and part of the time you won't--but it's not always clear why.
If, however, you can learn to operate the part of you that creates your internal and external results, and do so consciously and intentionally, you really can create whatever you want.
I can teach you how to do this. In fact, I GUARANTEE that I can teach you how to do it--if you're willing to learn.
This is NOT the same old stuff you've read about in all those books about "manifesting your dreams" and so on and so forth. I promise that if you take these courses, you will have a huge "ah-ha" about your life and how to create what you
want, both inside and out.
You can take the courses on your computer, either by audio-streaming, or by downloading the calls to listen to later or to burn onto a CD.
In addition, I am making myself personally available, by email, to answer any and all questions you have about anything during the course. This means unlimited email access to me for any questions you have.
You do not need to be a participant in The Holosync Solution to take these courses, by the way.
I've made these courses VERY inexpensive. If I had to teach this in person, in a seminar or retreat, it would cost a few thousand dollars. Instead, the cost is a small fraction of that.
What's more, I've created a free preview lesson, so you can find out what it's about with no risk.
Here are a few emails I've received from people in the course:
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. I simply can't tell you how grateful I am to you-and you're plenty funny!
--Jean M.
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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
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You really know your stuff! Razor sharp.
--Andrew
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Wow! I'm impressed by all the time and energy you are putting into this course. Thank you!
--Ellen
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I absolutely love your impeccable program. You've summed up just about everything that I've heard from many other tapes and books, but they did not hand you the formula for the answers the way in which you did. I feel that there are many
thousands of beings who are truly grateful for all that you have gone through to bring about such change for so many. May we all find the joy and blessings that you have come to live. Bright Blessings,
--Janet G.
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So please go listen to the FREE preview lesson, which is available now for you to listen to online. This free lesson contains some great stuff, so please go listen to it.
It really is possible to master the ability to create whatever you want in life, both inside and out. For more information about the course and to actually listen to a FREE preview lesson, click here:
http://www.centerpointe.com/life/preview
I'd love to get an email from you in a few weeks telling me how much YOU have benefited!
Be well.
Bill
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7. Part 2 of Ken Wilber/Bill Harris Conversation Now Available--at no cost to you...
In June I announced the online posting of a conversation I had with noted author and philosopher Ken Wilber, in which we discussed Holosync and how it facilitates personal and spiritual growth and evolution.
The entire conversation was recorded, and Part 1 was posted on Ken's Integral Naked website in June. Many thousands of people did go to integralnaked.org to listen to our conversation.
The feedback was incredible. People found our completely un-scripted discussion of how Holosync meditation affects the brain, creating higher states of consciousness--and higher stages of consciousness--to be very fascinating.
Now Part 2 has been posted. I'd like you to hear it, at no charge. We've called the whole 3-part series "Brainwaves and God" and if you're at all interested in personal and spiritual growth, I know you'll find it to be extremely
interesting.
If you didn't listen to Part 1, you can also do that, too.
Later, there will be a Part 3, and I'll let you know when it's ready.
To listen, you must be a member of the Integral Naked web site, but you can get a month's membership at NO CHARGE, which will allow you to listen to this conversation--and many other conversations with some other very amazing people.
For instance, you can listen to conversations between Ken Wilber and other well-known personal growth leaders, including Andrew Cohen, Nathanial Branden, Larry Dossey, Caroline Myss, Michael Murphy, and Deepak Chopra (plus many more).
There are also discussions with major artists, filmakers, and actors (I believe one has recently been recorded with George Lucas, for instance), and other notable persons.
If you don't know who Ken Wilber is...well, you should. Ken is one of the most noted philosophers of the last century, and a bestselling author whose 25 books have been translated into 30 languages.
Dr. Roger Walsh, author of Essential Spirituality, called him "one of the greatest philosophers of this century, and arguably the greatest theoretical psychologist of all time." Robert Kegan of the Harvard Graduate School of
Education called him "a national treasure".
Ken's books include A Brief History of Everything and A Theory of Everything (and many others). His view of the world and our place in it is known as Integral Philosophy, where integral means comprehensive, holistic, balanced, and
inclusive--an attempt to include all perspectives in a larger picture.
