What does your brain sound like? Does it have its own soundtrack?
Why are these important questions?
Your brain’s internal soundtrack could help you cope with stress, fall asleep more quickly, and give you more energy throughout the day.
Here’s a little background: In the 90’s, brain researchers from Russia teamed up with musicians and engineers to create a brain monitor that was capable of recording and translating brain activity into music.
From there, Galina Mindlin, MD, PhD from St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital created Brain Music Therapy, a way to use an individual’s “brain music” to help them cope with stress, fall asleep more quickly, and give them more energy during the day.
Dr. Mindlin published a randomized controlled study in the November 2011 issue of the Journal of Neurotherapy that investigated how Brain Music Therapy can help policemen and firefighters in their everyday lives.
Mindlin and her team were curious to see if listening to specific tracks of brain music could help the first responders improve their mood, daytime function, and sleep quality.
Forty-seven first responders were randomly assigned to either the experimental group or the control group.
Each member of the experimental group received two of their own brain music MP3 files and was told to listen to one at night to help them fall asleep and one in the morning to help energize them.
The control group received MP3s of someone else’s brain music.
Measurements were taken before and after four weeks of Brain Music Therapy.
Researchers found the experimental group made significant improvements in sleep quality, insomnia, mood, and daytime function compared to the control group.
This study shows the power of our own brains to help us heal. In fact, you might say that our brains are our most powerful allies. If we know how to change our brains, we can change our lives.
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Have you ever used any neuro- or biofeedback for yourself or a client? Please leave a comment below.
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By having completed a six-week short course seminar taught/led by Brenda Stockdale, Director of Mind/Body Medicine at RC Cancer Centers and author of “You Can Beat the Odds,” I have learned to appreciate the value of imagining, proper breathing and listening techniques that can have a profound and positive impact on helping the body prevent, heal more quickly and offer resistance to diseases.
I strongly agree with your statement that, “our brains are our most powerful allies. If we know how to change our brains, we can change our lives.”
In 2010 I found Brainwave Optimization when searching the Internet for help with my suddenly absent memory. I went through the recommended number of sessions using EEG feedback. I WAS listening to my brain’s music. The results were amazing and life changing. So life changing in fact, that I got certified and opened a practice in the Boston area.
Current clinical trials with Wake Forest School of Medicine are rolling in and pretty soon these types of modalities will change our feelings of helpless and need for numerous meds to seeking non-invasive techniques allowing us to take responsibility for our own health.
A very exciting time indeed!
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Hi Percy,
I have a suggestion for you. Go to Brain State Tech and if the work appeals to you click on the “locations” tab to see if there is someone nearby you could visit.
All the very best to you.
Diana White
When I woke up from a 5 day coma with bacterial meningitis 12 years ago, my brain was humming “America the Beautiful” and a children’s song entitled, “Green Grow the Rushes O.” I can remember feeling soothed and content.
It’s always a relief when someone with obvious exspetire answers. Thanks!
I use music in my work and for myself – the iListen program by Advanced Brain Technologies and have found amazing results. One student improved her ADD without medicine and her mother went off anti-anxiety medicine! Personally, this product has help me relax and feel more composed and together.
I am interested in learning more with your broadcast tomorrow.
Thank you for providing this!
Dianne
Is it possible to have one own’s brainmusic made commercially? If yes, whom do I contact?
Thanks, Joyce
This is interesting and I liked Dr. Buszynski’s teaser,” If you listen closely, you might hear your brain’s internal music. Well, you might need a hand.”
I wonder if we do (need a hand) or how listening to this music is similar or different from attending to the space, process and contents of our own mind without transduction as in some forms of meditation.
Yes … all good stuff … also, I’ve found some interesting quiet humming body-spaces, e.g., between the eyebrows, at the back of the skull, and corresponding to the old Egyptian chakra numbers. They seem to hum like wave-guides or sound-boxes, as with a guitar or violin, specifically (I believe) at harmonics of the Schumann ELF earth-frequenciies (average 7.83 hz) … my left/right EEG brain-waves synchronize at c.7.83 when in ‘healing mode’ … also, there seems to be a nice meditational space between the words when in quiet conversation with a soul-mate … there’s some stuff about the Schumann resonances in Wikipedia.
Yes, I do believe that we can tune into this ourselves. I have been doing Kriya Yoga (meditation) for a while and it involves listening to this sound. It has greatly increased my sense of well being as well as adding vitality and ability to relax. I love that our science is validating ancient practices and also bringing a way for people to access that in their daily lives.
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No degree behind my name. . .
However, I often see evidence that sound vibration heals.
So glad those with healing degrees
are listening to their music and directing others to do the same. . .
Peace and Love To Us All,
Michael and his Cat Harley The Bed Hog
I am greatly interested in Eastern and Western mysticism and philosophy.
In ancient scriptures, Sages and Yogis have described ‘Sound of Silence’ which is heard when one is quiet. It is very soothing and relaxing. They discovered it 2500 years ago!
There is a lot they have written abut this sound. It has no source! Its quality fluctuates from moment to moment!
I personally find it very relaxing. Stress simply melts away if one tunes into listening this sound!
Indra Somani, M.D.
I think this might help therapists working with clients/patients with PTSD as well as the clients/patients. I am looking forward to hearing more.
I find this extremely interesting, as I have a habit of huming/singing songs to master stress, deal with back pains (which I call musical physiotherapy) and some times at the “subliminal level’, I may be singing in sleep for a short while. This has worked wonders–of course within my self due to regular meditation and sticking to a contended life style there is a great harmong that fits with the songs.
Thank you.
Padmasiri de Silva