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relaxing music A Few Facts About the Beatles

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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George Harrison and Paul McCartney first met on a bus while the two were schoolboys. They rode the bus together going to and from the Liverpool Institute High School for Boys. As George and Paul talked, they found that they shared an interest in playing guitars and music. At the time, McCartney was in John Lennon’s skiffle band The Quarrymen, and he urged Lennon to allow Harrison to join the band as lead guitarist. Lennon felt that Harrison was too young, but he eventually relented and let him into the band. The Quarrymen would eventually evolve into The Beatles.

Although the Beatles traveled to the United States together in February 1964, it was actually George Harrison’s second trip to the country. In September 1963, Harrison went on vacation and visited his sister, Louise, in Benton, Illinois. The home where he stayed on his visit is now the Hard Day’s Nite Bed and Breakfast.

The original drummer of The Beatles was Pete Best. He was in the group for two years, beginning August 12, 1960. On August 16, 1962, he was dismissed from the band by manager Brian Epstein. The only reason Epstein gave to Pete was, “The lads don’t want you in the group anymore.” Best has maintained that he was never given any further explanation of why he was fired. Ringo Starr became the new drummer for The Beatles.

Cilla Black’s debut single was “Love of the Loved”, a Lennon-McCartney composition mainly written by Paul McCartney. It was one of his earliest compositions. The Beatles recorded the song in 1962 during their audition for Decca Records, but it has never been officially released.

The Beatles’ song “With a Little Help from My Friends” was temporarily called “Bad Finger Boogie” in the early stages of the songwriting process. The working title came about because John Lennon had to rely on his middle finger when playing the song’s piano part, having earlier injured his forefinger. The band Badfinger would later derive their name from the discarded “Bad Finger Boogie” title. At the time, Badfinger were under contract to record on the Beatles’ Apple Records label.

The subject of the Beatles’ song “Dear Prudence” is Prudence Farrow, the younger sister of actress Mia Farrow. Prudence was present when the Beatles visited Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh, India in 1968. She primarily stayed in her room in seclusion during long periods of meditation instead of joining the activities with the others. John Lennon wrote the song to invite Prudence to “come out to play” as he thought she might be depressed.
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 Over The Pain Of A Breakup

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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If relationships were easy and breakups were a piece of cake, the music industry would be in trouble. Just flick on the radio and you’ll discover that lots of people have walked in your shoes.
How to get over the pain of a breakup is simply a question that most of us have to deal with in our lifetimes.

While there is no easy way to speed up the process, there are things you can do to help yourself learn how to get over the pain of a breakup.

Whether the breakup is “for good this time” or you think there’s a chance things might work out down the road, these tips can help you ease the pain and move forward:

* Accept that it is okay to feel bad – When you first breakup, the pain can seem unbearable. You may cry, feel lost or simply not be ready to get back in the game.

Remember, it is perfectly acceptable and normal to feel pain and remorse. Whether you’re to blame for the breakup or not, you have suffered a loss.

* Give yourself a little time – Mourning the loss of your relationship is quite okay for a little while. Although your loved one didn’t die, you are likely dealing with a similar range of emotions.

Give yourself a bit of time to accept this. Don’t dwell for too long though.

* Explore things you’ve always wanted to do – Once you’re ready to really learn how to get over the pain of a breakup, focusing on some “me time” is a great thing to do.

Tap back into who you are and what you want to do with your life. Focus on your interests, what you want to develop as a person and allow yourself to have fun. This will help you rediscover yourself and what makes you so special.

* Be kind to yourself – Treat yourself to a night out with friends, a day at the spa or something really special. Do things that put a smile on your face without the other person having to be around.

* Avoid “triggers,” if possible – When you’re trying to learn how to get over the pain of a breakup, the last thing you want to do is constantly remind yourself of your ex. Don’t surround yourself with photos of the “old days,” avoid “your” places, “your” song and so on.

While you may have to face these things sooner or later, it’s best to wait until you are feeling stronger on your own.

* Avoid the instant rebound – A new person is almost never the answer in the initial days after a breakup. Give yourself time to heal and stand on your own two feet before trying to re-enter the dating scene. Go into it a mess and you’ll likely regret it.

