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meditation music The Train Whistle… Source of Comfort – Source of Pain

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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I was sitting quietly on a cushion in a corner of my massage room meditating when it came. Sitting silently, no music, no cd’s telling me how to meditate or what to envision is not an easy thing to me. For a long long time, it seemed like such a waste of time for a Dutchman who must have a program in the head that tells me that being productive is, by far, the most important human undertaking of any one day. Somewhere along the way, I learned that a spinning mind was a happy mind, but then I learned it wasn’t so. A spinning mind is a what the brain delivers when it is overwhelmed and unfocused on a meaningful thought or project. I meet lots of people with spinning minds and it is exhausting. Many minds spin well into the night and deprive us of our sleep. And so I have learned to meditate, which for me is letting go of the thoughts that spin and just breathe.

Just breathe… How often I tell my clients to just breathe. Most with spinning minds either hold their breathe for periods of time while concentrating or breathe in small bites from their upper chest between their sternum and chin. One method deprives the brain of oxygen. Oxygen=good, so one might think of taking a breath. The other, high chest breathing, is the kind of breathing we do when stressed, afraid or fearful. It literally signals the brain that something is wrong, one is under some kind of attack or over stressed. To help us out, the brain sends us some chemistry that puts us into fight or flight mode and we get worse. Medications that calm us block the cell receptors that receive the anxious, angry and fearful chemicals of emotion so that when the they show up, the site is blocked and they can’t make our tummy hurt or our mind spin. Great discovery to help you get past the bad moments before perhaps learning how to neither have them nor need the meds.

So sometimes I tell clients to breathe from the tummy, below the navel even if it makes you look fat! Down here, concentrated breathing, slowly and with intent sends the message that all is well, in control and good. The brain accommodates by sending out the good chemistry of peace, safety and contentment even if one feels “this is not productive.” It’s why Buddha has a belly and a slight smile on his face. All is well with deep belly breathing. All is hell with shallow chest breathing. The brain will figure out what we need to make our day depending on the message it gets in our breathing. So when is tell the stressed and anxious to “breathe”, it’s always a big tummy breath and I can feel them melt down on the table.

But back to the point. While breathing, just breathing, I heard it. The wind was blowing in the nooks and crannies of the home my practice is in so it was already a great moment to zone. But then I heard it. A train whistle in the distance passing through town. It was perfect. Wind in the eves ,the long lonely but calming sound of a train and the faint thumping of wheels on rails. It was all good…for me, and then my mind drifted towards my sister.

I was visiting her a few months ago and when driving together in town started to come down a road with a railroad track crossing it up ahead. She was driving and I noticed the car speed up and we passed over it and were into town rather quickly. We all knew why. Trains and whistles in the day or night don’t mean the same things to the mind of my sister as they do to me. Her grandson and my great nephew was recently killed by a train that he did not respond to while wearing headphones. He was lost in thought, no doubt, at the loss of his grandma that morning in a brief trip to the store across the tracks in Rochester, NY. He never heard it coming and died instantly. He and his grandma were buried the same day.

Trains sounds don’t soothe the mind of my sister. They terrify her and bring up the pain of it all. Now train sounds are everywhere and sometimes she has to close the windows to shield herself from what she no doubt never noticed in the past. Train whistles in the night don’t comfort her as they do me because her brain has been rewired and by association, train sounds are all connected with the worst experience in her life and the life of her daughter. A brain will do that to you. I hear trains and whistles even as I write and they do not bring to my mind the anxiety, anger and depression they bring to hers. Those sounds are not directly connected to personal pain or emotional trauma. I am a bit removed from it. I want to open the window and take them in. She would have to put her hands over her ears if she were hear until it passed. Such is the power of the mind and what it chooses to associate itself with. It determines our behaviour and sometimes makes others ask us why.

