I'm sure many of you have used brainwave entrainment in some form or another, whether it be Hemi-Sync, or Holosync or Brainsync, or light-and-sound devices. I'm someone who not only uses entrainment but also offers it in products that I sell on my website for relaxation, meditation, and hypnosis soundtracks, and I was wondering how you guys feel about its effectiveness on clients. I know the principles of brainwave entrainment are scientifically proven, but do you think that a person's hypnotic suggestibility and expectation play a big factor in the effectiveness of the entrainment? I would think that it does. I mean, if a person is expecting to enter a theta brainwave state and they are generally a good hypnotic subject, then they will enter that state once you put headphones on them, regardless of what kind of stimulation is coming through the headphones, right? Being a very receptive subject myself, I'm pretty convinced that you could play me anything through headphones and tell me that it contained theta entrainment embedded in it, and I would go right into a theta state!
So how much of the effectiveness of brainwave entrainment is based on the expectation of it working, and how much is based on actual photic and aural stimulation? That's my question of the day. Cheers!
Those of you who have been to the Moodstreams website (www.moodstreams.com) and looked at the photo gallery there know that up until now there was only a "New England" gallery. Well today I added a California gallery, which includes the photos I took during my recording sessions in NorCal and SoCal in July. The soundtracks I recorded there were "Pacific Tidepool" and "SoCal Beach". There aren't too many photos in the Cal gallery because I was only there for a week, and I just chose to include the best pictures. Take a look in your spare time.
I just added the new "Summer Meadow" soundtrack to the Moodstreams catalog. It's got crickets, cicadas, birds, and busy bees flying back and forth in stereo! You can listen to a short sample of it on the catalog page of www.moodstreams.com or just go straight to www.moodstreams.com/soundtracks.html. There's also a sample of it in the Moodstreams online store. Have fun, and just relax.
I recently made some updates to the online site for my business, Moodstreams. Check it out at www.moodstreams.com. There is a vertical navigation menu now, and you can access the online store directly from it. And now you can listen to the soundtrack samples while you're in the online store as you read the product description, rather than having to switch back and forth between the store and the catalog page in my website. It's more versatile now.
I recently went on another recording trip, so I'll soon have a new soundtrack up consisting of the sounds of crickets in a summer meadow. It should be cool!
Oh, if you didn't catch the last post, Moodstreams offers soundtracks for relaxation, meditation, and hypnosis. I have pure nature recordings, some brainwave entrainment sessions, and a couple of complete hypnosis sessions for weight loss and smoking cessation. Feedback, as always, is appreciated.
Hello fellow hypnotists! It was great seeing and learning from many of you at the convention this past weekend. I'm a newbie here, so I guess this is my chance to explain myself and my contribution to the world of hypnosis. Since the beginning of the year, I've been working on a new aspect of my practice: the production of high-quality ambient soundtracks for relaxation, meditation and hypnosis. I'm an avid outdoorsman, and I've compiled a decent collection of nature audio recordings in my many travels to the wilderness of New England and California, and I've made these recordings into a series of soundtracks for both personal use and for hypnotists to use with their clients. There are also a couple of brainwave entrainment sessions and a few complete hypnosis sessions for weight loss and smoking cessation.
I need all the feedback I can get, so let me know what you think! I'm adding more sounds all the time, so the site will be updated frequently. Thanks for your help.
