NeuroProgrammer 2 is versatile software for creating your own Brainwave Entrainment Products. You can save to MP3 or .wav files, choose "headphones required" or "headphones NOT required" Isochronics, Binaural Beats, Monaural Beats all available, and you can put your favorite meditation soundtrack over your beats.

If you get a commercial license, you can sell or give away your creations.

NeuroProgrammer 2 requires some knowledge of Brainwave Entrainment Basics, Frequencies, and audio editing. The price point is surprisingly low, and the software somes with several stock recordings that are very effective.

In addition, there is a "users Library" where you can download files from other NP2 users, and some of them are pretty darn good.

In particular, "Whole Brain Synchrony1 and 2" were very interesting. Meant to be used in conjunction with each other (play 1, then play2) They help with sleep induction, creative thinking, and stress reduction. The "Increase IQ" recording is useful with learning disabilities, and with those needing to boost brain-power. They would simply relax while the recording is played, and may experience slight headaches or a "tense" feeling around their temples for a few hours afterward. However, someone with an above average IQ probably would not see any effects.

One of my favorite recordings is "Creativity/Brainstorming". For some reason, I write better listening to this than to the logical choice "Creative Focus", which I can only handle for 20 minutes or so without getting a headache.

It is very interesting to note that this software is used with ADHD and Autistic patients, and while the research is still under way, it looks like there are some benefits of entraining the brainwaves of children as young as 3 (Please don't use these products on anyone under 13 without medical supervision, as the effects have not been thoroughly researched as of yet).

Several of the other User Created recordings I found useless, (some people apparently get a kick out of creating states of opiate highs, or just silly sounds) But the serious creators have produced some really good recordings.

First, I used a combination of alpha and theta programs (beginner and advanced) over a two week period, using two different auto-suggestion recordings to stop biting my nails...a nastly old habit which I had been unable to avert for over twenty years! Towards the end of this experiment, I had a very interesting experience. I had been using my primary (auditory) modality; but decided to give the "car-ride" (kinetic theta) session a try. Mid-session, I found myself at six or seven years old riding in the back of my mother's car again. I cannot begin to describe the verity of the experience from the smells, the tactile sensations, the sounds, to, most startingly, the familiar but forgotten feelings of that little girl. I was literally able to "speak" to her in my adult (recorded) voice. When I "woke" from that session I knew I did not need to do more. I seem to have simply stopped the habit where it began and have not bitten my nails since.

Having conquered that, I recently decided to use NP to prepare myself for my own surgery. I had to have a hysterectomy and, being young, vain and all-too-familiar with all the possible complications of an abdominal operation was quite apprehensive. I have always operated according to my own belief that my patient's are subconsciously "awake" even under anesthesia and thought I might use that principle to my own advantage.

I again used a combination of alpha and theta programs with pre-recorded suggestions to relax all my muscles during the operation, to heal rapidly and with minimal scarring, etc, etc. I even included a couple of trigger words "fine" and "relax" which I then asked my anesthesia provider to say to me a few times during the operation.

When I came to in recovery, my anesthetist said that I didn't turn a hair during surgery and that she used a minimum of anesthetic and narcotic agents. I woke without pain or nausea. When my gynecologist came round later he admitted that, although he had been afraid of limiting his exposure with his initial (very small) incision he found to his relief that my uterus, in his words, "floated right up" into the incision; and, although I am petite and do a lot of ab. work, my muscles stretched easily to allow its removal.

I am now 4 days post-op and using the healing/hgh program. I expect similarly spectacular results.