Dear All

I am a Hypnotherapist based in the South East of Sheffield, England.   After doing the HU chant the last few months, it has helped me to become more focused on my business and I am updating you on my progress

A few years ago I used the Centerpointe program, which is a series of CD's that you listen to daily.  By listening to the CD's the program claimed that you could obtain high levels of performance in meditation in a much shorter time frame, than people who had being doing it for many years.  They had measured the brain wave activity of Zen Monks on EEG (Electroencephalograph) machines and created a program to enable you to hit these high rates of performance much quicker, but by only meditating for an hour a day.

Each level of the program lasted for six to 12 months.  To start with you listened to a CD for half an hour a day, increasing to an hour a day.  After a set period of time you would change to a more powerful CD, there were 4 CD's in each level.   The program used binaural beats, sub modulated to increase the performance.

I used the program until about level Four.  Up to level four I had a really good experience of the program, where sometimes I was seeing clear symbols in my mind, like the Hieroglyphics you see around the walls of Pyramids.  I also felt really good, as the CD's caused you to release a high level of Endorphins.  However on level four it just made me feel ill throughout, I didn't get the clear symbols anymore and very little release of Endorphins.  I had to throw away the CD's after I started suffering from tension head aches, excessive hairloss and a upset stomach.  I did talk to the Centerpointe help desk on a number of occasions, but they seemed to think that it was an internal issue within me that was causing the problem and in the end I destroyed the CD's.  It took me many months to recover from my experience.

Since this date I have been reluctant to use Binaural beats for self improvement.  However in the past, when I had used my Mindlab Orion which is a light sound machine, I can only recommend it highly.  But due to the issues I had experienced on the Centerpointe program, I could no longer use the Mindlab Orion, but probably it was now necessary for me to meditate naturally to achieve these high states of relaxation, that I had achieved using external devices.

My Hypnotherapy business wasn't growing at the rate I wanted and I started using a number of CD's I had purchased in the past, by Marcey Hamm.  Many people had claimed to have received a great benefit, by just listening to these CD's.  I decided to contact Marcey Hamm by email and ask if she could offer me any advice on my problem.  Marcey mentioned doing the HU chant for 20 minutes a day.  It was a case of taking a deep breath, then saying out loud HU, but you say it more like "YOU".  You carry on repeating the HU, chant in this way, you will find that you get a vibrating tone.

I decided to listen to Marceys advice and give the HU chant a try, but I suggest finding a room where you won't upset anybody else, as it makes quite a lot of noise.  I also decided to monitor my heart rate and coherance on a bio feedback machine, to see what was happening.   I had bought the healing Rhythms Biofeedback training program a while ago, so that I could monitor my customers performance, when I was working with them, using Hypnotherapy.  The Healing Rhythms has a bio feedback device, that you attach to three of the fingers on one hand,  The biofeedback device is then connected into a USB port on your computer and the software does the rest.

I measured myself for 5 minutes on my bio feedback machine before doing the HU chant for 20 minutes.  I then measured myself for 5 minutes on my bio feedback machine, after doing the 20 minute HU chant.  What I found is that my heart rate was dropping about 5bpm, during a 20 minute session.  Heart rate should be anywhere between 60 to 80 bpm's at rest, performance athletes can be much lower.

Because I could see a benefit to doing the HU chant, I decided to carry on doing it every day.  After a few weeks I was starting to feel calmer, feel more motivated to do things and my heart rate was slowly dropping.  I was then also more motivated to do the HU chant for three times a day, in 20 minute intervals.  Gradually my heart rate was dropping and heart coherence was improving.  I carried on doing the HU chant for an hour a day, for two months.

I was now achieving much more in my life and sleeping more soundly at night.  Due to my financial uncertainity, I hadn't been sleeping as well as I would like.  I felt much more grounded now.

After two months though, I didn't feel as though I could do the HU chant any longer.  I now felt as though I was achieving much more in my day and my phone is now ringing more with customers.  However I received an email from Marcey asking me how I was going.  I remembered a previous email Marcey has sent me, stating that she used to do the HU chant and then break off from doing and then things slowed down and she had to start again.  I decided to start doing the HU chant daily again, but this time I would limit it to just 20 minutes a day before lunch if that was possible.

Please click on the link to see the graphs and readings I have taken for the last week.

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The higher the coherence of the heart the better.  The lower the heart rate the better.

There are two ways of looking at the figures.  You can either look at the before and after figures or the trend on a daily basis.

Generally speaking the after figures are better than the before figures and daily the figures are improving, but you do get an increase occasionally on a daily basis.  I think you have to look at these over a period of months rather than weeks.

I think it is more sustainable for me to just do the HU chant once a day for 20 minutes and in a months time I will come back and let you know how I am going on.   I will provide you a full months figures and let you decide whether the HU chant does in fact work.   It is certainly enabling me to be in the best place to ensure that my Hypnotherapy customers go into a deeper state of relaxation.

Until next time think positive.

Best regards

Tim