Steve Gill
Meditation Guru

Steve’s main background is in electronics engineering and computer programming.  He had a brief stint in the Royal Australian Air Force, spent a few years working for the Government designing and building electronic systems for maritime navigational aids, spent a couple of years or so working in sales, worked in various roles in the IT industry in both the corporate and Government worlds, and has been a professional software developer for the past 15 plus years.  Steve is the CEO of a successful software company which develops and sells business software. 

Over 20 years ago Steve learnt how to meditate.  One problem he had with traditional meditations was getting consistent results.  He found that, although he could often reach relatively deep states of meditation, it was hard to do this all of the time. He has had many disappointing meditation sessions over the years.  He also learnt that it can take many years of practice before gaining the many benefits obtainable from meditation.

Steve also found that many people he knew had a lot of trouble meditating at all.  They found meditation very difficult and couldn’t get very far before giving up in frustration.  He also wanted his children to be able to learn how to meditate without all of the hassle, and in some cases, expense.

This all led him to search for a way that would enable anyone to meditate with as little effort as possible.  After a lot of research he came across a way that this could be done using technology, which appealed to his technical side.  The technology, known as brainwave entrainment, was originally discovered in 1839 by physicist Heinrich Dove and pioneered in the seventies by Robert Monroe.

Meditative states can be induced by stimulating the brain with sound patterns.  The first step is to generate frequencies that match the brain’s current brainwaves.  Once the brain synchronizes with these patterns the frequency is then gradually altered until it is at the target level.  Because the brain is synchronized it follows the sound patterns.

Steve saw the many advantages of this technology and decided to get serious about it and so Mindwaves was formed.  He wanted to make this meditation technology available to everyone.   After several months of development, testing, experimentation, more testing, etc., Mindwaves came up with their first meditation product: Peaceful Mind (it continues to be one of their most popular meditations).  Since then they have produced a several more meditations and have a bunch in the pipeline.  They are continually refining and improving the techniques they use to produce these meditations.

The whole point of Mindwaves is to produce a range of products that make it easy for anyone to meditate and Steve believes they have achieved this. However it doesn’t end there.  From their point of view, meditation isn’t just for the sake of meditation but rather it’s about what it can do for you.

Relaxation, peace, calm, de-stressing, well-being.  These are some of things they aim for under their Relaxation and Meditation category.  Better sleep is what the products under their Sleep category are all about.  Tuning out from the world temporarily so you can focus on other things is what you’ll find under Ambient Sound.  And for those who want to explore expanded consciousness and altered states, the Spiritual and Intuition category is for you.  In the future they plan to introduce other categories for enhancing your life.

Using this technology anyone can meditate very easily without the special postures, mantras or whatnot of traditional meditation.  All the user needs to do is listen and let the meditation tracks do all of the work.  Steve calls this meditation without effort.

Steve Gill on Big Blend Radio
Steve was a featured guest on Big Blend Radio’s ‘Ultimate Living’ show where he discussed meditation. The show aired live on July 24, 2009. To meet the rest of the guests and listen to the entire show, please click here. To listen to Steve's interview, please double click on the play button below.

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