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Mystic Power Trance is a very powerful meditation using gamma frequency’s and a kind of tribal-Egyptian techno feel for the music.

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This meditation will leave you very energized and feeling a sense of deep power from within.

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Do you ever feel that way? Guilty until YOU prove your innocence?

I’ve got a good story from Osho to share with you, and a couple of short video’s at the end of this post.

I would love to hear your comments on how many times you have “beat yourself up” for some silly reasons or how you overcame the guilt.

Enjoy the Journey!!!

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This moment!…this herenow…is forgotten when you start thinking in terms of achieving something. When the achieving mind arises, you lose contact with the paradise you are in. This is one of the most liberating approaches: it liberates you right now! Forget all about sin and forget all about saintliness; both are stupid. Both together have destroyed all the joys of humanity. The sinner is feeling guilty, hence his joy is lost. How can you enjoy life if you are continuously feeling guilty? if you are continuously going to the church to confess that you have done this wrong and that wrong? And wrong and wrong and wrong…your whole life seems to be made of sins. How can you live joyously? It becomes impossible to delight in life. You become heavy, loaded. Guilt sits on your chest like a rock, it crushes you; it does not allow you to dance. How can you dance? How can guilt dance? How can guilt sing? How can guilt love? How can guilt live? So the one who thinks he is doing something wrong is guilty, burdened, dead before death, has already entered into the grave.

Guilt is one of the most destructive emotions in which we can get caught. If we have wronged another, or gone against our own truth, then of course we will feel bad. But to let ourselves be overwhelmed with guilt is to invite a migraine. We end up surrounded by nagging clouds of self-doubt and feelings of worthlessness to the point where we cannot see any of the beauty and joy that life is trying to offer us. We all long to be better people–more loving, more aware, more true to ourselves. But when we punish ourselves for our failures by feeling guilty, we can get locked into a cycle of despair and hopelessness that robs us of all clarity about ourselves and the situations we encounter. You are absolutely okay as you are, and it is absolutely natural to go astray from time to time. Just learn from it, move on, and use the lesson not to make the same mistake again

~Osho

Enjoy these video’s from Abraham-Hicks.

Part 1

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Part 2

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Here is part 2 of a very informative video for questions you have been soul seeking about.

If you have not seen the first one do that first, I must warn you though, this may turn into a 2 hour journey but a very enjoyable one.

First video is HERE

Enjoy the Video!!!

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Here is another very enlightening story that goes with the title “Change it’s what we are”. After this short story I have one of my own to share and a very special link to share for those that would like to learn some advanced mediation techniques to use along with Mystic Mindpower Audios… it’s Free

On with the story.

Rabia and the riddle of the lost needle

We are born to be blissful, it is our birthright. But people are so foolish, they don’t even claim their birthright. They become more interested in what others possess and they start running after those things. They never look within, they never search in their own house.

The intelligent person will begin his search from his inner being–that will be his first exploration–because unless I know what is within me how can I go on searching all over the world?–it is such a vast world. And those who have looked within have found it instantly, immediately. It is not a question of gradual progress, it is a sudden phenomenon, a sudden enlightenment.

I have heard about a very great Sufi mystic woman, Rabia al-Adawia. One evening, people found her sitting on the road searching for something. She was an old woman, her eyes were weak, and it was difficult for her to see. So the neighbors came to help her. They asked, “What are you searching for?”

Rabia said, “That question is irrelevant, I am searching. If you can help me, help.”

They laughed and said, “Rabia, have you gone mad? You say our question is irrelevant, but if we don’t know what you are searching for, how can we help?”

Rabia said, “Okay. Just to satisfy you, I am searching for my needle, I have lost my needle.” They started helping her–but immediately they became aware of the fact that the road was very big and a needle was a very tiny thing. So they asked Rabia, “Please tell us where you lost it–the exact, precise place. Otherwise it is difficult. The road is big and we can go on searching and searching forever. Where did you lose it?”

Rabia said, “Again you ask an irrelevant question. How is it concerned with my search?”

They stopped. They said, “You have certainly gone crazy!”

Rabia said, “Okay. Just to satisfy you, I have lost it in my house.”

They asked, “Then why are you searching here?” And Rabia is reported to have said, “Because here there is light and there is no light inside.” The sun was setting and there was a little light still left on the road.

This parable is very significant. Have you ever asked yourself what you are searching for? Have you ever made it a point of deep meditation to know what you are searching for? No. Even if in some vague moments, dreaming moments, you have some inkling of what you are searching for, it is never precise, it is never exact. You have not yet defined it.

If you try to define it, the more it becomes defined the more you will feel that there is no need to search for it. The search can continue only in a state of vagueness, in a state of dreaming; when things are not clear you simply go on searching. Pulled by some inner urge, pushed by some inner urgency, one thing you do know: you need to search. This is an inner need. But you don’t know what you are seeking. And unless you know what you are seeking, how can you find it?

It is vague–you think it is in money, power, prestige, respectability. But then you see people who are respectable, people who are powerful–they are also seeking. Then you see people who are tremendously rich–they are also seeking. To the very end of their life they are seeking. So richness is not going to help, power is not going to help. The search continues in spite of what you have.

