Product ideas

[dkistner]

Dane, I don't know what you call this, but I thought I'd toss it out as a possibility for a product. Just if y'all run out of things to do at Mind-tek! ;) Or maybe you can suggest something that's already out there--maybe one of your own products that I don't know about--that would work for this purpose. <BR> <BR>I want a CD of tracks, each one suitable for looping on repeat, that can be "slept with"--like I do when I go to sleep with a UM CD playing on repeat all night. Something that would basically be a seamless thing, perhaps with different (largely healing/restorative) purposes. One example might be a Reiki treatment track, essentially soothing and energy boosting, with a faint indicator at the end of the track for shifting hand positions before it loops to the beginning; this could also be used for muscular relaxation exercises where you tense, then relax, parts of your body, really getting into the experience before moving on to another body part. <BR> <BR>Another idea might be a drumming segment for use in shamanic journeying or any other soundscape for similar purposes. A "trance-out" track would be nice. I find interesting segments on a lot of the Transcendental Mind Series CDs, for example, that would be lovely looped. <BR> <BR>Another concept I would be interested in seeing somehow worked into a repeatable CD would build on the 90-minute to 120-minute ultradian rhythm oscillations that Ernest Rossi reports on in "The Symptom Path to Enlightenment." Basically, this is an oscillation between what Rossi calls "high-phase hypnosis" and "low-phase hypnosis" (Rossi is of the school, as I am, that waking consciousness consists of varying stages of trance), with the high phase corresponding with active and creative processes in the body and the low phase corresponding with rest and repair. Rossi believes most disease occurs because we get out of synch, forcing ourselves to stay active (for example), effectively undermining the critical resting phases so the body cannot repair itself and thus inexorably breaks down. (Rather like depriving someone of REM sleep.) He talks about using hypnotherapy to entrain optimal rhythms; others talk about getting in touch with the body so one is working with, not against, their natural ultradian rhythm. Why couldn't sound be used to entrain those rhythms? <BR> <BR>I think it would be really great if I had a CD I could listen to, either under the headphones or while I am working during the day, that would oscillate through one ultradian cycle, helping sensitize and regulate me to a normal cycle. I don't know what the limits on a CD are in terms of time...maybe it would take DVD. Or two CDs on a player that handles more than one CD at a time, if all else failed. <BR> <BR>Anyway, I thought I'd toss these out. <BR> <BR>And another thought: You know those nice zippered CD cases you can get to hold 24 or more CDs, the ones with cloth mesh/plastic sleeves? I keep seeing a sexy deep purple one with a Mind-tek logo and URL on it.

[Kevin Merrell]

Diane, <BR> <BR>TMI has several CDs along the lines of your request. Time Out For Sleep features programmable tracks of quiet music over sections of alpha, theta and delta binaural beats. You program your CD player to repeat the sections to match brain patterns of short naps, regular sleep, or what they call contemplative sleep. <BR> <BR>They also offer a CD called Deep 10 Relaxation. The first track on the CD features a spoken relaxation routine over increasingly slower binaural beats that ends with the listener drifting off to sleep if they haven't already. A second track is straight pink noise over delta level binaural beats. Often times I'll simply set the second track to repeat all night. <BR> <BR>They also offer a CD of quiet, dreamy music over binarual beats in the patterns of regular deep sleep called Sleeping Through the Rain. I also use this track in repeat mode. <BR> <BR>One of my favorites is a CD called Energy Walk. A spoken guided imagery over binaural beats takes the listener on a walk through natural settings. At each spot along the way you're invited to absorb a different type of natural energy. The sequence ends with suggestions that you drift off to sleep. Several times I've come out of this CD feeling physically different. That always pleases me and intrigues me. <BR> <BR>TMi offers a CD called Concentration that features pink noise over binaural beats in the beta range, the brain wave level of ordinary waking conciousness. The beats don't attempt to pattern an ultradian cycle but they do tend to entrain your brain waves for increased mental focus. Studies suggest that binaural beat entrainment in the beta level can be very useful for those with ADD. TMI also offers a beta level CD with music called Remembrance. <BR> <BR>I usually program a sleep CD to repeat all night; once in a while I'll simple let it play through once as I drop off to sleep. I usually use earbud earphones with the foam covers removed. Earbuds are flat enough that I can still sleep when I roll over on my side. Once in a while I'll go to sleep with my Grado Labs headphones just because the sound is so nice. <BR> <BR>Happy sleeping, <BR>Kevin