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Brainwave Entrainment Why You Should Care About Daydreaming

In elementary school Mrs. Crawford yelled at me, “HB – stop daydreaming and pay attention to your test questions.” She woke me up.

In college Dr. Abbot screamed out, “Mr. Wechsler – stop mind-wandering, and join the economics class.”

Later in Law School Professor Reich hollered out, “Herr Wechsler, arouse yourself from the Twilight-Zone or leave my torts class.”

It took decades for science to prove that we do our most original (creative) thinking during business hours – when we have zoned-out and are daydreaming.

Science

Fact: Homo sapiens spend up to 66% of their waking hours in Beta consciousness, awake and active with our brain ripping at 13-40 cycles per second. Beta produces an internal sense of alertness, and receives input from all five gross senses, long-term and working memory, uses logic, linear and organized thinking.

It’s our conscious ego at work, with a little help from its friend – nonconsciousness.

Fact: humans spend up to 33% of their waking hours DayDreaming in the Twilight zone. Important: our brain cycles between 8-12 cycles per second in Alpha and 4-8 cps in Theta. Wait. Alpha and Theta are good at inspiration, visualization, and intuition.

They shut out Beta consciousness to receive nonverbal information from our right nonconscious hemisphere.

Theta

These Theta brainwaves control our deep inward thoughts (metaphors and complex ideas). What else? Our ability for high mental concentration, visualizations and intuition is Theta based. It’s where we get our creativity and imagination.

Who says? Professor K. Christoff, University of British Columbia

What’s the difference between Mind-Wandering, Daydreaming, Hypnagogia and the Twilight-Zone? Answer: nothing, they are the same. They are part of the human condition and its standard mental processes.

Professor Kalina Christoff stands for Mind-Wandering, with or without conscious awareness. Her original research was the first on spontaneous thought processes. She used fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imagery) to reveal the default network and executive brain system causing mind-wandering. So what?

It is published by the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences (5.13.2009) to show that one-third of our waking hours – we are zoned-out in Alpha or Theta.

We are not paying attention, but our Nonconsciousness (right-hemisphere of the brain) is making new connections with creativity and imagination with stuff we learned during Beta alertness. It’s not sleeping, just integrating and synchronizing new ideas to solve old challenges. Well, maybe a snooze or two in between.

Edison used his nonconsciousness (daydreaming/mind-wandering) to invent the electric light, movies and the phonograph. He took a 20-minute daily snooze specifically to daydream for inventions.

So What

You can intentionally daydream solutions to your toughest challenges. Allocate 20-minutes without interruption.

1. Sit with your eyes closed.
2. Place your outstretched fingers of both hands parallel to your bellybutton (both sides of your navel).
3. Take 5 deep, slow diaphragmatic breaths to oxygenate your brain.
4. Repeat aloud (whisper) the problem you wish to solve.
5. Picture mentally your optimal outcome. Examples: giving a great presentation, interviewing well, or testing in the top ten-percentile.
6. To go deeply, mumble the words to Bingo! “There was a farmer who own a dog and Bingo was his name.”

(Bingo! distracts your left-conscious brain and permits your right-nonconscious brain to signal nonverbally with original insights.)

Set an alarm clock for 20-minutes to end the daydream. Immediately write or type whatever you just visualized no matter how trivial appearing. What you visualized after analysis is 90% relevant to solving your problems.

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Professor Christoff discovered a second neural network was mentally triggered to discover answers to complex problems. It is part of our Executive brain function and unites left and right brains. It uses Semantic memory (knowledge) and nonconscious (intuition) memory to solve your problems.

This National Academy of Sciences article has been cited frequently. Meaning

Our brain retains information by recalling its meaning – not its sound or visualization. When we learn a new skill (called a procedural memory), it is different than learning new information (called Semantic Memory).

Skills like typing or surfing the Internet are right-brain functions. They are non-verbal and nonconscious. When you learned to type and became excellent at it, you recall finger positions by triggered both Pattern Recognition and Spatial learning.

To learn new skills rapidly, do not seek meaning, (why it works) that is second stage thinking. People who fail to learn procedural skills like typing, driving or riding a bike are perfectionists and left-brain dominant.

Failure is caused by a conflict between left and right brain functions. Simultaneously learning to perfect the skill and understanding why it works causes cognitive dissonance known as brain-stress.

First learn to do it, later research the science of learning about your specific strategy schemas. Combining the two causes slow learning.

Speed Reading

Students are concerned with understanding how they can read three-times faster without loss of comprehension and use their left conscious brain to intrude on mastering the skill itself. The skill is a right-brain nonconscious product.

