Sound Therapy is a portable listening program to rehabilitate the ears and brain. It enhances the ear-brain connection with many beneficial results.

Listeners simply play the music on a personal player through earphones during daily activities or sleep. It is at a low volume and requires no attention. The specially filtered and activated sound has a number of specific effects on the ear, brain and nervous system to bring about recovery for many ear or brain-related conditions.The specific way the music is filtered, based on techniques developed by the French ear specialist, Dr. Tomatis, make it very different from music therapy or other forms of ‘sound therapy.’

Audio-Visual Entrainment (AVE) is a technique that utilizes pulses of light and sound at specific frequencies to gently and safely guide the brain into various brain wave patterns. By altering your brain wave frequencies, you have the ability to boost your mood, improve sleep patterns, sharpen your mind and increase your level of relaxation.

Sound therapy is said to help not only physical illness, but also helps balance the emotions and quieten a busy mind. Most people feel calm and relaxed following treatment. For some, this feeling will last several days. You may also be given exercises to practise between treatments.

Sound Healing is so effective because it influences our emotional bodies as well as our physical bodies. Emotional imbalances are at the root of many physical diseases and when we heal our emotional bodies, the physical symptoms disappear. Sound and emotions are deeply connected. Human emotions have their immediate expression through sound, and it is often the repression of the sound of the emotions that creates emotional blockages.

Conversely, sound can be used to unlock the blocked emotions and release them with ease and grace.

Many disorders such as Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), fibromyalgia and chronic pain. Mind Alive AVE devices are also used successfully to boost physical performance for athletes, academic performance for students and cognitive performance for seniors. AVE is also commonly referred to as brainwave entrainment (BWE).

Sound healing uses different aspects of sound to improve your emotional and physical well-being. How it works depends on the method of sound healing therapy being used. Most sound healing sessions are experienced one-on-one with a specially trained practitioner.

A session may involve sitting or lying down while listening to music or sounds from a speaker or instruments, or having vibrations applied using a special tool, such as a tuning fork. You may be encouraged to participate by singing, moving, even using a musical instrument, or remain still and quiet to let the sounds take effect, depending on the method.

Brainwaves change frequencies based on neural activity within the brain. Each of our senses (vision, touch, smell, taste and hearing) respond to activity from the environment and transmit that information to the brain. The senses of sight and hearing, by their very nature, provide a favorable mechanism to influence brainwaves.

By presenting this pulsed audio and visual stimulation to the brain, after a short period of time, the brain begins to resonate, or entrain, at the same frequency as the stimulus. With the AVE devices, we can slow down the brainwaves for meditating, inducing dream states and improving sleep. It can also be used to speed up brainwaves to help with improving mood, enhancing mental performance and boosting creativity.

1. Relief from stress

One of the greatest benefits that a person feels from sound therapy is relief from stress. The soothing sounds help to re-tune your brain to cope with stress better by replenishing brain energy with high-frequency sound.

2. Fewer headaches

Many people use sound therapy to get relief from chronic headaches and migraines. It can also address the underlying cause of many headaches like stress and high blood pressure. One study reported that adults who suffered from migraines got relief from their symptoms after two weeks of therapy.

3. Boost in confidence

Creating new, positive patterns in your brain with sound therapy can also give you a great confidence boost. You will be able to take charge of new challenges and have the confidence to make necessary changes in your life.

4. Gives you more focus

Sound therapy can also help you regain focus in your life. This is achieved by lowering brain wave frequency to help you focus more. This can help you, not just in coping with day-to-day activities; sound therapy can even be used to achieve better athletic performance.

5. More energy

Much of the way you feel is connected to signals that your brain sends throughout the body. A body under stress feels tired and fatigued and one of the main organs that affects stress levels are our ears. Sound therapy feeds the brain with stimulating sounds that motivate the brain to release latent energy.

6. Improved relationships with others

Too much stress is one of the major causes of breakdowns in relationships within the family, workplace, and anywhere else where we interact with others. With the help of sound therapy, your stress levels get reduced and to are able to focus more on building and strengthening relationships.

7. Think more clearly

By using specific frequencies to help re-balance brain function, sound therapy can help you think clearer and avoid the temptation to rely on self-destructive and addictive habits. A healthy mind promotes a healthy body and you can break the cycle of negative thinking and habits to enjoy a much calmer and focused life.

8. Improve organization skills

Obviously, when your brain is more focused and there is 'less going' on in it, you are able to take control of your daily tasks on a whole new level. You will find that a course of sound therapy will help improve your organizational skills which will benefit your work and family life.

9. Improved attention span

Many parents who have children that suffer from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), speech or language difficulties have found many benefits from sound therapy. This is because sound therapy can help retrain the brain to listen more efficiently and help focus attention on tasks.

10. Get relief from common ailments

Because many of the ailments and health problems that we face in the modern age are stress-related, you can get relief from these by regularly using sound therapy. For example, problems like hypertension, stomach pain, depression, and joint pains are all related to stress and anxiety. When the correct sounds vibrate around the body, it creates a healing environment where the body and mind start to heal itself.

Neurotherapists capitalize on this natural phenomenon because of its potential to alter brain wave amplitudes and patterns.

Audio-visual entrainment (AVE) refers to the use of flashing lights and rhythmic tones to purposefully entrain brain waves toward some desired rhythm or frequency. By stimulating the brain with flashing lights in special eye glasses and pulsing tones through head-phones it is possible to shift the frequency of the dominant brain waves either higher or lower and thereby change brain function.

AVE in the clinic usually involves having the patient sit in a comfortable chair in a quiet room with their eyes closed and wearing a set of special eyeglasses and a set of headphones. The eyeglasses have little LED lights built into them and these lights gently flash against the closed eyelid and are perceived as a diffuse pattern of flickering light. The headphones will emit a pulsating tone that will be synchronized with the flashing lights. The inten­sity of the lights and the volume of the tones are adjusted to be completely comfortable.

Treatment sessions usually last about 30 minutes.

Most patients are left feeling relaxed and alert after an AVE session— in what psychologists call an “alpha state”. Posi­tive changes are usually felt within one to three sessions and include improvements in mental clarity, uplifted mood, increased mental alertness and energy, increased feelings of calm.

The benefits of healing sessions are cumulative and regular sessions are highly recommended in order to receive the most benefit. If it is your first time receiving this type of work, 4 sessions 1-2 weeks apart is highly recommended. After that the suggested frequency of sessions will vary depending on your individual needs and what type of self development you do on your own (i.e. - meditation, yoga, etc.).

A very general recommendation is 1 - 2 sessions per month. If you are going through something challenging, whether physical or emotional, a weekly session (or more) is suggested during that time. While occasional sessions will help with immediate relief of whatever you are going through, the benefits of receiving regular sound healing sessions far outweigh the occasional one.

Over time your body becomes more attuned to sound healing and Jamie becomes more attuned to your energy making each session more effective. Also, both physical and emotional healing happens in layers....if you only keep scraping off the top layer the bottom layers will never be addressed.

This depends greatly on how often you are using AVE and what you are using it for. Different people using AVE for different purposes will see varied results. Some people notice results after one use. But typically people using AVE five times per week notice significant results in two to four weeks.

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