The search must be for something else. These names, these labels–money, power, prestige–these are just to satisfy your mind. They are just to help you feel that you are searching for something. That something is still undefined, a very vague feeling. The first thing for the real seeker, for the seeker who has become a little alert, aware, is to define the search; to formulate a clear-cut concept of it, what it is; to bring it out of the dreaming consciousness; to look into it directly; to face it.

Immediately a transformation starts happening. If you start defining your search, you will start losing your interest in the search. The more defined it becomes, the less it is there. Once it is clearly known what it is, suddenly it disappears. It exists only when you are not attentive.

Let it be repeated: the search exists only when you are sleepy; the search exists only when you are not aware. The unawareness creates the search.

Yes, Rabia is right. Inside there is no light. And because there is no light and no consciousness inside, of course you go on searching outside–because outside it seems more clear. Our senses are all extroverted. The eyes open outwards, the hands move, spread outwards, the legs move into the outside, the ears listen to the outside noises, sounds. Whatsoever is available to you is all opening towards the outside; all the five senses move in an extrovert way.

You start searching there where you see, feel, touch–the light of the senses falls outside. And the seeker is inside. This dichotomy has to be understood. The seeker is inside but because the light is outside, the seeker starts moving in an ambitious way, trying to find something outside which will be fulfilling. It is never going to happen. It has never happened. It cannot happen in the nature of things–because, unless you have sought the seeker, all your search is meaningless. Unless you come to know who you are, all that you seek is futile, because you don’t know the seeker. Without knowing the seeker how can you move in the right dimension, in the right direction? It is impossible.

The first things should be considered first. If all seeking has stopped and you have suddenly become aware that now there is only one thing to know–”Who is this seeker in me? What is this energy that wants to seek? Who am I?”–then there is a transformation. All values change suddenly. You start moving inwards. Then Rabia is no longer sitting on the road searching for a needle that is lost somewhere in the darkness of one’s own inner soul. Once you have started moving inwards….

In the beginning it is very dark–Rabia is right. It is very, very dark because for lives together you have never been inside–your eyes have been focussed on the outside world. Have you watched it? Sometimes when you come in from the road where it is very sunny and there is bright light–when you suddenly come into the house it is very dark because the eyes are focussed for the outside light. When there is much light, the pupils of the eyes shrink. In darkness the eyes have to relax. But if you sit a little while, by and by the darkness disappears. There is more light; your eyes are settling.

For many lives you have been outside in the hot sun, in the world, so when you go in you have completely forgotten how to re-adjust your eyes. Meditation is nothing but a re-adjustment of your vision, of your eyes. And if you go on looking inside–it takes time–gradually, slowly, you start feeling a beautiful light inside. But it is not aggressive light; it is not like the sun, it is more like the moon. It is not glaring, it is not dazzling, it is very cool; it is not hot, it is very compassionate, it is very soothing, it is a balm.

By and by, when you have adjusted to the inside light, you will see that you are the very source. The seeker is the sought. Then you will see that the treasure is within you and the whole problem was that you were seeking for it outside. You were seeking for it somewhere outside and it has always been here within you. You were seeking in a wrong direction, that’s all.

~Osho

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The first time I experienced a scenerio like this going within to the darkness, it scared the living hell out of me. I was young and on the verge of sleep but still fully aware. I found myself floating in a sense but not free floating and everything was dark, I couldn’t make out my own limbs nor when I screamed was there a sound. No light No sound just complete and utter darkness and the only thing that existed was my own thoughts. For what seemed like an eternity (maybe a few minutes) my thoughts raced, “Am I dead?” “Am I in hell?” “What has happened for me to be here” on and on my thoughts raced. Finally at some point I just gave up struggling to find anything, any way out of this darkness, listening for any sound, I just gave up. I accepted this darkness it was mine and truly mine alone.

Soon I began to feel a slight vibration, no sound no sight so the only thing that was real was this new vibration, it was slow but welcoming and reassuring that I could again sense something. Peacefulness washed over me as I began to not only feel this vibration but also BE the vibration. As the vibration grew and grew in intensity sound began to form, light began to form. The more I concentrated on this vibration the faster it grew in intensity accelerating faster and faster with each moment soon the sound was so loud so high pitched and the light so bright I could hardly keep any sense of myself at all. At some point it all became so intense I lost myself, I lost my own consciousness in a bliss I cannot describe and for a time I do not know. But when I did regain a form of consciousness I felt as if I was sitting cross-legged as a child giggling and with each giggle I pulsed wave after wave of light.

Darkness never ever frightened me again, for somewhere deep down I knew I am the light or the light is me as well as the darkness forever intertwined in playful experience.

I have only told a few close people this story and I am not exactly sure why I’m sharing it now, just seemed like the thing to do, words I don’t believe can ever express what really happened. Soon I will tell the story of a most amazing inner journey I had how I found out truly frequency is everything and how light and sound are intertwined in all of visible creation.

Here is a link that if you are interested has very good techniques to deepen your mediation practice.

Mindfulness Meditation Course Wk 1 – Homework

Until next I wish you amazing adventures of experience.

