Binaural Beats to “Retrieve Your Destiny”
I think I first heard of binaural beats when I was looking for guided meditations on Youtube a few years ago. In fact, I’d first heard of them when I discovered a meditation on “Retrieve Your Destiny,” by Kelly Howell.
Before that, I had no clue what a theta wave was, or why I would even care. Or other brainwaves.
But now, everything’s changed.
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(Please note: though I mention several products in this post, none of these are endorsements or affiliates. I’m just recounting my experiences as they relate to meditation and how they have helped – or not helped – me so that perhaps they can help you.)
What Are Binaural Beats?
You know what optical illusions are, right? Binaural beats are sort of like “auditory illusions.”
When you’re in your normal waking state, your brain is in a beta state. Essentially, it emits beta waves.
When you sleep, your brain emits delta waves.
In meditation, your brain can move into an alpha or a theta state (or other states, as well).
And when you experience that feeling of “being in the flow”? Your brain enters into a gamma wave state.
(I also think this gamma state is what those monks are in when they’re sitting in the snow meditating with little more protection than their robes. They’re generating heat.)
These are all different levels of consciousness, or brainwave states.
With binaural beats, you can actually change your brainwaves to induce these other states of mind.
(I know this may sound like wacky-quack, but please bear with me for a few moments and keep reading. I have personal experience with this that I’ll share.)
All these brainwaves – alpha, beta, theta, delta, gamma – they are all different frequencies of wavelengths. Gamma waves are the highest energy (with the shortest wavelength) and theta waves have the lowest energy (and the longest wavelength).
Think about that “lulling” feeling you get when you’re at the ocean and listening – just listening to the breaking waves. Now, think about when you listen to classical music – it’s usually a relaxed feeling right?
It’s all very natural. Your brainwaves actually change. It’s called brain entrainment. (Not entertainment, as I’d read for years! This may be why I initially dismissed all this brainwave technology.)
Entrainment is when an object (organic or otherwise) syncs up to another wavelength.
Interestingly, this practice existed in ancient cultures. They knew that drumbeats could induce meditative states. They knew even then that they could induce different brainwave states.
Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch scientist observed this kind of synchronicity with clocks nearly 400 years ago in 1665. He noticed that all the pendulums in a single room would synchronize (but would swing exactly opposite each other). They all fell into the same wavelength, even when one was disrupted – it would fall back in tune with all the other pendulums.
Scientists never knew why until recently. They determined that sound waves are what are responsible.
This phenomenon has repercussions in biology when cells in the heart sync up to produce a heartbeat, or in economics, electronics and beyond.
To illustrate this point, take a look at this video where 32 metronomes all sync up that are started at different rates. It only takes about 1:55 for them all to sync up.
If you can, watch the whole thing. It’s actually pretty mesmerizing to watch – and notice how you feel as you watch, especially after all the metronomes sync up.
Science has advanced enough that you can re-create this phenomenon with your brain using headphones and brainwave sound technology. Headphones allow you to hear two different sound frequencies at the same time.
This is where binaural beats come in. Basically, sound at different wavelengths enters each ear and your ears adjust for the difference in frequency. This difference is what causes your brain to sync to that energy wavelength. Your brain interprets that difference as a wavelength – an extra wavelength, or a binaural beat.
For example, let’s say you listen to a sound frequency at 102 Hz in one ear and 106Â Hz in the other. The difference is 4 Hz.
The brain interprets that 4Hz as the separate beat.
If you look at the chart, theta waves fall into the 4 Hz wavelength which can induce a theta brainwaves state.
How’d you feel after watching that video? I’m willing to bet you weren’t thinking, “Okay, I’m going to get up and do aerobics now!” and more like, “Huh…I watched those metronomes all sync up in relaxed silence.”
After about a minute, you start hearing a rhythmic beat, even though not all the metronomes are lined up.
I don’t know what the exact beats per minute was once they all lined up, but I’m guessing it was around 4 – 4.5 beats per second. You can interpret those as wavelengths and 4 – 4.5 wavelengths per second as a theta wave.
Watch out…your brain has been entrained. 🙂
I created a brainwave chart to show the different frequencies and what they’re associated with.
Some sources have the Hz as slightly different for the various brainwave states, but overall, each brainwave state is characterized by different qualities.
My Early Experiences with Binaural Beats
Honestly, I wasn’t entirely sure that this technology worked. But, in Kelly Howell’s video (it has since been taken down on YouTube), I listened to it daily for about 4 weeks. It helped to induce a meditative theta wave state.
