Official Anxiety 411

I've been practicing meditation for a few years now but I usually have a really hard time quieting my thoughts. I'll try to focus on a sound or an object but my mind will dance over to what I did yesterday or what I have to do later. Once I realize that there's something I have to do then I can't get back into a meditative state.

Another problem I have, although less often, is I'll actually be doing a good job focusing my mind but I drift off within a few minutes of getting focused. Then I wake up feeling like I had a nap but not feeling like I meditated.

My reasoning for meditation is usually to find an answer that I'm looking for and I always do find an answer BUT it relates to stuff I have to do later in the day. That's very frustrating when you are searching for an answer to a personal question you are asking.

The best meditation I have ever experienced was a guided one by a friend of mine.

He instructed all of us to relax, then relax even more. I found myself focusing on his words and being able to also focus on the imagery he was giving to us. My mind didn't have an oppurtunity to take over with its rambling thoughts because he would move on to the next image before my mind had a chance to do that.

By the time he got to our reason for doing the meditation I was completely relaxed and focused on what I was looking for. The answer to my question was absolutely clear in my mind and I was super excited about the whole experience.

I went home and did the meditation again as we had just done it but this time my mind wandered with nothing to guide it. I realized that I needed some sort of guide to help me until I could focus myself.

I found Binaural Beats.

Our brain goes through many frequency cycles during each day. Different frequencies produce different effects to the human consciousness. Knowing this, it has been discovered that the brains receiving and operating frequency can be altered by sound waves. Many of the most powerful brain frequencies are less than 20 Hz. Hertz, or Hz for short, are a unit of frequency.

Our hearing can't pick up to frequencies below 20 Hz. This is where binaural beat technology comes in. It uses the inner wiring of the brain to create the desired frequency with perfect accuracy.

Meaning, in your right ear will be a frequency of 308 Hz and in your left ear will be a frequency of 300 Hz so your brain is drawn towards the beat frequency of 8 Hz which is the difference between the two.
Among many other things that you can use this for, one is meditation.

I find that within a few seconds of plugging the earphones in and laying down I am in a meditative state. I come out of it feeling refreshed and satisfied.

It's so nice to know that I'm taking that time out of the day to focus on my meditation at that very moment and not thinking about the past or future.

I've had excellent results finding answers to my questions because of binaural beats and I'm actually really happy that I have these to turn to because my friend is not available to me any time I want like my binaural beats are.

If you want to obtain a calmer and more focused meditation and you think that guided meditation might be for you then check out binaural beats.