None of us are free from this phenomenon of peace or panic associated with sounds, ideas, people or organizations. Our experiences and the associations that get stuck to those moments of pain, fear and anger forever taint how we filter our world. I have a hard time with organized religion, which has become an oxymoron to me. It would be as difficult for me to sit through the sermon of a man who had not done his homework or was merely being an emotional Bible reader trying to motivate an audience as it would be for my sister to stand at a RR crossing and wave at the engineer. It’s all about associations and the memories that get tied to them, that make us so often who we are and do or not do for us what they used to do.

I visited an elderly man in a nursing home once who was dying and reciting the “Lord’s Prayer” to himself when I arrived. Every few seconds he’d twitch and wince and I attributed it to whatever he was physically suffering from. He did it about three times throughout the course of saying the prayer. It was odd. His son was there and I asked him why his dad did that as it seemed to stop after he finished. The son said that when his dad was young and learning the Lord’s prayer in school, every time he hesitated or forgot a part of it, he got switched on the hands by the teacher. For his dad, decades later up until the moment of his death, the Lord’s Prayer came complete with twitching associated with it when the boy was hit for losing his place or forgetting the next line. The brain figured the pain and the prayer went together so never allowed him to separate them from each other. Every time in his life when he said that prayer, he acted out the pain glued to the experience of memorizing it. Sad, but not uncommon in so many other ways.

Wind, rain, thunder and lightening is not relaxing for everyone depending on experiences with them. Women who hate men have reasons as do men who don’t want to go home or back to church. Some people can’t go to airports anymore and don’t look up when they hear a jet going overhead. It’s too painful, or scary or depressing. Sitting near an ocean or getting on a boat might be one man’s dream and another man’s nightmare depending on how their brain chemistry has wired them based on past experiences.

Sometimes we need to keep this in mind when trying to encourage people, if encouragment of people is what one is want to do. The basic rule should be that encouragement by an encourager should actually encourage the one who is discouraged. You’d be surprised how many times it is not. Depending on experiences and how the brain has associated painful events in the lives of people, what might encourage you only makes someone else angry or depressed. I have known ministers who have told parents of children killed in various ways that it was about time to get over it, or they need to come to church and they will feel better, when one is impossible and the other is not encouraging. Driving to church, for these people meant driving over the spot where their child was killed. For the minister, that road was a way to get around and for the parents, that road was one to be avoided as it was too painful. It’s just a road. It’s just a train. But the mind makes associations.

Here are a few ways not to encourage people who have experienced a hardwiring of their brains by circumstances different from yours or ours.

To those that have lost children…do not say, “Well at least you will see them in heaven.” Parents don’t want to see their children in heaven, they want to see them at the dinner table. Do not say…”God won’t give you more than you can bear,” because they can’t bear what they are going through and that makes no sense to them. Don’t say…”Get over it, It’s just a train. It’s just a river. It’s just a church. It’s just a bridge.” It is just that to you because you don’t have the physical chemistry the brain has given them to associate those things with emotional pain. May you never have to find out just how it works. One person who recently lost her only daughter in an auto accident said, “if i hear one more church member tell me that I must be strong or this would not have happened, I will quit going.”

To those that are having financial problems…do not say, “If you give God his tithe, you will have the windows of heaven opened.” Wrong! People who say this are usually comfortable and don’t miss the funds they give anyway. They have never had to choose between tithing and rent, or food or school. And whether we like it or not, God does not follow through on “whatever things you shall ask, I will give it to you.” That’s a formula for chaos anyway. Mention tithing to many adults who grew up deprived because of it and see what I mean. Once burned, twice smart. Once your mind figures out that God doesn’t really need your money and if he owns the cattle on a thousand hills anyway, he could sell a few if he did need some, you will feel better.