In our discussion of Holosync and its effects on personal and spiritual growth and evolution, Ken describes the natural stages of consciousness, and notes that as we develop through these stages of consciousness what previously were merely
occasional glimpses of heightened and expanded states of awareness become a permanent part of moment-by-moment living (as those of you in the deeper stages of The Holosync Solution have no doubt experienced).
Ken and I then discuss how Holosync appears to accelerate growth through these various stages of consciousness, and how Holosync is a very useful addition to any integral tool kit for growth and personal evolution.
Ken is so enthusiastic about Holosync that those who attend seminars and trainings at the Integral Institute meditate with Holosync each day during their trainings!
Here is what one Holosync user said about Part 1:
"I just listened to your talk with Ken Wilber on Integral Naked, and I just want to say how excited I am to hear you guys in dialogue. I am huge fans of both of your work, and I think you have a heckuva lot to offer each other."
I hope you will take the opportunity to go to the Integral Naked site (link below) and sign up as a member. The first month is free. After the first free month, the monthly charge is $10, but you can cancel at any time (including at the
end of the free month).
I'm told this offer won't last forever, so please sign up right away in case they discontinue the free month at some point.
To sign up, click on the link below and go to the blue icon in the right hand column that reads "The First Month is Free." This will take you to the sign up page.
The link is:
http://integralnaked.org/whatsnew.aspx
After you sign up, go to my page to listen to my discussion with Ken. That link is:
http://integralnaked.org/contributor.aspx?id=60
From there, you'll be able to choose several ways to listen online, or you can download an MP3 version you can listen to later or burn onto a CD.
If you haven't heard Part 1 yet, listen to that first, and then listen to Part 2.
I know you'll find the continuation of this discussion of Holosync and personal and spiritual evolution to be very interesting. Please let me know how you liked it.
Remember that you can get a month's subscription for no charge!
Again, here is the link to sign up:
http://integralnaked.org/whatsnew.aspx
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8. Feature Article
Two Keys to Positive Change
by Bill Harris, Director
This time I'm going to share a question I received from a student in my Internal Map of Reality online course, and my answer to her.
This question comes from a very frustrated young woman. It is actually the fifth or sixth exchange in a series of questions and answers during which she told me that nothing she had ever done had worked to create any positive change for
her, and how frustrated and angry she was that Holosync and the online courses weren't working, either.
I'm sharing this exchange because often people come to me with the idea that Centerpointe, as an outside force, is going to "change them," without realizing that since they are creating their reality, they are going to have to be part of
the process, too. While Holosync does privide an outside stimulus that does create tremendous change, it isn't a panacea, and it does require a certain amount of cooperation from the user. This is why I created the various support
materials we offer. Some people need more information about how they are creating their suffering and how they can learn to create what they want.
In the fifteen years I have been offering Holosync, I have encountered many people who told me that "nothing works for me." I have found that such people share two things in common: first, they feel as if how they feel and behave just
happens to them. They fail to see that they are creating their internal states and external behaviors. This happens because the process by which they create these things is unconscious and out of their awareness. For this reason, it seems
as if external circumstances directly cause what they experience inside and out. In reality, it is their internal processing of external stimuli that creates their internal states and external results. Until a person acknowledges that,
even if they cannot see how they are doing it, they are creating what happens, nothing can change.
Second, people who say that nothing works for them chronically focus on what they don't want, what they are afraid of, what they are worried about, and what they want to avoid--which are all really the same. They have been traumatized in
some way, and as a result they have come to the conclusion that the world is full of danger, and they must constantly be vigilant in order to avoid that danger. In order to do that, however, they have to focus on what they don't want, and
this does two things: it gives your brain a signal to create more of it, and it causes you to feel bad (all bad feelings are the result of focusing on what you don't want).
So what I'm trying to get across to this young woman is that to get out of her suffering, she must realize that somehow, some way, she is creating it. Not intentionally, but unconsciously and automatically. And, she must be willing to take
charge of her mind and what she focuses on.
Every effective personal growth approach I've ever seen is really a way to get you to change your focus from what you are afraid of to what you want. It is very possible to go through the motions, quite sincerely, of any approach, while
all the while the majority of your attention is busy focusing on what you don't want. When you do this, the approach will not work, no matter how powerful it is.
Holosync is powerful enough that it overcomes this for most people. But a few people either need some additional therapy or coaching, and ultimately this extra help involves taking responsibility and taking charge of how you focus your
mind.
