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Autism | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "The tapes I've selected tend to calm even the most agitated child with Autism."
  - Caryn Coyle, Lansing, MI
  
  
• The two-year-old had limited eye contact, disliked touch, engaged in rocking and flapping his hands, was either fussy and irritable, or withdrawn into his internal world. After his first listening to a relaxed Metamusic® tape, he accepted touch, initiated eye contact and smiling, and appeared to be calm and peaceful.
  
  
• The results of introducing Hemi-Sync® to children in a special education setting were incredible. Hemi-Sync® seemed to stimulate cortical integration and whole-brain learning. One autistic child was able to sleep at night for the first time, with the Surf tape, which also improved the ability of an emotionally-impaired six-year-old to relate interpersonally.
  
  
• As the years have passed, many of my earlier problems with Autism are gone, but it manifests in different ways now. I am often anxious and compulsive, feeling the need to check the doorknob or stove several times to make sure they are OK. I also had trouble sleeping. While at a local Autism Society meeting, I was introduced to Sleeping Through the Rain and Inner Journey. Since working with these tapes, my sleep is much better and I feel calmer, yet highly aware of everything during the day. I am more sensitive to sounds, am better able to solve problems, and come up with creative solutions. I also feel more optimistic, as though all things will really continue to work out for the best.
  
  
• The combination of Brain: Support & Maintenance, Think Fast, Eight Great, Möbius West and Options has had a very powerful effect on the symptoms of my Autism. I am not picking at my fingers very much anymore and I am hardly making the tongue noises, either. I also use the Gateway Experience tapes. Hemi-Sync® is by no means a cure for Autism, but it may be a way to help the individual tap into his or her brain's potential to facilitate growth and change, and so that treatments won't be necessary.
  
  
• The therapist's videotape of a session with an autistic child illustrated dramatic change once Hemi-Sync® was introduced into the environment. Early on, the child shrunk back with extreme defensive reactions. Contact was intolerable. After some moments of listening to Metamusic the child visibly relaxed and focused, and reached out to give the therapist a hug.
  
  
• My eight year old daughter was having a very hard time both at home and at school. In terms of her ability to deal with sensory stimuli, she tested at a four year old level, and was constantly interacting with her environment. It was exhausting for her and for us. Since we learned about Hemi-Sync® at an Autism Society Conference, we've been playing Surf and Remembrance for her during the day. The improvement is remarkable.
  
  
• An orphanage in Romania was home for our daughter's first 2½ years. When we first saw her she was in a "cage," penned up with other children who were never held, never bathed, and only given bottles. In the five years since we adopted her, we've made the rounds of every possible treatment and facility from sensory training to neuropsychiatric wards. Her behavior constantly shifted between super passive and super aggressive and back again. After learning about Hemi-Sync® through a support group for parents of post-institutional children we bought Surf, Midsummer Night, and Remembrance and kept one of the tapes playing all the time. We saw immediate results and, over time, her behavior has evened out. It feels like a miracle.

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD) / Hyperactivity | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• An investigation into the relevance of Hemi-Sync binaural beat signals for use with ADHD populations supported the conclusion that the audio signals facilitate the ability to attend and persevere at routine motor tasks and facilitate improved attention.
  
  
• I played Cloudscapes for my grandson with ADD every night when he went to bed during the entire summer. When school started in the fall, teachers couldn't believe how much his reading skills had improved. They assumed he had spent the summer reading (which he didn't).
  
  
• Our teenager has processing deficits and a short attention span. We're not sure if it is ADD or the effects of institutionalization (she was adopted from an orphanage). "They work, these tapes are good," she says, and she puts on a Hemi-Sync® tape to go to sleep with.
  
  
• The 14-year-old with ADHD loved to listen to the Prep Side of any H+ tape, saying, "It calms me and helps me focus." He browsed the Hemi-Sync® catalog to choose other tapes for himself, and selected Buy the Numbers. His math grades improved. The family started playing Remembrance in the car for him and his brother, and reported that it was very effective in keeping the friction down.
  
  
• A psychiatrist called to report her great appreciation for Remembrance. "I've always been like a grasshopper in my personal life," she said, "always jumping from one thing to another. This tape has an amazing effect in helping me sustain my attention."
  
  
• Some hyperactive children have a range of socially unacceptable habits and behaviors. To build rapport with these clients as quickly as possible, we suggest trying some relaxation to help them feel more comfortable. This is where Hemi-Sync® comes in. Hemi-Sync® with music or surf is played while we use guided imagery (i.e., a walk on the beach, etc.) to produce a relaxed state that then enables us to reach the clients on a subconscious level to make the fastest changes. When dealing with hyperactive children, this is the most effective way I have found to calm them and gain their attention.
  
  
• The Director of the International Biomedical Center in the Netherlands reports on a study that combined amino acid therapy with Hemi-Sync® tapes for children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). The children, aged from five to thirteen years, all had attention and learning disorders accompanied by hyperactivity. During their treatment they received amino acid supplementation in combination with vitamin B6 and with restriction of refined carbohydrate consumption. The findings, which were confirmed by standard psychological tests, showed patients to be less tired and hyperactive at school and at home. Behavior usually improved within two to three weeks.
  
  
• When Hemi-Sync tapes were first recommended for my hyperactive son, I was extremely skeptical. In desperation, I finally decided to try, and I can now say that Hemi-Sync® dramatically improved my son's life. Right away I noticed the calming effect while the tape was playing. Even better: my son can now usually recreate that calm state whenever he chooses to do so. It's as if his brain learned how to experience calmness while he listened to the tape, and now he can move into that mental state by himself.
  
  
• I recommend your tapes for the treatment of ADHD as well as for dealing with the emotional problems that are a result of the ADHD effect. We use De-Hab to return some useful self-esteem to the patient and to remove those thought programs which have highlighted their apparent mental ineptitude. Watching the twisted, angry face of a past ADHD child turn into a sunny smiling face has a value beyond description.
  
  
• My ADHD kid started out listening to Remembrance daily, and now plays it voluntarily on his own once or twice a week. He seems to be happier at home - much less angry.
  
  
• A psychologist reports excellent results from using Super Sleep for children with learning disabilities and/or attention deficits. With Super Sleep playing all night, parents and teachers observe better concentration and less irritability during the day.
  
  
• Hemi-Sync is an excellent example of the sensory integrative process of the brain. Two independent auditory signals are integrated in a way that produces a whole (i.e., Hemi-Sync®) which is different from each of the separate parts. Initial processing and integration occurs in the brain stem. In addition, the tendency toward synchronization of the right and left hemispheres appears to enhance attention, sensory and extrasensory awareness, and intuitive processing, and to increase successful adaptation to personal experiences.
  
  
• Remembrance has made a big difference for our son, who has been diagnosed with ADD. He puts on earphones and sits drawing happily for the whole tape, something he could not have sustained before.
  
  
• Since 1981 I have been using Hemi-Sync® with young children who experience sensory motor and sensory integrative disabilities. Both clinical experience and preliminary research indicate that the addition of Hemi-Sync® signals (containing frequencies which produce more theta patterns in the brain) to background music increases the child's focus of attention, calms the emotions, and creates a mental set of open receptivity. Hemi-Sync® signals enhance the child's ability to organize and integrate sensory information. This results in an increased ability to focus attention, to discriminate specific sensory properties, and to filter unwanted sensory input.
  
  
• Homework time meant a daily struggle with my easily distracted seven-year-old until I introduced her to the Concentration tape. Now she goes into her room on her own, puts on either Concentration or Surf, and contentedly gets to work. I'm grateful for the improved grades, of course, and even more for the improved atmosphere.
  
  
• A special education director reports: "Remembrance is very effective in facilitating enhanced attention for students of high school and college age. The tape is appropriate for use at home while during homework. A student with ADHD may also benefit from listening to the tape on a portable cassette player with headphones in a classroom setting. Youngsters with neurologic delays, problems with cortical function, and developmental lags may be helped by Hemi-Sync® tapes. The sleep tapes for children ease them into sleep comfortably and happily-a boon for parents. After listening to Hemi-Sync® over time, youngsters seem to develop a greater neurological capacity to integrate. It seems they no longer need the external stimulus of Hemi-Sync® to access certain brainwave states."
  
  
• A three-year-old boy I'd been treating in play therapy for several months had finally been asked to leave his daycare, because of his sporadic, violent behavior. In our regular session, after asking him if he'd like to hear some special music, I gave him headphones and played Remembrance. While listening, he became very calm, his eyes widened and he smiled vibrantly. He turned to his mother and said, "Listen, Mommy-it's the angels!"
  
  
• A fourteen-year-old client was in a foster home and having problems adjusting. She was always in motion during our sessions and had great difficulty focusing for more than a couple of minutes on any topic. Since she began using Hemi-Sync® tapes she is able to stay focused on the internal work we are doing with guided imagery. We have used Winds Over the World, Cloudscapes, Remembrance and Surf with wonderful results. She can be completely still and relaxed now, and does not need to constantly check on me or her surroundings.

Children | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• In her first communication with the Institute, the mother stated, "Our 8-year-old daughter, adopted from Romania, is severely psychologically and physically handicapped. She had suffered horrendous abuse, was tied in a cot and starved, and could not sit up, walk, talk or hold anything when we brought her home. She is full of anxiety, terrified of being left again. Nights are a living nightmare. She screams for hours and is too agitated to sleep. I'm sure if we can relax her she will calm down and sleep. She is extremely strong willed and we expect her to fight any help in relaxing. We have to resort to drugs to basically knock her out, even though we strongly object to this, but she even stays awake through drugs that are supposed to make her sleep. I mentioned Hemi-Sync to our Doctor and he said "Try anything except murder!" Can you suggest anything to relax her?"

  The mother contacted us again four days after receiving her first Hemi-Sync tapes. "I just had to tell you--it's 12:30 am and my daughter is ASLEEP and has been asleep since 8:10 pm. This is a record! When we play Sleeping Through the Rain for her (remember, she is nonverbal) she was making noises and going up and down to the sounds, the first time we have heard her try to sing and get the sounds nearly right. After seven minutes she was out."

• After my child spent a period of weeks listening to Metamusic tapes while falling asleep, her preschool teacher said to me, "I am amazed at her attention span, her ability to listen to and follow directions, her desire to do what pleases, and the effort she is willing to expend to master activities that are hard or challenging for her."
• Super Sleep, played continually throughout the night with an auto-reverse player, was highly successful in modifying a 3-year old's disturbed sleeping behavior and helping him sleep through the night. Additionally, the child worked harder and more persistently at tasks, spoke more clearly, and accepted correction of his speech more readily, listened better, and was less easily frustrated, started to enjoy books and to sit still for stories to be read to him.
• The results of introducing Hemi-Sync to children in a special education setting were incredible. Hemi-Sync seemed to stimulate cortical integration and whole-brain learning. One autistic child was able to sleep at night for the first time, with the Surf tape, which also improved the ability of an emotionally-impaired six-year-old to relate interpersonally.
• Surf and Energy Walk helped a school wrestling team qualify for the wrestling finals for the first time.
• I give piano lessons to a seven year old girl and was training her to play scales with a metronome. For several weeks she was able to play at 126 beats per minute (bpm). This week I played the Concentration tape through speakers during the lesson. We started the metronome at 126 bpm and speeded it up gradually. She was able to play at 160 bpm. Hey, that's great!
• My ten year old grandson had been tested with an IQ of 70. That's borderline retarded. Since working with the Concentration tape, which he loves to listen to, he's getting straight As. Isn't that miraculous? He said to me, "Grandma, if I could take my magic tape to school, all my friends could get As, too."
• Our nine-year-old developed bronchitis and a touch of pneumonia. She was so uncomfortable and restless that she couldn't sleep. As I played Energy Walk for her, she went from being restless and frustrated to lying perfectly still, eyes closed, smiling, relaxed. "This is wonderful, mom. It's so beautiful. I feel so good," Then she drifted off into sleep.
• A psychologist reports excellent results from using Super Sleep for children with learning disabilities and/or attention deficits. With Super Sleep playing all night, parents and teachers observe better concentration and less irritability during the day.
• A pre-school teacher says, "School hours were especially trying with a difficult group of hyperactive children. The classroom was always chaotic, and I hadn't been able to get the children down for a nap all year. I was totally frustrated, unable to do what I was trained to do. The first time I played a tape from Sandman Suites at nap-time the children settled down almost immediately. It was like a miracle. I play different Metamusic tapes now as background for various activities, and find a completely different level of comfort in the room. Obviously, it's good for the children. And I know it's great for me."
• They were doing patterning for a small child whose central nervous system had been affected from a brain injury. I told the mother that Metamusic tapes might be helpful. She called to let us know that the tapes were helping her child to relax and enjoy the physical patterning exercises. She indicated that when the tape stopped, the child would tense up and stop making any sounds. As soon as they started the tape again, the child would relax and make happy sounds.
• Your children's sleep tapes have changed bedtime from an ordeal that used to last all evening long to a peaceful, happy routine. My two children each have their own Walkman so they can decide for themselves whether to go to sleep with the current favorite choice from the Bedtime Stories album, or with one of the musical tapes from Sandman Suites.
• Report from a speech-language pathologist. Parents have reported changes in their own reactions to their children when Hemi-Sync tapes are used at home. One mother stated she felt very relaxed, and less angry and impatient with her son's feeding problems. Another mother was initially quiet and withdrawn and often left the room during therapy sessions I conducted with her son. She was interested in using Hemi-Sync tapes at home because she knew her son was happier with the music [Metamusic tapes]. Within a month of regular Hemi-Sync use at home she was more outgoing, wanted to be present during therapy sessions, and offered more spontaneous comments about his progress and needs. Changes have also been observed in brothers and sisters. This was particularly evident when tapes were played for 45 minutes as children who shared a room were going to sleep. One sibling showed a reduction in bed-wetting and another showed major improvements in school work.
• Dyslexia: Mr. and Mrs. G. had their first contact with the Hemi-Sync technology of The Monroe Institute in November 1992, and played the tape Surf over open speakers during television and play time for their son, Marcel. They also used Surf as background while Marcel was studying. By February 1993, Marcel began writing his first readable sentences. He knew and recognized with certainty every letter. At about the same time, he complained that playing Surf during study time distracted him. The tape Concentration was substituted.
• Marcel's ten year old sister also had a history of reading and writing problems and was working on both skills with a therapist. It was observed that while she was experiencing the Hemi-Sync patterns of the Surf tape, she reduced her average of twenty-two spelling errors per dictation to seven.
• The Director of the International Biomedical Center in the Netherlands reports on a study that combined amino acid therapy with Hemi-Sync tapes for children with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). The children, aged from five to thirteen years, all had attention and learning disorders accompanied by hyperactivity. During their treatment they received amino acid supplementation in combination with vitamin B6 and with restriction of refined carbohydrate consumption. The findings, which were confirmed by standard psychological tests, showed patients to be less tired and hyperactive at school and at home. Behavior usually improved within two to three weeks.
• Since 1981 I have been using Hemi-Sync with young children who experience sensory motor and sensory integrative disabilities. Both clinical experience and preliminary research indicate that the addition of Hemi-Sync signals (containing frequencies which produce more theta patterns in the brain) to background music increases the child's focus of attention, calms the emotions, and creates a mental set of open receptivity. Hemi-Sync is an excellent example of the sensory integrative process of the brain. Two independent auditory signals are integrated in a way that produces a whole (i.e., Hemi-Sync) which is different from each of the separate parts. Initial processing and integration occurs in the brain stem. In addition, the tendency toward synchronization of the right and left hemispheres appears to enhance attention, sensory and extrasensory awareness, and intuitive processing, and to increase successful adaptation to personal experiences.
• However, an unexpected response was seen in children who, prior to Hemi-Sync therapy, experienced severe difficulties with sensory organization and integration. These children showed major difficulties accepting touch to their bodies. Gentle hugs, light calming strokes or pats, or accidental touching usually elicited strong aversive reactions. The child would push the touching person away, screech or cry, hit the person, or withdraw and begin a series of stereotyped self-stimulatory behaviors. They did not like to get their hands messy, have their hair washed or combed, or sit outside in the wind and grass. Many of the children became frightened and disoriented with movement or changes of position. They tended to increase these behaviors in complex sensory environments. A busy household, a school classroom or cafeteria, or a trip to the grocery store would reduce the child's ability to function and would increase the frequency and strength of the behaviors used to cope. Because of the intensity of their reactions to their environment, most of these children were labeled autistic, profoundly retarded, or emotionally disturbed.
• When Hemi-Sync was added to therapy and classroom environments, these children responded in a totally different way. Eye contact increased. They accepted touch and became curious and interested in the sensory input. They were no longer startling and putting their hands over their ears to sounds that were previously upsetting. The amount of frustrated screeching and crying was reduced, and more functional communication emerged. There was a reduction in behaviors previously used by the child to cope with sensory overload. The children stopped rocking, spinning, and flapping and began to pay attention.
• It appeared that the Hemi-Sync signals enhanced the child's ability to organize and integrate sensory information. This resulted in an increase in the ability to focus attention, to discriminate specific sensory properties, and to filter unwanted sensory input. What were these children telling us about the use of Hemi-Sync in our own lives?
• My 2 1/2 year old granddaughter asks that I keep playing Cloudscapes over and over throughout her visits. She listens for the `ting, ting, ting' near the end of the piece and we imagine together that our fairy godmother is touching us with her magic wand and drenching us with love.
• The drug for cystic fibrosis that seven-year-old Danny has been taking since birth brings on diabetic symptoms and cysts on the lung. During one of his frequent hospital stays, unable to get enough air, he started gasping. The nurse played Lungs: Repair & Maintenance, left at the bedside by Danny's mother. Her young patient began to breath more and more normally, settled back, and relaxed.

  At home, Danny likes to have the musical Hemi-Sync of Sandman Suites playing when he's in bed. His mother keeps the volume very low, almost inaudible, and when Danny falls asleep, she turns off the sound. More often than not, Danny drowsily tells her, "Don't turn it off, it helps me breathe."

• An orphanage in Romania was home for our daughter's first 2 1/2 years. When we first saw her she was in a "cage," penned up with other children who were never held, never bathed, only given bottles. In the five years since we adopted her, we've made the rounds of every possible treatment and facility from sensory training to neuropsychiatric wards. Her behavior constantly shifted between super passive and super aggressive--and back again. After learning about Hemi-Sync through a support group for parents of post-institutional children we bought Surf , Midsummer Night and Remembrance and kept one of the tapes playing all the time. We saw immediate results and, over time, her behavior has evened out. It feels like a miracle.
• Homework time meant a daily struggle with my easily distracted seven-year-old until I introduced her to the Concentration tape. Now she goes into her room on her own, puts on either Concentration or Surf , and contentedly gets to work. I'm grateful for the improved grades, of course, and even more grateful for the improved atmosphere.
• All members of the group I am working with have children who, for one reason or another, are more difficult than "usual." Their children are all now listening to Hemi-Sync tapes with good results. One child, labeled "autistic," has been using tapes for about six weeks. Her cranial osteopath told her that the two halves of the brain are now working together when previously they were not.
• My two-and-a-half year old son loves the lullabies on Sandman Suites, and at the moment is really into the Bedtime Stories, particularly Karen's Fancy Room. He always asks for a tape at bedtime. We cuddle and he goes to sleep with them.
• My students are learning disabled, socially and emotionally maladjusted, including multiple impairments of speech and sight. They responded very well to the H+ Relax and Attention tapes, self-initiating the cues they learned. The results include a marked increase in self-control and decidedly improved social interactions. The tapes have given these children a mechanism to deactivate their previously learned hostile and disruptive responses. The classroom environment has dramatically improved and - most important -the children now have a skill that will be theirs for life.
• My son, adopted out of a Romanian hospital, had spent years in an environment with an absence of sensory stimulation. One of the results was an ultra-keen sensitivity to sound. He was extremely fearful of thunder and even the sound of a leaf falling from a tree would disturb and distract him. After playing Midsummer Night as soft background music for him over several weeks, the fear of thunder has totally disappeared, and he is much less bothered by extraneous noise.
• A three-year-old boy I'd been treating in play therapy for several months had finally been asked to leave his daycare because of his sporadic, violent behavior. In our regular session, after asking him if he'd like to hear some special music, I gave him headphones and played Remembrance . While listening, he became very calm, his eyes widened, and he smiled vibrantly. He turned to his mother and said, "Listen, Mommy - it's the angels!"
• A fourteen-year-old client was in a foster home and having problems adjusting. She was always in motion during our sessions and had great difficulty focusing for more than a couple of minutes on any topic. Since she began using Hemi-Sync tapes, she is able to stay focused on the internal work we are doing with guided imagery. We have used Winds Over The World, Cloudscapes, Remembrance , and Surf with wonderful results. She can be completely still and relaxed now, and does not need to constantly check on me or her surroundings.
• My eight year old daughter was having a very hard time both at home and at school. In terms of her ability to deal with sensory stimuli, she tested at a four year old level, and was constantly interacting with her environment. It was exhausting for her and for us. Since we learned about Hemi-Sync at an Autism Society Conference, we've been playing Surf and Remembrance for her during the day and Sandman Suites at night. The improvement is remarkable.

Hearing/Vision | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• After years of congratulating myself on my good vision as more and more of my friends were getting glasses, it was really disappointing when, aged 46, I needed my first glasses. I was determined to work on eyesight with the help of Hemi-Sync. I consistently use the verbal cues from Sensory: Seeing, Tune-Up, Circulation and Restorative Sleep. Seven years have gone by and I haven't needed a stronger prescription.
• A doctor explained that he recommends Hemi-Sync to patients with varying degrees of hearing loss ranging from mild to total. They benefit from the tapes because the sound vibrations that make up the Hemi-Sync patterns are carried to the brain by the bones in the ear canal. It is not necessary to consciously "hear" the Hemi-Sync.
• I gave Sensory: Hearing to a colleague who suffered from episodes of ringing in his ear followed by intense headache. The diagnosis had been degenerative nerve disease. At his next episode, he listened to the tape five times over a three-day period-all the symptoms stopped and he hasn't had another episode for three months now. He's very grateful for the relief and also for the relaxation from Hemi-Sync tapes.
• Several friends plagued by tinnitus (ringing or buzzing in the ears) commented that after using Sensory: Hearing several times their tinnitus disappeared for long periods. When it came back, they only had to listen to the tape again.
• This 91-year-old patient has a profound hearing loss in the left ear, and almost profound in the right ear. He wears hearing aids in both. While wearing a set of earphones that went over his hearing aids without whistling, he listened to H+ Circulation. During the Prep side he listened very intently and said back to me out loud everything that was being said on the tape. During the second side, I suggested that he see if he could go to sleep. He nodded off very soon.
• The doctors of an eighty-year-old nun who was due for a cataract operation feared that the herpes infection in her eyes might flare up and perhaps lead to blindness. She insisted on going through with the operation, given added confidence through using the tape H+ Sensory: Seeing. The operation was successful, with no complications. She continued with the tape afterwards and greatly surprised her doctor by the virtually total recovery of her vision.
• A professional photographer told me that after moving into his 50s he found his vision becoming less and less sharp. I told him about Sensory: Seeing, and got a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant as a Thank You. He now uses the function command before going out on assignment and during the assignment, and says that his sight is as good as it ever was.

