Profound Meditation User Manual
Profound Meditation User Manual
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Copyright 2010 iAwake Technologies, LLC
User Manual
Integral Recovery is very proud and excited to make available to the public this new binaural brain entrainment technology, iAwake which makes accessible to anyone who will listen to it, meditation that is both profound and healing. I personally have been using binaural technologies to meditate daily for over 5 years. The changes that I have experienced have been extraordinary: healing from devastating life-threatening depression, a much deeper spiritual life, increased mental capacities, increased creativity and personal effectiveness. In short, the change has been nothing less than miraculous. I have also, during that same period, been using binaural brain entrainment with my clients and students, suffering from various diseases, such as addiction and depression and other pathologies, and other students who simply wanted to begin or deepen a meditative practice. My personal root practice has been with Holosync, although I have made it my business to use and examine other technologies, such as Holothink, Life Flow, Insight Meditation, among others. I have found that they are all good products and work if you use them. A couple of months ago I was introduced to Eric Thompson by Rob McNamara. Eric told me that he had been working with the technology and felt that he had pushed it to a new level in the evolution of brain entrainment technology. I was a bit skeptical, but as we began to talk, I felt a profound connection and kinship with Eric. Eric had also suffered from a deep depression and had used Holosync for 2 years and been helped immensely. So we both came from a place of profound healing using Holosync, and deep respect for its creator, Bill Harris, who has also become a personal friend of mine in the last few years.
When Eric told me that he had come up with a technology that worked even better, I was a little skeptical, a bit excited, and wondering how much more effective can it get. After using these iAwake tracks, created by Eric specifically for Integral Recovery, for the last 2 months, and sharing them with my students, some who are new to binaurally enhanced meditation and more advanced meditators, I am convinced that what we have here is, indeed, a better mousetrap. I think you that will immediately feel the power of these tracks. From time to time, in the meditative process that is facilitated by this technology, one will experience chaotic upheavals as the brain reorganizes at ever higher levels of functioning. Erics technology seems to lessen the possibilities of these often uncomfortable spurts of growth, but he has also, brilliantly provided release tracks to accompany the two basic meditation tracks, so that if this upheaval does occur, one can use the release track as a lifeboat to get one safely and comfortably through the stormy seas of your own internal evolution and growth. So, with that said, I am deeply grateful to be able to work with Eric and offer these first Integral Recovery meditation tracks to you for your more rapid growth, evolution, increased joy and efficacy in your life. We are offering these tracks at an introductory price of $79.95. If you use these as part of your daily practice I believe that you will agree with me in a short time that this was the best money you ever spent on yourself. If not, please contact us and we will refund your money. To change your brain is to change the world, to improve your brain is to improve your world, to heal the brain is to heal the world. With much love and light, John Dupuy
CONTENTS
Foreword by John Dupuy Disclaimer What is Profound Meditation w/ iNET? File Information for Optimal Results Compatible Players Customizable Session Lengths Targeted Brainwaves The iNET Process Exhaustive Binaural Encoding Rhythmic Entrainment Temporal Entrainment Energetic Entrainment Carrier Wave Therapy Ultra-High-Frequency 2 4 5 6 6 6 6 7 13 8 8 8 9 9 13 13
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Brainwave Correlates General Listening Instructions General Meditation Instructions Taking Your Meditations Deeper Introduction to the Release Tracks How to Use the Release Tracks Facilitating Deep Release How the Release Tracks are Designed Using the Restorative Sleep Program 13 14 15 15 16 17 17 17 18 19 20
Those who should consult a physician before the use of this product include: Individuals under the influence of medication or drugs. This application is not to be used while under the influence of alcohol or other mood altering substances, whether they are legal or illegal. Children under the age of 18 are to be examined by a physician for epilepsy or illnesses that may contribute to seizures prior to the use of PM, as they are more susceptible to seizures. The user of PM assumes all risks, waving any claims against iAwake Technologies, LLC and its affiliates for any and all mental or physical injuries. The user also agrees to assume liabilities when allowing other persons access to PM. In no case will iAwake Technologies, Integral Recovery or other distributors of PM be liable for chance, accidental, special, direct or indirect damages resulting from use, misuse or defect of its program, instructions or documentation. The parties shall attempt to resolve all disputes arising out of this agreement in a spirit of cooperation without formal proceedings. Any dispute which cannot be so resolved (other than a request for injunctive relief) shall be subject to arbitration upon written demand of either party. Arbitration shall take place within forty-five days of the receipt of the written demand, in Boulder, Colorado or at another location (or in whole or in part by phone or other means) if the parties so agree. The arbitration shall take place before an arbitrator chosen as follows: The parties shall each choose a representative, and the representatives shall choose an arbitrator. The arbitrator shall schedule an informal proceeding, hear the arguments, and decide the matter. Each party shall pay half the costs of the arbitration proceeding. The arbitrator shall not have the authority to award punitive damages or any other form of relief not contemplated in this Agreement. Regarding each issue submitted to arbitration, the decision shall be accompanied by a written explanation of the basis upon which it was arrived at. Judgment upon the award, if any, rendered by the arbitrators may be entered in any court having jurisdiction thereof.
