free binaural-beat meditation music!

[thr33tim3]

This is an hour-long MP3 file of soft music for meditation with binaural beats to stimulate brain-hemisphere synchronization. Please check out my http://www.truesoundhealing.com website for more info and some older, more minimal meditation sessions.
Tim

NEW: Deep Relaxation Session
length: 60:00

This recording is based on a binaural beat session I have been using to help sleep every night for the past year or so. It is a combination of three layers of binaural beats which gradually change over time, stimulating alpha and theta waves, which can help induce a very deep relaxed meditation and/or sleep. I have added two layers of NI Absynth tones, and a field recording of soft rain recorded in Japan back in 2001. The session is meant to be played at low volume, probably around 10% or even less for sleep, and can be played on repeat. For casual listening (or massage?) and to appreciate the full frequency effects it can be played louder. Give it a try, binaural beats really work!

download: MP3 File
http://truesoundhealing.com/TimGray-Deep...ng.com.mp3

[Ali Quadir]

Thank you thr33tim3 I am listening to it now. And I will put it on when I go to bed later tonight. I find the binaural beats to be a strange phenomenon but I cannot deny the effects.

Thank you so much for sharing.

[Lavazza]

Thanks for posting this! I'll give it a run with my meditation tonight.

[Lavazza]

Wow, this is pretty cool stuff. I didn't know about this before. For anyone interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats

Also, great track Tim, thanks!

[ayadew]

Thank you thr33tim3, I will try it
I've been using this also

http://gnaural.sourceforge.net/download/

An opensource binaural-beat generator released under the GNU General Public License

[Vince]

This is an hour-long MP3 file of soft music for meditation with binaural beats to stimulate brain-hemisphere synchronization. Please check out my http://www.truesoundhealing.com website for more info and some older, more minimal meditation sessions.
Tim

NEW: Deep Relaxation Session
length: 60:00

This recording is based on a binaural beat session I have been using to help sleep every night for the past year or so. It is a combination of three layers of binaural beats which gradually change over time, stimulating alpha and theta waves, which can help induce a very deep relaxed meditation and/or sleep. I have added two layers of NI Absynth tones, and a field recording of soft rain recorded in Japan back in 2001. The session is meant to be played at low volume, probably around 10% or even less for sleep, and can be played on repeat. For casual listening (or massage?) and to appreciate the full frequency effects it can be played louder. Give it a try, binaural beats really work!

download: MP3 File
http://truesoundhealing.com/TimGray-Deep...ng.com.mp3

i use a light/sound machine that works good for me. the lights are good with the sounds.

[Ali Quadir]

i use a light/sound machine that works good for me. the lights are good with the sounds.

Can you tell a little more about it? How intense is the experience? Where did you get it? How does it work? And I mean physically I understand what it does to the brain But do you need casette tapes for it?

[Vince]

i use a light/sound machine that works good for me. the lights are good with the sounds.

Can you tell a little more about it? How intense is the experience? Where did you get it? How does it work? And I mean physically I understand what it does to the brain But do you need casette tapes for it?

the experience is at least twice as intense as a sound-only experience, because it involves the eyes also. the light and sound frequencies are completely programmable. it can either work with an ipod or it can emit sound tones without an ipod. i personally just program the frequencies of the exact sound tones that i want instead of listening to music, but music can be used to. you'll need your own headphones and ipod. my particular unit is probably the best one on the market at a cost of $250.

here is the site that i purchased the product from:

http://www.mindmachines.com/

and here is the link for the exact online manual:

http://www.ilightz.com/Mind_Gear's_iLigh...Manual.pdf

[Ali Quadir]

Thank you for the info Vince. So you're basically saying it's worth the effort... I'll look into it. I'd love to try one out once. But they're usually expecting you to buy blindly.

[Vince]

Thank you for the info Vince. So you're basically saying it's worth the effort... I'll look into it. I'd love to try one out once. But they're usually expecting you to buy blindly.

i did quite a bit or research before buying. much research is also necessary afterward for the machine to be effective.