Gain confidence and feel good about yourself and you will be more likely to develop a happier, healthier relationship with someone new (or your old flame).

* Develop your self-esteem – Self-esteem can take a serious hit during a breakup. Rebuild it so you can get on with your life for the better. Learn how to meditate, repeat self-affirmations during the day, take steps to improve things in your life you don’t like and so on.

When you build yourself back up, you’ll be stronger and more positive. This can help you get back your ex, if that’s what you really want, or enter into a new and healthier relationship with someone else.

* Examine what went wrong – Before trying to dive back into the dating scene, it is a good idea to examine what went wrong. If you made mistakes, admit them and explore how you can prevent them from happening again down the road.

Living through a breakup is no fun at all. In the first few days, weeks or even months, you are likely to feel sad, lonely, confused and even betrayed. There is no easy way to learn how to get over the pain of a breakup.

There are things you can do, however, to pick yourself back up and create a stronger you. Do just that and you’ll thank yourself down the road.
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.

Brainwave Entrainment How Can You Play Snooker Like Ronnie O’Sullivan?

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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There are several methods to use in order to increase your ability to play snooker. The traditional method is to put in 10,000 hours of practice time on a table and see how your form turns out. This method usually involves some coaching and watching how other people play. This traditional method causes a player to become as good as the players he surrounds himself with. The challenge of this is that a player ends up becoming as good as everyone that he plays snooker with. In this type of setting, a player can improve quite quickly until he or she reaches a plateau. This plateau then becomes the limit of skill that a player possesses and becomes incredibly difficult to surpass. Only through sheer grit, determination and constant practice can a player get their game up to the next level.

The reason for this is simple. If you can play good enough as everyone else, you end up believing that this is as good as you can become. On the other hand if you played with players who were running centuries very frequently, you would, just through thought vibration, morphic resonance and the influence of the environment on your subconscious mind, end up adopting the skills required to increase your ability and subconscious beliefs about what your snooker playing capabilities are.

This is why the Asians who were in the final 32 of the 2010 World Snooker Championships have been able to play so well. They have been practicing with Ronnie O’Sullivan. Just by hanging around with a genius of the game, will effect your playing ability. You would be able to see and hear how he hits the ball. You would be able to feel his energy and absorb some of his essence. This would have a far greater effect on your ability to play Snooker like Ronnie O’Sullivan than any other method.

Since you can’t always have the luxury of being able to play Ronnie O’Sullivan, are there any other effective ways to be able to absorb his essence into your own game?

One of the most effective means to creating change is through subconscious programming. Dr. Bruce Lipton Ph.D and author of the award winning book ‘The Biology of Belief’ says that 95% of all our behaviour and actions, or MORE, is directly attributed to the programs in our subconscious mind. Bruce Lipton has been a scientist since 1968 and I’m not going to argue with him.

So since our subconscious mind is in charge of at least 95% of what we do, doesn’t it make sense to do something with our subconscious mind to improve our Snooker game? Imagine how much better you would play if you could have the Ronnie O’Sullivan subconscious Snooker program in your head. How much better would you play? How much easier would the game be if you hit the ball and thought about the game just like he did? What if you could have this program running on automatic pilot? Is this even possible?

It is possible although our understanding of the human mind isn’t good enough to really be able to suck up all of Ronnie’s snooker brains. However, there are technologies that exist that allow us to capture some of his ability.

The ways to really capture as much of his playing abilities, comes down to just one thing. And that is to completely influence your subconscious mind with the belief that you can run centuries and knock in 147’s. If your subconscious mind had the information programmed into it that believed knocking in tons was easy, you would be making centuries.

Is that hard to believe? Consider this…there are ten year old kids who are knocking in centuries. More and more are doing it every single day. The more we are exposed to more and more people knocking in tons, the greater our belief system will support the idea of doing it ourselves.

Its just like Roger Bannister and the four minute mile. Before him, nobody could do it. After he did it, hundreds of people have been able to do it.