Here is my exchange with this young lady:
Bill, hello once again....
If you read my last e-mail clearly, you will notice that i am not saying that my inability or unwillingness to focus is my problem...i have clearly mentioned that RESISTANCE (and all it's debilitating emotional and physical feelings) is my
problem....you say:
"when you focus on what you want, that part of you that thinks it needs to focus on danger in order to be safe will fight back"
i haven't denied this, and this is clearly what i mentioned is happening. You then say:
"will you surrender to that part, or keep focusing on what you want until the positive part of you wins out?"
This is a rather unfair question...i don't choose to surrender because of lack of will power - i choose to surrender bcoz the more i focus, the more my resistance increases exponentially, and the more this resistance fights back, i reach a
point where i can't handle the negative images and emotions anymore (i literally feel like i am about to crack - it's like a vicious circle - the more i focus on the positive, the stronger, more vicious and more frequent the negative blows
come my way - it's actually so frustrating and painful that i felt suicidal at one point)....i once did this a few years back, when i tried Anthony Robbin's ten day mental challenge...basically, in this challenge, any time during the day
(for 10 consecutive days) if you have a negative thought, you have to change it to a positive one, and add emotion to it...after 4 days i experienced what was like a torrential rain of negative thoughts and feelings all pouring into my
mind throughout the day...it was an absolutely frightening and painful experience, and hence my fear of focussing too hard. (Hale Dwoskin of the Sedona Method mentions this as positive thinking "backfiring!" - Hale Dwoskin in is not a big
fan of positive thinking either coz he's tried it and it did nothing for him) i actually felt so bad, it was akin to experiencing a clinical depression. One thing you probably fail to understand about me, is that i have a lot of
unconscious resistance to change...perhaps you were able to handle and counter whatever fights your unconscious resistance put up for you to face when you were focussing, but i am not able to do that....my resistance is just simply way too
strong...as an example, how do you explain the fact that people who started the Holosync programme at the same time i did (ie: 7 months ago) are now doing level 1, and i still haven't experienced even a twinge of a positive breakthrough
using Awakening Prologue (even with the help of these LPIP online calls)? As a personal growth junkie, I've tried many things (including all the courses you endorse....Sedona method, Natural Brilliance, Living Path, Anthony Robbins etc),
but none of them has worked for me? I'm not blaming the courses, i'm merely trying to show you the extent to how resistant i am...you make it seem as if my resistance is mere 'child's play' and is something i can just defeat a the wave of
a wand is not the way you should be putting it...you say most people only experience a minimal amount of upheaval on your program........well, i'm not 'most people'....i am a special case because i experience resistance/upheaval almost
everyday (in the form of stiff necks, shoulders, mild depression, intense fear, emotional turmoil, mental/physical fatigue, etc) for the past 7 months...in fact, it now feels natural to feel this way that i can't even imagine feeling happy
most of the time.....if you and most people on the program haven't experienced much resistance, then please don't assume that i am like you.....i can't simply keep fighting my resistance (by focusing) without feeling extremely depressed
and hopeless eventually to a point where i simply CAN'T continue focussing, so next time please don't, and i repeat please don't tell me to "JUST KEEP FOCUSING!" If you don't know what i should do about my resistance (either than just
watch it), then take down your pride and just say ,"I don't know!" Don't waste your time and my time writing useless information that won't help me one bit...no body is perfect, and i don't expect you to be either!
I appreciate the fact that you have other people's e-mails to reply and i know this is a long e-mail, but it seems that being clear and concise is what i 'shouldn't' do in order to get through to you and for you to understand me....in your
last answer you have totally evaded the question at hand about resistance and how i should handle it...secondly you say that i am acting like a victim.....well, telling me that resistance is in my control is useless unless you show me how
to experientially release it like they do in the Sedona Method) because it is something i can only use intellectually...if i could erase my resistance with the wave of a hand, only then is it in my control, so until you teach the online
call on resistance (and i keep asking why the F#$K you only wait 'till the 2nd Telecourse to teach this....you should be teaching this NOW! Since it's the major obstacle to growth), resistance isn't really in my control, which means that i
am basically a victim of it....although it's MY resistance.....also, i have done the homework in all your calls, i have bought the Resourceful belief Builder, i have listened to Awakening Prologue for 7 months, i watch my thoughts,
feelings and actions whenever possible, I've listened to the timeline 6 or 7 times (and only experienced minor a-ha's), I've read most of your articles on your website and actually done your exercises , i focus if i feel it won't harm me
too much, i am doing other personal growth work on the side, and yet you say i'm acting like a victim.......i'm only acting like this coz i'm frustrated and have waited long enough for changes that YOU promised would be brought about by
only listening to the Awakening Prologue! How the F#%K DO YOU EXPECT ME TO ACT? I spent good money for these things, and i expect you in return, to honour your promises! I want results yesterday....and then you write......
