1993 Professional Seminar: Hemi-Sync as Support for Style Flexibility (Jim & Charlene Ackenhead)

08 1993 Professional Seminar: Hemi-Sync® as Support for Style Flexibility (Jim & Charlene Ackenhead) (Transcript) NOTE: This is a raw transcript – it is exactly as created by otter.ai. have expertise in helping individuals and organizations perform to their highest potential? Well, this morning, we're going to talk to us about personal style and how it how we carry it into all of our experiences, including altered state experiences. And hopefully this is going to offer us some perspective that's going to be valuable during the rest of the seminar. John is showing 00:30 disgusting. You actually have to put in your shirts have a microphone. 00:38 Okay, so when showing and I was sitting in the last presentation, I said to Charlene, I says, I think the first thing we should do is we should start out by telling everybody we surrender. That's like, what happens to me when I come here is that and immediately, if not sooner, I get overwhelmed by what everybody brings to this workshop. So I'm more than a little apprehensive about this, but so wide, right? You know, we saw, we sort of figured that, we should just tell you that we come here because we sort of look at this as a fringe group. And we think that what we hear in, in the world that we work is that, you know, in order to stretch yourself out and be able to be more effective in the mainstream, you need to get out into the fringe, while we figure this is the place to do that. So, so we figured out you're a little bit weird. And we don't want you to think that that's not true. So here's the deal, we know that this works fairly well in the mainstream, we do not have a clue how it's going to work here. 01:49 Kinda I kind of wanted to acknowledge Sharlee. Cat said she liked our outfits. And we sort of had a similar outfits here, except just so that you know, Charlene has this little badge on here. So you know, which one is Charlene. A little badge. Like I said, we work in everything we do as a mainstream, you know, and we have a lot of stuff where we deal with people who are heavily heavily into conservative religion, ideals. And so like everything we do kind of are shaking, if we do anything that smacks of anything that could be attacked. And we've had some interesting experiences with that. And maybe we'll have a chance to talk about that. So we have to figure out ways to do stuff like this, that can be accepted in the conservative world. And I know some of the rest of you have struggled with that, too. So what we want to do today is we want to give you one of the pieces that we do that we think is pretty, pretty good. And then talk a little bit about the the way we've used Hemi sync technology in that. And I think to tell you a little bit about the kind of mainstream stuff we do. We normally work with people that are in deep doo doo. Okay. We do a lot of work in education. And what Charlene and I are about, I think, as people is trying to get a handle on the triumph of the human spirit. And then trying to we sort of try to learn from that wherever we see it. And then we try to figure out ways to get that to people who are stuck in Cleveland. And that's pretty tricky sometimes to do that. I mean, we went to Alaska this year. And we've always had a desire to do that. And we drove 2500 miles around Alaska and did some interesting things. And so one of the neat things about Alaska, and I don't think there's anybody here from Alaska, where there's some Canadian folks here who may be connected with all that. But one of the neat things about Alaska is like the triumph of the human spirit is just there all over the place. It's kind of like we talked to somebody who competes in the I did or odd, you know, the last great race on Earth for 1000 mile dog sled race. And he talked about 100 degree temperature variation in one day, from laying out on a sled in the afternoon with a shirt and shoes off to 45 below in the evening, in the same 24 hour period of time. From 24 hours of daylight in the summer to 24 hours of darkness in the winter. And they have a different name for people who can survive the winter there than I do people who only are there in the summer. Things that really impressed me like we went to the Chilkoot Trail. I don't know if any of you are familiar with that. But that's where the people went from Skagway into the Yukon during the gold rush. And we walked enough up that trail to kind of get a feel for it. It's like a mountain pass and I had to carry 2000 pounds of goods up that trail on her back in order to be admitted by the Mounties into Canada mined for gold. They had to do that impact So, as kind of like that kind of stuff just kind of shakes me up in terms of what it's possible for human beings to do when they when they set their mind or committed to doing things. And so how you heck do you translate that into Cleveland? You know, that's, that's our problem. So one of the things we do is, we try to take things that are non threatening, we always try to work with a little bit of humor. So we start out by telling people, it's really important to us that people relax and kind of enjoy what we do. And people seem to get a kick out of the fact that Charlie and I work together, you know, we've been happily married for about 18 years, which isn't bad for 30 years of marriage. You know, we acknowledge that most of the people that we work with, are dealing with things like this, you know, it's like, I'm serious to get the cynicism is really difficult. We work with a lot of educators. We do some work with hospitals and private, private business also. But we have a lot of educators who, who, whose deal is, you know, we talk, we're real concerned about non leaders and working with individual kids to become better leaders. And these people have to work in an environment where not only very, but the kids