The secret is letting go of analysis. In fact the reason they fail is called Analysis-Paralysis. In typing or speed reading, expertise requires practice and experience, not intellectualizing. Consider golf, tennis or pitching or kicking a ball.

Do not over-think the skill, just seek your Pattern Recognition. Micromanaging causes choking, tension and stress.

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

This ?requency following?response of brainwave entrainment can be seen in action with those prone to epilepsy. If a strobe flashes at their seizure frequency, the brain will ?ntrain?to the flashing light, resulting in a seizure.

On the positive side, this same mechanism is commonly used to induce many brainwave states; such as a trance, enhanced focus, relaxation, meditation or sleep induction. The brainwave entrainment effectively pushes the entire brain into a certain state.

Brainwave entrainment works for almost everyone. It is a great way to lead your mind into states that you might usually have difficulty reaching, allowing you to experience what those states feel like.

THE HYPE
There is a lot of marketing hype around brainwave entrainment. It is sold with promises of increasing IQ, promoting weight loss, ?ind-tripping? enhancing creativity, concentration, inducing spiritual states and more.

While these claims are not entirely true, they are not altogether false either. In practice, the claims are based on an overly-simplistic view of how the brain and the brainwaves function.
THE RUB
People are very seldom deficient in a certain brainwave type in all areas of their brain. Usually the distribution is much spottier, with an excess in one area and a deficiency in another.

We are all different, especially when it comes to the distribution of our brainwaves. Boosting a certain brainwave state may be beneficial for one person, and emotionally uncomfortable for another. Without knowing each person? starting position, entrainment can be rather ?it and miss?

If brainwave entrainment leaves you with unwanted side-effects (see below) or discomfort, you?e probably encouraging a range of brainwaves that are already excessive in some area of your brain. The way around this is to get a brain map to see what your brain? strengths and weaknesses are, and see what (if any) brainwaves could use some encouragement.

brain waves Listening-Communicating With the Unborn Child

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The energy of the soul of the child coming into the parents’ combined energy field usually is similar in many ways to the parents’ field. The soul of the child does also have his own uniqueness.

There are many ways to prepare the parents bodies and other energetic fields for the arrival of a new being.

Depending on one’s spiritual perspective and meditation and cleansing can be done for the year before conception to help get ready and raise and improve one’s energy.

A diet of healthful foods with lots of green and red vegetables, and fruits, nuts and whole grains and finding ways to relief stress and live more harmoniously is thought to help prepare the way for the child.

Talking and teaching the child while he/she while is growing in the womb can increase the connection between child and parents. Playing music has been shown to have an effect on the child. The child’s choices in food, music and activity can strongly influence what the mother eats, type of music she listens to and even influence mom’s digestive upsets during pregnancy.

Before birth prepare the abdominal muscles for the birth and coach the child if one senses a reluctance to come through the birth canal. Surrounded the child with light with light. Tell him/her you are waiting and want to love him/her even more then you do now. Tell the child the birth will be short as possible and he/she will be fine.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Types of meditation
Loving-kindness meditation. With the many types of meditation to try, there should be one to suit most individuals. …
Body scan or progressive relaxation. …
Mindfulness meditation. …
Breath awareness meditation. …
Kundalini yoga. …
Zen meditation. …
Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is a habitual process of training your mind to focus and redirect your thoughts. You can use it to increase awareness of yourself and your surroundings. Many people think of it as a way to reduce stress and develop concentration.
Basic meditation music simply provides a way for an individual to go deeper with their meditation by adding a new layer to their experience. … Unlike many other music forms, the binaural beats work with the brain to develop a frequency most associated with relaxation.

meditation music Listen to Relaxation Music to Boost Your Health and Rejuvenate Your Mind

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Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

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Relaxation music is an effective tool for relaxing a person’s body, mind and spirit. A stressed professional can easily benefit from enjoying some soothing music after a hectic workday at the office. Relaxation music affects our minds significantly, possibly more than science will ever know. When you listen deeply to music, your mind gets activated and in return releasing endorphins into your blood stream. Since the endorphins boost your levels, you will begin to feel really feel relaxed, centered and calm. Your physical body is also affected by music. If you could listen to your heart beat with a stethoscope, you would find that your heartbeat increases or decelerates based on the timing and beats of the music. Listening to relaxation music your heart will decrease, whilst listening to heavy metal, you will find a sharp increase in your heart beat.

The next time you return home after a stressful day, why not light a candle and treat yourself to a warm bubble bath with some soothing, relaxation music playing in the background. As you soak and soothe your tired body in the bathtub, close your eyes. You will soon feel revitalized.

