What Can Holothink Do For You?

TOTALLY TRANQUIL - This is the first program and is perfect if you are seeking stress relief - it relaxes you leaving you feel very peaceful.

DEEP ZEN - Deep Zen meditation accesses the Theta Brain Wave frequency. This is the frequency of dreams and the deepest level of waking
***BONUS 15-MINUTE THETA Meditation. This bonus audio program is included when you don't have enough time in your day for the full 45 minute meditation. Doing at least a 15 minute meditation when you are short on time provides good maintenance of your more blissful state of mind.
This program has rain and wind chimes in the background track.

CREATIVITY BOOSTER - Perfect for people actively engaged in any creative process; writers, artists, analysts, students, this meditation takes you to a state of increased creativity.

LASER FOCUS - Very popular audio that you can listen to while you work at any task. Gets you focused and keeps you there. Use it even while reading a book(so you don't have to re-read pages) If you or someone you know has attention deficit issues, this is a great product for them.
***If you continually find you don't have enough time for your meditation practice, try the Laser Focus program so you can get more accomplished in the time that you work and so create more free time for yourself.

DIGITAL SANDMAN - Holothink has also released a set of programs that can help with sleep related issues - if you need a quick refresher nap, need help relaxing into sleep, or you want help staying asleep.
***Tracks include Power Napper, Sleep Support, Overcoming Insomnia and Digital Sandman to help you sleep better (and improve your sex life!).

Rapid fluctuations of voltage between parts of the cerebral cortex that are detectable with an electroencephalograph, EEG; basically an electrical impulse in the brain.

With the use of an EEG machine these fluctuations or pulses can be detected and measured. They also are categorized in four major brainwave patterns (Hz = Hertz = cycles/pulses per second):

* BETA (13-30+Hz) Beta is the state of normal, wakeful consciousness; it is the highest state of alertness. When we are working, driving, talking, logically thinking, we are more than likely in Beta. On the extreme end, Beta is sometimes associated with anxiety and panic or stress.

* ALPHA (8-12.9 Hz) Alpha is a relaxed state of mind. We are not sleeping but our minds our calm and focused and very receptive to learning and open to new ideas. Most meditation occurs in the alpha state.

* THETA (4-7.9 Hz) Theta is deep relaxation. This is a high state of mental concentration. A person who is daydreaming is in a theta state of mind. It is a state where chores become so automatic that you do them without even thinking about them, you disengage from them mentally. It usually is a very positive mental state.

* DELTA (0.1-3.9 Hz) Delta is deep dreamless sleep. Also, delta can be a state of trance-like consciousness. You may feel a state of oneness, pure being.

In the course of an average day, most of us spend some amount of time in all of these states of consciousness.

These 4 categories of brainwaves are common to all of us regardless of age, gender or cultural background.

Having or gaining knowledge of these different brainwave states can help a person take advantage of the unique qualities of those states: productivity, focusing on task at hand, creativity or relaxation and sleep.

The brain produces a phenomenon resulting in low-frequency pulsations in the loudness of a perceived sound when two tones at slightly different frequencies are presented separately, one to each of a subject's ears, using stereo headphones. A beating tone will be perceived, as if the two tones mixed naturally, out of the brain. The difference between the two frequencies must be small for the effect to occur; otherwise the two tones will be heard separately and no beat will be perceived.

Binaural beats can be classified into two categories.
* They are of interest to neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing.
* Binaural beats may influence the brain through the entrainment of brainwaves and can be used to produce relaxation and other health benefits.

Binaural beat stimulation has been used fairly extensively to induce a variety of states of consciousness. There has been some work done in regards to the effects of these stimuli on relaxation, focus, attention, and states of consciousness. Studies have shown that with repeated training to close frequency sounds that a reorganization of the brain occurs for the trained frequencies and they are capable of asymmetric hemispheric balancing or whole-brain thinking.

In addition to lowering the brain frequency to relax the listener (or to raise it to help focusing), using specific frequencies can stimulate certain glands to produce desired hormones. Among other alleged uses, there are reducing learning time and sleeping needs (theta waves are thought to improve learning, since children, who have stronger theta waves, and remain in this state for a longer period of time than adults, usually learn faster than adults; and some people find that half an hour in the theta state can reduce sleeping needs up to four hours.

Another claimed effect for sound induced brain synchronization is enhanced learning ability. It was proposed in the 1970s that induced alpha brain waves enabled students to assimilate more information with greater long term retention.

Scientific researchers have found the easiest way of applying stimulus to the brain is through the ears. However, the ranges of sound that produce the effects we're after fall out of the range of normal human hearing.

The low sounds necessary for brain stimulation require a special technique called "binaural beats". The landmark research for this technology of "binaural beats" was first presented in a 1973 issue of Scientific American by a biophysicist named Dr. Gerald Oster, M.D.

Dr. Oster found that when different sound frequencies are delivered to the brain through each ear separately (such as by using stereo headphones), the two hemispheres of the brain start working together to perceive not the external audio signals, but a third "phantom" signal -- the binaural beat.