Disclaimer
The user of Profound Meditation, hereby referred to as PM, agrees that this CD program is designed solely for meditation, selfimprovement, learning, aid in motivation, relaxation, and experimentation. This application is not intended as a replacement for medical or psychological treatment. No medical claims are intended, express or implied. Those meeting any of the following conditions, whether knowingly or not, should not use this application: Epileptics Pregnant women Those who are wearing a pacemaker Those prone to or have had seizures
Customizable Session Lengths Sessions can be customized to 20-, 40-, 60- and 80minute lengths to best fit your schedule. Tracks 1, 2 and 3 are 20 minutes each. Listening to all three tracks in succession will result in a 60-minute session.
Descent into Delta Track 1 Delta - 3.07 Hz Delta - 3.07 Hz Track 2 Delta 1.45 Hz Delta 1.45 Hz
Compatible Players
WAV Computer Media Players Windows Media Player (free); iTunes (free); SongBird (free at www.getsongbird.org) MP3 Players Most MP3 players play WAV files.
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The iNET process envelops brainwave activity, strategically guiding it toward transformative states of consciousness. Whereas other programs attempt to influence brainwave activity merely through typical entrainment protocols, iNET works on many different levels. Typical brainwave entrainment (BWE) works because its rhythmic pulses are able, at least to some degree, to attract the brain's neural firing rhythms into its own rhythmic train of influence. However, because brain waves and neurological processes are essentially nonlinear and dynamic, the entrainment signal generated by conventional forms of entrainment (e.g., binaural, isochronic and monaural beats) is severely limited in its capacity to engage the brain's neuro-electrical modulations into its own series of oscillations. The iNET process significantly improves the efficiency of BWE by seamlessly integrating six entrainment methodologies into a synergistic and powerful whole, thereby captivating more of the brain's dynamic flows to produce phase synchronous brain waves and deep states of meditation. This results in a profoundly blissful and transformative experience.
The first three entrainment methods address the rhythmic aspect of entrainment, followed by two methods which concentrate on adding intensity and energetic invigoration, and the sixth method uses high-frequency modulations to both compliment the BWE signals and produce certain aspects of the Tomatis Effect in record time. The six entrainment methodologies are:
2) Rhythmic Entrainment:
By precisely and rhythmically modulating various audio parameters (e.g., volume, panning, etc.), additional layers of entrainment are produced. And when combined with the binaurally encoded sound source, the entrainment effect is much more pronounced.
3) Temporal Entrainment:
By altering the pitch and tempo of virtually every sound to rise and fall in perfect step with the binaural and rhythmic signals, entrainment is further enhanced. This acts as a natural pacing technology, slowly relaxing breathing and heart rate as well. Because the body naturally synchronizes to its surrounding environment (which includes musical environments), the body and brain both detect the subtle tempo and pitch changes in the soundtrack. This affects a shift in autonomic nervous system functioning, which in turn deeply compliments the neural entrainment signals generated binaurally and rhythmically. Breathing and heart rate significantly slow down in direct response to this stimulus, and the more efficient heart rate now influences brain rhythms through increased electromagnetic coherence.
4) Energetic Entrainment:
Uplifting and blissful biomagnetic energy frequencies are embedded in the soundtrack in an envelope of white noise through the use of a sophisticated technology. The result is a subtle but enlivening, tingling bodily feeling, much like an endorphin high, at the end of each session. This layer of energy entrainment, similar to the energy transmitted in spiritual empowerments in various wisdom traditions, is experienced as profound relaxation, release and bliss. And this elated feeling permeates the entire body, growing with you throughout the day.
