Hemi-Sync® Journal 1990-2 (Spring)

troduced them to the first three tapes in the Discovery album from the GATEWAY EXPERIENCE home course. Later they joined our “Renewal & Development” programme, an eight-session weekly course using exercises in Focus 10 and 12. Both clients reported on their experiences with the tapes. The 26-year-old female uses ten H-PLUS Functions daily: Restorative Sleep, Circulation, Tune-Up, De-Tox: Body, Off- Loading, De-Hab, Relax, Heart: Repairs & Maintenance, Brain: Repairs & Maintenance, Lungs: Repairs & Maintenance, and others when needed. She has developed her own Func- tion Command, “Energy . .. Heal,” which she uses several times a day. She found Empathizing useful and thought it achieved an understanding with her hospital doctor. “We were communicating beyond the spoken word,” she says. She also found the Discovery tapes very helpful in giving her security and confidence. “The tapes provide a safe environment in which to get to know myself,” she said. “I’m feeling in control again after a period of feeling controlled by illness and doctors. H-PLUS gives me freedom and encouragement to recognize my own needs and to use the appropriate tapes as a solution in the form of a command ... The more you use the commands the more they will work .. . The more I use the tapes the more I see that everyone could benefit in some way. Like me, those --- PAGE 4 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL who do not admit it, even to themselves, are the ones who need it most. I have learned to ask for what I want and not to feel guilty about getting it. I feel stronger and happier with myself.” The 21-year-old female commented on tapes which she found especially helpful: Eight-Great — good for confidence; Energy Walk; Light Foot—1 imagine myself running —it did seem to lighten my step too; Brain: Repairs & Maintenance — Very good for sharpening up my brain functions . . . it feels like I’m thinking more clearly and efficiently . . . It’s enough to remind me how my brain used to feel and to know that sometime it will go back to being like this again; Empathizing—useful for trying to understand how difficult it is for other people to cope with my illness, as well as myself; and Recharge. She added: “Discovery 1, 2,and 3 are brilliant for con- fidence and to [help you] feel like you can achieve things. It’s like a balance is really being found inside my mind. I guess it’s putting things in proportion; important, because it’s “T’m much more in control and feel less tense and more confident...” sometimes hard to live in the real world when you are iso- lated and living a life very different to the one you were used to. .. Pm very pleased with the help the tapes have given me. I’m much more in control and feel less tense and more confident . . . It’s like relearning the things you knew as a child—and makes me feel like I’m doing things for myself— great for confidence again! It’s marvelous to feel my mind isn’t just a soggy lump of cotton wool, which it used to feel like.” While neither client is completely “cured,” both have gone a very long way to being able to cope effectively with their sympioms. The 26-year-old has resigned from her job and is seeking a new career; she is soon to begin a course in remedial massage. The 21-year-old is working on her thesis, has contributed cartoons to a book, and is due to return to college shortly to complete her coursework. Each has taken time to listen to all the H-PLUS tapes and has joined the ME society so that they can help and advise others who suffer from this distressing complaint. 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, It is worth noting that they both worked inten- sively with the tapes, never despairing when a Function did not immediately click into place, but persisting and seeking alternatives. They have learnt much from their experience over the past nine months— but possibly we have learnt even more. And that is not just about the effectiveness of Hemi- Sync and the flexibility of the H-PLUS programme, but also about the determination and resourcefulness of the human spirit. BRAINMAPPING PROJECT UPDATE by F. Holmes Atwater F. Holmes Atwater, a retired military officer, has been a college instructor, scientific investigator, and behavioral engineer specializing in the design and application of methods for developing advanced human potential. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Nebraska and completed graduate coursework in counseling psychology at the University of Northem Colorado. Mr. Atwater, associated with TMI since 1977, became the Brainmapping Project Coordinator in September of 1988. i March 1989, TMI purchased a “BEAM” or Brain Electrical Activity Mapping type of device called the NRS- 24 and a computerized physiological monitoring instrument called the J&J System 1-330 and obtained funds for a re- search/laboratory effort which would: a.Objectively document the physiological (EEG and other) effects of current Hemi-Sync technology. b.Develop improved Hemi-Sync processes, including the ex- pansion of operating and productive functions. Provide individualized, professionally monitored, personal sessions for those who wish to examine their own brain patterns. This effort, now called the Brainmapping Project, has as its purpose the improvement of the Hemi-Syne process itself. The Brainmapping Project is not a rescarch effort designed to conduct studies to “prove” that Hemi-Sync works. Already knowing that the Frequency Following Response or FFR of Hemi-Sync entrains brain waves and alters states of con- sciousness, TMI’s Brainmapping Project uses state-of-the-art monitoring devices to learn what brain-wave frequencies and patterns indicate these changing states of consciousness. The Brainmapping Project uses both an NRS-24 and a J&J Sys- tem 1-330 to this end. The NRS-24 is a color topographic brain-wave mapping system which provides a user-friendly --- PAGE 