Namaste,
Jody Sachse

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If you are here, now; there is a reason… it is something you needed to hear.

Enjoy Yourself out there!!!

Below is a short video and story that may cause a shift or sudden awakening in you, but I warn you… there is no way back to who you are right now.

Change is what we are, it is inevitable, it is unrelenting and is the only one thing I know of to be constant.

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The man with a garland of fingers

Either you make your energy creative, or it will turn sour and become destructive. Energy is a dangerous thing–if you have it, you have to use it creatively, otherwise sooner or later you will find it has become destructive. So find something–whatsoever you like–to put your energy into. If you want, painting; or if you want, dancing or singing; or if you want to play an instrument…. Whatsoever you want, find a way in which you can become completely lost. If you can be lost playing a guitar–good! In those moments when you are lost, your energy will be released in a creative way.

If you cannot be lost in painting, in singing, in dancing, in playing guitar or a flute, then you will find lower ways of being lost: anger, rage, aggression; these are lower ways to be lost.

Gautam Buddha initiated a murderer into sannyas–and the murderer was no ordinary murderer. Rudolf Hess is nothing compared to him. His name was Angulimal. Angulimal means a man who wears a garland of human fingers. He had taken a vow that he would kill one thousand people; from each single person he would take one finger so that he could remember how many he had killed and he will make a garland of all those fingers.

In his garland of fingers he had nine hundred and ninety-nine fingers–only one was missing. And that one was missing because his road was closed; nobody was coming that way. But Gautam Buddha entered that closed road. The king had put guards on the road to prevent people, particularly strangers who didn’t know that a dangerous man lived behind the hills. The guards told Gautam Buddha, “That is not the road to be used. This is the place where Angulimal lives. Even the king has not the guts to go on this road. That man is simply mad.

“His mother used to go to him. She was the only person who used to go, once in a while, to see him, but even she stopped. The last time she went there he told her, ‘Now only one finger is missing, and just because you happen to be my mother… I want to warn you that if you come another time you will not go back. I need one finger desperately. Up to now I have not killed you because other people were available, but now nobody passes on this road except you. So I want to make you aware that next time if you come it will be your responsibility, not mine.’ Since that time his mother has not come.”

The guards said to Buddha, “Don’t unnecessarily take the risk.” And do you know what Buddha said to them? Buddha said, “If I don’t go then who will go? Only two things are possible: either I will change him, and I cannot miss this challenge; or I will provide him with one finger so that his desire is fulfilled. Anyway I am going to die one day. Giving my head to Angulimal will be at least of some use; otherwise one day I will die and you will put me on the funeral pyre. I think that it is better to fulfill somebody’s desire and give him peace of mind. Either he will kill me or I will kill him, but this encounter is going to happen; you just lead the way.”

The people who used to follow Gautam Buddha, his close companions who were always in competition to be closer to him, started slowing down. Soon there were miles between Gautam Buddha and his disciples. They all wanted to see what happened, but they didn’t want to be too close. Angulimal was sitting on his rock watching. He could not believe his eyes. A very beautiful man of such immense charisma was coming towards him. Who could this man be?

He had never heard of Gautam Buddha, but even this hard heart of Angulimal started feeling a certain softness towards the man. He was looking so beautiful, coming towards him. It was early morning… a cool breeze, and the sun was rising… and the birds were singing and the flowers had opened; and Buddha was coming closer and closer. Finally Angulimal, with his naked sword in his hand, shouted, “Stop!” Gautam Buddha was just a few feet away, and Angulimal said, “Don’t take another step because then the responsibility will not be mine. Perhaps you don’t know who I am!”

Buddha said, “Do you know who you are?”
Angulimal said, “This is not the point. Neither is it the place nor the time to discuss such things. Your life is in danger!”
Buddha said, “I think otherwise–your life is in danger.”
That man said, “I used to think I was mad–you are really mad! And you go on moving closer. Then don’t say that I killed an innocent man. You look so innocent and so beautiful that I want you to go back. I will find somebody else. I can wait; there is no hurry. If I can manage nine hundred and ninety-nine… it is only a question of one more, but don’t force me to kill you.”

Buddha came very close, and Angulimal’s hands were trembling. The man was so beautiful, so innocent, so childlike. He had already fallen in love. He had killed so many people… He had never felt this weakness; he had never known what love is. For the first time he was full of love. So there was a contradiction: the hand was holding the sword to kill the person, and his heart was saying, “Put the sword back in the sheath.”

Buddha said, “I am ready, but why is your hand shaking?–you are such a great warrior, even kings are afraid of you, and I am just a poor beggar. Except the begging bowl, I don’t have anything. You can kill me, and I will feel immensely satisfied that at least my death fulfills somebody’s desire; my life has been useful, my death has also been useful. But before you cut my head I have a small desire, and I think you will grant me a small desire before killing me.”

Before death, even the hardest enemy is willing to fulfill any desire. Angulimal said, “What do you want?”
Buddha said, “I want you just to cut from the tree a branch which is full of flowers. I will never see these flowers again; I want to see those flowers closely, feel their fragrance and their beauty in this morning sun, their glory.”

