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The Tranquility Training Method

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Helps you observe and manage your reaction to stressful situations. Creates a pathway to your subconscious mind. Gives you a sense of personal power. Teaches you how to be at peace with life. Enhances your insight and world view. Aids you in reaching the quiet mind. Connects you with your own inner guidance. Is a non-dogmatic meditation practice that will compliment any spiritual system. Connects you with your inherent divine spark

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Uses a clinically proven sound entrainment technique to lead you gently into peaceful states . Provides you with a sense of freedom from life’s pressures. Helps you observe blockages that hinder your growth. Deepens your existing meditation practice. Gives you access to altered states of consciousness. Improves mental, physical and emotional health. Invokes your creative potential. Helps you manifest your goals. Gives you tools for inner exploration..

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The Tranquility Training Method ( TTM) is a non dogmatic meditation technique which is uniquely designed for the western mind. TTM applies decades of consciousness research to provide you with a safe and effective approach that will gently assist you into profound meditative states. Each TTM recording employs a clinically proven brain wave entrainment technique which will allow you to access deep states of relaxation as easily as wearing headphones!

The basic philosophy of The Tranquility Training Method is that peace is possible through relaxing the body/mind and exploring the total self. Once experienced, this sense of peace can be recognized and embodied as an internal state of being which is unshakable and solid. We offer classes which are skillfully designed to help you achieve this state of inner peace. The Tranquility Training Method teaches the student how to explore multiple levels of consciousness and gives practical, life changing applications for exploring the mind/body/spirit complex. These classes are available for download on this web site. The Tranquility Training Method was created to offer a means of living gracefully in a continually changing world. This sense of grace is achieved by introducing participants to the deepest parts of themselves through meditation. The benefits of meditation are many and you can read about some of them on this site.For more information please visit : www.tranquilitytraining.comThe origins of TTM began in December of 2001 when Mark Certo (former recording engineer for The Monroe Institute) began to reconsider the purpose of his lifes work . As a recording engineer and musician, Certo had a profound appreciation of the power of sound to invoke emotional states in the listener. This knowledge had been expanded when in 1988, he had been invited to join the lab team at TMI by the Institutes founder Robert Monroe. Monroe had become quite well known for several books he had written about his experiences in the Out of Body State. For the next fourteen years, Certo had become deeply involved in the scientific exploration of brain waves and altered states of consciousness. It was during this time that Certo became instrumental in refining the applications of Binaural Beats to induce altered states of consciousness.