Therapy | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• As a psychotherapist and Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy, I have spent the majority of my life studying the science of the mind and how best to help people. I have a number of hypnosis tapes, but they do not have your Hemi-Sync technology. I've found your tapes to be truly magnificent.
• Report from a psychiatrist. I used the tape Concentration for patients with depressive syndrome, especially those with memory difficulties and whose ability to concentrate was diminished due to depression. They all had problems with concentration, attention-to-task deficit, lack of short-term memory, and felt unable to perform mental tasks as well as they had previously. These symptoms were present whether or not the patients were taking medication.
  
  The patients liked this new approach, and reported improvement of their ability to concentrate during test preparation and other cognitive tasks, better short-term memory, greater interest in their studies, and an ability to sustain attention for longer periods than was previously possible.
• Report from a psychologist. The patient was experiencing intense anxiety about an upcoming MRI test, which involves the person remaining motionless inside a very cramped tube for hours as the machine takes pictures of the brain. Anesthesia cannot be used for this procedure. The medical team reported that no one who was even moderately claustrophobic had ever completed the MRI test. After three weeks of working with the H+ tapes Relax, Let Go and Off-Loading and the Mind Food tapes Energy Walk and Morning Exercise, the day for the MRI test came. She was successful and entered into a very relaxed state and eventually went to sleep during the three-hour procedure.
• As a psychotherapist and Doctor of Clinical Hypnotherapy, I have spent the majority of my life studying the science of the mind and how best to help people. I have a number of hypnosis tapes, but they do not have your Hemi-Sync® technology. I've found your tapes to be truly magnificent.
• Report from a clinical psychologist. In general, Hemi-Sync increases the all-important rapport with the client, a client's dream content and recall, and a client's memory, especially repressed memories. Concentration is generally useful for "pulling people together," and Catnapper is great for PMS, general anxiety, and individuals suffering from jet lag.
• The patient, ready for release from the hospital's psychiatric service, reported apprehension about his discharge. He was given H+ Relax to use at home. He reported that he was now able to relax and even sleep well for the first time in a number of years.
  
  Previously, this patient had other forms of non-pharmaceutical intervention like biofeedback, progressive relaxation, guided imagery, etc. Only Hemi-Sync, however, appeared to produce the desired results.
• A client reported to his psychiatrist, "The tapes have proved exceptionally useful in enabling me to attain and sustain a dreamlike state in which I have been able to visualize and verbalize images and thoughts I do not have contact with at the fully conscious level."
• Report from a psychologist at an institution for the severely and profoundly retarded. S. is 35 years old, with frequent self-destructive outbursts requiring physical restraint. The use of the Deep 10 Relaxation tape in combination with therapy produced dramatic, positive changes after six or seven sessions. She went from disliking the staff to liking them and allowing them to help her. She progressed from a totally negative self-concept to saying things like, "I feel alive," and "I'm so happy." She reported better sleep and feeling more relaxed, and began to show a sense of humor. The tantrum behavior stopped except for one episode when another patient was, in fact, picking on her. Her thorazine medication was greatly reduced. She is now living in a group home, working in a sheltered workshop, continues to use the tape, and has not had a single outburst since she left the institution.
• Report from a clinical hypnotist: A 40-year-old woman had undergone two cancer operations, was in a very depressed state, weak, suffering from bad pain, had no desire to live. She was under medical and psychiatric care. I used the Hemi-Sync Surf tape [that reminded her of a nice holiday in Spain] to bring her into a hypnotic state, and let the pattern sink into her subconscious levels. After three weeks I had to go abroad and left her with a Hemi-Sync tape. On my return she had recovered nearly completely, went shopping again, and there was hardly any pain left.
• Report from a psychologist. While an individual is clinically depressed, I avoid the H+ tapes because they require active participation and concentration. Instead I provide patients with Metamusic tapes. Many depressed clients report that this flowing, quiet music, with relaxing, balancing sound signals embedded in it, provides them with strong temporary relief and consolation, and gradually helps in lifting their depression.
• I regularly use Hemi-Sync tapes for training patients to achieve more easily the Alpha and Theta states which are useful in Behavioral Psychotherapy through the process of "reciprocal inhibition." These brain wave states inhibit the presence of anxiety. A variety of different Metamusic tapes are provided to the patient to avoid any boredom that might develop from listening to the very same tape on each and every occasion.
• Hemi-Sync appeared to provide the high-energy coherent state that enabled the client to maintain a great degree of self-awareness, even while in the throes of releasing old thought forms and habits.
• I find that, for clients, use of Hemi-Sync: a) reduces stress immediately, allowing the mind to focus on work to be done in the session; b) often provides a new experience for the client; c) begins to orient the mind to giving pleasure to the entire organism; d) provokes thinking of new means of relaxation; e) gives the mind a reference point for re-creating the whole-brain state; f) gives the mind permission to talk about inner, primary learning system behavior; g) evens out emotional highs and lows. As one client states, it brings him to a centeredness in which he can be more objective about himself. Without this centeredness, there seems to be a tendency to focus on negatives; h) begins the development of an effective attitude for problem solving and creative adventure.
• Frequently I notice an interesting and surprising reaction to an introductory discussion with a client about Hemi-Sync. They often respond with what seems to be a newly found excitement, hope, or anticipation. In following conversations, they describe these initial responses as the point at which they consciously began to feel relief from the psychoemotional pain they are experiencing, and the lessening of superfluous mental chatter.
• My interest in the use of Hemi-Sync tapes with patients with severe personality disorders is connected to my efforts to find effective treatment modalities to add to our present armamentarium for severe personality and psychotic disorders. It has been my pleasure to find that the Hemi-Sync tape Concentration has been especially helpful with patients with schizoid personality tendencies, as well as, in a more general sense, individuals having difficulties with assertiveness and self-confidence. The tapes have been used in conjunction with psychodynamic psychotherapy and, if necessary, psychotropic medications to help maintain functioning in the community, and/or relieve excessive distress.
• Patient with multiple anxiety related symptoms: Regular use of Hemi-Sync tapes for training the patient to achieve more easily the Alpha and Theta states which are useful in Behavioral Psychotherapy through the process of "Reciprocal Inhibition," wherein these brain wave states inhibit the presence of anxiety. A variety of different Metamusic tapes are provided to the patient to avoid any boredom that might develop from listening to the very same tape on each and every occasion. The Hemi-Sync tapes reduced the patient's generalized anxiety level very quickly, and qualitatively better than did the psychotropic drugs he had been taking. The most logical interpretation is that these tapes very definitely and quickly help the mind-body unity to return much closer to homeostasis, the ideal state of mental and physical equilibrium.

Learning / Memory  | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• Research on Hemi-Sync has reported that teachers who have used it in their classrooms noticed a decrease in student distractibility and an increase in academic performance. A study conducted with an introductory psychology class found significantly higher scores in the experimental group on five out of six tests. A study conducted at a government training center found a 30% increase in scores for Morse code students and a 75% increase on mental-motor skills. The U.S. Army reported positive results in using Hemi-Sync to improve acquisition of a second language.
  
  
• Hemi-Sync tapes were used in a study of memory. The subjects carried out four different learning tasks while listening to an instrumental music tape played at low volume via headphones and a stereo tape player. The tape played for the experimental group included Hemi-Sync binaural beat signals while the control group was exposed to the same music without binaural beats. Hemi-Sync was found to be an effective method of facilitating memory for three of the four dependent variables studied. The researcher concludes that Hemi-Sync tapes "provide a portable, inexpensive method of assisting . . . in memory tasks [and] . . . a cost-effective, non-drug alternative to those individuals and educational systems seeking to augment standard techniques. . . Mainstream education could benefit from making widely available a form of brainwave training which makes the learning environment more enjoyable and productive."
  
  
• A college instructor, who had been lecturing for a decade on the importance of bilateral synchronized brain waves for superlearning (or a super performance state) recognized that hemispheric synchronization in a slow alpha/theta rhythm was a key factor. She had experimented with a variety of audiotapes, none of which aided learning or truly facilitated the desired response. When she first came across Monroe Institute information, she decided to give the HUMAN-PLUS tapes a "test drive" with an advanced undergraduate class. In her words, "having tried many other tapes that looked promising but did not pan out, I was pleasantly surprised by the positive impact of the tapes, as reported by the students, within two weeks. The tapes truly seemed to help in the self-change for the students."
  
  
• At 9:00 p.m. I settled down to study on the bed between my small speakers with Remembrance playing softly. Time flew as I read faster and faster. I read even more pages than we had been assigned, got a lot out of it, and the reading was pleasant rather than the chore I thought it would be. The tape energized me and got me in the mood for studying eagerly and with enthusiasm. I really didn't want to stop because I was on a roll. By 10:15, with no breaks in between, I stopped, having accomplished twice what I normally would have. It was great!
  
  
• For help with study habits, concentration, and test anxiety, two especially helpful tapes are Imprint and Think Fast. I use Imprint to imprint information the first time I read it. Think Fast is great as an all-around tonic for creative thinking and reading comprehension, and has provided a positive panacea for the mental slowdown I experienced after turning forty.
  
  
• Retain-Recall-Release has given me spectacular results. Previously, I had real problems with memory and concentration, and was unable to recreate a picture, color or shape from memory. Using the cues from this tape, I now can easily create colored pictures under my eyelids to help me remember words in foreign languages, or things I need to do. It works!
  
  
• I give piano lessons to a seven year old girl and was training her to play scales with a metronome. For several weeks she was able to play at 126 beats per minute (bpm). This week I played the Concentration tape through speakers during the lesson. We started the metronome at 126 bpm and speeded it up gradually. She was able to play at 160 bpm. Hey, that's great!
  
  
• A proud mother said, "My sixteen year old son had been getting only 40s and 50s on written tests. He used Remembrance while studying for final exams, made no score below 84, and was ecstatic."
  
  
• Buy the Numbers is a marvel! I'm studying physics and finding that Hemi-Sync helps enormously with complex mathematical computations.
  
  
• My ten year old grandson had been tested with an IQ of 70. That's borderline retarded. Since working with the Concentration tape, which he loves to listen to, he's getting straight As. Isn't that miraculous? He said to me, "Grandma, if I could take my magic tape to school, all my friends could get As, too."
  
  
• The high school students reported that Concentration and Remembrance helped them to be more focused and improved their ability to concentrate. They were able to sit for hours without a break, they remember more, and they find studying more enjoyable. Catnapper helps them have a refreshing short nap after school, without sleeping for hours.
  
  
• I always had trouble in school while I was growing up, and dropped out before high school, grade eight, to be exact. All my life this bothered me. I felt like a big failure. I decided to go back to school around the time someone told me about your tapes. I truly believe that if it weren't for Hemi-Sync I would never have done as well. I would use Imprint before I started to study. First thing in the morning I'd listen to Concentration and use either Attention or Think Fast. Then I'd go to school and write the test or exam. Not only did I do extremely well, but throughout the entire year I was the best student in all my classes, and never got more than one or two answers wrong. This to me has been a great accomplishment. I also use Synchronizing, De-Hab,Mobius West, Wake/Know and Deep 10 Relaxation. Thank you for the great help these tapes have been for me.
  
  
• Buy the Numbers is a favorite among students. Many who have difficulty with math requirements in pursuit of their degrees successfully use Buy The Numbers to help them pass math and to understand its principles better. The Attention tape has helped students enhance their focus while studying. Options helps with creativity. Speak Up helps rather dramatically with nervousness about speaking out in class or giving public speeches.
  
  
• Responses from a questionnaire on the use of Remembrance :
  
  I felt total clarity of thought, energetic, calm without sleepiness...
  
  By 10:00, two hours into a busy Monday at the office while playing Remembrance , I realized I had completed three tasks and seven phone calls without missing a beat . . .
  
  I was able to think about numerous topics/tasks/jobs at one time . . .
  
  Listening to Remembrance gave me a profound feeling of openness, joy and release. A few problems I had been working on suddenly became clear. . . .
  
  The tape gives me a tug back to the subject at hand . . .
  
  When reading, I listen with headphones and find my concentration much deeper. For doing creative work I sit between speakers . . .
  
  The tape produced a feeling of balance, sustained energy, and the ability to zero in on the tasks at hand . . .
  
  I experienced heightened awareness, absence of distractions, greater absorption and depth of focus.
  
  
• Intuitive skills can be taught successfully and enhanced when Hemi-Sync is used as a tool for rapid learning. I developed more respect and response to the gut level feelings. I am now less likely to dismiss such feelings before noting them and considering them in decision-making. Accuracy of my impressions has improved dramatically. Over time my perceptions have become quite refined and precise, and I am able to use intuition more easily in therapy and classroom settings.
  
  
• Never having enjoyed mathematics, I knew one of the greatest challenges in getting my pilot's license would be the calculations needed to pass the written and practical exams. I decided to play Buy The Numbers for some quick help. After listening twice I began the calculations--still I was stiff and unable to get down to work. Then I remembered that I get the best results when I start by chaining Relax/Attention and then adding other H-Plus Function Commands as needed.
  
  


I began my study sessions with Concentration playing over headphones and immediately activated the following H-PLUS Functions: Relax/Attention/Imprint/Let Go/Off-Loading/Buy The Numbers. (The reason I used the Let Go/Off-Loading Function Commands was because of old patterns, limiting patterns that I was unable to perform mathematical calculations easily). Much to my amazement, I was able to easily, confidently, and cheerfully perform the calculations and continue studying for the written examination. I used Concentration each time I studied. The morning of the exam, I reviewed all the material (using Concentration) and then took a nap before going into the exam room completely calm and anxiety free. I chained together the following Function Commands: Relax/Attention/Recall/Let Go/ Off-Loading/Think Fast/ Buy The Numbers. I passed the written exam with flying colors, and with most of the mathematical calculations correct.

I knew the next part of the studying was going to be a bit more complicated. Each time I flew with my instructor and he presented me with a skill to learn or a new challenge to overcome, I simply chained together the following Function Commands: Relax/Attention/Imprint/Think Fast/Synchronizing. As H+ helped me encode each new learning, I became more relaxed, more confident, and a better pilot. When my instructor noticed I was able to assimilate more information quicker and more completely, he asked how I was able to do this, and received a brief overview of Hemi-Sync and H-Plus. When the day came for the FAA Examiner to test me in the air, I moved confidently and easily from one skill to the next, and received my license.


• When needing to read some highly technical papers, I experimented with and without Remembrance . The difference really impressed me. With the tape I was much more able to attend to the content, stay focused, not have to re-read sentences for comprehension, etc.
  
  
• While attending a professional conference, I stuck my Walkman in my suit jacket, put on the headphones and listened to the Concentration tape during all lecture sessions. This provided the narrow focus of attention that was conducive to learning. I also used the Metamusic tape, Midsummer Night, which created a more open focus for my awareness. I was immediately aware of the increase in my ability to concentrate and remember what I learned in the various lectures and courses I attended.
  
  
• With only one day to study for the state insurance licensing exam, I thought it was hopeless. I'd never be able to remember a manual of 190 pages. Although I wasn't confident, I decided to give it a shot. I began studying at 9 a.m. and by 1 p.m. was losing my ability to concentrate. I put the Concentration tape into my continuous tape player and finished the book at 3:05 a.m. the next morning. I passed with an 86, thanks to Concentration which enabled me to maintain my concentration for 18 straight hours.
  
  
• As I listened to Remembrance more and more, I noticed that I started to hear it less. I actually didn't even notice that it was playing. This is when the benefits really started showing. I was studying for a major test which required lots of formulas and memorization. The concepts came easily to me. I got a perfect score on the test and I know the tape helped me study more efficiently and with fewer interruptions.
  
  
• Report from a psychiatrist. I used the tape Concentration for patients with depressive syndrome, especially those with memory difficulties and whose ability to concentrate was diminished due to depression. They all had problems with concentration, attention-to-task deficit, lack of short-term memory, and felt unable to perform mental tasks as well as they had previously. The patients liked the effectiveness of the tape, and reported improvement of their ability to concentrate during test preparation and other cognitive tasks, better short-term memory, greater interest in their studies, and an ability to sustain attention for longer periods than was previously possible.
  
  
• When I used the Function Command for H+ Attention, it was as if someone opened the top of my head and breathed fresh air into it. All of my senses snapped open!
  
  
• A British race car driver credits the Concentration tape for reducing his lap time by a full two seconds. He remarked that he made fewer mistakes and that it just felt easy (189 mph easy?), and he had been a lot more consistent in braking and cornering. His wife said she had never seen him so relaxed while under pressure, with no sweating or hyper-speech symptoms.
  
  
• 320 professionals attended five-day workshops that incorporated Hemi-Sync signals in background music to enhance participant learning. Following the workshop 96% stated that they were both more relaxed and more attentive than usual during the workshop.
  
  
• A law student, desperate about the overload of material he needed to learn, heard about Remembrance . "It's terrific," he reported, "helps me feel relaxed and geared up to study effectively, all at the same time."
  
  
• On the first day of a workshop for learning to play the dulcimer, I had a lot of difficulty. The next day I wore my headphones and listened to the Concentration tape softly throughout the day. I listened to the new musical patterns with greater ease. I was aware that even though I could not play the pattern smoothly, or even remember the tune with ease, there was not the emotional overlay I had experienced before. Rather than feeling that I would never be able to do this, I simply knew that I was learning and would be able to produce what I had learned at a later time. I don't know whether the Hemi-Sync increased my ability to learn, but I know that it prevented me from unconsciously interfering with my own learning by eliminating negative messages and scenarios. The most noticeable difference was my ability to hear my own instrument and to concentrate during the group practice times. Even when I did not wear the headphones, there was a carryover, and the sound of my own dulcimer came to the foreground of my awareness.
  
  
• The Retain-Recall-Release tape helped me retain the information to pass a rather detailed five-item essay exam. Before these tapes, essay exams and I never got along!
  
  
• Mr. and Mrs. G. had their first contact with the Hemi-Sync technology of The Monroe Institute in November 1992, and started playing the tape Surf over open speakers during television and play time for their son, Marcel. They also used Surf as background while Marcel was studying. In February 1993, Marcel began writing his first readable sentences. He knew and recognized with certainty every letter. At about the same time, he complained that playing Surf during study time distracted him. The tape Concentration was substituted.
  
  


Marcel's ten year old sister also had a history of reading and writing problems and was working on both skills with a therapist. It was observed that while she was experiencing the Hemi-Sync patterns of the Surf tape, she reduced her average of twenty-two spelling errors per dictation to seven.


• Brain: Repair and Maintenance should be titled Brain Enhancement. The title doesn't do it justice. When I use the verbal command I feel more aware of things in an interested, excited way, without being overwhelmed. I used the command yesterday while worrying about my finances and I immediately became less anxious and started to think more clearly. I'm discovering how well this function works in combination with other H+ functions for even better results.
  
  
• The work load in my class on the human brain was very heavy, especially for someone working full time with family commitments as well. The Think Fast, Imprint, and Recall tapes helped me process and retain the material, also the concepts expressed in the tapes directly relate to what is taught in the class. This kept me very interested in the biological working of the brain, and in turn, helped me to understand both the class material and how your tapes work.
  
  
• My sixteen year old son was having difficulty in school. He got A's and B's in regular class work, but did poorly on written tests, scoring in the 40's and 50's. A family therapist gave him the Remembrance tape to use while he studied for final exams. I am so pleased to report that he made no test score below an 84 on his finals, and was ecstatic.
  
  
• The loss of cognitive function has been one of the most frustrating things I've had to deal with in my journey through Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I experience the sensation of my mind being in a fog, especially in the afternoon and evening. At times, my ability to access short term memory or recall fades from my grasp. This had caused me to feel inadequate in many circumstances. A short while after I began listening to Remembrance as background music in the office, my capacity to retain information and focus my attention has improved dramatically. I have also worked with Imprint and Attention, and whenever I begin to feel that I am "fading," the verbal cues are most helpful to restore and enhance a more productive state of mind."
  
  
• A thirty year-old dyslexic called to say that Hemi-Sync is like a "shot in the arm." After only a month of using the PAL Executive Package, Attention, Synchronizing, and Think Fast, he's aware of a noticeable improvement in cognitive ability. This has made a big difference in on-the-job effectiveness, and has changed his self-image from someone with a handicapping condition to that of a self-directed achiever.
  
  
• I was worried about passing the test I would soon have to take to become a court reporter. I had been studying hard, but my speed wasn't what it needed to be. After I started using the PAL Student Package for practice sessions, my speed picked up. I knew I'd pass, and I did so in a relaxed and confident manner.

Behavior Change | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "Masterworks was reported to significantly decrease anxiety and aggressive behaviors. Respondents reporting this included a clinician with a classroom of developmentally disabled adults, an over-stressed hospital department head, and a wife and caretaker of her husband with advanced cancer."
  - Gayle Hendrickson, Millerton, NY
  
  
• I cannot remember a time when I didn't bite or rip my fingernails. More often than not I would have a fingernail half off before I consciously realized what I was doing. If, with great effort, I managed to grow nails at all, it would not last long. After listening to De-Hab once I began to use the verbal cue every time I felt I was going to bite my nails. I saw immediate results: the desire to bite or rip my nails would go away. I continued to use the verbal cue for two or three weeks and, to my amazement, the desire to bite my finger nails went away. At the time of this writing, it has been about three and a half months since I used the verbal cue. I just don't feel the desire to bite my nails any more.
  
  
• I gave Remembrance to friends who weren't dealing very well with the sudden, totally unanticipated need for them to raise their two grandchildren. The qualitative difference in their attitudes is remarkable. The glass is now half full instead of half empty, they are less fearful, they have been able to resolve some long standing issues, and the grandparent with congestive heart failure has been experiencing fewer heart spasms since listening to Hemi-Sync®.
  
  
• H+ Off-Loading is a very versatile tape to "off load" just about anything. One forty-year old used it to help herself overcome a strong irritation with her husband's behavior and to lose twenty pounds. It worked so well that three weeks later she started using it to stop drinking and then to stop smoking. She achieved all of these desired goals in six weeks. She said that the H+ tape helped her to overcome inertia and fear associated with these personal problems.
  
  
• I have long been terrified of public speaking. A major event occurred when my pastor at church asked me to give the homily and to sing a favorite song of mine for the congregation. I used the H+ Speak-Up Function Command and was able to continue speaking smoothly, evenly, and easily. In the past, I wouldn't have had the courage or the words to accomplish this.
  
  
• Throughout my life I avoided public speaking at all costs. The few times I had to speak, my voice would either crack noticeably or disappear altogether. Hemi-Sync® helped me overcome this incapacitating fear in two ways. Musical meditation tapes enabled me to focus my attention on a lot of formerly unconscious material that was crippling me. I was eventually able to eliminate these self-defeating concepts. H+ Speak-Up helped me re-program myself mentally so that I was not only able to speak clearly and smoothly but could also relax enough to do so from an expanded level of awareness. Most important is that I began to enjoy speaking to groups.
  
