We don’t know about the Neanderthals and other homo sapiens – our ancestors - but we, their modern descendants have this real problem: How to control our wandering minds.
Indeed, ever since man acquired the power of thinking, he has been struggling to control his thoughts. Even in the early days, calmness of mind was a virtue which was sought after by many, including kings. In an attempt to attain peace of mind and learn the secrets of mind control, they sat at the feet of venerated sages who had conquered the mind. We do not know how successful these attempts were, as we do not have much information on people who actually succeeded. The ancient methods of mind control were yoga and meditation.
Today, apart from yoga and meditation, we have a myriad of tools and practices for controlling our brain patterns, thinking etc. All these are based on the concept of brainwaves. You can get a good idea of brainwaves here: http://www.web-us.com/brainwavesfunction.htm . Suffice to say that by artificially inducing different brainwave patterns using sound frequencies, a person is brought to an aroused state or to a state of meditation or deep sleep.
There are many companies on the Net claiming to have patented the technology for inducing brainwave patterns. There is the Brainwave Mind Voyages, which claims that its CDs perform near miracles. The CDs range from simple brainwave music to lucid dreaming, OOBE and remote viewing. The last three are interesting topics in themselves, but more of that later. Then there is the BrainSync of Kelly Howell which has different CDs for meditation, sleep, for increasing creativity, to stop smoking etc. It offers some freebies too. Dr.Jeffrey Thompson is another person who produces music which is claimed to have healing effects. His USP is "Healing the Body * Heart * Mind and Spirit with Sound". He even claims to have recorded the sounds produced in space through NASA's Voyager probes. The Hemi-Sync is another site claiming to have patented the technology to safely alter brainwaves to produce the desired results. The site has lists of common human problems like Anger, Frustration, ADD etc. and claims to have CDs for each of them. Others in this line are HoloSync and iMusic.
All these claims are intriguing and sound fantastic and there are critics, but binaural beats do have a beneficial effect. More of it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Binaural_beats. Such technologies are even claimed to have induced certain glands to produce desired hormones, though this is yet to be documented properly. The list goes on, but what I wanted to say was that with all these technologies available now, it is worth trying out some of these techniques specially since there are no known adverse side effects while the benefits of a calm mind are too well known to be repeated here. Of course all these will set you back by a tidy sum, but the Net being what it is, just search around and you will come across free copies for download. So just grab your digital music player and get going. Good luck !
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