So Angulimal cut with his sword a whole branch full of flowers. And before he could give it to Buddha, Buddha said, “This was only half the desire; the other half is, please put the branch back on the tree.”

Angulimal said, “I was thinking from the very beginning that you are crazy. Now this is the craziest desire. How can I put this branch back?”

Buddha said, “If you cannot create, you have no right to destroy. If you cannot give life, you don’t have the right to give death to any living thing.”

A moment of silence and a moment of transformation… the sword fell down from his hands. Angulimal fell down at the feet of Gautam Buddha, and he said, “I don’t know who you are, but whoever you are, take me to the same space in which you are; initiate me.”

By that time the followers of Gautam Buddha had come closer and closer. They were all around and when he fell at Buddha’s feet they immediately came close. Somebody raised the question, “Don’t initiate this man, he is a murderer!”

Buddha said again, “If I don’t initiate him, who will initiate him? And I love the man, I love his courage. And I can see tremendous possibility in him: a single man fighting against the whole world. I want this kind of people, who can stand against the whole world. Up to now he was standing against the world with a sword; now he will stand against the world with a consciousness, which is far sharper than any sword. I told you that murder was going to happen, but it was not certain who was going to be murdered–either I was going to be murdered, or Angulimal. Now you can see Angulimal is murdered. And who I am to judge?”

~Osho

The very first time I read this story, I was very humbled; the overwhelming compassion and great wisdom. Far sharper than any sword is consciousness and it easily sliced through my ego, my judgments that I have been guilty of for I too have been Angulimal in a sense. Maybe we all have at some point in our lives been Anjulimal, not in the sense of actual murders but in the judgement and rightouesness of our own ideals and beliefs carrying the garland of fingers around for each debate or battle we think we have won. May we come to love each other as the Gautam Buddha loved Angulimal.

Enligheneningly Yours,
Jody

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The Science of Brainwave Entrainment
Through experiential experimentation, some scientists have found that you can “create” the right conditions for relaxation, visualization, learning, meditation, and many other useful states of mind. By stimulating naturally occurring brain frequencies, you can “turn on” the right types of mind sets that you need to perform certain tasks. You can also “turn off” negative emotions such as anxiety, panic, stress & fear. IMAGINE BEING ABLE TO CONTROL YOUR MIND SO YOU ONLY EXPERIENCED WHAT YOU DESIRED OUT OF LIFE… and all drug free scientifically.

What are Brainwaves?

Your brain is made up of billions of brain cells called neurons, which use electricity to communicate with each other. The combination of millions of neurons sending signals at once produces an enormous amount of electrical activity in the brain, which can be detected using sensitive medical equipment (such as an EEG), measuring electricity levels over areas of the scalp.

The combination of electrical activity of the brain is commonly called a BrainWave pattern, because of its cyclic, “wave-like” nature.

Now these brain wave patterns can be placed into groups according to the frequency range which is directly related to the state of mind of the person. These are …

Beta (13 Hz – 30 Hz) is the state of normal, wakeful consciousness. As you are working, driving, talking, etc., you are usually in Beta. High beta activity is sometimes associated with anxiety, panic and stress.

Alpha (8 Hz – 12 Hz) is a state of light relaxation. Typified by a calm, focused mind. Alpha is sometimes called the “super learning state” because the brain seems to be more receptive and open to new information. Most people who meditate, do so in alpha.

Theta (4 Hz – 7 Hz) is a state of deep relaxation. The Theta brainwave state is of REM sleep (dreams), hypnosis, lucid dreaming, and the barely conscious state just before sleeping and just after waking. Theta is the border between the conscious and the subconscious world, and by learning to use a conscious, waking Theta brain wave we can access and influence the powerful subconscious part of ourselves that is normally inaccessible to our waking minds. While in the Theta state, the mind is capable of deep and profound learning, healing, and growth.

Delta (0.5 Hz – 3 Hz) the slowest of the brainwave patterns, can be a state of deep sleep, or trance-like consciousness. Maintaining awareness in delta has been known to open a path to the unconscious.

In the course of an average day, most of us spend a large amount of time in the beta brainwave state and reach into the alpha state when using our mind to remember certain events, places, names etc. That will limit most of us from accessing higher states of mind at will, but now you can access higher states of mind almost as easy as pushing a button!

When they first learned about “brainwaves” scientists began asking themselves, “What if we could train the brain to go into these different states at will?” In other words, what if you could find a way to induce your brain into, let’s say, any state of consciousness you want? Do You think that would be useful in helping you live the life you want to live?

The Answer? … YES! Brain Wave Entrainment Works

“Entrainment” is a term from physics which means “the tendency for two vibrating bodies to lock into phase so that they vibrate in harmony”.

For example, one tuning fork when struck and placed next to another tuning fork will cause the second one to vibrate at the same rate.

This was first observed by Dutch scientist, Christian Huygens, in 1665 while he was working on the design of the pendulum clock. He found that when he placed two of the clocks on a wall near each other and swung the pendulums at different rates, they would eventually end up swinging at the same rate.

