Discover Stillness® Home Course

Experience a state of inner peace and an expanded perception of possibility
in just 20 minutes of listening twice per day.
 

Stillness is a state of nondisturbance.  Have you experienced it?  Can you imagine it?

•  A feeling in your body of complete ease and open flow. 
• A calm and alert state of mind. 
•  A knowing that there are endless possibilities for your life and for the planet.
• A perception of your SELF that is more encompassing and more connected than the small, ego-limited self that may be your daily experience.

Perhaps you have stumbled upon that state of being from time to time…. mmmm. delicious.

Meditators have practiced for long years to find such deep, pleasureable and powerful states of being.  And meditation is simple but not easy. 

Now you can experience a state of stillness regularly – with ease.  You can cultivate the experience of nondisturbance until you learn to live there, not just visit sometimes.  You can dip yourself regularly until the experience sticks.  And then you can move to a deeper level.

Discover Stillness is an audio program.  When you listen to it each day, it does the work to move you into stillness, clearing the stored disturbances (stresses, patterns, stuck emotions) that keep creating experiences of disturbance.

To someone coming late to the daily practice of meditation — and resisting the discipline required — the At Ease Technologies’ CD program is a joyful and timely gift.  As Robert (Petteway) says, the CDs “meditate you.” How perfect for a “lazy meditator” like me!   Cornelia P., Atlanta, GA

If you intend to learn something new you have to practice.  In our busy lives it is too easy just to do things the old way:  the paths of our patterned ways are well-worn.  Unless we give the new ways plenty of attention, we’ll likely just drift back to what we already know well – even when we have glimpsed that there is a better way.  Statistically, New Year’s resolutions don’t work for that very reason.
 
Stillness – nondisturbance — is subtle and, therefore, even more fragile to maintain. Right now, after taking the Becoming Still weekend retreat, your nervous system is clearer and in more flow.  You likely have more vitality in your body and a greater sense of well-being.  Perhaps you notice that you are calmer and less reactive. You may find it easier and sweeter to connect with the people you love – in fact, with everyone around you. Many experience greater clarity of purpose and in their thinking and an influx of creativity.

Whatever your experience of stillness, it is easy to lose without continuing attention.  The vibration of the world is much stronger than your vibration – unless you ground into your new vibration regularly.  One way to reinforce your new way of being is to come back to a Becoming Still retreat.  Another is to spend time around others who have a similar or deeper vibration than you.  Consciously sharing stillness with others will also stabilize you in the place of stillness.

A Daily Routine is the Key
The Discover Stillness® Home Course is the best and most convenient help you can get to re-ground yourself in stillness every day.  It is the most convenient way to continue your practice of stillness and to deepen it – you can use it when you want and where you want. 

If we had our way, you’d listen to the Discover Stillness® CDs with the same regularity that you brush your teeth – ideally, two times per day for at least 10-20 minutes.  Going to bed at night and upon waking in the morning are two good times for listening because they do not interrupt your day.  But anytime in your day is a great time to let go and return to the peacefulness available to you.

I have been using the (Discover Stillness) meditation/relaxation CD’s for almost a year now.  They have become a daily part of my spiritual practice….  I find that my meditations are deeper, calmer and less infiltrated by the thinking mind’s constant input, allowing me to rest within the moment to moment experience. Along with this comes a sense of relaxation, ease and expansion in the physical body.  …Like the ad for a well know credit card, I wouldn’t go anywhere without them!     Gaye A., Middlebury, VT
 
Enjoy A Complete and Flexible Program
Discover Stillness® is a full course in a box.   It includes as much advanced technology as Robert could put in, including the single dropping tone and his own voice whispering in your ear and directing your attention to letting go and opening.  You’ll hear it and you’ll feel it in your body.  The new DVDs and Guide to Stillness manual give you exercises to complete your at-home practice.  You’ll have everything you need.

Discover Stillness® is also flexible enough to use in many ways – to unwind, to work in the “zone”, to enhance receptivity and learning, to clear your head, to sleep deeply.  Here is what some of our customers say about how they enjoy them.

Daily use of the Discover Stillness CDs gives me a clear, present mind, allows me to operate fear- and anxiety-free and to manifest from just a thought level. Dennis S., Houston, TX

I love listening to my Discover Stillness CD while making glass beads.  It is an effortless way to … remain in that beautiful creative ‘zone’ where the bead seems to make itself.   Susan L., Houston, TX

During my busy day, listening to 10-20 minutes of the daytime CD is better than a power nap.  At night, falling asleep listening to Discover Stillness gives me a most restful and rejuvenating sleep.   Rebecca A., Lemont, PA

After an intense afternoon of computer spreadsheet work, I put on my Discover Stillness CD for twenty minutes and was able to clear my mind and re-focus on the creative session next on my schedule.   Phil T., Atlanta, GA

A Special Offer To Get You the Help You Need
If you have an effective tool that is easy to use we know that you will be much more likely to practice stillness regularly. 

