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Brain Supercharger

Zygon Mind Research LaboratoryBrain Supercharger

One soundtrack drops your brain into the state where new beliefs stick, and plants them while you are down there. A second reinforces the same material out loud.

Fifteen titles. Twenty-eight minutes each. Headphones, a dark room, and nothing whatsoever to learn.

Developing mind technology since 1986

The Brain Supercharger experience · how the technology works

From the man who built it

I spent thirty years trying to give people the shortcut.

The problem with self-improvement was never the advice. It was the delivery. You can tell your conscious mind you are confident, or wealthy, or done with the cigarettes, and it will sit there and quietly call you a liar — because it knows. Every affirmation you have ever repeated in a mirror ran straight into that wall.

So we stopped talking to the conscious mind. The Brain Supercharger drops you into an alpha-theta state within minutes, and the affirmations ride in on that same soundtrack, pitched below the threshold of conscious hearing. You never hear them. There is nothing for your critic to argue with, because it never knows they arrived. Then a second soundtrack reinforces the same material in a voice you can hear.

You do not learn anything. You do not concentrate on anything. You put the headphones on and lie down, and 28 minutes later you get up.

Dane Spotts · founder, Zygon · 1986

Dane Spotts, founder of Zygon and inventor of the Brain Supercharger.
Dane Spotts · Zygon Mind Research Laboratory

What’s in the Mind Lab

Fifteen titles. Pick the one that names the thing.

There is no fixed order and no curriculum. Choose the title that describes what you actually want to change, then stay with it for about thirty days — the repetition is what does the work, not the variety.

Drag the dial, or tap a title

01
Ultra Success ConditioningPromote success by eliminating self-defeating beliefs and behaviour.
02
Ultra Weight ControlReprogram negative eating habits and attitudes about body image.
03
Winning Personality & Self-ImageEnhance self-esteem and positive attitudes about self.
04
Mastering StressReduce anxiety and reframe the stressors in your life.
05
Unleash CreativityOpen the floodgates to your creative and intuitive powers.
06
Super Immunity & HealthUse the power of your mind to feel great.
07
Super Memory & Accelerated LearningReprogram attitudes about learning and memory.
08
Sports PerformanceGive yourself that winning mental edge.
09
Soaring Self-ConfidenceBuild a strong self-image and eliminate fears.
10
Improve Love RelationshipsPut passion, intimacy and excitement into your relationships.
11
Attract Wealth & ProsperityReprogram attitudes about money and wealth.
12
Enhanced Psychic AwarenessOpen a channel to the universe and your unlimited potential.
13
Better SexInject creativity and variety into your love making.
14
Alcohol FreeFree yourself from alcohol.
15
Stop SmokingStop smoking and live a healthier life.

The Zygon technology

Two soundtracks, doing two different jobs.

Every title in the Mind Lab is a pair. The first does two jobs at once. The second reinforces what it planted.

Soundtrack one

Neuro-Entrainment & Mindscripting

Beta · awake Alpha–theta · receptive

Sound frequencies, delivered spatially so each ear gets a slightly different signal, pull your brainwaves down out of ordinary waking attention and into the alpha-theta range. That is the receptive sweet spot.

Carried inside that same soundtrack are the affirmations — recorded below the threshold of conscious hearing. You never hear them. Your subconscious does, and because you are already in the receptive state when they arrive, they stick in a way they never would otherwise.

Soundtrack two

Mindscripting reinforcement

Conscious Subconscious Audible voice

The second soundtrack has a voice you can hear. It addresses the conscious and the subconscious mind at once, reinforcing the same material the first track planted underneath.

This is the booster. The entrainment track opens the window; this one keeps the new script in front of both halves of you after it closes.

Alpha, theta, and what the brain is actually doing

Brainwaves are described in bands, measured in cycles per second. Beta, roughly 14 to 26 Hz, is ordinary waking attention — the state you are in reading this. Alpha, 8 to 13 Hz, is relaxed but alert. Theta, 4 to 8 Hz, is the drowsy borderland where imagery turns vivid and the sense of a separate self starts to loosen. Delta, below 4 Hz, belongs to deep dreamless sleep.

Artists, musicians and athletes turn out to be prolific producers of alpha-theta activity. So do Zen monks and experienced meditators, who reach it deliberately after years of practice — switching off external stimuli until the content of awareness changes.

The Brain Supercharger approaches the same state from the other direction. Rather than training attention until theta appears, it hands the auditory system a stimulus already in that range and lets the brain follow. This is why there is no technique to learn, and why it suits people who have tried meditation before and concluded they were bad at it.

