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Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight

In this powerfully moving video, brain researcher Jill Bolte Taylor recounts what it felt like to have massive stroke. She describes with intense passion the experience of watching her brain functions shut down one by one, losing speech and motor functions, and ultimately losing self-awareness, culminating in a feeling of oneness with everything.

New Insight Tranquil Ocean Waves CD released

Over the years since the Insight CD was first released, we’ve heard much feedback from customers who love the CD and use it each day. The number one request we received was to create a second version featuring different nature sounds so customers could have variety in their daily listening session.

Insight Tranquil Ocean Waves CDWe are excited to release the Insight: Tranquil Ocean Waves CD, a new version of the Insight CD featuring our harmonically layered brainwave technology and the sound of relaxing ocean waves instead of rain. This CD evolved as a direct result of feedback from our customers.

The new CD provides all the same great benefits and results as the original Insight CD, including stress relief, deep relaxation, improved sleep, and much more.

We’ll continue to offer the original Insight CD as well, so customers will have the option to select the version with the nature sounds they like best or to purchase both versions so they can have more variety from day to day.

How to Achieve Deep Physical Relaxation With the Sandbag Technique

Sleeping womanThe state of your physical body can have a significant effect on the level of mental relaxation you are able to achieve. If you’re experiencing pain in your body, it can be difficult to focus on anything else and can truly hamper the personal growth process.

Fortunately, the mind can be used as a tool to create a feeling of relaxation in the physical body. In turn, relaxing your body frees you to use your mind more efficiently to affect positive changes in your life.

Sometimes it is helpful to “check in” with our physical self and take note of how we are feeling. We may not even realize certain areas are tense until we bring our attention there. This technique is designed to help you pinpoint areas of tension and release the stress from those areas until your whole body feels deeply relaxed.

The Sand Bag Technique

Find a comfortable resting position in a place where you are not likely to be disturbed. Feel free to lie on the bed or floor, or to sit upright or recline in a chair.

After reading the rest of these instructions, you should …Read more about the Sandbag Technique for deep relaxation

A Simple Technique to Help You Sleep Better

Sleeping womanWe’re always on the lookout for practical methods to help people get a night of deep, restful sleep. When an easy technique accomplishes that much and also improves mental and emotional health at the same time, it’s definitely worth sharing.

This technique takes very little time, can be done while lying in bed before falling asleep, and will work for just about everyone.

The Daily Rewind Technique

A Daily Rewind is a swift and painless way to clear all the clutter out of your mind in preparation for sleep and dreaming. The technique simply involves a …Continue reading about this easy technique to help you sleep

Light/Dark Visualization for Relaxation or Meditation

This easy visualization technique can be quite helpful and refreshing when you’re having trouble sleeping, feeling overly stressed, or feeling ill or fatigued. You can use this technique indoors or outdoors.

Woman relaxing outdoors1. Get into a comfortable position. You can do this technique while lying in bed or on the floor or while reclined in a comfortable chair, wherever you are most comfortable.

2. Close your eyes.

3. As you lie there, visualize your body, wherever it is that you are at this moment. See yourself lying there on the bed or sitting in your chair.

4. Imagine your entire body is …Read more about the Light-Dark Visualization for relaxation

Can You Train Your Brain to Learn Compassion?

In this video segment, CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers insight into whether a person’s brain can be trained to show compassion.

During the research study referenced by Dr. Gupta in the video, scientists at the University of Wisconsin were able to pinpoint specific areas of the brain that light up during meditation, and more specifically while the subjects performed a compassion meditation technique.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta discusses meditation's effect on the brain

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