I wouldn’t say that I made breakthroughs in meditation, but I also didn’t know nearly as much about meditation back then, how you’re supposed to sit, and I certainly wasn’t good about keeping my mind focused. (Well…even now I still have trouble with that – but that’s normal.)
When I listened to the video, I’d sit in my chair at the computer, and fall asleep half the time. (Theta waves are that brain-state between being conscious and asleep – twilight sleep, if you will.) I’d let my mind wander and get caught up in all the things I wanted to be doing.
Still, as I listened (not watched) to the video, I would envision what sort of destiny I wanted for myself. This was back in 2012. I knew I wanted several things to happen: I wanted to move to a house closer to town (we were so far out and so isolated that if I stayed home for two weeks, it was entirely possible to not see another human being besides husby) and I wanted to be doing more creative work and providing myself with a better income.
I had some different ideas about how I’d actually realize those goals, but honestly, by mid 2015, all of those things happened.
The scientist in me could argue ’til the next blue moon as to whether this video had anything to do with it.
Since that time, I’d gotten better at regular meditation, I’d practiced mantras, created vision boards and finished my master’s degree. Something was going to change, doncha think?
But, this was my first experience with binaural beats. I kind of liked it.
I’d spoken with some friends who have listened to similar tracks and music. One friend said that she’d listened to a delta wave track and had some crazy dreams with some really good sleep.
Huh.
I haven’t listened to one, but I could imagine that.
Pure Focus
I decided that because I did like that first Kelly Howell video (which was on Youtube for free until they took it down – and, well, it’s a good argument for offering free items on the internet: it gets people interested in what you’re doing), I went over to the Brain Sync website and decided to try a gamma wave soundtrack called Pure Focus.
It’s an hour long and when I wanted to concentrate on something – especially early in the morning – I’d play this with headphones.
My phrase for it? Auditory caffeine.
Whoa.
Can I just say that I actually can’t listen to it every day? The ocean sounds are soothing, but the other sound frequencies in the background always seem to get me into a “caffeine buzzed” state, even though I don’t drink coffee. (The matcha tea I enjoy has its own caffeine, but is processed very differently.)
So…I became convinced that brainwave entrainment worked.
But I left it there.
I always sort of felt like technology didn’t really have much of a place in meditation, you know?
While this might be a bit of a “purist” philosophy, I always felt like my own sense of “being in tune with the world and with myself” was greater without using binaural beats than with them.
The Podcast That Is Making Me Try Again
As many of you know, I listen to podcasts on my way to work. I listen to everything from online business development to marketing to being an artist to self-publishing as an author.
(The incredible hours of education that I have given myself make my current one hour and ten minute commute quite worth it for the moment. All those recordings are what led to this website, truth be told.)
One podcast I listen to is the Unmistakable Creative. I happened upon an episode called, “The Keys to Personal and Professional Growth” with Salim Ismail. I didn’t really know who Salim was, but the episode content brought me back to binaural beats recently.
Salim talked about how it can take over a decade of regular meditation (I’m assuming he meant an hour a day!) to achieve the profound brainwave states that monks exhibit: those gamma states where they feel euphoric bliss, along with the relaxed theta states and the creative alpha states.
But, he mentioned how science has advanced so much that brainwave entrainment technology can shortcut the amount of time it takes.
It sort of turned me back onto the idea of binaural beats again.
Now, I will be the first to say that technology isn’t everything. And, to be sure, there’s more to life than just focusing on scientific studies.
To me, achieving these different brainwaves states organically is the most noble, humble and spiritual route one can undertake.
I think of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, and Mother Theresa who all used prayer and meditation to become the world-changing best version of themselves.
I’ve been meditating a long time, though.
What if I could help myself be better at it?
What if I could help myself be even more creative and innovative?
What if I could derive energy from some of these brainwave states?
What if I could do a little experiment to help my own meditative journey?
What if I could help myself grow even more in terms of personal and professional development?
My Meditation Experiment
I went back to Kelly Howell’s Brain Sync website (again, this is not an endorsement or affiliate; this is the one website I knew of where I could reliably purchase brainwave entrainment music and guided meditation).
I purchased the following four mp3 tracks:
- Deep Meditation
- Relieve Anxiety
- Clear Wave Creativity
- High Focus
Why those four in particular?
I’ll be honest: one of the reasons I started meditating so much is that my job is really stressful.
