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ISSUE #155 DECEMBER 2005

HOW TO ESCAPE FROM

THE BOXTRAP BY BILL HARRIS

ALSO:THIS MONTH’SMINDQUOTESGLOWINGTESTIMONIALOF THE MONTHONLINE COURSE:LIFE PRINCIPLESIMPORTANTANNOUNCEMENTS

BOOK REVIEWA MILLION

LITTLE PIECESBY JAMES FREY

REVIEW BY KATE SPARKS

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DECEMBER 2005Welcome to Issue #155 (December 16, 2005) of MIND CHATTER

Mind Chatter is published once a month, on or about the 16th of each month.Please send Mind Chatter to a friend, and please send us

your questions, comments, and suggestions.

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 createexactly 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.

03 MINDQUOTES Short quotes from various sources offering succinct nuggets of wisdom

04 RECOMMENDATIONS A few recommendations to benefit you

07 HOW TO ESCAPE FROM THE BOX TRAP By Bill Harris, Director

10 GLOWING TESTIMONIALS What our participants are saying!

11 BOOK REVIEW A Million Little Pieces By James Frey Review by Kate Sparks

13 ANNOUNCEMENTS

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MINDQUOTES

Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

-Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

-Mother Teresa

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

- Henry Van Dyke

Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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» BY BILL HARRIS

“Moment by moment, you create exactly how you feel, what happens to you, and what you attract into your life...

“Unfortunately, you’re probably doing all of this on autopilot...

I want to show you how to create the exact life you want—inside and out! Here�s how to experience a FREE preview...

I KNOW THAT MANY PEOPLE MAY HAVEpromised 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 TOEXPERIENCE 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 LEARNEXACTLY 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.

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 guaran-tee on these courses. Take the course and do the home-work, and if you don’t think this is the most transforma-tional 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


Create the Exact Life you want continued...

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, inter-nal 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 partici-pants 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, sin-cerely 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.

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

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

I 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 un-less 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, regard-less 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 visiting http://www.center-pointe.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 pos-sibilities for what your life can be really are limitless...regardless of your present or past circumstances.

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

Be well,

Bill Harris, Director.






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Positive Deviant Update

I N THE LAST MIND CHATTER I TOLD YOUabout a free teleseminar I helped create with one of the smartest people I’ve ever met—Mashall Thurber. I met Marshall through Jack Canfield, co-author of the

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HOW TO ESCAPE FROM THE

BY BILL HARRIS, DIRECTOR


Many people who come to Centerpointe for help feel trapped in their situation, and have a lot of trouble with the idea that they can create their own reality, or that it is possible to get out of the situation they find themselves in.

When what you are creating is being generated unconsciously rather than consciously, it always looks as if you have little or no control. When your internal map of reality is operating outside of your awareness, the results it creates seem as if they come from outside of you, and it often seems as if you have little control over what is happening.

FEELING HELPLESS

Such people often feel as if they are trapped in a box, with no escape. The box could be an uncomfortable situation they feel trapped in, like an unhappy relationship or an

unfulfilling job. It could be a way of responding emotionally, such as always withdrawing, always getting angry, or being anxious or depressed. It could be a lack of prosperity, or continuing to create one bad relationship after another. Or, it could be a negative health situation.

When you feel trapped, you’re telling yourself that the situation is something you can’t doing anything about,

and that it must be accepted. While I am totally in favor of emotionally letting whatever happens be okay, I

also think there is always something you can do to create a different reality for yourself.

Here’s another way to think about these situations: Consider that there is a price that must be paid for everything. You pay a price if things stay the same, and you will have to pay a

price if you are to create some sort of change. The price might be time, effort, money,

emotional turmoil, physical


discomfort, or something else, but in every case, there is a price.

A box, then, is any situation or way of being that keeps you from being happy, peaceful, or from getting what you want in life. You’re in such a box if you assume that there is no alternative to the way things are now.

HOW TO GET OUT OF THE BOX

There is, however, ALWAYS a way to get out of a box. Here’s how to do it:

1. Recognize that there is a price to pay for every moment you remain in the box you’re in, whatever it is. In many cases, you may have been paying this price for a very long time.

2. Acknowledge that there IS a way out (there is a price that, once paid, will get you out).

3. Become clear about both the price for staying in the box and the price for getting out. With that information, you can make a choice about what to do.

So, here is what I suggest you do if there is some area of your life that is not working the way you want it to.

First, find a quiet place where you can be alone and relax, undisturbed, to think things over.

