Research

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Brainwaves

Brainwaves are the rhythm of the brain. They are electrical signals or patterns generated by brain cells (neurons) and other brain structures. When a large number of neurons beat together in synchrony, they create a strong rhythm - pattern - signal - wave that can be detected on the scalp surface by electrical monitoring equipment (electroencephalograph - EEG). This equipment measures the vibrations in cycles per second (cps) called hertz (Hz) and graphically charts them - EEG brain mapping. A thin line on the graph means faster brainwaves, and a curving / spiking line on the graph means slower brainwaves.

Measurement and study of the electrical activity of the brain -- called electroencephalography -- began over a hundred years ago. Richard Caton developed a technique to detect electrical brain responses to stimuli in rabbits and monkeys. He presented his findings to the British Medical Association in 1875. In 1924, Hans Berger developed and applied similar techniques to humans in Germany.

Research is expanding rapidly in the area of brain waves, and monitoring equipment is increasingly sensitive and sophisticated. For instance, we can monitor different areas of the brain at the same time and determine which part of the brain is generating which level of brainwaves in response to an activity or thought or emotion.

Obviously, current discussions of brainwaves are based on what we know and believe today. For instance, research in the 1950's and 1960's discovered alpha brainwaves were different during meditation. This led to the belief that increased alpha waves would produce the benefits of Zen and Yoga meditation. Two decades of research later, it appears this assumption was simplistic and perhaps inaccurate. Meditation may have a personal quality that cannot be reduced to a brainwave category.

Brainwaves have been charted and studied for the stages of human development from conception to death. During fetal development, the earliest signs of Hz are detectable outside the scalp at around 23 weeks in utero. These occur as brief bursts every second -- 1 cps or 1 Hz. At about 28 weeks in utero, the right and left brain hemispheres are synchronized and have the same rhythm. At about 32 weeks in utero, sleep states are organized. It is interesting to note that organized sleep patterns represent an advance to a higher level of neuronal organization and functioning when they first appear. This could mean the SuperSleep® state is the way to access / create a higher level of neuronal functioning.

Brainwave States Back to Top

Certain ranges of brainwave frequencies occur naturally when you are in certain states of mind, performing certain activities, having certain kinds of thoughts, etc. Many researchers are linking the production of certain neurochemicals with specific brainwave patterns. For instance, increases in alpha, theta, and delta brainwaves increase the production of DHEA and melatonin, anti-stress and anti-aging hormones. More specifically, a 10 Hz signal (alpha) boosts the production of serotonin which increases relaxation and eases pain. A 4 Hz (theta) signal boosts catecholamines which are vital for memory and learning. And in delta, the brain is triggered to release quantities of healing growth hormone. This suggests the brain's internal communication system is based on frequency. Your brain may talk to itself in brainwave-ese.

An interesting side note is the effect of nicotine on brainwave patterns. EEG stimulation provided by nicotine is variable. The evidence indicates smokers generally use nicotine to moderate or normalize their states -- to arouse themselves from boredom or calm themselves from over-stimulation. In other words, people get high on uppers, low on downers, and medium on nicotine.

Currently, brain wave states are generally categorized as follows:

High Beta which ranges from 32 Hz to over 100 Hz:
This is a newer area of research. Some states are related to anxiety and stress, while some are related to higher states of functioning.

Beta which ranges from 14 to 28 Hz:
This is the brainwave state of normal waking consciousness -- logical thought, analysis, concentration, alertness, problem solving, and action.

You are in beta most of your waking hours when you are thinking, speaking, and doing, and when you are reading this information. In beta, you discern, compare, judge, and criticize.

Alpha which ranges from 8 to 14 Hz:

This is the brainwave state of relaxation -- pleasant feeling states, automatic and routine activities (non-thinking activities), freedom from pain, physical healing.

You are in alpha when you are feeling soothed and calm, relaxing, letting your mind wander, daydreaming, bathing/showering, meditating, praying, letting go, dissolving into the environment, drifting off to sleep, being in a twilight state.