It’s also incredibly rewarding and I work with so many people to whom I might affect their lives.
It’s grant-funded (I have no idea if I’ll have a job after June 1 – we have to wait to hear the status of a new grant we’re applying for). I manage and schedule nearly 35 people each week. These college students all tutor and supervise anywhere from 35-50 elementary school children learning English each day.
I am also the liaison between four agencies to make sure we’re following all policies and procedures effectively. I plan field trips, fundraisers and parent nights. I have daily conversations with parents regarding their child’s successes and behaviors. Those are my main tasks, with smaller tasks all in place to pull off these larger ones.
Meditation has really helped me keep a level head and keep my stress in check with regard to all these activities. This is why I’m such a big advocate of it.
I meditate quite imperfectly, but I still reap so many benefits from it.
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Well…maybe not the whole world. I just love using a little hyperbole sometimes.
There are times, however, when I just can’t turn my brain off at night. Sometimes events from the day fill me with angst. So…I bought the Relieve Anxiety mp3 track.
I do want to continue my spiritual meditation practice. Thus, I got the Deep Meditation track.
Since I do a lot of drawing, writing, coloring and painting, the creative tracks might serve me well. In fact, as I type this, I’m listening to the Clear Wave Creativity track. And, actually, I’m feeling like I’m plugging right along with this post.
I haven’t tried the High Focus track just yet. If it’s anything like the Pure Focus one, I will reserve that for when my energy is feeling a little low. You really do get a buzz from it.
The Experiment Outline
- Listen daily
- Listen for 8 weeks
- Document
- Interpret results
Each track that I purchased came with instructions.
The Deep Meditation instructions say to listen daily for 6-8 weeks to experience “untold depths of inner peace” and “the energy centers in your body are opened and energized,” and the “results are profound.” You’ll have an “improved ability to concentrate, increased creativity, greater clarity of thought, enhanced access to emotions and heightened states of well being.”
The Relieve Anxiety instructions say to “ideally listen before bedtime”. This mp3 has theta waves and subliminal messaging, as well. Messages like, “My peace of mind is sacred, sacrosanct, and blessed,” and “Right here, right now, all is well,” are just two of the many subliminal messages. The theta waves make your brain slow down and because you can’t really hear the subliminal messages, your conscious mind can’t block them.
I have no idea if these statements are really true or not. I’m a bit skeptical, but I’m definitely very open to it.
So here’s what I’m going to do:
Deep Meditation:
Since the Deep Meditation instructions suggest 6-8 weeks of daily listening, I will listen every day for the next eight weeks.
I’ll listen in the mornings when I first wake up and before doing any other activity. It uses “Window Frequencies” that were scientifically developed to induce “Hemispheric Synchronization.”
I’m not sure if that means this mp3 has theta waves or alpha waves or both, or what really happens with hemispheric synchronization, but I find it all very interesting.
Relieve Anxiety:
The Relieve Anxiety instructions do not have a suggested length of time to listen, but to eliminate the variable of different time lengths, I will also listen to that for eight weeks. (The other sets of instructions I downloaded suggest anywhere from 4-8 weeks of daily listening, so I figure that will apply here, too.)
I’ll listen to this before bed, preferably before I get so tired that I’ll immediately fall asleep.
There are a few things to keep in mind with this experiment:
- I don’t usually meditate one hour per day. More recently, I do 30-40 minutes. So…getting in another half hour at night in my already-busy schedule is going to be interesting.
- Meditating on one’s own one hour per day is said to have quite noticeable benefits even without brainwave entrainment.
- This is not an entirely scientific experiment. It’s more of a “holistic” approach.
- I will listen to the creativity tracks any time I’d like for work or for other creative tasks.
Reporting and Updates
I’m looking forward to this. I’m not sure in what ways I’ll really change.
I will keep a log of short notes after each session to record how I feel or what happened. I figure if I can document my progress, I might notice patterns in what I’m feeling/thinking/doing.
I’ll use standard meditation position: spine straight wth legs crossed and hands cupped together on my lap.
I hope to improve my meditation and insight abilities. I also hope to improve my own ability to garner greater clarity and creativity.
Perhaps everything will seem the same after eight weeks. Because I have meditated over a long period of time, will I really see more benefit? That is an interesting question.
It’ll also be interesting to see if you, the reader, notice any differences in my writing or in the ideas with which I use for different posts. And if so, might you try it, too? Have you tried brainwave entrainment?
I wonder if I’ll be more efficient. More compassionate. More innovative.
