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sleep meditation “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” – Lyrics That Tell Us What We’re Not

My relationship with Richard Thompson’s most-popular tune has always been an uneasy one. I love it, but I don’t know why. On a passive listen, it seems like a fairly vapid, melodramatic love ballad. In a word, it’s cheesy. Yet I can’t listen to it without the risk of my chin quivering.

For years, without having devoted much thought to the matter, I offhandedly assumed its old-world Irish vibe just gave it a romanticism that resonated with me (yes, Richard Thompson is British; but the song feels Irish). Half the blood in me can be traced back to Ireland…but I need go back only as far as the late ’70s to tap memories of drunken relatives singing “Danny Boy” or “Harrigan” or some such folk song. Anytime I hear a Celtic-sounding guitar or the flitty drone of bagpipes, I well up by reflex. Mix in lyrics about star-crossed lovers and a young man’s death, and you have an effective recipe for drawing the melancholy out of me — whether the art snob in me likes it or not.

But the song is much, much more than that.

For those of you who don’t know the song or its tale, I’ll give you the synopsis:

Girl (Red Molly) meets Boy (James) when she notices his cool motorcycle (a 1952 Vincent Black Lightning) > Some unspoken courtship happens > Boy proposes marriage to Girl, but discloses to her in earnest: “I’m a dangerous man / for I fought with the law since I was 17, / I robbed many a man to get my Vincent machine. / Now I’m 21 years, I might make 22, / and I don’t mind dying but for the love of you.” > They marry > Boy gets shot during a robbery > On his deathbed, Boy sums up his existence: “In my opinion, there’s nothing in this world / beats a 52 Vincent and a red-headed girl” > Boy dies, but not before handing the keys to his prized motorcycle to Girl/Wife.

On the surface, it’s a ridiculously simple story that’s fraught with dubious morality. James is an unyielding criminal, for one thing. If he robbed for some known purpose — like food or rent, or even a certain desperately wanted motorcycle — that would be one thing. But none of these are the case. At the start of the song, James already has his motorcycle. And by the second verse, he has his girl, too. These are the only two things that matter to him. So why, if he truly loved Red Molly, would he not change his ways so that they could have a life together?

Because his one-dimensional existence is exactly what she loves about him. And by extension, it’s what we love about him, too — because he’s everything we are not.

James is a sort of Nietzschian Übermensch (“Superman”). He has no fear of pain or death. He has no kids to worry for. He never stresses over money. He suffers no regret. And he certainly doesn’t envy someone else’s possibly greener grass.

James is who he is.

Now, I understand how underwhelming that sounds. So what, right? Each one of us is who he is, right? Wrong. We are all, each of us, someone else. And none of us really knows who.

The renowned documentary filmmaker Errol Morris was once asked about the interview process. Specifically, he was asked why he believed people were willing to open up and speak honestly to a camera. “I’m not sure we truly have privileged access to our own minds,” he said. “I don’t think we have any idea who we are…we’re engaged in a constant battle to figure out who we are.” The interview process, he believes, is a means by which some portion of that access may be granted. Like meditation or counseling, it’s a process of isolating yourself from the outside world — and the nonstop bombardment of stimuli it projects — to let the white noise fade…and then listen to what’s left. The truth.

But even for those of us who can get there, personal truths are only glimpsed in moments: the profound dream, the Freudian slip, the breakthrough on your analyst’s couch.

I remember the night I first heard “1952 Vincent Black Lightning.” I was sitting at the bar in the Khyber, alone, waiting for my friend T. My memory of this stands out for two reasons. First, upon hearing this song I’d never heard before, I had the distinct suspicion I’d known it all my life. The feeling was comforting and strange at the same time.

The second thing I remember continues to embarrass me to this day.

