Binaural Beats discussion

[Mozaar]

In my use of binauaral beats I have found that just regular stereo headphones work out just fine. I personally like over the ear ones. Also which program are you using? I use a program called Neuro Programmer 2, and I have found that it works quite well.

Josh
PATHS ~ Mind Energetics

Checked out Neuro Programmer 2, way cooler than BWG
I will keep up the good work. Thanks for being there.

[gtrlvr83]

Glad I could be of any kind of help. Please keep us posted on you progress.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
Buddha

Josh
PATHS ~ Mind Energetics

[noises]

Hi guys, sorry I haven't been around for a while, doing a lot of energetic work with water and love which has been keeping me offline.

re: headphones. the "aural" part of binaural is misleading. the bulk of manifestation of the vibrational energy is percieved not by the ears, but by the skin, in other words, you feel a binaural, rather than just listen. You're free to use headphones but you ideally need to be a in a nearfiield streo field, one speaker on the left, one on the right in front of you, with you as the tip of a trinagle between the two speakers and you. This is where the two converging tones, or rates of vibration, emerge and manifest through their interaction with each other.

check out the thread on how to make your own binaural beats

http://www.energeticforum.com/person...binaurals.html

for links to free software.

namaste.

[incognegro18]

My Binaural Journey

I know this is long. I just copied and pasted.

5/20/11- This is not my first usage of the Binaural beats. I’ve been using them for 2 and a half days now. I noticed right off the bat that my mind was reacting to something in the frequencies. I would feel things. My headache would disappear and reappear. From what I’ve read that means that my mind is still fighting the affects of the beats. Like somewhere deep down, I still, very stubbornly, reject the idea that this simple solution is the one I’ve been looking for since farther back than I can remember. But then I would feel other sensations; Goosebumps, like something had touched me. In very specific places. My right thigh and leg would get the sensation as well as my right arm and shoulder. This was nothing new. I’ve been feeling those things also for as long as I can remember. I take that to mean that the left side of my brain is being stimulated by something. Before, the sensation would be faint. Under the affects of the beats, its entirely pronounced. At one point it felt as though my thigh and arm were being caressed; The way you would feel if someone were trying to get your attention. I’ve got a lot of head problems right now, not the least of which is the constant, debilitating mind chatter. I looked online for a solution. Meditation won’t work if you cant tone down the chatter. The persistent flow of thoughts and information going through your brain, making it near impossible to relax enough to feel the effects of meditation. I have a very strong mind, enforced by an even stronger will. It’s a blessing as much as it is a curse. I was raised to believe that any form of meditation was wrong, an invitation from the participant, to be possessed. “Idle minds, like Idle hands.” Needless to say, adding that type of thinking to a very loyal and stubborn brain makes for a very difficult life, especially when one is trying to be open to possibilities. Anyway, I just got out of a 40 minute session, which I had to restart a couple of times because I couldn’t keep from being distracted. It was a session called “SLEEP FOR CHATTERY MINDS (Dissociative)” and it used Isochronic beats at a frequency of 7.83 Hz or High Theta, to induce slumber for the people who tend to be restless because their minds are unable to calm down. It took a while but I began to feel certain compulsions, I couldn’t keep my mind from analyzing what I was feeling the entire time. But, without thought or my own conscious consideration, I felt my facial muscles begin to twitch. This wasn’t the first occurrence of this but it felt stronger. Soon my entire face contorted to lift into a smile, one that I can say that had I been looking at it I would’ve thought that I was High. That’s how tight my smile felt. I don’t remember feeling particularly euphoric or having a reason to be, but apparently the part of my mind that my conscious self cannot understand, did. I remember trying to get my mind to relax. I’ve always had to remind my body to relax. I have to force my muscles to relax even though I still can’t understand how to get my head to quiet down. I kept hearing a song by one of my favorite artists. (No connection just something I love to hear.) I tried to get my mind to let it go. I even tried to envision a laser gun to shoot at the impulse to sing when I got it. (No idea, don’t ask.) Eventually, I realized that I had been floating in and out of awareness. Again, my conscious mind was fighting to maintain control. I love being aware of what’s around me. I have a gift for being observant and being able to analyze the situations around me. It’s so ingrained in me, that it makes it so difficult to relax. I feel like I must ALWAYS be aware. I don’t want to be the one that sad circumstances happen upon because of my own carelessness. Yes, I understand it makes for an uptight individual but that’s just the way I work. I don’t know anything else. Even sitting here typing this I continue to feel the sensations. This time, I felt it on my left arm. Where does it come from? What is my mind trying to tell me? Anyway, during the session I came to a point where that sensation rose from humming to buzzing. I felt it spread slowly. It would spread a little and then recede, like waves built on hesitation. (Again, my active mind wants in on it.) I would feel the buzzing and I would think, Come on, grow! Spread! Let’s see what happens! And it would recede right then. So I tried to quiet my mind down and focus on the sensation. I went back and forth on those waves for a while but then it just began to spread and keep spreading until my entire body felt vibrations. Not painful, just unreal. I wanted to understand it. My mind was trying to understand. I felt like it was energy like if could figure it out it would be fantastic. I couldn’t get a handle on it. I got the feeling of trying to hold water in an open palm. I kept struggling with it. It was just a bath of sensation and I couldn’t control it. The more I tried the more it slipped away from me. That’s when I started to notice the subtle difference in my state of mind. My dominant mind was quickly gaining control, which means that I was losing my entire experience. Then I heard a sound somewhere around me and my mind took over. I had lost my entrainment. I still had time left in my binaural session so I tried to get myself relaxed enough to get it back but it wouldn’t work. In the end, my mind only settled enough to get my high voltage smile at the end and that completed my session. I slowly opened my eyes trying to give myself a chance to understand my experience. I felt completely limbless, as though I had worked out. It was the weirdest feeling. But what was most odd was that when I finally focused my eyes around the room everything was bathed in one color or another. Things had neon colors coming out of them. I would love an explanation of what all of that means. For now I just am writing detailed experiences of interesting sessions to track my progress with binaural beats. I still hope to find proof that they are really all that they are advertised to be.