I do not intend to do this indefinitely – just for eight weeks as the instructions suggest.
I also hope that it will help me speed along my own meditation practice to help me clear my mind better and/or get into a meditative state more effectively.
I’m not as interested in the “shortcut” idea to better meditation, though if it works and I’m a better meditator after this, I’ll let you know.
So, we’ll see.
I will report back to you in 8 weeks. I officially started on Saturday, Jan. 7th. I will conclude on Saturday, March 4 and report you to all on Monday, March 6, 2017.
Happy meditating!
Sources:
http://www.brainsync.com/brainlab/brain-wave-chart-.html
Deep Meditation instruction PDF (obtained once I purchased from the Brain Sync website)
Relieve Anxiety instruction PDF (also obtained once I purchased the mp3 from the Brain Sync website)
About Binaural Beats Meditation
OK, I taught both sound and light waves in 8th grade science years back, but never would have thought to incorporate waves into meditation in all honesty. I can’t wait to see your findings and seriously you blew my mind with this day! Happy Monday and wishing you a lovely start to this week now <3
Janine – haha, you know, I could see that! I bet you were a phenomenal science and math teacher. 🙂 Haha…you’re awesome, sweet friend! I am looking forward to seeing how this works. Have a lovely start to your week, too. Sending you hugs! xo
Well I’ll be interested in the results, Lil Sis! It’s a bit beyond me, but supporting your efforts is not. 🙂 Hugs from Olympia!
Big Bro – haha, it’s going to be interesting, but I’m up for the challenge. I’ll document some “in progress” results in my January newsletter. Hugs from NC!
I love how passionate and dedicated you are to growth, experimenting and meditation. I’ve tried a few brain synch type tapes, but never felt much difference. Might be I didn’t stick with them long enough. I would probably listen to music on the hour drive! 🙂 Thanks for sharing your passion and learning Cynthia. May peace fill your mind and heart.
Brad – haha, I got so sick of music and later NPR (though I love to listen to both when I don’t have to listen to them alll the time) that when I discovered I could hook my phone into my car and listen to podcasts, everything changed. Haha. As far as the brainwave stuff…yeah…it’s interesting. Some people swear by this and really get great benefit from it, so I thought I’d try my own little experiment. I’m so interested to see what’ll happen. Thanks for your thoughts and insights.
I’ll be curious to see how it goes for you with the brainwave approach. blessings…
Blessings to you, Brad. I’ll letcha know. 🙂
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…oh, yeah…insight! lol
I liked seeing the word ‘entrainment’. It takes back a number of years. Whenever the occasion arose to be in the midst of a crowd of people (indoors) I would find myself listening to the overall sound of multiple conversations. At one point it struck me that the volume (of the overall sound) rose and fell in a rhythmic manner. Then I started listening closer and I realized that the suddenness of a drop in volume would happen simultaneously throughout the room. Too sharp a drop off for people to be taking their cues from those closest to them.
Sometime in the next few months, totally by chance, I read an article that described something they referred to as micro-entrainment. Which, apparently,s was the real world term for what I’d noticed in those rooms.
Thats what I like abut your site, not just the techniques and insights, but the words. (I sometimes refer to these as ‘wood tools’, if only because some are so much more appropriate to signify the concepts that tend to defy everyday language.)
…. now that I think of it, I’m sticking with ‘cool’.
Clark – Haha, I’ve noticed that you like coining words – and that it’s a clark-like worldview trait. I like words, too. You’ve probably heard of the word, “logophile” which is someone who likes the study of, and interested by, words. (I had to look that up, lol.)
In any case, you know, I can honestly say that I’ve noticed that, too. The “din” of the conversation and how it seems to pulse: with louder noise and then softer noise. And that we’re all subject to micro-entrainment.
I do love that word: entrainment. For longer than I care to admit, I thought it was “entertainment.” My brain was smashing that word together and I never had any idea until I was looking up binaural beats and realized it was “entrainment.” LOL
And thank YOU for your insights. 🙂
Where do I begin to explain, how wonderful I think this post is.. And what you are doing to develop further your skills in meditation.
I have long understood the connection between sound waves and the brain.. Perhaps ‘understood’ is not the right word, lol .. I do not understand it.. But I know it works..
I have always been a big fan of the late Stuart Wildes books and within some of them he would also touch upon exploring this method of meditation.. And he said he would often us the metronomes, and this frequency.. He said he would use this sparingly, but when he wanted to travel further into other dimensions and realities..