Maybe you are a student and have trouble focusing on studies before a final examination. If this is the case, listen with headphones to some brainwave entrainment music or binaural beats. This music alone will not only relax you, but will assist you to study and even retain your focus. There are plenty of soundtracks on the World Wide Web with this type of healing relaxation music.

If you have sleep problems during the night, try listening to music that is aimed specifically to assist with sleep issues. Light some incense or use aromatherapy to compliment the music. (Please remember to never to use a naked flame unattended!) The combination of healing relaxed music and aromatherapy (lavender is great to help you to sleep – a few drops on your pillow works wonders), will have you sleeping in no time at all.

It has even been proven by scientific research that relaxation music can assist with the acceleration of recovery from an illness or particular injury. This is not just a placebo effect that we are speaking of here, this has been proven time and time again. Often in hospitals they play relaxation music whilst the mother is giving birth – not only does this help to relax the mother, but imagine how beneficial this is for the newborn baby coming into the world with beautiful sounds of relaxation music playing nearby.

It has been noted that people with high blood pressure have seen dramatic improvements in listening to brainwave entrainment, binaural beats and other forms of meditative music. Indeed, some have even reported to have come off their medications completely! No more high blood pressure.

Listening to soothing music does indeed boost your health and can rejuvenate your mind. It’s surely worth a try. It costs you little and is 100% natural. Give it a go and let us know how you’ve fared.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

sleep meditation Notes From the Jungle – Coming Home to Rosa Blanca

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Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

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With my time in Puerto Viejo coming to an end, I arranged to spend a night in San Jose before traveling to the Pacific coast of the country. In Costa Rica travel distances can be extremely misleading. Due to poor road conditions in many areas with the rainy season creating further havoc it is necessary to plan your time accordingly. Furthermore, it is not uncommon for local ticos to underestimate travel times by an hour or more leaving tourists with a distorted perspective. There is no harm intended here; it is most likely due to the slower pace of this culture and the ticos’ generally relaxed attitude about time.

My next destination is a small surfing village called Playa Nosara, located in a province called Guanacaste. Travel to this section of the country can be quite challenging in the rainy season due to the horrific driving conditions, where muddy potholes and small rivers leave the roads virtually inaccessible to larger tourist vehicles. I know from prior experience that the public bus system in Costa Rica can be brutal with frequent stops at every corner. I was not prepared to spend the day on a hot bus with live chickens and screaming babies, so I arranged through my hotel in San Jose for a private driver to transport me to Nosara.

Finca Rosa Blanca is an exquisite family run private estate situated in the hills of the central valley on acres of coffee plantations. Located approximately 15 minutes outside of San Jose, the property is stunning, the night air is cool and crisp and the rolling green mountains fade behind silvery gray clouds. The staff is kind, attentive and hospitable. In the evening a roaring fire burned in a stone fireplace in the cozy dining room while the lights of San Jose twinkled against the distant mountain range.

Rosa Blanca has the warm welcoming feeling of a private home .There are horse stables and a large greenhouse where local organic vegetables are grown. Separate buildings house a full service day spa, main guest house, and private bungalows. During the day guests can tour the coffee plantations, relax in the outdoor Jacuzzi, swim in the peaceful lagoon style swimming pool, access free internet and wireless service in the private office center, take a guided horseback ride through the surrounding hills or simply relax, walk the beautiful grounds and enjoy the breathtaking views.

At Rosa Blanca I dined outdoors on the patio with a stunning view of the distant mountain range and the twinkling lights of San Jose. Dinner at Rosa Blanca consists of four courses for a fixed price of $35. The portions are generous and the cuisine is light, healthy and delicious. The kickoff to my four course indulgence was a bowl of silky black bean soup. With a delicate topping of crème fraiche, the soup was light and soothing with a slight kick and a refreshing hint of cilantro. The warm goat cheese salad was superb. The thin slivers of cheese were encrusted in a delicate breading and literally melted in my mouth, complimenting the earthy flavor of the crisp field greens and tangy/sweet vinaigrette dressing.

The main course consisted of four jumbo shrimp topped with sea bass and surrounded by a colorful medley of organic vegetables grown in Rosa’s own gardens. My glass of merlot provided the perfect mellow accompaniment to a wonderfully satisfying meal on a cool night following a long day of travel. Although I was too full to consume the rich chocolate flan dessert that awaited me, I did not have the uncomfortable sensation of a meal loaded with butter, grease or heavy sauces. Nonetheless, I resigned myself to hitting the treadmill and dusting off my yoga mat following my return to Charleston.