In other words, your brain is able to "fill in the blank".

Here is a simple explanation of how binaural beats work: If one ear is presented with a sound frequency of 200 Hz and the other ear receives a tone of 210 Hz, these two tones combine in the brain.

Each hemisphere of the brain has its own sound-processing center to receive the signals from each ear. The difference between these two different frequencies (10 Hz) is perceived and generated by the brain as a binaural beat.

Each binaural beat generates what are termed two "standing waves", one from each hemisphere. These two separate standing waves entrain the hemispheres toward the same frequency, which is 10 Hz: the mathematical difference between the auditory inputs.

In this way, the brain waves are said to be "synchronized". Instead of hearing the two different tones (at 200 and 210 Hz), you would hear one rhythmic beat of 10 Hz.

This type of training has been shown to enhance brain function through the increase of communication circuits between the left and right hemispheres of the brain account for increased "whole brain functioning".

Additionally, the brain can be trained into specific brain states such as alpha (for relaxation and visualization), beta (for peak concentration and cognitive processes), theta (for meditation, memory and learning), and delta (for restorative sleep and healing).

One study conducted at Duke University Medical Center and reported in the journal Physiology & Behavior found that presenting binaural auditory beats could enhance psychomotor performance (aka, hand-eye coordination or body control) and mood.

Researcher Dr. Lester Fehmi has said that brain synchronization "...is correlated experientially with a union with experience, and 'into-it-ness.' Instead of feeling separate and narrow-focused you tend to feel more into it...There's a whole-brain sensory integration going on and it's as if you become less self-conscious and function more intuitively."

This is exactly the state many people call being "in the zone," where you're functioning at the top of your game! And it's now possible to get there-easily!

Synchronizing your brain can quite simply catapult you to much higher levels of effectiveness in your life.

Another scientist called brain synchronization "extremely beneficial, with each subject feeling as if his or her mind had reached a higher level of integration, with accompanying increases in mental powers and an unmistakable reorientation toward life."

Totally Tranquil puts you in the alpha state, the 'super-relaxed, super-learning state'.
You are conscious and aware, but very relaxed.

When you are truly relaxed, your brain activity slows down from the rapid beta wave pattern. You are more consciously aware and open-minded.
Your creative juices begin to flow and your worries disappear. You feel liberated and at peace.

The Alpha brain wave state makes a person's thinking very powerful, intuitive and creative. It enables you to connect with your subconscious and helps you to tap into the extraordinary potential you have.

This type of thinking is key in developing your intuition, learning ability and self-healing assets.

Just a brief period of being in alpha gives you profound clarity and a feeling of well-being.

Listening to Totally Tranquil on a daily basis will enhance your health, your learning and your awareness.

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Before using the Deep Zen audios it is recommended that you listen to Totally Tranquil(alpha wave meditation) for at least 14 days, unless you are fairly well experienced at meditation.

Deep Zen has accomplished for many, in a very short timeframe, what it once took years of traditional meditation to accomplish. It takes you to the lowest levels of deep meditation.

Deep Zen meditation accesses the Theta Brain Wave frequency. This is the frequency of deep relaxation and the deepest level of waking meditation.

The Theta frequency:

* Increases memory and sharp mental focus

* Immediate relaxation and stress relief

* Improves intuition

* Mind clarity and calmness

* Improve hemisphere activity balancing which leads to overall brain function improvements
(Whole-brain thinking)

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Deep Zen 1 has higher frequency carrier waves and you should start your Deep Zen meditations with this audio.

Composed of tones with natural rain sounds in the background.

Headphones are required with this program.

The carrier wave tones in Deep Zen 1 change left and right channels every minute to create improved brain hemisphere balancing.

Each brain wave frequency used in the Deep Zen meditation is doubled at a lower harmonic every few minutes to amplify the effectiveness of the program.

The layered harmonics aid you in getting the most out of your meditations by staying awake at the lowest waking brain wave frequencies.

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Deep Zen 2 meditation uses lower frequency carrier waves than Deep Zen 1 and can be started after 1 week of using Deep Zen 1.

Composed of tones with natural rain sounds and wind chimes as background.

Headphones are required with this program.

Deep Zen 2 has an equally effective meditation program as Deep Zen 1.

When Deep Zen 2 usage is rotated weekly with Deep Zen 1, it is valuable in reducing any possibility of brain entrenchment.

Brain entrenchment occurs after listening to the same track with frequent repetition and the brain becoming acclimatized to the frequencies.

Using both programs is like cross training for the brain.

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The Deep Zen 3 track utilizes our latest Triple Chord Harmonic technology. That means it is approximately three-times more powerful than any other program currently available on the market.

Multi-layered tones are combined with a perfect 5th drone and Tibetan and Crystal bowls.

This program is more effective after experiencing Deep Zen 1 and 2.

Headphones are required with this program.