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The carrier frequencies used by iNET, which modulate the amplitude (or power) of the entrainment signal, range from entrylevel stimulation to very advanced stages of neurological stimulation. The aim is to offer the same amplitude-modulated therapy that a few other entrainment products do, but in a manner that is both quicker and gentler. It is also important to state that, by utilizing this methodology, iNET facilitates in months what used to take years, and without the need to continue purchasing higher and higher levels of the program. Listeners will experience a wide range of carrier frequencies, but administered in smaller doses, so as to allow a stress threshold expansion that not only emerges more quickly, but is less overwhelming as well. The term 'stress threshold expansion' here refers to the extending of the nervous system's capacity to easily handle the kinds of stressful situations which once overwhelmed it. The illustration below demonstrates the cycle we believe that best fits the outdated methodology typically used by a few notable entrainment companies:
Notice how the stimulus and recovery cycles are out of sync, so that, when the nervous system (as well as all of the bodily systems which support the nervous system) is least able to recover, the stimulus nonetheless continues at full volume. It is precisely this pattern, we believe, that produces the often unnecessarily prolonged overwhelm in programs used by such methodologies. DYNAMIC ADAPTIVE BALANCE iNET improves on the above-mentioned methodology by establishing an adaptive balance between the stimulation (yang) and recovery (yin) cycles. This dynamic balance - or HARMONY is established in two stages: Stage 1 - OPTIMAL STIMULATION: Advanced Carrier Waves in the Primary Meditation tracks The Primary Meditation tracks begin with entry-level carriers, and end with very advanced and powerful carrier waves, nearing the very bottom of the human audible hearing spectrum.
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By using the pyramid model, the most powerful carriers are present for the shortest periods of time, as compared to the other carriers. This approach affords optimal stimulation, while also avoiding the premature onset of acute 'overtraining'.
Stage 2 - OPTIMAL RECOVERY: Releasing Tracks iNET improves the recovery process by offering alternate meditation tracks which feature less powerful and therefore less overwhelming carrier frequencies. These alternate tracks (which are included with Profound Meditation) are referred to as Releasing Meditation, specially designed to facilitate deep release and renewal. When used in conjunction with the Primary Meditation tracks (which feature comprehensive carrier frequencies), the Releasing Meditation tracks continue deepening the meditation experience while simultaneously enabling the nervous system to reconfigure to higher levels of functioning at optimal speed and with minimal overwhelm. By listening to a less stimulating but profoundly revitalizing CD whenever overwhelm becomes pronounced and acute, the brain is still actively stimulated, but is also given more time and energy to adapt to the previous, stronger stimuli. In addition, the substantial time spent in the precise brainwave patterns shown to most effectively facilitate deep emotional release affords a greater liberation of interior and exterior resistance to optimal adaptation.
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This high-frequency modulation has an energizing effect on the brain by way of stimulating the vestibular function. The following benefits have been reported: Increased energy and vitality Improved attention, concentration, and memory Increased sense of well-being Decrease in irritability and stress iNET then embeds entrainment in this high-frequency modulation, which in turn creates an additional layer of entrainment.
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The synergy of the individual iNET elements results in a powerful entrainment beacon, capable not only of evoking very deep and blissful states of meditation, but ongoing transformation as well.
6) Ultra-High-Frequency Modulation:
Brainwave Correlates
iNET creates certain aspects of the 'Tomatis Effect' in record time by modulating an ultra-high-frequency sweep (from a high frequency base up to the very reach of the human audio spectrum and back again), which is inaudible to most adults, more than 6.5 times per second.