T. was late. The opening band was about to go on. More and more hipsters were floating into the place and congregating in little groups. My self-consciousness started to build. I felt like a pariah sitting there by myself. (The brunette by the jukebox with the tarantula tattoo, is she giggling to her friend about me?) I couldn’t take it. So I looked down the far end of the bar, as if I saw someone I knew down there, and pitched my eyes up as if to say, “Hey!” I even lifted my glass and air-toasted the invisible man. It was pathetic. I couldn’t simply sit there, my pure lone self, and wait for my friend. No. To avoid the secret mocking of strangers (which probably wasn’t even happening), I had to act like someone else — a cooler, more-social version of myself, a version who ran into random friends wherever I went.

Erroll Morris argues that we can’t truly know ourselves. But the harsher reality is, we can’t even be true to who we think we are. That alternate version of Greg I adopted at the Khyber: I did that for strangers. And I’m certainly not alone; we’ve all done something like this, and not just under the tension of an uncomforable social situation. We pull out different versions of ourselves in different day-to-day contexts. Which you are you when you’re with your boss? Your father? Your priest? Your most-successful friend?

The first Noble Truth of Buddhism is: Life is suffering. The second is: The origin of suffering is attachment. Maybe the complexities of existence can be reduced to those two simple statements. Each of us has attachments. We’re attached to what we love, what we fear, what we find inspiring, what we find boring, what we feel is right, what we feel is wrong, and on and on.

James is the opposite of us. He does not suffer, even after a shotgun blast to his chest. For James has managed to do what we, as well-rounded real-life humans, cannot: he’s avoided all the trappings and obligations and existential weights of the world (save for two: his motorcycle and his red-headed girl). He even owns his own unique vision of death: “angels and ariels in leather and chrome / swooping down from Heaven to carry [him] home” — as if it’s almost charming to him; you can picture him smiling as the lights go out.

The richest irony is that, only through attachment can we connect with James. Through our attachment to song and lyrics — to the mysterious art of music — we can embody his perfectly reductive and enviable soul, if only for a short time. For the 4:43 we’re listening to this song (or the 5:16 of the live track above), we vicariously exist as James does: with complete, unbridled freedom.

Kris Kristopherson wrote, and Janis Joplin famously sang, that “freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.” And that’s the difference, right there. We always have something to lose — some attachment we’re desperate to hold on to. We love “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” not because of its romanticism or its melancholy. We love it because we love the impossible idea of what James is: a way we’ll never be.
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 What Are the Best Meditation Techniques?

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Zen Meditation or Zazen, is the practice of the Zen Buddhist. A Zen meditator will usually sit with folded legs on a pillow or cushion. The back is held straight but relaxed. The eyes are half closed so there is no distraction but the meditator stays awake. There are several different teaching practices for this meditation. Concentration on breathing and counting seems to be the most widely known and used. Zazen’s goal is to calm the mind and body to allow intuitive knowledge to seep to the conscious awareness from the deeper layers of self.

Breathing Meditation is based off the many practices that use it. However, it is less strict in form. Just find a comfortable position and put your full concentration on your breathing. As thoughts begin to arise just let them disappear with the out breath.

Chakra Meditation is used to tune into and energize the energy centers of the body. There are many different ideas on how many chakra there are, where they are located and what they are for. Instead of getting caught up in all that it’s best to concentrate on connecting all the energy of the body into one cohesive unit. Just like the physical body has it’s organs that are ultimately part of one whole, so too the energy body should be viewed as one whole. Try concentrating on expanding and contracting the energy body. It feels somewhat like contracting the muscles but the actual muscles remain relaxed. Try to feel the complete energy body from head to toe. This may be too difficult for beginners. In that case, I would suggest moving your awareness to each part of the body separately. After having moved your awareness through all parts of your body, expand your awareness to encompass all parts simultaneously.

