Considering a revisit

After nearly 4 months break from using meditation CDs of any kind I am considering going back to the Brain EV System to see if anything interesting arises that I can report on.

Whilst I have experienced some noticeable growth over the six-months of usage, especially in the area of my creativity I feel it is worth seeing if indeed it really is actively beneficial. I am in no hurry to get back to the Brain EV sessions and I may even wait a few more months before doing so. I think the biggest benefit I have had from the Brain EV System to be honest is the fact that it got me regularly meditating. I think unassisted meditation is good enough as long as you are not eager to see big changes overnight, but are content with integrating the practice of meditation into your life.

That’s the point really. I do rate the Brain EV System highly, but meditation is not a finite program, it is something that will only bring lasting benefit if you continue to do it as part of your life. After all the benefits of eating do not last if you stop eating! The benefits of meditation are the same, just like the benefits of regular sleep too.

Still, what I have to compare is where I am now with where I was when I started meditating, first with Holosync, which I stopped using in favor of the Brain EV System. There is no concrete proof that meditation changed my life, but any life change comes as a result of the sum of everything you adopt, apply, integrate, experience and act upon, so meditation has to have played a part.

What I can say is that these systems, especially Brain EV, provided an accelerated catharsis for certain "stuff" that needed to be eeked out into the open for me to deal with it. From that perspective I think it is superb. It may not be your cup of tea to have to "Deal with stuff", but on some level you are dealing with stuff all the time and it is far better to do it with more consciousness because that will give you the opportunity to choose the next step rather than just react to whatever step you feel you’ve been pushed into.

There’s the difference between adopting a meditation practice and not and why I am interested in revisiting a program I have already completed to see if it will provide more hidden benefits. Until I resume, it’s back to traditional meditation for me, which is what helps me with general mental discipline.

Real-Life Report from Month 6

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV System due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

Well I’ve come to the end of the program and unsurprisingly, in the end, I’m still me!

This is a good thing of course as I’m quite happy being me, but what I mean is that I don’t feel ‘improved‘ or ‘fixed‘, but that’s good too because there’s nothing to fix and any improvement can only come from me and my attitude anyway.

The point I’m trying to make is this:

A meditation program such as this won’t actively change your life. It may very well however, help you to develop what is required in your own state of mind to bring about the changes in life through a more effective way of being. the Brain Evolution System has definitely had an effect and to be honest I think it still has more in store for me, even though the sessions are over.

The good thing is that the different levels can be revisited at any time from now on, so the program still has a useful purpose as a meditation aid and so after a few weeks break from any brainwave entrainment I will sit down and look at what is next.

Do I resume my Holosync Sessions? I am due to start at Awakening Level 3, but I don’t feel of the mind to do that. Will I revisit the Brain EV System? I really don’t know right now.

I think it’s healthy to meditate, but the possibility of using meditation as a crutch, whether assisted by CDs or not isn’t healthy. I mean it’s not healthy to feel bad because you didn’t meditate today. I will however try my hand at some unassisted, natural meditation. After just over 2 years of using CDs to assist me I think it’s about time I put in some "work" on that and perhaps I will be better equipped to get into a meditative state naturally than I was before.

The meditation diary will continue, whatever I decide to do and I will provide as much detail in my reporting as possible. I feel ready to try meditating the old-fashioned way for a while!

As for Brain EV. I am still impressed with the program and still lean toward agreement of their pretty bold claims. If you check the product page they proudly describe the Brain EV System as the most powerful self-development tool on Earth and who am I to argue? I do definitely feel shaken up by it, but in a good way. On one hand it has woken me up to more of myself and another it feels like it has played a part in steering me in a slightly different personal direction.

I made what I refer to as a wrong turn in the middle of 2009 where I found myself on a path that really wasn’t in line with who I want to be. I woke up to that fairly quickly and I’m glad it happened because it could have happened further down the line and I am now clearer than ever about what I want to achieve.

And… This is big for me. I now feel more patient and confident than I thought possible.

Patience is a very complex, but essential quality and for the first time I think I am beginning to know what true patience really is. Is this because of the Brain EV System? Well I wouldn’t count on it, but for 30mins a day, 6 days a week I believe it must have played a part somehow.

