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“Halpern’s Non-Predictive Music™” creates breakthroughs for my students. It enables them to concentrate and focus far better than other music I’ve tried. I recommend it highly to anyone wanting to accelerate their learning curve.”
---Kim Bevill, classroom teacher and educational consultant
Brain-compatible music fine-tunes students' minds into brainwave states--alpha and theta--conducive to creativity, focus, and learning more easily and effectively.
After researching and experimenting, we chose music CDs by Musician, Composer and former Music Teacher Steven Halpern. Dr. Halpern's music is used in classrooms and corporations worldwide. They are used and recommended by management and personal development consultants Brian Tracy and Mark Victor Hansen.
* Incorporate the ideal structure, rhythm and tonality to access appropriate brainwave states to reduce stress, and enhance concentration, memory and whole-brain learning.
* Are of the highest musical and production quality. Dr. Halpern is an award-winning composer, recording artist and producer, who was recognized by Keyboard magazine as "one of the 30 most influential keyboard artists of the past 50 years."
* Are based upon proven research that relaxation is the key to supporting and accelerating the learning process, from grade school through college.
* Reach students of all ages and exceptionalities. These CDs are proven effective for people with ADD/ADHD --including people who previously listened only to rap!
* Have a proven track-record. Used and recommended by leading educators--including Eric Jensen, Kim Bevill, Charles Schmid, Jeannette Vos and Don Campbell--for over 30 years.
"Non-Predictive Music™" helps students focus, concentrate, relax and stay in "the learning zone", to learn faster and easier.
Enhancing Success $15.98. Bring out your personal best and achieve the success you deserve! When you access your inner reservoir of relaxation and calm, your mind is less cluttered and operates more efficiently. Played in the background, this CD will help you stay energized, focused and motivated.
Enhancing Creativity $15.98. New ideas, insights and solutions spontaneously flash into your mind. You'll be amazed at how this music helps you maximize your innate talents—and the effect increases with repeated listening! Highly effective for designers, writers and artists. Used and recommended by Brian Tracy, internationally acclaimed creativity and success coach.
Positive self-esteem $15.98. Encourages greater success in learning and in life in general. Positive
self-esteem is vital for the health and happiness of children and
adults. It is intimately related to issues of addiction and violence in
our society.This program is enhanced with a series of short, positive suggestions, recorded subliminally. Recommended by personal and professional development expert John Bradshaw, and many others; for all ages.
The keys to accelerated learning have long been known to be relaxation (but not too much!), concentration and focus.
We have urged generations of children to: think! concentrate! and stop getting distracted so easily! New findings from brain scans have shown what excellent teachers have always known-- not everyone can concentrate at will, even if they try very hard and are motivated to do so. In fact, the brains of children (and adults) with ADD/ADHD actually disorganize the more they try to focus and concentrate; brain scans show the brain's electrical activity scattering to all different areas the harder they try to focus.1
Internationally known Psychologist Dr. Daniel Goleman, in his book Social Intelligence; The New Science of Human Relationships, presents data proving when the brain’s distress centers are activated, they impair the functioning of the prefrontal areas for memory, attention and learning2. If distress impairs learning and relaxation promotes it, wouldn't it be helpful to guide students to relax, while simultaneously focusing their brainwaves toward optimum frequencies for thinking and learning?
One way to access this optimal state for learning is to play brain-compatible music. The beauty of this approach is it takes no additional time or effort, and students reap benefits without realizing they're hearing anything more than simply background music!
Q: Isn't Classical Music, like Mozart or Chopin, "brain compatible"? A: Classical, and other kinds of music can be brain compatible, but best results are with music that is non-predictive and relaxing (focusing brainwaves in a calm but alert state). Non-predictive music means a beat cannot be detected. If a composition has a beat the mind can predict, the brain automatically anticipates what comes next. While anticipating, focus is not on studying! Even though someone may seem to be simultaneously listening to music and studying math, for example, in reality the brain continually zips back and forth. As attention is split between following math or following the music, students study less effectively and efficiently.