So what are the best meditation techniques? The best ones are the ones that you feel most comfortable with and work for you. They may be strict practices, a combination of several, or something completely unique. The idea is to get to know yourself. Experiment and play around with different techniques. Don’t think you have to follow anything exactly. If something comes to mind while meditating then try it out. Meditation should be a personal affair. Make it personal and find what clicks for you.
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 Learn Forex Trading – 3 Simple Tips for Setting the Stage

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1. REST

Before we turn on the computer and look at the currency
pairs, it is imperative that we have had adequate rest.
Proper sleep allows us to recharge our batteries and extend
our period of maximum focus. Sometimes we all wake up and
things are just not in balance. Issues outside of our
trading environment or our physical conditions, or lack
thereof, are ruling the roost. This is when all successful
online Forex traders pull out their Ultimate Weapon of
Successful Currency Trading.

We simple don’t trade the Forex!

Use this time to review, read or play golf! It’s all about
probabilities, and the probability of success in Forex
trading multiplies when we are at our best.

2. PLAN and REVIEW

Forex Trading is a business and should be treated
accordingly. In the business of trading currencies we all
should have a plan, a business trading plan. This plan
should consist of 2 components: A Mission Statement which
should explain your personal “Why?” Why are you trading
Forex? Your mission statement must be compelling enough to
overcome the inevitable challenges all online Forex traders
face.

The second component is your Forex trading plan. The
component of the overall plan covers the execution of Forex
trading. Your Forex plan should cover the what, how, when
and risk components of your currency trading. Before each
Forex trading session review your entire plan and trade it!
Make this a habit. Another trick of successful Forex
traders is after losing some focus during the trading
period, take a break and before returning refocus by
reviewing your plan.

3. RELAX

You must sharpen your mental saw before each and every Forex
trading session. There are a variety of methods for helping
you relax and focus. You can listen to your favorite music,
meditate in a quiet place, recite positive wealth building
affirmations, or listening to a Confidence for Traders CD.
When it comes to developing a mental edge, play every ace.
The correct method is the one that works for you!

After all of your preparation you still find yourself not on
top of your game you can once again consider the ultimate
weapon of great online Forex traders.

Walk away! You do not have to trade the Forex today.

Preparing for your trading session is all about placing
yourself is the best position possible to take advantage of
the myriad of opportunities that makes the Forex market
great. When you incorporate mental preparations into your
daily Forex trading ritual you have set the stage for
handling whatever the currency market can throw at you with
confidence, determination and clarity. Remember, above all
the hype, strategies and methodologies lies common sense.

Use it and you too will find success, because it’s always
the little things that make all the difference in the world!
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 What Does Cooling Down and Change Have to Do With Sleep Improvement?

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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These ABZzz’s of Sleeping Insomnia Free offers over 26 keys to help you sleep successfully. What can you do to promote healthy, natural sleep? Today the focus begins with ‘C’.

Cooling Down
Your body prefers to be cool at night in preparation for sleep. If you’ve ever had a hot bath too late at night, some of you may have experienced a difficult time getting to sleep. Your body was trying to cool down.

Actually, your body temperature usually peaks around 6 PM, and then it starts to decline until it’s at its lowest point around 4 AM. Then, it gradually begins its rise. With this increase in core temperature, brainwave activity increases, thereby waking us up in the morning. Along with the nightly drop in core body temperature (not just feeling hot or cold), brainwave activity also begins declining until we begin to feel groggy and sleep onset occurs sometime between 9 to 11 PM.

Many things can disrupt this natural rhythm. One is not getting enough sunlight in the morning. There has been much research done that studies the effects of being exposed to more or less light during the day and how this impacts your sleep. There has long been evidence that exposing yourself to bright light early in the morning is one of the best motivators for feeling great and having a good day. But light is also important as your natural melatonin hormone diminishes and your state of wakefulness begins.

Another is exercise.

It is important to discuss exercise! I am a big proponent of daily exercise. All the research says that elevating your heart rate with some form of daily activity or exercise is showing all kinds of overall health benefits, from lowering cholesterol to decreasing heart disease to losing weight. It also helps in improving your sleep.