After a long day of travel and frustrating logistical challenges to overcome, I was eager to retire to my beautiful room for a hot shower and a decent night sleep. My room at Rosa Blanca was spacious and inviting; the large windows overlooked an outdoor deck with a panoramic view of the surrounding acres of coffee plantations and distant mountain range. The delicate white curtains danced in the cool night breeze. The rooms at Rosa Blanca are designed with artistic flair; each has distinct features and a special theme with a name to match. For example in Los Aves, meaning birds, there is a tropical bird scene hand painted on the bathroom wall. My room had a huge bathtub covered in Spanish tile and a separate relaxation/meditation room with large windows and a long cushioned bench for lounging or reading.

There was plenty of hot water and a generous supply of biodegradable shampoos, conditioners, moisturizers and soaps in my stylish, immaculately clean bathroom. After a rejuvenating shower I felt genuinely clean for the first time since leaving Charleston. This was a welcome change after a week spent covered in Puerto Viejo grime- a combination of thick humidity, perspiration, mud and mosquito repellant. In Puerto Viejo it rained every day, and nothing, I mean nothing, ever dried. When I unzipped my backpack in my room at Rosa Blanca, I swore I detected a wave of the familiar Puerto Viejo scent- something akin to incense burning hippie backpackers. I fell into bed exhausted, smelling of citrus mint soap and talcum powder. The king bed at Rosa Blanca was so plush and luxurious and the high thread count sheets so crisp and inviting, I felt as if I were sleeping on a cloud.

Breakfasts at Rosa Blanca are hearty, delicious and complimentary for hotel guests. Rosa Blanca has all the qualities one would seek in a five star resort; fabulous cuisine, aesthetic detail, beautiful grounds, breathtaking views and a highly attentive staff. Allan at the reception desk and Shirley, the general manager, were extremely patient and reassuring as I struggled through my many travel related questions and challenges. Glenn and Terri Jampol, the owners of the hotel, are originally from California but now maintain Costa Rican citizenship. It is clear that Rosa Blanca is near and dear to both of their hearts, as Glenn’s late mother envisioned and designed the place, and nurtured the hotel through its infancy. Their two daughters grew up at Rosa Blanca, surrounded by their beloved dogs, cats, horses, friends and family. Both Glenn and Terri have traveled extensively and offer a wealth of information on Central America. They clearly enjoy dining and mingling with their guests over fine wine and cuisine, sharing many laughs and candid stories of how two former laid back Berkeley students decided to a build life in Costa Rica.

I was delighted to experience a surprise Cimarrona performance (local music group) during my stay at Rosa Blanca. In the midst of dinner Terri rose from her seat and started dancing, encouraging all the guests and employees in the dining room to join her in a joyful explosion of song and dance. Within minutes every person in the room was dancing; feet were stomping, hands were clapping and the previously quiet dining room was transformed into a celebration of music and life.

If you travel through Costa Rica, it would be shame to pass through San Jose without a stay at Rosa Blanca. It is the perfect home base for resting and rejuvenating, as many popular tourist destinations in Costa Rica require a transfer through San Jose. If you are interested in taking a tour of the coffee plantations, visiting a volcano or scheduling a horseback riding adventure, be sure to contact the Rosa Blanca staff ahead of time. Allan, Barbara or Shirley will be happy to assist you. Should you decide to hire a private guide to transport you around the local area or even on a longer journey, Manolo and Jose are wonderful, reliable guides and both men speak fluent English.

Jose and his beautiful little girl Catalina escorted me from San Jose to Playa Nosara, and I could not have felt more safe or comfortable had I traveled alongside a dear friend. Jose is one of the kindest souls I encountered during my time in Costa Rica. I learned many lessons from Jose through his strong family values and simplistic approach to life. Jose explained that in his small town on the outskirts of San Jose, most people live in close proximity to their extended family members, allowing for a solid network of social/emotional support. Jose’s children have never been left with a babysitter, as their grandparents all live within a five mile radius and participate closely in the childrearing process. According to Jose, this is the norm in Costa Rica.

Jose stated that he does not know any child with a diagnosis of ADHD or a prescription for stimulant medication, and he attributed this striking cultural variation to the highly attentive parenting style common in tico families. Jose shared that one of his siblings experienced a messy divorce, and the negative impact on the children involved was quite notable and disturbing. This is not the case in his family, Jose explained, as his wife is always available to help Catalina with her homework after school and ensure that the work is completed. In the rare event that a babysitter is needed, there is always a grandparent, aunt or uncle in close proximity, readily available to provide childcare. Jose explained that in his town life revolves around the family; close relatives fulfill not only essential roles but social/recreational needs as well.

