Hemi-Sync® Meditation Technique to help Pain Management, by Robert A. Monroe

Please remember that by presenting here in The Daily MICROdose on the SevenLeafCannabisCoaching website, a list of recommended titles to read, listen and work with that are part of The Monroe Institute and Hemi-Sync.com does not mean Robert A. Monroe, The Monroe Institute, Interstate Industries, Inc., or Hemi-Sync.com, agrees with or supports cannabis use and its legalities in any way. The opinions expressed below and above the list of titles are mine alone and might or might not represent the views or opinions of any of the third parties.

 

Journeys Out of the Body book, and Hemi-Sync® audio altered consciousness technique meditations that many use for pain management as well as enhanced wellness and learning, were written and created by Robert A. Monroe (1915-1995). 

 

From ThriftBooks’ Description of the book Journeys Out of the Body:

Book Overview

The definitive work on the extraordinary phenomenon of out-of-body experiences, by the founder of the internationally known Monroe Institute.

Robert Monroe, a Virginia businessman, began to have experiences that drastically altered his life.

Unpredictably, and without his willing it, Monroe found himself leaving his physical body to travel via a “second body” to locales far removed from the physical and spiritual realities of his life. He was inhabiting a place unbounded by life or death. His record of these explorations has comforted millions of people who have experienced paranormal incidents.

Praise for Journeys Out of the Body:

“Monroe’s account of his travels, Journeys Out of the Body , jam-packed with parasitic goblins and dead humans, astral sex, scary trips into mind-boggling other dimensions, and practical tips on how to get out of your body, all told with wry humor, quickly became a cult sensation with its publication in 1971, and has been through many printings. Whatever their ‘real’ explanation, Monroe’s trips made for splendid reading.” –Michael Hutchinson, author of Megabrain

 

 “Robert Monroe’s experiences are probably the most intriguing of any person’s of our time, with the possible exception of Carlos Castaneda’s.” –Joseph Chilton Pierce, author of Magical Child

 

“This book is by a person who’s clearly a sensible man and who’s trying to tell it like it is. No ego trips. Just a solid citizen who’s been ‘out’ a thousand times now and wants to pass his experiences to others.” –The Last Whole Earth Catalog

This description may be from another edition of this product.”

 

I’ve personally taken several full length courses through the Monroe Institute in Virginia, Bob Monroe’s out-body experimentation institute, when it was first getting started in the late 80’s.

I purchased and listened to most of their albums using the technique at the time. The whole experiment and what happened for me using it was highly fascinating!

Bob Monroe pioneered the work with Hemi-Sync®, a way to use different sounds in different ears creating a type of brain entrainment technique to enhance learning and wellness.

Much has changed with the company he created, the Monroe Institute, but the work of exploring “more than the physical body” with the tools that Bob Monroe created is still exquisite.   

One of my earliest memories of using his materials involved a Hemi-Sync® tape from the late 1980’s that focused on relieving pain. Then it was called The Pain Control Tape.

I used it for years to successfully have dental work, even crowns, done with no anesthesia.

I would sit in the dental chair with my headphones on and the tape would send me deep into self hypnosis. I was still conscious to respond to “open your mouth” etc. but would feel zero pain.

I use the techniques today just the same but no longer have need of playing the actual tape. 

After recently talking to the Monroe Institute bookstore office, I think it’s now part of their Surgical Support CD series called “Surgical Support” and the title in the series that is this Pain Management recording is called “Recuperation”. 

However in the changes with the company over the years, the Hemi-Sync® recordings portion of the work of Bob Monroe from the Monroe Institute became a separate company, Interstate Industries, Inc. and they have a digital download of these recordings available at their website.

They offer a fabulous description of how to safely and effectively listen when engaging with the technique, as well as an entire section of using Hemi-Sync® for wellness.

The site also has a specialty title particularly addressing pain management.

There is a short sample displayed on both websites for this series that is slightly different than my experience.

The bookstore mentioned many of the original recordings that were recorded by Bob Monroe himself, were re-recorded. So the voice is changed.

However, when I used the pain tape, I used it in general to relax, help fall asleep—and dental work.

The tape wasn’t specific to surgery for me or in general back then. But the Recuperation name sounds familiar to me as a later title in the 1990’s they gave it when at one point I re-ordered the tape when the original one I had wore out. The tape was magical indeed!  

I highly suggest checking out their series of similar and experimenting for yourself.

Regardless the “name” of the compilation, of how sets of topics using it are presented, I think working with Hemi-Sync® for all kinds of mindset work is sublime!

The Monroe Institute website also offers several free meditations demonstrating the technique.

Here is that original Pain Control Tape in its entirety that I have from the 80’s (still with Bob Monroe’s voice). 

Headphones or ear pods with a R/L used to be needed for the Hemi-Sync® effect and the volume should be very low to just barely hear it.

(However and as a disclosure, though it sounds exactly as the tape I was used to working with, with different sounds in each ear, I’m not sure if the effect will work here off this site with this antique sample with the way I home-digitized this old tape many years ago. But I thought this clip could be an interesting and historical example for you of Monroe’s invention.)

(And here again is the link for the modern day Hemi-Sync® title for pain management.)

And please never drive or operate moving equipment while listening to meditation recordings of any kind.