But, since our bodies like to be cool as we head toward bedtime, it is likely best to keep the racket and soccer ball types of activities to earlier in the day. Engaging in high-energy exercise or sport in the evening does in fact increase the energy flowing through our bodies, heats us up and actually slows the onset of sleep. If you want gentle exercise and fresh air in the evening, a neighborhood stroll is definitely in order.

So…keep cool as night approaches.

Change
“Make me one with everything,” the Buddhist monk said to the hot-dog vendor who was hawking food near the temple.

The vendor made a frank with mustard, ketchup, relish, and onions. The monk took it and handed over a twenty-dollar bill.

The vendor stashed the cash in his apron and turned his attention to the next customer.

“But where’s my change?” the monk inquired.

“Change must come from within, my friend,” said the vendor.

Why am I sharing this with you? My belief is that in order to make concerted, long-lasting change, the desire to do so must come from within. You need to engage not only your thought processes, but also your spirit. When the desire (for change) comes from within you, your chances for succeeding are much greater. Your goal is to improve your sleep. Sometimes, it seems so much easier to take a pill and hope that this will improve the situation. And sometimes it does, but often briefly. But when it comes to sleep, you need to get your spirit involved for long-lasting habit improvement in your sleep patterns.
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 The Benefits of Theta Brainwaves – What Theta Meditation Can Do For You

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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Are you aware of the large range of benefits that tapping into the theta brainwave state can bring you? If not, read on because this is something that’s well worth taking advantage of!

What Are Theta Brainwaves?

Theta brainwaves are produced during sleep, and when we’re in a deeply relaxed state. These are relatively slow brainwaves, with a frequency range of about 4 – 7Hz (cycles per second) – this is in contrast to the much faster beta waves (> 13Hz) that we produce when we’re awake and fully focused.

Some people have learned to access the theta state while they’re awake, using techniques such as meditation and self-hypnosis. While these methods can take a long time to master, the results are worth it. Here are just some of the many benefits associated with theta brainwaves:

Increased creativity – theta wave production is higher in those engaged in creative pursuits.
Access to altered states of consciousness – theta waves are linked with the experience of psychic powers and other altered states such as lucid dreaming.
Increased health – people in the theta state are deeply relaxed and experience less stress and the ills that are associated with it. Immune function is also improved.
Greater intuition and insight – many receive flashes of inspiration during theta wave production, perhaps because the subconscious mind is more accessible during this time.
Improved learning abilities – theta waves are associated with better learning skills, as well as improved memory and mental focus.

How Can You Produce More Theta Brainwaves?

We noted earlier that some people use meditation, self-hypnosis etc to enter the theta brainwave state, but that these methods aren’t easy to master. Fortunately there’s another alternative available that anyone can use to experience the benefits of theta meditation much more easily – brainwave entrainment.

Brainwave entrainment involves the use of sound recordings that feature repetitive sounds of particular frequencies. When you listen to such a recording, your brain will naturally start to match – or entrain to – the frequency of the sounds it’s hearing. So if the recording contains sounds that are designed to induce the theta state, your brain should start to produce theta waves as you listen. This is much easier than trying to access and maintain the theta brain state by yourself!

Choosing a Theta Brainwave Meditation Track

There are three types of sound-based brainwave entrainment recordings: binaural beats, monaural beats and isochronic tones. All of these work great, although many people find that isochronic tones have an edge over the other types, because they’re especially efficient at entraining the brain. However, they’re not yet as well known as binaural beats, so may be harder to find.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

relaxing music Fighting Stress? Here Are 5 Tips That Can Help

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First things first. A response that is both psychological and physiological due to an upset in the balance of our lives through certain events. The end result of these responses can lead to mental health or physical health issues within our bodies. Since before anyone can remember, stress has been a natural part of the human response to these certain events that may take place.