Jose stated that his birthday is tomorrow, and he is very excited to have the day off from work. “Are you planning anything special?” I inquired. “Yes,” Jose replied. “We are planning a family barbeque”. “Are you expecting many guests”? I inquired. “No”, Jose replied, “it is just my wife and children, and I would not want it any other way.”
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

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Meditation music is music performed to aid in the practice of meditation. It can have a specific religious content, but also more recently has been associated with modern composers who use meditation techniques in their process of composition, or who compose such music with no particular religious group as a focus.

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Wellness is the ultimate state that one deserves to have. Everyone aims for a blossoming career, healthy body, peaceful family and stress-free lifestyle. But what comes challenging is that life is full of unexpected trials that must be surpassed. Freeing the mind from all the stressful situations that come along is something to master. Methods of attaining a healthy lifestyle come in various approaches such as attending to nutritional seminars, doing workout routines and eating right kinds of foods. In the modern times, free hypnosis online is taught to those who want the lighter approach in achieving good health and peaceful mind.

Strategies in free hypnosis online such as hearing some relaxation music, thinking without worries and meditation of some sort are taught step by step on fitness sites. If you are just eager to find a good web page that imparts good information about hypnosis, you’ll learn that it is beneficial in all angles. Before you attempt into doing hypnosis as part of your fitness routines, you might as well put your goals in black and white. Ask yourself questions that relate to the things you want to achieve and areas you want to straighten out or modify for the better. You have to make sure that your objectives are realistic, measurable and concentrated so that you can attain them easier without getting defocused.

As you hypnotize, you must make sure what kind of music to play on the background. Being guided with the appropriate lines to utter is also pointed out as significant aspect in free hypnosis online. You might want to jot down a script to say when meditating or hypnotizing. In hypnosis, it is important that you employ a positive thinking and utter optimistic goals. You can even express the same visions in various means in order to reinforce yourself and have them sink into your subconscious. Having an established vision why you are undertaking hypnosis is necessary. As you are on your way of doing it, it’s much more appropriate to create images and visualize you want to take place in the future. As they say, the law of attraction is powerful in that the universe can conspire with destiny to make your goals happen.

Your hypnosis session must begin with a relaxed voice and gradual pacing. Your venue must be free from any distraction as your 100% focus is entailed in this mind-freeing activity. Free hypnosis online suggests that you ought to allow yourself to let loose of negative vibes and be comfortable as you breathe during hypnosis. This fitness approach is not the moment for you to worry about anything or analyze the process. It’s the time when you are permitting your mind and nerves to calm down.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Brainwave Entrainment Quantum Mind Power Review

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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Quantum Mind Power is said to be the first ever brainwave entrainment program that can assist you to achieve your self-development goals easily and effortlessly. But does Quantum Mind Power really deliver what it promises or is it just another scam?

Quantum Mind Power is a set of audio recordings that claimed to be able to influence your brainwaves patterns so that they will work within a specific range of frequency that you desire. There are basically four types of brainwave frequency; beta, alpha, theta and delta. These brainwave patterns are very essential for your well-being and you cannot not going through them every single day. Besides, each of them consists a certain frame of cognitive ability that you can use or exploit (mind hack) to improve your mental abilities. For example, changing your bad habits in the alpha level.

Each quantum mind power track is embedded with either isochronic or monaural tones that can help you to control your brainwave patterns and tune them into the level that you intended. By tuning the mind into the right level, you will be able to achieve much greater things than before. This is the ‘something’ that has been missing from most traditional self-help materials.

Using this program can help improve your abilities in areas such as:

reduce stress levels
cure insomnia problem (mild and heavy)
better focus
stretch your creativity to the next level
enhance your problem solving skills
increase your confidence
and more

However, you must be aware that quantum mind program is not a magic pill for success. You can’t expecting immediate and positive result by using it once in a while. This is an on-going training program that was created to build your mental muscle. I believe that most people have been misled by this simple fact.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

relaxing music Writing Your Life Story – Getting Started

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So, how do you get started on this seemingly monumental project? Well, your starting point could be something small: a brief memory, a small, a bit of dialogue, a description of a place or person. You can start anywhere, with whatever calls to you. You don’t necessarily have to have an outline, or to begin at the beginning of your life; that can create unnecessary restrictions on the flow of your writing. (Of course, if constructing an outline or beginning in early childhood works for you, don’t hesitate to follow either of these paths. But for many people, it will be easier to get started with fewer rules.)