So how can we get this reprogramming mind stuff into our heads if we’re not a ten year old kid?

First of all, the reason kids can learn so much is because between the ages of 2 and 6, children are primarily in a theta brainwave frequency. Theta is the brainwave that allows the subconscious mind to download new information. This is why children can learn 3 languages at once and learn to play pianos, chess and golf. Look at Tiger Woods, Bobby Fischer and Mozart. Are they geniuses? Yes and their parents took advantage of their kids hyper learning state. This hyper learning state known as a hypnogogic trance or a theta brainwave state is what allows them to download all that information.

Since we can’t go back to our childhood, what we can do is get our brains into a theta brainwave frequency by means of an entrainment audio. There are several other methods to get into a theta brainwave frequency such as taking a super hot bath or shower. This is why people have so many great idea when they are taking a shower. Their subconscious mind is being accessed and all that subconscious creative information is allowed to flow out due to their brain being in this theta brainwave frequency.

So once you’re in a theta brainwave you can learn stuff much faster.

So how does this relate to being able to play Snooker like Ronnie O’Sullivan?

In Snooker-Cybernetics there is a sample module that allows the listener to go into a theta brainwave frequency.

While you are in this hyper learning state, you would hear Ronnie O’Sullivan giving you the suggestions required to play like him.

That would mean your subconscious mind would be programmed while you’re in a hyper learning hypnogogic trance just like a kid, while hearing Ronnie O’Sullivan giving you his own personal advice on how to play Snooker like him.

That’s one way that you can learn to play Snooker like Ronnie O’Sullivan.
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 Treat Anxiety – Summary

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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How to Treat Anxiety?

Yes it is possible to cure anxiety!

There are many ways to treat anxiety successfully.

Medication such as diazepam (Valium) only provides very short-term relief and is very addictive, both physically and psychologically. If you want to beat your anxiety long-term you need to work at being a calm person. To do this you need to find ways to relax, to slow down, to learn to control and change your anxious thoughts.

There are many ways of relaxing such as deep muscle relaxation, yoga, focusing on breathing, meditation, using cue-controlled relaxation. There are articles about the many ways of relaxing on the internet.

Psychological treatments such as cognitive therapy (CT) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) involve working on anxiety provoking thoughts and replacing them with thoughts that are calming. CT and CBT are both effective ways of curing anxiety, but they require a lot of work and are generally best taught by a clinical psychologist.

Deep muscle relaxation is a great way of attaining a relaxed state. It involves tensing and then relaxing the muscles of the body in a systematic way, often starting with the feet and moving up to the head.

Mindfulness involves living in the moment, not for the moment. It involves paying close attention to yourself (usually breathing pattern), thoughts, feelings, choices and actions. It can also involve focusing on the sounds around you. It is a proven treatment for depression and anxiety.

Meditation is a form of mental focus in which individuals train their minds to achieve a state of consciousness in order to gain sustained mental health benefits. There are several different types of meditation practice. Meditation practiced regularly is a proven way of treating anxiety and depression.

Eating the right diet and certain foods can be an extremely helpful component of an anxiety treatment plan. It has been discovered that eating certain foods can improve our mood. Some foods or combinations of foods are known to have a relaxing and calming effect on our mood. Some foods can aid in treating depression as well.

There are numerous medications that are only available on prescription drugs that doctors prescribe for anxiety. These include:

Benzodiazepines such as alprazolam (Xanax) and diazepam (Valium), plus many others. The main downside to these drugs is their extremely addictive nature.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRI’s) such as paroxetine (Paxil, Seroxat), citalopram (Cipramil) and fluoxetine (Prozac). SSRIs take time to work, usually 1-2 weeks to start working and often 3-6 months to reach their full beneficial effect on depression and anxiety. They are not thought to be addictive.

Serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors (SNRI’s). These are proven effective drugs for anxiety and depression. They are also known as dual reuptake inhibitors. An example is venlafaxine (Effexor). One downside is their tendency to raise blood pressure when taken in larger doses (such as 150mg daily – 75mg is thought to not to affect blood pressure).