Any event that has taken place that requires you to make certain adjustments to your lifestyle or environments can be a trigger for stress. Such events can be an emergency situation, death in the family, traumatic accident or may be the end result of a serious disease or illness that you have gone through. There are also many other situations which might also cause stress that are not medically related such as finances, anger, pressures in the work place, not getting the right training needed for something, greed, love, trying to achieve great expectations, jealousy, and hate. All of these events are great causes for stress related issues.

If the events that may be causing stress in your life are not dealt with immediately, these issues can become even more difficult to contend with. Without immediate attention the stress that is caused can result in an extreme decrease in your health both physically and mentally. These stress issues have also at times left some people without homes or even turned them into finding addictions.

Now, you are probably saying “what about the tips you mentioned to help with stress prevention”? Well, just calm down and do not get worked up! I am getting there. Yes, there are 5 steps that you can do to help fight the stress that may be in your life. They are as follows:

Exercise – Aerobic exercise is a great way to release endorphins into your body. These endorphins are natural substances that allow our bodies to feel better and have a good positive attitude. Other types of exercises that are great stress relievers are swimming and walking.

Relaxation techniques – there are several relaxation techniques that are very effective when dealing with stress. These techniques may be one or a combination of deep breathing, yoga, meditation, muscle relaxation and visualization. These techniques can help you get a feeling of well being, lower blood pressure and possibly enable you to get a restful nights sleep.

Pay attention to your children – many times your children may be stresses out and as a result you end up being stressed as well. You want to monitor your child’s behavior. See if they show any signs of becoming over burdened or bullying the other children. It is a good idea to be active in our child’s life and attend those special sports events or school functions. If your child is showing these signs, you may want to consult with their school teacher and get the inside information on what may be going on. If the problem persists, you may want to seek out more professional consultation.

Time for yourself – A hot relaxing bath may be just what the doctor ordered. A hot bath with herbs and oils with light that is dimmed while listening to some soft music is a great way to relieve stress. Other forms of activities that are all yours and stress free are swimming, reading a book or taking up a favorite hobby.

St. Johns Wort – this formula is regarded very highly by many people. These people believe this natural formula to aid in the relief of anxiety and other symptoms of stress. This allows for your body to feel more relaxed and thus stress free.

It is very important for us to keep our bodies healthy. One of the best ways to do this is done by keeping our bodies as stress free as possible. If you have stress and undergone all 5 of the above mentioned stress and have not seen any relief, you may want to consult with a physician in your local area. This physician will be better able to help your with whatever issues that you may be having in your body to help relieve the stress.
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 Mentally Treating Anxiety Disorders

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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Treating anxiety disorders using conventional methods normally entails the individual who is suffering from anxiety or panic disorder being put onto a course of prescription medication. However, I am of the opinion that all this type of treatment really does is treats the symptoms of the disorder and never really addresses the cause of the disorder.

I am of the opinion that there are far more natural and healthy ways of treating anxiety disorders and most of them are more focused on treating the cause of the disorder. Such treatments include hypnotherapy, brainwave programming, cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation.

All of these methods of treating anxiety disorders are very natural and far healthier for the individual and they have no proven side effects. What makes these treatments so effective is the fact that they address the disorder at its origin which is in the subconscious mind.

Panic and anxiety disorder are caused by the subconscious sending incorrect signals to the nervous system of the individual which causes the symptoms of anxiety and panic attacks. The reason for these incorrect or inappropriate signals being sent from the subconscious is because the subconscious mind has been incorrectly programmed due to a bad experience earlier on in the individual’s life.

So treating anxiety disorders by addressing this incorrect programming in the subconscious mind one is in effect able to correct the way in which the subconscious responds to certain situations and stimulus and thus remove the cause of the anxiety or panic attacks rather than simply removing the symptoms of the attack.

