if you dont know how to drive do not blame the car!

Ok, I’m seeing more and more comments that go like this:

“Well, I tried a binaural beats CD and it didn’t do anything to me , I could not relax, blah , blah , “

Binaural beats are very much like cars, if you do not know, how to drive then do not except to reach your destination. Binaural beats do help for relaxing but they do not do the whole trick, that’s why in many products such as the Silvamind and the Gateway Experience, you are guided through a physical body relaxation procedure. The body has to relax and the mind has to relax.
Often, people lack the body relaxation part, these people have a lot of tension and when they listen to their binaural beats without doing any relaxation exercises what they experience is that their tension that they ignored become more prominent. During the day at work or school the tension is ignored, but when listening to a binaural beats and when the attention from the world is removed, these people are left with their tension. It is not going to help them to relax, they might get an headache or a sense of irritation and they will blame their CDs or wonder if binaural beats is a dangerous technology.

It is important to d some relaxation exercises when you use these CDs
Immrama has plenty of relaxation exercises:

http://blog.immrama.org/category/relaxation-techniques/

Progressive muscles relaxation is good:
http://stress.about.com/od/generaltechniques/ht/howtopmr.htm

and autogenic training is also something to try:
http://www.guidetopsychology.com/autogen.htm

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