CAUTION: Do not listen to level three until after you've worked with levels one and two for at least one month. Let your brain have enough time to acclimate to the potency levels of Deep Zen 1 & 2.

This level is like listening to three programs at once

It is very challenging

It produces the most intense meditation experiences you've probably ever had

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The Creativity Booster program is ideal for people actively engaged in any creative process; writing, painting, brainstorming and more.
Soothing music surges calm like ocean waves while a melodic pattern pans through inner space. The background binaural beat program generates a brain wave pattern that relaxes your mind, reduces your stress and opens the gateway to your creative subconscious.

Get your creative juices flowing ...

* Supercharge your creativity
* Easily come up with exciting new ideas
* Use your imagination to improve your business
* Improve artistic creativity
* Solve problems by open-minded thinking(think outside the box)

After listening to this track several times you will begin to experience heightened levels of creativity - ideas may seem to just "come to you" effortlessly.

Listen to this track consistently, daily for a period of 10-14 days for optimal results - this is not required, it's just optimal.

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Laser Focus - Listen to this program daily while you work to get and stay focused and energized. This is a great product for ADD sufferers. It also improves organization, your life will become more orderly.

* The ability to focus especially if you are feeling unmotivated

* Maintain focus

* Dramatically improve concentration

* Get more done in less time

* Become way more productive then you ever have

* Perfect for troubleshooters

* Problem solving capabilities dramatically increase

* Mind chatter dissolves so you can get your work done

I have used this product at work many times while deciphering complex programming issues and the answers always seem to jump right out in front of me and this happens in a relatively much shorter period of time than before. Probably because it helps you stay very focused and keep that concentration. Very powerful audio.

The Digital Sandman package covers the full range of sleep issues with tracks including Power Napper, Sleep Support, Overcoming Insomnia and Digital Sandman to help you sleep better (and improve your sex life!)
I have included below several articles about sleep and the benefits derived from sleep.

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Remember having sex when it was so all-consuming and thrilling it was all you could think about for days? Days of anticipation, mind-blowing, body-shaking sex, then remembering it for days or even years afterwards?

Either that was a long time ago for you and you'd like to have that kind of sex in your life again. Or you're having that kind of sex at this point in your life. Whichever description you identify with, you could be making a mistake that is reducing the quantity and quality of your sex life. You might not be getting enough good sleep.

First, a technical term. Getting an adequate amount of sound sleep on a regular schedule is called good sleep hygiene. Hygiene is about maintaining health. So "sleep hygiene," rather than being something sterile and clinical as the phrase sounds, is what you need for better sex.

Picture an upwardly mobile couple with three children. Both parents work and the children are in school, which means they have activities: homework, science projects, things they need for school that they forgot to tell their parents till the night before. We've all known families like that. How much great sex do you think the parents have? They probably schedule love-making. Nothing wrong with scheduling it, just so long as both parties feel up to it when the time comes. That is, sadly, rarely the case these days.

While there are numerous websites offering hilarious lists of calories burned during sex (for example: 12 calories taking her clothes off with her consent, but without it), sexual play can be vigorous exercise, potentially equal to a half-hour walk. There are too many variables to make an accurate generalization for all parties, but if you've ever felt completely drained afterwards, you had a great workout!

You can't do that without adequate sleep. At least not consistently. In new relationships, partners often are so sleep-deprived, they say, "We're living on love." But if the newly-in-love continue at that pace for a long period of time, libido will start waning. Both will eventually "just want to get some sleep."

Besides inadequate sleep from too few hours in bed, enough hours in bed but not enough sleep also reduces sexual performance. One of the most common disturbances is snoring. If the snoring is not too loud, many lovers learn to live with it, or put a pillow over their ears so their partner can snore on. The problem is not only that snoring can anger the lighter-sleeping partner and build resentment, however subtle. The major problem is that while a person is snoring, he or she is not sleeping and-worse yet-not getting enough oxygen to the brain.

Snoring usually represents a condition known as sleep apnea. Sleep apnea can be fatal. If the non-snoring partner considers this for a few minutes the next time her husband or boyfriend shakes the timbers with his snore, she'll be wide awake for hours thinking about how she will survive (or thrive) without him!

The snorer has problems, too. He (or she) is sleepy during the day and may also be irritable. Irritability and romance do not go hand in hand. Who wants to make love to someone who's been grouchy all day?

Sleep apnea also reduces hormone levels essential to sex drive. If your lover has lost his or her libido, lack of sleep could be the cause.

Medications can also reduce libido. And the ability to sleep well. On the other hand, adequate rest--including mental rest-can reduce the need for medication or reduce dosage requirements. Wherever medication is involved, checking with a physician is critical.

Everyone has a sleep issue from time to time.

Many factors affect sleep quality, and therefore sex frequency and quality. Proper diet, enough exercise, mental stimulation, adequate fluid intake-basically all the things we know make us healthy make us sexually potent as well. Healthy bodies are sexy bodies.