At the end of the day this is a very effective way of mentally treating anxiety disorders and it is far healthier for the individual concerned and gives them the chance to be free of the disorder permanently. The human mind is a very powerful tool, all we need to do is to learn how to use it effectively so as to be able to improve our quality of life and the experiences we have while we are on earth.
Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain? ?requency following?response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.

Brainwave Entrainment Ways to Increase Focus Power

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Brainwave entrainment is a method to stimulate the brain into entering a specific state by using a pulsing sound, light, or electromagnetic field. The pulses elicit the brain’s ‘frequency following’ response, encouraging the brainwaves to align to the frequency of a given beat.
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Are you aware that mental focus is developed predominantly between 6-15 years of age and in case the child has had a dysfunctional environment at home, mental focus develops with insufficient convergence or with high intensity of distraction (due to anxiety and fear).

Remember, as mentioned in the earlier article that Mental Focus and Distractive Frequencies are like antagonistic muscles (when one muscle relaxes, automatically the connected muscle becomes tense and vice versa).

However as distraction frequencies are more powerful and have more impact on our ability to focus than the frequencies connected with concentration, the first step in increasing mental focus or reducing distraction would be to Minimize the frequencies connected with Distraction. There are a million ways to increase focus like brainwave synchronization, light therapy, and so on, but there are hardly any best known ways of reducing distraction.

There are many such research centres which have devised simple yet effective ways to reduce distraction. Particularly interesting is the manner in which the Focus Width and Focus Span test mentioned in their techniques will help you establish your level of distraction.

Although brainwave CDs can also have a good level of effect on the degrees of distraction, however the associated side effects with using the same for focus can be quite counterproductive. As our Unconscious stores both Outcomes modulated with Negatives Outcomes and Positive Outcomes, as soon as you start listening to any of these CDs, both the negative and positive outcomes get heightened and this can lead to results in your life which can throw you off balance.

Having studied the subject extensively for around 10-12 years now, I can say with certainty that any brainwave products used for increasing focus can have far more detrimental effects in the long run. I coach ADD and ADHD children and adults to overcome their pattern of reduced convergence (due to insufficient Beta Brainwaves or high levels of anxiety), and I have discovered that tools to reduce anxiety are most effective if utilized cautiously and at a slow pace.
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.

meditation music Asian Spa Music – Discover a Better Way to Relax and Unwind

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Different regions in Asia have different styles of spa. Some have hot tubs, massage center. Other regions like India have Ayurveda and other health spa treatments like hot tubs and hot water treatments. Spa treatments in Asia are as varied as the continent itself. Whatever type of treatment, one thing is guaranteed, and that is respite and relaxation. Thailand has a spa theme which is a mixture of massage, meditation and herbal baths. The shrine in Thailand was popular to be a center of learning before the advent of the allopathic medicines. A few years back, these spas also introduced the style of Asian spa music.

The Asian Health Spa music is derived from natural instruments like flute, three stringed lutes, horse hair fiddles and wooden or metal harps. The Asian spa music is serene, tranquil and mostly composed of flutes and is used by mandara and antara spas.

The flute is a frequently used instrument in Asian Spa music. It has a plain design. The willow flute is quite different and sweeter sounding than the regular flute. The difference lies in the fact that the willow flute does not have any openings to change the music emitted. A fipple mouthpiece makes the air flow from an opening where the musician plays and puffs into the instrument. This flute is also known as the sallow flute and was originally invented by the Scandinavians.

Apart from the flute there are many other musical instruments which are relatively relaxing and can be used for spa instrumental melody. Sitar is a renowned Indian instrument which is like a zither and has strings over vaulted metal frets. Asian spa music can also be created from wood wind instruments such has Dizi and Sheng wooded instruments. Stringed instruments such as Haegum or the Korean fiddle also lend a lot of serenity in the world of music. Asian music is thriving with instruments and there are new ones which have been developed every day. Spa music is also essential for stillness and relaxation because melody calms the mind and the heart. Spa music is a medicine for the battered individuals who have tried to forget all the distressing experiences.