To those who are having a crisis in faith…do not say, “Just trust Jesus,” “The thoughts of man are vain,” “The heart of man is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, and this would be you,” “Oh yea of little faith,” “You need to pray more,” “You need to fast more,” “You need to study more,” You need to spend more time reading that which really is taking making less and less sense in the real world to you and seems to cause more problems than it solves. Personally, religion should improve people, lessen war and killing and make people more honest and less materialistic. Oh well. People who say such things generally don’t have the experiences in their lives that have made those they seek to counsel and encourage not like them in how they think. It’s kind of like going to a Priest for marriage or childrearing counseling. Why would anyone do that and expect much understanding based on experience?

Humans have many different experiences and we don’t all share the same ones. People who have seen war cannot generally be encouraged by those who have not. But can be by people who understand how the mind works even if they have not been in war. People who have not been burned by religion generally cannot be encouraged by those who have their heads in the clouds and are God haunted themselves. People who have not lost children generally cannot be inspired by miraculous accounts of God’s intervention in the lives of other families when it was not so with them. I once told a minister who went on and on in a sermon about how a girl in her church was miraculously saved from death in a horrible crash to keep it to himself. In an audience of 10,000 or so, there are a few dozen parents sitting there feeling more forsaken than he can possibly imagine and agonizing over why that wasn’t their experience. Those who haven’t expereinced it may be entertained, and those that have are being tormented. Just drop it! And so often, the one liners of that well meaning but inexperienced members and ministers can come up with will simply drive that family from the church. I have seen it over and over.

Ah, there is another train coming. That long whistle on a windy day soothes my soul. For my sister this is not so and if she was here now, I would be turning up the music or getting her more towards the inner part of the house. Nice…now I can hear the soft whine of a jet going over head. Someone in town, no doubt is blocking it out.

When the associative sounds, people and places come to haunt, just breathe. Breathe low in the tummy. Remind yourself, whether anyone else understands it or not, “I am ok. My emotions are the reaction to my mind which is producing the chemistry associated with the trauma that those experiences caused my brain to memorize. They are connected in me differently than those that try to understand me and it’s ok. Breathe…Breathe from your tummy. It will pass and life can go on having won one more small victory over experiences that hurt our spirit, but force our growth. On the other side of trauma is a very very practical encourager and teacher being born…
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.

sleep meditation How to Get Rid of Tinnitus Fast – The Effective Measure to Cure Frustrating Ringing Ears

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There are certain things you need to seriously care for. You need to care your food habits. You need to eat healthy in order to stay healthy. Drink plenty of water; this will keep you cool and comfortable. You can take regular fresh fruit juices for better results. You can do yoga daily basically meditation. This will keep you fresh and your mind will get extra energy with meditation and it can work even more effectively. People even focus on exercising; this is also good to heal your body naturally. You can use soft music as to avoid this problem. You can give your mind a change by just visiting some new and beautiful place in order to add freshness in your life. These things are just tips to prevent tinnitus and make you healthy enough to avoid this disease or condition.

You are suffering from tinnitus; you need to be in a low sound area. If you be in a loud sound zone, you need to keep a cotton ear plug basically designed for ears to keep it away of loud sound. You need to listen to headphones in low volume. This will be beneficial to keep your problem controlled and can even alleviate it in the long run. You just need to give this your try. People suffering from this problem really use this for better results.

You can even opt for homeopathic treatments or take herbal treatment. These are effective and gives you cure to nice rate. This is cheap and really effective. The best thing of these remedies is that they don’t give you side effects at all. Rest, if you go by allopathic medicines, you can get their side effects. But, still people use these pills in order to get rid of tinnitus fast. I would suggest you to take a step for tinnitus, but step up wisely. See all the side effects of the treatment that you follow and then go for using it. Just don’t go blindly with any cosmetic or artificial treatments. You can surely get rid of tinnitus fast if you try the listed treatments.
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.

meditation music Create A Flash Website For Meditation

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This way, viewers anywhere in the world could take your meditation classes. All that they need is a quiet place, a computer, and high-speed Internet access. Think about it. You could expand your students from a few hundred to a few thousand easily. Internet students would be able to take a meditation session whenever they wanted; and they could also pick from a list of meditations, not just the meditation you happened to be teaching that day.