Azapirones such as buspirone (BuSpar). These are proven drugs for anxiety, but they generally take 2 weeks to start working and are generally recommended for short-term use, but some patients do take BuSpar for years. Buspirone is not thought to be addictive.

Beta-blockers such as propranolol (Inderal).

Meprobamate is an older drug that is little used these days.

Barbiturates such as amylobarbitone (Sodium Amytal). These are rarely prescribed by doctors nowadays. Barbiturates are extremely addictive.

Self-help works for many anxiety sufferers. Many individuals prefer to treat their symptoms of worry and anxiety by following information, guidance and on the internet, listening to relaxation audio tapes, CDs and recordings, reading self-help books, meditating in groups or at home, listening to relaxing music, talking to their family members and friends (who are then often acting as therapists or counsellors – simply by listening to problems or giving advice), caring for a pet, walking a dog, painting, dancing, fishing, bird-watching, writing or getting involved in other types of hobby, calming occupation or by altruistically helping others.

If you are suffering from nervousness then there several different types of health professionals that can help to advise you and treat your anxiety. They include:

Your family doctor or general practitioner (GP). This is usually the first professional person that you should contact if you are suffering from anxiety. They can then make an assessment of your symptoms, exclude medical causes for your anxiety and advise on the most suitable treatment. Sometimes this will involve medication or it may involve a referral to a psychologist, clinical psychologist or consultant psychiatrist.

There is often confusion about the difference between a psychologist and a psychiatrist.

Psychologists are professionally trained specialists in treating mental health problems, especially anxiety disorders. Psychologists do not have a medical degree and are therefore not medical doctors. They treat people with talking therapies. There are different training routes to becoming a psychologist and psychologists work using different methods, e.g. cognitive therapy, CBT or counselling.

Psychiatrists are medically qualified doctors who specialise in treating mental health disorders and problems. They licensed to prescribe medication and they carry out detailed mental health assessments of patients. They advise on, plan, oversee and guide treatment plans. These treatment programmes are often then carried out by related health professionals such as registered mental nurses (RMNs), counsellors or psychologists. Psychiatrists also advise other doctors (such as GPs or family doctors) about the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions. Psychiatrists are experts on how to treat anxiety (especially severe anxiety with medication).
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.

relaxing music How Does a Hypnotherapy Session Works?

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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Psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud believed that repressed memories and desires wreak all sorts of havoc on the mind. As a result, we develop stigmas, phobias, aversions or, in severe cases, mental disorders. He felt that therapy sessions could uncover the unconscious glitches and repair the human psyche.

A number of therapists have tried to elicit their patient’s most repressed memories to heal afflictions, but perhaps none are as mysterious or effective as hypnotherapy. Using hypnosis techniques, therapists can often push past mental blocks to guide memory recall, and then separate the thoughts from the learned behavior, leaving more negative associations behind.

During a hypnotherapy visit, patients will answer questions regarding their medical history and the condition they would like treated. Next, the hypnotherapist will discuss how stage hypnosis works. The subject will typically be asked to lie down and will be guided through relaxation techniques, sometimes using music or a series of hypnosis techniques.

Often a story is told and the wording of that story helps the subject fall into a state of trance. In this state, the sufferer will be given a post hypnotic suggestion to help alleviate his or her condition. Most sessions last about an hour and adult patients see remarkable improvement in 4-10 visits, children in simply 1 or 2 sessions. In some cases, patients receive self-hypnosis information or tapes to use at home to facilitate recovery.

Hypnosis therapy is used to treat a wide host of ailments from mental to physical. Most recently, researchers discovered that the mind plays an important role in pain management, particularly with cancer patients or those undergoing surgery. Studies show that hypnosis meditation can lessen one’s need for medication and shorten recovery time. Thinking negative thoughts can lead to stress, which has powerful ramifications on the body.

It can disrupt a woman’s menstrual cycle, create a cold sore, make a person ill with a cold, disrupt sleep patterns, generate ulcers, facilitate hair loss, exacerbate psoriasis, lead to heart disease and contribute to obesity. Today, hypnosis sessions are used in treating obesity, asthma, anxiety, pain, sleep walking, thumb sucking, nail biting, smoking, inflammatory bowel disease, insomnia, addiction, warts, bedwetting, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, eczema, psoriasis, acne, migraines, stress, tinnitus, cancer pain, obesity, anorexia, bulimia, indigestion, phobias, depression and the pain of childbirth.