But in today's society, attention to exercise, diet and all the rest, don't always provide complete support for sound, refreshing sleep. Stress and worry can keep us tossing and turning even though we're otherwise super-healthy. All these factors are involved. Sex is a built-in desire, the realization of which floods the body with feel-good hormones that improve our quality of life and ability to cope with what's coming next. Deep sound sleep is similarly hard-wired into us. It is the setting for regeneration of cells and electro-chemical resetting for the next day of awakeness.

Anything that makes it easier to get good quality sleep has equal potential to improve your sex life.

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I have a friend who wants to get her chin tucked - a couple of them anyway. I stumbled across an article the other day linking double chins and snoring, so I went out on a search for all the ways insomnia might result in physical characteristics many people in the West would not associate with "beauty."

I haven't yet found again the article on thick necks and sleep apnea. I've found several that say people with think necks (which would mostly be men) often snore, because as they age the ability of their muscles to keep their throat's soft tissue from collapsing on itself during sleep is reduced. I've not yet read enough to find out whether snoring can also cause a think neck. Of course, snoring is not necessarily a sleep disorder, not does it necessarily accompany insomnia. To be a disorder, the person has to miss breaths. To be insomnia, the person has to be awake-which you wish they would do when they start snoring!

Obesity - There's one that gets attention. It's fairly well understood hormones affect sleep. For example, women progressing through menopause may experience great periods of insomnia because of the changes in their estrogen levels. After menopause, their progesterone is higher in proportion to estrogen than previously, and that's the time many women begin to snore. They also begin to gain weight. And get thicker necks. While there are several causes for that, here's one you may not have heard of.

Two hormones--leptin and ghrelin-may significantly affect how much we eat. One of them, leptin, tells us when we're full: stop eating, you're satisfied. The other one, ghrelin (which I like to call gremlin) stimulates appetite. When we miss sleep, for whatever reason, leptin (stop eating) falls while ghrelin (you're starving) increases. Consequently, you feel hungry, unsatisfied and still munching. The ultimate result is weight gain.

This is why almost all men are thicker and have thick necks as they reach middle age and beyond. They snore; therefore, they gain weight. (It isn't the snoring itself; it's the "not sleeping soundly" when you're snoring.)

This affects aging in the reverse. Older people don't get enough really. Their hormonal systems aren't restored and reset. They feel satisfied and not hungry. Malnutrition is a huge problem among the elderly and it begins with not getting good quality sleep!

Diabetes - OK, being diabetic may not make you ugly, but if you're single and dating, it could raise a caution flag! Inadequate sleep can prevent the proper processing of glucose, causing high blood sugar levels. Looping back to the weight problem, excess glucose is then stored as fat, and in some people's minds, that makes you ugly.

Stupidity - Can you just not pull up a name you know? Can't bring it to mind? Or you say something to a colleague and it sounds like you're drunk or on allergy medication? There are significant mental effects to sleep deprivation, including slurred speech, inabilities to problem solve, speak coherently or learn something new. In extreme instances, a person can experience hallucinations or go mad. (Remember, keeping people from sleeping and dreaming is a typical torture technique; this is why. And even if you can still function, you might be torturing your comrades!)

Emotional wreck - I may be stretching physical side effects of insomnia to include emotions, but this is one more thing that make you less attractive to others. Did you know sleep deprivation has been linked as one of the primary contributors to road rage? In other words, if you signal to a driver of a car weaving across the line ahead of you, he might pull beside you and shoot you because he's sleepy-the same reason he was weaving!

This could also be an indicator in the glass-half-full-half-empty set. Sleep deprived people are more pessimistic. (Watch for doom and gloom amongst the thick neck set. Maybe this is why people think dads are realists and moms are optimists!)

Skin - Skin is refreshed and renewed during sleep. Did you know skin is an organ? The largest organ in the body. Without adequate sleep, your skin will look older and drier. "Beauty sleep" is called that for a reason. It gives the face (and whole body) time to relax, to let go of wrinkles. Like good sex, adequate sleep can help you emerge fresh and glowing.

If these don't convince you you're ugly when you don't get enough sleep, think about how ugly you feel when you're tired and how ugly all the rest of the world looks to you.

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Name three reasons you miss sleep. Here's a check list. Pick your faves: 1) too much to do, 2) got to bed late, 3) ate too much dinner, 4) awakened in the night thinking about work and couldn't go back to sleep, 5) noises outside, 6) had to set the alarm early to prepare for something. Sound familiar?

Worry is one of the big reported causes of sleeplessness. Many people prefer to call it "thinking." Worry falls into three timeframes: 1) either people lie awake unable to fall asleep, 2) or they fall asleep but awaken in the night because of a noise or to take a bio break, then can't resume sleep; or 3) they awaken too early in the morning and can't fall back asleep. Less frequent is having two or three of these conditions (except under extreme stress).

Typically, worry would not be characterized as a sleep disorder, but rather a sleep disruption.

Sleep disorders, per se¸ have a medical or physiological tie-in. To get a handle on sleep disorders, think of them as falling into two categories: internally stimulated or externally stimulated. Internally provoked causes sleeplessness cover everything from run-away thinking to a full bladder.