This kind of set up works for all kinds of people. It benefits those who don’t live near enough to you to get to a class, people who go to your classes but miss a week because of a schedule conflict, and people who want to take your classes but have a conflicting schedule every week. As well, you could use your website to sell CDs or DVDs to people who don’t always have access to the Internet and want permanent copies.

If you have no web development or coding experience, you might think that it would be too time consuming and too expensive to develop a flash website yourself, but it isn’t. There are many companies on the Internet that offer free or low-cost flash website templates that anyone can use to develop a site with audio and video. These templates are professional-looking and come in hundreds of different themes and are also geared towards specific businesses.

You can build a flash site in a couple of days with no coding skills whatsoever, and change the website as you create more meditation sessions. Many meditation teachers also write a book to go along with the sessions that they teach and sell it on their website as well. There are many possibilities when it comes to expanding your business to the Internet.

Along with the free template, many of these web design companies also offer free hosting if you let them advertise on your site. This may or may not work to your advantage; but if you don’t have a lot of funds to invest in a website, it is worth considering. There may be some conflicting advertising put on your website, but people are so jaded these days they will probably hardly notice. So as you can see, if you are a meditation teacher, you will greatly benefit from a flash website.
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.

brain waves The Subconscious 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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The Subconscious In old China an emperor stood upon a very high hill. Spread through the valley below him was all of his great army. He could see where the battle would be fought and where the other armies waited. He had developed an intricate system of commands for generals and ofï¬cers of his army and the battle began. The emperor could signal to the right, and the right would attack. He could signal to the left or the middle and the left or the middle would attack. With another signal, each would retreat and then attack again. The battle went on for hours. When the emperor saw a weakness he sent troops to that area and eventually they overcame the other army. This analogy ï¬ts your conscious and subconscious mind. Your conscious mind is the emperor and your subconscious, the army, does not see what is going on. It relies only upon the commands of the conscious and it records everything the consciousness sends. Whether through sound, color or any of the ï¬ve senses, the subconscious will go blindly here and there. It works on demand only. It will act upon everything that is put into it. If the conscious self says to go this way, and the subconscious has never been there before, either in thought or in action, the way will be very hard.

The Four Disciplines of the Subconscious Mind

1 PHYSICAL First is a physical discipline, not exercise of the body but being proud of what you are and not of what you want to be. It is the discipline of being able to look at yourself in a stream or mirror and say, I am proud of what I am. Controlling the body and its movements and not allowing it to move you is a discipline, realizing that you are a carriage that has within a most important rider. Physical discipline means walking straight and sitting straight, knowing that when you cross a leg or an arm to someone, you are limiting communication. Physical discipline means not running or hurrying; physical discipline means knowing your body, its muscles, its bone. It means exercise, not in a religious sense but realizing that you are the God Force, that your body is

HEALTH Foremost within that is respecting yourself. Above respecting all things is respecting yourself. You cannot respect other things without ï¬rst respecting yourself, healthwise. The foods that Old Chinese suggests are not prescribed by a religion or a discipline.

Old Chinese does not suggest that you should not eat meat because it will get you to your higher self or from this plane faster. There is no diet, no choice of food for a specific, moralistic cause that will get you closer to your higher self.

We know that you are herbivorous and so meat is foreign to your system. There is no need to worry about the killing of animals. Since there is no death of anything, you should not worry about it. Old Chinese suggests no meat because it causes damage in your body. Meat eliminates calcium from your system and many other things. The reason for eliminating root vegetables is that the cellulose in them interferes with the correct digestion of carbohydrates.

The food, diet or health you choose should respect your body first. Of secondary importance is the evolution of the spirit within the food but first is evolution of the spirit within yourself. Health discipline is the realization that each and everything that is wrong with your body or that you feel is wrong with it, is a mental thought form. There are no incurable diseases, only incurable people.