[Bring4th_Steve]

I have the LED strobe (glasses) and binaural sound (headphones) device, too. Unfortunately, I don't get the same effect that Vince enjoys. I've tried on numerous occasions to condition the body to respond more readily to the changing pulses of light and sound, but I don't seem to "feel" or perceive any changes as the program cycles through from Alpha to Theta and back again. I will say that watching the LEDs flicker behind my eyelids makes for some really cool visual patterns, though!

Anyway, I'm hoping to get some clarification on something. Like Vince, I've also done a fair share of research on binaural beats, and from what I learned, you have to have a set of stereo headphones playing in each ear for binaural beats to work. This is not something you can just play on your home stereo speakers, letting the sound fill the room as you sit back and listen. This may be obvious to some of us here who are into binaural sounds, but it wasn't made clear enough for those who are downloading the file and listening to it at home. You definitely need headphones!

The reason I mention this is because binaural tones are designed to work as a pair, phasing from one ear and the other at the same time. The difference in the two audio signals ends up creating a new "beat", which your brain can perceive and sync with. There is really no audible beat, per se, but the brain is fooled into perceiving one, since it is "feeling" the phased difference of sound between one ear and the other.

There's a nice little wikipedia overview on it, in case you are interested further:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats

If anyone has had any further success with either the LEDs or the Binaural sounds, do chime in!

On a separate note, I am looking to rent a WaveRider EEG device so I can actually monitor my brainwaves as I use my LED/Binaural device. I haven't seen any clinical studies showing that these machines are legit, so I thought I'd make myself one of the guinea pigs.. :-D The only thing holding me back is that the WaveRiders are incredibly expensive! Does anyone have one of these devices?

Steve

[Ali Quadir]

On a separate note, I am looking to rent a WaveRider EEG device so I can actually monitor my brainwaves as I use my LED/Binaural device. I haven't seen any clinical studies showing that these machines are legit, so I thought I'd make myself one of the guinea pigs.. :-D The only thing holding me back is that the WaveRiders are incredibly expensive! Does anyone have one of these devices?

Not me.. But I've been thinking of it too. I would expect commercial versions of EEG based headsets to come out this year. Mind to computer interaction is the next big thing and a number of companies are constructing these devices. Mostly for games and toys but these should be more than good enough to measure overal brainwaves and should have no problems determining if you're in alpha theta or whatever. I expect that as soon as a version is released for pc we can expect people to combine them with binaural beats to have 2 way interaction with the brain where the computer does not just run a program, it actually interacts and plays the appropriate sounds for the current state. It can then learn by making slight variations to it's pattern and seeing how you respond to it thus making the process a lot more effective..

I'm trained as a psychologist and work as a software developer. So you can bet your bottom I'll be making efforts to get my grubby hands on one of them. Really they're not much more than a very sensitive voltage meter if you combine this with some Fourier transformations to split the signal up into frequencies then hey presto you're done. It's math but not terribly complicated.

Here's the company I have most interest in at this point.
http://emotiv.com/

There's also a bunch of demos on you tube if you search for emotiv.

They're speaking about 500$ per set on site. That's worth it considering I've been interested for many years. If you pretend to be an independent researcher you might be able to pry loose a researchers license today. (And lets be honest, you're independent and you want to research the options) I've been doubting and following the developments for a while now. It's definitely worth checking out.

I think it should be possible to measure brainwaves with a normal pc with microphone input. Basically just tape the wires to your temples using those specialized connectors that I don't know the name for in english :-/ You know the miniature satellite dishes that they glue to your head. I'm not an electro technician. So I might be missing some obvious point. But I believe the voltages produced should be comparable and the analysis required is mathematically simple. The results will be crude, but it should be possible to measure the difference between the different wave patterns.

Anyone have an idea where an independent could buy some of those miniature satellite dish whadjamacallits?