Meditation Programme - My 8 Year's Meditation Experience With Binaural Beat Technology

Having used a binaural beat meditation product for over 8 years now I can safely say that whilst in most respects I remain the same flawed human being I was before, at least I now know that I am!

So am I any different now?

I find that traditional meditation is now much easier to do than before, and more enjoyable - as are a range of other mindfulness practises.

I can largely stop thinking - well to be accurate about 80-90% of conscious thoughts stop when I want them to, and the rest is like a sort of "white noise" in the background.

I have developed the capacity to be able to witness (or mindfully watch) my thoughts and emotional states more or less automatically. I still get caught up in the them - but at least now I know when I do, and it isn't the 100% it used to be - more like 80% now, and I can "get out of" negative states much more easily and more quickly.

I can access right-brain states more or less at will and switch between a left or right brain state fairly easily. This is a very subjective observation, but I feel that I have developed far more self-awareness to the extent that I now know or realise who I am - or more accurately who I am not.

For any Buddhists reading this, I feel a deeper insight into and direct experience of emptiness and the wider teachings on interdependent origination.

And what about the big "E?" Well I can say four simple things on that:

(1) That I do realise now what it isn't - namely it is not to be sought, worked towards or somewhere "out there".

(2) That we are all enlightened NOW - it is our true natural state, many of us have brief and transitory enlightenment experiences, but as it is not a part of our regular day-to-day experience we don't recognise or describe it as such.

(3) That it is a progressive awakening and comprises continuously deepening experiences that take place over many years - or at least it is for most of us - very few people have what is regarded as a "spontaneous awakening", and of those who do, not many successfully integrate the experience.

(4) That ultimately, enlightenment is just to BE - aware and fully present NOW - free of the mind...