A Little Music?
If you checked in yesterday and listened to the music, did it affect you? Were you moved? Did you fade away in a reverie?
So that’s where we are headed on this Sunday morning. Music.
Here is the question:
Do you use music during your hypnosis, self-hypnosis or meditation sessions? Do you think it helps or hinders you and why?
May 12th, 2008 at 7:44 am
I quite liked yesterday’s music selection. It appeals to my auditory nature and yes, if I were to just let it play it would probably take me into a very nice trance state all by itself. Mmmmm.
I practice out of my home, in a room set aside for that purpose at the front of the house. As a result I do like to use music to help mask any noise of traffic outside the house, dogs barking, that sort of thing. Plus the music gets incorporated into my induction language a lot of the time.
My favorite session background music is by Terence Watts (http://www.hypnosense.com), and since it’s royalty free I can also use it when I do a recording for someone as well. When I’m relaxing and using self-hypnosis I tend toward Stephen Halpern. His album “Higher Ground” starts with a sequence that includes a very hypnotic drum beat.
I also frequently listen to a recording called “Hypnotic Ohms” that I bought from Dick Sutphen at an NGH convention. It’s exactly what the name implies, an hour-long recording of chanted “Oooooooohhhhhmmmmmmmm” in seemingly random sequence with some soft beats in the background. I keep that one in my iPod, too, and use it while flying for the benefits of hypnotic time distortion.
Help or hinder? For me it’s a definite help. Even if there are no binaurals or beats in the background, the music itself becomes a trance trigger after using it a couple of times just through conditioning. The random, unstructured nature of new agey music seems to encourage people’s conscious minds to tune out, which of course makes it easier to get them into trance too. So yes, I’m big on music.
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