| If you think about deep meditation, chances are | | | | method called brainwave entrainment. This |
| that your mind conjures up a picture of a Zen | | | | involves different "beats" being played, usually |
| monk sitting cross legged and contemplating the | | | | masked by the sound of rainfall or other natural |
| universe. Which is definitely one way to | | | | sounds. These beats encourage our brain to |
| experience a deep meditative state. But for us | | | | naturally slip into the same state of deep |
| mere mortals, who haven't got a life time to | | | | meditation as that experience by Zen monks and |
| spend just meditating, is there another way? | | | | other life-long meditators. |
| Sure, you could practice for years and years. But, | | | | The technology behind this has been shown to |
| fortunately, there are other deep meditation | | | | induce the same deep meditation state that it |
| techniques that don't take what seems like | | | | would otherwise take decades to achieve. The |
| forever to achieve their results. | | | | good news is that us mere mortals can do this |
| Modern technology makes it a fairly easy task to | | | | simply by listening to a specially prepared MP3 or |
| see what patterns are being produced in the | | | | CD. With no other effort whatsoever. |
| brains of people who are meditating deeply. | | | | Of course, you need to be careful that the track |
| Modern technology also allows us to find new | | | | you are listening to has been professionally |
| ways to coax our brains into this same state but | | | | produced - this is one area where you definitely |
| without all the years of practice involved in more | | | | don't want to just be downloading a track from a |
| traditional methods. | | | | random stranger - but other than that, there's |
| The best way that we've found to date is a | | | | nothing complicated involved. |