Holosync: Effortless Meditation

One of the things I’ve tried to do for the past few years is find myself in a nice, consistent

Holosync: Instantly Meditate Like a Zen Monk

groove of spending time with my intentions.  My wife, Rachel, and I have experimented with a number of different meditations, guided meditations, etc., but we didn’t end up sticking with any of them for too long.  In Rachel’s case, she was always frustrated with meditation.  She just didn’t feel like she was doing it right.

I can relate.  You’re relaxed, listening to the music or waves or whatever, focusing on your breathing…but your mind keeps darting around.  At some point I decided this was okay.  I wouldn’t stress it.  But it really bugged Rachel.  She felt that, because of her sometimes distracted mind, her meditations weren’t very effective.

Enter Holosync.  Now I’d heard about this company over three years ago and had read a bit about it.  I’m going to keep it as simple as possible.  Holosync is a program that involves listening to audio tracks through stereo headphones.  What you consciously hear is waves and pleasant chimes, but in the background have been placed tones.  The frequency of the tone being played in your left ear is different than the one in your right ear by a measure of ten cycles per second.  When your brain attempts to process these two tones, something very cool happens.  Your brain waves will begin to resonate to the difference between those two tones.

Holosync audio tracks will take your brain waves from the ordinary waking pattern of Beta, then to Alpha, Theta and Delta.  As this happens the fluctuations in your brain are

Balancing Brain Hemispheres

continuously increasing.  These fluctuations give your nervous system input, but it’s at a level your brain is not used to handling the way it is currently structured. So your brain, being amazingly adaptive, is forced to reorganize itself at higher, more complex levels of functioning so that it can handle what it couldn’t before.

There are different levels to Holosync, and Rachel and I are still on the initial “Awakening Prologue.”  For the first two weeks you listen exclusively to the 30 minute track called “The Dive.”  Starting on week 3, you listen to “The Dive,” followed by another 30 minute track called “Immersion.”  That’s pretty much it.  There are other tracks you can purchase that include subaudible affirmations in a variety of areas–and soon Rachel and I will be able to record our own affirmations that the Holosync people will place behind their tracks.

After four months of The Dive and Immersion, we’ll then move onto other levels, which use the same technology, but which begin moving to deeper and deeper frequencies that will continue to keep our brains evolving.  But what’s the effect of Holosync?

This is something I deal with a lot.  Many programs or neurotechnologies seem to place an emphasis on overcoming emotional dysfunction or learning how to be a happier person.  These are not things I struggle with.  The good news is that you don’t have to be a basket case to benefit deeply from it.  Over time new neural pathways are being created between both hemispheres of your brain, which is purported to lead to what scientists call “whole brain functioning.”

I can testify that, over the past two months of using Holosync consistently, my ability to focus, concentrate and think more clearly has improved.  I notice it when reading or in conversations.  Also, while I used to stress when writing, now my ability to kick out a blog post seems much easier.  But the thing that keeps me coming back to it is this:  I enjoy doing it every single day.

Founders of Holosync

The real beauty of it is that you don’t have to worry if you’re doing it right.  Your brain could be thinking about a thousand different things totally unrelated to your personal growth; it’s still working!  Bill Harris, the founder of Centerpointe Research Institute and Holosync, tells the story of a certain experiment in which several people were having their brain waves measured while using the program.  Afterward one woman told the researchers they may as well throw out her data because she just hadn’t been able to concentrate.  But they were able to show her that, despite what she thought, her brain waves had dipped deeper than anyone else in the experiment.

Now while you don’t have to reach deep levels of concentration while doing Holosync, you certainly can if you want to.  And I have been using these unbelievably relaxing periods of time to focus on my intentions, to see my life the way it will be and have deeply enjoyed the experience of doing so.

The upshot:  Holosync is pleasurable experience that helps create a positive routine for me.  It’s good knowing that my brain’s capacity is being improved, but it also gives me that opportunity to focus on my intentions every single day.  Thumbs up!