  
• Changes seem to be subtle and tend to come in waves since I have been listening to Hemi-Sync® tapes. I have noticed more emotional spontaneity. What I seem to be going through is a peeling away of encrusted patterns, some of which require that I view myself with a level of objectivity I haven't had before. It is no longer impossible for me to ignore emotional messages and just swallow my anger. I must express it, and this comes as a big surprise to me. I am surprised at all the emotions which have been buried underneath encrusted patterns for years.
  
  
• My relative found herself in yet another abusive relationship. During the last few days as the relationship was coming to an end, she would wake to find her cassette player unplugged. She had been listening to Deep 10 Relaxation before going to sleep for several months, and he evidently felt threatened by the changes in her. A subtle "alignment" seemed to be taking place within her, and she was becoming clearer about herself and her goals for the first time in many years.
  
  
• Since I started listening to the Concentration tape, I've been able to focus better on tasks and follow through with them, instead of procrastinating. Paperwork, writing, and finishing a project on time have become easier for me. What a great feeling! This change helps to keep the days from just passing by, and that gives me pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.
  
  
• An orphanage in Romania was home for our daughter's first 2 1/2 years. When we first saw her she was in a "cage," penned up with other children who were never held, never bathed, only given bottles. In the five years since we adopted her, we've made the rounds of every possible treatment and facility from sensory training to neuropsychiatric wards. Her behavior constantly shifted between super passive and super aggressive and back again. After learning about Hemi-Sync® through a support group for parents of post-institutional children we bought Surf, Midsummer Night, and Remembrance and kept one of the tapes playing all the time. We saw immediate results and, over time, her behavior has evened out. It feels like a miracle.
  
  
• A consulting firm for financial industries features Hemi-Sync® in a workshop on the psychology of successful trading in the stock and futures markets. With the help of Hemi-Sync®, traders learn mental techniques to monitor their thoughts to determine if they are in states that are most conducive to giving themselves money. Traders learn to use H-PLUS De-Hab to neutralize dysfunctional thoughts.
  
  
• In addition to the effects produced by the low-frequency binaural beat stimulation, the high level of participation required--mental focus, personal choice, and willingness to use the Function Command--makes the H-PLUS system so effective in helping people create desired change. Interestingly, most people who take the workshop have had very little exposure to information or concepts related to self-awareness or learning to change oneself through directed conscious effort. Despite this, virtually everyone's initial reaction to the H-PLUS tapes is overwhelmingly positive, regardless of how skeptical or uncomfortable they may have been at the first listening. It is clear that the tapes resonate with people at a very deep and fundamental level, regardless of whether they understand the dynamics at work.
  
  
• I decided a long time ago that my distressing habit of procrastination was unbreakable. However I tried to counteract it, I continued to sabotage my life with postponing and delaying and avoiding things that were important for me to do. Then I heard about your De-Hab tape from a friend. The end of the story is that I've cleared up four months' worth of mail. Thanks for this invaluable tool.
  
  
• When I started a new job that was going to have me giving presentations to upwards of 300 people, I was terrified. I had never before had to face up to my old fear of public speaking. I started using the H+ Speak-Up tape while taking a presentations class that my company was giving. At that point it felt like a comfortable, helping hand, nothing dramatic. I did my first presentation to the class without collapsing in terror, but it was still VERY stressful. I continued listening to the tape, and then it was time for my second class presentation. My heart was racing, my palms were sweaty, and my mind said, "Tilt!" I began to repeat the Function Command over and over mentally. I felt a physical sensation in my brain that I could identify as the source of the fear. I mentally grabbed it with my "hand" and threw it out. Serenity. All systems returned to normal. I did my presentation with just a trace of nervousness, but it was very manageable.
  
  
• I have always experienced a lag in my energy level in the afternoon. There's been a big change in this since I began using the Recharge tape to give myself a boost whenever I need to. My late afternoon productivity is much better than it used to be.
  
  
• I am the type of person who likes to "ease" into the morning. That sometimes causes a struggle since I also have to be at work on time! Listening to Remembrance while I get ready for work has helped me to become more focused and prepared for the day ahead, and I no longer need that caffeine jolt to get moving.
  
  
• I heard my colleague in the next office grumbling about the amount of paperwork to be done. I offered my cassette player and the Remembrance tape to see if it would make a difference. After about 45 minutes, I heard her exclaiming, but with more energy. She returned the player with the comment, "Better take this back. I began feeling more energetic, and actually found myself looking for more to do!"
  
  
• I've been listening to the Concentration tape for a few weeks, and find I am able to focus more on tasks and follow through with them. These have included paperwork, writing an important letter and having the words flow, and finishing a project that has been dragging on for months. What a great feeling! It gives me pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.
  
  
• The Think Fast function works more subtly than some of the other H+ functions. Using it is like giving extra spin to a wheel that is already spinning. I notice that I think now in a more organized way.
  
  
• The counselor loaned Cloudscapes and Remembrance to a mother and daughter whose prolonged difficulties included the child's lying, stealing, bedtime tears, and other attention getting behavior. At their next appointment, two weeks later, the mother returned the tapes, saying "They didn't do any good." To the therapist's questions about the previously reported problems Mom responded that the crying, lying and stealing had stopped; her daughter had no problems at bedtime and was sleeping through the night. Midway through this litany the mother began to smile and said, "Oh, I see what you mean." Several months passed before there was a repetition of complaints about the child's behavior. After the counselor's probing uncovered that they'd discontinued the tapes for several weeks, Portraits for sleep and Remembrance for starting out each morning were recommended. Things smoothed out within a week after tape use resumed.
  
  
• The first time I listened to De-Hab it felt as if I were floating, gently swaying back and forth, like on a water bed. I felt tranquil, peaceful, and more relaxed than I have been in several years. After listening four times the happiness, peace and relaxation is even deeper. I find myself more assertive, and yet even more in harmony with those around me. Also, my smoking habit is way down.
  
  
• I've been listening to the Concentration tape for a few weeks, and find I am able to focus more on tasks and follow through with them. These have included paperwork, writing an important letter and having the words flow, and finishing a project that has been dragging on for months. What a great feeling! It gives me pleasure and a sense of accomplishment.

Relaxation / Stress Management | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "After working your tapes, (Opening the Way), during the last four months of my pregnancy, I was able to completely slip into a clam and meditative state where I was aware of the pain, but understood that it was good. The labor took 20 minutes, the pushing portion 12 minutes. I was calm, in control, and it was beautiful."
  -Anne E. Swanson, Knoxville, TN
• She returned to work two weeks after losing her son and grandson in an accident, needing to keep busy. Her stress level rose as she tried to handle the heavy demands of the job along with her grief. It soon became evident that her performance was severely affected. She was unable to bring the required focus to tasks needing attention and recognized that she was becoming a careless driver. After beginning to listen to the Remembrance tape, she functioned much better and was once again able to process information in her usual manner. She also used Super Sleep to help her sleep well again. "Hemi-Sync should be piped through the whole building 24 hours a day," she said.
• My 83-year old father listened to his first Hemi-Sync Metamusic tape, Cloudscapes, and said, "I'm as loose as a goose. So relaxed. I never experienced anything like it!"
• Reported by a social worker. A 72-year-old widow with cancer was admitted to Hospice, and asked for a relaxation tape because, "I've never been a nervous person, but I've been climbing the walls since the chemotherapy." The Hemi-Sync tape Deep 10 Relaxation was left with her. The following week she reported, "I haven't been taking as many pills since I began listening to the tape. I had been taking one pill every four hours or less. Yesterday, I only took one pill all day. I know the tape is helping me." She also reported improved sleep. Although nervousness and restlessness were her frequent complaints, she lay quietly after listening to the Surf tape, finally opening her eyes and saying, "I'm too relaxed to move." She also was delighted with the tape Energy Walk and said, "I played the tape twice today and it quieted my nerves. Not only does it help and relax me, I feel that something is happening in my body, and I know it is doing something for me. I played it again today and counted my breathing with my hand over the cancer. It makes me feel all over better and relaxed. I went off to sleep."
• I was working with a large group of foster parents, giving them information about addicted babies now coming into their homes. I treat children with cocaine addiction, and have been having some great effects on their nervous systems with the Hemi-Sync music. These exhausted, stressed, loving people had arrived at 7:30 PM for an hour session. I had Metamusic® playing in the background and I just watched as they calmed, relaxed, and we worked together for one and one-half hours. I asked them if they would like the experience of really deep relaxation and, when they agreed, I gave them Deep 10 Relaxation. I've never seen those people so relaxed!
• Some form of stress management was indicated. I persuaded the patient to use headphones and listen to the Hemi-Sync tape Sleeping Through the Rain . I told him that the latest research from major hospitals and universities finds that hypnosis, certain relaxation techniques, and even special types of musical tapes greatly help people relax and regulate breathing and blood pressure. He seemed fascinated and very receptive to this. Apparently the idea of hypnosis and relaxation techniques was all new to him. Within just a few minutes of listening to the tape, the patient's breathing slowed and became clearer. His face relaxed and the familiar wheezing and gurgling sounds stopped. He also quit coughing, which made treatment much easier.
• It is our belief that people operating from a relaxed state are more in touch with their "higher selves," enabling them to gain a perspective and become aware of greater choices in their lives. We have found that the use of Hemi-Sync facilitates relaxation and accelerates the healing process by accessing the client's deeper levels of awareness.
• I had been under tremendous stress for two months. I thought I was handling it relatively well, but I wasn't able to take a deep breath. After listening to the Relax tape twice, I was finally able to take long, slow breaths again.
• They were doing patterning for a small child whose central nervous system had been affected from a brain injury. I told the mother that Metamusic tapes might be helpful. She called to let us know that the tapes were helping her child to relax and enjoy the physical patterning exercises. She indicated that when the tape stopped, the child would tense up and stop making any sounds. As soon as they started the tape again, the child would relax and make happy sounds.
• The responsibilities and pressure of my job were feeling heavier and heavier, and it felt like the last straw would be piled on any day. My only choices were to quit, which I couldn't afford to do, or go on to a nervous breakdown. At least, there would be insurance coverage for a nervous breakdown. I confessed to an old friend about the severity of my stress and my fears for the future. His response was to tell me about Hemi-Sync tapes and how they helped him. He loaned me H+ Relax and made me promise to listen to it, even though I had a hard time accepting that just saying "Plus Relax" would do anything. I got into the habit of listening to the tape when I got home from work every day. Clearly it made me feel good at the time, and helped me keep the day's worries separate from the evening. Then one day at the office, when my boss shortened an already impossible deadline on a huge project, I was just about ready to blow. I said, "Plus, relax" the way I learned on the tape, and the effect was instantaneous. I cooled down, spent some productive minutes organizing the reasons why the new deadline couldn't be met, presented them to my boss in a calm manner, and convinced her.
• I've worked with teens for 23 years using many different modalities. Frankly, I'm highly impressed by the results I'm getting with Hemi-Sync. At a drug prevention retreat weekend for teens, there were over 100 hyped-up kids in my session on the first night. I played Deep 10 Relaxation in a large room that had only one ceiling speaker, which meant I couldn't get a stereo effect. To my surprise, there was a 90% positive response - some kids asleep - almost all deeply relaxed. In contrast, a comparable group in another room with another presenter stayed silly and disruptive. The next day I played Catnapper for two different groups (in the same room with only one speaker) and got a 99% response. Only one person in each group did not fall asleep.
• A new job and the move to a new city resulted in very heavy stress just when I wanted to be able to perform at my best. When I felt myself getting tense, I would close my office door for half-an-hour and listen to Hemi-Sync. It does wonders for me.
• The nurses aide who visits me at home listens with me daily to Metamusic . She claims it relaxes her, makes her think, and is soothing.
• Mrs. C., who consulted me for weight loss, either could not or would not allow herself to relax for a hypnotic induction. I asked her to listen to Sleeping Through the Rain as background music.
• As a family, we listen to Morning Exercise while we get ready for the school and work day ahead. There seems to be less rush and confusion in our household as a result. In the evening we listen to either Surf or Into the Deep to help unwind before homework, dinner and family time. This a good activity for us to bond and make the transition into a family unit again. My husband plays Remembrance in his office to help relieve the stress and pressure of his hectic business.
• I listen to your guided imagery tapes, The Visit and Guide to Serenity to unwind with and to just "get away" after a stressful day at the office. My energy and attitude is always much better after a tape session.
• Your tapes have helped me learn to deal with stress and to relax more. Whenever I need a "time out" for myself, all I need to do is listen to Surf or Soft and Still and I am refreshed and centered again in no time at all.

Meditation | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "Transformation was the first tape I tried and I never thought that such experience is possible without the use of drugs. I really felt like my mind would be weightless, carried away by the sound. The normal structure of thinking was completely turned off and the way open for a whole new state of mind. Since this first experience, I use Hemi-Sync regular and tried also other tapes. Especially Transcendence supports my meditation very well."
  - Andreas Lutz, Germany
• Probably the best thing for me about your Gateway Experiencecourse has been my new ability to meditate, to relax, to calm down. I hadn't been able to meditate properly before, though I had been trying for a long time.
• I have listened to Sleeping Through the Rain as a deliberate meditative aid, or just as background to relax with. Each time, it has brought out a strong emotional response, often to the point of tears streaming down my face, either over something specific which had been brought into the conscious mind, or for no obvious reason. My state of mind prior to each listening was not particularly emotional. Often I was anticipating no value other than relaxing background music. Sometimes I spent the first quarter of the tape restlessly thinking that I should get up and do something else--only to succumb the next minute to profound absorption in the tape.
• I have found a quantum leap in my meditations since using your tapes. As far as inducing the bliss state, your nonverbal tapes are fantastic in that regard.
• A long-time meditator reported, "When I play Metamusic , not only do I achieve a meditative state much more quickly, but I feel as if my meditation is more profound than it is when I don't have this soft, unobtrusive yet supportive background. Without HemicSync it generally takes me about seven minutes to get into a meditative state. With Hemi-Sync it takes about two minutes for me to get markedly deeper than I otherwise go."
• Listening to musical Hemi-Sync tapes makes it very easy for me to experience altered states of consciousness separate from my physical body.
• Lama Saddhatissa wrote, "Our weekly meditation group, which focuses on transforming the mind, played Transformation as background for the first time last night. The beautifully expansive and awakening energy it generated was amazing. Instead of remaining for the usual hour or so, people didn't want to go home."
• After listening to Wave l of Gateway Experience, my meditation is much stronger and deeper than before. The tapes have been wonderful, and I'll be using them for much more than meditation.

Anxiety | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• My nursing home patient's panic disorder had been causing a great deal of somatic stomach pain, so much so that the nurses said her call light was almost constantly lit. She also had severe hearing loss. When I started playing Pain Management at her bedside she said, "Honey, I can't hear it." "It doesn't matter," I told her, "just relax and I'll check back with you in ten minutes." When I looked in on her, she was deeply asleep. Later on, waking from the best nap she had had in weeks, she said, "I didn't hear a thing but I feel wonderful."
  
  
• Regular use of Hemi-Sync® tapes trains patients with multiple anxiety related symptoms to achieve Alpha and Theta states easily. These states are useful in psychotherapy to inhibit the presence of anxiety. Metamusic tapes reduce the generalized anxiety level very quickly and qualitatively better than do psychotropic drugs. The most logical interpretation is that these tapes very definitely and quickly help the mind/body unity to return much closer to homeostasis, the ideal state of mental and physical equilibrium.
  
  
• The 61-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital with severe emphysema, congestive heart failure, and depression. She was very anxious and struggling to breathe. Within 24 hours after I began using Deep 10 Relaxation with her, the staff was reporting a significant reduction in her anxiety level.
  
  
• Report from a psychologist. The patient was experiencing intense anxiety about an upcoming MRI test, which involves the person remaining motionless inside a very cramped tube for hours as the machine takes pictures of the brain. Anesthesia cannot be used for this procedure. The medical team reported that no one who was even moderately claustrophobic had ever completed the MRI test. After three weeks of working with the H+ tapes Relax, Let Go and Off-Loading and the Mind Food tapes Energy Walk and Morning Exercise, the day for the MRI test came. She successfully entered into a very relaxed state and eventually went to sleep during the three-hour procedure.
  
  
• A Clinical Psychologist reported on a patient whose extreme anxiety was causing her to resist the surgery that would relieve her extensive pain from cervical nerve damage. After following his recommendations to listen to Metamusic tapes continuously at home, she agreed to undergo the surgery on condition that the neurosurgeon permit her to listen to Hemi-Sync® throughout the operation. The doctor complied, and she underwent the procedure without difficulty.
  
  
• A college teacher reports on the use of Hemi-Sync® in a variety of courses to allay anxiety, enhance cognitive learning and mental imagery, to promote creativity. All of these uses, he says, depend upon focusing attention. This is accomplished by Hemi-Sync®'s auditory stimuli at frequencies which induce the brain into an appropriate state while simultaneously synchronizing the hemispheres to eliminate hemispheric rivalry.
  
  
• The Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital uses Hemi-Sync® tapes in conjunction with other therapies to help patients heal more quickly and with less anxiety and pain.
  
  
• My constant anxiety was very tough for me to live with. I was anxious about going out, anxious about staying home, anxious about going to sleep, anxious about not sleeping, anxious about everything. The tapes you recommended (Relax, Sleeping Through the Rain, Let Go and Möbius West) are helping me lead a more normal life. For the first time in a long while, I'm optimistic about the future.

Sleep / Dreams | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "This cassette was my favorite...I 'catnap' almost everyday...still haven't gotten around to the other tapes, but that's due to my addiction to the Catnapper. A wonderful, wonderful, experience. Thank you so much for the tapes!"
  -Nina Nikkhou, Duke University
• "The Hemi-Sync sleep tapes are a superb means of quieting an active mind or overcoming sleeping difficulties. I continue to receive positive client feedback on the efficacy of Super Sleep, Sound Sleeper, and Restorative Sleep, in particular, sleep deprivation has such an adverse impact upon physiological and emotional well-being."
  -Deborah M. Fish, British Columbia, Canada
• "I have a sleeping problem where I will not lose consciousness at all for many nights running and then get an hour or two one night. Your sleep tapes have saved my life and my job! I use Hemi-Sync tapes at the beginning of the night and again an hour before rising. With these tapes I can function, teach, go to grad school etc. I have tried everything natural and nothing else works with this neuro transmitter problem. Thank you for this tape,Catnapper. Keep them coming."
  -Joy Supplee, Walnut Creek, CA
• "The tape we have gotten the most use of is Super Sleep, although Deep 10 Relaxation also is helpful. Sleeping Through the Rain , Midsummer Night, Winds Over the World, and Surf are also liked - but the previous two are the most therapeutic and have really helped patients who have a difficult time falling asleep. They have been a real blessing."
  -Cindi Vietmeier, Social Service, All Saints Special Care Hospital, Bridgeton, MO
• "Tape 3 of the series (Lucid Dreaming)really helps me sleep. I've been waking up around 3 or 4 AM almost every night and had not been able to easily fall back to sleep. I've found that this tape helps me both to sleep and dream. The other night in a dream I couldn't decide if I was dreaming or not, so that's a little bit closer to becoming lucid."
  -Mary Amstutz, Acton, MA
• "My dreams in the past have always been of me in a minor role with others always dominating what is happening. I was never fond of the situation, especially when hearing stories from other people who controlled the outcome of their dreams and I was always asking myself, why can't I do that?...(After listening to Lucid Dreaming)For the first time I was in control and dominated in my dreams!! Amazing sequence of events materialize and the events are very rational and within my thought control."
  -Larry Gentry, Santa Maria, CA
• "I found after listening (Lucid Dreaming) dreams were much more vivid and memory increased."
  -Michael Wire, Brooklyn, NY
• In her first communication with the Institute, the mother stated, "Our 8-year-old daughter, adopted from Romania, is severely psychologically and physically handicapped. She had suffered horrendous abuse, was tied in a cot and starved, and could not sit up, walk, talk or hold anything when we brought her home. She is full of anxiety, terrified of being left again. Nights are a living nightmare. She screams for hours and is too agitated to sleep. I'm sure if we can relax her she will calm down and sleep. She is extremely strong willed and we expect her to fight any help in relaxing. We have to resort to drugs to basically knock her out, even though we strongly object to this, but she even stays awake through drugs that are supposed to make her sleep. I mentioned Hemi-Sync to our Doctor and he said "Try anything except murder!" Can you suggest anything to relax her?" The mother contacted us again four days after receiving her first Hemi-Sync tapes. "I just had to tell you--it's 12:30 am and my daughter is ASLEEP and has been asleep since 8:10 pm. This is a record! When we play Sleeping Through the Rain for her (remember, she is nonverbal) she was making noises and going up and down to the sounds, the first time we have heard her try to sing and get the sounds nearly right. After seven minutes she was out."
• After listening to a Hemi-Sync tape (no matter which one) before sleep, I wake up in the morning at 7:00 a.m., fresh and energetic, without help from my alarm clock. During my daily activities I am much more balanced and rarely get angry over trifles as I did before.
• My father has been able to sleep only with the aid of pills for the last several years. One evening he listened to Sound Sleeper and never returned from his bedroom to watch the TV program he had wanted to see. He was fast asleep. He listened to it another night, again sleeping. Since then he's slept even without listening to the tape.
• Listening to Hemi-Sync has had a strong influence on my sleep. It no longer includes echoes of strain and worry related to my job, and seems to be deeper, fuller, more restful. I'm remembering my dreams now, which are in color and very real.
• Although some of the symptoms of Autism had been overcome through years of training, I was still anxious and compulsive, and had a great deal of difficulty sleeping. At an Autism Society workshop I heard my first Hemi-Sync tape, Inner Journey , and for the next few nights slept better than I had in a long time.
• Not once have I managed to stay awake for the whole of Guide to Serenity, even when I have tried. No matter what has happened during the day, all I need do is play that tape and breathe deeply, and before I know it, the morning is here.
• Twelve flight attendants on international flights participated in a survey about the use of the Hemi-Sync Catnapper tape in combating fatigue and jet lag. All reported "I experience less fatigue on duty after listening to the tape," and recommend its use by flight attendants. Other comments include, "I sleep much better when I'm on layovers now." "I used to find myself too wired and too tired to sleep, With Hemi-Sync I was able to relax, and I also used it to nap before my all-night flight." "Each time I listened to the tape I felt more relaxed and rested. Before, I tossed and turned and was waking up every hour." "When I was having problems overseas due to over-exhaustion, the tape released the tensed-up state that prohibits relaxing sleep."
• The doctor, in addition to using tapes for patients with sleep disturbances, reported that, "When I use Hemi-Sync at the end of a long day, the effect is one of feeling greatly rested and refreshed, and allows me to experience much increased efficiency and alertness for extended evenings of work."
• The TimeOut for Sleep CD gets me to sleep in 3-4 minutes. I used to sleep 8 hours and still wake up tired. With the CD, I sleep at most 6 hours and wake up without an alarm, feeling perfectly rested.
• I've been a lucid dreamer for several years now. H+ Sweet Dreams not only aided in obtaining lucidity, but the normal dreams I've gotten from it are among the most vivid, exciting and fantastic in my dream journal to date.
• One of my best results was with a client who is vice president of a nation-wide chain, who reported a severe case of insomnia. This has gone on most of his life. He was extremely high strung, restless, etc. I had him use H+ Relax, Restorative Sleep, and Options . After 3 weeks he reported that for the first time in his life he is sleeping very well. When I saw him, he was much more relaxed, calm, and not so restless.
• For the past four months, few days have passed without my calling on H+ Recharge for a "boost in operating voltage." For me it works best to sit in a comfortable chair, arrange not to be disturbed for about 20 minutes, close my eyes, and activate the Recharge Function. Usually I think of the length of charging period I think I need. This might be from 5 - 15 minutes for the catnap period plus about 5 minutes at the beginning and at the end. I drift into sleep and wake up feeling refreshed and ready to go. It is entirely different from the groggy feeling I can associate so clearly with the aftermath of an old man's nap.
• I am a devoted fan of Catnapper. I'm a person who is on the move and most often don't get the sleep I need at night. I use Catnapper almost daily between my running around, and it helps me keep my senses sharp.
• From the moment I used Sound Sleeper and other Hemi-Sync sleep tapes, I have recovered normal sleep after years of white nights.
• The TimeOut for Sleep CD works like the proverbial Velvet Hammer. It knocks me out and, when I wake I wonder "What happened? Why isn't it working?" when in fact it's already over.
• A hospice worker reported her hesitance to recommend Restorative Sleep to her client, an extremely macho policeman whose heart condition and gall bladder disease left him unable to sleep. Only after his distressed wife confided that the patient's increasing irritability was becoming impossible for her to cope with did the hospice visitor overcome her reluctance and leave the Hemi-Sync tape with them. The wife answered her phone call three days later. "He loves it!" she said. "He'd tell you himself, except he's asleep now. And I love it too!"
• I've been using the TimeOut for Sleep CD for months and am really glad I have it. It's great for naps as well as for night time. I stay asleep longer, and go back to sleep more quickly when I wake up.
• Catnapper is great to bring along on business trips. I use it after a long day, before dinner, and I'm rejuvenated for the evening. It's especially good to have with me when I go to conventions and conferences. The depth of relaxation it brings about in a short time is astounding.
• The TimeOut for Sleep CD has helped me to "re-learn" how to have quality, deep sleep and I'm also enjoying refreshing naps. Tracks 5 and 6 are great for deep meditation.
• A prisoner in a state penitentiary reports. I thought it would take far longer than it has to see any results from these tapes. My sleep problems have been a nightmare for so long, it's hard to believe that something so simple can be so helpful. Catnapper was a real blessing. I'm not really sure if I actually nap or not, but at the end of the tape I do feel rested and refreshed. In a place like this, it's like a miracle. To get the effect of Super Sleep I had to reset the equalizer a little bit. Now only on my worst nights am I sleepless.
• I listened to Catnapper on my flight home over the Atlantic. On the third or fourth cycle I stopped the tape in the middle and had the best sleep I've ever had on an airplane.
• My psychologist husband and I have listened to Inner Journey several times before we go to sleep. He experiences pleasant visualizations and notices a difference in the soundness of his sleep. Metamusic® tapes have affected my well-being in a subtle and positive way. I notice that the images in my dreams seem to be more vivid and clear. Colors stand out, even if I don't recall the dream. Since listening to Hemi-Sync, two messages in my dreams were clear to me on a conscious level, whereas before, the messages may have been more obscure, requiring interpretation.
• I was telling a friend about how Hemi-Sync sleep tapes have seemed to stop the bad dreams that often woke me and help me sleep through the night. They calm me down and enable me to get badly needed rest. To my friend's question, "What's on the other side of the tape?" I answered, "What other side?" I'm asleep before the first side is finished.
• I was born with Congenital Rubella, and as a result, I have suffered with Autism. Cataract lenses were removed from my eyes, an open heart valve was repaired, and nerve damage, resulting in deafness in my right ear is still present. Although many of my earlier problems with Autism are gone, it manifests itself in different ways now. I am often anxious and compulsive, feeling the need to check the stove or doorknob several times to insure things are OK. I also have a great deal of difficulty sleeping, due to my inability to discharge excess energy early enough in the evening. I often woke up tired and groggy as a result. While speaking at a workshop for the local Autism Society office, a woman played a tape with beautiful music. When asked what it was, she showed me the Hemi-Sync tape, titled Inner Journey . I was given a copy, and for the next few nights, I slept better than I ever have. I've been using Inner Journey and Sleeping Through the Rain since, with remarkable results. I realize these tapes are helping me to obtain the most refreshing sleep I've ever experienced, with the added benefit of feeling less anxious during the day.
• Report from an MD: "I'd been treating an obese patient for sleep apnea. My first suggestion was that he try sleeping on his side, but after a few nights, he complained that he awoke feeling tired and fuzzy. Then, I loaned him the Restorative Sleep tape. This seems to work very well for him, as he reported it had a spectacular effect, and he felt much clarity the next day."
• I conduct Hemi-Sync workshops for those who suffer from the sleep disturbances associated with Fibromyalgia. One participant's sleep pattern was so disrupted that she could not sleep without drugs, ever. She could be so fatigued that her vision blurred and she stumbled while walking, yet when she tried, she could not sleep. During the first day of the workshop, she was awakened by another participant snoring (another success story), and started crying. It was the first time she had been asleep without drugs in 18 months. The following Monday morning, we received a call from her stating she'd had two full nights of undisturbed sleep while using Hemi-Sync sleep tapes. She and the other participants report similar experiences, and continue to benefit from the tapes.
• I've been a chronic insomniac for many years, but since using Sound Sleeper and other Hemi-Sync tapes, that problem has become a thing of the past!

