Inquiry

-- Yes! Alpha waves have been linked with depression. I can't cite the sources, but I learned it when I was researching the subject for my daughter. I was actually about to send her an alpha brainwave entrainment track I made to "help" her with her depression. With all due respect, after having studied brainwave states, I found the Holosync theory a little simplistic and perhaps dangerous for certain individuals. For depression, some people suggest a short high beta or even gamma session. 

On the upside of the Holosync experience, I had some cool experiences using it, including complete loss of body awareness and other altered states of consciousness, so I appreciate the fact that Holosync introduced me to the fascinating world of BWE.

The Chef (aka Rob Schneider)

 Check it out. Not for the faint-hearted or spiritual hobbyist's. 

Hi everybody,

I am using Holosync now for about 5 months and I must say it is a wonderful tool that puts you face to face with problems in your life. I love when pictures  are imerging and you see with what your brain are ocupated - thoughts.

I suffered from depression and I feel how my treshhold is going up. I become more tolerant and taking things the way they are and the way they aren't.

I am very happy for my Holoysnc experience. Thanks Bill.

It is interesting to hear from people with similar experiences.  I am currently at level 4 disk 4.  For those of you who have not started level 4 yet, if my experiences are typical, you are about to get blown away.  The differences between my experiences at level 4 have been night and day compared to those at the prior levels.  In fact, I would describe my experience up through to the end of level 3 as a benefit, but once I started level 4, even though I was not expecting anything profoundly different, I surely got it.  My experience of life completely changed and my life completely changed from the first day of level 4. I was not expecting it, but it was obvious.  My awareness opened up more. 

It is comforting to hear about others' experiences in having difficulty when they start a new level.  I realized this either late in level 2 or beginning of level 3.  I always warn my wife when I start a new level because the first two weeks of any new level are a challenge.  I don't think I would describe my experience as depression at all; however, I will definitely say that life can seem extremely overwhelming during those two weeks.  I should give a caveat that I have an incredibly stressful job that requires me to work late in the evenings and on weekends so that I only really getting maybe 24 hours off of work a week.  It is extremely analytical, competative, and I am very, very new at it and inexperienced. 

With all that being said, during the difficult two weeks when I start a new level, these realities about my job hit me between the eyes; however, when I get past those two (last disk it was more like 3) weeks, I am connected to and aware of a joyful life force within me (and at times it seems to go extend beyond my body) that I become aware of in the face of overwhelm.  For example, I will complain to my wife that I am miserable because of this or that situation at work (like waking at 3 am each day to start working so that I can get through my stacks of cases on my desk) and then I will laugh and notice that I don't actually feel miserable.  I may dread only getting 4-5 hours of sleep per night 7 days a week, but at the same time I laugh because I then have to admit to myself that the joyful feeling I am aware of is still there.  I find myself chuckling about how I can "feel" miserable in terms of sensations in my body but at the same time be aware of the fact that I am joyful all the time.  It is weird, but definitely as true and real an experience as any other that I have in life (just as true and real as my experience of sleep deprivation).

For example, it is not unusual for me to wake at 2 am stressed out because of all the unexpected problems that arise at my work that I have to anticipate and counter that particular day (or the things I forgot to do because I am so sleep-deprived). I will work until, say, 5:30 and then put on my holosync for an hour.  By the end of the hour, I am laughing and motivated and believing that it is going to work out.  This feeling will last most of the day; however, the other awareness of that life force within me that is always happy, never goes away, but sometimes I forget to notice it.

Up to and through level 3, I could not just let my mind wander.  I would get up from my holosync session too overwhelmed.  Fortunately, I realized that if I said to myself something positive over and over again (like "I can do anything, I love life, whatever happens will be okay"), I did not get up with the overwhelm and my experiences were good. At level 4, this became unnecessary, except during my difficult two weeks of starting a new disk.

About a year ago, I came in touch with a new bodily awareness that I never had before.  I noticed that if I focussed on the areas of my body where I was actually feeling the stress of my day, that focussing would somehow release the stressful physical sensation from my body. Usually the focussing only lasts a few seconds at most at a time when I feel like I have to let go of the focussing because the release is so intense.  It does not all come out at once, so I do it consecutively over and over until the feeling in my body of stress is close to non-existant.  I used to commute 1.5 hours to work each day, and this was great to do while driving or while listening to the holosync cds before I left home.

Lastly I should let you know that I don't do my holosync while sitting (or I should say I only do that rarely).  I lay down.  I received a neck injury about a year ago that prevents me from sitting like that in any position, especially when I will be spending 12 hours sitting in a chair at work right afterward.  The times when I sat during level 4 seemed more profound and I commented such to my wife, but I don't sit enough to really know this to be the case.

Learning about AQAL and Spirodynamics and listening to lectures and reading some of ken's recommended reading has really helped as well because I have been able to understand what I am going through and feel connected to other people who go through it.  I also just signed up for integral coaching a couple of weeks ago, had my first session where we go over "my experience of life", and today I will get recomendations from my coach.  I expect this will help me a great deal as well.

Cheers!

--I have been using Holosync for just over 3 years and my experiences have been different from those mentioned by others. At age 30 I was diagnosed with Bi-Polar Disorder. The diagnosis was based on patterns of mood swings that had started with puberty and had continued with a fairly predictable regularity. I would "crash" in late autumn each year and spend several months in depression. May was always my favorite month because I would regain some enjoyment of life but this would be followed by a summer of reckless behavior that was ultimately self-destructive despite being more fun - usually I'd spend myself into debt far beyond my means during these times. When I was diagnosed I started on a series of medications that were effective for relatively short periods of time but, eventually, I got to the point that nothing worked.

At age 54 I started using Holosync and my first experience was not at all what I'd expected. My mood swings continued but the cycling was much shorter and generally much less intense. In the beginning I had little 'electric shocks' in my spine that were more surprising than uncomfortable. That lasted about 6 months and I haven't experienced that since. The one thing that I have come to expect is a brief period of mild depression with each new disc. This is usually accompanied with about a week of vivid nightmares. After that I settle into several weeks of satisfying meditation sessions that are becoming more and more profound with time. I now go into what I would call spontaneous meditative states several times during the day. In these states I am aware of everything going on around me but I feel like I'm a part of the big picture and not an individual watching from the sidelines. I'm afraid I don't have the vocabulary to describe this state accurately - the best I can do is 'tranquility'.

The reason I used the word 'motivation' in the subject line is this: when I first started using Holosync my motivation went to zero - I stopped caring about accomplishing anything. I continued with Holosync, however, because I was feeling much better than I'd felt in years and, at that point, just feeling like life was worth living was a vast improvement. But then, when I progressed to Purification Level One, I experienced a massive shift towards motivation. I now feel I have to develop my talents to the fullest and make a contribution. 

I firmly believe Holosync is a valuable tool in personal evolution even though individual experiences would seem to vary considerably.

David

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