Bottom line – and this goes for any form of meditation. More awareness: That’s the result and more awareness is the biggest gain you can have because more awareness brings with it more opportunity, wisdom, ability to deal with challenges and ability to inspire and help other people, which is great.

Don’t ever underestimate meditation. It’s powerful.

Real-Life Report from Month 5

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV System due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

Month 5 came and went in a flash and the effects have been subtle. I spent most of October, whilst meditating with CD5 falling asleep or at least feeling like I had fallen asleep. Time to do a comparison with earlier stages in the series:

Every session using CD1 had the effect of feeling like I had enjoyed a good night’s sleep although I was definitely more conscious than simply being asleep and using the other CDs as I progressed through the program, at times I have experienced a sense of an absence of time, which could have been due to the fact that I had fallen asleep except it did not feel like that at all. I was more consciously aware of the depth of the state I was in, especially the rising up back to normal, waking consciousness as the CD drew to a close. I’m not talking about waking up after the CD has finished (that happened a couple of times). I am talking about being taken deep into a meditative state, at times akin to sleeping, but with some level of consciousness as if I was watching myself sleep.

With CD 5, this was very apparent, although for the first time during the program I was left feeling rather lethargic after the meditation session. As each stage increases in intensity of brain stimulus I was not alarmed or surprised by this. In past months the sessions were making me feel refreshed and wide awake. I soon realized that this CD worked much better if I used it late in the day, before going to sleep at night. The feeling of being so tired and sleepy after listening to CD5 was getting in the way of my productivity a little bit, so once I switched the time of the session to night time it worked much better for me.

I can only speculate of course, but I imagine the stimulus of this Brain EV installment was pretty strong and pretty deep, which I conclude was taking me deeper into meditation than I have been before.

So after the descriptive details of the experience, were there any results or insights from month 5. Yes!

Again it is only fair for me to stress that any conclusions I make are speculative, based on my own perception of experience. I could have had the same results without ever doing any meditation, but then life could just be a series of co-incidences that either you happen to walk into or not and I don’t believe life is as random as that.

My Results

Ideas! Loads of them, but not just flaky or absurd ones. I mean very real ideas for things I want to do with my life, big ones that I can see have potential for providing me, my family and my friends with many life-benefits and fulfillment if they were to be pursued and a very real connection to the resources in my awareness that will help me realize these ideas and intentions. I do come up with ideas a lot of the time, but they normally come and go, get forgotten about or just present me with the perception that I can’t realize them because they are too big for me. This time I am instinctively saying to myself ‘Sounds like a big one, bring it on. I’m ready for ya!’. This sounds like somebody else and it excites me. I am definitely discovering that many things I wished I could be but never believed I was are actually true and growing before my eyes.

This time however I am not focused on how I can make such big intentions happen, but instead focused on the fact that it is going to manifest one way or another, in some form because it is an intention, rather than just a nice idea. I am relishing the prospect of playing a totally different role in my life to the one that I have remained comfortable but stationary in for years.

‘Who I am’ started to change a couple of years ago and I broke through a huge barrier to become what I needed to become in order to experience being the person I wanted to be, which I believe was helped tremendously by meditation (I started Holosync in Aug 2007). Now I have outgrown my old role, whatever it was and I can feel a more natural process of growing into a new and bigger one, rather than feeling the need to and fearing whether I am able to or not.

Much of those less confident feelings and fears have slipped away and I am at peace with the fact that the rest of my life from now on is full of challenges because I know I am becoming more capable of meeting those challenges all the time no matter how big they get.

I am now beginning the final CD – number 6 ‘Fusion’.

Whatever the outcome of any of this and whatever happens to be the case I can tell you that the benefits of meditation, any meditation are huge. I encourage you to meditate, whatever way you feel inclined to do it. A friend of mine goes running every morning and that is his meditation. It doesn’t have to be sitting crossed legged holding crystals, going ‘Ommmmm’.

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

23rd October 2009

Again, another month flew by almost without me noticing. This year seems to be going quicker than any other, but I always refer back to the old saying "Time flies when your having fun"! My life is currently rather challenging, but still fun nonetheless.

A little later than usual, this update is a report on CD 4 of the Brain EV program and it has been pretty interesting seeing what has transpired in terms of things going on outside of and around me. August and CD3 seemed pretty calm compared to July, which brought with it a lot of upheaval and September, along with CD4 was also fairly calm, but with some awesome occurrences.

