Brown noise, Pink noise, red noise
White noise for many people brings a spectacular sense of satisfying noise…they can sleep, and not be distracted. When I was reading an article from ADDitude magazine it highlighted how ADHD/ADD brain(medically at the moment known as the same thing) prefer Brown noise and red noise. I’m trying to understanding how ADD brains work and it is a super power.
If you have not heard of brown noise it’s more nature based noises like an ocean wave crashing on shore, or waterfall feels for red noise. Though those are not the only noises included in brown and red noise. They are very effective on clearing an ADD brain and according to the article not feeling as nails on a chalk board as white noise does to an ADD brain. Because Brown noise actives different sides of the brain it actives the whole brain which white noises did not. I also read Pink noise is better then white noise for many. I can only attest to the fact that Pink noises that it sounds an octave higher then white. It’s amazing how different sounds can sooth different people in different ways. So if white noise or pink noise is not working for your brain try a different noise like Brown or red.
While in gong and nidra yoga session was the first time I laid very near the gong, our lead yoga instructor had different instruments like a sound bowl, drum…etc.
One of my dear friends loves being blown away from the vibrations of the gong on her body…so she tries to get inches away from the gong. It makes me laugh. Last session, I did earlier this year I stayed far away from the gong and it hurt in one of my ears but not the other. I realized I had an ear infection and that my thyroid was off.
All the instruments used in sound therapy that make brown, white and pink noises are from different ancient cultures who so easily tap into science from their foundations. How has our modern day society forgotten grounding and sound therapy in its mainstream?? I know we have forgot and try to ignore history. Some points in history are horrible mistakes which we need to never repeat. Clearly a lot of European mainstream cultures did none of this but the bare foot grounding that being more poverty purposes then a ritual or dance. Grounding and sound therapy has proven to help with depression, anxiety, clearly ADHD, and many other things. I know whenever I go to a pow-wow my heart melts, my mind refreshed with pounding, singing and dancing. I often cry because my emotions are being worked out and I leave uplifted. Mostly those emotions that I don’t want to talk about that are heavy at the moment or I don’t verbally have the words to explain them to someone else.
How is it that we turn to modern medicine and therapy so quickly to talk … before we take a minute for silencing our minds and let our hearts and minds ponder on those feelings for themselves. I read a book on tools for our emotional first aid kit years ago and it mentioned like a medical guide —-what do for different emotions. He addressed many, many emotional issues degrees like a physical wound that is cut and needs just a bandaid— or a wound that cut and gushing with blood must go to the Emergency Room. In emotional cases… the ER is a skilled therapist.
Well one topic he wrote on was Ruminating. Ruminating is by definition according to Merrium and Webster dictionary. Is to “go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly: to chew repeatedly for an extended period.” Ruminating is in itself hard to catch and controversial it can therapeutic or negative, because we don’t see our patterns unless we are mindful. Or a friend/family members tells us, or a therapist. At that point we have to work on our paradigms and thought processes to change how we repetitively chew on and focus one topic. The controversy with ruminating if labeled does it help?? Debatable. When negatively ruminating it can be a guilt thing, or sabotage of our minds thinking of offenses and chatting with someone not involved?? A gentle hand is needed some people need to process it out loud with another person….others don’t. Ruminating in its destruction can be chewing on things to a point that you do nothing but get angry ….never resolving and sabotaging yourself in a relationship. For ruminating issues that is why I love inner silence and meditation to lean into those emotional feelings that are hard for resolving them. Sound therapy is just another tool in the emotional first aid kit. Use it when ruminating is started as a preventative step to letting go.