[ImBill]

incog,
I think it is fine that you seem to have a pretty good grasp on your understanding of your illusory self. However, during meditation and/or listening to binaural beats, the goal is to get past the illusory self, full of thoughts and actions that relate more to the illusion than to reality. The binaural beat is a tool to help quiet the mind and get it entrained to a lower vibratory level. Try not to become hung up on the phenomenon that you experience. Resist the temptation to chase feelings or experiences thinking that you are on the verge of something bigger. Just learn to relax and let yourself simply be with whatever happens, even if it appears to be nothing.

It sounds as though you have built up a mental image of something (just what I'm not sure and don't know if you are sure, either) that binaural beats or some other "magic" rite or tool is going to help you manifest. All that you wish to know and/or experience is already there for you. You just need to shift your perspective to become in alignment with it or get to a place where you can recognize it, so to speak. That's what the whole process of stopping the mental chatter is about.

"To study the way is to study the self.
To study the self is to forget the self.
To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things.
To be enlightened by all things is to remove the barrier between self and other."

I've found that using a mantra or using some technique that requires some amount of mental activity in combination with binaural beats helps somewhat with slowing or halting extraneous mental activity for me. I've recited the quote above many times (as well as others) as a mental activity to halt the constant thoughts popping into my mind. Om mani padme hum or
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna, Krishna, Hare, Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama, Rama, Hare, Hare
are a couple of others I like.

[StweenyA]

make it go away!

I have a constant ringing in my left ear only, for quite a few weeks now. Could this be tinnitus?
It doesn't bother me when listening to stuff or when there's good background noise. But when there's nothing else to listen to, it can drive me crazy if I start thinking about it.

Can't for the life of me think what could have triggered it. Oh sometimes it feels like something is stuck in my left ear? And I did swim under ice cold water a few months ago. hmmm

[janicelou]

is holosync a binaural beats sound track? i love listening to the holosync program.. it makes me so relaxed.

[dasypygal]

According to the Brain Evolution System documentation, noise-canceling headphones may counter the effects of localizing the "audio technology to each ear separately".

[musicislife]

Of course, if you want to achieve the maximal effect you need to use qualitative headphones. Binaural beats are very popular today, and there are a lot of information about it. For example this post that contains general information about binaural frequencies.