Passionate Consciousness
Bill Harris

Up until about ago 40, I was definitely not living the life I loved. I was chronically angry, often depressed, and had one abysmal relationship after another, most ending in intense heartache. I had no real career and no idea how to create one. The direction of my life was down—at best, sideways.

This was all a blessing in disguise, though, because it created an intense motivation to learn what happy, peaceful, and successful were doing that I wasn’t.
Today, I’m married to a wonderful woman who really loves ME. I make ten times what I used to fantasize about in my wildest financial dreams. And, I have a challenging career doing something I love.

What’s more, my anger problem is gone—and I haven’t been depressed for even one minute in nearly fifteen years.
Now, at age 54, I truly am living the life I love.
This transformation happened because I discovered a few key principles that created tremendous positive change for me. They will work for you, too.

What are these secrets?

First, happy people acknowledge that they are creating their reality, internally and externally. They see circumstances as an influence, but know that what they do inside creates how they feel and behave, and what people and situations they draw to themselves.

For most people, this processing of external circumstances happens unconsciously—out of awareness. This makes it seem as if circumstances cause your feelings and behavior and what you attract into your life. When this happens, it seems as if you are at the effect of external causes over which you have no control. You feel like a puppet. When things are good, you feel good. When they’re bad, you feel bad.

Happy people, however, even if they can’t see how they’re creating what is happening, know that they are. They take responsibility.

Another characteristic of happy people is that they act because of the possibilities they see. Where the unhappy person sees what is necessary, or impossible, the happy person sees what is possible. And, by focusing on what is possible, happy people make those possibilities come true.
A third characteristic of happy, successful people: they focus their mind on what they want and keep their mind off of what they do not want.

Here’s what I mean by focus. When you think, you make what psychologists call internal representations: pictures, sounds, feelings, smells, tastes, or internal dialog. When you focus on something, you create an internal representation of it using one of these six thinking modalities.

These internal representations can be of what you want…or of what you don’t want. Take prosperity, for instance. You could focus on not being poor, or you could focus on being rich. That is, you could make a picture inside poverty, wanting to move away from it, or you could create a picture of being wealthy, wanting to move toward it.

In both cases the intention is the same, but your brain doesn’t care about your intention. It just sees the literal content of the picture. When you focus on riches, it thinks you want riches, and motivates you to see opportunities, find resources, and take action to be rich. When you focus on not being poor, it sees a picture of being poor, and motivates you to see opportunities, find resources, and take action…to be poor.

Most people focus on what they want to avoid without realizing the consequences of doing so. When they get what they focused on, they assume they didn’t focus hard enough and redouble their efforts. This creates even more of what they don’t want, which creates more frustration.
The other penalty for focusing on what you don’t want is that you feel bad. In fact, all bad feeling, and all negative outcomes, are the result of focusing on what you do not want.

Instead of unconsciously and automatically focusing on what you don’t want, consciously and intentionally focus on what you do want. When you do this, you instantly begin to create it…and you instantly feel good.

The final characteristic: Happy people are consciously aware. As a result, their brain is less likely run on automatic, creating internal states and internal outcomes they did not intend and do not want.

How do you become more consciously aware? Two ways; The first is meditation. Though traditional meditation is very beneficial, at Centerpointe Research Institute we use an audio technology called Holosync to create deep meditative states, literally at the push of a button. This greatly accelerates the meditation process, and allows you to create increased conscious awareness very quickly.

Second, investigate your own internal processes: your beliefs, values, ways of filtering information, strategies you use for decision making, motivation, and your other internal processes. Centerpointe’s Life Principles Integration Process is a structures way of investigating and changing these internal processes, allowing you to take charge of how you create your internal and external results.

There is a price to pay to live the life you love. But paying it is a joyful enterprise, and once you pay it, you will benefit for the rest of your life. So realize that you create your reality, learn to focus your mind on what you want and keep it off of what you don’t want, and increase your conscious awareness through meditation and self-inquiry.

The life you love is waiting for you!