Testimonials Results, Realized. To Whom It May Concern: I have experienced two weeks of Brain State Trainings since July of 2006 plus a one-day session to improve my sleep quality. Without a doubt, they are among the most significantly healing and balancing experiences of my life. Though I do not believe this training can replace the traditional struggles for healing the wounds of our pasts, Brain State offers the capacity for some "giant stepping" along that journey. By the second day of the first week, I knew the outcome would be positive. I simply began to feel better, more alive, after each session. By the end of those five days, there was an enhanced clarity about my life, a sense of well-being and peacefulness. I noticed that I could see colors more vividly and, though I didn’t take an eye exam, felt certain that even my visual acuity had improved. Then there was the single day of two sessions for sleep deprivation that, for me, were particularly important. There was literally an immediate and considerable improvement which, to this day, has not diminished, and I have not concerned myself about sleeplessness since. Though I am far from understanding this technology, it seems that my second week of training was more focused on balancing the processes of my brain. The protocols took me deeper into those progressions which theretofore had led me into anxiety and hypertension. As the week evolved, it seemed as though I could accomplish in an hour-and-a-half session what would normally require a week-long retreat. The clarity I had found during the first week seemed to blend into an eloquence of design and confidence about the journey I have chosen to take through my "elder years." I must add, however, that as important as I believe this new knowledge is, and is to become as its usefulness grows, the person(s) who administer Brain State protocols are of equal importance. Sam Holt and Christine Westfeldt are the only providers of this technology whom I know, but I can affirm that their sincerity and integrity along with their ability and expertise in the healing arts are indispensable in the advancements I have made since my training began. My deepest gratitude goes out to them. Robert R. DDS, PhD, MSW Sam, Since those 10 sessions, I am on top of this world!!!!! There is no doubt in that last 6 minutes, my soul completely merged with my body.....Even the density in my body felt totally different, the sense of separation of self is just completely gone, no matter what......It's so tangibly differently, body, mind, spirit......It's so hard to describe yet so concretely real. I'm sleeping a very solid 7 hours of sleep a night. Things will happen that normally might have gotten me kind of anxious....I have my first recognition like I used to, but when it comes to me giving it any effort or time or whatever, I just don't even go there or care to. It's like trivial things just aren't allowed to take up my energy or time anymore. There is such a different sense of calm and quiet inside of me that I have never ever known. And my focus and drive that have always been so much a part of me but were just melting away for these last several years, it is back.... I'm just 100% alive and excited and alert and sharp again. It is awesome! I've told many, that aside from my money that goes to these wolves and wolfdogs and the Native Americans that I donate to, that the money that I spent on the Brain State Training was the best money I have ever spent in my life! Love and peace, RY and kids(Wolves/Wolfdogs) Businessperson-Provider of Refuge for 15 Wolves and Wolf Dogs. As you well know, when I arrived to start the training, I felt as if I was at the end of the road with my debilitating anxiety. I believe I told you that I just didn't know what I was going to do if it didn't work. I had tried every other alternative to treat my panic attacks and constant anxiety – herbal remedies, chiropractic, and finally medication from my MD. The medication was helpful, but the side effects were more than I could cope with. After the first day, I was able to sleep through the night – peacefully with no sleep medication. After the second day, my level of anxiety had diminished at least 50%. And as the days continued, a sense of calm, that had become unfamiliar for far too long, had been remembered. It has been about 6-8 weeks now and the results have not diminished at all. A sense of tranquility has evolved in my life and I feel blessed beyond words. One of my favorite sayings is "If the only prayer you ever say is thank you, it is enough." In love and light, MS Business woman and mother Last night I got my first full night of sleep--plus. After work I took a two-hour nap from about 7 to 9, woke up, read for about an hour, went back to sleep, got up a couple of times for bathroom break, but went back to sleep both times. I woke up at about 5 after 5. I usually arise between 5 and 5:30 to get ready for work. (I didn't even take melatonin last night because I didn't remember it.) Just as significant: I think that one protocol--during which I made that major break through--has eliminated my low-grade-but-chronic anxiety. Intellectually I was aware of this anxiety and was pretty sure I knew the source, but seemed helpless to ever totally resolve it. The anxiety was bringing my energy down to an unhealthy level of chronic tiredness. I used food to try to solve the anxiety/tired problem. Now my bouts of low-blood sugar are not as frequent or as intense, I feel full on half the amount of food as before, and I've not been craving sugar or chocolate. I haven't felt this good in a long time. I plan to take up weightlifting and cardio exercise again. Thank you. KA Creative Designer For over 25 years I have been looking for a way out of Migraines. I have tried everything, including dietary changes, exercise, hypnotherapy, massage, acupuncture, positive thinking, pharmaceuticals, herbals, homepathics, and even energy work. Many of the things I tried seemed to help, at least partially, but I was never able to get a big breakthrough, to get a really dramatic decrease in the