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About Our
Audio Technology & Why It Works
Imadulation's
Guided Imagery Meditation Cd's are the only ones available with
music that contains
Binaural Audio technology for entrainment.
Imadulation has integrated principles derived from
neurofeedback, namely brainwave entrainment, and brainwave
resonance training into the content of the cd's. In
neurofeedback, flexibility and resilience of brainwave
patterns are trained. When stuck, they make it difficult to
overcome behaviors and habits, yet when gently "pushed"
through the introduction of sound frequencies, can move out of
rigid patterns to facilitate change.
Frank H. Duffy, M.D., Professor and Pediatric Neurologist at
Harvard Medical School, stated in an editorial in the January
2000 issue of the journal Clinical Electroencephalography that
the scholarly literature suggests that neurofeedback should
play a major therapeutic role in many difficult areas. "In my
opinion, if any medication had demonstrated such a wide
spectrum of efficacy it would be universally accepted and
widely used" (p. v). "It is a field to be taken seriously by
all." (p. vii).
Guided Imagery
Imagine it and you can achieve it. Athletes do it
automatically. A batter at the plate, a golfer lining up a
birdie putt, a runner at the starting line, all prepare
themselves to succeed by visualizing the outcome they want.
The reason they do this: what we imagine with our senses, the
brain responds to as if it were actually happening.
Guided imagery helps you switch on your imagination with a
scripted series of mental images which prepare your mind to
solve problems, discover insights, change behavior and achieve
the outcomes you want.
Lasting Benefits
Many people with health issues, ranging from chronic pain to
cancer to cardiovascular disease, have been successful using
guided imagery to relieve symptoms, deepen understanding of
their causes, activate the body’s own healing processes, and
increase motivation to make healthy lifestyle choices. Food
for Thought® helps you gain control over cravings and make
wiser food choices while increasing your will to exercise; it
will also help you gain powerful insights required to identify
and address the root causes of overweight, and begin building
“inner fitness™.”
Proven Approach
Since the 1960s, research into mind-body connections has
appeared in mainstream medical literature, including
publications such as American Heart Journal, Journal of
Clinical Psychology, International Journal of Obesity and
Related Metabolic Disorders, American Journal of Health
Promotion, Journal of the American Medical Association and
others. Guided imagery programs designed by Ellen Chernoff
Simon, creator of Food for Thought®, are currently in use
nationwide by insurance and healthcare providers, in both
inpatient and outpatient settings, to help patients manage
pain, reduce stress, lower blood pressure, heal after surgery,
quit smoking and lose weight.
Binaural Audio
technology
Your brain learns best when you are relaxed, wide awake and
alert, yet in what scientists call an “Alpha State.” When
tones at slightly different frequencies are played separately,
one into each ear, the difference is perceived as low
frequency pulses…or “beats.” When the beat frequency
corresponds to the “Alpha” range, this causes the brain to
resonate to it; the brainwaves follow toward that “Alpha”
frequency and the brain naturally relaxes into an “Alpha”
state.
Relaxed Learning
When you listen to Imadulation® guided imagery cd's through
stereo headphones the soothing music and nature sounds, in
combination with the binaural effect, induce sympathetic
frequencies of desired brainwave activity. This helps you
quickly reach a peaceful and receptive state in which your
subconscious mind is most open to new ideas, new insights and
positive change.
Sound Science
The binaural beat effect was first reported as long ago as the
nineteenth century and has been of interest to
neurophysiologists investigating the sense of hearing. The
“frequency-following response” was first identified in EEG
research (Smith, Marsh & Brown, 1975) and is today the subject
of widespread study at major universities (including Rutgers
University, University of Pennsylvania and the University of
Sussex) as well as institutions exploring the frontiers of
mind-body medicine.
More About Guided Imagery
Guided Imagery is a process of activating the imagination and
the senses through words and/or healing music therapy,
provided by an “imagery guide”, whether that “guide” is an
individual or an audio recording.
Guided Imagery helps you create the sense of pictures or
feelings or sounds within our mind that can powerfully impact
our experience of life. How do you feel when you imagine
getting caught in rush hour traffic? And how do you feel when
you imagine a beautiful peaceful scene? If you imagine eating
a lemon, what do you notice is happening in your mouth?
Guided Imagery is similar to meditation in that it can produce
states of deep relaxation and peaceful comfort. There are many
studies that confirm the positive effects of guided imagery,
from decreasing the experience of pain to improving surgical
recovery time.
Top athletes have used guided meditation / guided imagery to
train and to prepare to win. Performers such as actors and
musicians have used imagery to enhance their successful
performance.
It is well known and documented that regular use of guided
imagery can have positive health benefits, and help with
breaking bad habits.
Physically, guided imagery can directly influence the
autonomic nervous system, having an effect on the stress
response. Purposeful use of imagery can be utilized to create
helpful and healing physiological as well as emotional and
behavioral changes in an individual.
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