Level II Holosync review

I notice that a lot of the Google search results I get on this blog are for Holosync, and for a while I’d thought about doing a public blog recording my daily experience with the program, since it seems to be something people hunt for regularly and nobody else is doing it. Anyway, I wrote a moderate review a while ago, and thought it might be time for an update as three weeks ago I graduated to Level II. This, by the program’s terminology, means that I’ve completed the Awakening Prologue and Level I of the “Awakening” section (technically, I suppose, I’m on the third level of the whole thing).

Occasionally, people who know I’m on the program either email or ask me about whether or not they should do it, since overall it seems the effects are positive. That’s actually a different question to answer. Holosync isn’t just an investment of money and the time it takes to listen for an hour a day. As I discovered after starting Level I, it’s not just a matter of paying your cash and listening for the required time each day. A handbook comes along with the program which details the side effects you may get from using it, and how to deal with them.

We aren’t dealing here with something where you just float through and everything is Christmas lights and sunbeams. Learning to do Holosync has taken out a lot of time and energy beyond just the hour of listening time, although I have to add here that this is partly because my past is rather extreme. I imagine people who’ve had relatively “normal” upbringings and fewer traumatic events in their early childhoods would experience what I’ve been through. In the same way that back when I was treated with anti-depressants I had to learn to recognise side-effects and what to do about them, I’ve had to learn to deal with whatever effect Holosync produces on my brain. In many cases, this isn’t for the faint-hearted. You really have to be serious about wanting progress to do this.

I realised during Level I that if I wanted to get through it with minimal fuss, I’d need to learn all the techniques to the best of my ability so I could use them when I needed to. This is good for daily life. The single most important lesson you will ever learn is this: don’t believe the thoughts you think. It takes a lot of the stress out of your life if you can do that, and a lot of the pain out of Holosync, should you experience any. In many ways, this is like undertaking therapy, not just a meditation course. You’re going to have to face the nasty demons under the floorboards. Even the ones you didn’t know you had down there.

Transitions between levels are the hardest, and I’ve been going through one over the last few weeks. It has required an openness to change – both internal and external – that has almost floored me a couple of times. I don’t do Holosync because I want to be blissed out all the time. I didn’t take it up because it told me I’d meditate like a Zen monk. I started using it because I could tell that there was something that needed working on in my brain that no therapy could touch. I didn’t hesitate, but then I’m the kind of person who makes up her mind and makes it up good, so I just took it on and got on with it.

I wouldn’t recommend this if you’re the kind of person who wants a reasonably easy life right here, right now. Holosync is a long-term thing. It’s a bit like the spiritual or mental version of the Marine Corps basic training: don’t expect it to be much fun but my God you’ll be fit at the end of it. During the process, you learn how to manage your emotions better, how to deal with the incessant mental nonsense your mind keeps spewing out, and how to see the world differently. I’d recommend it to two groups of people: the first are those who are very mentally well-balanced, may be perhaps experienced in meditation and know how to handle themselves without reacting to things too much. The second are people like me. Whatever you’ve been through in life, you keep fighting to make things better and you’re prepared to put in hard work but somehow something subconscious keeps holding you back. Although everybody gets a flutter of euphoria, like everything good in life, it takes hard work to get to the really great rewards.