8 April 2010 0 Comments

Is Holosync Just Another Self Improvement Scam?


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The self improvement and personal development industry is growing in strength (and profits) with every year. Why is this? Well to answer that question I will likened it to the diet industry which also grows in similar ways with each passing year.

The diet industry is growing in strength, customers and profits every year just like the personal development industry. Now call me cynical but if the services and products offered by the diet industry worked then their customers should be getting fewer not larger (in both stomach mass and numbers).

The weight-loss industry is raking in vast amounts of money and new customers on a daily basis because they do not deliver what they say they will. If diets, potions and weight-loss pills worked like they were suppose to the weight-loss industry would shrivel and die through lack of customers!

The same rules can be applied to self improvement! If the industry delivered on its promises anyone who used a self improvement product to better their lives would never need to find another one!

The Holosync Solution

It’s hard to investigate self improvement without stumbling upon some hype about Holosync.

Holosync has been created as a means to enter profoundly deep states of meditation without the traditional effort and time required to acquire the skill. Holosync is the work of Bill Harris who made the first recordings back in the 1980s. Since then he has improved upon the prototype and updated the meditation program.

Holosync consists of a set of audio programs that use binaural beats. These binaural beats are embedded into the Holosync recordings in such a way that they induce changes in the brainwaves of the listener. Although this sounds a little frightening to some people your brainwaves actually change state throughout the day naturally. There are benefits to sustaining certain brainwave frequencies beyond there normal time-frames though. However, the skill needed to do this is only gleaned from a great many years of practise.

Benefits of Holosync

To fully appreciate the power that Holosync offers it is necessary to quickly outline the different brainwave frequencies and their associated mental and physical states.

Your brainwaves are usually in the Beta frequency range when you are in normal waking consciousness. When you daydream, read a book, watch an enthralling movie or TV program or get totally engrossed in a task your brainwaves are usually in the Alpha range. Sleep creates Delta and Theta brainwaves which are in the lower ranges of consciousness when you are not conscious of much at all.

The beauty of being able to create these frequency ranges at will, with Holosync, means that you can induce sleep, promote energized wakefulness or even increased mental focus. As well as being able to control your mental and bodily states in this way Holosync (and meditation) enables you to also release past negative emotionally programming. This is the one thing that sets Holosync apart from other binaural beats recordings and self improvement methods!

By removing negative mental patterns, beliefs and emotions Holosync gives you the ability to change how you view the world and your automatic responses to it.

Holosync for Goal-Attainment

Holosync can be used on its own for dramatic and life-changing improvements. But it really comes into its own when it is combined with any other personal development tool. It can be used to not only increase the effectiveness of other approaches but also eliminate the negative beliefs that stand in the way of success with them.

For the first time it seems the self improvement industry is actually delivering on its promises and has given us a product that works! Using Holosync on its own is a way to gain all the benefits of extremely deep states of meditation (something I will not go into here) but being able to use it as a catalyst for other self improvement programs makes it indispensible in my view.

Imagine being able to enter deep states of Alpha while listening to a hypnosis recording or reciting affirmations, creating visualizations or using any other technique to program the mind, while Holosync drives the message into your subconscious mind. Then the Holosync technology brings deeper into Delta and gently erases any negative beliefs that are hindering or opposing this new mental programming. Holosync is truly powerful!

To sum up this post I can say, from personal experience, that Holosync is extremely powerful and delivers on all its promises!

31 March 2010 0 Comments

Self Improvement – Using NLP to Develop a Winning Mentality For Success in Sports


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It is often said that if you can’t believe in yourself, then others can’t believe in you either. In competitive sport, it’s essential that athletes believe in themselves but it’s also important that their belief is based on what they know themselves to be capable of rather than what they, or others, say they’re capable of. Sports psychology 2 methods give both coach and athlete the ability to prepare for competition, physically and mentally, so that when the pressure is on, actions will always speak louder than words!

“I am the greatest” – Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali is a great example of a sportsperson who had a lot to say about his abilities but his beliefs were always firmly based on what he knew himself to be capable of achieving. Sports psychology 2 can help coaches create the same ‘winning mentality’ in their athletes by developing a system of preparation that includes mind training as well as physical training.

The four pillars of performance – Technical, Tactical, Physical, Psychological – provide coaches with a solid support system on which to build greater strengths in the abilities of their athletes as well as their own coaching. Knowing where your strengths lie as a coach is of great importance but being able to identify where weaknesses lie is equally so.

It is not uncommon for coaches to develop a coaching style which is based on their strengths, effectively allowing them to hide from any weaknesses, but this can have a direct effect on how athletes view their performances – or their potential to win. For example, an athlete under the guidance of a coach who is particularly strong in the area of physical fitness may begin to believe their failure to succeed in competition is purely down to a lack of fitness. In reality, the lack of success is much more likely to be down to lack of psychological fitness or some other aspect of preparation but until the coach recognises the weakness, appropriate action can’t be taken.

To be able to view themselves as potential winners, athletes must be given the opportunity to develop confidence in their abilities across all aspects of competition preparation – all four pillars. A coach with a balance in all four pillars will be able to produce equally balanced performers. Sports psychology 2 techniques allow coaches to develop a winning mentality in their athletes without fear of promoting an over-confident attitude but to do this, coaches must first have an awareness of where each athlete believes their own strengths and weaknesses to be. What an athlete believes and what a coach sees can be quite different. An athlete with superior physical ability is not guaranteed to win over a weaker opponent if he doesn’t believe himself to be superior.

Developing a winning mentality is a process just like any other aspect of training and preparation for competition. Telling an athlete that they’re in winning form on competition day will have little effect if the athlete doesn’t believe it themselves. Putting sports psychology 2 practices in place long before competition day allows coaches and athletes to feel positively prepared and feeling positively prepared creates a positive, winning mentality -

“You are the greatest!”