Customer Reviews

Brainwave Suite (w/booklet)

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I have worked with profound, multipley handicapped individuals for 18 years. Since purchasing this package, I have been able to reduce behavioral involvement, relax anxiety-induced contractures and motivate movement in CP clients. I also loaned it to a friend to use during a CT scan; she's extremely clostrophobic & had two attempts fail prior to using the Brainwave CD. I highly recommend using a good headphone set: the sound actually "swirls" around you. BUY THIS! It's way cool!

This Cd-set gives me a strange feeling: you're listening to constantly shifting waves and/or music in your earphones, going from left to right and vice versa. The ALPHA Cd is uplifting, melodic with birds singing and the DELTA CD is rainfall with some thunder etc... It's a mystery to me how thunder and rain can bring my brains into DELTA (which is supposed to be similar with a deep nightrest). I just can't sleep listening to this DELTA CD ! Perhaps the CD's do work but I much more prefer Kelly Howell's CD 'Deep meditation' wich brings me after a month's daily listening for 30 minutes listening really into a deep meditation. This deep meditation did not yet occur with the Brainwave Suite.

Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has been researching the effect of sound since 1981. He has since established a sound research center in San Diego. He believes in the stress reduction benefits of sound and has proven the effects through clinical research in universities, hospitals and private practices over a period of many years.

This music is based on nature sounds and is very relaxing and beautiful. I also noticed that my creativity increased. Probably because I am sleeping so well and am well rested and more alert. I feel that these CDs almost clear the fog in your brain. It is like a vacation for your brain.

What does this music sound like? It is all different. I loved two of the CDs the most. I will review those.

If sounds swirl around you in the dance of spinning mermaids, that is the best description for what happens when I listen to the Alpha Meditation selection. There is a certain musical spinning which surrounds you and then there are notes that swirl about independently as they also rotate around you like planets. It is fascinating and addictive.

There are sounds of waves crawling up beaches mingled with singing bowls, birds, raindrops, flutes, echoes from beyond time and space. I see flowers blooming in gardens filled with orchids and even sea creatures playing out in a huge ocean. It is a mixture of deep rainforest and coastal escapes.

The notes spin from one side of my headphones to the other. It makes me blissfully dizzy. You literally feel you are being pulled down into a whirlpool of sleep. I have been listening to this CD every night to fall asleep fast.

When none of my other CDs help me sleep, this is the one I reach for. At times I am unable to sleep after listening to three other CDs, then I put this one in and
I am completely asleep in minutes.

Yes, when in bed, it can help you fall asleep. When listening while typing, it just becomes a relaxing escape. I seem to be able to leave the Bass Boost on with this CD.

I prefer Disc 4 (Emotional Openness and Intimate Communication) without as much depth and they sound more clear with my DBB turned off. Otherwise it has a roar and you can not hear the more delicate sounds. Turn off your Dynamic Bass Boost and the music becomes much more delicate and relaxing.

This CD sounds like beautiful notes of pure sounds that dance around your mind or water dripping from the inside of a cave into deep pools of sound. Fall asleep floating away on a river that seems to be endless.

Also Recommended:

Steven Halpern: Ancient Echoes, Music for Sound Healing, Enhancing Intimacy, Self-Esteem and the Sacred Chorde. I also have enjoyed falling asleep to: Keith Jarett: the Melody at Night.

If you are looking for emotional healing, a great CD is called: Giving Love Away by Robert Shahidi. It is amazing, I fall completely asleep just as the last words are playing and always remember myself being half aware and then I?m blissfully asleep. This CD heals my emotions like nothing I have experienced before. I highly recommend it.

Another great way to get into a relaxed state is by doing the "Yoga Zone: Flexibility and Stress Release" DVD or Video. It is amazing. It knocks me out because when I'm done exercising, all I want to do is climb into my soft warm bed.

~The Rebecca Review

Since listening to Dr. Thompson's work, I am no longer stressed and angry in traffic; I'm more effective at work and calmer at home. I listen to Insight & Intuiton at work, Awakened Mind when I wake, Rejuvenation when I'm ill, and Relaxation, well, of course, to relax. I also use his Brainwaves Journey for self-hypnosis. The music was not what I expected at first, and I was even a bit disappointed, but when I felt them working every day, I kept using them and now I find them indispensable.

