Awakened Minds Offers Stress-Reduction with Naturally Generated Binaural Beats
After I wrote about relaxing with Brain Sync last week, the people at Awakened Minds called me to tell me about the stress-reducing virtues of Binaural Beats in their Insight Program. You can listen to a sample in either MP3 or Windows Media Formats. In listening to the sample, they say, “Since the CDs require the use of stereo headphones, we recommend listening to the sample via headphones, but it is not required for the purpose of the sample. We recommend keeping the volume at a comfortable low setting where the sound of the rain is soothing and not too loud.”
If you like what you hear, they offer an introductory Focus CD as well as a Focus 2–Disc Set.
Here is an excerpt of what they say about their naturally generated Binaurral audio programs:
The Awakened Minds audio technology developed by the Immrama Institute is layered beneath the soothing sounds of natural rain. None of their rain is computer generated. Instead, the recordings use natural rain recorded live by their audio engineers in several locations within the U.S. Each track is composed of various rain sounds carefully blended together in a precise mix to complement the binaural experience. The binaural tones are set directly below the sounds of the rain.
Using rain to mask the binaural tones has been proven to enhance the effectiveness of binaural audio. In his groundbreaking Scientific American article titled "Auditory Beats in the Brain", Gerald Oster wrote:
"Noise ordinarily masks sounds one wants to hear. For example, 'static' sometimes overwhelms a weak radio signal. The perception of binaural beats, however, is enhanced by noise. When the appropriate tones are presented to the ears so that binaural beats are produced, and are accompanied in each ear by noise just loud enough to obscure the tones, the beats become more distinct." [Oster, Gerald (1973) Auditory Beats in the Brain. Scientific American, 229, pp. 94-102].