5 (OCR) --- Spring 1990 24-channel data acquisition, analysis, and display environ- ment. The J&J System 1-330 provides multichannel physiological monitoring. Both instruments work on separate IBM AT compatibles and, therefore, provide simultaneous brainmapping and physiological monitoring during sessions in the isolation booth in the TMI lab building. In reviewing topographic brain-wave maps, the first thing one notices is that the brain-wave patterns are never static but dynamically changing with ongoing thought processes. The misunderstood concept of one being fixed in something like a so-called “Alpha State” or “Theta State,” due to a predominance of Alpha or Theta brain waves, quickly gives way to a new understanding. This new way of looking at brain waves clearly illustrates that the brain is constantly un- dergoing electrodynamic changes. States of consciousness can no longer be defined simply as “Alpha State” or “Theta State” but must be identified by persistence, amplitude, fre- quency, coherence, and neocortical locale of brain waves. Brain-wave maps or patterns of persistence, amplitude, fre- quency, coherence, and neocortical locale yield vast amounts of information, much of which has never before been avail- able to the researcher or technical monitor. The Hemi-Sync effect can actually be seen for the first time with these brain- wave topographs. Under the influence of Hemi-Sync, iden- tifiable, repetitive synchronous topographic patterns begin to emerge from the cacophony of brain activity. These same patterns are also abundant in subjects who are practiced in meditative skills but are not exposed to Hemi-Sync tones while being monitored. With this information, the subjective reports from numerous users of Hemi-Sync have been af- firmed, States of consciousness once available only through months or years of study under a master teacher are readily accessible through the Hemi-Sync process. The TMI Brainmapping Project continues to examine naive (never been exposed to Hemi-Sync) talented subjects, subjects practiced in Focus 10 and Focus 12, talented sub- jects who use Hemi-Sync during their activity, and talented subjects who do not use Hemi-Sync during their activity but have used Hemi-Sync to varying degrees. During these ses- sions in the isolation booth, brain-wave data is recorded by a computer using the NRS-24. The subject’s narrative is recorded on tape and a register matching brain-wave data to subjective report is maintained. The J&J System 1-330 monitors and records via computer Skin Potential Voltage, Galvanic Skin Response, and Skin Temperature. A ledger equating brain-wave data and the subject’s narrative with sig- nificant 1-330 physiological indicators is maintained. After a brain-wave mapping session in the booth is completed, a transcript of the subject’s narrative is prepared and the analysis of the data begins. The brain-wave record must be examined in conjunction with the transcript and the physiological indicators previously noted. ‘As a final comment, it is interesting to note how subjects who have been brainmapped feel about their experience. Many have reported a sense of verification and reassurance of subjective experiences which would otherwise remain part of an elusive potpourri of unobjectified realities. One’s ex- clusive electrodynamic state of consciousness is fully docu- mented and reflects the brain’s unique way of integrating the experiential or informational content of an individual’s ex- ploration into the realm of consciousness. GIFTED, TALENTED SUBJECTS SOUGHT FOR BRAINMAPPING PROJECT If one wants to participate in TMI’s Brainmapping Project, we are seeking volunteer subjects skilled in acquir- ing and maintaining Focus 10 both with or without Hemi- Sync, individuals skilled in acquiring and maintaining Focus 12 both with and without Hemi-Sync, and individuals who have successfully implemented H-PLUS Functions. In- dividuals with special skills (healers, telepathists, authors, remote viewers, musicians, artists, etc.) are also needed for “Talented Subject” investigations. Volunteers for the “Talented Subject” investigations will be selected for par- ticipation by a committee appointed by the Director of The Monroe Institute. Prospective subjects provide the commit- tee a written description of the “talented” performance. This description must provide the committee with references which may be used to substantiate the presence of the iden- tified talent. The emphasis here is to insure all parties un- derstand that TMI does not intend to validate nor test a specific talent. TMI wishes to discover brain-wave informa- tion related to bona fide talented subjects for the purposes of improving the Hemi-Sync process. Focus 10, Focus 12, H- PLUS and “Talented Subject” participation is funded by TMI as part of our research effort. Volunteer subjects are not paid and individuals not residing in the local area must make their own transportation, food, and lodging arrange- ments. Another way in which one may participate in the Brain- mapping Project would be as a client. [ed.: see TMI FOCUS, Vol. XI, No. 2, Spring 1990, “What’s Happening in the Lab?”], REVISION Mrs. Tricia Bliley [HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL, Vol. VIII, No. 1, Winter 1990, “Hemi-Sync and Multiple Sclerosis”] and her husband are presently in transition. Persons wishing to contact Tricia may send correspondence to: Shirley N. Bliley, Projects Coordinator The Monroe Institute Rt. 1, Box 175 Faber, VA 22938 The Monroe Institute’s HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL is published four times annually. Leslie France, Nancy McMoneagle, Shirley Bliley Computer Typesetting and Design: John Dumais Julie Mazo --- PAGE 6 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC JOURNAL JIN SHIN JYUTSU AND HEMI-SYNC IN THE TREATMENT OF QUADRIPLEGIA by ChowChow Imamoto, R.N., Ms.D. ChowChow Imamoto is known for her pioneering work in