On a lot of sites you see incredible claims regarding brainwave meditation. You can read phrases like meditate deeper than a Zen monk' or 'Meditate profoundly within minutes' or even 'meditate in minutes'. Most of this how ever is is plain lie. Not that there is no truth to to these claims, but you do not get it just for free.

Yes, you will get entrained to lower brain wave frequencies but that also happens when you when you sleep.

What you ought to do is using all the tools that experienced meditators employ. Doing this, you will get the most out of your brainwave meditation session. The following guidelines helped me, so they will help you the same.

Relax

If you want to learn how to meditate, with or without the help of brainwave entrainment, you will need to learn how to relax your body. It is a basic skill and has to be mastered. .

In the beginning of each entrainment track your brainwaves are brought down over a period of 8 minutes. This is the perfect moment to relax allour muscles. If you just bring you attention to each of the muscles, one by one, wanting them to relax, you will see that they do. Fee all the tension fleet out of you. Now do the same for your thoughts and emotions. Just gently look at them and allow them to relax.

If you skip this step, the CD will do it for you. You will,however not be able to reach the depts as with the relaxation of your body.

Listen to what is playing.

Not too many companies selling brainwave meditation CD's tell you this, but I found listening to the track greatly enhances the meditation experience. At least to me it does. I have no idea about the long term effects, as I did not study these, but the subjective feeling of going deep into the meditation is definitely affected. The more you can concentrate on the track, the better it becomes.

Try to not fall asleep

This is actually the continuation of the previous one since, as you fall asleep, you are not concentrated on the music, obviously :-). It is true that not falling asleep is not always easy. The music brings your brainwaves to those you have when you sleep. But now you need to stay awake. It is the exact purpose of meditation: to reach these states consciously, so awake. That is where the true benefits lie. You sleep every night, yet, you do not benefit from the meditation, as you are not conscious of your state. You need to go there fully conscious.

Do only one practice at the time

As you do not need to do a great effort to reach low brainwaves (after all, that's where the tracks are for). You tend to want to do a whole lot of practices. To mix them up. But that is actually not such a good idea. In this way you do not have any continuity. You fleet from one point to the other. Moreover, if you add a practice, be sure that it is in sync with the entrainment frequencies. Otherwise your practice will tend to lead you to one particular frequency, and the track to another one. This is counterproductive.

At the end, open you eyes slowly.

Again, as in normal meditation, come back in very slow way. Try to bring the blissful feelings you had in meditation back into your waking life. After all, that is why you do the meditation to start with: to lead a better, more peaceful life.

Conclusion

Brainwave meditation is a lot like regular meditation. So the same tools to improve the experience also work here. But now you have the added aid of technology at your side.