Scan Your Body For Tension
Tension is your worst enemy in Mind Programming. No technology can alter your brainwaves while you are tense. You must relax your body completely so your mind is free to wander where it likes. To do this, turn your attention to different parts of your body in a "scanning" fashion, such as from your head to your toes. Focus on each part for 5 - 15 seconds, making sure it is completely relaxed before moving on to the next part. For instance you could start with the top of your head, then the forehead, then the eyes, cheeks, mouth, jaw, neck and so on.

Eyes Closed
For all but a few special sessions, your eyes should be closed during the entire session. Closing the eyes eliminates about 80% of the external input an average brain receives.

Eye Position
Eye position is a great way to help bring your mind down to an open brainwave. When you look up, the visual part of your brain is stimulated. That is why many people look up when they are trying to solve a math problem, or trying to remember something visual. This is also the position of your eyes when you are in REM sleep. So when you close your eyes, focus your eyes upwards. This triggers your brain to start producing ALPHA waves. For many people, the natural position of the eye (upon closing) is slightly upwards. Push your eyes up even more, but not so such that it is uncomfortable. It may take a second to get used to, but if your eyes feel uncomfortable after a period of time, just let them rest at a level you are used to.

Normal eye position	Eyes turned slightly upward	Eyes closed with eyes turned slightly upwards. Brain is producing more ALPHA.

Focus on the Beats
All sessions produce "beats," or what sounds like short, rapid pulses. If you listen through only one headphone, you will hear a constant tone, but listening through both you will hear the beat that your mind produces. Focusing on these beats is the best way to entrain your mind to them. Your mind responds to your attention and will entrain far better if you focus on the stimulus.

Count Down
Counting down (in your head) from 10, 20, 50 or 100 is a great way to relax your body and help your mind focus. It is recommended to count down in this fashion:

"Ten.. I am relaxing more and more with every number I count. Nine... I am continuing to relax with every number I count. Eight... at the count of zero I am completely relaxed. Seven... my mind and body are completely relaxed at the count of 0......" and so on.

Also, visualizing the numbers is very helpful. As you think each number, visualize it floating in 3d space, spinning, glowing or reflecting light.

Visualize
Visualizing is a great way to take your mind down to where it needs to be. Visualize simple objects, like tacks. Add color to them, make them spin in 3d. Make them glow and reflect the world around them.

Breath Through Your Abdomen
Breathing is directly linked to brainwaves. Breathing deeply will rapidly cause you to relax. However, there is a catch. Breathing through your chest is associated with the Fight Or Flight response, which occurs during stressful (or awkward) situations. Eliciting this response will keep you from being relaxed. Breathing from your abdomen, on the other hand, feels great and is incredibly relaxing. To know if you are breathing correctly, put one hand on your chest and the other on your belly. When you breath in, the hand on your belly should rise while the hand on your chest should stay pretty much where it is.

Breath out	Breathing in

Breath Evenly
Try to keep your breathing at a steady rate. Also, inhale at the same rate as you exhale. People have a tendency to take a long time inhaling and then exhaling really fast, or visa versa. Creating a balance between the two will help you relax and also increases the effectiveness of your Mental Programming.

Relax With Your Breaths
Take deep breaths, through your abdomen, and on each exhale relax a bit more. Relaxing on exhale is much easier if the exhale is slow and long. Relax a small amount on every exhale until the relaxation builds up and you are soon fully sedated.

Relax Eyelids
Relax your eyelids. Your body can tell when you are faking relaxation by the tension in your eyelids. Relax your eyelids and your mind is fooled into relaxing.

Let Your Jaw Drop
Go ahead and let your jaw drop a little till it is relaxed. The jaw is a great place for your body to hide tension. Don't worry, nobody is looking, so just let it drop a little.

Relax your body as you feel it tense up
At times you may feel that certain parts of your body are tense. This is your body telling you that in order to go deeper, you must relax that part of your body. If you feel your legs, arms or any other part of your body is tense, relax it slowly and let it go.

Think of a place where you are most relaxed (like bed)
Thinking of a place where you normally relax is a great way to fool your body (and mind) into relaxing by itself. Your bed is the most obvious choice, but maybe the couch or on a beach would suit you better.

[Odd] Side effects of relaxation
When you begin using this technology, you may find some side effects. They are completely normal and will eventually go away.
1) Saliva - when the body relaxes, it usually increases its saliva production. Don't worry about it, its normal. If you swallow more than normal, that is fine. Just try to get your mind off of it.
2) Twitching - when your body relaxes in an unfamiliar place (like the computer chair), it will put up some resistance in areas that you hold very tense during the day. These areas will "twitch" as you relax them. Don't worry about these twitches, they are normal and will eventually go away, especially if you learn to relax more during the day, which is a very healthy thing to do.
3) Bringing up past memories - Remembering things you haven't thought of for decades is perfectly normal. Sometimes you might think of something you find undesirable and may have to restart the session. This happens to some people, but that is simply your mind telling you what your subconscious needs help with. Use this as a guide to help you re-program your mind.
4) Itching - most people experience random itches the first couple times they use the Neuro-Programmer™. This is completely normal. Try to ignore them. Giving in and scratching them will only cause more to surface. Take a deep breath (through your abdomen) and just ignore the itches. After the first couple times they will go away.

[Good] Side effects of relaxation
Daily relaxation is possibly one of the most rewarding activities that you can do for your body. Sometimes even more rewarding than exercise.
1) Increased helpful neurochemistry such as Serotonin, which controls moods (such as happiness).
2) Increased circulation and body heat. You will probably feel very warm after relaxing. This is because of increased circulation that is allowed by the lack of tension in the muscles. You may even feel heat in extremities that would be normally cold, such as your hands or feet.
3) Improvement in emotional stability
4) Increased energy
5) Improvement in memory and organized thoughts
6) Improvement in Mental Programming

Creative Use of Tones

1) Binaural tones that are separated by less than 3 Hz appear to listener to be "moving around" inside the head. This is because of the way the brain processes binaural beats by detecting the difference in phase angle between the two tones, which is something usually only done to detect where a sound is coming from. Using this feature of binaural beats can add some very interesting and hypnotic effects to any session

2) You can use the natural effects of tones on mood and mental state. Generally, the lower the pitch the more sedating an effect it has. Inversely, a higher pitch has an energizing effect. In addition to this there are a number of specific pitches that have been said to have specific effects.

9) Volume

Volume is very important in any session. Too little and BWE will not occur. Too much and it can keep the session from being enjoyable, or can even be so disruptive that it negates any BWE effects. This situation is further complicated by headphones. In the best possible scenario, you would be able to specify whether or not a user would use headphones or otherwise. When specifying headphone use, it is usually best to decrease the volume by at least 20%. However, in many cases it is not possible to be sure the user will not be using headphones, so the starting volume should usually be set at 100%. This may be too much for some people, too little for others, depending on their personal media player's volume settings. But that isn't something you cannot control, so 100% is typically recommended to start.

Some people prefer to decrease the volume of a session as the frequency decreases. The main advantage of doing this is that as the volume decreases, the mind has a tendency to quiet itself in response, decreasing mental chatter and focusing on the fading sounds. Furthermore, with sessions that fail to decrease the volume with the frequency, it is not uncommon for people to report that in the middle of a session the volume was a bit loud, even though the volume hadn't changed at all.

However, many lower frequencies require higher intensity levels, which can also be impacted by volume. For instance, if your user prefers a very low volume to begin with, a decrease in volume could render the middle of the session completely ineffective if the sounds are no longer audible.

All of these factors should be taken into account when creating a session.