The Holosync SolutionTM
"How the Holosync® Technology Works" by Bill Harris
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I have
had so many people call or write to ask me exactly how the
Holosync® technology works, and what it is that distinguishes
each deeper level of the program from the previous level,
that I have decided to write this Special Report to clarify
these questions and also to explain just why what we do at
Centerpointe Research Institute is different from -- and more
effective than -- other neurotechnology approaches. In the
early 1970s the Menninger Foundation studied some Indian yogis
who were in the United States. They hooked these yogis to
different machines in order to measure the yogis' control
over supposedly unconscious mental and physical functions.
These studies gave researchers the first peek at the electrical
brain wave patterns of meditation. (Shortly thereafter, the
Transcendental Meditation movement of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
also conducted studies that showed the brain wave patterns
of the meditative state.) At about
the same time, but completely independently, a researcher
named Dr. Gerald Oster of Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New
York published a paper in Scientific American about
research he had been conducting since the 1950s into the effects
of sound waves on brain wave patterns. Oster had discovered
a method, using sound, to create any desired electrical pattern
in the brain, including those of meditation. A small
field sprang up around this technology and a related technology
that uses flickering lights to alter brain wave patterns.
This field has always focused (mistakenly, in my opinion)
on what I would describe as the symptoms of exposure to these
brain-altering technologies. You will hear people say, for
instance, "we will put you in an alpha brain wave pattern
and such-and-such will be your experience" or "we will put
you in a theta state and you will have an out-of-body experience"
(or whatever). This,
to me, is like a runner thinking the important thing about
running is that you breathe hard, you get sweaty, and your
legs get tired. These are symptoms of running, but
the real essence of the experience is that the cardiovascular
system and the muscles are reorganizing at higher levels of
functioning -- called "getting in shape". My view
of what happens when we expose ourselves to these neurotechnologies
is completely different. First of all, the sound technology
Oster discovered (which is the basis of all neurotechnologies
using sound), as well as the flickering lights used in "light
and sound" devises, both create very great fluctuations in
electrical brain wave activity. As one moves from the beta
brain wave pattern of normal waking consciousness to the slower
brain wave pattern of alpha, then deeper into theta, and finally
to the deepest delta, the fluctuations in the brain are constantly
increasing. Here is the important point, though : these fluctuations
give the nervous system input, or stimulus, beyond its ability
to handle, the way it is currently structured. In order
to handle these fluctuations, the nervous system is forced
to reorganize itself at higher, more complex levels of functioning,
evolving a new structure that can handle the input it originally
could not handle. As the brain continues to receive this input,
the nervous system will continually reorganize itself, in
a series of quantum leaps -- some at a micro-level of functioning
and some at a much more global level -- until a new structure
has been created that can easily handle this input. This model
of change is based on the work of scientist Ilya Prigogine,
winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize for work on the growth and
evolution of what scientists call "non-linear open systems".
This work is, in my opinion, one of the greatest scientific
advances of the twentieth century, right up there with quantum
physics and the theory of relativity. Scientists have applied
Prigogine's work to everything from how a seed germinates
to how a corporation expands, a highway system grows, a cell
divides, or an audience breaks into applause. It has been
applied to the movement of the stock market and to the expansion
of the universe. (I have written extensively about Prigogine's
work in the introductory materials for The Holosync SolutionTM program as
well as in the Support Letters and in the book The Management
of Evolutionary Change.) Neurophysiologically,
this reorganization in the brain causes the creation of new
neural pathways, resulting in communication between parts
of the brain that previously were not communicating, or were
communicating only a minor amount. One of the unique things
about the Holosync® technology is its ability to create synchronisation
between the two hemispheres of the brain, over time making
this kind of cross-hemispheric communication permanent. This increase
in communication within the brain leads over time to what
scientists call whole brain thinking or whole
brain functioning. This includes such things as increased
learning ability, creativity, intuition, mental clarity, and
intelligence, plus an increase in what some would call "mystical"
or "metaphysical" powers -- in my opinion, latent abilities
we all have but usually do not exhibit because we use such
a small portion of our brains. But here's
the really amazing thing that happens: every time the nervous
system makes a quantum leap -- every time your brain reorganize s
in response to the input we are giving it with the Holosync®
technology -- in order to make that shift you have to
let go of some of the unresolved mental and emotional
material we all have under the surface in the unconscious
mind. Whether it is unresolved fear, anger, anxiety, sadness,
or limiting beliefs, some of this material will be incompatible
with the brain's ability to operate at the next higher level
of functioning and will be resolved. Eventually,
the nervous system comes to a point where it has made all
the changes it needs to make to handle the extra input it
is receiving. The same process happens with the runner who,
after weeks or months of training, can now easily run five
miles -- running five miles no longer pushes the body to better
physical condition (unless, of course, he or she runs faster
-- but let's not complicate the analogy yet). With the neurotechnology
explorer, this is the point where he or she says "this used
to have quite an impact, but now it doesn't seem to affect
me as it once did." Many of you have told me of having this
very experience before you found Centerpointe Research Institute
and the Holosync® technology. Years
ago, when we got to this point in our early experiences with
what eventually became the Holosync® technology -- the point
where nothing more was happening -- we were disappointed.