Now what if this same phenomenon could be repeated in training the brain to lock into the vibrational frequency of an outside stimulus?

Well, several well documented scientific studies have shown that this is in fact possible. For centuries people have been using outside rhythmic stimulus in the form of drumbeats, chants and singing to induce various feelings, ranging from euphoria to sadness.

Mystics throughout the ages have realized what scientists have just now confirmed… and refined to be even more powerful! Now you can, at will, tune your mind to the frequencies that are known to produce healing, happiness, success, prosperity, & deep relaxation, as easy as tuning a radio to the station you desire.

Brainwave Entrainment Methods

The most well known form of brainwave entrainment is binaural beats, where a slightly different tone is presented into each ear. When pure tones are mixed together, their waveforms add and subtract from one another, resulting in a pulse. In the case of binaural beats, the two tones are mixed by the brain itself (one in each ear). The pulses, called “beats”, formed by mixing these tones is what causes entrainment to occur. As you learned in the entrainment section, brainwaves are affected by rapid pulses of sound, light or other sensory stimuli.

But since any kind of pulse can be used to entrain the brain, there are many other, more effective methods that allow more control than binaural tones. One is Isochronic tones, where a tone is manually spaced, turning on and off in a precise pattern. Another is called “Photic Driving”, which involves doing the same thing with Light, using LED Light Goggles or a flashing screen (like a strobe light). Clicks, drums, physical vibrations and even electric pulses can be used to entrain the brain. In fact, photic, tactile and click-based entrainment were discovered long before binaural beats. Today, there are even more complex methods for embedding pulses into music and white noise.

Entrainment can be effectively embedded into music and white noise, greatly enriching the entrainment experience, and usually creating a more pleasant, relaxing experience.

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Mystic Mindpower Audios use specially designed music and Isocronic Tones or Monaural tones for Highly effective Meditational Brainwave Entrainment. Learn More HERE

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Some entrainment methods do not rely on speaker assignments, and therefore can be used without headphones or any special speaker assignments. For veteran users of brainwave entrainment, this may seem strange since headphones have always been a traditional part of the brain training experience. The reality of the matter is that headphones have never been required for use with anything except Binaural beats. Monaural beats can be used very effectively without headphones. So can pulses, clicks and light stimulation. In fact, many ancient cultures used Drums to enter deeply relaxed ‘trances’ during Shamanic rituals. Though they may not have called it brainwave entrainment, the rhythmic stimulus of the drum could have been the cause of the “trance-like” states reported during such rituals.

Binaural beats have become very popular over the years, so much so that for many people the idea of “brainwave entrainment” is inseparable from them. But there are many other ways to stimulate the brain, many of which are more effective.

Binaural beats require headphones or special speaker assignments. This can be difficult for people who do not have headphones or find them uncomfortable. Binaural beats are not capable of entraining the Hemispheres individually (because they require BOTH ears). This can be a major disadvantage because many of the modern entrainment protocols used in clinical work today involve separate stimulation to each ear, useful for deeper meditation, cognitive enhancement and particularly for depression and ADD reduction.

While Binaural beats are not as effective as more modern entrainment methods, such as Isocronic Tone and monaural beats; though they do remain the most interesting. Dr. Gerald Oster, in the 1973 issue of “Scientific American”, introduced binaural beats to the main stream. According to Oster, because of the way the brain processes binaural beats, the depth or intensity of the resulting “beat” is only around 3db, or 1/10th the volume of a whisper (which is why the “beats” are usually so hard to detect). He concluded that binaural beats produced very small evoked potentials within the auditory cortex of the brain, while monaural beats and other methods produced far greater potentials.

A Brief History of Brainwave Entrainment

Brainwave entrainment was first identified in 1934, although its effects had been noted as early as Ptolemy.

Not long after the discovery of the Alpha brainwave by Hans Berger in 1929, researchers found that the strength of the wave could be “driven” beyond its natural frequency using flickering lights. This is called “Photic Driving”, which is another word for brainwave entrainment using photic (light) stimulation. In 1942 Dempsey and Morison discovered that repetitive tactile stimulation could also produce entrainment and in 1959, Dr. Chatrian observed auditory entrainment in response to clicks at a frequency of 15 per second.

By the 1960s entrainment started to become a tool rather than a phenomenon of the brain. Anesthesiologist M.S. Sadove, MD, used photic stimulation to reduce the amount of anesthesia needed for surgery. Bernard Margolis published an article on brainwave entrainment used during dental procedures, noting less anesthesia required, less gagging, less bleeding and a general reduction in anxiety.

In a 1973 issue of Scientific American, Dr. Gerald Oster examined how combining 2 pure tones resulted in a rhythmic beat which he called Binaural and Monaural Beats. In comparing Binaural beats against Monaural beats, Oster noted that Monaural beats were shown to elicit extremely strong cortical responses, which is the electrical activity responsible for entrainment. Oster concluded that while Binaural Beats produced very little neural response (because the depth of a Binaural Beat is only 3db or 1/10 the volume of a whisper), they could be useful in diagnosing certain neurological disorders.

