Thanks very much for your comments/advice. I had a look at Equisync which someone mentioned above and I may give that a try. Stephen, thank you for your offer of help. I have tried “mindfulness” in the past but just found it difficult to focus and generally find it difficult to commit to any sort of meditation where I need to do the work myself, and especially now I have 2 sons plus work…. I’m grateful to you both for your help. Sambo

You might want to consider the meditation practise of Mindfulness. I am obviously not qualified to offer you any sort of medical or therapeutic advice – but just as one “fellow traveller” to another, I do recommend this. I have undertaken this practise for several years and can atttest to it’s effectiveness in terms of gaining greater insight and control into one’s mental and emotional states.

I know of others who have suffered quite badly from depressive states and have used this practise to gain a good measure of equilibrium and peace in their lives.

There are many mindfulness meditation groups that meet worldwide and you will find a lot of resources on line if you just google “Mindfulness”.

It is also increasingly used as a therapeutic approach to certain depressive conditions – in this context it’s known as “Mindfulness Cognitive Behaviour Therapy”.

If you want more information please contact me – not sure quite how we do that – but I’m sure Tori can advise you how to reach me if you want to.

Very best wishes
Stephen
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I personally use the software from TransparentCorp, that way I *know* what entrainment levels I’m using ( there are affiliate linksfor them in the sidebar – MindStereo, MindWorkstation, NeuroProgrammer) With those programs, you can combine entrainment with any guided meditation or hypnosis session you want. I’ve also used and liked a few of the mp3’s from HypnoticMP3.com , which mix entrainment and hypnosis. I’m very fussy about hypnotic script content, his struck me as very well done.

You’ll find other recommendations scattered through the comment section above : )

If they didn’t have voice, people would likely just listen to it on loop and never buy anything. Not defending them, but I can see why they don’t want to just send out pure audio without some way of protecting it. I do hear he is a very pushy marketer though.

I don’t think there’s anything cult-ish about Holosync itself, but like you, I’m sometimes concerned about the other controversial products/systems Bill Harris cross-promotes (which in the past included the fellow who ran the lethal sweat lodge in Arizona. Ouch.) But as long as you’re just using the product, and you recognize that Harris is (bottom line) a marketer, and not an enlightened-guru-advisor whose every recommendations should be followed, I’d think you’d be ok

Zoning out and even falling asleep is a common experience with brainwave entrainment at low frequencies, just as it is with meditation. So I wouldn’t worry on that count, either.

I’d think it’s unlikely that your dreams are being blocked, and more likely that the change in your sleeping hours or the way you’re waking up now is keeping you from remembering them. If you’re using entrainment right after waking up, perhaps you’re training your brain to shift into meditative mode upon waking up, rather than following your old patterns which allowed you the time and mind-set to recall the dreams — wouldn’t it be interesting to know the brainwave frequency that goes on during that half awake period that helps us remember our dreams?

As for suppressing emotions, that’s a difficult one, but I suppose it’s possible. Long term meditation practices change the brain in ways that seem to stabilize emotions, and maybe something similar happens through long term exposure to certain entrainment frequencies. It might be worth asking for input from the Centerpoint forums, and/or the TransparentCorp community (many of whom also have used Holosync. Some like it, some dont). Just keep in mind that while there are some knowledgeable and science-based people contributing there, there’s lots of folks who are very woo-woo, as well.

For anyone trying to understand the effects of Holosync, it’s important to realize that it is just brainwave entrainment to specific frequencies, and learning more about entrainment and brainwave frequencies will reveal a lot about what to expect from Holosync.