The sound design (by J.S. Epperson, with original music by Evan Crockett) might be perfect. That it does precisely what the script calls for and no more is consistent with the almost ritualistic nature of the production.

It’s the gunshot in the third act, I’m sure of it. It scares the breath out of the audiences every single night. It’s a joy to listen to the gasps during each performance. On at least one occasion, one guy even exclaimed “Oh, shit!”

Yes. He EXCLAIMED.

Arouet’s production of The House Of Bernarda Alba runs for one more week – be sure to catch it!

What are “Theta” Brainwaves?

The Theta brainwave state is known as the “twilight state” because it is associated with the subconscious mind. You experience Theta brainwaves every time you drift between sleep and wakefulness. While in the Theta state, you are relaxed and open, which happens to make the guided meditation experience of Emotional Choice more effective. The Theta state heightens your receptivity, improves the acceptance of the Emotional Choice guided imagery, and increases your connection to your senses, immersing you more fully in the Emotional Choice experience. It so happens that in the Theta state, you are also more receptive to information: Theta is the ideal brain state for making positive changes in your subconscious process.

In the enhanced state of relaxation induced by the music of Emotional Choice, your critical, judgmental conscious mind takes a back seat while you remain open to suggestion. While this brainwave state is ideal for behavior modification, it is important for you to know that you are safe: at no time does your increased suggestibility override your free will.

Here’s a quick sample of the emotive music enhanced with binaural beats used in Emotional Choice:

With growing evidence that music is helpful for children with ADHD, it is important to know what music works best and, more importantly, when to use it. There is a range of albums created by Hemi-Sync designed to benefit children with ADHD. These albums are incredibly effective: they combine designer music with Hemi-Sync® brainwave frequencies to sharpen focus and enhance concentration.

The Benefits of Music

Some of the benefits of Hemi-Sync Metamusic include decreased irritability, an increased positive attitude, an increased ability to deal with changes and transitions, more restful sleep, and a decrease in stress and anxiety. Not only can children with ADHD benefit from music, children with a variety of other health issues including Austim, Asperger Syndrom, OCD, depression, and anxiety disorders can also greatly benefit from Hemi-Sync Metamusic.

Best Choices: Music for Children with ADHD

The most popular provider of music for ADHD is Hemi Sync®. I have created a variety of albums specially designed for the ADHD brain including Einstein’s Dream, Illumination For Peak Performance, Indigo For Quantum Focus, and the most popular of all, Remembrance. ADHD affects the brainwaves of children, but these Hemi-Sync Metamusic albums stimulate specific brainwaves to alleviate the effects of ADHD.

There are also several albums created for children that cannot sleep. Children that suffer from ADD or ADHD often deal with anxiety or hyperactivity. These behavioral issues can make getting to sleep a challenge. Albums like Hibernation and Deltadream include delta brainwave entrainment technologies and works as an incredible sleep aid that is ideal for helping a child relax and sleep peacefully. Sleeping Through The Rain is a personal favorite of mine, you can check it out at Hemi-Sync.com.

Do Gamma Brain Wave Emissions Correlate with Higher Consciousness?

Gamma emission (40 Hz brainwaves) are present in the frontal lobes of people of “higher consciousness.” Neurofeedback was used to train non-advanced meditators to emit gamma brainwaves, resulting in similar subjective reports of “higher consciousness.”

Wikipedia describes the gamma relation to meditation in terms of experiments performed on Tibetan Buddhist monks, which “have shown a correlation between transcendental mental states and gamma waves.” Neuroscientist Sean O’Nuallain suggests that this very existence of synchronized gamma indicates that a conscious experience is occurring.

Gamma Brain Wave Emissions Part I

Gamma Brain Wave Emissions Part II

Gamma Brain Wave Emissions Part III

About Beverly Rubik, Ph.D.

Beverly Rubik, Ph.D., is a prolific biophysicist associated with the Institute of Frontier Science and Saybrook Graduate School in San Francisco. Dr. Rubik presently serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Alternative & Complementary Medicine, Integrative Medicine Insights, and ReVision.

For more information, visit www.scientificexploration.org

Barbara Bullard and I met in 1992 when I was her student, and since then we have collaborated on several Hemi-Sync® projects for the Monroe Institute over the years including Remembrance, Einstein’s Dream, Indigo For Quantum Focus and Illumination For Peak Performance. In 2009, we created Golden Mind.

Barbara Bullard’s homepages are RemembranceMusic.com and DNAMusic.com

J.S. Epperson
August, 2009

Barbara Bullard, M.A., has worked as a Professor of Speech Communications at Orange Coast College for over 42 years. During her tenure at OCC, she has won numerous awards, most notably among them the NISOD Teaching Excellence Award (1994, 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003), was written up in the publication “Who’s Who in America’s Teachers” (2002-present), and honored with OCC’s Faculty Member of the Year nomination seven times since 1994. She is the co-author of Communicating from the Inside Out.

