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How to Use Your BAUD

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You may use your BAUD to improve symptoms from a wide variety of problems: anxiety, depression, cravings, urges, smoking, overactive appetite, etc. The key to using the BAUD is to be able to awaken and focus on the feeling state that is associated with your problem. This includes both the physical and emotional feelings connected to your problem.

To awaken these feelings, you will simply need to think about, or imagine, the situations that cause them. If you feel cravings when you are stressed, you will want to imagine stressful situations to awaken that craving. If you feel anxious when in a crowd, imagine yourself in a crowd, and so forth.

Remember, the BAUD works to neutralize whatever you are focusing on. With the BAUD, activation is the key to neutralization.

While focused on your feelings, you will then adjust your BAUD according to the protocol described – until you reach a “neutralizing point.” This is where you will feel your feelings quiet down, or diminish. We refer to this process as “bio-attunement,” where your internal feeling state serves as the monitor and guide to adjust the BAUD.

Once at that point, you continue your focus throughout the session. That’s all there is to it.

Defining the Problem

To help awaken the problem feelings, and keep focused during your session, it is helpful to list the situations that cause the feelings to arise.

EXAMPLE: Social Anxiety or Shyness

Situations that trigger this: Feelings evoked (reaction):

In groups at parties Nervous – what people will think of me

In meetings at work Afraid to say the wrong thing

Meeting new people Not sure what to say, self-conscious

Expressing my opinion on something Fear of offending someone

Asking for a date Afraid they’ll say no, feeling embarrassed

Now, list your problem below.

MY PROBLEM:

List of Situations List of Feelings

____________ ______________

The BASIC TECHNIQUE

As Simple as 1, 2, 3.

First, make sure all the knobs on your BAUD are in the “off” position (turned all the way to the left), and you have the earphones in place. (Upper Tone Knobs shown here).

Step 1) BALANCE. Turn the 2 lower Volume Knobs until the sound is at a moderately loud, yet comfortable, level – and it seems centered in your head.

Step 2) CONNECT. Here we give you 2 methods to use for “connecting.” Each has proven successful. Use the one that you prefer.

Method 1: Toning

First, focus on your problem for a minute, to activate the feelings. Then, identify the location in your body where you actually feel your problem. People often feel fear in the “pit of the stomach” (lower abdomen), cravings in the stomach area, grief in the heart area, concentration problems in the head area, for example.

Next, make a vocal “tone” (like “ahhhh” or “eeee”) out loud that seems to “connect” to your problem location. Try changing the tone up and down the scale (think Do, Re, Mi, Fa, So, La, Ti, Do), until you feel a connection, or resonance to the feeling’s location.

Note: Lower tones usually correspond to the lower abdomen and anxiety states, middle tones to mid-abdomen and many cravings, higher tones to the head area and concentration issues and depression. These are just guidelines. You need to follow your internal guidance in this process.

Then “Tune” the Upper Right Tone Knob to match the tone you have vocalized as closely as you can. More important, you should also feel this tone “connect” or resonate with the feelings you have activated. It may feel as if the tone makes the feelings stronger, or intensifies them, or agitates them, or resonates with them. Internal feeling states are hard to describe, and we offer descriptions others have used to help guide you.

If you have trouble with this method, try Method 2:“Tuning,” described below.

Method 2: Tuning

This is exactly the same as the above method, but without the vocal toning step.

First, focus on your problem for a minute, to activate the feelings.

Then, identify the location or area in your body where you actually feel your problem. If you cannot identify a body location, that’s all right. Just focus on the feelings themselves.

Now, “tune” the Upper Right Tone Knob until you “feel” the sound “connect” to either the body location of your problem – or, more importantly, your feelings themselves. Usually you will feel both at once.

When you “connect,” it may feel as if the tone makes the feelings stronger, or intensifies them, or agitates them, or resonates with them. Internal feeling states are hard to describe, and we offer descriptions others have used to help you. Your experience may be different.

Step 3) NEUTRALIZE

Next, while continuing to focus on your problem and the feelings, turn the upper left Disruptor Knob (labelled Left Tone) slowly. You will reach a place where the sound seems to neutralize or lessen the feelings you are focusing on.

In the same way you would tune a radio to a station, you may turn the Disruptor knob past this point and then go back, to confirm this is the strongest “neutralizing point.” The BAUD will be effective over a certain frequency range, but this tuning will help maximize results.

The Session

You will keep the BAUD tuned to this neutralizing point while you continue to keep your mind focused on the problem feelings you want to eliminate.

We often try to shut off awareness of painful feelings. With the BAUD, activation is neutralization. So you will want to do the opposite, and become as conscious as you can of the negative feelings.

The list you have made will help you keep your focus. You will want to imagine the different situations that cause your anxiety or cravings, for example. You will want to activate the feelings you want to eliminate. You will want to feel the anxiety, or craving or depression, etc.

Don’t expect the negative feelings to completely vanish, but look for the point where they seem to fade. During your session, while you are at the neutralizing point, you should experience these feelings as seeming to fade, or melt away as soon as they arise.

We have found that 20 minutes is a good session time. If your problem is severe, you may want to start with 2 sessions a day, and decrease as relief is experienced.

For less severe problems, one session often provides symptom relief for several days.

There have never been negative side effects reported from BAUD use, even with extended use in clinical applications.

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