For hypnotherapy training, most people obtain a doctorate degree in medicine or psychology. Others receive a master’s in social work, psychology or therapy and have at least 20 hours of ASCH-approved hypnotherapy training. Six to eight week courses provide licenses to mental health professionals as well. To find a professional who practices hypnotherapy, one can look at a number of websites, including: The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis at Asch, The Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis at Sceh or The American Association of Professional Hypnotherapists at Aaph.
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 How to Stop Panic Attacks

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.

sleep meditation music | osho meditation
Panic Attacks are one specific type of anxiety disorders as are obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, phobias, generalized anxiety and social anxiety. For all the types listed, anxiety therapy has proven to be very effective in providing relief for sufferers.

Panic attacks or anxiety attacks are associated with intense feelings of fear and anxiety that can come on very suddenly. Some of the more common physical symptoms during an anxiety attack are a rapid heart beat, shaking or trembling, rapid breathing or shallow breathing, hot flushes or chills, and feeling dizzy or light-headed, and often as if everything is “closing in on you.”

Panic attacks are not physically harmful and will often fade within 30 minutes.

Panic attacks wreak havoc emotionally by causing their victims to withdraw from situations, relationships, challenges and even their own goals and dreams. Sufferers begin living in fear of their next attack which only heightens the intense unpleasant feelings of fear and anxiety.

Although this cycle can become deeply entrenched, the disorder itself is very treatable.

Below you will find the most common types of panic attack treatments.

Anxiety Therapy – professional treatment practiced by a licensed therapist or counselor. Some types of professional treatment are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), counseling and psychoanalysis

Relaxation and Calming Techniques – includes deep breathing, meditation, and yoga.

Deep breathing exercises vary but are typically along the lines of slowly breathing in deeply, holding for 4-6 seconds while gently telling yourself to “relax”, then exhale completely.

Meditation is a discipline where the mind is focused on a single object of thought. Usually this involves turning attention to a single point of reference. This helps by getting the sufferers mind off their negative cycle onto more positive thoughts which is followed by more peaceful emotions.

Yoga was originally ancient spiritual practices originating in India that were believed to lead to spiritual experience and insight into the nature of existence.

Today in many parts of the world yoga is mostly associated with the practice of “postures” as a form of exercise. Yoga is often practiced in conjunction with meditation.

Aroma therapy – by smelling the sweet scent of various herbs the anxiety sufferers nerves are calmed and soothed.

Medication – offers temporary relief of panic attacks by covering up symptoms.

Exercise – can be an effective way to relieve stress and anxiety. Studies show aerobics are the best type of exercise for sufferers of anxiety and stress.

Music Therapy – a type of biofeedback that relieves stress, improves sleep, enhances creativity and access to deep meditative states by simply listening to meditative music recorded at precise frequencies.

Self Help Treatments – There are many very effective Self-help anxiety treatments available that actually resolve the underlying issue and cure panic attacks on a permanent basis.
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.

Brainwave Entrainment 8 Key Benefits of Beta Brainwaves

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.
relaxing music for writing | theta state meditation
Although Gamma brainwaves are faster than Beta brainwaves, the latter are considered the fastest brainwave frequency by many. This is probably because Gamma waves were the latest to be discovered, and there are still some who don’t mention them at all. Having said that, Beta brainwaves range in frequency from 12 Hz to 38 Hz and though they are generally produced by the brain’s left hemisphere, they can also be produced in synchrony by both hemispheres.

Beta brainwaves are prevalent among adults, specially when they are wide awake and are associated with lucid thinking, social skills, focused concentration and peak performance. In children, Alpha is the prevalent brainwave pattern, but as people grow older, Beta brainwaves increase to the point that they usually become the predominant pattern. It is a fact of life, part of the natural evolution process that human beings experience. No single brainwave pattern is better than the others. Each type of brainwave serves a purpose and the lack of either of them might result in imbalances that should be looked into.

