I would call it more like the state of meditating or repetitive prayers like the rosary.The evidence suggests that most people summon strengths that surpass their own expectations.Purveyors of this new market of legal drugs claim that different digital drug recordings can simulate the euphoric effects of marijuana, anti-depressant prescription drugs, LSD, ecstasy, cocaine.
And breathe easy my fellow parentsbecause its not really a drugits binaural beat therapy. Calling this phenomenon binaural beats, Dove helped launch two centuries of legitimate research and, as is almost always followed by exciting empirical study, money-grabbing pseudoscience. But if you happen to notice that your teenager has stopped listening to Tokyo Hotel or Timbaland and started listening to mind-numbing pink noise, perhaps its time for a mature dialogue about the source of their motivations. I wouldnt be surprised if the placebo effect couldnt account for 100 of the effect of the music, because music has been known to have effects on mood and even your body (chillsgoosebumps). ![]() Unfortunately, there is not a great deal of research focused on this topic, and I found none conducted specifically on adolescents. In her article ( ) she quotes Dr. Nicholas Theodore, a brain surgeon at Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, who claims there is no evidence that digital drugs really work. When I saw that this scare has already passed two years of media cycles without further report, my red flags went up. The study measured each for their ability to induce entrainment of synchronous brain wave activity within the theta frequency bandand found no significant difference between the three. In it, he made a cogent argument that everyone needs to get high, one way or another. If we could step out of our American Puritan mindset and consider that possibility, we might ask why any parent would be concerned about their kid getting high with binaural beats. We ride rollercoasters, we jump out of airplanes, we sit around huffing vanilla-flavored oxygen. Sure, I think human beings want to feel their world, and like to control how they feel. There are drugs, sex (and masturbation), porn, love (stalking), food, technology (video games, phones, the Internet) and even thought (fantasies, obsessions), which is the most difficult to overcome, because when the fixation is the thought itself, you cant separate yourself from it physically. Some pieces can, if you really listen to them instead of trying to do three other things at the same time, induce a mind-state of tranquility and bliss. The instrumental music there is not, however, the kind that most of us would want to party with. If you want everyone to get up and dance, then play some reggae. A few of my friends actually did this like two or three years ago and said it worked--one even said that she had to stop because it was getting really intense. Are the effects profound enough or the research conclusive enough to start banning iPods in schools or passing legislation on the issue At this point, certainly not. It almost always works to relieve some of their painbecause they sincerely believe that it works. Most amusingly, fellow PT blogger Marnia Robinson wrote on this subject as related to masturbation, in her post entitled Was the Cowardly Lion Just Masturbating Too Much.
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