Hemi-Sync® Journal 1990-3 (Summer)

were held on Thursdays from 9:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M. Hemi-Sync was not used the first week or the third week, but was used the second and fourth weeks. A model #202 synthesizer was connected through the stereo cassette player. The speakers were on either side of the main room. When attendance required it, an adjoining room was used with no separation between. Students who have studied with me before are considered “old” students (signified by O) and students who were joining this class for the first time were considered “new” (signified by N). Students were asked to complete preclass and postclass questionnaires. Students rated their levels of comfort/anxiety, and physical/mental/emotional fatigue on both pre- and postclass questionnaires. The rating scale was numbered from 1 (no anxiety/high energy) to 10 (high anxiety/low energy). --- PAGE 6 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL The number of students did vary each week. Also, one of my students who took both classes each week suffers from Lyme disease. Her physical condition and mood swings are typical of that disease and her responses tend to be more negative than the rest. @ The first week of classes I tuned the radio to a local station playing pop music. @ The second week I used the Hemi-Sync with classical CDs. © The third week I played classical music without the Hemi-Sync. @ The fourth week I used the Hemi-Syne with classical CDs. There is always high anxiety on the first day of any class. As the students become more familiar with the medium and the subject they are painting, they automatically become less anxious. I feel that watercolor instruction produces a higher rate of anxiety than acrylic because of its very nature. It is dif- ficult, unpredictable, and unforgiving. This is not apparent when reading the numbers and, therefore, may be a projection of mine as I find it a difficult medium to teach. Also, I had thought the results would indicate an overwhelming difference in favor of classical versus popular music. They did not! SUMMATION OF DATA Rating Scale: from 1 (No Anxiety/High Energy) to 10 (High Anxiety/Low Energy) All the students in acrylic classes: 4.1 Preinstruction 3.2 Postinstruction without Hemi-Sync 2.8 Postinstruction with Hemi-Sync All the students in watercolor classes: 3.8 Preinstruction 3.5 Postinstruciton without Hemi-Sync 2.9 Postinstruction with Hemi-Sync All the “old” students in acrylic classes: 4.1 Preinstruction 2.0 Postinstruction without Hemi-Sync * 2.6 Postinstruction with Hemi-Sync All the “old” students in watercolor classes: 3.6 Preinstruction 4.1 Postinstruction without Hemi-Sync 2.5 Postinstruction with Hemi-Sync All the “new” students in acrylic classes: 4.1 Preinstruction 5.0 Postinstruction without Hemi-Sync 3.3 Postinstruction with Hemi-Sync All the “new” students in watercolor classes: 4.0 Preinstruction 2.9 Postinstruction without Hemi-Sync * 3.4 Postinstruction with Hemi-Sync The GRAND TOTAL in both classes: 4.0 Preinstruction 3.1 Postinstruction without Hemi-Sync 2.9 Postinstruction with Hemi-Sync *After looking at these figures, it appears that in two in- stances, indicated with an asterisk, the numbers were lower without Hemi-Sync. Overall, however, the results indicate that Hemi-Sync had a substantial influence on the students in lowering their anxiety. RESULTS OF USE OF HEMI-SYNC TAPES AND SYNTHESIZER AS SUPPORT FOR PERSONAL COUNSELING AND THERAPY by Susan Cord Susan Cord is director of the South Bay Body-Mind Con- nection in Redondo Beach, California, a holistic center offering individual therapies and workshops. Ms. Cord utilizes Hemi-Sync tapes and a synthesizer extensively with clients during and after treatment and instruction. In cooperation with Hildegarde Minstein, Ms. Cord describes several areas of Hemi-Sync application. Susan Cord has been a Professional Division member since 1989. hrough the South Bay Body-Mind Connection, I have Tosed the Hemi-Sync technology for three years in con- junction with my work as a Reiki and Seichim teacher and master therapist. Reiki and Seichim are techniques for directly interacting with the subtle body energy systems of a client. Hemi-Sync is applied in the following ways: 1. The Hemi-Sync synthesizer is introduced during Reiki and Seichim classes to heighten students’ perceptual levels, thereby increasing their levels of retention. The Hemi-Sync signals are fed through two speakers positioned in front of the class. Students report experiencing: @ less nervous tension during class; @ less distraction during the learning period; more ability to visualize the information presented after the class is concluded. 2, The Hemi-Sync synthesizer is used in class during the lecture sessions. Tapes produced by Meredith Lady Young entitled Intuition, Spiritual Questing, and Love are used during the guided meditation exercise in the class. The syn- --- PAGE 7 (OCR) --- Summer 1990 thesizer signals and the Young tapes are played through two speakers placed in front of the class. Students report: @ increased ability to visualize during the meditation; © greater recall of the level of awareness during meditation; ability to reproduce the meditational state later; © a profound physical sense of what Reiki and Seichim “feels” like to the physical body when it is received. 