In the 1980’s studies continued with Dr. Norman Shealy, Dr. Glen Solomon and others researching entrainment for headache relief, Serotonin and HGH release, as well as general relaxation. Michael Hutchison wrote his landmark book MegaBrain in 1981, outlining the many possible uses of entrainment from meditation to super-learning. In 1980, Tsuyoshi Inouye and associates at the Department of Neuropsychiatry at Osaka University Medical School in Japan found that photic stimulation produced “cerebral synchronization”. Dr. Norman Shealy later confirmed the effect, finding that photic stimulation produced synchronization in more than 5,000 patients. In 1984, Dr. Brockopp analyzed audio-visual brain stimulation and in particular hemispheric synchronization during EEG monitoring. He said “By inducing hemispheric coherence the machine can contribute to improved intellectual functioning of the brain.”

In 1981, Arturo Manns published a study showing the effectiveness of Isochronic Tones. This was later confirmed by others such as David Siever.

Studies continued into the 90’s with researchers such as Dr. Russell, Dr. Carter and others who explored the vast potential of using entrainment with ADD and learning disorders. Research has also been conducted into PMS, Chronic Fatigue, Chronic Pain, Depression, Hypertension and a number of other disorders. Steady research continues today with the work of Dr. Thomas Budzynski, David Siever, psychologist Michael Joyce and many others. The results of entrainment have been so promising that many modern clinical EEG units come with entrainment devices.

There is over 70 years of solid research behind brainwave entrainment . So why hasn’t it become more well known? Mainly because our culture is very much dependent on drugs, and, in comparison to the pharmaceutical giants, there is not a lot of money to be made in entrainment: it is inexpensive, easy to use at home and can be a viable solution to a huge variety of problems. Also, the idea that software or an inexpensive piece of hardware is able to directly affect the brain sounds preposterous at first, until you read the research and discover the science behind it. Despite the combination of solid scientific, empirical and a huge amount of anecdotal evidence, the world is still very skeptical of entrainment and brain training. But the word is spreading. Every day more psychologists, mental health clinics, coaches, teachers and professionals are discovering entrainment, and finding it remarkably useful.

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Below is a short educational video about perception.

Since so many facts get updated these days, I one day found myself wondering… What is “reality”? Is matter all that is real?

That might seem like a silly question given how we use our senses to interact with ‘reality’ everyday, but I have since arrived at ideas which I am comfortable with regarding these questions (although Im still curious). So heres some questions to play with – play nicely

If I had to point to where my idea or concept of reality is maintained, Id be pointing to my head – how about you?

Is all this environmental information just vibrational energies which are presented to our body and then decoded to form a perception in the brain according to our programs and patterns? ie: Do we subconsciously ‘read’ or filter this data then build an experience that seems real?

Can I get outside of my experience to prove anything is fact or real, or is reality bound to ones experience like the fabric to the shirt?

What of the realities I have when I dream, – my body still responds as if they are real, so what is reality?
If I am not the cause (creator) of my experience; the director of my focus of attention on some level whether awake or asleep, am I controlled by something else?
And if I am completely controlled by something other than me, what then is the purpose of my life?

I wish you all – many pleasant realities.

Pete.

Click here to view the embedded video.

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Guest Article from Ilana Moss

Dear Jody and Mystic Mindpower Readers,

I would like to share with you a perspective on the mind that is rarely, if ever, looked at or talked about by those in the personal and spiritual growth arena.

If you’ve done much reading or investigation into the nature of the Universe (and I would guess you have), then you know that third dimensional reality is dualistic and everything in the Universe has its polar opposite. Hot cannot exist without cold, big without small, joy without sorrow, etc. etc. etc.

Recently, I had an experience that has led me to realize that in order for the human mind to create an experience of duality and polarization, the mind itself must have polarized qualities.

I have never seen this written about or discussed in spiritual, metaphysical, or scientific circles, so naturally I became fascinated with this new insight.

The mind itself is typically looked at as a neutral entity. It is up to us to fill it with thoughts, ideas, experiences, memories, emotions, and more. Or so I had been taught.

But I have found that the mind is not a neutral machine, like a computer, that we can program and fill with data. The mind, which exists outside of time and space, was created to manifest the illusion of separation. And as such, it must in itself contain all of the qualities of that illusion.

The polar opposites of the human mind are this: Love-based creation – fear-based creation. Polar opposites exist on a loop, like the figure eight loop of infinity, making it possible to move freely from one extreme to the other as well as experience infinite possibilities in between.

Receiving this insight, and coming to know this truth about the human mind, has given me a sense of freedom and empowerment I have never felt before. Why?

Because if the mind itself has polarized qualities of duality, then it is no more real than the illusion of separation it creates.

The truth I have come to know is this (and you might want to sit down now):

There is another Mind. Mind with a capital “M”.

This Mind is not of this world, and has no dualistic nature. It is pure awareness, consciousness, oneness, and infinity. Its qualities are Love, Light, Truth, and Life.

This Mind cannot be found in the head, because it exists in the Heart (again, with a capital “H”). It has no thoughts. It has no limits.

