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Binaural beats, although popular these days, are nothing new. They have been used for over 150 years. Theses gentle beats are safe to use. The positive benefits of the beats can be many in your life. You can put your brain into a high performance mode in just eight minutes with binaural beats as they are a natural and scientifically proven audio technology.

Binaural beats are easy to get and not expensive. The best and cheapest beats are here: binaural beats

The use of binaural beats is one of the best tools around if you want to explore deep levels of consciousness. Through the beats you can more easily practice lucid dreaming. Apparently you can use binaural beats with meditation or any astral projection technique. In my opinion meditation works the best. Yes, binaural beats will make meditation work even better. Naturally it is impossible that this technology will automatically make you experience astral projection, but through relaxation, focus on your intention to project your consciousness out of your body, you will find yourself brought into the experience much more effortlessly through these beats. These beats are the best: binaural beat

But, binaural beats will indeed put you into a meditative state automatically within minutes, and these are states that only the masters can achieve. If you are not good at meditating what will really help you is Scared Earth binaural beats meditation. This is one of the best binaural beats meditations around. Sacred Earth is the best way for someone who is inexperienced to get a real meditative state in a short time. It connects you to higher things. It connects you to the moment; and sometimes you will see your higher self, mysterious patterns, or your spirit animal just by listening to it. Its cool!

This is how binaural beats work: auditory brainstem responses are created by the beats, originating in the superior olivary nucleus of each hemisphere. This is a result of the interaction of two different offset auditory impulses, originating in opposite ears. The difference between the two tones is experienced as the two wave forms mesh in and out of phase within the superior olivary nuclei. But these binaural beats are not heard in the ordinary sense of the word. It is perceived as an auditory beat and theoretically can be used to entrain specific neural rhythms.

Basically this means you can put your mind into deep positive states of meditation just by listening to a recording; these are states that only the masters can achieve! The very best recording of this nature is the Scared Earth binaural beats meditation. Get it here now: meditation

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What do the words “brain fitness program” bring to mind?

I know when I think of fitness programs, I think of the aerobics classes I see at my YMCA, which looks like a fun dancing type of movement, led by an instructor with a microphone, and disco or dance music playing.

But brain fitness brings to mind term papers and reports and drudgery.

Interesting association of brain fitness with drudgery.

Now I am 60 years old, and graduate school is behind me by 12 years, and I am not so sure where they went, except I am married, and I have a 10 year old son, and a 4 year old daughter who expects a ration of tickling each day.

As a Boomer, moving rapidly towards a Senior classification, and one who has always enjoyed working out, and as a counselor looking for the best tools for my clients, I am now exploring a different version of brain fitness programs.

Technological developments like fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) have allowed scientists to explore inside the human brain in new and fascinating ways, and the results are providing some interesting ideas for enhancing our Boomer and Senior Brains, let alone the brains of our children, or our clients.

About ten years ago, there were discoveries made about the human brain that overturned all neuroscientific dogma in regards to the growth of new neurons. We do grow them and that growth can be encouraged. That is called neurogenesis.

(The following are good resources. Look up Norman Doidge,M.D., Helen Fisher,Ph.D., Simon Evans Ph.D, or Paul Burghardt,Ph.D.)

Evans and Burghardt in their book called Brainfit for Life talk about how to keep your mental aerobics rhythmic, metaphorically speaking, by managing stress, sleep, nutrition, and providing novel challenge for your brain.

Norman Doidge and Sharon Begley talk about the potential of the brain to overcome issues like stroke, and how regular practice changes brain maps, which the brain is OK doing anytime, in fact the brain is a data craving organ, and loves a stream of new experiences. It thrives on that, so if you are a musician, take up a foreign language, if you are a counselor, take up an instrument to change your brain maps.

By the way, changing brain maps is called neuroplasticity.

Brain fitness programs of the Computer Kind

There are new brain fitness programs out there that you can download to your computer which have research to back them up in regards to their effectiveness.

In fact, I believe that a combination of physical and mental aerobics is synergistic for the brain at any age.

The Mayo Clinic and University of Southern California have just released new research about the Posit Science program, which indicates (they say ’shows definitively’) that “computerized brain exercises can improve memory and attention in older adults.”

I do not think that maintaining an effective brain is a dull pursuit, especially when I can do it at my computer, on my schedule. Need a day off, because you know where your glasses are? Take it.

Brain fitness programs may even become part of the treatment regimen for ADD and autism, and many are looking to them to ward off alzheimers, or perhaps even reclaim lost brain function.

The brain fitness workout can vary given the program used. One requires 40 hours of time, one hour per day, for 40 days.

Another can be used daily in brief bursts, another requires 20-25 minutes per day for 19 days, and then maintenance practices subsequent to that.

Of course, reading a good book or practicing your instrument will require different time commitments with different purposes. (If I am learning some piano tunes to play for myself, I can learn at my own pace.)

Brain fitness programs do not have to be a drudgery. I can make them a fun part of my daily routine and reap the benefits of neuroplasticity and neurogenesis for a good long time, maybe until I can hold a grandbaby or two.

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