Hi Adam.
Welcome to the forum
A very understandeble question.
I could bring up tons of quotes from different researches that have been done on entrainment, but none of them have been directly done on LifeFlow, so in my eyes that would be misleading.
I myself have experienced LifeFlow as a very powerful tool. I am convinced it has rocketeered my meditation. I have absolutely no proof to back up this statement, but I have been using LifeFlow every day consistantly for more than a year now, and according to some schools and traditions I have "reached" that elusive state called enlightenment. I am convinced that there are deeper states of enlightenment than the level I am on, but the so called "moment of insight" happened only about a month ago, and I am still processing what happened to me.
It wouldn't be fair to say that it is "all thanks to LifeFlow". I hate to make claims like that without proof. It is also thanks to meditation, research in Advaita Vedanta, Zen, putting in the hours of meditation day after day after day after day.
But still, some have to meditate for 30 years in a monastary and still don't think of themselves as enlightened.
Placebo or not isn't that important to me anymore. I just hugely enjoy meditation with LifeFlow, especially compared to meditation without LifeFlow.
My life has changed completely compared to 2 years ago, when my journey of self-discovery started with an interest in meditation to cure my insomnia ( which it did, in about 2 weeks allready ).
Try out LifeFlow 10, and if you don't like it, end your subscription. I think Michael even has a money back guarantee ?
But I am convinced that you will be eager to find out what LifeFlow 9 will be like. You won't need any encouragement after 1-2 months of LifeFlow 10
Oh, btw, you mentioned the word "hypnosis tape".
It definately is NOT a hypnosis system. Check out the info here:
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