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There are indirect tools to help you reach your goals while letting you use your own technique. One thing that I found a while back, and keep coming back to, is binaural tones, also known as binaural beats, hemisync, holosync, and many other names. They all basically do the same thing, as I outlined earlier in the series.
Using Binaural Beats.
There seems to be a right way and a wrong way to use them. It’s clear that the wrong way to use them would be to rely on them solely and not use any other technique. The main problem with this is that it will backfire, as you will find that you will become resistant to it as your regular, alert consciousness will learn to fight it off.
The right way would be to use it in conjunction with an existing technique that you already use, as a booster of some kind, or to use it as “training wheels”. Many guided meditations, (Like the Paraliminals and other such meditations I mentioned in the last post) use binaural beats to enhance their effectiveness. There aren’t many professionally made programs out there who actually use the binaural tones as training wheels (which I would prefer), but there are a couple that I have found: The aforementioned Higher Balance, and Mastering Astral Projection by Robert Bruce and Brian Mercer.
As I mentioned back in May of last year, there are a lot of free programs out there, but if I had to pick one tone generator program, it would be the Brainwave Generator. Not only does it have the ability to work with a light-strobe machine (I have no experience with that but it is supposed to enhance the effect), it also has an active community of users and fans who are constantly trying to find new and better uses and methods for using the program for maximum effect. Not all of them are great, but this is pioneering work in a relatively new field.
There is a saying that goes “I am the weaker for every ally that rallies to my banner.” This holds true here, in that if you get used to the binaural tones doing the work for you, you’ll find that you are faced with a steep learning curve trying to work without it. If you’re going to use binaural tones, my suggestion is to do so in moderation, as a temporary boost for an existing system, and not as a stand-alone.
If you have any experiences with binaural tones or other external aids to share, please do so in the comments
