Holosync update: Awakening Level III.4 Week 2 and Shiva Nata

It’s time for an update! I’m now on the last section of Awakening Level 3. I’m getting excited because this is the last of the ’short’ levels, and after this one, it takes eight months to complete each stage. Just to note: I’m writing this for people who are familiar with Holosync and what it involves, rather than as a basic introduction. I have written elsewhere about the basic structure of the course and what it involves, and you can search my blog for more information.

Side-effects

If you read some of the posts from this week, you’ll probably realise I’ve been pretty blissed out for much of this stage. The huge side-effects of depression, anger and stuckness that I felt through Levels I and II have pretty much evaporated completely. In fact, a lot of the time, it’s hard to tell whether I’m getting any kind of ‘negative’ effect anymore.

Once again, it comes down to reading the guide and taking it seriously. This is where Shiva Nata comes in. Bill Harris recommends yoga as a system of physical movement that helps you work through on the physical level what you’re processing on the mental level. I prefer Shiva Nata because it doesn’t require you to be even remotely bendy. As long as you have some arm and leg movement, you can do this.

Jumping levels

Confession: I’ve been cheating a bit. I began Level III back on November 28, 2008, and shouldn’t really finish for a while yet. I cut sections 1 and 3 short by a few weeks each.

This isn’t recommended practice at all. I decided to do it because I’d begun meditating using Holosync two to three times a day. That’s putting a lot of pressure on me to change and cope with the effects, but by that time I was familiar with the whole process of using it, and started to feel like I really wasn’t getting any kind of reaction.

I haven’t actually noticed any ill-effects of doing this. I remember when I started Level I after the Prologue, I didn’t bother doing the two week integration period and my God did that hurt! Don’t recommend that at all. So if you’re considering cutting short any of the sections, don’t do it unless you really think you can hack what might come up for you.

Taking it seriously

When I first started Holosync, I messed around a lot, caved in to whatever was going on in my head. Over the course of Level III, I’ve finally begun to get very disciplined about employing the formal meditation training I received in 2007 during the sessions. Holosync does work best if you can do this, and it’s just good practice anyway.

The irksome thing is doing it for an entire hour. I remember training back then and we started with just 10 minutes of meditation, and hadn’t really progressed between 20 to 30 minutes, with some 40 minute sessions during the weekend retreats. Sitting for long periods is hard work. It requires a lot of discipline. I’m trying not to get too wrapped up in the discipline and maintaining it for the full hour, but using mindfulness during sessions has definitely helped.

A note on positions

Bill Harris recommends sitting with legs and arms uncrossed as the optimal position for Holosync. I lie down. I simply cannot sit for an hour without moving. I have nowhere comfortable to put myself, so I lie down instead. For some people this makes it easier to fall asleep, but since I’m unable to fall asleep without the aid of an hour of Hale Dwoskin’s voice, this isn’t a problem.

And now… Shiva Nata

Everything started to get easy. Shiva Nata has more effect on you if you aren’t naturally co-ordinated, but being a synaesthete and being a former ballet dancer meant that it got easy quickly. And I’m good at copying from DVDs. I’ve been trying experiments!

I learn by looking, and mimicking, so I put the DVD on but turned the screen away so I had to listen to his instructions as he called out the positions of the arms. That has kept me in popping epiphanies for about a week just doing horizontal arms. Of course, as I’m learning I start to see the patterns behind the movements, so that won’t work for long. Adding in leg movements is the next stage.

This is all for now. I’ll report back when I move on to Level IV, sometime next month.