But learning is usually more than an experience.  It requires continuing attention to integrate the experience into your way of being.  To deepen – and even maintain — the stillness you achieved, you will have to learn more and more about the subtleties of expansion and contraction.  You will need a daily process of letting go into flow.  And you will need the support of the best tools available in the marketplace.

Use Technology to Make Learning Easy
Discover Stillness® is the home course that we designed for daily use in maintaining and deepening stillness.  It is a complete program that incorporates auditory, visual and kinesthetic learning.  Discover Stillness® includes: 5 levels of audio program (10 CDs), 2 DVDs, and a manual with information and exercises to support your learning.

The state-of-the-art technology in the Discover Stillness® audio program uses vibration to harmonize the hemispheres of your brain and to teach your body and mind how to let go.  Listening regularly will actually change the resonance of your body.  You can actually feel the vibrations in the cells of your body.

Discover Stillness® Works on Many Levels
To the technology in the free course CDs, the Discover Stillness® audio program includes two new technologies that we practiced in the course – a single dropping tone & a directed relaxation with Robert’s voice.  Listening to these two meditations will take you back to the experience of the Living At Ease course.

Each level in the Home Course clears the stresses from a certain vibratory level – or octave, roughly corresponding with age.  Even though you were able to let go to a very deep level in the setting of the Living At Ease course, you will want to go back and work systematically through each level of the home course.  Doing so will ensure that each octave is clear and in flow with no residual tension to pull you back into contraction.  Each level builds on itself, offering deeper levels of stillness & increasing your clarity and sense of connectedness.

Even after working your way through the program, we find that all the levels in the Program are useful in your meditation at some time.  For instance, the lighter levels are really best for clearing surface stress such as what accumulates during a particularly hard day or during illness.  The deeper levels are great for stabilizing you at a new baseline and for cleaning stress from deep within in your nervous system or trauma from young ages.

Discover Stillness includes a Whole Bundle of Benefits
The Discover Stillness® Home Course is a complete package for continuing the Technology of Stillness that includes: 

• 5 levels of audio program (10 CDs — one set of daytime and night-time programming for each level)
• a DVD
• a 100-page guidebook with information and exercises to support your learning 
• two bonus CDs of  advanced guided meditations and
• a 5-level balancing CD. 

Discover Stillness Is Powerful Technology

The audio program consists of five levels of learning.  Each level takes you to a deeper level of opening and letting go.  We recommend that you use each level for a minimum of three months.  Over the months, as you progress through the levels, you will let go into increasing stillness, peace, harmony, and ease. 

The levels are:
Level One –   Witnessing (alpha frequencies)

Level Two –   Connecting (theta frequencies)

Level Three – Reorganizing (high delta frequencies)

Level Four –   Allowing (mid delta frequencies)

Level Five –    Expanding (deep delta frequencies)

Each level comes with the soothing sounds of a gentle rain in the foreground.  Built into and behind the soundtrack are tones and waves, used in nine ways in each CD.  These tones and waves open and relax you.  Your body/mind feels the vibrations of these deep tones and entrains with them as they progressively deepen within each level and over the entire Home Course.  Your body/mind can follow the tones into deeper and deeper levels of stillness.

 No matter which level you are using, the CDs work the same.

 Here’s how the opening and relaxation technologies work:

• A RELAX takes you deeper over six minutes.  During this period the tones and waves gradually deepen so that your body/mind can gradually let go.
• Next, the tones and waves HOLD you at the deepest point.
• Finally, the tones and waves gradually RETURN you to a level in which you can function easily in your day but you are still lower than where you began. 

There are two CDs in each level of the audio program –

• One CD for Day Time use and 
• One CD for Night Time use. 

CD FOR DAY TIME
Use the Day Time CD when you intend to stay awake to meditate.  It is OK if you do go to sleep, but this CD was designed to assist you in consciously opening and relaxing.  There are four separate meditation programs on the Day Time CD:

1)      Meditation One is a 10-minute program on Track One and includes a RELAX and a RETURN (see below).  It is a quick refresher for the middle of your busy day.

2)      Meditation Two is a 20-minute program on Track Two and includes a RELAX, 10-minute HOLD, and a RETURN (see below).  This is a great meditation to use in your afternoon “slump”, when you need a nap but don’t have the time.

3)      Meditation Three is a 30-minute program when Tracks Three, Four and Five are played together.  This meditation includes a RELAX on Track Three, a 20-minute HOLD on Track Four, and a RETURN on Track Five.  This organization gives you the flexibility to repeat the HOLD track as long as you want by programming the HOLD track to repeat (see the Recommended Equipment section for more information on how to use your player’s ‘repeat’ function).  Use this meditation when you have time to do a full, deep relaxation.

4)      Meditation Four (Track Six) is 5 minutes. This quick relax uses a single tone only, dropping several octaves.  Use your breath to enhance the relaxation.  Simply inhale in the quiet, and then exhale as the tone drops. Listening to this dropping tone for a minute or two throughout the day is an excellent way to stay relaxed while you work.