There are many benefits related with a healthy Beta brainwave activity, which we will point out before long. Just as there are benefits, there are also drawbacks like stress, anxiety, insomnia and tension. These usually appear when Beta activity is higher than usual. Following are the benefits of having healthy Beta brainwave levels.

Quick Thinking.
Beta brainwaves help you process information at a quick pace, giving you the ability to think fast and speed up your ideas. Social Skills.
Have you ever felt like talking non stop? Beta brainwaves might have had something to do with it. When your beta activity increases, your conversational skills get a boost. It could definitely help next time you want to socialize. Focused Attention.
Beta activity helps you direct your attention to your primary objective and cast aside all other matters that may distract you. When you read a book, for example, you are in Beta. Higher IQ.
Recent studies have shown that people with dominant Beta activity usually score higher in IQ tests. This comes as no surprise, since people who read and solve math problems, have a better chance of building a smart brain. Higher Energy.
Beta brainwaves raise your stamina. So if you normally feel worn out and wish you were more energetic, chances are you might have low Beta levels. Peak Performance.
This is a common benefit to other brainwave patterns too. With Beta, though, it’s easy to see that if you can focus your attention for longer periods of time and your energy level is higher, then your performance will likely improve. Positive Thinking.
Since the left hemisphere is associated with positive thoughts and beta brainwaves are primarily produced there, people with healthy Beta activity tend to have more positive thoughts. Logical Thinking.
This comes naturally when you can focus your attention at solving a problem or learning a subject, because your brain is able to dig deeper into the subject and find a rational course of action.

Modern science has developed tools and techniques that can help you increase your beta brainwaves so that you can experience all their benefits. Brainwave Entrainment is one of such techniques that utilizes sound stimuli to entrain your brain in as little as six months. Eventually, you learn how to master your brain and access brainwave patterns at will. This is in contrast to traditional methods like meditation or yoga, which usually take years to dominate.
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.

Brainwave Entrainment Artificial Anticipation Brainwave Inducement

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.
meditation music waves | binaural definition
There are many situations in life, which are dangerous and a simple warning sign will not serve as good enough warning. For instance if you are in your car and an emergency vehicle is approaching in your not paid attention this could cause a serious conflict as the emergency vehicle crosses against the signal light traffic. There are also times when driving where a bridge may have black ice on it, and without you knowing you could slide into the wall or off the bridge and die.

It used for this reason that I propose the use of extremely low-frequency brainwave range waves to be sent out to induce and trigger an alert brainwave in the human mind of those nearby. Although this sounds like science-fiction fantasy, all this technology currently exists. We can’t send directional sound waves towards an individual or blast them within the radius of an intersection or at cars approaching an impending danger. In fact, this simple technique and additional warning may just be enough to save one’s life.

Such an artificial and directionally induced brainwave system as many uses and obviously one of those uses would be military. For instance if a sensor goes off for a possible contaminant used to make explosives at a security checkpoint, a transportation hub checkpoint or a border checkpoint, then the sensor would alert to the artificial directional brainwave inducer, which would trigger any alert signal in the brain of the soldier. In doing so the soldier would be on full alert and using his full faculties to help in staying on top of the situation. Consider this in 2006.
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.

meditation music 3 Important Things to Remember When Meditating

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.

sleep meditation for kids | calming music
If you are just one of the many people today who are interested in meditating, then you will want to know some of the most important things to remember when doing this. Although generally speaking, meditation is all about doing whatever gets you in that clear and relaxed frame of mind, there are some tips that you can learn to make your sessions even more effective. This article will key you in on all the information that you will need to get started today.

1. Clear your mind. Although this may sound like a vague tip to follow, it is meant to be. Do whatever you have to in order to get rid of distracting or bothersome thoughts. This can actually be a very practical exercise, because often times when we are at work or school, we let our minds become occupied by other things that are going on in our lives which only serve to take away from our effectiveness as students, employees, and people in general.