Externally provoked wakefulness during sleep times covers things like loud noises, interruptions, bright lights, etc.

You immediately see from this simple breakdown there are a few things about getting a good night's sleep that are fairly easy to control under most circumstances. For the most part, stimuli causing wakefulness that you can prevent or control without medication would fall under experiential insomnia, not sleep disorders.

Internally triggered sleeplessness, however, is more complex than pulling dark shades or plugging in your white noise machine. Internal causes are further broken down into voluntary and involuntary, for lack of better terms. For example, we could make a case that worrying all night is voluntary. Of course, you feel like it isn't, especially at the time. But you could choose to think about butterflies and balmy lake breezes rather than how you are going to get 17 non-productive people in the department you just took over to start performing up to par. Neurological disorders, on the other hand, would clearly be involuntary-and a disorder, not merely insomnia.

For a clearer breakdown of internal causes of sleep disruption, think of them as non-physically triggered and physically triggered. Among physical triggers are sleep-robbing medications, menopause and other hormonal swings (such as pregnancy), injuries, illness, etc. Sleep terrors, sleep walking and REM sleep behavior disorder can be among the most serious disorders, because a person moving while sleeping can be a danger to both themselves and to others.

These latter conditions fall under the domain of sleep disorders. In other words, lying awake at night thinking about work is uncomfortable, but it is not a sleep disorder. Insomnia is a nuisance, but it is not a sleep disorder-it is a problem. Sleep apnea is a disorder.

Sleeplessness itself is most-commonly associated with tension, anxiety, depression, and worries about work or finances. Even a less-than-favorable sex life can lead to night-time restlessness.

Indigestion from overeating, or eating foods less compatible with one's biological type shortly before going to sleep can trigger discomfort and eventual wakefulness. Certain substances, like alcohol for example, have a rebound effect of first sedating, then stimulating.

Whether insomnia is invited over after a nasty bit of cheese steak or by a genetic predisposition, it is important to pay attention to it, ascertain the cause or causes in your case and make every resolve to get uninterrupted, quality sleep. Daytime tiredness can cause injuries, accidents and even death, in addition to the dangers posed by what may occur during physiological sleep disorders themselves.

Treatments are accessible and in most cases fairly inexpensive. The problem is, whether you have too much wine before going to bed or awaken with night terrors, either way, your life and the lives of those you love are at risk.

Get some sleep!

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One of the seven centers of spiritual energy in the human body according to yoga philosophy:

In Hinduism and Tantra, any of 88,000 focal points in the human body where psychic forces and bodily functions can merge and interact. In Hinduism there are seven and in Tantra four major chakras, each associated with a colour, shape, sense organ, natural element, deity, and mantra. The most important are the heart chakra, the chakra at the base of the spine, and the chakra at the top of the head.

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* Unblock your Chakra centers and feel refreshed
* Release tension, stress and fatigue
* Energize yourself again energy
* Clear your energy pathways of resistance
* Create a deeper sense of spirituality and balance
* Get relaxed and revitalized

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I have had many many experiences with this meditation. Some have been physical and some spiritual, even some I can't begin to describe in words.

From the very beginning:
* I felt a lot more relaxed and clear-headed, very 'at peace with myself'.
* I experience a euphoric feeling after listening to the audios almost always.
*I have a sense of well-being. Little things don't bother me anymore.

I can remember getting into such a relaxed state that I yawned constantly over and over. Yawning is a bodily shift into relaxation, an energy shift.

I feel energized after listening as if I just had taken a nap for a couple of hours. I always feel refreshed and alert afterwards, never groggy.

I have experienced loss of body consciousness where I've felt as if I was floating and I felt very warm, this is true deep meditation! A little scary the first time since I've never experienced it. I believe I've even stopped breathing during those brief moments.

I experience energy shifts all the time when meditating which means my body is releasing energy and removing energy blocks.

Once I felt tremendous energy and vibrations. Unlike an out-of-body experience, which I've had also, this was an inside-of-body experience. I was in my core center looking out at my hands. I didn't want to leave, it was so perfect and peaceful and warm there. I had recently fallen and bruised my knee pretty badly, had to limp on it. After this mediation episode, my knee never felt better: I truly believe some healing took place that day because the knee improved rapidly afterwards.

There have been sessions that have gone by it what seemed like a few minutes and there have been times that seemed to drag on while meditating.

The best advice I was given and I will give to anyone interested in this type of meditation is to let whatever happens before, during or after your meditation be alright.

*Let whatever happens be ok, let it happen and don't try to analyze or figure it all out.

These audios really and truly expand your awareness. In the beginning just after a couple of times of listening I started observing myself and watching what I did.

*I have read that if we live consciously we won't ever do anything that doesn't serve us.
(Read that again, it is so true)

I have experienced a closer attachment to nature, especially right after a meditation. I seem to notice everything, the trees swaying, the leaves, the subtle colors I usually don't notice. All of the sounds surrounding me seem to culminate into one harmonious melody.

