Hemi-Sync™
Hemi-Sync Questions inevitably pop up. Eventually, someone asks; “What frequencies are used for…?” Don’t feel bad. Curiosity happens. I’m sure you’ll like the answer, its complex and sort of mind boggling. It’s the reason that most companies out there who try to copy what Bob Monroe did never get it right.
There’s a “slew” [that’s deep southern for a whole bunch] of frequencies produced in any given Hemi-Sync product and they differ for each ear, as well as a “reach,” or as they say up north of Bal’mer City, range or spread, which are designed to cover at least most everyone or about eighty percent of the population at large. But, that’s not what’s important about Hemi-Sync. It’s the third frequency which your own brain invents that makes the difference. And of course there are some other somewhat complicating differences that come into play as well.
For instance, let’s take a mix of just four Hemi-Sync signals as an example. For simplicity, we’ll label them using “L” for left ear and “R” for right ear; “1″ for first signal, “2″ for second, and so forth, through the “4th signal.” So we have L1, L2, L3, and L4 mixing with R1, R2, R3, and R4. They in turn produce “M” which represents “A Mix Signal,” M1, M2, M3, and M4, which has been created by your brain.
But wait! Your brain will then mix M1 with L1, for M1(2), and M1 with R1, for R1(2), M2(2), R2(2), etc., and then we have a further sub-mix of M1(2) with R2(2) for a MM(2) etc. These are called sub-harmonic mixes. These sub-harmonic mixes are compounded and stacked at specific points throughout the CD play out, where other new L1 and R1 frequencies are then specifically introduced for specific reaches at specific times throughout the Hemi-Sync exercise; kind of like developing music inside your head, only it’s your brain that’s building and playing it, not the CD. And this was all developed over a very long time, through trial and error by Robert Monroe himself, in his lab, using his explorer group, himself, and hands-on mixing equipment. He did this running through each exercise over and over again, tweaking it as he went, a little bit here a little bit there, while watching the results as he went, watching the effects, until he locked down what he wanted to do and produce. To say that he was a gifted man would be an understatement.
So…it’s easier to answer questions about Hemi-Sync by letting you know what works for me. There is a lovely exercise which walks you through a garden, which is part of the Surgical Recovery package. I use that piece for both pain control and for sleeping after surgery. It’s remarkable, at least for me! For someone else…it may give you hives or keep you awake all night, I don’t know. I just know Hemi-Sync works, and the magic of it is in trying it until you find something that works for you, finding the right CD or tool, the right exercise that fits what you want to do with it. In the future all that may change, but for now, that’s what I know about it.