Brain Injury | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• Travis, born with severe brain abnormalities, was expected to live in a vegetative state if he survived at all. By age four, receiving every kind of support the medical profession had to give including physical, occupational and speech therapy, he was unable to walk, talk, feed himself, or communicate his needs or wants. His mother began to play Remembrance at his bedside throughout the night. After a few days, his father noticed how much more alert and active Travis was becoming. Within two weeks of consistent playing of the tape, Travis began to feed himself.

  Shortly after, the therapists at the day care center Travis attends asked his parents what they were doing differently to account for the marked improvement they were noticing. When the physical therapist learned about the tape, she said she had long known about Hemi-Sync® technology. She had repeatedly recommended that parents use Hemi-Sync® with their brain injured children but stopped trying after countless failed efforts to convince the families that something so simple could have so much potential value.

  Within weeks Travis' mother told me, "He's talking, and I don't mean baby talk! He's telling us what he wants to eat. He stayed with his grandparents while my husband and I went on vacation and when we returned could clearly call their names. A woman at the mall held the door for me as I maneuvered Travis inside in his stroller. I thanked her and then Travis echoed my words and said to the woman, "Thank you." Now when I tell him we're going to day care, he replies, "Yeah, OK."

  Further breakthroughs come often now for Travis. He sings his favorite songs, can pull himself up to a standing position and holds onto furniture, much like a child who is about to gain the skill of balance and walking. Hemi-Sync® has facilitated a life rich in communication with family and friends and the pride of doing more for himself than anyone thought would ever be possible.

  
  
  
• In January 1984, I was involved in an automobile accident. Although the car was "totaled," I was released from the hospital after only a quick examination. There were no broken bones, lacerations, or loss of consciousness. My symptoms of concussion were dismissed.

  During the next six years I experienced different kinds of mental dysfunction and disability, and then started using Hemi-Sync® tapes from the Human Plus series. My support group began noticing changes. They said, "In the last two or three weeks, you've been so much brighter. You've had more energy. You've been so much quicker. Why, you're making jokes left and right." When I told a joke at work one day, a co-worker said, "Don't tell me you are brain damaged if you can make a remark that fast." Back at my desk, I realized that I'd been using the Human Plus tape Brain: Support & Maintenance, and obviously it was working.

  The people who had noticed the difference in me didn't know about the tapes. They were remarking on my brightness and quickness. Until others noticed the changes, I hadn't realized that I was improving. When it was brought to my attention, I asked myself, "What's different?" The only difference was listening to the tape every night. I was sleeping better, things were going more smoothly, and I experienced various breakthroughs. At times I'd think, "Oh, I'm handling this much better now. I'm doing this easier now." It wasn't a case of listening to the tape one day and the next day saying, "Oh, I listened to the tape last night and now look how good I am." It was an ongoing process rather than a dramatic, overnight change.

  The Hemi-Sync® tapes have definitely helped in retraining my brain and recovering lost abilities to concentrate and think clearly. By practicing intensely, I've recovered my gift of music, lost at the time of the accident. Like others in recovery, I work on healing each day, one day at a time.

  
  
  
• For some years I have had a jerk-like tremor in my head due to a "minor" head injury. I could feel it at the top of the brain stem just below the skull. Sometimes at night it would keep me awake because of the feeling of tension which would build up and then release in a jerk. After several months of using the tape Brain: Support & Maintenance, and later adding the tape called Energy Walk, the tremor is almost non-existent.
  
  
• They were doing patterning for a small child whose central nervous system had been affected from a brain injury. I told the mother that Metamusic tapes might be helpful. She called to let us know that the tapes were helping her child to relax and enjoy the physical patterning exercises. She indicated that when the tape stopped, the child would tense up and stop making any sounds. As soon as they started the tape again, the child would relax and make happy sounds.
  
  
• After a fall which resulted in brain injury, I was physically weak, emotionally demoralized, out of balance, and mentally insecure. After some difficult years I learned about Hemi-Sync® and began to notice results after listening to H+ Brain: Support and Maintenance about four times. They were very subtle, but concrete. The more I used the Function Command, the easier it became to express myself both orally and in writing, and the more my vision improved. I use the Function Command several times each day, beginning in the shower each morning and ending as I go to sleep at night. As I use it, I feel as if a veil is being slowly but gently lifted from my mind. I also use H+ Synchronizing and Circulation, and the Resonant Tuning tape. They seem to have a cumulative effect.
  
  
• After an auto accident left me with brain injury, I stopped reading because I could no longer follow a train of thought. I discovered Hemi-Sync®, have gone back to school, and am doing very well. Remembrance helps me with my studies, and Sleeping Through the Rain helps me rest at night.
  
  
• He was having memory loss and anxiety after being beaten over the head during a robbery. I was amazed at the changes over a two month period of listening to Hemi-Sync® Metamusic tapes. His attitude became more positive and less anxious, his writing skills became more lucid, and his nonverbal communication normalized.

Asthma | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• It's been interesting to note how Hemi-Sync® helps families who have a child with asthma. Not only is an attack a scary event, but there's often a tension connected to anticipation of the next attack that might indeed stimulate the next attack. I've recommended to several such families that they keep Hemi-Sync® playing at home day and night. Remembrance, Concentration during the day and any of the sleep tapes for nighttime use. This seems to have a cumulative effect over time, with the entire family calming down.
  
  
• A physician reports that one patient who has asthma swears by H+ Lungs: Support and Maintenance.
  
  
• A psychologist reports using Lungs: Support and Maintenance with five asthmatic children and adults with excellent success. For example, one woman had difficulty climbing a short flight of stairs and was using her inhaler approximately six times per day. Within three weeks she was swimming a third of a mile daily and using her inhaler only twice per week. This gain remained consistent over a one-year period.
  
  
• I've had a very bad asthmatic condition for years. After a co-worker told me how much Lungs: Support and Maintenance had helped another asthma sufferer, I began to listen to it each night when I went home from the office. After a few times I could actually feel my lungs and chest opening up. When I feel tightness in my chest at night, I just use the function command and get immediate relief.
  
  
• Asthma has been a problem for me during most of my life. Since working with Lungs: Support & Maintenance, the attacks have lessened in number, and severity has decreased whenever I use the verbal cue of the tape. I've also noticed a gigantic improvement in my overall health.

Circulation | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• For five years I suffered with edema in my left foot, which failed to respond to treatment. When I first started using the HUMAN PLUS (H+) Program Circulation tape, the swelling reduced almost immediately and now, after frequent use over the past three years, it seldom swells at all.
• H+ Circulation relieved a lifetime problem of unnaturally cold hands and feet, which meant that I had to sleep under a heavy weight of blankets. Within two months of using the tape this condition ceased to trouble me.
• A patient whose hands always felt cold due to poor circulation used the H+ Circulation tape. A biofeedback machine indicated a very quick raise in temperature at a fingertip sensor from 32 to 37 degrees centigrade.
• While recovering from a serious, horse-inflicted injury, the Circulation tape helped a lot with diminishing the deep bruising and reabsorbing the hematoma.

Death and Dying | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• An M.D. reports on the experience of a fifty-six year old, terminally ill woman with metatastic breast cancer. She was aware of having only a short time to live and chose to be at home with hospice support and her family. She was having more and more frequent "foggy periods" and was barely arousable when the doctor played Touring the Interstate from the Going Home Series at her bedside. She became very relaxed and slack as the Focus levels increased to 27. Returning, she stirred actively at Focus 15, then fully awoke back at C-1, smiled, and drifted off to sleep. She died several days later after listening to both exercises on the tape more times. Her husband had played the Relocation Theme at her death. As he sat holding her hand during this, he clearly and deeply felt her lift off--and his sense of burden go at the same time. A month later he feels very much at peace, with a sense of completion.
• The scheduled doses of morphine were no longer controlling the pain of his terminal cancer. When the doctor started continual morphine drips, it was hard to know if he was sleeping or not because even when awake, he wasn't really here. His wife played the Pain Control tape and he very soon fell into a deep sleep with his abdomen breathing rhythmically. In the morning he was much more alert and asked for more tapes. Energy Walk was his favorite. The following day he was even more alert and asked the doctor to remove the morphine drips. He passed away peacefully this morning.
• A clinical psychologist, who incorporated the concepts and images of the Going Home series in working with a patient in the final process of dying, found especially helpful "the image of the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly, specifically the inability of the caterpillar to know ahead of time the beauty and freedom it would enjoy at its transition."
• The brain tumor was inoperable. His wife had accepted the fact that these were his last weeks but was terribly distressed by the growing frequency of the seizures that wracked his entire body. "I want him to go peacefully, not from a seizure," she said. She had been the helpless witness of enough of these episodes that she recognized the increase in physical restlessness that marked the onset of a seizure. After being given Hemi-Sync tapes by a friend, she turned on the cassette player as soon as she saw the beginning of the twisting and turning. Her husband had no further seizures, and when it was time to go, he did so peacefully.
• While visiting a terminally ill friend, I asked about the tape that was playing in the room while he was asleep and the hospice nurse told me about Going Home. The next day another Going Home tape was just starting and I decided to relax in the chair, close my eyes, and follow the instructions on the tape. It was a wonderful experience--peaceful, reassuring, and inspiring. I bought my own set of tapes and find them a very rewarding and guide for living as well as for dying.
• At first I was very disappointed that I couldn't use the Going Home tapes for my mother because she didn't understand English. Then I translated the English words and played the tapes for her while I read the translation. In her last weeks we had many important talks about her experiences with Going Home. In some ways, we became closer than we had ever been. I'm very grateful for this help in living my mother's death.

Gateway Experience | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "I spent eight years in a one on one apprenticeship with a Toltec shaman learning to shift awareness and perception. With Hemi-Sync I was getting similar results in only a matter of days!" - Marcus Leader, Leader Research
  
  
• "These tapes/CDs represent a splendid tool for hiking the spiritual path. If you're serious about going for the OOBE, these tapes/CDs are the ones to use for repeated practice." - Steve Graf, PhD, Professor of Psychology
  
  
• "I was happy to experience that this was the FIRST training system [Discovery] to teach me a way to enter a state of deep body relaxation, while my mind was awake and calm (Focus 10), that was easy, simple in execution (although deep in theory), consistent in its results and persuasive. After only a week with your system it was very easy for me to enter and stay in a calm and relaxed state for 45 minutes and more. This was the beginning. Then I obtained from my local dealer Volumes II - VI and now I'm waiting for Volume VII to arrive. Now I easily go to Focus 12 (a deeper state of consciousness than focus 10) without the help of a tape where I can program my life, search answers for my questions, improve myself." - Panos Tzavelis, Piraeus, Greece
  
  
• "I was excited to receive Wave II (Threshold) of the Gateway Experience, but after listening to the first tape I felt I just didn't "get it". Focus 12 felt just like F-10! But the second time I listened to the tape I reminded myself to just relax and let Hemi-Sync train my mind. That's when I felt a detachment from the physical so much deeper than F-10, yet similar enough that I could see my "waypoint" back at Focus 10. With succeeding tapes, F-12 became deeper still, and my awareness is continually growing. Who knows, I may get to thank RAM personally someday. Wave III, here I come!" - Kytar Logon
  
  
• " Wave IV #3 Messages. Unreal, the accuracy. I had no expectations, no preconceived notion, no idea, what it meant. I was open to the upcoming, not knowing or guessing on what it meant, the five messages. The result: I was in a state of awe!!! Unreal, the accuracy of the messages, issues pertaining to my intimate, 'clandestine' wants and wishes, different aspects of it, and also other surprises!! Spiritual, mental, intellectual and "earthly" matters! My jaw is still hanging below my knees!!" - Lili Guefen, CA
  
  
• "I just got the Wave VII CDs and they are great. They have nice wording and they are nicely voiced. I even had an OBE listening to the first exercise. I also liked the one (Exercise 4, I think) where the helpers lift you higher and set you back. All of them give me a nice peaceful feeling. I will enjoy working with them." - Dave Neufer
  
  
• "The latest addition to TMI's home Gateway Experience series, the Seventh Wave: Phasing, will certainly satisfy those who have requested tapes to facilitate access to the higher Focus Levels. The dialogue and Hemi-Sync tones helped me to easily phase into Focus 21. This new Wave set is a must for those who wish to explore the vast realities beyond Focus 12." - Susan Taylor, MA
  
  
• After listening to Wave l of Gateway Experience, my meditation is much stronger and deeper than before. The tapes have been wonderful, and I'll be using them for much more than meditation.
  
  
• I listen to the Discovery tapes 1 and 2 on a daily basis and find them to be well thought out, supportive, and gentle. You are potentially giving listeners the most valuable gift of all: self-knowledge.
  
  
• Working with the Discovery tapes, I've been feeling generally more relaxed and more comfortable, as if I'm somehow "above" my usual bad feelings. There's a new sense of coming together with myself. Things can be going on all around me without my being disturbed. The first time I listened to the tapes, I was upset and angry at my partner. After the tape was over the anger just was no longer with me, and I was able to sincerely apologize for having been so snappy earlier.
  
  
• Gateway Experience has brought me results that were totally unanticipated. In addition to my stress level dropping, I've been able to concentrate better and sleep more comfortably. I'm coming to know myself better, and I'm remembering dreams for the first time. There's been a marked improvement in my interactions with other people. My attitude is better. I smile more and feel more open and friendly.
  
  
• So far I've completed Wave l and Threshold and have achieved the relaxation, awareness, and unusual vibrations. I feel as if I'm reaching for the stars. Since working with Gateway Experience, things have evolved for the better in almost every part of my life. Life has not been treating me differently, but my outlook on the things that happen is different. It's clear that my life is my choice and I can make positive choices regardless of my environment. Other people see and respond to me in that light also, so generally life has been getting better from inside and out.
  
  
• Over the year that I've been working with Wave l , I've perceived a lot of loving help coming from the guides and teachers in Focus 10. Now it's time to expand to Focus 12!
  
  
• Only 10 days after experiencing Focus 10 for the first time I notice improved thought retention and a longer attention span, better logic and problem solving ability, and better dexterity and eye-hand coordination. When I'm working on something, the job is done more easily without much conscious effort on my part. My mind and body seem to be more coordinated. I guess that's what hemispheric synchronization does.
  
  
• When I listen to the Gateway Experience tapes I'm mostly in a very relaxed and calm state; just there, sensing and observing in a child/student-like manner without anything extraordinary going on. But a lot has been changing in my life when I'm not listening to tapes. I come away from a tape session with the insight that if I allow myself to feel and act as I would like to, I can be that. It's my choice, and not the choice of the world outside. My physical body has been feeling much better. My shoulder joints feel like they have more movement and l have more energy and strength. Before I couldn't walk a mile without my feet hurting. Now I'm jogging about two miles. My self-image is improving and people are responding to me more positively. I'm developing new habits that are reorganizing daily routines for the better. I'm becoming more focused, find myself planning better and saying no without feeling so guilty. Things don't seem so black and white and I have more respect for different opinions.

Heart | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• I occasionally experience an unpleasant and sometimes frightening racing of my heartbeat. (My doctor has explained what this is and it is not something to worry about.) It feels as if a switch has been flipped. One minute, I'm fine; the next I feel a strong pounding in my chest and my heart seems to be racing top speed. It usually seems to occur when I've not gotten enough rest. Sometimes it is triggered by bending for something and coming up too fast. Other times, I can be reading for an hour--perfectly relaxed--and out of the blue the switch flips and I feel it.
  
  This particular time, I'd bent down for something and came up fast. As I did, I felt the sudden hard, fast pounding and could hear it (blood pounding) in my ears. It was so strong, I felt that I might pass out. I got to a chair and sat down. My husband was six feet away from me around the corner in the dining room, but I could not call him; the pounding was too hard, my breath too short. The feeling of passing out was still strong. I immediately thought of HUMAN-PLUS but then my mind went blank. I couldn't remember the Heart Command. I knew I'd done other exercises that would help me (Circulation, Tune-Up) but could not even recall their names, let alone their Commands. Finally, the only one that came to mind was Relax. I tried to take a deep breath but was only able to inhale one half. I then started to say, Plus-Relax, Relax. The moment I said "Plus" in my mind, the pounding heartbeat stopped. I was so surprised I forgot to say the rest. What was so surprising was the utter stillness and quiet that I felt in my whole system and the absolute certainty that the word "Plus" had triggered this instant change. The stillness and quiet was incredibly beautiful; like the utter stillness of deep contemplation.
  
  I was floating in this stillness and then, silly as this may sound, I mentally panicked and started checking my body for signs: couldn't hear my heart beating, no movement, no breathing. Rational thought came to the rescue. If I'd stopped my heart with the "Plus," would I still be sitting in the chair? I felt the cool glass of the table top under my arm; my eyes were definitely staring at the orange-brown tiles on the kitchen floor. And maybe I couldn't hear breathing because I was still holding my breath. With this realization, I started to breath out and finish the Function Command. As I released my breath slowly, I said "relax."
  
  The moment I said it, I felt a strong, single, pounding heartbeat in my chest and heard the beat `in' my ears. I felt an inner flutter of hesitation, Was the pounding, racing beat going to return? I finished the Command, letting out my breath slowly and saying the final "Relax." With that word, I felt the erratic, racing and pounding beat wash out of me in a single wave and felt this wave continue outward beyond me, out of the room, out of the house. I felt fine, as I had before this happened.
  
  Why Relax?? My doctor has said people do faint when this happens if they get too panicky. Her advice--RELAX! Sit down or lie down. And just RELAX! This kind of experience is usually a frightening one; one which the body controls and turns on. Now I can mentally regain control with Plus - Relax, Relax and rebalance my system. It will be a great help to the many others who also experience this not uncommon phenomenon.
  
  
• A 55-year old woman improved her heart function and her general physical condition with the following H+ tapes used three times daily: Relax, Attention, Let Go, Off-Loading , De-Tox: Body, Circulation, Heart: Repairs & Maintenance.
  