Beta (13 Hz 39 Hz): Sensorimotor awareness - Wide awake Alert - Focused - Analyzes and assimilates new information rapidly Complex mental processing - Peak physical and mental performance Cannot be sustained indefinitely - Prolongation of beta can lead to exhaustion, anxiety, and tension - Short bursts of beta have been used for improving cognitive intelligence Alpha (8 Hz to 13 Hz): Accelerated learning - Beginning of drowsiness - Relaxed alertness - Zen meditation - Open focus (term coined by Dr. Les Fehmi) - Can stimulate the release of serotonin (vital in the regulation of mood and sleep
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Theta (4 Hz to 8 Hz): Hypnogogic state - Dreaming sleep Creativity inspiration - Vivid imagery - Deep meditation - Out-ofBody experiences - Long-term memory Spontaneous emotional release Profound attitudinal and behavioral changes Delta (.5 Hz to 4 Hz): Deep dreamless sleep - Formless/expansive awareness - Very deep meditation - Healing and recuperation Empathy
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IMPORTANT NOTES: 1. Although simply by listening to the Profound Meditation entrainment stimulus alone (without practicing a meditation technique at the same) will without doubt significantly deepen your spiritual development, we nevertheless recommend the simultaneous practice of some meditation technique. Doing so provides the most profound, transformative benefits possible, as it engages more of your being, inner awareness and commitment to evolve in spirit. 2. Be sure to drink at least one glass of water before your sessions and one glass of water afterward. Brainwave entrainment increases blood flow to the brain, and drinking plenty of water helps your brain rid itself of waste byproducts. 14
Headphones are required. Schedule a time every day. This will help your mind/body to come to expect its use and accept your listening as a habit that will be easier to maintain. First thing in the morning and before the evening meal is ideal. Listen to the recording where you are less likely to be interrupted by things like the telephone or neighbors. You may seat yourself in a comfortable chair with head and neck support. Always sit upright while listening, as this best facilitates the increased attention, focus and energy that will accrue during listening sessions. Your spirit will flow more freely and uninhibited as well. If you lie down, you simply will not reap all of the positive benefits that can come from meditation. We generally recommend listening with eyes closed, as this helps reserve attention and minimize distraction for optimal entrainment. However, if you are a practitioner of eyes-open meditation (such as Zazen or Shamatha), please continue listening with eyes open. You should listen to these recordings at the highest possible volume while still being COMFORTABLE. You dont want to strain yourself; the idea is that the louder the sounds, the deeper the entrainment may be, due to the increased stimulation to the brain. COMFORT is very important. If you listen to the recordings at too high a volume, you are working against the purpose of these recordings. A full 60-minute session each day (ideally in one sitting) will deliver optimal results. Always listen to the tracks in proper succession (e.g., Track 1, then Track 2, etc.). If you skip, for example, from Track 1 to Track 3, your brain will be less likely to entrain to the frequencies of Track 3. It is not recommended to listen to Profound Meditation more than 2 hours per day. Allow yourself to be given over to the audio environment, which will deepen your meditation. IMPORTANT: After each session, allow 1- 5 minutes to ease back into your day. Be sure to anchor your deepened awareness and devotion in your mind by consciously observing and feeling it in your body. Soak it up and bathe in it. Then intend to carry this awareness with you wherever you go.
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Release: As previously mentioned, the experience of entropy as overwhelm indicates that we are resisting growth and expansion at some level. And when we, through willingness and conscious awareness, are able to gaze into the root of the resistance (which may or may not be accompanied by an intellectual understanding of what constitutes the resistance) and spontaneously release it, a higher order and deeper sense of wellbeing naturally emerge in our lives. iNETs Release tracks are designed to facilitate such willingness, openness, awareness and spontaneous freedom. The result is a profound sense of release and renewal. In combination with the main meditation tracks and the Sleep track, they comprise a system designed to be custom-shaped to your own natural recovery cycles. One of the major keys to the success of this system, as such, is the development of your own intuitive awareness regarding your growth and recovery cycles, which will grow keener as you use the system. How to Use the Release Tracks Use them whenever you are feeling overwhelmed. Their use is generally meant to be as an alternative to the main meditation tracks. So, when you are not using the main meditation tracks, you can use the Release tracks. Generally speaking, when you reach a consistent sense of overwhelm that lasts for several days, it is time to switch to the Release tracks for at least one to three weeks, after which time you may resume using the main meditation tracks. Allow your intuition to guide you in this process. If you desire an additional half-hour- or hour-long meditation in addition to the main meditation tracks, you may use the Release tracks as a second meditation. For example, you might listen to the main meditation tracks in the morning, and listen to the Release tracks as a meditation in the evening. We do, however, ask you to not overdo it, as such a schedule could possibly deliver more stimulation than you are easily able to integrate. Always listen to Release1 before listening to Release2.