In alpha, you have rapid assimilation of facts with heightened memory and healing. You may experience an altered sense of time, free association (non-logical), and extrasensory perception.

Alpha is the doorway to the nonconscious. It is conducive to creative imagery and personal psychotherapeutic insights -- the "awakened mind."

Theta which ranges between 4 and 8 Hz:

This is the brainwave state of deep meditation, sleep and sleep-like states, dreaming sleep.

You are in theta when you are in deep reverie. When awake, it brings quietness of body, emotions and mind and builds a bridge between the conscious and nonconscious. This waking state is associated with creative people and hypnotic susceptibility.

Delta which is below 4 Hz:

This is the brainwave state of deep dreamless sleep -- a deep trancelike non-physical state

At birth, the primary waking brainwave state is theta, and that brainwave state is synchronized between the hemispheres. During the early childhood years, this waking brainwave state slowly speeds up until the primary waking brainwave state is beta. In the elderly, the brainwave state again slows to the alpha and theta rhythm. Though waking brainwave states change in direct correlation with aging, sleep brainwave rhythms remain the same from gestation to death.

As the brainwaves slow, there is an increase in the balance between the two hemispheres of the brain. This is called whole brain integration, brain synchronization, and synchrony. Slowing of brainwaves pushes the brain to reorganize itself at higher and more complex levels of functioning, a process predicted by Ilya Prigogine. His Nobel Prize winning work discusses open systems (dissipative structures) and their quantum leap way of reorganizing into a higher system.

I believe this applies equally to brainwave states and people making behavioral and emotional changes. CYM works with this quantum leap way of reorganizing into higher systems. By listening during your SuperSleep®¨ state, you introduce new messages during slower brainwave states and reorganize neural pathways into higher ways of thinking, feeling, and being.

The SuperSleep® Brainwave States Back to Top

The SuperSleep® brainwave states are theta and delta. As there is little research on delta, we will focus on what is known about theta.

The theta brainwave state is divided into two main types: Rapid Eye Movement (REM) dreaming sleep and non-Rapid Eye Movement (NREM) sleep. Mammals (except spiny anteaters) and birds have REM, while reptiles do not. About 25% of total sleep is spent in REM and 75% is spent in NREM. Adults experience four or five REM cycles per night, and infants are in REM about eight hours a day.

REM sleep is a puzzling state, because it appears paradoxical and self contradictory. While your heart rate and breathing are higher during REM sleep (which means light sleep), your muscles are more relaxed and it is harder to awaken from this state (which means deep sleep). Your eyes dart and flit, your pulse surges, your breathing is rapid and irregular, and you have fine finger movement. To observe this, watch a cat sleep. During REM sleep, a cat's whiskers, tail, ears, and paws twitch.

Neuroscientists are learning what areas of the brain and what combinations of brain cells are essential for specific tasks such as learning and encoding memory. The hippocampus is required for recent experiences to be encoded for long-term storage as memory. During REM, the brain stem (at the base of the brain) fires bursts of electrical impulses into (1) the hippocampus, and (2) the areas of the brain that process visual information. This suggests REM is necessary for the hippocampus to do its work -- to encode long term memory. In support of this theory, it has been found that brain lesions that abolish theta brainwaves produce severe learning and memory deficits.

In lower mammals, theta rhythm hits the memory center when the animal is learning things essential to survival (Winson). For instance, cats display theta in their memory centers when stalking prey: rabbits display theta in their memory centers when they are afraid of a predator. Winson has shown that the very same "memory" brain cells that register animals' learning during wakefulness erupt into the theta rhythm when the animals go into REM sleep. He believes information processing occurs during REM sleep which merges the new information with the old memories to determine future behaviors.

SuperSleep® and Changing Your Mind Back to Top

"I believe REM sleep (functions) are in fact the Freudian unconscious."
Jonathan Winson, psychiatrist & noted brain researcher

"I believe REM is where the action is for transformation."
Teri Mahaney, creator of the Change Your Mind method

Many researchers, psychiatrists, and scientists agree the theta brainwave state is the key to changing your mind:

Thomas Budzynski, a biofeedback researcher, describes the theta state as "a transition zone between wakefulness and sleep in which one can absorb new information in an uncritical, non-analytical fashion." He speculated that this allows new information to bypass the critical filters of the left hemisphere and be "learned" by the right hemisphere. Therefore, information leading to a change in self concept, change in belief system, and change of habitual behaviors would occur more easily in theta.