THERE IS NO OTHER SOLUTION. EITHER GIVE UP, AND BE MISERABLE, OR TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR MIND AND FOCUS IT ON WHAT YOU WANT WHENEVER YOU FIND YOURSELF FOCUSING ON WHAT YOU DO NOT WANT!!!!
So what are you saying?; that if i don't focus at all, then i will not change (even though you said merely putting on headphones and listening to Holosync is enough to create positive change?!) You must be careful before you write stuff
like that...it's contradictory and no wonder some people say, "you are quack, who's only interested in making money." Don't be surprised if i start to feel the same way, but whatever you do, please send me an e-mail telling me what to do
about the excessive amounts of resistance i regularly experience, and don't tell me to JUST WATCH! I already know that sh#t...all your support staff preach that mantra every time i make a call to Centerpointe! And just tell me the relevant
stuff, unlike the useless info. You sent me in your last message (i'm just saying this to save you time...that's all!) Thank you and Peace! Yours sincerely --K.
P.S: and you still haven't told me why it's been 7 months and yet your program hasn't overridden my resistance as you promised.......why is the Awakening pROLOGUE TAKING SOOOOOOOOOOO LONG?
My response:
K,
I can see that you are having a hard time. Let's see if we can discover the real root cause of this.
One thing I notice is that you believe you are at the effect of some external cause, and there is nothing you can do about it. There are people who see themselves at the cause end of things, who feel in charge of what they think, what they
do, and what happens to them. And, there are people who see themselves at the effect end of things, who see themselves as having little or no control over what they think, what they focus on, what they do, and what happens to them.
To be happy, peaceful, and successful, you must begin by realizing that you DO have control over what you think, what you focus on, how you feel, what you do, and what happens to you. You may have not yet figured out how to take control,
but that doesn't mean you cannot. All of these things, for you, are now being determined unconsciously, but they still come from you. There is no other way for you to make progress and get what you want other than to decide that you can
be, and will be, in charge of what you think, what you picture inside, what you feel, and how you behave. As long as you insist that you are helpless and a victim, you WILL be helpless and a victim. This is not a change I can make for you.
You have to DECIDE to take control and to figure out how to do it. I have given you lots of big clues, but it's up to you.
Once you take control, you have to know in what way to control yourself, and the main thing to keep in mind is that you must focus on what you want, and keep your mind off what you don't want. When you tell me that you have lots of
negative feelings when you focus on what you want, I can tell that you are only spending a few moments focusing on what you want, and then you begin focusing on what you don't want, because the ONLY way you can have bad feelings is to
focus on what you don't want. As soon as you have bad feelings, that should be a signal to you that you have lost your focus on what you want, and you need to put it back on what you do want. You may have to do this over and over and over,
and your mind may fight you (based on what you told me, it does). You have to keep going, and keep changing your focus to what you want. YOU are in charge of what you focus on--if you exercise that control. You are not at the effect end of
the cause and effect spectrum, even though it seems to you that you are.
The final thing to consider is that you consistently resist "what is." This causes bad feelings and suffering. When things are a certain way, and you resist that fact, you suffer. So you just have to decide to stop doing it (and, of
course, drop the idea that your resistance "just happens" and is outside your control). You, and only you, are in charge of what you focus on. Resistance is nothing more than focusing on what you don't want, which means you CAN stop doing
it, by changing your focus.
Yes, in the beginning this is difficult, tedious even. Because you think you need to focus on potential danger in order to avoid it (which is what focusing on what you don't want is all about), your mind keeps going back to focus on that
potential danger. But the more you focus on this potential danger, the more you 1) feel bad, and 2) attract more of what you are focusing on. There is a learning curve to changing this dynamic. You have to be willing to go through the
tedious process of refocusing your mind on what you want, having your habits pull it back to what you are afraid of, then pulling it back, over and over.