You’ll find that as you write down one memory, others will come to you. It’s like turning on a faucet. Once the spigot is opened, you’ll be surprised by the strong flow that pours out. Don’t worry at this point about creating a coherent narrative or writing polished prose. This is a first draft, and you’ll get plenty of time later on to shape, expand, and winnow out your initial writing. There are many resources, if you need them, to help you with that, such as books, classes, the assistance of a professional writer. Right now you’ll just want to coax the words to flow and to get down on paper what you remember-the incidents, descriptions, feelings, and thoughts that have filled your life with meaning.

Knowing about your creative process and how to nurture it can be quite helpful. Are there specific things that will facilitate the start of your writing day? For some of you it will be taking a walk or doing some other form of exercise. For others, it might be meditating, taking a relaxing bath, playing the piano, or putting on a favorite piece of music. Some people may want to light a candle or burn incense to emphasize the sacredness of the occasion.

Some other good things to consider: What’s the best time for you to write? Early in the morning, afternoon, or perhaps late at night? Do you need complete silence in order to concentrate, or are you stimulated by the buzz of people, conversations, and coffee machines swirling around you? Do you tend to write in short, intense bursts, or do you need longer, uninterrupted blocks of time? Would certain pictures or words on your desk or on the wall inspire your writing?

Be patient with yourself and the process. It might feel rather slow at first, but you’ll gather momentum as you go along. And the joy and excitement of weaving together the threads of meaning in your life by writing your memoir or autobiography will become more and more palpable. So if you are considering writing your life story, I hope this article gives you the necessary encouragement and guidance to take that courageous first step.

Summary:

Start with something small.
Don’t feel you have to have an outline or begin at the beginning of your life (unless that works best for you).
Write down one memory. Others are sure to follow.
Don’t worry about coherence or polished writing at this point. Just let a first draft flow.
Pay attention to what nurtures your creative process-and give yourself that.
Be patient with yourself. Momentum will follow.
Copyright © 2010 by Ralph Dranow. All rights reserved.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

Brainwave Entrainment Neurofeedback for Anxiety: How Does It Work?

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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Imagine you’re driving through the countryside on a beautiful day, but your car isn’t working. The gears keep getting stuck, and the gas pedal is jammed down.
It’s pretty scary. When you can’t shift gears, you can’t respond well to the bumps (or the boulders) in the road. So instead of enjoying the scenery, you’re constantly focused on what might go wrong and how you can prevent it.

That’s what anxiety was like for Antony. When he first sat down in my office, he looked calm. But his heart was pounding. His shoulders were tense and his stomach in knots. He had a mild headache, as he did almost every day, and he felt a little dizzy. And those were just the physical symptoms. His emotions and thoughts were out of control too. His doctor said that medically, he was fine.

Antony isn’t alone. Almost 20% of people in the U.S. struggle with anxiety every year, and it affects work, relationships, parenting, and inner peace.
For Antony, the problem was finding work. He was looking for a new job and wanted to nail his interviews, but at that point he could barely get through the day.

Neurofeedback for Anxiety

Here’s a key: stressful events are not the source of anxiety. It wasn’t the job search per se that was creating Antony’s anxiety. The job search was a challenge, but our brains are designed to rise to a challenge, and then get back to calm.
The problem was this: Antony’s brain was stuck on full-throttle – just like the gas pedal on the bumpy country road.

Neurofeedback for anxiety works directly with the brain’s regulating system to change your response to stressful events. In the process, you can learn to reduce and even eliminate anxiety.

The process is simple. You watch a video, which brightens and dims in response to your brainwaves. With feedback your brain can make a shift from worried to calm, often in the very first session. Antony rated his anxiety as an 8 out of 10 when he arrived. At the end of the first session he rated it a 3, and by the end of the second a 0.

To create lasting change, Antony continued with neurofeedback until the anxiety stayed low – even when something upsetting happened.

A Fast Approach for Anxiety Relief

Neurofeedback for anxiety is one of the most effective approaches I’ve found for calming the busy brain. Most people experience a noticeable calming in the first session, and a significant shift in symptoms in the first 5 to 10 sessions. Antony’s results are typical – about 85% of the clients I work with have experienced similar results.

Isabel, a professional in her forties, shifted from an erratic sleep schedule of 5 hours per night to a steady 6-8 hours of uninterrupted sleep.

Teresa, a college junior, felt so frozen by text anxiety that her grades were dropping fast. With neurofeedback for anxiety, she steadily improved and regained B’s in all her classes.

Peter, who had a high pressure sales job, found that neurofeedback for anxiety significantly improved his focus, concentration, memory, and overall work performance.

For each of these people, neurofeedback for anxiety helped them reduce or end their anxiety.

