by Endo » December 12th, 2012, 12:25 am
^What he said. But then again, if you tell yourself you want something enough times, you'll wind up wanting it.
As a fellow new guy, here's what I've learned/used/done: A sound editing software will make everything a lot easier. Use Audacity, it's fairly simple to learn how to do basic splicing, which will come in handy in my next suggestion.
Use a induction file that installs a trigger that lets you skip inductions. I recommend Bubble. It has a nice long induction, which helps you go into trance. It installs a pretty powerful suggestion that you will return to trance when you hear a trigger phrase. Calimore has a version of Bubble with binaurals added.
Here's where the Audacity comes in: Any other files you want after you've been bubbled, just take them, remove their inductions, add the trigger segment (in this instance, just remove the awakener from "Calimores Bubble Trigger Test") to the start, put the body and awakener after that, add some binaurals if you want to (I recommend "Binaural Beat", which is basic frequency, no surf or anything that slowly lowers to a lower frequency). You can mess around with a formula for stuff to add to the body, the above is what I use and it seems to work well for me.
There are some files that are meant to be used right before the "real" file that make them more effective. There's a file that is supposed to make you not remember listening to the file ever before, so that each time you listen, it sounds new. There's also "Aural sedation" which is a bunch of buzzing noises that are supposedly some susceptibility files that have been subliminalized. You can run that all day in the background and it may make a difference.
If you want to write your own file, it's easy. Just open a word processor and start typing. You'll then need to read it to a recorder, or use a text-to-speech service. Yakitome works well and sounds fairly natural, but "she" is a fast talker. Edit in your induction or trance triggers, etc.
Lastly, I think most people listen to their file(s?) right before they go to bed, right after they wake up, or some combination. I find that if I listen to too many files (2+) right before bed, I have some funny sleep patterns.