they deal with are worried about where they're gonna get shot this year. And there's a tremendous amount of feelings of powerlessness, and cynicism, and fear. And so those are the people that we work with, and like residential training, to try to get them to take another look at what they might be able to do. And so we want to start out by acknowledging where they are. And we used to do that like this, this and I, sort of where a lot of people can relate to found this. I tried to produce one day at a time delay several days of attack near once I found this in an elementary secretary's office hanging on the wall. And I said, well, I need that because I know a lot of people that will relate to it. Another thing we find out there isn't a whole lot of people feel like this. And I was told Now sure, good to hear Ross laughing, because I've been told by friends of mine who do consulting work and event that the sense of humor over there is altogether different. So I was really worried about whether Ross will be able to get these books or not. So it's nice to see. So this is the kind of thing that a lot of our people feel like they're into. So then what we do then is we take them out, and we start out with a piece on style. Because we want to, we think people need to get a handle on themselves before they can do anything else. And I'm going to talk more about that. But I want to give you at least a little bit of an idea how we tie metal music and other Hemi sync ideas into this when we do the workshop, or workshops. And a lot of this has to do with time available and how we can feel what we can do with a given audience that will be acceptable, because I don't really want to get into a biblical argument with somebody at a workshop. And so I'm always on edge about that. But basically, these are things that we have tried, and I've had some success with. And we wrote this up for the journal here. So it'll show up a little bit, we even went so far as to constantly graphs, brother in law and to do a little statistical analysis for us in terms of the opinions that we got from people to see whether they were chance opinions or whether there might be some real significance. So I thought that was pretty impressive myself. Given that one of the things about this, it's a difficult is making it seem hard to anybody. And one of the things we really like about this institute is that this isn't an institute that approaches this as some kind of strange religion. It's an institute that approaches that are tries very hard to approach it in a scientific way. And that really gives us an opportunity to use the scientific approach that we learn to understand here, when we talk to people about what we're doing. But basically the applications we use meta music when people are doing discussion groups, okay, so if we do a lecture on their process groups, we use metal music in that and the ones that I like, or like Cloudscapes I like that for that. Saving to the rain is one of my personal favorites. But I found that doesn't work real well and discussion groups. Also, like they did real well, as a kind of before and after kind of thing. We use concentration, the concentration tape, which is basically what a hissing sound was Bob interrupting and every once in a while. And that's the only comment that we ever got. There was gee, couldn't you get rid of that strange guy's voice coming on? But what we found there was that sometimes we get stuck in really strange places to do workshops like places with no air conditioning. And so in the morning, you're okay for a couple hours and by afternoon you know, like You get to slime all over and people can hardly keep their eyes open. So that's kind of where we like to use the concentration tape to kind of inject a little bit into it to keep people's attention focus a little better. And that seems to be helpful. 10:12 Then we use the H plus tapes, primarily, I've used the H plus relax and the beehive and now since I've gone through the 2000 program, I mean, under Susan's tutelage, we've just learned so many new things that we don't know whether we're coming or going, actually. But we actually integrate that if we have like a two or three day workshop we do on conflict management. And what we did is we, we actually integrated that into the didactic and discussion part of the conflict management workshop, like we started out the first day when we told them what we're going to do, and we told them about the kind of the conflict management model. But then we said, Now, we also think is kind of valuable for you to be able to maintain some kind of personal centeredness when you're dealing with conflict. And here's a way you can do that. And then we told him about the age plus thing. And we talked about, I introduced the anchors that are in age plus, as it's kind of like when you hear your favorite music, and you kind of get that really deep feeling from him. And every time that favorite music comes on, you get that neat feeling. Well, I tried to tie that in is how the anchor works on the age plus, it's just the same kind of dynamic is non threatening as possible. And that worked about 90% of the time with people. But what we do then is we find spots in our workshop like usually like on the first day, we'll have them listen to the to the prep side before they go to lunch. So we actually introduce it right into the process. And then we'll we'll have them listen to it again, at the end of that first day, or get a promise from them, that they'll listen to it at home that night. So then when you come back the next day, then we can move on into actually having having them try the side that gives them the code and start working to use that. So that's the way we have integrated those things into our into our process. And personally, what's been going on with me is the relax in the de hab with a style issue, I find style, I just keep I see it just keeps showing