As you do this, the old habit will lose its hold over you, and at a certain point it will become automatic to focus on what you want instead of what you are afraid of. Because whatever you focus on creates your internal and external
reality, once focusing on what you want becomes the prevalent habit you will seem to almost magically create what you want in your life, and all the unwanted feelings and outcomes you now create will disappear. But you have to go through
that interim period where pulling your mind back to what you want is difficult and tiring.
Ultimately, you have to decide whether you are going to stay the way you are, or CHOOSE to be at cause, to choose to be in control, and take control of your mind and what you focus it on. No one can do this for you. So don't be angry at
me. You know what to do. Now you have to do it. Don't tell me you can't, because the only thing that can prevent you from being at cause is your decision that you are at effect. I can't change that decision, but you can.
I realize that this isn't easy. I was where you are at one point, so I know what it's like, and I know what it's like to overcome it. I know it's difficult.
The first step, though, is acknowledging that whatever you're experiencing, there's something you are doing--even if it is unintentional and you're unaware of how you're doing it--that is creating what is happening. Until you take
responsibility for what is happening, you won't be able to do anything about it. Second, you have to decide to be at cause, and drop the idea that you are effect. Third, you have to be willing to go through the tedious process of making
these new habits second nature.
I'm sorry that you have suffered a lot of trauma in your life. As a result of this trauma, you came to the conclusion that there is a lot of danger in the world, and you have to watch out for it. However, in watching out for it you have to
focus on it, and when you focus on it you feel bad and you give your mind the instruction to create or attract more of it.
Don't give up. You can do this.
Be well.
Bill
[If you found this article helpful, please send a copy of this issue to a friend!]
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9. Glowing Testimonials and Letters
Please can I order my next level of CDs. They will be Purification 3 [the 8th level of the Holosync Solution program].
I am having a great time with the program. I think somewhere Bill mentions that at some stage during Purification 2 you finally figure out how to sort all your problems out and nothing really gets to you anymore. I think this is right.
While I am looking forward to completing the course as it just gets
better and better, but I also realise that there seems to be a permanent shift in consciousness - which stops the world being a problem. Instead you see how it is your mind that is creating the "stuff" and it just falls away.
Thanks again for your help.
Love
Bob
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Regarding my last article in Mind Chatter:
Hey Bill,
I loved your article. It struck a chord with me, i know that i often behave like a victim even though i know the principle intellectually. If you start to look at everything through this new way, what happens when it's one of those 2%
times when its beyond your control or just a happening which was indeed outside of one's control. How do you know to stop taking responsibility and just surrender and make peace with it? I notice in implementing it you said 100%. Some of
the other principles i have trouble implementing sometimes because of strong emotions, like if i get a frightening thought i have trouble sometimes just accepting it, as i let myself get caught in its headlights and then run an ocd ritual.
I am going to to look at this now with 100% responsibility, at least with such things as this i can be totally sure that it is all under my control.
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Hello Bill
Just a quick note to add to the many messages of thanks you obviously receive daily!
My partner and I are currently using "Awakening Level 1". Having practiced meditation and "worked on" my personal growth for over 20 years, I thought I had been making progress!! However, subsequent to commencing your program I have come
to realize how shallow my past endeavors have been ... my one wish is that I could have discovered you sooner, nevertheless I consider myself blessed to have the opportunity to participate in the program.
I want to commend you on your warmth and compassion which are palpable and reassuring to those of us who have not had the privilege of meeting you face to face. Thresholds of The Mind is a wonderful book ... clear & succinct in
elucidating "things" which we knew, but hadn't verbalized. I hope I will have an opportunity to attend one of your retreats one day and to meet you.
Thank you and your team for the very high, professional and caring standard of customer service you provide.
Kind regards
Pauline W.