Professor Bullards’s work as a teacher and her years as a parent raising two children with Attention Deficit Disorder led her to become very interested in music as a universal means by which her students and children could overcome their learning challenges, improve their learning abilities, and heighten their performance in the educational setting. This interest eventually lead Bullard to work with The Monroe Institute—where she was exposed to years research on the brain and how frequencies can be used as a tool for healing the body and mind, as well as the fruits of that research: Hemi-Sync®.

Her fascination with the amazing results of Hemi-Sync led to Professor Bullard’s collaboration with the Monroe Institute marrying musical formats with the binaural technology of Hemi-Sync, now known as “Metamusic.” Over the past 18 years, the collaborative result, Remembrance, has proven to be extraordinarily helpful for the normative student as well as those with a variety of learning challenges—specifically ADD, ADHD, and Dyslexia.

Metamusic, which combines appropriate musical formats with patented Hemi-Sync, is a type of “designer music,” designed to facilitate whole-brained Beta brainwave states necessary for quantum learning. Professor Bullard’s other collaborations with the Monroe Institute include Einstein’s Dream, Seasons at Robert’s Mountain, Indigo for Quantum Focus, and most recently Illumination For Peak Performance, Lightfall For Focus and Concentration, Breakthrough For Peak-Performance, and Revelations For Heightened Creativity.

Articles Authored by Barbara Bullard

• Bullard, Barbara and Carroll, Kat. “Communicating from the Inside Out, Kendall Hunt Pub Co., 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0787257088
• Bullard, Barbara. “Opening the Door to the ADD Mind with Metamusic (PDF)”, Children of the New Earth, Spring 2004.
• Bullard, Barbara. “Metamusic: Solving Bedtime Sleep Struggle”, Children of the New Earth, Oct 2004.
• Bullard, Barbara. “Facing the Learning Challenges of ADD/ADHD and Dyslexia”. Focusing the Whole Brain: Transforming Your Life with Hemispheric Synchronization. Ed. Ronald Russell. Hampton Roads, 2004.
• Bullard, Barbara. “Metamusic: Music for Inner Space”. Hemi-Sync Journal, Vol.XXI, Nos. 3 & 4, Summer/Fall 2003
• Bullard, Barbara. “Language and Super-Learning,” and “Walking the AIDS Circle: Healing Through Hemi-Sync.” Using the Whole Brain: Integrating the Right and Left Brain With Hemi-Sync Sound Patterns. Ed. Ronald Russell. Hampton Roads. 1993.
• Bullard, Barbara. “The Road to Remembrance.” Focus newsletter, 1995.
• Bullard, Barbara. “H-Plus Odyssey: Part I-II-III.” TMI Focus newsletter, 1993.
• Part I – TMI Focus, Vol. XV, No. 2, Spring 1993
• Part II – TMI Focus, Vol. XV, No. 4, Fall 1993
• Part III – TMI Focus, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Spring 1994
• Part IV – TMI Focus, Vol. XVI, No. 4, Fall 1994

Barbara Bullard: Speaker

Professor Barbara Bullard is an internationally recognized lecturer known for her inspiring and informative style. As an expert on the brain, mind, and body—she is asked to speak regularly at conventions across the world, and has been a featured expert on videos promoting Super-learning. As the owner of Quantum Technologies, she regularly promotes the uses and benefits of Hemi-Sync products. Due to her innovative work in the field of education and her efforts with the Monroe Institute, she is a much sought-after speaker.

“Her presentation? Splendid! Her delivery? Awesome!” – Clara Pascar, Sequin, TX

“A memorable experience that I hope others can share.” – Neil Powell, Austin, TX

“We met in Ft. Myers in January 1996–changed my life!” – Theresa Dearduff, FL

“Barbara’s delivery is humorous and challenging. She received a standing ovation for her inspirational message on healing our primary relationships and on her work with the Monroe Institute, which help us bridge to the 21st Century!” – Pat Rosenblad, TX

“Barbara keeps her audience enthralled and at the same time engulfed with laughter, for she sees the humor in the human scene. [She is] one of the best teachers to come down the pike in decades.” – Jim Dixon, VA

Sacred Destiny

Music directly stimulates the limbic area of the brain, which is the source of emotions like anger, fear, hopelessness, stress, and sadness as well as more positive emotions like peace, love, empowerment, relaxation and joy. The music of Emotional Choice specifically triggers emotional responses that correspond to your emotional transformation.

