~ ~ ~

By Bill Harris, Centerpointe Research Institute       [Page 1/2]

I have had so many people call or write to ask me exactly how Holosync works, that I have decided to explain just why what we do at Centerpointe Research Institute is different.

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.

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" devices, 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 modern era, 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 my 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 Holosync is its ability to create synchronization 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 reorganizes in response to the input we are giving it with Holosync—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 at that point 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 with other neurotechnology approaches before you found Centerpointe Research Institute and Holosync.

Years ago, when we reached this point in our early experiences with what eventually became Holosync (the point where nothing more seemed to be 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—a question that really opened the doorway to getting much more from this type of technology.

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 on the deeper and more significant underlying changes which 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.

Here 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're giving the brain and which will allow us to continue the evolutionary changes we've 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 slightly different frequency into the other ear.

The electrical brain wave patterns will then resonate to the difference between these two tones.

        Continued on Page 2.

    ~ ~ ~

Bill Harris is a Certified Trainer of Neuro Linguistic Programming and is trained in Ericksonian Hypnosis. He is a long time student of contemporary psychology, quantum mechanical physics, the evolution of non-linear systems (chaos theory) and the effects of a wide range of neurotechnologies on human change, evolution and healing.

He is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council started by Chicken Soup for the Soul author Jack Canfield, and is founder and director of Centerpointe Research Institute.

Also see more articles by Bill Harris

and free online course led by Bill Harris: The Masters of The Secret.

    ~ ~ ~

  

Positive psychology bookmarks

positive psychology
.....
positive psychology articles / sites....

positive psychology : books

mental health...[front page]

mental health : teen/young adult...

article topics index

~ ~ ~