The Monroe Institute is an organization well known for its research into altered states of consciousness such as the Out of Body State. During his tenure at TMI, Certo had the great fortune of meeting and working with some of the most fascinating minds in the field of consciousness research. Remote Viewers, Energetic Healers, Astronauts, Scientists, Clinicians in all fields of Western medicine, were continually in circulation. "People were constantly in the lab being tested on the latest experimental frequencies." says Certo. "There was always a desire to move them further and further in consciousness away from awareness of the physical. For me, it seemed like something was lacking in the thinking. The exploration of altered states of consciousness became a means of escapism It was as if the people who coveted these experiences were somehow trying to avoid reality, rather than live in it fully." The serious questions about the origins of these peak experience and the truest nature of consciousness were always foremost in his thinking. "What do these experiences tell us about ourselves?" he would ask regularly as he observed the participants eager for the OBE. "The need to understand that we are more than physical beings can only be helpful if it is integrated into our physical awareness. Otherwise, we are doing those who wish to explore such things a disservice in terms of aiding them in creating a greater split. The question I would always ask is, how can we use this wonderful technology to empower people to heal the splits between the physical,emotional and spiritual selves?" The answer came years later in the form of The Tranquility Training Method.The Power of Binaural Beats to Entrain Brain waves and Induce Altered States of Consciousness Instantly! © 2005 Mark T Certo. Like all electrical impulses, brain waves are measured in cycles per second or Hertz . Human brain waves are measured between .5 cycles per second and range up to 40 hertz, depending on the measuring system. Quantified into regions labeled beta, alpha, theta and delta, these reflect the brain wave activity from fastest to slowest respectively. These brain wave patterns have been correlated to states of consciousness and the stages of sleep 1 thru 4. The predominance of Beta brain waves indicates that the person being measured is awake, while Delta tells us that the person is in stage 4 sleep. These two examples are only the extremes of the spectrum. Stages two and three have a predominance of Alpha and Theta, respectively, and are in the mid band of the spectrum. It is in between the extremes that the brain wave / consciousness correlates get really interesting. It has been well documented that the predominance of alpha brain waves is usually seen in someone who is involved in a sort of imaginative meditative state. In the theta brain wave region, the subjective experience of consciousness is not as easily defined. Ordinarily, the predominance of theta brain waves indicates that the person being monitored is in the third stage of sleep. Stage 3 is a sort of null point between being aware and losing awareness. This null point is referred to as the hypnogogic state or hypnogogia, a dreamlike state which usually precedes sleep. We often see images and sounds that are reflective of our internal world just before we lose conscious awareness and move into stage four or delta sleep. The experience is usually very brief before we lose consciousness, however people who have spent years practicing meditation are well acquainted with exploring hypnogogia. It is in this state that they are able to sublimate their awareness into a more spiritual understanding of reality. The monitoring of their physiology indicates they should be asleep, yet they remain aware! It is quite an enigmatic state of consciousness. These mid range states in particular are labeled “Altered States of Consciousness” and in these people experience reality in a more spiritual way. While helping people explore these spiritual states of consciousness has always been considered an ancient art form reserved to the priest and shamans, scientific understanding and advancements in the brain waves / consciousness correlates allow altered states to more easily accessed through the concept of entraining brain waves through the phenomena of binaural beats. The Tranquility Training Method (TTM) makes use of over 45 years of study of the brain wave/consciousness correlates to help you move into deep meditative states as easily as wearing headphones! TTM uses binaural beats to entrain brain waves and induce altered states within the listener. Entrainment is a word used to describe the power of one thing to affect another through some form of energy. In this case the thing we are entraining is the brain waves of the listener. Let’s simplify the process for a moment. Let’s say we wish to entrain the subjects brain to produce a theta predominance. We know the theta region falls in between 4hz and 8 hz. We also know that while the brain responds to sound stimuli, we humans cannot hear frequencies that low. So the question becomes, how can we entrain to sounds we cannot hear? The answer lies in binaural beats! When two sounds of an exact frequency, shape and phase collide in space, they cancel each other out. It is a process called phase cancellation. Binaural beats make use of this phenomenon to achieve an exact differential that falls into the target region, in this case theta! The differential is experienced as a beat which is the product of phase cancellation. In simple terms, if one sound (say 200hz) is presented into the left ear and another (say 204 hz) is presented into the right ear, the resulting differential will be 4hz! Mathematically: 204 – 200 = 4hz. When the brain hears both the tones and the beat, a magical thing begins to happen. The brain begins to entrain to the beat frequency while the drone affects the psyche due to lack of change in stimulus! The 4hz frequency falls nicely into the theta brain wave range. Remember that theta brain waves are indicative of someone in a deep meditative state. Therefore, the experience of the listener is equivalent to someone who has mastered the art of meditation and is versed in exploring altered states of consciousness! This rendition of brain wave entrainment is indeed an oversimplification and has become a popular way of speaking about binaural beat technology. Rest assured, there is far more to entraining brain waves and creating the perfect state of consciousness than is being written about here, but for the purposes of introductions, the oversimplification is sufficient. While the use of binaural beat technology is indeed a powerful medium of brain wave stimulus in the right hands, there have been many myths that I personally take objection to that have been perpetuated by unscrupulous marketeers. These are as follows: Binaural beats make you smarter through creating new neuro-pathways in your brain. Binaural beats do not make your brain more powerful through the concept of hemispheric synchronization. Both of these are essentially marketing concepts. Binaural beats can and will (with your active participation) allow you to explore discreet states of consciousness which are considered anomalies or altered states. This in and of itself is powerful enough. The experience of being in an altered state can be a powerful and transformative one. The experience however is uniquely your own. Ergo, the real magic within this equation is you!Tranquility Training’s founder Mark Certo (formerly of The Monroe Institute) is the world’s leading authority in the field of binaural beat recording techniques. Having personally created over one thousand binaural beat recordings for a worldwide audience, his work has been used for multiple applications in the clinical and spiritual settings. Tranquility Training is dedicated to helping people connect with the sense of inner peace through a uniquely westernized practice meditation. TTM meditation exercises are skillfully and sensitively narrated to provide a non-dogmatic means of achieving these goals. While TTM holds an inclusive and respectful view toward all religious faiths, our recorded exercises are not religious in nature. This policy is to insure that everyone can benefit from a deep meditation experience and if they so desire, include it within their current spiritual practice.