Here’s a quick sample of the Emotive Music used in Emotional Choice:

Seven Stages Of Transformation Using Emotive Music

The music of Emotional Choice was created to reinforce the psychological process of transformation that you will experience with Emotional Choice. In fact, the music of Emotional Choice is laid out in seven stages to guide you through your process of emotional transformation:

1. Establishing a neutral and safe space.
2. Experiencing the negative emotion.
3. Returning to a neutral and safe space.
4. Experiencing the positive emotion.
5. Returning to a neutral and safe space.
6. Making a transformative choice.
7. Resolution, return to a neutral and safe space.

Self-hatred was my way to look at everything, until I remembered something you said in one of Barbara Bullard’s lectures, ‘I will take you form an F to an A in 6 weeks or less!’

I thought ‘yeah right, she doesn’t know me. I am a girl with ADD, not to mention 40-years-old.’ Always in self-doubt, I thought ‘what the heck it can’t get worse.’ I was already getting an F. With more self doubt, I thought I would ask Barbara Bullard, but as usual her class was very busy and she was always bombarded with students after class. I am glad I asked her, though, she directed me to Einstein’s Dream.

I started listening to Einstein’s Dream, an album that combines the IQ boosting “Mozart Effect” with Hemi-Sync® frequencies to improve focus and concentration: I was instantly hooked. I asked again which one you thought would be good for me and you suggested Lightfall. I used this CD a lot. I ended earning a B on my next Lab exam. Whoa! Well now it is the end of the semester and I am ending it with a B in the class. I have gained self esteem, self love, happiness and a great new start on life!

Sound Pillow?

I have used the Sleepsonic® Pillow for at least ten years. In fact, I’m on my second. I can plug it into my iPhone, which is great, but the best part for me? There’s nothing on my head: I’m totally free.

The Sleepsonic® Pillow has little speakers built right into the pillow and a headphone cable dangling down the side. I’m not very particular when it comes to pillows, so comfort isn’t a factor for me: I find that it’s comfortable enough.

What I most like about the Sleepsonic® Pillow is that I don’t like my ears covered when I’m trying to sleep. I like to hear what’s going on around the house, you know? The Sleepsonic® Pillow are quiet enough that only I can hear them, but allow me to have the awareness of the outside world that I need in order to get to sleep.

SleepPhones

As much as I personally love the sleep pillow, a far more popular solution are the SleepPhones headbands. These headbands fit comfortably over your ears and they come in a variety of colors and sizes. People love them: the SleepPhones they are highly regarded by the people that use them. They are very comfortable and they sound great, but like I said earlier: I don’t like my hearing to be blocked at night.

Earbuds

This one is so obvious I almost forgot to mention it: earbuds! Although standard issue earbuds are pretty good these days, I prefer earbuds with rubber stoppers rather than hard plastic covered in that weird nylon felt like the earbuds you get with an iPod or iPhone. You’ll do pretty well if you invest in a good sounding, comfortable pair of earbuds. Most people I talk with prefer the Sony MDREX310LP In-Ear Headphones, but I just tried the Beats by Dre ear buds and these sound great and feel pretty good, too.

An affirmation is a carefully formatted statement that should be repeated frequently. A well formatted affirmation is in the present tense, it is positive, it is personal and it is specific.

Theta Suggestibility

If you are using affirmations as part of your self improvement routine, you can utilize theta music to enhance the intake of your affirmations. In fact, the introduction of music into your affirmation routine expands your openness and increases your suggestibility, making your affirmations more effective.

Hypnosis practitioners know that one of the keys to effectively integrating affirmations into your subconscious mind is to be in the theta brainwave state while receiving the affirmations. The theta state heightens receptivity, improves imagery, and increases your connection to your senses, immersing you more fully in the experience. It so happens that in the theta state, you are also more receptive to information: theta is the ultimate brain state for making positive changes in your subconscious process.

In the enhanced state of relaxation induced by theta music, your critical, judgmental conscious mind takes a back seat while you remain open to suggestion. While this brainwave state is ideal for behavior modification, it is worth noting that you are safe: at no time does your increased suggestibility override your free will. No affirmation or suggestion can make you quack like a duck unless you want to.

Improving Affirmations with Theta Music

Insight – Theta Meditation

Some of my music is created specifically to engage the theta brainwave state. Drawing from a number of holistic philosophies and technologies like binaural beats, I create gentle music that maintains a soothing and introspective mood while guiding your mind to deeper states of theta, improving your suggestibility and hypnotic affirmation intake. When you are listening to albums like Gammadrone, Insight Meditation and Solfeggio Suite while phrasing your goals and desires, your affirmations are more powerfully imprinted on the brain.