Personally I only enjoyed two of the four CD's. But every single one of them impressed me. I bought them as a meditation set on a whim since I wasn't able to listen to them off of this page due to the computer I was using. I was not dissapointed. The flow between natural and synthetic sounds are almost imperceptable. The amazing realism of "suround sound" with my headphones on puts me in the atomosphere that is created.
These CD's will get your left and right brain working together. As an odd personal story, I usually breath out one side of my nose when I am sleeping and another when I am waking. After only minutes of listening to these particular CD's I breathed easier out of both sides.
Each CD has two tracks and they are more specific for thier use and have a short but good explanation in the pamphelet included. For instance there are birds on the CD that is recommended for communication, and Crickets and Water for sleep.

I've had this set for several years and really enjoy them. Like most people I use the delta cd most often. When I was in labor with my son, I played the CD in the delivery room and barely woke up with contractions I was so relaxed. I had lots of energy to push when the time came. With this baby, I'll have to take headphones - the staff finally had to turn it off because it was making them sleepy last time. Highly recommend. Also, I originally bought it after my neurologist told me that you have to have delta level sleep in order for your brain to make enough of the proper chemical to aid in soft tissue repair (tendons, ligaments...). I must say that it seems that it really helped with progressing my physical therapy.

Entrainment process is explained best by the way that when two pendulum clocks are kept in proximity, they synchronize together and start moving in similar rhythms. These CD's are meant to do the same. Some CD's lock you on whether you want or not and in some CD's you have to lock on yourslef by relaxing and switching of concious brain. Although it is not clear in the manual supporting the CD's whether these Cd's use the Harmonic Matrix technology (where all frequencies are present and only one is dominant like Theta , this is how brain normally works) , still the
CD's are a good start if you are new to Hemsiphere Synchrnozation technology. These CD's can have a profound effect on your personal transfromation and growht and initally after listening if you listen to them quite often , your dusfunctional emotions will surface and then vanish giving you a lot of freedom . Personally I have tried many other CD's of the same sort and there are defiately better Cd's available than these but the cost being exorbent , these are a good start.
Also if you know breathwork or yoga basic execises and can relax yourself before starting listening to these Cd's then , these can have a profound effects. Some Cd's like Track 2 in Delta
seemingly sounds like normal music and you can buy these CD's thinking that you are buying Cd's for relaxation.
Also remember that hemispheric synchronization does wonders when you have a positive intent, of course there are other CD's in the market which are better at the job whether your intent is there.
An Honest overall review will be that incase you have already started medidation in other forms and need no time to get into Alpha state then dont Buy this set . But incase you are newcomer to medidation and dont have time to go the traiditonal way, this is really a good start. So go for it, and then move on to more powerful CD's. In any cae the music is soothing and even if it does not have much effect on you, the music itself is a good collection.

I bought this set on a whim, and it's truly been a worthy investment.
I originally purchased it because I had problems sleeping (because of tension/stress) and was looking for some soothing sounds that would relax me to sleep. The very first night I played the Dealta CD I had a deep, restful sleep. It was wonderful. Currently I play the Theta CD when I do homework or read a book. I seem to be able to retain a greater amount of information. I think the key to this CD's is to play them softly in the background and not as loud as you would play regular music (especially the Delta/sleep CD)

I have listened and enjoyed the relaxation and insight I received from truly using the CD's as they are meant to be used.
The music is amazing and at times strange,but the tracks do exactly what they say they do.Which is the whole point.I have benefited greatly to reduce stress and physical pain while taking this journey.Thank you Dr. Jeffrey Thompson!

I bought the set back when it was new in 1995 from a bookstore.
I would take my portable cd player with me to Nashville's Centennial Park.
The park has a pond where Swans & Ducks swim, with a back drop of the replica Parthenon Pavilion. I'd listen to these cd's while doing my Tai Chi and Kung Fu workouts and various streches, it took me to another place deep within myself.
I was so relaxed hours would melt by watching the water while doing meditation in motion was beyond belief, my body moved with the music.

I highly recommend listening to these while doing your warmups before your workout and/or during your exercise routine. Your body and mind will be so relaxed. Exercise will become so much fun you will want to do it all the time.
I'd eat thirty minutes after my workout and I could swear it would increase my senses making whatever I ate or drank taste absolutly incredible. Someone cliped me of my set when I moved,(darned movers)so I am repurchasing these great cd's and booklet set. A must for your collection.
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