2. People learn better when relaxed, but most music-- from Bach to Rock-- is intended to stimulate, not relax. Relaxation implies a slow, regular heartbeat. Due to the physical law of entrainment3, any external rhythm automatically overrides any internal rhythm (heartbeat). This means music with a fast beat makes the heart beat faster, preventing relaxation!
Q: How do I know whether a piece of music is distracting?
A: If you read the same sentence over and over, it’s distracting. If you don’t remember what you just read (or which number to carry over) a moment later, it’s distracting. If you’re humming along with the music, it’s distracting.
Music for Accelerated Learning CD $15.98. Specially composed instrumental music features piano, flute and violin, to support the learning process by decreasing stress and finetuning the mind into the “window” frequencies of alpha and theta brainwave activity. These states are associated with higher levels of performance and creativity.
Over the past 33 years, many leading health professionals, like Dr. Brian Weiss, John Bradshaw and Doreen Virtue, have used Dr. Halpern's music in their live and recorded programs, as they provide an ideal setting for guided visualizations and affirmations.
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are
honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if
there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
--Philippians 4:8 King James Bible
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.
-- II Timothy 1:7 New American Standard Bible
Music for Accelerated Learning CD With Subliminal Affirmations $15.98.
Create the optimal sound environment to learn, retain and recall information more effectively. The music becomes transparent and non-distracting as it orchestrates whole brain learning. Recommended for students of all ages, including those with ADD/ADHD.
Music with Affirmations
Affirmations are positive phrases that are repeated for the purpose of reprogramming negative thoughts and attitudes into positive ones, to accomplish goals or change habits. When the subconscious and conscious minds are not in agreement, changing habits and behavior is an uphill battle. For example, a person may want to quit smoking-- consciously-- but the subconscious mind may have negative programming such as, "if you stop smoking you'll gain weight". This belief prevents the person from fully committing to the non-smoking goal, because the subconscious mind is "protecting" him or her from gaining weight!
How do we reprogram the subconscious mind? Positive affirmations, repeated when relaxed, are proven effective at reprogramming the subconscious to change behavior and habits more quickly and easily than the conscious alone. Because hearing affirmations spoken over music would be distracting when studying, the CDs below feature brain-compatible music with subliminal affirmations--positive phrases spoken below a level detectable to the conscious mind--which is compatible with studying.
Do subliminal affirmations work? Some claim the positive empirical evidence is due to the placebo effect, rather than results of the affirmations. Others (like us) believe some subliminal CDs work while others don't, as the many companies producing this music have great variation in quality and researched-based practices.
We chose Dr. Halpern's CDs due to their verifiable success for over three decades. We feel if they can't hurt--and positive messages certainly can't--and they have a good chance of helping, it is important to offer them. Each CD includes a complete list of the affirmations spoken subliminally, so listeners are fully aware of every suggestion being programmed into the subconscious.
Comfort Zone CD $15.98 In this impressionist music, a personal oasis of serenity, the spaces between the tones speak as eloquently as the notes themselves Exquisitely composed, on solo and electric piano, it provides an atmospheric ambience that is both functional and artistically pleasing.
“With the help of your music, our students achieve effortless psycho-physical relaxation. They become so receptive to learning that they now learn to speak Spanish four times faster than before.”
— Diane Davalos, past President, Int'l Society for Accelerated Learning and Director, Foreign Lang. Inst., Denver
Ocean Suite CD $15.98. Relax with the gentle rhythms of Mother Nature in duet with
intimate solo grand piano. This music breathes, rests and breathes again, and
encourages you to do the same. Bonus track: a soothing solo of liquid
serenity.
“Your music was immediately effective. Of anything I ever used in teaching, your Accelerated Learning was the only music which produced immediate results. I play it when my students walk in and throughout the day.”
— David Skinner, 5th grade teacher, Encinitas, California
1 Amen, Daniel G, Change
Your Brain, Change Your Life: the breakthrough program for conquering
anxiety, depression, obsessiveness, anger and impulsiveness, New York : Times Books, 1998.
2 Goleman, Daniel, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Social Relationships, New York: Bantam Books, 2006.
3 Benson, Herbert, M.D., and Klipper, Miriam Z., The Relaxation Response, New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
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