He spent many years learning from Monks and the Native American Indians..
I have several CD’s too.. Which I have not played in a long while which use sound to enhance the states of mind and meditation..
I just loved the video and watched in awe as the ones at the back which were swung first were the first ones to come into line and in sync..
I often use the sound of waves and I also have a lovely CD of whale song.. Which to me takes me beyond myself within the here and now..
We are all of us ‘Vibration’ we are here held within this reality of Earth on this material plane as we vibrate within a certain frequency.. Other realms are not always way out there.. Somewhere in space.. But could and possibly are vibrating right in and around and through us..
But because we are held within one vibration and they another we do not see them.. Which is why I find Orbs so fascinating.. ( another conversation all together lol )
I am reminded of how in the bible it said.. In the Beginning was the Word. And the word was with God.. The word to me means sound.. There is such a lot we do not know.. And science is only just now scratching at the surface of such knowledge..
And its exciting to think that they are discovering how our brain waves are the tools for our manifesting.. For we hold within our intent.. ( which is a vibration ) and we draw that vibration to us.. Like attracts like.. Like those metronomes which all started out separate.. All of them eventually becoming ONE..
We are all like them.. A little out of Sync.. Each playing our own beat, and melody.. Until we merge within one another’s thinking.. And to me that vibration is LOVE.. When we all get that same tune within our hearts.. We will then all beat as One.. And become united within the Source.. Of ONENESS..
You have given me lots more to think about here Cynthia.. And I love the way you are exploring and using these tools to enhance and bring knowledge not only through your own learning and experimenting and experience.. But how you are sharing your journey with us all each step along the way..
You are awesome..
Love and Blessings
Sue xxx
Sue – what an incredible comment!
First, it shows how avant garde (and in touch with your inner self) you are. I had initially and nonchalantly dismissed brain and sound wave stuff. I knew it had a role, and I believed that sound waves influenced things, but I never had any idea to the degree with which it can influence things. It’s pretty amazing. I’m absolutely convinced – now being in my 6th day of using binaural beats for one hour a day – it works and it’s phenomenal. I’m keeping notes of my little self-discoveries and observations as I do this, but I can say that I “feel the influence” of those binaural beats.
And I really need to look into those Stuart Wilde books. I’m reading one right now that is deeply moving called “The Untethered Soul” and continues to add to my “vocabulary and thoughts” regarding meditation – I really want to write a post on the profound books I’ve encountered in the last few years that have helped me so much on my journey. And I completely agree: I want to complete my “experiment” but then go back to silent, simple “chan-like” meditation. I admit I’m looking forward to seeing how this will change that – though I know I shouldn’t be attached to outcomes here. Hehe.
That metronome video? I think I watched it four or five times – even while writing this post. Just listening to it is calming and very mesmerizing and intriguing.
A CD of whale song? I love listening to that. I had never heard it before until – I know this is ironic – I was watching Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and there’s a whole scene about Humpback Whales and their beautiful song – which is what ultimately saves the world. I was already in love the first time I heard that, but wow! A CD of whale song has to be so peaceful!
When you speak of vibration…YES!! I remember being in a physics class in high school and my teacher talked about how EVERYTHING is energy. And empty space. But that energy waves – sound, light, etc. – affect everything around them. Which then led me to a profound realization probably ten years later: if everything is energy, then we are all energy and we represent a wavelength. The universe represents a certain energy/wavelength and I can sync up to it. (I was in the shower – when I often get these profound thoughts – when I was thinking about this and it honestly changed everything: what ‘religion’ I believed and how I saw and thought about life.) I don’t know really what made me think that or how exactly I came up with that – maybe I’d heard it before – but…I just remember thinking that it was profound. How everything is energy and how everything HAS to be related because energy affects energy.
I think the ancients and Native Americans who were so in tune with energy and vibration and were operating on intuition: they were the ones who knew. Thousands of years ago, they were the ones who had it figured out. It’s crazy to think that only now is science just beginning to catch up.
And that LIKE attracts LIKE! This is another profound statement: it’s synchronization!!
And the love frequency. We should all be so lucky to sync up to that. To ONENESS.
Ah…thank you for your thoughts. I’m so glad you enjoyed this and found things to think about. 🙂 As for me, I think it’s written into my DNA to explore…constantly…that place within so that I can help others AND me tune into the love frequency.
You are awesome, as well. Thank you for your many wonderful thoughts – I just have such fun reading them and thinking about the wonderful things you say. xo Blissful blessings, sweet Sue!