Then, identify the situation that is causing you discomfort. Get clear on exactly what the discomfort is. Write it down, just to make SURE you are clear about it. (Remember, by the way, that it is your resistance to things being the way they are that creates the discomfort. You can always eliminate the discomfort by ending your resistance, but in this case we are talking about how to change the situation.)

Then, think of what you would do if you weren’t in this box. At first, you may only think of wanting the discomfort to be gone or the situation to end, but there are probably many things you could do, be, or have if you weren’t in the box. Imagine what you could and would do if the box were gone.

WHAT IS THE PRICE?

Next, identify the price you must pay to get out of the box.If the box is a job you dislike, the price may be looking

for a new and better job. It might involve being out of

work for a short time, or even taking a cut in pay (though it certainly doesn’t have to involve either of these things—there’s almost always a way to get exactly what you want, IF you’re willing to pay the price).

If the box is a relationship that isn’t working, the price might involve a discussion (or even a confrontation) where you express your displeasure and ask for what you want. Or, it might involve getting out of the relationship altogether, which will have its own price.

If the box is being overweight, the price might be changing your eating habits and establishing an exercise program—or, some other price.

On a deeper level, the price might involve identifying and changing beliefs that have helped create the situation. It might involve rearranging your values structure to make something more important or less important in your life. It might involve looking at your strategies for choosing a job, a relationship, what you eat, etc. In some way, your Internal Map of Reality is creating your internal response, and your external results, and the price of changing things—if you really want permanent change—will probably involve figuring out what changes need to be made to various parts of your internal map.

(For help with boxes caused by beliefs, values, strategies, and other aspects of your Internal Map of Reality, please take my Life Principles Integration Process online courses. You can listen to a free preview lesson by clicking to here.

DECIDE TO PAY THE PRICE

Once you are clear about the price you’re currently paying and the price you’d have to pay to make a change, picture yourself paying the price. Try to think

of unexpected things that may come up while you’re paying it, and how you might deal with them. Think “what if...” and be prepared for as many “what if ’s” as you can think of.

Go through the entire experience in your mind. If it is the least bit painful, mentally go through the process a second time. You will find that each time you imagine paying the price, any pain you associate with doing so will diminish. For some changes, one time will do it. For others, you may have to imagine paying the price several times to get to the point where you feel okay doing so.

At this point, you will have identified the three things you need to know to get yourself out of the box:

1. the price you are currently paying for staying in the

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box

2. the price you will have to pay to get out, and...

3. what new and better results you could have once you’re out.

And, you’ve mentally practiced paying the price, which will make doing so much easier. Often the anticipation of paying the price is much more difficult than actually paying it, which keeps people from taking action. By imagining yourself paying the price, you keep this from happening.

Finally, pay the price and be done with it. No matter what the discomfort, there’s always a price you could pay to end it, if you’re willing to pay it. Usually, the price to change is less than the price to stay the same. Cultivate the ability to look for a price to pay whenever you want to create a change.

Remember, there is always a price that can be paid. If the price seems too big, think about it some more. Perhaps there is an easier way that you haven’t thought of. If you focus on getting what you want and achieving a possible solution, your mind will create one.

And, in some situations, you may conclude you just want to leave things the way they are (though my belief is that there is no reason to ever be in a situation you don’t like, unless for some reason you want to).

RESISTANCE

Sometimes part of the price is to drop your resistance to whatever is happening, to people being the way they are, or to the world being the way it is. Usually, in addition, there is a price you can pay to also change the situation itself, but you might as well not be resisting “what is” while you’re making the change.

If you’re in a marriage in which you aren’t happy, you may think you have no alternatives. Perhaps your spouse is the breadwinner, and you have few skills, and that keeps you where you are despite the fact that you are unhappy. But, no matter what your situation, there IS a price that would get you out of it, and if you were willing to pay that price, you COULD leave.

The price might be learning new job skills, being alone for a while, moving, or one of a number of other things. Or, it could be to resolve the problems that make the relationship unworkable. You might find that as you set

out to pay this price it turns out to be a tremendously transformative positive experience, rather than whatever you feared it would be.

The point is, there is ALWAYS a price, and the only way to know whether you want to stay in the current situation or make a change is to evaluate the relative prices of the various options. In any case, it’s good to know that you are not stuck and without options.

And, remember, in most cases the price to be paid involves making some changes to your Internal Map of Reality, since this is ultimately where your entire internal and external experience of life is generated.

