Meditate, Focus, And Even Relieve Pain With I Dose

I ran across an interesting Web site the other day called I Dose, which claims to be “the perfect Binaural Beats experience.”

(If you don’t know what Binaural Beats do, I Dose offers a pretty decent layman’s explanation: “Playing tones with a slightly different frequency to each ear, cause the brain to recalculate the frequency, and to create a new frequency inside the brain. A frequency which doesn’t actually exist outside of the brain.”)

Always eager to tickle my ears with something new, I gave several of the various I Dose tracks a listen (in total there are 11, designed to help with everything from creativity and energy to meditation and lucid dreams), and the experiences were interesting.

I steered clear of the tracks focused on increasing energy and alertness (as I had too much coffee in my system at the time for them to make a difference), and listened instead to “Meditation” (20 minutes of tinkling wind chimes, designed to help with – you guessed it – meditation), “Aspirin” (12 minutes of what sounded like someone washing their hands, designed to help with pain relief), and “Mirage” (15 minutes of what must have been a recording of a waiting room – seriously – designed to help with creativity).

Of the three I listened to, “Meditation” was by far the most effective and my favorite. Of course, that could just be because I’m partial to wind chimes. (I don’t think there’s ever been a point in my life when there wasn’t a wind chime hanging out on the porch. I even wrote a poem about them back in one of my college creative writing classes. Weird, I am, I know.)

I Dose is entirely free, so head on over to check it out and let me know what you think.

In the meantime, you can find more music- and sound-related lowdown at the following Mental Health Notes posts:

• Product Review: Using pzizz To Treat Sleep Problems And Increase Energy
• Mood Music Made Easy From YouLicense.com
• Brain Break: Make Your Own Music!
• The Mental Benefits of Music Therapy

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