--- PAGE 1 (OCR) --- urna Vol. X Fall 1992 No. 4 A Publication of The Monroe Ins Professional Division IN THIS ISSUE BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF HEMI-SYNC- EMBEDDED MEDITATION MUSIC ON A HORSE . 6 ae ROR Equine behavioral differences observe during a Hemi-Sync experiment are the subject of this paper by Helene Guttman and Shirley Bliley. RECAPTURING THE INTUITIVE IN THERAPY AND EDUCATION: HEMI-SYNC IN ADULT CONTINUING EDUCATION ......... i Speech-language pathologist Suzanne Evans Morris discusses a workshop offering spe strategies for using and enhancing clinical intuition. © 1992 The Monroe Institute Route 1, Faber, VA 22938-9749 BEHAVIORAL EFFECTS OF HEMI-SYNC-EMBEDDED MEDITATION MUSIC ON A HORSE by Helene N. Guttman, PhD, and Shirley Bliley Helene Guttman (shown above,left) heads HNG Associates, the sponsor of these studies, in Bethesda, Maryland, and is also animal care coordinator at the Agricultural Research Services, USDA, Shirley Bliley is an applied equine ethologist (behaviorist) who maintains horses in Lovingston, Virginia, and is a member of the TMI staff. Here the authors discuss observed behavioral changes in a subject horse during a Hemi-Sync experiment. In her 1990 article, Guttman proposed using studies with species other than humans to determine whether lis- tening to binaural beat technology, namely Hemi-Sync, would synchronize the left and right brain hemispheres and also result in a similar array of altered behavioral effects as
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experienced by humans. A number of beneficial applications of the use of Hemi-Sync for nonhuman animal species also were proposed. The first experimental test of this proposal, using an equine subject, was reported in Guttman’s 1991 article. This study showed that the equine brain became syn- chronized (as shown by Fourier-transformed EEGs) as a fesult of listening to a music tape embedded with binaural eats. The study reported here asked whether discernible behavioral differences could be detected in a horse listening to meditation music compared with listening to the same meditation music embedded with Hemi-Sync. Methods This study was done in the home upper pasture of the equine subject, Kerry Mist. It is important to note the envi- ronmental conditions on the day of the study because the subject usually expresses particular behaviors under such conditions. The study was done in the early afternoon of a very humid, hot (95°F) day with an electrical storm approaching rapidly. Under such circumstances, this horse usually moved inside her shelter in the lower pasture. Thus, the conditions were unfavorable for inducing the expression of a “calm behavior.” Setting conditions that are opposed to a potential experiment-induced effect controls against the experimenter creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. Kerry Mist’s stable mate, Bonny Dick, was allowed to roam freely in the pasture during the study, but chose to stay close to Kerry Mist for the entire study time.
Kerry Mist was outfitted with a hood to which was sewn headphones that were attached to a small, portable tape 804/361-1252 --- PAGE 2 (OCR) --- HEMI-SYNC™ JOURNAL player. Care was taken not to touch the horse's ears with the headphones. The tape player was secured to Kerry Mist’s neck with veterinary tape. The initial experiment plan was to play two tapes in sequence for thirty minutes each. The entire experiment was recorded on videotape archive with date and time and with audio behavioral observations by Bliley. Bliley stood near the subject for the duration of the study and was unaware of the music tape that Guttman selected for play. The meditation music tapes played to Kerry Mist were selected at the last minute and their identi- ties were known only by Guttman. For this study, the tapes selected were (1) Inner Journey (without Hemi-Sync) by Mohammad Sadigh—a powerful meditation composition— and (2) Inner Journey with Hemi-Sync (primarily Theta and secondarily Delta frequencies). There are no discernible dif- ferences in the audible sounds of the two tapes. The rapidly approaching electrical storm (heralded by a clap of thunder and a bolt of lightning about a mile away) punctuated the first-selected tape after ten minutes of play. To assure at least some listening time on the second tape before the storm reached the pasture, the second tape was substituted at that time. After playing the second tape for eleven minutes, another, much closer, clap of thunder and