It is possible to create with the human mind from the Love-based polarity. However, because it is dualistic in nature, the fear- based opposite must also manifest. That is why everything we create with the polarized human mind has its opposite: abundance – poverty, health – illness, connection to others – lonliness.

It goes on and on forever.

Creating from the Heart-Mind does not result in the manifestation of opposites. It sees all things as One. The manifestations of the human mind and the Heart-Mind might look the same to the human eyes, but the essence of one is false while the other is true.

The end result of creating from Heart-Mind is a life experience that embodies the qualities of the Heart: Love, Light, Truth and Life. This brings peace to the human mind, health to the body, and true wealth to all.

I share this with you now because I struggled for years to create the kind of life that only the Heart-Mind can manifest. The human mind gives us the illusion of separation, and this experience allows us to remember who we really are. Once we remember who we are, we begin to see the human mind for the illusion that it, too, is. We abandon the human mind, turn to the Heart-Mind, and begin to experience life for the first time.

What can you do about this now?

Start focusing more on your Heart. Several times during the day stop, close your eyes, breathe deeply and focus on the center of your chest. Imagine breathing into the center of your Heart.

Allow it to quiet your thoughts. Then, whatever it is you were thinking or feeling, ask your Heart for the Truth. You will get an answer, either in images, feeling or experience. Your brain might translate these into words for you. If so, you might want to write them down. Also, take action based on your insights when you feel guided to do so.

Also, in my experience the beautiful images and sounds created by Jody for Mystic Mindpower have helped me go deep into my own Heart-Mind to access insights, inner guidance, and truth. Acting upon these have brought equally beautiful results to my own life, so I highly recommend his work.

Thank you for reading this article. If you would like to keep in touch and learn more, visit my blogs and website and subscribe to my free enewsletter and weekly messages.

Love&Gratitude,

Ilana Moss
“A Mind With Heart”
copyright 2009, Heartcompass Enterprises

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“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.” - Albert Einstein

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter.

Very often you’ll see blog posts or books teaching you to “master” a skill in only 10 days, or 3 days … in fact, it used to be 30 days but the time frame to master something seems to be shrinking rapidly.

I’ve even seen tutorials claiming to teach a skill in just a few hours. Pretty soon we’ll be demanding to know how to do something in seconds.

Instant mastery of skills and knowledge! Hey presto!

Unfortunately, the reality is something a little less magical. Or maybe that’s a fortunate thing.

There’s only one way to become good at something:

1. First, you must learn it by reading or listening to others who know how to do it, but most especially by doing.
2. Then do some more. At this point, you’ll start to understand it, but you’ll suck. This stage could take months.
3. Do some more. After a couple of years, you’ll get good at it.
4. Do some more. If you learn from mistakes, and aren’t afraid to make mistakes in the first place, you’ll go from good to great.

It takes anywhere from 6-10 years to get great at something, depending on how often and how much you do it. Some estimate that it takes 10,000 hours to master something, but I think it varies from person to person and depends on the skill and other factors.

Want to be a great writer? It’s possible to be great within a few years, if you have the God-given talent of Fitzgerald or Shakespeare, but most of us toil for over a decade and are still trying to get better. We’re still learning, to this day, and if we look back on our first few years of writing — of any kind — we’ll tell you we sucked (for the most part) back then.

Want to be a great blogger? Same deal. I’ve been doing it for almost three years, and I’m still only competent. Gruber’s been doing it for, like, 7 years and he’s still only … well, he’s pretty great by now. You have to do it, make mistakes, learn, really begin to understand it, and someday, if you stick with it, you’ll be great.

There’s no one who is great at his profession who hasn’t been doing it for at least 6 years — no designer, no programmer, no carpenter, no architect, no surgeon, no teacher, no musician, no artist … you get the point. I dare you to name one. Most have been doing it for over a decade, and are still looking to improve.

It takes desire, it takes drive, it takes lots and lots of doing.

So here’s the thing: don’t get discouraged if you’re just starting out. Have fun, like we all did in the beginning. If you have fun, you’ll learn to love it, and THAT’S when it clicks. When you love something, you’ll want to do it all the time, sometimes late at night and often, you’ll jump out of bed and want to do it before you move your morning bowels.

THAT’S how you get great. By loving it so much your morning bowel movement takes second seat.

“Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.” - George Lucas

Find that desire. Do it, don’t just read about it. Don’t buy a single product or book or magazine that claims to teach you something in minutes, hours, days. They’re lying to your face, with a hand in your pocket at the same time.

Do it, keep doing it, then keep doing it some more. It’s the only way to get great, but the good news: anyone can do it. It just takes some time and some doing. Hey presto.

When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.”
~Author Unknown

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“The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.” - Arnold Toynbee

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me onTwitter.

Following your passion can be a tough thing. But figuring out what that passion is can be even more elusive.

I’m lucky — I’ve found my passion, and I’m living it. I can testify that it’s the most wonderful thing, to be able to make a living doing what you love.

And so, in this little guide, I’d like to help you get started figuring out what you’d love doing. This turns out to be one of the most common problems of many Zen Habits readers — including many who recently responded to me on Twitter.

