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Sleep and Sound Therapy

Insomnia

Insomnia is caused by stress, so when our stress is reduced by Sound Therapy, we naturally sleep better. Listeners usually notice an improvement in their sleep even on the first night. Insomnia is caused by excessive cortical excitation that cannot be stopped. Sound Therapy cuts mind chatter and allows the mind to move naturally into the slower rhythms that lead to sleep.

Though Sound Therapy aims to recharge the brain for activity during the day, when you want to rest, it may also have a calming effect which enables the listener to slip easily and quickly into sleep. While the brain and the nervous system are stimulated by the sound, an active serenity may be experienced, which also allows for deep rest. Sleeplessness due to anxiety may also be resolved. The opening of the ear to high frequency sounds re-creates the pre-birth experience and can facilitate the resolution of early emotional anxieties. A recent survey indicates that between 70% and 80% of Sound Therapy Listeners notice an improvement in their sleep. Many insomniacs have experienced an immediate and dramatic improvement in their sleep.

How to listen

Some people benefit from listening to the tapes as they go to sleep and may listen either for the first 90 minutes or all night. Others will find that listening during the day is more appropriate to fit in with their sleeping and waking routine. For example, some people find the tapes helpful to put them back to sleep if they wake in the night, whereas others may use them for an energy boost if they become drowsy in the evening. Each person needs to develop a listening routine that suits their needs and is appropriate to their individual response to the tapes.

Deeper, better sleep

Dr Tomatis believes that if we receive sufficient stimulation for the brain, the need for sleep is reduced. Studies have shown that we don't really need as much sleep as we think because it is mainly our brain that needs sleep, not our body. When the brain has more energy, we need less sleep. Therefore Sound Therapy listeners usually find they need between one and three hours less sleep per night. Deep sleep, medically termed "hypersomnia", is the most essential type of sleep for our well being. Dreaming sleep or REM (Rapid Eye Movement) is a lighter sleep and with Sound Therapy it may be reduced in length without ill effects. The purpose of sleep is to replenish the brain's energy. If the brain receives adequate stimulation from sound then the hours of sleep can be reduced.

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How Sound Therapy helps

Sound Therapy encourages re-education of the ear to receive very high frequency sounds, between 8,000 and 14,000 Hz. Most of us have closed off to some extent to these sounds because of stress and long term exposure to damaging, low frequency noise from machines. As the middle ear muscles are rehabilitated by Sound Therapy, high frequencies can once again reach the inner ear. The high sounds aim to stimulate the brain and improve the functioning of the whole nervous system. Stress reduction enhances the body's ability to replenish itself with sleep.

A Sound Therapy listener is less likely to accumulate tiredness during the day but will display energized tranquility that enables rest. The therapy may improve the quality of sleep, producing a profoundly restful slumber even for people who have been restless sleepers.

Through gaining deeper sleep, many listeners find that they need less sleep and can reduce their requirements by two or three hours per night.

Dreams

Dreams are often changed by Sound Therapy, nightmares subsiding, and clear positive dreams being recalled. Listeners have reported dreaming in colour for the first time, or beginning to remember dreams after not having remembered them for many years. Some psychotherapists believe that dreaming is one of the most important indications of our emotional healing and the state of our inner psyche. Neurologists may see it more as a random firing of nervous energy based on past images. Whatever the case, the changes experienced through Sound Therapy listening indicate a re-ordering of the brain and psyche in a positive way.

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