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Do you have trouble sleeping?…or maybe just need a tranquil atmosphere to unwind? I suggest giving sound therapy a try.

Adequate and proper sleep is very important to overall health. Sleep deprivation or restless sleep affects your daily performance and can cause you to function at a very low level, both physically and mentally. Proper sleep is as important as a healthy diet and exercise.

We all need to replenish from the daily grind. Taking time to relax is not always easy. Sound therapy helps produce a relaxing atmosphere and can also be used along with deep-breathing exercises or meditation.

A friend gave me a Tranquil Moments® Sound Therapy System for Christmas. The machine is supposed to promote relaxation, renewal and a deeper state of sleep. There are several different sound effects. The machine is based on more than 23 years of research and supposedly works in relation to Delta, Alpha and Theta brain waves, matching the frequency.

My particular machine has 12 preprogrammed sounds, including ocean surf, thunderstorms, rain, summer night, celestial and several more. They are broken into three categories, sleep, relax and renew. There’s a volume control and also a 30, 60 and 90-minute timer option.

I was skeptical, but wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to see if the machine worked. The first night I tried it, I experimented with several sound effects. My favorite is under the category “relax” and the sound effect is “unwind”. I cannot say if it’s a coincidence, but the sound therapy has made a believer out of me. I turn the machine on, set it to my favorite effect and before long I’m snoozing comfortably. Some nights I forget to turn the machine on and you guessed it…I’m much more restless and have trouble getting to sleep.

Certain sound effects on the machine help create a rhythm that makes deep-breathing exercises more calming and enjoyable.

If you think about it…music has a powerful way of altering our mood, so it stands to reason that sound therapy can indeed, positively affect our sleep and help us relax. It’s well worth a try!

Kathy Dove wrote this on January 16th, 2008 and filed it under Healthy Living, Natural Remedies |