PAY IN ADVANCE

Two more important points:

1. The sooner you pay a price, the less it costs you. Waiting to pay always raises the price.

2. When making a change, always look for direct

alternatives—things YOU can do, as opposed to alternatives involving getting someone else to change.

You can make changes in yourself without anyone’s permission or help, while changing other people or the world is always a very iffy proposition.

You always have choice. Nothing is without price, so you have to evaluate what is valuable to you and what isn’t. But it’s all up to you.

Be well.

Bill

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Hello, Ken here. I just want to take this time to thank you so much for such a true blue, honest, supportive and caring company you’re all a part of. I’m finding out how wonderful this system of self-growth and how effective it is and could be if the people practicing the program are fol-lowing the instructions and are patient and persistent. You all know how important the followup letters are especially in the beginning because the progress is very often slower than expected which can be very frustrating at times (including overwelm, upheaval etc.. which may give the impression that the program isn’t working). I’ve emailed your company many times in frustration but I’ve always had a very prompt reply with just what I needed in order to continue with revital-ized enthusiasm. (trust is so important)

I can’t tell you how much I’m enjoying the meditation exercises and look forward to them everyday now. I know they are doing their job, maybe slowly, but know-ing that they are working is enough.

I’ve been doing the program since June 17th (haven’t missed a day). I’m just so grateful about this new part of my life. I sure needed it. It seems like I discovered it just in time. You know just before I started the program, I was getting worse in my anxiety problems, but now I’m getting better. I can feel it and I know it.

I will complete the program. I’m convinced.

Thank you as always.

-Ken

Glowing Testimonials

In deepest gratitude, I thank you for the phenomenal gift of Holysync. As a forty-year meditator, I’ve experi-enced the theta and delta states much of the time. Yet, the lifelong challenge has been to live life consistently in that natural state of being. After only two weeks of Awakening Prologue, I am already integrating these brain patterns in conscious awareness. How astounding and also how won-derful. I have worked with people for twenty-seven years, as an independent counselor and my intention is to share this incredible technology with everyone. Your work cer-tainly holds one of the biggest keys to the collective evolu-tion of mankind. Thank you for being so dedicated to the well-being of humanity. My clear intention is to learn and

grow throughout the entire twelve levels.

Also, I feel guided to attend the retreat in Austin, Texas, next April. Please give me more specific information regarding it. That is very much appreciated. May I extend a warm thank-you to every one that serves all of us on your staff? Please know that what you give mankind is the best blessing of a persons lifetime and that you could be doing no greater

service for your human family.

-F.B.

I’m just so grateful about this new part of my life. I sure needed it. It seems like I discovered it just in time.

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My Name Is Drew and I have been using your program for about ten weeks now and I must admit that I can feel a substan-tial difference in how I deal with anger, frustration, joy, happiness and many other emotions. I believe that without positive emotions, all the exercise in the world will not help anyone in any aspect of their lives and that is why I wanted to say thank you for this one of a kind program. There is no price that you can put on a sense of well being!

-Drew


Book Reviews

A Million Little PiecesBy James Frey

T HE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IS RIPE WITHugliness—pride, greed, shame, anger, depen-dency, addiction. Waking up to our potential for goodness also means seeing the darkness

of which we are capable. Never has someone so keenly conveyed these dark emotions as does James Frey in A Million Little Pieces. If the title alone sends chills down your spine, you may know the feeling of being broken. The feeling that nothing can put together again the many pieces of your broken life.

The book has been said to be the final word on the topic of addiction. It is the memoir of Frey, who, at age 23 wakes up on a plane with a broken nose, a hole in his cheek large enough for two fingers, and no memory of the last two weeks, nor any clue about where the plane is headed. He has been an alcoholic for 10 years and a crack addict for three. The book recounts Frey’s six weeks in a treatment center in Minnesota, his struggle to find a work-ing philosophy to keep him sober, and the friends he relies on in the process.

Frey’s language is raw, candid and poetic at times. He doesn’t follow traditional rules of grammar, neglecting to use commas where they don’t fit the flow of his enraged mind and capitalizing random words to signify their im-portance. His conversational and readable style makes you feel like you’re sitting right next to him as he tells his tale. Simple and real, he immediately wins over the reader.