You can learn through the discipline of health that when you have a soreness or congestion, it is because of your thought patterns, because of dealing with a person or resentment. Thought becomes a very important governor of your disciplined health perspective. Eating sugar and salt are equivalent to eating sand; and gluten ï¬our or anything that contains it, interferes with the assimilation of vitamins in most personages. Respecting yourself nutritionally is not some fad religion, not saying I am doing this so I will be better than that person. You are doing this because you respect yourself and you respect yourself because you are the God Force within you. You are your own reality and so, by respecting yourself you recognize what the emperor did not. Nutritional respect is easier for a person who is working on her spiritual evolution or in essence is trying to come in tune.

3 HARMONY In-tuneness means the ability to perceive, to feel, to hear, to touch, to taste everything at each and every moment of the day. This is in-tuneness with everything that is going on around you. When the musical instrument is in tune, it plays a harmonious chord. It is pleasing. It is awareness of what is around and it allows others to feel harmonious. Being in tune is to be harmonious with all your surroundings. It is easier for you to be out of tune in your world than it is to be in tune. More in your world are inharmonious than in tune. It is easier for you to not have a nutritional body than to have a nutritional body. Most people in your world complain or have something wrong with them. That way, if you are like them, nothing is wrong. Your world thinks that if you are spiritually disciplining yourself you should be free from disease. That is not true, for the more in tune you become with your nutrition, the more out of tune those around you will feel. They will center on you and find every little thing you are reacting to. Before, when someone said to you, “You are not too smart in certain parts,” you would have laughed. Now, like a finely-tuned instrument, just a little outward vibration can cause you to come out of tune and play a disharmonious chord. It is easier for you to be not in tune. Those who strive for spiritual nutritional health are like fish out of water. In the water it is easy but once out of your environment, out of what everyone else is doing, you become not very important. A harmonious person is one who is aware of everything around him and does not combat things. If someone comes to you in an inharmonious way, and you react to her in an inharmonious way, you only create disharmony. The Nazarene once said, “Resist not evil.” Your world thought that meant something else. It really meant, When evil, or negativity comes to you, do not fight it. If you fight it, you create war, dissension. Relax. Be as the rock on the shore as the wave lashes against it-stand firm – and when the tide goes out, the rock stands alone, beautiful. Watch those things that are thrown in, do not try to combat or jump against the wave. Your world finds great disharmony; it is the world of disharmony, or the university of disharmony. In reality, disharmony is one of the great dilemmas of your physical plane. How harmonious are you to yourself? not to those around you; to yourself. Do you feel the new morning? Do you touch the wind?

4 BALANCE The fourth discipline is balance; balance of self. In Old China, there was a teacher who told the student, “If you would relax or meditate for four to ï¬ve minutes each day, you would ï¬nd great things happening.” The student was enlightened and found that it caused an ecstasy. He returned to the teacher and said, “I was so delighted with the results that I am now meditating 24 hours a day.” And the teacher said, “You are unbalanced.” The person who meditates half a second a day is unbalanced. Those who sleep twelve hours a day are as unbalanced as those who try to maintain on two hours of sleep. Those who eat constantly are unbalanced, as are those who eat not at all.

You have come to be within your world, not to escape it. You have reincarnated to be a part of your world, not to be a recluse, a monk, a mystic or hermit; not to withdraw from community or institutional situation, but to live in your world. By living in it, you can maintain a balance. Those who can walk on hot stones or levitate for hours or at a breath, cause a tree to change from here to there; they too are unbalanced. Why do you need to know to walk on coals? And what will levitation do for you? It may cause you a nosebleed if it goes too high.