I am happy my thoughts got you thinking even further and that teacher was right.. We are ALL of us Energy and as Energy we can not die.. only be transformed..
I have written posts about Energy before… I should perhaps try to find one.. 🙂 And perhaps repost one.. as The Energies now are affecting many.. Yet people are not realizing how they are all being affected by it.
Thank you for sharing all of that with me.. Loved your reply..
Love and Blessings and Have a great week.. I am spending more time this week doing a painting..
Hugs Sue xxx
Sue – Indeed. Energy: transformed. Which then leads me to thoughts of transformation. 🙂 I should love to read more of your thoughts on energy. Especially now – you’re right. With the pending inauguration of a controversial person, there is such an energy on this side of the pond for people who want to spread love and hope and light. And those of us who recognize that can help spread it.
I just love your comments, feedback, insights and ideas. You are a light in my life, dear Sue! Love and blessings to you and have a great week, as well!
This is very interesting. I think I have read about these sound meditations before, but the programs I read about were quite expensive so I didn’t buy them. I took at look at the Brain Sync website and these are much more affordable, so I’ll be interested to read how you get on with them. Could be tempted if you get good results! I’m also tempted by the sleep phones if I can find them in the UK. My husband snores loudly and I have tinnitus so they might help with both.
I remember reading about the different brain waves years ago and I think I’m right in saying that children up the age of 6 (or between 2 and 6) mainly have theta waves and this is why they absorb so much of their carer’s behaviours and beliefs. According to what I read, this is why audio tracks with positive affirmations often use theta waves. The theory is we are more likely to absorb them. So that fits with the tracks you are listening to. I must admit, I was always a bit skeptical, partly because years ago I used to have a lot of tapes with various supposedly soothing tracks (one called “Sleep like a baby” which my husband said meant I’d wake every 2 hours crying! 🙂 ) Overall, they didn’t do a huge lot for me, but it’s a long time ago so they probably didn’t include brain wave technology. So I will be especially interested to see how you get on.
I’m also intrigued that these binaural beats could effectively short cut the time it takes for your brain to reach a meditative state. I’m not sure if I think this is good or not. The releasing process I use can definitely bring states of bliss quite rapidly but you are always in control and I’m wondering if that’s the case with these audios? Presumably they have been tested and found safe for anyone to use?
All in all, very interesting post! Thanks for all the information.
Yvonne – I love your comment! And yes…I have bought more brainwave tracks more recently because of folks (at least on podcasts and in various places on the internet) advocating their virtues.
I’m on Day 8 of listening to these tracks now and I jot down little notes. Little things are happening – that I can perceive. It’s not a huge change and it’s definitely subtle.
That makes total sense about children living in a theta state: that would support why we don’t have many memories as very young children as theta states are like being in a light sleep. And yes, I’ve read that, too: that when we’re in a theta state, the conscious mind can’t interfere with judgmental thoughts and that’s where subliminal (positive affirmations) messaging comes in.
And, like you, I was a bit skeptical, as well. I’m not sure what the results will be, or if I will experience anything profound. But…that’s what I aim to find out. 🙂
And I’m also interested to see if the binaural beats cut short the time: I’m experiencing some curious things like feeling myself going into a more relaxed state, but the “thinking part of me” will remain more active. Over time, I wonder if that will change.
Last night, I thought a spider landed on my hand (it was my headphone cord) and though I was in a blissful meditation, I immediately “hopped out” to investigate if there was a rogue spider on my hand. Incidentally, it was right at the end of the meditation track, so while I was jolted out of my meditation, I was quite aware of what was going on.
To that end, I admit I hadn’t thought about testing and safety with regard to these – if it’s good for the brain to be artificially “moved” into another state. I can say that from what I have experienced so far, it’s been pretty positive. But I’ll have to do some research to see what’s out there. 🙂
Thanks, Yvonne, for your insights! I appreciate you!
Like wise dear Cynthia.. You light up my world too 🙂
Sue – and like two candles, the flames are twice as bright and make twice the difference. xx
What a beautiful thing to say Cynthia.. xx Many thanks, and I hope your week is going well.. x <3
Aww, thank you, Sue! It is!! I’m going to have to write about it in next week’s post, but…let’s just say that things have fallen together in a very beautiful way and I’m going to Washington, DC to march for the Women’s March. 🙂
Wonderful you are walking in unison with the Women’s march.. 🙂 Bravo.. xxx