"So much has happened," we said, "and we've had so many amazing
changes. It's a shame we're not being pushed to grow anymore."
At this crucial point, I asked a question that no one else
in this field was asking. No one
was asking this question because they were stuck in what I
mentioned before -- focusing on the particular brain wave
pattern being induced and the accompanying momentary experiences
or symptoms rather than the deeper and more significant underlying
changes that were happening. (The explanation I have given
of the brain reorganizing itself at higher levels of functioning
in response to stimulus beyond its ability to handle is not
an explanation you will hear from the rest of the neurotechnology
community -- even though it describes exactly what
is happening.) So this
is the question I asked: "Is there something else we can do,
something we haven't yet noticed, to increase the amount of
input we are giving the brain that will allow us to continue
the evolutionary changes we have been enjoying so far?" It
was in answering this question that I began to look at something
called carrier frequency. To understand
carrier frequency, you have to understand at least a simplified
explanation of how the different brain wave patterns are induced.
We do this by introducing a tone of a certain frequency into
one ear (which affects the opposite side of the brain) and
a tone of a different frequency into the other ear. The electrical
brain wave patterns will then resonate to the difference
between these two tones. If we make the difference between
the two tones ten cycles-per-second, the predominant brain
wave pattern will be ten cycles per second, in the middle
of the alpha range. Notice
that there are an infinite number of tones we could use to
induce (for instance) a ten-cycle-per-second alpha state.
As long as the difference between the tones is ten
cycles per second, your brain will do us the favor of going
into a ten cycle-per-second alpha state. It seemed
intuitively obvious to me that the lower the two tones we
used -- in other words, the lower the carrier frequency
-- the more powerful the effect would be. (I have to admit
that I was blown away by the discovery that no one else
in the neurotechnology field was paying any attention to this
little piece of incredibly important information -- they were
(and still are) too hung up on "what brain wave pattern are
we in?" and the momentary "symptoms" of being in that state.)
Once we
determined that the lower the carrier frequency we used, the
more powerful the effect, we naturally wanted to find out
just how low we could go. So, being young and reckless, we
made ourselves some ultra low-frequency soundtracks and started
listening to them every day. At first we were very
euphoric, but within four or five days we were freaking
out! We had so much mental, emotional, and even physical
"stuff" coming out of us that we were totally overwhelmed.
What we
were experiencing, I believe, was what Eastern meditation
schools call a "kundalini awakening" -- but without the body
or the nervous system being purified enough to handle the
energy. (These soundtracks we made in the early days, by the
way, correspond to the strength of something between what
is now Awakening Level 4 and Purification Level 1 -- we now
have levels that go much lower, but we only use them after
we have built up to it gradually.) From this
rather horrible experience we developed the idea of having
an on-going program where we would start people out with a
carrier frequency that would be challenging to the
nervous system, but not overwhelming. Then, after several
months of daily use, when the nervous system had finally come
to the point where it had made all the changes it needed to
make to handle the input it was receiving, and the soundtracks
didn't seem to feel very strong anymore, we would move the
person to the next level of the program by lowering the carrier
frequency -- still taking them into the same alpha, theta,
delta brain wave patterns, but at a lower and more powerful
carrier frequency. When we
did this, we noticed, first of all, that the soundtracks felt
powerful again. Plus, a whole new and deeper set of changes
began to happen. Then, after six months or so, the nervous
system would again come to the point where it had made whatever
changes it needed to make in order to handle the input from
this new and more powerful carrier frequency. At this point
we would once again move the person to a still deeper level,
with an even lower carrier frequency -- and so on, and so
on, and so on, until we had taken them as low as it is possible
to go. During this time, incredible changes -- different for
each individual -- would unfold. There
are two ways, then, for us to give the nervous system input
or stimulus that pushes it to reorganize at higher levels
of functioning. One is by slowing the brain from a beta rhythm
to an alpha rhythm, then to theta, and finally to delta, each
deeper brain wave pattern creating greater fluctuations in
the brain and pushing it to create new neural pathways and
new connections. The second is by lowering the carrier frequency
used to induce these alpha, theta, delta brain wave patterns.
