It differs in several ways:
The most significant difference is that in traditional meditation techniques, you must remember to repeat a mantra, i.e. a sort of sound-word, to focus on certain parts of the body, or to do certain things with your mind in order to keep your thoughts at bay and relax.
If you fall into a day-dream or memories, or if you become overwhelmed by thougts, you forget to practise the technique, and then it doesn't work, before you remember to practise it again.
Anyone who has tried meditating with traditional methods know how difficult it can be to remain in the meditation, because the mind is constantly inclined to wander.
With MasterWaves, you are maintained in meditation from the beginning to the end via the constant audio influence, so in practice, you have much more "effective time" where you meditate.
And actually, it doesn't matter, if you sometimes fall into a train of thoughts. The meditation is still working.
Another important issue which many people mention is that they more often and more quickly feel an positive effect of the MasterWaves meditation. of course, this is in itself strongly motivating when it comes to actually sitting down to meditate on a daily basis, that you can also feel that the meditation is working.
Unfortunately, much too few people get to meditate regularly with traditional methods. And this is a real shame, when you think about what you get out of it, if the method works for you. But if it is more the rule than the exeption that meditation ends up in a myriad of thoughts, og and a tinkling feeling in your body, it comes as no surprise that many people find it a waste of time to sit down to meditate for an hour every day.
For this reason, it has been extremely encouraging to witness how many more people who maintain a good, regular meditation practice with MasterWaves.
And a third important difference is that most meditation methods are weaved into a certain religious or spiritual tradition which often appears foreign and sometimes it conflicts with the context in which we wish to live.
MasterWaves is completely neutral and is therefore used by all kinds of people, from sworn atheists to buddhists, christians, muslims, etc.