In this post, we present seven of the best techniques and technologies designed to produce optimum synchronization between your left and right brain hemispheres.

The science behind hemispheric synchronization is called brainwave entrainment. Entrainment of all kinds based on the principle of harmonics, described in physics. Harmonics is the tendency for any two oscillating objects to lock phase with one another, so that they vibrate in harmony, a principle called resonance.

Many of you have seen harmonic resonance demonstrated, using two tuning forks. If you strike one of them, the second tuning fork will begin to vibrate at the same frequency even though it has not been touched at all.

Our brains produce waves that have distinct frequencies.

Stimulating the brain with audio and visual impulses will produce harmonics in brainwaves the same way they do in organic matter such as crystals or in the tuning forks.

Specifically designed visual and audio tracks can produce oscillating pulses and patterns of neural excitations that ripple through our brains much like never-ending waves rippling in a dynamic mental energy pond.

Our choices of the best brain hemisphere synchronizing methods all are featured posts on this blog, click on the headline after the image to view the post.

BrainSalon Brain Wave CDs Promise to Change the Way You Feel in 30 Minutes or Less

BrainSalon is a radically new brain wave change audio series that promises to simplify the process of mind transformation. Choose from a variety of desired mental effects. These include enhanced creativity, getting more energy, improving your mental focus, increasing your state of happiness or just falling asleep, plus several more. Visit the BrainSalon website and get a sample.

Mind Stereo 1.0 Enhances All Your Media With Brain Entraining Mind-Transforming Sounds & Images — Updated

In many ways, Mind Stereo resembles other full-featured media player software. But there is one thing that separates Mind Stereo from other players – while the music or the visualizations are playing, Mind Stereo is subtly modifying the audio and visual patterns to affect the neural activity of your brain.

Visit the Mind Stereo website and download a full-featured 2 week evaluation program.

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The Zapper an MP3 Download: Theta Waves & a Delta-Rhythm Pulse To Induce A Deep Altered State of Consciousness

According to Dick Stuphen, the Zapper knocked out over 500 professional hypnotists at the American Board of Hypnotherapy convention. They couldn’t believe how effective it was. The Zapper is the latest in a new field of mind electronics. Vibrational theta waves are combined with a delta-rhythm pulse to generate a hypnogogic state of mind in which you are open to receive subjective images and inspiration. In this semi-sleep state, dream-like images and awareness-expanding ideas are more likely to be released from your unconscious mind.

Find out more about The Zapper here.

AV3X – The Innerscape Adventure Digital Meditation DVD Turns Your TV Into a Brain Machine! Now With Free Video

AV3X is the brainwave technology that is a complete sensory experience. When you have something that stimulates you with Sound AND Light, you can release stress, access deep states of consciousness or simply have an extraordinarily pleasurable experience. And…as a result of using sound AND light to over flood the short-term memory aspect of your brain, watching AV3X becomes an experience that never gets old no matter how many times you watch it because it’s impossible for the brain to remember everything that you’ve watched.
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Experience Instant Deep Meditation Using Brainwave Synchronization Technology with EquiSync

Equisync offers your nervous system a super fertile atmosphere triggering enormously positive transformations in your body and brain. Develop a powerful connection between your left and right brain hemispheres, producing what researchers call whole brain functioning. EquiSync is a new brain entrainment audio technology that you need to try for yourself to fully understand.
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How to Meditate More Deeply Than a Zen Monk Without Years of Work Using a Secret Shortcut

Finally there is a fast way to learn meditation. The Meditation Program uses the very latest brainwave research, and incorporates the most powerful brainwave technology available including monaural beats as well as binaural beats.

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Free Your Mind from the Box — Neuro-Programmer III — The World’s Best Mind Transformation Software In A Bold New Version

Many people live their lives in a constant battle with their own mind and their own ways of behaving. These problems are deeply rooted, having existed from childhood. Now with Neuro-Programmer 3 program you no longer have to accept your long-held limitations.