To put things into terms of Universal laws like the Law of Attraction etc… I saw some significant appearances, synchronous with my desired path in life and it is really exciting! After some time focusing on what I want to achieve, mostly things that are very ambitious I have started to see some very encouraging signs as to how possible my ambitious goals are. What is significant and it is something I believe is the biggest (not so) secret in achieving anything is the people you meet and become acquainted with.

Over the last month I have become acquainted with some really talented, interesting and, well, epic people and with that a feeling of immense possibility. In fact nothing but possibility. I have spent less time online in the last month or so after becoming so immersed in the internet I have found the limit to my online tolerance and rediscovered the joy of face-to-face interaction with like-minded people.

What I am discovering as I progress with the Brain EV program is that I am getting to know who I really am on a deeper level and that is great news, seeing as that means I am more aware of what is really important to me and with that comes the realization of a really big secret. Want me to tell you what it is? OK

The more you get to know who you truly are, the more you will realize that everything you ever wanted to do, be or have is right under your nose and everything you feared is not actually real. This gets more and more apparent and empowering as long as you keep up the discipline of deepening your self awareness. With or without CDs, meditation is essential for this level of growth and will help you unlock the door to a bigger life.

I have been on CD5 of the Brain EV program for 3 weeks now and I should have an interesting and quite different report next month.

Real-Life Report

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

10th September 2009

Quite extraordinary, what happened to August? It just flew by, but looking back actually it was quite eventful. I spent much of the month redesigning the Boy at heart website, which is developing into a musical, interactive place that you readers here will most likely find interesting.

If you don’t already know I am a songwriter. Music is a huge passion of mine and I have been applying my passion for music in the area of inspiring people to listen to and follow their heart and create their life they desire. So far I am pleased with the results. The idea to apply my music in such a manner came about because of what writing songs did for me in terms of inspiring me and keeping my intent and motivation strong, even on days where I felt less than capable or if my enthusiasm dipped.

This all conveniently leads me to what this post is supposed to be about – My progress using the Brain Evolution mediation program.

Since starting to meditate regularly in 2007 I have noticed that my creativity has soared. This is no exaggeration, it has happened like magic. Just a few months after starting with Holosync I developed an ability I thought I didn’t have before, which was to write complete songs by myself and I went on to write over 100 songs to date.

With the decision to focus on building an audience for my music online not too long ago I got involved in the process of redesigning my inspiring music site – Boy at Heart. I wanted a design that totally eclipsed anything I had done before, just using WordPress. Until recently, this website is an example of about the best I have got. I didn’t know how I was going to do it, but I ended up surpassing all expectations and I created something that is just on a whole new level for me.

In order to achieve this I had to become more proficient at php programming and to my surprise I found out that I was starting to implement it in ways I had never been able to comprehend before. I have since realized that I have become much better at marrying creativity with logical, practical thinking. This is the secret of design really, an ability to create something beautiful that functions intuitively and practically.

So if you are still lost as to what any of this has to do with an entry in a meditation diary, let me explain:

After CD number 3 (month 3) of the Brain Evolution System I wasn’t sure if I had anything to report. I didn’t have the kind of upheaval I had the previous month where I went through the chaos that led me to great clarity and boosted self-confidence, but then I looked at my new website design this morning and looked at how the positive feedback I am getting and taking a step outside of myself to look at it objectively I realized just what I have gained over the last month.

As is described in the product literature of the Brain EV system, the program is like a workout for your brain. The benefits of using it are more creative, intuitive thinking, better problem solving abilities, greater ability to come up with ideas and to turn those ideas into reality.

All I have to go on in order to make comments about these claims is what I experience with it and I have to say that my personal results reflect this almost to the letter and I am only half-way through the program.

So my ability to solve technical problems has stepped up a level and the ability to combine that technical side with a more intuitive feel for aesthetics and an artistic element is more apparent too. I’m loving this!

Real-Life Report

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

After my second month using the Brain EV System I have experienced some massive shifts in my personal development. After a turbulent few weeks during July, the chaos and the storm cleared to reveal a whole new world to me. One which I knew existed, but couldn’t see.