You must have a little imbalance within balance.
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.

meditation music No Medicine Needed To Obtain This Calming Effect

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The purpose of soaking music is setting aside time to focus and meditate on God for renewal of strength and peace. It is an aid in seeking God. It is about spending quality time with God without having a program to maintain and it is about building a relationship with God and allowing Him to work in our lives. God desires to be an active participant in our lives. He wants to be there in our joys and in our pains. One of the ways we can bring God into our every day activities is by allowing soaking music to seep into our lives and by letting the healing scriptures calm our hearts.

One of my favorite Bible verses is Jeremiah 29:11 which reads, “For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” I prayed over this verse repeatedly while I was going through treatment and surgery for my Thyroid Cancer. I knew that even in this dark diagnosis, God had a plan for me and that He wasn’t going to leave me stranded and alone. As a matter of fact, I am not sure I have ever felt more loved than I did during those months. And although these words may be hard to believe when your life is full of pain and frustration, they are true. God has incredible plans for you, and when you allow Him to work in your heart and you allow Him to lead you in your life, you will realize those plans and experience peace and joy.

There are so many benefits to soaking music, but most importantly is the relationship you will have with God that will bring you the most peace and comfort. Psalms 37:7 tells us to “be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.” And then Philippians 4:4 tells us to, “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again, rejoice!”

Christian soaking is the relaxing of the mind and body, while listening to soaking music, to become a vessel completely open for God to pour into and through. Soaking music allows you to focus on nothing but God and draws you close to Him. A great benefit to soaking music is the ability for the music to connect with your soul in a way that words cannot. You will be hearing God’s voice as you worship and praise Him. Soaking music doesn’t come with restrictions because it is different for each person. Soaking can last for five minutes or five hours; and whether you prefer to lie own, sit or stand, it doesn’t matter as long as the focus in on Jesus.

There is a famous quote from an old opera house that reads, “God gave us music so that we might pray without words.” This saying sums us soaking music perfectly. My all-time favorite Bible verse is Isaiah 40:31. “But those that hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” I believe soaking music can help us achieve the life God wants for us.

I encourage you to give soaking music a try. I think you’ll be amazed at how comforting hearing God’s voice can be and how wonderful it is to be reminded of his unfailing love. As I mentioned earlier, I know that God loves me. I know that I am important and special and one-of-a-kind. I know, and believe, all this, but it still feels good to hear it over and over again. Immerse yourself in the healing scriptures of soaking music and allow God to begin working in your life.
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 Overcoming Panic Attacks – How to Prepare For Your Next Attack

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You need to prepare yourself mentally for this. Get as much of exercise that you can, only of you think it is okay for you to exercise. I understand constant anxiety keeps you from enjoying life, and exercising can seem difficult. So only exercise when you feel it is okay for your body to do so.

Exercising not only make your body healthy but your mind as well, which is the key when overcoming panic attack.

Relaxation and self belief is also vital. You can do this with any natural treatment that encourages relaxation. Do meditation along with some soothing music to achieve relaxation. It is important to constantly have positive thoughts during meditation.

Try think of a very happy moment in your life. Make that the main positive thought for you. Whenever you feel negative, focus on your happy moment and also think of some phrases that really motivates you. This could be a prayer or a quote that keeps you going.
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.

relaxing music The Need For Sleep

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Sleeping and waking are part of your internal clock which is controlled by the brain. How much sleep should a person get every night? The actual amount depends on the individual (& age). Some people need a great deal of sleep, while other can survive on a lot less than the generally recommended value of 8 hours. An individual needs to get the right amount of sleep to feel alert, healthy and fit. Some people require more sleep due to their circadian rhythm and metabolism.

Brain wave studies have indicated that there are four stages of sleep that occur in cycles that last around 90 minutes each. When you first fall asleep, your brain waves slow down and you become more relaxed. It is only when you enter the third stage of sleep that your body and mind become more unaware of the world around them. The fourth stage is the deepest, known as Rapid Eye Movement (REM). These stages repeat through the night at least three or four times.

