About
Visualization and Nature Sounds
I was conversing on Twitter the other day. By
conversing I mean texting, in a 140 characters or less, what this site
is all about. I tried to tell them that visualization combined with
natural soothing sounds will put some of the hardest of the hard core
insomniacs to sleep. They surfed over to this site and messaged me back
something to the effect of 'I don't get it... why would anyone
want to be on a train in a thunderstorm?'
'I don't get it'... I can imagine that that
is what some people said when seeing the Internet in the mid-1980's for the first time. Being a world class insomniac myself I get it.
Its all about visualization.
Visualization is the flow of thoughts you can
imagine seeing and hearing. The imagined visualizations are a representation of
our experiences or fantasies - and a way your mind codes, retains, and
expresses information. Visualization and imagination are the stuff of
dreams and daydreams; memories and reminiscence; plans, projects, and
possibilities. It is the language of the arts, the emotions, and most
important, of the inner self.
Imagination is a window on our inner world; a way of
viewing your own ideas, feelings, and interpretations. Without
imagination, humankind would be long extinct. It took imagination, the
ability to conjure up new possibilities, to make fire, create
electricity, and cultivate crops; to construct buildings, invent
automobiles, aircraft, space shuttles, radio, television, and the
Internet.To be able to visualize a
setting, be it serene or adventurous, while hearing soothing
natural or nature sound allows our big human brains to slip effortlessly
into sleep. The same part of our brains, the secondary visual
cortex, that is active in early sleep and dreaming is also active
during visualization. So, in effect, a bridge is built from the Alpha
(relaxed) to the Theta (daydreaming) brainwave state. Deep Delta
brainwaves soon follow and, with them, sleep.
Whether it's through natural sleep onset, meditation; or
even our virtually real nature sounds, the eventual goal is to reach the Theta brainwave state.
You've been there. When you drove for miles and didn't remember how you
got there your mind was in the Theta state. When you've looked out the
window on a rainy day and felt that far off feeling, you were there.
Unless you are taking drugs to induce sleep you probably experience the
Theta brainwave state every night... right before you fall off to sleep.
Our recordings supercharge this concept by combining peacefully sounds
with visualizations that only the sounds define.
So, I ask you... What's not to get?
If you have trouble relaxing and/or sleeping do
your big human brain a favor and at least try our version nature sounds. If
they do not work
for you we will give you your money back. That I promise you. All we ask
is that you do one thing: Visualize.
Brad McBride
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