The DAVID PAL is a portable Audio-Visual Entrainment (light & sound therapy) device. Using flashes of lights and pulses of tones, the DAVID PAL gently and safely guides the brain into various brain wave patterns.

The DAVID PAL36 is the newest in portable audio-visual entrainment (AVE) devices. What the new PAL36 offers is 12 more preset sessions than the original DAVID PAL (30 in all) and six empty spaces to store your own personally designed sessions. Brainwave patterns are commonly grouped into four different categories: Beta, Alpha, Theta and Delta. Each of these brainwave patterns is associated with various states of mind.

The PAL36 is the same size as the DAVID PAL (approximate dimensions - 2.5 x 1 x 3.5 inches / 7 x 2.5 x 9cm ) and will allow you to experience AVE wherever you go. Perfect for people who are on the go.

Below is a list of the DAVID PAL's included, pre-programmed protocols for a variety of brainwave stimulation sessions:

Beta - Let's Get Alert

• Sensory Motor Rhythm (SMR) - Use to achieve relaxed attention.
• Sensory Motor Rhythm (SMR) with Dissociation - Use to improve sleep for those who have insomnia due to a "racing" mind but relaxed body.
• Beta Perker - A great way to get going in the morning without caffeine. This session helps reduce ADD and SAD symptoms. May cause anxiety.
• ADD & Learning - This session has rapid transitions for mental stimulation to help keep the user "engaged" in the session. Used in the ADD study published in the Journal of Neurotherapy.
• Brain Brightener - Use with seniors to improve mental functioning and memory. Based on Budzynski's study. Similar to ADD and Learning (A4) but uses gentle transitions more amenable for seniors. Can also be used for ADD.
• Skill/Sport Enhancement - Use this session to develop any skill or improve performance. Visualize feeling your best during the first half (alpha) and then visualize your perfect performance during the second half (beta) of the session.

Alpha - Great for Relaxation and Meditation

• Healthy Alpha with Dissociation - Healthy alpha is 10 Hz. Most disorders have alpha slowing down. This session re-establishes the natural alpha rhythm. Good for beginners.
• Extended Deep Alpha Relaxer with Dissociation - Stay relaxed for your dental, massage, chiropractic, and other appointments.
• Schumann Resonance with Dissociation - For a quick, thorough afternoon meditation. For those on the go.
• Extended Schumann Resonance with Dissociation - For effective deep meditation & particularly to improve the onset of sleep. Calms "hyper/chattery" minds. Also for chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and anxiety. Ideal for those with insomnia who have a busy mind and tense body.
• "State Five Meditation" - Use for ultra-deep meditation and for sleep. Use to quiet "hyper" minds. Based on Maxwell Cade's work with Zen meditators.

Theta The Dream State - Enhance Your Creativity

• Theta with Dissociation - Use for creative visualization and sleep.

Delta - The Sleep State

• Meditate to Sleep with Dissociation - Meditate, visualize, and think soothing thoughts during the first half (8 Hz); fall asleep during the second half (3 Hz).
• Delta with Dissociation - To aid in falling asleep. Best for those with pain. Fall asleep with session running.
• Sub-Delta - Mildly dissociating. Calms the hypothalamus. Beneficial for some with fibromyalgia and hypertension.

Depression Reduction

• Alpha/Beta with Dissociation - Settles down negative emotions from the right brain while stimulating the left brain to rebalance alpha asymmetry.

Hypnosis

• Fractionated Hypnosis/Alpha - This session simulates the hypno-therapy process

Lucid Experiences

• Lucid Dreaming - Sound Sync - Based on audio input frequency range of 52 to 1275 Hz. Audio frequencies below 160 Hz will slow the rate down by up to 1 Hz. Frequencies above 160 Hz will increase the rate by up to 1 Hz. Travel on lucid journeys with your favorite music.

The DAVID PAL36 can be programmed using the DAVID Session Editor software. The session editor is graphics software that allows any type of session to be designed into your PAL. It provides programmability for all functions such as rates, volume, intensity, tones, number of replays, etc. It includes a complete library of PAL Preset sessions from which you may design your own session . The library also includes an "erase all" PAL wave file - a wave file consisting of all the session numbers and both the Editor file and wave file for all of the sessions, plus a section of "Extras."