  
• The patient has been advised by her physician to keep up the Hemi-Sync and there is no need to return to medication. Patient is to have blood drawn in six months and monitor results. It is important to note here that this patient decided to forego any medication and used only Hemi-Sync technology to achieve excellent results under very stressful conditions.
  
  
• I suffer from a heart condition which brings about sudden changes of blood pressure. There's been a distinct difference since I started listening to H+ Circulation and Heart: Repairs & Maintenance, -- markedly fewer changes in pressure and, when there is a change, it's more moderate.
  
  
• I had been taking Beta blockers, 1 to 2 pills a day, for over 2 1/2 years for heart rhythm disorders. I listened to the tape Heart: Repairs & Maintenance one time, felt my heart go physically "thump" inside my rib cage, and then start off on a new rhythm. I decided to go off the Beta blockers the next day and have stayed off them ever since (about a year now). The cardiologist still doesn't know why my ECG is back to normal, but I do.
  
  
• I have worked with Hemi-Sync tapes since the mid-eighties, and have benefited in a number of ways. I have successfully controlled stress, and flare-ups of hypertension so successfully, that I have been taken off medication to control blood pressure. In a recent cardiac stress test, the attending nurse, who knows I use Hemi-Sync verbal commands, scolded me saying "Stop controlling your heart beat! We need to get it up to target faster!"
  
  
• A man I knew from church went into the hospital for a radical five-bypass surgery. Two weeks later I was amazed to see him walking with his wife up the hill from the church parking lot. His wife was huffing and puffing, but he was not. He had enjoyed an amazingly fast recovery, and said that the Surgical Support Series was the reason. When I told him about my upcoming surgery he offered to lend me his album with the exception of Energy Walk. "I'm sorry," he explained, "but I won't be parted from that tape."
  
  
• Shortly after I started using Hemi-Sync tapes, I introduced them to my brother who has had two coronary bypass surgeries and a seriously dangerous aneurism repaired. He swears that he could not have made it through without the Surgical Support Series, and his recovery has been relatively easy.
  

Massage / Bodywork | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• A remedial therapist reports, "I have been using Metamusic tapes with patients with conditions including stroke, Parkinson's, arthritis, asthma, and neurological states, using an auto-reverse player so I don't have to stop treatment to turn the tape over. Midsummer Night is especially popular. All patients relaxed more easily and quickly. There was a very marked reduction in the more obvious types of stress, chatter quickly stopped, and the tranquil, relaxed state enabled a deeper level to emerge.
• As a practitioner, I believe that Hemi-Sync is a great aid to massage from the patient's point of view, giving a greater sense of relaxation and well-being. The first, almost immediate effect - relaxation of the body. Then a quieting of the mind that leads to inner stillness, so the overall effect becomes a generalized serenity.
• From a massage therapist: Hemi-Sync tapes are especially helpful with clients who are trying to get in touch with emotional trauma stored in their bodies, particularly those who have had difficulty doing so in the past. Hemi-Sync also supports those who are using Swedish massage as a medium to reach a transcendent or altered state to do personal work or just to be with themselves. Their experience seems to be deeper and more rewarding. For stressed-out corporate types the tranquil, relaxed state enabled a deeper level to emerge (specifically, the personnel manager of a large company laying off significant numbers of employees). Hemi-Sync calms them.
• Hemi-Sync makes a difference with those who have trouble accessing their feelings due to fear around the original trauma or because they are just uncomfortable in that part of their brain. The Metamusic selection, Sleeping Through the Rain, works nicely in this application.
• Faster and more complete releases occurred week after week; I attribute this, more than anything else, to the addition of Hemi-Sync. It supported increased abilities for the client and allowed us to interact at a more intuitive, and effective level.
• Working with Swedish massage (light pressure which is more pleasurable and relaxing than the deep work) produced some interesting reactions in combination with Super Sleep. It was possible to induce a very deep state, in which the person was just "not there" whatsoever, and experienced intense dreaming and processing.
• A remedial therapist in England plays Hemi-Sync in the background when working with clients. She reports about Bob who has a chronic illness that diminishes his energy. Super Sleep enhances his rest periods very beneficially, and he's a great fan of H+ Relax. He says it helps him lie and relax for nine hours at a time, and he also uses it every evening to get a good rest before the exertion of his nightly bath.
• My massage therapist began a series of deep tissue massages after an evaluation of "scar marbles" resulting from tissue and bone re-knitting in a bulky, awkward fashion. The area of the nodules was extremely sensitive to pressure and difficult to palpate deeply. During the first deep tissue session, I used the Pain Control command successfully to distance from the discomfort so that the area could be worked in a controlled manner. During the second massage, I used Sleeping Through the Rain to attain a deeper state of muscle relaxation, and was able to tolerate her working more deeply on the injured area. By the third massage, she was able to work at the level of the bone and gently manipulate the scar nodules directly. They began to shrink and flatten very quickly, the entire shoulder girdle became more flexible, and I experienced an unusual (for me) level of relaxation in my neck and scalp. I believe that Hemi-Sync has uniquely supported and speeded my healing, and my overall energy level has measurably increased.
• Relaxation and receptiveness are the mindsets we are trying to achieve to help clients let go and accept healing energy, and Metamusic is ideal for setting the mood at our Reiki clinic. When I received your Metamusic CDs, I couldn't wait to bring them to work. Inner Journey and Sleeping Through the Rain are particular favorites, and are being used by our massage therapist as well. The CDs are wonderful because no one has to hurry and turn the tape over. To do so would disrupt the flow and concentration of the practitioners.

Pain Management | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "I was able to control the pain from a torn leg muscle after an accident so immediately after playing your tape [Pain Control] that it seemed like a miracle."
  -Monique Michrowski
• "Hemi-Sync has played a major part in my life for the last four years or so. In the last two weeks I have again utilized another of Hemi-Sync's many applications [Surgical Support Series], that is, in support of a totally new experience for me, spinal surgery. I put my Intra-op tape in ready for the surgery and waited. I declined the offer of pre-op medication as I new I didn't need it, my experience told me that my pulse would be fine as soon as I got to listen to some uniterrupted Hemi-Sync during my surgery. My next recollection was waking to someone changing the tape in my Walkman and an oxygen mask over my face. On hearing the recovery tape I became fully alert in a matter of minutes. My oxygen mask was removed and I was soon enjoying an ice block to sooth my throat after the irritation of the oxygen tube. Next, I was offered morphine pain medication. To the nurse's surpise I declined, I knew that I would be able to control it myself with the help of my tapes. The next surprise was one I had never considered. Having just had back surgery, I had assumed I would go back to the hospital ward on my stomach, how wrong I was!! I was asked to help the nurses roll me onto my back directly onto my wound, with the drain tube still in the wound.Back in the ward I was asked again if I wanted pain medication. I declined but asked if the nurse could change my tape for Recuperation. (Recuperation is the same as the single title Pain Control) The ward was noisy with visitors. I found it hard to really focus on my pain relief and relax, but the tape allowed me to cope okay. The pity was that all the interruptions I was getting were not allowing Hemi-Sync to be as effective as I know it could be. But it still worked for me.The next morning I managed breakfast, with no feelings of nausea at all. After lunch I stood and walked the length of the ward, I was slow and stiff but the only ill effect was a little lightheadedness. I know very well that I had no need for any pain medication after this surgery. The anesthetist later confirmed that my need for anesthesia was at the very lower end of normal usage. Without controls to compare me to, he was unable to confirm that it was due to the tapes, as everyone is different. He did however concede they may have helped. Hemi-Sync has yet again show me how versatile and effective it is as a support tool to healing."
  -Marty Gerken, Timaru, New Zealand
• One patient at my pain control clinic was very resistant to the concept of Hemi-Sync tapes, but agreed to listen to them as directed. She admitted that, although she thought it sounded like "crazy stuff," the tapes helped her to get pain relief and to relax. After her treatment was over, she purchased several tapes for herself. At follow-up visits she told me that at the end of a stressful day, she listens to a tape and has been able to prevent her back from hurting.
• The Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital uses Hemi-Sync tapes in conjunction with other therapies to help patients heal more quickly and with less anxiety and pain. They recommend the Surgical Support tapes for use prior to and during a medical procedure and while in recovery. They recommend a variety of other Hemi-Sync tapes to foster healing and maintain optimal wellness in the hospital and at home.
• The scheduled doses of morphine were no longer controlling the pain of his terminal cancer. When the doctor started continual morphine drips, it was hard to know if he was sleeping or not because even when awake, he wasn't really here. His wife played the Pain Control tape and he very soon fell into a deep sleep with his abdomen breathing rhythmically. In the morning he was much more alert and asked for more tapes. Energy Walk was his favorite. The following day he was even more alert and asked the doctor to remove the morphine drips. He passed away peacefully this morning.
• A patient with myofacial pain and dysfunction was able to lower tension in a band across her forehead almost instantaneously after learning the Function Command for H+ DeDiscomfort by listening to the tape twice. With electrodes placed on her forehead and connected to an ORION biofeedback system, the reading immediately dropped from 6 mv to 3 mv when using the Plus-55515 command.
• A patient with chronic pain from a neck injury and nerve root entrapment listened to DeDiscomfort and Circulation two times each. The biofeedback system showed electrical activity in the forehead dropping from 3.4 mv to 1.2 mv using the pain control command.
• Report from psychologist. The patient's cancer continues to spread and he has been in considerable pain. He had been taking large amounts of medication: 125 mg of Tegretol three times a day, 12-15 cc a day of Dilantin, Darvocet every four hours, and Zantec. He had also been taking 11cc of Methadone four times a day and this was recently changed to morphine. Despite all the medication, his pain was poorly controlled.
  
  I introduced him to the Hemi-Sync Pain Control tape to use at home, and he finds it helps reduce pain between medications. After only four sessions, he is now seeing me on an "as needed" basis. The Pain Control tape has furnished the backbone of his treatment program.
• Report from an MD who operates a pain-control clinic: A local dentist refers patients to me for assistance with dental analgesia. It consists of giving the patient the Pre-Op tape from the Surgical Support Series to listen to daily for one week prior to the procedure. During the dental procedure, the Intra-Op tape is played. I have treated three patients to date using this procedure.
  
  The first had tremendous fear of dental pain and didn't want injectable analgesia. She needed both an inlay and a crown, both considered to be extremely uncomfortable procedures. She experienced no pain and felt totally relaxed and happy during and afterwards.
  
  The second patient had a previous negative experience in the dental chair with an acute hypertensive episode accompanied by agitation requiring paramedic assistance. It was unclear whether the episode stemmed from extreme fear and anxiety, or was a reaction to the local anesthetic. Regardless, it was evident an alternative was needed. She was to have some very extensive work. A three-unit bridge and inlay, and a four-unit bridge were all to be accomplished during two separate visits. During both visits, the same treatment with Hemi-Sync was used. The patient had one area in her right anterior mandible which remained a bit sensitive, but she endured on both visits with minimal discomfort and no agitation. She noted that the tape helped her to feel at ease and detached from discomfort.
  
  The third patient was a very environmentally sensitive woman who could not tolerate drugs or anesthesia of any kind and needed several fillings. She, too, did well and had minimal to no discomfort during her procedure.
• My friend had a severe allergic reaction to morphine while she was in the hospital and was suddenly aware that her heart was pounding to the point of bursting; her whole body was a mass of pain and was convulsing uncontrollably. She felt total terror and knew she was dying. She heard someone say, "We've sent for her family." Then the function command 55515 (the cue learned on the Pain Control tape) popped into her head, and the convulsions stopped and the pain and fear disappeared. After her second mental repetition, she heard someone say, "We have a pulse." Her next awareness was that all the people who had been hovering over her were gone and she was alone and in total peace. Within an hour of the reaction, she was fully awake, pain free, and able to talk to her children. She says that since that experience she feels totally accepting of death, and even more remarkably, she's able to be in the midst of family turmoil and, for the most part, remain serene. She continues to listen to tapes several hours a day, and although her medical prognosis is not good, she's actually enjoying her life.
• Report from a dentist. Patient A requested a local anesthetic in conjunction with the treatment. I played the Pre-Op tape from the Surgical Support Series for him. He commented, "That's pretty good, Doc. I only felt a little pain, not bad, mind you. I'll be back."
  
  At a second visit, the patient again requested local anesthetic. After the procedure he stated, "Didn't feel a thing, Doc. That stuff's really good." At his third visit, he did not mention local anesthetic and none was used. Four teeth were prepared for crowns. He hold me, "Didn't feel a thing, Doc. If I knew about this, I would have been here much sooner. I'll never wait this long again."
  
  For Patient B, several large restorations were completed using the Pre-Op tape. The patient reported, "I didn't feel a thing. That's really great." On his next visit, a single tooth was prepared for a crown. He reported, "The pinched nerve in my neck has quit hurting. I feel good all over." (No mention of the dental procedure.) He concluded with, "There's just nothing to be afraid of. We'll be in touch more often."
• A client receiving deep tissue massage for 'scar marbles' from bulky re-knitting of tissue and bone, found that the area of the nodules was extremely sensitive to pressure. It was difficult to palpate deeply because of pain. She reported, "I used Sleeping Through the Rain to attain a deeper state of muscle relaxation and was able to tolerate the therapist working more deeply on the injured area. The entire shoulder girdle became more flexible and I experienced an unusual level of relaxation in my neck and scalp."
• I needed to have three new cavities filled and ten mercury fillings removed and replaced. The night before the procedure I played the Pain Control tape continuously while I slept, and again on awakening. The dentist was curious and supportive of my decision; not to have gas or injection, and made it possible for me to play the tape while he worked. It had been well over 15 years since I had allowed a dentist to look in my mouth, due to my fear of pain. There was no discomfort as he removed, redrilled, and cleaned out seven of the old fillings. The last three were deep, large cavities. He worked for 1 1/2 hours to complete all the drilling. We took a break. I rose from the chair with 13 gaping holes in my mouth, my body a little stiff from holding tension, but feeling great.
  
  Thinking the worst was over, I switched to a favorite popular music tape to enjoy while he filled the cavities, and was caught totally unaware by unexpected pain. In need of immediate relief, I used the number sequence suggestion from Pain Control instead of taking time to switch tapes - and I was fine! What a pleasure to have completed the entire procedure in one visit, nearly free of pain, and feeling fine afterwards!
• Report from a dentist. During a five month period, I played Sleeping Through the Rain for 25 patients for procedures that are done with a local anesthetic. I selected this tape for its low bass tones which are excellent for drowning out the sound of dental equipment. The composition is particularly relaxing, and the Hemi-Sync frequencies integrated within the music are designed to lead the listener into a deeply relaxed state. It was rarely necessary to use any pharmacologic form of sedation, although occasionally nitrous oxide was used.
  
  Twelve patients reported enjoying the tape because it allowed them to focus their attention elsewhere while their mouths were being worked on. Eight patients experienced deep relaxation, and two of these fell asleep during the procedure.
  
  Five patients reported experiencing no apparent effect. Two of these stated that they thought the tape would be of more help to people who were nervous about coming to the dentist.
• A dental practice decided to experiment with playing Metamusic on speakers heard throughout the entire treatment area. A new associate, who was not familiar with the experiment, came to the front and asked what kind of music was playing. After about fifteen minutes of listening she felt extremely relaxed. Patient comments range from "I can't believe I fell asleep in the dental chair," to "I feel more relaxed, but I can still hear the drill." Our conclusion is that both relaxation and pain control are benefited by Hemi-Sync and continue to use it in our dental office.
• Report from a chronic pain clinic: To introduce the tapes, I offer a presentation on sleep, sleep cycles, sleep disorders and the importance of sleep as a restorative process. Then, each pain patient lies on a mat with a pillow and headphones to listen to just the Prep side of a H-PLUS tape. Sounds of snoring from two patients who said that they were usually unable to fall asleep were quite exciting. The simple procedure of listening to just Prep creates receptivity to the impact of the tapes. Patients cannot wait to hear the other side! Over the next few days, as we get acquainted, I recommend specific tapes for their individual problems.
• From my personal observations--and from discussions with patients--the tapes are a hit! H-PLUS De-Discomfort, Restorative Sleep, Circulation, and Off-Loading had the biggest impact on reducing chronic pain. The MIND FOOD tapes Sound Sleeper,and Pain Control, were also helpful.
• A cracked molar had to come out and the oral surgeon was going to have to drill to break it up before extracting the pieces. When I told my dentist how much I was dreading the appointment with the oral surgeon, he gave me his Hemi-Sync tapes and encouraged me to try them. I listened to the Pre-Op tape from the Surgical Support Series at home and then again in the surgeon's waiting room. While in the chair I listened to Intra-Op and was aware that my short breaths turned into really deep breathing without effort. I felt calm and confident and comfortable. I went to bed when I got home afterwards, fell asleep listening to Post-Op, and went to work feeling fine the next morning.
• The men were truck drivers, crane operators, or handlers of heavy equipment, all very sedentary occupations with most of the day spent seated. After using the Pain Control tape for several months they spoke of feeling the pain less, needing less medication, and improved morale. The clinical signs were still present, but they were responding more positively to their pain.
• Muscular tightness often interfered with my getting a good night's sleep. Once I started listening to Restorative Sleep, the muscular pain and discomfort went away and hasn't come back.
• Mrs. C. consulted me with severe migraines. Hypnotherapy gave her some relief but not as much as hoped. I suggested that she listen to Brain: Repairs & Maintenance, and she reported considerably more relief. She still gets migraines but far ess frequently and less severe, and they pass quickly.
• The Circulation tape has greatly reduced my constant ache from standing on cement floors all day at work. The bulging veins have reduced to fine "spider veins" around my knees and I feel comfortable using a stair climbing exercise machine again.
• Your Brain: Repairs & Maintenance and Lungs: Repairs & Maintenance tapes have brought my headaches under control and have helped restore my endurance levels for the 3 mile walks I can now enjoy again without gasping for air.
• A nine-year-old client had excruciating migraine headaches and needed occasional adjustments to relieve the pressure in his brain. As we began one counseling session, he was experiencing one of his headaches. I had my tape player with me and decided to see if the Concentration tape would help him through it while we continued the session. In less than five minutes he stopped in mid-sentence, looked at me in a combination of puzzlement, amazement, and relief, and said, "The headache is gone."
• I use guided imagery as a mainstay in my practice at the Pain Control and Stress Management Clinic. My clients are much more receptive to imagery when I play Hemi-Sync musical tapes in the background. Into The Deep, Inner Journey and Cloudscapes are a few that I use often. The tapes are an extremely useful tool which accelerates the therapeutic benefits of guided imagery techniques.
• I recently slipped and fell while getting into my car on a rainy day. As a result of the accident, I incurred broken bones in my left hand and foot, and both limbs were put in casts. Since the pain was quite intense, the orthopedic surgeon gave me prescription pain killers, and recommended that I remain immobilized for five weeks. Because I'd already worked with Hemi-Sync tapes for many years, I knew my recovery would not be problematic. Pain Control eased the pain and reduced the swelling, so I needed to take medication for only two days. Energy Walk and Restorative Sleep lulled me into deep regenerative sleep states. I returned to work after only five days and my mobility and energy has been very impressive to the doctors and my colleagues throughout the ordeal.
• All of my life I have been a very poor dental patient, and over the last few years have had major dental work done. Yesterday, I was more prepared, having listened several times to the Pain Control tape and mentally rehearsed the Quick Fix function. The procedure lasted two and a half hours, but during that time I felt calm and only needed one anaesthetic injection. Since the injection wore off I have experienced no pain or discomfort.
• My wife suffered severe headaches (sometimes migraines) for two weeks at a time during her monthly cycle, along with breast pain. She has found that De-Discomfort reduced and often took away the constant pain. It made life manageable again. I've used the same tape to take care of headaches and other pain. It really works.

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Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "Hemi-Sync has played a major part in my life for the last four years or so. In the last two weeks I have again utilized another of Hemi-Sync's many applications [Surgical Support Series], that is, in support of a totally new experience for me, spinal surgery. I put my Intra-op tape in ready for the surgery and waited. I declined the offer of pre-op medication as I new I didn't need it, my experience told me that my pulse would be fine as soon as I got to listen to some uniterrupted Hemi-Sync during my surgery. My next recollection was waking to someone changing the tape in my Walkman and an oxygen mask over my face. On hearing the recovery tape I became fully alert in a matter of minutes. My oxygen mask was removed and I was soon enjoying an ice block to sooth my throat after the irritation of the oxygen tube. Next, I was offered morphine pain medication. To the nurse's surpise I declined, I knew that I would be able to control it myself with the help of my tapes. The next surprise was one I had never considered. Having just had back surgery, I had assumed I would go back to the hospital ward on my stomach, how wrong I was!! I was asked to help the nurses roll me onto my back directly onto my wound, with the drain tube still in the wound.Back in the ward I was asked again if I wanted pain medication. I declined but asked if the nurse could change my tape for Recuperation. The ward was noisy with visitors. I found it hard to really focus on my pain relief and relax, but the tape allowed me to cope okay. The pity was that all the interruptions I was getting were not allowing Hemi-Sync to be as effective as I know it could be. But it still worked for me.The next morning I managed breakfast, with no feelings of nausea at all. After lunch I stood and walked the length of the ward, I was slow and stiff but the only ill effect was a little lightheadedness. I know very well that I had no need for any pain medication after this surgery. The anesthetist later confirmed that my need for anesthesia was at the very lower end of normal usage. Without controls to compare me to, he was unable to confirm that it was due to the tapes, as everyone is different. He did however concede they may have helped. Hemi-Sync has yet again show me how versatile and effective it is as a support tool to healing."
  -Marty Gerken, Timaru, New Zealand
• "I took the Surgical Support Series to the hospital this week for a toe amputation. I began Intra-Op in the waiting room and the gas-man seemed willing not to use the chemical pain killers unless I began to show signs of agony. Darlene put me into a quick trance and the nurse told me the doctor had begun to cut off my toe by waving her hands. I just mumbled how I was feeling balanced and equalized, as Darlene had just repeated that phrase. I actually felt the bone being cut but enjoyed the feeling as I was glad to be free of the infected toe. The operation was complicated and took over an hour to rearrange the skin flap to cover the wound. I was smiling and well into the second side of the tape before the bandaging was put on. The doctors said they never met a pleased patient during such an experience. I actually enjoyed the whole adventure, mostly to prove Hemi-Sync works so well."
  -Art Forman, Clancy, MT
• "My mother is a 74-year-old healthy female who finally consented to have a Mitral Valve replacement only because she could now have it done with minimal invasive surgery (a three-inch incision under the breast). Last minute the doctor decided against the minimal surgery due to calcification of the aorta. The doctor performed a sternotomy (mini sternotomy - a 7-inch incision down the breat bone), the surgery my mother always felt her heart 'could never take.' The surgery was remarkable and took less than 2 1/2 hours. She was in Surgical ICU by 1 p.m. By 7 p.m. she was extubated. The next morning she was up sitting in a chair by 6 a.m., concerned how she looked. Tylenol was the only pain medication she took during her hospital stay and I can count on one hand how many times she took it!I am a private nurse and from my observations I highly recommend these tapes [Surgical Support Series] and would use them myself. Number 1, the tapes calmed my mother for surgery. Number 2, I give these tapes credit for her lack of pain or perception of it. Number 3, her rate of recovery was remarkable even the doctors commented."
  -Judith Mulroney, Milford, CT
• I started using the Pre-op tape immediately after being diagnosed with breast cancer. I listened to it every night to help me go to sleep. It was the only way I could relax.
  
