History of NeuroHarmonic Meditations

Way back in the 1990s. I was a recording engineer at a large studio in Orlando, FL. One day, amidst the projects involving various musical artists, and interesting client appeared... a psychologist who had developed a method of inducing a relaxed hypnogogic state that allowed him to better solve the problems of his patients.

As I had a long standing interest in self-help methods as well as mind/brain studies, I welcomed the opportunity to work with him on a series of recordings that were only available to his patients, so they could recreate the mental state of their session with the doctor, even while they were at home. His methods were adapted from linguistics and hypnosis.

The internet was still in its infancy, so I had to research things the old fashioned way, libraries, books, and scientific articles and papers. Adapting the information I could find, I began testing binaural waves, frequencies and harmonics and the inter-relationship between them.

After several months of trial and error, in 1994, my wife Cathie and I recorded a set of meditation tapes . We used these in our own meditation practice and gave away several sets to friends and family. The reaction was very encouraging and emotional. So, we put some on consignment at a few local health and book stores, and again were greeted with a wonderful response.

With positive feedback coming in from the local community, we continued to refine the techniques used on the tapes. We called them “Neuro-Harmonic Synergy” tapes, or NHS for short, and started our fledgling new production company... Gaia’s Light.

Cathie and I ran a small classified ad on AOL. Of course, at this time the internet was brand new, very few people were online, and no one would dare buy anything on the internet... they just didn’t trust it yet. And yet, our little NHS tapes were selling like hotcakes. We were duplicating these in our home using consumer cassette machines, cleaning the heads after every copy, and printing the Jcard cassette covers on our little home printers using a Mac Performa, and shipping the final products out.

In the meantime, I became increasingly busy as a musician and audio engineer, AOL began changing its advertising policies, and cassettes gave way to CDs ( and eventually mp3s). The combination of those things put the meditation tapes on the back burner. We planned on rerecording and releasing them as CDs... one day. And the masters sat in a box at the back of the studio.

So 15 years later... one day is finally here.