Noosa. Queensland. Australia
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This program is absolutely incredible... it has literally saved my mind and my life. For some time I had suspected the siezures I had been plagued with were related to the inability of my brain to process the activity between the two
hemispheres of the brain, rather than an operable physical defect, which was confirmed by an EEG. After beginning the first level of the program, the holosync technology opened up old and created new synapses or pathways between the
hemispheres of my brain, allowing for a more holistic functioning of my brain, and I firmly believe that it has helped to lessen the incidence and severity of my siezures, and has resulted in a noticable increase in awareness, creativity
and feelings of peace, contentment never before available to me. Old hobbies, creative pastimes and recreational activities I enjoyed as a youth are being rediscovered, and quite frankly my family is equally stunned and gratified at my
transformation f rom lackluster indifference to excited energy. Bill Harris cannot know what a powerful tool he has here, because I cannot believe it myself, even as I watch my transformation happen before my very own eyes. Thank you a
billion times over for what Holosync has done for me and my life!
David L, Titusville, FL
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10. Book Review
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity
by Julia Cameron
Reviewed by Katie Sparks
***If you would like to read more about or order this book click here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1585421464/centerpointer-20
I don't know how you started on your spiritual path, but mine began with writing. I was working as a freelance writer. Often in my writing I caught glimpses of my own suffering and I began writing less and less for clients and more for my
own sanity. My answers came to me through writing and I began to see that this was spirit in action. Witnessing my own fears and beliefs staring back at me on paper led me down a path of personal and spiritual growth. Years later, I've
examined many of my behaviors, thoughts and feelings. I've studied spirituality and psychology, but still it seems there is something left to reclaim.
Julia Cameron's book, The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, narrated my own experience with spirituality and creativity. "Many of us wish we were more creative. Many of us sense we are more creative, but are
unable to effectively tap into that creativity. Our dreams allude us. Our lives feel somehow flat," Cameron suggests.
These are the people Cameron's book targets. "Blocked creatives," she calls them. When we think of creatives, don't we always think of "them"..."those people who are creative"? The basis of the book is that we are all creative. Creativity
is the natural order of life. She asserts that through a relationship with a higher power we can recover our creative selves and through this expression strengthen our relationships with God. According to Cameron, either spirituality leads
to creativity or creativity leads to spirituality. It's the flow of life.
Cameron is very cautious about her use of the term God. She defines God simply as Good Orderly Direction (or flow). A lot of people have emotional baggage around the word, she acknowledges, but urges readers not to let semantics get in the
way. In her approach, God is a tool, likened to "spiritual electricity." You don't need to understand electricity to use it. Same goes for this relationship with God. It makes things happen, and it isn't important to know how or why.
Cameron was thirty years old, a big-shot Hollywood writer and facing a drinking problem at the time when she discovered this "higher power". Fearing she would lose her creativity, she resisted getting sober, but eventually realized the
drinking soon would kill her--and her writing. She turned to the only God she could believe in, the God of Creativity. She now is an active artist who teaches this material internationally.
The Artist's Way has been around the block a few times. Published more than a decade ago, the international bestseller still serves as a guide for people, alone or in small groups, to recover their creativity. The book is composed
of twelve chapters intended to be read over the course of twelve weeks. Each chapter aims at recovering a piece of the puzzle. In chapters such as "Recovering a Sense of Safety" and "Recovering a Sense of Possibility," readers work through
creative blockages and replace limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt and addiction with creative expression.
The book is a useful guide for anyone involved in perfecting an art form, expanding into a new art form or creative path, or simply seeking to create the life they desire.
Two exercises are the staples of the book--the morning pages and the artist's date. Readers commit to doing these two exercises throughout the twelve weeks. In the first, readers write three pages immediately upon awakening. The second
activity requires the reader to take time once per week to go on a creativity date.
"The morning pages are the primary tool of creative recovery," Cameron says. "As blocked artists, we tend to criticize ourselves mercilessly...We are victims of our own internalized perfectionist, a nasty internal and eternal critic, the
Censor, who resides in our (left) brain and keeps up a constant stream of subversive remarks that are often disguised as the truth."
Cameron compares the morning pages with meditation. It's a way to connect with our inner power. "Meditation gives us not only the light of insight but also the power for expansive change."
This is not a self-help book. You don't finish reading feeling like there is something tragically flawed about you. Rather, I felt inspired and reminded of my buried dreams, and all the excuses I can create for not pursuing them. Cameron
is an excellent guide who believes so strongly that creativity is a birthright and the source of much joy.