A New Sense of Calm

It worked for Antony. After a few months, he could maintain a new sense of calm both in and out of sessions. His job interviews felt like fun, and he landed his top choice job.

Remember the stuck gears and the faulty gas pedal? Now imagine what it would be like to repair the car. Remember, your brain in its natural state is designed to rise to challenges. Neurofeedback can help you learn to regulate your brain once again, so you’re not so focused on avoiding obstacles… and you can enjoy the beautiful spring afternoon.

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Research on Neurofeedback for Anxiety

According to Joel Lubar, PhD at the University of Tennessee, “Neurofeedback treatment for many disorders such as ADHD, depression, anxiety… and has been shown to be highly effective with long term lasting results. There are hundreds of published studies and several books demonstrating this.”

If you’re interested in these studies, here are a few resources to get you started. Together they show that neurofeedback for anxiety is an “evidence-based and… efficacious treatment” (Hammond). The research addresses generalized anxiety disorder, worry, phobias, panic attacks, and PTSD.

Here’s the list:

-In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk discusses neurofeedback and other body-based approaches to reducing anxiety and other effects of trauma by “rearranging the brain’s wiring.”

-Seburn Fisher demonstrates the effectiveness of neurofeedback for anxiety and developmental trauma in her recent book, Calming the Fear-Driven Brain.

-Egner and Gruzelier studied the effect of neurofeedback for anxiety related to performance for elite musicians at the London College of Music. Neurofeedback was compared with the effect of exercise, mental rehearsal, and the Alexander Technique. They found that “only the… Neurofeedback group resulted in enhancement of real-life musical performance under stress.”

-Garrett and Silver found that neurofeedback for anxiety helped college students with text anxiety. The study was randomized with two controls (one group received a different treatment, and one no treatment).

-Moore reviewed the literature on anxiety in 2000, and found that 7 of the 8 studies published at that time showed a significant reduction in anxiety.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

Brainwave Entrainment Improving Self Confidence With Brainwave Entrainment

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Binaural beats recordings are a technology that you listen to with a set of stereo headphones. Two tones of different frequencies are input into each ear. The brain senses the difference between these two tones and adjusts itself to that differential. This is termed a “frequency following response” or in other words, brainwave entrainment.

The objective is to cause the brain to lower its functioning frequency into the lower and more relaxing and meditative states of theta (4-8Hz) and delta(1-4 Hz). It is in these frequency ranges that it is possible to enter the subconscious and begin to retrain your innermost thoughts and beliefs. When you are suffering from a lack of self esteem, this is a way for improving self confidence at the foundation of your subconscious mind.

There are specially configured binaural beats recordings embedded with positive subliminal messages. By listening to these recordings it is possible to introduce positive and confidence building thoughts into your subconscious. When you awaken from these relaxed meditative states, these positive thoughts and beliefs will begin to dominate your words and actions and you will feel more confident.

Your friends and co-workers will notice the difference immediately. Where you might have been overwhelmed before with constant streams of negative thoughts, you will now be focused on positive thoughts. You will see the glass will be half-full instead of half-empty.

The advantage of using brainwave entrainment and binaural beats is that we are essentially reprogramming our inner selves and acting as guided by the subconscious mind. This is much better than trying to fight the negative demons on a conscious level.

Binaural beats recordings are readily available for download on the internet and you can listen to them at your leisure. The only decision you have to make is to decide that you WANT to find a way for improving self confidence and you are definitely positively going to take action and do something about it.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

Brainwave Entrainment How to Have More Confidence

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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A lack of self-confidence leads to a boring, safe, dull life, where you are too afraid to do anything out of the ordinary. You are surrounded by routine… a prisoner of your own limitations.

People describe those with poor self-confidence as difficult to talk to… boring… lifeless… draining… depressed… unfortunate… unhappy… unpleasant… broken… and have no confidence in themselves.

Your world is full of uncertainty and doubt.

These are doubts about how others will see you. Doubts about the way you look and feel about yourself. Doubts about your ability to do things. Doubts about your being worthy of success.

This leaves you feeling empty, rejected and dejected inside.

But on the other hand the self-confident person is one who is almost always a success story.

They are more attractive to others. People describe them as charismatic… radiant… captivating… courageous… adventurous… talented… bold… and have high self-esteem.

They succeed in their careers or business, their love life, their hobbies, they have the greatest amount of good friends… they are rich beyond belief.

They seem to have it all.

Anything they touch turns to gold. Their life is like a dream.

All the evidence proves that confidence is something you can learn.

Self-confident people are no different from you on the outside. But on the inside they are playing a different game.

Every public victory is preceded by victory private victory.