*I feel so alive at those moments.

I have experienced REM, rapid eye movement, once during a meditation. I believe REM occurs only when we dream yet I was awake, conscious.

Once I meditated with my cat, Ansley, on my lap. She didn't budge during the whole session and didn't appear to be sleeping but was alert. I believe she liked feeling the energy from my hands.

This is another thing, when I meditate there is so much energy in my hands, I feel it instantly. I use this energy to soothe any pains I have at the time.

When I first started I used to analyze everything that happened, kept a journal. That didn't last because it seemed unnecessary. I started becoming more and more content, worry-free and stress-free.

There have been so many subtle changes that are hard to put in words.

I know I was suffering emotionally from what I thought was peri-menopause but come to find out that was what I was blaming my crazy emotions on for lack of better reasoning. For instance, there was a situation where in the past I would have started crying. I deserved a good cry and I felt I had a good reason for it. BUT instead since I've become more watchful of myself, I realized that just because you would've cried in the past doesn't mean you have to cry and suffer now. So I didn't!
I CHOSE NOT TO CRY and moved past those thoughts and I thought, "Wow, this is different."

When you watch yourself you choose wisely because you are aware, just think of the power this holds for you!
* I live more consciously now, I'm not on auto-pilot
I notice when I meditate in the mornings my whole day just smoothly flows by, everything just seems to click. I prefer the evenings, though, since it is so refreshing after a long day of work or study. It's best to do it around the same time every day.

Another thing that has happened to me is that I used to always have a couple of drinks/glasses of wine at the end of the work day. When I meditate I don't want the alcohol. I have no need for it. I guess I was using the drinks to wind down and didn't really realize it had become such an ingrained habit until I started meditating. This is a very very positive change.

Once while working I was thinking of how happy I was. And I asked myself why? Why are you so happy? What happened? Actually at the time I had just found out I was being laid off and also my cat was sick. Didn't seem to matter, I was happy and I couldn't figure out why. Then it dawned on me. Do I really need for something to happen to be happy? Why are we constantly in a state of unhappiness unless something happens to us to make us happy. My meditations have made me a very happy person overall and now this is the state I usually find myself in and not the other way around. It was obvious my left brain logic met its match, the right brain, and the left relinquished its power. Basically, nothing needed to occur for me to just be happy, wow! And when all the voices finally stopped asking why, I guess it was because they finally got the message, too.

Meditating yesterday evening at the end of my hour long sit I experienced something very spiritual. People talk about becoming awake, not in a literal sense, but consciously. I experienced both I believe. Literally, the concept of becoming awake is to wake up from sleep, the darkness. I sensed a bodily shift and with my eyes already closed, I sensed that I closed them again but when I did it, it wasn't darkness (as in sleep) but light, I transcended. It was extra-ordinary so I held my position for as long as I could. Those few seconds I am still cherishing. How many few consecutive moments in a day do we actually remember? We typically remember events and those events on an average taking an educated guess would have to last at least a few minutes or at least half of an hour or longer for us to found them monumental, good or bad. But for a few seconds to make such an impact is amazing, undescribable. So I closed my eyes in the physical sense to wake up in the metaphysical sense?
* I believe that this is due to the correct functioning of my brain, better known as whole-brain thinking. The right and left becoming one, meshing. No arguments, no judgements, just radiant bliss.
Later, of course, I ask myself, smiling, how could this be? I closed my eyes and woke up? I closed them twice, but how could I if they were already closed? This brings up one of my favorite cliches, QUESTION EVERYTHING, meaning just because in our physical world we open our eyes to wake up doesn't mean that in another we can't close them to come awake.

Have you ever been irritated at yourself for wanting to do something good for yourself? The other day driving home I was listening to my deliberate creation, disc 5, for the fifth time.
I became annoyed and irritated listening to the familiar words, wanting to shout, 'Okay, I hear you, alright already!'.
What I didn't realize at the time that it wasn't me, who I am really, that was disgruntled but it was my ego. As I walked on the beach later, I got it, I understood!
It's my ego, the uncooperating part of me that wants to protect me even if that means staying miserable. See, the ego like the subconscious only knows, well what it knows. It is made up of years of past experiences and beliefs. And when we go after our heart's desire or just try to change, the ego freaks out! Typically because our hearts desire is something other then what we are currently putting our emphasis on.

When you start living consciously you notice everything and take conscious action to correct those beliefs that were never in your best interest.

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I wanted to write this lens mostly to share my experiences with meditation. There has not been anything negative come out of all of my experiences with this personal development program. And I thought if I could share this and if it could lessen people's suffering that would be worthwhile.

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I also wanted to share with you something else. For so many years, what seems a lifetime, I have been reading self-help books and I will probably continue. BUT, when you begin meditating (searching for answers on the inside) all the lights turn on very fast. You also acquire an insatiable hunger to learn more, MORE OF YOURSELF!

