Increase Melatonin Naturally And Get Some Sleep

Melatonin is a naturally occurring hormone produced by the pineal gland, a small, pea sized gland located in the centre of the brain. The discovery of melatonin and the understanding of its role in maintaining good health and vitality is relatively new with research ongoing. But what is undoubted about this hormone is that it is pivotal in maintaining our body clock and regulating our sleep.

Our bodies, when working optimally are regulated by the circadian cycles of nature. The sun goes down and we begin to slow down and unwind from the day. This is because our biology responds to how much light and dark we are exposed to. The light fades, the pineal gland secretes melatonin into the blood stream, and we begin to feel drowsy, we fall asleep.

However, for many of us, this natural cycle has stopped working properly and our inability to fall asleep easily has become chronic. From a health point of view this can be devastating because regular and sufficient sleep is necessary for the immune system to stay strong and to repair and heal the body. So, when sleep deprivation is chronic it severely impacts our health and performance.

In the modern world of round the clock living, sleep disorders are pandemic. Those exposed to lots of artificial light, or working night shifts, or regularly flying between time zones, the natural pattern of melatonin levels are disrupted resulting in an inability to fall asleep for hours, continually waking out of sleep, restless sleep, and insomnia.

Pharmaceutical companies have been quick to cash in on this problem and are supplying numerous distributors with supplemental melatonin for over the counter purchase. But what most of the public do not realise about supplemental melatonin is that it has yet to go through extensive studies which most hormones and other dietary supplements go through. This means that melatonin in a bottle is thus largely unregulated, extremely varied in its quality, and the variant produced from animal products can be contaminated with disease. If you are going to take supplemental melatonin, better to take the synthetic version.

Better yet, why not learn how to increase your melatonin levels naturally, safely, easily. Simliar to DHEA and HGH (AKA youth hormones), the secretion of hormones into the blood stream is in effect the result of particular brainwave activity. Extensive scientific research has proven that one can modify their brainwave activity at will to achieve brainwave states that are conducive to health and healing. For more information on how to do this please visit:

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Stop Obsessive Thoughts

Only those who suffer from obsessive thoughts know how tormenting and disruptive they are, or how much of one's life, energy, and mental resources goes into turning, what is no more than, a mental merry go round that won't stop and won't let the thinker off. No matter how hard a person might try, no amount of will seems capable of stopping the intrusive thoughts, they just won't go away, at least not until they are good and ready to go. Usually this happens when there are some other thoughts that are strong enough to replace them, and the whole cycle begins again.

Maybe obsessive thoughts wouldn't be so bad if they made us feel good. But this is more like wishful thinking. In addition to taking up tremendous mental space in our lives, obsessive thoughts also tend to cause the thinker increased anxiety and, or distress. And if that isn't bad enough, here's another fact about obsessive thinking to clinch the deal: it is common wisdom that repetitive thinking about a thing, over a period of time, will tend to make the thing, being thought of, to show up in one's life, but usually not in the way one would expect.

Understanding this, one starts to get a true picture of how much power obsessive thoughts wield over a person's life, because obsessive thoughts are really no more than concentrated mental focus. And concentrated mental focus is the key to any great success story in life. Unfortunately in the case of obsessive thoughts, it is concentrated mental focus on something that does not tend to benefit the thinking. Rather, it's a way of pouring all of one's thought power down the drain.

Any true obsessive thinker has at least some inkling that the malaise of their thinking process is effectively putting their life on hold, stagnating their ability to act wholly on their own behalf. But between knowing this and knowing how to change the pattern of obsessive thinking can lie a long journey through: cognitive behavioural therapies, techniques, tools, medications ... all offering anywhere from no relief to complete relief for some.

I am about to offer another solution, but hear me out on this. This one is unknown to the mainstream and only came to my attention because I think I've probably exhausted nearly, if not all, solutions being offered from the multitudes of conventional wisdom claiming expertise in this problem. The solution I am about to explain is brain entrainment using binaural beats, but a little first on the workings of the mind and brain.

As we know, thoughts are really no more than an interactive response resulting from electrochemical activity in the brain. In turn the thought feeds back stimulus to the brain, which in turn affects the thoughts again. Pretty well everything in the natural world can be observed as cyclical patterns. And what causes these patterns to change over time is a series of constant subtle changes. Change is never immediate. When it seems immediate, it is only because there have been enough subtle changes overtime to result in the more obvious change. What has this to do with obsessive thinking you might be asking? Everything because changing thoughts requires changing the electrochemical activity of the brain, or in other words brainwave frequency.

Sitting reading this, your brain's electrochemical activity is operating at a certain frequency. This also means that whatever obsessive thought a person might be experiencing corresponds to a particular frequency. Lets say your obsessive thought occurs around a brainwave frequency of 30hz, the higher beta brainwave state (this is completely reasonable). At this frequency your brain's electrochemical activity will be different from that of say 10hz, the alpha brainwave state, and accordingly your mental, thinking, state will be different. At 30hz, you might feel anxious, agitated, stressed... whereas at a frequency of 10hz you will most likely be experiencing a much more relaxed and calmer state.

Now here's the important bit. If you can get into a habit, be it through manual means, to change your brainwave frequency, you will be able to change the habit of your thoughts. Complicated as that might sound, its not. Binaural beats are the manual means by which to change your brainwave frequency and it is easy, relaxing and lasting.

To understand a little about how binaural beats work, it is useful to understand a little about meditation. The benefits of meditation are numerous and can be profound. This is because meditation gradually reconditions the electrochemical activity of the brain by lowering its brainwave frequencies and accordingly altering its mental habits. Those who practice a disciplined meditation technique over time are found to benefit immensely in all aspects of their lives: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

But meditation is a serious and often considered rigorous practice that is not suitable for everyone. This is where binaural beats brain entrainment comes in. Binaural beats in effect, causes the brain to enter the same brainwave frequencies as meditation and in so doing, effects many of the same benefits of meditation. What's more is if binaural beats are listened to regularly over a period of a few months, the results are lasting because the brain establishes new neural pathways, new electrochemical 'habits' and thus a different mental state. Binaural beats offer an alternative 'off beat' therapy for obsessive thoughts, but they are also scientifically proven.

If you are tired of obsessive thinking and have tried many, or all, of the therapies and solutions conventionally offered, binaural beats might just be what you have been looking for. For more information regarding mind power, positive mind states, binaural beats or meditation please visit:

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