For the most restful and restorative sleep, ensure that your sleeping environment is as healthy as possible. Using natural cotton bedding and pajamas allows your body to ‘breathe’ comfortably. Maintain plenty of fresh air by keeping a window open at least a few centimeters if possible. Avoid eating for around two hours before sleep so enable your body to concentrate resources on healing and repair rather than digestion.

If you have difficulty getting to sleep, then there are a number of factors to consider that may assist you to obtain a good night’s sleep.

– (important in so many other facets of life) make sure that you are getting sufficient exercise during the day. So people find that a 30-minute walk before or after dinner can be especially helpful for facilitating deep sleep.

– Avoid caffeine (particularly late in the evening). For some individuals even a morning coffee has been shown to disturb night time sleep.

– Avoid stressful mental activity immediately before bed (curl up with a book or relaxing music instead).

– Ensure, as much as possible, that the environment is peaceful.

– If you are lying awake and unable to get back to sleep, focus your thoughts on a positive event or situation from the previous day rather than concentrating on what is worrying you.

Some remedies for a good sleep include herbal teas (such as chamomile) or a warm bath with 2 cups of Epsom salts and around 10 drops of lavender essential oil diluted in the bathwater (nb. some aromatherapists recommend not using lavender when pregnant). Epsom salts are high in magnesium which can assist in relaxing the nervous system and muscles. Calming, meditative breathing and deep relaxation exercises can also assist in promoting a good night’s sleep by quieting the mind and body. Don’t forget that having a home massage is a great way to facilitate relaxation.

Waking up can be just as important for some individuals. Leaving curtains open so that the morning light can signal your body that it’s time to rise. If you are going to bed each night at around the same time then naturally you will awake at a regular time each morning without the need of an intrusive alarm. There is then no need to leap out of bed – just take a few minutes to breathe, stretch and enjoy the start of a new day.
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 Insomnia Treatment – 11 Things That Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About How to Treat Insomnia

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And yet, alternative insomnia treatments have a better track record in helping insomniacs over the long term. Here is a partial list of 11 non-drug insomnia treatments that get results and that you really should know about.

1. Herbal treatments with various mood altering herbs
2. Hypnosis and behavior modification treatments
3. Magnetic mattress or mattress cover therapy
4. Breathing therapy
5. Music therapy using classical or new age music
6. Yoga and meditation
7. Chi gong and relaxation techniques
8. Aromatherapy – using high quality essential oils
9. Homeopathy
10. Massage
11. Acupuncture and pressure points

The great thing is that most of these therapies work to get rid of the causes of insomnia – not just to cover over the symptoms of it. That’s what makes them more powerful as insomnia treatments and in some cases insomnia cures.

That’s good news for you, because traditionally prescribed sleeping pills become ineffective after just about 4-6 weeks of use and have some nasty side effects. Now you know more than 99% of doctors about insomnia treatments – and can make an better decision on how to proceed.
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 How to Combat Insomnia – Curing Insomnia

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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.
theta sleep | what is the frequency of a wave
Looking to find out how to combat insomnia? You’re not alone. Many who battle with this condition turn to the quick fix of drugs, whether over the counter or doctor prescribed. The problems with this often first-thought-of method, is that sleeping pills are easy to develop a dependency upon. The side effects they can cause are also enough trouble on their own. To top it all off, these don’t even last – they completely lose effectiveness after a mere handful of weeks.

Another form of treatment which seems to be the better alternative by far is the natural approach to inducing brainwave activity which is conducive to sleep, as opposed to forcing it chemically. This is how to combat sleeplessness and insomnia the safest way; by using audio therapy which utilizes certain tones and pulses at specific frequencies that promote such brainwave activity, allowing the constant mental chatter to slow down and allowing you to slip into restful sleep.

Now, this breakthrough has become quite popular since the advent of binaural therapy. This takes sound in pulses at two frequencies just slightly out of sync with each other, one for each ear, and when the brain processes this as one signal, the desired brainwaves are induced and sleep is the inevitable result.