  The surgeon was very impressed with the Intra-op tape. The tape was not changed in the Recovery room until several hours later, and I was only given one small dose of pain medication. The surgeon and nurses said they have never seen anyone who had just had a mastectomy that did not require more medicine. I had full range of motion in my arm as well. The first few hours I was experiencing a lot of nausea when I would wake up. As soon as the tape was started again, the nausea went away. I was also able to come home much sooner than the doctors expected. Once I was home, I used the Recuperation tape daily to relax.”
  -Diane Purvis, Nellysford, Virginia
• Thank you so much! The Surgical Support tapes made a huge difference in how fast my husband was able to recover.
  -Marlene McDowell, Sodus, NY
• "The nurses said I had the vital signs of a high school kid upon waking and was alert as always. Instead of the minimum 4-day stay normally associated with open gallbladder surgery, my surgeon bemusedly let me go home after 24 hours. I had no pain medication after the first night." [Surgical Support Series]
• I recently used your Surgical Support Series with incredible results. When I checked in to the hospital for abdominal surgery I gave the floor nurses the Caregiver booklet, since they were going to be taking care of me. During my two days there they saw the results with their own eyes and became interested in testing the tapes with other patients. The anesthesiologist was skeptical, but humored me and changed the tapes as I went into surgery and later came out. I was awake as they wheeled me into the recovery room, talked with the nurses in there, and even spoke to friends by phone that afternoon. It was a total surprise to me and to them that I was awake, alert, and feeling up to it so soon after surgery. My nurses were amazed at how coherent I was and how little pain I experienced. After 36 hours I was completely off pain meds and had had no need to use any PCA (patient controlled analgesia). I used the post-surgery tapes for two weeks afterwards and believe they helped speed my recovery. The tapes helped me to feel comfortable without masking the pain.
• Report from an MD on the use of the Surgical Support Series tapes: A hysterectomy patient required minimal self-administered analgesia the first day and virtually no medication on the second day. The nursing staff encouraged the patient not to be stoic and to use medication when she felt pain. However, the patient insisted she had little or no discomfort. She was discharged on the third day.
  
  Another patient, diagnosed with a ruptured disc, underwent a lumbar laminectomy. She reported very little need for pain medication after the procedure and was released from the hospital much sooner than expected. She was very pleased, as was the hospital staff, at her fast recovery rate.
• The Department of Surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital uses Hemi- Sync tapes in conjunction with other therapies to help patients heal more quickly and with less anxiety and pain. They recommend the Surgical Support tapes for use prior to and during a medical procedure and while in recovery. They recommend a variety of other Hemi-Sync tapes to foster healing and maintain optimal wellness in the hospital and at home.
• My husband was diagnosed as being in Stage III of testicle cancer. Surgery would kill him, we were told. Chemo was the only hope and, even with that, his chances of survival would be 30%. Throughout four months of chemotherapy I watched him lose his hair, lose weight, be violently ill from the side effects.
  
  The mass was reduced in size, though still huge in terms of medical safety. His doctors advised surgery even though there was very high risk that his lungs were now too weakened by chemotherapy drugs to withstand anesthesia for a ten-hour operation. We started using the Surgical Support Series days before the surgery, and consulted (and educated) the anesthesiologist about using the tapes during the operation. The ten-hour operation took four hours. The surgeons were able to remove the tumor mass intact and no live cancer cells were found.
• I was back home 48 hours after surgery (three days early!), active and energetic. I'd needed no pain medications, slept wonderfully, and was up and around as soon as the anesthesia wore off. Within a month I was back to full activity with the scar as the only physical reminder.
• A Clinical Psychologist reported on a patient whose extreme anxiety was causing her to resist the surgery that would relieve her extensive pain from cervical nerve damage. After following his recommendations to listen to Metamusic tapes continuously at home, she agreed to undergo the surgery on condition that the neurosurgeon permit her to listen to Hemi-Sync throughout the operation. The doctor complied, and she underwent the procedure without difficulty.
• I introduced Hemi-Sync to my brother, who has had two coronary bypass surgeries and a very serious aneurism repaired. He swears he could not have made it through without Human Plus functions and the Surgical Support tapes.
• My use of the first three tapes in the Surgical Support Series before, during, and immediately after my surgery enveloped me in a kind of "comfort cocoon." Pre-Op helped me relax and get in the right mood. I woke up briefly in the midst of the procedure and the Intra-Op tape helped me re-enter my secure, sheltered, paincfree space easily. I could hear the doctors and nurses talking without moving out of that wonderful Hemi-Sync state.
• In the days before I went into the hospital, the Surgical Support tapes helped me relax and get in the right mood. During the operation I was in a beautiful Hemi-Sync awake state, could hear the doctors and nurses talking but felt wonderful -- no pain.
• I listened to the Pre-Op tape for a week before the removal of a fifteen pound abdominal tumor, and used other Hemi-Sync tapes instead of pain medication after the surgery. My recovery was remarkably quick. I went home two days later, instead of the week that had been expected, and was excited about getting up to walk again.
• For the first surgery I wanted to use the Surgical Support Series tapes, but the hospital staff didn't take me seriously. I was in the hospital for six days with numerous infections and it was eight weeks before I was without pain.
  
  Prior to the second surgery, my doctor agreed to listen to the tapes, and began to understand what I was trying to accomplish. This time everyone was on my side. The difference was drastic. When I woke up in recovery, I was completely awake and alert. I felt fine, they were able to remove the IV and give medication by mouth. I had a great appetite and no infections, and was able to go home in three days.
• I was told that only a minimal amount of anesthetic was required to keep me sedated during the surgery. My vital signs were strong and I was relaxed and calm throughout the entire operation. The following day I was alert and energetic. Much to the consternation of the nursing staff I did not require anything for pain, because I had no pain. I resumed normal activity within three weeks, which is months sooner that with my two previous surgeries.
• I sent the Surgical Support Series air express to a friend who needed emergency spinal surgery. She used the tapes as recommended, and is going on a 33 day tour of Australia, Fiji, and New Zealand just fourteen days after the spinal surgery. I should tell you she will be seventy this year. She was absolutely thrilled with her recovery, as she had to be hospitalized for months at a time for several prior spinal surgeries.
• On the morning after my surgery the nurse said, "This room is different from all the other rooms in my care. There is such calm and peacefulness here. This room is a sanctuary. I was plugged into one of my Surgical Support Series tapes. Not only were the tapes a splendid support system throughout, but they also obliterated intrusive sounds of hospital clatter.
• I found the Pre-Op tape unbelievably soothing. The night before surgery I found it hard to sleep - I was anxious and the persistent, intermittent sound of the foghorn on Lake Michigan bothered me. "I hope the tape will knock out the foghorn sound," I thought as I put the Walkman on. It didn't, but it made me feel so good and so relaxed that I wasn't bothered by the foghorn anymore. After the surgery I realized that the tape did the same thing with pain and discomfort - it was still there but it didn't bother me, just as the tape said."
• Thanks to the Surgical Support Series, the patient was very calm before entering the OR for gall bladder surgery, and needed less muscle relaxant than normal during the procedure. In the recovery room she was the only quiet one: she awoke as if from a nap, very calm with no agitation or nausea. She had less than average pain medication in the recovery room and required none for the rest of her hospitalization. Her stay was reduced to 3 days (national average 7-10 days)
• Initially, I did not trust the quality of the Surgical Support Series, despite what I had read and heard. I told the doctors and nurses to observe me using the tapes. If they worked, fine, but if not, I wanted my codeine immediately. Though the surgery lasted four and a half hours, I never needed any pain medication afterwards and had minimal bruising and swelling. The Pre-Op tape gave me intense calmness, with lowered blood pressure and temperature before surgery, instead of my former experiences of queasiness and uncontrollable shaking. By the next surgery [five hours] I used the tapes and sailed through. I was nervous about pain, but repeated "55515" and erased all pain signals. For my final surgery, the confusion of getting ready for the operating room washed over me without effect due to the strong inner calm from the Pre-Op tape. The surgery seemed to last a fraction of a minute, although I later found it had been five hours.
  
  The H+ series enriched my recovery. I found less need for the Pain Control tape if I went to sleep with H+ Restorative Sleep . I alternated H+ Circulation, and Tune-Up for naps.
• Two previous surgeries had caused weight loss, hypoglycemic episodes, and had added to her feelings of losing inner control. She decided to use the Surgical Support Series, gained the support of her surgeon, anesthesiologist, and nursing team, and negotiated to have a local surgical intervention rather than general anesthesia. After the procedure she experienced significantly less pain and used no pain medication for the first six hours. In the recovery room she ate heartily without experiencing nausea or vomiting, did not have cyclic constipation during her post-op days, and experienced no weight loss. At the first dressing change, her surgeon remarked about how clean and clear her suture line looked.
• Report from a surgeon. The patient was scheduled for a second stage reconstruction after a right modified radical mastectomy. She was given the Surgical Support Series and used them according to instructions. Except for 50cc of Xylocaine with epinephrine for local anesthesia, she required no intravenous sedation or pain medications pre-, intra-, or postoperatively. The patient reported that she needed no pain medications during her recovery at home.
• An anesthesiologist who uses the Surgical Support Series tapes with patients reported on two radical mastectomies in which the tapes were "supportive in allaying the patients' anxieties before surgery to the point where both went to sleep without medication only minutes before surgery.
• Report from an anesthesiologist. In preparation for a second back surgery, the patient discussed the Surgical Support Series tapes with me, and told me he wanted to use as little medication as possible. He seemed quite relaxed about the upcoming surgery, and we agreed that I would not order any premedication for him. He arrived in the "holding area" calm and listening to his tape. I started his intravenous and gave him a small amount of Valium (5mg) and Fentanyl (1cc). The surgery was uneventful. He required less than the usual amount of anesthesia, and lost minimal blood. He awakened immediately in the recovery room, used the Recovery tape, and required no pain medication. He required no post-operative pain medication during his hospital stay and was discharged on the fourth post-operative day.
  
  In contrast, the hospital records of his first back surgery showed he was medicated twice in the recovery room, required more narcotic after he returned to his room, and continued to need this for the next four days. He had significant blood loss in surgery, developed a post-operative hematoma accompanied by a fever of several days duration, and was not discharged until the ninth post-operative day.
  
  While it is not necessarily valid to compare the two experiences, the patient and surgeon were the same, the operations were similar and for the same problem, and the basic anesthetic techniques and agents were the same. Even on a non-comparative basis, the patient's entire perioperative course the second time was exemplary.
• I have found the use of the Surgical Support Series very helpful to patients undergoing major surgery, such as bilateral knee replacement. There has been a significant reduction in the use of anesthesia and narcotic medications for pain, as well as a more rapid, uncomplicated, and less painful recovery phase.
• A friend recently had a mastectomy of the left breast following a diagnosis of breast cancer. She had been very anxious about the surgery, with only a week to prepare herself for the operation. During that week she used the Pre-Op tape numerous times and reported that it reduced her anxiety level significantly. She told me that it was unbelievable that she could actually sleep the night before the surgery. The operation was on Monday morning, and she was released from the hospital on Tuesday. Two weeks later, her chest began filling with fluid and a new drain had to be inserted. The drain clogged up, and she was in considerable pain. She used the Energy Walk tape and reported that one half hour following the tape, the drain "unclogged itself," and remained open. If pain awakened her in the middle of the night, she reported going quickly back to sleep while playing Sleeping Through the Rain .
• Summaries from reports of patients who have used the Surgical Support Series and Metamusic tapes for recovery from,surgery:
  
  a) Male, age 73: prostate surgery: This client was in good health at time of his surgery, which wasmperformed at UCLA Medical Center. The head anesthesiologist agreed to allow the Intra-Op tape from the Surgical Support Series to be listened to with headphones during the operation. The patient was walking and alert the morning after surgery. He reported that the physicians and nurses expressed amazement with the pace of his recovery. He was released on the third day postoperatively and continued to enjoy a rapid recuperation. His most significant comment was "I never experienced pain . . . not once!"
  
  b) Female, age 39: abdominal hysterectomy: This patient was a diabetic weighing approximately 250 pounds. She did not use Hemi-Sync intraoperatively but did use other tapes frequently pre- and postoperatively. The patient reported that the Hemi-Sync tapes were far more effective than Percodan® for pain management. Although the surgery was difficult, the patient said she knew intuitively that she was healing quickly, and stated that she felt so good the day after she returned home from the hospital that she actually walked through the park while listening to Energy Walk from the Surgical Support Series.
  
  c) Female, age 45: hysterectomy: The anesthesiologist assisted with the use of Intra-Op by turning the tape over at the end of each side. The patient began using the Pre-Op tape seven days before her surgery. She had not been exposed to Hemi-Sync before this occasion and mentioned that she "had to get used to it." Adjusting to the new experience, she soon reported that the tapes became her "security blanket." After being transported to the recovery room following surgery, the Recovery tape was placed in her cassette player. She reported that she woke up quickly in the recovery room feeling very alert and was pleased, once again, to be aware of the calm, soothing voice on the tape. She reached the point where simply thinking of the voice stimulated instant relaxation. The patient's most significant comment was "I have no doubt that the tapes have helped speed my recovery. When I need rest, it is easy to fall asleep. I feel very positive about getting well and about the whole healing process."
• The Surgical Support Series tapes were a tremendous help. I needed very little medication - in fact, the nurses kept checking to see if my self-medicating apparatus was working. It was! The last two tapes were great for sleeping at night. I didn't need sleeping pills.
• My experience with the tapes was kind of strange. I did all the preparation with them, and the Doctor and recovery room nurse agreed to help. I came to in the recovery room wide awake and was back in my room very shortly entertaining a guest who didn't realize I had just come back from surgery because I was so wide awake. My recovery was uneventful and fairly pain-free and I am doing beautifully.
• I tell everyone about the Surgical Support Series, and keep the tapes as a lending library. My best friend's delivery was much easier and more comfortable, my father was back in his room "in record time" after quintuple heart bypass surgery, and Michael's hip replacement was significantly less painful and his recovery almost twice as fast as the first time he'd had it done. In all cases, recovery has been rapid and relatively comfortable.
• Because of my preparation with Hemi-Sync prior to entering the hospital, I was particularly serene and did not suffer any anxiety at all. During the 3 1/2 hour of surgery no blood transfusion was required and Hematocrit the next day was normal. The lab re-performed the blood test and rechecked the results to confirm this excellent reading. I changed the Function Command for the H+ Tune-Up tape to "Plus, balance, heal blood pressure" to bring my blood pressure down quickly. My body has an absolutely lovely response to it.
• I was particularly serene anticipating the surgery, and did not experience any anxiety. There was absolutely no surgical pain at any time, a fact which I attribute to the Hemi-Sync tapes with which I had prepared myself in advance, and which were used prior and after surgery. (Surgical Support Series and a number of Human Plus tapes: Restorative Sleep, Circulation, De-Discomfort).
• A patient who had hip replacement surgery reports: I started listening to the tapes two days before my surgery, and the had a very calming influence. The doctor had taken me off pain medication and I was having trouble sleeping. Energy Walk enabled me to get a good night's sleep. I listened to Pre-Op in the hospital before surgery and I felt very good about the whole thing. I remember someone saying, "It didn't take much to put her to sleep." As soon as I came out of recovery I started listening to Post-Op, continued every day, and really felt wonderful. My first time up I had no pain and I did exercises without discomfort.
  
  I went from the hospital to a rehab facility where, after a few days of doing fine, I ran out of batteries. While waiting for someone to bring me new batteries I started having severe cramps in my leg. The cramps stopped when I got new batteries and started listening to the tapes again.
  
  Preparing to go home after a week of rehab, I was told that a nurse, a physical therapist, and an occupational therapist would visit me at home to evaluate my condition and provide help. Each one told me on their first visit that I was doing so well on my own I would need no further help from them.
• An orthopedic surgeon reports that he uses Hemi-Sync tapes in his surgical practice and at an institute for pain and stress management. He recommends that patients use the Surgical Support Series to encourage relaxation in the operating room, and to promote healing in the recovery room afterward. He finds the tapes valuable during surgery because he believes patients are aware of what is going on even under anesthesia.
  
  At the pain and stress management institute, Hemi-Sync tapes are broadcast over the public address system throughout the center and in the waiting room. Different tapes are used to achieve desired effects from encouraging relaxation to enhancing concentration and cognitive function.
  
  The doctor reports: "Anyone who has undergone major surgery, [with] the tapes found a significant reduction in the pain experienced afterward. The audio signals helped reduce the constant psychological turmoil that people go through."
• A large mass was discovered in my breast. Surgery was scheduled and general anesthesia was ordered. During the surgery, I used the verbal cue of the Relax tape and my feelings of panic were immediately washed away. After the surgery was completed, I went to the recovery room awake, alert, and feeling great. After only twenty minutes, I was moved to a unit for two hours of observation. Thirty minutes later I was told I could go home. Using my Metamusic CD at work and my DEC tape at home, I never needed to take a pain pill. The 2-1/2 inch incision healed in record time. I feel so lucky to be a registered nurse who understands physical needs, and to know that Hemi-Sync is available to complement traditional medicine for those who seek it.

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Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• A retired Naval Officer states: Perhaps we get sick because we don't know how to stay well. My focus has been on seeking ways to stay well, and the Monroe Institute tapes have been a big part of my efforts. The H+ tapes work for me as a direct mind-to-body experience. Initially I used one or two tapes every day at the same time, but now I listen when I feel the need. The tapes are a support mechanism, playing a dominant training role in the beginning and a less frequent, but important, refresher role when one becomes familiar with the techniques. They play a significant part in my continuing state of overall well-being.
• H+ Tune-Up has become my all-purpose health helper. For example, using the Function Command stops insect bites from itching, ends the first throbs of headache in the early stages, eases the symptoms of indigestion, eliminates the stinging of paper cuts. I don't know why it works, but it sure does!
• The Positive Immunity Program has been very powerful and effective for a variety of ailments. I had been plagued with a "swimmers ear" type of infection, used the FF-12 and Patterning concepts in the series, and saw dramatic results within 24 hours. I had also been taking prescription drugs for stomach pain and cramps for 3 years, and no longer use it, nor do I need the medication I had used for allergies. I attribute all of this to the Positive Immunity Program.
• A psychologist reports using Lungs: Repair and Maintenance with excellent success with five asthmatic children and adults. One woman had been having difficulty climbing a short flight of stairs and was using her inhaler approximately six times per day. Within three weeks after starting to use the tape, she was swimming a third of a mile daily and using her inhaler only twice per week. This gain remained consistent over a one-year period.
• For about four months I faithfully used a combination of the tapes called De-Discomfort, Energy Walk and Circulation. At this writing, all symptoms have virtually disappeared except for relatively minor discomfort when I indulge in coffee or chocolate.
• A physician who suffers from Chrones disease reports: "I am very impressed and excited with the Positive Immunity Program. Although I hadn't expected any improvement to occur so quickly, I have already experienced a reduction in cramping, diarrhea, and stress, and I feel in control of my illness for the first time. I have completed listening to the program twice, and during a long hospital stay, used it for reinforcement. The amount of pain medication needed was significantly reduced and I was able to maintain a remarkably positive attitude."
• For five years the edema in my left foot had failed to respond to treatment. When I first started using the H+ Circulation tape the swelling reduced almost immediately and now, after frequent use over the past three years, it seldom swells at all.
• H+ Circulation relieved a life-long problem of unnaturally cold hands and feet, which meant that I had to sleep under a heavy weight of blankets. Within two months of using the tape this condition ceased to trouble me.
• A patient whose hands always felt cold due to poor circulation used the H+ Circulation tape. A biofeedback machine indicated a very quick raise in temperature at a fingertip sensor from 32 to 37 degrees centigrade.
• The Circulation tape helped a lot with diminishing deep bruising and reabsorbing the hematoma after a serious injury.
• Because of poor circulation, I always felt colder than anybody else, and was especially bothered by icy hands and feet. Resonant Tuning gives me an increase in heat throughout my body, as well as a tremendous rush of energy.
• I have been using H+ Immunizing to combat nasty flu-bugs to which I was exposed and began coming down with. I experienced one particularly bad flu, which knocked people out for 3-4 weeks with multiple ear/sinus/throat/chest/intestinal symptoms, as a series of very mild symptoms for about a week.
• The H+ Circulation tape helped me with migraine headaches. I believe that by redistributing blood throughout the body in a balanced manner, it enables the engorged blood in the head to dissipate.
• For years I had regular headaches as a result of a sinus problem caused by allergies. Since using H+ Tune-Up I haven't had one. At worst, there has been some general sinus discomfort, but this hasn't reached the level of pain. I have not used even an aspirin for pain since starting with Hemi-Sync.
• I had suffered all my life with bouts of headaches which lasted days or weeks. I was in the midst of a severe bout when I received the Pain Control tape. I used it and got immediate results, and the relief enabled me to continue with an important project. Doctors, medication, and relaxation techniques had failed to help me, but the tape worked.
• Since I started listening to Brain: Repair & Maintenance, my frequent headaches are history. I haven't had one!
• Epstein-Barr and Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction has left me severely debilitated, very weak, and often in pain. I am finding the Pain Control tape very effective, and I feel a tremendous amount of energy surge through my body when I listen to Energy Walk.
• H+ Lungs: Repair and Maintenance works well for people with AIDS-related pneumonia.
• The following Hemi-Sync tapes were found to be the most beneficial by participants in a support group for HIV Positive patients: Circulation, Reset, Restorative Sleep, Tune-Up, Lungs: Repair and Maintenance , Off-Loading , and Let Go. Favorite Metamusic Artists selections for this group include Sleeping Through the Rain , Inner Journey , Cloudscapes, Prisms and Transformation.
• Hemi-Sync tapes were part of an eight week (24-hour) seminar attended by eight HIV positive men. Among the results: all noted an overall improvement in sleep patterns; two with pain noted a total cessation of symptoms; two reported a substantial (200+) increase in T4 cell levels; all noted significant changes related to well-being and physical relaxation. There was a noticeable reduction of general anxiety and tension, increased permission to explore options for change, increase in commitment to improve the quality of their lives, increase in personal energy conveyed and enthusiasm expressed in body posture and general attitude.
• Susan contracted the AIDS virus through a transfusion of contaminated blood during a routine surgical procedure five years ago. She is a person who has an open mind and helps herself, given the tools. She is using H+ Immunizing, Imprint, Energy Walk, The Visit, and Focus 10, and tells me that Hemi-Sync gives her necessary support to make her able to continue leading a normal life.
• This 91-year-old patient with a profound hearing loss in the left ear and almost profound in the right ear, wears hearing aids. He listened very intently to the Prep side of H+ Circulation and repeated aloud everything that was being said on the tape.
• I gave Sensory: Hearing to a colleague who suffered from episodes of ringing in his ear followed by intense headache. The diagnosis had been degenerative nerve disease. At this next episode, he listened to the tape five times over a three-day period -- all the symptoms stopped and he hasn't had another episode for three months now. He's very grateful for the relief and also for the relaxation from Hemi-Sync tapes.
• A Multiple Sclerosis patient reports: Restorative Sleep has been really helpful. Just giving the Function Command can start me yawning (usually I combine it with Tune-Up ). De-Tox: Body is another favorite. I focus on body, mind, spirit, and aura while doing the Command and really feel a clearing effect. Immunizing and De-Tox: Body helped me through a couple of colds. Symptoms didn't seem as bad and they didn't seem to last as long. Using the Functions may have kept MS symptoms from getting worse then, too. I also keep Contemplation "on board" -- it makes me aware of what I do all the time. Generally, I use the Commands several times a day and precede whatever else I'm using with Relax.
• The doctors of an eighty-year-old nun due for a cataract operation feared that the herpes infection in her eyes might flare up and perhaps lead to blindness. She insisted on going through with the operation, given added confidence through using H+ Sensory: Seeing. The operation was successful, with no complications. She continued with the tape afterwards and greatly surprised her doctor by the virtually total recovery of her vision.
• A professional photographer told me that after moving into his 50s he found his vision becoming less and less sharp. I told him about H+ Sensory: Seeing, and got a fancy dinner at a fancy restaurant as a Thank You. He now uses the function command before going out on assignment and during the assignment, and says that his sight is as good as it ever was.
• The drug for cystic fibrosis that seven-year-old Danny has been taking since birth brings on diabetic symptoms and cysts on the lung. During one of his frequent hospital stays, unable to get enough air, he started gasping. The nurse played Lungs: Repair & Maintenance, left at the bedside by Danny's mother. Her young patient began to breath more and more normally, settled back, and relaxed.
• I play the Metamusic® Artist CDs for my brother-in-law who has Parkinson's Disease and dementia. They're wonderful. They relax him and also help him to speak a bit.
• The patient was a 61-year-old woman admitted with severe emphysema, congestive heart failure, and depression, very anxious and struggling to breathe. Within 24 hours after I began using Deep 10 Relaxation with her the staff was reporting a significant reduction in her anxiety level.
• My mother has Alzheimer's disease, does not speak, and did not respond in any noticeable way to people who visited her. Since we started playing Metamusic tapes for her we seem able to read expressions on her face.
• I took Sleeping Through the Rain with me to the hospital when I had an operation. I have always found it to be very soothing and relaxing and it stood me in good stead during hospital nights when I would wake up. It kept me relaxed and rested and I breezed through with no problems. Recuperation, Energy Walk, and Restorative Sleep are also favorites. The doctor said I healed so fast he couldn't believe it. In fact, whenever I get a cold or am not feeling up to par, I get out these same tapes and put them to use.
• A 55-year old woman improved her heart function and her general physical condition with the following H+ tapes used three times daily: Relax, Attention, Let Go, Off-Loading , De-Tox: Body, Circulation. The patient has been advised by her physician to keep up the Hemi-Sync and there is no need to return to medication. Patient is to have blood drawn in six months and monitor results. It is important to note here that this patient decided to forego any medication and used only Hemi-Sync technology to achieve excellent results under very stressful conditions.
• I occasionally experience an unpleasant and sometimes frightening racing of my heartbeat. (My doctor has explained what this is and it is not something to worry about.) It feels as if a switch has been flipped. One minute, I'm fine; the next I feel a strong pounding in my chest and my heart seems to be racing top speed. It usually seems to occur when I've not gotten enough rest. Sometimes it is triggered by bending for something and coming up too fast. Other times, I can be reading for an hour--perfectly relaxed--and out of the blue the switch flips and I feel it.
  
