Binaural bliss. Go deeper with your meditation and mindfulness.

Why the hell would I go to the trouble of creating my own binaural beats recording when there’s plenty of free stuff out there on YouTube?

Answer: because I can and it’s fun to create your own stuff!

Binaural beats? What’s that all about? Binaural beats, for those of you unfamiliar with it are frequencies of sound (measured in hertz, or hz) which induce a state of calm by inducing your brain waves from a high alert beta state, through to alpha or theta – which is where you need to be for relaxation, meditation – and ultimately a good night’s sleep.

Very briefly (don’t blind me with science) but how do they work? Well – since you ask – you hear a tone in one ear at one frequency and a tone in the other ear at another frequency, very close to the original. The brain cannot decide which frequency it’s hearing so it gives up and instead artificially creates a third tone in the middle which resonates at a frequency which equates to the difference between the other two tones. This resonance, or beat, is the frequency which equates to an altered brain wave state. These tones can be played on their own, or can sit with a piece of music – so long as the music does not obliterate the effect of the binaural beats. So for example, the left ear is hearing 432hz, the right ear is hearing 424hz. The brain hears a pulsating tone between the two which resonates at a frequency of 8hz – the difference between 432 and 424. 8hz is a frequency which helps to induce a theta brainwave state – leading to the doorway to the subconscious – the perfect state for very deep meditation, self hypnosis or trance-like state through repeated affirmations.

This is something I have great interest in – the effect of sound – in particular, musical sound -on a human being. Nothing is more important in my opinion than taking care of your health – mental and physical. And since I’m a musician, sound is my thing. It’s what I work with.

In doing this myself it was important for me to use my own music to work with rather than using library stock or royalty-free music. I wanted to combine my love of composing and production with an opportunity to create something with sound that might help others. So I took a piece of music I’d originally composed and produced as a meditative piece a few years back – “Shimmering Ocean Song” – and dropped the pitch of it slightly to align with 432hz – (which many consider to be a more natural frequency for music to be aligned to than 440hz as with most recorded music) and then applied binaural beats to it – using 432hz and 424hz with an 8hz difference – conducive to theta state.

In addition, I added some positive subliminal affirmations which are pitched at a very high frequency – more likely to bypass the outer ear but be picked up by the subconscious and the inner ear, and created the finished track.

I share it here for you to sample and enjoy.

Would be interested to hear what you think and would welcome any feedback as it is my intention to create a piece that will really help people in their efforts with meditation, mindfulness and well being and the relieving of stress. Stress is a killer and is a chronic disease due to the way we live in western societies – and increasingly in the East wherever they adopt western practices. So this is a first go at this and I’m putting it out there for you to tell me what you think.

Feel free to comment below, message me on twitter @paulmabzi, or email soundkonstrukta@gmail.com.

Thanks for stopping by.

Paul.