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Being overwhelmed is a tool for fear; I believe that fear tries to keep us so safe and that it actually will overwhelm us if we try to take on a new activity or change an existing one. Fear hopes we become overwhelmed with the new or changed task at hand because of ALL the steps required to accomplish it. We become overwhelmed and we stress out or give up so fear wins. Realizing this precludes that there are many more masks fear wears to try to keep us safe and at a distance. That is Fear's job.

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I have to reiterate, again, the more conscious you are the more you do less of what doesn't serve you, in all areas of your life. Meditation will make you a very conscious person over time, this is powerful!

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"I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love
For love would be love of the wrong thing; thee is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the wating.
Wait without thought, fo you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light and the stillness the dancing. "
T.S. Eliot - Four Quarters

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"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
Thoreau, Walden conclusion.

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Meditation alone can be incredibly healing and restorative, but it is also possible to enhance the benefits by combining it with other modalities like music, color therapy, and holding or placing
specific gems and crystals on the body while meditating.

Aromatherapy is another option that works well with meditation because specific scents can easily inspire corresponding moods and enhance visual imagery. Depending on the purpose of your
meditation, you could choose various scents that would complement it. For example, some scents might induce a sense of peace and well-being while others would be better for boosting confidence,
enhancing mental clarity or stimulating creativity.

Below you'll find recommendations for various scents that will
complement different types of meditation. There are a few ways to
disperse the scent through the room, including burning scented
incense, warming essential oils in a diffuser, or even dabbing some
on a scarf and draping it around your neck.

FOR ENERGY AND MOTIVATION:

To boost your energy, motivation and personal power, try a
meditation that boosts your mood first, like visualizing an
inspiring or exciting scene. You can imagine something that hasn't
happened yet, remember something wonderful that happened in the
past, or even recite empowering affirmations mentally.

For invigorating aromatherapy scents, go with "spicy" choices like
those associated with warmth and energy. Try cinnamon, ginger,
cedar, orange, lemon, grapefruit, patchouli, mint, nutmeg,
allspice, coffee, or mocha.

FOR PEACE AND SERENTIY:

To induce a peaceful, serene state of mind choose relaxing imagery,
like envisioning yourself relaxing on a beach, walking slowly
through a quiet forest, or even soaking in a warm bath.

You'll also want to choose softer scents to go along with the
meditation, and floral scents usually work well for this purpose.
Try violet, lavender, gardenia, carnation, rose, jasmine,
honeysuckle, magnolia, or lilac.

FOR HEALING AND WELL-BEING:

Healing meditations can include anything that inspires a sense of
well-being. One popular choice is envisioning a cloud of beautiful
light flowing around and through your body, dissolving all illness
and discomfort. You can make the light any color you want, as well
as adjusting the brightness or softness, or focusing it on specific
areas that hurt.

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For most people, meditation is a simple way to get connected spiritually, manage stress and create a more peaceful way of living. But there are also other benefits that come along with a daily meditation practice, one of which is stronger self-confidence.

There are many ways that meditation can help strengthen your
confidence, but probably the most important is the way it connects
you with a deeper part of yourself. Most of us are used to
connecting with our thoughts more than anything else and it's easy
to forget that there is more to us than that.

Regular meditation helps you transcend your thoughts and connect to
your true inner essence, whether you want to call it your spirit,
your soul, your higher self, or even divinity. The more you
connect with this inner core, the more you tend to live your life
from a calmer, deeper perspective.

As a result, you are less likely to engage in negative self-talk or
be overly critical of yourself. You live each moment with the
awareness that you are valuable because of who you are, rather than
anything you do. Before you know it, your confidence grows and you
find yourself feeling more courageous, willing to take bigger risks
and overcome perceived failure. Your very sense of self is no
longer tied up in a false perception of who you think you are, but
the very core of your being.

Though much of this process happens automatically through regular
meditation, there are also a few things you can do if you want to
help it along:

Build yourself up with positive self-talk.

Before, during or after your meditation sessions, spend a few
minutes speaking positively to and about yourself. It's best to
say things that you won't have trouble believing because your
subconscious mind is more likely to accept them.

Try statements like these:

"I am proud of my past accomplishments. I am capable of becoming
great at anything I choose to do. I believe in myself and my
capabilities. I give myself permission to be confident and
successful. I thrive on challenges. I am unstoppable. I have
faith in my dreams."

Envision empowerment.

Visualization is a perfect complement to meditation and can
dramatically improve your results. Spend a few minutes a day
imagining yourself feeling completely strong and confident in
whatever you do. What would it feel like to be super strong and
purposeful every day? Generate some mental pictures of yourself
doing just that, and allow yourself to feel that way. The more you
imagine yourself feeling and acting confidently, the easier you'll
find it to do in your day to day experiences.

Redefine failure.

One common cause of low self-confidence is pervasive memories of
past failures. However, the problem lies not in the failed
attempts themselves, but what you concluded from them. You
convinced yourself that failure was the end, that you would never
be successful - but does that have to be true? What if you began
to see "failure" as an opportunity to try again?