  This particular time, I'd bent down for something and came up fast. As I did, I felt the sudden hard, fast pounding and could hear it (blood pounding) in my ears. It was so strong, I felt that I might pass out. I got to a chair and sat down. My husband was six feet away from me around the corner in the dining room, but I could not call him; the pounding was too hard, my breath too short. The feeling of passing out was still strong. I immediately thought of following H+ but then my mind went blank. I couldn't remember the Heart Command. I knew I'd done other exercises that would help me (Circulation, following Tune-Up) but could not even recall their names, let alone their Commands. Finally, the only one that came to mind was Relax. I tried to take a deep breath but was only able to inhale one half. I then started to say, Plus-Relax, Relax. The moment I said "Plus" in my mind, the pounding heartbeat stopped. I was so surprised I forgot to say the rest. What was so surprising was the utter stillness and quiet that I felt in my whole system and the absolute certainty that the word "Plus" had triggered this instant change. The stillness and quiet was incredibly beautiful; like the utter stillness of deep contemplation.
  
  I was floating in this stillness and then, silly as this may sound, I mentally panicked and started checking my body for signs: couldn't hear my heart beating, no movement, no breathing. Rational thought came to the rescue. If I'd stopped my heart with the "Plus," would I still be sitting in the chair? I felt the cool glass of the table top under my arm; my eyes were definitely staring at the orange-brown tiles on the kitchen floor. And maybe I couldn't hear breathing because I was still holding my breath. With this realization, I started to breath out and finish the Function Command. As I released my breath slowly, I said "relax."
  
  The moment I said it, I felt a strong, single, pounding heartbeat in my chest and heard the beat `in' my ears. I felt an inner flutter of hesitation, Was the pounding, racing beat going to return? I finished the Command, letting out my breath slowly and saying the final "Relax." With that word, I felt the erratic, racing and pounding beat wash out of me in a single wave and felt this wave continue outward beyond me, out of the room, out of the house. I felt fine, as I had before this happened.
  
  Why Relax?? My doctor has said people do faint when this happens if they get too panicky. Her advice--RELAX! Sit down or lie down. And just RELAX! This kind of experience is usually a frightening one; one which the body controls and turns on. Now I can mentally regain control with Plus - Relax, Relax and rebalance my system. It will be a great help to the many others who also experience this not uncommon phenomenon.
• I suffer from a heart condition which brings about sudden changes of blood pressure. There's been a distinct difference since I started listening to H+ Circulation and Heart: Repairs & Maintenance -- markedly fewer changes in pressure and, when there is a change, it's more moderate.
• I have Multiple Sclerosis, so there's a lot of stuff going on with my body, unfortunately none of it good. I heard about your tapes on a TV program, how someone overcame all her pain with these tapes. I suffer chronic pain because of my M.S., among other symptoms. The next day I went to my local bookstore and purchased De-Discomfort. I have to admit my attitude was bad, but I thought, what the heck, what do I have to lose? That night I went through the Prep side twice and was amazed that I was feeling happy and relaxed, then I went on with the exercise. The next morning when I got out of bed, I still had all my M.S. symptoms, minus pain. I thought I was dreaming. I didn't know how to act! For the first time in eight years I didn't have pain!
  
  My next step was to get other tapes to help me with other symptoms. Sensory: Seeing for my sight, Brain: Repairs & Maintenance for my short-circuited brain, Recharge for chronic fatigue, Think Fast, again for my short-circuited brain, and Restorative Sleep for the healing of my body while I am asleep. For the last three weeks I have been suffering from an exacerbation, so the real test is here. For the last two weeks I have been using the tapes and all I can say is: this is the best attack I have ever had! When I feel really crummy I listen to Energy Walk. I sleep like a baby, and wake up feeling good. No more daily pain medication or tranquilizers for anxiety and numbness, because I now have another way to deal with my life as a person who has M.S.
• My allergy symptoms are less severe since I started using the method taught on De-Tox: Body and Tune-Up tapes. In just a few minutes, I can enhance my body's ability to discharge substances that normally cause a reaction. This is great, especially during the Spring and Fall allergy seasons.
• I recently used the Time Out for Sleep CD track with the health affirmation during a bout with a cold/flu which every one at work suffered from for several days. I believe that Hemi-Sync shortened the peak symptoms to only two days, with a slightly longer period of productive recovery. The effects of the flu had subsided in less than a week for me, while others suffered for up to two weeks.
• My husband has been taking medication to control the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease for 15 years. As is usual with Parkinson's, there has been a constant, slow deterioration in his functioning, and his symptoms are sometimes more and sometimes less severe. I recently learned about Hemi-Sync and bought the tape Brain: Repairs & Maintenance for him. At this point, he is not able to use the verbal cue by himself to activate the desired brain wave state, but I have been playing Side B in the bedroom at night. He looks forward to the tape, finds it very relaxing, and falls asleep quickly before the tape is finished. It seems to me that he is calmer and more aware since we've been using the tape.
• I've used De-Tox to get rid of bothersome allergies which used to cause a constant runny nose in the Spring and Fall. The Tune-Up tape function command works well with both the De-Tox and the De-Discomfort commands to get rid of allergies, headaches, and head cold problems.
• I recently slipped and fell while getting into my car on a rainy day. As a result of the accident, I incurred broken bones in my left hand and foot, and both were put in casts. Since the pain was quite intense, the orthopedic surgeon gave me prescriptions for pain killers, and recommended that I remain immobilized for up to five weeks. Because I had been a long time user of Hemi-Sync tapes, I knew my recovery would not be a problem. I listened to De-Discomfort and Pain Control to ease the pain and swelling, and only needed to take medication for two days. Energy Walk and Restorative Sleep lulled me into deep regenerative sleep states. I returned to work after only five days and my mobility and energy has been very good throughout the ordeal.
• While traveling abroad, I contracted the flu so severely that it was difficult to get out of bed. Luckily, I had several Hemi-Sync tapes and my Walkman with me. After listening only once to Energy Walk, I woke up feeling energized and stronger. The sore throat, muscle pain, fever, and other symptoms decreased steadily over the next 24 hours, and by the following day I was almost completely recovered.
• My mother has been in what the chronic care hospital calls a vegetative state since her stroke, and her caretakers had "given up" on her. I wasn't ready to give up, and continued to believe that she was aware, even if she couldn't speak or move. Since I've been playing Hemi-Sync tapes for her (from the Surgical Support Series), she seems more relaxed , calm, and peaceful. Now when I ask her a question, I tell her to blink twice to mean "yes", and she is able to do it. The nurses are intrigued and will be trying Hemi-Sync with other patients.
• Asthma has been a problem for me during most of my life. Since working with Lungs: Repairs & Maintenance, the attacks have lessened in number, and severity has decreased whenever I use the verbal cue of the tape. I've also noticed a gigantic improvement in my overall health.
• I have used the tape called Immunizing several times this winter to combat nasty flu-bugs to which I was exposed and began coming down with. One particularly bad one which knocked people out for 3-4 weeks with multiple ear/sinus/throat/chest/intestinal symptoms, I experienced as a series of very mild symptoms for about a week.
• For more than a year, I had much bladder discomfort due to tissue damage from previous infections. It is considered to be a medical "fact" that such damage does not repair, and people suffer the rest of their lives with irritation and pain, exacerbated by certain foods and liquids. In my case it was tomatoes, coffee, and chocolate, all containing serotonin which is excreted in the urine.
• For about four months I faithfully used a combination of the tapes called De-Discomfort, Energy Walk and Circulation. At this writing, all symptoms have virtually disappeared except for relatively minor discomfort from coffee and chocolate.

Stroke | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "I tell people that the SRS [Support for Stroke Recovery] will help them, but it is dependent on them on how great this help will be. "Feel the Force", "Go with the Flow", etc. and they will get some benefit. And they do. People like to take control of their lives and help themselves. SRS allows them to do so."
  -Brian Dailey, M.D., New York
• Now in her 40s and in a wheel chair, she had had the first of a series of strokes at age 25. I was treating her for depressive disorder, which included frequent, uncontrollable weeping. During one session I put on a Metamusic tape. The tears stopped and she became calmer almost immediately. After we talked about the experience, she asked for a tape of her own to play whenever she felt the need. She recognized that she had found a tool to use to help herself.
• My mother has been in what the chronic care hospital calls a vegetative state since her stroke, and her caretakers had "given up" on her. I wasn't ready to give up, and continued to believe that she was aware, even if she couldn't speak or move. Since I've been playing Hemi-Sync tapes for her (from the Surgical Support Series), she seems more relaxed , calm, and peaceful. Now when I ask her a question, I tell her to blink twice to mean "yes", and she is able to do it. The nurses are intrigued and will be trying Hemi-Sync with other patients.
• The physical therapist who has been working regularly with my mother since her stroke was astounded by the effect of the (Remembrance ) tape. Because this tape has been so useful in helping me to concentrate, I had decided to experiment with playing it softly as background in the bedroom during a therapy session, hoping it would increase mother's responsiveness to the therapist's directions. Within the first few moments of the tape, the expression on mother's face changed dramatically from tight and negative to relaxed and positive, and her cooperation with the therapist was at a higher level than had been possible before. After the tape ended, the therapist and I spoke together about the remarkable transformation we had witnessed. When our attention returned to mother, we saw that the pinched, strained expression had replaced the earlier Hemi-Sync expression.
• I loaned the stroke patient Brain: Repair & Maintenance and my own cassette player and headphones. That afternoon she was sleeping soundly, her whole body relaxed and her mouth open, snoring away. By evening she was sitting up, more alert and smiling for the first time. During our meeting the next day she said of the tapes, "They're wonderful. I feel so relaxed." Her recovery progressed nicely, and I spoke to her as she was preparing to return home. She cried when she told me how much she thought Hemi-Sync had helped her, saying she was deeply moved.
• Joan is a badly disabled stroke patient, confined to a wheelchair, with no use of her left arm and leg. Some months after listening to a selection of Human Plus tapes and tapes from the Discovery album of Gateway Experience, she reported, "I looked at my outstretched and spasmed fingers; then, with closed eyes, I gently curved them down." Several months later: "I am aware of a sort of "pre-movement," a definite impulse in the affected side, especially in fingers,toes and forearm. The ankle is slightly moving. I'm gradually starting to work with the Hemi-Sync sound patterns by working them down the body and into the extremities. I am aware of an interlacing between right and left hand sides." Later still: "Since I've been working with the tapes I'm less and less aware of my disability. In fact, if I hold an image of myself it's not one of a disabled person. Neither is it the person I used to be. Rather, the Joan that is. This has given me the freedom to explore, to take risks, to be curious about my possibilities, and to push back the boundaries and limits."
• He had a stroke in '87 and made little progress until two years ago. Since he began listening to Hemi-Sync he is now driving his car again on short runs, is recovering speech function, can now be understood when talking on the phone, and lives an active retirement.
• My father had severe back pain following his CVI and has encountered many difficulties involving pain control. Medications intended to be relaxing and pain-easing have had the opposite effect, leaving him restless and unable to sleep while, at the same time, doing little to alleviate the constant pain. To make matters worse, he didn't like the way the medications left him. As he put it, "They make me feel bad." Energy Walk and Pain Control have given him tools that relieve the pain so well he rarely takes any pain medication. The tapes also help him relax (which in itself helps with the pain) and to sleep at night. These good results have come with listening through speakers placed on his right and left sides.
• A minor stroke left me feeling very depressed about the reduction of my physical capacities. I sensed myself going into a downward spiral as I comtemplated the limitations I now had to live with. I started using Off-Loading and Eight Great to focus on the positive, to reinforce my enjoyment of the things I was still able to do. The depression is gone and - an unanticipated bonus - I find myself able to do more and more.

Weight Control | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• Many people I know have used H+ Eat/No Eat to help them control their eating habits and to lose weight successfully. Several have lost up to fifty pounds. I've personally used Eat/No Eat and Nutricia to help me lose twenty pounds and then to maintain my weight. These tapes complement any diet plan. They've been quite helpful with students suffering from anorexia and bulimia.
• Report from a compulsive overeater. Hemi-Sync has been an invaluable resource in my struggle to keep some balance in my eating patterns. I knew I needed to let go of worries and upsetting emotions and calm down from general stress, but had been unable to do so on my own. Now that I have Hemi-Sync as a tool, I can use the encoded signal from the H+ Let Go or Relax tapes to let go of an upsetting emotion or to relax. This has taken away much of my sense of powerlessness over my own responses.
• From the first day I began using the tapes, about ten weeks ago, I noticed a calming effect. For the first week or so I played Nutricia once a day, usually falling asleep almost immediately upon starting the tape. During that period, I didn't consciously invoke the encoding signals, and I noticed I was calmer, more centered, more able to focus, much more able to make decisions about my life and daily events. The binges stopped for several weeks. Since then I have had only two or three binge episodes, and have been able to come out of them quicker that I would have been able to before.
• The sound frequencies on H+ Eat/No Eat induce me to relax so completely that I feel de-stressed and refreshed. That alone is valuable. In addition, when I use the Function Command, it gives pause to an otherwise compulsive action. A slight (though perceptible) physical change seems to take place. My throat responds by "shutting down" - I don't know of another way to describe this - and my sense of smell and taste are neutralized.
• I use the Eat/No Eat Function Command when I walk into the kitchen on my way to the fridg for a snack. By the time I cross the room I find the desire to snack has passed. Diet and exercise have helped me lose weight, too, but Eat/No Eat provides the reinforcement and extra support I still need.
• For a long time I had been successfully trying to deal with my weight problem through using will power. What got in the way was my habit of telling myself, "I'll just have this and then I'll stop tomorrow." Once I discovered De-Hab, this changed. All I need to do is say, "plus - no more," and the pizza is no longer tempting. The tape helps me take action immediately instead of putting it off to another time.
• The De-Hab tape has been very helpful in overcoming my compulsive eating.
• I'm seeing some weight loss with the Eat/No Eat and De-Hab tapes, and for the first time in years am able to stick with the lifestyle changes which are necessary for weight reduction.

AIDS | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• H+ Lungs: Repair and Maintenance works well for people with AIDS-related pneumonia.
  
  
• The following H+ tapes were found to be the most beneficial by participants in a support group for HIV Positive patients: Circulation, Reset, Restorative Sleep, Tune-Up, Lungs: Support and Maintenance, Off-Loading, and Let Go. Favorite Metamusic Artists selections for this group include Sleeping Through the Rain, Inner Journey, Cloudscapes, Transformation, and Prisms.
  
  
• An HIV positive patient reports: "The H+ tapes work for me as a direct mind-to-body experience. All have something to offer, and I believe each person who uses them regularly will develop a combination that works best for him or her. Initially I used one or two tapes every day. Now I listen when I feel the need and don't have a regular schedule. The tape I use and the time I use it is determined by my own sense."
  
  
• Hemi-Sync® tapes were part of an eight week (24-hour) seminar attended by eight HIV positive men. Among the results: all noted an overall improvement in sleep patterns; two with pain noted a total cessation of symptoms; two reported a substantial (200+) increase in T4 cell levels; all noted significant changes related to well-being and physical relaxation. There was a noticeable reduction of general anxiety and tension, increased permission to explore options for change, increase in commitment to improve the quality of their lives, increase in personal energy conveyed and enthusiasm expressed in body posture and general attitude.
  
  
• Susan contracted the AIDS virus through a transfusion of contaminated blood during a routine surgical procedure five years ago. She is a person who has an open mind and helps herself, given the tools. She is using Immunizing, Imprint, Energy Walk, The Visit, and Focus 10, and tells that Hemi-Sync® gives her necessary support to make her able to continue leading a normal life.
  
  
• The Positive Immunity Program is available as an album for home use that incorporates tapes from the Gateway Experience Waves I and II and selected H+ tapes. It is a coping tool for those struggling with this new way of living. It opens doors to transformation and can be used to help create a harmonious release from a body stricken with AIDS. It is a most vital tool for the journey of those facing life with AIDS.

Immune Disorders | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• Epstein-Barr and Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction has left me severely debilitated, very weak, and often in pain. I am finding the Pain Control tape very effective, and I feel a tremendous amount of energy surge through my body when I listen to Energy Walk.
• I have suffered from Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS) for years. The debilitating fatigue, chronic viral infections, and muscular pain kept me disabled for a long time. Although standard medical treatment did help with some of the symptoms, the healing effects of Hemi-Sync® tapes made the greatest impact on my condition. In the beginning, I listened to a few of the nonverbal and musical tapes several times a day. The immediate effect was of release from discomfort to a feeling of well being. Once I became aware of the other tapes the Institute offered, I added Pain Control, Restorative Sleep, and Immunizing to my collection, and experienced wonderful results. Within several months of using them, the aching in my body subsided and my overall energy increased quite substantially. Hemi-Sync tapes continue to give me relief.
• My sister and I both have CFIDS, and a big part of the syndrome is the inability to get quality sleep. Usually I couldn't sleep without the aid of sleeping pills. Since I began using the Hemi-Sync tape Deep 10 Relaxation, I have been able to nap in the afternoon and have found a good night's sleep for the first time in many years. With the Positive Immunity Program, my sister and I have learned some very good techniques for managing other symptoms.
• The Time Out for Sleep CD has been very beneficial for me and others in my support group who have the physiological sleep problems that are inherent with Fibromyalgia. It enables one to get the deep sleep required for healthier functioning of the body. De-Discomfort and Pain Control are also favorites to help alleviate the all over body pain.
• I battle with chronic Epstein Barr and cytomegalovirus infections, and this makes exposure to a cold or flu bug a real threat to my already fragile health. I have used the Positive Immunity Program to enhance the recuperative process when struck with a bug or even a bad cold. I now get well quickly from these things that previously took weeks to conquer.
• The Positive Immunity Program is useful for building a better level of health and well-being for those who have a variety of Auto-Immune based illnesses. My family and I have had good results with using it for allergies, arthritis, and chronic herpes breakouts. Whenever symptoms begin to flare up, we use the tapes to help stabilize the conditions.
• I conduct Hemi-Sync workshops for those who suffer from the sleep disturbances associated with Fibromyalgia. One participant's sleep pattern was so disrupted that she could not sleep without drugs, ever. She could be so fatigued that her vision blurred and she stumbled while walking, yet when she tried, she could not sleep. During the first day of the workshop, she was awakened by another participant snoring (another success story), and started crying. It was the first time she had been asleep without drugs in 18 months. The following Monday morning, we received a call from her stating she'd had two full nights of undisturbed sleep while using Hemi-Sync sleep tapes. She and the other participants report similar experiences, and continue to benefit from the tapes.
• The loss of cognitive ability has been one of the most frustrating things to deal with in my journey through CFIDS. In addition to the physical disability, short-term memory loss has been a problem for me. The Imprint and Remembrance tapes have been helpful in this area. I have improved recall and clarity, and feel more confident about myself.
• Dysfunctional sleep had been one of my wife's most disturbing Fibromyalgia symptoms. During the week she spent at The Monroe Institute taking the Gateway Voyage program, she enjoyed quality sleep for the first time in a long while, and continues to benefit from improved sleep with the use of Hemi-Sync tapes at home.
• About a year after I was diagnosed with CFIDS, a friend gave me a few Metamusic® tapes to try. He said the tapes might be soothing to listen to, but did not explain anything about Hemi-Sync to me. After a week of listening daily, much to my amazement, I noticed an improvement in the way I felt physically and emotionally. That was 7 years ago. In the years since then, I have incorporated several types of Hemi-Sync tapes into my daily routine, and I have gained control of my symptoms. Surf , Energy Walk and De-Discomfort are some which are very effective for me. I have been able to resume a 6 hour a day work schedule for the past four years, and when I return home, all I need do is rest for an hour or so, listen to one of my tapes, and I'm replenished again for several hours in the evening. This is quite an accomplishment for someone who was totally debilitated. Hemi-Sync has greatly enhanced the quality of my life.
• I tried the Time Out For Sleep CD to see if it would help me overcome the sleep disorder that accompanies FMS. It really works, and my recovery has been rapid. It is now possible to walk upstairs without pain, and my body is pain free a lot of the time. One or two "Time Out" naps a day keep the chronic fatigue at bay. There are more comfortable times than painful ones, and I'm optimistic about full recovery.
• A therapist reports: "On the first visit the client complained of tiredness after physical exercise of any sort, inability to concentrate, and general depression, all classic symptoms of ME (CFIDS)." After using Hemi-Sync tapes for a while, the client reported, "The tapes provide a safe environment in which to get to know myself. I'm feeling in control again after a long period of feeling controlled by illness and doctors. Hemi-Sync® gives me the freedom and encouragement to recognize my own needs and to use the appropriate tapes as a solution." Tune Up, De-Tox: Body, Circulation, Relax, and Off-Loading are among the tapes she uses.
• A therapist reports on two clients who use Hemi-Sync to deal with post viral fatigue syndrome: "While neither client is completely cured, both have gone a very long way to being able to cope effectively with their symptoms. Both women still have days when they become extremely fatigued and need periods of rest, but mentally they are now attuned to handling these symptoms and they soon recover from them."