Norman Dixon states emotionally determined memories are more affected by subliminal messages, making this brainwave state the most appropriate for changing emotional memories or emotional patterns subliminally.

Poetzl's research found that messages given consciously had results consciously, but messages given subliminally emerged in the theta brainwave state in dreams -- called the Poetzl Phenomenon.

Gary Lynch states for memories to form, LT or long-term potentiation must take place. The LT process involves electrical and chemical changes in the neurons associated with memory, and the key to LT is the theta brainwave pattern. "We have found the magic rhythm that makes LT is the theta brain wave pattern."

Jonathan Winson states REM is the neural process whereby, from early childhood on, strategies for behavior are being set down, consulted, or modified.

James Chalet states the theta brainwave state has specific mental processing functions, and "it seems reasonable to assume that sleep is a particularly favorable time for strengthening and consolidating memories".

Gene Brockopp states we may facilitate an individual's ability to allow more variations in their functioning through breaking up patterns at the neural level. This moves them away from habit patterns of behavior to develop elegant strategies of functioning.

McGaugh believes brain synchronization increases memory, and "the more theta waves appeared in an animal's EEG after a training session, the more it remembered." Theta waves show that the brain is in the right state to process and store information.

By listening to your Change Your Mind recordings while you sleep, you bridge the conscious and nonconscious. Working in your SuperSleep® state, you mix the new learning (the statements on your recording) with your long term memories. The old is dissolved and integrated, and you create new ways of thinking, feeling, and acting.

During the process, you experience the Poetzl Phenomenon. While listening to your tapes, you have dreams which are symbolic and emotionally significant, though you may not remember them. When you are dealing with intense emotional issues, you may experience nightmares. This is your brain releasing the old mental patterning from your unconscious, and it happens while you sleep.

Brainwave Training Back to Top

The process of learning to identify and control your brainwave states is called brainwave training, biofeedback, neurofeedback, and neurotherapy. Using EEG instruments, you learn to identify your brain wave states and to change or produce them at will. Depending on the condition or change desired, treatments last from several to fifty sessions. Do-it-yourselfers can work with brainwave states through simple electroencephalography computer programs and light and sound machines (available through wellness catalogs and internet sites).

Biofeedback is best known for its stress reduction origins, but it is emerging as a tool to treat attention-deficit disorder, migraines, epilepsy, anxiety, learning disabilities, depression, head injuries, seizures, sleep disorders, chronic fatigue, headaches, post traumatic stress disorder, mood swings, alcohol abuse, and addiction.

For instance, many individuals with attention problems produce more slow brainwaves (theta) and fewer fast brainwaves (beta). Slower waves indicate daydreaming, reverie, and other forms of mental drifting, while faster brainwaves indicate concentration. Individuals trained to reduce their amount of slow brainwaves and produce larger amounts of beta increase their attention and concentration time.

Probably the most famous brainwave training to date was done by Dr. Eugene Peniston and Dr. Paul Kulkosky with alcoholics. A group of alcoholics identified for treatment was randomly divided and assigned to (1) conventional medical treatment, (2) EEG training. During the thirteen month post-treatment period, the group that received conventional medical treatment had an 80% relapse . The EEG group had a 20% relapse rate during the same period, The EEG group received 15 twenty minute brainwave training sessions to increase the amount and amplitude of alpha and theta brainwaves (and no other treatment).

Another researcher/practitioner, Dr. Len Ochs, believes brainwave training resets the neurochemistry of the brain to a pre-trauma state, thus reversing the effects of trauma. He has had remarkable results with both psychological trauma such as post traumatic stress disorder and physical brain trauma such as closed head injury and stroke.

