Institute of Self Awareness

Balance your mind, experience new perception with amazing sound technology of the Monroe Institute

Ever felt like you weren't really using your brain potential...like you should be able to accomplish many more things with greater speed and efficiency? Ever felt as if your creative potential was at a standstill, and you just couldn't make any more progress? Of course. We have all felt that way. But why?

The problem is an evolutionary one. Though we have been around for millions of years, and have developed some various adaptations that have increased our state of health and longevity, many things have not changed. Our brains are programmed to function on the most basic level necessary for survival. Back in the days when our early ancestors were hunter-gatherers, their only concerns were where the next meal was to be had, and how not to be eaten by other, larger predatory animals. Primitive man learned to function quite well using around 10% of his brain capacity. It would seem logical that over the millenia as our civilization developed and became more complex, that our brains would begin to utilize a little more percentage of their full potential for abstract thinking, communication, and creativity. Unfortunately, we still operate using about 10% of our brain capacity. Immagine being able to just use another 5% or 10% of our brains capacity. Just another 10% would double our current use.

Ever felt as if your personality lacked a little something, or was just a little out of balance? Ever felt as if you just saw things so completely different than other people? There is an evolutionary reason for that also. Our brain operates in a way that most of our cerebral activity occurs in either the right or left hemisphere. Some activity can be measured to jump around from one hemisphere to the other, but in general, most of the 10% capacity we utilize occurs in one hemisphere or another. Why? Many theorists argue that this was a primitive form of survival. If the active hemisphere was damaged, the other would take over some of the same functions and allow us to continue to live. Although we generally don't have this need in today's world, our brain still continues to function, not using 90% of its capacity, and using what activity we have in a rather unbalanced way. People who have more activity in say the right hemisphere seem to have slightly different personality traits and perspectives than people who have more activity in the left hemisphere. What does this say about us? Though we all grow up feeling we are quite normal, and have a razor sharp image of the reality of the Universe around us, the truth is we are almost all slightly off balance in the way we see things, and in our perception of things around us. Immagine having balanced and enhanced activity in your brain. How would that make a difference in the way you see things, in your perception, and thoughts, and emotions?

Robert Monroe who founded the Monroe Institute, was fascinated with these questions, and spent years of research trying to find a way to change this condition. A true scientific genious of the twentieth century, Robert Monroe developed a clinically tested, patented technology that uses complex sound patterns to stimulate increased cerebral activity and supports

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