Reaching that state is only half of what the first soundtrack is doing. The subconscious records experience and turns it, through repetition, into automatic behaviour — tying a shoelace, driving a car, reaching for a cigarette at the same moment every afternoon. Mindscripting uses that same mechanism on purpose: the affirmations are carried in the soundtrack itself, under the threshold of hearing, arriving while the window is open. The second soundtrack then says the same things out loud, so the conscious mind gets them too.

A listener reclining with over-ear headphones on, eyes closed.
Ear-covered stereo headphones · both ears

Before you listen

Four things, once only.

  • Never while driving.These tracks alter consciousness. Be somewhere you can be still.
  • Not with epilepsy or a seizure history.If that is you, or you are unsure, ask your doctor first.
  • It stirs things up — that is the work.Some people cry afterwards, or remember something long forgotten. That is mud coming off the bottom of the pond. Write it down. Talk to someone real if it is more than you want to hold alone.
  • Stop if it feels wrong.Discomfort means take them off. This is not something to endure.

What listeners report

People struggle to describe it.

It felt like I was sticking my tongue into a 220 volt electrical socket.

Mind Lab user

As if I was being launched into another dimension.

Mind Lab user

Daily use appears to change the personality in positive, life-enhancing ways.

Dr Lawrence Cory · double-blind study

Individual accounts. Not typical results, and not a claim about what this will do for you.

Ask before you start

Talk to Dane

Dane Spotts.
Dane Spotts Inventor · founder of Zygon

Most people give up on this in the first fortnight, and almost always for a reason someone could have told them in one sentence. Which title. How often. Why the headphones are not optional. What it means when it feels like nothing happened.

Tap to talk and ask out loud — no typing, no form.

This is an automated voice guide trained on Dane’s material, not Dane himself. For a real person, Empowerment Coaching runs through the Academy.

Coaching with a human

Before you talk to it

It answers questions about the Mind Lab — which title, how often, why headphones. It is not a therapist and not a doctor, and it will tell you so.

If you are having a hard time and need a person rather than a soundtrack: in the US and Canada call or text 988, or text HOME to 741741. In the UK and Ireland, 116 123 reaches Samaritans.

15Titles, each with a Neuro-Entrainment track and a Mindscripting booster
28Minutes per session, once a day
8Audio chapters of user’s guide, plus a PDF download
$199On its own — or free with Premium membership

Common questions

Brain Supercharger FAQ

What is the Brain Supercharger?

A set of fifteen audio programs from the Zygon Mind Research Laboratory. Each one is a pair of soundtracks. The first uses Neuro-Entrainment to shift your brain into the receptive alpha-theta range and carries the affirmations inside it, below the threshold of conscious hearing. The second is a reinforcement track with an audible voice, working on the conscious and subconscious mind together. Sessions run about 28 minutes and there is no technique to learn.

Do I really need headphones?

Yes, and this is the one rule with no flexibility in it. The effect depends on slightly different frequencies reaching each ear, and a speaker blends them together before they get to you. One earbud has the same problem. Most people who report that this did nothing were never actually running it. Any over-ear or in-ear pair works — they do not need to be expensive.

Which title should I start with?

Whichever one names the thing you actually want to change. There is no prescribed order. Stay with it daily for roughly thirty days before switching — the repetition is what reprograms the behaviour, and hopping between titles undercuts it.

How is this different from affirmations?

Two differences. Affirmations are addressed to the conscious mind, which is exactly the part that knows they are not true yet — so they produce resistance rather than change. And they are delivered to a brain in ordinary waking attention, which is the state least likely to absorb them. The first soundtrack solves both at once: it puts you in the receptive range first, then delivers the material underneath conscious hearing while you are there.

What if I feel nothing?

Common early on, and nearly always one of three causes: listening through a speaker, listening while doing something else, or waiting for a dramatic event when the state actually arrives quietly. A dark room, headphones, eyes closed, and no goal for the session usually sorts it.

Is it safe?

These are audio soundtracks, not a medical device, and not a treatment for any condition. Never listen while driving or operating machinery. Anyone with epilepsy or a seizure history should speak to a clinician before using brainwave audio. Sessions can bring up emotion or old memories — if that is more than you want to handle alone, talk to someone qualified.

What does it cost?

The Mind Lab is $199 on its own, and included at no extra cost with a Premium membership at Zygon Academy, which also carries the wider library.

Where can I get it?

The full Mind Lab streams inside Zygon Academy, alongside the rest of the mind development library including Ultra-Meditation and the Millionaire’s Mind. The Zygon app carries it on iOS and Android.

Change your mind state, change your life

Twenty-eight minutes, starting tonight.

The full Mind Lab streams inside Zygon Academy, with the Zygon app on iOS and Android.