Frey checks into the best treatment center around at the time, which still had just a 15 percent recovery rate. As you might guess, the 12-step program is the central component to the recovery efforts of the clinic and staff. Frey is stubborn, angry, and intelligent. He isn’t about to accept the twelve steps, the concept of powerlessness, or God. Yet, he’s told he will die if he drinks or uses even one more time. Mornings of vomiting bile, blood and chunks

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of stomach warn of the same fate. As his days at the center go by, Frey begins to imagine

a life without drugs and alcohol. Still, he won’t concede to the 12-step philosophy. As it often happens when we are broken, Frey finds himself at the beginning of a spiritual journey, though not one that meets with the clinic’s views. As he sits on an empty bench outside the clinic one after-noon, he thinks, “I am opening to myself. I don’t know what I am opening myself to. Is it God or something Higher. Is it me or what is around me. Does it matter do

I need to know. It matters because it is what is keeping me together. This opening is allowing me to pick up the pieces of a shattered life. I need to believe in it to continue to believe in me. I need to know what it is. What is it that opens me.

“I stand and I walk along the edge of the water until it ends in a Sea of yellow grass. The grass is dead now but will return in the Spring that is the way of the World. Things die and they return. Is that biology or God or something Higher. Are we biology or God or something Higher. I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song. Will this song exist when

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the beating stops. Will one stay when one is gone, can one live without the other. Does it matter. It does. I have to believe in something. It is holding me together.”

Side plots of love and friendship fill the pages, but the question of how one stays sober after being so severely addicted to drugs and alcohol is the central point of interest. Frey is unwilling to surrender to a power greater than himself. He is, however, quite willing to admit who he is and what he’s done wrong. He continues to remind himself, “I am an alcoholic and I am a drug addict and I am a criminal.” His challenge is not in knowing his weak-ness nor taking responsibility for those people he’s hurt in the self-obsession of drug use. However, he is determined to stay sober without believing in a higher power and says his decision has “nothing to do with God or Twelve of anything other than twelve beats of my heart. Yes or no. It is a simple decision.”

That it could be a simple decision is the subject of much controversy. Nearly 900 reviews posted on Amazon since the book was published in 2003, many surround-ing the debate on whether or not someone can recover without relying on a higher power. While it is generally ac-cepted that very few addicts can find permanent recovery without the twelve step program, and while this book may certainly upset those in the recovery community, there are those who tell a different tale.

Recovery for Frey begins to take shape when his brother gives him a copy of the ancient Taoist text, Tao Te Ching. Though distrustful of religion or anything resembling spirituality, he gives the book

a shot. In it he find wholeness and an awareness of the existing perfection in the world. He writes, “This little book feeds me. It feeds me food I didn’t know existed,

feeds me food I wanted to taste, and have never tasted before, food that will nourish me and keep me full and keep me alive. I read it and it feeds me. It lets me see what my life is in simple terms, it simply is what it is, and I can deal with my life on those terms. It is not complicated un-less I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is not more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don’t force or fear, don’t control or lose control. Don’t fight and don’t stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.”

Though Frey rejects the 12-step approach in lieu of the Tao, spiritual seekers may question whether there’s a conflict at all between the two teachings. Could it be that the more one looks at these teachings in general terms, the more one sees their unity—that they all present the com-mon ideals of acceptance, non-resistance, and surrender to the flow of life? Frey quotes from the Tao throughout the book. “If you want to be whole, you must first be partial. If you want to be straight, you must first be crooked. If you want to be full, first become empty. If you want to be reborn, you must first die.”

Apparently what he found worked for him. Frey is said to still be sober 10 years later.

A Million Little Pieces succeeds in conveying the powerful emotions of failure, fury and longing. It is about self-destruction, the frailty of being human, and how sometimes falling apart is just what we need to put our lives back together. Though this may not be a good book for someone newly sober as a result of working a 12-step program, I recommend it to anyone looking for a powerful story of human triumph.

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So visit this URL for more informa-tion:

www.centerpointe.com/retreats

And, I guarantee results! Here’s the guarantee: Attend the entire retreat. If by the end of the retreat you don’t

Austin’s Omega Institutesite for Spring retreatThe dates for Centerpointe�s spring retreat, at The Omega Institute at the Crossings in Austin, Texas, are April 9-15, 2006.

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.)

Visit this URL for more information:www.centerpointe.com/retreats

Or, you can call retreat coordinator Katie Sparks at 503-906-6027 to learn more about Centerpointe’s retreats.

“As I watched and listened during my experience, I sensed throughout that I was safe and that I could go deeper and deeper because of the love and confidence and strength I felt around me. Without that, I probably could not have released, what I believe to have been major life time blockages.

Although I have been able to create so much happiness in my life, I was always aware that something was blocked and I did not have a clue how to access it. Something very big happened to me and I am still processing it.”

—Dori

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