Most people want the techniques of confidence and while to may get some results with these they are usually random, haphazard or just lucky. When you get the inner game, the internal feelings in place… the outer game almost always conforms to your inner reality of supreme self-confidence.

You win far more often with virtually predictable results every time.

This inner game of success stems from the way confident people have built up their confidence over the years.

Now all of this is duplicable in less than one hour.

Here’s how:

Over 40 years ago Neuro-Linguistic Programming was created by watching, studying and learning from the late Dr. Milton Erickson, the world’s greatest clinical hypnotherapist.

For more than 60 years Dr. Erickson successfully cured the untreatable. No other person alive could perform the way he could. His track record was legendary.

Then one man, Dr. Richard Bandler began his lifelong study as to why Dr. Erickson was so successful. He discovered something outstanding. Dr. Erickson explained that all of people’s mental problems were a result of being out of rapport with their subconscious mind.

All Erickson did was give the conscious mind a mini holiday by getting it to relax and quieten down.

Next he would get rapport with the subconscious mind and give it a series of instructions using stories and metaphors. Then he would ‘wake’ the patient up and the patient’s own subconscious would go to work fixing the problem automatically. From this Dr. Bandler and John Grinder formed NLP, now recognised all around the world as the most effective way of motivating people to change their lives for the better.

This new way of changing the inner game intrigued me so I paid over ?00,000 and for more than 23 years I’d studied brain science.

One of the most interesting discoveries I made was there are certain types of music and sounds that ‘entrain’ the brain.

Brainwave entrainment synchronises your thoughts. It’s like the experiments you may have seen with iron filings and magnets. If you pass a magnet close enough to these iron filings they all go in the same direction.

That’s like some people you meet. They may be completely negative. On the other hand you meet people who are completely positive.

Most people are like the iron filings on the table with no magnet close by. Then when a magnet gets near they change direction either positive or negative, but for the most part they have random scattered thoughts.

But when you are exposed to brainwave entrainment your brain becomes open and receptive like you were when you were six years old. We all have three parts to our brains. There’s the oldest part – the reptilian brain that handles fear. This primordial experience automatically triggers the need to fight or take flight.

The next part of your brain is the limbic system. All of your emotions are held here. When you get upset, feel a strong passion for doing something, experience sexual desire and love, they are all in the limbic system.

These are also triggered outside of our conscious awareness.

The newest part of your brain is the neo-cortex. This consist of the left brain that deals with logical concrete things and the right brain that deals with abstract concepts, music and art are great examples.

We need both sides of the brain to function at our very best.

If you are very confident in most situations in life and you can face fear and uncertainty with courage you will prevent the emotional brain and the reptilian brain from being automatically triggered.

Animals can’t do this. If a rat is cornered it will fight because that’s it only option. If a cat is treated well by its owner it will automatically purr in contentment because the cat’s emotional brain is wired to do that.

However with our new brain we can override the emotions of fear, uncertainty, and shyness when we have supreme confidence.

For the first time brainwave entrainment gives us the ability to get into rapport with the subconscious mind without the need for a hypnotherapist present.

Also brainwave entrainment activates the right and left hemispheres plus the connection between the two known as the corpus coliseum. Thus giving you childlike abilities to rapidly absorb new information and almost instantly transform this into actions and behaviour.

With this technology we can replicate the best NLP therapists because once the music gains rapport with your subconscious we now use the language structures used by the master hypnotherapists.

Now with the magic of high end sophisticated computer software combined with skilfully structured words you gain the unconscious thought patterns of the most confident people in the world.

And the best thing is – you do nothing except relax your way into a more successful you.

All you do is play the recorded sounds on your computer or your favourite mp3 player. You’ll need headphones and a quiet place away from outside distractions.

If you’ve already experienced a relaxation session liked this you’ll know how well this works.

The best brain entrainment recordings are structured to entertain your conscious mind giving it a mini holiday, while entraining your brain, giving it specific metaphors, symbols and stories to affect change fast.

It’s what we call ‘Entertainment.’

Imagine how much more you’ll get from others when you have the self- confidence in your life you’ve always wanted.

When you have complete confidence in yourself you are willing to try more, do more and risk more. You are able to get out of your ‘comfort zone’ and become a stronger more adventurous, daring person.

You’ll make more friends, maybe even meet that special person, make more money, try out new hobbies, visit exotic places, reach your goals and begin to live the life you’ve always dreamed about.

You become your own success story.

No more living in the past.

No more worrying about your future.

You live in the now, loving every minute of your wonderful life of happiness, peace of mind and a true feeling of being ultimately wealthy beyond your wildest expectations.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.