Relaxing Meditation
Techniques, Tools, Music

Relaxing Meditation Technology

We view meditation as a technology. Call it a psychological or spiritual technology, if you will. The point is, meditation can be taught, quite quickly and easily. That is one of the things we do, and we do it well.

The benefits of meditation are many: relaxation, lower blood pressure, lower heart rate, a positive attitude towards others, greater flexibility in the face of daily challenges, lower stress, a more accepting attitude, enhanced immune function, fewer diseases such as colds, fewer headaches, reduced migraine symptoms, better mental focus, and so on.

These benefits have been documented to varying degrees (see the NCCAM web site for more detail). From a scientific perspective, the studies conducted so far have been of poor methodological quality and far too small to draw statistically valid conclusions. However, anecdotal evidence abounds. Furthermore, meditation is primarily an experience, not a collection of physiological parameters.

The mental and experiential nature of meditation makes it extremely difficult to study objectively. These same characteristics endow relaxing meditation techniques with a richness and diversity much like that of the human mind. Learning how to meditate opens a door to an entire new world of possibility.

If you already know how to meditate, that is awesome, and we encourage you to explore the realms opened up by the meditative state. If you are new to meditation, then we direct your attention to Relaxing Meditation, our practical guide to the techniques and practice of meditation.

Relaxing Meditation Music

A useful extension to meditation skills is an audio technology called binaural beats. This tool is very simple, yet extremely powerful. Two tones, delivered in stereo through earphones or earbuds, induce synchronized brain waves in the listener's head. The result is a rapid entry to an altered state of experience. By choosing the tones carefully, the experience can be tailored for alertness, relaxation, meditation or sleep.

The technical term for this is brainwave entrainment. The brain perceives the beat frequency of the two tones, not the separate tones themselves, and synchronizes with that frequency. Because you listen to one tone in each ear (binaural) and your brain entrains to the beat frequency, the common term for this is binaural beats.

One amazing aspect of binaural beats is that the two tones used to make the beat can be inaudible. By using low frequency tones of very low amplitude, in practice, most people cannot hear the tones at all. If other sounds are added, like music, or ambient sounds, the tones are completely undetectable.

Here at Relaxing Meditation, we have applied this technology to produce a set of relaxing meditation music tracks. Our first production, 'Deep Blue,' contains three full hours in twelve separate MP3 files. We have combined a variety of ambient sounds from rain and wind chimes, to fire and thunder. Mixed in with the natural sounds are binaural beat channels that range from relaxation to deep meditation.

We generally prefer the inaudible tones for our beats, however, we have plans to experiment with louder blends of the pure tones. Stay tuned (and in-synch) with news on those developments.

You can listen to sample tracks from 'Deep Blue' on our music page.