The Greens (Beyond Biofeedback) found people experiencing theta were scored on psychological tests as being "psychologically healthier, had more social poise, were less rigid and conforming, were more self-accepting and creative." They became healthy and had "improved relationship to people as well as greater tolerance, understanding, and love of oneself and one's world."

Robert Monroe of the Monroe Institute of Applied Sciences conducted thousands of experiments to verify he could entrain brainwave patterns using binaural beats. His Hemi-Sync process presents different frequencies separately to each ear. This brings the brain into synchrony, which is the whole brain state.

To get a list of brainwave training practitioners, contact The Association of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback.

I encourage you to work with your brainwave states in any healthy positive format that works for you. Of course, changing while I sleep is the easiest for me!

Subliminals and Supraliminals Back to Top

Subliminal perception -- the concept of discrimination by the brain without conscious awareness by the person -- is a scientific fact. Your brain takes in messages below your level of conscious awareness, and it responds to those messages. "Subliminal perception is not just a 'watered down' version of normal perception but different in kind" as well (Some). Laboratory research projects have repeatedly demonstrated that subliminal messages affect your dreams, memory, verbal behavior, emotional responses, drive-related behavior, conscious perception, and perceptual thresholds.

But laboratory research is difficult to decipher because it is loaded with academic stiffness, technical jargon, personal bias, and controversy. Many researchers are arguing about what subliminal research is, while others are using questionable research models to prove their points (flashing obscene drawings to young women and monitoring their dreams for sexual reenactments). Reading the research often reveals more about the researcher than your mind/brain!

Among the subliminal researchers, Silverman, Dixon, and Shevrin provide useful and significant findings. Norman Dixon, noted expert in the field of preconscious processing, finds the controversy over subliminal perception within the psychological community to be based on (1) fear of the existence of an unconscious, (2) the threat to personal liberty that subliminal programming implies, and (3) confusion over the specific words used in the research.

For research purposes, the word subliminal means sub-limen, or below the limen. But the limen is a statistical concept technically defined as below the 50% point of classical psychophysics (Zenhausern), or that stimulus value which gives a response exactly half the time (McConnell).

This research definition has little meaning in non-laboratory settings and does not fit research models for subliminal CDs/tapes.

In everyday language, the words subliminal and supraliminal are commonly used for sub-threshold (below the threshold) and supra-threshold (above the threshold). Your threshold is your point of conscious awareness. For instance, if you are listening to an audio tape with a spoken message on it, and you can consciously hear the words and understand them, you are receiving a message above your threshold. This is popularly called a supraliminal message. If you can't hear the words, you are receiving a message below your threshold, popularly called a subliminal message.

Most laboratory subliminal research is based on visual experiments which are conducted using a tachistocope, a device which flashes words or pictures onto a screen at intervals of four milliseconds or less. Very little research has been done on verbal subliminal messages (subaudible messages) in which a voice is embedded under music, ocean waves, or nature sounds so that it cannot be heard.

Some research has been done on the effectiveness of subliminal versus supraliminal messages, however, and on the effectiveness of using the two together. Shevrin presents words both above and below conscious awareness - supraliminally and subliminally - and analyzes the response of brainwaves recorded at the moment each stimulus is delivered. Both supraliminal and subliminal messages cause brainwave activity, but this does not mean behavior change will follow. One study showed perception could be altered with subliminal messages, but supraliminal messages were necessary to change physical performance such as learning a new sport. To change a sensory task required a combination of subliminal and supraliminal messages. (Zenhausern and Hansen)

In addition, research shows that "emotionally laden messages must be shown longer than neutral messages before a subject will respond to them". (Garner) In addition, each of us has a unique subconscious which gives different affective and motivational meaning to the same messages. (Poetzl) While this can be strikingly demonstrated in individuals, it has been difficult to repeat in experimental settings. (Westerlundh)

Simply stated, we are each unique with a different set of experiences, beliefs, feelings and thoughts stored in our brains. These interact with new messages and create responses unique to us, making it difficult to generalize about results from any research model that looks for sameness.

