Instant Stress Management: Meditation & Self-Hypnosis for Instant Stress Relief
Binaural Beats for Stress Relief and Meditation
"The link between alpha and meditative states seems real enough. According to Psychologist Joe Kamiya of San Francisco's Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, an early pioneer in the field, Zen masters produce more alpha when they are meditating than when they are not, and they are quick to learn how to switch it on and off. Artists, musicians and athletes are also prolific alpha producers; so are many introspective and intuitive persons, and so was Albert Einstein. Alpha researchers report that subjects enjoy what Psychologist Lester Fehmi of the State University of New York at Stony Brook calls the "subtle and ineffable" alpha experience. Its pleasure, theorizes Kamiya, may come from the fact that alpha "represents something like letting go of anxieties." from Time Magazine's article "Behavior: Alpha Wave of The Future"
About Binaural Beats and a Video
Using EEG (electroencephalography) technology, that measures electrical activity of the brain, it has been found that we tend to be in certain brainwave states (or frequencies) during different activities.
Brain Frequency distribution:
40 hertz: Gamma Waves: Active mentally, intense emotions such as anger of joy, solving problems
13 - 40 hertz: Beta Waves - Active concentration, general active lifestyle
7 - 13 hertz: Alpha Waves - Relaxed state, light meditation level, perfect for stress relief
4 - 7 hertz: Theta Waves - Deep meditation, REM sleep, dreams
0 - 3 hertz: Delta Waves - Deep dreamless sleep
Practicing the meditation technique on this website will bring you down into the brainwave state of ‘Alpha’. Learning how to relax yourself into an alpha state will lead to a huge reduction of stress in your lifestyle.
The great news is that you can download a free software program that uses advanced sound technology called binaural beats to help you reduce your brainwaves to the level you want. This way you can learn to reach deeper levels of meditation much much faster.
Basically, if we are in an environment with fast paced music then we will tend to get more active. While if we are surrounded by slow music there will be a corresponding slow down in our mental activity. Of course, this is assuming you are listening to the music or its so loud that you can’t ignore it and are going with the flow.
In other words, your brain responds to external stimuli by following along. So if you hear a regular beat then the brain will follow along after a short while i.e. it will entrain itself from it’s current frequency to the one in its environment. This is called the “frequency following response”.
Scientists have discovered that you can also entrain your brain from one frequency to another using a sound technology called binaural beats. What happens is that two sounds are played at difference frequencies. One in each ear. For example 480 hrz in one ear and 490 hrz in the other. The brain perceives the difference of these two frequencies which is 10 hrz. After listening to these sounds for a while the brain begins to follow along at 10 hertz and an alpha brainwave state if achieved.
Anytime you want to relax or practice meditation you can simply play a preset track on the binaural beat software program. My favorite is the track titled "self hypnosis: simple repeating sound". It doesn't use the fancy sound technology of binaural beats just a repetitive sound and your brain attunes to it is a few minutes. The frequency level is set from 12 hertz to 10 hertz so its a good relaxing state to be in perfect for stress relief.
To experience binaural beats you can download a free software program called “BrainWave Generator”. You can download it here.
Simply install the software and read the help menu after you have installed it to get an idea of how to use it.
The following video uses binaural beast for relaxation combined with instructions for progressive relaxation. It is meant to be used with stereo headphones and will help you relax deeply:
Brain Frequency distribution:
40 hertz: Gamma Waves: Active mentally, intense emotions such as anger of joy, solving problems
13 - 40 hertz: Beta Waves - Active concentration, general active lifestyle
7 - 13 hertz: Alpha Waves - Relaxed state, light meditation level, perfect for stress relief
4 - 7 hertz: Theta Waves - Deep meditation, REM sleep, dreams
0 - 3 hertz: Delta Waves - Deep dreamless sleep
Practicing the meditation technique on this website will bring you down into the brainwave state of ‘Alpha’. Learning how to relax yourself into an alpha state will lead to a huge reduction of stress in your lifestyle.
The great news is that you can download a free software program that uses advanced sound technology called binaural beats to help you reduce your brainwaves to the level you want. This way you can learn to reach deeper levels of meditation much much faster.
Basically, if we are in an environment with fast paced music then we will tend to get more active. While if we are surrounded by slow music there will be a corresponding slow down in our mental activity. Of course, this is assuming you are listening to the music or its so loud that you can’t ignore it and are going with the flow.
In other words, your brain responds to external stimuli by following along. So if you hear a regular beat then the brain will follow along after a short while i.e. it will entrain itself from it’s current frequency to the one in its environment. This is called the “frequency following response”.
Scientists have discovered that you can also entrain your brain from one frequency to another using a sound technology called binaural beats. What happens is that two sounds are played at difference frequencies. One in each ear. For example 480 hrz in one ear and 490 hrz in the other. The brain perceives the difference of these two frequencies which is 10 hrz. After listening to these sounds for a while the brain begins to follow along at 10 hertz and an alpha brainwave state if achieved.
Anytime you want to relax or practice meditation you can simply play a preset track on the binaural beat software program. My favorite is the track titled "self hypnosis: simple repeating sound". It doesn't use the fancy sound technology of binaural beats just a repetitive sound and your brain attunes to it is a few minutes. The frequency level is set from 12 hertz to 10 hertz so its a good relaxing state to be in perfect for stress relief.
To experience binaural beats you can download a free software program called “BrainWave Generator”. You can download it here.
Simply install the software and read the help menu after you have installed it to get an idea of how to use it.
The following video uses binaural beast for relaxation combined with instructions for progressive relaxation. It is meant to be used with stereo headphones and will help you relax deeply:
Free Download: Progressive Relaxation Video On Left
You can download the video on this page for your own private use by clicking on the link below. You can play it on the freely available windows media player.
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