Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Alpha: Program 1, as a Stress Reduction and Relaxation Tool
2. Alpha: Program 1, as a Meditation Aid

Disc 2:

1. Alpha: Program 2, Active Relaxation
2. Alpha: Program 2, Active Relaxation

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #77027 in Music
• Model: MK004
• Released on: 1999-02-23
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set

Features

• 2 CD Set
• Reduces stress
• Improves sleep
• relaxation techniques

Album Description
2-CD set. Dr. Jeffrey Thompson, DC, BFA's pioneering work with thousands of patients and volunteers has led to groundbreaking discoveries in how sound frequency patterns built into musical soundtracks induce brainwave entrainment. With the Alpha Relaxation System, pulses of sound that activate Alpha brainwave patterns are embedded in the musical soundtrack, leading you to healthful and enjoyable states of relaxation.

* Based on over 20 years of pioneering clinical research.
* Experience beautiful and soothing musical compositions and 3-D sounds of nature.
* Easy to use with headphones or ordinary speakers.
* Contains no spoken words or subliminal messages.

Included in the system are two programs:
* Deep Relaxation--Enjoy states of deep relaxation and meditation.
* Active Relaxation--Listen to this program in the background while working, studying, or doing any activity to produce a lighter Alpha state.

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Customer Reviews

Relax..
There is a scientific principle called entrainment. If two items are vibrating side by side at different speeds then the item that vibrates at the lower speed will adjust to vibrate at the same frequency as the other object.

Examples of this are swings in a playground that are swinging out of sync and adjust. Also, in a clock store you may notice the pendulum clocks of the same size swinging back and forth in unison.

Research has been done into the brainwaves of people in relaxed meditative states, such as yogis, swamis and creative people. Dr T has incorporated these brainwave patterns into his music to entrain your mind to reach the Alpha state, which is a light meditative and relaxing state.

So, if you were to be subjected to these Alpha waves which are embedded in the relaxing sounds, your mind will reattune itself, so you can reach a similar state. This change is not permanent. Yet, the more you listen to it the more you will learn to attain these states yourself, effortlessly, when you need to.

Dr Jeffrey Thompson has done extensive research into stress and the power of relaxing music and entrainment and has used that research to create pulses, chord patterns, sounds from nature. This cd contains many sounds such as flowing water, jungle, rainfall, bird songs, whales and dolphins. Sometimes these sounds are electronically changed to accelerate the mental response.

Alpha is a state of mind associated with relaxation, and light meditation. Often, you are in this state when you close your eyes, or are on the verge of sleep. As you listen you may notice the 3D sound effects, so you can hear and feel these sounds coming from all directions around, above and through you. Mentally, this is like listening to these sounds in reality, and enhances the experience.

I have most of Dr T's systems. This one is probably the most interesting to listen to. I do strongly recommend the Awakened Mind System, which does stimulate your imagination to the point where you are floating flying in that inner world. With me, I feel like I am flying above the sea the with many different colors of sea and and sky at my disposal.

If you have never used this type of music before, don't you think you should give it a go. This program helps with problem solving, stress reduction, and relaxation.

I highly recommend another of Dr T's products Awakened Mind system, which I find very good for creativity.

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Soothing music =mini vacation without leaving urban world
I absolutely love this CD! I used to find it very hard to get in a peaceful mood to sleep. I live in an apartment where our paper thin walls make it very hard for me to shut out distractions but with headphones and the 3-D music surrounding me like a cocoon,it pushes the everyday world back a little. The waterfall sounds and the sounds of birds make me feel like I'm in a rainforest, a place seperate from the everyday world filled with the jolting sounds of horns, people, and stress stress stress! I find I am very sensitive to harsh sounds and this CD is like a balm for my ears. This is a great CD!

Great CD!
I really enjoy listening to this CD. It's fairly relaxing, but it doesn't put me to sleep by any means. What surprised me is that it is musically very imaginative (even intriguing). It combines music and sounds in a way that I can't say it's a music CD or a natural sounds CD; it doesn't fall neatly into any category.