CD FOR NIGHT TIME
Use the Night Time CD when you can open and relax deeply and do not have to function at peak immediately after your mediation, or when it is OK if you go to sleep.  The tones in the Night Time CD are one octave deeper and the waves produced are even lower frequencies than in the Day Time CD.  For example, if you are using a Level One CD, the waves produced in the Day Time CD are alpha and those in the Night Time CD are theta.

There are two different programs on the Night Time CD.  You may play them together, straight through the entire CD.  Or, you can play one and not the other. The programs are:

1)      Program One, the Directed Relaxation, is approximately 30-minutes on Tracks One and Two.  Track One is a 15-second fade in.  On Track Two a voice directs your attention to the opening, relaxing, and expanding of each body part and, in the upper levels of the audio program, to the expansion of your energy fields.  This “talk down” is unique for each level of the Program and builds on the talk down of the previous level to increase relaxation and expansion.  This building process is one reason we recommend that you not skip ahead to deeper levels in the audio program; skipping ahead will cause you to miss steps.

2)     Program Two, the Deep Relaxation, is 30 minutes on Tracks Three and Four.  Track Three is a 30-minute hold.  Track Four is a 30-second fade out.  This meditation has the flexibility to play all night seamlessly.  To listen continuously, simply place your CD player on Track Three and then push the Repeat One function so that your player repeats only that one track.  Then, you can fall asleep, letting the tones and waves relax you into a deep, refreshing sleep.

Advanced Meditation CDs of Stage 3

In addition to your regular Level 5 frequency-shifting CDs, there are two additional CDs that are included in Stage 3 — Expanding and Healing.  Each CD adds specific guided meditations that move your attention into new areas of subtlety.  Each of the meditations has a different purpose.

Exanding CD

HEALING CD

NOTE:  Both the Advanced Meditation CDs – Expanding and Healing – have no tones and waves built into their soundtracks.  However, for a small price, you can get a second CD player and Y-splitter (with two male ends and one female end) that will take sound from each player and connect to your headphones.  Then, you can hear both the guided meditations and one of the HOLD tracks at the same time.  Or, you can listen to your regular audio program and some relaxing music at the same time.

Bonus CD:   5-Level Balancing
This CD is designed for those who are working in Stage 3 of Discover Stillness.  There are two soundtracks on this CD — rain and river.  Tracks 1-5 (rain soundtrack) is one program (30 min.) and Tracks 6-10 (river soundtrack) is a second program (30 min.).  Each program takes you through all five levels of the audio program.  Listening to one of these programs all the way through balances your brainwaves and body frequencies.  This program is particularly useful in clearing stresses that have built up in each of the frequency levels – alpha, theta, and delta.  Use it from time to time to do a quick clearing of your body and mind.

The Technology in the CDs  

As you listen to the program, you will hear the soundtrack (river or rain) in the foreground. Behind the soundtrack, you will hear tones and waves.  There are no subliminal instructions or words imbedded in this program.

There are nine different tone and wave technologies within each CD designed to assist you in letting go and opening. The primary technology puts a slightly different tone directly into each ear.  For instance, the right and left hemispheres of your brain each produce a different tone, called a carrier tone. An average carrier tone in the general population is around 500 hertz. Hertz is a measure of cycles per second of vibration, or frequency. 

The difference between the carrier tone produced by your right brain (say, 500 hertz) and that produced by your left brain (say, 515 hertz) creates a modulating tone, or  ‘wave’, between the two brain hemispheres (a 15 hertz wave = beta frequency).  Within each level of the audio program, as well as from level to level, we reduce both the frequency of the tones used and the difference between the tones going into the right and left ears.

In the audio program you will hear (and maybe even feel) the vibration of tones being entered into each ear.  Your brain uses these tones to produce a waving tone, which you may also hear and feel.  As the tones and waves are lowered, the brain (and the body) entrains itself with the tones, producing a greater incidence of these lower frequencies.  This process is called “frequency following response.” 

With a little practice your mind/body learns to move easily into deeper and deeper levels of openness and relaxation.  The hemispheres of your brain experience increasing congruence. This technological process mirrors the natural process of relaxation as you enter into various states of sleep.

We have used the tones in the program to mirror the physical tension in the body.  For instance, if you close your fist very tightly, the muscles are firing about 2000 times per second (2000 hz) at this level of tension.  Now, relax your fist by half (approximately 1000 hz) and then by half again (about 500 hz).  This is the level – about 500 hz — that we begin our CDs.  From our research, it is the average level of tension modeled by our culture.

The waves produced by the CDs are designed to mirror levels of openness and relaxation in thinking.  They are modeled after biofeedback, in which deeper states of openness and relaxation are created as you decrease the brainwaves for natural relaxation, i.e., resting (alpha), dreaming (theta), and deep sleep (delta).  By increasing these natural relaxation states regularly – and often without falling asleep – you will learn to maintain the levels of openness and relaxation (deep rest) while going about your daily activities.  You will produce results with less effort and enjoy life more.