David Topí

So I started the whole program yesterday. Because I almost had no meditated on the last couple of months, it took me some time to feel comfortable and relaxed, but once I found the correct position and hit the play, all went smooth.
For those who do not know much about the Gateway Experience, I’ll say that it is a special version of the Gateway Voyage Program hosted at the Monroe Institute. It is designed for in-home application, it incorporates methods and techniques of the Gateway, adapted so that you can benefit from home.

There are a total of six albums in the Gateway Experience. Sequentially, they are: Threshold, Freedom, Adventure, Exploring, and Prospecting. Each tape and album contain a specific pattern of training whose goal is to let you experience something concrete in a specific level of consciousness.

How does it works? (copied from the program instructions)

This process uses pulses of sound to create in both brain hemispheres electrical wave forms simultaneously equal in frequency and amplitude. Hemi-Sync takes the process an important additional step. Each ear sends its dominant nerve signal to the opposite brain hemisphere, following the X pattern mentioned earlier. By sending separate sound pulses to each ear (using stereo headphones to isolate one ear from the other), the halves of the brain act in unison to “hear” a third signal, which is the difference in frequencies between the two signals in each ear.

For example, if you hear a sound measuring 100 hertz (cycles per second) in one ear and another signal of 125 hertz in the other ear, the signal your whole brain will “generate” will be 25 hertz. This third signal is the binaural beat. It is never an actual sound, but an electrical signal created by both brain hemispheres acting and working together. If the 25-hertz signal (above) is one that produces a certain type of consciousness, then the whole brain – both hemispheres – is focused in a coherent state of awareness.

Most important, the state of awareness can be changed at will by changing the sound pattern. It also can be leaned and recreated from memory as desired.

WAVE I: DISCOVERY

So I basically did yesterday the first of the tapes, named Orientation, which provides you the set of tools you will be using on the coming steps to reach deeper states of consciousness. The first thing I did, following the instructions, was to create a big and heavy energy box, a place where you mentally put all your worries, distractions and problems, so your mind does not have to worry about it while doing the session. Later on, you are introduced to the “resonant tuning“, which is a breathing technique to inhale fresh energy and exhale old and used energy from your body. Finally, you reach Focus 3, the first level of consciousness, very high still, but just the starting level where both your brain hemispheres are in sync, your body relaxed and your mind alert.

Not much for this first session, but you can get an idea of the tools you have at the very beginning. You will use all of them over the whole program, but they will become integrated and easy to execute, so for most of the tapes, you will jump immediately to the next Focus level you started with just a few seconds to do the conversion box and the resonant tuning.

More soon!

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