Headaches | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• The H+ Circulation tape helped me with migraine headaches. My belief is that by redistributing blood throughout the body in a balanced manner, it enables the engorged blood in the head to dissipate.
• For years I have had regular headaches as a result of a sinus problem caused by allergies. Since using Tune-Up I haven't had one. At worst, I have had some general discomfort in my sinuses, but this hasn't reached the level of pain. I have not used even an aspirin for pain since starting with Hemi-Sync.
• For years I had regular headaches as a result of a sinus problem caused by allergies. Since using Tune-Up I haven't had one. At worst, there has been some general sinus discomfort, but this hasn't reached the level of pain. I have not used even an aspirin for pain since starting with Hemi-Sync.
• I had suffered all my life with bouts of headaches which lasted days or weeks. I was in the midst of a severe bout when I received the Pain Control tape. I used it and got immediate results, and the relief enabled me to continue with an important project. Doctors, medication, and relaxation techniques had failed to help me, but the tape worked.
• Since I started listening to Brain: Repair & Maintenance, my frequent headaches are history. I haven't had one!
• Tune-Up has become my all-purpose health helper. For example, using the Function Command stops insect bites from itching, ends the first throbs of headache in the early stages, eases the symptoms of indigestion, eliminates the stinging of paper cuts. I don't know why it works, but it sure does!

Cancer | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "The tapes [Surgical Support Series] helped greatly in reducing fear and stress during the whole ordeal. I was able to stay calm and reduce pain with the aid of commands. I woke up in recovery with none of the nausea or brainfog I was told to expect. I was able to celebrate good news that the tumor was contained when I returned to my room and was speaking on the phone right away. I never used pain medication outside the hospital. I used the tapes for all in-patient and out-patient surgeries (for port insertion and removal) with the same result."
• “I took the Chemotherapy Companion tape to all of my chemo treatments. I was always anxious when I got to the hospital, but as soon as I turned on the tape, I was calm and relaxed again.”     - Diana Purvis, Nellysford, VA
• "Before Chemo, my sister (an M.D.) told me I was going to be very, very sick. I used the Surf tape, doubting anything could calm me down. Miraculously after about 20 minutes I was calm and very heartened by the experience. During 12 heavy duty chemo treatments over six months, I was able to remain calm as I listened to the tapes before, during, and after the procedures, six of them overnight in the hospital. I never got sick except for fatigue, which started only with the eighth treatment. Before that I was able to travel, remain active and even walk miles at a time. After second look surgery, I was declared cancer-free and even though I still had four more chemo treatments to go, I began to bounce back very quickly. A month after my last chemo treatment (three months after the second look surgery) I was canoeing, hiking and snorkeling. My oncologist and nurses at a renowned regional cancer center had never seen anyone go through the protocol so well."  - Lynne Locatell, Bend, OR
• The scheduled doses of morphine were no longer controlling the pain of his terminal cancer. When the doctor started continual morphine drips, it was hard to know if he was sleeping or not because even when awake, he wasn't really here. His wife played the Pain Management tape and he very soon fell into a deep sleep with his abdomen breathing rhythmically. In the morning he was much more alert and asked for more tapes. Energy Walk was his favorite. The following day he was even more alert and asked the doctor to remove the morphine drips. He passed away peacefully this morning.
• Report from psychologist: The patient's cancer continues to spread and he has been in considerable pain. He had been taking large amounts of medication: 125 mg of Tegretol three times a day, 12-15 cc a day of Dilantin, Darvocet every four hours, and Zantec. He had also been taking 11cc of Methadone four times a day and this was recently changed to morphine. Despite all the medication, his pain was poorly controlled.  I introduced him to the Hemi-Sync® Pain Management tape to use at home, and he finds it helps reduce pain between medications. After only four sessions, he is now seeing me on an "as needed" basis. The Pain Management tape has furnished the backbone of his treatment program.
• My husband was diagnosed as being in Stage III of testicle cancer. Surgery would kill him, we were told. Chemo was the only hope and, even with that, his chances of survival would be 30%. Throughout four months of chemotherapy I watched him lose his hair, lose weight, be violently ill from the side effects.
• The mass was reduced in size, though still huge in terms of medical safety. His doctors advised surgery even though there was very high risk that his lungs were now too weakened by chemotherapy drugs to withstand anesthesia for a ten-hour operation. We started using the Surgical Support Series days before the surgery, and consulted (and educated) the anesthesiologist about using the tapes during the operation.
• The ten-hour operation took four hours. The surgeons were able to remove the tumor mass intact and no live cancer cells were found.
• Report from a social worker: A 72-year-old widow with cancer was admitted to Hospice, and asked for a relaxation tape because, "I've never been a nervous person, but I've been climbing the walls since the chemotherapy." The Hemi-Sync® tape Deep 10 Relaxation was left with her. The following week she reported, "I haven't been taking as many pills since I began listening to the tape. I had been taking one pill every four hours or less. Yesterday, I only took one pill all day. I know the tape is helping me." She also reported improved sleep.
• Although nervousness and restlessness were her frequent complaints, she lay quietly after listening to the Surf tape, finally opening her eyes and saying, "I'm too relaxed to move." She also was delighted with the tape Energy Walk and said, "I played the tape twice today and it quieted my nerves. Not only does it help and relax me, I feel that something is happening in my body, and I know it is doing something for me. I played it again today and counted my breathing with and over the cancer. It makes me feel all over better and relaxed. I went off to sleep."
• About a patient whose cancer had recurred and metastasized, the doctor said, "She listened to Hemi-Sync® tapes (Metamusic, Gateway Experience, and Going Home) while undergoing five courses of chemotherapy. Everyone who knows her, including myself, has been impressed with her level of inner peace, her ability to be "in the moment" and take delight in small pleasures. Other feelings are there too-- anger and fear--but they don't overshadow the joy and peace."

Addictions | Top of Page

• Alcohol and drug abuse led to a very long, downhill slide. She began listening to Hemi-Sync® and found herself making better choices, about little things and big things, on a daily basis. After a while it became apparent that her whole life style had turned around. Deep 10 Relaxation was her favorite tape for nighttime use, and she listened to Remembrance during the day.
  
  
• All of our patients have successfully quit smoking and all report that the De-Hab tape is a key factor. The tape is also something they can review when necessary to reinforce their belief that they are indeed nonsmokers.
  
  
• Report from the attending physician at a rehabilitation center for alcohol and drug abuse: I introduced Hemi-Sync® as an adjunct to a traditional twelve step treatment program, with results that suggest a substantial increase in recovery for addicted patients using Hemi-Sync®. Direct action of Hemi-Sync® on the brain provides an excellent therapeutic tool. The experience of positive states of mind, not achieved by alcohol or drugs, reinforced the patient's ability to cope with stress and the craving for alcohol and drugs.
  
  
• I had tried everything to stop my addiction to pot, but nothing helped. I bought De-Tox: Body and Let Go, and have not had a joint in two months. The tapes worked very well together, but I liked De-Tox: Body the best.
  
  
• I've been working with the De-Hab tape to cut back on my smoking habit. During the first week I went from an average of 10 to 12 packs a week to 7 packs. Now I'm down to 3 to 4 packs a week, and feel really good about it.
  
  
• I was telling a friend about my discouragement over several failed attempts to stop smoking. She turned me on to Hemi-Sync® and - smart lady that she is - suggested I start with the Catnapper tape to learn the effectiveness of the Monroe method through my own experience. After a week of marveling at the restful breaks the tape provided in my busy days, I knew I had finally found the tool that would help me quit, and ordered.
  
  
• For most of my adult life I've been a two-pack-a-day smoker, and smoke even more as a response to the stress and discomfort of having MS. I started to cut down with the use of Möbius West and soon cut back to four cigarettes a day.
  
  
• I was introduced to Hemi-Sync® during the early stages of my recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. My counselor and I both agree that the tapes made a positive impact with the recovery process. I listen to De-Hab and De-Tox: Body to aid in replacing old emotional and physical patterns with healthier ones. Morning Exercise gives me an optimistic outlook to begin my day with, and Deep 10 Relaxation really helps me deal with stress related issues. Your tapes have been a strong source of support in my new life.
  
  
• Although I have been drug and alcohol free for several years, I still have difficulty with negative thought patterns creeping in. The Reset and De-Hab tapes have helped me to quickly change my attitude at times when I need to most.

Alzheimer's | Top of Page

• It began with my playing Metamusic tapes for the nursing home patients I met with in their rooms. The nurses liked what they were hearing and borrowed tapes from me. The area around the nurses' station was often noisy and hectic, crowded with anxious patients repeating demands that could not be satisfied. With Metamusic playing at the nurses' station, the whole atmosphere changed, becoming a place of calm and relaxation.
  
  
• The patient spent long hours roaming the nursing home corridors, confused and anxious, not knowing where her room was. At mealtime she wouldn't stay at the table long enough to eat. The nurses were unable to get her to stay in one place. On one of her wanderings she fell, was badly bruised, and needed pain meds, though the nurses were reluctant to give her too much. I led her to her room and played Sleeping Through the Rain for her. She fell asleep, went to the dining room for dinner and ate a good meal. "The tape didn't do a bit of good," she complained to me. In the background, the nurse gave me a thumbs up sign.
  
  
• My mother has Alzheimer's disease, does not speak, and did not respond in any noticeable way to people who visited her. Since we started playing Metamusic tapes for her we seem able to read expressions on her face.
  
  
• The Director of Clinical Services at an Alzheimer's Institute recommends relaxing Metamusic tapes. Their Hemi-Sync® patterns designed to slow brain wave activity soothe patients, improves behavior, and occasionally even memory, as well.
  
  
• The patient was constantly in motion: reaching out with her hands, picking at the arms of the chair, rocking from side to side, shaking her head. Within minutes after Cloudscapes began playing, the tight facial expression and pursed lips relaxed into a gentle smile, her tilted head indicated listening, and her hands remained at rest on the arms of the chair.
  
  
• When my father got into his frequent agitated states, nothing seemed to calm him. Whatever we said to him, he responded with more agitation. It was very distressing. A friend who also has Alzheimer's in her family loaned us some of her musical Hemi-Sync® tapes to try, and they have been life-savers. We keep Metamusic playing all day now, with the sound turned down very low. He's much calmer and seems to sleep better, too. Hemi-Sync® is not a cure, but it sure helps.
  
  
• Visiting with my aunt in the Alzheimer's unit of the senior citizens' facility was not my favorite thing to do. It was very troubling to witness occasional outbursts and other bizarre behavior from other patients. On my most recent visit I had been sitting with my aunt for almost an hour in the lounge with its usual number of patients when I realized how calm and peaceful everybody seemed today. I also became aware of soft music playing in the background. Before leaving after a very pleasant visit, I stopped at the nurses' station to comment on the difference and the nurse told me about the tapes (Hemi-Sync®).
  
  
• As mother's condition continued to deteriorate, it was becoming harder and harder on my dad, who was taking care of her at home. She would become suddenly angry, and accuse him of outrageous things, lock the bathroom door and not come out for hours, and fight him when he tried to distract her from going outside by herself. He didn't want to send her away but felt it was getting to be too much for him to handle, and he called the family together to talk about the situation. My brother and sister-in-law told us about how helpful Hemi-Sync® had been in evening out the behavior of their hyperactive son, and suggested that we try some of the tapes for mom. Nothing to lose, right? Dad kept the tapes playing all the time and found it much easier to manage things. Thanks to Hemi-Sync®, my parents had another six months together.

Multiple Sclerosis | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• I have Multiple Sclerosis, so there's a lot of stuff going on with my body, unfortunately none of it good. I heard about your tapes on a TV program, how someone overcame all her pain with these tapes. I suffer chronic pain because of my M.S., among other symptoms.
• The next day I went to my local bookstore and purchased De-Discomfort. I have to admit my attitude was bad, but I thought, what the heck, what do I have to lose? That night I went through the Prep side twice and was amazed that I was feeling happy and relaxed, then I went on with the exercise. The next morning when I got out of bed, I still had all my M.S. symptoms, minus pain. I thought I was dreaming. I didn't know how to act! For the first time in eight years I didn't have pain!
• My next step was to get other tapes to help me with other symptoms. Sensory: Seeing for my sight, Brain: Repair & Maintenance for my short-circuited brain, Recharge for chronic fatigue, Think Fast, again for my short-circuited brain, and Restorative Sleep for the healing of my body while I am asleep. For the last three weeks I have been suffering from an exacerbation, so the real test is here. For the last two weeks I have been using the tapes and all I can say is: this is the best attack I have ever had! When I feel really crummy I listen to Energy Walk. I sleep like a baby, and wake up feeling good. No more daily pain medication or tranquilizers for anxiety and numbness, because I now have another way to deal with my life as a person who has M.S.
• A Multiple Sclerosis patient reports: Restorative Sleep has been really helpful. Just giving the Function Command can start me yawning (usually I combine it with Tune-Up). De-Tox: Body is another favorite. I focus on body, mind, spirit, and aura while doing the Command and really feel a clearing effect. Immunizing and De-Tox: Body helped me through a couple of colds. Symptoms didn't seem as bad and they didn't seem to last as long. Using the Functions may have kept MS symptoms from getting worse then, too. I also keep Contemplation "on board"--it makes me aware of what I do all the time. Generally, I use the Commands several times a day and precede whatever else I'm using with Relax.
• I have had debilitating Multiple Sclerosis since the 'eighties and had long been looking for something that would help relieve my symptoms. I am very enthusiastic about the results I've had with Hemi-Sync tapes. In particular, the De-Discomfort tape has worked wonders in eliminating my pain.

Pregnancy / Childbirth | Top of Page

Information reported by individuals and/or by professional practitioners about the use of Hemi-Sync® Products.

• "I was introduced to the Hemi-Sync meditation by my friend. She and a group of friends gave me the Pregnancy and Childbirth tapes. They were amazing. My experience was amazing. Johanna is my fourth child and my other childbirth experiences cannot compare. After working with your tapes during the last four months of my pregnancy, I was able to completely slip into a calm and meditative state where I was aware of the pain but understood that it was good. The labor took 20 minutes, the pushing portion 12 minutes. I was calm, in control and it was beautiful. She is a magnificent child - very aware, and sensitive. I cannot help but believe that my use of the Hemi-Sync tapes has something to do with it."
  -Anne Swanson, Knoxville, TN
• Her previous pregnancy had ended in a miscarriage after seven months. This time, when the spotting and signs of premature labor began, the doctor ordered total bed rest. "Someone gave me Opening the Way and I was so bored in bed I listened to tape after tape for hours every day. I soaked myself in Hemi-Sync." In 10 days the doctor declared her out-of-the-woods and she went back to work part time. "I'm happy to be back at work except that it means I have less time to listen to Hemi-Sync."
• I love the tapes in Opening the Way, especially the labor tapes. I haven't gone into labor yet, but I listen to them anyway. I can't wait to use them in the delivery room.
• I received Opening the Way only three weeks before my baby was born, and didn't have as much time to "practice" with the tapes as I would have liked. No drugs were necessary until I was fully dilated, and I believe that with more exposure to these tapes I may have a delivery without drugs next time. I have never felt so relaxed and rejuvenated as I do after listening to these tapes. I use the nursing/post- partum tapes frequently while breastfeeding my baby. Milk is plentiful, there's no pain or discomfort at all, no encouragement problems, no difficulties of any kind.
• A pregnant friend was having an extremely rough time with nausea and vomiting. She was hospitalized five times for dehydration in the eighteen weeks of her pregnancy and spent one month in bed. After learning about this, I sent her Surf and Tune-Up by priority mail. She started using the tapes and began to be able to retain lunch and dinner. She's feeling much better, the nausea is minimal, she's able to enjoy food again, and has not been hospitalized since receiving the tapes. That may not sound like a big deal to most people, but to her it is definitely a miracle.
• An RN and Senior Midwife reports on her use of Hemi-Sync in the delivery room. Midsummer Night and other Metamusic tapes have been very helpful in all cases, and at least two of my patients have been enraptured. With one patient, I had to stop playing the tapes because it put her husband to sleep!
  
  Another patient said, as the sounds drifted over, "Oh, what beautiful music!" I played two tapes throughout her labor, which was fairly short, but turned the music off for the second stage as it didn't seem to blend with the activity of delivery. She needed an episiotomy and was dreading the suturing. I turned on a Metamusic tape, and she laid back, completely relaxed, while I did the stitching. I might add that I felt the benefits of the soothing sounds also!
• During the second month I began to experience terrible nausea. I couldn't keep any food in my body and I lost a lot of weight. I listened often to the Surf and Cloudscapes tapes to assist my movement into a deep state of relaxation. The hours with Hemi-Sync were often the only times I felt some peace and confidence. During those deep moments with the tapes I felt my connection with the baby to be very strong.
  
  After about eight weeks the difficulties were over and I recovered very quickly. I then investigated and began using your verbally guided tapes. Tune-Up enhanced my physical well-being, and I added Relax, Let Go, Immunizing, and Circulation. I felt really wonderful during the last six months of my pregnancy, with no heaviness or slowness. Until the last moment I was very active, running around, working in our vegetable garden, just loving my big belly and never feeling handicapped by it.
  
  After a marvelous Christmas dinner the contractions began and I started "resonant tuning" [a type of sustained vocalizing or chanting] during each wave. It was as if the tones were carrying me through the contractions, opening me up without tension or pain, and giving me energy. I was able to stay in the rhythm and the natural flow of my body. I listened to the Surf tape in the background over open speakers and felt just great until nearly the end. My body recovered immediately. Although I was nursing, three months after Raphael's birth I had all the energy I needed to function normally. I attribute this to the assistance of the Hemi-Sync process!
• In the first three months of pregnancy, it is important that women be assisted in becoming accustomed to the physical changes taking place within their bodies. These changes can occur more smoothly and easily if the woman is able to relax into them, with little or no resistance. Later in the pregnancy, after the initial physical adjustments have been made, the mother can attempt to contact her child non-verbally, using deeper states of relaxation to facilitate the contact. Also, the patterning techniques in the Gateway Experienceexercises can be used to visualize and affirm the best outcome for the pregnancy. The verbally guided tapes are excellent for overcoming physical problems, staying fit, and releasing emotional tensions.
• It is best if, during the birth process, tapes can be played in the delivery room. If the mother chooses those Hemi-Sync tapes that she especially likes, the ones that really helped her to relax during the pregnancy, her body will remember when hearing the sounds and will allow her to let go more easily.
• I'm so glad I took Surf and Cloudscapes to the hospital with me when I went in for the birth of my child. I couldn't have made it through such a trying labor without them. It was amazing how they set a mood of quiet and peacefulness in the room. Everyone who entered respected the very special atmosphere they created. The halls and other rooms were noisy and bustling, but the nurses and doctors tried extra hard to calm down when they came into my room. The tapes also helped my husband, mother, and sister relax enough to catch some sleep so they could be rested coaches for me. Hemi-Sync is great to keep a calm atmosphere now that we're home, too.
• My sister had a miscarriage last summer in the second trimester of her pregnancy. Although she and her husband were traumatized by this, they managed to get through the tough times and committed to try again.
  
  Last week I received the wonderful news that she was able to become pregnant again, however, she is considered to be a "high-risk" case. Even though she has a very supportive family and medical doctor, she had been unable to sleep, and was full of anxiety and fear this time.
  
  I really wanted to do something special for her, and decided to send her the series for pregnancy, Opening The Way. Within the last month, after using just the first and second tapes she has had remarkable results with reducing anxiety, and is now sleeping very well most nights. A sense of joy and confidence has replaced her fear. Since she shares her progress with me weekly, I am also gifted with the feeling of a greater connection to her during this special time in her life.
• A good friend of mine is pregnant, and she was having an extremely rough time with nausea and vomiting. She had been hospitalized five times for dehydration in the eighteen weeks of her pregnancy, and had also been bedridden for one month. I consulted the TMI catalog, and found several tapes that I thought might help, and decided to send Surf and Tune Up. I was pleased to receive a note from her, telling me she had been using the tapes, and was feeling much better. She had been able to eat and retain lunch and dinner several times in that first week. I spoke to her recently, and she sounded wonderful. The nausea is minimal, she is able to enjoy food again, and has not been hospitalized since she began using the Hemi-Sync tapes.
• I listened to the Labor and Pushing tapes from Opening The Way during the delivery of my child. They were an excellent source of support for relaxation and encouragement during the birthing process. I found it easier to handle my contractions, and I am pleased to say that I did not need to use any drugs until I was fully dilated. Since the birth, I've been using the Postpartum Well-Being, and Nursing Baby tapes while breast feeding my baby. I've had no difficulty with this at all, no pain or discomfort, have a plentiful supply of milk, and the tapes really enhance my enjoyment of this most precious time with my little one.
• A Midwife who teaches homebirth classes introduces her clients to the Opening The Way pregnancy series. She reports that clients reaching a deeply relaxed state while listening to the tapes, and most are anxious to explore the further use of Hemi-Sync for additional benefits and most are anxious to explore the use of Hemi-Sync for benefits during the different stages of pregnancy.
  
  One woman had experienced an elevation in blood pressure during the last part of her pregnancy and was put on strict bed rest. At her request, I sent several tapes home with her, and at the next class she stated that her blood pressure had remained at normal levels after she used the tapes. When it was time for the birth, she played the Labor tape, and after about three really strong contractions, pushed for five minutes and the baby was born! This couple has expressed deep gratitude for the extra support they received from Opening The Way.
• I value the Opening The Way series very much, especially the Midwife's comments on the first tape. Her insights are interesting, eye opening, and comforting. I experienced a sense of being welcomed into a much deeper level of intimacy with a part of pregnancy that I had not thought of before. I also feel more confident, and empowered, and this has automatically enabled me to feel closer to my baby. My worry about being a good mother after birth has decreased and I am much more comfortable with the entire process.

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