The Principles
Here are all the principles grouped together into one place:
Principle #1: “Meditation is a noun, not a verb.
Principle #2: “Meditation is a state of consciousness, not the technique used to get to that state.”
Principle #3: “Once meditation is achieved, drop your technique and leave it behind.”
Principle #4: “Just listening to an entrainment track does NOT mean you are in meditation.”
Principle #5: “Just having certain brainwaves does NOT mean you are in meditation.”
Principle #6: “Meditation requires the intent to be in meditation followed by taking appropriate actions.”
Principle #7: “Meditative intention plus entrainment increases chances of achieving the meditation state.”
Principle #8: “Achieving targeted brainwaves during meditation practice denotes likely state of meditation.”
Principle #9: “Entrainment primes the meditative pump, making the process quicker and more consistent.”
Principle #10 “Micro-defining the role of brainwave frequencies is pure, unsubstantiated fantasy.”
Principle #11 “Subscribing to such fantasies guarantees false expectations and disappointment.”
Principle #12 “General expectations, not entrainment, lead to association with specific phenomena.”
Principle #13 “Specific phenomena become conditioned responses linked to entrainment.”
Principle #14 “Conditioned phenomena may be either pleasant or unpleasant, desirable or undesirable.”
Principle #15: “Entrainment produces no brainwave state that is not produced naturally by the brain.”
Principle #16: “Each of us experiences the full range of brainwaves naturally many times every day.”
Principle #17: “Entrainment enables the conscious experience of normally unconscious brainwave states.”
Principle #18: “Mental/physical noise blocks perception of feelings and sensations that were always there.”
Principle #19: “Relaxation and quiet allow us to perceive these buried phenomena.”
Principle #20: “Buried phenomena may turn into conditioned experiences if we fixate attention on them.”
Principle #21: “Indicators that entrainment/meditation is having an effect are long term and often subtle.”
Principle #22: “The intensity of one’s initial experiences is largely relative to their beginning state.”
Principle #23: “Most everyone should feel at least a small effect from using entrainment with meditation.”
Principle #24: “Anyone feeling no effect is experiencing one or more of the 4 problems listed above.”
Principle #25: “The successfully enter meditation all of the 4 guidelines above must be met.
Principle #26: “We’re all unique, and no single meditation technique works equally well for everyone.”
Principle #27: “Pick one technique and stick with it for at least several months; don’t technique surf.”
Principle #28: “Assess your progress based on long term changes, not short term, oddball phenomena.”
Principle #29: “Use appropriate techniques to break any existing conditioned associations.”
If you don't understand what some of these things mean, take the time to read the book above in the previous posts to get the background on each principle.
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