Mommy and I are One Back to Top

Dr. Lloyd Silverman of New York University blazed the trail for psychologically sound subliminal "therapy." Working with the idea that conflicting wishes in the subconscious often underlie mental problems, he began using subliminal messages with schizophrenics. He found he could increase or decrease their symptoms dramatically by using different subliminal messages.

He discovered one simple five word sentence which had universal effects when given subliminally, yet lost its effectiveness when given supraliminally. This sentence became the subject of hundreds of subliminal research projects and has proven effective with programs for weight loss, smoking cessation, alcoholism, academic achievement, etc.

That simple sentence is Mommy and I are one.

Dr. Silverman believes Mommy and I are one is a symbiotic fantasy or fantasy of merging, and that merging with the "good mother of infancy" is a sort of archetypal experience that paradoxically allows us to become self-sustaining individuals.

Mommy and I are one seems to fulfill a number of psychological needs, but its strength may lie beyond psychology. Fantasies of oneness have been interpreted psychologically as an unconscious desire to return to the womb -- the pre-birth state of safety and comfort when we were one with the mother. This state of pre-existence (before the pain of birth and the agony of a separate existence) is considered the unconscious source of religious myths about a lost paradise. Conditions such as alcoholism, drug addiction, violence, and suicide are viewed psychoanalytically as stemming from the unresolved desire to return to this "oneness."

Spiritually, mystics maintain that meditation creates oneness with a cosmic consciousness, and the merging or reconnecting with spirit/source is at the heart of all major religions. Perhaps Mommy and I are one sparks this oneness as well.

Another way to spark this oneness is with music.

Music and Cadencing Back to Top

Ancient cultures used the natural power of sound and music to influence states of consciousness both for religious ceremonies and to increase psychological and physical health. Today, the idea that sound can affect consciousness is widely accepted.

Ernest Chladni, an 18th century German physicist who researched the relation between music and matter, scattered sand on steel discs and observed what happened to the sand when various notes were played on a violin. Only certain areas of the disc resonated to the notes, causing the sand to be shifted into the areas that were not being resonated. The patterns created in the sand were mathematically ordered geometric shapes.

Dr. Hans Jenny extended this research. Working with liquids, metal filings, and powders, he found as the notes ascended the musical scale, the sand patterns became organic, mimicking hexagonal cells of honeycombs and spirals of nautilus shells. Working with a tonoscope, a device that transforms sounds into a visual representation on a video screen, Jenny recorded the Hindi sacred "OM" sound, the world's most common mantra or prayer chant. The sound produces a perfect circle filled with concentric triangles and squares. Using the same method, he found the final chord of Handel's Messiah forms a perfect five point star.

Other researchers found that 17th and 18th century composers encoded certain harmonics into their pieces. Harmonics are the tones that resonate high above the audible sounds of music and appear to be in harmony with matter - the tones that create the patterns on the discs. Evidently, music with these harmonics can be health enhancing. Research shows brain neurons resonate to these harmonics, and many believe this music can serve as a bridge to greater personal awareness.

Georgi Lozanov, a Bulgarian physician and psychologist, incorporated this music into his system of learning called Suggestopedia or Suggestology in Europe and Superlearning in the U.S. Lozanov found that people performing supernormal feats of memory had a relaxed state of body during their heightened state of mind. Their brain waves were at alpha and their heartbeat was slowed. He experimented with classical music to induce that relaxed state (which was much easier than having his subjects practice years of mental yoga, meditation, and mind control to get the same results).

Lozanov studied the "Goldberg Variations" of Johann Sebastian Bach for the appropriate musical key. Count Kayserling, beset with insomnia, commissioned Bach to compose restful music for him, and Goldberg played the music each night on the harpsichord. Goldberg tired of playing the same piece each night and began improvising or doing variations. It worked, and the count began sleeping peacefully. For this success, Kayserling gave Bach a large gift of gold.

