Sync It Holo Style

[Yog-sothoth]

So, Im reading this one book about binaural beats and this holosync program that enhances your meditation.  I'm on 5 day challenge meditating with it and wanted to know your toughs is it a reasonable purchase, this program? Or meditations tehnics Leo provides will be of the same value?

[Yog-sothoth]

Anyone?

[Lord God]

I'll bite since nobody is replying to you.

I've used a mixture of music, binaural beats, silence, and nature for my meditation. All of them bring a unique experience to the table when  it comes to long sit meditation.

Music: Bringing an album in can have a profound impact on any meditation especially 90min+ sits. The difference I find in comparison to silence is that once you transcend being yourself you can get very caught up in the emotions of the song. If a song is soothing or filled with surrender by nature (Everyone's gone to the rapture OST is a good example of this) then your meditation will take the same tones applied to whatever particular battle with the self element you are presently experiencing. If you're in an exploitative mood things like Dark side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, or Space Oddity by David Bowie can all give you a different dimension to consider and explore. Simply put if you empty your cup and then listen to music you will be filled with the message the artist is sending, which can be beautiful but isn't always helpful.

Silence: A preferred medium by many, silence allows just a sheer amount of focus to be placed on eliminating the self element. You will only have your thoughts and your thoughts alone and that will allow an enormous amount of conscious traction as nothing can be blamed on any "external" element later. Where I find silence tends to fall off and music becomes useful is when you're dealing with a particularly long sitting and you need a source of energy to keep you flowing forward. Music can provide that, with silence the task is much more difficult but the reward tends to be increased as well. I tend to use music to help me achieve a new goal such as a 3 hour period, and then armed with the knowledge that I can indeed make it for that length of time I force myself to do it in silence. The knowledge it can be done becomes the only energy I need to keep going.

Nature: Nature is something I only introduced once I began becoming truth realized. For nature I would say it brings a unique perspective of the rise and fall of events. And understanding of time and space that cannot be garnered through isolated meditation. Watching the flow of the day can be wondrous, watching the flow of human kind moving and bustling also wondrous and insightful. My goal is to last an entire 3 day determination sit in nature when I can schedule it. It won't be easy but I believe it will bring new heights that neither silence nor music can bring.

Binaural beats bring something interesting to the table, I tend to use them as an introduction to a sitting that will be guided by music. It's very hard to explain the effect they have. When I use binaural beats I tend to achieve in the 30 minutes the track runs the same things a 60 minute sit would usually accomplish and without expending the energy towards it. That being said, after 30 minutes of binaural beats I tend to find the gains fall off and if I don't switch to music or silence then I don't move any further. So it's kind of like a catalyst for a reaction that still requires the rest to be there to support it.

Perhaps others will be able to chime in and give more insight, in my opinion I wouldn't go spending too much money on them. Well they can certainly be helpful the key to anything is just putting in the time and then ensuring you realize when you've stopped doing the work so you may return to it. Ultimately you can achieve that with the "Do Nothing" technique and require absolutely nothing else.

Just my two cents.

Z