What I believe is going on here is that I have broken into a new level of self awareness and this has resulted in me attracting exactly the opportunities and situations I require to take me where I want to go. It’s very difficult to explain rationally because I still feel like the same person and I haven’t changed from the outside. The difference is that I have lost a lot of fear and doubt that I was not even aware of before, holding me back and that has been replaced by a certainty of what I am doing and a certainty of success, whatever comes my way.

It feels good and I want to share it.

Real-Life Report

After nearly two years of Holosync I paused my use of it. The reason was that I was very keen to try out the Brain EV system due to the amazing claims by the creators of the program. In order to report on something that I thought could be of great value and benefit I decided to try it out for myself. Here are the results.

“Why?” You may ask. Is there a problem? Is Holosync not working? Have I found something better? Am I giving up meditation?

Ok, ok, let’s slow down a bit here and be clear that I have no problems with Holosync and I am certainly not giving up on meditation. I have decided, for reporting purposes and as a personal research exercise to try another meditation program. That program is:

The Brain Evolution System

I came across Brain EV, as it is often referred to some time ago and I was intrigued by the information on their website, which was very extensive. However, at the time I just was not prepared to interrupt my Holosync meditation for the sake of something new and unproven, despite the credibility of the information on the site.

It is pointless to use more than one brainwave-entrainment, meditation tool at once, so it was out of the question to have a Holosync session and a Brain EV session every day. Besides that may actually have had an adverse affect on me, at least an overwhelming amount of stimulation I should imagine and I meditate to gain the benefits of meditation, not to sabotage them!

So after finishing Awakening Level 2 near the end of May and having Awakening level 3 ready and waiting in its box I decided that it was time to give the Brain EV an assessment and I started on June 1st 2009.

It’s a solid plan: The Brain EV program lasts for 6 months, which consists of 6 CDs, 1 month each, progressing to the next one in the series. That’s it. It is a 6-month long program, so I figured I could give the Brain EV a thorough assessment and return to Holosync, which, if I complete the entire program will last another 6 or 7 years.

So now I have been meditating using Brain EV for 1 month and I am now on CD number 2 called Lucid Echoes. The first CD is called Transcendence and this is what I have to report:

Sleep? What a Waste of Time!
Ha ha! Just a light-hearted little outburst, but this reflects one of the most noticeable effects since using this product. I seem to require much, much less sleep. I don’t know if this is simply a reaction or if it is a benefit, but apart from a couple of evenings, when I actually wanted to sleep, but found it difficult, it has been the most productive and effective, sleepless time over this last month that I’ve ever had.

In short, I had a huge amount of stuff to do to complete a vital stage in my latest project: Mind Over Matter – Heart Over Mind and I spent at least 16 hours a day for well over a week working on this. Not only that, but these hours were focused, productive and efficient hours. I think I got done what I would normally have taken about 3 weeks to do. It took me just 10 days!

The meditation sessions are 30 minutes each and during that 30 minutes I am put into a deep meditative state that feels very different to Holosync, not better, just different. In fact after just that 30-minute session I have invariably felt as refreshed as having had a good nights sleep. I normally meditate in the early afternoon – siesta time and it’s a great way of breaking up the day. I have two working days in a day and I feel much less guilty about having days off from doing any work, because I have got so much more done on most days than I would normally.

Going by the information on the Brain EV website these benefits should remain permanent.

My conclusion at this stage is that I will be in great shape to continue with Holosync Awakening Level 3 after this.

24th May 2009

Did you hear the one about the Zen monk who goes to the hotdog stand? He asks the vendor "Make me one with everything".

First of all I apologize for the corny joke, but I heard that one from Bill Harris, the director of Centerpointe Research Institute and the creator of Holosync. Well he didn’t tell me personally, but I read it. This is one thing I very much like about the work of Bill Harris and Centerpointe.

It demonstrates an outlook that relaxes me and gives me confidence. To know that I am using a product that is not only effective, but is also one that gives me a welcome feeling and one which doesn’t demand I take too seriously. Apply discipline and commitment, yes, but not to identify myself with at the cost of any sense of fun. Meditation can be seen as a really serious practice and of course it is an important one, but is anything really serious when all judgments and labels are suspended?