Spas help you to loosen up and forget all the stresses and complexities of life. The twenty first century is an age of speed and technology. It is an age filled of strains and tensions. These stresses and tensions cause a lot of stress related ailments like heart problems, blood pressure and diabetes. Asian Spas not only treats you but it also makes you feel light and good. The Asian spa music and its fine tunes grow on you and then make you feel so tranquil and refreshed making the stresses just melt away.
Listening to music while you are meditating – not a good idea. … Anything you do with the thought that you are meditating is meditating. There are many ways to meditate. Personally, I find music to be distracting, but paying attention to sounds in your environment is part of insight meditation.

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

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Most of us would agree that there is not a lot of opportunity to experience the sounds of silence in today’s society. Inundated we are with sensory stimuli, and then with our own thoughts, about 60,000 of them a day apparently. Our bodies and minds process 2.3 million bits of information per second, (don’t ask me who counted!). Fortunately we don’t have to pay attention to all those pieces of information – our minds are fairly adept at filtering out what is unnecessary. But is there such a thing as sensory overload? Do we have too much input? Perhaps I hear a resounding ‘yes’ from the reader! I know that all I have to do is drive down a busy street, and that sometimes picking out a stoplight amongst all the other lights and sounds that are there as distractions can be tricky. And music! It’s everywhere!

As Andrew Waggoner in “The Colonization of Silence” puts it:

“Just give me five minutes without it [music]; that’s all I ask, perhaps all I’ll need to bring it back into being for myself. Imprisoned by it as I am now, assaulted in every store, elevator, voice-mail system, passing car, neighbor’s home, by it and its consequent immolation in the noise of the quotidian, it is lost to me as anything other than a kind of psychic rape, a forced intimacy with sonic partners not of my choosing. When music is everywhere, it is nowhere; when everything is music, nothing is. Silence is as crucial to the musical experience as any of its sounding parameters, and not merely as a kind of acoustical “negative space”. Silence births, nurtures, and eventually takes back the musical utterance; it shapes both the formation of its textures and the arc of its progress through time.”

I experienced silence and stillness on a couple of occasions recently, and I was struck by how much peace they can bring. One such time I was sitting on a promontory overlooking the Minas Basin on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. There is not a lot of sound there to begin with, maybe the occasional shore bird or the lap of waves as the tide comes in. What struck me was that the opportunity to appreciate the silence between those sounds was ever present. When we hear the gaps between sounds – what might be called ‘quiet’ – there is an ever increasing sense of peace that seems to pervade. In a way the sounds themselves become a gateway to quiet – in the gaps between the sounds. Perhaps in the same way when we are meditating or just contemplating, we can ‘listen’ for those sounds of silence and in them find some peacefulness. Time seems to slow down in those moments and there is a rejuvenation of body and mind.

Finding those moments in a busy day can be tricky. Sure – we can take a moment and close our eyes, and the visual stimulus disappears. But even if we put earplugs in the actual sounds can still be heard. And even if in a quiet room we may find that we can still ‘hear’ our inner voice chattering away at remembering, hoping, anticipating, worrying etc. So here is something to consider now so that later you can have a different experience than the busyness of life around you. Listen for the spaces between the sounds; listen for the pause, the gap, where there is nothing – no thing – a void. Just notice it.

Sometimes when we see something still, it enables stillness within us. Recently a small turtle ventured out of our garden pond, its head and tail perfectly aligned as if pointing itself in a certain direction. But what struck me was its ability to stay so, so still; and in fact, in order to observe it I had to be still as well! Not just externally but also internally in awe of its ability! Stillness watching stillness. Just quiet.

I think when we get still inside something powerful happens, even if it’s for a moment, we settle. No equipment is required, and no batteries! Just a willingness to stop for a moment, and listen to the sound of silence.
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.