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If you have thinking about getting a brain training software and starting a brain fitness regime, this may be your perfect opportunity. Software publisher IQ Mindware (which has no relationship with this website past their choice of names) has released a new version of this brain-training program HiIQ Pro, which I introduced to readers of this blog in a November 2011 post.

Some of the new features in the new version of the software include multimedia and a HighIQPro Hall of Fame where you can compare your scores with other users.

But another new addition that caught my attention was that the program now comes with an guarantee that says that if you use the software for 20 days, just 20 minutes a day and:

• Fail to increase your measured memory score by 40%
• Fail to increase your IQ by at least 10 points

They will refund the price of your purchase in full with no quibbles.

This is a classic win-win situation. If you get a better memory and higher IQ, then it is certainly worth the low cost of the program’s license. If you fail to achieve the reach the lofty improvements promised, you are out no money, and most likely you have improved your mental performance anyway.

Find out more by visiting the IQ Mindware website.

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They are high quality apps, easy-to-use and extremely useful. I have tried to have one or two representatives for the major mindware categories, so they are they are not arranged in any particular order, since they are each unique and different. I wrote and include a short description of each of these great apps.

Here are my picks for the Ten Best Self Improvement iPad apps:

MindColors Color Personality Test
The famous Luescher-Color-Diagnostic test was the first to show how our choice of colors and shapes reveals significant information about our personality and dispositions. This great color test app follows in Luescher tradition and is one of the best color tests programs among those on any software platform. Visit the Apple website to find out more.

Know Your Type Personality Test
This app is more than just a personality test, it is a complete personality mapping system. Based on the Enneagram personality model, which assigns you to one of nine types, the program is designed to be a path to self-discovery and acceptance, showing you how to interact effectively with other people. Visit the Apple website to find out more.

Einstein Brain Trainer HD
Einstein Brain Trainer is your personal brain training coach, providing invigorating exercise to keep your brain fit. Perform brain tests to measure you progress, climb to ever higher scales of mental agility. Visit the Apple website to find out more.

iThoughtsHD (mindmapping)
When you need to brainstorm ideas, organize your thoughts, take notes, create visual diagrams and mind-maps on your iPad, the iThoughtsHD is your app. The program is visually rich and intuitive to use. Visit the Apple website to find out more.

Brainwave Tuner HD
BrainWave Tuner HD provides custom designed brainwave changing sounds including 19 different preset audios to allow you instant brain synchronizing gratification. Includes are sessions designed to induce meditative states, enhance creativity, boost your motivation, enhance learning, help you get better sleep and 14 more tracks. Visit the Apple website to find out more.

Evernote for iPad
If you have been following this blog for awhile, you know that I am a fan of Evernote, having first posted about the Windows version when it was first released bask in 2005. The iPad app is even more elegant and easy-to-use so give it a try. Visit the Apple website to find out more.

Awesome Note HD (+To-do/Diary)
The aptly named Awesome Note HD is my favorite productivity tool for the iPad. This good-looking and powerful app is good for note-taking, life organization and keeping your calendar. You can sync and transfer documents to and from Google docs, Evernote plus transfer notes from one Awesome Note account to another person’s via Bluetooth. Visit the Apple website to find out more.

Brainwave Entrainment – Vol. 1 Complete
This app contains brainwave entrainment sessions using binaural beat technology, Included are several titles including tracks useful for better sleep, for inducing states of deep meditation and for concentrated thought.
Visit the Apple website to find out more.

pzizz energizer
Boost energy and reduce stress by transforming your iPad into the ultimate power napping machine with pzizz. This app used to take a dedicated device but now your iPad provides all the heavy lifting.
Visit the Apple website to find out more.

Lumosity Unlimited
Lumosity is the number one provider of scientific brain games designed to enhance brain function. Now you can get a daily brain workout on your iPad.Visit the Apple website to find out more.

In future posts, I plan to feature more in-depth reviews of these great apps as well as some other iPad applications in the Mindware tradition.

My first computer was an Apple IIe which did not have a hard drive, just two floppy drives, 64K (that’s kilobytes not megabytes) of RAM, a 13″ green screen that displayed basic CGA dot graphics and had a dot matrix printer to go with it. The price was over $4,300.