So it is at this point that my entry in the diary is a little thin on the ground as far as progress with the meditation is concerned because I have not been practicing for nearly a month. Without going into the details or making excuses I involuntarily paused the Holosync sessions, but I feel really cool with that. I am back on the case and on the final CD of Awakening Level 2. Awakening 3 is already in my possession and in about 2 months I will be on the next level.

As far as progress goes I believe that this break has given me some space to really see the benefits of what I have been disciplined in doing since August 2007 and I feel really good about the fact that I didn’t hit a down or a slump because I wasn’t meditating. This means that my meditation is not a crutch and it means that the effects of the program have longevity, being in effect long after any practice is finished. I suspect that the claims from Centerpointe are true that the effects are permanent and once your brain has grown in terms of it’s ability to handle higher thresholds of stimulus it doesn’t fall back.

I still think I would be further ahead with my progress if I hadn’t taken the break, but this evidence is valuable to me and I hope to anyone reading this who is thinking about embarking on the Holosync program or just starting out. My conclusion is that it’s worth it folks. I still stand by the fact that this is the one product that has consistently been helping me to gain the increases in personal power to create my life by design. It just seems to run in the background although the results definitely take center stage.

Edited October 2009. Whilst I believe Holosync is a great tool – after my experience so far with the Brain Evolution System I would recommend that if you are considering a meditation program then start with that because it is only 6 months in duration bringing with it very noticeable results. Holosync is several years commitment if you choose to continue it, whereas Brain EV is a 6-month commitment, which considering the results I have experienced is more for your money too. I will however be continuing my Holosync meditation in 2010 with Awakening Level 3

12th April 2009

This is a quick update, as much as anything to make an assessment of any progress made since the last entry.

Again, as I have mentioned in the past I don’t feel any profound shift or major breakthrough, but this is healthy I think because I know that growth is still occurring, whilst I remain totally grounded and functional in a practical sense.

However over the last month I have become more clear about a lot of things, especially about what I need to focus on within myself to accomplished certain things. In fact I feel like this is one of the most important realizations so far for me. I have found that at times when I am unclear about what I could be doing next I am less frustrated by that fact, instead using my undecided time as quiet time to look inside and assess my design for life.

The result has given me plenty of insights to put into a new book I am writing, designed to inspire the reader (and listener – it comes with music) to shift their focus on the creative process in achieving their own desires and intentions.

The meditation continues.

2nd March 2009

It is nearly time to move onto Awakening Level 2 CD 3. The meditation sessions are starting to feel less intense and although I have actually lost count of the number of weeks I have been on CD2 I feel like it is time to move up.

What is interesting though is what I have discovered over the last few weeks. For that time I have been meditating early in the morning upon waking and I have, lazily if I’m honest, been lying down whilst listening to the CD. However, whilst I have fallen asleep for sure on occasion during this time I am unsure if I have been sleeping or in some kind of other altered state. About 4 days ago I put on the headphones, laid back down on the bed and began The Dive. What felt like just a few seconds later I was listening to the fade out of the end of The Immersion soundtrack. For those of you who are unfamiliar this means that the entire hour’s meditation had elapsed.

It would be easy for me to say "Oh I must have fallen asleep", but it didn’t feel like that. First of all I became aware of the fading out of the soundtrack, rather than waking up after the CD had finished. I also felt extremely alert and energized. Not the way I ever feel the moment I wake up. So did I fall asleep or was I truly awake whilst experiencing a Delta brainwave state?

I don’t really know for sure and I don’t really think I need to know. What I do know is that it was a powerful feeling and it set me up for a most excellent day. I think that answers my question really. It was an extraordinary day, so something had shifted in me regardless. Time had literally dissolved.

Another point I want to acknowledge is that during the last few weeks meditating lying down, which is something that Centerpointe suggest may not really be as effective as sitting upright I have found that generally the way I feel and what I could allude to as the progress I am making is no different to me. Holosync for me has been subtle nearly all the way until a breaking point comes and then it seems the dam bursts. It’s as if there is no progress at all and then suddenly all the pent up progress is unleashed in one moment. I doubt it really is like that, but it does feel like that at times.

If that is the way my system deals with Holosync then that’s OK with me. As is always best to remember. Whatever happens, it’s going OK.

Wherever you are on your Holosync journey, be well and feel free to share.

Enjoy!