Meditation has many benefits, and learning how to do it is a journey of discovery. However, learning to meditate can also be a very frustrating process, as the kind of mental discipline and control that meditation involves doesn’t come naturally to most people, and unfortunately a lot of people give up before they experience its full benefits for themselves. Often, this is because they’re making some common mistakes which could easily be avoided. Let’s take a look at some of these in this article.
Meditation Mistake #1 – Not Trying Different …

If you’re wondering how to use binaural beats to best effect, then read on to find out more about how to get the most from this powerful life-enhancing technology.
What Are Binaural Beats?
For those who aren’t familiar with them already, binaural beats are a form of brainwave entrainment technology. They can be used to influence the frequency of your brainwaves, which in turn changes your state of consciousness.
For example, if you listen to a binaural beat recording that is designed to help you enter the theta brainwave state (where the …

Binaural beats and other brainwave entrainment technologies are very popular among meditators, as well as people who want to experience altered states of consciousness or to maximise their creativity and mental functioning. But what exactly are binaural beats? How does brainwave entrainment work? Are binaural beats safe? This article gives an overview of what’s involved, and the other articles on this site will go into more details about the different aspects.
What is Brainwave Entrainment?
Brainwave entrainment involves exposing the brain to a periodically-occuring stimulus of a specific frequency, causing the frequency …

By Eldon Taylor, Ph.D., DAPA, Ct.H.
Introduction
First, I want to suggest to you that all hypnosis is fundamentally self hypnosis. This idea is not new from me, for one of the real pioneers of modern hypnosis, Dr. Milton Ericcson made this statement many years ago. The fact is, hypnosis is based on suggestibility and you must be willing to accept the suggestions or their is no so-called trance state to follow. Now, that is not to say that gifted hypnotists are not able to disarm defenses one might have, but it …