Given the state of technology back in 1981, the Apple was pretty advanced, but I do not think I would have ever learned to use it, if Apple did not make it as easy as possible, by packaging it so well, making all the parts modular, and giving such a great manual and tutorials along with it.

From the Apple IIe, I graduated to one of those early Macintosh computers and continued to use it for all my personal work for the next 14 years.

In 1988, I started Mindware, a company dedicated to selling self-improvement, personal-development and creativity-enhancement software programs in a colorful catalog. At that time, the computer using world had tilted toward the IBM PC and its clones, and so much of the software that the company sold ran in good old MS-DOS. The Macintosh software was a lot more graphically engaging but the market for Mac software was on a steep path of decline that would last into the first decade of the Twenty-First Century.

I needed to review these primitive mindware programs, so I bought a Compaq portable that ran them. The Compaq could also run the early Windows programs, and slowly, the programs for the PC became more interesting and useful.

Those were pioneering days for the software industry, and so there were thousands of programs that fit into the Mindware niche, enough so that my catalog grew from a 20 page black and white booklet with a color cover, to a 64 page full-sized color magazine filled to over brimming with mindware goodness.

When the company got me a state-of-the-art Pentium PC, in 1994, I switched to PC from MAC. The PC was not quite as user-friendly as the MAC, but by then, almost everyone was using them.

With the advent of the Internet in the mid-Nineties, Mindware evolved into the Mind Media website and the Mindware Forum blog. When I started the Mindware Forum in 2003, I found a steady stream of new software for Windows, and over time an increasing number of Macintosh programs reflecting the Mac’s new found popularity.

Having spent years learning the geeky skill-set needed to operate a Windows PC, I found myself in the camp of those who thought Macintosh users were part of a religious movement, the cult of the Mac, rather than as people who used a different kind of technology.

About five yeas ago, after watching the famous Mac switch commercials, I developed a case of Mac envy. I broke down and added a dual-processor PowerMac G5 to my growing assembly of devices, only to have Steve Jobs switch processors from Power PC to Intel, leaving my new, extremely expensive workstation an instant antique.

So for the most part, I continued my Widows using, Apple hating ways, until something unexpected happened, the iPad. I had resisted the iPod, refused to let iTunes run on my PCs, but the new iPad had me curious.

I decided to buy one, mostly wanting to find out what they were all about. When I first got it, I began to use it and despite myself to enjoy it.

But despite the adoption of the new addition to my tech collection, I thought that soon, it would probably be replaced by an Android tablet.

Then I got a Google TV, which is runs Android and discovered that Steve Jobs really had the right idea all along, when he decided to make sure that his operating systems ran on his hardware. Google TV was and continues to be a nightmare.

I went out and bought the most cutting edge Android tablet, the oddly named Asus eee Pad Transformer Prime, which despite state-of-the-art hardware, running Google Ice Cream Sandwich, the name given to the latest version of Android for tablets, the tablet worked awkwardly, and the apps were for the most part. I sold it on eBay a week after I got it and became an Apple convert.

After turning my focus on the iPad, I found something even more surprising than my Apple switch. There has been a steady stream of new and interesting iPad apps that fit into the mindware category. The iPad is where all the cutting edge of digital media is happening now. Its an exciting time again in the history of interactive personal development,

So in the next post, I am going to feature the ten best mindware iPad apps for a variety of uses. Stay tuned for the upcoming post, The 10 Best iPad Apps for Self Improvement & Personal Development

In my post last month, I was excited to offer the largest discount ever offered on a license for this mind-transforming software. I wanted all of you to take advantage of this opportunity to get plugged into the amazing online community that the folks at Transparent Corp, the developers of Neuro-Programmer have created. Many of you have already begun using the program, as I have received many emails telling me about your experiences.

Coupon code MINDWARE1 takes 20% off the purchase of either the Regular Edition or Ultimate Edition of this Neuro-Programmer 3 when you visit the Transparent Corp site through this link. But you need to ACT FAST as the coupon will expire in 11 days from this the date of this post, March 24, 2012.