The handicap with this method however, is that you need to go to sleep while wearing stereo headphones on. They might come off in your sleep waking you up, or be uncomfortable to fall asleep wearing in the first place. This one setback proved to be counterproductive. Now there is isochronic pulses which require no stereo – a regular CD player is just fine, and the proper brainwave activity is produced which induces sleep within mere minutes. Truly this is how to combat insomnia.
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 The Top 5 Natural Healing Remedies to Help Overcome – Beat Anxiety and Depression

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100% pure Lavender Oil is another excellent and often underrated natural healing remedy that can significantly reduce the effects of anxiety and depression. Using this oil in a massage or rubbing it on your palms and then using your hands to wipe over your body, your temples and your aura is very beneficial along your path to overcome and beat anxiety and depression. You should also strongly consider burning a pure high quality lavender oil candle daily and playing spiritual relaxing music. Lavender oil has been used as an effective natural anti-depressant in hospitals and there are many studies you can view on the Internet that have demonstrated a significant reduction in anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.

Still, as effective as Lavender Oil is in healing the aura of negative energy and dark spirits that aggravate depression and anxiety, like other herbs and potions, the original cause of anxiety and depression still remains. Below are the top 5 natural healing remedies to overcome / beat anxiety and depression – that will help uncover and heal the original cause of anxiety and depression.

Natural Healing Remedy #1 – EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). Depression is always unresolved grief. EFT is highly effective in permanently removing the grief that causes depression. When the grief goes, so too does the depression. Patients with chronic depression who have been on strong anti-depressants for many years have been able to come off their drugs and remain free of depression after only a few EFT sessions. And the results are just as effective in overcoming anxiety. Anxiety is always unresolved fear. EFT is highly effective in permanently removing the fears that cause anxiety.

Natural Healing Remedy #2 – Hypnotherapy Regression. During a hypnotherapy regression session, patients with anxiety and depression are able to successfully reconnect to their source of emotional pain that is causing their anxiety and depression. Hypnotherapy regression and EFT are both equally successful when used as natural healing remedies to help overcome / beat depression and anxiety.

Natural Healing Remedy #3 – Writing Your Feelings. This is a great technique you can do on your own and it is very effective in releasing negative feelings from within your soul. Depression is always “unexpressed” grief and anxiety is always “unexpressed” fear. When you take the time to “express” your grief and your fears in a journal you can initiate a very successful healing on your own.

Natural Healing Remedy #4 – Reconnecting to Your Source of Love, Your Higher God Self. This will require you to be open minded to the spiritual side of life. Depression (grief) and anxiety (fear) can only exist within your soul when you have cut off your [perceived] spiritual connection to your Higher God Self. You are always connected to your Higher Self via an invisible silver cord that is your Source of Love, yet when you stop focusing on your Higher God Self and only focus on your “Human Self” – you become a Being of Need instead of a Being of Love and you soon develop anxiety and depression because you feel “cut off” from your Source of Love. When you reconnect to your Source of Love, anxiety and depression will very soon disappear.

Natural Healing Remedy #5 – Meditation. What most people do not realize, even those who meditate, is that your human consciousness and the consciousness of your Higher God Self “merges” during a meditation and YOU feel the peace, the love, the inner calmness and “oneness” of your Higher God Self. This is especially so when you repeat the words over in your mind “I AM My Higher Self”. Try it for 5-10 minutes and notice the peace and calmness that envelopes your soul as you reconnect to your Source of Love through meditation. All anxiety is: a “fear” you are disconnected from God and are all alone. All depression is: a “belief” you are disconnected from God and are all alone. When you reconnect to your Source of Love through daily meditation, you re-establish the vital flow of love into your soul and this becomes the natural healing remedy that removes all fear, anxiety, grief and depression. This is because you are now focusing on your “Real Self” and not your “human self.”
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.