The Alpha Relaxation System is designed to help reduce the effects of long-term stress. Listening to this program can slow your pace and entrain the mind to produce brainwaves more conducive to calm and centered living.
The sound environment on this recording is the result of years of experience in studying states of mind through electronically monitoring brainwave patterns. Since 1981, Dr. Jeffrey Thompson has been researching the effects of stress on the body and the use of sound, music and brainwave entrainment to alleviate this stress. His soundtracks use clinically proven techniques for gently guiding brainwave function into deeply relaxed states.
This recording uses a unique process for building sound pulse frequencies into musical soundtracks. By phasing and tuning digital recordings in a certain way, the pulses are created directly within the sounds themselves instead of pasting the music on top of the sound pulses. In this way, the pulsed modulations, which cause the brainwave entrainment response, are part of the harmonics and overtones of the instrument and nature sounds. In addition, the music itself has a large part to play in the relaxation response. Certain types of flowing and serene music tend to cause relaxation in and of themselves. The tempo of the music contributes to this effect and the movement of various elements of the music has a wonderful way of lulling the mind into a relaxed state. This is especially true because many of the sounds are presented in Psycho-Acoustic 3-D. Dr. Thompson has taken 3-D recordings of nature sounds and has slowed them down over time so that the body can follow cues from what appear to it to be real-world sounds.
It is very easy to get the full effects of this recording. You will need good stereo separation, either with headphones, or by positioning yourself between your speakers.