• Tru-Vu Omniscreen Eyesets - were carefully designed to provide the most effective and safe light and sound experiencer
  
  The Tru-Vu Omniscreen eyesets use eight high efficiency white bulbs mounted over a silver reflector behind a light blue-tinted translucent screen. This disperses the light evenly, protects the bulbs and removes any red light which may be produced by the bulbs. White light has proven most effective in imagery, relaxation and visualization.
  
  The Tru-Vu Omniscreen eyesets are specially designed to allow for the left and right visual fields of each eye to be individually stimulated rather than the entire eye. With the Tru-Vu Omniscreen eyesets, the lights flash into the left visual fields of both eyes, then alternately flashes into the right visual fields of both eyes. This approach allows the ability to stimulate either visual cortex with a frequency different from the other visual cortex. For example, a person who functions strongly from the left brain could have 8 Hz stimlulated into the right visual field (and therefore the left brain) to slow down left brain function and have 18 Hz stimulated into the left visual field to increase right brain function.
• Isochronic Pulsed Tones, Binaural Beats and Chime - The tones of the DAVID PAL36 are evenly spaced, are of equal pitch and are turned on and off at a specified rate. This is important to enhance the effectiveness of audio entrainment.
• Soft-Off - The gradual lowering of the light stimulation at the end of the session prevents a startle response (also known as somnatic shock). Soft-Off ensures that relaxation and other benefits carry over even after a session has ended.
• Easy-To-Find Intensity and Select Buttons - Both the select button and the intensity button are raised so that you can make the necessary adjustments easily and quickly. Adjust the intensity of the Omniscreen eyeset with the easy-to-find INT button. Simply press the SEL button to select which preset sesssion you wish to run.
• 30 Preset Sessions - Including Brain Brightner (for ADD and cognition), Fractioned Hypnosis, Alpha/Beta Mix (for depression), Schumann with Dissociation & HRV (for meditation), Beta Perker, Theta with Dissociation (for sleeping), and Music Modulation (to turn your music into an intriguing light show).

The PAL36 has a host of new features designed with the clinician in mind. With the DAVID Session Editor, all of the 30 pre-set sessions in the PAL can be erased allowing the clinician to install a "prescription" of only the sessions that the clinician wants the client to use. The clinician may also set the number of times that a session may be played. After all of the replays have been used, the session just stops and the client will have to return to for a "refill". This allows the clinician to more closely monitor which and how often sessions are being used. Sessions may be downloaded from the headphone jack of a computer, CD/MP3 player or through the internet. Because session data may be contained in a wave file (made with the DAVID Session Editor) anyone may also attach the data to music, hypnotic inductions, affirmations and so on... and automatically program the PAL to sync up with the audio when it is played.

HEART RATE VARIABILITY (HRV):

For the first time, a system exists where meditative breathing may be paced along with an audio-visual entrainment (AVE) session. This technique has been borrowed from our clinical model, the DAVID Paradise XL. Long, graceful breathing cycles have been used as part of meditation. Scientifically, this technique has been analysed and shown to settle down a stressed autonomic nervous system. Both sympathetic (flight-or-fight) activity and para-sympathetic (the brain’s efforts to compensate) activity settle down dramatically using HRV techniques.

The heart speeds up with every breath in and slows down with every breath out. This swing in heart rate is HRV. A typical heart beat swing is in the order of about 15 beats per minute (pbm). When people get stressed, the heart typically clamps to sometimes as low as five bpm HRV at times intermixed with sharp spikes in heart rate. This is all abnormal activity and is rough on the heart.

The HRV technique used clinically is based on a 10 second breathing cycle (six breaths/minute, by inhaling slowly for five seconds and exhaling slowly for five seconds in an easy, relaxed breath). When using HRV paced breathing, listen to the heartbeat generated by the DAVID PAL through the headphones. Inhale for two heartbeats and exhale for two heartbeats (not your own heartbeats!). Most sessions begin at seven breathing cycles/minute (28 heartbeats/min) and slow to six breaths /minute (24 heartbeats/min). This allows the user to breathe a little faster at the onset of a session until he/she has had time to relax.

USING ANY EYESET OTHER THAN THE OMNISCREEN EYESET WILL VOID THE WARRANTY

Neither Healthy Life Tools nor the manufacturer will be responsible for any misuse or uninteded use of this product.

• Tru-Vu Omniscreen Eyesets
• Quality Stereo Headphones
• Stereo Patch Cord
• DAVID Carry Bag
• 9-Volt Alkaline Battery
• 30 Pre-programmed sessions.
• Comprehensive Operator's Manual

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DAVID PAL36 Manual