How ZPoint Was Created

People often ask me how I came up with the idea for ZPoint. Here's an excerpt from a book I wrote about the Process that answers that question. Enjoy!

It is my belief that everything in life is a process. For me, the process that culminated with the creation of The ZPoint Process began just over 10 years ago, in the spring of 1999.

At that time I was working in the computer department of Sir Sandford Fleming College in my home town of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. At that time I was a very unhappy person and was never satisfied by anything. I think I'd been that way all of my life. I was filled with anger, resentment, a deep disappointment with my life and a bottomless longing for something more that I couldn't define.

I can recall either being up or down or swinging somewhere between those two extremes. I can remember only a few times in my life to that point where I can honestly say that I was happy.

One day I came across a reference to a book about a fellow who claimed to have achieved 'Enlightenment' while serving a term in a Florida jail for selling drugs. The idea that this could happen under such conditions and circumstances intrigued me, so I immediately ordered the book. It was called From Onions to Pearls, by Satyam Nadeen.

There was something in that book that laid waste to every idea, belief and cherished notion that I had ever had. That book was a hand grenade thrown into a room filled with furniture, and the furniture was everything I believed and held to be true. For some reason the ideas in that book completely cleared away all of my old ways of being and left me bereft and adrift. I didn't know what to believe, what was right, what was wrong, what was up or what was down. I was a completely empty vessel.

For several months I wandered around completely oblivious to everything. I can recall spending many hours sitting on my couch at home just staring off into space. Just being. Gradually, I started rebuilding the furniture of my mind and my life began to make sense again. However, nothing was the same after that. I was different. I had changed.

Some months later I 'chanced' upon a website advertising an opportunity to become a Certified Hypnotherapist. I immediately remembered when I was a teenager, and the dreams I had for myself. There were three things I wanted more than anything: to write a book, to become "enlightened" and to learn hypnosis. I read everything I could about the latter two and trusted that one day I would write that book.

I can recall buying a simple how-to book on hypnosis when I was fourteen and setting out to hypnotize my friends, sometimes with hilarious results. In late 1999, I fulfilled the dream of becoming a Hypnotherapist, when I became Certified by the National Guild of Hypnotists. My wife, the handy person in our family, converted our dining room into an office and I began seeing clients on a part-time basis.

My life continued to change, often in ways I could not have imagined. It became increasingly difficult for me to keep my mind focused on my job. It just didn't seem to fit me anymore. More and more, my thoughts became centred on becoming a full-time Hypnotherapist. I started talking about leaving my job and devoting myself full time to my practice. Unfortunately, Peterborough is a relatively small place, and I wasn't earning enough to pay my way. My overwhelming desire for change led to a crisis within my marriage.

Quite often in our relationships we have unspoken contracts, shared goals, dreams and ways of being. When these ways of being change, as mine did so dramatically, seemingly stable relationships can reveal difficulties that lay buried beneath the surface. One person wishes everything to remain the same while the other is moved inexorably along a different path, in a different direction entirely. This is what happened to me. Sometimes love is not enough.

In the summer of 2003, I was sharing an apartment in a suburb of Toronto, earning a bare subsistence living as a full time Hypnotherapist, incorporating Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) and Tapas Accupressure Technique (TAT)into my practice. Although financially things were difficult, emotionally and spiritually I was thriving. The ups and downs were gone. Having said this, there were still deep issues I needed to resolve and I was looking for a means to do this. I felt that I had gone as far as I could with EFT and TAT alone.

Around that time, I read The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle. That book had a huge impact on me. I practiced being in the "Now" constantly, and after a while could enter into the Now state at will. I vividly recall how magical it was to simply walk down the street and watch the flowers and trees and suddenly my awareness would shift. Everything took on a life and a brilliance I'd never noticed before.

I'd walk to the Scarborough bluffs and spend hours sitting on a certain park bench overlooking Lake Ontario, just watching the clouds, the birds and the trees and drinking in the incredible beauty I saw spread before me. It was, as I've said, a magical time.

Right at this time, two things happened that changed my life. First, my flat-mate purchased Larry Nims' Be Set Free Fast (BSFF) manual, and second, I read Power vs. Force, by David R. Hawkins. I read Larry's manual and tried using BSFF, but somehow it didn't feel right to me.

It is a brilliant piece of work, but it just didn't resonate with how I thought and especially how I felt. I'm very intuitive and approach everything from a feeling perspective. So I set it aside.

Then I read Power vs. Force. In it, Hawkins speaks about "Attractor Fields" or "M-fields." As I understood it, these are simply energetic patterns containing all of the possibilities inherent within an event, a circumstance or a condition. My life, for example, can be viewed in these terms. It is a large attractor field with my name on it.

Within that field are all of the smaller patterns that go to make up my thoughts, feelings and circumstances. Imagine an energetic bubble, within a bubble within a bubble. And, taken in ever broader terms, the world itself and the universe and everything that exists or has the potential of existing, does so within its own attractor field, one within the other. A wheel within a wheel within a wheel.

I was sitting in the washroom one night, where I often do my best thinking, and I suddenly put everything together. Attractor fields, how to adapt the cue word and healing program from BSFF and Eckhart Tolle's "pain-body". I saw how everything fit together so perfectly and so simply. Whole and complete. I saw it all in that one instant.

I was overwhelmed, and immediately set to work translating what I had seen into a usable process. I spent hours and hours trying this and trying that. I read a post on the BSFF e-mail list about the agreements we make with ourselves, and added this to the process. I read about the importance of forgiveness, and this too was added. Friends would have an idea and we would try it out immediately. These were very exciting times. I spent many hours sitting on that park bench filled with the possibilities for the concept. The result was the original ZeroPoint Process (as I was calling it then) that you can read about in Appendix B, of the first ZPoint manual.

As I said when I began this story, everything is a process. Almost exactly a year later, after having used the original ZeroPoint Process on many people and having written the original manual, I had another idea. I was walking through High Park in Toronto, just enjoying my walk and decided to clear something that had been bothering me. I started going through the process, which at this time was twelve or thirteen steps, when I found myself saying, “I clear all the ways...”

I paused and backtracked in my mind to what I had said to myself. I was astounded. Again I saw the concept clearly of how to simplify the process and make it more effective at the same time. I didn't have paper and a pen with me, so I walked all the way home repeating "I clear all the ways" over and over so I wouldn't forget it before I got home. And that is how the present version was born.

I am very grateful to be the bearer of this process. I promise to always do my best to bring forth that which is given to me in trust for all of you.

(A reminder - If you have an issue that just won't seem to go away, consider my Personal Coaching Program to find fast relief. Go to www.zpointforpeace.com/coaching.shtml for details)

Regards,

Grant Connolly, CHt