The margins of each page are lined with inspiring quotes by artists of all genres and mediums. One of the quotes by writer Brenda Ueland sums it up. "Why should we all use our creative power...? Because there is nothing that makes people
so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money." This is reason enough for me.
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11. Announcements
A. Our Fall Retreat at The Inn at Spanish Head, on the beautiful Oregon Coast, is full. In fact, we currently have a number of people on the waiting list! However, spots are still open for our next retreat, at the beautiful Glen Ivy Hot
Springs and Spa in Corona, California.
The dates are April 13-19, 2005.
If you have a big issue you'd like to resolve, if you're in a transition period in your life and you just can't seem to complete it, or if you just want to take things to a higher level--one where you understand more completely how you're
creating your life--please, do yourself a favor and come spend a week with me at Glen Ivy Hot Springs.
I promise that you'll have an incredible experience you'll never forget.
I tell people they'll receive six months of growth in just 5 days at these retreats, but they keep improving every time, and people now tell me they're received much more than that.
I tailor each retreat to the needs of the specific people who attend (which means YOU). My goal is to help you see the ways you may be unconsciously and unintentionally creating your internal and external reality, and how easy it actually
is to consciously and intentionally create the life you want, both inside and out.
This is your chance to make a big change, and to work with me personally.
So click on this link for more information:
http://www.centerpointe.com/index.php?page=retreats
And, I guarantee results! Here's the guarantee: Attend the entire retreat. If by the end of the retreat you don't think it was the most incredible growth experience you've ever had, just see me before you leave, and I'll refund your
tuition.
You do not need to be a program participant to attend (though most people who attend are). (And if you're not a program participant, why the heck aren't you? Quit procrastinating and join.)
Click here for more information:
http://www.centerpointe.com/index.php?page=retreats
Or, call us between 9:30 and 5:00 Pacific time, M-F, at 1-800-945-2741 or 503-672-7117.
Here's what some of the participants in our last retreat said:
I really appreciate your dedication to helping others (including me) achieve personal growth in their lives. You do so out of a passion and true interest in helping others; it is your calling. Having met you, I experienced a truly
multifaceted (point of consciousness) - music, flying, intellectual, fun & love. It is my pleasure and benefit to meet you personally. I hope that we connect again soon. Many Thanks,
John
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Yes I did find the seminar a peak experience, saw many things in a new and different way and have started to make some noticeable changes. Thanks again for the work that you do and the lives that you touch.
Ethel
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Since the retreat, my life has been filled with moments of deep joy I had not previously experienced. These moments happen frequently and leave me with an outward smile and a profound peace. I feel as if I am glowing and radiant inside
with joy.
I'm not sure exactly what happened to me at the retreat, but I know my life is different. Something is healed and life is joyful. Thank you for providing the environment, the people and the teachings for this to take place. And thank you
for taking me on this wonderful journey of a life of delicious surprises.
Take care-
Anne
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I did have a very positive experience at the retreat and plan to return next year, hopefully with my husband. As I mentioned in the closing remarks, I laughed a lot, and I felt joy and a real connection to others despite only knowing them
a little or not at all. I was able to drop the separateness (being different, better, or worst, or just separate) that I usually identify with/carry around. How liberating!
I really appreciate, as I dive more deeply into the Life Principles Integration Process how much you've integrated and explained in these lessons with such clarity and depth. It's taken me years of practice (~18 years) and a lifetime of
dharma talks to have a basic understanding of some of these principles. You clarified so much in just a few lessons.
Colette
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Thank you from my heart for your words of wisdom and mostly for your kindness and love. Thanks for the chance to open my heart wider and feel love flowing from almost 60 hearts during our retreat! We call this retreat "Circle of LOVE"!
I was in blessing condition after the Retreat, than in chaos state (with pleasure!), now I am feeling growing process and enjoying that! Thanks for my jump!
You are doing amazing job, Bill! I am sure this is REAL help for people! I am ready to send information about Centerpointe to everyone in my mailing list. It will be nice to get from you idea how to do it the best.
I would like to send my daughter to next retreat! It will be my birthday gift for her!
Love-
Alla (from Russia)
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I will just say that I appreciate you VERY much and that the fact that I have access to one such as you and your work and staff is the best indicator of where my life is and is going. I cannot wait to see what happens next! Thank you very
much Bill.
Dave
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