2. One good tip that you can follow is to put on some music while you are getting into your session. It doesn’t have to be traditional relaxing music that some people use while meditating. It can be anything from rock n’ roll to classical music, as long as it helps you relax. Meditation is all about getting yourself into a clear frame of mind and focusing your energy on only positive things, so if music helps you do that then go for it.

3. Find the right position to meditate it. You don’t have to stick to just one, but you should find a position to meditate in that helps your body relax physically as well as mentally. You can go online to find many different meditation positions that will really help you to start relaxing, so you can go through your day, becoming a more effective, happy, and healthy person.
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.

Brainwave Entrainment The Effects of Sleep Disorders and Daylight Savings Time

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.
alpha brain state | meditation chicago
Dr. Breus: When I was working with Rosie O’Donnell from the television show “The View”, she too had obstructive sleep apnea. We talked about it nationally on television with her, and she stopped breathing in her sleep over two hundred and fifty times in a night.

Kevin: Wow! Then how do you know that it’s happening? They don’t know that it’s happening!

Dr. Breus: They have no idea. And that’s what’s so scary about this situation with sleep. It’s you wake up and you don’t feel so hot, but you have no idea what was going on.

Kevin: Right.

Dr. Breus: So there’s multiple ways to get at that. Sometimes it’s going for a formal sleep study. Sometimes it’s even easier than that. Sometimes it’s just asking your bed partner “Hey, have you heard me snore?” or “Have you heard me stop breathing in my sleep?”, or things like that. Because again that can be a really big factor. But all of these different things – whether it’s a sleep disorder or disordered sleep – cause sleep deprivation.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: And that’s the real big kicker here. It’s not necessarily stopping breathing in your sleep that’s not so great for you, even though, believe me, having low oxygen levels isn’t good. Because it can cause stroke and heart attack and things like that.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: But what happens is this – your brain says “Holy cow! There’s no oxygen.” And it wakes you up. And it’s like an alarm clock going off all night long.

Kevin: Two hundred times.

Dr. Breus: [Every] five or ten minutes.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: I mean, think about that. If an alarm clock went off every five minutes all night long, how good would you feel the next morning?

Kevin: [Laughs] Terrible.

Dr. Breus: Right, you’d feel pretty crappy.

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Well, every time you do that – from either sleep apnea or insomnia or restless life syndrome or what I call disordered sleep – it causes sleep deprivation. And sleep deprivation affects several different areas. The first area that it affects is cognition or thinking in creative process. You know when we’re at work, or we’re at home, or we’re trying to problem-solve or come up with new solutions, we have a real big problem if we’re too sleepy to do it. You know what I’m saying?

Kevin: I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of callers on the line right now have experienced that.

Dr. Breus: Yeah. There’s no question about it. Another big area is reaction time. So how quickly do we react to external stimulants?

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Turns out to be a major factor, from sleep deprivation. So, what does that mean? Driving a car, big factor. Here’s a great example – Daylights Saving Time. We all just experienced this, the spring forward aspect. What we lose – approximately one hour of sleep –

Kevin: Right. Dr. Breus: Well, did you know that the two days after Daylights Saving Time are the number one and two days for car accidents?

Kevin: Get out of here. That’s incredible.

Dr. Breus: Yeah.

Kevin: Hmm.

Dr. Breus: And that’s from losing one hour of sleep. Now you’d think “Oh so what I lose an hour. It’s not that big a deal.”. The truth of the matter is, it turns out to be a bigger deal because we are a sleep deprived nation. The average individual gets approximately 6.9 hours of sleep per night. But what we’re finding is when we really look at that a little bit closer ( cause that’s what they report ) it’s about 6.9 hours, which you see now, seven hours of sleep. That’s not so bad.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: When we actually study them in the lab, it turns out they’re getting closer to 5.9 hours of sleep.

Kevin: Really? And the difference is …

Dr. Breus: About an hour’s worth of sleep, and then when you’re talking about people who are getting six hours worth of sleep verses seven, that’s almost a full sleep cycle towards the end of the night, which can have a tremendous amount to do with memory, reaction time, creativity, you name it.