Use your meditation sessions to affirm and visualize that you can
be successful regardless of how many times you've failed in the
past. Imagine yourself encouraging others by sharing stories of
your past failures - and eventual success! Imagine yourself saying
to them, "Do you know how many times I failed before I succeeded?
If I can do it, so can you!" If you change your perception of
failure into something more positive and empowering, your
confidence will skyrocket. You'll find yourself eager to try again
and again until you succeed.

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"Stop it. Just calm down. Here, sit down here. Now breathe
slowly....slowly...in through your nose, that's it, now out through your mouth. Again. And one more time. There. Now tell me what happened. What frightened you so?"

Sound familiar? This is probably the earliest kind of human
biofeedback, not counting the tiger who killed the hunters because
she smelled their fear and they couldn't stop themselves in time!

In the illustration above, one person is giving feedback to
another. The observer notices a frantic brain state in an
individual and cannot find out why. The observer gives feedback
about the person's consciousness, coupled with a suggestion.
"You're overly excited. You're useless to me this way. Sit down."

When the hysterical person complies, the "feedback machine," in
this case probably a good friend, offers another observation and
suggestion. "You're breathing too hard. Slow your breathing. Inhale
deeply, now exhale. Do it again, very slowly." The frightened
individual is calming down. Speech might be possible. The "trainer"
offers another tip, "One more time."

Biofeedback is a fairly young science, as such, emerging in the
heyday of alternatives, the 1960s. Along with renewed interest in
all things retro, back to nature, and alternative medicine,
biofeedback is enjoying a resurgence in the beginning of the 21st
Century.

Medical personnel agree that 80-90% of all illnesses have an
originating component in the mind. This is not hypochondria, it is
not "thinking you are sick," but it is bad thinking, chiefly
stress. Someone cuts you off at an intersection and what you choose
to think about that can wreck your whole day--and your blood
pressure--or not. Stress is implicated in most of the diseases
plaguing industrialized nations. "I have this machine now to help
me work, but it's broken. I must now also reboot the machine."

Frustrating, isn't it?

Biofeedback can teach you to control your breathing; your heart
rate; your blood pressure, muscle tension and brain activity.

Breathing is usually voluntary. Some muscle tension can easily be
released consciously. But how can you lower your blood pressure
unless you get feedback on how well what you're doing right this
minute is working? (Think calming, peaceful thoughts. There. Are
you sure you've lowered your pressure?)

How many Western civilization medical conditions have to do with
tension, heart rate and blood pressure? Here's a partial list of
some of the conditions that seem to be effectively treated with
biofeedback:

- Asthma
- Epilepsy
- Headaches
- High blood pressure
- Hot flashes
- Incontinence
- Irregular heartbeats (cardiac arrythmias)
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy
- Raynaud's disease

In addition, pain management clinics are becoming more common and
surprising as it may sound if some part of your body feels like
it's being cut in two with a jagged knife, mental therapies are
very successful in reducing or eliminating chronic pain.

Most of what has been described here can also be treated with
Holothink technology. Is our technology just like biofeedback? Not
exactly. Holothink technology does tell the brain how it is doing--
or how it should do--then keep on prompting the brain by repetition of the
technology through a process called entrainment. The objective
is the same. But the method for getting there is very different.

Biofeedback is extremely dependent upon your conscious
participation. If you tune out the machine (or person) telling you
how you're doing and suggesting what to do next, you'll not have
good results with biofeedback. It is 100% dependent upon your
cooperation.

Holothink technology, on the other hand, requires very little
of your conscious cooperation. While people have demonstrated
better results through concentration, the beautiful thing about
our technology is that it works on the subconscious and even
unconscious level. Better if you're conscious, but you don't have
to try to achieve certain results. Just pop on the headphones with
the audio in the electronic device of your choice and chill out for
half an hour or so.

You'll could feel better immediately. And in a month or two, you
could actually be healthier. Permanently.

Please note: Holothink does not promise to treat, diagnose or cure
any physical ailment. There is a very large and powerful
organization known as the AMA, backed by mega-billion dollar drug
companies who ensure we don't cut into their interests. We have no
desire to fight their lawyers, who, right or wrong, will win.

Instead of suggesting that you could resolve any health condition
related to stress with something other than a pill, we appeal to
your common sense and nothing more.

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Consider creating a mantra you can recite when you begin to feel stressed. Think about your daily activities and consider which cause the most stress. Do you feel pressured by a heavy workload
and tight deadlines?

A good mantras for that situation might be,
"I always have more than enough time to complete my work," or
"I am always focused and productive," or
"I always finish my work easily and on time."

Once you have your mantra, just recite it mentally throughout the
day (or post it on your on a sticky note on your computer).

Even more importantly, be sure to adopt the FEELING that goes along
with the words. Do so especially when you notice yourself starting
to feel tense or scattered.

You can even create general mantras to use any time, such as, "All
is well. I am at peace. I am calm and centered."