3. The Hemi-Sync synthesizer, set for delta/theta, is fed through headphones to the client during personal and spiritual counseling. Additionally, Hemi-Sync METAMUSIC Midsummer Night and Swf tapes are played through speakers to provide audio enhancement for the therapist during sessions. Results reported by clients include: Client A, a female attorney, age 48, is a self-described metaphysical seeker. She reports experiencing what she per- ceives as whole-brain integration during counseling sessions. For support between sessions she was given delta/theta tapes recorded from the synthesizer. After several sessions, she reported the ability to sustain this whole-brain integration in the performance of daily tasks as well as in meditation. Client B, a male engineer, is a GATEWAY VOYAGE graduate. He desired to continue using Hemi-Sync technol- ogy and incorporate it with the study and practice of Reiki and Seichim as an aid to his spiritual growth. He reports that combining the modalities has, in his opinion, greatly en- hanced his ability to visualize spiritually. For the first time in his life he says he is actually “seeing” his meditations. He further reports that, while using various Hemi-Sync tapes during self-treatment with Reiki and Seichim, he can actually see colors associated with the treatment. 4. Other ways the Hemi-Sync technology has been used with great success at South Bay Body-Mind Connection include: teaching stress reduction; © controlling cating disorders; as an aid to pregnancy massage; an aid in prebirth instruction; in past-life therapy. HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL SUBSCRIPTION/MEMBERSHIP The HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL is sent quarterly to members of The Monroe Institute. In return for their support of TMI, members also receive quarterly spe- cial-release audio-cassette tapes, and the TMI FOCUS, highlighting the programs, activities, people, releases, and events that track the evolution of the Institute. Benefits also include reduced member prices on products developed by The Monroe Institute and Inter- state Industries, Inc. If you are not already a member and would like more {information on the membership benefits, please call or write The Monroe Institute: (804) 361-1252. BRAIN INJURY RECOVERY WITH HEMI-SYNC JoHanna Hawthorne, M.A. The following article is excerpted from a book in progress by JoHanna Hawthome and Susan Anton-Johnson. Per- mission has been granted by the authors to publish this material in the HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL. It is with deep appreciation that we offer this account of Ms. Hawthorne’s struggle with the effects of “closed head trauma” and her courageous path to recovery. qh January 1984, I was involved in an automobile accident. Although the car was “totalled,” 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. Within seven months | was fired from my job due to unac- ceptable performance. I dropped out of school because I couldn’t do the work. Friends disappeared and my relation- ship of over a year ended. What happened? I didn’t know. I cried often and uncontrollably. For no reason, the tears just flowed. And I just sat. It was impossible to concentrate or remember anything I read, even newspapers or magazines. Television was incomprehensible. During my conversations, other people got glazed looks in their eyes and made fast exits. Watching all this happen, I was unable to understand what was wrong. It was like a movie of someone else’s life, Getting lost going to the store, being angry a lot, and forgetting how to cook, shop, or wash clothes was commonplace. I was in a fog. I knew there was a world out there and that there was a problem, but I had no idea that I could or needed to fix anything. ‘After a year of this, I finally saw a neurologist. He ran three days of painful tests and, when the results were in, carefully explained the findings. My brain had been organi- cally bruised and damaged from slamming around inside my skuil as a result of the severe jolts it had received in the acci- --- PAGE 8 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL dent. He called my injury “closed head trauma” and prescribed medication to stabilize the mood swings and to help me think more clearly. I fought taking the medication but could not operate without it. With its help, I began to see that the world was crumbling around me. My confusion began to clear. I real- ized that something was wrong. I needed to change it and put my life back together. The reason people left my life was now clear. I looked okay, but no longer made sense. In conversation, the words in my head were not the same words that came out of my A... psychiatrist diagnosed a permanent impairment of 42%... mouth. I hadn’t realized that. I discovered something else, too. The accident had left me operating with the social graces, and at the emotional level, of a four-year-old, Thus, the mood swings: happy one minute, sad or angry the next. I also had a short attention span and was extremely self-centered. A consulting psychiatrist diagnosed a permanent impairment of 42%, with 30% to my intelligence. However, like a stubborn four-year- old, I refused to accept it and vowed to get better. I ac- cepted that I was brain injured, but refused to allow that injury to determine the way I lived the rest of my life. My search began for tools that would help me to make positive changes. Once I opened to the possibility of doing more, and began to talk about some of my problems, people offered suggestions of resources, tapes, and readings that might help. It was as though, once I agreed to be healthy, opportunities arose to make it happen. That’s how I discovered the Hemi-Sync tapes. Someone had seen an ad for Hemi-Sync tapes in a New Age magazine and brought me the information. I immediately ordered some tapes. Six years after my accident, I started using Hemi-Syne tapes from the HUMAN PLUS series. Friends from my sup- port 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 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 ['d think, “Oh, I handled this much better now. I’m