Dear Dlogouglas,
My, you are a doubter, aren't you?
First off, I am quite surprised that anyone could say that a six month program of 6 x 30 min sessions per week is long or requires discipline. All you have to do with BrainEv is slip on your headphones, relax and let the track play. Other programs such as Holosync or Morry Method that I have tried require much more time, and Holosync is significantly more expensive.

It all boils down to choices and decisions - not discipline. If you want the benefits BrainEv indicates you can achieve, then a certain amount of mental training is required. If you want a fit body, it takes time, effort and dedication. If you want a fit mind, ditto. If you look around this forum, you can see those who are applying themselves, as they are a) sticking with the program and you can track them as they move from level to level, and b) they are reaping the rewards, which you can also monitor in their posts and how they reply to others.

Really this is a personal decision for you. Are you willing to spend three hours per week on getting the benefits of BrainEv? If you want to gain mastery over brainwave frequencies and be able to enter specific brain states (e.g. meditative, creative, calm, synchronised etc.) this will take even more of your time as you will have to take what you learn during BrainEv and apply it to real life.

Secondly, does it work? Obviously it does. Just take a look around the forum and see what people are posting. I used it to overcome post traumatic stress disorder and harvested a whole plethora of other amazing skills - I aspire to whole-brain thinking next. Look at, say, Dreamer, she has made more progress in 'taming' her ADHD than ever before in her life. You could read RChoates, who is very experienced in the art of meditation, yet he finds BrainEv has boosted his meditational experiences too. Similarly there are a whole host of others who stick around for a level or two. Obviously if they don't spend 30 mins a day doing the program, they cannot reap the benefits. As none of us likes to be a loser, we 'blame' something/someone else for our lack of success. Undoubtedly there are people who didn't follow the program and manage to believe BrainEv doesn't work.

My experience is: do the program as directed and you will get more, much, much more than you ever expected. As you get hooked (based on noticing positive benefits), buy Anna Wise's book, Awakening the Mind, so you understand better what is going on inside your cranium. And post on the forum. You'll get support, encouragement, understanding and you'll encounter like-minded people who want to get the maximum out of the brainwave entrainment experience.

So there you have it. The choice is yours. Obviously I would prefer for you to follow through seeing as you have bought the program  . Examine your doubt, trust your instinct and personal experiences to date. Remember that DOUBT is the precursor to DEMOTIVATION. Self-trust, insight, inspiration are skills you can develop when you enter into theta frequencies. Right now you are learning to spend protracted time in alpha: you can learn to be calm, unflappable, improve your visualisation skills, remain focused despite distractions (level 2), and alpha makes me feel soooooo content. Not a bad harvest for level 1 and 2.

I wish you every success, whichever direction you choose to go. Keep posting! Pure Bliss 

I think it boils down to understanding VALUE and PURPOSE.

Without those, having the capacity for making choices and decisions won't really help, because you will be plotting a course to nowhere. Discipline will be a no-show as well, because without that fire in your belly you are just working against yourself and that will tire you out.

Usually when questions get asked about why something takes so much time, requires so much effort or discipline, costs so much, etc. it is because the person asking the question does not fully recognize how that something could really be valuable to them.

Having "a sharp, flexible mind with a strong brain to support it". Yep, that makes a good purpose and value statement if you don't already have one that rings a bell for you, but you would need to drill it down further. How would you use such a mind and brain? where are your "pain points" in life concerning your mind/brain? If you had the perfect scenario, what would it be and how would it make you feel?

It's perfectly OK to have doubts when you make a personal investment and start walking down the road to the unknown - that reaction is human nature. Recognize it, acknowledge and thank that part of you for it's concern... and move on towards that inner dialogue and reflection.

Personally, I think your question is very good in the sense that you are recognizing that there is something missing, and because you had the chutzpah to ask questions about it. That's way better than pretending all is well or succumbing to the placebo effect in order to justify the money that you spent.  The clue is to understand what drove you to buy (or "buy into") the program in the first place, and to translate that in terms of what it really all means to you.   You are in charge of your own participation, and you are a paying customer who is  entitled to ask questions - whether others agree with the question or not.

As for whether BrainEv works? It's a great tool no doubt, but what "works" is actually YOU. The tool is there to help give you a very big boost in the right direction until you get to the point where you realize that you have the power and capability to change your brain states at will. At that point any tool (no matter how good it is) will have served it's purpose. No tool must ever become a permanent life-long crutch.

That's my take on things.

To Dlodouglas:

BrainEv is a process, just like everything else in life. I'm currently on my fourth week at level 1, and although I have many years of meditation under my belt, and meditation is a discipline in my everyday life, BrainEv has indeed enhanced not only my experience in meditation, but has nurtured a feeling of "centered focus" in my day to day activities that I certainly wasn't expecting!

I have years of experience with brainwave entrainment, and I can tell you without doubt that BrainEv is not only effective, it is unique in its design and how it actually works to entrain the brain.

My advise: Be patient. Take it day by day. Don't worry or concern yourself about results. Just do the program, and allow the program to do what it does.

If you can do that, Dlodouglas, you just might be surprised.

Sincerely, Robert

Excellent post. I am not sure how it will work for me but the brain evolution is definitely an interesting subject for everyone and the comments posted are clarify the important and working procedure of brain evolution. Great post.

Dlodouglas, I have to say that personally I gained benefits from Brain Ev from early on. A lot of the benefits were subtle and some I could not and cannot unequivocally say are from Brain Ev directly but... the other things I have been doing to help myself have come from doing Brain Ev and following the forum - books and activities that have been suggested by others posts. Well, except for one. Sorry, JeDale, I still cannot get a handle on maintaining a proper diet. Too much of a sugar addict even though I am working on getting over that. Still, in the five months I have been on the program, and it certainly does not feel like it has been that long, I have gone from having severe problems with my ADHD to having no problems with it.
Don't know if my two cents helps or not.
Dreamer