frequency of the Migraines. After doing 30 sessions of Brain State Training, I have had a 95% reduction in the number of Migraines that I have gotten. That is really amazing. The freedom to live without the fear of headaches and the freedom of living life without them has been an investment in my quality of life that I would recommend to anyone. CB entrepreneur, business woman After my first 10 sessions of Brain State Training, I really began to feel more comfortable in my own skin. I also felt more capable of making decisions and actively executing them. I feel even more balanced after my second series of trainings. I also have noticed that my desire for caffeine and sweets has reduced significantly. I feel just great. Linda W. Yoga instructor and mother of four I was given a personal protocol based on my brain map. Sam was able to tell that I was living in a fear based reality. I had been living with a paralyzing fear and trauma for all of my life, but it reached its climax in the last few years. After targeting this fear in my brain, we proceeded with 10 sessions. After my 7th session, I felt a release happen. I literally felt the balance beginning to take effect. That night, I had 9 hours of restful and most of all, peaceful sleep. The first time in decades that that had happened. I can't explain it. But I don't care to. All I know is that this works! Sincerely, Mike A. Hobe Sound, Fla I wanted to update you on Fletcher’s progress. We have been very pleased with the results of his Brain State Training. As you know he was tested at his school last August and based on those test results, the school was recommending that he be put in classes for kids with special needs. After the training, he was re-tested in the areas that he tested below his grade level in August. Fletcher improved in all six areas tested. Two areas showed significant improvements. He improved a year and a half in reading content understanding and four years in understanding and following directions, neither of which could be explained by his classroom experience this Fall. As you recall, Fletcher and I both felt that he was reading over three times faster after the training. He continues to improve in reading and spelling at a surprising rate and we have seen some improvement in written expression but it remains and area of concern. His vision has improved some, though he still sees triple at times. We are practicing bringing the three images together and he is to the point where he can always achieve that. I continue to be interested in this work and hope to become more involved in it at some point in the future. JB-mother Brevard,NC Dear Sam, The first night after the first 2 sessions I had a dream. I was listening to music on the radio or cd’s... the music was a fast jazz. I started to change it and said to myself, I never have liked Miles Davis, his stuff is so wild. Then all so a sudden, I started listening and thought to myself, that sounds like the Beta Up training sounds. I began listening and stared to enjoy the fast pace of the jazz music. The next morning I listened to some Miles Davis and loved it and could really hear it. I felt happy, like a new territory had opened to me. All during the week I would hear music and it would remind me of the different rhythms I had heard during the training. The Alpha–Theta-1, reminded me of a composer, Deuter, and his piece "Ecstasy." Then the second or third night I was choreographing dance movements in my dreams. I had done choreography 20 years ago for a dance troupe. In my dreams I was doing it and enjoying it a lot. I felt so happy to be doing it again. I began noticing when people spoke that their voices had the different frequencies I was hearing in the training. Some voices were more beta and some were alpha. I felt like I understood the person because I heard their sound and not just their words. I began to notice when my frequency would change... it was an actual kinesthetic feeling like going into different fields or mediums. Some of the fields were very liquid and some had edges. I could also feel when someone else's frequency change. I was talking to some one and suggested an idea and I immediately felt her field change. I asked her if she had just thought a "NO" to my idea and resisted what I had said. She said yes, she had done that. She asked me how I knew it. I said the field changed and I could feel it. I said it was OK if she disagreed. She said it all happened so fast, she did even know why she disagreed. Then she examined it and said she was afraid of my idea because she might feel stupid if she did it. This surprised both of us because I felt her "NO" before she consciously did. We both discussed what we had felt openly and learned from it. I went to a Yoga class with a new teacher and could tell she was in Alpha most of the class and she was guiding the students into Alpha. I could hear in the Indian Ragas, all the different frequencies…the Beta Waves in the fast voices and Sitar sounds and the Alpha Waves in the background sounds. During the last training session I had an interesting experience. During the Beta Up training ….the bar went way down and stayed there. Then it slowly came up and I felt all frustrated because it would not stay up…I had not felt frustrated in any of the sessions. The bar and I were not relating. I could feel that I was out of relationship and I was disconnected from the experience as a relationship. I asked Sam to start that session over …in the new session I relaxed and remembered that the bar and I were in a loving relationship and I connected the raising of the bar to my heart frequency and the bar went up and up. I felt the connection between my brain frequency and my heart frequency. I realized the next day that I felt bliss when my brain went into new "learning's." That when I created new neuronets, I felt a bliss or euphoria ...it did not seem to matter which frequency ...If I learned I felt bliss. So I deduced that my brain loves to create new neuronets. Satchitanada Virginia-Yoga Teacher-Spirtiual Adept More Testimonials and Interviews Return to top