Kevin: Yeah. Well, without getting too detailed, can you go into a sleep cycle?

Dr. Breus: Sure. So what happens when you go into a sleep cycle? First of all, people should know, that sleep is not just an on-off switch. It doesn’t work that way. You don’t just walk into a room, turn off the light and boom you’re asleep. It’s more like pulling your foot slowly off the gas

Kevin: Yeah.

Dr. Breus: Multiple things have to be released and multiple things have to occur in order for that switch-over to happen. But once [you actually], your body does settle down and calm down enough to fall asleep, that’s when things start to get interesting. So we measure sleep in multiple different ways, but primarily through brainwaves, or what we call EEG. Now people have probably seen it on you know, “[Grey’s] Anatomy” and, you know, “E.R.”, normally thinks we see the line flipping across the screen,

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: Well, there are different wave forms that we can identify that will tell us which stages of sleep people are in. And that has to do with how quickly information is moving across your brain. So right when you close your eyes, you have alpha wave, which is a calm, sort of bio-feedback situation where you’re relaxed just somewhere between seven and nine [hertz], so seven to nine cycles per second of your brain moving back and forth. After that, you move into Stage One sleep. and Stage Two sleep. Now, Stage One and Stage Two sleep are kind of hard to tell apart. There are a couple of different landmarks, and we don’t have to go into all the specifics of it. But basically, Stage Two sleep occupies almost fifty percent of your night, as an adult.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: But as a child, it only represents about twenty percent of your night. And as an infant, it [laughs] almost doesn’t represent any of your night.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: So, if I take a baby and I hook him up to an EEG, it’s almost all deep sleep, which we as adults are lucky if we get eighteen to twenty percent [of our night hour]

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: And that’s the wake-up-and-feel-great sleep. That’s the “Wow! I feel recharged. I feel refreshed. I feel ready to meet the day” sleep.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Okay. Infants also have a much larger bit of R.E.M. sleep, or rapid eye movement sleep. Now, a lot of people say “Well, Micheal, isn’t that the sleep where you dream?”. Well, yes and no. You have a greater [preponderance] to dream during R.E.M. sleep. But you can actually dream at any stage of sleep, believe it or not. Most people don’t know that. And the way you can prove that to yourself is if you ever fall asleep on the couch, and you’ve had a dream, you’ll know that you probably want to sleep that long. The average person, it takes them between eighty and a hundred and twenty minutes to get to R.E.M. sleep.

Kevin: Well, okay.

Dr. Breus: So it turns out to be quite a big difference there. So, again, it’s not necessary that you’re only going to dream during R.E.M. sleep. You have a greater tendency to dream then, but you can dream during any stage of sleep.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: Let’s get back to some of the facts of sleep,

Kevin: Sure.

Dr. Breus: Provision on health. It also affects how we heal. One of the things we know is that research studies shown here, hospitals show that individuals who have better sleep in hospital actually heal better. We know that people lose weight better when they’re not sleep deprived and when they’re… going into the specifics of that in a little while.

Kevin: Mm hmm.

Dr. Breus: We know that we defend against disease. There was a fantastic study that showed that individuals who take the flu shot actually find that they are less effective when they are sleepy. I mean, think about that. Think about all the people who go out and get flu shots. And if they are sleep deprived, they’re doing themselves no good. You know what I mean? Depression is a whole other factor. One of the things we’re starting to learn about now, is that individuals who are sleep deprived have a greater tendency to have depression. And people who have a genetic propensity for depression, they can kick off in the bed, just like being sleep deprived.

Kevin: Okay.

Dr. Breus: So it’s pretty serious stuff. When we look at just women, in general, there are some pretty amazing statistics here as well. Seventy-five percent of menopausal women experience hot flushes, alright. Hot flushes will affect your sleep. Forty percent of menopausal women have sleep problems caused by hot flushes. So, what we’re talking about now, is we’re talking about roughly thirty- five percent of all menopausal women are having disrupted sleep. And all women go through menopause.

Kevin: Wow.

Dr. Breus: So, that’s a pretty tremendous section of the population who’re going to have sleep problems, just from the life hormonal changes.
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.