Hypnotherapy CDs -- are they safe?

[Buddy]

I found some tone generator software on the net: NCH Tone Generator. It appears that you can record audio files in .wav format that's similar to hemi-sync technology.
You can create, for example, a tone in one ear and a different tone in the other ear. The brain supposedly subtracts the difference and only hears the resulting tone. The idea being that you can create a tone or series of tones, lasting whatever duration, to help you achieve whatever mental state you want, from Beta to Delta.
It is based on the (proven?) assumption that the brain's own frequencies will eventually match whatever tone is being input into the ears and you would then be experiencing the desired brain state.
Does it work? I really don't know yet. Most of the time I'm tired anyway and have a tendency to drop off to sleep after 15 or more minutes of relaxation.

Note: The NCH Tone Generator seems to be for sale now, but I remember having downloaded it as a free version a couple of years ago but lost track of what I did with it until recently.

 

[Cyre2067]

Oddly enough one of my coworkers randomly dropped some of centerpointe's stuff on my desk today. I gave the two 30 minute tracks a sampling, the first was rain drops with like, bells or tones, and some of those tones were a little offensive. The second continues the raindrop theme, but it has some clicking/tapping in the background which sticks out for some reason.

I enjoyed the rain-falling sound - quite relaxing - but my intuition doesn't really agree with the rest of it. Those tones in the first track really put me off.

 

[eliansito]

My experience,

I have tried many Richard Bandlers (co founder of NLP) audio tracks, they are very powerful to the listening and bring one up and down round around many states and found them empowering.
I couldn't notice any inmediate effects except for the high and all out attitude rush after listening, in some of them, although I suspect subtle effects in terms of personality and again attitude actually occur overtime, this is only highly subjective view on my part.

Paul Mc Kenna also have tried and found them to be in the mass market produced category, nice to listen to but that is as far as it goes for me, all I listened to were pretty much structured the same way, which had the effect of lost of credibility.

I also got the hypnobabies series which was packed with material yet the actual recordings were poorly executed (good quality but lousy technique and inconsistent speech)

With one recording whose author I actually lost track as it was a free download in his site I was pretty surprised to be sent totally off in the classic text book case style, that happened for 4-5 first times I listened to it, the first time I stayed awake I was amazed to actually listen to the suggestions because I couldnt for the life of me remember listening to them before.

The track was for self confidence and although again I cannot asses its effectivity regarding the suggestions given, the effectivity of the induction was flawless and super deep despite (or because of...) myself identifying one by one the techniques used as I listened to them. Pity that I lost track of the site because I would have gladly bought some cd.
This is the only time I had such a deep trance, having listened to roughly 10 different authors.

Generally speaking I don't think one should be too worried about purchasing an hypnosis cd, most of the people out there are professionals with ethics and moral codes, and also one should not have high expectations on those.

Nevertheless I would highly recommend familiarizing oneself with hypnosis in general and the existing market and names before buying anything.

Should such tapes be used for some obscure purposes I think that would be relatively easily identified by tracking down the source in the same way one tracks down authors and articles or information.

My 2 cents.

 

[Mrs. Peel]

My experience,

I have tried many Richard Bandlers (co founder of NLP) audio tracks, they are very powerful to the listening and bring one up and down round around many states and found them empowering.
I couldn't notice any inmediate effects except for the high and all out attitude rush after listening, in some of them, although I suspect subtle effects in terms of personality and again attitude actually occur overtime, this is only highly subjective view on my part.

Hi,

You may want to read this thread about NLP and Richard Bandlers...

http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=17548.msg157849#msg157849

Ok, so we read the Wikipedia entry, followed a bunch of links, read about a number of key people. OMG. So, basically, if I got this right, the founder is an alcoholic, cocaine-sniffing psycho who got away with murder, and the techniques themselves are like giving someone a loaded gun: you could, theoretically, use them for something good, but mostly it is used for manipulation, conning and "getting your way". In a nutshell.

Does that sound about right?

 

[eliansito]

For someone to say that NLP is a way of getting your way is pretty much a shallow statement based on lack of information, and no, it doesn't sound even close to about right.

I am aware of the ins and outs of RBandler and have watched many dvds and read many books at times confirming the psycho description at times giving value to his work, or more generally speaking the NLP and hypnosis work. Perhaps his early days should have more credibility than his later, and sometimes it is advisable to separate the teacher from the teachings, especially when those teachings are not a beliefs system, nor any dogma is attached to it, and it is pretty much an open source, it is a set of tools and of course many people use it for many different things, some of them over the edge, here is where morals and personal criteria comes to play as is due diligence.

NLP in itself is nothing bad, no less than a computer is, or a kitchen knife for that matter.

R

 

[Avi]

My favorites were his audio lecture "The Battle For Your Mind" (I think I snagged a transcript and it is somewhere in the forum here) and a handy little tape called "Beta to Theta" which is just a recording of the tick tocks of something like a metronome that starts at the beta brain wave frequency and gradually slows down to the theta brain-wave frequency. I found it to be bodacious for assisting meditation. Since there are no words, you pretty much are in charge of what you are doing.

I have some Dick Sutphen CD's I am listening to, trying something new for me, and so far it is enjoyable and useful in my case.

One question though, would they be compatible, so to speak, with EE? In other words, as I do EE, if I then later in the day listen to a Sutphen CD before sleep, is there any reason why this should not be done?