Lozanov studied the Goldberg Variations in his laboratory and found the arias which begin and end the pieces induce a meditative state. He studied other baroque composers - Vivaldi, Telemann, Corelli, Handel - and found that the slower sections (largo sections) of their music did the same. Through analysis, Lozanov showed that each of these sections of music has 60 beats to the minute, the heart-at-rest heartbeat. That music tempo slowed the heartbeat and relaxed the body, while leaving the mind alert.

Lozanov's next step was to study rhythm and learning. Material presented at one second intervals was retained at a rate of 20%. Using five second intervals, the retention rate jumped to 30%. Going to ten seconds intervals, the retention rate rose to 40%. Americans using the Lozanov system found that the eight second cadencing was most effective.

During the same years Lozanov was developing Suggestopedia in Bulgaria, Dr. A.A. Tomatis, an ear, nose, and throat specialist in France, was studying the effect of frequencies on the ear and the brain. Tomatis found the ear is more than just an organ for hearing. The ear forms an essential part of an integrated system which affects motor skills, body awareness, balance and coordination as well as communication, language, language integration, and mental energy. He discovered that what we hear has a profound effect on our state of health, both physically and mentally. Low frequency sounds do us harm while high frequencies are beneficial.

Sound is measured in frequencies and decibels. Decibels measure loudness, and frequencies measure tone. High frequencies and low decibels are beneficial, but what we hear most often is low frequency at high decibels -- the noise of traffic, construction, planes, humming office machines, computers, fluorescent lights, popular music, etc. Low frequency noises like these de-energize us, and this noise at higher decibels causes hearing loss, nervous disorders, and a diminishment of brain capabilities.

Tomatis developed the Tomatis Method, a "listening therapy" based on his findings. The therapy requires 100 to 200 hours of listening to specific pieces of music with the lower frequencies filtered out and the higher frequencies enhanced. As a developmental tool, this method has been particularly successful with learning disabilities/dyslexia and also with more serious difficulties such as autism. When used for skills enhancement, the method has proven beneficial for singers, musicians, performing artists, and other professionals.

While the music you hear on your Change Your Mind recording does not substitute for this comprehensive therapy, it does provide benefits. Music created from the Largo sections of baroque symphonies increases the alpha brain-wave state by an average of 6% while you are awake which can increase healing and serve as a bridge to the subconscious. (Schroeder) In addition, this high frequency music helps reverse the process of "over-listening" to low frequencies and can harmonize the nervous system, provide a new level of energy, relieve stress, lower blood pressure, and induce hypersomnia (you require less sleep). By listening to this music during your SuperSleep® state, you get the bonus of inner ear stimulation and brain recharging while you're creating new mental patterns for yourself!

For more information on the Lozanov method, read the book Superlearning by Lynn Schroeder and Sheila Ostrander.

For more information on the Tomatis method, read the book The Conscious Ear by A.A. Tomatis.

The Mind Back to Top

"It is much easier to ignore these facts than to explain them."
Carl Jung

Most people assume the mind is the brain and that consciousness is the result of electrochemical neurological activity. However, there is convincing evidence that the mind is non-local and outside the brain and the body. There is no neurophysiological research which conclusively demonstrates that the higher levels of the mind are in the brain -- the levels that produce intuition, insight, creativity, imagination, understanding, knowing, will, spirit or soul.

The belief in a non-local mind is centuries old and can be found in most ancient cultures, civilizations, and religions. For 50,000 years, Shamans have believed minds can travel at will, as have Hindus who call this "astral travel" or "soul travel". Larry Dossey, M.D., a student of distant knowing and healing, tells of a patient who suffered a heart attack during surgery for gall bladder removal.

After regaining consciousness, she was able to (1) recite the upcoming cases written on the blackboard outside the operating room which she had seen, (2) name the surgeons awaiting the next case down the hall in the surgeon's lounge which she had seen and (3) report that the chief surgeon was wearing mismatched socks that day which she had seen during her operation. "Her reports were flawless - and were even more amazing because she was congenitally blind. The woman had never seen anything in her life." (Dossey)

Randy Byrd, M.D. cardiologist at San Francisco General Hospital, studied heart patients in a non-local mind experiment. He divided 400 patients into two groups as they were admitted to the hospital for heart disease. Group One received traditional medical care, while Group Two was involved in a double-blind experiment. Unknown to the patients, the nurses, or the doctors, Group Two's names were distributed to prayer groups of mixed denominations throughout the country. They received traditional medical care plus the prayers of total strangers. Group two excelled in many ways - fewer deaths, fewer requirements for mechanical respiratory support, less pulmonary edema, and less need for antibiotics. These results led Dr. William Nolen, author of Making of a Surgeon, to suggest physicians write in their patients' hospital orders "Pray for Patient Three Times Daily."

