How To Get The Most Out Of Your Brainwave Meditation Session

On a many sites you see unbelievable 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 assessments, but you do not get it just for free.
Yes, you will get entrained to lower brain waves but that also happens when you when you sleep.
What you need to do is using all the techniques that experienced meditators employ. Doing this, you will get the most out of your brainwave meditation session. The following tips helped me, so you will benefit from using them also.

Relax
If you want to learn how to meditate, with or without the help of brainwave entrainment, you will have to learn how to relax completely. It is a basic skill and must be mastered. There is no escaping that..
In the beginning of all entrainment tracks your brainwaves are brought down over a period of 5 to 10 minutes. This is the perfect moment to relax every one ofour muscles. If you just bring you attention to each of the muscles, one by one, willing them to relax, you will see that they just do that. Fee all the tension flow out of you. Now do the same for your thoughts and emotions. Just gently look at them and will them to relax.
If you skip this step, the entrainment CD will tend to it for you. You will not be able to go as deep as with the relaxation of your body.

Listen to the track.
Not too many people selling brainwave meditation CD's tell you this, but I found listening to the track enormously 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 feeling of going deep into the meditation is surely affected. The more you can concentrate on the track, the better it gets.

Try to stay awake
This is actually the continuation of the previous one because, as you fall asleep, you are not paying attention to the music, obviously :-). It is true that not falling asleep is not always easy. The music guides 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 thoughts. You need to go there fully conscious.

Do not mix practices
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 and rise slowly.
Again, as in normal meditation, allow yourself to come back in very slow way. Try to bring the beautiful feelings you had during meditation back into your normal life. After all, that is why you do the meditation in the first place: to lead a better, more peaceful life.

Conclusion
Brainwave meditation is very much like regular meditation. So the same techniques to improve the experience also apply here. But now you have the added advantage of technology at your side.