Both are
necessary. Without the unique ability of theHolosync® technology
to create cross-hemispheric communication and brain synchronisation
by forcing the two sides of the brain to interact , we would
not have the creation of new pathways in the brain. (Just
creating a strong stimulus is not enough -- if it was, we
could just loudly bang on pots and pans and that overdose
of stimulus would create brain evolution. The stimulus needs
to be of a certain kind, and luckily we have the technology
to provide exactly the stimulus we need.) But we also need
the increasingly lower carrier frequencies. Otherwise, we
would end our journey after a few months of use -- once the
brain finished creating the pathways needed to handle the
first set of frequencies we originally gave it, the evolution
would stop. Lowering the carrier frequency, for us, is like
the runner adding more miles to his or her daily run. Eventually
I concluded that carrier frequency was the master key that
really allowed us to take full advantage of the Holosync®
technology and to continue the process of change far beyond
the point where other neurotechnology approaches pooped out.
This is why it is so important to continue into the deeper
levels of The Holosync SolutionTM Personal Growth Through Technology program.
By gradually increasing input to the brain through the use
of increasingly lower carrier frequencies, we continue to
move the brain to higher, more complex levels of functioning
where unresolved mental/emotional garbage cannot exist and
is resolved and higher mental functions are developed. My own
personal experience with this technology was the melting away
of a lifetime of uncontrollable anger and the elimination
of my life-long bouts with severe depression. I also gained,
over time, incredible clarity of mind and greatly increased
self-confidence (I never could have organized or run a company
like Centerpointe before, I'm sure). One of the most difficult
to describe changes, but certainly one of the more far-reaching,
was the development of a very deep insight into who I am,
how I create my reality, and why I am responsible for everything
that happens in my world. Out of this insight came changes
in every area of my life: relationships, self-confidence,
health, finances, creativity, mental clarity, and inner-connectedness.
These
changes did not happen overnight (in fact, they're still happening).
They have unfolded over several years, with some periods of
intense upheaval and other periods where it felt I was at
a plateau and not changing as quickly. After several significant
breakthroughs, I learned to trust the process rather than
continually analyzing it and trying to decide if it was "working".
That the breakthroughs were of a magnitude and permanence
I had never experienced before -- despite the fact that I
had spent nearly twenty years intensely participating in every
personal development approach that came down the road -- gave
me the confidence to let go and trust the process. I sometimes
tell people that the really big changes start when
you get to Awakening Level 4 and beyond. Some people take
this to mean that the levels preceding Awakening Level 4 are
not that important. Not so. Incredible changes happen for
people in these first few levels, and these changes prepare
the way for even deeper shifts to follow. It's just that it
is difficult to describe the depths of change that are now
possible due to our new-found ability to stimulate the brain
in this unique manner. Even people who come to the program
convinced they've already handled "everything" are surprised
to find deeper and deeper levels of unresolved material as
they go deeper into the program. As this material is resolved,
more and more profound levels of awareness and inner resources
unfold for them, and changes happen that they really couldn't
have imagined when they started. I started
this company because using this technology totally changed
my life, but I'm sometimes at a loss as to how to adequately
explain just what I mean by that. The changes have been so
far-reaching that the person I used to be sometimes seems
like a faint memory of some other person from some far-away
place. My hope for you is that through this program you will
be led to your own version of the same adventure I have had
with this technology. There
is nothing more satisfying in life than finding something
that really works and sharing it with others. This company
is my attempt to be of service to this planet. I want to sincerely
thank you for playing a part in allowing me to do something
that makes me feel useful and valuable. I hope that through
the changes and insights you experience from this program
you will find, if you haven't already done so, your own contribution
to the world, your "labor of love".
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