If the mind is not local and not bounded by the physical body, then minds are not fundamentally separated from one another and can be one mind. The Gaia hypothesis, an idea first proposed in 1979 by atmospheric chemist James Lovelock and microbiologist Lynn Margulis, suggests the Earth is a living organism which adjusts and regulates itself like other organisms. Earth could have a mind of its own which is inter-connected to human minds. This is called universal mind and affects all living organisms and perhaps mechanical objects as well.

I've seen many things happen with Change Your Mind that support these theories, from "miracle" healings to mechanical dysfunctions, and I've seen too many to consider them "coincidences". Personally, I've had music tapes become blank halfway through when I was working on a script I was resisting, though the tape had music on it when I tried another script. I've made supraliminal tapes which became inaudible halfway through, though my recording style stayed the same. I've had tapes which recorded to a certain sentence, and then stopped recording. And I've had many clients experience similar incidents.

Linda, a physician who didn't believe in subliminals, couldn't get her machine to work. The machine worked perfectly for me. We stood side by side with the machine playing continuously and passed the microphone between us, talking sequentially. My voice recorded; hers didn't. When she asked my opinion, I told her I thought her disbelief was creating an electrical block. She thought that was preposterous but agreed to approach the machine with a different attitude, and her next sentence recorded perfectly, as did her subsequent tapes.

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John agreed to be a guinea pig for the first test tape I made for public sale. He had never used a tape, but Carol, his therapist wife, used them regularly. The tape had a brief health section on it, and John was a sugar and junk food addict.

I was interested in John's response, but I was especially interested in Carol's observations of John's eating habits. Carol set John up with a recorder, new batteries, and the tape, and he went to the guest bedroom for the first night.

The next morning, they found the tape had only played half-way through. Carol replaced the batteries, thinking they must have been defective, and started the tape where it had stopped - which was exactly where the health affirmations began.

I've experienced dozens of these mechanical incidents, and there is no logical explanation for them. Concurrently, I have observed people affected at a distance by a tape that had statements about them.

Kathy was returning to college and had math anxiety. She came in to make a tape which would change her mind about her statistics tests. The more we talked, the more I felt she had an incident in her childhood that was blocking her natural memory, so we wrote a general clearing script. After ten days of SuperSleep® to that script, Kathy's mother called from her home across the country to "confess" an incident from Kathy's childhood. Kathy's math anxiety dissolved and she got an A on her next statistics test.

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David listened to Heal Your Childhood. He had been estranged from his father for 27 years since "coming out" as a gay teen. They had no contact in those years, and David did not know his father's whereabouts. After twenty-one days of SuperSleep®, David received a phone call from his father who had located him. They talked for hours. His father flew out to visit for two weeks, and they established a loving relationship.

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Angela wrote and recorded a personalized clearing script on conflict with her husband. She included a clearing on his emotionally demanding and abusive ex-wife and her stepdaughter who were the reason for the ongoing conflict. After three days of SuperSleep®, the ex-wife stopped her daily phone calls and became conciliatory toward Angela. The relationships continued to improve.

But all the stories I can tell are not as important as the stories you will tell about yourself and your SuperSleep® changes.

Miracle:

"An extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment."
Webster's Dictionary

"A natural occurrence that happens before we are ready to accept or understand it."
Dr. Glenn Olds
President Emeritus,
Alaska Pacific University

"Something I have seen often with SuperSleep®, and the very thing I wish for you."
Teri Mahaney, Ph.D.
Creator of the Change Your Mind SuperSleep® program