Always listen to Release2 before listening to Release3. Listen to them in the same meditative posture that you would the main meditation tracks. The deep sense of bliss and renewal will be immediate after listening, but they will also grow over a period of days during your use, especially as you relax into releasing. Accompanying the immediate sense of renewal will also be a deeper awareness of the pertinent issues you need to release. You will sense them as a kind of tension, anxiety and resistance somewhere in the background of the bliss. Rest assured that this is a VERY positive sign, because you are now perfectly poised to simply let these resistances go. Instructions and guidelines for facilitating such release are included below. You will find that the deepened sense of joy and bliss will actually embolden you to relax more deeply into the root of the resistances that are beginning to surface. And as you do so quite naturally, your sense of bliss, renewal and optimism will effortlessly blossom of themselves over a period of days. You just keep getting happier and happier, and life begins to flow. It is also helpful to be mindful of letting go of the bliss as it arises. The more you let go of whatever arises (even bliss), the more blissful and light you will feel, until you eventually release into a profound sense of peace and equanimity.
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The following are simple but penetrating insights into releasing the chains that bind you:
First, it is important to realize that virtually all discomfort is related to resistance; and such resistance is something we are actively doing, usually unconsciously. Delving more deeply, it can be discovered that the prolongation of all disempowering states (such as depression, hopelessness, fear, jealously, lust, etc.) arises out of a single belief: that ones highest wellbeing and deepest sense of fulfillment lies outside of oneself. Only when we profoundly realize that we are the true source of our happiness, are we able to become less prone to the unhealthy prolongation of such states. And this source of happiness refers not just to our actions, but to the ongoing experience of our true nature. When that experience deepens, life-affirming action flows as a natural by-product. Allow yourself to become aware of the tension in your body that is associated with the overwhelm. From this point on in the guidelines, youll find helpful questions which are designed to gently lead you into a profound release of resistance to growth and development. Use these questions on yourself, both in meditation and throughout the day, to allow yourself to effortlessly relax into deeper freedom. As you do so, you are creating transformative neural pathways between the parts of your brain involved in raw emotion and those involved with conscious awareness. This results not only in spontaneous release of emotional and energetic entropy, but also a subtler and more sophisticated emotional processing power. Eventually, you may not even need the questions at all, as you will be more able to feel your way into the root of the resistance and let it go. Deep, slow, rhythmic and relatively effortless breathing greatly assists this process. Can you label the discomfort? Is it anxiety over an upcoming event, a sense of unworthiness, shame, fear, frustration? Neuroscientific research tells us that the nonjudgmental labeling of emotions and feelings activates neural circuitry which tempers the experience of such disturbances by downregulating the amygdalas fear response. Now, can you let go of labeling the feeling? Can you allow your self to simply sink into the feeling itself, without the need of labeling it? While the initial labeling of feelings helps us to tune
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into them and become more comfortable with them, continued attachment to such labels prevents us from simply being with the root of the discomfort, devoid of assumptions, expectations and unhealthy attachments. Are you resisting the feeling? Can you allow yourself to just let go of resisting it? Could you allow yourself to let go even more? And more? Are you ready to just let go? Could you allow yourself to become aware of the sense of space that surrounds and permeates this feeling? Is this space and your experience of it limited to your body? Does this space extend far beyond your body and your experience of the feeling? Could you allow your experience of the feeling to extend into the space around you and far beyond your body? Can you now experience this feeling from the infinite space, silence and timelessness which surround and extend far beyond your body? Is the feeling as intense now? Has it dissipated somewhat? Could you allow yourself to continue bathing this feeling with your awareness of this infinite spaciousness, silence and timelessness? Could you allow yourself just to softly sink into the root of the feeling? Could you allow the resulting intense feelings to wash over you in full awareness and with open embrace as they dissipate in this infinite field of timeless, spacious awareness? Could you allow yourself to imagine not needing to do anything at all? Could you let go of any significance or meaning youve projected onto some event or situation in your life? Could you imagine being entirely complete and utterly at peace, with no need for anything? Could you just allow the feeling of being utterly and perfectly complete to arise effortlessly in your awareness? If there is a fear, could you allow yourself to look at it and come to peace with it? Once you look at the very worst that can happen and come to peace with it by accepting and releasing it, you strip that fear of its power over you. Whats the worst that could happen? Allow yourself to experience the worst scenario possible with full awareness, and you will find that the fear eventually dissipates (if you stay with it long enough) because you brought unflinching awareness to it.
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I don't know what you put in that MP3 but thanks. Really. Love it! Thanks so much. I haven't felt so good in ages. Seriously. ~ Belinda Hodge, Scarborough, Australia
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