When Holosync hurts
I feel faintly ridiculous writing about what you do when Holosync causes unpleasant side-effects, because having been on the program for over a year, I’ve had so much information from Centerpointe on the subject I feel like it’s all been said already. However, I do still get a lot of people looking for information on the “negative side effects” of Holosync, so I thought it might help to write something about them and how to handle them.
I follow the line issued by Centerpointe that anything that happens is just your reaction to what Holosync does. Nobody has the same experience; some people have a wonderful time from beginning to end, and others struggle with reactions as varied as the side-effects list on the dothiepin tablets I used to have to take. I think of it as being the same as lactose allergy. I have an allergy to lactose (about the worst thing in the world for an ice cream addict). This doesn’t mean that lactose is bad or negative, it just means that my body cannot tolerate lactose and sees it as dangerous. So I’ll get wheezes, blocked sinuses and really bad indigestion if I have too much of it.
Yet while the advice for people who have some kind of allergy is to avoid the stuff, it’s not as though lactose is doing something amazing to my body or mind. Holosync works, and the impact on you reflects how much you resist what it does. Having surfed a few forums where people use Holosync, I often see remarks like “It made me fearful” or “It made me angry.” A more appropriate way to think of it would be to say “I felt fearful” or “I felt angry.”
There are two basic ways to deal with an effect you don’t like (anything from anger, nightmares, bouts of fear, depression etc):
- Resist the effect you’re getting, and worry over it; assume that something has gone wrong.
- Become interested in the effect and what it might mean for you.
I won’t bother dealing with the first method of dealing; you don’t need to teach people about that. However, it does take time and effort to learn how to respond to a “negative” effect of Holosync. Here’s a good example. My friend decided he wanted to try Holosync and listened to it for a few weeks before he came back and said he had to stop because he felt very afraid while listening.
“What were you scared of?” I asked. “Did you find out why you felt so much fear?”
He said he didn’t know, but he’d just stopped listening because it was going wrong. I thought it was fantastic to get such a powerful reaction, and something worth investigating. This is the key to surviving Holosync and getting it to work for you. My common reaction is to have spells of what seems to be depression. I realised that feeling depressed meant I was trying to avoid feeling something that bothered me. Once I became aware that I was trying to avoid something, it became easier to find out what the feeling was. Oddly, once I felt it, it was released.
Holosync is all about awareness, and increasing it. The more aware you are, the more curious you become about why you react the way you do, the more effectively it works. The quicker you learn how to stop resisting what happens and start getting curious, the more easy Holosync becomes. It isn’t just a process where you sit back and life becomes magical, so unless you’re already Buddha, you’ll probably have a bad reaction at some point or another. It helps to ask yourself questions. If, say, you have nightmares, you could remember what the nightmares are about, whether they have any pattern or meaning that might suggest you’re bringing up something to be released. If you find you get randomly angry, you could look into what specific things you react to, what really makes that emotion come out when you’re dealing with people or events.
Basically, Holosync becomes a process of growth, whereby listening brings up issues for you to investigate and resolve. In this way, it’s a bit like therapy. Monitoring how you react with a diary or journal is highly recommended, and something I started doing last year. I still keep one for each level I do. I do pay more attention to how I respond to events and people and rather than blaming them for causing my reaction, I try to work out what it is in me that makes me react in the way that I do. This is an absolute must for Holosync, as well as keeping the “Managing Evolutionary Growth” manual around so you can re-read it whenever necessary.