This will be the thing that will get you motivated to get out of bed in the morning, to cry out, “I’m alive! I’m feeling this, baby!”. And to scare your family members or anyone who happens to be in yelling distance as you do this.

This guide won’t be comprehensive, and it won’t find your passion for you. But it will help you in your journey to find it.

Here’s how.

1. What are you good at? Unless you’re just starting out in life, you have some skills or talent, shown some kind of aptitude. Even if you are just starting out, you might have shown some talent when you were young, even as young as elementary school. Have you always been a good writer, speaker, drawer, organizer, builder, teacher, friend? Have you been good at ideas, connecting people, gardening, selling? Give this some thought. Take at least 30 minutes, going over this question — often we forget about things we’ve done well. Think back, as far as you can, to jobs, projects, hobbies. This could be your passion. Or you may have several things. Start a list of potential candidates.

2. What excites you? It may be something at work — a little part of your job that gets you excited. It could be something you do outside of work — a hobby, a side job, something you do as a volunteer or a parent or a spouse or a friend. It could be something you haven’t done in awhile. Again, think about this for 30 minutes, or 15 at the least. If you don’t, you’re probably shortchanging yourself. Add any answers to your list.

3. What do you read about? What have you spent hours reading about online? What magazines do you look forward to reading? What blogs do you follow? What section of the bookstore do you usually peruse? There may be many topics here — add them to the list.

4. What have you secretly dreamed of? You might have some ridiculous dream job you’ve always wanted to do — to be a novelist, an artist, a designer, an architect, a doctor, an entrepreneur, a programmer. But some fear, some self-doubt, has held you back, has led you to dismiss this idea. Maybe there are several. Add them to the list — no matter how unrealistic.

5. Learn, ask, take notes. OK, you have a list. Pick one thing from the list that excites you most. This is your first candidate. Now read up on it, talk to people who’ve been successful in the field (through their blogs, if they have them, or email). Make a list of notes of things you need to learn, need to improve on, skills you want to master, people to talk to. Study up on it, but don’t make yourself wait too long before diving into the next step.

6. Experiment, try. Here’s where the learning really takes place. If you haven’t been already, start to do the thing you’ve chosen. Maybe you already are, in which case you might be able to skip to the next step or choose a second candidate to try out. But if you haven’t been, start now — just do it. It can be in the privacy of your own home, but as quickly as possible, make it public however you can. This motivates you to improve, it gets you feedback, and your reputation will improve as you do. Pay attention to how you feel doing it — is it something you look forward to, that gets you excited, that you love to share?

7. Narrow things down. I recommend that you pick 3-5 things from your list, if it’s longer than that, and do steps 5 & 6 with them. This could take month, or perhaps you’ve already learned about and tried them all out. So now here’s what you need to ask yourself: which gets you the most excited? Which of these can produce something that people will pay for or get excited about? Which can you see yourself doing for years (even if it’s not a traditional career path)? Pick one, or two at the most, and focus on that. You’re going to do the next three steps with it: banish your fears, find the time, and make it into a career if possible. If it doesn’t work out, you can try the next thing on your list — there’s no shame in giving something a shot and failing, because it’ll teach you valuable lessons that will help you to be successful in the next attempt.

8. Banish your fears. This is the biggest obstacle for most people – self-doubt and fear of failure. You’re going to face it and banish it. First, acknowledge it rather than ignoring or denying it. Second, write it down, to externalize it. Third, feel it, and be OK with having it. Fourth, ask yourself, “What’s the worst that can happen?” Usually it’s not catastrophic. Fifth, prepare yourself for doing it anyway, and then do it. Take small steps, as tiny as possible, and forget about what might happen — focus on what actually is happening, right now. And then celebrate your success, no matter how small.

9. Find the time. Don’t have the time to pursue this passion? Make the time, dammit! If this is a priority, you’ll make the time — rearrange your life until you have the time. This might mean waking earlier, or doing it after work or during lunch, or on weekends. It will probably mean canceling some commitments, simplifying your work routing or doing a lot of work in advance (like you’re going on a vacation). Do what it takes.

10. How to make a living doing it. This doesn’t happen overnight. You need to do something, get good at it, be passionate about it. This could take months or years, but if you’re having fun, that’s what’s most important. When you get to the point where someone would pay you for it, then you’re golden — there are many ways to make a living at that point, including doing freelance or consulting work, making information products such as ebooks, writing a blog and selling advertising. In fact, I recommend you do a blog if you’re not already — it’ll help solidify your thinking, build a reputation, find people who are interested in what you do, demonstrate your knowledge and passion.

I told you this wouldn’t be easy. It’ll require a lot of reflection and soul-searching, at first, then a lot of courage and learning and experimentation, and finally a lot of commitment.

But it’s all worth it — every second, every ounce of courage and effort. Because in the end, you’ll have something that will transform your life in so many ways, will give you that reason to jump out of bed, will make you happy no matter how much you make.

I hope you follow this guide and find success, because I wish on you nothing less than finding your true passion.

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius

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I am currently working on an all new Mystic Mindpower website for 2010. Please bare with me while I make all of these changes. There are going to be lot’s of new things here for you this year.

Jody Sachse

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